The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-16
Skowhegan Local News

few days Nlslt IN BetheL
Miss Annie Corrisan left Monday
morning for visit in Wilton.
DR.. \. NJ. kellctt of Auburn. who
has been in town departed Monday
last
The Searchieht Club meets to-mor-
row night at Miss Eunice Patterns
; home
Mrs Edward Spear is visiting this
. week in Augusta with her cousin,
Mrs ". II. Gannett
. Misses Grace Hubbard and Lillian
Holmberg left Friday to visit the lat
. ter's sister. Mrs White in Lynn, Mass.
Mrs Gertrude Crimmin Of Hayer-
hill. Mass, was the guest last week
of Mrs. George w Cover, departing
Friday.
. DIR. and Mrs II. T. Bibber Of Cana
an were in town Friday, Mrs. Bibber
leaving here during the day for
: Boothbay.
Dr. Walter 5. Stinchfeld was in
Augusta to appear as a witness in d
case at Supreme Judicial Court Sat
urday and Monday.
" r. Trask of 10 Cross street who
has been very i'll with la grippe and
pneumonia for the past three weeks
is slowly improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Locke. who
: live between here and Athens in the
! section known as Revere, have a
. young son born Monday.
The Pioneer Past Noble Grand S
: Association met Monday with Mrs. w
A. Bailey on Bloomfield Green. The
regular session was in order and
dainty refreshments were served by
! the hostess.
Lit F. H. Farnham. L. S. A. was in
Skowhegan Friday and during the
day inspected the property of the
Company. In the evening he inspect
ed the Company in close order squad
and bayonet drills.
The Town Farm products last year
were: so tons hay, 537 bushels oats,
2S0 bushels potatoes, so bushels vel
low corn, sweet corn $3.50, 2 tons
pumpkins, tons cornfodder, tons
Hungarian, bushels beans, 3 tons
straw.
Georgianna Rena Lessor, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. George NJ. Lessor of
this town, was married in Portland
last Thursday to Edward Aubrey
Taylor Roode of that city, formerly
of Haverhill. Mass The ceremony
was performed by Max l.. Pinansky,
a justice of the peace. The groom is
employed as a brakeman.
Word has been received by SHOW
hogan friends that Rev Eta q. Tracy
has sufficiently recovered from the
effects of her surgical operation, late
ly performed, to return to her home
in New Hampton, n H. 1t is not def
nitely known when she and DR. Tracy
will remove to Skowhegan to assume
their duties in the First Baptist par
ish.
William J. Abbott, who has been
passing several months in Skowhe-
gan with Mrs. Abbott (Ethel Walton)
left Friday for visit in Rockand
He has since then been joined by Mrs.
Abbott in Brunswick and after a few
: days in Boston will continue his trip
home TO Ashley Mont. Mrs. Abbott
will return to Skowhegan for a long
er stay with her father. S. J. Walton
According to the annual report
, Mrs. Fanny J. Cabot librarian of the
Skowhegan Public Library. 2S4 books
I have been purchased during the year
Forty-tWO books have been given by
the State, eighty-seyen by the L. S
government, one hundred and ten by
Miss Coburn and thirty-seyen con
tributed by other individuals The
largest daily circulation was 27S and
the smallest %. Books delivered for
home use, 26.670. There are at the
present time 400 volumes in the
Library.
Owing to the severe storm the
March day social at the First Church
given under the auspices of the Phil
athea Glass was not largely attended
and the program was not carried out
as planned. Delightful features of
the evening however were readings
composed and delivered by Harry
Upton acting preacher of the church.
and violin numbers by Mr. Lincoln, a
Colby College student. Mr. Upton.
who is so acceptably preaching to the
First Baptist people until the arrival
OF Or. o. II Tracy from New Hamp-
ton. \. H., is a netiye of st. Johns,
y. B.. but tor some time has been
located in Portland