Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-19
SKOWHECAN
Close of Three Days Poultry
Exhibition of 325 Birds and
Award of Grand Sweep
stakes Prize
BUSINESS NOTES AND so.
CIAL GOSSIP OF TOWN

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was won Friday at the Somerset Peul-
try Show by M. S. Arey Of Bar Har-
Dor. The silver cup was won by F. w.
Briggs, superintendent of the Pittsfield
| Poultry farm. The association closed
4 its three-days exhibition Friday night,
having the biggest show in the his
/ tory of the association. About 325 birds
were exhibited and other prizes
awarded were:
Barred Plymouth Rocks: NJ s. Arey,
Bar Harbor, LIST on cock, hen, cockerel,
pullet, pen, Sd on hen: Vern Blaisdel, I'd
cockerel; L; c. Whiting, I'd hen, I'd pull
let, Sd .pullet; Scott Robinson. I'd pen;
White Plymouth Rocks: F.. w. Briggs,
erel, Isl hen, ist pullet, ID cockerel, I'd
hen, I'd pullet, Sd cockerel.
Partridge Plymouth Rocks: F. o. Eaton
LIST and ID pen, LIST cock, 1st pullet, I'd
and Sd hen, Sd cockerel; F. B. league.
Skowhegan, LIST hen, LIST and I'd cockerel.
LIST pen, End pen. I'd hen. Sd hen, 3D. pullet;
Eugene Witham 1st cock. Sd cockerel;
pullet, LIST cockerel, I'd pullet.
Columbian Wyandottes: Clarence Man
ter LIST pen; j. Leon Parlin I'd pen, LIST
and Sd coekerel LIST and Sd pullet; A. r.
pullet, Sd cock.
Single and Rose Comb Rhode Island
Reds; NJ. $. Adams LIST pen; w. H;
pen, LIST cock, 1st hen. Sd pullet; l.. L.
Sanford LIST and I'd pullet: Guy Emmons
lst cockerel; n. c. Jones, Norridgewock.
! s. c. White Leghorn: Pittsfield Poultry
Farm LIST pen, "a and Sd cockerel. LIST, I'd
and Sd pullet; w. A. Bailey LIST cockerel.
White Orpington: 1. c. Sweet, Bangor.
1st pen. cock, pullet, I'd pullet, 1st hen;
Scott Robinson I'd and Sd pen; Earl Pat
4 ten I'd cockerel
Buff orpington: Ernest Buzzell LIST
Brahmas: Earl Davis list and I'd cock
4 list and I'd hen, Sd pullet
i Anconas: George c. Cleveland LIST cock
/ erel, LIST and I'd puflet; Earl Patten I'd
cockerel, I'd pullet.
i Black Langshan: Earl Davis LIST cock,
1st hen.
son 1st cock, LIST hen, LIST pen.
Houdans: Earl Patten 1st cock, 1st hen
LIST cockerel; Mrs. May Trafton I'd cock
erei.
Dominiques; John Webendorfer ist pen,
list cock, LIST cockerel, LIST pullet; F. o.
| Eaton I'd pen, I'd pullet, I'd cockerel;
White Laced edo Red co an ID
Lackenwelder: l. c: SWEET LIST hen, LIST
pen. LIST cock. LIST cockerel,, LIST pullet
Black Cochin Bantam: |. c. SWEET LIST
cockerel, LIST and I'd pullet
/ Black Tailed Japanese Bantam: Lang
don Jewett LIST eockerel.
/ Gtese-Toulouse, White Chinese, Afri-
HI
| Turkeys: Ernest Emerson LIST
Best bullet in show, best eockerel, best
hen. NJ. 8. Arey, Bar Harbor; best COCK
in show, E. Witham; best display Barred
Rocks. M s. Arey; best display Column
bian Wyandottes, A.. r, Jones; best, doz-
en- brown eggs, B. F. Town, Waterviile'
1st and I'd.
Homing Pigeon: Ned Sampson and
Herbert Griffin 1st.
At the Methodist church Sunday
morning will he special Christmas mu-
sic with anthems by the choir and vo-
cal solos by Mrs. Rose Coombs Bur-
rill. Rev. H. G. McGlaufiin will speak
on the subject. Gifts to the Savior;
gold, franleincense and myrrh." In
the evening Rev C. ]. Brown of Ban
\ gor, Sunday school secretary for the
I State of Maine, will speak on "A
Mans Task" At this service will be
music by the vested choir and a solo
by LYLE S. Moore. The Christmas tree
will be Tuesday evening.
Instead of the Christmas meeting
which was planned for entertainment,
Dec. 81, in the Woman's Club, Gentle
mems night will be observed with
Mrs Phidelah Rice of Boston as en-
tertainer. Mrs. Rice is a niece of Man
ley T. Poeler and Mrs. Clara b. Leav-
lit. both of this town, and is a de-
| lightful reader. The affair will be
given in the Bethany parlors and each
| member may invite one guest, either
lady or gentleman Mrs. Mabel w
| Philbrick Is in charge of the evening
and the hostesses will be Mrs. Ellen
q. Sawyer, Mrs. Gertrude Buchanan,
Mrs. Dora G. McNeelie and Mrs. Jen-
ME S. Philbrick.
Following are the vital statistics for
| Somerset county for the past week;
Deaths: Skowhegan. Dec. It, Mrs.
Hannah E. Fowler. aged 70 years;
Lewiston, Joseph Pomerlow, formerly
of SlSoWhegan, aged rs; Santa Anna,
| Cal, Charles E. French formerly of
Athens: Brookline, Mass, Dec, TO- G.
! Wallace Nash of Skowhegan; Nor
ridgewock, Dec. 10. Eli Shorey, aged
| IS; Dec. II. Mrs. Marcia A. Watson;
| Olneyville, r. L. Jesse Harris, former
ly of Madison; Madison, Dec. II, Mrs.
Annette Weybrant; Bingham, Mrs.
Mary Mahoney; Hinckley Isaac Chase
on Dec II. Marriages. Mayfield, Dec.
8, Perley Brown and Mabel Gerald;
Jackman. Dec. u, r. Dunn of Bangor
| and Alma Blair; Skowhegan, Dec 16,
Fred Richardson and Miss Mabel Oul-
son to Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Hill
Miss Elsie Avore, who accompanied
Mrs. S. D. Coffin on her return to New
| York, is to pass Christmas with her
sister, Mrs, Morris Gledhill in Sykes
| vile, Md.
There will be a concert, participant
| ed in by all the Skowhegan parishes,
| at the Bethany church, about the mid
| die of January for the benefit of the
| Sunshine Society.
Miss Grace Russell of the Lewiston
| High school faculty, is visiting her
| sisters, Mrs. Nellie. Copp and Mrs.
Minnie Wheeler, during her vacation
Morrill, Hoxie, a freshman in the
High school, is visiting in Boston,
| Brookline and Watertown, Mass
The Social Circle of the Methodist
| church win meet with Mrs. j. N
Smith, Water street, next Monday
afternoon at o'clock