The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-06-27
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Clark were
guests OF Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Wescott
last week
Give up your Injuries that the
Kaiser may be made to give up his
ambitions.
Miss Mae Ambrose accompanied
Mrs. Maurice Magoon and two chill
dren to Winthrop for a weeks visit
with Mrs. Magoons mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Durrell Of
Stratton returned home Tuesday, after
passing several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. II. T. Jewett and other relatives.
The regular meeting of the Skowhe-
gan Womans Association will be held
in the Rest Rooms next Monday even
ing at 7.30.
Miss Leonie Bolgier, daughter OF
Mrs. Joseph Bolgier, leaves, next week
with an automobile party, for a vaca-
ton in Montreal and Quebec.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald Dumont, who
recently returned from Porto Rico,
where Mr.. Dumont has a position as
Manual Training teacher, are sojourn-
Ing at the Lake for the present
Sunday morning at the Methodist
church the pastor will deliver the SER
mon, subject An Old-fashioned Gen
tlemen', Evening service from to
8; speaker Rev. Leslie Grundy of
Phillips.
Miss Doreth Whitehouse returned to
her home in Wellington, Saturday
Miss W'hitehouse graduated this year
from the Skowhegan High school, and
plans to enter a nurses training hos
pital in the near future.
The local branch OF the Somerset
County Chapter Red Cross gave to
the draftees who left here yesterday
morning, 80 comfort kits and 27 pairs
of socks. Others of the quota had
been previously fitted out by the va
rious branches.
Miss Minnie Grant, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Cony Grant of Bingham. has
been in town this week, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Russell d. Cleveland OF
SO Madison avenue. Miss Grant has
been attending Shaws Business Col
lege at Bangor, and was on her way
home from that city.
Marion Stackpole and Cecilia Cow
cite of Grade l, Jewett School. were
not absent or tardy during the spring
term of school. Several pupils of
the same school had perfect attend
ance for the school year up to within
short time Of closing, when mumps
or whooping cough necessitated their
absence.
During the past week a branch OF
the Red Cross has been organized at
Skinner, having for It's jurisdiction,
Skinner and Lowelltown. They re-
port the following officers: Chair
man, Mrs. F. Edna Page of Skinner;
treasurer, Mrs. Mary Essen OF Skin
ner; secretary, Miss A E. Wood of
Lowelltown; chairman of finance
committee, Mrs. Lila Valentine Of
Skinner.
Friends were summoned to the
home of Mrs. Hattie NJ Roberts of
Chandler street, last Saturday even
ing to bid goodbye to her son, Tim
othy V. Roberts, who was among those
to leave for Camp Devens, yesterday
morning. The guests took the OPP
portunity to present the young man
with S14 in cash, as a parting gift
The young mans father, A E. Roberts
of Windsor was among the guests.
At the vesper service OF the First
Baptist church next Sunday it is ex-
pected that the young men who have
been attending the conference at
Mortified, Messrs. Leighton Tracy
Bruce White and Alexander Thomson
will give reports Of the Mortified
meetings. There will be special
musical numbers and the favorite old
hymns of the church will be sung by
the chorus and organization. This
meeting will be held at 6.45 on Bloom
field Common, if weather conditions
permit; otherwise in the church.
Charles A Goodwin, maker and
seller of harnesses in the Haines
building, has gone out of business.
Mr.. Goodwin has been so many years
working under cover that he finds 1t
necessary, on account of his health, to
chanAe his occupation. He began this
work in this town, where he continu-
ed for year, then was employed five
years in the same occupation in Au
gusta. Returning to Skowhegan, he
commenced business for himself, in
the Charles Fairbrother building on
Water street, where he remained "a
years then moving across the street
into the Frank Moore's building In
the year 1914 he transferred his bust
ness to the Haines building on Madi-
son avenue. Mr. Goodwin intends,
for the present, to spend the greater
part of his time on his farm.