The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-10-12

with her mother Mrs Zoe GARNER
! Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W Bun
ker of North Arson were in towr
during the day Tuesday leaving here
at - for a visit To Boston.
Providing there is no further out
break of diphtheria among the school
children, the public and paroehial
schools will be reopened next Mon
day morning.
Miss Marion Hutchinson of Old Or
chard spent the week end with her
brother Harold. who is employed in
the printery department of the indie
pendent-R Reporter.
Mrs Joel Weeks and her daughter
Mrs. Fred Philbrick of West Card
ner, who have been guests of Mrs
Weeks sister Mrs W +. Andrews
departed Tuesday last.
Miss Annie Savage of Bingham
who has been the guest Of her aunt
Mrs. +. L. Pooler on Pleasant St, left
here Saturday for Boston. whore she
will enter the Leland Powers School
Mrs. Rose l.. Cushman went TO Bos-
ton last Saturday in company with
her sister Mrs. Mae Page and her sis
ter's daughter and husband Mr.. and
Mrs. George Breckinredge, in Mr..
Breckinredges auto.
William Locke of Portland spent
the day Sunday with his sister Mrs.
J. T. Wadsworth. W. D. Wads-
worth of Cornish, the doctors broth
er, has also been a guest at the
WadsWorth home this week.
Ray L. Parmenter, son of Edward
5. Parmenter and a graduate of
Skowhegan High School in the class
Of 1916, has entered Wesleyan Uni
yersity, Aliddletown, Conn, which
this fall began its Seth year
Golden Rod Br. l. 5. 5. will hold
the next regular meeting on Thurs
day D. m, Oct. 49, in City Bldg, Mrs.
Mary V Roderick, President, will be
sent as a delegate to the State meet
ing in Lewiston on Oct. 18th.
Company E will probably arrive
from Laredo in a few days and plans
are already underway for one or
more events to celebrate their arriv-
al and to express the pleasure it will
be to have them once more at home.
Harry Stevens, a weaver at the
plant of the American Wooden Co,
was hit by shuttle on the cheek Sat
urday and sustained a bad cash
therefrom. He was moved to DR..
Stinehfeld's office where the wound
was dressed.
Miss Margaret Macomber and Miss
Bessie Charles are among the local
teachers to leave town for a visit at
their homes during the vacation nee
essitated by the outbreak of diph-
iberia. They are at their respective
homes in Seal Harbor and Rome.
The sale. announced by the Ladies
Aid Society of the First Baptist
Church, to have been held October
18th, is indefinitely postponed on ac-
count of the diphtheria situation.
There will be no more business meet
ings of the society until further no.
tice.
DR.. f. N. Kincaid of Harbour
Round, Newfoundland, departed Fri
ray after visiting briefly with his
mother Mrs Abbie Kincaid and his
sister Mrs. f. c. Harvle on Main
ST. He was en- route from Somer5
Vile, Mass, where he had been visit
ing a son and two daughters.
Miss Mccormack of New York, a
graduate nurse, inspecting the Metro
politan Nursing service thru the New
England States, has departed after
inspecting the nursing service here
conducted thru Somerset Hospital
nurses. She expressed herself as
very much pleased with the atten-
ton the policy holders were receiv-
ing.
The body of John F. Chadbourne,
formerly of East Madison, but lately
of Gorham, N. H., arrived here last
night for interment in the Southside
cemetery. The remains were taken
directly to the burial plot where Ma
sonic ceremonies were conducted
Mrs. Blanche c. Hall daughter OF
the deceased, accompanied the body
here.
The Parent-Teacher Association
which was scheduled to occur next
Saturday evening has been postponed
like many other local events, until
further notice. President Leighton
has received a letter from the Maine
Branch of the Association which in
vited the local members to a Round
Table Conference at Room A in the
Portland High School Building Oct