The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-05-11
Skowhegon Local News

augusta Tuesday.
John f. Merritt is taking a trip to
aeston. Waltham, Manchester and
portsmouth, N. H.
Miss NJ. G. Swain left Tuesday
corning for visit with her parents
- Needham, Mass.
edward E. Fairbrother was in Car
#ner Monday on business and made
me trip by automobile.
Mr. and Mrs. Acton Hodges of
Vjnslow were guests the first of the
yeek of Mrs. Ella Mason.
Mrs Lindley Parsons has been
,.isJrjng this week with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Foss in Athens.
The Helen Coburn Mission Circle
and Bethany Guild are to hold joint
meeting this afternoon at the Beth
any Church.
The steel for the cells at the Coun-
fl Jail has arrived in Skowhegan and
Vas Tuesday being hauled onto the
jail premises.
Mrs. S. NJ. Sawyer and Mrs. Clara
Green were in Fairfield Tuesday call
ID there owing to the sudden death
Of their sister Mrs. Pathena Bowman.
l011 oh MI n a.
sitjon as stenographer in the office of
an Auburn Shoe Factory, returned to
that city Monday after visit at her
home on High st.
An anniversary service for the late
Richard Gagne was held Monday
morning at 8 a. m, from St Mary's
church. His mother and sisters
we're present from Waterville.
\ veteran of the Civil War, David
pjggott by name, and a resident of
Togus was before Trial Justice Lam
caster last Monday on an intoXication
charge. He was fined SO and costs.
pfggott came here it is understood
10 work
The April Bowdoin Quill contains
short story written by H. Tobey
Nooers of Skowhegan. The title is
From the Diary of an English Pri-
yatea and it pathetically describes the
last minutes of soldier in the
trenches.
Mrs. Ella II. Crowell, Grand Chief
Of Honor of the Grand Lodge D. of H.
and Mrs. Horace Weston, Chief of
Honor of Woodbine Lodge D. of H,
plan to attend the Grand Lodge ses-
sions in New London, Conn, during
the week of the 22nd.
Miss Marion Hamblin, who was at
Somerset Hospital for some time last
winter, left Belfast Saturday for
visit with friends in Rockland before
going to New York, where she will
ioin the Harvard Unit that sails from
that port May goth for France.
NJ F. Stevens of the Fox Farm firm
left here Tuesday for Clinton, Mass.
on business connected with the pur-
chase of wire for use on the farm.
Additional ranches on the Skowhegan
farm are to be built and the build
ings on the premises are shortly to be
repaired.
The Pioneer Past Noble Grands
Association met Monday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. Lila French on
High st. A paper on Parliamentary
Usage. written by Mrs. Mary S. T.
Burns was read by Mrs. Mary H.
Bailey and Mrs. Alice S. Baker con-
Quoted a fifteen minute Parliamentary
Drill. Mrs. Ruth H. Eaton and Mrs.
Nina B. Savage read sketches from
the Rebekah National Journal and
later two-course lunch was served
BY the hostess. The next meeting
will be held with Mrs. Susie Jacobs,
who has lately become eligible to
membership in the Association,
through having served Priscilla Lodge
as its Noble Grand last year.
The Ladies' Aid of the First Bap-
list Church netted a little over SIS at
their fair and festival last week and
since January LIST have cleared the
sum Of 500. The organization met
last Monday in the Church vestry
with twenty-three ladies in attend
ance, Mrs. N. G. Ordway acting as the
hostess and serving the refreshments.
The next meeting will occur on May
20 at the Vestry at which time each
member will be privileged to invite
one guest. There will be an enter
tainment and refreshments. 1t is in
tcresting to note that since the first
oi the year the Aid has just tripled
in size. At that time there were but
thirteen members and now there are
ihirty-nine,
Another delightful musical affair
was enjoyed Saturday afternoon at
Tie home of Miss Mildred R. Weston
wnen her piano pupils played an in