The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-06-03

LOCAL NEWS



Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Corson spent
the week end visiting relatives and
friends in Waterville.
Among the outgoing shipments of
Friday morning Via American Express
were two purebred Ayrshire heifers
from the DIR. Stevens farm. The
animals were being shipped to Frank
II. Rest of Arlington Heights Mass.
Thomas G. Lord was in Greenville,
Friday, and brought back with him
the remains of the late Mrs Ray
Gordon, who died in Skowhegan last
winter and was buried in Greenville.
The remains are now inferred at the
Southside cemetery.
Among the local members of the
Masonic Fraternity who left Friday
morning for Portland to be present at
the Consistory where the degrees up
TO and including the 32nd will be con-
ferred were A. r. Jewett, Walter p.
Ordway, II. S. Hopkins, Frank W.
Bucknam, T. E. Greenway and DR.. G.
+. Young.
Mrs Ethel M. Christensen and Miss
Grace Thomson left Friday on the 8
o'clock train for visit to different
points In Massachusetts. Mrs.
Christensen was to visit in Lawrence,
Mass and Miss Thomson In Boston
and with relatives in Amesbury. Miss
l. G. Goss is substituting for Miss
Thomson in the Union Telegraph Of
flee.
Next Wednesday night will be OBJ
served as young peoples night in
Skowhegan Grange. The following
list of acting officers has been assign
ed for the meeting: p. c. White.
master; Charles Chase, overseer;
Charles Cleveland, lecturer; Roland
B. Russell, steward; Edward Currie,
assistant steward, Miss Lillian White.
chaplain; Royce Tuscan, treasurer,
Miss Nellie White, secretary; Chas.
Stinchfeld, gate keeper; Mrs. p. c.
White. Ceres: Mrs. Charles Cleveland
Pomona Miss Effie Nye, Flora; Mrs
Effie Currie, lady assistant steward
The acting officers are to direct the
program arrangements.
Mrs. Sadie F. Blair received word
Wednesday noon from her brother
Dana e. Spaulding of Back Bay, Bos-
| ton. that he was one of the fortunate
winners of the five superb automobiles
awarded in the Boston Evening Rec
ord Craftsmanship Drive and on Sat
| urday received the second prize of
sending in the largest number of
| credits. He was awarded a $2115
American Six automobile. He also
received two extra prizes OF 5000 and
800 for turning in the second largest
number of credits during the first two
periods of the campaign. Mr.. Spauld-
Ing is a native of Madison but passed
greater part of his boyhood In
SkoWhegan. For number of years
he has been a prominent restaurant
man in Boston. He Is the son of
the late Ambrose P Spaulding of
Skowhegan.
Some of the interesting events In
the history of the 42nd Artillery &c.
A. C. Railroad) now stationed at
Camp Eustis, Virginia, together with
its sister regiments, the 43rd, 52nd
I and 53rd Artillery which composes
the 30th Artillery, Brigade. the only
Brigade of railroad artillery In the
United States Army have been given
to the Independent-Repo by Lieut.
Walter C. Sanders of that regiment.
Lieutenant Sanders Is representing
his regiment in the New England
States with present station at Angus
Ia, Maine. According to Lieut.. Sand
ers the history of the And Artillery
can be traced from organization to or
ganization to the period of the Amer
lean Revolution. The early artillery
companies of which the present are
lineal descendants fought in the war
of 1872; in the Florida War; In the
Mexican War; in the Civil War and
since then in several other campaigns
| and expeditions, the greatest of all the
world war, in which many members
of the regiment lost their lives. Ac
cording to recent war department in
struction the 42nd is to represent New
England in the regular army and the
State of Maine has been assigned az
the exclusive field for recruiting.