The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-10-17


Rev. George Merriam conducted SER
vices at the East Madison church.
Tuesday evening.
Hon. E. N. Merrill and son Edward
F. Merrill went to Portland Wednes-
day on legal business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wentworth
are on a trip to New York and Wash
ington for several days.
Hon. S w Gould has gone to Hiram
to visit his mother and from there will
go to Boston on a business trip.
Jefferson Savage went to Hallowell,
Wednesday, to attend the State en-
campment of the Veterans Union.
J. Wallace Blunt has been in Bos-
ton this week on business and Incl
dentally attending the ball games
The Skowhegan High School foot
ball team will go to Pennington Sat
urday to play Pennington High School
team
James Durrell who has been at Sc
guinland for the summer where he has
been proprietor of hotel has arrived
/ home
Hon. L. L. Walton and George w.
Cover, Esq, were in Augusta Wednes-
day, having business at the Supreme
Court
Mrs. f. A. Dore of Kingston, Mass.
is visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. B. Steward at their home on Co
/ burn avenue.
f. P. Niles who has recovered for
the most part from his extended sick
ness will spend the winter at the Au-
gusta House, Augusta.
There will be Ii entertainment at
] the Methodist chureh f'ridag evening
and Edwin J. Had'ey will present the
j Coronation of King George.
There will be no meeting of the
/ Skowhegan Board of Trade Friday
evening This is a regular evening
/ for meeting but there is no business
to come before it.
The Clementine Weston W. c. 7. I.
will give the Skowhegan school teach
j ia ba T,ntlnCS nf tb q
First Baptist church next Tuesday
/ evening. Each member of the union
is privileged to invite one gentleman
guest.
Among those who attended the must
cal festival at Portland and returned
home Tuesday night were: Mrs. w, L..
Hackett, Mrs. E. w. Marble and Miss
Harriet Marble. Mrs. Vivian Woodbury.,
! Mrs. Helen {. VIM and Mrs. !. W.
/ Blunt
Honor was thrust upon Roger {.
i Kilkenney this week when at his birth
he had more grandparents than any
/ OlHtI pei SUI III lllt tON IL Nv - III
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kilkenney
of Cornville and has four great grand
mothers, three great grandfathers, two
! grandmothers and one grandfather.
At a meeting of the Progressive
town committee Tuesday evening it
was voted to organize a club. The
rooms over c. r. FOggs Drug store
will be occupied for this purpose.
i There will be a meeting in these
! rooms. Saturday evening at which time
/ the officers for the club will be elect
! ed.
The biggest pumpkin probably, ever
raised in this town was grown by
4 Frank league and is now on exhibit
ton in A. r. Jewett's store 1t weighs
/ 80 pounds, is six feet around it the
longest way, - feet in diameter and
/ 26 inches long. 1t was grown on a
/ vine with two others that weighed -
/ pounds each.
The latest report of the Maine III
sane Hospital at Augusta shows that
in 1911 there were eight commitments
/ from SkoWhegan, four men and -four
women. There were ten commit
ments from other Gowns in the county,
/ Cornyille. one man; Fairfield, / Har-
mony. 8; Madison, one woman; Nor
/ ridgewock, men, Pittsfield, one
woman; st Adams, one woman.
1t was proved Monday evening that
there is a great deal of interest in
/ Skowhegan for an evening school. A
meeting was held in the High School
building for the purpose of finding out
who desired to take up the work and
the interest was surprising to the
superintendent. l.. W Gerrish. There
were about 50 applicants present and
all desired TO take some work in the
school. The demands ranged from
the lower grades to the High School
grade and the greatest desire was to
take mechanical studies.
The first husking bee OF the season
took place at the big farm of r T.
Palmer. Tuesday evening when about