Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-30
CLINTON


4 teIenhone was recently installed
a. tha residence of Mrs. Philinda
Lewis at Morrison's Corner. hins
14-6.
returned from New Hampshire anu
are at their farm home Tor q 10"
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Dickey OF
r.maan were recent visitors IN
Miss Helen Denham of Bowdoin-
ham is a guest of her sister, MIS-.
Thomas HI. Ward. -.
Miss Mary Cunningham or oak
land was a visitor in town THURSDAY.
Mrs. John McKenney was a re-
cent visitor in Waterville.
Miss Cassie Written of Canaan is
a guest at the home of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Llewellyn Decker.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fl. Wakely mo-
tored to Corinna. Thursday 10 at
tend graduation exercises.
Misses Bernice Chamberlain and
Marion Simonson are home from
Pennington Normal school Tor the
holiday and weekend.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brown of Lewiston
is visiting at the home OF her son.
Arthur w. Brown.
Mrs. Frank Goodrich and daugh-
ter, Harriet, Miss Carla Weymouth
and Margaret Gordon were VISITORS
in Fairfield, Thursday.
Birthday Party
The ninth birthday birthday of AL
len Smith was celebrated Monday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lin
wood Eastman by n party to whlch
were invited several of his play
mates. He was presented with sew
eral gifts and all enjoyed some !ol-
| ly games. Ice cream, assorted cakes
and candies were served by Mrs.
Eastman. The guests were Barbara
Gerald, Aubrey Rood, Kenneth Mel
son, Franklin Venora and Eleanor
Stinehfield and Robert Smith.
Larl1in Club Meets
The Larkin Club met wednesday
| afternoon at the home of Mrs. Josie
Grant, with the following in attend
ance: Mrs. +. +. Stewart, Mrs. James
McNelly, Mrs. J. l.. Goodale, Mrs.
EVE Adams, Mrs. Vesta Bachelor,
Mrs. i. ID. Spinney, Mrs. Cora Nell
| son, Mrs. p. l.. Cotton and Mrs.
Grant, also the visitors, Mrs. Nettie
Jones, Mrs. Belle Durham. Miss
Emma Nelson and Mavis Spinney.
| The regular business was disposed of
and a very pleasant social afternoon
enjoyed. The hostess served cake,
a variety of cookies, saltines ana
cocoa. Mrs. Cora Nelson will en-
! terrain the club on June 20.
Annual Graduation Exercises Held
The annual graduation exercises
of the Clinton Grammar school were
held at Town hall Thursday evening
before q very large audience. The
| decorations were in pink and white
and very gay and artistic effects were
obtained by the use of festoons or
crepe paper and many artificial
roses The girls wore gowns of gay
colors, a pleasing change from the
usual white. The parts were enter
tanning and we'll delivered. The
chorus singing was in charge or
Miss Dorothy Shepherd, supervisor
Of music, and was q pleasing addi-
| ton to the program. The class was
marshalled by Evelyn Written of
the seventh grade and attended by
Marjorie Bradford, Glenys Robinson,
Barbara Keene and Maxine Dixon,
who bore a rose decorated canopy,
under which the class marched to
the platform. The program was as
! follows:
March. High School Orchestra:
prayer, Rev. G.. C. Smith; salutatory,
Dorothy Ainsley Dixon; I'VE Build
the Ladder by Which We Rise,'
Charlotte Weston Farnham; class
history, Lawrence Leroy Gerald: "A
King of Heroes" Clara Beatrice
Written; music, orchestra; 'Incf-
dents in Thomas Edison's Boyhood,"
Harold Erwin Weymouth: Sailing
and Failing" Maurice Melville Nc
Kenney; address to undergraduates,
Everett Elias Runnels; class will,
Maxwell Denham Ward; Flower
Song" Grammar School chorus;
Me Moter wealth. narIiet of B Tn
Gle Sam" Arthur Eugene Lewis,
How Hannibal Hamlin Got the
Jonah" Ella Louise, Holt; class
prophecy, Margaret Ella Adams,
Edith Cavell," Marion Ida Hume;
Wealth." Irene Mary Tardif; pres
entation of gifts" Harriet May
Chamberlain; valedictory, Phyllis
Eudora Whitman: song, twelve
Gray Dwarfs." Grammar School
chorus; presentation of diplomas,
Principal Moulton of High school;
benediction, Rev. f. E. Longley.
Class motto-Onward Ever On
ward.
| Glass flower-Rose.
| Glass Colors-Rose and white.
| Class officers-Maxwell d. Ward,
Harriet b. Goodrich, Dorothy A.
| Dixon, Phyllis e. Whitman.
| Teachers-Town school, Mrs. Fam
ME Y. Files; rural teachers, Mrs.
Eulah Peavey. Miss Ruby Malloch.
superintendent of schools, T. w.
McQuaide.