The independent-reporter., 1910-11-24


was in town Saturday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. A r. Jones visited
with friends in Fairfield. Saturday.
J. II. Gray, proprietor of the New
Caratunk Solon, was in town Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Adams are
being congratulated on the birth OF a
daughter.
/ Mrs. Frank Gould is confined to her
rooms in the oxford by a severe at
tack of rheumatism.
/ George A. Kidder and family OF Wa
terville. passed Sunday with Mrs, Kid
ders sister, Mrs. George Paddock.
Mrs. Nettie p. Bunker and daugh-
ter. Helen. spent few days last week
with Mrs Frank Sedgley of Water
Vile
c. B. Reed of Whitman, Mass.
treasurer of the Commonwealth Shoe
& Leather Co, was in town on bust
ness Friday.
Misses Bertha and Ruth Hayward,
who have been teaching in Hanover,
Me-. arrived home Saturday night for
a weeks vacation.
Miss Dorothy Day, who has been in
Providence, R. l., for the past four
months at the home of her uncle, T.
r. Day, returned home Saturday.
Miss Ethel Mitchell, student in
Cannon's Business college, Lawrence,
Mass, arrived in town Saturday night
to spend a week with her parents.
! E. A. Parker, sub-master of the
Skowhegan High school, accompanied
by Mrs Parker. are passing their
Thanksgiving vacation with relatives
in Kingfield.
Frank Danforth, who was taken
suddenly i'll while at the University Of.
Maine, is now in the Eye and Ear In
firmary at Portland. recovering from
a slight operation.
Rev. Edwin C. Brown of Brewer, is
the guest of his old school friend, Rev.
B b. Merrill, of the Island Avenue
Congregational church. Mr. Brown oc-
cupied the pulpit at the morning ser
vice Sunday.
Who says that it doesn't pay to
raise sheep? A D. Bailey sold two
three-year-old eve sheep of the Suf-
folk Down breed last week to John T.
Mason. New Sharon, receiving hand
some sum of money.
Arthur w Packard, who is en-
ployed by the Chas. B. Varney Co,
Portland, as bill clerk, and Miss Iva
Ring, teacher in one of the schools In
that city, are spending Thanksgiving
with relatives and friends.
Mrs. Lotte Hoxie Holway of Fair
field Center accompanied by her sis
ter, Mrs. Ella Hoxie Scribner of Wor-
cester. Mass, visited in town last
Thursday and Friday, guests of their
uncle, Henry P Carron and wife, at
their home on Mcclellan street.
Mrs. Mary Burton brought into mar
ket Monday the only native turkeys
raised in Skowhegan this year. The
past spring was very unfavorable for
the little ones, and Mrs. Burton had
only about one-quarter of her usual
number. The largest bird she had
weighed twenty and one-fourth
pounds.
Joseph Butler. proprietor of the
kilcare stock farm, left for New
York city on the noon train Saturday,
where he will visit with G. II. Davis
for the week. e. P King, superinten
dent of the Tappan Stock Farm, join
ed Mr.. Butler at Winthrop and they
will both attend the big horse sale
while in the city. Mr.. King intends
to buy few brood mares
The State record for saving wood
with an old-fashioned buck saw has
been won by George York, Jr., who
this week in one hours time sawed a
cord of dry hard wood. He recently
sawed nine cords of wood in a days
/ time, reckoning the day ten hours. He
is about thirty years old and weighs
only about $50 pounds. He makes it
custom each fall and winter to saw
wood, competing with the horse pow
er and gasolene engine wood sawyers.
He makes a good living and has more
work than he can do. He, does it at
the same price per cord as the power
sawyers.
A new program has been issued for
the ensuing year by the Clementine