The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-09-05
SKOVVHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


business trip to Boston.
Mrs. C. F. Rowe of Waterville is
visiting relatives in town today.
A. F. Donigan, a well-known Som
erset politician was in, Skowhegan
Tuesday.
Harry C. Graves of Trenton, n. j.,
departed Tuesday after visit with
Mrs. Myra Arnold.
Mrs. Alice Cook of Greenfield, Mass.
has returned home after a visit with
Mrs. Henry Crowell.
o. II. King has leased the barber
shop on the Island and opened for
business last Tuesday.
Miss NJ. E. Woodsum of Norridge-
wock, was in town yesterday, leaving
here for a visit in Roekland.
Mrs. Charles A Peck of Newton
Centre, Mass, is visiting for several
weeks with Mrs. w. r. Brown.
Horatio Tobey Mooers arrived home
Tuesday forenoon from a visit to Bos-
ton and other Massachusetts, cities.
Miss May Morrill, returned, Monday
10 Boston, after a two weeks visit
with her father, George E. Morrill,.
Among the automobile tourists to
visit Skowhegan, Sunday, were II. E.
Dingley and wife and f. E. Francis OF
Auburn.
Mr. and Mrs. ". B. Flanders have
arrived from Massachusetts for Wis
it in the home of his father, Daniel
Flanders.
Edward Fiske has returned to
Portland after having been acting as
substitute on the local trains for
some time.
W. H. Leayitt and family departed
yesterday on their way to Omaha,
Neb., after a visit with DR.. and Mrs.
A. r. Smith.
Miss Elizabeth Parker, Miss Vera
Dearce and Miss Grace Jewett, left
yesterday forenoon for al outi~7
Old Orchard.
The Ladies' Circle of the NJ f.
church will hold an all-day social
next Tuesday Sept. 10, at
Mrs. /, J. Smiths.
Miss Marcia L. Wood of Amesbury
Mass, has returned after a visit with
her uncle, E. W, Marble and family
on Spring treet.
Dr. S. NJ. Cover, Mrs. Cover and
their daughter, Mural, spent Sunday
in Augusta, visiting the doctors
mother and sister.
Miss Hazel T. Leayitt is expected
home this week from Brunswick
where she has been staging the mus
ical comedy Capt. Bling.
Abram Newton accompanied b.
Mrs. Newton, Miss Y A. Newton and
Ambrose Colby, all of Jackman, were
in town during the day, Saturday.
Mrs. w A. Traitor of Amesbury,
Mass, arrived Tuesday evening from
Portland and is visiting with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. F. Sanford while in town.
Owing to repairs being made on
the fume ON the Island, the Skowhe-
gan Water Co, are obliged to pump
water from the river for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Gage, former
residents of Skowhegan for many
years, now of North Chelmsford, Mass,
have been visiting friends here this
week.
The pipe for the new sewerage
system for the plains has practically
all arrived and work will be begun
to laying the same in
about two weeks.
E. |. Brown and C. l. Brown Of
East Sumner and C. c. Irish of Hart
ford. lumbermen, accompanied ny
their wives We're in town, Tuesday,
by auto.
Among the Waterville people here
10 witness the races last week were,
DR.. and Mrs. L. G. Bunker and Miss
Anna Drummond They were guests
at the home of DR.. Cover.
Miss Helen Kirby of Middletown,
Jonn., is the guest of Mrs. R. w Leigh
ton, Madison Ave. Miss Kirby with
her sister, Miss Judith Kirby, has been
at Smithfield for some weeks, the lat
ter returning to her home, Tuesday.