Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-05
Sk0WHEGAN LOCAL news
Somerset County Headquarters pAR RniHHH Snosn 81

Miss Elizabeth Lindsen, home
demonstration agent, was in Corn
vile Wednesday, attending a meet
ing of the Ladies Branch at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Beck
with
Mr. and Frs. Frank Curtis were in
Athens the first of the. week and were
accompanied home by their daughter.
Miss Virginia, who has been a guest
of er uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Curtis.
Miss L. Hogan of Oregon, who is
passing some weeks at the home of
he rcousin and husband, Mr., and
Mrs. Irving Laskey. has returned to
the Laskey home after visiting rela-
tives in Madison.
Miss Hilda Mclean, of Auburn, is
a guest of Miss Dorothea Clough at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs +. l.. Clough of Madison avenue.
William Holland and mother, Mrs.
Mary Holland, Mrs. Gwendoline
Dodge and Mrs. Harry Grader, were
in Waterville on business Tuesday.
Miss Helen Halves. who is employ
ed at the candy store of Fred E.
Sawyer, has gone to Old Orchard.
accompanying Mr.. and Mrs. e. L.
Savage on their return and will pass
a week there a guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Savage. Miss Ellen Marie Boyd
is working at the Sawyer store TAX
ing the place of Miss Halves, during
her absence.
MIR. and Mrs. Leon Tucker. of Au-
burn. who have been in town, guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs E. l..
Clough, have returned home.
Miss Ruth Hoyt. who has been en-
ployed in a doctors office in Cole
brook, n. H., has arrived in town to
visit at the home of her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Henry G. Hoyt, of Madison
avenue. Miss Hoyt plans to continue
training for a nurse in Boston this
winter and will leave in the early
fal
Billie Halves, who has been atsthe
home of his parents, Attorney and
Mrs. William Halves, returned Tues
day to the "Y" camp at Cobbseecon-
tee Lake, and was accompanied by
his father and youngest brother,
John, who passed the day at the
camp visiting with two other Halves
boys, George and David. who are
also there.
Mrs. Jack Croce and children, Vir-
ginia, Andrew and Louia. will go to
Biddeford today and will be guests
of Mrs. Dolly Hinse at Camp Alice.
Deputy Sheriff Ernest Cook. of
Athens. was in town on business
Wednesday.
Mrs. Laura Bernard, of Lynn,
Mass, who has been guest of a
brother, Sidney Walker in Pittsfield,
came to Skowhegan Wednesday to
visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Burner.
Mrs. Leland B. Currier. Of New
York City, who is passing some time
with Mrs. William T. Clark at the
Checker cottage at Lakewood, was
in town Wednesday to meet Miss
Barbara Mcdonald. of Waterville.
Hershel Mitchell, the 6-year- old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Mitchell, of
Bigelow Hill neighborhood, who was
playing in an apple tree fell Tuesday
afternoon and broke his left arm.
Miss Sue Whitney and her two
nieces Misses Priscilla and Lois
Hubbard, have gone to Boston to
pass a weeks vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hubbard were
called to Waterville recently to see
Mrs. Hubbard's father, B. Whitney,
formerly of Mscw. VIII is quite i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Orwell and
Mrs. Carolyn Fairbrother went to
their farm in Mayfield Tuesday night.
Cecil Lancaster, of Pittsfeld, was
at the home of his sister and hus-
band, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Crowell,
Tuesday night. and went Wednesday
to Rumford on business.
John II. and Ralph T. Jenkin are
leaving Friday for Essex, Mass. to
visit their parents and will be Joined
there by their wives and children,
who have been visiting in that vicin-
ity.
Miss Annie L. Russell. of Washing
ton, d. c.. has arrived in town to
pass three weeks at the home of Mrs.
Kathleen E. Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Baumen, of ST.
Louis, Mo-, who were on their way to
Quebec, were in town the first of the
week ealing at The Fysche House.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Corson and
Mrs. A. w. F. Stinchfield, of Athens,
and Mrs. Addie Hilton, of Bangor,
were in town Tuesday on business
and were luncheon guests of John L.
Fish.
John L. Fish and his partner,
Frank P. York. of Athens, were re-
cent business callers in Augusta, and
while there called on a relative of
Mr.. Fish. Mrs. Asenatha Potter, for
merly of Fairfield Center. Mrs. Pot