Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-02-07

Plans for Federation Mid
Joseph l.. Bolduc of Company Z.
103d Infantry has written an interest
ing letter back to Skowhegan and IN
the message he makes the statement
that he feels confident that he Wiil
start for the trenches in a few weeks.
N. E. M. P. A.
The annual meeting of the local
branch of the New England MIX Pro-
ducers Association was held Iuesday
afternoon at the municipal court room.
Owing no doubt to the extreme cold
and hard travelling there was not
large attendance Of members. l.. IL.
Sanford was reelected president ana
George l.. Parker was reelected secre-
tary and treasurer. Geo. /. Parker
was also elected delegate to the county
convention at Pittsneld. Fl. NJ. Tucker,
State dairy instructor, was the speaker
of the meeting and his main effort dur
ing the meeting was to bring encour-
agement to the local branch ana 10 90
this he related something that the as
sociation had accomplished during the
little less than Il year which It had been
in existence. One thought advanced
bv Mr.. Tucker was the better under
standing which had been brought
about between the producer and the
consumer Another thing the assocla-
ton has done according to Mr.. Tucker
was to regulate prices and methods OF
shipping all over New England
| AS a result of various efforts made
| 1. ,i1 Trjop of milk
/ has been increased from the five cents
demanded to 81 cents per quart. In
his yearly report secretary party
stated that there were twelve members
! who owned 104 cows.
! Mr.. and Mrs. II. J, Schmitz are to
make their future home in the Archie
Burnor house. 2S Milbourn street,
which Mrs. Schmitz has purchased.
| II. Tobey Mooers left Wednesday to
visit for few days in Brunswick
where he purposes to resume his
studies at Bowdoin college in few
weeks.
Master Jack Jenkins, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John II. Jenkins of Water street
gave a party to a number Of boy
friends Tuesday afternoon in compli-
ment to his recent birthday.
| Married in Alabama.
! Announcements have just been re-
ceived here Of the marriage Of Otto
Rockefeller Folsom Jones of Skowhe-
gan to Miss Madelync Augusta Plum
mer of Lisbon. the ceremony having
occurred in Montgomery, Ala, on Janu-
ary 10Th. They are now at home at 3o6
Mildred street, Montgomery. The
groom Is the younger son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Folsom Jones Of Locust
avenue this town, and has a large cir
Gle of friends in tho community. He
is a graduate of SkoWhegan High
school and of Bowdoln college. subse-
quently taking n course at Harvard
Business school. He is at the present
time engaged as q field auditor in
aviation camps, having been stationed
in both Houston and San Antonio,
! Texas, before assuming his present sta
ton at Montgomery. Mrs. Folsom
Jones is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Edward Plummer Of Lisbon and
in the last few years had made fire.
quent visits to SkowheGan. making
friends among number of the younger
social set.
Mrs. John w. Steward has been en-
gagged as the regular soloists at the
Christian Science church for a time.
: 1t is feared that the High school
sessions will have to be suspended for
the present on account Of the scarcity
of fuel. A cord of wood was burned at
the building in about five hours Tues
day.
! A number Of men appeared before
the Medical Advisory Board for addi-
tional physical examinations on Tues
day. The following were the results:
Joseph Quay, accepted for special
qualifications; Ralph a. Niles Of Madi-
son accepted: S. Gagne accepted; Fred
Chase, St. Adams, accepted; Eleazer
| Russakoff, Skowhegan and NaterVille.
accepted for special qualification;
Everett Pushaw, Pittsfied, rejected.
Maryann Burns has decided to Millle
A. Berry of Concord about 12o acres OF
| land on condition that Nillie A. Berry
shall comfortably support her for the
rest of her lifetime.
! Mrs. Linnwood Berry OF West En1b-
den is reported as gaining. In TIE
/ Embdcn Lake neighborhood Miss ElEa
walker has been very i'll with pneu-
monia and Miss Ina Walker is reported
as gaining slowly.
Grant Witham. porminent farmer
of this town is reducing his splendid
herd Of registered Hereford cattle and
this winter has but eight head of pure
bred stock
4 Chas., p EdgecomS and James l..
Hyde of Topsham have sold part of
! the Kinsley F'oss farm at the head OF
Embden road on Embden Pond to-
gether with the cottage standing
| thereon.
| Charles A. Blatchford Of Dorchester.
Mass. a veteran seaman of 50 years ex-
perience, departed Wednesday after visit
ing his cousin, Charles S. Smith Of this
town. and Mrs. Agnes Moody Of Cornville.
He has been engaged as chief steward on
a four-master and has been a very extern
tive traveller.
S. H. Beal and Chas. II, Tuttle left
here Wednesday morning for Portland to
attend the sheep breeders meeting.
Miss Mary O'Reilly Of Watervile who