The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1919-03-13

Mrs. h. =. FldBR Oh East riOhe III,
scalded her foot quite badly last Sat
urday
Mrs Fay Burrill and Mrs. Lettie
Foster OF Canaan. were in town one
day last week.
Miss Mabel Bigelow has gone to
Bangor, where she will make her
home for the present, with her aunt.
Mrs. Richard Weller who has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Neil Mills of
Portland. returned home last Satur-
day
Mrs Forrest Bosworth and son,
Harold. have returned from visit
with Mrs. Bosworth's sister, Miss
! Pearl Bowden OF Oakland.
Miss iona Holmes, who has been
visiting her uncle, Bert Holmes. of
Oakland, has entered the employ of
/ DIR. and Mrs. V. C. Totman.
A A. Hall of Athens was in town
on business last Saturday. While
here he purchased an organ OF j. n
G. l. J Smith. local music dealers
The five year old son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Jarvis of the river road had
his tonsils removed by Drs. Richard
son and Dascombe last Thursday.
MIR. and Mrs. Carl Curtis have re-
turned home from q few weeks trip
to New York City While there they
attended the spring millinery open
ings
James A. Seavey, Mrs. Harold j.
Phillips and her two sons, James and
Leigh, were guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs Hamlin II. Perkins of Madi-
son last week.
! Mrs. Emma Frost, who has been
caring for Mr. Smith at his home on
Water street completed her duties,
last Saturday. and Mrs. Robert Bige-
low is taking her place.
Miss Ida Fowke, one of the nursing
force at the Somerset Hospital, re-
sumed her duties there last Saturday.
She has been visiting with relatives
in Scion for few weeks
Oscar Edwards of North Avenue,
has a flock of five hens BARRED Ply
mouth Rock) that made a very good
record for the month of February
producing 116 eggs. This is at the
rate of 80 of an egg per hen per day.
Miss Evelyn Dick, who has been
nursing Cassius Kinsman at the
Somerset Hospital for several weeks,
returned to her home in Waterville,
Wednesday of last week. Mr.. Kins-
man has left the hospital and gone
to the residence of his sister Mrs. f.
T. Goodrich of Madison avenue.
Carroll Whittemore recently re-
turned from Deadwater where he had
been at work in the woods for the
winter He was employed as head
swamper and part of the time as
teamster. His home Is on the Nal
bon's Mills road. He is the son of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Whittemore.
Frank Laney formerly OF this place
was in town last Saturday visiting
friends and relatives. He Is at pres
ent employed in the switch yard for
the NJ. c. Il. r. at Waterville. While
in Skowhegan, Mr.. Laney worked in
the finishing room of one Of the local
American Wooden Company mills.
Mrs. Louis Gagne of East Maple
street. is the proud possessor OF four
hens. which are trying their level
best to make up for the egg shortage
laid by them in the week ending
March LIST and % in the week ending
March Sth. Miss Gagne certified that
the above result was from those four
hens alone, which are locked in a
separate pen.
Sheriff John A. Mooers is in receipt
OF q letter from his son TObey Mooers
who he says has safely landed in Lon
don, England. He reports that the
first night he stopped there, the hotel
was SO crowded that he was Obliged
to sleep on two chairs. Mr. Mooers
also wrote that he met Maine man
on his journey.
Eddie Roullard, son of John Roul-
lard of the Beech Hill neighborhood,
was in town over Sunday. He has
been employed at Waterville for sew
en- weeks past. where the Lockwood
Company are building a dam. The pay
in his department is sixty-five cents
an hour and they work nine hours a
day. Another Skowhegan man,
Babe" Pooler is at work in the
same crew.
About one hundred and twenty-five
a. Il oil 4hA