The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-10-29
Skowhegan Local News

ton.
Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Sawyer visited
relatives in Starks the first of the
week.
The Congregational Working Lea
one meets each week Monday in the
CONGREGATIONAL parlors until further
notice.
Mr. and Mrs Sheldon II. Beal were
in Augusta yesterday during the day.
Mr. Beal will represent the Cornville
district in the next session of the leg
islature.
Skowhegan friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Hilton, who now live in Water
vile. will be gratitied to learn that
their little SON is recoverinal from the
effects of surgical operation.
s. C. Ward, Miss s Madeline Ward
and Mrs. Lizzie Lombard returned
Tuesday from few days stay at
Sandy Stream. Mr. WARD succeeded
in capturing a deer while away.
Miss Mabel Smiley, who has been
passing the summer with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Smiley, left yes
terday for New York Miss Smiley
is a nurse in the Polytechnic Hospital,
that city.
Plans are underway among the
members of the Milburn Club to ar
range for several obseryances of La
dies Night during the coming season.
At a meeting Monday evening Payson
yiles, Chas. W. Day and John F. Mer-
rift were elected to membership.
News of the illness of Roy P. Nay
at Augusta was received here by rela-
tives Tuesday night. The young man
has been employed in that city for
some time, and while his condition
was not regarded as critical, it was
such that it was deemed advisable to
remove him to a hospital.
Next Sunday at 1045 the morning
sermon at the Congregational Church
will be preached by Rev. A W. Bailey
of South Hadley, Mass, Northern New
England Superintendent of Congre-
gational Sunday School work. The
other services will be as usual at
lO.45, Il, 4.3O and o'clock.
Miss Mabelle w. Foss, a teacher in
the Athens schools visited in SHOW
hogan yesterday with relatives. She
left during the day for Portland to at
tend the Teachers Convention &C
companied by Miss Mabel Hall, Miss
Annie Whittier, Miss Campbell, Miss
BERTHA Paul and Miss Loantha Pike.
News from the national headquar-
tiers of the American Red Cross So
ciety in Washington states that the
American Express Co has instructed
all of its local Offices to issue EX-
press Money Orders free of any
charge to any person who may wish
to send a contribution in that form to
the American Red Cross for relief
work in Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Fogg, Mr.. and
Mrs. o. D. Wells and Miss Alice
Written attended the Maine State
Sunday School Association meeting in
Bangor yesterday as delegates from
the Bethany Baptist Sunday School.
Mrs. Fogg is superintendent of the
Bethany Primary department and
Miss Written is secretary OF the
County association.
The 4.30 o'clock service at the Con-
gregational Church next Sunday af-
ternoon promises to be especially at
tractive and very unique. There Will
be organ solos and duets; and organ,
piano and cello trios. This combin-
alton of instruments has probably
never been heard in a regular church
service in Skowhegan. The mus1cl-
ans for the afternoon are the Misses
Faith and Freda Harris and Marion
Lord. The pastor will give the third
ten minutes talk in a series on why
| am a Christian"
The annual Primary and Cradle
Roll call of the First Baptist Sunday
School was held Saturday afternoon
in the vestry of the First Baptist
Church. The affair was arranged by
Mrs. E. w. Marble and she was as
sisted in the entertainment by mem
bers of Mrs ]. G. Osborne's Sunday
School class. In response to Mother
Goose invitations, the children. old
enough, replied with childish rhymes.
while toys and games were provided
for the amusement of the tiny guests.
About fifty were in attendance. Re
freshments of ice cream and cake
we're served and stories were told.
The room where the reception was
held was frightened by a profusion
of flags. The Oldest child present
was ten years old and the youngest
four months.
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