The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-12-26
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


DeeH III bOoloH loI lew udyo tnls
week
Miss Lucille Wentworth, a student at
Rogers Hall. Lowell, Mass. is the
guest of her mother Mrs. Robert
Wentworth at the Oxford Hotel.
The Searchlight Club will hold
reunion at the home of Miss Hannah
r. Page on High street next Saturday
evening baked bean supper will
be served
Alexander Thomson is spending the
present holidays with his parents Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Thomson of Mt
Pleasant avenue. Mr. Thomson is a
student at Bowdoin College.
The account of the death of Mrs.
Harriet Cole which appears on page
six of this issue, should be completed
by stating that sister Mrs. A. p.
CHM of Rockland also survives.
Miss Nellie Hamilton arrived home
last Friday night from Boston, where
She has been attending Burdett's
Business College Miss Hamilton
will spend the Christmas vacation
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James
Hamilton of Water street.
e J. Holway of Dorchester Mass.
has been visiting recently at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. Herbert Nichols. Mr.
| Holway was for SO years a resident of
Norridgewock and moved to Massa
chusetts last July On this trip he is
also visiting friends in his former
home town
A whist party is to be held in the
banquet room of the I o. o. +, Hall
under the auspices of Priscilla Re
bekah Lodge, next Tuesday evening,
Dec 81. Finch and "63' will also
be played Tickets may be obtained
at the door The committee in charge
is Mrs Minna Savage and Mrs. Addie
Webb
George W Lynch has gone to
Nashua, n H. where he is to pass the
winter at the home of his brother,
Thomas, Is Bruce ST Both these
gentlemen have been residents of
Skowhegan and both have been en-
ployed at the Hotel Coburn. The first
named worked there for many years.
Thomas Lynch worked there 30 years
ago. Since leaving he has lived in
Nashua, where he has been for some
years the foreman of shoe factory
His family consists of his wife, who
is a New Hampshire girl, and several
children.
Christmas was very happily observ
ed by the operators of the local tele-
phone exchange in their offices on the
third floor of the Philbrick-Ward
Block, yesterday. The rooms were
decorated with a handsome Christmas
tree and other greenery. The follow
ing were present: Chief operator
Miss Myra Sawyer, Mrs. Bernice Tit
comb, Miss Ethel King. Miss Lena
Carrveau, Mrs. Pauline Greene, Miss
Amber Pooler, Miss Lovina Murray
Miss Margaret Chase. The guests
of the evening we're Mrs. Grace Til
ton Miss Edna Crawford. Misses Della
Amanda and Anna Carriveau. Matthew
Greene. Leroy McDonnough. Re
fre5hments were harlequin ice cream
ialted nuts, waters and chocolate
Panch donated by Caterer Lambert
was served
Mrs. Clara Roy, who has been seri-
ously i'll at the Somerset Hospital for
several days. is conyalescing slowly
She is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph Roderick of North avenue
Mrs. Roy had an extreme case oil
empyema For its relief she was OPP
Grated upon by DIR. Young. Wednes-
day of last week This operation
consisted of a resection of the rib and
the drawing off of three quarts OF
fluid from the lung cavity The diff
ficulty in cases of this kind is the in
ability of the patient to take ether In
this case, the part to be operated on
was brought under local anaesthesia,
the agent used being Novocane This
anaesthetic of prime Importance in
emergencies OF this nature, has been
used for about four years The pa
tent remains conscious during the
operation, but the part of the body in
volved is rendered insensible to pain.
Corporal Ray E. Phillips. who has
recently been discharged from the
service is the guest OF his mother,
Mrs. Kate Phillips at the home of DR..
f. S. Bigelow on the Watervlle road.
Corporal Phillips was in the Chemi-
cal Warfare Service Laboratory for
medical research at the Yale Univer-
sity His studies we're with reference
to the effect of gas as used in warfare
and the methods of treating its in
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