The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-05-18
NORTH ANSON.

Tho annual meeting of Ruth Head
Crogin ehapter was held Friday az
ternoou at Mrs. Elizabeth holle! o.
when the following ofhcers Wele
elected: Regent, Marion +. barna ':,
vice regent Edna Ellis; secret a., :
Ethel Norton: registrar, Geneva M
ton. treasurer, Edna Thorne; chap-
loin Emily Counce; councillors Allee
simmons and Edith Salley. Iel'
interesting letter was READ from Mi9
Maude caswell. 1t being an account
Of her recent trip to Nashlls 'q ID
where she attended the d. A. IL.
Continental Congress and represent
cd Ruth Heald Cragin Chapter, Dain-
~ refreshments were served py tne
bostesses. Mrs Holley and MISS Nel-
lie Porter. ..,,.,,,,a
preaching services will be resumed
- tho Free Baptist church on sunday
MAY %. at 80 O'Clock. -,
bon collins is working in the eX-
nrees office for w. +. French.
Tosenh Hodgdon was here from IN
dustry Tuesday. a. oa,,r for
driving logs Tuesday II seems ' the
In tho season to commence ai'er t uie
rn,dd,e of May when last year ms
lew had been working forty days py
tbis time. The general outlook lol
driving is anything but proil'1lnS
n,;th the Kennebec down to low
water mark in summer time. M
snow has left the woods and the wa
tar has wasted away and no logs have
hoen eoated. 1t is said that the wa
ter in the Jake is unusually low low
,,A,,aral faet lower than Is common
.. mic season. Nothing but neass
noinu will bring the water up "hele
a. - nsn he successfully used Tor oIi'.
ino nurnoses. Rain is needed put q
AZ, Nav and a wet June is far pet.e,
snr tho farmers than wet May ai ,,
drv tnne. Any industry ana an
eo,nhined cen afford to suffer ratiiel
,han the farm crops. All Industries
~ r,,beteyer name or nature are SET
ondorv to the farm. With good farm
irons all can live, with sholt"e
MANY must suffer more or less
walter Berry returned from Loulsl.
+ho 9Th inst, after having spent
~ winter. His brother still remains
there. 80
d. News was received here ou!u"S "
the death of A. w. Cole mn ai
structor. while working at tna' uu
ness in Louisiana. he went sd
last season and his death was oa aod
nv fever. 1t will De reiiieino ~,
that Mr.. Cole was the man "ho eot
down the first new mill Oh Tue - ,,r
Arson Lumber Company anu pus
very successful mill man anu h"' WV
MANY friends In this village. ut.
TN.,l.;
Arson academy will be heid May 90.
FOLLOWING is the program oee,nS
About an Auto" Joseph Rogers
Matter of Dress" Florence Ai11na
Danforth; Jimmie De Toad Leo
Clifton Caswell; "Briar Rose, AnGe
Cahill; yellow on Yellow, Myllie
Blair Morris; 1.-THE One Cent Lazy
Clara Ellen Higgins texcuseu1; nc
Doctor" George Allen; Whither
Thou Goest," Ella R. Robinson
Mrs. II. E. Ware met with seri-
Gus accident while stepping from the
train Saturday at Portland on her
way home from Massachusetts where
she had been spending the winter
She had her shoulder dislocated. her
daughter. Mrs. Bodfish OF Palmer
Mass. came to Portland and took her
mother home to this village TUESDAY.
Mrs. Polly Stevens of Embden DIED
Thursday morning, May IL, after
short illness of pneumonia. She was
born in May, 1927, the daughter OF
Lieut.. John and Lucinda (Williamsl
Hilton. She married October II,
1S47, Elan Stevens of Embden, VINO
died in 1899. They had seven chill
dren of whom five are living, Ansei'
Vassal, Naomi, lothian and Esther
The funeral was held Saturday AFTER
noon at l o'clock and the burial was
in Sunset cemetery at this village.
Alexander Gould died May 10. OF