The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-01-25

and Mrs. E. B. Chase of Madison av-
enue.
Miss Louise Merrill visited friends
at Colby College Wednesday. Miss
Merrill was member of the class
of 1918.
The Dillingham; farm on Parkman
hill has been sold by John II. Lancas-
ter to Frederick Parkman, who is to
move to his new home in the early
spring
The regular meeting of the First
Baptist Ladies Aid Society will be
held in the church vestry Monday
afternoon at o'clock. All ladies
are welcome.
Mrs. George B. Fairgrieye returned
last week from Boston and Arlington
where she has been visiting .or three
weeks. While in Arlington she was
with her niece. Mrs H. Dyer.
Mrs. w. NJ. Greene of Kincorth,
Saskatchewan, who has been visiting
Mrs Joel Taylor and Mrs John Hea-
! ly after an absence from Skowhegan
of eight years. is leaving next week
esota.
Monday evening there was a spec
ial meeting of Somerset Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons The Master
Mason degree was worked on two
candidates. Charles W Day and
Ralsph Htll Refreshments weYe- ser
we'd after the degree work.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H Thorne of
Madison were in Skowhegan Tues
day and were registered at Hotel Co
burn. Others coming from Madison
for the purpose of attending the
court sessions are Bernard Gibbs and
deputy sheriff Frank l.. Harding.
A committee of ten or twelve from
the }Senate ana the House of Repres-
entatives are coming to Skowhegan
MQnday of next week to make a tour
off inspection of the new Woman s
Rteformatory They will arrive in
the morning and will have dinner at
Abe Reformatory.
( Among the lawyers in town for the
January term of the Supreme court,
| who are registered at Hotel Coburn
are Judge Leslie C. Cornish of Au-
gusta. T. A. Anderson of Pittsfield
C. w Hussey of Wateryille, W. l..
Anderson of Jaekman and Royden Y.
Brown of Bingham
The Margaret Golf Moore Chap
ter, D. a. r. of Madison, request the
attendance of the members of the
/ Eunice Farnsworth Chapter, ID. A. r.,
of Skowhegan, at the opening of their
! historical collection at the public Ii
6rary next Tuesday afternoon. Jan
( uary thirtieth. from go until five
Off hand and prone shooting We're
in order last evening at the Skowhe-
gan Rifle Club armory. a large
number were present and the scores
showed considerable Improvement,
! the twelve best being as follows:
Golf, 46; Dutton, As; CLARK. A; Gates,
! A; Parsons. Al II. Moore. Az Mer-
b A 4
Leavitt Al; Steward. Al; \. Savage,
40 Capt Parsons team won the
match with Capt. Clark's mon by a
score of 4S1 TO 46S y practice
shoot will be held Friday evening.
The Ways and Means committee of
the First Baptist church are to hold
social at the church Yestry the ev-
ening of February twenty-sixth.
During the past week, ten cents has
been given to each one of the mem
bers Using this as their capital,
they are to invest it in something
which they can make to sell or in
any other way they see fit in order
to see how much can be made within
the month At the social each mem
| Der will tell how she made her in
vestment pay. There will be pro-
gram of music.
Hahnel Bros q Co. of Lewiston
operating under the name OF Lewis
ton Metal Cornice & Skylight Works,
who have an ad in another column.
are fast completing their work on
| the Reformatory building Among
the recent big contracts executed by
this firm is that of st. Augustine
Church at Augusta, on which they
used IL tons of copper and 9 car
loads of slate. They also did the met
al work on the new addition to the
Reyes Fibre plant at Fairfield, which
took ~ tons of galvanized iron, 1000
panes skylight glass and goo pounds
linseed oil putty
At a committee meeting of the
Skowhegan high school senior class
in charge of the entertainment which
will be given at the meeting OF the
Town Improvement Society the after
noon of February twenty-third, the
program to be given at that time was