The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-10-27
Miss Margaret NJ. Smith made {
business trip to Portland Tuesday.

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business trip to Portland Tuesday.
|. Frank Stevens and wife and
William Mathews and wife of Nashua,
/ y. H., spent a short time with DIR. F.
S. Bigelow last week.
George Wyman of Dorchester Mass,
who has been visiting friends and
relatives in town. returned to his
home Tuesday morning.
Francis Sirois has started in to
erect a building for his electric saw
/ mill which will be situated on Jewett
street. This is the only one of the
kind in town. He is to add shingle
mill.
The Skowhegan High school foot
ball team, after playing two games.
! has disbanded for the season. The
team was to play Pennington High
at Skowhegan Saturday but the game
was cancelled.
What would you do if fellow
stepped up to you and said excitedly.
Heard about the fight?" No" you
replied and grabbed for your note
book, ready for a good story. The
cat licked his paw" said the fellow.
Mrs. Elizabeth Merrill addressed
the o clock meeting of tie Y. NJ. C.
A, Sunday, upon the life of Christie
pher Columbus. The discovery of
America was cited as one of the great
est examples of perseverance re-
warded, that history affords.
Here's where the news editor got
one on him He was talking with the
fellows in the mechanical department
and they were telling him a few
facts. The news editor finally spoke
up and said: Talk is cheap Gus
Lewia innocently asked: is that why
so many newspapers are printed?'
Five delegates of Eunice Farms
worth Chapter of the American Revo-
luton, Mrs Elizabeth Merrill, Mrs.
Fannie Cabot, Mrs. Mabel Philbrick,
Mrs. Florence Currier, Mrs. Edith
Philbrick, drove to Athens Monday to
call on Mrs. Mary p. Elliot, the real
Daughter, who is ninety-two years
old.
When 1t comes to pretty streets
and fine residences, Skowhegan takes
the lead" a visitor from Los Angeles
said few days ago. We agree with
him, but there is one place that is
anything but pretty, and that Is on
the bank of the river behind the Wa
ter street blocks between the railroad
bridge and the town bridge. How
much nicer it would look if some
thrifty evergreens we're growing there
Val Reynolds, a farmer living
about five miles from here toward the
Notch does not throw away the day
light when coming to the village but
waits until dark, and he and his wife
then hunt and kill skunks all the
way back. They get from four to ten
every time they make the trip. They
bought a chamber set last year with
money earned from skunk skins. III
they catch all the skunks that are in
Skowhegan village this year they can
buy mansion. Too bad the smell
doesn't have a money value Some one
might get rich.
Howard Davies of Yarmouth, Pres
ident of the Direct Primary League
was in town on business Friday. When
asked regarding the progress of the
move to invoke the initiative in favor
of his bill, Mr.. Davies said that sue
cess was assured. The interest shown
in some places had been really re-
markable. Lexington plantation where
only 40 votes had been polled Sep
TENDER ~, had been among the first
to turn in so names. In the town of
Greene a petition was taken to the
polls election day, where the voters
signed one after another as fast as
they could write their names Blanks
were sent to NJ. T. Crawford of Cam
den on Wednesday and returned with
one hundred names on the following
Friday. Mr.. Davies said that the
people evidently did not feel like leav-
ing anything to the incoming Legis-
lature that they could take care of
themselves.
The Eunice Farnsworth Chapter of
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton has issued a new calendar for
the new year. The first meeting to
come will be November 81. The sub
ject of the meeting will be patriotic
stories and songs. The hostess will
be Mrs. Ella C. Pooler. The election of
officers will come on May Is at which
time there will be reports from Con-
tinental Congress. One of the inter-
esting things about the calendar Is
brief history of Eunice Farnsworth
for whom the chapter was named. She
WAS the first white woman IN aettIe