The independent-reporter., 1919-10-16
The News of SOmerseps Busy Towns

George Goodwin and wife OF 'on-
necticut are guests for Few days Al
the Farr home. Mr.. Goodwin IS one
OF The oN nrrS Of the NoFth AhsoH MAN
ufaeturiug plant
\ party started from here for cali
fornia. Monday morning. 70 spend the
winter They we're Charles Moore,
Mrs Addic Cannon and Mrs. ANNE
Strickland They Will stop Al Den
yer. col for a few weeks, then MIR.
Moore and Mrs Cannon, who has beeh
Mr. Moore's housekeeper for over Two
years. Will 20 on 10 san Jose, alI''
to stay with his niece, Mrs. pierce
where they also spent last winter. Mrs
Strickland after short visit IN Colo
rado, will go to Los Angeles. calf. 70
visit Mr. and Mrs George Pierce for
mer residents Of New Portland.
Mrs Hortense Pease Murphy of Emb.
den was the guest. Tuesday OF Mrs
George Clark.
\ Farmers telephone has ben In
stalled in the store Of the Farmers
Union and the call is 6-11-lo.
o W. Bryant has been very Ill dur
ing the past week and his condition
Is considered critical
\ dance viii be given in carrabas-
sett Hall, Friday. Nov. 7. for old and
young, for the benefit Of Stewart pub
lie Library. The committee In charge
is Miss Kate @, Robinson. Mrs. +. II.
Holley. assisted by the trustees. Mrs.
Evie II Robinson. G. f. Williams f.
S. Parsons Miss Mary r. Porter, J.
NJ Getchell Mrs. Geneva T.. Hilton.
w {. Emery, Mrs. Elizabeth f. Eme-
ry, Mrs. Mabel NJ. Porter
At the annual meeting of Stewart
Library Association. the terms of Mrs.
Wallace Emery and Mrs. Gould a.
Porter as trustees having expired they
were reelected to serve i've years
each. At the trustees meeting. which
Immediately followed the Association
meeting. the entire board of officers
were reelected as follows: President
Guy f. williams. Vice president, Fred
s Parsons; secretary, Geneva +. Hill
ton: treasurer, Elizabeth r Emery;
librarian, John NJ. Getchell; curator
Eyie H. Robinson; book committee
Mabel NJ. Porter, Geneva +. Hilton
Mary f. Porter. -.
who died in Augusta Hospital last
Thursday, were taken to THIS village
her former home, and the funeral was
held in the Congregational church,
Saturday afternoon, Rev. F.. L. Baker
officiating, and the burial was In sun
set cemetery. She was the daughter
of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Leander cole
and her age was twenty-one. TWO
brothers, George and clyde and a SIS
ter Stella survive.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lawton OF Tor
rington, Conn. arrived here Sunday for
a few days visit.
Mrs, Flora Durgin and her mother
Mrs Alfred Berry went Thursday of
last week to Saco and Kennebunk to
visit Mr. Berrys cousin, Mrs. Albert
Milljken. From there they went to
Portland to attend the Rebekah AS
sembly, Mrs. Durgin heing delegate
from Emerald Rebekah lodge.
Charles Crymbe. who was 80 years
old on his last birthday. has always
had fine garden and produced extra
early vegetables. This year he did
something out of the ordinary by rails
ing from one hill of potatoes twenty
three pounds of smooth white extra
fine and only one small potato In the
hill Most of them weighed a pound
and n half apiece. They are of the
White Mountain variety. but uncle
Charles calls them American Beauty
The tops were four feet high. The
only fertilizer used was the trimmings
from fish. His son Frank always