Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-14

O|S O00ASAS<Ax@b AAOxN0O6A
Local Matters
DR.. OFT at City Hall Tonight.
The Saturday Especial Sales" column
will be omitted this week. T.
. Among the Wednesday arrivals In town
on business were H. e. Coombs and A.
G. Cookson Of Portland.
Among the Wednesday callers In town
on matters OF business was G. d. Rich
ards Of Dover.
Flora Crossman. nurse. Is Gage
street, has a new telephone installed at
her residence, number 452.W.
The annual sale OF the Ladies' Cath.
Ollie Charitable Society will Be held
Thursday afternoon and evening In
st. Mary's hall. Everybody welcome.
Joseph Brooks Of Brunswick. road
master for the Maine Central Railroad
was in the city Wednesday morning for
short time.
If Santa Claus failed you last year.
now is the time to arrange for that
Victrola for Christmas morning. Have
the Victrolas, cabinets and records in
great variety. c. E. Downing.-Adv.
Warren Garside, formerly Of this city.
who has been employed for the past few
years as timber scaler in various north
en parts Of Maine, is passing few
days in town on visit to friends.
Roy Thayer. who recently had . sigh,
accident to one eye. getting small steel
splinter in it from q piece OF metal which
he was turning down on an emery wheel.
has recovered from the effects OF the in
Jury.
Christmas stocks are now In splendid
completeness at Chernowsky's. and every
department overfows with gift things
for father. mother. sweetheart, for the
boy-and, in a word, for everyone in the
family. The store for Women" Is pre-
pared for a busy ten days.-Adv.
The new store on Cony hill which has
been under process Of remodeling for tho
past few weeks will be opened for bust
ness as general meat and sausage store
and mandatory, the proprietor being
Joseph Kitchener. The interior of the
store has been made attractive and the
bright exterior attracts a lot Of attention.
Conrad Bragg, who has been hunting
big game in the vicinity Of Lake Moxie
for the past week, returned on Tuesday
evening to his home in this city. He
stated that deer were plenty in the vi
entity Of the Dimicks, but that the crust
prevented successful hunting through
the week.
If price VIII do II. Cyr & Savoie ought
to close out their $4,000 stock of mer-
chandise in short order. They have set
30 days as the time limit in order that
they may adjust their affairs at once.
The stock is composed Of jewelry,
watches, clocks. pianos, player-pianos,
musical instruments and Edlson Talk
ing Machine records. 1t is new. desir-
abel and extraordinarily low in price.
The sale begins Friday at A. M.-Adv.
Miss Ida Dunton short time ago dis
tributed several slips of the plant called
Patient Lucy" among her friends, and
the plants which have grown from these
slips are remarkable for size and foli-
age. but have so far produced no bios.
SONS. One Of the recipients informed
Miss Dunton that she had trimmed two
messes of greens from her plant. and
another declared that she was going to
use hers for a Christmas tree.
The Ward Republicans had get-to-
gether and social evening on Wednesday
at Frank Whittens blacksmith shop on
Western avenue. about SO being in at
tendance. Steamed clans were served
and very enjoyable time was had.
Among the invited guests were City
Clerk Burleigh Martin and Alderman
Oscar Anderson. The big shop was pro-
vided with seats for the party. and q
roaring fire kept things very comforta-
BILE during the evening.
Norman Pierce of this city is doing q
lot of effective work in the line of in
strumental music. Besides having mas.
tered the violin. the cello and the piano
he is giving lessons to eight or 10 pupils
and is also acting as director to the or
chestras Of the Hewins, Webster and
harrington schools. He is 10 years Of
age. and studied music under Prof.
Kember and Miss Titcomb. Each Of his
school orchestras has one rehearsal each
week, and his time is pretty we'll taken
up between these and his pupils.
A travelling salesman from Aroostook
county told a story a few days ago in
Worthing & Parmenter's grocery store
on State street that will bear repeating.
1t seems that q young salesman from the