Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-10-26


home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Fortier
on North avenue Thursday morning
because of chimney fire. No dam
age resulted.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Osborne Of
South Norwalk, Conn, have come to
Skowhegan to reside. Mr.. Osborne
will weave at the American Wooden
mill and they will reside with Mr..
Osborne's brother and wife, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carl Osborne on North avenue.
The Skowhegan Historical society
will meet this Friday evening with
Miss Louise H. Coburn at her home
on Pleasant street.
Z. Z. Metcalf of Weld will, arrive
in town today, Friday, to join Mrs.
Metcalf who has been the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Larry, who for
merly resided in Weld, since Satur-
day at their home on Bush street. Mr..
and Mrs. Metcalf will return to Weld
the first of the week.
An auto truck from Boston was in
town Thursday into which was pack
ed the office fixtures and furniture
of Hon. Lyman L. Walton and by
which they were to be moved to Fox
boro, Mass, where the Waltons are to
locate.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gridley R. Fogg left
Thursday morning on business trip
to Portland.
Mrs. Lila Perkins has accepted a
position as bookkeeper at the office Of
the Somerset Farmers Co. operative
telephone company, taking the place
of Mrs. Harold Brophey who with
her family have gone to Zellwood,
! Fla. to pass the winter.
Miss Elizabeth Hutchinson who
formerly resided in Skowhegan on
West Front street and who came to
Skowhegan Tuesday night to be
present at the burial of Mrs. Mary c..
, Emery Wednesday morning was,
while in town, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Emery of Madison avenue
Miss Hutchinson returned Wednes-
day afternoon to Hallowell where she
is now residing.
Hiss Elizabeth Lewis, q senior, is
aCung as stenographer and clerk at
the office of w. B. Woodbury., super
intendent of the Skowhegan- Madison
schools.
Miss Charlotte Hersey who is tea
ching at OldtOWn, was the guest oyer
night of Miss Verna Porter at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. A. Porter on Water street, and left
Thursday morning for Portland
where she will attend the meetings of
the Maine State Teachers Associa-
! ton. Miss Hersey and Miss Porter
were room mates at Miss Lucy
Wheelock's school in Boston.
| 1t is reported that Helen Smith, a
pupil of the White school in Madison
! is i'll with diphtheria at the home of
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
! Smith at Lakewood.
Mrs. Benjamin Witham and little
: daughter, Betty. left on the afternoon
| II ain Wednesday for Portland where
she will be the guest of her parents,
AIR. and Mrs. W. II. Fairfield, former
ly of Norridgewock. Mrs. Witham
! will come to Lewiston Saturday af-
ternoon and return with Mr.. Witham
| who is working in the vicinity of
Lewiston for the Central Maine Po-
wer Company and who passes the
week ends with his family at their
home on Bridge street.
. Miss Bertha Paul of Scion, the help
| ing teacher at Madison and her
| mother, Mrs. w. o. Paul of Scion
/ were in town Thurday leaving on the
morning train for Portland where
Miss Paul will attend the Teachers
| convention.
Mrs. Virginia Nye who has been
| passing some time at her former
! nome in Canaan was in town Thurs
| day morning on her return to her
home in Waterville.
Miss Ruth Homested, who is teach
ing at MapletOn, Maine was in town
over Wednesday night the guest of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. FIRE.
| mont Homested of West Front street.
Miss HOmested left Thursday morn
! ing for Portland to attend the meet
lngs of the Maine State Teachers
! Association.
Allie knight who is employed as
salesman at the store of The Bow
man Hardware Company is having a
vacation and he and his guest Frank
Jones of Gardiner are in the vicinity
of Rippogenus Dam hunting.
Mrs. Ralph futile and son of Nor
rldgewock We're in town on business
| Thursday.
Miss Ruth Jones of Athens, a tea
| cher was in town Thursday on her
way to Portland to attend the Tea
cheers convention.
Mrs. George Tilton and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Anna Akeiey left Thursday
morning for Portland where thew
Z ian to remain until April
Mrs. Clyde f. Decker one of tha
teachers in Junior high, who has gone
% portland to attend the Teachers
convention. will during the conyen-
tlon be with her sister, Miss Bertha
llNing OF Benton who is teaching at
cape Porpoise and will also be in
PORTLAND to attend the concentration.
! Mrs. Decker will cor:e to Lewiston
saturday afternoon with Mrs. Benia-
MN Witham and will return from
lewiston with Mr.. and Mrs. Witham
Saturday night.
Dr. William H. Diller who came to
SkSWhegan Sunday to accompany his
family home left with Mrs. Diller and
TWO sons and maid Thursday morning
on their return to their home in
Fhiiadelphia, Pa, by machine. Mrs.
Dlller and children and maid have
passed the summer and fall with her
sister. Miss Lena Wyman at the an
ccstral Wyman home on Baptist Hill
Miss Charlotte Doe of Caribou who
Is the teacher of the fifth grade at
the Park building left Wednesday af
ternoon on the late train for Port
land where she will visit with friends
ana attend the meetings of the State
Teachers Association.
Harrison Smith of Wateryille was
in town over Wednesday night at
tending a rehearsal of the St Cecilia
orchestra of the Notre Dame of
Lourdes of which he is the conductor
Mass for John Murray
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