The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-05-26

"Wednesday OH puSihOs"'
Judge J. H. Holman Of Athens was
=. town Wednesday, having business
at the Court house.
A NJ. Gndden, real estate dealer In
,Coribou, was in town Monday on MS
way to New Sharon.
-vah,m Steward went to 0rono, Fri
-, where he is in charge of piece
90 plumbing work there
Arthur o. Schartier, merchant IN
p,ston was the guest of Hon. 5. }.
u,a1ton for several days last week.
,4ss Frances Lord, who has been
~, York for the winter in the
millinery business arrived nome
Monday night.
urs Fred Otis and her children or
,,,rridgewock are spending several
davs with Mrs Otis parents, MI. ana
Mrs. E. C. Tracey.
The Social Circle will serve straw
~ and salad supper on Friday May
a. from $50 to 7 o'clock at the Nj.
u yestry. Admission rs cents.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. w. Packard and Mr..
ond Mrs. George Paddock went 10
Manchester, Saturday, to attend the
Meeting of the Quarterly meeting OF
the Friends Society
Indpe f. f. Danforth, who has been
confined to his home several weeks on
account of sickness, is now able TO De
.ho,+ town and spend a little time
zach day in his office.
The State Convention OF the
Christian Endeavor Society VIII be
held in Lewiston May 81, June l and
There will be several delegates go
from the different churches.
Miss Leila Fairbrother, stenograph-
or in the Office of the SkoWhegan
Electric Light Company, is having a
vacation of one week. She went TO
Lewiston, Saturday, to spend several
DAYS visiting friends.
The big reduction sale at Charles
2 Ward Co.'S has gone merrlly on
and the people evidently have appre-
,ciated the bargains they have received.
We note by their big adv. in this issue
tbe sale closes next Saturday night.
Pow George Merriam is in Washing
ton. d. c., where he will spend ten
DAYS. During his absence he Will at
tend the Worlds Sunday School Con-
yention. He will visit at the home OF
Dir. and Mrs. George Otis Smith.
E. w. Marston of Oakland, CALL
Is visiting at the home of Mrs. Sarah
Marston on Main street. Mr.. Mars
ton has crossed the continent 68 times
and in all of his travels he has never
met with an accident Mr.. Marston
has made his home in California for
years.
There was referee case before
Judge Leslie Cornish of Augusta; En-
gineers @. S. Humphrey and +. e.
Greenwood Tuesday in regard to a
controversy between the Skowhegan
Water Power Company and E. l..
Savage, manager of the Savage Pulp
mill.
Miss Eunice Bodwell, who for some
time was teacher in the Skowhegan
High school and since her leaving
Skowhegan about five years ago, has
been teaching In the Deering High
school, will leave Portland In July for
trip to Europe. She will be absent
nearly all summer.
- The funeral services of the late
Miss Lena Wellington were held Fri
day morning. There were services at
the home in Skowhegan at II a. m.
with Rev. B. B. Merrill officiating, and
at Forest Hill cemetery, in Madison at
2 p. M, Rev. F. H. Means of the Madi
son Congregational church officiating
Among those from Skowhegan who
attended the Basket Meeting of the
Baptist Churches at Oakland We'd
nesday were: Mrs. Walter Mitchell,
Mrs. John Murray, Mrs. Philo Stew
ard, Mrs. E. w. Marble, Mrs. Belle
Caswell, Mrs E. T. Goodrich, Mrs o.
d. Wells, Mrs. Van Nelson, Mrs.
Charles Whittemofe, Miss White
more, Mrs. Manley Pooler, Miss
Morse, Mrs. Rose Burrill and Rev.
Robert Morris.
1t appears that boldness exists
within at least one young man of this
town. One day last week he walked
into a fruit store and deliberately
took box of cigars and rushed out
of the store. The fruit dealer went to
Sheriff Mooers and when the officer
got down street he could not find the
boy. He was arrested however,
Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Charles
Chute and the matter was settled by
the boys father who paid quite dear
ly for the cigars.
The members of one Of the classes