The independent-reporter., 1910-09-15

There will be an entertainment at
the Rebekahs Tuesday September 90
after the lodge meeting.
E. y. Merrill went to Berlin, n H.,
Wednesday, where he will be gone a
few days on legal business.
There will be sacred concert at
Coburn park Sunday at 2.S0 p. m. by
the Skowhegan Military band.
Miss Iva Briggs. who has been en-
ployed in the office of the Somerset
Traction Co. has resigned her posi-
ton. Miss Ethel Brainerd has been
engaged to fill the vacancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Hodges of Win
slow were in town Monday. the
guests of Mrs. Hodges niece, Mrs.
John E. Taylor. They also attended
the Jackson reunion In Embden.
Benjamin B. Fogler who has been
visiting his parents. Major and Mrs.
j. W. Fogler for a few days. returned
to Boston Monday where he is en-
ployed with the Hood Rubber Co
Miss Louise Coburn and Miss Cora
Robinson. who have been spending a
month at Beeehwood at cottage,
have returned home. Mrs. c. Davis
Miller was a guest of Miss Coburn for
a few days.
Gen. Isaac Dyer and Mr.. and Mrs
George Arnold left on the morning
train Wednesday for Bangor where
they will attend the 18th Maine Regi-
ment reunion which was held We'd
nesday and today.
Guy Estes Is visiting his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Frank j. Estes on Madi-
son avenue for two weeks. Mr. Estes
is making his home in Winsted, Conn.
He was graduated from Bowdoin col
lege In the class of 1909.
A request is made that children of
the Sunday school, kindergarten and
Primary department of the First Bap-
tist church meet at the church at 10
o'clock Sunday morning to rehearse
for concert which will take place on
the Sunday evening when the church
is opened
Mrs. Orrin Packard, with her little
daughter, Fern, arrived home Satur-
day evening from a two weeks visit
with friends and relatives in Port
land. They we're accompanied by
her eldest daughter. Gala, who has
been spending the summer there with
her aunt, Mrs. Alice Russell.
At the Presque Isle fair held last
week, Stanley C, formerly owned by
Stanley Chalmers, won the 2.1S and
the 215 race, both very easily taken
by him. He stepped the first half of
the last heat in 1861 and came home
in jog. The free-for-all was close,
although won in straight heats, all
finishing in bunch and with hard
driving for the wire.
The Somerset & Franklin Sheep
Breeders Association will hold their
next meeting at Skowhegan prob
ably during the last week in October
The exact date has been left open for
a time to avoid possible conflict with
the annual of the Jersey Breeders
Association. Prof. Arkell of the State
college at Durham, N. H., will be
among those on the program. Other
interesting features will be announc-
ed as rapidly as arrangements can be
completed
VIM II. Leayitt, manager for the
Underwood Typewriter Company at
Sioux City, Ia, who with his family,
has been visiting his mother, Mrs A.
T. Smith, for some weeks, started for
home Wednesday, September T. He
was joined at Brockton, Mass, by his
wife, his little daughter. Dorothy and
Mrs. Leayitt's mother, who left here
before him, and the whole party went
first to New York and then to Sioux
City where they expected to arrive
Monday night
F. S. Brown returned from Mil
linocket Wednesday where he had
been on business. Mr.. Brown has
bought a farm of J. M. Dysart in
and plans to enter into
general farming. He will devote con-
siderable time to the new business
and he plans to build many new
houses that he may move from place
to place on his farm, giving advantage
to the hens in way of new ground
and at the same time he will be
dressing his farm
The 21st Maine Regimental associa
ton held reunion Friday, Septem-
Der 8, at the Fairfield Opera house.
There was a good attendance, among
the number being j. T. Woodbury. of
Sidney; Austin Bragg Of Waterville;
Washington Barraheimer of Waldo
horo. 0Iiyar uoffooo of prookIvn of