Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-02
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4 people still remains very serious. A
| persistent rumor about town to the
| effect that from one to eight persons
| had frozen to death could not be veri-
fed and was with out question a myth.
People in the Keenville section were
! however reported as tearing down their
! outbuildings to furnish fuel 4 car
load of soft coal received by Holt &
! hight will do something toward re-
lieviDg the sufferers SO far as II goes
| and the selectmen have put or extra
teams to haul wood from the town
wood lot. Here. however. is the great
est obstacle as there is at the lot three
CIR four hundred cords of wood already
| cut, but teams cannot bel found to
haul tie same to town. AZ the fuel
yard on Prospect street. 10 cords of
| wood are being sawed and high school
boys and college students have yolun-
| teered to split and throw the same into
| sheds there. This decision was arrived
| at a meeting in municipal court room
Tuesday forenoon presided over BY
Prin. Leighton of the high school and
attended by the students, Supt. l. W.
Gerrish, Janitor Edward Estabrool,
and Rev. c. H. Mckinney. The plan as
explained by Mr.. Leighton was to pur-
chase gray birch stumpage with the
boys as choppers and deliverers IF
fuel to purchasers in the village This
! Plan is still held to. although for tie
| present in accordance with an idea ad-
Vanced by Selectman clyde H. Smith
the boys will go to the fuel yard on
Prospect street and there do the work
OF men whose services are not obtain
| able in splitting the wood. The boys
viii be paid the same as men and the
cverGeers will be Janitor Estabroolz and
rim. leighton.
| Conservation plans are on foot in
! various other ways The Milburn Cluh
voted Monday night to close their
rooms for month, the Masonic bodies
are considering closing their hall and
! reading rooms and the churches are
planning to unite somewhere for union
services.
! Twelve men with chemicals from the
Skowhegan fire department went to
Hinckiey early Tuesday morning to as
sist III subduing the conflagration
which destroyed the railroad station
ana Farmers Union block The store
vas built by Il. L. Eaton Of this town
and his father-in law. John Totman,
about 81 years ago on the opposite side
OF the river from where it was located
at the time of the fire. but was pur-
chased q number of years ago and
! moved across the river on the Ice.
Late births recorded at the office
OF the town clerk are: TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Bertrand, a daughter
Ernestine, and to Mr. and Mrs. Phil
= bert Charter. a son. Joseph Ernest.
Friends k.
Of the approaching nuptials of Miss
Gertrude Groder Of this town. the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
! Groder, TO Herbert Durgin, Il guide
and woodsman Of The Forks, as in
| dictated by the records at the town
clerks office
! The county commissioners have been
| occupied during the closing days Of the
old year with making out assessments
for roads for 1918 .irlR plantations OF
the county, appointing road agents
etc. In Bigeiow Plantation the tax rate
Will be u mills and the tax will be for
resident. $169.0S non resident. s492 with
total Of $661.0S The road agent M
pointed is r. +. Kicker In Flagstaf
Plantation the rate will be II mills with
resident tax assessed Of $3.50. 50 and non
| resident S39440, total $5S4.2O, road
agent appointed c. G. Butler. Mavfajd
rate II mills, resident, S1O6. So. non resi-
! dent. SS99.sS total. $1C06.44. Pleasant
tlldge FL, rate 90 mills, resident S3O5. 30
non resident s77S, total s10S3.50 Fied e.
.Beane appointed agent. Carrying place
PIantatlon, rate 10 mills non resident
Szl9lo, Fred Beane appointed agent
Moxie Gore, ia te mills resident s23. 40
resident, $3.50, total s173.40. EdWj,
! y MOTIFS appointed road agent The
FORKS, rate 10 mills. resident s246 p.
nonresident. $162.33. total s1O0S. IS. Ed
WIN y. Morris. appointed agent. West
FORKS, rate Il mills, resident s2l7.s6.
nonresident, $1175.70. Henry =. Nc
henney appointed agent. Dennistown
rate 10 mills, resident, sl096j, non-resi
dent, $574.45. Total, S6S4l0, Fl. l.. Col
by appointed road agent. Sandy BAY.
rate II mills, non resident, $363. 02, II.
L. Colby appointed agent. Parlin Pond.
and mills. s925.12, Henry =. McKen-
rey appointed agent.
The following real estate transfers
have lately been transferred at the of =
fee Of the Somerset Register of Deeds !;
kowhegan-Samuel e. Smith to Eva
c. Cox. land on west side of Russell
road; Ernest c. Butler to Chas p.
tlannagan, part of the Moses Cain
farm; Ernest G. Butler to SkoWhegan
Trust Co., land and buildings on south
slde OF East Front street; Guy +. VAL
liere to Mabel Dore, interest in land on
North avenue. formerly owned by Chas
Vallierc; Skowhegan and Clinton. Al
bert A. Shione to Walter S. Cover
Barrett farm.
Observation-Disclosures o. Travis;
to Peter Traviss. land with buildings on
road leading from Norridgewock village
to Mercer village.
Hartland-George Merrifeld. Cora A
Wheeler. Delora M. Steadman, Lizzie
r. Harris to Chester w. Chase. land
with buildings on Commercial street
Palmyra-Frank NJ Bradford to
Florence p. Lawrence, about 20 acres
land, consideration, $3.50.
Athens-Jeremiah Brown to Fred
Tuttlc. about 10 acres land
Madison--Chas. O. Small ct ais. tn
Flora Y. Files. land with buildings on
east side of road leading northerly
from Norridgewock by Wharf, corner
to Scion; Guy r. Valliere to Mahe,
Dore all the land lying northerly and
westerly OF the Russell road formerly
owned by Joshua and Samuel Burns.
Starks-Prescott j. Phinney to A. NJ.
Gray land with buildings on Main