Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-30

! manual training department of the SHOW
hogan schools will be On exhibition June
6. and at the Assembly haH IN the
High school building, under the direction
of Miss Carrie NJ. Carpenter and Frank
W. Knowlton. the respective teachers OF
these two branches. The hours will be
from go to $50 and from 7.3o to o'clock.
The deferred annual meeting of Eunlce
Farnsworth Chapter, u. A. r.. was held
Monday afternoon at the home OF Mrs.
Eva r. Greenwood with rs. Gertrude w.
Buckname assisting in the entertainment.
The following officers were elected; Re-
gent. Mrs. Florence w. Danforth; vice
regent, Mrs. Eva r. Greenwood; secre-
tary, Mrs. Laura H. Dinsmore treas
urer Mrs Georgia Wilson; registrar DIR.
Cora N johnson: historian, Miss l.. II.
Coburn. 1t was voted during the session
to meet once week TO sew for the
French and English wounded at present
and Mrs. Edith S. Philbrick was APP
pointed secretary and Miss l.. H. Cohurn
treasurer Mrs. Molly NJ. Steward. Mrs
Dora c. Mc\eelie, Mrs Nellie Chase be-
ing included on the committee lists.
j. f. Mcdonald. private in Co. K. who
has been quite i'll. arrived in town Tues
day forenoon for a q hours Through
during which he was to consult local
physician and then go TO Lakewood to
visit his mother. who is at her cottage
from New York
Arthur Smith, a blacksmith of Ath-
ems, has been awarded the contract to
drive the stage between Skowhegan
and that town.
Some thirty-five citizens were pres
ent at a meeting held Monday night
| in the municipal court room. at which
II. T. Harmon of Portland was pres
ent as the speaker, having been as
! signed to Skowhegan by the Federal
Reserve Bank. Mr.. Harmon in the
course of his intelligent remarks de-
! scribed the Liberty Loan system main
| tanning that to do her part Maine
must raise from s14,000,0e0 to S16.-
! 900 and corrected the impression that
the Liberty Loan had been oversub
scribed. The meeting was really call
ed to sufficiently agitate the people
to a point where they would see the
necessity of obtaining the required
money.
| Rev. George Merriam has returned
home from Cleveland, O., and a visit
with his five sons. who are located in
| Cleveland and Dayton, O., and Massa :
chusetts cities.
There is to be a public meeting un-
der the auspices of the Woman's Club
, in the Opera House Thursday after
noon. A. NJ. G. Soule of Augusta will
give an address upon food conserva-
ton and Miss Catherine M. Platts of
the Home Economics Extension at the
| University Of Maine will give a dem
! onstration on Canning methods, in
! Guiding the new method of cold pack
canning. All the boys and girls who
expect to enter their names for the eX
hibition this fall should also attend
this meeting.
Miss Alma Smiley, swho has for
! some time been science instructor at
| the High school, completed her du
ties Friday and has gone to Orono
to pack the belongings Of her brother
who was a student at the University
I of Maine and who was called without
notice to serve as musician in the
Army. From there Miss Smiley was
going to her home in Caribou. She
Will shortly be married to State Sec
rotary Whittier of the Massachusetts
Y. NJ. C. A. and because of the ap-
preaching nuptials, made necessary by
the war situation, rendered her resig
nation. Mrs. c. y. Hight is substitute
ing for the remainder of the term ow
ing to the vacancy.
TIE marriage intentions of John
Spaulding of Skowhegan. formerly OF
| Harmony and Miss Eva Steward
daughter of Edgar Steward of Skow.
hogan. have been placed on file at the
town clerks office.
3. F. Bigelow of Lokosee, Fla, is ir
town this week especially to attend
the Memorial day observance with ole
comrades of Russell Post He is also
visiting his granddaughter, Mrs
Rainey.