The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-09-06
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pect 10 remain d year, at iodst, WIN :;
view of locating in California.
Miss Ella Robinson went the last
of the week to North Conway, n. H.
! to take the State examination Tor
teaching in that State.
Rev. A. E. Boisen, who has been pas
, tor of the Congregational church
nearly eighteen months, will preach
his farewell sermon next SUNDAY
morning, as he goes to France soon
for the Y NJ. c. A. work.
DR.. H. E. Marston has passed the
physical examination for commls-
sion in the Medical Reserve Corps
Among the many celebrations OF
Labor Day, that at the home OF MT
and Mrs. Clarence Witham OF school
street was not least. At six O'CLOCK
a few invited guests gathered apout
the table to enjoy a Duck Dinner
which was a bountiful supply of good
things supplementing the birds >,
After the repast, other guests arrived
and at eight o'clock, their daughter
Edna, was joined in holy wedlock to
John Brown by their pastor, Rev T.
w. Kennison. Later in the evening
the brides and wedding cakes were
cut. ice cream was served and shortly
after the bridal couple disappeared
without waiting for the usual good
byes INDUCED in at such times. MT
and Mrs. Brown will make their home
on the same street where the bride has
lived so happily, and the best OF wish
es Of her friends will follow her in her
new home.
Mrs. Eliza Holbrook died, Monday
at one o'clock Of paralytic shock al
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank
Carl.
Rev A. T. Boisen, who has been in
New York for a month in Y. M. c. A
training camps, arrived here, Mon
day afternoon, with his mother, Mrs.
Boisen of Arlington. Mass.
Saturday afternoon, September /,
there was a quiet wedding at the home
of Harry Spaulding, when George H.
Foster of Pennington and Nettie F.
Moody of Starks we're united in mar
riage by Rev. L. w. Kennison, pastor
of the Methodist church. After the
ceremony, the company adjourned to
the dining room where refreshments
were served Mr.. and Mrs. Foster
will spend their honeymoon among
friends before going to their new
home.
Ben Foster, the distinguished artist
whom North Arson delights TO call
her own, has just spent week In MS
native town and went from here, We'd
nesday. He visited some of his fav-
orite haunts and did some sketches
along the Carrabassett
There was shore dinner in Emb-
den, Sunday, not at Emblem Lake,
however, but at the farm home of Mr..
and Mrs Harry Dickey, which Is just
across the boundary line from North
Arson. An auto party came Satur-
day from Belfast, consisting of Mr..
and Mrs H. A. Peters, Henry Peters,
Harry Peters, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w Mills
William Miles, Mr.. and Mrs. A Dickey,
Wallace Sprague and Mrs. II. c. Ellis
of Charlestown, Mass, and they brot
with them the "fxins for shore din
ner, including bushel and half OF
clans and one hundred and twenty
Holsters.
The schools OF the town all opened
Tuesday, excepting the Academy
with the teachers previously announc-
edd Miss Bertha Paine Is the teach
err in the first grade Of the Mark
Emery school.
Tuesday, Ray Steward arrived here
from Portland where he had been Sc
veral days He has charge of large
farm of his uncle, Wallace Barron,
during Mr.. Barron's absence In Cali
fornia.
Dr. H. f. Marston has bought the lot
and house on Elm Street where
George Quint and family live. 1t is
known to the older residents as the
Carlisle Williams place.
David Bailey and Byron Crymble
went, Monday, to Portsmouth, n. H,
to work in the United States Navy
Yard, where fifteen ships are to be
built
Miss Kate Robinson went to Port
land. Tuesday, to visit her sister, Mrs
Frank Perkins.
William H. Mckinney and his
grandson, Roland McKenney, were in
Boston at the G.. A. r. parade.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hoyt and
their friend, Miss Nellie Edmond, have
gone to st. Johnsbury, VT, where Mr.
Hoyt has a position as teacher in st
Johnsbury Academy.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Baily had for
guests, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bailey and niece, Miss Gertrude Bow
man of Sidney and Mr.. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Cowen and children, all of whom
returned by auto, Monday.
In spite of the pouring rain Of last
Thursday, company of "a members