The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-09-21

h. stevens.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dore have clos
ed their cottage at Lakewood for the
season and are now at home.
The marriage intentions of Elmer NJ
Dolbier and Miss Melissa NJ. Jones are
recorded at the Town Clerks office.
A girl baby was born to DR.. and
Mrs. George Otis. Smith Sunday. 1t
has been named Louise Coburn Smith
The children who are to sell tags for
the I. S. s. society on Saturday at
the fair will meet at the Municipal
building on that day at a. m.
DR.. and Mrs. Luther Paul of New
ton Center Mass, accompanied by Dr.
Harding of Vassalboro, called upon
friends here while driving through by
auto Tuesday.
William Jewett and his niece. Mrs.
Wellington Adams, left here for Wor-
cester, Mass, where they will visit
Mr.. Jewetts daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Dow, for several days
Highway Commissioner E. L. Ford
finished matchmaking North street
between Water and High streets Sat
urday afternoon, and opened it to the
public the next morning.
In response to an urgent telegram
from the manager of the football team
at the University of Maine Paul Muir
ray left for Orono Saturday to par
ticipate in the squad practice.
DR.. Horace Stevens and family, who
have been spending the summer here
at Bloomfield cottage, left Monday
for their home in Cambridge,
Mass, making the trip by automobile.
Arthur Morrisette left Wednesday
for New York city. From there he
will go to Chicago for vacation trip
of ten days. Mr.. Morrisette is a tray
cling salesman for the Davidson &
Franklebran Clothing company of New
York
The State W. C. T. U. convention
will be held with the union in Water
vile next week, Wednesday, Thursday,
and Friday. This will be an important
convention. The program will be ole
If inta email
ers will be heard. 1t is not often that
the State convention is held SO near
Skowhegan as Wateryille. 1t is hopeI
that there will be large attendance
from the Clementine Weston union.
Miss Edna Porter and Miss Mildred
Keene gave a very pretty dance in the
dining room of the Oxford Monday
night, which was tastefully decorated
with autumn foliage for the occasion.
The patronesses were Mrs. w. F.
Hackett and Mrs. William Wildes, and
Sam Hurley and Lindsay Nutting fur
nished the music Punch bowl re-
freshments were served during the In
Permission, and the entire affair was a
pronounced success The ladies pres
ent were: Mrs. Grace Marston. Mrs.
Frances Simpson and Misses Mildred
Keene, Mary Mitchell, Carolyn Brain
ard, Vera Bearce, Edna Porter, Leila
Fairbrother, Marcia Williams, Florence
Philbrick Anna Kennedy, Teresa
Coyne and Grace Merrill. The gentle
men included DR.. Charles r. Viles,
Benjamin Fogler, Fred Hurley, Car
rol Goodwin, Milburn Fowler, Allie
Morrill,. Reginald Foss, Harry Smith,
Ned Dudley, Harold Merrill Frank
Butterfield, Harvey Mcclure, William
Simpson and NJ Crockett.
James J.. Jeffreys of Tacoma Park,
Washington, D. c., Field Secretary of
the Anti-Cigarette League of America,
gave lecture on the tobacco and Gig
arctic habit before the High school
pupils Monday afternoon. Next Mon
day evening, September %, he will
speak in the Methodist church under
the auspices of the Y. NJ. c. A, IL
Illustrating his talk with a stereopticon
Mr.. Jeffreys is a former railroad man
and a typical American. He began
smoking cigarettes when he was elev-
en- years old, and from the time he
was sixteen until he was twenty-three
used tobacco to excess. Then before
1t was too late he awoke to a realiz-
ing sense of how his future was being
blighted by nicotine, and "cut it out.
Since that time he has seen so many
promising young fellows discarded by
the railroad managers because of eyes
or hearts weakened by tobacco, that
he finally enlisted in the nationwide
crusade. Mr.. Jeffreys knows his sub
ject thoroughly and will use about a
hundred specially prepared slides in
connection with his talk next Monday
night. The lecture will begin at 745
p. M.
To the Friends and Graduates of the
Skowhegan High School
IN I. Igr.t.