Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-01
SKOWHECAN NEWS
v o sans Tor France Saturday in American Seal
ceSkowhegan Changers Hold Interesting Meeting Wednes
:',0eafchnght Club to Sew for French Wounded-Alum
nj Meeting Scheduled for June *

courts. register of probate and register
OF deeds at the Somerset county court
house will be closed Saturday afternoons
during the months Of June, July and
August.
Miss H. E. Bunker, former superinten-
dent Of Somerset hospital, who has been
passing some time in Portland. has been
visiting during the week with friends.
Mrs. Steinhart and daughter, Miss Ruth.
arrived Thursday forenoon to visit the
family of Hugh Hurley on West Front
street.
The Searchlight Club meets Friday aft
ernoon with Miss Mabel Mckinney to
sew for the French wounded.
DR.. and Mrs George E. Young left
Thursday afternoon for Barre. VT. to
visit the parents Of Mrs. Young and aft
erwards will 60 to the Mary Fletcher
hospital in Burlington. an institution with
which both were previously connected.
DR.. Young will afterwards go to New
York to attend a session OF the American
Medical Association and later will review
at the Polytechnic hospital in New York.
Glen c. Taylor and family have been
| moving from the Day house on Madison
avenue to the Savoy farm between tere
and Canaan. His parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Taylor. have already arrived from
North Wakefield and his brother. Cory
don Taylor, will shortly come from the
same place. They propose to do quite
extensive farming. Mr.. and Mrs. Savoy
have moved to house on North avenue.
Leon and Harold Symonds, students
at the Massachusetts School of Optom-
etry, are visiting their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. D. Symonds Of North avenue.
Miss Marjorie Powers, chief operat-
or at the local telephone exchange, en-
tertained a party of girl friends at a
| freight party the other evening. The
| affair was held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Tibbetts and was one
greatly enjoyed.
Harry Gordon of New Portland has
accepted a position as lineman for the
Farmers Telephone Co., taking the
| from Good VIII has been substituting
until he arrives.
Superintendent Gerrish of the Show
i hegan- Madison schools announced on
| Friday that Miss Helen Kitchens, the
! teacher of English at Madison High
school, had resigned.
The alumni meeting of the Skowhe-
gan High school graduates will be held
in Grange hall on June Is. Mrs. Kate
S. Simpson will cater for the banquet.
Rev. George Merriam will speak on
Sunday morning at the Bethany Bap-
, fist church upon Snapshots Of the
Great Convention" which he has late
/ ly attended at Cleveland. Ohio. A spe-
cial feature of both the morning and
evening services will be the singing by
John Brush. Colby, 1920, who is to pass
the weekend with his classmate, Chas.
Coburn Smith.
There viii be a regular meeting of
| Sunset Chapter. o. E. s., this Friday
evening.
! Considerable anxiety has been occa-
! stoned because of no word having been
received directly from H. Tobey
Mooers, since his arrival in France. A
cahlegram announces that he is safe
and well.
Gould late of Medford, Mass. were
held Wednesday in Boston. Mr.. Gould
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
! A. Gould of Summer street, this town,
and his friends will extend sympathy
| to him in his sorrow. The only child
! of the couple is also deceased. Mrs.
Thomas A. Gould is passing some time
| IN her sons home