The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-08-27

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilson left Tues
day morning for a visit to Augusta.
Or. Merton Pierce returned Monday
to Pennington after visit in town.
John f. Merritt has returned from
a visit with his father. DR.. Merritt.
in Jay.
W f. Blake who has been visiting
at the home of Henry Narney, depart
ed Tuesday forenoon
Miss Cora Robinson. teacher in
Hampton Institute. Virginia, is at the
home of Or George OTIS Smith.
Edward + Merrill Esq, left Tues
day forenoon ON a campaign trip
through sections of Hancock County.
Mss Grace Printable OF Portland,
Who has been the guest of Miss A. J.
Allan at ST Mary's Rectory, departed
Tuesday.
Fred Williams and W. \. Bailey
have returned from Old Orchard
where they attended meeting of in
surance men.
Randolph Merrill of New York has
arrived to visit with the family of his
uncle, f. y. Merrill. Esq, and with
other relatives in this vicinity
Mrs Sac F. Clark arrived home Sat
urday from a several weeks absence
in Portland and at different summer
places in and about the harbor.
W. H. Leayitt of St. Paul, Mimi,
arrived Monday morning joining his
family here for a visit at the home
of his mother Mrs. A. T. Smith on
the East Madison Road.
Mrs. Thomas Bigelow. who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs Lo-
reno Corson at Rowelyale, returned
to her home in Concord Saturday ac-
companied by her father.
Mr.. and Mrs James Stapleton of
New York City arrived on the five
o'clock train Tuesday afternoon to
visit his cousin, Mrs James Nutting.
Mr. Stapleton is member of the New
York police force.
Miss Fannie Moses of Atlantic,
Mass. who has been guest at the
home of DR.. l. l.. Salley, left Monday
morning for Yarmouth. Mrs. Frank
Fales of Pennington, DR.. Salley's
daughter. was also here the first of
the week.
George W. Weeks of Canaan. well
known as a breeder of oxford sheep
was in town Monday and shipped
pen of six of these fine animals to
Bangor for exhibition at the fair. Mr..
Weeks will also exhibit sheep at the
Wateryille, Lewiston and Skowhegan
fairs.
Skowhegan people will be inter-
ested to learn that Mrs. Lizzie Camp
bell, who was taken to her home in
Waltham, Mass. is improving and
stood the journey well. Mrs. Camp
bell was stricken with a. paralytic
shock within an hour after the death
of her sister. Miss Amanda Loyejoy.
Last Saturday in Brighton occurred
the wedding of John A. Donahue of
Skowhegan, the son of Joseph Dona
hue and Miss ARA Clark of Brighton,
daughter of Amos B. Clark of that
town. The ceremony was performed
by Rec. Charles l.. Kinney pastor of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in
Athens.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sprague. who
have been occupying an apartment on
Russell Street, are packing their
household furnishings preparatory to
moving to the farm of Mrs. May Bur-
ton on the Molunkus Road. Mr..
Sprague has been numbered among
the employees at Hotel Coburn and is
now going to try farming because Of
lis health.
Services will be resumed at the Is
land Avenue Congregational Church
Sunday, Rev Theodore Halbert Will
son being expected home tonight from
an absence during which he has been
in Massachusetts, Rhone Island and
New Hampshire. He will occupy the
pulpit in the morning and in the even
ing will give a stereopticon lecture on
Every Day Life in Japan The sum-
mer school of religion holds session
at noon and there will be a Christian
Endeavor Meeting. but no extension
service. Mr. Wilson will resume his
office at room II the E. n. Merrill
block on Friday and his office hours
will be from to and from to 2
o'clock as last year.
The rear of the Kennebec Log Drive
went over the falls here Thursday
last. About 15G000,000 feet of lum-
Der have been included in the drive
this year and those having the bulk