The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-05-16

spending the winter
Mrs. Haines of Hanover street has
gone to visit her sister Mrs. Percy
Lambert of Norridgewock.
Gardner Benson of Jewett street
went to Scion, Sunday. to visit his
sister, Mrs. Lemuel Gates.
Mrs. Abbie K Wildes has just re-
turned home from Chicago, where she
has been with her son Gordon.
Mrs. P. H. S. Vaughan of Portland
has been a guest of her sister Mrs
! George &. Durrill the past week
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Pierce Of Madi-
son spent Sunday with their daughter
Mrs. Omar Perkins of Jewett street.
William Folsom Merrill Esq. was
one of the speakers at the State Con-
/ ference. held in Foxcroft, last week.
Unusual demand on our space this
week obliges us to omit the regular
| installment of our serial story over
The Top"
James Mathews and Mr.. and Mrs.
Del Mathews of Madison avenue have
gone to their summer home at The
Forks.
Ben Perkins and family moved here
this week from Madison and will re-
side at the place formerly owned by
Fred Tuscan
The chemical truck was called ow-
ing to chimney fire at the home of
! Roscoe Turner on the Malbons Mills
road, last week.
Peter Vincent is critically i'll at the
home of his sister Mrs Rosie Roder-
lex OF North avenue. Mr.. Vincent is
local milk dealer.
Mrs. Fannie Wildes and Mrs Alice
Wildes have opened their home on
Madison avenue, after spending the
winter at the Oxford
l. L. Walton Esq. and wife went to
Boston Saturday morning. They will
visit their daughter Mrs Byron In
gals, and return some time this week.
Mrs. Frances Freeman who is
critically Ill with bronchial pneumonia
at the home of her daughter Mrs. w
/ ID. Lawrence on Beech street is i'm
proving.
Mrs. Eta S. Bradley and Miss
Caddie Brown are delegates from the
! First Baptist church to the Phlathea
| Convention which meets in Boston
this week.
Mrs c. Earle Patten who has been
spending some weeks in New York
City with her husband who expects to
sail for France in the near future, ar
rived home last Friday.
DIR. E. II Stevens has been in town
few days at Bloomfield, making
plans for the summer His mother.
Madam Stevens, has been, and is very
| i'll at this time.
Mrs. Lizzie p Blanchard of North
avenue is confined to her home with
the grippe and her sister Mrs. Lucy
Young. who lives on the Fairfield road
is caring for her.
Mr. and Mrs Elmer GARNER Of
Beech street are the parents of a son
born Saturday and weighing nine
pounds Mother and child are. get
ting along nicely.
There viii, be a dance at Ea 81
Madison Grange Hall. Friday TO-
morrow evening, May II. Music
will be furnished by Lyons orchestra.
Also a supper, everybody invited.
Repairs have been completed on the
Squires property on Middle street. re-
Gently purchased by Mrs. Annie f.
Fish, and she and her SON. John l..
have established their home there.
Mr.. and Mrs William Laskey re
Gently moved to the old Henry Merrill
residence on Madison avenue, They
formerly resided at the so-called
Wells Poultry Farm on Silver street.
John F. Wadsworth and other young
men from the High school, are plan
ming to go to Bath Immediately after
the close OF the school term, to be
employed in the ship yards, during
the summer.
Miss Wilma Thomson left here Fri
day for Exeter, n. H., after substitut-
ing for Miss Grace Thomson, Western
Union operator, who returned here
last Thursday after visit in Boston
and vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Wentworth
have been at St Petersburg, Florida,
for the winter. Mrs. Wentworth
stopped off in Portland to visit her
daughter Miss Lucille, and arrived in
town last week.
Miss Lena Wyman will open her
home on Main street, after spending
the winter at the Oxford Her sister,
Mrs. Florence Wyman Diller and two
children are expected very soon to
spend the summer.
Mrs Vina Harville, has sold her
home on East Leavitt street to Joseph
Goulette. and will spend some time
in Portland with her daughter, Miss
Pearl Later she will go to New
Jersey to visit her brother,
Mrs. Willard c. Eaton and son Ber-
net left here on the morning train
MAY Sd to join her husband, who has
been employed in the Portsmouth
Navy Yard for the past eight months
They will make their home for the
present in Greenland, N. II. Their
daughter Doris will remain in town
until the closing OF the high school
This Thursday evening, it ia ex-
pected that reports from the State
Conference, will be given at the Con-
gregational vestry, by Mrs. K, L.
Marsh, Hannah II. Page, W. Folsom
Merrill and the pastor. This was