The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1909-12-02
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


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last seek
NJ. and Nrp David u rofter were
the guests Of r & Butler Esq ~hile
Ia town. sunday
The Misses Partridge of Augusta
were in tosn over Thanksgiving the
guests OF their aunt Mrs. =. :. Pres.
colt
Miss Dorothy Elliott. an instructor
IN The high school passed her Thanks
giving recess al her home IN Hart
land
Mrs William Mebane. a teacher IN
the public schools. passed Thanks
giving recess with her relatives IN
St Adams.
Mrs. Frank Sedgeley of Wateryille
returned home after visit of sever
al DAYS with MIR. and Mrs. o A. Abb
hey on Leaytt street.
At the next meeting of Skowhegan
lodge. A. o. L. w. December 3. there
will be nomination OF officers fol-
lowed by refreshments 2w
Miss Hazel Leavitt. who is employed
in the entertainment bureau in Bos-
ton. passed a few days of last week
at the home of her mother.
Miss Lula Elwell of Belgrade re-
turned home the latter part of last
week after visit of three weeks at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Lazy.
Friends of Miss Doris Reyes will
be pleased to learn that she haS re-
Gently received a present of a hand
some Howard piano from her grand
mother, Mrs. D. e. Woodman.
Miss Lucy II. Jewett left Saturday
for New York where she is employed
in the public stem grapher's office.
She g & graduate OF fhe skowhee+n
High School, &c, AMI has also COM
rlet.. course n business college
in Boston. Miss Jewett Is the daugh
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Albert E. Jewett,
whom she has been visiting.
Col and Mrs. w. r. G. Estes re-
turned Friday night from their two
months visit to the middle west dur
ing which time they were in sixteen
states, visiting in st. Paul, Minnea-
polls, Mimi, Dubuque, Iowa, Gales
burg. Quincy, and Plymouth. H., re-
turning via Washington. d. c., where
they tarried for five days. They pass
ed Thanksgiving in Brockton, Mass,
with their daughter, Mrs, w. r. Blu
canaan.
Arthur W. Packard and Miss Iva
F. Ring returned to Portland Monday,
after a visit Of several days at the
home of his uncle, j. w. Packard
and family. Mr.. Packard Is a gradu
ate Of the Skowhegan High School,
having been a member of the 1907
class and has also attended Gray's
Business College In Portland. At
present he is billing clerk in the
Wholesale flour establishment OF II. B.
Varney G. Co., Portland. Miss Ring
Is teacher In the fourth grade in the
| public schools there.
Skowhegan. for town of It's size,
Is very we'll represented In the col
leges of the country. The students at
the University of Maine are Charles
Smith, Edward Snow, Frank Merriam,
George Parker, Leon Smiley, Walter
Merrill. George Young, Enock Mark
ham, Edward Clifford, Elroy Seekins
and Miss Miretta Bickford. At Colby
the list Is Ernest Green. James Reed,
Walter Ennis, John Dane, Carroll
Goodwin, Robert Wildes, Henry Thorn
as, Miss Gail Taggart and Miss Sadie
Pennell. Those at Bowdoin are Ralph
Bailey, Harold Rowell, Folsom Mer-
rill, Reginald Foss. Elmer Nolin. John
Lewis and Clair Marston. Maurice
Merrill Is a graduate of Bowdoin and
Is in the Harvard Law school; Miss
Maud Merrill Is in Syracuse univer-
sity; Misses Bertha Merrill. Margaret
Griffin and Hazel Holden are at
Wellesley; Miss Marcia Williams Is at
Wheaton seminary; Raymond Smith
in the University of Michigan. and
Allie Morrill, in the University of Cali
fornia. This makes a total of thirty
five. of which Skowhegan should feel
proud. Nearly all of these were home
during the Thanksgiving recess.