The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-02-09
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

ing the past week
Thomas Vincent Jordan of Rock /
wood has filed papers for noturaliza- (
ton in this country
r. G. Lord gave an address at the
meeting of the Y NJ. c. A. Sunday on |
the subject of Temples of Worship"
Mrs Mary r. Stevens. aged 50
years died at the home of Mrs. Eliza |
Robbins. North Madison. Monday, !
January 50.
Mrs. Wilmot Porter and her two
children of Monticello. Me, arrived
Saturday night to spend few weeks
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c.
Luce
The many friends of Isaac Wheeler
will be glad to learn that after be
ing sick for about two weeks, being
threatened with pneumonia. he is now
speedily recovering his health
I4Olk f0iIh INV HSlllp lido llddN "a T
greater stride in population in the
last ten years according TO its size |
than any other place in the State. 1t .
has increased fro ma population of 81 |
to PIG which is an increase of ia !
Ii has had a post Office added. a
church. one store and two hotels.
Sewel W Smith. who is member
of the executive committee of the
Maine State Coal Dealers association,
has received notice of the tenth an
nual meeting to be held in Augusta,
February 10. The members will meet
and dine at the Augusta House, and
after a brief business session. will
visit the renovated State house and
pay their respects to the governor.
Linwood Nutting and his father.
Webster Nutting, have their new home
nearly completed on the electric car
line. They plan to move in in the
early spring They have very com
Portable little home here and their /
farm crops in the last two years al
this place show that they are adept |
In this line of work and that with a
small piece of ground they can make /
farming pay.
In our write-up on John Bingham
of Canaan last week we mentioned
the name of Moses Mills. The name
should be Moses Wells. Mr.. Wells |
was known as the cattle dealer king
of this county. B. F. Eaton tells of
some of the shipments Mr.. Wells
made from Hinckley station. One day
In particular when Mr.. Eaton was
station agent he shipped l8 car loads !
of cattle to the Brighton market from
that station.
Information from Prof F. G. Davis .
of Leland university. New Orleans,
shows us that he must be in a very
much warmer cline than are the peo-
pie of Maine. He tells us that one
day last week the thermometer reg
istered so degrees above zero. On the |
same day here it was eight degrees
below. We certainly had occasion to
covet Prof. Davis situation when we
confronted the air Monday morning
80 degrees below. He,
Mrs. E. ID. Merrill of FoXcroft was
in town Monday, accompanying the
tody OF a grand-aunt, Mary Emily
lBillings) Clarke, whose death oc-
CURED at her home, where she had
resided for some years. Deceased
was the wife of Rev Albion Clarke
whose death antedated hers by nearly
3s years. her age being over 80. The
body was placed in the tomb await
ing spring to be buried in the South
cemetery in the family lot.
The lumbermen on the Kennebec
river it is reported by a we'll known
lumberman from this town who re-
turr.ed from the upper Maine woods
Saturday no longer lack sufficient
snow to carry on operations. In
MoXie lake district Is inches of snow
Fell Thursday and about inches Sat
urday 1t is estimated that less lum-
Der will be cut this year on the Ken
nebec than last year. The estimated
cut last year was 125 900 900 feet
The prospect is that Hayden lake.
the coming summer, will exceed it
self in popularity. A number of new
cottages will be built, especially on
the East side. Among these will be
cottages for G, r. Fogg and Cyrus
Goodrich There is now being built
by II. A. Bennett of Boston. Mass
one of the best cottages on any Maine
lake. This is near the cottage of J.
Palmer Merrill, which is one of the
fnest at the lake, and will be
equipped with all modern convenien-
ces including plumbing, etc. In con-
nection with the cottage Mr.. Bennett
is building a garage for his large
touring car. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett
lave spent their summers at Mr.. and
Mrs Merrill's for a few years past.