The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-03-25

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Reshame town.
aeefing of Sunset Chapter O.
Id Friday evening after the
..sI work. refreshments were served
Is the officers.
at.as and Evelyn Viles have been
.aas5iag several days in Manchestei'
u as the guests OF their aunt Mrs.
ElIery Savage.
Mrs. fqHl Cyr of Jackman returned
- her home Saturday after visiting
sa,.srsI aays with Mrs. Joseph Chabot
Of Winter street.
fangdon Jewett' Lawrence COCK
~, William Philbrick and Herman
porter vent down to Bowdoin Friday
:, attend the track meet.
About twenty-five members OF the
knights Of Columbus, Somerset Coun-
I'll No. 2oSg attended the third degree
I'D banquet at Waterville St Pat
rich's Day.
Iohn II. Steward went to Bangor
saturday afternoon to spend Sunday
With his wife and daughter. MIS-.
steward is tarrying in that city Tor
several weeks.
.,eustus Leo. son of Thomas Leo
of Nilhurn street, left here last Thurs-
1a, fer the Quartermasters Corps III
boston. having enlisted with the local
recruiting officers.
II Grant of Fairfield was in town
Monday on business. Mr. Grant was
resident of Skowhegan previous to
,oo5 and was at one time in the EN-
nloy of S. W. Gould.
Frank W. Bucknam, Grand General
issimo Of the Grand Commandery OF
Maine was in Pennington, Friday, Tor
his Official inspection of Pilgrim Com
manderY of that town.
Members of the Searchlight Club
ro pleasantly entertained Friday
afternoon by Miss Ella NJ. Flanders at
ha- home on East Leavtt street. Sew
4 ;ng and reading as usual occupied
the Young ladies'. The next meeting
will be held two weeks hence with
Miss Gertrude Sampson.
Considerable remodeling and paint
ing has been done at the Welch NIL
unery establishment on Water street
during the past two weeks. There
is now on hand a very good display
of spring and summer hats. Miss
Maud Bracket of Madison and Miss
Dorothy Hobart of this town are EN-
ploved in the WEIGH store for the
nresent Miss Hobart assumes her
duties there after school nights.
The sikowhegan Womans Club will
meet reN Wednesday afternoon at
2.3O O'Clock in the parlors OF the
Public Library. Members who are
privileged 10 invite one child in OBJ
servance of childrens day, are re
quested to be present promptly at the
hour just mentioned. Mrs. Bertha
jenkins will be in charge of the ar
rangements. The annual meeting
will be held in two weeks after the
childrens meeting.
The Woman's Relief Corps held
regular session in G. A. r. Hall, Fri
day afternoon, with a fair attendance
Many Of the members and officers
were absent on account of illness and
bad W. king. There was short
pr graz consisting of vocal SOLO,
Mrs f ma II. Dunton; reading Mrs
Emma ickford and paper entitled
MARS, Foch and His Campaign
by Mi Margaret Smith. The next
meetir- will be held April End.
Abo twenty pupils from the hlgh
school re out for the preliminary
contes or the nterscholastic speak
ing CO.. est which will be held be
tween teams from Arson Academy, |
Madison High School and Skowhegan
High School. The finals Will occur
about the middle of May in the SHOW
hogan Opera House and the local high
school preliminaries from which three
students and an alternate will be Sc
lected, will be held the last Of April.
Each school will be represented by a
team of three students and one alter
nate. Representatives from the
Maine colleges will Judge the contest
and award the decision to the school
whose team scores the highest num-
Der of points. Selections will be
limited to eight minutes in length. The
Madison High School team has al
ready been selected and is composed
of Robert Calden, Helen Barley and
Ruth Hilton with Morris Mute as al
ternate
Last Friday evenings game be-
tween Skowhegan High School First
team and Coburn Classical finished
the schedule of basket ball games for