The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-01-27
SkOVvhEGAN LOCAL NEWS
Francis n Wing picked = panss In
hia garden Tuesday morning.

! hls garden Tuesday morning.
j Mrs. =. T. Durreli left Monday
morning for a sinii with friends In
/ Portland.
Judge simmons of North Arson
wns business caller In town Fri
day of ias, week.
Messrs Gould Porter and Wallace
Emery of North Arson we're In town
Thursday of last week on business.
Mrs. George Otis Smith arrived
home last Friday night from a three
weeks visit with her husband in
Washington.
Charles Jones of Wateryiile. a
junior In the Coburn Classical lnsti-
tute, was the guest of William Wildes
last Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Bruce White and son. james,
left Tuesday morning for Boston.
where they are to visit friends and
! relatives week or TWO.
The Ladies' Afternoon Whist club
was entertained by Mrs. F. C. Dow
Friday afternoon of last week at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Dow.
Among the students home from
Colby over Sunday were Ernest
Green, John Dane. Carroll Goodwin,
Henry Thomas and Miss Gail Tag
CART.
Mrs. F. L. Flynt of Pennington,
passed Sunday in town with her
husband who is station agent in
Skowhegan. Mr.. Flynt will probably
move his family here soon.
Miss Edith Lewis left Tuesday
morning for Foxboro, Mass, for a
visit with DR.. and Mrs. Byron In
gals. Before returning home she is
ton.
G. B. Reed of Whitman, Mass, treas
urer of the Commonwealth Shoe &
Leather Co., was In town last Friday
inspecting the work In the local fac
tory. He reports very good condi-
ton of affairs.
Miss Edith NJ. Gledhill and Mrs. W.
B. Steward were in Old Town last
week in attendance at the Maine Fed
GRAFTON of Woman's clubs, as dele
gates from the Sorosis and Woman's
clubs respectively. The meeting was
held Tuesday and Wednesday.
Work on the Morrison & Mcclellan
block Is rapidly progressing and the
lower rooms which are to be used as
stores are all but completed. The
second story is divided into Offices,
which have all been plastered. At
present they are laying floors. The
glass for the show windows arrived
this week
Late Thursday afternoon, there was
lively runaway about town. Two
young ladies hired horse at the Nc
Coomb livery stable for a pleasure
drive and while turning the corner
OF Pleasant street and Madison av-
eDue, the sleigh tipped over and the
two women were thrown out. The
horse ran down the avenue, across
the two bridges and turning around
went back to the stable. Neither of
the occupants was injured, nor the
horse, but the dasher of the sleigh
was broken off.
We are informed of a snow shoe
tramp by young lady recently which
is quite record. Miss Margery
Smith, a senior in the High school,
accompanied by young gentleman of
that class, walked to Norridgewock
In the afternoon, Saturday the 18th.
returning after a supper at the hotel
For a man this would not be very
extraordinary, but this Is the best re-
port we have had from the other sex.
Mrs. Ida Durbin made a record Sun
day on foot, although not on snow
shoes, which we think surpasses the
former. At noon she left Oakland,
where she had been visiting her un-
Gle, Albert Fly, who had been seri-
ously Ill, and arrived here at six
o'clock at night. The distance Is be-
tween eighteen and twenty miles.
The social held last Friday evening
in the vestry of the Methodist church
under the auspices of the Epworth
League was well attended and the
entire program carried out success
fully. The first part of the evening
was spent in guessing the titles OF
books, one of which each person pres
ent represented In some unique way.
Then came the dialogue, "A Love of
a Bonnet" which was also immense
ly entertaining. The cast of char
acters was as follows: Mrs. Clipper,
Mrs. Frank Gould Kittie Clipper,
Miss Iva Briggs; Aunt Hopkins, an
inquisitive old maid, Miss Ethel
Mitchell; Mrs. Fastonne. Miss Lena
Packard; Dora Fastonne, Mrs. Nellie
Emerson; Katie DooIan, maid Of the