The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


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5.s.ryi,le last Monday, returning
fame Tuesday.
gorge Laney was called here from
...a, \ Il. owing to the death of
4 =. brother, Edward Laney OF North
B avenue.
,rr. Eddie Boldue is reported as
,z=.. seriously i'll at her home on
a..er street with the prevalent bowel
uo4aIe.
Miss Alice Higgins of DoyerFox
raj. is guest of Mrs. a. c. Genth-
- and family at their home on West
n From. street.
Mr. Alice Steward Deyine has re
& ..rYed to Augusta after visit with
Tim H. Steward and family of Co
burn avenue.
q rsere is important business to
.saie before the regular meeting OF
p..sen Relief Corps tomorrow Fri
d. afternoon.
Miss Carrie Cleveland of Norridge-
us5k was in town Sunday to attend
ne funeral service of her cousin
Kenneth Matson.
A. Cabot of Brigton was in
own. Tuesday. the guest of Mrs. A.
i e Blunt on Elm street. Mr.. Cabot
y +. Mrs. Blunt's nephew.
Mr. and Mrs Carl Sanderson of
Iekman were the week end guests
A. the home of Mr. and Mrs. Omar
Perkins on Jewett street.
Mrs. Harry B Campbell of Haver-
fm Mass. arrived in town last We'd
sasday to visit Mrs Ellen Allen and
n and Mrs. Myron Smith on Cedar
street
Mrs. Charles Taylor returned to her
tame on Madison avenue last Monday
r.ght after caring for her sister, Mrs
Vary Tuscan of Madison, who has
feen seriously i'll for the past week
sunday at the Methodist Church:
Il .d45. sermon by the pastor, subject
eLikemndedness -, Sunday school;
$50. Epworth League; 73o, evening
service. Special music at morning
service. ...l
4 Joel Taylor of the present Sopho-
mere class at Colby, arrived in town
4 la. Tuesday evening. He has been
q occupied during the summer as tennis
Instructor and baseball coach at Bret
D ton Woods, y. II.
There will be a regular meeting of
sunset Chapter O. T. S. tomorrow
iPridaY) evening There will be bal
3 lotiug, and an entertainment consist
ing of readings and music by some of
\ Prof Kendall's pupils.
i 1t Edward Spear OF Skowhegan re
& ceiyed a cablegram Tuesday morning
from his son, Elliott \. Spear, stating
A thai he was in hospital in London,
a as tae result of German gas attack
3 in which he had been present.
" Miss Lucille Fortier has ben in town
I this week During the summer She
& has been employed in the dining room
of a hotel at Mngo Springs. She
expects to find employment in Water
q vile or Lewiston during the coming
winter.
Mrs. Flora Collins, mother of Mrs.
] /. Parlin of HesetOn street, was
removed to her daughters home last
Friday night, after being patient
at the State Hospital in Augusta for
s some time. Mrs. Collins was taken
4 III at the hospital and her condition
at present is serious.
Mr. and Mrs J. Abbott Kendall plan
X 10 leave here within the next few
y DAYS for St. Petersburg, to pass the
winter at their home in that city, 232
9TH Ave. North This is a house
4 built by Mr.. Kendall six years ago,
when he first took up the plan OF
passing the winter in the South While
+ be seems citizen of Skowhegan. and
MS such during the larger part Of
4 his life, his legal residence is at pres
ent in Florida
Some one who to say the least, had
Slight appreciation of right and wrong,
saw fit to appropriate some of the
sQuashes in the Freedom Douglas
garden on Baptist Hill last week. Mr.
y Douglas had cared for them skillfully
\ through the summer and they we're
all ready to harvest when this depre-
& dation occurred Four which had
Teen cut off, ready for removal, were
overlook but otherwise the thief made
clean sweep.
". A. Chapman of Hartland, who is
serving on the traverse jury at the
present term of court, was formerly
a resident of this town. He was
brought up on the Samuel white
more farm, Mr. Whittemore being his