The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-03-18
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

day to attend to matters of business.
Charles Estes went Tuesday to Wal
than, Mass, to visit bis brother Will
Estes
Mrs. Ruth NJ Flanders, Sc years old,
is critically i'll at her home near Me
Clure's corner between here aud Ath-
ems
Miss Lucille Wentworth, a student at
Rogers Hall school in Lowell Mass,
is coming home next week for the
Easter recess.
Mrs. George H. Ware left Friday
morning for Auburn called there by
the illness of her sister, Mrs. Cleye-
land Royal.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter H. Hight and
son Kirby are spending several days
in Boston, Mr.. Hight being in attend
ance at THE automobile show.
Miss Pauline Eaton Oak has been
engaged by the 1920 class of the Show
hogan High School to coach them
for the annual Junior Exhibition.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Gallagher left
Tuesday for their future home in Gar
diner where Mr.. Gallagher will be es-
tablished in the drug business.
Mrs Ella Tantish has returned
from Burnham where she has been
spending some time with her aunt, and
has rooms at her former home on Free
street
Miss Theda Holman, a matron at
the State Reformatory for Women
left Monday forenoon for Thordike
were she was in attendance upon pa
role duties.
Mrs. Horace Spear Of Madison Cen
ter left here Tuesday on the midday
d
there will continue on to Augusta to
attend the State d. A. r. Council
meeting.
Among the local men who are at
tending the automobile show in Bos-
ton are c. NJ. Holt. Henry Thomas,
+. A. Decker, Leon Witham, A b.
Plummer, E. w. Page, James Nutting.
NJ. f. Beale, G. W Nash and II. l..
SWEET.
Harry Newton has moved to Skow-
hogan from Jackman having accepted
position with the Central Maine Pc
wer Company. Mrs Newton, who has
been a telephone operator in Jack
man, has assumed similar duties in |
the local telephone exchange
Lester Martin, son of Joseph Mar
tin and Alphonse Wentworth, son of |
Fred Wentworth. both of this place
place have enlisted with the local re-
cruiting officers and left Tuesday for
Camp Gordon, Georgia to begin their
duties as United States soldiers.
DR.. George F. Young expects to
leave tomorrow for Chicago where !
he will visit the clinics in that city !
and then continue to Rochester, Mimi, |
where he will take short review of
surgery in Mayo Brothers Hospital
He will probably be away about a
month.
A large party of Skowhegan men
who are members of Masonic Frater-
nifty were in Augusta Tuesday to at
tend session of the Scottish Rites
branch. The party included A. r.
Jewett, II. S. Hopkins, E. F. Merrill,
George Thompson, F. w. Buchanan, J.
II. jenkins, w. p. Ordway, Col. r. l.. |
Marston, and Thomas Greenway
Mrs. Harry Hilton of Waterville
came Tuesday to visit her parents,
Mr., and Mrs. ID. c. Jewett. Friends
will be interested to learn that Mrs.
David Haig the other daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Jewett, whose home is in !
Providence, r. |. has greatly improved
in health. Mr. Haig is leaving the mid
die of April for visit in England.
Dr. Stanley NJ. Cover who has been
occupying the residence of Mrs. J.
Palmer Merrill on Coburn avenue,
since the fall of 1918 has purchased
the present home of Maurice p. Mer-
rill on the same avenue, and will take
possession in the spring. Maurice Z.
Merrill and family will move to the
house to be vacated by DR.. Cover and
family
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Briggs and son.
Gordon, Miss Lola B. Goodwin and
Mrs. Forrest Goodwin, who have been
in Chipley, Fla, and vicinity during
the winter, where Mr.. Briggs has In
terests in the mining operations, are
expected home the last Of this month
Llewellyn Goodwin, Mrs. Briggs
grandfather, who went with the par
ty has been visiting for several weeks