The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-28
North ANSON

NV the summer diI dll6CiIthi OAA hAiN
Maine Central trains going south Will
leave this station at 7.33 and IL .53 a.
m. and Cos p m Going north VIII
leave at lo13 a. m. and FOG and 4.56
D. m. The sunday train up will ar
rive at 10ul a. m. and leave for down
river at 6o5 p. II.
The Somerset Veterans Association
is in session here today. Thursday.
Mrs Carrie Hutchins received a
telegram, Sunday, announcing the
death of her uncle John Pierce and she
started for Massachusetts. Sunday af-
ternOon.
Mr. and Mrs Perley Bryant Of May
field and Miss Maude Perry were
guests of their parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Adelbert Perry Sunday.
Mrs. Ellen Brown of Mercer is Wis
iting her niece Mrs o. w. Bryant
Alvin Bradbury has been visiting his
uncles in Lexington for the past week.
Rev. A. T Boisen preached at Gray,
Sunday in exchange with Rev. c. W.
Rogers.
Edwin Hilton has moved on to the
Luther Temple farm.
In regard to the small pox situation,
DR.. Marston. the attending physician,
stated Tuesday noon that there were
four cases and three other probable
cases, these cases being confined to
those originally exposed. All OF the
patients are in two of the Newcastle
houses.
Next Sunday will be Patriotic Sun
day at the Methodist church. There
1. gDtl fv,t hA rn
ing by the pastor, and collection OF
five cents of each member for the Red
Cross. There will also be a patriotic
service in the evening and a cordial
invitation Is extended to all to attend.
Prof Guy F. Williams, the principal
elect of Arson Academy, has moved
his family into the newly purchased
home for the principal, back Of the
Academy. The house has been finely
repaired from the fire and the outside
painted pearl gray with brown trim
mings. The Academy building has
also been undergoing repairs such as
we're suggested by the Alumni.
The play Festival which was to
have been given on July 4th, has been
given I'D on account of the small pox
scare.
The amount raised in the village for
the Red Cross fund was three hundred
dollars.
A large number from this section
went to Skowhegan Monday to the
parade.
Stephen NORM is having few days
vacation from his duties on rural de-
livery route No. /, and Alfred Berry
Is substituting for him.
Something over 5000 was raised here
as a result of last weeks effort for
the Red Cross fund.
Our writing in last issue stating
the Floyd Adams of Madison had been
visiting his cousin was not correct
1t should have been Lloyd, his broth
er.
HELON HILTON
The death of Helon Hilton OF Som
erville, Mass, occurred Sunday, In
Boston hospital where he underwent
an operation for gall stones short
time ago. His health had not been
very good for the past few years, still
he was able to come nearly every sum
mer to Maine to revisit the scenes of
his boyhood. Mr.. Hilton was born in
Scion in 1899 on the ancestral farm
where William Hilton, the first set
tier of Scion, took up lands in the
wilderness. Mr. Hilton's parents,
Helon and Mary Ann Hilton, lived sew
eral years on that farm on the Ken
nebec river before coming to North
Arson to reside on the farm above
the village on the New Portland road.
Mr.. Hilton married in 1864 Miss Han
nah Smith of st. Stephen, n. B. For
awhile they lived at North Arson but
for many years have resided at Som
erville, Mass. Three children were
born to them of whom one survives,
Herbert Hilton of Somerville. Mrs.
Hilton passed away over a year ago.
The last visit of Mr. Hilton to the
old familiar scenes in this village and
Scion was last fall, and he was very
feeble at that time. Mr., Hilton came
of Revolutionary stock, his grandfath-
er William Hilton having been with
Washington at Valley Forge. When
Scion celebrated its centennial, Helon
Hilton was the poet of the occasion,
and he wove into his poem the prose
and romances of the first settler, In
the midst of his long life, Mr.. Hilton
has found time to write many beauti-
full poems, many of which have been
published The talent which he had
in this line was out of the ordinary.
In the commonplace he found the
beautiful and his writings would fill
volume. The funeral took place at
Tuesday, after which the
remains were cremated. His son
will bring the ashes to Scion for in
terment the last of this week.