The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-02

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Father Curran of Madison was IL
town Monday. on his way to Water
vile.
Mrs. Nathan Roulette and son, wen
recently to Waterville for visit will
her mother.
Hon. Edward y. Merrill departed
Monday forenoon on a business triI
to Portland
Harry Hubbard and family were
guests the first of the week OF rela'
tiyes in Canaan.
Victor b. Jordan OF Hartland was
in town. Friday and Saturday, having
business at the Court house.
Henry Sewell, bookkeeper for the
Marston Worsted Co, spent Sunday
at his home in Clinton, Mass.
c. f. Palmer left Friday for Fort
Sloeum, n. Y, having enlisted in the
Cavalry arm of the U. S. Army.
Mrs. S. M. Emerson of Hinckley re-
turned Friday after visit with her
daughter, Miss Alice Emerson.
Mrs f. F. Matthews and daughter,
Ruth, and Mrs. A. n. Moore, who have
been visiting in the family Of Leon
l.. Webster, returned Monday to their
homes in Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. d. C. Jewett left Friday for
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Da-
vid Haig in Providence, r. l. She
has however, been summoned home
by the illness of Mr.. Jewett.
A meeting of the Helen Coburn
Mission Circle will be held Friday
afternoon at go, in the parlors of
the Bethany church. The subject will
be Porto Rico-Past and Present.
DIR. w. L. Ferguson of Madras, Ind,
was the speaker at the Bethany
church last Sunday, addressed the
men and boys in the Congregational
church parlors last Sunday afternoon.
There will be an official inspection
of the Catholic Order of Foresters in
Convent Hall, Friday evening, May 3,
by Simeon Viger, V. H. C r., of Law
renee, Mass. and Noel Beaupre OFT
Biddeford.
Charles NJ. trimmings, night Limo
type operator at the Independent-Re-
portor office, left Friday for visit
for the remainder of the week with
relatives and friends in Medford,
Mass. and vicinity.
Mrs. Weston Clark has been very
Ill at her home on Pleasant street, but
is somewhat improved. Her daugh
ter, Mrs. C. E. Norcross and little son,
Winston of Hartland, arrived here
Saturday night for a visit.
Mrs. Bruce White and little son,
James Fellows White, left Tuesday
for visit with the older son
of Mrs. White, Master Bruce, WHO is
a student at the Pierce Grammar
school in West Newton, Mass
There was a slight blaze in the
block of A. E. Bison & Son, last
Tuesday morning, which was control
led without calling out the fire de-
partment The blaze was on the roof
and probably caught from sparks
from the chimney.
The remains of Mrs. Maria
Heath, widow of Wilson Heath, who
died in Medford, Mass, in January, |
were brought to Skowhegan, Satur-
day for burial in the South Side GEM
etery A son, Frank H. Heath, of
Medford accompanied the body here
E. d. Pratt, formerly of Corinna.
If Fort Wayne, Ind, was guest the
irst of the present week at the home
If Mr.. and Mrs. C. Davis Miller. Mr..
Pratt is the president of the Athena
,um, prominent educational institu-
ion of the West, where University
Extension work Is taken up.
Corrections are made in the follow
ng local as printed last week:
Mrs. A. j. Bernard of Nashua, N. H.,
of Skowhegan. Is visiting at
he home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Row
Ill, for a few days. Her daughters.
Mrs. Charles Lewis and Miss Ethel,
who came here to attend the funeral
If their father, returned to N. Hamp-
shire. Friday. They will move later
o Portsmouth, N. H.. where Mr.. Lew
8 is employed
Services at the Bethany Baptist
church last Sunday were of rare in
crest. The speaker of the day was
Dr.. w. l.. Ferguson of Madras, In
liza, who is 4 one of the missionarys
If the Baptist Foreign Missionary
Society. His subject for the day was
IN Missions and he gave most
luent address at the 1916 services.
dusic was furnished by the regular
hurch quartet and Harry Wilson