The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-08-10

the guest of her uncle, Col. A. u.
Blunt.
Miss Edna Porter of the Maine
Spinning Co, has gone to York Beach
| to remain for a week
Mrs. Elizabeth Beardsley arrived
here Saturday night from Portland to
visit her son, Conrad Bearsley.
Miss Marguerite Porter Of Dorches-
ter. Mass, went home Saturday af-
ter spending two weeks with her sis
ter, Miss Edna Porter at the Oxford
After a stay of eight weeks al
their cottage at Peaks Island, Mr..
and Mrs. G. w Nash and Miss Edna
Cushing returned home Tuesday, Au-
gust s.
Mrs. L. f. Mitchell of Dorchester,
Mass, who has been the guest Of
relatives and friends in several towns
in Somerset county, returned home
Friday.
The members of Russell Post, g.
A. r., are requested to be present
at the next regular meeting, Friday
evening, August Is. A full attend
ance is desired
Mrs. William NJ. Pulsifer gave q
piazza party to several friends Fri
dav afternoon. Bountiful refresh
ments we're served after the usua
round of games.
Sheriff John A. Mooers was notified
Friday morning that the store of A
L. Flanders in Mayfield had beer
broken into and $50 in cash taken
The officers have no clue as to who
did it.
During July there were four mar
riages recorded at the Town Clerks
office here; births and deaths
During the previous month there
were IA births, 10 of them being
girls.
Beginning this week Bethany Bap-
fist church will be closed for several
weeks during which time the building
will undergo repairs on the interior
A new carpet will be laid beside other
work done.
Miss Cora Robinson, for the last
two years goyerness at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. George Otis Smith in
Washington, ID. c., and here, has
been engaged as teacher in Hampton
Institute in Virginia. She will go
there in October.
Miss Ethel Knowlton has been
elected a teacher in the Waterville
High school for the ensuing year. For
the past year she has been teaching
in Hebron Classical Institute. She
was graduated from Colby college In
the class of 1909.
After spending week with theil
uncle DR.. A. B. Borden, Miss Ruth
Borden of Putnam, Conn, Miss Mari
on Borden of F'itchburg, Mass, left
for home Monday morning accom-
panied by their cousin Miss Ruth
Borden of Skowhegan. The latter
will visit relatives in Fitchburg, Wor-
cester, Waterbury and Putnam be-
fore returning home.
For several months past Mrs. Edith
Shepherd and Mrs. F. o. Sawyer
have been pitted in an intermittent
game of bridge against Miss Lola
! Goodwin and DR.. Sawyer. The final
score was totalled Friday evening,
and on Saturday afternoon the party
went for supper to the New Meadows
Inn. The trip was made in Mrs. Shep-
herds auto, but the identity of the
couple who "set 'em up" is still a
we'll guarded secret.
While qualifying as first class scout
on the use of the Ratchet, Elliott
Spear cut his right foot at Lakewood
Friday. The wound was about two
inches long extending clear to the
bone, and bled profusely. The first
aid-to-the-iniured knowledge of the
party was brought Immediately into
play, and the flow of blood checked.
Spear had gone with three other
members of his patrol to camp for
a week, but after the accident the
boys returned to Skowhegan in the
evening. ts.s.
A merry party of friends assembled
at the corner of French and East
Front streets Friday night, and drove
from there to the home of Fred Gotta
on the River road, in a big hay rack.
The occasion for the expedition was
Mrs. Cotta's seth birthday, and this
was properly celebrated in due and
ancient form. First came the usual
round of greetings and congratula-
tions, and then with the lull the pre-
of several tokens of affec-
ton and esteem in behalf of the party
by Alfred j. Gotta to his mother. Mrs.
Gotta responded with evident feeling,
and expressed her appreciation for
the kindness and generosity shown.
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