The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-09-16
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


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Portland for several days
Mrs. Nellie Brann returned to Wat
eryille Monday afternoon following
visit with Miss jeanette Hill.
J. Wallace Blunt was at home fron
Boston the first of the week to visi
with his family on Elm street.
DR.. c. +. Richardson has returne
home from several days in Bostoi
where he visited various hospitals
Mrs. B. F. Webb is at home from
Wytopitlock for two weeks, Mr.. Webb
having arrived with her for the weel
end.
DR.. and Mrs. George E. Young AM
daughter Eleanor, are in Barre, Vt
this week visiting Mrs. Young's rela
tiyes.
Miss Theda Holman. parole matroI
at the State Reformatory left Monday
afternoon on a business visit to Lew
iston
Miss Mammie OBrien has returned
home from Boston. where she has beer
spending several months visiting rel.
atiyes
Mrs Guy Everett and daughter Mel
/ lie OF Portland were week end guests
at the home of W. H. Fowler on Mt
/ Pleasant Ave.
I Mrs Lyman Jewett departed Sat
urday morning for an extended visit
with relatives and friends in Atlantic
City, and New York City
Miss Anna Merrill has returned to
New York City, where she will resume
her studies at Hunter College This
is her second year at that institution
Misses Bertha and Diana Mayo oil
Waterville have returned to their
home in that city after passing several
days with their cousin Miss Leona
LeClaire.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wall. who
have been occupying the j. Palmer
Merrill house on Jewett street for
some months. are preparing to move
to Sanford
Yesterday, tomorrow and Saturday
are being observed by the Catholic
people as Ember days in fasting and
abstinence. Three days are observed
at each season
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lambert from
Chicago who have been visiting with
Mrs Lambert's uncle Paul Roullard
and family and with other relatives
in town, started Monday on their re-
turn home.
Mrs. Ceril Violet and two sons
Percy and Leonard. Mrs. A. d. Bailey
and daughter Ethel OF Bigelow Hill
neighborhood, together with Mrs.
Nathaniel Horne attended the Four
County Fair at Pittsiield last week
Mrs. Zelia Briggs has gone to Houl-
ton where she will visit with relatives
and friends for some time. After
her return here she will spend this
winter with her mother Mrs. Alice
SHELTON. Mrs. Briggs was accompani-
ed by her little grandso Nelson
Wheeler Weston.
There will be a meeting of the Pris
ella Rebekah Lodge next Tuesday
nverinp. Thorc will be program
consisting of dialogues, vocal solos
piano solos and readings. The COM
mittee for the entertainment is com
posed of Misses Nellie Crawford, Der
nice Foster, Mrs Arthur Cheney
Bishop Lonis S. Walsh of the Port
land Diocese, who was here to confirm
the children of the Catholic parish
last Sunday. went to Madison in the
afternoon to confirm a class OF chill
dren III that town. Bishop Walsh
visits each parish in the State once
in three years, and this was the oc-
casiOn Of bis regular visit in this see
ton.
Next Sunday morning at the fore
moon service at the Bethany Baptist
church the right hand OF fellowship
will be extended to the incoming mem
bers and the Lords supper Will be OBJ
served Rev George Merriam will
deliver the sermon and the orchestra
which, played so creditably the last
Sunday. Will again furnish music di-
rected by Prof. Kendall.
Mrs. E. J. Mitchell of Fast Skowhe-
gan liNb tS al itidNlNto anu ii'N'iN9
of her brother, Ruel F. Ames. to join
with her in a post card shower to him
on Sept 30. the Gath anniversary of
his birth. Mr.. Ames left this section
in April. 1854, and has made but one
trip east, which was in 1909 He is
now pleasantly located at 1927 l. st
Sacramento. California. Cards from
this section SHOULD be mailed about
Sept, "a
Mrs. Celeste Roullard, a local set
Element worker went to ShaWmut
Sunday to accompany the four child
rem of Frank Dore 10 that place where
they will be boarded in the home OF
Mrs. Young. The children's ages are
10. s. 7 and A respectively and the
mother is deceased. Mrs Roullard
has been paying considerable atten-
ton to the family for the past few
weeks. The father is to pay their
board in their new location.
4 quiet wedding was solemnized
Saturday night at >;15 at the parson-
age OF the Bethany Baptist chureh
when Arland G Williams Of Canaan
and Miss Catherine II. Mason OF the
same town. telephone operator, were
married. Rev George Merriam othel-
ated. using the double ring service and
the couple were unattended. Inc
groom is a baker and has lately been
employed in Gardiner but for the pres