The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-09-11
Local News
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Mrs. Odell Berry is quite Ill al her
home on East Front st.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Hughes died Saturday night at the age
of five years.
Miss Ruth f. Redmond of Boston,
Mass, is the guest of Miss Mabelle
E. Ross for a few days.
Miss Ida NJ. Cummings of Lewiston
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. James p.
Thompson on Winter st.
A. r. Jones, agent for the American
Wooden Mills left yesterday for
business visit to New York.
Miss Ethel Nye departed Tuesday
for New York after visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Nye.
Mrs. Scott Parkman who recently
dislocated her right shoulder while
leading horse is very much improv-
ed.
Clarence B. Hight left yesterday on
the mid day train for Boston, where
he was summoned owing to the illness
of his father.
Miss Mary ROBBIE of Auburn who has
been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Vesta
Webb and the Misses Webb on Plea
SAINT ST departed Saturday.
DR.. E. R. Bridge left. this morning
for Brunswick On September 10.
DR.. Bridge is to be married to Miss
Marion D. Volk of New York at the
Volk summer home in Centre Lowell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gridley R. Fogg enter
tanned a party of friends at Daybreak
Villa, their charming cottage at Lake
Wesserrunsett last Friday evening
The amusement of the occasion was
largely furnished by playing finch
while the hostess served an appetite
ing lunch before the departure of the
guests.
Miss Doris Tantish, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Tantish of South St,
celebrated her sixth birthday Friday,
by entertaining about twenty-five lit
| tie friends at her home. The time
was spent in playing games on the
| lawn during which refreshments were
served. Miss Doris was the recipient
of many presents.
! Among those to go from here the
first of the week to study at the Fa'-
mington Normal School were Mi IS
Doris Rayner, Miss Myrtle Green,
Miss Resale Parsons, Miss Mabel
Hall and Miss Agnes Mantor. The
last two mentioned young ladies were
graduated from the Skowhegan High
School in the 1918 class.
At the regular meeting of Parmenas
Eneampment, No. IS, /. o. o. F., held
Tuesday evening, Sept 8, Carl P.
Saadorson was installed Scribe. Sew
eral new applications were received
meeting, Sept. %, the Patriarchal De-
gree will be worked upon large class
of candidates. This encampment is
try ing for the banner of the State
having already taken in thirty-seven
new members this year.
About twenty friends and neighbors
some from Larone and others from
Norridgewock, with others from
homes nearer by, assembled at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Lester H. Pack
ard Bigelow Hill, Saturday evening
to celebrate the 18th birthday of Ray
Hatfield of New Brunswick. who has
been in their employ as farm hand
for the past season. The party was
arranged as surprise and carried
out very skilfully under that plan.
Mr.. Hatfield was the recipient of sew
eral gifts. The evening was pleas
antly passed with games, dainty re-
freshments being served at its close.
All dIlIdCllft l6lu VI pothtOtS 10
one of which Walter kilgore is justly
proud. Having leased the James T,
Leavitt farm on the Norridgewock
road North side. he planted "a acres
of potatoes, all but about four acres
being in one large plot. Mr.. Kilgore
is an Aroostook farmer having moved
from Millinocket to Skowhegan and
like all farmers from that section of
Maine he knows how to make the
spuds grow. He has heason To be
proud of this large acreage because
o: attractiveness and because he mas
done the greater part of the WORK
himself in planting, cultivating and
spraying. He expects when he be-
grs digging about October list, to he
rewarded for his untiring labors up ),I
tins field by getting a good yield from
sane.