Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-13
FARMINGT0N

There was a good attendance last
night at the annual ball, for many
years called the White Ball, of Alpha
Temple, Pythian Sisters, in Music
! Hall, and a fine time was enjoyed.
The music was by Marbles orches-
| ira of Lewiston. Refreshments were
served in the small hall adjoining
the main hall.
The Chapman Concert in Merrill
| hall last night. which Prof. Chapman
| amour. ed was positively his last
! appearance in a concert in Farm
! ington, as he is to retire at the close
! of the present season, was one of
| the best ever heard here. Mr.. Chap
man was at his very best at the
piano. and the talent he brought
with him, a male violinist, and
( young lady soloist, showed wonder
/ full ability. The audience was large
| and appreciative. and many regrets
were expressed that Prof. Chapman
was to retire. He has sold his prop
erty in Maine and will after this
season live quietly in New York.
Plummer Grant was brought to
his home in Pennington from Gray
esterday, where he was seriously
injured while at work as q member
Ol d NldlH6 1cllli dl IdllI COA-
struction crew. He was thrown
rom a worlxman's handcar, and his
forehead was split open. requiring
seven stitches to close the wound,
his head was otherwise injured and
it was feared that some of the bones
of the neck were dislocated, though
an X-ray did not reveal this trouble.
Mrs. Frank A. Hood of AllSton,
Mass, formerly of Pennington, is
visiting friends in town.
Guy A. Campbell is passing the
| week in Boston and New York on
business.
Wilbur G.. BODICE and family have
moved from Pennington to a farm
in Gorham, e having given UP his
work on the Maine Central railroad.
Miss Aura Cannon is visiting
friends in Southwest Harbor for a
week or more.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Morton will
go to Pemaquiu. Thursday, to open
I their cottage and get ready for the
summer.
Miss Evelyn Backus has been Wis
| iting with her father, Walter Backus
, of Pennington, who Is patient In
| the Central Maine General hospital.
Frank Marshall, who has been
! very i'll with pneumonia is able to
| be out again, though not yet able
| to work
There will be work and refresh
| ments at the meeting of the Ladies'
| Auxiliary to s. Clifford Belcher
| Camp, s. of V. in Grand Army hall.
Friday evening. Mrs. Laura Col
| burn is chairman of the refresh
| ments committee.
| There will be postponed meeting
! of the Ladies' Aid Society of the
! Methodist church Friday afternoon
! at go o'clock. the nostesses being
| Mrs. Wallace NJ. Fellows, Mrs John
| NJ. Soule and Mrs. D. j. Jordan.
| The body of Herbert Elmer Mar
! BILE, a native of Pennington, who
| died in Lewiston after an Illness of
about eight years, was brought to
Far.nington and short funeral SER
vice was conducted by Rev. Fl. S.
! Boardman, pastor of the Baptist
/ Church burial being in Riverside
! cemetery. Mrs. Marble, who was
! Isabel F. Locke of Pennington. sur
| wives, and they have many friends
| living here now. They moved to
Lewiston in 1912.
A man r. lnting himself as an
optometrist and a representative OF
Lewiston house victimiZed num-
| Der of "eople in this vicinity last
! week. = as it turns out. and 1t has
since been learned that the house ne
! claim ed to represent is one of wide
and excellent reputation. but that 1t
! has no representatives who travel,
4 and the man who has disappeared.
is denounced as a fake and authori-
!! ties throughout the state have been
notified to be on the lookout for
him. sr'
! The following committee has been
chosen to entertain the ladies who