The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-06-22
Skowhegan Local News

teryille this week.
Miss Elizabeth Scott and Miss
Marion +. Lord have returned home
from Pennington Normal School.
Mrs. George Ware and little son
have returned from a visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Cleyc Royal in Hallowell.
Miss Frances Sterling and Emma
Parlin of Bingham were guests of
Mrs. John y. Cool and family on Fri
day
Miss Faith and Miss Freda Harris,
5. Il. :. 10. students at Nj Holyoke
College, South Hadley, Mass. arrived
home Saturday forenoon for the sum
mer vacation.
Mrs. +. L. Marsh and daughter
Mandana of Providence. II. |. have
arrived and joined Miss Elizabeth w.
Marsh at the home of Miss Hannah
r. Page on High St.
At the next meeting of Russell
Relief Corps to be held July 18th a
basket picnic supper will be served
Members please take notice and come
and enjoy social hour.
Golden Rod Branch l. S. S. is to
have food and apron sale in the
store formerly occupied by the Dyer
Dry Goods Company on Madison Ave.
next Saturday afternoon and evening.
About twenty new members have
lately affiliated with the Christian En-
deayor Society of the Congregational
Church and Sunday evening re
ception was rendered them with a
special service.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Ploude was buried Mon
day in the cemetery of Our Lady of
Lourdes following a service by FIR.
j. L. A. Renaud The child's age
was one week.
The members of St. John the Bap
tst Society will meet in a body at
St. Mary's Church next Sunday MORN
! ing and attend s o'clock mass. Fol-
/ lowing worship, they will spend the
day at the Pines.
The Russell Relief Corps have ac-
cepted the invitation of Skowhegan
Grange to be with them on the even
ing of June 90 Husbands of menu
bers are also invited Ladies to meet
at Grand Army Hall at o'clock to
accompany the Post.
Mrs. l.. J. Peckham of Fox Park,
! Wyoming, arrived last evening and
will make her home with her sister.
Mrs. Simeon Sawyer. Mrs. Peckham
will be recalled as Miss Dora, daugh-
ter of the late Elkana and Susan
| (Parker) Durrell She has not prev
iously been in Skowhegan for 32
years.
Miss Winona Paddock, who has
been teaching in the Blunt district
!
School in the fall to continue her
course there. Because of this Miss
Phebe Chase has been transferred
from Pitts district to the Blunt dis
trrt and Miss Margaret Chase, S. II.
:. '16 will teach in the Pitts school.
Mrs. Peter Boardman and little
niece, Mary Provost. Mrs. Ed
ward Croteau accompanied by Master
Lawrence Croteau left Tuesday morn
ing for Bath to visit with Mr. and
Mrs. John Tracey and other relatives,
returning to Lewiston to visit at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Bou-
lette and family. They will probably
remain for about one week.
F. Y. Cayouette of Boston, who had
been in town since last week. left
Tuesday morning for Quebec, p. q.
From there he was to go to Rober-
vale. p. O., two hundred miles north
of the st. Lawrence river. This lat
ter community is on the shore of
Lake St. John, one of the far north
ern points some times visited by
tourists. Mr. Cayouette is Interested
in 4 coal and oil mine which calls
him to the St John section. While
here Mr.. Cayouette was the guest of
Father LaCroX.
The Pioneer Past Noble Grands'
Association were entertained at the
June meeting by Mrs. Susie Jacobs
at her home on Mount Pleasant Ave.
The organization is studying Parlia-
mentary law and a feature of the
session was talk on that subject by
Mrs Mary II. Bailey, the president.
| Luncheon was served in a very dain-
| ~ manner by the hostess. The next
meeting will be held with Mrs. Violet
V. Fogg at her Lake Wesserunsett
cottage, July 10, if the weather is fine.
/ The regular meeting will be held in
the afternoon and the gentlemen will
be invited up for supper.
Among the Skowhegan ladies to at
tend the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Department of Woman's Re