The independent-reporter., 1909-12-23
SkOvvhEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Timothy oBriea. Esa.. of New
Bedford. Mass.. visited With friends
In ,own this week.
Mrs. Emma Bigelow OF Lewiston. left
Tuesday morning for her home after
a visit OF a few weeks with Mr.. and
Mrs Ira Norton on Madison avenue.
Misses Bertha Merrill and Margar-
ct Griffin. Sophmores In Wellesley
college. arrived home last Friday
night for their first vacation OF the
year.
Archie Delano, who has been work
Ing in Auburn for the past year ar
rived home last Thursday night for
a vacation. He plans to remain un-
Ill after Christmas.
Miss Helen Kirby OF Middletown.
Conn. returned home last Friday af-
ter a visit OF several weeks at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph c.
Leighton on Madison avenue.
Miss Ethel Mitchell, a senior In
the High school, left last Saturday
morning for Massachusetts,, where
she 10 to visit In Lawrence and
Brockton during her Christmas vaca-
ton.
The public schools in town closed
last Friday for a two weeks vaca-
ton. The Y. NJ C. A. night school
with the exception of the book
keeping class which has but recently
started is also having a rest for
two weeks.
MIR. and Mrs. D. F. Judkins left
last Friday for Springfield. Mass,
where they are to make their home.
They will be missed by many friends.
Mr.. Judkins Is to engage In the gro
Gerry business with his brother-in-
law, M. G. Whitney.
A. X. Rowell, who has run a five
cent stable on Madison avenue for
some time, has sold out to J. e. and
R. w. French who will take posses
sion about the first of January. Mr.
Rowell has rented the house of ID. F.
Judkins on Maple street, where he
will live for the present.
Work on the Skowhegan house gar
age has progressed rapidly this wees
and already 1t has been boarded and
clapboarded and the windows put In.
Preparations are now being made for
the cement floor. When completed
the garage will be we'll lighted as
there are large number OF windows.
Mrs. Bruce White arrived in Show
hegan Saturday night, from a trip to
Washington where Mr.. White Is sup
erintendent of the Belcher mine and
the Belcher Mountain railway. Dur
ing her visit west, Mrs. White accom-
panied her husband on a business
trip to Nelson and Grand Forks, B.
c., also to Republic and Spokane,
Wash, meeting many old friends.
Although the new Morrison and
Mcclellan block Is not az large as the
old building 1t Is going to be fine
when finished. The lower story is
divided into three stores and the up
per part is partitioned OF for ofiices.
They have completed the brick and
frame work and during the past day
or two they have been putting up the
plastering The Offices are tastefully
arranged and will be very convenient.
About eight o'clock Sunday morn
ing the northerly half of the new
railroad bridge was moved into posi-
ton. Many hardly believed that a
structure which weighs in the vi
cinity Of 200 tons, could be moved In
twenty minutes but they did better
than that and the actual process
took but twelve minutes. A false
bridge had been constructed under
the new bridge and on the west sid
of the old one and the changing Of
the old bridge to the latter staging
and putting the new one on the old
foundations was apparently an easy
matter Work on the other half will
be commenced Immediately.
Mrs. e. e. Greenwood's class In
the Congregational Sunday school
held their regular monthly meeting
with their teacher at her home on
Madison avenue last Friday evening.
The program. consisting Of vocal and
instrumental music, was In charge
of Miss Lillian Taylor, who. In be-
half of the class. presented Mrs.
rGreenwood with beautiful gold
pin as token Of their appreciation
OF her loving and faithful services.
The class president, Miss Nell Gif-
ford, read a paper on the life Of
Paul, giving fine glimpse Of the
lessons which have been studied the
past quarter. At the close of the
exercises refreshments were served
by the hostess and plans discussed
for enlarging the work of the class.
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