Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-17

! AS Harry Stanley was cutting ice
Thursday he was so unfortunate as TO
slip and fall on the saw he was using, IN
ficting an ugly wound on his leg.
At the Congregational fair held a week
ago sl5s.50 was taken, clearing about SIS.
1t is stated by the telephone company
that it will take another week to get the
telephone lines repaired from the damage
done 10 them two weeks ago.
DR. Warren B. Sanhorn is considering
, an offer TO go to Daytona, Fla. for three
, months.
LOCAL NOTICE
c. P. Hannaford & Son are displaying
their usual large line Of Christmas goods.
Toilet articles, Patroums perfumes, books,
games, fountain pens, cameras-a full
line Of Victrola and Columbia talking ma
chimes from $50 to s1o0-a big line of choc-
oiates in holiday boxes-Apollo, Lowneys.
See our big 43c. specials Stationery in
boxes from 25c. to 81. dec1'd2t
/ The Little Acme Theatre has a special
program for Monday and Tuesday nights,
the tve-reel Paramount feature His
Sweetheart" also Fatty Arbuckle in two
reels, His Wedding Night" The man
agement is to make special price OF I,
attraction only. decl7d2t
I EAST-Mr. and Mrs. Roy Leavitt are
receiving congratulations on the birth OF
daughter, which occurred Dec. :. The
young lady has been named Annie Louise
The Mission Circle met with Mrs. Sadie
Baker Thursday afternoon. The following
program was carried out: Devotional eX-
ercises, conducted by Mrs. Baker: The
Bantu, a Wandering Race, Mrs. Eugenia
Titus; The Congo People. Mrs. Mary
{ Briggs; The Bantu Language, Mrs Ma
bel Whiting; Pen Pictures: the cl:u Man
Mrs. Stella Stone: the Bulu Woman. Mrs
Susie Packard; reading. Home Life in
v estern Africa, Mrs. Stella Stone; Fetish
ISM, Mrs. Lillian Foster. The day o.
meeting was changed to Wednesday and
the next meeting will be with MRS. Mabel
Whiting on Jan. 8, 1915
CEN TEIt-ln the Wednesday Joan =
mai last Weea ii stated that the Wo-
mans Foreign Mission Study Glass had
been changed to a Red Cross meeting.
( they beg to say that it is a mistake.
! The mission class still exists, but in
! steau OF doing as much literary WORK
J II has voted 10 work on needs of the
hour. Wednesday they will meet at the
church to do Red Cross work. All in
tercSted please come in and help. Open
! al 10 o'clock. Gentlemen's night. whic ]
was to have been held Dec 10. has
been postponed until after the holidays
/ Notice will be given later.
The friends of Everett Harding. VINO
formerly lived in Winthrop Center. VIII
! be sorry TO learn that he was burned
cut last Thursday night by a fire that
destroyed the house in which he was
living. Mr.. Harding was living in Lew
iston With his grandmother. Mrs. Hen
ny Williams. They occupied the third
floor of ten tenement building IN that
city and were obliged to escape in theil
night clothes with Mr. Hardys chill
dren wrapped in shawls. They had a
! very narrow escape from death in tbs
/ flames as there was no time to spare
The fire started in the cellar of the ten
cment from some live Goals in ashes
that We're put in a barrel by the occu-
Pants of another part of the rent This
! caused blaze that shot up through
the lower floor and soon filed the
! Thursday night was one of the hard
est nights of the winter, the wind blow
ing a gale and the cold making an eX-
r@rience of this kind extremely dao.
gerous.
The electric cars were unable to get
through on the Winthrop line Friday
/ owing to the drifted snow on the track
In some places ii was piled up very
Ia, .r,
of shoVeling before the cars can set
through at ali.
Frank Taylor went Friday afternoon
To WaterNille, where the Boys and Girls
COM Clubs were holding d meeting.
The carrier of Z. +. ID. Route ~ was
Z unable to make his trip Friday. al
, though lie managed TO get around pa
/ way before he was stopped by deep
drifts in the road.
The town of Winthrop is having
some wood cut on their farm near the
/ Center. The wood is' standing on a hill
+ across the Narrows pond from the roa i
/ hy the NarroWs bridge. The wood is
I considered of the very best in quality
and will find a ready sale
Schools Were not in session Friday
owing to the severe snow storm mdk
ing it imposSill c for the pupils to reaC h
the school building.