The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-02-19
Skowhegan Local News

home from a visit With her mother,
Mrs. Henry Parmelee in New Haven.
Conn.
Raymond Allen. Arthur McQaillan,
Robert Emery and Joseph Sanford at
tended the Interscholastic meet at
Bowdoin Saturday.
Mrs. A. b Borden MAS in Portland
the first of the week 10 accompany
her daughter. Miss Ruth, there for
entrance at ST Josephs Academy.
There VIII be no prayer meeting
this Thursday evening at the First
Baptist church. the members of that
parish uniting in the Bethany Baptist
services.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Centenary NJ. f. church
is to be entertained tomorrow after
noon by Mrs. L. W. Gerrish of North
Avenue.
The Philathea Glass and First Bap-
fist Choir are arranging for a Wash
ington Carnival" to be given in the
near future The operetta Necklace
of Love" is to be presented as one of
the leading features OF the affair.
Harry Hes arrived here from Bos-
ton Saturday on one OF the belated
trains. Unfortunately Mr.. Hes sui
fered injuries to the extent that one
arm was broken in the railway acct
dent the other side of Portland.
Elmer Harris was at Good Will
Farms Friday to attend the funeral
of Miss Jane +. Hnckley. Miss
Hinekley was a member Of the Island
Avenue Congregational church and
Mr. Harris is a deacon of that society.
For the present the Clementinc
Weston. W. {. T. L.. are to hold their
meeting in the parlors of the Public
Library. The next session of the
union will occur next Tuesday and it
will be observed as a patriotic meet
ing.
Leon Bean of Comfrey Mimi. has
been a guest during the past week at
the home of A. H. Lang. Mr.. Bean
was formerly a resident of South So
lon and had been visiting with for
mer acquaintances in that town, pre-
Next Monday Eunice Farnsworth
Chapter D. A R., is to entertain ST.
lence Howard Hayden Chapter, D. A.
R., of Wateryille. at the public libra
~. The guests are to arrive on the
1O.45 train and will depart at 2.25.
There will be a morning session fol-
lowed by a luncheon.
Mrs Henry O'Brien of Albany, \.
Y. was in Skowhegan the first of this
week to attend the funeral of her
father. the late f. b. Nickerson. Two
other daughters of the deceased, Mrs.
Della Tibbotts of Portland, and Mrs
d. H. Staples of Wateryille, were here
prior to their fathers demise,
Mrs. Fred w Loud of Elizabethan-
ton, Tenn, arrived in Skowhegan
Monday to visit with Mrs. A. II. Lang
on Middle Street. Doubtless many
former acquaintance will remember
Mrs. Loud as Miss Harriet Emery.
the elder daughter of the late Albert
C. Emery, who was for some time /
Clerk of Courts at the Somerset
County Court House.
Elmer b. Rowell has just completed |,
a lighting system for his farm home, |
near Lake Wesserrunsett i
This is an electric lighting outfit. The
generator is run by gasoline engine
and the energy accumulated in stor-
age battery Running the engine for |
something like two hours, twice a |
week, is sufficient to supply IS mean !
descent lights, distributed through the |
house and barns.
There was quietly welded at the
First Baptist parsonage February II,
by Rev J. G. Osborne, Ulmont Stan
ley of Norridgewock and Miss Elva |
of Smithfield. The groom is |
the owner of an automobile garage at
and the bride who was !
formerly a student in the SkOwhegan |
High School, has been a teacher. The |
newly married couple are to reside at
the home of the groom's parents, in |
for the present,
The following new books have been |
added to the Public Library: Auto |
biography of Theodore Roosevelt /
Memoirs of Ii Hung Chang, Lyric |
Poems Yeats, Social Environment
and Moral Progress Wallace; RE
volt of Democracy" Wallace; Life of
Ethelbert," Thompson; The Crescent
Moon" I.agore; "Christopher-Hi-
bault." Bryant. Bible Stories Hurl-
burt; Roads of Destiny, Henry; In
side the Cup Churchill; "Laddie,'
Porter; Van Cleve." Watts; "The
Treasure" Norris; "Dmbie and l.