Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-24
ANNUAL MEETING
OF AID SOCIETY

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The annual meeting of the Wo-
mans Aid Society was held on
Thursday afternoon in the parloEs
of the public library on the birth
day of the late Governor Abner Co
burn, the end of March, as is the
cutsom of the society.
The president. Mrs. Eugene r.
Merriam. presided, and the years
reports were given by the secretary.
Mrs. Mary w. Emery and the treas
urer. Miss Clara Il. Narney. The
following officers, were elected:
President. Miss Hannah r. Page;
vice president. Mrs. Ada II. Das-
combe; secretary, Mrs. Mary w.
Emery: treasurer. Miss Clara i.
Narney; board of directors. Mrs.
Celeste Roullard. Mrs. Eugenia r..
Merriam. Mrs. Margaret X. Good
rich. Mrs. Eva r. Greenwood Miss
Gertrude S. Weston. Miss Hannah
r. Dascombe and Miss Hannah r.
Page
Delicious refreshments OF ice
cream. cake. nuts and mintS were
served after the transaction of the
affair, which came before the an
nuaI meeting of the society.
The society has this year held .
meetings of the executive board and
voted IL; money orders, aided :;
families during the year: aided with
money IL families; aided with shoes
and rubbers (2i pairs) nine fami-
lies: aided seven families with gro
ceries: aided five families with fuel;
aided IL families with dry goods
and clothing and one family with
rent. The society has also paid
board or part board for six during
the year and has furnished bedding
in sickness in four families.
The boys and girls of the Bethany
church are requested to meet at the
church at $50 this Saturday night to
rehearse the music for Easter Sun
day.
special meeting OF the Bethany
Guild was held Thursday afternoon.
a special meeting at the home of
Mrs. Edward +. Haines on Middle
street. to complete several articles
which were nearly completed. There
will be no meeting of the Guild until
the travelling is settled.
The Bloomfield Christmas club will
hold its regular meeting on Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Lester
II Packard. Locust avenue, if she is
at home if not the meeting will be
held with Mrs. Lionel G. Trafton on
Baptist hill.
A delightful sewing party was held
on Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Howard o. Burgess on the Is
land. The evening was passed sew
ing and socially and delicious re-
freshments were served.
The April term of the supreme
judicial court of Somerset county will
convene here on Tuesday the third of
April. The dockets have been COM
FILED and show on the civil docket
4o3 cases. two cases are assigned for
actual trial upon the first day, which
are the case of ANimot o. Gordon vs..
Morris l.. Adams and the second,
Lionel G.. Trafton VS.. The United
States Bobbin and Shuttle company.
The presiding justice will be Judge
ton but now of OronO and Fred l..
Hayden viii act as court stenog-
rapher
Sunday evening at the o'clock
service at the Centenary Methodist
church another of the Story sermon
services will be held at which time
Mrs. Herbert l.. Nichols will read
"The Head of the Firm" there will
also be spirited singing when the ew
song books will be used.
The ladies of st. John de Baptiste |
OF the Notre Dame Of Lourdes church |
will receive Holy Communion in a |
body at the low mass at which time |
the pastor. the Rev. Father j. Louis |
A. Renaud will deliver the sermon
in English and children from the |
school will furnish e:-cellent |
music.
Sunday evening at the o'clock |
service at the Bethany Baptist church |
the pastor Rev. George Merriam will |
give lecture on Alaska during which |
he will show 60 views. i
Plans are now underway for The |
Junior play to be presented by the
class Of 1924 of the Skowhegan High
school. 1t has been announced that |
the play is to be 1.-THE Runaways"
and will be presented under the di-
rection of the Philbrook company of |
Conn.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Pratt
(nee Miss Lucy TAYLOR. daughter of |
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Taylor OF Madi-
son avenue) Of Weatherfield. Conn.
will be interested to learn that their
little daughter Ellen Joyce is in Clin-
ton, the guest Of her grandmother.
MIS-. l)ella Ifatl ana unclo ana aunt,
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard X. Brow. |
Sheriff John A. Mooers spent the
day Thursday at Augusta visiting
Mrs. Thomas Guilfoile. who has
been medical patient at the. Som
erset hospital for about week.
submitted to surgical treatment
Thursday morning.
Chester Clayton of the River road,
who has been staying at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lionel G. Trafton on
Baptist Hill during the winter term
Of the S. II. S.. where he is sopho-
more, will pass the Easter vacation
With his parents.
Joseph Coburn Smith, afdnior at
Colby college will pass the Easter
vacation with his parents. DR.. and
Mrs. George Otis Smith of Skowhe-
gan and Washington, d. c., in
Washington AID it IS expected that
Mrs. Smith will return to Skowhe-
gan with her son when he returns to
'esume his work at college for the
spring term.
Miss Gladys Homer, supcrintend-
mt of the Home Economics in the
Skowhegan schools, left Friday af-
ern0on for Boston where she will
islt WITH ""lltives during the Easter u
'acation.