The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-23
MADISON


Plans are being made for an inter
esting debate between the sophomore
and freshmen classes of the Madison
High School to be held May %, at the
High School building. The question
is: Resolved thct the Moving Pic
lures Are a Benefit to Madison. the
Freshmen having the affirmative. The
team representing the sophomore
class will BE Harold Caldwell, Mahlon
Morse and Leah Cooper. The fresh
men debators are Clarence Walton,
Merle Tinkham and Victor Robbins.
Following the debate a short program
will be run off and ice cream on sale
for the benefit of the classes.
In the opinion of Madison business
men some effective and decisive steps
should be taken to see if the place
cannot obtain a better train service on
this branch of the Maine Central rail-
road. A special meeting of the board
of trade, held recently in Firemen's
hall, brought out a gathering OF the
representative business interests of
the place After a vigorous discus
sion participated in by W. F. Scott,
f.. W. Weber, DR.. w S. Milliken, X.
c. Gray, and others it WAS voted to
appoint a committee to act in concert
with similar committees from Bling
ham, North Arson. Norridgewock and
Scion, to present the matter at head
quarters and secure better arrange
ment IL possible. The committee APP
pointed were w. s. Milliken, w. F.
Scott, f. w. Weber and A. Christie
pher. A committee of three has al
- limo to
board of trade and it is expected that
the matter will be brought to head
in very few days
Mr. and Mrs. +. A. Head of Arson
left town Thursday morning for
few days visit with relatives in Port
land and Merrimac, Mass.
Mrs. Agnes Curtis and daughter
has been visiting relatives and
friends in Gardiner and Dexter.
George Lane returned Thursday
morning from North Arson where he
has been making short visit with
friends.
Miss Ina Dunlap is the first local
gardener to have string beans large
enough to eat of her own raising this
year The beans were planted in
flower pot the first of March and now
have pods several inches long
An interesting session of the Arson
Literary club was held, Thursday af-
ternoon at the residence of Mrs. Chas
Head on Jones street. The program
was: Piano solo, Mrs. Head; devo-
tional exercises led by the chaplain;
roll call responded to by quotations
from the various authors; papers on
the life and works of Edgar Allen
Poe, by Mrs. William Baxter, Mrs. d.
L. McCollor and Mrs. Andrew Strang;
vocal solo, Dreams of Long Ago" Mrs.
Alfred BARLEY; current events and
question box; vocal solo THE Rosary"
Mrs. Barley piano selection. Mrs
Head. The remainder of the after
noon was spent in the reading and
study of two scenes from Hamlet The
next meeting will be held June 6, at
the residence of Mrs. McColor on
Heald street
Mrs l.. k Williams went to Bath,
Friday morning to spend few weeks
with relatives.
f. E. Boston of Gardiner and gener-
al manager of the Hollingsworth &
Whitney Co., was in Madison. Friday,
on business connected with the local
plant of the company.
Arrangements are being made for
the annual Junior exhibition of the
Madison High School, which will be
held May 81.
Mrs. f. A. Dinsmore, Mrs. Linwood
Worster and Miss Bessie Berry left
town Friday morning for few days
visit with relatives in Hebron.
Mrs. E. o. Clark. who has been con-
fined to her home on Garfield street by
illness, is reported to be slowly i'm
proving.
Local officers of the law have been
having considerable difficulty with the
drivers of motorcycles and automo-
biles overspeeding within the village
limits. No arrests have as yet been
made, but several out of town parties
have been stopped near the Arson and
Madison bridge and warned against
fast driving.