The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-07
ALL THE NEWS FROM !.
MADISON

town on business last week.
Mrs. W. o. Merry and daughter.
Carrie, went to Boston Wednesday of
last week to visit relatives and where
Miss Merry will attend the millinery
openings as on her return she will be
employed in the millinery store of
Mrs. Blanche Seavey Phillips for the
fall season.
Rev. e. w Weber went to his old
home in Livermore Falls Wednesday
of last week to offlciate at a we'd
ding.
Mrs. w. d. Moore spent few
days recently in the neighborhood of
her old home at Blackwell Corner and
visited Mrs. Walter Bird. Mrs. M. NJ
Moore and Mrs. Eugene Danforth.
Mrs. Fred Clark and daughters,
Helen and Doris are spending a cou-
pie of weeks with relatives in Greene.
Mr.. and Mrs Medic beware moved
from Caratunk last week into one OF
Nathan Weston's houses on Pearl
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ned Spaulding visit
ed Mr.. Spaulding's sister, Mrs. E.
w. Clement at Waterville last week
and attended the fair two days.
Mrs. Charles Haynes was the guest
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part of the town few days last
week.
Miss Jennie Edwards returned to
her position as teacher in the High
school in Townsend, Mass. last Sat
urday.
The date Of the fair to be held in
Madison by the Somerset Agricultural
Society has been set for Friday and
Saturday, September 1880. The new
board of officers elected this year are:
B. F. Burns. president; Mark Gray,
vice president; Orlando Walker, soc
rotary; E. II. Athearn. treasurer; c.
w. 1nce. collector; Fred S. Hilton,
Frank E. WEIGH, James Briggs ana
/ G. J. Dean, directors.
4 Harold Danforth who is emnlogC /
in DR.. Lancaster's dental rooms had a
vacation last week and attended the
fair at Waterville.
All the schools in Arson commenc-
ed last Monday with the exception of
Shakespeare and Emerson which be-
gan one week earlier. The teachers
in the Garfield school in Arson viii
lage are: Grammar, Claude Sideling
err; intermediate, Clarissa Flint; third
and fourth grades, Annie Roberts;
first and second grades, Myrtle Das
combe of Livermore Falls; sub
primary, Bertha NJ. Paine of North
Arson.
Miss Mary Prince has been visiting
in New Sharon for the past week.
Miss Bessie Berry has returned
from a two weeks visit to relatives at
Hebron.
Charles Blackwell has been suffer
ing quite severely from carbuncle
on the back of his right hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon Boyington
were called to North Arson last week,
Tuesday, to attend the funeral of
Mrs Boyingtons cousin, Mrs.
Blanche Joyce, whose remains were
brought from Longmont Colorado,
where she died of consumption. The
funeral was in the Congregational
church and interment in Sunset Gem
etery.
The rear of the drive passed here
Sunday, which on account of the ex
tremely low water is later by several
weeks than usual.
Tennis Arsenault was in town Wed
nesday of last week. He has closed
out his business at Kingfield and will
open a store at Bakers Siding.
Miss Edith Tuck, stenographer in
C. o. Small's law office, has been
spending her vacation with her par
ents in Readfield and returned to her
work Tuesday. Miss Marion Will
liams, who is a student of the Morgan
Business college at Wateryille, has
been taking her place.
All the rural schools commenced
last week with the following teachers:
Evie Learned at Pooler Bridge; Pearl
Danforth at Eames; Miss Ramsdell at
the White; Alice Carl at Twelve Cor
ners; EVE Carl at East Madison and
Edith Blanchard at Pugh Corner.
Schools in the village will not COM
mence until September II, to con
vene those of the teachers who wish
ed to attend the summer school being
held at Waterville.
Mrs. Lewis Gill and sister, Mrs
Lillian Munsey of Boston, went to
Norridgewock Friday to visit .heir
mother, Mrs. Mahala McIntire and
other relatives for few days.
Mrs. Leo Farrar, who has been the
guest of her father and sister Rev.
j. w. Roberts and Miss Annie on the
Arson side, started for South Paris
Monday where she will visit for a few
days and join her husband and on
September 8 they will sail from New
York for their home in Dallas, Texas.
Miss Myrtle F. Dascombe, teacher
OF the first primary ON the Arson
side, went home to Livermore Falls
to spend Labor day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Houghton
went to Portland Saturday to attend
the wedding of Mrs. Houghton's
brother Sherman Houghton, which
occurred Monday, September 4, and
on their return will stop a few days
in lewiston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Caldwell and
son, Harold, went to Long Island in
Casco bay Saturday for a few days
and will visit relatives in Lewiston
before coming home.
Mrs. Harold Phillips went Saturday
to attend the millinery openings in
New York and Boston.
Miss Gladys Baker of Moscow was
in town over Sunday visiting her
aunt Mrs. Chauncy Chandler.
There were 302 tickets sold from
here to the fair at Waterville.
Mrs. Charles Towne is spending
the week at Lakewood.
Mrs. Lena Moore and Miss Beatrice
Towne are at Lakewood in cottage Ar
cadia for ten days.
Rev. e. w. Weber was called to