The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-06-16
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

spent Sunday WIN WI %
tie.
uorry Philbrick of Boston, is the
vuest this week of Frank Greene on
Madison avenue.
-. Roardman Davis went to Free
art Friday for short visit with her
rhter Mrs. Russell Taylor.
uiss Wfnnibel Cover, teacher in
.ho Madison High SCHOOL, has posi-
.,an as teacher for the summer near
Kineo.
,ass Alice Emerson went to Haver-
hill Mass. Friday where she will Wis
;, her sister, Mrs. Edgar Murphy, for
a few days.
r Brown has sold to John ANA
,aen of Cornville the west side OF the
uaselton House lot on Water street
with the buildings.
" Ieyett and wife drove over to
uartland Saturday to spend Sunday
With their daughter, Mrs. John Max
uou They also visited friends in St
Adams.
Elmer Nolin, a student in the Bow
doin Medical School, has a position
&C conductor on the S merset Trac-
tion cars for the summer. He will be
home June 70.
The Fourth Maine Battery reunion
will be held at Brunswick June %.
There are two members from Show
hogan. Mark Harville and Marion
Mills. Mr.. Mills being the treasurer
of the association.
Mrs. Herbert C. Robinson, former
" resident of Skowhegan, now OF
Portland. is visiting at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Sewell w. Smith for
several days. Mrs. Robinson was Miss
Lizzie Adams, when a girl in this
town.
During the Commencement days at
the University of Maine last week,
aside from attending the regular exer-
cises, Hon. Samuel Gould attended a
reunion of the class of rs Of which
he was a member. There were seven
Of the graduates present from the 26
members now living The original
number of the class was 80.
Mrs. Ava Sheridan, a linotype OPP
orator at the office of the Independent
Reporter. met with a painful &C
cdent Thursday, by catching her fin
gers in the feeder of the paper folder
The middle finger on the right hand
was considerably bruised and jammed
Il will be several weeks before the
finger can be used, but it is healing
well
One of the noticeable things to the
skoghegan people at the Jones Broth
ers' Shows was the number of smart
aged people in attendance. Among
those we're Mrs. Helen Neil Howard
who is past eighty-five, Bradbury
Dinsmore, who observed his S5th
birthday last Saturday, and Joseph
Smith of Norridgewock one of the
Oldest residents of the town.
Isaac Keene, who lives near Hinck-
ley, has a Jersey cow that has exceed
ed all records for butter making in
this county. The COW last week made
q pounds and II ounces of butter
The week previous she made nine
teen pounds. Mr.. Keene has also
some good sheep. He has 20 and he
has nine pairs of twins from them
This makes 80 lambs from 23 sheep.
Sumner Ward baggage master at
the Maine Central station, is taking q
weeks vacation. He went to Boston
Tuesday to visit his daughter, Miss
Mae Ward. He was accompanied by
his daughter Miss Sadie. Mr.. Ward
is probably one of the oldest en-
PiOJ 0Vo ou lHe MdlHe central line,
having been In active service for over
% years. Mr.. Ward leaves his bed
every morning at 8 o'clock, except on
Sundays to take up his work for the
day.
Mrs. Rachel (MitchelD Grant died
IN Skowhegan at the home of her niece.
Mrs B. s. Flagg with whom she had
made her home for several years
Mrs Grant was 81 years old last
April and until within a few weeks
retained her faculties most remark
ably. She came from a large New
Portland family who were pioneers in
that town the first part of the last
century. She was a highly esteemed
thristian woman and passed many
years of her life in Cornvlle where
The burial took place.
A band of gypsies have for the last
week been annoying people in town.
lhey appear to like to get onto the
uottlng park for they have been driv-
Ell from there at least twice but they
stlli like the town and seem loath to
'eaVe It, They appeared the first
o'ie about two weeks ago and were