The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-01-24
NORRIDGEW0CK

tertained few friends at tea party
last Saturday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Horne and fam
lily were the guests of Mr.. ana MIS-.
Charles Miller, Sunday.
Mrs. Elmira Trench and son Charles
returned Friday night from Medfeld,
Mass, where they have been passing
several weeks.
Mrs. Marjorie Theobald has been
teaching In the Gilman District
Mrs. Clayton Topper Is convalesclng
from her recent illness, and her nurse.
Miss Vena Blaisdell has returned
home.
Charles Libby was home on bust
ness from the up-river numbering
camps last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bracket re-
turned Saturday from Moxie, where
they have been staying for several
months.
Mrs. Albert Startling has been i'll
with tonsilitis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford Wort Of Oak
land we're the week end guests OF w.
A. Moore.
Ostie Allen was In town from North
Arson Saturday, and was accompanied
back home by his mother. Mrs. Lizzie
Allen, who has been boarding with
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Crosby for
several weeks. Mrs. Allen Is In very
poor health.
Mrs. Mabel Miller was visiting
schools last week in place OF Supt.
Sheaff, who Is very i'll with small pox.
Under the new school law the town
OF Starks Is united with this town,
Mercer and Smithfield, with one
superintendent.
Miss Mabel Whitney was in Water
vile, Saturday.
The shoe factory was closed during
the Save fuel" days, and all the stores
excepting the drug and grocery stores
we're closed Monday. according to the
new law.
Ulmont Stanley was sick last week
with the German measles.
Mrs. James Hilton has been on the
sick list.
Mrs. Eta Blaisdell and Miss Edna
Thompson were shopping In Madison
Saturday.
Leone Jones was confined to his
homo by illness last week.
children, Kenneth and Bernice, re-
turned last week from Munroe. where
they have been visiting Mrs. Blais-
dell's parents.
Frank Trench returned Friday from
a short visit to Boston.
Byron Trueworthy returned Satur-
day from Milford, Conn, where he has
ben visiting his son.
Merritt Holt was employed as a
clerk in the Trench store, last week.
Z. Il. Barker was in Madison on
business, last Monday.
Mrs. Frances Gilman Is in poor
health.
Thomas Theobald, Frank Keene
and Chester Kenney, were home from
Smithfeld over Sunday.
Mrs. Myrtle White Martin and little
child, from Marblehead, Mass. have
been visiting her mother, Mrs. Mel
win White.
Miss Fay Barker was home from
Waterville over Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. Colby futile has been very
sick with appendicitis.
Fred Lawton is on business trip
to Portland.
Guy Cole, formerly of Prospect Har-
Dor, has been in town recently, calling
on friends.
Mrs. Harry Kemp is quite Ill.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Caswell was
called to Madison last Friday and
Saturday to help keep the peace at the
wooden mill
Everett Groves Is cooking for Frank
Keene at his numbering camp in
Smithheld.
Mrs. Williamm Knowlton is gain
ing.
Mrs. Ann Lowell of Starks has been
the guest of her son, Roy Lowell and
wife, recently.
Miss Edna Taylor of this town, who
is teaching at Beverly. Mass, visited
her sister, Miss Marion Taylor, In
New York, very recently, and reports
that Miss Marion was fully prepared
to start across as Red Cross nurse
to France at a moments notice, and
it is more than likely that she is on
her way at this time Miss Taylor Is
a graduate of the Norridgewock High
School. and is the frst Red Cross
nurse to go to France from this COM
munity, and any news from her will
be received with great interest.
Everett Campbell passed away,
Tuesday morning, after long Illness.
More particulars will be given next
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Greenleaf Blaisdell
entertained relatives over Sunday.
George Clark has purchased the so
called Nugent house, where he has
resided for several years.
Perley Rowe and wife have moved
into one of the Herbet Hale rents on
Depot street.
The Independent-Repo is for
sale at r w. Spaulding's
The small pox patients in town are
all reported as gaining, with the ex-
ception of Rev. r. L.. Sheaff, who was
very sick the first OF the week.
Three houses are quarentined, and
two others while not vet actually
guaranteed are closed, while the pa
tents are being watched by the doc
tor. All public gatherings have been
cancelled during the past two weeks.
as requested by the Board of Health.
The husking sheds at the Burnham
4 Morrill, Co. corn factory, broke
down under the heavy weight of snow
during one of the recent storms.
Zach year these sheds serve as winter
quarters for numerous vehicles of all
descriptions, and II outside appear
aAces are not wholly wrong in this