The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-01-04

anu III NtOl 81 oiia 9hllld' lc'uA L'N
today to his studies at Colby College.
The members of the Ladies AuXil-
larry of the ST. John the Baptist So
ciety arr to have public installation
Thursday evening, January 18th.
Miss Ruth Lander of Maiden, Mass.
formerly of Bingham came last
Thursday evening for visit with the
Folsom Merril's at their home on
Bush Street
Derne J. Greene of Water street
left Monday for skinner, where he
will be employed during the winter
j months as teamster for the Spencer
Lumber Company.
Gerald c. Marble has been enter
/ tanning Ralph f. Frazier of Pressure
Isle. Both young men are seniors
in the mechanical engineering course
at Maine University.
Charles f. Smith, who has been
chauffeur the past season for the Roy
L. Marstons, left Monday noon for
Boston. where he is to work for the
Boston Edison Company. Mr. Smith
is graduate of the University of
+ Maine and is an electrical engineer.
i Miss l.. NJ Withee who has recent
I ~ sold out her millinery business in
which she has been engaged for thir-
/ ~ years, left yesterday for Salt Lake
! City, Utah Her sister. Mrs. Albert
HolsteiD of that city. who has been
visiting Miss Withee, accompanied
her.
Miss Belle Dennison of Cutler, Miss
M. b. Stevens OF Chesterville and
Miss Grace Ramsdell of Harrington,
who have been visiting at their
homes for the Christmas vacation
week, have all returned to their du
ties as teachers in the Skowhegan
schools.
The deed of the Womans Reforma-
tory site was recorded last week
Thursday at the Somerset Registry
of Deeds, it being dated December
10th. The deed is from Parker M.
Sanborn and Joseph Boiler of Show
hogan and the amount is given as
$4,000 This is the 200 acre Sacred
Heart farm formerly owned by Faith
er A. o. Lacroix.
f. w. Briggs returned Sunday from
Boston, where he accompanied Mrs.
Briggs and Miss Lola b. Goodwin who
have started for Purcelle, Okla,
where they will visit Miss Goodwin's
sister Mrs Ralph Leayitt and fam
lily for several weeks. When they
return they will be accompanied by
Mrs. LeaVitt's daughter, Miss Mar
garet, who is coming East to enter a
preparatory school.
AT the meeting of the board of
trustees of the Maine Woman's Re-
formatory held at the institution last
week Thursday, the officers apo mt
ed by the superintendent Mrs. Ger
trude S Wight, were ratified. These
officers include DR. John E. Wads
worth, reformatory physician; Miss
Clara johnson, nurse and matrOn;
George Wight, farm manager and DR..
Milburn NJ. Fowler, reformatory dem
tist
All schools, both town and rural,
opened Monday. There are two
changes in the rural schools: Miss
Ruth Drake of Winterport taking the
Malbon's Mills school. this position
being left vacant by the recent resig-
nation of Miss Helen Bean. At the
Richardson school, Miss Grace Young
of Norrdgewock who has been teach
ing at Embden, is teaching instead of
Miss Erma Knowlton of Waterville,
recently resigned.
The lecture on woman and Her
Work" by Mrs. Deborah Knox Liv-
ingston, which is to be given under
the auspices of the Town Improve
ment society, Thursday afternoon,
January eleventh, will be of great in
terest and will be largely attended
This meeting occurs Thursday after
noon instead Of the regular meeting
of the society Friday. The guests
for the afternoon will be the mem
bers of the Womans club and Soro-
sis.
Professor and Mrs. Charles Cleve-
land of Rock HILL S. c., who have
been visiting relatives in Skowhegan
and other places in Somerset County,
left Monday for New York City,
where they attended the annual poul
try show at Madison Square Garden
en- route to their home in the South.
Professor Cleveland is now connect
ed with the United States Bureau Of
Animal Industry and has his head
quarters at Winthrop College. He
was formerly in charge of the Maine
Senatorial farms at Hebron. Upon
his return to the South, he is to have
conference with the forty new wo-
men county agents, who are COM
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