The independent-reporter., 1909-10-07

In town the first of the week on busi.
ness
Mrs. Lewis Boyd Of Bangor. Is vis-
iting Miss Annie Hayden on Alder
street.
/ FL. Colby. one Of Biugham's lead
ing business men. has been in town
during the past week
i Mrs. Nancy Emery OF cliftondale.
+ Mass. Is visiting at the home OF A. II.
Lang on Pleasant street.
+. D. Packard went to Winthrop,
Monday. TO be the guest of relatives
and friends for few days.
Miss Alice Rogers left last Friday
for visit with her sister, Mrs. Frank
Carleton in Haverhill, Mass
d. II. Perkins. superintendent OF
schools, went to Ellsworth last Friday
to attend a teachers convention.
BY some oversight the name OF Miss
Sadie T.. Penneil was omitted last
week from the list of Skowhegan stu
dents entering Colby college this fall.
Miss Iva Jackins left Monday for
Brewer where she was to attend the
State Baptist Convention. From there
she Is to 90 to her home in Houlton.
Leon Smiley, a sophomore at the
University of Maine, arrived In town
Friday night to pass Sunday with
his parents and sister who is visit
ing here.
Among the students who were home
over Sunday from Colby college were
Ernest Green, Carroll Goodwin, Jas.
Reed, Henry Thomas and Miss Gail
| Taggart.
Allie D. Prescott a. present en-
ployed in the Insane hospital at Au-
gusta. arrived in town Monday for
visit with his mother, Mrs. Carrie E.
Prescott.
w. H. Paine went to Bangor Tues
day to attend big meeting of the A.
o. U. W. The lodges of Bangor,
Brewer, Oldtown and Orono held a
meeting together.
Mrs. Helen M. Doran and Mrs. W.
B. Drew of Portland, arrived in town,
Monday night, and are visiting here
for a short time. Mrs. Doran is
former resident of this place.
C. B. Burleigh, the editor of the
Kennebec Journal, with his family,
came to town Monday in their auto
mobile. Another auto party from
Camden was also here that day. They
were guests at Hotel Coburn.
W. B. Fletcher and o. B. Porter
returned home last Saturday from
ten days trip to Greenville, where
they had been putting a galvanized
iron roof on barn owned by Lyman
Blair, a wealthy man of Chicago.
DR.. E. II. Stevens, his son and wife,
Miss Luella, Madame Stevens and
Mrs. Paine, guest, returned to Cam
bridge last week, after passing the
summer at Bloomfield cottage. The
two gentlemen went by automobile.
George Wyman of Dorchester, Mass.
came to Skowhegan Friday night to
attend the Wyman reunion. He is
visiting his brother Harley Wyman
on the Wyman farm and other friends
in town and will return to Dorchester
the last of the week.
BENJAMIN W. Eaton, son of Fred o.
Eaton, arrived in town Saturday night
and is the guest of friends for few
days. He has been employed bv the
American Express Co. in Kennebunk-
port for some time but expects to go
to Sanford on his return.
Monday morning partridge flew
into town and lit on the ground near
the veranda on the west side of the
Skowhegan house. He was first seen
by one of the Tuttle Bros, but 1t was
only a short time before a small
crowd gathered on the opposite side
of the street. The partridge walked
back and forth for several minutes as
If trying to find an entrance by which
he might get under the piazza. Walter
Hight saw an opportunity to go hunt
ing without tramping all day and he
borrowed a gun at Stewards Hard
ware store and killed the bird.
Judge Gorham Powers and wife OF
Granite Falls, Mimi, arrived in town
on the morning train Sunday last for
two weeks stay among relatives and
friends in Skowhegan and Pittsfield,
after accompanying their son Arba ].
Powers on his return to Boston where
he has already entered upon his last
years work in the Harvard Law
school. Judge Powers, one of the
eight sons of the famous Powers fam
| lily of Pittsfield, six of whom were
lawyers, took up his residence In
Minnesota in the early seventies and
while owning and cultivating large
tracts of land gave his principle at
tention however to law as his chosen
profession and continued in this with
marked success until appointed dis