The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-10-12
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as the guests of Mrs. William Briggs.
Father j. l.. A Renaud will return
tomorrow from an Ecclesiastical Re
treat of Catholic Clergymen at Poland
Springs.
Mrs. w. H. Cummings and two
younger children went to Portland
Friday. Mr.. Cummings went to New
York several days ago.
Mrs. Marion Drake-F Flanders former
teacher of music in the Skowhegan
school who accepted similar posit-
ion in Bangor has assumed her duties
/ there.
Mrs. Emma Worster housekeeper
for Fred Hollis of Summer street was
the first patient of Mrs. A. II. Foster,
the new distric nurse. She is now
convalescent. -
Harrison Smith superintendent of
music in the public schools announces
that he has a fine high school chorus
of one hundred and fifty voices and
is getting the high school orchestra
organized for rehearsals.
MIdu .. iNOuuSn WHO lids Detu cli
ployed by the c. NJ. P. Co. here and
at Waterville left Monday D. M. for a
short visit with his parents in Dover,
N. II. after which he will go to New
York City to continue his studies in
Opotometry at the American Institute
| Reserved seats for the Winters Ly-
ceum Course will be on sale at Samp-
last year, 10c for each reserved seat
good for the course. Ehe students
tickets at $110 may also be bought
there. Please bring your course tick
ct as only holders of same will be
sold tickets at this price.
Mrs. Ella T. Holt has returned from
Dover-FoXcroft, where she has been
called by the death of her aunt, Mrs.
Mary Fuller, widow of Alonzo Fuller,
who died Friday of last week. Mrs.
Fuller was a sister of the late John
Tenney, a former citizen of Skowhe-
gan The old residents will recall
Mr.. Tenney as a stone mason, who
lived for time in the John Weston
house on the Island and later at the
corner of Alder and West Front SITS.
Gordon Demo and Alton Wheeler
were arrested Tuesday night for the
| larceny of an auto tire, rim and inner
tube from the car of Edgar Whittier
of CornVille This car was left out
side the dance hall at Athens that
night. The men were arrested when
one of them came to take the tire from
its hiding place. They were arraign-
ed before Judge Sawyer and pleaded
not guilty and the case was continued.
| At later hearing they were fined
| SIS and costs and 80 days in jail. Both
took appeals. Bond were set at $500.
Demo obtained the necessary sureties
through his father, C. II. Demo and
Clyde H. Smith.
|. Recent books at the Public Library
are Fiction-Captain Blood, Saba
tine; One of Ours, Gather; Robin,
Burnett The Country Beyond. Cur
wood; Whelps of the Wolf, Marsh !;
| The Day of the Beast, Grey; His
Freedom, Hutchinson. Non-Fiction-
Cambridge History of American Lit
erature; The Laurentians, the Hills OF
the Habitant, Longstreth; The Haunts
of Life, Thomson; Wild Brother
strangest of true stories from the
north woods, Underwood; The Out
line of Science, Thomson. Juvenile
Martin Hyde, the Dukes messenger
Masefield: Lone Bulls Mistake, a
Lodge Pole Chief Story. Schultz;
Peggy Raymonds Way, Smith; The
Story of DR.. Doolittle, Lofting; Camp
us Days, Paine; The Children's Bible,
Sheman and Kent; The Home Book of
Verse for Young Folks. Stevenson;
The Wild Heart, Squiers; What Shall
We DO Now? Garfield, Children of the
Dawn, Old Tales of Greece, Buckley.
A splendid meeting of the Rotary
Club was held Friday noon in e. A.
r. Hall with large attendance.
Luncheon was served by Mrs. Kate
Simpson and several matters of bus
mess were considered, w. p. Ordway
presiding during the absence of the
president, c. p. Merrill. Piano music
was furnished by William Foley. j.
H. Jenkins reported for the COM
mittee for ladies night Col. r. l..
Marston reported his visit to a
Rotary Club in Detroit DR.. George
Il. Young was the principal speaker,
speaking upon matters pertaining
TO his profession, touching especially
upon the treatment of cancer and the
school examination of children. s.
w. Philbrick responded reading an
appropriate verse and presenting DIR.
Young with a large knife, presumably
to be used by the doctor in his surgi-
cal work DR. c. l.. Sopher of Wake
lcld, Mass. was a guest at the lnnch-
con. There will be no meeting
of the club this week owing to the
observance of ladies night on Monday.
In special report of the Skowhe-
gan Town Farm, Secretary Bagley of
the state Board of Charities states
that when the farm was inspected the
inspecting officer in turning in her
report mentioned soldiers widow,
receiving pension of $40 month,
who was being boarded there. She
was understood to be on parole from
the Reformatory for Women. Further
investigation discloses the fact that
she had been discharged from the in
stitution. She has a relative in Con-