Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-23

Day and Commencement Exercises
Wednesday evening, May the twenty.
second at eight o'clock, Ford Hall
Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachu
sets. Mr.. Howe has been attending
the school and is member Of the
graduating class of 1913.
Mrs. Caroline Woodman has gone
to Goodwill Farm where she is the
guest of her daughter. Mrs. Annie
! Pratt. matron of one of the cottages
! Wentworth Greenleaf is confined Il
his home with the chicken pox. Sew
eral cases are reported in town.
The last of the Citizens Entertain
ment Course was held Wednesday
evening at the High school assembly
hall when Willard Scott from Brook
line, Mass, was present and enter
tanned large and enthusiastic au-
dience.
! All the schools in town will close
on Thursday, the sixth Of June, for
the summer vacation. The exercises
! at Lawrence High will be held in the
evening of that date at the school
building. The Seniors who are to
! take part in the class day exercises
have been busi!y engaged in re-
, hearsing and making the final prep
arations FOR the day.
! The following article which was
copied from Minneapolis paper with
the picture of Mr.. and Mrs. William
NJ, Stanley, will be of interest to
people in Fairfield and vicinity. Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley have resided in the
/ East and have many relatives in
/ Fairfield with whom they have Wis
! tied and have many acquaintance in
! this vicinity; William NJ. Stanley
pioneer resident of Minneapolis, has
offered TO show men of his neighbor-
hood how to knit. and that II is a
mans job as well. Since Mr. Stan
ley's retirement from work because
of poor health, he and Mrs. Stanley
have turned their home into q knit
terry and the boys of the Stanley
home were taught to knit. Since Oct
/ !, they have knitted 70 pairs of
socks. dozen sweaters. nine muff
lcrs six pairs Of wristlets, four he'll
NETS. five abdnmenal bands, and have
! done special knitting jobs on hurry
mp calls. Mr.. Stanley was 10 years
old Thu 'sday and he told all his
friends who called that they should
have brought their knitting. His
guests looked on and wondered while
he knitted and talked over early DAYS.
Mr.. Stanley does the plain knitting
and Mrs. Stanley does the fancy
turns. thia arrangement having
proved 4 speed accelerator Nj.
Stanley has lived on the East side for
more than 60 years, the family home
. is at al Madison street"
Mr.. Stanley is a Maine man, hayin,
been born the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Stanley Of Skowhegan. At
ter his marriage TO Mrs. Sylvia
Horne of Dexter he has engaged in
photography for while. Then he
bought a farm in st. Adams where
the resided. They went to Mime
apolis. where they have since resided,
Death of Mrs. Frank Lemeiin. Sr.
Mrs. Frank Lemelin. ST.. died sudden.
" Wednesday evening at o'clock a,
her home on Water street. She suff.re
a paralytic shock at O'clock and re
manned unconscious 10 the end.
Tic death Of Mrs. Marion F.. Free
land occurred in PHILADELPHIA at tnc
, homo If her Youngest brother Tues
DAY May q. after a several months
/ illness as result of d surgical opor-
ati0n.
Mrs. Frocland was born in Fairfield
on Sept. 10, 1861. ana had passed tha
greater part Of her life there. She
was a member Of aIerrymcettng
Chapter, Q. L. s. Silence Howard
Hayden Chapter, y. A. r., Good N.li
Hchckah lodge and a charter member
of the Past and Present Club.
Mrs Frecland was a lifelong Uni
versalist and was worker in III
church both in social and church az
fairs.
mother Mrs. Mary F. Totman. ana
three brothers. Harry of Devens
Col, Fred cf Boulden.s Col, and =
Percy Of Philadelphia.
The funeral services will be held
ut the home Of her uncle. Arthur II
Totman Of Lawrence avenue at
o'clock Thursday afternoon. Inta,-
ment will lie in the family lot in Nh
plewood cemetery.
Lawrence high lost the last game
to be pl0 ycd on the home ground
played Wednesday afternoon from
Skowhegan by a score Of IA to 3.
The score
SKOWHEGAN.
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