The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1914-12-24
S%kowhegan Local News

parents OF a auSnle DOrn TUESDAY.
DR.. w. S. S%tinchfeld arrived home
Saturday evening from a business trip
to Portland.
The next meeting of the Sunshine
Society will be Thursday, December
31st in the City Building.
There was a special meeting of Som
erset Lodge last evening and the first
two degrees were conferred.
Eddy Gilblair of Lynn, Mass, de-
parted yesterday following a visit with
his father Augustus Gilblair.
Leon Symons is expected tonight
from Portland to visit with his father
]. D. Symons and family on North
Avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmore Withee left
here Sunday morning for Boston and
from there will go to Watertown to
visit their son Carl Withee and family.
Mrs. Marion Drake-Flanders of
Athens was in town yesterday leaving
on the midday train for Oakland,
where she had an engagement to sing
last evening.
Miss Theresa Spooner went y%ester-
day afternoon to Augusta, where she
will spend the holidays with her
nephew Forest Commissioner Blaine
S. Viles and family.
A social dance will be given in
Grange Hall, Tuesday evening, Dec.
29th., by Sherman Shumway and Har-
vey Mcclure. Tickets rs per couple.
Ladies unattended rs.
Mrs. Clifford Jewett accompanied by
her young son and Dorothy Thomas
went to Augusta yesterday afternoon
to visit with relatives. Mr.. Jewett is
to join them in time for dinner tomor-
row.
The SkoWhegan House has recently
erected a handsome electric sign
which adds much to its appearance.
This is one of the largest in the State,
being t~wenty-four feet high, contain
ing the words New Skowhegan
House."
Fred Thompson of Norridgewock
was before Trial Justice John H. Ian
caster Saturday in Municipal Court
for d~isposing of property which he
didn't hold title to. The case was
continued. 1t seems that Thompson
has sold a horse upon which there
was a bill of sale.
Mrs. Horace Weymouth of Fairfield
was in town yesterday visiting with
was here however principally to see
her father Eugene Moore, whe under
went a surgical operation Tuesday at
Somerset Hospital. DR.. Wadsworth
assisted by DR.. S|tinchfeld were the
operating surgeons.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Pencil, Miss
Gladys Pencil and Mr.. and Mrs. Guy
Pencil and children are to be enter
tanned at dinner tomorrow by DR.. and
Mrs. f. L. Tozier in Fairfield. Mss
Sarah Pennell, who is a teacher in
Portland, will also be present and
later will come to ~Skowhegan for a
visit at her home.
The e~ight-wheel passenger car used
by the Somerset Traction Co. has
lately been rebuilt and is again dom s
service being in excellent trim. The
steel sides add greatly to the attrac-
tiveness of the vehicle and the new
heating apparatus which has been in
stalled will be greatly appreciated BY
the patrons of the road.
At the morning service on Sunday
at the Congregational Church the
pastor will preach a special End-of-
the-year sermon. The Sunday School
will meet at IL. At 4.30 there will
be a very important and interesting
stereopticon lecture on Mohammedan-
ism. There will be no Y. P. S. c. E.
meeting. In its place there will be
a union song service around the NUM-
cipal Christmas Tree at 6. Because
of the service in Railroad Square this
evening there will be no mid-week
services at this church.
John H. Lancaster has in his col
lection of antiques an interesting relic
in the shape of a volume of Army
Regulations which Isaac Dyer, late
of Skowhegan, used during the war of
1865, when colonel of the 18th Regi-
ment Maine Volunteers. On the fly
leaf besides an inscription which bears
the foregoing information reference is
made to ink and mucilage, with which
two of the pages of the book are
spattered. This is the result, the
handwriting in the book says, of a
gale of wind blowing a TEN over and
upsetting things generally. Mr.. Lam
caster also has the bride which Col.