The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-07-18
Local News
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! Ross, this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. p. Ordway were at
home from the Peakes Island cottage
| the first of the week.
Mrs. J. l.. Clark and family, OF Fair
field came up Tuesday forenoon for
visit with Mrs. J. o. Smith.
Mrs. Leslie Jones and three daugh-
ters, of Mansfield, Mass, have been
here visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Geo.
Nay.
Mrs. T. H. Anderson OF Portland ar
rived the latter part of the week for
a visit with her mother, Mrs. A. X.
Perkins.
Mrs. Minnie Wheeler attended
meeting of the Ruth Heald Cragin
chapter, held at North Arson, Friday
afternoon.
DR.. Margaret S. Hardiman Of Prov
idence, R. l., and John Stanley Hardi-
man of Trinidad Col, are the guests
of friends in town.
Miss Linnie Prescott has returned to
her home in Allston, Mass, after a
visit with her mother, Mrs. Annie
/ Prescott on Water street.
Miss Marion Ramsdell of WaterYille,
a former teacher in the village schools
of this town has been here for a Wis
it with Mrs. Frank L. Flynt.
Mrs Gerald Mccarthy who entered
DR.. Kings hospital at Portland last
week for treatment, has undergone
a successful surgical operation at that
institution
Mrs J. II. Lancaster and daughter,
Geneva, left Monday for a visit with
/ Mrs. Lancasters sister, Mrs. W. P.
/ Ordway at her summer home at
/ Peakes Island
Mrs. A. S Plummer of Lewiston was
/ in Skowhegan the first of this week
on her way homeward from Athens
where she had been owing to the i'll
/ ness of her brother.
Mrs. Hattie Caldwell, one of the ma
irons at Hebron Academy, departed
Tuesday after a visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Day, their son George,
being a graduate of that institution.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stansfield, who
have resided here for some time, de-
parted Monday on their way to York
shire, England, where they formerly
lived and where they are again to take
up their residence.
! Complaints have lately been made to
the selectmen to see if anything could
/ be done to free the residents of tie
town from the Gypsy moths which
are reported to be of some consider
able trouble in various places. AS
yet nothing has been done by the
selectmen.
The members of Russell Relief
Corps enjoyed a most delightful day
at Lakewood, Saturday, July 10. The
weather was all that could be desired
and the cottage of Mrs. Adams, cool
and comfortable. Everything con-
spired to make it an ideal day. For
afternoon entertainment all attended
the matinee at Lakewood theatre.
This proved to be one of the most en-
joyable field days held by this order.
A basket lunch was served.
Representatives from the Board of
Trade have recently made an inspect
ion of several different fields of alfalfa
and according to reports there has not
been one failure while in most in
stances the farmers have gotten an
excellent yield, Among the farms
visited were those belonging to Roland
T. Patten, whose crop at Eaton Mt.
farm was a superior one, while an
other plot that showed good returns
was that of o. d. Wells on Silver St.
Other farms inspected were those of
Cony Sanborn, Miss Lucy Bigelow,
Fairfield; Clarence Langley, Skowhe-
gan; Josiah Fernald, Milford Withee,
w c. Fitzgerald, Canaan; c. H. Gard
ner, Skowhegan; E. A. Salley and L.
f. Rowell, Madison.
Samuel F. Emerson, prominent
Granger here, has worked out a
unique plan of getting his land into
grass growing without sowing seed.
He plows the land in the fall and in
the spring spreads on dressing, har-
rowing it in, and at the proper time
plants it to beans. The following fail
he harrows the ground, and the next
season it grows the grass. He has
tried this experiment for three years
with excellent results and from a
piece, this year, he raised hay at the
rate of a ton and a half per acre. He
carries on farming as a pastime. He
has built him little summer home at
his farm on the Madison road, and oc-
casionally he invites his friends to
a picnic dinner there.
A very happy party assembled at
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