The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-03-28

leItilb 'ANANS
Miss Florence Beal is visiting
friends and relatives in Madison.
Mrs Lizzie Fitzgerald of Canaan
bae been in town for few days.
NJ E. Beal has had business in
Mercer a portion of the present week.
Edgar Dunton has accepted a posi-
zion as clerk at the Skowhegan House.
DIT oliver GAIA has been absent this
week on a business trip to Montreal. |
! Wallace Blunt has been in Port
land and Bangor this week on bust
ness.
Mss Helen Donaldson of WateryillG
is visiting Mrs NJ. J. Watson, this
week.
Mrs Perley Laney has been conf .
ned 10 her home on Leayitt ST., by
illness.
Mrs Daniel Mullen has been report
ed as i'll at her home on Heselton
street.
Miss Cora Dolly has returned from
g stay of some length at her home in
Portland.
A daughter has recently been born
in Skowhegan to Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Savage of Bingham.
Mr. and Mrs. II. L. burlington of
Canaan were out-of-town people to
visit Skowhegan, Monday.
Miss Angie French was in Drums
wick to attend a fraternity dance Civ
en- at Bowdoin college last evening
Mrs. Herman Avery is i'll with an
attack of rheumatic fever. Her aunt
Mrs. Rose Grindle of Prospect is with
het
Miss Jeanette Sturteyant of Brew
or has been here for a visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs E. E. Sturte-
want.
Herman Avery went to Bangor, Fri
day and accompanied his two small
sons to that city for a visit with rela-
tiyes.
B. A McCoombs and H. S. Hopkins
attended the tournament at the Elks
Lodge rooms in Watervile last Mon
day evening.
The board of fire commissioners ap-
pointed for the ensuing year to take
Office April l, are Alfred H. Lang, E.
~ Merrill, and Leslie E. Jacobs
Fred C. Dow and Ralph Hill are
absent on a business trip up river in
the vicinity of Kingfeld, Eusts,
Stratton and to Bigelow Mountain
Ben Collins was in North Arson the
first of this week. He and his mother
have recently come to Skowhegan AZ :
ter a stay since January in California .
An extra meeting of the G. A. r.,
was held Friday evening to make ar
rangements for an entertainment to
be given under the direction of the
Post, April 8
A special Conyocation of Royal .
Arch Masons will meet tomorrow
Friday afternoon at o'clock. A
banquet will follow at go o'clock
and the regular convocation will oc-
cur at 73O.
Mr. and Mrs. George r. Merriam,
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RAMS parents, Rev. and Mrs. George
Merriam, departed yesterday for Har-
rsburg, Penn, where Mr.. Merriam is
to be located as State Boys secretary
of the Y. M. c. A in Pennsylvania.
Recent births recorded at the office
of the town clerk are: a son armand .
Paul. born March IS, to the wife of
Joseph Roderick;a son albert e.
born March 20, to the wife of Ernest
Decker, and a son (Charles) born
March %, TO the wife of Mr.. and Mrs
w. F. Magoon.
DR.. w. S. Stinchfield accompanied /
Miss Christie Furber of Canaan to .
Portland the first of this week where .
the latter entered DR., Kings hospi-
tay for a surgical operation, which .
proved successful The patient was
also accompanied by her mother, Mrs. I
F. P Furber.
DR.. j. F. Hill of Waterville has .
been here in consultation with DR.. .
W. S. Stinchfeld over the condition
Of Master Kenneth Smiley, who has
been very Ill the result of blood pois-
oning Master Kenneths sister. Miss
Mabel Smiley, who is a district nurse
in Orange. y. j., has arrived to care
for him
Mrs. Roscoe Bigelow had the mis- .
fortune to lose the end of one finger /
yesterday in a rather unusual way.
She with son others had started out
for short cutting trip and in some
way caught her finger between the
sled and the crust with which it .
came In contact, causing the unfortu-