The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-12-24

Portland during The week W Nlsl' a.
the Cass home on Water ST.
Mrs. Pauline Hill has gone TO
Springfield. Mass. to visit for a time
in the home of her daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. J. Guerney LEFT
Tuesday morning for a short stay in
Portland. where they formerly resided.
Henry Harris and William Butter
field of Perham departed Tuesday fol-
lowing a visit with the family of d. A,
Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Curtis leave this
afternoon 10 pass the holiday tomor-
row in Portland with Mrs. Curtis
relatives.
Horace Cook Of Wateryille departed
Monday morning after visiting with
the family of Frank l. Parker on the
Beech Hill road.
According to a recent census there
are three hundred and seventy fami-
lies connected with the parish Of
Our Lady of Lourdes".
Miss Marjorie Smith, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Alonzo Smith who
is a teacher of Domestic Science in st.
Johnsbury, Vt, is a guest at the family
home.
W. II. Clark, a we'll known resident
of Caratunk was in town Monday and
Tuesday. While in this vicinity he
paid a visit to his farm in Norridge-
wock.
Mrs. T. E. Getehell and Mrs. viii
liam McGilyery of Pittsield arrived
Monday evening to visit Mrs. Francis
". Briggs. departing Tuesday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Weller OF
Lawrence. Mass, are being entertain
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Hurley of
West Front Street, the parents of Mrs.
Weller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Hight LETT
Tuesday on the mid day train for
Middletown, Conn, where they are to
be the guests of Mrs. Nights parents
for a time.
Mrs. Oscar Nutting of Hartland and
Mrs. Thomas Rand of Waterville de.
parted Tuesday morning following a
visit with their uncle, T. B. Barrett,
Esq. and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred T. Hurley plan
to leave this afternoon for Dorchester,
Mass. to spend Christmas with Mr..
and Mrs. Raymond Christensen. the
two ladies being sisters.
George W. Cover, representing the
First National Bank and Judge E. F.
Danforth representing the Trust Co.
were in Pittsfield Tuesday to attend a
meeting of the ~bond-holders of the
Linn Wooden Co. of Hartland.
Charles Lashon has sold his resi-
dence on Maple st. to Colby 7. Huff,
who plans to move there shortly. Mr..
Lashon has a position in a sash and
blind factory at Gardiner and is to
move his family to that city.
Lindsey Nutting. violinist, r. f.
Washburn, cornetist and Carl Malley,
pianist, were in Brunswick Tuesday
evening to play at a dance in the Zeta
Psi House. Everett Bacon of this
town is a member of that fraternity.
James Brooks, the member of Com
pany L who recently left here for
Canada to enlist in the British Army
writes from Montreal that he has been
made an active bombberdere in the
21st Battery c. f. A. He expects to
sail for the European countries be
tween January Is and n.
An informal meeting Of the Show
hogan Farmers Union was held Satur-
day afternoon. The conditions of the
market were talked over and the
members were instructed along the
lines of grading and sorting farm pro-
duce. The Union will not be located
in the block which they recently pur-
chased near the freight office until
June.
Last week Thursday Troop No. 1
Boy Scouts was completely reorganiz-
ed as follows, The Loon Patrol,
Joseph Haskell, Mahlon Gerrish,
Adolph Bison, Emery Dyer. Karl
G%enthner, Erie Lowther, Fred Raynor,
Elmer White. Chippewa Patrol, Alex
ander Thomson, John French, Lewis
Brown, Alvan Buchanan, Elliot Chase.
Francis Friend, Lauriston Jacobs,
Bruce White. Scout Masters AS
sistant, Ray Parmenter. Scout Mas
ter, Theodore Halbert Wilson. A
Troop social will be held in the Con-
gregational parlors next Monday even
ing.
Among the premiums awarded at the
State Dairy Conference in Bangor, the
following awards were given Somerset