The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-08-18

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! Mrs. Mary Roncoe OF Beacon street.
Boston, is visiting her father and
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bison.
The Seth annual eampmeeting of
the Madison Spiritual association will
be in session from Aug. 2S to Sept. IL
at Lakewood.
Carl A. Hessel and family are at
Old Orchard for the summer. He is
oornetist in Martens Philharmonica
orchestra in the Pier theatre.
Miss Cora Robinson. after a months
vacation, returned from her home in
Robinson. Wednesday and assumed her
position as goyerness at the home of
Or. and Mrs. George Otis Smith.
The body of Sadie Ruiz was brought
here Wednesday from Staten Island,
New York, where she had been buried.
She was placed here in the North
cemetery. She died in June 1908.
Everett Bacon, senior in the
Skowhegan High school, has gone to
Portland where he will work the
remainder of the summer in a ma
chine shop of the Maine Central.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Emerson and
son. Ernest, Mrs. G. H. Blaisdell, Mrs.
Blaine Emerson, Mrs. Horace Withee
and Miss Belle Reed, went to South
port Friday where they will spend
several days in Mr. Emerson's cot
tage.
Charles Smith, a member of the
LIST Maine Cavalry during the Civil
fighting than any other man who
went from Skowhegan, will be del
egate to the National Grand Army en-
campment to be held at Atlantic City
in September.
Thelma Bishop, the two years and
two months old granddaughter of G.
o. Curtis, died Wednesday of blood
poison. A few days ago the baby
broke her nose which resulted in
blood poison. Funeral services were
held Friday at 8 a. M, Rev Ora
Chase of Canaan officiating.
Miss Annie Harthorn went to Will
ton Friday, where she will visit rela-
tives for few days. She will go
from there to Foxboro, Mass, and
some time the latter part of the
month she will be married to Ma
thaniel Ernest Wheeler. They will go
TO McGill university in September
where Mr.. Wheeler will continue his
studies. In about two years they plan
to go to foreign lands as missionaries.
The friends of Miss Lizzie T. Hus-
sey of this town will be pleased to
learn that she won one of the prizes
last week in the short story contest
in the Boston Post. The subject of
her story was "Thornton's Old Home
Week" Miss Hussey has been a
contributor to several different maya
zines and has written much for the
woman's department of the different
periodicals. She is a graduate of Col
by college and is member of the
Sigma Kappa Sorority.
A piece of road about three miles
from Skowhegan towards Canaan
which is the State road is going
through important repairs. There is
4 strip of 1900 feet of it which in
cludes hill of that length. This has
oeen a bad piece of road and almost
impossible in the spring. 1t has al
ways been rough, narrow and full of
rocks. 1t is to be widened to %
foot road There are ten men and
four horses at work. The work is in
charge of Road Commissioner E. L.
Ford.
Two young men from Lynn, Mass,
Frank Colby and Tom Mclaughlin,
are now camping on the bank of the
Kennebec river near Skowhegan falls.
They made the trip here from the
mouth of the river near Bath in a
canoe, making a distance of about
100 miles, sticking to the river the
whole distance excepting at the places
where there were dams. AS far as is
known, they are the first ones to come
up the river that distance in a canoe.
They planned to go to Moosehead
lake, but have charged their plans
and mill camp here for some time.
Preparations are being made for
one of the largest fairs ever held in
Somerset county. Some of the feat
ures of the fair will be automobile
races and various kinds of sports and
there will without doubt be large
exhibition of cattle, horses and sheep.
The following officers have been
chosen by the Agricultural society:
President, Clyde H. Smith, vice pres
dents, Walter H. Hight and Everett
T. Goodrich; secretary, Sheldon H.
Bradbury; treasurer, Roland T. Pat