Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-04
FARMINCTON

in town on business Tuesday.
Dana S. Williams, Esq, of Lewis
ton was in town on business Tuesday.
Geddes G.. Abbott Of South Brain
tree, Mass, is in town, called here by
the death and funeral of his sister,
Miss May Louise Abbott.
The heaviest snow storm thus far
this fall covered Franklin County in
blanket of white Tuesday, follow
ing the coolest night thus far. There
are several inches of snow in Farm
ington, and much more than that in the
northern part of the county. This is
just what hunters have been looking
for, and the woods will be full of
them the next few days
The Perham Street PrisciIlas met
with Mrs. Leo B. Russell Tuesday aft
ernoon.r with a good attendance in
spite of the storm. Dainty refresh
ments were served and an afternoon
of sociability was enjoyed.
Mrs Wilbur BODICE and little son of
Gorham are visiting the parents of
the former, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Cars
ley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank e. Knowlton of
Court street, were in Boston over the
weekend. esq
John Pillsbury of Pennington Falls
is visiting relatives in New Vineyard
Mr., and Mrs. Thomas Hodgkins of
Pennington Falls are visiting friends
in Boston for week, making the trip
by automobile. 81
The Willing Workers of the Union
church at Pennington Falls will meet
THU sday afternoon with Mrs. Eva
Hail.
Mrs. Clara Hodgkins, who has been
IN ArOOStO0lS GU hra
weeks, has returned.
Mrs. Ada Ford has returned to Bos-
ton after visit of several weeks in
town. yFr+
Mrs Charles .Cohoon has returned
from a three weeks visit with friends
in Lynn and Beverly, Mass.
Word has been received of the death
at the home of her sister, Mrs. Fred
Sturtevant of Hebron of Mrs. Har-
riet Dobson of New Sharon, who is
well known In Pennington, at the age
of 6S years. She had been at Old Or
chard for several weeks land last week
was taken to Hebron.
Mrs. Belle Tarr of Portland, former
~ of Pennington, has been visiting
friends in town several days recently.
Eugene f Flood and Elbridge Luce
of Pennington, and DR.. f. w. Willett
bow in Aroostook county, where they
Will pass p week or ten days hunting.
with headquarters at the camps of
Miles Arbo, deer being their chief OBJ
jective. F
Mrs. L. A. Carvill is visiting in
Woodfords this week, next week she
Will pass with friends in Durham, n,
H, and from there will go to Whit
man, Mass, where she expects to
pass the winter with II. J. Hall and
family, relatives.
At the meeting of the Ladies' Aux
iliary to Thaddeus Rodericll Post of
the American Legion. the officers
elected last month will be installed
by Mrs. Bertha Abbott of Norway.
There will also be a lunch and other
interesting features. Armistice day
the auxiliary will have it's annual sale
in the vestry of the Unitarian church.
Earl W.. Milliken. former proprietor
of the Stoddard House for a number
of years, has been engaged as a sales
man by the Morton Motor Co., and be-
gan work this week,
Viles Turnure, Fred Brandefs. VIII
liam McCabe and Thomas Brady of
White Plains, n. Y, have Just re-
turned home with their limit of par
tridges. hunting in this vicinity for 10
days with Headquarters at Valley
View Farm. Mr.. Brady is president of
the White Plains Game Club, which I
two years ago imported 200 partridges
from Alberta, Canada, and liberated
them at White Plains. These birds
were trapped by Indians. and are now
thriving and mixing with the native
birds. the new stock resulting being
said to be an Improvement over either
the native or imported stock.
large number of members of the;
Pennington Masonic club mptored to
Wilton Tuesday night, where they
were entertained with a fine supper,
cards and sociability, in the rooms of
the Wilton Masonic Club. 1t was the
third annual event of the kind and
was much enjoyed i
The Institute class of the Old South
church gave a supper and entertain.
ment, with a variety of games, in the
vestry of the church Monday evening.
when young people of this and the
Phillips Congregational church were
the guests of the class. There were
about 20 there from Phillips, young
people who entertained the members
of the Institute in Phillips recently.
when the Institute presented the
biblical play Ruth" at the Phillips
Siiui Nh' Nhi .. boIiS dearborn ana Mrs.
Esther Titcomb had last evenings
affair in charge, and it proved a very
enjoyable occasion.
There was a good attendance Tues
day evening in spite of the disagree
able storm at harvest supper served
in the vestry by the ladies' Of the Old
South church, at which the Oppor-
tunity Circle realized a good sum to
add to its fund.
In the Pennington municipal court
Benton Hitchcock of Portland, arrest
ed, by Deputy Sheriff Willis r. Leayitt
of Phillips, was found guilty and sem
fenced to 60 days in Jail. 4
Louis A. Hippach of Chicago. who
presented Hippach athletic field to the
ABBOTT school as a memorial to his
son, graduate of the school, who
was killed in an automobile accident
soon after his graduation, has pur-
chased tract of land adjacent to the
held. of George D Church of Worces-
ter, Mass, former owner of the school,
with the intention of increasing the
size of the athletic field.
Abbott school has but two more
football games scheduled for this
year ,one on Hippach field Saturday
afternoon of the present week and the !
other with Wilton Academy at Will
ton Armistice day.
At the last meeting of the Farming
ton Rotary Club the principal speaker
was Dr.. e. W. Campbell, director of |
the Maine State department of SAM |