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

but left here when nineteen years old,
when Horace Greeley said Go West
young man.. He Is now president Of
the Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Benson, Neb., and is seemingly we'll
pleased with the West though he
doesn't forget old friends and asso-
ciates in Athens. Having four simil-
ar letters of inquiry to answer he
writes briefly under date of March 80;
Am glad to say none of our family
were in the storm. 1t missed Cush-
man by only three blocks We were
more than a mile from it. Byron
and | went all over 1t yesterday. Ii
is awful to look at for about a mile
long and a quarter of a mile wide.
less damage. Some were torn into
kindling wood and some turned over
on roofs and sides. Brick houses
were just a pile of brick. won't
try to tell you for | can't do it. You
can imagine 1t and then multiply it
by three and guess at it and you won't
be far Off 1t divided west of Ben
son going north and south. The one
going north of US didn't do nearly as
much damage for it struck farm
buildings and small towns and didn't
have enough to work on to do the
damage"
Roger Brooks Is in town running
the saw at H. Z. Trueworthy's mill
Frank Wescott is also employed at
the mill and has recently bought and
moved to the mill part of the logs
yarded at Asa Emery's by Bryce Lib
by for Walton & Fall, from the B. P.
Barker lot The balance was rolled
down the bank into the stream and
several men were busy the first of
last week driving them to Walton's
mill. Other lots of lumber are COM
ing down the river this week.
r. d. Cleveland, our stage driver,
has been on the sick list for two
weeks past and is not Yet able to re-
turn to the work. A part of the time
his father has driven and sometimes
the incoming driver, Manley Mason,
has substituted for him. MIR. Mason
has moved into the Lottie Lord rent,
having leased his farm on Stickney
Hill.
Leonard Tibbetts has moved from
Peaks Hill, where he located a few
months ago, to st. Adams, where he
has leased farm, and Mrs. Tibbetts
will go out professionally as trained
nurse.
Ed. Taylor who has been suffering
for three weeks past from an attack
Of sciatica, is reported as slowly i'm
proving.
Nyren Joaquin is in poor health.
Mrs Joaquin had returned from Pitts
field, where she has passed the winter
with her daughter, Mrs. George Ben
nett. Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett have re-
turned to their farm home here for
the summer.
Mrs. Ed. Locke is at her old home
THE Magoon Farm" for the present.
Mr.. Locke has sold out his livery
business in Roxbury and located on a
large farm purchased last fall in
Alberta, Canada. He and the son,
Everett, left Boston a few weeks ago
for their new home taking with them
several horses for use on their farm.
Mrs. Locke will not join them till
later.
The Hartland school in the East
Athens school house opened March
81 with the same teacher as last term,
Miss Mary Mills of East Brooksville,
Maine.
A telephone message from Scion
last Saturday informed friends here
that little Harriet Patterson. who had
recently passed some time here with
her grandmother, Mrs. Ora Judkins,
was suffering from broken leg.
II. 2. Bush was in Skowhegan Tues
day unloading a car load of machinery.
How much more convenient it would
be in mud time to have it brought to
Athens by electrics.