The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-09-07

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u.arrsn c. Merrill who has been at
-. camp near Lake Winnepesau-
- Lake. has returned home.
rod Libby and son of Waterville
.na saturday to visit their daughter
Nd sister Mrs. Moody Jewell.
Vr md Mrs. Harold Larry left
saturday for a vacation visit to Mr.
r.rrs parents in Chocorua, N. H.
\ Cayouette who has been in
I'm during the last two months, left
saturday to return to his home in
Boston.
william Donahue and daughter
xolIie who have been the guests of
yr and Mrs. Ed King, departed Sat
urday forenoon.
Mrs Jennie Armstrong of Fox
croft arrived Saturday going from
here TO East Madison to visit her
mother Mrs. Henderson.
Miss Josephine Arbuckle of Scran-
+on Penn. who has been visiting her
mother Mrs. Mary Bolgier, started
Saturday on her return.
Miss Louise H. Coburn and her
euest Miss Mary A. Norris of Brook
line. Mass. returned Friday night
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Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Wagner of
Boston who have been guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Bradley, left here
Saturday, to visit in South Paris.
Prof E. D. Pratt of Chicago, who
conducts a school in that city, and
who has been visiting at the home of
his aunt Mrs. c. Davis Miller, has
departed.
Mrs.. J. E. Montefiore of Waterville
who has been attending the Temple
Heights Campmeeting arrived in town
saturday to attend the sessions of
Madison Camp at Lakewood.
Mrs. c. II. Davis and daughter of
Cornish who have been visiting with
aer sister Mrs. F. E. Cross and her
brother, Clerk of Courts, w. T. See
kins departed Saturday forenoon.
Dr. G. E. Young was considerably
hindered Saturday when the wheels
on the left side of his automobile
SUM in the mud at the side Of Elm
St. close to the Madison Avenue cor
ner
Many friends will regret to learn
Of the serious illness of Mrs. Stevens,
the gracious wife of DR.. E. H. Ste
yens OF Cambridge, Mass. The fam
lily are at Bloomfield, their Skowhe
can country place.
The Skowhegan Public Library has
received valuable and very attrac-
tive volume as a gift from William
Walker, formerly of Skowhegan, now
of Seattle, Wash. 1t is a history of
prominent men Oh THAT Guy.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Knight and son
Of Lewiston, who have been passing
two weeks with Mr.. and Mrs Charles
E Young at their Mt. Pleasant Ave.
home and their cottage at Smithfeld,
departed from here Saturday last.
Fer the purpose of arousing inter-
est in Sunday School work and the
increasing of Sunday School attend
anee. a proclamation has been issued
by Governor Curtis, naming Sunday,
October s as Go to Sunday Day"
Mrs. Dora T. Nye was in Water
vile Friday. During the summer
Mrs Nye has been pursuing a course
in music with Prof Maxim. teacher
OF Interpretation in the Faction
Piano School. Boston, and this was
her final lesson in the course.
Mrs. Eben H. Emery and two chill
dren were in town for a part of the
forenoon Friday, having come here
from Athens where they had been
visiting relatives. Mr.. Emery is in
charge of the weather bureau at
Cleveland. Ohio, having lately been
transferred there from Providence
HIS family started upon being advis-
Cd 10 come by telegram owing to the
possible strike conditions on the rail
roads.
Many people in Skowhegan will be
Interested to learn that Simon n.
Nudd now of Lunenburg. Mass. eele-
brated his 74th birthday recently. On
the same day his granddaughter Miss
Helen Bacon reached the age of s
years and both accordingly enjoyed
special festivities. Mr.. Nudd is one
Of the few surviving veterans of the
evil War now resident in the town.
He was born at West Gardiner and at
the age of "a came to Skowhegan,
which was his home for 43 years, till
he went to Massachusetts seven years
arc. He enlisted Sept 90, 1862, in
Co. +, oath Maine regiment. The
regiment formed part of Gen. Bank s