The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23

day afternoon.
J. II. Mathews was in Bangor Mon
day on business.
Del Mathews was in Wateryille
Monday on business.
Guy o. Kimball went to Worcester
Mass, Saturday where he will visit
his brother for several days.
George w. Savage of Lewiston, was
in town over Sunday visiting his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. jefferson Saw
age.
Miss Viola Adolf. teacher in the
public schools in Buckfeld. was in
town over Sunday visiting her moth
er.
Miss Adelaide Holway. a teacher in
the Madison High school. spent Sun
day in town with Mrs. Rena Archer
Taylor.
Miss Edith Tuck, a stenographer in
the office of c. O. Small, Madison, was
in town Sunday visiting Miss Harriet
Cleveland.
Miss Ethel Merriam, student at
Colby college, spent Sunday in town
with her parents, Rev. and Mrs
George Merriam.
Miss Edith Gledhill. who has been
ook-keeper in the Office of the Maine
Spinning mill for seven years has re-
signed her position.
1t is reported that there will be
more motor cycles sold this coming
season in Somerset county than ever
before. Nine have already been sold.
About twenty-five members Of the
Carrabassett Lodge, |. o. o. F. went
to Norridgewock, Monday evening, as
guests of the Quinnebassett lodge, l.
o. 0. F.
Hon and Mrs. E. n. Merrill left
here for Boston this week where they
will be joined by their daughter, Miss
Bertha, a student in Wellesley col
lege and from there they will 20 to
Panama, the Philippines and Porto
Rico for few weeks trip.
Sidney Pooler, the largest syrup
manufacturer in the town, began
Monday to tap five hundred trees for
his spring business. He reports that
the season will be short, being about
eight days later than the ordinary
time for tapping. On account OF the
light snow it will be difficult to gath
err the sap,
Captain BERTHE I. Rice received a
dispatch Saturday ordering him to in
crease Company E, N. G. S. NJ, to
l05 men and engage eight horses and
be ready to start for Texas in ten
days to take part in the maneuyres
on the border. 10000 rounds of am
munition have been sent here by the
government and the horses have been
engaged Of Frank |. Estes. The com
pany now has 50 men.
Mrs Jane Allen died Sunday morn
ing at her home on East Front street
She was 83 years old. Funeral SER
vices will be held Tuesday at / a. m,
/ Rev. B. b Merrill of the Congrega-
tional church officiating. She was
born at Nye's Corner, Fairfield, and
has lived in Skowhegan since 1871.
She leaves one son, Clarence, an
employee in the office of the Maine
Central Railroad company here; one
sister, Mrs. O. A Libby of Water
Vile. and one brother, Frank Noble
of Waterville.
Fifty-one horses with about doz-
en- drivers and attendants, arrived In
Skowhegan just before dark Sunday
night, coming through from the vi
cinity of Alder Stream. They had
been engaged in the numbering OPP
erations carried on by the Hume &
Newhall Co of Fairfield, finishing up
with the work in the woods on ST.
Patrick's day. The total cut of this
Company will run from eighteen to
twenty million feet this year, and
new band equipment will be installed
in the mill at Fairfield to make pos
sible the handling of it all. The cal
vacade left Alder Stream early FIJI
day morning, and made the ninety
miles from there to Skowhegan in very
near record time.
There was unearthed recently the
foundations of the first public scales
ever used in Skowhegan. They were
situated in front of where F. w Buck
nam's store is. They were placed
there by Samuel Weston. They were
made somewhat like the old-fashioned
steelyards, only many times larger. A
load of hay for instance would drive
up and from one end of the scales
hung four chains. These would be