Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-19
FAIRFIELD

A special meeting of the Benton
Grange was held Wednesday evening.
The degree team conferred the Fret
and Second degrees on several candi-
dates. The Grange will hold another
special meeting Thursday evening.
E. r. Keene of Rockland, with q
crew of surveyors. is engaged in MAX
ing survey of the road starting from
the Shawmut corner. in the town of
Fairfield and extending to the town
of Skowhegan. making a distance of
about Il miles. The survey is under
the direction of the State Highway
Commission, and is for the purpose OF
making possible preliminary for the
State road to be improved during the
year 1915. The survey is being made
over what is known as the River road,
following the Kennebec river. The
present course of the road crosses the
tracks of the Maine Central Railroad
fully six times, and it is the desire
of the constructors to eliminate the
grade crossings as much as possible,
in order to do that the preent ROAD
may have to be changed. and the
course will not be the same. Mr..
Keene has been engaged quite extern
sively In State survey work. just COM
ing from New Sharon. where the crew
made similar surveys, and he finds
the strip of road between Fairfield and
Skowhegan to be in practically the
same condition as other Maine roads
heretofore improved. Up to Wednes
day evening the crew had surveyed
as far as Good Will.
MIL Of LNair
field have adopted way of dealing
with their customers as is done in
other neighboring towns. They sell
their customers tickets. and each
morning the desired number Of tickets
are received from the milkmen's pa
tronizers, for the milk sold. The tick
cts have a two-fold advantage over
the old custom of sending bills at the
first of each month, in that the GUS
toner receives what he pays for each
day, and the milkman does not have
delinquent creditors.
The Keyes Fiber Plant closed Wednes-
day morning at $50. and will be closed
for the remainder of the week, opening
Monday morning at $50
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward B. Hinckley and
day afternoon for Good Will, where they
will pass the remainder of the week
with Mr.. Hinckley's parents, Rev. and
Mrs G. w. Hinckley.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Preble of Oak
land were in town Wednesday for the
day, calling on relatives and friends.
The members of the Lawrence High
school Senior class will serve supper
on Thursday evening at the Grand Army
hall. The committee in charge of the
supper consists of Misses Lucy Weeks.
Marion Drisko and Emerson Lawry.
ing the summer in Albion as the guest
of his daughter. Mrs George Danforth
has arrived in West Benton this week
to pass the winter with another daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Kelley.
Miss Dorothy Briegan left Wednesday
afternoon for Skowhegan, where she will
pass an indefinite time with relatives.
On Wednesday afternoon the members
of the Woman's Relief Corps Sewing
Circle me, at the Grand Army hall and
passed the time very profitably in tack
Ing puffs. At the close of the bee
picnic supper was served. A regular
meeting OF the E. p. Pratt Corps was
held in the evening.
The Farther Lights Society of the
Baptist church held it's monthly meet
ing Wednesday evening at the home
of Miss Hazeltine Hatch on Newhall
street.