Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-09-01
PITTSFIELD
Important Red Cross Meeting
Saturday - Letter Carriers
Convention on Labor Day
Folsom.Hilman Wedding

the executive board Of the Pittsf1eld
Red Cross Auxiliary will be present
q. the meeting on Saturday afternoon
At the Red Cross rooms, Universal
ist church at go O'Clock. There viii
be a meeting of all the members of
the Rcd Cross Auxiliary at $50 and
il is desired to. have a large num-
Der of the members present at this
meeting, as important business will
Ce presented.
-, The annual meeting of the Maine
Rural Letter Carriers Association will
Re held in this village on Mondar,
Sept. 8. Headquarters viii be estab-
li2hed at the Lanccy House. Bus
mess sessions VIII be held At Union
hall. The program for tho day will
be as follows:
10 4. NJ, morning session: Open
ing Of the convention: singing. Am
erica; invocation. NiIbor Holt. Clin-
ton; roll call of officers; reading of
records: appointing "f committees;
adjournment for lunch.
Afternoon session. o'clock All
meet at Union hall for pictures by
Fl. r. Mansur of August a. official pho
tcgrapher: 1.3o, rcassnmhc at Union
ball; report cf credentials commit
tee; seating OF delegates; address Of
welcome: for Sonerect County r. l..
G. A., c. c. Mel auShlin. president.
Harmony: response. r. a. Worcester,
Jonesport; report of National conven-
ticn, Chicago. Ill, o. ". Givens, Pitts
field; song. r. y. Doore. Bradford;
report of State officers; report of
committees: election of officers: elec-
ton of delegates to the National con-
vention. Kansas City, Mo-. selection
of place for the next meeting: Gues
ton box; general discussion pertain
ing to the rural delivery service. La
dies will be entertained at the Bijou
theater at a special matinee at 2.3o.
Evening session: o'clock banquet
at Grange hall. served by the ladies
of the Methodist church. toastmaster.
r. r. Smith, address of welcome, w.
NJ. Osborn; response. F.. A. Booker;
remarks. Principal S. r. Oldham Of
NJ. G. l.: song. Leland White; ad-
dress, "The Place of the Democracy
in the Modern World" Rev Henry
E. Dunnack, Augusta. Committee Of
arrangements. A. F. Nelson. r. F. D.
No. /: F. H Randlett. r F. D. No. 2;
o. NJ. Givens. r. F. D. No. 3.
Miss Florence Edna Hillman, daugh-
ter Of Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Hillman Of
Troy. and Clyde Ernest Folsom were
quietly married Sunday evening.
Aug. 10. The single ring ceremony
was used. The bride is a graduate Of
Maine Central Institute, class Of 1915.
and for the past year a teacher in the
public schools in her own town. The
groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
al cf vi nd haS q
year in the naval service of the Unit
ed States. They will reside for the
present at the groom's home where
the best wishes of large circle Of
friends will follow them.
meeting will be held Saturday
evening of Pittsfleld Grange when the
third and fourth degrees will be work.
ed. After the work a harvest supper
will be served and social will follow.
Services will be held Sunday morn
ing at the Baptist church which re-
opens after a months recess SER
mon at 1880 will be given by the pas
tor. Rev. H. NJ. Ford, d. D.
The Universalist church will reopen
on Sunday Sept. 10.
o. H. Drake returned Thursday
evening from a short visit with rela-
tives in Ashland, y. II.
Edmund Murch of this village has
received word that his grandmother.
Mrs. Edmund Murch. is very i'll at
her home in Thorndike.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Richardson
and family of Fort Fairfield. who have
been touring the eastern part of the
state and visiting several summer re-
sorts for the past two weeks, were In
town for short time Thursday and
were the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. c. p.
Libby. The trip was made in two
large touring cars.
Mrs. A. Q. French of Fort Fairf,e,d
left Thursday for visit in Dexter,
after being In town, the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. c. p, Libby at their home
on Summer street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl McCausland and
Mr. and Mrs. Sumner McCaus,and
were among the number from this
town who attended Bangor fair -.