Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-02
FARM|NGTON
Fire Department
Called for Sunday Fire

For the second time within four
days the Pennington fire department
was called Sunday evening to extin-
ment of the school building at Abbott
School, Q private school for boys. just
outside the limits Of the village cor
poration in the suburban water dis
trict. The first fire started near the
furnace and was attributed to rubbish
taking fire from the furnace, but the
firemen say that this was hardly pos
sible. The Sunday evening fire start
ed under a stairway leading to the
basement, some distance from the fur
mace and cannot by any stretch of the
imagination be called a furnace fire,
and there are suspicious circumstances
regarding both fires which are being
Investigated before the fire department
will give it's official opinion of, the
cause Of the fires, but the management
of the school has been asked to have
close watch kept over the building
until the truth is known or suspicious
are removed. When the alarm was
given from box 80 at about $50
o'clock. the fire whistle did not work
properly. but there was little delay
in reaching the fire and the damage is
mostly by smoke and water, covered
by insurance. Coming on Sunday eve
ming, the fire drew big crowd OF
spectators. A Sunday night in winter
a dozen or so years ago the dormitory
at this school was Quilted by fire, and
10 years before that the original dor
mitory was totally destroyed by fire.
Sunday afternoon about $50 CHM
ney fire in the house of o. p. Stewart,
near the Abbott School, burned out
with a dense smoke and caused some
excitement. A member OF t. fire de-
partment put the fire out wien chemi-
calls and no damage was done.
Rudolph Valentino in 1.-THE Cobra"
will be presented at the Broadway
Theatre Friday afternoon and evening.
Feb. 10, for the benefit of Colonial
Daughters chapter, ID. A. r., and tick
cts will be sold by members of the or
der who will canvass the town.
Friday evening, Feb. IL. there will
be two old-fashioned dances in town,
one in Music hall with music by col
ored orchestra, feature of which will
be an old-fashioned fiddling contest.
The other will be in Drummond hall,
where Mckinney, the champion fiddler
of Fairbanks, who recently took hrst
prize in a contest in Lewiston Music
hall, with his daughter as accompan-
fst will furnish music. The some night
in honor Of Iincoln's birthday the pic
ture abraham Lincoln" will be shown
here, and the patriotic organizations
will observe the day by attending.
There will also be appropriate exer-
cises in the various schools In town.
,Oyando p. Whittier Is passing the
winter with his sons and their families
in Philadelphia. Pa, and Wilmington.
Del.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Willis Jordan are
passing the winter with their son Fred,
a teacher in the Portland High school.
Mr.. and Mrs J. C. Morton have gone
to Portland, where they will remain
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs J. A Blake started to-
day for California, where they Will
visit friends and devote about month
to sightseeing and calling upon former
residents of the east.
The Harrington selectmen will close
their books for the fiscal year Febru-
ary and the annual reports will be
issued as soon as possible after that
date. The town warrant. however,
will not be closed for number OF
days after that. Many important mat
tiers will be Incorporated in the war
rant ana IL Will De nelu open as lung
as possible.
Mrs. Susie Webster Rideout of Au-
burn. formerly of Pennington, and a
member of Pennington Chapter, No.
143. Order of the Eastern Star. will
install the newly elected officers of
her chapter at a special meeting in
Masonic hall next Thursday evening. |
Mrs. Rideout was secretary of the !
Pennington Chapter a number of
years before her marriage, and is a ,
very we'll and favorably known here. !
There will be fine supper, arranged .
by a committee of which Mrs. Edith
NJ. Carman is chairman.