Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-10

In Music hall, Tuesday evening,
March Is. Refreshments will also be
served.
Next Monday evening in Merrill
hall will occur the fifth in the course
OF entertainments arranged by the
combined Protestant churches Of this
village. The attraction will be the
Musical Arts Duo, consisting of Eva
May Pike, lyric soprano, and Fran
ces Foskette, dramatic soprano. The
program is divided into three periods,
including numbers from some of the
great masters, Spanish Gypsy inter-
pretations, in costume, and episodes
OF long ago, with appropriate costume
effects.
The Evergreen Club will meet with
afternoon. Current events will be
discussed at roll-call, and there will
be other interesting features.
The Neighbors will meet Wednes-
day afternoon at The Willows. where
the other members will be guests of
Mrs. Lettie Mahoney and Mrs. jose
phine H. Norton.
There was work in the rank of
Knight this evening at the meeting
Of Alpha Lodge, K. of P, at which
there was a good attendance.
Lowell d. Nile Of Rangeley has
been appointed a humane agent, and
Judge Sumner p. Mills of Farming
ton has received reappontment as
notary public by the governor.
At the meeting of the Ladies' Aux
Hilary to S. Clifford Belcher Camp,
S. of ", Friday evening, there will be
an entertainment, and refreshments
will be served.
William Gould is passing few
days in Boston, the guest of Jacob
Wirth.
The Republican of Pennington will
have caucus in Drummond hall FRI
day afternoon at 2 o'clock to choose
delegates to, the state and district
|, convention at Portland, April 6. The
official call has been posted.
There will be another child welfare
conference Thursday afternoon from
l to o'clock. Projection pictures on
if the attendance warrants. The con-
ference will take place at the office
of the county nurse.
Romanus Weber has been in Port
| land to attend gettogether of the
/ representatives in the state Of Maine,
of whom he is one, of the Metropoli-
! tan Life Insurance Company.
Word has been received that Miss
Grace Gilkey of Pennington, teach
| er in Manchester, n. H., is recovering
from the results of an operation for
appendicitis. The attack was sudden
| and very severe. She expects to be
able to resume teaching at the open
| ing of the spring term.
| Franklin County is again buried
| in snow, another foot having fallen
Monday and blocked all roads. A
| bit of rain at night held the snow
down so it has not drifted much
! but it is showing again and traffic
lin all directions is again held up
! The Sunday train was about an
! hour and half in arriving and about
| that much late in departing, snow
trains having the right of way.
Automobile stages and rural delivery
cars were unable to make their trips
Monday, for the most part, and all
mails either were delayed or failed
| to arrive at all.
Funeral of Robert Campbell
| The funeral of Robert Campbell
! was largely attended, at the Bap-
fist Church Sunday afternoon in
spite of the severe storm, which
also kept many away. The pastor
of the church, Rev. NJ. Boardman
offered prayer and spoke touchingly
of the long and faithful attention to
| duty by the deceased and the service
was very impressive. The fire and
! police departments, and former men,
bers of each, attended in body,
and the about was blown on the
fire whistle Immediately after the
close of the service, box IL being
pulled. The body was placed in the
tomb at Riverside cemetery and will
be buried in the spring. There was
great profusion of flowers, includ-
ing pieces from the fire department
! and other orgs nizations with which
he had been long associated The
| bearers were Arthur Keith. Convers
Moody, Fred Stinchfield, and Eugene
F.! E. Flood, two members of the fire
department, and two former mem
bers, now leading business men.
Miss Barbara Marston Of Auburn,
| now a teacher in the Westfield, Mass
high school, formerly teacher in the
Pennington High school, and her
mother, came up from Auburn the
] last Of the week, their sister, and
| daughter, Mrs. Ray Starbird, of
Strong, came down. and with Mrs.
Nellie Bradford they had family
reunion at Pennington hotel, be-
tween trains, which was much en-
joyed.
John c. Morton, Lloyd B. Morton
, and James Leenan went to Boston
Sunday, and will take in the automo-
bile show this week.
Clinton Greenwood of Pennington.
was the principal speaker at the last
meeting of the Pennington Rotary
club, his subject being Community
Fairgrounds"
Frank e. McLeary of Pennington,
is member of the party Of Maine
Ford dealers now on a trip toDe-
troit, where they were guests of
Henry Ford, taking in the Boston
automobile show On the way back.
There will be q special benefit
moving picture entertainment for
Slam Bang Durrell, who won the
silver cup contest at Madison a short
time ago, on clog and jig dancing.
George Mosher will fiddle and Slam
Bank will repeat his Madison per-
Torrance. The money is to be used
toward payment of the expenses of
trip to Lewiston by special train,
when a big crowd from Pennington.