Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-09

S31. 60: Digest, $3.50: Success Funda-
mentals. $1.6O; totals. 1910.
Gifts-The Tuesday club. 5000;
H. w. Greeley. SO; total S20eo By
vote of the board of trustees the
above gifts were restricted to the
purchase of books relating to nature
and books descriptive of the Edward
Nelson collection. Money expended
as follows: juvenile, 5000. Gifts,
Under the Great Bear. sArtemus
Ward.
Books ordered by the librarian
and paid for by the treasurer: Digest
$3.50: book $50; Year Book So.o6;
| Statesman. $50: total. $14.36. Total
| books 101. The above report Is
/ respectfully submitted. Mrs. Alice 5.
; Gilman, Mrs. Henrietta Tozier-Tot-
man, Mrs. Mary X. Strickland.
! THE Mothers Improvement Club
. will hold an all day meeting tins
Thursday at the home of Mrs. Agnes
Savage on the Watcrville road. Mrs
Savage will be. assisted in enter
tanning by Mrs. Oscar Bunker.
/ Friday evening in Memorial hall by
! the pupils of the First grade, under
! the direction of their teacher, Mrs
John S. Tapley, assisted by Miss
Miriam Smith and will consist OF
recitations, dances and songs. The
! children will be in costume and at
, the close of the entertainment the
! Oakland High school will debate
with the Skowhegan High as oppon-
ents on the question. Resolved that.
, that the Federal Government own
and operate the coal mines" The
Skowhegan team will upheld the
negative side of the question and the
Oakland team the affirmative. The
speakers for Skowhegan will be
| Ruth Niles and Kenneth Cobb and
for Oakland, Dorothy Kierstead and
Lloyd Fowles.
Two trial debates were held OH
/ Wednesday afternoon inc the High
school room at $50 o'clock, on the
question, "Resolved that the Federal
Government own and operate the
coal mines"
The first debate was between Miss
Dorothy Kicrstead and Lloyd Fowles,
who upheld the affirmative side q:
the question with Beatrice Lcssard
and Greeley Pierce for the negative
side. The second debate was between
Eugene Scribner and Ruth Lewis on
the affirmative side and Miss Caro-
Bailey and Miss IneZ Stevens on the
negative side. Two of the best o!
the four representing the affirmative
side of the question were picked
against j. Alton Bragg and katheryn
Walton on the negative side. This
debate to be held on Friday evening
in Memorial hall at the close of the
entertainment.
Mrs. J. n. Stevens entertained
The Neighborly Eight Tuesday
evening at her home on Main street.
Auction was played. Mrs. William
Blake carrying off the highest score
for the evening. Refreshments or
pop corn, candy, and sailed nuts
were served and delightful even
ing enjoyed. The guests were, Mrs.
Jay Scribner. Mrs. William Blake.
Mrs. Herbert Kelley. Mrs. Walter
Trask, Mrs. Lo.tie Baker, Mrs. Har-
~ Dame and Mrs James Southern.
Acme Rebekah Lodge will hold
their regular meeting this Thursday
evening in Odd Fellows hall The
initatory degree will be confined on
a class of candidates and refresh
mcnts will be served for which each
member will be requested to pay
small fee.
A special convocation of Drum
mond Chapter, No. -. Royal Arch
Masons, was held Wednesday eve
ming at $50 o'clock in Masonic hall.
There was work on the Royal Arch
degree and at the close of the meet
ing a delicious supper was served
undcl. the auspices of the Ladies
Social Circle of the Universalist
church. The menu consisted Of
grapefruit. Cold roast chicken, hot
rolls, fruit salad, assorted cake. ice
cream and coffee. The committee in
charge of the affair consisted of Mrs.
G. H. Vinegar, Mrs. Lester Andrews.
Mrs. J. H. Stevens, Mrs. Dean +.
Wheeler. Mrs. Mary Strickland and
Mrs A. II. Oliver
George Mccain and Curtis Clark
we're business visitors in Augusta on
Wednesday.
The W. B. S. club will meet this
Friday evening at the home of Mrs
Charles Bartlett on Alpine street.