The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24

business in Fairfield last FRIDAY.
Miss Lpra Toale of Etna is a
guest at the home of Dr.. Frank $.
Bigelow.
Ex-senator William NJ Osborne OF
Pittshela, Wa in town Saturday on
business
Mrs Jewett Savage returned home
Monday from a visit with her son
Clair Savage in Greenyille.
r. G. Bigelow shipped fine Short
horn bull, nine months old the other
dag to {. +. Porter of Houlton.
Another Somerset County town is
almost hundred years old. Ripley
celebrates her centennial today.
Mrs. Sarah Whtcomb who came
Friday from Exeter y. H. left Mon
day for an outing at Hancock Point
Miss Margery Morrison played &c
compartments for some Of the artists
ut the 9aco Valley Musical Festival
recently.
Mrs. Paul Tooker OF Westheld, y.
j. has arrived for visit with her
mother Mrs. Angelina Parsons and
the Iatters son Lindley F. Parsons.
The store formerly occupied by F.
A. Benner on the side of Baptist Hill
which has for some years been va
cant. has been leased to Leslie
Brown.
Harold P. Symons, who has been
employed in the office of the Somer-
set Traction Co this summer, will
enter the Massachusetts School of
] Optometry in Boston this fall.
On her return from an automobile
tour. through New England and New
York. Miss Louise Coburn attended,
| last week a meeting of the Jocelyn
Club the Maine Botanical Society, at
Wells Beach
\ party of young men camped at
the Eddy last Thursday night having
come by canoe from Dead River that
day. They had been at Moosehead
Lake and Friday morning pushed off
down river in their water crafts.
Rev. F. c. Rogers, who has been in
Lawrence. Mass. is expected tomor-
row or Saturday and will conduct the
services of the Centenary NJ. E.
Church. next Sunday the 9th inst.
Miss Annie Mallett, daughter of
Prin. w. G. Mallett of Pennington
Normal School and Miss Grace Small
of Pennington were guests the first
of the week of Miss Marion E. Lord.
They departed Monday afternoon.
Miss Alma Hall of Rockville, Conn.
returned Saturday after visiting with
the family of her brother Lees Hall
on Madison Avenue. Mr.. and Mrs,
Hall have been entertaining this
week, Dr. Alfred Burr and Miss Stella
Hall of Rockville.
The lilies in the pond at Coburn
Park have been especially beautiful
Of late. These were first planted in
the form of bulbs in 1912 They
have now spread so that the surface
of the water is completely covered
with the lilies and lily pads.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Bates of Pasa-
dena Calf. with Rev. and Mrs. Or
lando Williams of Fairfield We're
guests Friday of Rev. and Mrs. J. ".
Packard. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have
been in California for the past seven
years. but once lived in the section
of Fairfield known as The Ten Lots.
Royal Merlin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Cowett of Leavitt St. died the
last of the week after a brief illness
with cholera. The funeral services
were conducted from St Mary's
Church Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
FIR. J. L. A. Renaud officiating. The
child's age was about six months. The
parents have one other child.
Already there is considerable less
daylight than earlier in the summer,
there being decrease of several
minutes each day. The decrease be-
gan June q at which time the length
of the daylight was fifteen hours and
thirty-one minutes, By the end of
the month the length of daylight will
have decreased two hours and thir-
teen minutes.
Miss Elsie Faye returned to Bos-
4 ton Saturday after a visit at the
home of William Pitts on Fairview
Ave Miss Gwen Quimby of Bos-
ton who has been passing some days
with Mr.. Pitts, who is her grand
father, is remaining for longer visit.
Mrs. Carrie Wtham of Portland
has been spending some time here as
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. ]. P.
Thompson.
About fifty members of Sunset
Chapter o. E. S. were entertained at
Lakewood Friday afternoon at the