The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-08-24
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


There will be union service at
the Congregational church at 6
O'Clock Sunday.
Miss Gail Taggart went to Bristol
Tuesday where she will spend week
visiting friends.
Mrs. Margaret Rawles will leave
Thursday to spend month with
friends in Detroit Mich.
Mrs. Albert Holt is in Waterville
making an extended visit with her
niece, Miss Olive Palmer.
Mrs. E. w. Lancaster and son,
Lauriston, went to Pennington Sat
urday where they will visit relatives
for a week.
A convocation of Somerset Chapter
Royal Arch Masons, will be held to-
morrow friday evening. Business
of Importance.
Mrs. Annie Warren of New York
city is in town visiting Mrs. John w.
Steward. These two ladies a few
years ago studied music together.
Miss Martha Smith of Haverhill,
Mass, who has been visiting her
brother, George Smith, in Canaan.
returned home Tuesday
Josiah Hight of Cornville went to
Bangor Tuesday to attend the East
ern Maine fair. Mr.. Hight has not
missed this annual event for the past
ten years.
Mrs. H. W. George went to Ban
gor Tuesday where she will attend
; the Eastern Maine State fair and visit
relatives and friends in Orrington
and Dedham.
Arnold North of Washington, Conn.
formerly of Skowhegan, son Of
Charles North, who was a boss at ont
time in the Marston Worstef mill, is
: visiting friends in town for a week.
The funeral services of Thomas
Sleeves, who died Saturday at his
home on the River road, were held
+ Monday at p. M. Rev. George Mer-
! riam officiating. Interment VIZ II
: the South Side cemetery.
Miss Sadie knight recently ret I'm
ed from California where she attend
ed the Teachers National Convention
also visied iiends. Miss Knight will
soon return to Manchester, Conn.
where she il teacher of Sloyd in the
public schools.
Two Skowhegan horsemen left for
the Bangor fair Monday: Norris
Cleveland with Teddy c, and Fred
Tuscan with Allie Wilkes, to take
part in the l Gees. They were ac-
companied BY James Nutting, who
will drive in ONE of the heats.
Hon. S. l.. Kilgore, ex-mayor OF
Topeka, Kan, and now general freight
agent for the Union Pacific railroad
at Wichita, left Tuesday morning fol
: his home. While In town he was tht
guest of his sister, Mrs. George EN-
erson He was formerly a native o.
Smithfield.
Darius Bunker, who holds a posi-
ton with the United Shoe Machinery
Company, was in town last week in
specting the machinery of the Com
monwealth Shoe & Leather Company
Mr.. Bunker previously held the posi-
ton of assistant superintendent OF
the shoe shop in Augusta.
Miss May E. Ward, etacher in the
Aggassiz school, returned to Boston
Monday. Miss Ward was one of the
twenty-four teachers recently ap-
pointed by Supt. Brooks to prepare
a course of study in Natural Science
for the Boston public schools Her
sister, Sadie accompanied her to
Lewiston, going by trolley from Wa
terville.
Elmer J. Loomis and Miss Lillian
Brown both of Skowhegan, we're mar
ried at 10 o'clock Tuesday at the
Bethany Baptist parsonage. the cere-
mony being performed by Rev
George Merriam, pastor OF tht
church. The single ring service wal
used. Mr.. Loomis is the son Of
John LOOMS, prominent farmer In
the east part of the town. The bride
is the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
Isaac Brown of Oakland.
Alfred Morrill,, student at the
University of California is home for
three weeks vacation with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Morrill,, on
Main street, Mr.. Morrill, is a junior
in the college. He left here three
years ago, a short time after his
graduation from the High school in
the class of 1908. During his col
! lege course he has shown consider
able activity in athletics and is q
member of the baseball team there
Mr.. and Mrs. Jewett Savage quietly
observed their forty-first wedding an