The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-06-29

MISS dTdCe II. aus5Sli went 10 Md
son, N. H., Tuesday where she will
spend the summer.
The stork visited Mr.. and Mrs. R.
F. Washburn Sunday, June Is, leaving
daughter, Leah Althea.
Mrs. Ella Palmer Gilchrist of
Portland. is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. C.
n. Bragg, for two weeks.
Arthur Merrill and Carroll Morrill,
have gone to Boothbay where they
will work for the summer
Miss Lottie T. Bailey of Amesbury,
Mass. is spending few days al the
home of her uncle, E. W. Marble.
Gerald C. Marble went to Boothbay
Har;bor last Saturday to spend the
summer with the Commonwealth Art
colony:
Skowhegan Military band will give
their next Concert on the grounds of
the City building, Thursday evening
at p. m.
Miss Marjorie Salley will go to
Peaks Island Monday where she will
spend a two weeks vacation with
party OF friends.
George E. Taylor has sold his resi-
dence on North street and moved his
family to the Whorff farm on the
electric car line.
Miss Olive Green and Miss Ethel
Knowlton, who have been teaching In
Hebron academy are home for the
summer with their parents.
Supt D. H. Perkins went to Port
land Tuesday to confer with the
school committee in regard to his
new position there as Superintendent
of Schools.
DIR. Howard Wyman, who was
called here from Midway, Mass, on
account of the sickness and death of
Miss Lillian Clayton Smith, returned
home Tuesday.
Dr. George Otis Smith, director of
the United States Geological Survey,
arrived home Saturday night to spend
a few days. He has been at Colby
Commencement this week.
There will be- al temperance praise
service at the First Baptist church
next Sunday evening. Special music
will be given by the choir under the
leadership of Mrs. Philo Steward.
Miss Eunice Bodwell former
teacher In the skowhegan High
school, now in the Portland High
school, will go to Europe this sum-
mer as she has been granted leave
of absence for six months
Maurice A. Bracket, who has been
in a Portland hospital for several
months for treatment of his knee re-
turned home Monday night very much
improved. He has been suffering for
some time from an injury which he
sustained several months ago by cut
ting the flesh with knife.
1t was with great pleasure that the
people in Skowhegan last week list
ened to the illustrated song written
by Harry A. Dinsmore, the words be-
ing by Grace E. Snow, which was
sung in the Bijou theatre by Mr.
Veilleux of Bangor. 1t was consider
ed the best illustrated song ever sung
in the theatre here.
Charles Alexander, Warren Merrill,
Howard Butler, Harold Symons, ac-
companied by patrol leader Elliott
Spear, left Tuesday afternoon for few
days camping at Lake George. They
accompanied the Bangor Boy Scouts
as they left for the long hike home,
and there was considerable recipro-
cal cheering on Water street before
the caravan finally got away.
Skowhegan gets postal savings
bank. Now for Pottawatomie and
Medicine Hat.-Portsmouth Chronicle.
There 1t goes again. The name of
Skowhegan seems to provoke the ris-
ible nerve of those over in New
Hampshire But New Hampshire has
some names too. There are, for IN
stance, Amoskeag, Carrigain, Choco-
rua, Massabesic, Passaconway, Pc
quaket, and Winnisquam. What is
there about Skowhegan that Is fun
nier?-Portland Press.
The demand for Somerset county
farms has taken a sudden squirt, and
S. H. Swain reports the following
sales during the week: The Michael
Rogers farm in Skowhegan to Har-
riet Jackson of Williamsburg, Pa; the
Annie Green farm In Arson to Ralph
B. Fowke of Sluggets, B. c.; the
W. w. Russell farm In Scion to
Fred Gonyer of Johnson, n. H.; the
Swain and Strout farm In Brighton to
R. H. Rennie of Randolph, Vt; and
the Alice Carpenter farm in Cornville
to w. A. Wilson of Philadelphia, Pa.