Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-27
PITTSF|ELD

Accident at Wright's Crossing
-Pittsfield Beats Oakland
Locals
wriehts Crossing. on the Hartland
and Harmony line of the NJ. c. X. X,
aIcut a couple Of miles above Pitts
Geld, was the scene of an accident
Monday afternoon when the down
MESSENGER train struck a team driv-
On by John Rogers OF Ripley. The
horse was killed outright, the wagon
smashed. and Mr.. Rogers, wno has
o, ~ one arm, was badly injured near
the hip and had a cut on the mead.
AZ. Rogers was brought in on the
iain and medical aid was summoned
end he was taken to the Eastern
Maine Genera, hospital at Bangor
tcr treatment. 1t is thought his in
inries are not serious although he is
quite we'll along in years and was
badly shaken up. The train was 60
ms along about IS miles an hour
and made a good stop, only going
n:Ee car lengths after the team was
struck. II. l.. Pettingill was the
conductor and Fred Haynes was the
engineer. According to the engineer
the team had gone safely over the
crossing by twenty feet when the
hcrse began to back up and continued
to until hit by the locomotive. Mr..
EoGer3 is fortunate to come through
the accident without being killed
Outright
MIR. and Mrs. Leon II. Tilton Of
s. merset avenue are the happy par
entS of a nine pound daughter holm
| Wednesday. Aug. q, Geraldine Olive.
Miss Annie Wingate went to Ban
gor last Saturday. where she will be
employed.
Miss Rae Triton Of Waterville was
III town Sunday visiting her sister
Mrs. Charles Bradbury and her bro
ther and his wife. Mr.. and Mrs, Leon
| iiton, also to see her new niece
! Geraldine Olive Tilton, returning to
Naterville Monday morning.
The funeral services OF Richard NJ
Phillips. whose death occurred in
; Bangor Thursday. was held in the
Cnive.saiist church Sunday at II
o'clock. Rev. Sidney j. Willis official
Ing. The bearers we're Arthur Apple
bee, w. L. Percival, W. S. Spauldng
and Everett Withee. The interment
was in the village cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hollis are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
Of .on, Arnold Edward Hollis, born
! Thursday Aug. %
Mr.. and Mrs. walter Halliday AMI
daughter left Monday for Coopers
, Beach, where they will pass their va
cation.
Mrs Baxter Narnum and daughter
Queenie went to Bangor Monday for
visit with friends.
Mrs. John Mcfarland, son William
and daughter, Mrs. Charles Hartford
left Monday for visit with friends
| in Lewiston.
Mrs. Roy Farnham and daughter
! Marie left Monday 70. a visit with
relatives in North Edgecomb.
| Mrs. Archie Smith left Monday for
visit with her parents in Burnham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Wyman and chill
7, dren. Olive and Arthur and Mr.. and
Mrs. a. n. Patten left by automobile
! Sunday for a visit in Lawrence
! Mass
Mrs. Rae Tilton of WaterviIle. who
has been the guest of her sister. Mrs.
! Charles Bradbury, returned home
! Monday.
! Mr.. and Mrs. George Z. Mayo and
Mr. and Mrs. l.. c. Taft left Sunday
on weeks trip through Aroostook
county.
F. William Farrell left Sunday for
; Boston and CxbridEc, Mass. for a
! weeks visit
Mr.. and Mrs. l.ancey G. Misliken
. returned sunday evening from Il
; weeks trip TO Calais and vicinity.
+, They were accompanied on the re-
, turn trip by Mrs. Miliiken's brother.
Bert odd of New York who left on
! the evening pullman for that city.
MIR. and Mrs. Leon Tilton are re-
! ceivlng congratulations on the birth
, OF a daughter Geraldine Olive, born
, Wednesday, Aug 81.
! !. S. Fdgerley left Monday for a
visit in Corinna and Bangor.
; Mrs. Asa Craig and children. Hill
| dred. Ralph and Burton. End their
! guest. Miss Hazel Pycrs Of East Nil
, l'nccket. left Monday morning for
| Cam? Benson, where they will oc-
cupy the Parkman cottage for q
?, week.