The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-07-13
Skowhegan Local News

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mr. Julia Nay Kincaid was in Fair
e.,l yesterday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Bragg of
r,~,Iand arrived yesterday.
EDWARD Crate of Jackman was in
.o.n Tuesday on business.
Miss Annie Bergman has accepted
. nosjtion in the store of The Emery
prowp CO. in Waterville.
elmer Smith has arrived here from
,7-oonort and is at the home of his
brother Willard F. Smith.
Misses Hazel Kicker and Helen
pines of Good Will were the guests
If Miss Fife NJ. Nye, a few days last
week.
Fred Turcotte has bought small
section Of land near his property
close to the Catholic Cemetery, of
E. f. Greenwood.
Mrs. Edith Moreau returned Sun
dav to her home in Auburn after
snerdjng a few days with her brother
Iobn Dugas and family.
Master Chesley Green who has been
very III, is improving. His mother
Mrs Eva Moore Green has been home
for some time from Lewiston.
r J. Dumont and William o. Chase
nj Hayerhill, Mass. arrived the tenth
n nass a week in town. They are
making their headquarters at the Ok
ford
Mrs. Kate c. Hill has recovered
sufficiently from her recent surgical
oDeration to be removed to the home
Of her son Fred Richardson in Port
land.
Cecil H. Gates has purchase
house lot on the north side of Locust
St.. formerly a portion of the Archer
farm and purposes to build a house
thereon.
Gideon Pooler, who sustained in
juries while working on the river re-
Gently. was operated on Saturday
morning by Drs. Stinchfield and
Wadsworth at Somerset Hospital. He
is reported as improving.
Skowhegan has two representatives
in the United States Military Train
ing Camp at Plattsburg, New York,
Donald Philbrick, whose departure
was noted last week and Chas. c.
Smith. son of DR.. George Otis Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mitchell of
West Front St. have been entertain
ing number of house guests lately.
Among them have been Mrs. Fred
Fitzgerald and children of Lawrence,
Mass. and A Mitchell of Worcester,
Mass
Mr.. and Mrs. Coney Sanborn ar
rived home Monday evening from a
trip 10 the City of Quebec and sur
rounding territory. Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson Jones of Norridgewock ac-
companed them, the journey being
made ii the Jones automobile.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Hopkins have
returned from an automobile trip to
Bucksport and other points in East
ern Maine Tomorrow Mr.. Hopkins
is leaving for Cedar Rapids, Mich,
where he will attend meeting of the
directors of the Railway Order of
Conductors.
Mrs. Eta Lyons is to be a house
guest during this week of Mr.. and
Mrs D. H. Bartlett. Mrs. Lyons is
native of Somerset County, having
been born in Harmony. but for two
years has been a matron at Wesleyan
University in Middletown, Conn. Her
home is in Castine.
The several new streets on the old
Archer farm are now completed suf-
heiently for traffic and are highways
of excellent width. The longer of the
three which extends north and south
has been named Greenwood Ave.
while the upper street connecting
Greenwood and Madison Avenues is
Cleveland St. and the lower one Lo-
Gust ST.
Several SkOwhegan people includ-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Lord and
family Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. F. Paddock,
Miss Winona Paddock, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eldon Boyd, Miss Faith E. Harris and
Miss Freda Harris helped to make up
a party of twenty-five picnicers who
enjoyed an outing at North Pond,
Smthfeld, Tuesday. others attend
ing were Henry Wentworth and fam
lily of North Fairfield and Thomas L.
Wentworth of Milwaukee, Wis. The
TWO gentlement last mentioned are
brothers and Mrs Boyd is their sister,
The attendance at Lakewood Thea
ter last week was record breaker
and on two nights it was lot possible
to seat all who wished to see The
japanese Honeymoon" The attend
anCe this year is so large on account