The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-01-06
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


day on business.
Mrs. J. n Childs. proprietor of Ho-
tel Oxford has been visiting in Lewis
ton and Dixfield.
Mrs. H. N. WEIGH of Pittsburg. Penn
arrived In town Friday to visit Mr.
and Mrs. Walter A. Goodwin.
J. N. and M. J. Smith were at Lake
Weesserunsett Tuesday getting in
their supply of ice into the newly
built ice house.
Mrs. Grace E. Moody and daughters
Gladys and Elsie are visiting this
week with her father John Butler and
family in Waterville.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. G. Kinsman of
Cornville were In town Tuesday leaving
on the afternoon train for Augusta to
enjoy pre-legislature events.
Mrs. Otto Totman has returned to
her home in Fairfield after visiting
with Miss Margaret Totman, patient
at kennebec Valley Hospital.
Thomas Coburn, who has been at
home for the holidays is returning
the last OF this week to Boston to re-
sumo his studies at the Burdett Busi-
ness college.
Skowhegan friends will be interest
ed to learn that Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Chagnon of Fairfield are the parents
of twin daughter. Mrs. Chagnon was
formerly Miss Lucy M. Poulin and
was for some years proprietor of
millinery store on Water street.
Mrs. Sadie Bates of Stockton, one
of the trustees at the State Reforma-
tory, was in town to attend a meeting
of the board and the builders and
architects of the new cottage, Fri
day. She remained over night and
had personal interviews with inmates
who are shortly to leave the institu-
ton,
Ed Miles of Lewiston, formerly
cashier at Rumford, has accepted a
position as cashier at the local office
of the Maine Central Railroad. The
operator has been abolished here and
A. A. Kirkman has gone to Embden
where he will be located temporarily
Entreken who was murdered there in
November.
Charles F. Smith and George Quincy
under the firm name of Smith & Cur
ney have purchased of F. C. Pooler
and Mark Emery the battery depart
ment and repair equipment of the
garage which they have operated for
CO o.
moving their accessory department in
to the store on Water street formerly
occupied of Guss Pooler and more
recently by Greenleaf the undertaken.
The Skowhegan Womans Club will
hold its regular meeting on the after
noon of January II in the parlors of
the Public Library The musical
program listed for that afternoon in
the club calendars will be postponed
and Child Welfare day will be observ-
ed instead AT that time Miss Edith
Soule from the Public Health Associa-
ton will give an address. Tea will
be served.
One of the pleasant events of last
week for the young people home for
Langdon A. Jewett, a freshman at Bow
doin, at "Laffalot," the Jewett cottage
at Lake Wesserunsett Dinner was
served and outdoor sports were en-
joyed Participating in the occasion
beside the host were the Misses Ella
NJ. Flanders, Velma Berry, Verna Por-
ter, Carolyn Cover and Dorothy Cay
ford and Messers. Lawrence Coburn.
Herman Porter, Kenneth Smiley and
Arthur Springer.
A number of the Bowdoin college
men who have been at home for the
holiday recess departed Monday to
resume their studies. Among them
were Arthur Hight of Athens, Brooks
Savage, Roy Fitzmorris, Cassimir Bis
son, Alex Thompson, Arthur Spring
er and Langdon A. Jewett. Lewis
w Brown and Bruce H. M. White pre-
viously returned and Karl r. Phil
brick left Christmas Day for Havana,
Cuba to attend the d. X. E. conyen-
ton. Warren c. Merrill spent the
holiday in New York.
Acquaintance of Miss Ethel Brain
erd, formerly of Skowhegan, but who
has been located with the Lewiston
Journal Publishing house at Lewiston
for several months, have received
Christmas greetings in the form of a
book of poems. These poems are of
her own composition and she has
grouped them together in a most at
tractive manner. She calls the book
Just Rhymes" and the cover carries
pine cone and tassel. Miss Brain
erd has much ability as a writer of
verse and her poems published in
newspapers have been read with in
terest by her acquaintance in this
section.
Dennis A. Mccarthy is to appear in
Skowhegan on the evening of March
13 which is the date of the next Open
Forum meeting. The title of his lee
ture which will include readings from
his own verses will be "Americanizing
the Alien and Ourselves. Mr.. Nc
Carthy is constantly appearing at col
leges, academies, forums and church
and social organizations of all kinds.
In Americanization work he is en-
ployed by the State Board of Educa-
ton of Massachusetts His readings
and addresses have been found to be