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

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Miss yerna Abbey left Monday
morning to visit for time in Brock
ton. Mass.
Donald Ward Philbriek and War
rem c Merrill were at home from
Bowdoin College the first of this
week
President Gardner OF the Farmers
Union of Maine has been in Water
vile. Gardiner and Freeport this
week
] Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Hall purpose to
close their Lakewood bungalow and
return next week to their home in
Kew York.
Miss l. NJ. Poulin, who has been
away for several weeks visiting in
Nashua. y H. and at different points
in Massachusetts, arrived home Sat
urday night
Mrs. Annie Upham of Lewiston
who has been visiting her daughters,
Mrs. Ira A. Norton and Mrs. Emma
A. Bigelow for two weeks, returned
home Monday
In observance of Go-to-Sunday-
School Day there will be special
program at the session Of the Con
gregational Sunday School next Sab
bath at u o'clock.
Miss Geneva +. Smith and Miss A
Magma Gordon left Monday morning
| for Boston, where they are to take a
course in a school of Physical Cul-
ture on Newton st.
Next Sunday at 100 will occur the
communion of the Women OF the
Sodality at St Marys Church. Last
Sunday there were probably 700 peo- /
pie in attendance at the First Mass.
Mrs. Frank Longfellow returned to
her home in Augusta after a ten
days visit with her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmore Withee and other rela-
tiyes in town. She also visited with
her sister Mrs. Lynn Greene in Hart
land
Joseph Foss, whose critical illness |
was announced last week, was taken
to Lewiston for treatment. He
was accompanied by his brother Fred
Foss and a cousin. Mrs. Frost Bunk
er of Athens was at the train to bid
him farewell. -. ...
Among the local people who have
been enjoying the sessions of the
State Baptist Convention in Portland
this week have been Rev. George
Merriam, Mr.. and Mrs. o. d. Wells,
Mrs. Ethel Whittier Ames and Miss
Alice E. Written.
First Friday Deyotions will be con-
Quoted tomorrow at St. Marys
Church. There will be Communion
at 5 o'clock, a. m, Mass at $50 a. N.
and Holy Hour at 7,30. October De-
yotons are occurring every evening
during October at the church except
Saturday nights.
The marriage of George St. Peter
of 'Skowhegan. son OF Eli ST. Peter of
Waterville and Miss Lolita Murray
daughter of Charles Murray of Show
hogan was solemnized last Saturday |
in this town. Edward F. Merrill,
Esq, Justice of the Peace officiated
at the ceremony.
Mrs. l.. J. Stevens, who has been at
Bloomfield during the summer start
ed Monday on her return to her home
in Cambridge, Mass. She was ac
companied by Mrs. Young. Miss
Luella Stevens accompanied her as
far as Waterville and will join her
in Cambridge before the week is
over.
w. Hunter Thomson. who has been
located in Spokane, Washington for
some time, arrived home Friday ;
night to visit his parents, Mr.. and (
Mrs. Geo X. Thomson. He stopped I
en- route to visit relatives in Ames- (
bury. Mass. and now purposes to re-
main in Skowhegan all winter. While
in Washington Mr.. Thomson has
been studying farming.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Cavenaugh,
who were recently married in Ben
ton arrived in Skowhegan Monday
following a wedding trip to different
points in New Hampshire and Massa- {
chusetts. They are to occupy the \
down stairs rent in the Nash house |
which Mr.. Cavenaugh has lately pur-
chased. His parents Mr. and Mrs.
NJ. Cavenaugh will occupy the upper
apartment II
Mrs. Milton Record of Los Angeles,
Cal, who has been a guest for the
last few weeks of Mrs Fannie G.
Wildes. left here Monday for a visit
in Auburn, before going to Boston
where she purposes to pass the win l
ter. Mrs. Record formerly resided
in Skowhegan but has not been here
for bo lost fOrt,y urI,;lo boro !