The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-03-04


Hall at 1045 the subject will be Man"
Miss Goldie keene. soloist Sunday
school during the morning service.
Joseph L. Haskell is back at his du-
ties in the Walher-smith Clothing
store after Il visit in Pottsdam, N. Y.
Antwerp. y Y and Boston. While
away he WAS i'll with pneumonia but
has practically recovered.
Funeral of the late Mrs. Frances
r. Flagg were held from the hone of
Mrs Rebecca b. Martin OF Main St,
where her death occurred last Friday
afternoon. Or. o II Tracy, a Bap-
tist minister from The Federated
church. ofiieiated.
Miss Hortense Butler OF Phillips, a
student of Hebron Academy, has been
in town for several day. visiting at
the home of her uncle Amos X. But
Ter Her mother Mrs. Belle Butler
of Phillips has also been at the But
Ter home leaving yesterday for Port
and
Miss Geneva Phinney of Madison,
will assist Mrs WEIGH as Trimmer in
the millinery stores at Skowhegan and
Madison, this season. also Miss Do
rothy Hobart, Mrs May Eames and
Mrs. Maud LaVallier. Mrs. Porter
will continue her duties at the Madl-
son store as usual.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Hall are the
parents of a little daughter born on
the night of February 18th The lit
tie lady cannot in future times reck-
on her birthday as occurring in once
in four years however as she arrived
after midnight on March !. She
has been named Elizabeth May.
Mr. and Mrs Abner Curr.er, who
were recently burned out are to re-
move to the next place above now
occupied by John Moody. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry NJ. Cullen of Salem, Mass,
who came to Skowhegan because of
the fire, returned Monday morning.
Mrs. Cullen is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Currier.
Ben S. Collins, who has been spend
ing several months in California has
written Superintendent Harris of the
Skowhegan Jersey Creamery, that he
Is coming home and will be able to go
to work the Is tn of April. He will
resume his former duties, and adds
that he will be pleased to see Show
hogan again. Mrs. Collins will not
arrive here until sometime in June.
William f. Mallette, who with Her
bert Light staged college Chums"
in Skowhegan in November was in
town for a short visit departing Mon
day morning They have been stag
ing the same production in Belfast.
Mr. Mallette has gone to Lisbon City,
North Carolina and Mr. Light has
gone to New York, expecting, how
ever to return to Lakewood for a sum
mer engagement with the Stock Com
pany
George Day who recently returned
from Poughkeepsie, n. Y. will re-
main in Skowhegan for the present
and probably permanently and will be
engaged in the grocery business with
his father, G. w. Day and his brother,
Harry C. Day. The business will be
in the quarters which are being fitted
up under Hotel Coburn, where the
Day stores were located before the
fire which partially destroyed the
building.
Last Sunday evening a service Of
particular interest was conducted at
the Bethany Baptist church Miss
Homsted the president of the
Christian Endeavor Society and five
other women spoke on their
attendance at the State Christian En-
deavor Society's meeting. Among the
speakers were Julia Cox. Marion Mer
riam. Velma NJ. Fogg, Helen Gates and
Virginia. Ames. The orchestra play
ed during the evening.
Chas. w. Barnard who has been a
travelling salesman for the United
Shoe Machinery Corp. of Boston in
New York for the past 10 years has
been transferred to the Auburn, Me-
office of the same corporation and
will take up his duties there on March
3. Known all over New York state
as "Skowhegan' he is glad to know
that he Is going back to travel in
Maine. Mr.. Barnard will remove his
family to either Lewiston or Auburn.
Recent books received at the Pub
lie Library in Skowhegan include Fic-
tion-Helena Ward; The Highroad
Slippery MCGEE. Oemier; The Harbor
Road. Bassett; The Story of Old Phil
adelphia, Curtis. OBJECTIONABLE
Craft Year Book; Men of Progress
Letters to His Son, 2
vol. Chesterfield; The rights of War
and Peace, Grotlus; English Bellies
Letters, Montesqueu; Oriental Lite
nature. Shea and Troyer; "Mademoi-
selle Miss" Anon; War in the Garden
of Eden, Roosevelt; Mnce Pie Nor
ley; The Soul of Abraham Lincoln,
When Johnny Comes March
ing Home, Aldrich.
Sam f. Conner of the Lewiston
Journal who was here covering the
Burke Murder trial returned to his
home in Lewiston last Saturday af-
ternoon. Coburn Palmer of the Ban
gor Commercial also departed at the
same time. Other newspaper cor
respondents here who have departed
are Miss Ruth Henderson of the Ken
nebec Journal; Editor Frank Manson
of the Waterville Sentinel John Do
novan of the Boston Globe Fred
Stanley of the Boston American;
Drury of the Boston Herald
and Row Atkinson of the Boston Post