Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-12-08
Sk0WHEcAN LOCAL news
Somerset County Headquarters rAfsa s PHONE

I The work Of building the new front
to the Masonic Temple Is progress
| ing well considering the weather.
Monday John II. Grundy who is in
charge of the work had the front
| protected by building wooden in
closure in which the men can better.
| work during the cold weather. The
| frames have been placed for three
pair of double doors with arched tops.
| The exterior of the frame is being
built of cast stone shipped here from
Bangor, and will be very good look
! ing when completed.
| Mrs. Ethel Mitchell Hilton, who Is
very Ill with typhoid fever Is now
slowly improving and is expected
that the night nurse will complete
her duties today.
| The fair which was to have been
given on Saturday, December IL, by
| the Parker Sunday School building
on the River road on the north side
of the river has been indefinitely
postponed because of an epidemic OF
whooping cough in the neighborhood.
| The condition Of Amos Ellis OF
Madison avenue, who has been very
| i'll is now improved. Mr.. Ellis broth
| er, Nat Ellis of Auburn, is passing
| SOIllo tllilc Will Ills OlOtilCA eAiN "AASs
Jack Johnson, formerly OF Bangor,
who has passed few months in
Skowhegan left on the late train
Monday night for Boston.
Mrs. Esther Redman and her son,
Joseph S. Giberson, who came To
Skowhegan from Portland, Oregon, a
few months ago and who have been
stopping a few miles from the VII
lage on the Norridgewock road, left
on the late train Monday night en-
route for Richmond, Virginia, where
they plan to pass the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Longley and
daughter, Miss Ruth Longley of
Norridgewock, were guests the first
of the week at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs. William F. Witham on Mount
Pleasant avenue.
Members of the Skowhegan Ro-
tary Club and their guests were
guests Tuesday noon of the ladies Of
the Social Circle of the Centenary
Methodist church at their fair, when
they; partook of q delicious chicken
dinner.
True Boyington, SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Boyington of the River
road. north side, who is i'll with
pneumonia. is improving.
On Monday evening. December 10
Skowhegan Sorosis will hold its
Christmas meeting at the parlors OF
. the public library which is to be di-
rected by the following committee
Mrs. Mary Fl. Parkman, Mrs. Bea-
trice G. Symons, Mrs. Laura X. Twa-
dele, Miss Florence Philbrick, and
Miss Leila f. Fairbrother.
The December meeting of the
Past Chiefs Association of Bloom
! eel To ID,-f1,i will
be held on Tuesday evening, Decem.
Der IA, at which ime Mrs. Edgar l.
Ford will be hostess at her home or
Madison avenue. At $50 supper
will be served and the monthly busi-
ness meeting will occur in the eve.
ming.
The card party which was an.
nounced to occur this Wednesday
evening in the municipal court room
under the auspices of the Star clut
under the direction of Miss Alice Y
Goodrich, Mrs. Adelaide l.. Whiting
and Mrs. Birdena f. Conant. Il ha:
been postponed indefinitely.
Miss Mary Dean, who has been n
Winslow to attend the funeral ser.
vice of Sherburn Brann, who died ir
Groveton, N. H., arrived in towr
Tuesday noon and went to her homo
at the Twelve Corners in Madison.
Mrs. f. c. Joy of Hinckley was q
business caller in town, Tuesday.
Samuel w. Philbricl1 returnef
Monday night from Bangor, where
he had been a guest of his son an6
wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Philbrick.
Mrs. Floyd Blackwell of Fairfield
was business caller in town Tues
day.
Mrs. George Rowell returned or
Tuesday from Fairfield Center
where she has been a guest of Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Jones.
Miss Lucy Dinsmore of Hinckley
was a business caller in town Tues
day
Wilmer Pitt, who has been work
ing on the dam construction in Lew
iston, arrived in town Tuesday noon
and went to Lakewood where he
met his team which he sent up here
last week, and will go into the woods
to work for George Cornforth.
Mrs. p. B. Barrows, who has been
in town since Thanksgiving visiting
at the home of her sister and hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Kerry B. Stew
ard on Bridge street, went to Boston
Tuesdayfi where she will pass some
time.
The afternoon at 4 o'clock at the
box office the holders of tickets fol
the senior play, Come Out of the