The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-04-20

ner.
Mrs. Eta Elsmere went to Fairfield
yesterday to visit for few days with
friends.
Mayor Blaine S. Niles of Augusta
was a business visitor in Skowhegan
during the day Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. c. Davis Miller ar
rived home from several weeks spent
in Boston last Thursday evening.
Miss Florence Murray accompanied
her sister, Mrs. Gordon Bragg to
Portland on her return last Friday.
John r. Philbrick attended the
meeting of the Maine Association of
Optometrists held in Bangor recently.
Deputy Sheriff Fred S. Burrill of
Hartland was among the out-of-loWn
visitors at the Court House last Fri
day.
MIR. and Mrs. W. B. Steward arrived
home Sunday afternoon from their
trip to Washington, D. c. and Rich
mond, Virginia.
Mrs. PAMELA York has sold her
old home on Jewett St. to Peter W.
Merry Webster Keyes and family
are at present living there
Miss Barbara NJ Weston is enter
tanning at a goose party this evening
at her home on Main st. Whist and
63 will be the order of the evening.
Mrs. D. f. Brown arrived home yes
terday from a visit in Benton. She
was accompanied by Mrs. Worth
Brown, who visited here during the
day.
Mrs. Arminda Smith, who has been
employed at the home of Mrs. Joel
Hobart for some time, has completed
her duties and returned to Hinckley
yesterday.
The carpenters employed on the
new shoe shop were held up yester-
day for lack of building material.
Some twenty-five or thirty feet of the
roofing is already on the structure.
Miss Beatrice Fahay, aged II years
of Madison, was brought to Skowhe-
gan Saturday night, where she was
operated upon by DR.. Thibodeau of
Madison assisted by Dr.. Wadsworth
at the hospital.
Manley 7. Pooler, WHO has been so
journing during the winter in various
parts of California, has returned to
Skowhegan. Mrs Pooler has journ-
eyed east as far as Boston and will
arrive here a little later.
Nearly three quarters of ton OF
suckers were shipped from this sta
ton yesterday noon by Nelson x
Hart of Canaan with New York City
as their destination. They are sold
in that city as a food product.
MacFarlane's America the Beauti-
fur, which was sung by the School
children at the Taft lecture the other
day, is a delightful composition and
it is thought by some to be the com
ing National Ode. Z. Z. Towne, who
directed the music, is making use of
the song.
Another division of Senior Rhetori-
calls was held during the last period
at the High School Tuesday in As
sembly Hall, members of the faculty
and student body attending. Under
the direction of Miss NJ. O. Steward,
instructor in public speaking the fol
lowing pupils gave recitations Verna
Abbey. Eva Withee, Francis Friend,
Emery T. Dyer, Florence f. Burrill
and Gail Chapman.
Peter Vincent of Cornville who
went with the Skowhegan party to
Washington, d. c., has taken a course
at Orono this spring to fit himself
with the scientific knowledge in car
ing for a poultry plant. He has pur-
chased Ellie Davis flock of thorough
bred S. c. r. l, Reds and wishes to
raise about 1900 chicks this season.
Mr.. Vincent has one building 100 feet
in length and another 40 which he
intends to fit with modern conven-
fences.
Last Friday evening about thirty
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Tague rendered them a reception in
honor of their recent marriage. The
affair was held at the home of Mrs.
Tagues mother, Mrs. Ella N. Jewett
on East Front ST. and was very
happy occasion. Those in attendance
were members of the operating force
in the Office of the Maine Tel & Tel
Co, where the bride has for some
time been employed and other close
friends. A number of pretty gifts
were left for the host and hostess
and a collation. of ices and cake was
served.
The store next to Miss Withee's, in
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