Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-20
PERSONAL MENTION

IL diiA way 4AhlSlid was Al
Madison on professional business
Friday.
Mrs. E. H. Osborn went to Fair
field on the morning train Friday, to
pass the weekend with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Whitcher.
Frank Laney left on the A. NJ
train Friday for Bar Harbor where
he will be employed at the Hotel St
Saubeur. as fireman, during the sum
mer.
Mrs. Frank A. Vosmus will go tc
Auburn, today, Saturday, where she
will visit until Monday afternoon
with her son, Elmer Vosmus and
family.
Friends of Mrs. Major Foster OF
East street will be sorry to know that
she suffered quite a severe shock al
her home about 8 o'clock Tuesday
evening. Mrs. Fosters right side is
affected.
DIR. and Mrs. Horace P. Stevens of
Cambridge, Mass. arrived in Show
hogan on the II A. NJ. train Friday,
and are the guests for a few days of
Col. and Mrs. Roy l.. Marston, at
their home on Baptist hill.
Mrs. Flora McPheters, the Past
Most Excellent Chief Of the Bloom
field Temple Pythian Sisters, has re-
turned from Bangor. where she has
been several days this week. repre-
senting the local lodge at the meet
ings of the Grand Lodge.
Mr. and Mrs. Willis II. Russell, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Russell and their
daughter. Miss Marguerite of Hart
land, were in town the first of the
week, the guests of Mr. and Mrs
Lawrence Narnum, at their home on
Mount Pleasant avenue.
Mrs. John NJ. w. Pratt Of Milwau-
kee. Wis. who with her husband, are
passing a few weeks in Skowhegan
which is Mr.. Pratt's boyhood home
went to Bangor on the 1910 P. M
train Thursday where she will pass
few days.
Miss Fay Keene left on the lie
train Thursday on her return to her
home in Fairfield, after being in
SsiiGttil iIlS uSHI vi IlCl
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. Milford Keen
at their home on Pleasant street
Skowhegan.
John Mullen of Philadelphia. Pa.
who has been passing week at The
Checkers at Lakewood. the summer
home of his uncle and aunt. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. T. Clark, left on the morn
ing train Friday for Philadelphia
but plans to return and pass the
summer at Lakewood.
William j. Nolan of Independence,
Iowa, who has been in town for a few
days, the guest of Wesley Watson,
for whom he purchases horses has
accompanied a car load of about so
horses here from Independence, for
Mr.. Watson, when he came to Show
hogan.
The Sunset Chapter Order of East
crn Star No. SO, held a brief meet
in@ on Friday evening" with no
work or program, because of tho
presentation OF Miss Bob White"
the opcrctta, by the Woman's club
and High school. The next meeting
of the chapter will be held on the
first Friday in June, the first, in the
Masonic hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Decker of
Clinton, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. G. Judkins of Water street Friday
night, to attend the opcretta, "Miss
Bob White" which was presented in
the opera house Friday evening I'M
der the auspices of the Skowhegan
Woman's club and the High school,
staged by the John p. Rogers Pro-
ducing company, directed by Miss
Inez Peck.
Mrs. Edna Blake of Calais, ac-
companied by her mother, Mrs.
Frances Varney arrived in town on
the II A. M. train Friday. Mrs.
Varney went to the home of Mrs. Lo-
antha Foss, where she will be the
guest for q time. Mrs. Blake, who
was formerly Miss Edna .Varney,
and a Skowhegan girl, left on the
$40 train for Portland, where she
and her mother arc Just moving from
Calais.
Mrs. Lizzie HoXic Nye arrived in
town on the il A. NJ. train Friday,
after being the guest Of her sister,
Mrs. Ruby Goodwin in North Fair
field. Mrs. Nye has recently passed
two weeks at her camp at North
Pond. Smithfield. Mrs. Nye passed
the winter in town. being located at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. f. L. Fur
bush on Court street Mrs. Hoxie
has engaged rooms with Mrs. Alice
$. Baker on Turner avenue, for what
portion of the summer she may be in
town. Mrs. Hoxie plans to pass
much of the summer at the Pond.
A miniature flood or freshet occur
red on Water street, Thursday after
noon and night, during the heavy
rain, when the catch basin, located
in front of the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest J.. Savage, was
plugged up by the debris which has
gradually been washed into it this
spring. The water for some distance
along Water street came up over the
Friday morning the roa !
commissioner, Edward Kimball. with
q crew of men cleaned out the ba-
sin, and the high water receded as
quickly as j. came.
Mrs. d. Wilder Colby, who has
been in town several days, the guest
of her daughter and husband, Mr..
and Mrs. Gerald c. Marble at their
home at Baptist hill. and of her son,
John Colby, who Is passing some
time this pring at Lake Wesserunsett,
left on the morning train Saturday