Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-13
N0RR|DCEWOCK
Church and School Repairs Are
Being Made About Town
EATON - NORRIDGEWOCK
SCHOOL REUNION PLANS

We have been having a few days of
pretty good weather and the farmers
are getting busy with their haying.
The extremely wet weather of the
past several months has made a rank
growth of grass which needs a little
sunlight to tougher it up for good hay.
1t is thought however that the crop
will be considerably larger than usual.
The horse sheds at the Baptist
church are being entirely rebuilt and
the church building is receiving a new
coat of paint. Recently the old wood
en- platform was removed and new
stone steps We're placed at the en-
frances adding much to the neat ap
pearance Of the front of the church.
Frank Holt Of East Walpole, Mass,
is in town this week passing his vaca
ton with relatives. Mr.. Holt was for
number OF years engaged in the
clothing business here. For the past
eight years however he has had a po-
sition in East Walpole with one firm.
| The plastering of the new school
building has been completed and is
now ready for the inside finish and
heating plant. The tilling for the sewer
has arrived and will be carried down
to the mill stream. An electric sys
| tenn of pumping will be installed, the
water being taken from we'll which
will be dug on the premises. The
committee are doing lots of hustling
! to get it in readiness for business
when the fall term Of school opens.
E. A. Hilton Is suffering from Sc
we're injury to his right eye which he
received a number of days ago from a
piece of wood which flew from circu
lar saw he was using in his shop.
| The Big Willow Norridgewock's ia
nous tree, is in bad state Of repair,
nearly one third of the trunk having
fallen out and disclosing the interior
to be in a badly decayed condition.
This tree is one of the largest, If not
the largest in the state.
New potatoes and peas are in the
market but the prices are rather high.
The twenty first reunion of the Eat
on and Norridgewock High School AL
umni Association and the siXtieth an
niversary of the founding of the Eat
on School at Readfeld, will he OBJ
served here August 2nd. Mr.. Hamlin
Eaton. the founder, will be present
and his pupils are earnestly requested
to send the Secretary, for Mr.. Eaton,
their photograph and a letter telling
something of their life since leaving
school. The annual business meeting
will be held in the old school building
at three P, NJ, all former students
are cordially invited, Supper will be
served in the Congregational vestry
at the usual price to members and their
friends and the post prandial exercises
will be in the church at O'Clock.
The usual complimentary tickets will
be issued to the members on payment
of their dues All former pupils are
urged to Join the association Mr..
Wellington p. Kidder Of Jamaica
Plains, Mass. is the president; Henry
NJ. Newton, Edward Hilton, James H.
Wetherell. vice presidents; Hattie A.
| Longley, Norridgewock, sec. and treas;
Fred E. Jewett, Hattie Miller, Ira Hill
ton Florence w. Danforth and Thos.
G. Head. executive committee. This
is the last time that the association
can meet in the old school building as
a school house, as it will be used by
Somerset Grange as a grange hall.
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! their large building for this one. The
large building is now being put in
shape to house all of the town scohols
John Smith
| John Smith, one of our oldest resi-
dents died Sunday night after a short
| illness, at his home on the Starks
road. Mr.. Smith was about 81 years
of age and had been an active man all
his life, the greater part of which was
given to farming. He served as sheriff
of Somerset County for a time and
was the last keeper of the Jail here
before the new one was built at Show
hogan. He leaves a wife. two daueh-
ters and a son to mourn him. The
funeral services were held at o'clock
| Tuesday.
Mr.. Ira Hilton has one of the best
gardens we have seen this season.
| Mr.. n. B. Cleaves is very seriously
Ill at his home on the Wilder Hill
road.
The second rank was conferred in
Echo Lodge X. of p on Tuesday even
ing.
While Skowhegan. Waterville,
Smithfield and other surrounding
towns report heavy showers on Satur-
day afternoon accompanied with
heavy lightning. none of it hit here.
Mr.. Wellington P. Kidder the pres
ident of the Eaton and Norridgewock
High School Alumni Association, has
sent to the members some very fine
half tone pictures Of Mr.. Hamlin F.
Eaton accompanied by very pleasing
letter that is bound to make firm, good
fellowship an enduring feature.