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

county.
Mrs. d. c. Jewett arrived home
Monday night from visit with her
daughter in Waterville.
4 daughter was born last week 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Cote. which has
been given the name of Evelyn.
Mss Edith Racklffe of Camden re
turned home Monday after short
visit with Mrs Pearl Lawrence.
The Ladies' Circle of the NJ. E.
aureh viii meet with Mrs. Ned Mer-
ral. Water ST. next Monday after
noon.
\. j. Yaeuda district manager oil
Mcclure Publications Inc. who has
been passing week in town depart
cd Tuesday.
Mrs. d. S. Bennett of Dover y. H,
left Tuesday morning for Dover, after
being here to visit at the home of her
daughter, Mrs j. S Healey.
A party from Bingham consisting of
Mr. and Mrs. c. W Dutton and Mr..
and Mrs. Linwood F. Smith visited
at the home of Louis Z. Dow.
The first real snow of the season
fell during the night OF the 10Th, the
storm being a mild one. but continuing
through quite a portion of the day
Tuesday.
Mrs. Orison Clough left Tuesday for
Lewiston where she was to enter a
hospital for treatment She was &c
companied by Mr. Clough and by Mrs.
Z. L. Clough.
J. n. Waller left Tuesday for the
Sisters Hospital in Lewiston, where
he was to undergo an operation for
appendicitis. He was accompanied
by his son. Oin Waller.
The Skowhegan High School foot
ball team was supported Saturday at
the game by twenty-seven friends from
this town, who went to Waterville to
be present at the event.
The annual inspection of Russell
Relief Corps occurs tomorrow (frl-
day) afternoon. There will be a six
o'clock supper to which the members
of Russell Post are invited
Judge Brazzell was up from Fairfield
Tuesday to attend to matters of bust
ness. Next Monday he will again
come to Skowhegan to be present at
the regular session of the Western
Somerset Municipal Court.
With the exception of the grades in
the Academy building there will be no
sessions of the High and Village
schools today and tomorrow, owing to
the Teachers Convention in Portland.
Supt. l.. W. Gerrsh, Principal Leigh
ton and nearly all of the teachers will
attend.
There will be work at the regular
meeting of Priscilla Rebekah Lodge |
Tuesday evening, Nov. Sd. Also
Halloween entertainment, the commit
tee in charge being Mary Hurley and
Louise Hurley. The degree team Will
meet to rehearse this Thursday |
evening at half past seven.
Mrs. Francis W. Briggs will enter
tain the members of the Pittsheld
Tuesday Club, next Tuesday, at
luncheon served at her home on Water
street. this city. The regular pro-
gram is planned for the afternoon
During her residence in Pittsheld, |
Mrs. Briggs was a member of the CLUB.
Attorney Edward n. Merrill was in
Pittsfield Monday and together with |
County Commissioners Granville Per-
kins of Madison, William Osborn of
Fairfield and O. E. Libby of Pittstield |
investigated the claim of damages
brought by the estate of D. NJ. Parks
for t1owage on lot of land near Pei !
toma bridge in that town.
A mass meeting of the instructors
in the Skowhegan Schools and the pa
rents having pupils attending school
are to meet next Saturday evening in
the High School building to form a
Parent-Teacher Association. Plans
have been in operation some time for
such an organization and the general
committee to look into the matter
have been Supt. l.. W. Gerrish, Miss
Dorothy NJ. Elliot and Mrs Everett T.
Goodrich The association has for
its object a closer cooperation be-
tween parent and teacher and to give
the parents a better understanding of
the work with the pupils.
Many people now living in Show
| hogan will doubtless be interested to
| learn of the recent happy birthday
celebration honoring the natal day OF
| c. NJ Bailey, well known as an Oil
cloth manufacturer. Mr. Bailey was
"a years Of age on Oct. "a, and passed
the day with characteristic energy,