The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-12-03

daughter.
Miss Isabelle Dionne spent the week
in Auburn visiting her sister, Mrs.
Julian Conroy.
Mrs. Thomas Butler left Tuesday
morning to visit with relatives in Au-
gusta for a time.
A collection was taken at st. Mary's
Catholic Church, Sunday to be used
for the relief of the Belgian sufferers.
Fifty-eight persons partook of a
Thanksgiving dinner served in excel
lent style Thursday by Landlord
Haines at the Coburn.
Clyde Corson and his sister May
spent Thanksgiving in Hallowell with
their aunts, Mrs. Edwin Howe and
Mrs. Albert ~Treyembo.
Mrs. E. ]. Friend left here Tues
day morning for Phillips, Maine
where she is to pass the winter in
the home of her granddaughter Mrs.
E. B.. Currier.
Charles st. Clair of Kennebunkport
was among the out-of-town people
called here by the death of Mitchell
Martin. Mr.. st. Clair being a broth
er of Mrs. Martin.
The Woman's Mission Circle of the
First Baptist Church will meet tomor-
row Qriday) afternoon at the home
OF Mrs. Roy L.. Marston. There will
be a program on Mission in Story
and Song"
Owing to the absence of the pastor,
Rev. j. G. Osborne, the pulpit of the
First Baptist Church was very ac-
ceptably filled Sunday by Drew T.
Hathorn, A. NJ, Principal of Coburn
Classical Institute.
Mrs. Mont Russell is reported as
recovering from the effects of a sur
gical operation lately performed at
her home on the East Madison road.
DR.. Russell assisted by local physi-
clans was the operating surgeon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry e. Williams
and child are expected here during
the present week to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
q. B. Fairgrieve. They are now resi-
dents of Mt. Vernon, Washington, but
formerly lived in Hartland, where
they are passing several weeks with
Mr.. Williams parents.
EX-Cong. Gould, who is the proprie-
tor of a fine farm located on the
southbound continuation of Main St,
has lately been building a cattle shed
and now has it completed to the ex-
tent that he has installed the animals
in their new home. 1t is arranged
so the COWS stand on either side of
the building and feed from a crib in
the middle. Mr.. Gould has about
thirty head at present of the Holstein
variety.
Charles b.. Dodge of Seattle. Wash
ington, a former resident of this town.
who has been here for several months
experimenting the erection of a fine
new business block at the juncture of
Madison Avenue and Water Street,
started Tuesday on his return to the
west. The commercial section of the
town has been greatly improved
through Mr.. Dodge's efforts, not only
because of the erection of the new
block, but by the %renoYations which
he has completed upon another of his
business structures on Water Street.
John Holland, after a fifty years
residence in SkoWhegan, leaves here
shortly to return to his former
home, st. George, p. G., where he will
live with his sister, Mrs. Margaret
Murtha. For the past twenty-seven
years Mr.. Holland has been in the
employ OF the Steven Coburn family,
and previous to that in the service of
Che late Abner Coburn. He will leave
with a very pleasant memory of his
long stay here and with much regard
and gratitude for everyone, especially
his employers, who have been uniyer-
sally kind and generous.