Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-12
SkOWHECAN

A full attendance was present at
the meeting of the officers and di-
rectors of the Somerset Farmers
Cooperative Telephone Co. held at
the local Office on Monday Consid-
cradle business was transacted. 1t
was voted to collect hack accounts.
Mrs. George Clements of Smith
field was in town Monday, the guest
of her. parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Kilgore at their home on the corner
of Pine and West Front streets.
On Thursday evening, Jan. 13. the
Skowhegan Lodge. No. 70, knights
of Pythias, and Bloomfield Temple,
Pythian Sisters. will Jointly install
their officers in Castle hall. The
knights installing officer will be
District Deputy Ralph Priest. assist
ed by Master of Arms Edgar L.
Ford. The Pythian Sisters officers
will be installed by Mrs. Elizabeth
Watson, assisted by Grand Senior
Mrs. Jennie Ford and Grand Man
ager Mrs. Emma e. Thompson. A
$50 supper. which will be served in
the c. A. r. hall for all members of
both lodges, will proceed the installa-
ton.
The regular meeting of Skowhegan
Woman's Club will be held on this
Wednesday afternoon in the parlors
of the public library at a.i5 o'clock.
The musical program assigned for
this meeting in the calendars will be
postponed and the Child Welfare
meeting arranged for Jan. 26 will be
the subject of this afternoons pro-
gram. The speaker will be Miss
Edith Spaulding of the Public Health
Association Of Augusta. Tea will be
served. This subject is one of
especial interest to mothers and it
is hoped that there will be full at
tendance of club members.
The Town Improvement Society on
Friday, Jan. ii will hold it's first
meeting of the new year. The meet
ing will be held in the public library
parlors at $50 o'clock. The subject
for the afternoons study will be
Legislation of Interest to Women"
and is divided into the following four
topics: Food Production and Distri-
BUTTON" The Federal Budget"
Women in Industry" and Child
Welfare and the New Education"
The program, WHICH is certain to be
one of much interest to all club
women, is being arranged by the
first vice president. Mrs. Florence
Waugh Danforth.
DIR. f. White, veterinary surgeon,
who on Saturday returned from
Pontiac. Mich, where he had been a
guest of his son, has rented the
rooms in the Frank Thompson d Co.
block on Main street formerly occu-
pied by Robert Hall as barber shop,
once and will resume the practice of
his profession.
Miss Delta Laurison, who has been
employed here in the village, has
been obliged to give up her work on
account of illness. and has gone to
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jonathan Laurson on the River
road.
The First Philathea class of the
Federated church will hold q food
sale on Saturday afternoon, Jan, Is.
in the sales rooms of the Blaisdell
Automobile Co. on Water street. The
sale will open at $50 O'Clock. a.F
Mrs. Smith, the matron at Bailey
cottage, Good Will Farm, was in
town Monday on business
County Agent c. y. Storer will go to
Cambridge Thursday, Jan. Is, and at
tend dairy and fertilizer meeting of
that bureau. On Friday the 18th Coun-
~ Agent Storer will be in Harmony
where he will attend the annual meet
ing of the Farm Bureau of that town
Mrs. Ella r. Nelson returned Mon
day night from three weeks visit
with her daughter, Mrs. Bertram Mel
vim at her home on Nudd street in Wa
tervilGe.