The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-06-29
week visiting friends and relatives.

week visiting friends and relatives.
A large party of the Alumni of
Scion High School spent two days at
Pleasant Pond last week. A very
enjoyable time was reported by all.
The largest fish was reported to have
been caught by Miss Gertrude BrOfee
but of course il was "eaten for din
ner" and therefore cannot be proved.
Charles d. Norton. who has been up
river peeling pulp wood has returned
home
{. Z. Fentiman. a former resident of
this place but now living in Bingham.
was in town Monday. Mr.. Fenti-
man has sold his house in this place
TO owen McAllister. who Will move
into it shortly.
s. T Baker who was operated on at
his home on Main ST. last week, is
resting comfortably at this writing.
4 trained nurse is in attendance.
Charles c. Wilmington son of Mr..
and Mrs. Augustus H. Wilmington of
Boston and who spent many summers
in Scion. has volunteered and enlisted
in the Machine Gun Company of the
First South Carolina Regiment In
fantry for service in Mexico in re-
Spouse to the call for volunteers. The
regiment left Columbia S c. for the
Texas border and Mexico on last
Monday. The first and second South
Carolina Regiments which have gone
to the front have been named the
Palmetto Regiments from South
Carolina that fought so yaliantly in
the Mexican War of 1S47. Mr..
wilmington has been in business and
resident of Greenylle, S. c. for the
past two years.
TWenty-seven members of Scion
Lodge No. 12S l. O. o. f. attended the
district meeting al North Arson last
Thursday night The first degree
was conferred on one candidate in a
very credtable manner by Indian
Spring Lodge of Madison. Grand Of
ficers were present and a most en-
joyable time was reported by all who
attended.
The funeral of Mrs. Gertrude A,
wife of Lowell f. Ward of Embden,
was held at her late residence in
Embden last Thursday afternoon,
Rev. r. b. HIATT officiating. Mrs.
Ward was the daughter of the late
Andrew j. and Abigail Libby of Emb-
den. She was born in Oakland in
1863 and was one of a family of four
children Three brothers survive
her and live in Oakland. She was
married to Lowell f. Ward in 1888.
They have spent most of their marri-
ed life in Embden with the exception
of a few years when they lived in
Scion and the last three years that
they spent in Massachusetts, one year
in Westwood and two years in Lin
coin. The year Mrs. Ward was in
Westwood, she cared for the little boy
of Lester Jackman, a former resident
of North Madison. She came home
last October, when her health began
to fail and she steadily failed until
the end. The cause of her death was
cancer of the liver. Twelve chill
dren were born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ward
ten of whom are now living. They
were all able to be with their mother
during her last illness and death.
Mrs Ward was faithful wife and
mother and will be greatly missed in
her home The floral offerings were
very profuse and beautiful. testify
ing to the esteem in which she was
held by her friends and the people of
the community.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our heartfelt
thanks to our friends and neighbors
who were so kind to us through the