The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-09-13
y SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS ~


Miss Dorothy Elliott returned home
Monday, following a visit of several
weeks in Dexter.
Mrs. Mary Lawrence, who has been
visiting her brother Llewellyn Good
win, departed Monday, for her home
in Danville Junction.
Mrs. Daniel Lewis went to Mil
linocket, Monday afternoon to spend
the week with her daughters, Mrs
Roberts and Mrs. Maddocks.
The Skowhegan Opera House was
opened for the first time as a moving
picture theatre, Monday evening" un-
der the management of Mieheal st.
Ledger and Myron E Smith.
Charles W Tarbell, former clerk
in Sampson & Azores drug store,
has returned from an extended trip
thru the west, going toward the Pa
cific coast as far as Nevada.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery Fletcher of
Ely, New, GLouise Cass) are the par
ents of little son, born during the
past week. Mrs Fletcher is confined
in a hospital at Oakland, California.
Golden Rod Branch l. S. S, will
hold its regular meeting in the NUM-
cipal building on Wednesday after
noon, September 10Th. After the
meeting the ladies will adjourn to the
Red Cross rooms and sew
Word has been received here that
Maurice Philbrick and Arthur Nc
Quillan who departed Sunday for
somewhere in Massachusetts, are
now stationed at Camp McGinnis,
birmingham.
Mrs Annie McCoombs of Watervile
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Roullard over Sunday. Her
sister, Mrs. Hollis Stitham and son,
Kenneth who have been visiting here,
returned to Pittsfield, Saturday
Rev Eta G. Tracy, wife of DR. O.
H Tracy, who has been taking treat
ment at st. Barnabas Hospital, Port
land, for several weeks, has been re-
moved to the home of a relative in
that city, being much improved in
health.
Mrs Hazel Leavitt Langdon, who
has been teaching in the summer
schools at Oak Bluffs and Gorham,
arrived in town Saturday night for
visit with her little daughter, Jean
Langdon, and her mother, Mrs. Clara
B. Leavitt.
Clerk of Courts and Mrs William
T. Seekins are receiving congratula
tons from their friends over their
first grandchild, a daughter, which
was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Elroy
Seekins, of Lowell, Mass, last Friday
night.
Mrs. O. r. Wilder, who has been
visiting in the vicinity of Boston, in
Nova Scotia and in Portsmouth, N. II.
has returned and reopened her suite
in the Hotel Oxford Jack Wilder.
who has been in Nova Scotia, has al
so returned to Skowhegan.
Miss Theresa Bison leaves today
Thursday for New York City, to re-
sumo her studies at the New York
Art and Applied Art School. Miss
Blanche Rhine of New York, who has
been guest at the Bison home, also
returns to enter the same school.
The east apartment in the house
owned by Herbert l.. SWEET, on Water
street, which has been undergoing
repairs for a number of months, is to
be occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
Leighton, who have been at Lake
Wesserufsett during the summer
John French, member of last
years graduating class of the SkOw
hogan high school, departed Tuesday
for Bath, for a visit with relatives in
that city. He will return to Bruins
wick and take up his studies at Bow
dom College at the opening of the
school year.
Gilman S Talbot, an electrician
on board the L. S. S. Texas, is visit
ing his aunt, Mrs e. l.. Marsh, at the
home of Miss Hannah Page. Mrs.
Marsh, with her nephew and Miss
Page, have recently returned from an
outing at China Lake. Miss Manda
ma Marsh has returned to her home
in Providence, r. l.
Sergt Roy B. Pooler, who has been
made regimental cobbler and who is
now stationed at Westfield, Mass, to-
gether with other members of Co f,
was at home Sunday and Monday on
a brief furlough. Private Carl To-
hey also returned for a brief visit
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs George
Tobey.
Joseph r, Sanford, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Almon Sanford of this town,
who has been taking the course on
the science of Aviation at the school
in Cambridge, Mass, is now station
ed at Fort Wood, New York Harbor.
He is one of the five honor graduates