The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-05-25

Mrs Wilder Varney of Bangor at
.anded the funeral of Mrs. Nathan
Fowler Tuesday last.
Or 0. B. Ames of Waterville was
in town yesterday forenoon in con-
s.Ifation with DR.. Dascombe
Dr. a. E. Rodden has been suffer
.,o from an attack of tonsilitis this
,reek at his suite at Hotel Oxford.
Marriage intentions of George E.
pisfeen and Miss Alice Twombly,
both residents of Skowhegan are on
file.
Next Sunday at the morning service
Father Renaud will preach a patri-
otie sermon and Company E is to at
tend in body.
Special Grange meeting Saturday
night. May 81, to ballot on applica-
tons and to confer the first and
second degrees.
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Hall of New
York City have arrived for a So
iourn at their summer place near
Lakewood as is their custom
Leon W. Symons of Portland is in
town 10 visit until after Memorial
Day with his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
John D. Symons of North Ave.
Mrs Philip Barstow and little son
lelt here yesterday afternoon for
Dexter where they are to join Mr..
Barstow and establish their future
home.
Mrs Ella Dow, who has been visit
ing with her son Louis Z. Dow and
family has gone to Phillips, sum
moned there because of the illness OF
her mother.
Among the out of town people not
ed in Skowhegan Friday were Mr..
and Mrs. f. L. GIBSON, Mrs. 0. A.
Sawyer Bingham and Mrs. George
Brown of Pennington.
Ralph Strickland has returned from
a visit with his mother, Mrs. Lena
Strickland in Boston. Mrs. Strick-
land is expected here this week for
a visit with her son and other rela-
lives
Rev. J. W. Packard will begin next
Sunday upon his regular summer
pastorate at the East Ridge Church
in Cornville. He has been a preach
er in that locality for a long period
of years.
Miss A. p. Mantor, a teacher in
Castine Normal School, visited at
home here the first of the week. On
her return she was accompanied by
her parents, Postmaster and Mrs
Clarence Mantor, the trip being made
by auto.
Students of the Skowhegan High
School are to hold cake and candy
sale in the store on Madison Avenue,
formerly occupied by the Dyer Dry
Goods Company, next Saturday after
noon and evening. The proceeds
are to defray the expenses of school
athletics.
An attempted break into the store
Of H. J. Schmitz ON Milburn st. was
made on the night of the Norridge-
Rock burglary, but entrance was not
erected A portion of the glass was
broken out of the door, but too Sc
cure tastenings apparently disheart-
ened the thieves.
At the meeting of Skowhegan
Grange next Wednesday evening the
lAird and fourth degrees will be con-
TERED with work by the auxiliary.
Special program features will be mu-
sic by the Ladies' Quartette and the
mixed quartette and a monologue.
supper will be served by Section F
81 tit OlQHI.
The marriage of Arthur j. Gotta
and Miss Marie II. Z. Levasseur was
solemni2ed Monday morning at ST.
Mary's Church, nuptial mass being
said by FIR. j. Louis A. Renaud The
couple left on the midday train for
a wedding trip to Portland The
groom is by occupation a weaver and
IS the son of Fred Gotta, farmer in
Skowhegan. The bride is the daugh-
ter of Edward Levasseur of Van
Buren,.
The bold robbery and getaway of
the thieves at Norridgewock Sunday
night aroused considerable excite
ment in Skowhegan. Sheriff Thomp-
son was notified and the officers of
Somerset and Kennebec Counties
were put on watch for the vanished
plunderers. 1t is thought that the
men made their escape by automobile
and that they passed through Show
hegan as residents along West Front
81. noted the passing of an auto
about 100 on the morning of the
break. The Federal authorities are
now looking after the case.