Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-12-10
SkOWHECAN

The regular meeting of Skowbs,
grange was held on "Wednesday 90 an
ming with a large attendance. At ~
business session the first and secons
degrees were conferred upon a cI..
of candidates. After the business g.
sion a program was presented
special meeting for the p,rnosa -
comforting the third and fourtb ~
grees is to be held next Wedne,s..
evening. Dec. Is. After the confe,ria
of degrees box social will NO h.is
The next regular meeting viii -
Wednesday evening. Dec. 22rd
which the annual election of officsa.
will occur. The music will be ..
ranged by the lecturer. Mrs, Kate tIar
and a reading will be given bv M
Fred C. Nye.
DAME. Steward is in Portland On,
Richmond. visiting with relatives
County Agent c. A. Storer wen, ..
Orono Thursday to be preser, a,
State convention of the county agor,a
of the Farm Bureau
Miss Ida Trip and Mrs. Georgs,,.
Heath were in Waterville on bus;nes'
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Trask xb,
have been residing for the past ,bra.
years in Oakland. have returned ;.
their farm on the West Ridge roas
in Cornville.
Mrs. G. H. Lancaster of Canaan :.
i'll at the home of her dauchter NJ
Henry Crowell on North avenue
The dates for the presenting Of -.
pageant Lighting The Christine
Candles are Saturday. Dec lS,t
Monday. Dec. Goth and TUESDAY Dee
21st. This first presentation will bs
held at the home of Miss Hannah J.
Page on High street and the second
on Dec. Goth at the home OF Col and
Mrs. Roy L. Marston on Raptisr lin
This pageant is to help raise IA.
10Q, 900 ten-dollar gifts for an inter.
national Christmas gift to the Unjor
colleges and medical schools for tho
women of the Orient. Reautifm
Christmas music will proceed and fol.
low the pageant at each presentation
THE Spirit of Christmas" will h.
represented by Mrs. jackson and tho
students from Toxic Pekin college
Chilling, Lucknow, Madras and Pekinc
Medical college will be Denoted hy
the Misses Helen Hight, Virginia
Ames, Marion Jacobs, Geneva Belts
Elsie Cox, Iona Trafton and Hecg
Gates. The following ladies made RI
the committees i'll charge Of tho af.
fair: Pageant, Miss Dorothy NJ e.
lott, Mrs. Herbert L. Nichols Mrs
Roy L. Marston and Mrs. FLOYD G.
Nye; paTlor committee. Miss Edith "
Gledhill, Miss Gertrude s Weston and
was written by Mrs. Henry W. Pea.
body Of Boston.
The Ladies' Social Circle Of the
Centenary Methodist church will meet
next Wednesday afternoon with Mrs
Herbert l.. Nichols at the parsonage
at which time the reports Of the an
nual hoI meat dinner and sale will be
given.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leo Shay arrived in
town from Old Town coming here to
conduct a sale of baskets which viii
be held in the Blaisdell Automobile
Cos. salesrooms. Several years ago
Mrs. Shay came to Skowhegan and
addressed the ladies of the Woman's
club. She was accompanied by her
mother. Mrs. Lizzie. Nicola. who
demonstrated the making of the bas-
kets. At that time they were guests
Of Miss Hannah r. Page.
The Skowhegan Merchants Asso-
citation held a business session on
Thursday evening at 730 O'Clock at
the municipal building.
Blinn Page. cashier of the First Ma
tional Bunk and J. H. Jenkins OF the
Somerset Shoe Co, are in Boston on
business.
Mrs. Walter Shores and Mrs. Asa
nesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Ellis were In
Waterville on business. Wednesday
Ernest Bagley has gone TO Lewiston
where he has employment
Mrs. Ella HI. Crowell has closed her
home and will pass the winter with
her son. Herbert n. Pratt at his hone
on the Canaan road.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
SS~AShy MttIiOulet
church will be entertained at the
home of Mrs. Anna F. Merrill next
Monday afternoon at 8 O'Clock. TIE
first chapter of the study book. "The
Bible and Missions" will be used. also
the questions in the November mag
aZine.
Friends in town arc sorry To learn
that Mrs. Clara Furber of Canaan is
i'll at the home of her son, Omar. on
Middle street.
Mrs. Leon BLker and 1ar daIsh-
ter, Phyllis, have gone IL Boston.
where Miss Phyllis is to enter II
convent on Huntington avenue Mrs,
Buker is to visit with rela lives IN
Worcester and Stoneiiam before le-
turHis. home.
Mrs. Jasper Roy of Canaan was IN
town Wednesday visiting her sor,
Orald f. Roy and family.
Mrs. Blain Blaisdell and son. Alton,
of Norridgewock. We're guests Wed
nesday of her parents. Mr. ami 1irS
Samuel F. Emerson of Mechanic
street.
The children OF Mr.. AM Mrs
Charles Bonniu of Summer St Get mr.
Ill with the measles.