The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-04-10
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

p & White returned this week
rom a short business trip to Bow
doinham.
Roscoe Bigelow left Monday for a
us, with his brother, Ralph Bigelow
Of brunswick.
: S HUFF left for Brighton this
ueea with a load of cattle. returning
uith a car load of horses.
Miss Lucy Diusmore OF Hinckley
was guest at the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas G. Lord this week.
The Pioneer Past Noble Grands'
Association will meet next Monday
,fternoon at the home of Miss Alice
Danforth Madison avenue, at $50.
Mrs. Margaret Crotto has gone to
Portland to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Walter Aver, for about a month in
thai city. Then she will go to Grant.
where she is to be employed for the
sumner in the Kennebago Camps.
The May section of the Philathea
Glass of the Baptist Church is pre-
pairing a May Festival to be given on
Monday, May 18th. This will con-
sist of a May-pole, dance and other
features, which will be fully announc-
ed later
III the changes caused at the Show
hegan Postoffice by the resignation
of clarence B. Hight. an auxiliary
clerkship has become vacant which is
10 be filled by Eugene A Dumont
Mr.. Dumont qualified, by passing the
Civil Service examination. last Janu-
AIRY
Walter Merton Pierce, son of Mr.
and Mrs |. S. Pierce. formerly of this
town. has been promoted from First
Lieutenant to Captain in the 1920 In
iantry AT present he is stationed
in Boston He left Pennington
about two years ago to enter military
service
Sewel W. Smith observed the S3rd
anniversary of his birthday in a quiet
way. last Tuesday. He was the
pleased recipient of numerous gifts,
among which was a shower of post
cards Several of his friends called
n daV tp hrin0 q
Of good wishes and birthday greet
ings
This week Friday evening, April
II, there will be a federated social
of the young peoples societies at the
Methodist vestries. The age limit is
all over ten years of age. A fine
program has been prepared and will
begin promptly at 730, and the so
cial will close promptly at ten o'clock
IN admission of ten cents will be
charged
Rev. and Mrs Horace G. McGlaufin
Of Berlin, y. II arrived in town asst
hbHudg ilBHl / HcH are Ou llltli
way to the Methodist Conference that
is to be held in Fairfield this week
1t began last Tuesday night. The
same night, Rev. Leslie Grundy of
phillips came to spend the night at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. II. Grundy. He will attend the
conference also.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs George
BY of Boston. Mass, but formerly
residents of Skowhegan will be pleas
ed to learn that they are the parents
of a little daughter born to them
April g. She has been given the
name of Dorothy Belle. While in
this town, Mr. and Mrs bly, lived on
Silver street and he was employed
IN the Somerset Shoe Factory.
Friends of Miss Ella Lashon will be
sorry to learn that she is suffering
from shock of the left side At
present she is at the home of her
sister. Mrs. Laura Toulouse in Jack
man Miss Lashon is improving as
last as can be expected. As soon as
she is able she will be located at her
cottage at Lakewood. Previous to
her Illness, she had been employed
IN the Somerset Shoe Factory.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Il. Cover and
their three children. Elwyn, aged -,
Velma. aged nine, and Raymond aged
'lhree arrived here from Massaehu
selts last week and are at present
stopping with Oren Cover on the
Notch road Mr. Cover intends to
20 to farming on his own account,
some time this summer. Mr. Cover
was born and brought up in Show
hegan and went to Lancaster, Mass.
about seven years ago.
Mrs Charles Perkins of the Lake
wood road received a telegram last
Sunday from her son. Harold ]. Per-