The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-03-09
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Mrs. j. d. Symons went to Water
VILE Tuesday noon to visit her daugh-
ter, Miss Eleanor Halves, student al
Colby College.
Mrs Emma Simpson and Mr. and
/ Mrs G. r. Avore were in North Vas
salboro Monday to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Robert W. Linn, Jr. The
/ body was taken to Hartland where
additional services were held on Tues
/ day.
Mrs. Myrtelle Clement and nephew
Harold Young of Augusta, are guests
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
/ Caswell Mrs. Clements son, Donald
| Clement, returned home the first of
the week after visiting with Mr.. and
| Mrs Caswell.
| Mrs. Rachel Webb arrived home
| Monday evening from Wabasha, Mimi,
! where she has been visiting her son
/ w. b. Webb, since last October Mr..
/ Webb came as far east as Massachu
sets on business and accompanied his
mother thus far on her journey home.
Mr. and Mrs. Norris Clough and
son, Norris, Jr., returned home Mon
day to Augusta after passing the
week END with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. George +. Clough of the Lake
wood road. They were also guests in
the home OF Mrs. Clough's sister, Mrs.
NJ. W. Savage.
Extensive improvements are under
way at the court house including the
fitting of rooms for mixed juries and
a waiting room on the third floor over
the present jury rooms. A new steel
ceiling is being installed in the main
corridor on the first floor and the
walls of the corridor and offices are
being redecorated.
A recent letter from Mrs. Martha
SDoWSeaton, formerly of Skowhegan,
nurse in the Harvard Private Hos
pital at Worcester, Mass, mentions a
patient, John M. Kilgore, whose form
err home was in Smithfeld. Mr.. Kill
gore is so years old, and is much in
terested in the Reporter as he remem-
hers the older residents in Skowhegan
as former friends. He has been a
patient at the institution for three
weeks.
Students from Skowhegan High
School track team to attend the in
ter-fraternity meet at Brunswick last
week were Gerald Stinchfield. Roy
Bosworth, Robert Wyman, Errold
Buker, Llewelyn Goodwin. Adolph
Provost and Kenneth Cole. They
were accompanied by A. o. Dostie, the
athletic instructor at the High
School and other students among
whom were George II. Halves, Forest
Fortier and Leon jenkins.
Governor Baxter. who was here
Monday evening to attend the Father
and Son Banquet, was entertained
while in town at the home of Col. and
Mrs. Roy l.. Marston. The Marston
home was the former residence of
Ex-Governor Coburn and it was par
ticularly pleasing for the present
chief executive of the state to be a
guest in the former home of the earl
Ter executive. G. r. Chadbourne
private secretarysto the Governor and
Charles S. Brown, superintendent of
Public Buildings, were also enter
tanned at the Marston hone. A. A.
Head. another speaker at the Father
and Son gathering was a guect OF w.
II. Cummings.
There was a large attendance at
the meeting of Priscilla Rebekah
Lodge held last Tuesday evening The
degree was conferred and refresh
ments of ice cream and saltnes were
served under the direction of com
mittee of which Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Currier were chairman. The enter
tainment included a song by Edgar
Currie and a reading by Mrs. Violet
V. Fogg. The next meeting will be
held March II and the following COM
mittee on refreshments and entertain
ment was appointed Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. w Savage, DR.. and Mrs. G.. r..
Richardson, Mrs. Mpna r. Savage,
Mrs. Susie Lancaster Mrs. Alice
Fowler. Mr. and Mrs. George Webb,
Mr. and Mrs d. A. Porter, w. h. Por-
ter, Mrs Ada Abbey and Miss Leona
Wentworth.
Peter futile and Ernest Brown.
formerly of West Athens but now of
Pittsfcld were brought to Skowhegan
recently by Sheriff Mooers and Depu-
! ty Wallace Hill of Fairfield. The Of
ficers claim the men had been doing
lucrative business in stealing poul-
try from the farmers in the vicinity of
! Pittsiield and they contend that they
will produce evidence to convict the
men at the next term. of court. Brown
will be remembered as the man who
! gained some notoriety because of his
connection with the murder of Alfred
! Corson some over year ago, the
Penobscot county officials believing, ii
/ is understood. that he assisted Eugene
Knight in putting the body of Corson
i into a trunk which was later found
] by Sheriff Mooers and his deputies,
soaked with blood at his mother s
/ home in Canaan. futile has GRIM
! inal record as well as Brown.
The order of Temple was conferred