The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-02-13

street again following her recent Ill
ness.
Thomas G.. Lord was quite i'll the
latter part of last week and the flrst
of this week an attack of pneumonia
being feared.
There was born in Skowhegan, Feb.
.. to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lessor
daughter and February a, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Lessard son.
The six-year old daughter OF Major
Foster was badly scaled Tuesday lore
noon by coming in contact with pail
of hot water which was setting on the
kitchen floor.
Among the patrons of Husbandery
to go to Madison, Tuesday to Pomona
Grange meeting were Mr.. and Mrs. S.
f. Emerson, Mrs. Vina Hill and Mrs.
Tilda Buker.
Mrs. Ethel Buker of Boston, who
has been visiting her father, Alanson
Perkins and her sister, Mrs. Carrie r.
Fairbrother for several days, purposes
to return to Boston this week.
The regular meeting OF the Wo-
mans Relief Corps was held Friday
in D. A. R. Hall. There was good
attendance and a report of the State
Convention was read by Mrs. Emma
Bickford.
Capt. BERTHE |. Rice has returned
from Auburn and will shortly go to
Gardiner where he has accepted a
position in the cutting department
of the R. E. Hazard Shoe Factory in
that town.
The Town Improvement Society will
hold a meeting tomorrow afternoon.
My First Valentine" is to be respond
ed to by the members, and the pro-
gram will be partially devoted to
Good Will Farm work.
A business meeting of the Epworth
League of the NJ. e. church will be
held tomorrow evening at the home
of Miss Geneva Smith, 269 Madison
Ave. Following the business session
there will be valentine party.
Gordon Bragg left by early train
Tuesday morning for Dexter where he
cd with tho CQn-
trail Maine Power Co., as stenograph-
er. Mr.. Bragg assumed his duties
with the prospect of later taking over
the management of that branch of the
company.
Hiram Perkins and his sister, Mrs.
Carrie Perkins Fairbrother were in
Pittsfield, Tuesday, to attend the funer-
al of their cousin, Nathaniel L. Perk-
ms, whose death occurred Saturday af-
ter a brief illness Mr.. Perkins was
a we'll known and prominent business
man of Pittsfield
C. F. Woodland of Greenville, gener-
al agent for the Coburn Steamboat
Co., has been in town this week. He
was formerly a resident of Skowhe-
gan and was accompanied here by
Mrs. Woodland and their children, Per
ley and Ards. They have been guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. E.
Thompson.
Mrs. David Holden and her daugh-
ter-in-law, Mrs. Charles Holden
left here Friday for fortnight's Vi
sit in Brunswick and Portland. In
the first named city they will be the
guests of Mrs. Holden's son, David,
and in Portland they will visit her
two daughters, Mrs. Walter Clough
and Mrs. NJ j. Mitchell
The Methodist parsonage was the
scene of a quiet wedding Friday last
when Chester H. Hayes of Norridge-
wock, was married to Miss Bernice
Markham of Smithfield, by Rev. Ho-
race G. McGlaubin. The groom is
the son of DR.. w. H. Hayes of Nor
ridgeWock and the bride is the daugh-
ter of Joseph Markham of Smithfield
The groom is a farmer
Father Elias of Lawrence. Mass.
left here Tuesday forenoon after Wis
it among the Assyrian people of this
town. His principal purpose for COM
ing to Skowhegan was to perform
baptismal services upon the children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Corey. Quite a
delegation from the Assyrian colony
were at the station to bid the priest
farewell.
Round the World In Forty Minutes
was the subject of Mrs. Elizabeth Fos-
ter's very able address in the par
lors of the Bethany Baptist church
last Sunday evening 1t is always with
much pleasure that Skowhegan people
listen to Mrs. Fosters lectures and this
occasion was not an exception. Her
home is in Wateryille and while In
Skowhegan she has been visiting Mrs.
Lucy Philbrick
The Huff Studio has recently made
for w. l.. Burland & Co., an excellent