The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-05-01

FRED Nltnam OF OAKLAND WAS III
town on business, Monday.
Roland L. Blanchard of Gardiner
spent Sunday with George Moore.
A boy was born Friday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Nathan Hunt, Myland Harold.
! A daughter was born to Mr.. end
Mrs. Walter Hinckley at Good VIII,
Sunday.
Mrs. Ora Pratt of Corinna has been
visiting this week at the home of C.
Davis Miller.
The monthly conference meeting of
the Bethany church will be held this
! Thursday evening.
Roscoe G. Bgelow returned from
Bluehll, Saturday. where he purchas-
ed IS head of oxen.
Fred w. Bunker, formerly member
of the staff of Gov. Pert NJ. Fernald,
was in town Tuesday.
Judge II. H. Brazzell of Fairfield
was in Madison, Monday presiding at
the civil term of court.
Rev. J. G.. Osborne delivered ad-
dresses at the Jail and at the Advent
and the Y. NJ c. A. Sunday.
The first spring lamb to be brought
! into market was delivered to A. Z.
Jewett by w. B. Whittier, Friday.
Ed. Ben Hinckley, who recently
bought the Fairfield Journal has pur-
chased the Nye homestead in Fairfield
village.
The marriage intentions of Morris
Leo Provencal and Henrietta Barri-
eault were recorded at the town
clerks office, Monday.
Roy Steward has returned home
from poughkeepsie, n Y, where he
has recently been graduated from
Eastman Business College.
The ice has gone out OF Wesserrun-
set Lake and it is expected that the
ice will leave Moosehead Lake some
time during the present week.
Miss Adelaide Holway, a teacher in
Decring High School, is spending a
i week with friends in Madison and
i Skowhegan. She was formerly a
/ teacher in Madison for three years. n
Mrs. Helen Kincaid died at West
/ Athens, Friday at the age of II years.
| She was the widow of John Kincaid.
Funeral services were held Sunday at
10 o'clock and interment was in the
South Side cemetery, Skowhegan.
From early information received
here the scedule for the summer
trains into and from Skowhegan will
j be as follows: Outgoing trains at
4.55 and 500 a. M, 12.10 1925 p. M;
incoming trains at 7.55 and 1895 a.
m, AS and SIS p. m.
Hon. e. n. Merrill has purchased
THE Gentleman" one of the finest
and fastest motor boats on Lake Wes-
serrunsett. He will use it in the
| pleasure of his new cottages that he
has recently bought formerly owned
! by the Morrison estate,
! II IoT &c
morning for Chester. Pa, where he
will be the guest of his son, Professor
L. p Wyman, who has the chair of
chemistry in the Pennsylvania Mill
tary College. Mr.. Wyman will also
visit his daughter, Mrs. William Dill
Ter in Philadelphia. He expects to
return early in June.
A meeting of Kennebec Union will
be held at the Universalist church in
Waterville, tomorrow, Friday. The
session will open at 10 A. NJ. A 25c
lunch will be furnished by the ladies
of the church. Mrs. Herbert Judkins
will give a paper entitled "Woman's
New Charm, and Her Obligations"
Mrs. Elizabeth Merrill will read some
of her original poems.
A Dairy Institute will be held in
the Court Room of the Municipal
Building next Saturday for the pur-
pose of organizing a COW testing AS
| sociation. The speakers will be l.. f.
McIntire. East Waterford and F. S.
Adams, State Dairy Instructor. At
this meeting the committee appointed
at the recent meeting will make their
report as to COWS secured to enter
the association.
Charles b. White, who owns fine
farm about two and half miles from
the village had narrow escape from
losing his entire set of farm buildings,
Monday. 1t seems that Mr.. White had
left small fire mulling in the grass
behind his ice house and had gone
into the house. Neighbors soon
warned him that his ice house was
afire Summoning quite a number of
! his neighbors to his aid the fire was
checked after big fight though the
ice house was burned and the barn
somewhat scorched.