The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-11-15
II SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS y



visiting Mr.. and Mrs J. P. Thompson
this week.
Mrs. Hiram Thing is suffering from
a diseased arm. rendering her prac-
tically helpless.
Mrs. Alice Wildes entertained the
T. P. Club for the week end at her
bungalow, Lake Wesserunsett i
Lyons orchestra will give Sun
light Hop and Dance at Union Hall,
Madison, Thanksgiving afternoon and
evening.
Elwyn D. Packard, who has been
i'll with typhoid fever was out of his
home Tuesday for the first time in
nine weeks.
Mrs. W. H. Gannett of Augusta was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. Eugene
Swain. Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Abel Patten have NOV
ed from Summer ST. and established
themselves in the Owen house on
Pleasant St
Mrs. Maria Jackson of Mechanic
Falls arrived Monday night to visit
for a time with Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Savage on Winter street.
Rev. George Merriam of the Beth
any Baptist Church will preach in the
church at East Madison, Sunday af-
ternoon, Nov. IS, at o'clock,
DR.. Geo Otis Smith, who has been
i'll of typhoid fever, in mild form,
for several weeks is recovering and
will come, for rest in the early flu
ture.
Mrs. Frank Davis, 102 Main street,
Skowhegan, would like to buy four
cords of dry, hard wood fitted for the
stove. Will pay cash when wood Is
delivered.
Miss Lora Pooler of Waterville has
returned to her home in that city fol-
lowing a visit of several days at the
home of her sister Mrs. Carl Malley
on Main street.
In business arrangements, just con-
Guided, between the Randall McAllist-
er Co. of Portland and Sewell W.
Smith of this place. the latter has re-
ceived a life interest of the home on
Main street.
The Federation of Women's Clubs
begins its work, Friday of next week,
November 23d. The meeting will be
in the Library Parlors. at the usual
hour, in charge of the Town Improve
ment Society Miss Olney will be
! the speaker No notices will be sent.
A member of the Public Utilities
Commission was in Skowhegan Tues
day to investigate conditions sur
rounding the death of Walter Camp
bell Indication tended to show that
he came in contact with transform
er on the second floor and fell thru
/ to the first floor
! Many Skowhegan friends of Mrs.
| Pearl Hale Boothby, formerly Of
Skowhegan, but for the past four
years a resident of New York City
have recently received the announce
ment of her marriage to Hermann
Heinrich Klerx 3rd, also of New York.
The ceremony was performed on
Thursday, November /.
Adyices have been received here in
dica ting that Harry Dysart of this
place has arrived in Europe and eX-
poets to join his comrades of Company
e, somewhere in France, in the early
future. 1t will be recalled that Mr.
Dysart had to submit to surgical
treatment to fit him for service that
being the reason why he did not make
the journey with his company.
Apropos to the story in the last is
sue of the Reporter, regarding plans
being made by the Central Maine
Power Co, it was stated that possibly
no oh
would be moved this being the prop
erty of the Company. w. E. Hackett
pleasantly informed the reporter that
in so far as he knew he was the own
er of the building. The reporter re-
grets the seeming attempt to deprive
Mr.. Hackett of the realty holdings
and cheerfully makes the correction
Rev. George Merriam returned Mon
! day from trip to Rumford. While
! there he had an opportunity to confer
with members of the Church from
which he has received a call and to
become acquainted with the town and
its field Of religious work. Mr. Mer-
| RAMS first pastorate in Maine was at
| Freeport, where he was located for IL
years. Previous to that he had been
occupying pulpits in Kansas for 10
| years. He came to Skowhegan in
October, 1904, and thru this long pas
torate of Is years has been much
| beloved pastor and highly respected
citizen. 1t is understood that he has
as yet come to no decision regarding
the Rumford call
The students of the Skowhegan
high school, at a meeting held on
Monday, voted to purchase service
flag and to have written a roll of
honor, the same to be framed and
hung somewhere in the school build
ing. 1t is the plan not only to re-
member those students who have left
school to enter into military service
but to induce all those on the roll
| who have ever been connected with
the school, whether graduates or not,
who are now in service. This flag
Is to be paid for by the students them
selves from sacrifices on their part
and is not to come from the parents
John E. Wadsworth Is In charge Of
the honor roll and flag purchasing
plans with William Philbrick in
charge of the campaign to obtain the
names of the former students who are
now soldiers, these two gentlemen TO
have their corps of assistants