The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1915-09-02
The News Of Somerset's Busy Towns

town the guest OF friends during the
Dast week
Rev and Mrs Todd of Woodstock.
g. T. we're guests of Mr. and Mrs Her
bert Crosby over Sunday. Mr. and
Mrs. Todd are on an automobile trip
TO Oklahoma City, making the trip in
their Ford car. Miss Mabel Glidden
was to join them in Waterville.
B. F. Flagg was in Monmouth last
week on business.
The Jolly Glee Club enjoyed a pic
mic at Smithfeld. last Saturday
Morris Moore and Miss Maude Moore
visited their parents in town this
week.
Mrs. Harriet Blaisdel and two chill
dren have returned from a visit with
relatives in Vassalboro.
Mr.. Packard has finished his duties
as superintendent of the local shoe
factory and 1t is understood accepted
a fine position at Augusta.
Mrs. II. L. Mccain and daughter,
Miss Eugenia, returned to their home
in Woodfords, last Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. l.. Frederic of Dor
chester, Mass, are visiting Mrs Sara
Frederic
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Quimby and Miss
Lizzie Jones visited relatives in Starks
Sunday.
Lawson Rushton of Oakland is very
sick with typhoid fever at his father
home in town.
The death of Mrs. Mary Ellen Mitch
ell occurred Tuesday morning at her
late home on Mechanic ST. after a long
illness of several years. A part of
the time she was able TO be about the
house but last winter she received
fall which injured her back and head
very badly and has since been confined
to her bed. During all this time she
has been very tenderly cared for by
her sister, Miss Martha Haynes, with
whom she has lived since the death of
her husband which occurred number
of years ago. Mrs. Mitchell was born
on Dec 18th, 1910, at Smithfield, and
was the daughter of Henry A. and HUI
dab Howe Haynes. At the age of
eighteen she was united in marriage
to Benz. F. Mitchell and moved to this
town. One son was born to them,
Fred, a resident of Waterville. Mrs.
Mitchell was member of the Baptist
Church and a thoroughly true Chris
tian woman and loved by all with
whom she came in contact. The flu
neral services were held Thursday af-
ternoon amid a profusion of flowers.
Rev. F. G. Davis conducting the SER
vice and the burial was beside her
husband in the South side cemetery
The next meeting of the v l. S. Is
TO be on Sept. 9th Rev. f. G. Davis
will deliver an essay before the Club.
his subject being THE Making of Our
English Masterpiece"
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hussey enter
tanned recently Mrs. Freda Foss and
daughter Rachael, of Scarboro, and
this week Miss Mary Lilly of Bowdoin-
ham is their guest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Chase and
daughter Barbara, of Skowhegan were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Quimby,
last week,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Giles and fam
lily are visiting friends in Waterville
this week.
Mrs, Robert Sheaff is spending the
week In Sk1Whegan visiting her son
anu fHullyi
Mrs. Eva Sturtevant of Skowhegan
visited Mrs. Mary Spaulding last week.
The schools in town will commence
September 7th.
The Stevens Haynes reunion met at
the home of Mrs. Mary Gilman, Nor
ridgewock, August 26. A delicious
dinner was served at noon, consisting
of colo :....ssats: eakod beans, Assorted
cakes and pies. Those present from
ovt-of.town were Mrs. VIM. @. Bailey
of California; Mrs. F. r. Whitney,
Lewiston; Miss Edna Taylor, Beverly,
Mass; Oliver H. Stevens and wife of
Fairfield; Mr.. Stevens of Waterville;
Mrs. S. M. Bickford and Mrs. Fred
Stevens of Smithfield. 1t was a very
enjoyable occasion.