Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-21

ton Reed of East Madison.
Miss Ruth Jockey who has passed
several weeks with Mrs. Margaret
briggs. OF Water street and with
Mrs. Matte Goodwin at her home on
Madison avenue left Thursday on the
O'Clock train en- route for her home
IN Chipley. Fla. Miss Jockey will
stop In Boston on her way south.
Mrs. Vera B. Smith recently enter
tanned group of ladies in honor Of
her friend. Miss Mabelle Ross of
Portland, among them Mrs Sadie
| Reed. Mrs. Helen Nitschke, Miss Lu-
la Chapman. Mrs. Laura Twadell and
Mrs. Edrie Wyman. The evening
| was passed socially Mrs. Smith
| served delicious refreshments.
The regular meeting of the Clemen-
tine Weston w. c. T. U. will be held
next Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
with Mrs. Elizabeth Marble, at~her
nome on Spring street. An interest
ing program will lbe presented, ar
ranged by Miss Gertrude s. Weston.
Mrs. Amber Gallagher, night oper-
, ator in the local Office of the Maine
Telephone & Telegraph Company left
on the o'clock train Thursday
! morning for UXbridge, Mass. Mrs.
| Gallagher will be absent about two
weeks and will visit in Lewiston on
| her return. During Mrs. Galagher's
| absence Mrs. Goldie Holden will act
as night operator.
Joseph II. Murray, local sealer of
| weights and measures, has been in
| Portland this week in attendance at
the State Convention which was held
/ in that city.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Hanson went
| to Bowdoinham Wednesday, where
they will be guests of Mrs. Hanson
| parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Atkinson
their summer home at Lake Wesser-
runsett, returned Thursday to their
| home in East Boston.
Mrs. Hebert Bosworth and four
! children, Blanch, Jessie. Iva and
! Florence We're in town Thursday on
their way to Lawrence, Mass, where
! they are to pass the winter with an
uncle of Mrs. Bosworth.
| Friends of Colby College will be in
! terested to know that Miss Adele
Gilpatrick of Halloweil. chairman Of
| the promotion committee Of Colby
Alumni Association and Miss Louise
! Fl. Coburn of Skowhegan, the wom-
an trustee Of Colby College, recently
met a committee of New York Alum
nae at banquet in New York to dis
| cuss plans for the raising of funds for
the proposed alumnae building.
| The latest arrival Of an inmate at
/ the Reformatory for Women rather
/ objected to being committed The
| young woman was brought to Show
hogan by the city marshal of Ban
| gor, who found cartridges concealed
on her person and knew that some
where she was carrying a gun. Upon
| arriving here she became so unman-
! ageable that the marshal obtained a
! pair of handouts from Sheriff John
| A. Mooers which he placed upon his
7 charge with some difficulty and pro-
ceeded to the institution.
Friends of Miss Hazel Dyer of
Portland, who frequently visits here
with Miss Ruby Dyer at the home
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Dyer on Winter street, will be inter-
ested to know that as president of
/! Colby college Young Women's Chris
tian Association she represented the
! association at the luncheon of the
State committee of Near East Relief
at the Augusta house, in Augusta
| Wednesday noon. Charles Hanson
Gale, who also has many friends
here, being the grandson Of the late
DIR. Charles V. Hanson, the first pas
i tor of the Bethany church and who
often visits Joseph Coburn Smith, is
president of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association at the same insti-
tuition and also attended the lunch
con representing his association.
The rooms of the local Office of the
| Maine Telephone and Telegraph
| company were the centers of much
| interest Wednesday and Thursday
! during the company observation of
guest day. Beautiful bouquets of
! pinks, roses and other flowers and
| ferns made the rooms especially at
/ tractive. The guests were received
in the retiring room which is prettiiy
furnished and homelike, by the chief
operator, Mrs. Pauline Bragg Green,
assisted by the following operators
when off duty: Mrs. Amber Gala
CHER, night operator; Mrs. Bernice
T1tcomb. Mrs. Lena Newton, Mrs.
Elsie Fox, Miss Arlene Turcotte,
Gertrude Laney, Juliette Curriveau
and Mrs. Adelaide Whiting who is
| part time operator. The guests were
taken into the operators room and
the system was explained to them.
They also visited the plant room,
~hera Manager Leon Fox of that de-
partment cordially received them,
and explained his part of the work.
Here are the Edison talking batter
les, there being four to each posi-
ton and six positions, two ringing
interrupters and q hand generate or
for emergency. The plant is well
equipped with fire fighters, having an
asbestos blanket, fire pals, three
Badger fire extinguishers and fire
Ratchet. The company plan to run
lot of new cables soon to relieve
the congested condition. The COM
pany has gained GA elenAones dur
ing the past year and Skowhegan
now has $50 subscribers. Two hun
dred and sixty local lines and 30 toll
lines now run into the switch board.
After visit to the Office the patrons
more than ever appreciate the eff
cient service which Is obtained at