Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-10

Following are the recent real estate
transfers as recorded at the Somerset
registry of deeds:
Skowhegan-Algie e. Davis to Ella F.
Raymond, Elbridge ]. Bruce. land;
Rupert E. jackson to Michael st. Ledg-
er, George E. Snow, property.
Pittsfield-Lester Conforth to S.
Herbert Frost; E. c.. Peasley to Flor
ence NJ. Peasley, land on Harriet
street; Melville A. Hunt Of Unity to
Fannie C. Carroll. land on George
street; Arthur Burch ct al. to Sceva
Powers, land on road from Powers
schoolhouse to Hartland.
Solon-Fred A. Coolidge to Lester L.
Patterson, land on county road.
Canaan ct al-George E. Gilbert to
James A. E. Gilbert Of Auburn, 10
acres of land on Barnes Mill road.
Madison-Alice Wildes to Henry w.
Varney, land on east shore of Lake
Wesserunsett.
Bethany Baptist church will be clos
ed for the next two Sundays for va
cation but the Thursday evening meet
ings will be held as usual.
Miss Josephine S. Emerson OF Booth
bay Harbor has been elected to teach
Grade VIII in the High school build
ing here to fill the place made vacant
by the resignation Of Miss Agnes Man.
ter to go to Castine Normal to be-
come one of the faculty there. Miss
Emerson is a graduate Of Pennington
Normal school and has had four years
experience as a teacher.
Mrs. Mile Totman and Miss Gala
Kennedy were in town over Sunday
night from Lakeside where they are
taking an outing.
John Bingham, though "a years of age.
started from Canaan early this morning
and left here on the o'clock train for
Auburn, where he will visit his son, Wes-
lev Bingham. He was accompanied by
his daughter, Miss Cora Bingham, who
lives at home with her aged parents. Mr..
Bingham has been a rugged old gentle
man always, still having good natural
teeth, very good hearing and eyesight
and looked pretty smart Monday morn
ing, but when questioned as to his health
responded Not very WE'LL 1t seems as
if this gloomy weather must have been
depressing the old man a little. Mr..
Bingham was born in Eastport of long
lived race. His early manhood was
spent in the town of Clinton and then
Canaan became his home. He has lived
on his present farm mile from Canaan
village about 60 years. He has been
married 6s years, his wife having been
Miss Margaret Church of Clinton. and
Mr. Bingham is the oldest member OF a
Masonic order in Maine. belonging to
Carrabassett Lodge of Canaan. Mr..
Bingham was born before the day OF
stoves and hot air furnaces and when
everything about the farm was done by
hand Husking and apple-paring bees
and kitchen dances helped in those days
to enliven the hard work and low wages.
Besides the two children mentioned, Mr..
Bingham has a third, Albert Bingham of
Canaan.
The fall term of the rural schools will
open on Sept I, following Labor Day.
and the rural schools vii: open the fol-
lowing week on Sept. IS.
Skowhegan baseball team will play
Livermore Falls here Tuesday.
George Fletcher of Joplin, Mo-, mas
arrived here to join his wife and two
daughters, who are visiting his mother.
Mrs. Ellen Fletcher, and his sisters, Mrs.
Frank Morrill,. and family Mr. Fletcher
is interested in lead mining at Joplin.
where he has teen for some years.
The Harriet FIVE residence on Mt.
Pleasant avenue has been sold recently
to Susaman Russakoff.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Malbon have
given up their rent on Heselton street