The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-01-07
News of Interest from Madison

are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E.
Hilton of the Arson side.
Arthur Calden is working in the
Madison Bakery during the illness of
the regular baker.
/ Horace Spear, who is numbering at
Deadwater was in town Saturday on
his way home to Lakewood.
! W. H. Clark, who has numbering in
terests in Starks came down from
Caratunk Tuesday.
William Hamilton is i'll at his
rooms in the Wentworth Block with
i fever.
| Miss Mildred McCray, who has been
quite sick with a cold is on the gain.
The next regular meeting of Ken
nebec Valley Grange will be held
Saturday evening. The installation
of officers will be held Friday night
the 18th with State Deputy W. +.
Clifford as the installing officer A
supper viii be served after the in
stallation.
Miss r. Pearl Danforth, who is
teaching in Portland, returned to that
city Sunday after vacation of two
weeks spent with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Danforth on Bean St.
| Among those who left for their re-
spective schools Saturday were Miss
Arlen Mckinney to the New England
| Conservatory of Music, Boston, Ro-
land Fletcher of the Boston Dental
school and Prof. and Mrs. Leslie
Sawyer to Portland, where Prof Saw
/ yer is principal of High School.
The little son of Richard Ledger is
reported as i'll with typhoid fever
! Mrs. Horace Bickford of North An
son was the guest Tuesday of Mrs.
/ Lima Mckinney.
T Judge ana Mrs. augustine SIM
mons and Mr.. and Mrs. + II. Holley
all of North Arson were in town Wed
nesday morning en- route for Show
hogan to attend the Bunker-Smith
nuptials.
Miss Mildred Humphreys left Wed
nesday morning for South Hadley,
Mass, to resume her studies at Mt
Holyoke after short vacation spent
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Humphreys.
The Woman's Club held a special
meeting last Thursday at the home
Of Mrs. Annie McCollor for the tran
saction of business and a regular
meeting will be held this Thursday
afternoon at the home of Mrs Nina
Moore on fairfield street
The yearly parish meeting of the
Universalist Church was held Mon
day evening at the home of Charles
Dyer and the same board of officers
as last year reelected. The treas
urer's report was particularly graft
| Tying. showing that the church debt
which in 1910 was some over $4,000
at the beginning of the year 1915 was
only 500
Ada. the little daughter of Mr. and
Yrs. Stanley Wright is i'll with ty-
phoid fever.
Annie l.. Decker will be at Mrs NJ
B. Foss' next Tuesday. from 9 to 4.
The funeral of John F. Withee,
oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Withee, was held at the home of his
parents, Thursday forenoon at 10
o'clock Rev. f. w Weber conduct
ing the services. Interment was in
Forest Hill Cemetery. The young man
who was % years old died from the
injuries received while at work in a
numbering camp at Madrid.
DOlltlllut uuliue lUt night, 10uTS-
day, William DeLile, who was being
held in the lookup pending the ar
rival of a postofflce inspector, as a
suspect in the recent postoffice break,
broke out and Is now at liberty, all
efforts to locate his whereabouts hav-
ing so far proved unsuccessful Some
one from outside passed him an axe.
with which he cut hole in the roof
and dropped to the ground with the
aid of a rope, a distance of about ten
feet.
Mrs. William Austin of Winslow is
the guest of Mrs. Carleton Wescott at
her home on Jones street
William Robbins has secured a po-
sition in the Office Of the Kennebec
Journal at Augusta and went last
week to begin work.
Mrs. Bert Williams of Park street,
who is i'll with typhoid fever remains
about the same, and there are several
other cases reported in town.
The annual business meeting of the
Free Baptist church was held last
week and the following officers elect
ed for the coming year., Clerk, B. X.
Edwards; treasurer, A. j. Williams;
trustees, w. G. Sawyer, f. w. Sweat,
| c. S. Wescott; chorister G. N. ingalls,.
The reports of the various depart
ments showed them all to be in a
good condition.