Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-09-27

tnere ID movement on foot or.
sstins' IT 10 Understood, with the
s"oers OF the Skowhegan Wornan's
uo. 70 consolidate for the win,e,
.ne meetings Of that Organization. The
Io~n Improvement Society and soro-
s's' inc three literary clubs Of the
town. The plan IL to have but one
meeune month, the Woman's Club
70 furnish two programs, the Improve
ment Society two and Sorosis two.
aho to have thereby with the less
FREQUENT meetings more opportunity
TO DO work for war relief. A meeting
OF the Town Improvement Society has
accordingly been called to take IN
the matter on Friday afternoon at 3
O'CLOCK in the parlors Of the Public
Library.
There was a good attendance at the
monthly meeting Of the Congregational
Reading Circle Tuesday afternoon at
tae home, Of Mrs. G. W. Goodrich on
Madison avenue. Mrs. Ella T. Holt, the
president, presided and plans we're
made for future work. A feature of
the miscellaneous program was a re-
port by Miss Hannah r. Page of the
Missionary Conference during the sum-
mer at Ocean Park. The next meeting
will be held the fourth Tuesday in
October st the home Of Mrs. F.. f.
Greenwood.
In the coast coast tour the famed
Twenty Mule Team advertising the
wares Of the Pacific Coast Borax Co..
struck Skowhegan toward night Tues
day afternoon. The animals were ex-
ceedinely we'll groomed and with their
tinkling bells made a favorable ap-
pearance. The COW hoy drivers In
their picturesque attire came in for
their share Of attention as they dis
tributed the samples of the goods they
represented. .
In the case Of Gutterson & Gould, a
Lawrence, Mass. frm, against Harry
Cohen, a local junk dealer which was
tried here Tuesday, a decision was re-
turned by the Jurors toward the close
of the days work for the plaintiff
in the sum Of ss1.21. Gutterson &
Gould were represented by Merrill &
Merrill and Cohen by Butler & Butler.
More cases on the list Of new entries
for the September term Of S. ]. Court
In which default has been recorded
are as follows: Angie p. Smith, Lib.
vs. BENJAMIN L. Smith; The Rogers
& Hubbard Co. VS.. Fred l. Tibbetts;
Susan Monbleau. Lib. VS.. Nelsoi Mon
hlcau; Ada e. Berry. Lib, vs.. Alonzo
Berry: c. Guy Hume and Frank Don.
ley VS.. Fred Pullen; Charles H. Har-
ris VS. Fred Skillings: The First Ma
tional Bank of Skowhegan vs.. Sam
uel W. Could; The First National
Bank Of Skowhegan VS.. Samuel W.
Could and Nellie L. Gould;
Minnie BARLEY VS.. Emma Poulin ct
ais: Sadie NJ Mace, Lib, vs. Harold
Sprague Mace; Leon r. Libby vs. {.
Samuel Seavey and Wallace Hussey;
Everett Adelbeft Pond, Lib, VS.. Ma
bel Rose Pond; L. W. Savage vs. Ar
thur Gotta and Peter Levasseur; La
w. Savage vs. Frank Haycock; MIN
ME Estelle Dunham, Lib, VS.. Harry
Albert Durham: Nettie Edna Foote,
Lib, We. Hiram ". Foote; May I. Page
yib.. VS.. James II. Page: Charles Ster-
rv. Lib, VS. Marcia Mildred Sterry.
The case Of Frank Holley VS.. sadie
Gilbert and Allie Gilbert has been en-
tered neither party no further action
and that Of Henry N. Taylor. assignee
ys. Hartford Lumber Co. was con-
tinued. The Coe-Mortimer Co. VS..
George Hebert was defaulted on two
cases and that Of Fred Pierce VS..
I.nes NcKenney was continued. The
case Of ]. r. Emery Co. VS.. Charles
Baron was defauted by agreement.
The Skowhegan Water Power co. Is
at present engaged in making tenn
porary repairs on the log slulce OF
the upper dam which was badly dam
aged by the early summer fresnet
and some repairs are also being mace
on the Wing dam on the south side
under the direction Of Parkin OF FAR
field. Repairs are also to be mace
on the middle channel dam by the
Central Maine Power Co. 1t was un-
der.tood here Wednesday that the
Central Maine Power Co. had become
the purchasers of the famed Bomba-
zee Rips power at Norridgewock and,
IL so. this accounts for the temporary
repairing only of the dam here. as the
Skowhegan dams would be necessarily
made higher to accommodate the now
of water should the Central Maine
Power CO. become the purchaser.
In line with other Red Cross or
the local Red Cross Chap
ter will observe Sweater Day. Oct. II,
and it is earnestly hoped that all
Chapter members who know the art
of knitting will complete sweater
for local drafted men, now at Aver,
Mass, before that time. All sweaters
which are now being shipped by the
local Chapter are sent to local men.
Cards have already been received here
from local men on shipboard. which
would indicate that they were headed
for the war zones.
J. Harvey White and Carl w. NAL
lev are to attend the Music Festival
at Bangor this evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. r. Quimby, who
have been residents Of this village for
about two years, are leaving, probab-
ly today. for Starks, where they will
OCCUPY a farm for the winter at
least They formerly resided in Starks
and since their residence here Mr..
Ouimby has been employed on the
cars Of the Somerset Traction Co.
The Skowhegan Pulp Co.. which was
among the heavy losers in the freshet
Of early summer will probably sell its
logs at the down river landing in pref
erence TO having them shipped back
"a Skowhegan. a plan which was at