The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-09-09
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Hon. .. j. walton WAS III augusta
Tuesday, on business at the Court
House.
Gordon Bragg left on the morning
train Friday to spend q week with
his aunt, Mrs. C. S. Gordon In Bos-
ton.
Miss Lottie Davis and Miss Lucy
Taylor, who have been at Peaks is
land for the summer, returned home
Saturday night.
Mrs. Fronia Traitor and her daugh-
ter. Miss Dena, who have been spend
ing several weeks at Ocean Park, re-
turned home Saturday night.
Miss Florence Shaw, who has been
the guest of DR.. and Mrs. Alcius
Smith for two weeks, returned to her
home in Webster, Mass, Friday.
A number of the local Grand Army
men will go to Fairfield on Friday to
attend the Somerset County Veterans
and Ladies' Auxiliary meeting.
Mrs Helen Robinson and daughter,
Miss Mabel, who have been occupy
ing their cottage at Old Orchard, for
some weeks, returned home last
week.
Supt. D. H. Perkins went to Port
land Monday where he will be in at
or Of hn nd
Chapter of Masons held there on that
day.
Master Willard Paul, who has been
spending several weeks here with
his grandfather, Nathan Fowler, re-
turned to his home in Dorchester,
Mass, Monday.
The ladies of the Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union will have a
booth at the Agricultural Fair to be
held next week, where quick lunches
will be served.
Miss Alice Buzzell went to Ston-
ingten Friday, where she will be as
sistant teacher in the High school At
that place. Miss Buzzell is a gradu
ate of Colby in the class of 1905.
The regular meeting of the Town
Improvement Society will be held
with Mrs. l.. w. Weston Friday af
teronon at 2.3O o'clock. Important
matters of business will come up for
consideration.
Benjamin A. Merrill of Hallowell
arrived in town last Saturday to Wis
il his granddaughter, Mrs. Ralph
w. Emerson. Mr.. Merrill is 81 years
of age, but appears as young as most
men of forty.
Mrs. Edward L. Marsh, who has
been Ill for some days at the home
of Miss Hannah r. Page on High
street, is now in the Somerset hospi-
tai where she is receiving medical
attention.
Mrs. Edward w. Heath of Water
vile, chairman of the general COM
mittee which has charge of the an
nual meeting of the federated wo
mems clubs of Maine, was in Show
hogan Monday, the guest of her broth
.er, John Steward.
The fire department was out Mon
day night for their regular monthly
drill, the chiefs call of three blasts
being sounded at $50 o'clock This
call never fails to alarm people and
many hustle down to the business
section or call up Central to make
inquiries.
Hon. Waldo Pettingall of Rumford
Falls, was in town for short time
Monday, en- route to Fort Kent, the
in town, Mr.. Pettingall was the
guest of A. H. Lang, the two men
having been associated at one time
on the Sturgis Commission.
Miss Eva Knowlton who spent the
first three weeks of the summer at
the summer term of the Normal
at Pennington, and the last five weeks
at Belgrade lakes, returned home
Saturday night. Miss Knowlton has
been elected to teach in the Village
school at Madison for the coming
year
Samuel P. Smith, formerly an en-
ploye of the Shoe factory here, but
for a number of years connected with
a similar industry in Manchester, N.
H., was in town last week. At the
present time Mr.. Smith is travelling on
the road in the interests of new
machine of use in shoe factories, and
his trip to Skowhegan was for the
purpose of introducing it here. This
was his first visit here In a period of
seventeen years.
Among those from Skowhegan who
will take part in the seventeenth an
nual meeting of the Maine Federation
of Women's Clubs, to be held in Wa
terville next week, are Miss Hannah
r. Page, who gives the report from
the committee on education; Mrs.
Elizabeth Merrill, who will give one
of the club reports, on Village I'm