The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-04-16
Madison News of Interset

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by insurance.
Among those in attendance at court
from here are Deputy Sherl1 Rufus
Mckinney. John {. Williams as ira
verse juror and Chauneey +. Ghand-
/ Ter as supernumerarY. .. / Brlggs
served last week on The grand jury
and Mark Hobart of East Madison is
foreman of the traverse jury.
/ Mrs. Ongola Curtis of Fairfield, a
returned missionary will speak at the
Free Baptist church in Madison next
Sunday morning and al the Baptist
church in Arson at . p m. Mrs.
Curtis. who was born in India and has
spent the most of her life there is a
most interesting speaker.
Mrs. Reuben Young has been seri-
ously i'll at the home of her daughter
Mrs. W. G. Sawyer on Maple street,
but is now on the gain
Special car from Madison after the
Junior Exhibition Friday evening.
J. Frank Withee is having a new
piazza built on his house on the cor
ner of Bean and Maple street, f. A.
Maxim being the carpenter. The old
piazza has been torn off and the new
one will be much wider and two
story.
/ The regular meeting of the Woman
Association of the Congregational
/ Church was held at the church par
lors, Wednesday afternoon OF last
week with a good attendance. The
missionary topic was Chapters on
Rural Progress and a most interest
ing paper on this subject was given
/ by Mrs. X. c. Gray.
Mrs. r. G. Stanwood Of the Arson
side went to Brunswick last week
Thursday to visit her sister for few
days.
Zacharah Hensbee WAS called to
Guysbrough, N. S. Friday by the
death of a sister. Mr. Hensbee ex-
poets to spend about ten days at his
old home.
Mrs. Clara Powers and daughter
Helen were in Watervlle and Oakland
Friday and Mrs. Powers. who is pres
ident of the Kennebec Union of Wo-
mems Clubs, attended a meeting OF
the executive board al the latter place.
FOR SALE-A good house and
stable in Madison Village by Central
Maine Realty Co, Skowhegan.
DR.. Carleton Luce who has had den
tai rooms in the Blackwell block is
moving to Greenyille, where he Will
establish a dental office.
A. B. Willis of the Arson side is in
Boston on business this week.
Seventy-five or more people from
here attended the Easter ball at
Skowhegan, Monday night Bomazee
Company. Uniform Rank, knights OF
Pythias and the members of the de
gree team of the Pythian Sisterhood
both went and by special request pre-
scented their drills.
Miss Vivian Frederic OF Stdrks VINO
has been spending the Easter vaca-
ton at home, returned to Madison
Monday morning and resumed her
studies in the High School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Hall left Tues
day for up river. Mr. Hall Will go
DIRECTLY to Chain of Ponds, where they
are both to be employed at sporting
ranch during the summer aud Mrs
Hall will visit with hel mother. Mrs
H. w. MaXfield al Rove Ponds for
few weeks before Jo..' ag her husband.
Fred Burwood Who las been the
guest for a few DAYS of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs James RurNood. return
ed to his home in Iachman Friday.
Mrs Susie Haynes Went TO Portland,
Friday. where she Will visit her
daughter and also attend the Metho-
dist Conference held IN that city this
The high wind of Sunday night dis
lodged a large number of the squares
of steel roofing on the roof of the
store occupied by Lyman p. Small,
which was lately Quilted by fire. and
cart load of them lay on Depot St,
Monday morning. If one of these
squares had happened to strike or
some passerby ii would doubtless
have caused serious injury if not
death.
1t is reported that the owner of the
block in the corner of Main and Depot
streets which has been a land mark
for so many years. will tear it down
as it is practically worthless since its
partial destruction by fire a short time
ago. 1t is also said that the owner,
Elmer Rowell of Rowellyale has re-
fused an offer for the lot from the
manager of the Kennebec Farmers
Cooperative Exchange and also an
offer from the Maine Central r. r
If you want to sell or buy a farm
call on the Central Maine Realty Co,
Skowhegan.
l. J. Smith of Skowhegan was in
town Tuesday OH his way to North
Arson on business
The sidewalk on the west side of
Corporation street is being treated to
a liberal coating of coal ashes.
Olestine Savage of North Arson was
in town on business. Tuesday.
Several members of Kennebec Val
ley Grange attended Somerset Pomo-
ma at Norridgewock, Tuesday. among
whom were Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gray,
Mrs. Augusta Bunker Mrs. Otis Hill
ton, Mrs. Carrie Adams and Mrs. Chas.
Merry
Men are leaving nearly every day
now for the early drives on the diff
ferent streams. Reports from up riv-
er say that all our late storms have
been snow up there and that about
foot and one-half fell last week and
the week before Lumbermen who
came out of the woods last week re-
port anywhere from three to four
feet of snow in the woods and say that
there has not been better hauling at
any time the past winter A long
warm rain now could hardly fail to
do lot of damage, with so much snow
in the woods and the ice in the river
about two feet thick.
A meeting of the trustees of The
Somerset Agricultural Society was
held Monday afternoon in A. o. L. w.
Hall. The matter of having an at
traction of some kind at the fair next