The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-11-14
NORTH ANSON


Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Vittum OF
Madison and Mr. and Mrs. Erastus
MeKochnie and Miss Lois were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hobbs, Satur-
day.
Friday was cleaning house day at
the Academy when teachers and pu-
pills welded the broom. buster and
mop and made things shine. The
yard also came in for a share OF
the good work and looks very neat.
Mrs. Mae Lawrence of Waterville
was a recent guest of her cousin,
Mrs. c. V. Bailey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Emery spent
several days in Portland last week.
Mrs. Ralph Bailey was a guest at
Mrs Bert Williams for a number OF
days, last week and this week. Mrs,
Bailey is staying in Bath with her
mother most of the time during the
school year while Mr.. Bailey is here
as principal of the Academy.
Mrs Sarah t., wife OF Eli Hoyt
died at her home on Madison street
Monday evening, at about O'Clock,
For more than year Mrs. Hoyt had
been out of health from diabetes
which finally terminated in gangrene.
She was confined to her bed but few
days. Her daughter from Wilton, her
sons. William from New York, and
Amos from Ohio, and Irwin from up
river, all arrived before her death.
Mrs. Hoyt was a devoted Christian
woman, a kind wife and mother. All
who knew her spoke highly, of her
l. nf hno rf
She will be sadly missed by her
friends but more in the home over
which she presided so long. She
leaves a husband four sons and two
daughters Her age was SO years,
four months and % days. The flu
neral was held Wednesday afternoon
at 1 o'clock
Misses Gertrude and Grace Smith
and Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Beale, who
have been spending the summer at
Spring Lake, have returned home.
Mrs. Stickney Gray has been very
sick during the past week but is
slowly gaining.
Mrs. Pearl Fenlason recently visit
ed at the home of Fairfield Fenlason
at Lvermore Falls.
Miss Ina Hodgdon has gone to
Portland for the winter.
Born, Oct 81, to the wife of Will
liam Coburn, q daughter.
o. w. Savage has been confined to
the house for a week as his knee Is
troubling him again.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. Circle
at their meeting, Saturday, Nov. %
will observe 1t as Thanksgiving day
Each member is requested to respond
to the roll call with selection or
quotation on Thanksgiving day.
Tuesday, buyers were paying SO
cents per bushel for potatoes, rise
of ten cents per bushel during the
past week. Farmers holding the po-
tatoes would do well to keep them In
the cellars until later. The probable
ity Is that they will be higher before
they are lower.
Mrs. Arnold Waugh was called here
last Friday to care for her mother
Mrs. C. S. Pullen, who Is very i'll
Master Walter Waugh accompanied
her.
The members of Arson Grange who
went to Scion, Tuesday, to attend
POMONA, were MT. anu MIS- nal iduu
Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Danforth,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. d. Salley, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bryant, George Savage,
Mrs. Clara Nutter, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
c. Emery.
Mrs. II. P. Keyes and Miss Eva
Park arrived here, Monday, from
Pennington for q visit with their
sister, Mrs. H. B. Merry. Mrs. Reyes
leaves here, Saturday morning. Miss
Park will remain for few weeks.
Miss Rosa Nickerson of East Bos-
ton has lately visited DR.. and Mrs. E.
c. Andrews.
The regular meeting of Ruth Head
Cragin chapter was held, Friday af-
ternoon, at the home of Mrs. Almeda
Cults on Union street, when Mrs.
Cults and her daughters, Mrs. Ellen
knowlton and Mrs. Carrie Mclean
were the hostesses. A large num-
Der Of the Daughters were present
one of whom, Miss Minnie Bunker OF
California, has never before attended
a meeting of the Daughters, although
she has belonged to this chapter for
four years. Mrs. Irving Ellis was on
the program for paper, THE Pill
grims and the Puritans," but was