The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-04-17
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

Mrs Elwyn Packard is numbered
among the patients at Somerset Hos
pital.
Folsom Merrill has been at home
ibis week from Harvard, visiting his
parents.
Hiss Margaret Young visited with
her friend, Miss Elva Nye. in Fairfield
saturday.
Eunice Farnsworth Chapter, d. A. r.
uig meet Monday afternoon with Mrs.
! Wallace Blunt.
Miss Rosalie Renter of Madison has
h4en added to the nursing force at
Somerset hospital.
Saturday next being Patriots day. a
LEGAL holiday, the banks of Skowhe-
gan will be closed.
Bliss Vera Bearce arrived home,
Tuesday evening from a visit with her
Grandmother in Dover.
The Rebekahs will hold a food and
candy sale in Merrill Block, Satur-
day afternoon, April 10.
Rex Frost, who has been sick with
tyohoid fever for the past two weeks,
is much better at this writing.
X Lester Shepley is shortly to
open a vulcanizing and tire repair
sbop in the Dunlap block on Water st.
L, w. Carver of Boston was among
tas out-of-town automobile men to
visit Skowhegan the first of the pre-
sent week.
Miss Katherine Allen of Oakland
VITO has been the guest of her cousin,
Mrs. Abbott Kendall, departed Tues
day afternoon.
Mrs. w. H. Fowler left yesterday
for a visit with Mr.. and Mrs. B. F.
Webb formerly of Skowhegan, now
located in Brewer.
r. Z. Pitts, who has been receiving
treatment in Portland hospital and
taking a vacation rest at Sebago Lake
arrived home Tuesday night.
George Burns has been in Lewiston
MS week to attend meeting of the
Grand Commandery of the United
Order of the Golden Cross.
The Social Circle of the Centenary
N L. Church will meet with Mrs.
L. W. Gerrish on North Ave, next
Monday afternoon at the usual hour.
Dir. and Mrs. j. r. Bradstreet and
daughter returned to Waterville, Mon
day after a visit with Mrs Brad
streets parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z.
Steward, Coburn Ave.
The members of the Finch Club
we're pleasantly entertained by Mrs.
{ ~ Bragg at their last meeting. The
1ext meeting will be held next Wed
nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs.
E,ben Chase, Madison Ave.
Skowhegan friends are grieved to
learn of the illness of Mrs. Thomas
A. Min in Brighton, Mass Her pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Cock
burn, were summoned by telegram
and departed yesterday on the mid
day train.
Master Byron Varney, who has been
critically ill at Somerset Hospital, is
improved to such an extent that he Is
now able to sit up His father Wilder
iarney, who was called here from
Indiana, owing to the seriousness of
mis- condition. will shortly return TO
The west
John Nutting superintendent of the
street cleaning department is doing
some excellent work in keeping the
main throughfares free from rubbish.
It would be wen for the business men
along the principal streets of the town
10 aid this official by being as careful
az possible about allowing dirt to be
swept into the highway.
Isadore Green of Lowell, Mass, a
member of the firm of Green Bros,
mas been in town during the past
week to pay visit to the local five
and ten cent store. There are five
similar stores in Maine run by the
Green Bros. The member of the
drm visiting Skowhegan was accom-
panied here by NJ. Weller of Water
Vile.
People say there has been scarcity
of maple syrup made this year but a
resident of Skowhegan has tapped one
tree and gathered therefrom such a
quantity of sap that now that II is
boiled down he has quantities of the
sweet toothsome fluid. Anyone des-
ring to know the exact quantity of
syrup made from this lone tree can
doubtless obtain requisite information
by inquiring of Thomas Lawley at the
Coburn.