Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
FAIRFIELD

The Mabel Wentworth Philathea
Glass will meet Wednesday evening
at 1870 with Mrs. Ruby Dorr, with
Mrs. Mabel Wentworth. Mrs. Ethel
Stevens and Mrs. Mildred Pillsbury
assisting as hostesses.
The regular meeting of the George
o. Grover Post No. IA will meet in
the American Legion Hall this Tues
day evening at 7.30. AS there is i'm
portant business to be brought up Mt
the meeting all members are urged
to be present.
The Progressive Club of the Shaw
NUT Union Chapel will serve a pub
lie supper at the home of Mrs. Ben
Nollette, Wednesday at o'clock. >
The Royal Neighbors gave their
last contest entertainment in their
hall Thursday evening before large
audience. The following program
was enjoyed: Piano solo. Mrs. Bios
som Butler; reading Mrs. Gertrude
Bither; vocal reading, Mrs. Christine
Baker; reading, Mrs. Florence
Bacon; vocal solo, Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith, play, Exposing A Crook, cast
Mr.. Sharp. Mrs. Gertrude Bither:
Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. w. S. Small;
Cousin Lottie Bennett, Mrs. Blossom
Butler; Melvina Cronk, Miss Nellie
Boyd; Mrs. Hart, Miss Lucille King;
Nora, Miss Dorothy Bither: Eva,
Miss Vera Clifford; Mrs. Jackson,
Mrs. Addie King; Mrs. Rogers, Mrs.
Mary Ames; reading, Ruth Bassett;
vocal duet and whisthng chorus,
Miss Dorothy Bither and Miss Vera
Clifford; piano solo, Mrs. Alma
Saunders; vocal solo, Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith; musical reading, Mrs. Nina
Smith; ukelele duet, Miss Lucille
King and Miss Nellie Boyd; reading,
Mrs. Alice Haley; illustrated read
ing, THE Widow Murphy's Clothes
Line Mrs. Florence Bacon and Mrs.
Mary Ames: reading, Mrs. Addie Nc
Pherson; harmonica solo and piano
accompaniment. Mrs. w. S. Small
and Mrs. Blossom Butler; a mock
wedding. wedding march played by
Miss Nellie Boyd, minister, Miss
Vera Clifford; bride, Mrs. Irene Bes-
sey, groom. Miss Dorothy Bither,
maid of honor, Mrs. Miles Shaw, best
man, Mrs. Christine Baker, brides
maids, Mrs. Lillian Lewis, Mrs. Alma
Sanders, Mrs. Addie King, Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Ethel Gibbs,
and Mrs. Mary Richardson, ring
bearers, Mrs. Gertrude Bither and
Mrs. Sadie Aver, flower girl, Mrs.
Eva Loury, train bearer. Mrs. Vivian
Dorian. After the entertainment
there was dance and social time.
Memorial Day dawned gray and
overcast with a suggestion of sun.
snlne about noon and the regular
Memorial Day program was carried
Out. Ihere was the usual service in
the cemetery at Benton at 10 o'clock.
prayer was offered by Rev, r. C.
Chapman after which the firing SQUAD
volley was given. A delicious dinner
was served to the ex-service men
ana q. A. r. veterans by the ladies
OF the Relief Corps in the Odd Eel
lows Hall at noon. The para lie
formed in front of the Legion Hall
az O'Clock, members of the Amer
ican Legion, Ex-service men, G. A. r.
veterans and school children. led hv
the boys band, marched to tho
Driage where the children and the
ladies' of the G. A. r. had their
Hover service. The parade then
marched up Main street, through
Newhall to Maplewood cemetery.
where PRAYER was offered by Rev.
L. z. Chapman and the firing squad
volley was given. The processjDn
then marched to the park where
mowers were placed on the monu-
ment. They then marched to the
opera House where the Memorial
Day services were held in charge of
the American Legion, William Bur