Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-05


Lodge Instituted % Years Ago
The installation in every particular
was carried out in a manner very
creditable to all participating in the
work. This installation was one OF
much interest to all Rebekahs, be-
cause the Priscilla Rebekah Lodge
reaches, this month, it's quarter-cen-
fury mark, having been instituted on
JAN 90, 1896. The lodge has mem
bership of nearly 400 and is in a most
prosperous and healthy condition.
The outlook is for a successful year
in 1921.
The lodge has been honored in the
election of several of it's members to
district officers. Those who have held
such offices are: District Grand
Master Bert Moves, the first man to
hold the office; Mrs. Emma Bickford.
who served three years, the only
woman to have served SO long a
term; Mrs. Emma G. French. who
. served one year; Mrs. Alice S. Baker.
who served two years. and Deputy
District Presidents Jennie L. Hesle-
forth. the present encunbent.
Mrs. Jennie S. Richards was the
first noble grand of Priscilla Rebekah
I Lodge This photograph was taken
about the time she was elected to
that office. She was very efficient
officer and was greatly beloved by
all members of the lodge. She pass
ed away on March 3, 1920.
II. j.. Aver of Livermore was in
town Tuesday on his way to Canaan
Mr.. Aver is the Fire Insurance Ad-
justor for the Patrons Androscoggin
Mutual Fire Insurance Co, and in
Canaan, Mr.. Aver adjusted the loss
on the c. Is. Chase house, which was
burn on Dec. 3.
Mrs. Charles Griffin took her little
son, Gerald, to Waterviile Tuesday
afternoon to consult doctor con-
corning his eye which was recently
injured.
Mrs George w. Cover and daugh-
ter, Carolyn, We're in Watervil!e on
business Tuesday.
Miss Esther French. who has been
passing the Christmas vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Franch, at their ho;Ie on Coburn
avenue, returned to Boston Tuesday
afternoon, where she is a student at
Miss Wheelock's kindergarten school,
Miss Edith Young went to Lewis
ton Tuesday on the Has train, where
she will visit for few days with her
sister, Mrs. F. D. Knight.
e. F. Miles Of Lewiston has arrived
in town and assumed his duties as
cashier at the Maine Central freight
Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Crowell, Mr..
and Mrs. Lyndon Lancaster, Mrs
Warren futile, Miss Celna Salisbury.
Mr.. Clifford Lancaster, Miss Glenna
Lancaster and Mrs. Merrill accom-
panied the remains of Charles III.
Lancaster to Hartland Monday morn
ing and attended the funeral SER
vices which were held at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Clara Wellington.
William Mayo, formerly of Oxford,
Mass, who is now superintendent of
Opportunity Farm, a school for boys
located at New Gloucester, was in
town Tuesday, the guest of his sister,
Mrs. Joseph A. Smith, at her home on
Water street. Mr.. Mayo before 60
ing to Oxford was principal of The
Berkshire Industrial school for bows
in New York state.
Alden Adams of Athens was in
town on business Tuesday
DR.. George Otis Smith, who arrived
in town Friday night to pass New
Years with Mrs. Smith and their chill
dren az their home on Coburn avenue.
departed on the 2.35 train Tuesday on
his return to Washington, D. C. DR..
Smith was accompanied by his daugh-
ter Miss Helen Smith. who passed
the Christmas holidays at home and
who will resume her studies at The
Friends school in Washington.
Mrs. Clifford Cowett and daughter