The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-29
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

loft here Tuesday for visit with her
brother in Guilford
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Blunt of Farm
,ngton visited Mr.. Blunt's mother,
M,s George n. Weston over Sunday.
Mrs. Belle Dudley of Newport has
hoo, guest this week in the home
~ her cousin, d. Hamlin Bartlett on
Madison Avenue.
Several members of Mount Moriah
conncl went from here yesterday to
pittsfeld to a special assembly meet
ing last evening.
Miss Anna P. Pfister is expected
home on the early evening train to-
night from Bowdoinham, where she is
teaching. to spend Memorial Day with
her parents on, East Leavitt ST
The two Baptist churches will have
union service Sunday evening at Z
o'clock in the Bethany Baptist church.
Mrs j. G. Osborne, who attended the
Anniversary of Baptist Mission So
ceties in Detroit, Michigan, will
sneak. Mrs. Osborne returned home
Sunday.
Skowhegan friends will be interest
cd to learn of the marriage of Miss
Geneva Fogg of Madison to Alfred
ingalls, of Buckfield. The bride was
formerly employed as stenographer
in this town a part of the time filling
that position in the office of the In
dependent Reporter.
On Friday, May Goth, the postoffice
will be closed as follows: From 8
a. M to 1915 a. M; from II NJ. to 2.20
D. m from 2.25 p. m. to AS p. m.
and at at night. City carriers will
make one collection and one delivery,
the regular forenoon trips. Rural
carriers will perform no service on
this date.
Out-of-town people here to attend
the federated day meeting in the
W. C. T. u, Tuesday, were Mrs.
Frances Damon of Dexter, State Su-
perintendent of Parliamentary Usage,
Mrs Hannah Barney, Mrs. Charles
Hatch, Mrs. L. D. Rand, Mrs. P. L.
Cleveland, Fairfield; Mrs. Flora
Southwick and daughter and Mrs. Eva
Spear of Madison.
A concert company composed OF
Mary Emery, pianist; Tobey Mooers,
reader, Maurice Philbrick, yiolinist
and Miss Inez Faye Armstrong of
Bridgeton, soprano soloist, have been
giving entertainments in the towns OF
Canaan, Athens and Tuesday evening
one in Hartland. They have met with
excellent success and are all we'll
fitted for the various roles which they
have assumed
H. D. Kimball of the Kimball,
Smallman & Frazee Organ Co., has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. ]. S.
Murray. He is on his way home
from Bangor where he has just set
up a $4,000 organ built by that firm
This is the third large organ they
have set up since that in the nongre-
gational church and they have under
way $4,000 organ for the Harvard
College Club Building now being
erected in Boston.
The Girls Thimble Club was en-
tertained Friday afternoon of last
week by Alta and Verna Porter at
their home on Water st. The entire
time was spent in sewing; the girls
having decided at a previous meeting
not to have any programs to prepare
during the summer months. At the
close of the afternoon refreshments
were served. The next meeting Will
be with Dorothy Gaylord on Kenne-
bee ST., Friday afternoon, June 9th.
Mrs Charles Hill went to Portland
Yesterday, her visit to that city be-
ing occasioned by the illness of her
brother-in-law. Her brother, c. J.
Richmond, the dramatist, who has
been her guest for several days ac-
companied her as far as Waterville
where he was to deliver readings be-
fore the Waterville High School and
Coburn Classical Institute. He was
to leave later for Portland and in
tended to be back in New York by
Saturday.
Word has been received here of the
death of Mrs. Rose Trask, which oc-
cured in Maynard, Mass. The body
was brought here yesterday and the
funeral was to be held in East Madi-
son at the home of Mrs. Trask's sis
ter, Mrs. Geo. Morrison. The age of
the deceased was sixty years and her
death was due to a cancer. She had
been i'll for some time. Mrs. Trask
was born in East Madison. Mrs. A.
b Armstrong went from here today
to attend the obsequies.
\ wedding was quietly solemnized
at the Bethany Baptist parsonage
Monday night by Rev. George Mer-
ram when Byron Linnwood Howe, an
agent for the Singer Sewing Machine