The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-10-27
DR.. F. S. Bigelow was in Augusta
over Sunday visiting friends.

DR.. F. S. Bigelow was in Augusta
over Sunday visiting friends.
The Mems Society of the st. John
the Baptist will hold a whist party
at Convent hall, Thursday night, No
vember g. Admission Zoe. All welcome
Miss Lois Steward went to Bangor
Wednesday where she will spend the
remainder of the week with her par
ents.
The ladies of the Congregational
Working league will serve a harvest
dinner in the vestry, Wednesday, Nov.
p from 1130 to l o'clock
F. L. Abbey. who has been the
guest of his nephew. c. j. Abbey and
family, for the past four weeks, left
here Monday for his home in Fenton.
Mich.
Deputy Sheriff Augustus Gilblair
went to Portl2nd Tuesday, taking with
him Arthur Cincyr to place in the
State school for boys. He was sent
there for truancy.
1t is expected that several ladies
from the two Baptist churches will
attend the basket meeting of the Ken
nebec Valley Missionary association
and institute to be held in Waterville
November s.
The fist meeting of Sorosis, Direc-
tors Tes will be changed from Tues
day evening, November 1, to Wednes-
day evening, November 2, on account
of the concert to be held in the Opera
House on the former date.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frederick Jones and
Master Harold, who have been visit
ing Mr.. Jones uncle, c. j. and o. A.
Abbey for the past few weeks, left
here Saturday for their home in Hart
ford, Conn. The trip was made in
Mr.. Jones touring car.
F. P. Pennell received a letter from
his son, Guy, saying that they had ar
rived safely in Lake City, Fla, being
"a hours late on account of the hur-
ricane. The captain lost his bearings
and had to run out to sea so miles, it
being safer than near the coast.
Mrs. NJ. B. Heselton visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Wiggin
and DR.. and Mrs John E. Gray in
Portland last week. Mrs. Heselton
was a delegate from Priscilla Re-
bekah lodge to the Rebekah assembly
of Odd Fellows which held its annual
session in Portland, Tuesday, Octo-
Der IS.
Henri HenriqueZ, Porto Rican who
came here in early September and
entered the Skowhegan High school
has returned to Porto Rico being
called there by his father who wished
for him to go into business with him
Mr.. Henriquez was a student during
last year in Porto Rico of Arthur
Merriam, who is now in Boston uni
versity.
DR.. F. S. Bgelow has received q
great surprise. He said he always
knew that women's hats were big and
cumbersome, but he saw it put to
actual proof one day recently A
mother living on the north side of the
river told her boy to take her hat
over to the milliner's. The boy tried
to lift the hat but staggered as he
was going out of the house, and final
Iy fell down. The mother thought
she would have to telephone for a
hack but the boy decided that if he
could get a wheel-barrow he could
take the hat all right. He got ii
there all right but said he would
never go after it.
1t has been said and reiterated that
Skowhegan has more automobiles than
any other town in the State for its
size. The following is a list of those
owning automobiles: Wallace Blunt
Oldsmobile; Bin Page, Winton Garlic
ton Merrill, Buick Ernest Avore,
Overland; Dinsmore Bunker, Ford !;
John e. Taylor Brush; F. o. Sawyer,
Mr.. Woodbury., Dr. l. A. Dascombe,
Maxwell; Edwin Bison, Charles
Green, DR.. A. B. Borden, c. H. Smith,
Morris Gledhill, Hon. D. H. Bartlett,
Robert Haines, Herbert Wentworth,
Gilmore; DR.. William Pulsifer, Jerome
Abbey, Carl Holt, REQ; Payson Viles,
Winton; Mrs. Edith. Shepherd, Peer
less; DR.. Taggart Buick and Auto
car; William Hackett, J. N Smith,
Joseph Hogan, Manley Pooler Lewis
Anderson, Buick; Willis Trask, A. F.
Sanford, Cadillac; Frank Flynt,
Charles Tozier, William Norton, Elmer
Rowell, Charles Ennis, Stanley.
By an estimate 1t has been found
that 1899 men and women are en-
ployed by the different industries in