Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-25
SKOWhECAN,.

Skowhegan people will now have the
opportunity to devote their attention
to things other than the matter of
the postoffice site The representa-
tives, F.. N. Merrill and S. w Phil
brick, who have been in Washington
since, Monday, to ascertain If a
change of location could be effected,
returned, Thursday night, and re-
ported that the department had set
tied upon the Heselton lot. They were
told. at the department that this lot
was selected as there had been no
other tentative bid on any other lot in
the town. The inspector stated to
these men that they had presented the
matter to Cong. S. w. Gould, and Mr..
Gould had told the department that
he did not want 10 take any sides in
the matter" but was anxious for a
site to be selected, while he was in
Congress, so the Heselton lot, So
called, which was the only one at the
time that the department had any
definite knowledge of. was selected.
Enough snow fell here, Thursday,
to revive the wood traffic business by
the farmers. 1t was reported that five
inches fell in Bingham.
News comes here that a boy was
born recently to Mr.. and Mrs. Ogden
Traviss in Vassalboro. Mrs. Traviss
was formerly Miss Mayme Ames, and
she attended the Skowhegan High
school,
The installation of the officers of
Parmenas Encampment, No. Is, /. o.
o. F., took place, Thursday evening.
The work was done by Willis E. Par
sons of Dover, grand patriarch of the
Grand Encampment of Maine, as
sisted by II. p. Aver of Vassalboro
grand junior warden. who was assisted
by past chief patriarch, Arthur r.
Jewett grand senior warden. l.. W
Gerrish. Willis A. Bailey. grand high
priest, Edward Spear. grand treasurer
The officers installed: Chief patriarch
Arthur G. Bussey: high priest, F. O.
Eaton: senior warden, Herbert G..
Young; junior warden, Forrest X
Brown; guide Hugh Hurley; sentinels,
George Webbe. Hiram Thing, C. NJ
Lambert: first watch, George H.
Webb; 2nd watch, G.. r. Fogg; 4th
watch, Morrill, Greenlief: first guard of
tent, George f. Merrill: 2nd guard of
tent, VILLAS Clough, ST. Refreshments
Were served and Harry Dinsmore and
Ray Kilgore furnished a program of
music.
Following are the vital statistics in the
county for the week: Marriages, Graham
Mcdonald and Miss Leoata OMilia of
East Madison; w. r. Tibbetts to Annie
Hayden, Athens. Births: Cornville to
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Bowman. son; to
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Cults, a daughter.
Deaths: Mrs. Isaac Webb, aged "a, Pitts
field; Mrs. Thankful Noble, Fairfield;
Mrs. Stickney Gray, North Arson, IS;
Marcus Berry, Il, Bngham Mrs Emma
Kelley, Scion. 46; Nancy Walker, North
Arson; Miss Fidelia Smith, North Arson.
Mahlon Cavanaugh has signed con-
tract to play professional baseball with
the Lynn, Mass, team of the New Eng
land League. For the last two seasons
Mr.. Cavanaugh has been pitcher on the
Skowhegan Baseball team.
c. o. Normandy has resigned as presi-
dent and treasurer of the Mutual Shoe
makers, Inc, of Norridgewock, which he
has held since April l. 1909, when the
company was organized. The office of
president will be filled by L. R. Folsom,
and that of manager and treasurer by
c. II. Hussey. Mr.. Normandy will con-
tinue to be travelling salesman for the
shoe shop.
Roydon V. Brown of Clinton, formerly
a principal of Scion High school, has
opened a law office in Bingham and will
make his home with his brother, DR..
Brown.
Eighteen marriages. go births and 19
deaths We're recorded with the town clerk
at Norridgewock during 1872
Leonard Tibbetts, who recently sold his
farm in Athens, has purchased another
in the vicinity of Lords hill, and has
moved there.
A special boys service will be held
Sunday evening, at the Bethany church.
and the subject of the sermon by the
pastor will be 1.-THE Boy That Found
Something" His sermon, Sunday morn
ing, will be 1.-THE Price He Paid"