The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-11-23

wi D. 4 l.. CiOSS Is muCn lmpTOV-
ed after a weeks illness at her home
on Water st.
DR.. j E. Wadsworth was in Au-
gusta yesterday to attend the Board
Of the Registration of Nurses.
The Searchlight Club is to give an
entertainment in the Congregational
Vestry, Friday evening of next week.
At a meeting of the Skowhegan
High School Athletic Association the
first of the week, Robert Morrow was
elected captain of the football team
for II.
What Do These Things Mean"
will be the sermon subject Sunday
morning at the Seventh Day Advent
Church. when the speaker will be
Mrs. Genie P. Wood All are cor
daily invited
The many friends of Miss Beatrice
Hodgdon, class of II, Skowhegan
High School. will be glad to know
that she is resting comfortably at
the Sisters Hospital in Lewiston,
where she was taken early last Mon
day morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coburn Marston who
have been spending the week at the
home of Mr.. Marstons mother. Mrs.
Charles Marston of Main street, will
leave tomorrow for New York City.
where they are to attend the Army
and Navy game, en- route to their
home in San Diego, Calf.
Cards have been received in Show
hogan the past week announcing the
marriage of Miss Josephine Essen
beis, daughter of Major and Mrs.
John Law Hughes of Port Townsend,
Washington, and Frank E. Emery Jr..
1t. L. s. A, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank e. Emery of Skowhegan.
De Molay Commandery will OBJ
serve its 50th anniversary, on June
18th, next, st. Johns Day, by enter
tanning Communicates from Bangor
Belfast Pennington and Gardiner.
Committees are already at work Oh
the matter, invitations having been
issued and accepted by the four
Communicates above named.
A party planned and carried out
as a surprise by her aunt. Mrs. Alon-
20 Smith, was given Miss Dorothy
Gaylord, at Mrs. Smiths home on
kennebec street. Tuesday evening
Miss Dorothy was invited to take
supper with her friend Helen Bur-
rill on Madison Avenue and returned
to Kennebec street to find her aunts
home filled with young friends, chief
ly of the VII Grade school.
Coburn c. Berry met with an I'M
fortunate injury to his right hand at
the Thompson & Fox factory on
Hathaway Street last Friday His
work is stripping up lumber into
shape for the other processes of the
factory, and in some way he brought
his hand in contact with the saw. 1t
was found necessary to amputate the
forefinger at the second Joint and the
second finger is so seriously injured
that its usefulness may be somewhat
impaired
petition in bankruptcy was filed
last Saturday by Edgar +. Fair
brother and a meeting has been call
ed for 10 o'clock. December 9Th.
Daniel Lewis is the referee in bank
ruptcy and Fred F. Lawrence is at
toney- Mr. Fairbrother was en-
gagged in the making of unglazed
sash for five years, and in April of
1915, he commenced doing custom
glazing. This establishment had
been one of our best small industries
and ii is a matter of much regret
that it should be closed, even tenn
pOrarily.
Mrs. Tenney of Hallowell was the
speaker at the Parent Teacher meet
ing last Saturday evening, coming
in the interests of the State Board of
Health. The talk, which was illus
trated by lantern slides. consisted of
discussions on infectious diseases in
Guiding typhoid diphtheria infan-
tile paralysis, leprosy and cholera
There were selections by the chorus
of young men. all but few of whom
attend the High School the Messrs.
Fred Rayner, Libby Pulsifer, Arthur
Springer, Joel Taylor, Kenneth Mat
son. Bruce White. Herbert Oddly,
Raymond Lacasce and Karl Tobey.
President Frank W. Knowlton pre-
sided. The meeting last Saturday
was the meeting which has been
postponed several weeks on account
of the diphtheria scare The date
of the next meeting has not as yet
been decided.
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