The independent-reporter., 1909-10-07
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

New H. Lambert for several months
went To Wilton Monday for yaca-
tion,
Miss Elizabeth Springer OF Angus
tn returned home last Saturday. after
n visit with Mr. and Airs John Nor
rlsette
Mr.. and Mrs l.. J. Addition left Mon
day morning for a ten days visit in
Boston with their son. Fred T. Ad-
diton and other friends.
Phillip +. Barstow. clerk in Buck
nams drug store left last Saturday
for vacation of one week at his
home In Damariscotta.
r. G. Lord and wife arrived home
last Friday after passing two weeks
in Portland where Mr.. Lord was call
ed to be on the petit jury.
Mrs. Ethel Abbott of Chelsea, Mass,
left for home Monday afternoon. after
visit of two months with Mr.. and
Mrs. John Dugas on Pine street
Col. w. R. G. Estes and wife left
Monday on the noon train for Gates
burg, Penn, where they are to visit
relatives for a month or six weeks.
Mrs. Walter E. Harvey of Cam
bridge, Mass. left for home last Sat
urday after a visit with her cousin,
Mrs. Harry Dinsmore and wife on
East Front street.
Joseph f. Packard, accompanied by
his son. Walter, of East Winthrop,
has been visiting relatives and friends
In town. They came here to attend
the Wyman reunion.
Miss Annie Harthorne left ON the
noon train Friday of last week for
Newton Center, Mass. She is to take
a postgraduate course in some col
lege this coming winter
The Misses Margaret Griffin and
Bertha Merrill left for Wellesley,
Mass, last Friday, where they have
entered upon their Sophomore year
in Wellesley college.
Miss Myrtis Genthner, stenograph-
er for Butler & Butler, lawyers, re-
turned home Saturday night from a
three weeks visit with friends in
Damariscotta and Portland.
E. A. Parker went to Waterville
Monday to attend a meeting of
committee consisting of himself and
one representative each, from Colby
and Bates colleges. They were ap-
pointed to choose officials for the
championship football games in the
State.
Colby Joy of Fairfield brings In the
report that on one acre of land he
raised eighty eight and one-half BUSH
els of barley. 1t was threshed and
measured by Harvey Austin. The av-
erage crop is somewhere in the victn-
ity of fifty bushels and Mr.. Joy chal-
lenges anyone to bring in a better
record.
Mrs. John Healy, who has been
passing the summer at Rangeley
Lakes, arrived in town Saturday
night, and is the guest of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Cool on
Bloomfield street. Mr. Fealy is not
certain yet where he will be at work
permanently and Ms. Healy will re-
main here for the present.
Richard w. Brown has already had
men at work for several days on his
Court street block, which was so bad
ly damaged by fire few weeks since.
What remains of the roof Is being
torn down and fiat one of gravel is
to take its place. His other block on
Water street, where Russakoff, the
jeweler, was in business, is to be re-
placed soon by a new brick struc-
ture.
The evening train Saturday was de-
layed over three hours on account of
a collision of the Bangor-Boston ex-
press with an extra freight at Leeds
Junction. No one was killed by the
accident, but the track was ripped up
for some fifty feet and had 1t not
been for a freight car in the way the
train would probably have gone over
the enbankment. Joe Butler, en-
serious injuries, having become
pinned between the cab and the ten
der.