The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-12-18


for news and advertising. Save
yourself disappointment by taking due
note Of this announcement
during the past forty years or more
on Main Street and surely, looking
back even less than that time one
would hardly recognize the business
section. there have been so many i'm
proYements. With the exception of
one store every one now has plate
glass windows the entire length of
The street
Mr. and Mrs Conrad Webb of Starks
have purchased the Bert Morrow place
and plan to occupy it at once. Mr..
and Mrs. Morrow have purchased the
w w. Huntoon house at Burgess
corner
Mrs Lila Randall of Auburn is keep
ing house for Joshua Bigelow
+. w. Gibbs has returned from a
short trip to Englishtown, \. J.
The Norridgewock Dramatic Club
met with Mr.. and Mrs. George o. Carr
last Tuesday evening and enjoyed one
of their famous banquets. At 100 the
guests were called to the dining room,
covers being laid for twelve. For
over an hour all was merry and after
the banquet a rehearsal had been
planned but Mrs. Carr was taken very
suddenly ill so the guests left quietly
I for their homes.
Mrs. Kate Holbrook and son Alton
are in town for few weeks visit with
relatives and friends.
Atwood Frederic and Clarence An
derson returned last week from
hunting trip bringing with them two
fine deer. Mr.. Frederic was fortu-
nate enough to shoot ten-point buck
which attracted great deal of at
tention at the station, and which
would have met with a ready sale had
Mr.. Frederic been SO minded.
Mrs H. c. Hussey is on the sick list
Rev. Robert Sheaf has been making
plans. much to the delight of the boys
of the Congregational Sunday School,
to form a company of boy scouts in the
near future.
Mrs Henry Oliver and little daught- /
er of West Mills are visiting Mrs
| divers sisters, Mrs. Carrie Tobey and
Mrs. Ellen Pierce this week
Mrs. F. W. Gibbs has been quite i'll
! during the past week
A dance has been advertised for
/ Christmas eve at the Grange Hall with
music by Jones orchestra.
c. w. Farrand and Lewis Whitney
attended the Shriners meeting at Lew
iston last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Urban Parkman of |
Skowhegan have been visiting Mrs
Mary Spaulding recently.
Frank Vaughn has finished work in
the shoe shop preparatory to taking
up his shoe business in the addition
which his father E. II. Vaughn has
built on his store.
Last Monday evening Roy Truewor-
thy was hustlng trying to move his
stock as fast as possible from the old
store to the new one in the postoffice
block. The new quarters are very
attractive and will make a fine place
to display the choice line of jewelry
and dishes of which Mr.. Trueworthy
makes a specially.
Mrs. Mary Walton returned to her
home in Hallowell Tuesday after Wis
iting in this vicinity for several weeks.
E. f. Barker and family and Uncle
Charles Barker spent Sunday with
relatives in Hartand
For the first time this winter people
saw the Kennebec river frozen over
which is most unusual for this time
of the year as in years past ii was no
uncommon thing to go to SkoWhegan
on the ice to do the Christmas shop
ping
Twelve young women constituting
the o. e. c., met with Mrs. Chester
Jones last Tuesday afternoon for their
weekly meeting which is spent in a
social way and with embroidering
Mrs. Robert Sheaf arrived in town
10 "Wednesday from (nnpnrd \ II
where she has been visiting her sons
family Mr. and Mrs. Sheaf will oc-
cupy the Congregational parsonage at
once Mrs. Davis and daughter Mrs.
Florence Ames will stay with II. c.
Hussey and family for a short time
or until the Folsoms are able to move
into their new home when Mrs. Davis
will occupy the rent vacated by them.
Amos Holt is failing very rapidly, it
has been reported.
Eugene Hopkins and family who
have been occupying the Phillip Por-
ter house have moved to Montyille.
Chester Smith, a former Norridge-
woek boy now of Yonkers, n. Y, is
expected home this week to visit his .
mother, Mrs. Cora Smith over Christ
mas.
An unusually happy surprise party
was given Mrs. Mollie Whitney on her
birthday last Saturday afternoon by
about fifteen of her friends. At about
$50 the guests commenced to arrive
and not until several had come did
Mrs. Whitney surmise that anything
unusual was happening. She receiv-
ed many pretty gifts and post card
shower besides. Dainty refreshments
were served by her daughter-in-law,
Mrs Grace Whitney and granddaught-
err Miss Hazel. consisting of sandwich
es, assorted waters, tea and assorted
candies and of course the birthday
cake which was most delicious. AT
about o'clock all started for their
homes wishing Mrs. Whitney many
happy returns of the day.
Phillip Porter of Montyille was in
town over Sunday.
The Sunday Schools in town will OBJ
serve Christmas in the following way:
The Baptist S. S. will serve a supper
to all their members excepting the
mems class and the women's and af-