Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-05-18
PERSONAL MENTION


will be interested to know that he
had a most successful fishing trip
over the weekend which he passed
at Keliger's camp at Pierce Point
and among the fish caught were a
seven pound square tail trout which
measured % inches and trout
weighing five pounds.
Miss Ruth Cushing of Augusta, left
on her return home Wednesday
morning after being the guest over
night of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred House of
East Front street. Miss Cushing is
the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
Cushing and the family home was
formerly on the farm now owned
and occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll
Watson on the Norridgewock road
on the south side of the river.
Walter Emigh formerly the master
mechanic at the Maine Pulp and Pa
per company's local mill and who
since work at that plant has been
discontinued has been q master me
chanc at Gordon. Ga. returned to
Skowhegan on the evening train
Tuesday. Mrs. Emigh and their two
sons. Ellsworth and Kenneth have
been in Skowhegan during the time
Mr.. Emigh has been in the south,
making their home in the Mrs. Ella
r. Nelson house on Mechanic street.
Visiting Boyhood Home
Attorney John NJ. w. Pratt and
Mrs. Pratt of Milwaukee, Wis, are
spending few weeks in town, be-
ing located at the Skowhegan House.
While Mr.. Pratt was born in Corinna
his home was in Skowhegan for
quite a portion of his boyhood and
he is enjoying visiting the scenes
which were familiar to him during
his youth. He remembers with
some boy friends climbing into a
pine tree on the Skowhegan Island
just before Hon. James G. Blaine
was to give an out-of-door address
and not daring to come down after
the address had commenced and re-
naming in the tree throughout the
address. This tree, Mr.. Pratt says,
is still standing.
The Pratt home was on the River
Road, on the south side of the river
and is now owned and occupied by
l.. c. Britton. Mr.. Pratts father,
Joathan Pratt, sold the farm to a
Burgess, Burgess to John Webb and
the Webb estate to one, Crowell,
and the Crowells to the present
owner.
Tuesday morning Mr.'Pratt walked
from town to the farm and by cross
road to the Middle road and returned
to town, coming into town by the
Academy building, which is now oc-
cupied by the first and second grades
of the South side schools, but which
was the Bloomfield Academy, in Mr..
Pratt's school days, before the
building of the present Skowhegan
High school.
Mr.. Pratt also recalls with pleas
ure school days spent in the Little
Brown school house which stood on
the lot on the corner of Hathaway
street and Fairview avenue, where
the late Rosmus L. Mitchell some
years ago built his handsome resi-
dence which is now owned by, and
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Fox, who purchased the place from
DR.. c. Earl Richardson last fall who
was the purchaser from the Mitcheu's
heirs
Mr.. Pratt's last visit to Maine was
in 1910, at that time Mr.. Pratt. who
is an excellent pedestrian and great
ly enjoys walking. walked from
Quebec, Canada. to Mount Washing
ton. because of his interest in the |
trail of Benedict Arnold. Mr.. Pratt |
stated that he came into snow on
the mountain on his arrival on the
18th. day of October of that year
and that he was the only man on |
the mountain.
Mr. Pratt was disappointed to find