The independent-reporter., 1910-12-01
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

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Friends church.
Mr.. and Mrs Blaine Owen of Au-
gusta were Thanksgiving guests of
Hon. Forrest Goodwin and wife.
Mrs Clyde II. Smith and Miss Ethel
Walton went to Boston Monday where
they will be gone for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Groder and
family went to Gardiner Monday
where they are to make their home.
Roscoe Bigelow sold six oxen Tues
day of the Hereford and Durham
breeds to p f. Glidden of Damaris-
Gotta.
Walter Hight and his mother, Mrs.
Lizzie L. Hight passed Thanksgiving
with her son, Harold and family in
Bingham.
Moses York, who has been spending
a few days with his parents, Mr.. and
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/ his home in Augusta.
There will be a meeting of the No
Anson Camp Meeting Association at
the NJ. E. vestry, Madison, Monday,
December 5, at p. m.
Cyrus Newton has recently com
pleted digging an artesian we'll which
is 1872 feet deep. He was able to get
water within 33 feet of the top.
Hon. c. NJ Bailey OF Winthrop was
in town Tuesday. 1t was gratifying to
this venerable gentlemans friends in
Skowhegan to see him looking so
finely.
/ Superintendent D. H. Perkins went
to Bangor Wednesday and attended
the reception at the University of
Maine, given to the new president,
Dr. Alley.
At the regular meeting of the A.
o. U. w. next Friday evening will
occur the nomination Of officers fol-
lowed by a banquet. 1t is urged that
all members be present.
Sanford Strickland has bought the
Chester Booker farm at Hinckley on
the Clinton side. He will move his
family there in the spring. When the
old ferry boat was running at Hinck-
ley Mr. Strickland was In charge of
1t He maintained it for about twenty
years.
F.. w. Bucknam went to Boston
Sunday afternoon to attend a meet
ing Of the N E. Pharmaceutical As
sociation composed Of the State
Board of Pharmacy of the New Eng
land states. Mr.. Bucknam is its
secretary.
The Epworth league has issued in
vitations to the Young Peoples soci-
cites of the different churches to
attend a Union Service Sunday even
ing, December 18, at o'clock in the
Methodist vestry. The particulars in
regard to the subject and other mat
ters will be announced later.
The second story of the Skowhe
gan Savings bank, which has been
under the process of remodeling for
some months and is to be occupied as
suite of offices by Roy l.. Marston,
is practically completed and ready
for occupancy. They are numbered
as among the best of the many nice
Offices on the street.
Estimates of well known lumber
men here are that there is standing
in the Maine woods today 21 ,239 ,000.-
600 feet of spruce lumber. The St.
Johns watershed alone, it is estimat-
ed, contains 6,942,0O0,000 feet of
spruce, 427,000,000 feet of pine. and
| $50 100000 feet of cedar. The saw
mills of Maine turn out annually
little more than 1,000,000,000 feet of
lumber. OF this quantity SO per cent
is spruce. Commissioner Ring esti-
mates that the Maine forests rightly
handled will produce 637 100000 feet
of spruce year continuously. Own
ers of buildings in the State of
Maine have something to think of
now.
The Municipal court room was
crowded with spectators Monday af
ternoon at hearing given before
Judge F. F. Lawrence to Harry Will
liams and George Shorty, both being
charged with single sale in two cases
each. Interest ran high in the out
come of the cases. Williams has
according to his testimony been con-
victed before of selling liquors.
| The State in the cases was represent
ed by Edward f. Merrill and Shorty
by George W. Cover, Esq, while Will
liams appeared for himself. The cases
grew out OF an incident that occurred
Friday night. Edwin Frost of Ban