The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-06-05

terday for the day.
,Gss Mary wentworth Of Fairfield
: tho guest of Mrs. w. B. Whittier.
The owners of all dogs which are
-, licensed this week will be pros
ecuted.
Mics Lucy Poulin arrived home yes
terday from visit with friends in
Portland
Mrs Dexter S. Vaughan returned
Monday from a several days visit in
Winslow.
recent birth recorded upon the
hooks of the town clerk is a son to
,be wife of Fred Allen.
willard Eaton has been in South
Colon for a visit with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. L. Eaton.
Richard French of Portland accom-
,anIed by Sumner Ward enjoyed a
carriage drive to Athens, yesterday.
Mrs. C. E. Norcross and son, Win
s,op. of Hartland, are the guests of
Mrs. Norcross' father, N. w. Clark on
Pleasant st.
william Swain of Boston has been
visiting during the present week with
his sister, Marion Swain of the M.
G. Swain Co.
Mrs. E. w Crawford and son, Earle,
oi Waterville, visited the first of
This week with Mrs Crawford's cousin
Miss Mabel Robinson.
Rev. D. A. Ball of West Paris, form
erly pastor in the local Universalist
church. arrived last night for a visit
with DR.. Wadswortff and family.
Y D. Hilton, our valued North An
con correspondent was in town Tu-
esday and made us a call while here.
He dined at the home of his sister,
Mrs Benjamin Flagg.
The effectiveness of Russell st.
has been enhanced by the erection of
handsome rock piles by Landlord
futile of the Skowhegan House up
on each corner of his property.
Sunday, June the first, Alfred Cow
EFT. a shoemaker of Skowhegan and
Miss Theresa Cox, also of Skowhegan,
we're quietly married by Harold j.
Phillips, Justice of the Peace.
Frank Savage of Bingham who was
operated upon at the Somerset Hos
pta a week ago by DR.. Wing of No.
Arson has SO far recovered as to be
able to leave for home yesterday.
Only two of the County Commits
sioners were present at the meeting
held Tuesday here, and the matter
Of appointing a janitor for the Court
house was left over until a later
date
The concert which was to have
been given dy the Skowhegan Military
Band Friday evening was postponed
owing to the death of Cong. Goodwin
and was given Sunday at Coburn
Park instead.
Several marriage intentions have
lately been filed with Town Clerk
lambert All the parties are Show
hegan residents and their names fol-
Lyons; Lynne w. Greene to Martha
Withee.
Elmer McNeelie, in company with
W Briggs of Pittstields left yester-
day for Boston where they were to
join Sandy Goodwin, the chauffeur
Of Mrs Edith S. Shepherd and return
home in the 1914 Packard touring car
which Mrs Shepherd has lately pur
chased.
The Maine Automobile Associa-
ton has sent to the selectmen of
every town in the State printed
copy Of the law enacted by the last
legislature prohibiting the placing
of sod in the road. This law provides
that any town that leaves turf in the
road shall forfeit its state aid road
money.
It will be of much interest to Show
hogan friends of Wilkie Clark, the
professional baseball player, formerly
Of this town, to learn that the Occi-
dental Tigers, of which he has been
coach have become the Southern Cali
fornia intercollegiate champions for
1873, Mr. Clark has gone to Visalia,
Calf, where he is coaching for the
second season.
The many friends of Mrs. ]. B. Mad
docks will be much gratifed to see
her once more in their midst. She
was for many years a resident of
Skowhegan and arrived here the first
of the week from Carmel. For some
time she has been visiting with her
daughters in the vicinity of Boston,
and previous to that was in Newark,
ohio, visiting her son.
Mrs. Ella Hight of Athens accom-
panied by her cousin, Mrs. Sarah