The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-05-03
i, SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS ~


rho members of the Milburn Club
hold their regular meeting Monday
,;qht at the club rooms. There was
hnffet luncheon after the meeting.
The many friends of Mrs. Myron e.
smith of Bridge street, who has been
siek for several weeks, will be glad
TO learn that she has quite recovered.
county Demonstration r. M. Stiles
was in Scion Monday, In Bingham,
Tuesday. and at Fairfield Center,
Wednesday, to form agricultural
clubs
loci Taylor, S. II. S. n, has been
chosen to represent the local school
al the Lyford interscholastic prize
speaking contest to be held Monday,
Nav II, at Colby College
The Queen Esther Circle will meet
with Miss Geneva Lancaster at her
home on Water street next Monday
evening. The subject will be Porto
Rico.
W Cruiser from the Naval recruit
ing station at Bangor was in town
several days the first of the week to
most placards and otherwise stimulate
interest in recruiting for the navy
The Red Cross and Temple degrees
will be conferred at the convocation
of De Molay Commandery this (Thurs-
day) evening. At $50 supper will
he served by Mrs. Kate Simpson, ca
terer
Mrs. Ethel S. w. Abbott who has
been spending the winter months in
Skowhegan with her father, Hon. S. j.
Walton, expects to leave for her home
in Ashley, Montana, about the first of
June.
The officers and directors of the
Town Improvement Society are re-
quested to meet at the home of the
president Miss Gertrude S. Weston,
Tuesday afternoon, May eighth, at
o'clock.
At a meeting held at Augusta last
Thursday of the Kennebec Valley
Federation of the Ladies' Aid societies
of the Methodist church, delegates
from Skowhegan and Madison were
present Mrs. l. j. Smith of Show
hogan was elected treasurer.
Of the boys who are students at
Skowhegan High, old enough to enlist,
approximately 45 per cent have done
so. One junior Ralph Merrill and
five seniors, Harry ST. Ledger, Clyde
Badger, Alvan Bucknam, Cassimir
Bison and Karl Tobey, all recruits
of Company E, were among those to
leave Monday for Augusta
Deputy Sheriff Roy B. Pooler and
Thomas Laney have been in Boston
a few days, attending the Guild Con-
vention. They left Sunday morning
and reached here last evening The
association is comprised of banjo
guitar and mandolin players from all
over the country and most enjoyable
time is reported by the two Skowhe-
gan young men.
Without any ceremony as planned
on account of the inclemency of the
weather, three American flags were
raised on the buildings of the Ameri-
can Wooden Company last Saturday
afternoon. The money for this pur-
pose was raised by the employees and
as there was balance of about $45
after the purchase of the flags, this
sum was turned over for the Company
E fund.
Mr., Pitcher, who will conduct the
chorus and orchestra at the annual
teachers convention in Bangor next
Fall, has invited, thru Prof E. E.
Towne, the high schools represented
in the joint concert which was recent
ly given in Skowhegan, to send rep
resentatives to the convention. 1t
is planned to sing the entire opera
of Martha" Mr.. Pitcher was pres
ent at the concert given by the four
schools and expressed himself as be-
ing much pleased with the work ac-
complished by Mr.. Towne and the pu-
pills.