The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-09-12
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Davis and chill
dren are visiting this week in Water
Vile
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. Ordway left
Tuesday by automobile for a trip to
Boston.
Miss Nathalie Pooler of st. George,
Can, has been visiting her sister, Mrs
George Butler
Mrs. M. j. Watson is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. A G. Donaldson in Water
vile, this week.
The family of S. w. Philbriok- have
returned from an extended stay at
Popham Beach.
Mrs. Albert Fuller has returned to
Melrose, Mass, after a visit with Mr.
ard Mrs. S;las Leiana.
Mrs. w II. Munsey of Dorchester,
Mass, returned Tuesday after a visit
with her niece in town.
The Y. P. S. C. E. of the First Bap-
fist church will have a social. Friday
evening for members only
Robert Bigelow, Jr, and his sister,
Mabel, have returned home from Yea
zie, where they have been spending
the summer
Harry Cohen left Tuesday for Lynn,
Mass, and Boston and during his alb
sence, will attend the Jewish New
Year celebrations.
The members of the First Baptist
Society are beginning the preliminary
work for Home Mission week which
will be observed in November.
Archie Danforth returned Monday
from Caratunk having been in that
place to superintend the removal of
switchboard for the Farmers Tel.
Co.
Miss Maud Merrill left Friday for
Westheld, n. j.. where she has ac
cepted a position as teacher in Toe
the High school of English and His
tory.
Floyd G. Nye arrived home from
visit to different Massachusetts cities,
Monday Mrs. Nye and little daugh-
ter are to remain for longer visit
there
Births recorded as both occurring
on September Sth, are a son to Mr..
and Mrs. Charles R. Whittemore and
a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Ransom.
Addresses will be delivered Sunday
forenoon in the First Baptist church
and Sunday evening in the Bethany
church by Miss Matilda Brown, mis-
sionary to Scandinavians in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Randlette of
Pittsfield visited the first of the week
in the fmily of E. F. Haines. The trip
was made by automobile and Mrs.
Jennie Neal accompanied them back.
DR. Maud Kellett, who with DR..
Genoa Sanborn has been engaged in
the practice of Osteopathy here. has
gone to Auburn where she will locate,
DR.. Sanborn to continue the practice
here.
Miss Bertha L. Palmer, who has
been visiting her mother, Mrs. D. F.
Palmer, departed Tuesday for Rosln-
dele, Mass, where she will resume
her duties as teacher in the public
schools of that city
The many friends of Mrs. E. w.
Norton Oakland, Cal, will be pleased
to know that she is now able to walk
to and from church without a crutch
or cane In the past spring she fell
and broke her hip bone.
Mrs. n. w. Weston and son, Howard.
arrived home, Saturday from a visit
to Boston. They were accompanied
from here to that city by Miss Pearl
Thompson, who remained with her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Thompson.
Town expenses for the month of Au-
gust were given out on Tuesday by
the selectmen as follows. Highways,
$1,000; salaries, $4O3O4; poor, $4o1,-
IA; street lighting $243.2S; insurance,
$145; fire department S9978; band
concerts. $75; town farm, $42.25; to-
tai, $3412.49.
NJ w Lovejoy of Seattle, Wash,
formerly of Salem, Me-, who has been
visiting in different places in Piscat-
aquis, Franklin and Somerset coutes,
and who has been a guest this week
at the home of his brotherin-law,
George Sampson, departed Tuesday
forenoon. 1t was Mr. Lovejoy's pur-
pose to go to Salem for another visit
and start west the last Of this week
Another automobile accident occur
red in Skowhegan, Monday night near
to midnight when Everett Niche4s,
who was driving the Marston car, at