The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-08-21
LOCAL ITEMS

, from his vacation visit with relatives
in Dover. y. H.
Harry Hubbard and family have
been visiting in Moscow and Bingham
, during the present week
Clyde Witham has accepted a tenn
porary position at the local station Of
the Maine Central Railroad
Mrs. Loantha Wentworth went Mon
day to Waterville for a visit with her
daughter Mrs. Frank Sedgley.
Walter Waller is in Pennington for
ten days where he is substituting in
the Office of the American Express Co.
Mrs David Field returned home Sat.
urday after a visit with her sister,
Mrs. Benjamin Fairbrother on Spring
ST
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion Mills and Mr..
and Mrs A. B. Lamb have been spend
ing a few days in the vicinity of Jack
man.
The grounds of the Centenary M. e.
church are to be greatly beautified by
new grading and the laying of a new
walk
NJ. H. Sheay of the Commonwealth
Shoe Co arrived home Tuesday night
from a business trip to Whitman
Mass.
G. E. Sampson and family are again
at their Maple St home after a so
journ of several weeks at Lake Wes-
serrunsett.
Mrs. A. b. Armstrong left Tuesday
afternoon for visit with friends in
, Foxcroft and to attend school re-
union in Garland.
Mrs Marshall c. Viles and Ruth.
Esther and Robert Viles arrived home
Tuesday night from a several weeks
outing at Long Island.
: Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Brown arriv-
q ed home from Northport Monday
-, night and left Tuesday on the midday
train for visit to Boston.
} Mrs. Hiram Bearce is visiting rela-
: tives in Dover. She left for that place
Tuesday afternoon and will probably
remain away about two weeks.
Mrs. Lottie Weston. Mrs. Phoebe
Jones and Miss Della Church of Au-
gusta arrived Saturday to visit for a
time at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
J. Abbey.
Mrs. Carl Curtis left Tuesday for a
visit to New York. She was to visit
however for a time in Portland and
. also in Boston before going to the first
mentioned city.
Employees of the Maine Central
Railroad were busy the first of the
week planking the side walk at the
Water st. crossing. This is a de-
cided Improvement.
Mark Harville has something of a
curiosity in his fine garden. On his
splendid pumpkin vines are growing
two pumpkins which are joined to-
gether side to side.
c. NJ. Bennett, representative of the
Barrett Manufacturing Co. of Boston,
oil Of
ial was in town this week arranging
for an exhibit at the coming Somerset
Central Fair.
James Gilfillan who for some time
has been one of the efficient clerks
in the drug store of Sampson & Avore,
completed his duties there last Satur-
day and after two weeks vacation
he will go to Philadelphia and there
enter the Philadelphia College of
Pharmacy.
Among the outgoing passengers on
the midday train Tuesday were Mr..
and Mrs. John McIlwrath and daugh-
ter. Flora, who have been visiting at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Rob-
inson. Mrs. Robinson accompanied
them as far as Waterville. their desti-
nation being their home in Roxbury,
Mass.
A pleasant occasion was that OF
Monday evening when Clarence Green
was given a birthday reception in
honor of the Goth anniversary of his
birth. The affair was arranged as a
lawn party by his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
A. c. Green at their home on the Is.
land and those in attendance were
relatives and friends. Games were
played and refreshments were served.
Among the out-of-town tourists who
have lately been in this vicinity are:
W. c. Colman, Mrs. Colman, Sheldon
Colman, r. Butcher, Wichita, Kansas,
Miss Emma Sheldon, Ottawa, Kansas,
Mr. and Mrs. f. W. Dawson and
daughter, New Rochester. \. Y. Mrs.
G.. W. Allen. Norwood, Mass, Mrs. L.
B. Allen, Leonia, N. j., Mr.. and Mrs.
r. S. Sheldon and son, Toledo DR.,
c.. G. Fulford, Miss Betty Fulford,
Dick Fulford, Ross Erickson and A.