The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-03-30
Skowhegan Local News

business.
Charles F. Ward who has been
passing several months in the South
is expected here this week.
Mrs. Y. W Nelson and daughter,
Ruth, returned Tuesday night from a
visit of two weeks in Wateryille.
The first floor of the shco shop
building is laid and the framework
OF the walls is partially in place.
Repairs are to be begun on the Nc
Clellan property partially destroyed
by fire as soon as the insurance is
adjusted
Miss 5. Jane Adams, a school teach
er at Sherman Mills has departed af-
ter visit with her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Asa NJ Adams in town.
Sewell W. Smith will celebrate his
S0th birthday on April S. Mr.. Smith
is still confined to his home. much
to the regret of many acquaintance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Pratt of Wa
teryille We're in town during the day
Tuesday Mr. Pratt is brother of
the late Mrs yina Hill of skowhe-
gan.
Elwood Allen of Garland visited
yesterday with the family of E. f.
Garland He has accepted a position
with George Reed at the Traitor
Farm
The official board of the Town I'M
proyement Society holds a meeting
tomorrow with Mrs, Annie F. Fish,
the president at her home 152 Madi-
son Ave
The farmhouse on the Woman Re-
formatory property is being remod-
elled. The Commission will mold an
other meeting in Skowhegan on the
tenth of April
\. Fowler and W. II. Fowler are
having quarters fitted UP for their
office and work room on the lower
floor of the building in which they
now occupy rooms upstairs.
Since his removal to the Sisters OF
Charity Hospital in Lewiston, Ben T.
Steward has been somewhat improy-
ed An operation has not been per-
formed as stated on Page 6 and may
possibly be avoided
Raymond Allen. son of Mr.. and
Mrs Clarence Allen, who has been
home from Worcester Mass. where
he is taking a course at Polytechnical
School left here Tuesday for a short
visit in Bangor before returning 10
his studies.
Miss Cora NJ. Hopkins, who has for
long time been a patient in the
Sisters of Charity Hospital in Water
vile. left that institution yesterday
for Portland, where she will spend
sometime with her aunt. Her father
H. S. Hopkins accompanied her
Miss Elgiva Luce, a teacher in the
Machas Normal School left Tuesday
for Auburn following visit at the
home of Miss Hannah K. Page ON
High ST. She was accompanied upon
her departure by Miss Dorothy FL
liot, who was leaving for visit in
Portland
Mrs. Walter Y. Mitchell left here
yesterday morning for Attleboro
Mass. where she will receive treat
ment at Sanitarium. She has been
i'll for several months having suffered
accompanied by her nurse Miss
Greenleaf.
Charles Blanchard did not stop
hauling logs from the pile on the
banks of the Kennebec across the
river on the ice until March 28. The
timber was being drawn to the plant
of the Skowhegan Pulp Co and the
convenience of conveying it on the
ice was unusual thus late in the sea-
son.
The Community Sunday School
Teachers Training class which meets
Monday evenings at the Philathea
Rest Rooms, has completed the first
nine lessons of the course Exami-
nations over this section of the work
will be given next Monday evening
in the High School building. The
members wish to invite anyone who
desires to join the class.
Word has been received here of the
critical illness of p j. Shanahan,
former superintendent of the Com
monwealth Shoe & Leather Co. in
Skowhegan. Mr. Shanahans home
is in Lynn. Mass, but he is connected
with a Ward Hill Factory and is i'll
at the home of his daughter, Mrs
Samuel Hurley in Georgetown, Mass
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