The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-06-01

4 full attendance Is ueSlfeu dl lne
,romans Relief Corps tomorrow.
please bring your badges.
Mrs. Charles Folsom-Jones left
yesterday for a few days visit with
friands in the vicinity of Lewiston.
Mrs Elsie Avore Stilphin of Au-
meta who has been visiting her pa
cuts here departed yesterday after
noon.
Acouaintances here will be inter-
ested TO learn that Mr. and Mrs. Asa
,dams are at Jim Pond Camps, Eus-
tis for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fales of
Pennington were guests the first of
This week at the home of Mrs Fales'
father DR.. l. L. Salley.
Mrs. Hannah Bussey, who has been
enending some time with her daugh-
Ter in Medford, Mass. has returned
n the home of Mrs. Grace Vail on
Pleasant ST.
Miss Mabel Hutchings of Augusta
and Miss Stella Hutchings of Halo
we'll have returned after visiting here
with the family of Geo. E. Sampson
on Maple ST.
AT the Bowdoin Freshman Banquet
in Portland Monday night Warren c.
Merrill of Skowhegan responded to
the toast Buck. He was member
Of tie banquet committee.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Lynn Viles who
have been visiting relatives in town
for a few days have gone to Spring
Lake. Dead River, where they will be
employed for the summer.
Mrs. W. A. Smith of Camden is
visiting her brother VIM. f. Dore and
family for a few days. Mrs. Ida NJ.
Wheeler and Mrs. Josie Shaw of
Cambridge are also guests at the
Dore home.
There will be a special meeting of
Somerset Chapter r. A. NJ. next Mon
dav evening. The Mark Degree will
be conferred before supper which
will be served at $50 and afterwards
the past most excellent degree will
be conferred.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Martin with
their daughter Myrtle of Watertown,
Mass. who have been visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Dinsmore, re-
turned home Tuesday. They came
to Skowhegan in the Martin car and
were accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Alden Williams of Somerville, Mass,
who visited with Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Gordon, the parents of Mrs. Williams.
Escorted by the First Maine Regi-
ment Band of the Maccabees, mem
bers of the Grand Army and Relief
Corps attended divine worship at the
Bethany Baptist Church last Sunday
morning. In the absence of Pastor
Merriam, Prof. Herbert C. Libby of
Wateryille delivered a very able SER
mon and there was special music by
the choir. The two orders occupied
pews in the body of the house and
the services otherwise were largely
attended.
During the services at the Catho-
lie Church last Sunday evening in
which several children participated,
the little daughter of Charles Tur-
cote ignited a veil which she was
wearing, and but for the prompt ac-
ton of Deputy Sheriff W. J. Lashon,
who was in attendance. might have
been seriously burned He noted
the accident and rushed to the child
smothering the flames with his coat.
She was just returning to her seat
with the candle and was about to eX-
tinguish it.
Relatives have been advised of the
death of Edward Leighton Pegram,
which occurred at his home in De-
catur, Ill. very suddenly. The end
came at about midnight, when he was
awakened by sharp pain and i'm
mediately expired, During the day
he had paid a visit to his office, al
though it was known that his health
was somewhat disordered The de
ceased is survived by a widow, for
merly Miss Eda Smith of Skowhegan,
who is the daughter of the late
Joseph Otis Smith and during his life
time had frequently visited in this
town. He was a native of Illinois, but
his father was a Virginian, while his
grandfather on his mothers side was
native of Maine. Mr.. Pegram was
interested in the investment business
and was about 60 years of age Be-
sides the widow there is an aged