The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-07-03

MIR. and Mrs. Alfonzo McDaniels
OF Jaekmaa were in town on business
Yesterday
Mis- Addie Cover was employed
i&st Midday and Tuesday in the At
iahtie * Pacific store during the alb
sence ot Mr. Mcguire.
Thomas L. Wentworth of Milwau-
hee Wisconsin is pass.ns d ten days
visit al The home of his brother Henry
G Wentworth OF the Fairfield road
Mr. Lon sylvester and family left
here last sunday for Bath. where they
are 70 make their future home. They
VIII he greatly missed by their many
friend
Among those from here to attend
the Alumni Ban at North Arson last
Tuesday evening were Mr.. and Mrs
Charles smith, DR. and Mrs. w. S
stinchfeld and Mrs. Laura Twadelle
MIR. and Mrs. George Tilton. Mrs
Ahnaheiie Akeley and Mrs Maud Kin
cad viii Harry Smith as chauffeur
left here by automobile last Tuesday
morning lor Bangor for IA few days
visit
Mrs. Eastman Fowler and Mrs
Emma Cool of Canaan were guests OF
Mrs. Ellen Cover and daughter last
Friday also Mrs. Frank Soule of Oak
land WdF a guest at the same place
that day AA s..gA
Word has been received from George
Wight that his wife Mrs. Gertrude
Wight has undergone a second opera
ton at Massachusetts hospital, gall
stones being found in the duct which
leads from the gall bladder. Mrs.
Wight is rapidly improving and ply
sicians say that she will recover in
short time and be as well as before.
This is welcome news to the many
fr ends of Mrs. Wight in Skowhegan.
She Was formerly superintendent OF
the Women's Reformatory having re
signed about three weeks ago on ac-
count of ill health.
Rev. H. l.. Nichols, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist Church will
preach next Sunday at 1870 on THE
Christians Declaration of mdepend-
ence" Miss Gladys Pennell will
sing The Ninety and Nine by Shell
don. Bible School at - O'Clock with
classes for all ages. Evening ser
vices at the Bethany Baptist Church
at the usual hours. Prayer meeting
this Thursday evening at 30 with
why | Attend Prayer Meeting" the
topic for discussion Strangers or
those who have no Church home are
ESPECIALLY invited to all the services
Of the Church.
Mrs. Anna Prescott left yesterday
"wednesday morningD ON the y
o'clock train for a three weeks Wis
with relatives and friends in Boston
and vicinity Her longest visit Will
be with her step-daughter, Miss l.. NJ.
I'll of
now of Allston. She VIII also visit
in Lynn and other places. Numer-
various summer resorts and beaches
have been arranged for her enjoy
ment, by friends who have been an
ticipating with pleasure her visit Mrs.
Prescott is one who wins friends
will visit her son and wife in Auburn.
Mrs. J. l.. Johnson of Water street
recently received a letter from Wal
ter Laurie, formerly Of SkoWhegan
but now with the Canadian troops
Mr.. Laurie wrote that his company
would sail for Boston the last week
in June, and he would then 30 al
once to his home in Montreal. H.
will visit Mrs. Johnson and Other
friends in Skowhegan about the 10TH
of July. Mr.. Laurie's sister served
as a Red Cross nurse with the Cana
dian army in France, going overseas
when Mr.. Laurie went, in separate
ships sometimes side by side The
brother and sister however. have not
met since reaching Europe TINS
sister is the only remainiue member
of Mr.. Laurie's family, his parents
having both died-the father IN a
railroad accident, and his mother soon
afterward, shortly before he lrsl came
to Skowhegan.
Sergeant James Brood for two
years a resident of SkoThe4an, JON
ed Company f in the year l9l} I'M
mediately after the declaration OF war,
in 1914, he obtained biz discharge
from that company enl sled at Mont
real in the Canadian Field Artillery,
and went overseas Immediately, He
was thus the first Maine man TO en-
ter the war While in the service,
no uaS tuioa cavprclv wounded and