The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12

The Good Will Club will meet at
cha home of Miss Hannah Page next
wednesday afternoon.
Arthur Pooler left yesterday noon
Cor Portland to visit his cousin Willie
pooler. at the West End Hotel
Mrs Clara f. Brown who has been
with Mrs. Ella \. Jewett the past
TOW weeks returned to her home yes
terday
The Pioneer Past Noble Grands AS
sociation will meet with Mrs Helen
brown on North avenue for its May
meeting.
Arthur Dosite of Fairfield one of
the iurymen at the April term, Su-
nreme Court, is staying at J. f Pool
ers on Lawton street.
Liquor hearings before Judge Braz-
7eu are scheduled for Friday, April
H. Tuesday April Il, and two for
Tuesday, April "a, at eleven o'clock.
Master Adolph Bilodeau of Water
vile has returned home after a
weeks vacation which he passed at
Willie J. Breton's home on East
Front street.
The Robert Wentworths of Show
hogan and Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard
Gibbs of Madison who have been
spending several months in the South
are expected to return home very
shortly.
Miss Lucille H. Wentworth who has
been visiting relatives and friends
here for the Easter vacation week.
returned Monday to Portland where
she is attending the Waynfiete Pri-
vate School for Girls.
Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Emerson left on
the noon train Wednesday for a visit
Merrill and family at Portland They
will also take in the Maine Confer
ence now in session at Westbrook.
DIN b Tracy returned to Lewis
ton Tuesday noon and his brother
Leighton G., returned yesterday
morning. Both young men who at
tend Bates College have been visiting
DR.. and Mrs o. II. Tracy for two
weeks.
A special conyocation of Somerset
Chapter Royal Arch Masons has been
called at Masonic hall in Madison, for
Tuesday evening, April II. The work
will commence at four p. IN. and de-
grees will be conferred upon fifteen
candidates.
Roland B. Lindsay of Beverley
Mass, is very sick with the grippe
Mr. Lindsay is a brother-in-law of
James B. Nutting of Skowhegan and
Mrs Nutting is at present visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Lindsay and also her
son Chester Lindsay
= W. Briggs and Herbert l.. SWEET
are TO plant potatoes on three lots
near the Somerset Shoe factory. They,
Of course, hope for the venture to
prove profitable but are largely NOV
ed by the idea that everyone should,
at this time, make the full use of their
agricultural resources.
c, H. Gardner of Skowhegan, pres
ident of the Farmers Union of Maine,
attended an all day Grange meeting
at Pennington last Saturday and gave
talk on cooperative marketing and
buying Of farm supplies, two impor-
tant things for the careful consider
alton of all agriculturists.
Father Bourbonniere of Ottawa.
Canada, will arrive in Skowhegan
Saturday evening and for the next
two weeks will preach in French at
st. Mary's Catholic church, during
the Retreat which is to be held COM
Mencing Sunday The first week the
Retreat will be for the women of the
parish, the second week, for the men.
So many have spoken in so COM
plimentary a manner of the character
and splendid rendering of the Easter
Cantata Victory Divine, by the
chorus at the Island Avenue Congre-
satiOnal Church last Sunday evening,
that it has been decided to repeat the
Cantata and service next Sunday
evening, All seats are free and
everybody is welcome.
Tuesday, another box was sent to
the Boston headquarters by the local
branch OF the American Fund for
French Wounded The local branch
has recently received a very urgent
appeal for continued aid Those in
direct communication with France
realize that the troops of that ma
ton are now our first line of defense
and that aid to them is the same as
aiding our own army.
The next meeting of the Skowhe-
gan Grange will take place next We'd
nesday evening, April 49, The third
and fourth degrees will be conferred
and there will be music by the ladies'
quartet, solos by Winifred Gardner,
readings by Mrs. Emma S. White, an