Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-11-19
SkoWheuan GrannA

There were about 500 in attend
ance at the regular meeting of Show
hegan Grange held Wednesday eve
ming at the hall on Pleasant street.
The meeting opened at o'clock and
was presided over by the Worthy
Master, Elmer Il. Harris. and so
members of kennebec Valley grange
or Madison were present. special
guests of the evening Secretary Of
somerset Pomona Grange, Frank
Pugh, of CornvilIe, announced that
the next meeting of Somerset Po-
mona will be held on Tuesday, No
vember %, with the Hincllley grange
and that this year dinner will be
served by Hincllley grange as be-
lore. AS this was a new grange, q
picnic dinner has been served. A
committee made up of Fred Hill,
Nellie Hill, Parkman White was ap-
pointed to serve with a committee
which was appointed early in the
year to have charge of q motion pic
ture benefit. An offering for the
Near East Relief was taken which
amounted to $685., after which the
Master, Mr.. Harris, declared n recess
and the company repaired to the
banquet hall below where a delicious
supper was partaken of, served by
the host grange under the able direc-
ton of Charles w. Day, Mrs. Bernice
Castle, Mrs. Sara BeauIier. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank A. Meader, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Eldon Boyd. The tables We're
set up three times and yet there was
sufficient food for all. After the sup
per and happy social hour the grang-
ers returned to the upper hail where
the degree team from Kennebec VAL
ley Grange in an excellent manner
conferred the third and fourth de-
greeS upon class of candidates. The
subject of the evenings meeting was
Poultry and the program was direct
ed by Mr.. and Mrs r. Fremont
MOmsted, Mr.. and Mrs. James b.
Nutting, and Mrs. Clara Gaylord, in
cluded the following numbers: read
ing. Feeding the Birds, Lillian
White; vocal solo and encore Mrs.
Pearl B. Pomerleau, accompanied by
Miss Etfie NJ. Nye: reading, Camp
meeting at Bluff Spring, Mrs. Mel
lie Hill: selections by the Comic
OPP ERA comoof ID of Mr.. Harris,
Mrs. Pomerlieu, Mrs. Sarah Boiler,
Marshall c. Viles. who were accom-
panied by Mrs. Grace Tuseand and
who responded to an encore: reading
and encore, Ernest A. Decker D. r.
Hobart, Master of Somerset Pomona
Grange, announced that Kennebec
Pomona Grange is to meet with Cas-
cade Grange at Oakland on December
!, and that Somerset Pomona has
received an invitation to attend the
meeting. The matter of organizing
a degree team in the Skowhegan
Grange was presented by Worthy
Master Elmer E. Harris and the fol-
lowing committee was appointed to
take charge of such organization,
Charles l.. Beckwith, Cornville,
chairman, Mrs. Flora Dealy. P. C.
White, Miss Winona Simpson, Royce
tuscan, George Hopkins and Mar
shall c. Viles. The next meeting of
Skowhegan Grange will be held on
wednesday, December /, when Lad
les Night will be observed and the
ladies will furnish the program. The
committee who has charge of the
program is made up of Mrs. Flora
Dealy, Miss Stella kimball, Mrs.
Emma Goodrich and Mrs. Linwood
Nutting.
Many Skowhegan friends Of Rev.
Harold l.. Hanson will be interested
to learn that the church of which he
is pastor, The First Baptist church
In Charlestown, Mass. on November
I observed it's 125th anniversary.
Only two of the former pastors are
now living and they have both been
presidents of Newton Theological In
stitute. Mr.. Hanson, the present
pastor, is the son Of the late Rev.
Charles V. Hanson. d. b., the first
pastor of the Bethany Baptist
church. and who was graduated from
the Skowhegan Higs School in the
class of 1895, of Colby college and
received his theological training at
Newton Institute. Mr.. Hanson was
the first one to be baptised IN the
baptistry at Bethany church and was
baptised by his father
Among the out of town people here
to attend the complimentary banquet
Tor Arthur r. Go Id given under the