The independent-reporter., 1910-09-22

Unity Wednesday to attend the fair.
The marriage of Ralph Kendall
Perry to Alice NJ. Cowett is recorded
at the Town Clerks office.
Miss Ethel Merriam, daughter of
Rev. George Merriam. went to Wa
terville Wednesday where she will
enter Colby college.
Mrs. Byron ingalls, and baby of
Foxboro, Mass, are guests of Mrs.
ingalls, parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. L.
Walton for few days.
William Mitchell and family, who
have been in England for several
weeks. returned home Tuesday. Mr.
Mitchell is superintendent of the
Maine spinning company here.
Omar Badger, who enters Bowdoin
college this fall, has already entered
into athletics. Mr.. Badger in the
High school here was a good athlete,
both in baseball and in football.
The members of the Senior class
of the Skowhegan High school elected
their officers Monday for the ensuing
year. They are: Merton Pierce, pres
ident; Miss Sarah Snow, secretary,
Miss Myrtle Green, treasurer.
Partridges were reported plenty in
the vicinity of the city before the
opening of the hunting season but 10.
cal hunters who have been out afteE
this toothsome bird have not brought
in any very large bags of them as
yet
A new object of convenience in the
Supreme court room that has been
instituted recently is a panel between
the two main sashes. This allows
the window to be raised towards the
ceiling, allowing the air to come in
near the top of the room.
The Prohibitionist vote omitted
from our detailed summary of last
week, was as follows: Ames, for gov
ernor 13; Skillings, for auditor 13;
Stirling, for Representative to Con
gress IA; Smith, for County Commits
sioner 13; Emerson, for County
Treasurer, 81.
Paul Murray has gone to Orono
where he will enter the University
of Maine to take an engineering
course. Mr. Murray is a good stu
dent and was one of the best athletes
during his High school course here
that the High school has ever had.
There is little doubt but that he will
show up we'll in the college athletics.
DR.. Linn F. Playse of Hopkinton.
Mass, and Miss Alice j. Roberts.
formerly of Mt. Vernon, Me-, were
married recently The ceremony was
performed by Rev. Louis DeCormis at
st. Pauls church, Boston. After a
honeymoon trip to New York and
Washington, they will reside on
Church street, Hopkinton. The groom
is a native of this place and a well
Known practicing physician in Hop
kinton.
The union social which was to
have been held at the Methodist
church yestry on Friday of this week,
is postponed until Friday, September
80 owing to the High school reception
which comes this week. The invita-
ton to the other young peoples so
cieties and the Y. NJ. c. A. has been
extended to that date. The Social
Committee of the Epworth league
have plans arranged to give the 9TH
er young people good time at this
the first union of the several soci-
eties in an evening of sociability.
The September term of the Su-
preme court is now in session but lit
tie business was done Tuesday and
Wednesday. The grand jury began
its deliberations about II o'clock
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not be empanelled until Thursday at
II a. m. Most of the day Wednesday
was devoted to reading of the docket
and the assignment of cases. Among
the attorneys from out of town hay-
ing business before the court We'd
nesday were: Judge j. F. Holman,
Athens; exCounty Attorney Thomas
]. Young of Solon; Judge Turner
Buswell, Solon; C. o. Small and Ber-
nard Gibbs, Madison; Harold |. Goss,
Bingham; H. H. Thurlow, Pittsfield;
Judge Augustine Simmons, North An
son.
w. r. Buchanan, proprietor of the
Brockton (Mass.) Times, who has
been touring Maine with his family
in his automobile spent few
days here as the guest of w.
r. G. Estes. Mr.. Buchanan was
manager of the campaign that
made w. l.. Douglass Governor
OF Massachusetts, and although de-
feated by Eugene Foss when nomi-
mated for Congress last spring, knows