The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-04-14

VI L vi Wis u. 8ilnuI InCAlduhuot WhO
live at the foot of Hilton Hill have
a ten pound daughter born yesterday.
Bird day was generally observed in
the public schools last Friday with
programs appropriate to the occasion.
Thomas Dionne, who has recently
been appointed assistant of Bureau of
Markets, is in Sherbrooke and Mon
treal on matters of business.
Manley E. Lambert and Mrs. Mabel
S. Cummings, both of East Skowhegan
were married yesterday afternoon by
Rev. George Merriam.
Mrs. Jessie Bugaw has returned
from Mechanic Falls to the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Gerald and will
leave Saturday for her home in Lynn,
Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sinclair of
Kennebunkport, formerly of Skowhe-
gan have returned to that town after
spending the winter in st. Petersburg.
Florida.
Master Richard Barstow, little son
of Mrs. Florence Barstow, a nurse at
ACiilCptC fdllCy hoopitdlf Nthl ~ Au-
burn Saturday to stay with his aunt,
Mrs. Horace Cook.
Mrs. Laura Nutting and son, Cecil,
who have been passing several weeks
with relatives in Harmony returned
to S~kowhegan Tuesday, being called
here by the illness of Master Cecil's
grandfather, James Nutting.
County Agent C. A. Storer will con-
duct an orchard pruning demonstra-
ton at the farm of C. A. P~illsbury at
Fairfield tomorrow at 10 A. M. At one
o'clock he will give a pruning and
spraying demonstration at the r. e.
Libby farm in Fairfield.
Mrs. Walter Emigh and two young
sons have arrived from Richmond, Va,
to join Mr.. Emigh who is employed by
the Maine Pulp & Paper Company as a
master mechanic. The family will &C.
cupy the furnished home of Mrs. Ella
Nelson on, Mechanic street.
! W. A. Lewia has moved his family
into the Jerry Corvette house on Rail-
road street, which he has recently pur-
chased, having sold his home on Mt.
Pleasant avenue to Carl Dunbar, a To-
cal expressman. The Dunbar family
have been living in E. ]. Buffers house
on Leavitt street.
Miss Anna Carriveau will leave here
Saturday for Boston after visiting her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Carri-
veau for several months. Miss Amanda
Carriveau. who has been located in
that city with her sister for some time,
will not return. She is engaged as
s~aleslady at the Emery-Brown Store
here.
Sunset Chapter, No. So, Order of the
Eastern Star will hold a Special Meet
ing on Thursday evening, April IA, for
the purpose OF Comforting the Degrees
of the Order. There will be a Six
Thirty supper Minerva Chapter of
Madison will be guests. The Regular
Meeting OF Sunset Chapter will be held
Friday evening at Seven-Thirty
prompt.
The honor of catching the first and
! largest fish in the Lake George "
cinity is given to Wilbur futile Of
Canaan, landing a IL pound salmon
at Lake George last Sunday. Francis
Sweeney, Harold Delans, Cliff Barrett
AID Guy Nelson of Canaan, deserve
honorable mention for having caught a
number of salmon, any one OF them
weighing not less than nine pounds.
Alton Bushey in his Ford car and
Sheldon S. Huff of this town collided
with one another near the junction
of the car line at the corner of Madison
avenue and Water streets Saturday
evening. Bushey was coming from the
Island and Huff was driving toward
the Island. The collision vas m
phatic enough to separate the horse
from the wagon and break the wind
shield of the Bushey Ford car. For
tunately no one was hurt and the
horse, Which was partially held by the
harness did not escape.
Charles f. Chapman, of the Black
we'll Hill neighborhood in Madison,
was in town Saturday on business. Mr..
Chapman has lately retnrned~from an
absence of six and one-half years in
Dinuba, Cal, and has purchased his
old home farm. Returning with him
were Mrs. Chapman and their son Wal
lace. His daughter Mrs. George
Hillman and Mr.. Hillman who went
West with the family, returned some
thing like a year ago and while he is
employed in a store at Madison he and
his wife are making their home on the
Chapman farm.
The annual meetings of the Bloom
i field Congregational parish and the
trustees Of the two ministerial funds
were held last Saturday. The parish
meeting was held at the Island avenue
church with L. L. Walton as moderat-
or and the same officers were re-
| elected. Charles Folsom-Jones was
reelected clerk and treasurer OF the
ministerial funds and the trustees met
at the home Of Sewell w. Smith. Mr..
Smith the day previous had passed his
85th btrthda- and in appreciation OF
his long period of services a s-record-
ed by the clerk on this occasion.
The Federated Reading Circle was
entertained April 9th at the parsonage.
The study of the day was Missions In
Maine" The program arranged by
Mo L. Il uOod Was murn en-