Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-04

buildings and $31O.65 for Investigate
ing crimes The Jail supplies were
S126.46 and interest on the county
bonds was $19250. The sum of $4,000
has been paid for county bonds and
the total amount paid out was So
953.05. This leaves the county with
S932O93 on hand to begin the present
month with. The commissioners have
lately returned from an investigation
of the roads in the upper part of the
| county. which are in very good condl-
! ton considering the heavy rains. They
are having to build but one bridge in
the county and that is in Pittsfield over
the Neal Brook, the county to pay 80
per cent. of the cost of the same.
DR.. f. H Stevens of Cambridge,
Mass. is passing a week at Bloom
field, where his mother and sister are
located for the summer. Mrs. Angie
Stevens. the doctors daughter law.
with her son, Master Edmund Stevens.
of Cambridge have arrived and Miss
Delano of Boston, their friend, is also
at Bloomfield.
Father Ernest Renaude of Ontario
who has held a professorship in one
Mary's and will assist his cousin. FIR
J. L. A. Renaude in the work of the
parish during the summer.
A meeting of the Somerset Central
Agricultural Society was held Satur-
day afternoon at the office of the In
dependent- Reporter Co. Considerable
business was transacted and it was de-
cidcd not to charge entrance fees for
automobiles at the annual fair. 1t was
voted that r. T. Patten report recon-
mcndations for the ticket schedule at
the next meeting and J. w. Fogler,
Mrs. Maurice Gledhil and Mrs. G. +.
Avore were named as the committee
to have in charge the hall arrange
ments Another meeting will be held
Friday, July s, at the Somerset Trac-
ton Cos. office.
Deputy Sheriff John Burke of Jack
man was in town Monday and Tues
day. having brought George Neddeau
of Fort Kent here to serve a 15-day
sentence in the county Jail. Neddeau
it seems was making a nuisance of
himself at Jackman, where he had
been working, and had been drinking
considerably.
Fr. Carey Of Hallowel was in town
Monday and Tuesday. The regular
meeting of the Reformatory Commits
sioncrs, of which he is one, postponed
their meeting from last Monday to
date later in the month.
Mr. and Mrs r. H. Smith and two
sons Of Springfield, Mass. are at one
of the Butler cottages at Lakewood for
10 days Mr. and Mrs. j. f. Cain of
of I a1cn 3nGtb pr
of the Butler cottages. Noodles Fa
gan with his wife and little daughter
have departed, having cut their stay
short by several weeks.
Mrs Annie f. Fish arrived home on
Tuesday forenoon from a several days
visit in Portland and Augusta.
Dr. and Mrs. l.. p. Geoffrian, accom-
panied by Mrs. Paul Matthews and
Mrs. Lena Casey, We're in Augusta the
first of the week to call upon one or
more members OF Company f.
The basins to be used under the
stalls to be improvised in the Fire De-
partment building have been ordered
but the alterations have not been made
as yet
Everett Burnor has begun upon his
duties as bookkeeper for the Farmers
Telephone Co.
Fourteen persons took the state
teachers examination conducted at the
High School building Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lockwood have
been in town this week calling on for
mer friends. Mr.. Lockwood is now
proprietor of a hotel at Guilford and
he and his wife were in this section to
accompany the remains of his mother
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