The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-11-04
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


INpeWriters to rent independent
Reporter Company.
Miss Pauline I. Oak has arrived
home from weeks visit in New York.
Miss Mildred Frederick arrived here
yesterday after being called to Starks
on account of the illness of her moth
err
Mr.. and Mrs X. D. Cleveland and
family have returned to Skowhegan
from a few months residence in
Springfield, Mass.
Miss Velma Fogg, a student at the
New School of Design in Boston, is
visiting at the home of her parents
on Pleasant street.
There was slight fire at the home
of W, f. French on the Lakewood
road. Monday. 1t was controlled
without serious damage.
The Ella F. Mitchell Philathea Glass
are to have food sale Saturday af-
ternoon. Nov. 6, at the Blaisdell Auto
Show rooms on Water ST
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Derbyshire
are returning Saturday to their home
in Melrose, Mass, after visiting their
daughter Mrs. ]. II. Jenkins and their
son, DR.. r. A. Derbyshire.
The recruiting officer representing
the United States army who has been
located at the postoffiee will leave for
Madison tomorrow, Friday. Any in
formation required will be gladly Civ
en-.
Thelma Smith of Madison was OPP
Grated on at Somerset Hospital Tues
day. Mrs. Emily Pooler, Ethelyn
White and Frank Lipman who have
been patients at the hospital, return
ed home yesterday.
Yesterday afternoon Peter Corvette
Jr. was before Trial Justice T. G..
Lord in connection with the traffic law
rules He was charged with driving
to the left of the 60 to the Right
sign. Settlement followed.
There will be a football game be
tween the Pennington high school
and the Skowhegan high school at
Fairview Park in Skowhegan at 230
o'clock next Saturday afternoon. Ad-
mission, adults, 25 cents and students
15c.
Mr. and Mrs Burr Carnage departed
on the Sunday morning train for Bos-
ton where Mr. Carnage will take an
examination at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. His illness Is
caused from a fall received seven
years ago.
A Caeserean Section abdominal OPP
eration) was performed on Mrs. Ar
mold Miller of Bingham at Somerset
Hospital by DR.. Richardson yesterday
afternoon. Mother and baby are do
ing fine. The child was a boy weigh
ing IL pounds.
Edwin Flagg of Portland, but for
merly of Skowhegan, was before
Trial Justice Thomas G. Lord yester-
day afternoon answering to a charge
of non-support of his wife and five
children. He pleaded guilty and was
ordered to pay her SIS week for
their support and was also placed un-
der bonds. The case was continued
The press is being Accommodated at
the Burke murder trial with comfort
able quarters within the bar. Ray
Atkinson is representing the Boston
Post; Oscar Shepherd, the Lewiston
Journal Miss Ruth Henderon, the
Kennebec Journal; Mrs. Rena Archer
Taylor, the Boston Globe; c. c. Pal
mer, Bangor Commercial and Assocla-
ted Press and John L. Fish, the In
dependent Reporter. II. j. Wilton is
the Boston Western Union man in at
tendance.
The nome of Mrs. Celina Vigue, wife
of the late Odilon Vigue, has been
sold by Mrs Sarah Vigue to Omar J.
Folsom. The sale was made thru an
ad in Everybody's Column of the In
dependent-Repo The ad did not
run but a short time before the pur-
chase was made Mr.. Folsom lived
on a farm on the Norridgewock road
which he sold last spring. The Fol
som family are to move in this week.
Mrs. Celna Vigue is now located in
Portland where she is engaged in
dreSSmaking.