Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-02-11
SKOWHECkN.

The annual town meeting, this year,
will be very interesting, according to the
| increasing activity in that direction at
present. \ new candidate has been
| mentioned for second selectman, Willis
Galley, who has met no opposition thus
| far Mr. Bailey is well known, and is
one who would be we'll fitted for the po-
sitien, both in Judgment and sincerity.
| IT is quite definitely understood that
Henry Domo Will also be candidate for
second member of the board. Friends
are urging W. II. Wildes to become a
candidate for the chairman of the board,
| but he was -comttal in regard TO the
matter, Saturday. Many believe that }.
| H. Lancaster, who has held the position
of second selectman one year and with
drew at the close of the year, could
| easily get the job as first selectman
| There has been nothing definite decided
as to who will run for school committee
to oppose DR.. w. S. stinehheld, but can
didates have been mentioned. Those
who are interested in the new schoolhouse
project will present their claims with
considerable force on the argument that
| the town has been saved the expense Of
a good time to appropriate the money
for improvement in the school buildings.
Because of the crowded condition of
the schools at the Academy and Park it
has been found necessary to employ as
sistants in the teaching force There are
/ now - pupils in the Park school, under
Miss Higgins, 81 in the Academy, under
| Miss Ramsden, and So under Mrs. Kate
fHolbrook, in the Park.
The condition of Edward \. Parker,
sub-master Of the Skowhegan High
school. was not improved, Monday
substitute will be engaged to take his
place until he is able to resume his posi-
ton.
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. Davis Miller Will leave
here, Wednesday, for Washington, D. c.,
to visit at the home of DR., and Mrs.
! George o. Smith. They viii pass con-
siderable time in Boston and North Caro-
lima. They will be gone until April.
| Mrs Elizabeth Foster of Waterville
gave an address. Sunday afternoon, be-
| fore the Junior Endeavor Society, at the
Bethany church.
y meeting of the w. C. T. U. will be
| held, Tuesday afternoon. lin charge of
Mrs. Nora Dunbar.
The next meeting of the Town Improve
ment Society viii be held, Friday after
noon. and Valentines day will be OBJ
| served. The program arranged will be as
| follqwe: Piano duet; institutions of
Maine: paper. "Thomaston"; song;
paper, THE Life of George w. Hinck-
ley Mrs Eugenia Merriam: song,
paper. Good Will Farm and It's Work;
song
The mid-winter meeting of Sorosis viii
be held, Tuesday evening.
An example of the good New England
constitution is shown in the person of
| Levi ". Weston. who now though about
50 years old, shows the activity of mind
and body Of people very much younger
He takes as much interest in town affairs
as any one in it. and has always been one
of its most prominent factors in ali i'm
Drovenents. He is progressive in his
ideas and has keen judgment in civic
| matters. He is representative of the
first settlers in Skowhegan, and is one
Of the first saWmiil owners and lumber
men to carry on active work in the town
He knows the history of Skowhegans
growth and his memory goes back to the
time that the main streets'rof the town
were mere water holes and swamps. lie
, is an interesting conversationalist.
The first Strawberries for the season ar
rived, saturday, at the meat market of
a. r. Jewett, and though they We're 40
cents box they sold readily.
The latest birth recorded at the town
clerks office is that of boy, born to Mr..
and Mrs. Carroll Gates
Mr.. and Mrs. r. L. Flynt went Monday.
to Auburn 70 attend the funeral services
Of Mr. Fiynt's uncle.
Miss Lola Goodwin passed the week
end at the home of Mrs Frank Briggs in
Tittsfeld
The farmers in this vicinity are meeting
with a good deal of discouragement and
according to present reports more pota-
toes will be planted next year than there
were this year, not because of the high
prices at present, but because they are
selling so cheaply that seed is going to be
cheap, and the farmers believe that there
is more money in planting them tosmake
another try, than to sell at present prices.
The prices are so low at present that
many before who thought they couldn't
plant because the seed was so high are
ready to enter the game. They are plan
ming next year. to sell from the field-and
tdAe no iluic Sii"iie9o U NlslOHdFy prices. \
Capt. b. |. Rice, who has been working
i'll the shoe shop at Auburn. arrived
home, Saturday lie viii soon go to Gar
diner, where he has a position in the cut
ting room of the r, L. Hazard shoe
shop.
The crew at shawmut began. Monday,
to remove the Golfer dam and other wood
work used for the construction of the
new dam. The new dam was completed,
last week. 1t is expected that power will
be generated sometime this spring The
estimaad cost of the dam and bulkhead
is $225 600 and the total expenditures to
date are over 100000.
Somerset Real Estate Transfers.
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