The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1913-04-17
at the Lincoln school Is boarding al
Edwin Smiths.
Miss Loantha Pike Is boarding
with Sadie Flanders.
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Merrill were in Wateryille last Sat
urday.
Mrs. J. NJ. Pierce visited her sister.
Mrs. Fred Tobey at Sandy River a few
days last week
A special meeting of Somerset Re
bekah Lodge No. II was held in their
hall last Tuesday evening for the pur-
pose of comforting the degree upon
several candidates.
Mr. and Mrs. John Otis left town
last Saturday for Mosquito where they
will make their home for the present.
Mr.. Otis has secured a position as
foreman Of the section in that place.
Their son Charlie will remain here
and continue his studies.
Miss Iva Stevens was in town last
week visiting friends. She is greatly
improved In health.
An exceedingly interesting meeting
of the v. l. s. was held in the Library
parlors last Thursday afternoon. the
subject being Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The hostesses OF the afternoon were
Mrs. Amanda Hobbs and Mrs. Matte
Holt After the roll call the follow
ing program was given: Sketches
from the life Of Hawthorne by Mrs.
Holt and Mrs. Henry Whiting; selec-
Smith; piano solo, Miss Florence
Jewett; review Of 1.-THE Scarlet Letter"
Mrs. Leroy Folsom; vocal solo, Miss
Annette Spaulding.
Monroe Downes still remains criti-
cally Ill.
II. Price Weber & Co. presented
two dramas entitled "A Queen for a
Day" and 1.-THE Hidden Hand" in the
Grange Hall last Friday and Saturday
evenings There was. a full house
both nights and large sum was real
lied. This Is the 33rd year that Mr.
Weber has presented plays in this
| town beginning In Sawtell's Hall, then
the Hotel parlors and now in the
Grange Hall.
T. H. Spear of Madison was In town
Monday on business.
The supper given to the Reds by tue
Blues as the outcome of the contest
! In the Congregational Sunday School
was a "howling" success. The sup
per was given last Wednesday night
at half past six and sixty sat down
| at the tables The committee was
congratulating themselves on the well
spread tables before the children sat
down but they were seated a very
short time before they began to ex-
change looks of CONSERVATION and the
food began to go like the snow when
the sun comes out One lady set a
plate of cake between two boys and
barely got turned around before they
were calling for cake. A short en-
4 a oil ffar hN
| the reds after which games were
| played.
Mrs. G. s. Jewett and Miss Florence
! Jewett were In Watervllle for the day
last Friday.
| Mrs. George @earr and Mrs. Frank
| Wing who were called to Rumford last
week by illness in Mrs. Carr's broth
er's family, returned home last Sat
urday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Jones spent
Sunday with relatives In Augusta
Mrs e. r. Tobey of Orono is visit
ing her parents this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. X Boone have NOV
ed into the Baptist parsonage.
The next V. l. s. meeting will be
held in the Library parlor. April 25th
in charge of Mrs. Helen Pierce, Mrs.
Hattie Pike and Mrs. Susie Fuller.
| Subject, The two most influential
| families Of the Nineteenth Century in
England and America. Reminiscens
| es of Henry Ward Beecher.
| Twenty new members were reported
on the blue side In the Baptist Sun
day School last Sunday.
Miss Hazel Whitney was in Water
vile last Friday
The roads are reported the worst
they have been at all this spring at
the present time.
Some of the new victims of the
German measles are Mrs. Leona
Moore. Miss Elsie Walker, Miss Fay
Barker and Miss Gladys Spaulding.
Judge Whitehouse has decided in
| favor of the old stockholders in the
Bombazee question.
A surprise party was given Mrs.
Elizabeth Jones by some of her neigh
bors and friends at her home on Wa
terville Hill last Thursday evening.
The party was given to celebrate her
60th birthday. The evening was
spent very pleasantly in playing
finch and sixty three. Refreshments
of candy and popcorn were served.
During the evening a handsome box
of stationery was presented to Mrs.
Jones. The guests had the honor of
attending the first party Mrs. Jones
ever had.
Many friends of Mrs. Ernest Gill
man remembered her by a shower of
post cards. She received II last Mon
day. Mrs. Gilman Is improving
slowly.
Mrs. Oren Jones has been quite i'll
but Is now improving.
i Mrs. E. F.. Kidder Is still confined to
her bed with her broken hip.
Il George Kenneyson of Waterville
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs
Charles Pike.
} Miss Lizzie Hoxie went to the Pond
Monday on the stage to open her
cottage for the summer. That sounds
! as though summer was coming.
Miss Lnnion Brown was in Water
! Vile last Wednesday.
!, Fred Burbank, travelling salesman
for the Mutual Shoemakers was in
town Tuesday.
Extensive improvements are being
made in the cemetery on the North