The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-07-05
= SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS "

beTlle L, rice, lOFulerly Ol OhOWnS-
gan and a member of Company E has
enlisted in the Burleigh Battery of
Augusta.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Murray
and Miss Delphine Murray spent the
holiday the guest of relatives in Law
renee, Mass.
Miss Carrie Thomson left Wednes-
day morning for few days visit in
Gardiner, Augusta and Waterville.
She will return the latter part of next
week.
Friends of Mrs. Mary Crowell,
mother of Clifton Crowell, will be
gratified to learn that she is improv-
ing somewhat from recent serious
illness.
DR.. and Mrs. L. P Geoffrion, &C.
companied by Mrs. Paul Mathews and
Mrs. Lena Casey, were in Augusta
the first of the week calling upon
members of Company E.
Miss Margery Smith has gone to
Boston to attend the summer school
connected with Simmons College, of
which she is a graduate and where
she will teach next year.
Helen Halves, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. W II. nawes, vino was critically
i'll the first of the week with an at
tack of blood poisoning, is reported
as being somewhat improved.
FIR. Carey of Hallowell was in town
Monday and Tuesday to attend a
meeting of the Reformatory Commits
sioners. The meeting was postponed
however until a later date.
Several motormen and conductors
of the Somerset Traction Co., have
recently been granted an increase of
50 per week above the old schedule. 1t
is understood that the new wage scale
will go into effect next Monday.
Members of the Wantoknowit Club
affiliated with the First Baptist church
are spending the greater part of the
week at North Pond, Smithfield. Rev
o. H. Tracy, Phi. D. accompanied the
boys.
Mrs. Minnie Pishon has arrived
from Stoneham, Mass. and will re-
main in town during the summer. She
is visiting at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Decker on East Leayitt
street
The Philathea Glass will be the
guest of Mrs. Philo Steward in the
Vestry of the First Baptist Church
tomorrow (Friday) evening. Mr. and
Mrs j. A. Kendall are to be the en-
tertainers.
Among the out of town people call
ed here owing to the illness and sub
sequent death of Mrs. Elvin Richard
son were Mrs. Ella Laverty of Port
land and Mrs Fannie Cannon OF
Everett, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Mills of Port
land, who have been visiting for sew
eral days at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs Hugh Hurley of West Front
street, returned Tuesday, and were
accompanied by little Edna Oddly who
is to visit them for several days.
Those from out of town to attend
the funeral of Major Laney were Mrs
Flora Dealey of Waterville; Joseph
Roderick, Lewiston; Thomas and
Frank Bizier, Fairfield; Mrs. Herbert
Aver, Miss Ida Pelletier, both Of Wa
terville and George Laney of Alton
N. H.
DR.. E. H. Stevens of Cambridge
Mass. Is passing a week at Bloomfield
where his mother and sister are To-
Gated for the summer. Mrs, Angie
Stevens, the doctors daughter-in-law,
with her son, Master Edmund Stevens
have arrived and Miss Delano is also
at Bloomfield.
Deputy Sheriff John Burke was
down from Jackman Tuesday, bring
ing with him one George Nadeau OF
Fort Kent. Nadeau, it seems, was
causing somewhat of disturbance
around Jackman and had been drink
ing heavily. He will spend the next
fifteen days at the county bastile.
Funeral services for Mrs. Elvin
Richardson were held Tuesday after
noon at o'clock from her late home
on the River road. Rev. George Mer-
riam, pastor of the Bethany Baptist
church, oficiated and interment was
in the East Skowhegan cemetery.
Mrs. Fronia Seaver Of Roxbury,
Mass. Is spending few days as the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George Hobart
Officer Weston Lewis of the Augusta
police department arrived in town late
Tuesday evening, bringing with him
the Misses Alice Cookson and Clara
Rowe OF the capital city. Both
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