The independent-reporter., 1910-12-22

recently the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Rena Learned. in Madison.
A. c. Houston of Sangeryille, gen.
eral manager of the Hussey Woolen
Co, was in town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Turner of Los
Angeles, Cal. with their two children,
are guests of their aunt. Mrs. NJ. T.
Pooler.
Rev. F. L. Hayward of the Metho-
dist church occupied the pulpit at
the Hinckley- Clinton church Sunday
afternoon.
| Steward & Blunt have been award
ed the contract for the heating and
plumbing of the new Lancey hotel in
| Pittsfeld
The local W. c. T. L. are preparing
box of foods. clothing and things
/ for general use to be presented to the
people at the town farm.
Miss Olive Green, teachre in He
bron academy, is home to spend her
Christmas vacation with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Green.
Miss Daisy Coulters, a teacher in
the Skowhegan High school, will go
this week to her home in Providence,
r. l., where she will spend her two
weeks vacation with her parents.
List of letters advertised at this Of
| flee for the week ending December
II, 1910: Howard Smiley, A. NJ. Rus
sell. These letters will be sent to
the dead letter office If not called for
before December 81. 1910.
Miss Beatrice Tilton went to Pitts
field Friday where she was guest
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
w. Briggs. Friday evening she at
tended the first of the assemblies to
be held in that town this winter.
Edwin C. Tracy is installing his
machinery for his new casket factory
and he will open it in the near fu-
ture The work is to be done by
electric power and each man employ
ed will manufacture two caskets a
day.
Assistant Postmaster G. e. Durrell
has In his possession a book issued
from the United States treasury in
Guiding treasury notes that date back
to 1904. 1t is made of the finest quail
ity of paper which shows an excel
lent texture.
Something out of the usual is be-
ing planned by the local Y. M. C. A.
which is to get in touch with the men
in the lumber camps. They are now
preparing a box of books, magazines,
etc, to send to the different camps
this week. The matter is in charge
of a committee with Gerald Marble
as chairman.
There is young man here who,
! physicians say, must go to a sana-
torium for consumption if he wishes
/ to save his life. Those who can help
in any way to get money for his ex-
penses will be appreciated. A per-
centage of the money for the sale of
the Red Cross stamps will be used for
this purpose.
There is considerable interest be-
| ing manifested in the sale of the Red
Cross stamps in Skowhegan. The sale
is under the charge of the Woman 8
clubs, the committee being Mrs. Roy
Marston, Miss Mildred Keene, and
Mrs. John A. Mooers. Eighty-five per
cent of the money received for the
sale of the stamps Is to go toward
the local fund of the tuberculosis
movement.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. p Oak entertained
Souic lIicHuS at mdSQucIduc anu
character party Friday night, at which
sixteen were in special costumes.
Four tables of games afforded much
amusement, as a different game was
played at each table, and the winners
moved progressively each time. Priz-
es were won by Mr.. and Mrs. r. T.
Patten, Mrs. Helen Wing and J. Wal
lace Blunt.
Sides have been chosen In the Y. M.
C A. with Earl Huckins and Donald
Philbrick as captains to participate in
contest on parliamentary proceed
ure. The contest goes into the mock
congress and mock town meetings. To
lend greater interest for individual
work, C. M. Gallup has offered to
the individual getting the greatest
number of points copy of Parlia-
mentary Rules which will be suitably
inscribed. This contest does not al
ter the present program as carried on
In the mock congress, but the sides
and the desire to keep the control of
procedure in the hands of a given
side lend greater interest to the al