The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-11

Mrs. Herbert rophihe ioi' AuSSo"'
cor short visit with relatives In
Vassalboro.
Mrs O. ]. GAIA returned Monday
u;gbt from Montreal, where she has
hoen on an extended visit with her
,,st.r She was accompanied by her
Two small children
Frank W. Knowlton, manual train
Ing teacher in the local schools. re-
,nrned to town Monday night from
,;s home in West Pembroke, where
no has been spending his Easter va
cation.
Mrs. Marion Drake Flanders sang at
the Bethany Baptist Church last Sun
dav at the morning service She con-
ducted chorus of thirty-flve voices.
Mrs Flanders will sing next Sunday
at 1O45.
The Maine Spinning Company was
very ably represented in the Liberty
Loan parade held in Boston, Saturday,
April 6. by Edison F. Nye of the Sales
Department, who marched in the
sixth division with the lambs.
special meeting OF De Mofay Com
mandery No 10 K T. was held at ma
sonic hall last Tuesday evening at
which. the order of the Temple was
conferred Refreshments were serv
ed in the banquet halI'at the close OF
the work.
Mrs. Henry Thomas and young son
left Monday for visit with her pa
rents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rollins
of Stockton Springs. Before return
ing home she will visit the family of
Levi Thomas, brother to her hus-
band, in New Hampshire.
Mrs. Ella Tenney Holt and Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Pullen left on the noon
train today Mrs Holt is to visit in
Worcester and other places in Massa-
chusetts, during April and May, and
L
of time in the city of Portland
James Lewia, the we'll known clerk
in the Charles w. Day grocery store,
completed his duties in that position
last Saturday night, after having been
there for eight years. He has bought
out the trucking business of Charles
Cleveland, which he will personally
conduct in the future.
Derne J. Green has announced his
candidacy for the Office of sheriff on
the Republican ticket at the primaries
TO be held next June. This makes
three in the field on the Republican
ticket, the other two being Ex-sheriff
John A. Mooers and deputy sheriff
Frank L. Harding of Madison.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the NJ E. Church was en-
tertained at the home of Mrs. E. n
Merrill on Water street last Monday
afternoon. The program was in
Merrill There was a goodly number
present, and in the future the society
will undertake war relief work for the
babies of France
The increased production of home
grown feeds as it relates to our ma
tional situation at the present time
and as it relates to the dairyman at
any time will be discussed by e. w.
Morton, extension instructor in dairy
ing for Maine, at the next regular
meeting of the Somerset Dairymen's
Progressive League, which occurs
Saturday afternoon, April goth.
The monthly meeting of the Parent
Teacher Association will be held next 8
Saturday evening in the High school Z
assembly hall. The principal speak I
er Of the evening will be the Rev. i,
Charles F, Robinson, pastor of the {
Congregational church at Waterville r
The pupils of Miss Rayner and Miss g
Carl will furnish the special numbers =
OF the program. Special attention is r
called to the fact that the meeting will .
be held at 7.30.
The Ladies' Aid of First Baptist v
church met at Mrs, Ida Smiths Mon \
day afternoon, with ID members pres f
ent. 1t was a very busy afternoon.
While the members worked some on II
Red Cross work and some on articles d
Tor the May day sale, plans were dis b
cussed for repairing the floor in the d
Kitchen Of the church. At the close b
Of the meeting dainty refreshments n
were served by Mrs Maxwell and tea b
poured by Mrs. Smith h
DR.. l.. A. Dascombe has presented d
the Jewett street school with a flag a
and flag pole, which they are now ~
proudly displaying from the building. Il
The size OF the flag is five by eight II
feet. 1t was intended that they u
should have had the flag on the last
day OF school, when under the direc-
finn ~ thatr +aaohar Ma AaIl;o GoHD