The independent-reporter., 1910-11-24

tainment was given: Vocal solos. Mrs.
Wylie II. Smith; recitations, Laura
Carpenter; male quartet, members OF
the Jolly Glee club: the Philosopher
from Dodlin. Bennie Witham; reading.
Linnion Brown; tableau, Babes in
the Woods" members of the Jolly
Glee club; recitation, Clarence Car
penter; vocal solo, Mrs. Alfred Ever
EFT; reading. Mrs. Lue Brown; illus
trated song, Everybody Works but
Father" by members of the jolly
Glee club.
All our sick ones as follows are
improving every day E. b. Everett
Almiron Moore. Mrs. Charles Cross,
Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Howard Mitchell,
Mrs. May Mitchell and Mrs. w. A.
Moore.
Charles Nye of Mercer is loading a
car load of straw for Boston parties.
H. w. Otis, our Main street flag
man, is confined to the house by sick
ness. Mr. Forsythe the grandson, is
attending out during Mr.. Otis sick
ness.
AL Stanley has sold a strip of land
on the Skowhegan road to the French
families who live in the house recent
ly sold to Bracket & Russell, and
is reported will build a house for
their home right away.
On Friday evening of last week
Rev. Wylie H. Smith, c. H. Hussey,
George Wood and W. w. Huntoon
drove to Madison to attend the Hatch
meetings.
The fun producing play, THE Dis
trict School at Blueberry Corners,
is under way to be given soon in the
Baptist chapel.
Rev. Wylie H. Smith Is contemplat-
ing giving an entertainment in the
near future of illustrations of Bible
scenes by a moving picture course. Full
particulars will be announced later.
Parties in town are contemplating
going to st. Cloud, Fla. to make
their future home.
We are glad to welcome two new
families to town and will help to
make up the quota of good people.
These are j. H. Turner and family,
late of Turner, Me-, and Thomas
Smith and wife of Lowell, Mass, al
though Mr.. Smith lived here a few
years ago.
A French newspaper, La Justice de
Biddeford, has been added to the read
ing matter for the classes in French
of our High school.
Misses Jeffers, Chase and Lancaster
are spending the Thanksgiving week
at their homes in North Monmouth,
Dexter and Barring, Me. All the
schools are closed for a weeks vaca-
ton and will commence again next
Monday, when the above teachers will
return.
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Mcneil will
entertain their nieces from Oakland
to a Thanksgiving dinner.
Miss Effie Maddocks has very inter-
esting tame gray squirrel which is a
great pet about the house although
somewhat mischievous If left to its
own devices long 1t Is extremely
fond of nuts and will make an ex-
tremely vigorous search of ones
pockets for them If there are any
there, and 1t has the faculty of
smelling them out very quickly. They
have had it for four years and it GER
tainly lives on the fat of the land and
has become very independent in its
demand for good things to eat. There
are several of these interesting pets
owned in this section and it is a pecu-
liar fact that they do not care for
others of their kind but will fight them
vigorously If they come around and
scold them very severely if they even
come in sight
In the Somerset Rebekah lodge, the
off night, that is the first meeting of
the month when there is no supper for
a special inducement, has not been SO
well attended as the other meetings
were and the officers in charge have
determined that there shall be no diff
ference and in fact to make the off
night" better than the supper night
With this in view they have at the
recent meetings provided good pro-
gram in which there was a good lot
of fun and now everybody Is on the
'qui vive" to see what is coming next
At their meeting of last Friday even
ing the committee of all the ladies'
presented a beautiful parasol drill
Sixteen ladies dressed in white and
moving in beautiful unison in the
many different motions and positions
made very pretty picture and ap-
pealed to the eSthetic sense. The
funny spots were tickled by the very
pleasant and original mock wedding
in which the beautiful Miss Long and
the celebrated Mr.. Short were firmly
tied by the very august Bishop who
presided on this occasion. When the
Bishop offered to kiss the bride, the
bridegroom very strenuously objected
and got a stool and kissed her him
self A jab peanut game in which the
number of peanuts one was able to
get by jabbing a hatpin into pan
filled with the nuts was another diver
sion in which Mrs. Lila Tobey got