The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-04-06

! was in town on business Monday.
Mrs. Fannie Cabot will leave Mon
l day for Bermuda where she plans to
spend the month of April
Newell Perkins, brakeman on the
Portland Bangor division of the Maine
: Central railroad, spent Sunday with
his mother, Mrs. A. X. Perkins.
Mrs. Mary P. Fuller who has been
spending several weeks at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Leland returned
to her home in Melrose. Mass. Tues
day
Miss Alice Buzzell is spending a
few weeks with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. George NJ Buzzell. in Larone.
, She has been teaching recently in
Freeport.
Mr.. and Mrs Silas Gilman. who
nave been spending the winter with
Mr.. Gilmans sister, Mrs. Amherst
Spofford. will return to their home in
Southport this week.
superintendent DeForest H Per
kins, president of the Maine Teachers
association was in Wateryile Monday
where he addressed the kennebec
i County Teachers association
Miss Annie Haines has been en-
gagged by Superintendent d. II. Per-
kins to teach in the Madison school
] for the remainder of the school year
to fill the vacancy made by the sick
ness of the regular teacher, Miss Eva
Knowlton.
The members of Eureka lodge. No.
1913, New England Order of Protection,
will hold a sociable in G. A. r. hall
on Tuesday evening, April Il. Each
member of the lodge is privileged to
two guests. Guests admitted by tick
cts which can be obtained at NJ B.
Heselton's store. Refreshments will
be served.
The funeral services of Herbert E.
Holbrook were held at the South
cemetery, Saturday forenoon at II
o'clock, Rev. B. B. Merrill officiating.
From his early childhood Mr.. Hol
brook had suffered from epilepsy so
that for several years he was an in
mate of the Insane hospital at Au
gusta where he died March 81 at the
age of AZ. He is survived by a
mother Mrs. Emily G. Holbrook of
Wilton, and a daughter, Inez, who re-
sides with her grandmother.
The Junior exhibition of the Show
hogan High school will be held in
/ the Opera House Tuesday evening,
j April IS, when the Junior Glass will
present the play For Old Eli" There
are twenty characters in the play it
being a four-act comedy The exhibit
ton will be followed by a dance in
Grange hall The exhibition is in
charge of Miss Hazel Leavitt. Consid-
ering the grand success that Miss
Leayitt has had in training amateurs
for different plays a treat is looked
for in this coming exhibition.
Mrs. Blanche Crandall, daughter of
Rev. F. l.. Hayward, and her two
daughters, Gladys and Blanche, left
! Skowhegan Tuesday on the SO train
for Albion, Mich, where they will re-
side for the future. Mrs. Crandall
was superintendent of the Junior
league in the Centenary NJ. E. church
here. Miss Gladys was at the head
of the social department of the Ep-
worth league and had charge of the
Primary department in Sunday school.
Both girls sang in the Methodist
choir. They had made many fast
friends here and will be greatly
missed
Skowhegan people spent a most en-
joyable hour and half Saturday ev-
ening at the First Baptist church
listening to Phidelah Rice of the Lee
land Powers school of Boston. Mr.
Rice's program was the presentation
of the three act comedy David Gar
rick" by T. w. Robertson. The prin-
cipal characters, Simon Ingot of the
East India Company, his daughter
Ada, the actor David Garrick and the
foolish young fop, Cousin Dick, as
we'll as several other characters
were made perfectly distinct individ-
uals to the audience, and the pecu-
liarities of each were very amusing.
The entertainment was given to raise
money for church music.
The w. C. T. T. of Skowhegan has
entered upon campaign for the pur-
pose of retaining the prohibitory law
on the statute books The movement
! is being REINFORCED every day by
/ people in the county and all the
churches are cooperating in the
work. The plan of the leaders of
this movement is to get the voters to
IFealize the Importance of this ques-
ton and arouse interest in them to
get them To 90 tn the nOllS newt Sem