The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-10-02

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as this week Wednesday, where ne
has charge of the Theological Depart
ment at Bishop College, Marshall.
| Mrs. Grace Folsom and Mrs. Ellen
Pierce are visiting Mrs. Grace Shorey
Furber at Bath this week.
Miss Nellie Hussey is spendil TINS
week visiting her aunt, Mrs. Spauld-
Il ing in Watervile, and her Drothef,
Chester in Skowhegan.
The Congo Thimble Society met
last Tuesday with Mrs. Hattie Pike
and chose the committees for their an
nual fair.
Miss Kathleen Buckingham under
went a surgical operation for appendI-
| citis al Somerset Hospital in Show
! hogan last week and is getting along
Mrs. Essie Webb Moody and little
child of Rumford Falls is visiting
relatives in town.
Both of the corn shops have closed
after a short seasons pack owing to
the drought and frosts.
The Ladies' Aid of the Baptist
church met with Mrs. Samuel Boone
last Tuesday afternoon.
Sam Rosenthal has moved his stock
into the store recently occupied and
used by him as a fish market.
Mr.. and Mrs. Obed Allen have NOV
ed to Highland.
Everett Campbell has been quite
sick
The remains of Matthew H. Howard
accompanied by his wife were taken
to his home in New Bedford. Mass.
IT fA h,Yv al Mr ~
was one of the men employed by Phil
lip Porter. who were stricken with
typhoid fever a short time ago. Mr.
Porter and the other men who are
having the fever are reported as gain
ing. Mr.. Howard passed away Mon
day afternoon and was forty-fve
years old.
Mrs. Lorin Barte of South Framing
ham returned to her home last Thurs
day after visiting her mother, Mrs.
Susan Prouty. Mrs. Alice Watkins
of Portland. Oregon, is now visitor
at the Prouty home.
Mr. and Mrs Russell Boardman
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
ry Hogan.
Miss Myrtle Webb is visiting friends
and relatives in town.
Charles Folsom Jones of Skowhe-
gan was a business caller in town
Thursday.
Mrs. Nettie Gill returned to her
home in Massachusetts last Saturday
morning after spending several weeks
in town with relatives.
Mrs Maude Wentworth of Freedom
arrived in town Wednesday for visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. S. K. Fuller.
Mr. and Mrs. lothian Wood of Win
chester, Mass, arrived in town last
week and are making preparations to
move into their new home which they
recently purchased of Mr. Haywood
on Sunset Hill.
Mrs. B. B. Merrill and grandson
Parker have returned from a visit at
Ocean Beach.
Prof. and Mrs. F. T. Davis spent
Sunday in town with relatives. Mr..
and Mrs. Davis are teaching in Ca
! naan
Leslie Soule will move his family
into the Ben Smith rent in the near
| future
Mrs. Lena futile has been quite i'll
during the past week.
Henry George surely holds the rec
ord as far as we can find out for rails
ing late green peas as he has been
having them from his garden for his
table this week.
1t is reported that while Henry Hill
ton is very fond of cold canned corn
he likes it served scalding hot as we'll
but his friends say that it would not
do to ask him about 1t after the acct
dent which happened last week.
A number of people from this town
attended the Rome fair last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Packard form
erly of Auburn will occupy the Eu-
gene Coyell house, formerly the Lowe
house. at Burgess Corner, this winter
Mr.. Packard is foreman at the shoe
shop.
,Reta Everett spent Sunday at heI
home in town.
Verne Cunliff and family are spend
ing few days with his parents il
Smithfeld before leaving for Cali
fornia.
This week Thursday at the Baptist
church, Ex-Congressman Gould, who
was L. S. Commissioner at the Pana-
ma Canal under Pres. Taft, will de-
liver a lecture under the auspices
of the V. l. S. on what he saw and
heard at Panama. The public have
been cordially invited to attend.
Mrs A A. Merrill and son, W. W
Merrill, and wife of Fairfield, spen
Sunday with Mrs. Merrill's brother
G. S. Jewett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Goodrich oil
Hartland spent Sunday with +. e.
Barker and family.