Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-07-14
Mrs. William Lana

Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Lang received word
Friday morning of the death OF Mrs.
Lang. wife Of Rev. William Lang OF Au-
burn The funeral services will be held
Sunday at 23o. Mrs. Lang was a native
Of Somerset county and she and her hus-
band were located In different towns OF
this county prior to the establishment OF
their home In Auburn several years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Bragg and child OF
Portland are visiting their parents. Mr..
and Mrs J. H. Murray and Mr.. and Mrs.
c. y. Bragg.
The Parlin block, now owned b Walter
r. Ordway. is nearing completion and the
chapel and Offices to be occupied by Lord
& Caswell will probably be suitable to
move into next week. No other leases
have been made as yet. There will be
one other store on the ground floor with
three tenements overhead. The Christian
Science Society will not re-establish its
headquarters there.
1t was definitely announced here Friday
morning that all services at the First
Baptist church would be suspended until
September This is due to the serious ILL.,
ness Of Rev Eta G. Tracy. assistant
pastor and wife OF Rev o. H. Tracy.
Ph. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaiah Crowell who re-
Gently sold their farm in Monroe. have
moved to the Dunbar farm next to the
skowhegan Town farm which they have
leased Of Manley Holt. Mr.. crowell pur-
poses to buy a farm in this vicinity when
he fnds one to suit his fancy
the subject will be Shall We Have the
Booze or Shall the Food and Men Be
saved?" At the evening service Alfred
r. Morrill,, who has been Y. NJ G. A.
secretary in Manila for three years, Will
give an illustrated address. One hundred
and twenty-five or more pictures will be
thrown unon the screen by the stereopti-
con.
County Commissioners William Osborn
oe Fairfield. Granville D. Perkins or Mao
,son and f. T. Goodrich OF this town
leave next Monday for Solon, where they
will Law out road accompanied by Sur
veyor Henry Crowell. From there all 1our
gentlemen will proceed to The Forks.
"a here they will look over another high
way.
Mrs. Ada 1OOleT SutiASA " AeSS~~'
formerly engaged in dressmaking here' IL
visiting friends in town this week
Tho first OF the classes graduated from
the Skowhegan High school to hold re-
unions thus far this season was the class
OF 1908. the members enjoying themselves
Thursday afternoon at Lakewood. Nine-
teen were present, 10 Of them being grad
yates. as follows: Alfred T. Morrill,, late
ly OF Manila: Mrs. Myrtle Hoxie Henni-
man Of Denver. Col: Miss Winnie Shaw
OF Worcester, Mass: DR.. Robert Wtldes.
Tufts Dental II: Edward Clifford. North
Fairfield; Mrs. Vera Bearce Smith. Mrs.
Grace z. Jewett Tilton. Mrs. Bertha
Thompson Hall. Miss Carolyn Brainard.
Miss Florence Phibrick. Mrs. Fancher
Sawyer SWEET Of skowhegan and Mrs.
Marearet Grimm Merriam OF Dayton. Ohio.
Others present as guests were Mrs. Laura
Twadell, Harry e. Smith. Cecil H. TIL
ton. Robert Hall Of Skowhegan. and DR..
s r. Garard Of England. The afternoon
was spent in water sports and tennis by
those present. DR.. George e. Young, .
rrsrober Of the class now located in Show
hesan. with Mrs. Young arriving In time
,or supper at the Mcclellan cottage. Dur
ing tho business session Alfred T. Nor
PHI wa. unanimously elected president OF
the class and Afterwards theatre party
IA. enjoyed. Tho original class number
ed q.
The sale Of the W. Guy Pennell place
near tho Somerset Traction car barns Is
reported to Jacob Goldberg
II Is understood that the Jackman Lum-
her Co. is shortly to start in numbering
operations in the heavy tract OF timber
land near it's mills at Jackman. but so
FAR A 10 known there are no other ac-
tivi,,es in Somerset county's big timber
distr,cts at the present time and prob
ah,y there will be none in the line Of cut