The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-19

The Wantoknowit club OF the First
Baptist church will meet in the
church vestry tomorrow Friday)
evening
All dog owners or keepers of dogs
who have not paid their licences by
Friday. April 30, are to be fined ac-
cording to Hiram p. Thing. dog con-
stable
e. d Packard and |. J. Smith spent
several days the first OF the week in
Portland where they were in attend
ance at the Methodist conference neld
in Westbrook
Robert W. Greene has taken the po-
sition of freight checker at the Maine
Central local freight house. taking the
place of Clarence f. Greene who has
moved to Pennington, " II.
Judge Fred F. Lawrence Is in Bos-
ton this week on a short business trip.
Otto Folsom-J Jones arrived Monday
evening lIOIl Ildi 'diu W oPt'i" 'AN
Easter recess with his parents Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Folsom Jones.
Mrs. c. P. Merrill is now in Auburn
dale, Mass, where she is visiting the
DR.. Henry w Godfreys Elizabeth
Godfrey, who has been visiting Mr..
and Mrs. c. p Merrill in Skowhegan,
returned home with Mrs Merrill
Miss Louise II. Coburn, who is in
Washington. D.. c., visiting her sister
Mrs. George Otis Smith, attended the
reception rendered to Maine women
who are at the Capitol for the Con
tinental Congress of the d. A r.
Mrs Annie L. Decker of Skowhegan
who is now at the Hotel Kempton
Boston, Mass, writes that her son
Kendall, has again been transferred
and is now on board the Alabama
with about a thousand other boys. He
is we'll and is enjoying naval life.
Fred Gallagher who has been run
ming the barber shop in the Coburn
block for the past two months, has
leased the shop in the Bjou Theatre
block which has been occupied by
Victor Savers for the past seven
weeks. Mr. Sayers expects now to
go to Augusta.
! About one-third part of the ledge in
the postoffice lot has already been
drilled out. f. L. Ford has fourteen
men and four horses at work there
now but not very fast progress can
| be made until the frost is out of the
ground. The work goes on, however
day by day, and it is expected. that
with the use of the steam drill, the
excavating will be completed by the
last of next week after which the
areas will be put in and the founda-
ton for the cellar, begun
ed an action against Perley Fl. Crom-
we'll, also of Harmony, alleging that
Cromwell raised his check from So to
$50. Sawyer will represent the
plaintiff and the case is one of the
many to be heard during the April
term of the Cumberland County Su-
preme Judicial Court now in session
In Portland, Justices Bird and Cornish
presiding. 1t will be recalled that
this case was on the criminal docket
of the Somerset Supreme Court last
January and that Cromwell was SEN
fenced to States prison. Gould has
now instituted civil action to recover
the amount.
The total number of pounds of in
terine freight received during the
month of March was 2,713,421; the to-
tai number of pounds forwarded from
the local station, 5,322,141. The fol-
lowing commodities were received by
interline freight: 771.220 pounds
grain; 179S67 pounds -four; 241,600
other mill products; anthracite coal,
206,416; coke, $4,000; lumber, $4,000;
fertilizer, 253,450; wagons, carriages
and other vehicles, 41,200; and $780,
06S of merchandise. The following
commodities have been forwarded:
Flour, 44,1OO pounds; hay, 344,370;
vegetables, 114,600; livestock, 24,400;
wool, 1900; lumber, $3.50; wood
pulp. 2,659,OOO; merchandise, 1,009,501
and miscellaneous, 10000 pounds.