The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-04-27
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Hon. f. y Merrill was In Lewiston
on business Saturday.
c. NJ. Gallup was in Lewiston
Saturday where he met Hon. Howard
Davies on business
The Good Will club will meet with
Mrs. John Currier, Madison avenue,
Wednesday, May 3, at 2 o'clock.
/ Rev. and Mrs. W. c. Curtis of
Bethel will be the guests of Rev. and
Mrs. B. B. Merrill Saturday of this
week
The Skowhegan village schools OPP
ened Monday for the closing term oil
the year. They will close for Com.
mencement June %.
The L. o. G. Civil hold mock
leap year dance at the next regular
meeting. Thursday evening, April p
Members are requested to invite
friends.
James Dysart spoke before the Y.
NJ. G.. A. at the afternoon service
Sunday. upon the real significance of
the words Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION.
The regular meeting of the school
committee was held on Friday, but
action on the petition recently sub
mitted by the Brotherhood of ST. Paul
was deferred to another week.
The fire department was called Out
Saturday afternoon by small blaze
in the drying room at the Novelty
Works. The fire was promptly ex
tinguished and the damage was mere
ly nominal.
The funeral of Willis Reed tool
/ place Saturday at p m, at the home
of his sister. Mrs. Niles Blanchard
Rev. B. B. Merrill of the Congrega
tional church officiating. Intermen
was in the South Side cemetery be
side his daughter, Bessie.
At the First Baptist church next
Tuesday evening a social time will be
given the young people. An interest
ing program will be arranged and
iect of the pastors sermon next Sun
day morning will be The Blessings
of Forgetfulness.
Lewis Lashon died at his home on
Court street Saturday at the age of
70. Funeral services were conducted
at the Catholic church Monday at ten
O'Clock in the morning. The only sur
viving relative is son, Walter Lash
on, who is employed in Lyman Jew
ett's market on Madison street.
The first baseball game for the sea-
son was played Saturday afternoon
here between the Somerset Juniors
and the South Side Farmers. The
score was % to ~ in favor of the
Somersets. OReilly and Lessor made
up the battery for the Somersets, and
Merrill and MeGinnis for the Farm
ers. Umpire, Donovan Cool.
Mrs. Mary Lasenske of Fargo, North
Dakota, who has been visiting at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. A. T, Smith
for a few days, returned home Thurs
day. Her sister, Mrs. Christine
Wentworth, who has been making her
home with DR.. and Mrs. Smith, re-
turned with her. They will visit
friends in Wisconsin and other places.
A petition that is receiving the cor
dial Endorsement of the business men
of Skowhegan, requests the Maine
Telephone CO. to install the common
battery exchange here, furnish sub
scribers with more comprehensive
directory, and make other general
improvements in the telephone SER
vice. Any subscriber will be given
an opportunity to sign when calling
at Bucknam's Drug Store.
Mrs. Lorinda F. Briggs, mother of
Miss Iva Briggs, died in Bingham
Friday night of pneumonia Funeral
services were held Sunday. She was
born on Pleasant Ridge and at the
age of eighteen married Cyrus Briggs
of Carrying Place where she lived un-
til recently. Besides her daughter, Miss
Briggs, who is employed here in the
office of the Somerset Traction Com
pany, she leaves two other daughters
and a son.
The selectmen gave hearing at the
Municipal building Saturday morning
upon the application of the Somerset
Farmers Cooperative Telephone Co
for a number of locations upon the
south side of the river. President
Packard and Manager Hobart appear
ed for the petitioners, and E.
w Marston, Charles II. Gardner,
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