The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-10-05
Skowhegan Local News

Mrs. ]. p. Thompson is again con
fined to her home on Winter st. by
illness.
Mrs. Charles Griffin and little son
left Tuesday morning for a visit in
Casco.
Mrs. Harry Hilton visited the first
of the week with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. D. C. Jewett.
Mrs. S. W. Philbrick, who has been
very i'll at her home is reported as
being somewhat improved
Mrs. Herbert Desmond and child
left Saturday on the mid day train
for visit with her mother in En-
field.
Mrs. w. T. Clark and daughter
Ruth Clark left here Tuesday for
their home in New York after a sea-
son at Lakewood
Mr.. and Mrs. John Holden, who
came last night to attend the Com
mandery Ball were guests at the
home of Mr., and Mrs, W. T. Seekins,
Simon Grover, who has been at his
cottage at Lakewood during the sum-
mer, has gone to Lynn, Mass. to pass
the winter with his son George Gro
yer.
Grand Warden D. W. Lewis of the
Grand Lodge of Maine N. E. o. P.
was in Gardiner last evening to at
tend a meeting of Danforth Lodge in
that city.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward F. Haines
and daughter Glennis attended the
fair at Litchfield Tuesday. They
were going from Waterville by auto
mobile. Litchfield was the former
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Haines.
Mrs. Carrie Mcpherson attended
the Federated meeting of Methodists
Ladies Aid Societies held at Read
field Tuesday. Mrs. Mcpherson went
as a delegate from the Ladies Social
Circle of the Centenary M. E. Church.
Edgar L. Ford, who is superintend-
ing the building of a section of State
Road in the vicinity of Good VIII
Farms reported yesterday that fay-
orable progress was being made, but
that the work underway would not
be completed probably until the last
of the month. f..st
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. L. Garland and
family and J. r. Buker, who have
been occupying the lower apartment
of the Merrill house on Madison Ave,
will move to the house owned by
Horace Hoxie and formerly occupied
by Mrs. Ella n. Jewett on East Front
Street.
Claude Barker, who Is visiting at
his old home in Athens was in
Skov hogan Tuesday calling on ac-
quaintances. During the summer
Mr. Barker has been touring Indiana,
Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ten
nesee, Milwaukee and elsewhere in
the middle west with the kryl Band
on the Red Path Chautauqua circuit.
Mr. Barker is a cornetist of unusual
ability and is leaving here later in
the season for Chicago to continue
his studies with Bohumir Kyrl, in
whose band he has been playing.
Mrs. E. H. Stevens, who has been
very i'll for several weeks at Bloom
field Farm was taken to her home in
Cambridge. Mass, Tuesday, accom-
panied by her husband DR.. Stevens,
and an attendant. She was moved
from Bloomfield to the railroad sta
ton on a cot and was so conveyed to
Waterville where train drawing room
quarters were obtainable. Miss
Luella Stevens aud Mrs. F. II. Paine
a guest departed at the same time but
Miss Stevens was to remain in Wa
teryille to attend the wedding of a
relative.
The evening service at the Con-
gregational Church next Sunday, in
stead of being held in the Vestry,
will be a special service in the main
auditorium of the Church. There
will be a special musical program
including "Sanctus" by Gounod, as
the Anthem by the choir, accompani-
ed by organ. piano and violin; a VIC
lin solo by Prof Kendall, his last APP
pearance for the season here organ
and piano duet Martha" arranged
by Josef Low, Miss Mabel Ross at
the piano and Miss Mildred Weston
the organ; vocal solo, Mrs. Harold
Bradley Ave Maria" by Gounod, ac-
companied by an arrangement for
violin, piano and organ. The rest
of the service will be in keeping with
the special "Go-to- Sunday School
Day idea. A special offering will
be called for to aid the choir fund
And it is hoped that the attention OF
this service will be such as to war
rant further services during the com
ing months in the auditorium. All