Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Quick Action Averts
Probably Serious Fire

What. might soon have been a SER
iOus fire was aVcrted near midnight
Saturday night when Mrs. Leon Bu-
ker who had just returned with her
daughter from the Basketball game
and dance when she looked from her
home on Spring St, down across to
Summer St, and discovered the kit
chen of Mr.. and Mrs. Paul ltoullard
to lie full Of blaze. Mrs. Bukcr called
her husband who at once notified the
Fire Company while Mrs. Bukcr ran
to the home OF the Roullard's to
awaken them. The chimney had be-
come heated and the fire had broken
through on the inside Of the Kitchen.
the heat wdS so intense that mirror
in the room and the glass in the win
dows We're broken: in n very Few
minutes more he oil would have been
all aiirc and perhaps lives would have
been lost The company responded at
once and the damage is estimated at
about four hundred dollars. This
house caught fire about six years ago.
Air. and Mrs. ROullard feel very CRATE
fuK for the quick action of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Buker as soon as they discovered
the fire.
Herbert s. Hopkins. conductor on
the Maine Central Railroad from
Portland to Boston Was on duty
again Monday morning. having re-
turned Sunday from an official busl-
ness trip to Grand Rapids. Iowa.
During his absence Conductor
Vaughan of Waterville has taken
Mr.. Hopkins place.
Miss Gala Packard returned TO
Waterville. where she is stenoSra-
pher in the Insurance Agency OF
Gilmore, after passing Sunday with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Grin
Packard. of Shirley street.
Miss Mary Louisa Landry returned
to Augusta, where she is employed,
after being in town three weeks at
the home of her uncle and aunt. Mr..
and Mrs. George Caron. of Maple
street. because of the. illness and
death of another aunt, Mrs. Olive
Caron.
Mrs. Thomas Weeks returned to
her home in Waterviile. Monday
morning. after passing sunday. with
her parents, Mr.. and MRS. w. o.
Chase of the River road.
Joseph. Pollard returned Monday
morning to Waterville, after passing
Sunday with his family on Spring
street, where he is employed on
some construction work of the Cen
trail Maine Power Company.
Miss Captolia Clough and Miss
Vivian Currier, who were here Sat
urdaN night to attend the tonN
High vs.. Skowhegan High School
Girls basketball game. visited with
friends until Monday morning, when
they returned to Augusta.
frankie Twadelle. who injured his
knee skiing at Good Will, Saturday,
where he is a sophomore at the high
school is passing Il few days with
his mother, Mrs. Laura X. Twadelle
OF Water street.
Miss lrma Rancourt. who is en-
ployed in the Strout Real Estate
Agency here, returned OH the early
train Monday morning from Water
vile, where she passed the week end
with her parents, Mr.. md Mrs.
James Rancourt.
Leon TftCombe, paNmaSter for the
Great Northern Company. who
passed Sunday with Mrs. T'itcombe
at their home on Summer street. re-
turned to Bangor. Monday morning.
Fred FOss Lawrence of Skowhegan
and Augusta will he the speaker at
the next meeting Of the Skowhegan
Woman's club which will be held on
tomorrow Wednesday afternoon in
the parlors IF the public library.
The meeting will begin at quarter be-
fore three.
A drive is being conducted in town
for Council Laval No. 16S and La
fayette No. Isl of st. Jean Baptiste
d'Ameriquie. Fifty members have
signed already. The drive will be