The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16
SKOWHFGAN LOCAL NEWS

George o. Fish. who has been i'll, is
reported as able TO be out,
Mrs Mae Allen spent Saturday and
Sunday with friends in Madison.
Miss Leila Clark left Saturday for
a visit with friends in Watervllle.
Miss Hazel T Leayitt has returned
home from a visit to Boston and vic
unity.
Rev. B. B. Merrill preached in the
chapel at Good viii Farm, Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. Mile Totman went to Canaan,
Tuesday. called there by the illness Of
her father.
Omar Badger, a Bowdoin student,
came Saturday night for visit with
friends in town
Miss Edith Cabot returned on Tues
day to Providence. r. L., after visit
with her mother Mrs. Fannie Cabot.
Phillip Barstow, a former clerk at
buchanan S. has returned to Damaris-
Gotta after few days visit in town.
Miss Amy Kenney, who has been
teaching in Athens was in town, Tues
day on her way to her home in Brew
er.
Mrs A. X. Perkins left Saturday for
Portland. She went to visit her
daughter, Mrs. T. II. Anderson in that
city.
Misses Mabel and Ethel Tibbetts of
Belgrade, were visitors at the home of
A. H. Lang during the Teachers con
ventlon.
Mrs. f. o. Eaton and her father,
Lafayette Goodwin, went to Fairfield,
Saturday, where the latter Will remain
for time.
George Verrill of Waterville, a for
mer Linotype operator in the indie
pendent Reporter office, was in town,
Saturday and Sunday
Tickets will go on sale at Buck
mans, Wednesday morning for the
Junior exhibition college Town." to
be given here, May "a
George Purdy, who has been con-
nected with the Smith Pub Co., COM
pleted his duties with that firm, Sat
urday and Sunday, left for Portland,
where he is to engage in the adver-
Using business
The Afternoon Bridge club was en-
tertained last Thursday by Miss Lola
Goodwin. The prizes were won by
Mrs. w. NJ. Pulsifer, Mrs Forrest
Goodwin and Mrs J. w. Blunt Re-
freshments were served.
Miss Lucy Abbott, who was here to
attend the FoglerTrafton wedding,
returned Tuesday to Andoyer, Mass.
Her sister, Miss Josephine will re-
main for longer visit at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Fogler.
The Rebekahs will observe Chill
drens Night, Tuesday evening, May
81 The committee request the chill
dren of Rebekahs-Odd Fellows, also
other invited children to meet in Odd
Fellows Hall, Friday afternoon, May
i II, after school for rehearsal
The remains of little Malcolm Gill
man were brought here last week for
interment from Caratunk. The child
was the son of the late Sydney Gill
man and Mrs. Jennie Gilman, formerly
of Skowhegan, and the widowed moth
er has the sympathy of all in her be-
reavement.
Asa Pratt of this town has been APP
pointed State Deputy by William |.
Sterling, grand chief Templar of the
Grand Lodge of Maine |. o. G. T.
Other deputies In Somerset Co. are
Eugene Wyman, Fairfield; Mrs. Annie
Holt, Miss Arlettie Richardson and
Edward Conner, Hinckley; Mrs. N V.
Hall, Bingham; Ralph Sterling, Car
atunk.
Mrs j. B. Maddocks departed Satur-
day for Melrose Highland, Mass,
where she will visit her daughter. She
purposes to remain in Massachusetts
with her three daughters who reside
In the vicinity of Boston until October,
when she plans to go to Newark,
Ohio, to be with her son, Howard Mad
docks. Mrs Maddocks long residence
in Skowhegan has made for her many
friends who regret her removal from
town.
Hon. Forrest Goodwin, Roy l.. Mars
ton, S. w. Philbrick. Elmer E. Towne
and J. Wallace Blunt were in Augusta
Friday evening to attend banquet at
the Augusta House, given by the mem
bers of the Kennebec Valley Protective
Association. Timber land interests
amounting in the aggregate of at least