The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-31


visited her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel Sawyer of Cambridge, last
| Sunday.
Mrs. Nellie Perkins went to Pitts
field, which was her former home.
| Tuesday, to remain over Memorial
Day with friends.
i Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Murphy and Ed
ward Cooper of Haverhill, Mass. are
spending several days with Mr.. and
Mrs. E. P. Whiting.
The annual communication of Som
erset Lodge No "a, F. and A. M. will
be held at Masonic Hall on Monday
evening, June Il. The reports will
be rendered and officers will be elect
ed and installed.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. Walton have sold
their fine residence ON East Front ST.
to Joseph Fluette of this town. They
will remain there for the present,
| probably vacating the premises by the
first of September
Mrs Mildred F. Beal of Boston who
| came here Friday to be present at
the burial of her mother, the late Mrs.
| ella j. Foss in Athens on Saturday
has been visiting this week with Mrs.
H. S. Hopkins and with relatives here
and at Athens.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer E. Gerald of
Water street returned Saturday from
Sarasota, Florida, where they have
| been spending the winter. They
| speak enthusiastically of the South
land, but are glad to be in Skowhe-
| gan once more.
While employed by the Central
! Maine Power Co. last Thursday Al
| phene Dionne dropped a steel flush
board beam on his foot, sp1intering
his great toe and breaking one next
to it. The man was removed to Ken
nebec Valley Hospital.
The death of the infant son, Robert,
of Henry S. Burton of Lakewood, has
occurred at the home of the child's
sister, Mrs. Donald Bowman in Corn
vile, where it has been cared for
since the death of its mother last
March. Beside the father there are
ten surviving brothers and sisters.
L. H. Whitney who has been the
manager of the Blaisdell Auto Co.
here for nearly two years completed
his duties there Saturday having ac-
copied travelling position with a
Portland automobile firm. This will
take him to Skowhegan occasionally.
He left Saturday for Dexter where
his wife and her mother are getting
established in their old home.
State Auditor Ebert Hayford and
Prof. o. c. Hormell instructor of
municipal accounting at Bowdon Col
lege were in town recently comforting
with r. E. Symons, bookkeeper for
the town of Skowhegan relative to the
accounting system which has been in
stigated in this town. This investi-
cation was made in connection with
the recent law permitting uniform &C
counting systems in the municipalities
of Maine. Attention was called to
Skowhegan because Of the success of
its system under the supervision of
Mr.. Symons.
Miss Lois NJ. Patten will complete
her senior year at Brooklyn Heights
Seminary, tomorrow friday June L.
One of the events of the commence
ment exercises will be an address by
lRev. S. Parks Cadman. DR.. Cadman
will be recalled as Chatauqua
speaker who came to Skowhegan in
1921. Miss Patten expects to enter
| college in September. She will be
home for the summer vacation about
July l. Her sister, Miss Eunice F.
Patten, employed in the Brooklyn
Public Library, will pass the month
of August in Skowhegan.
! Mrs L. E. Howes, formerly of Lex
| ington who has lately been living in
St. Georges. Newfoundland was in
| town Saturday being on her way to
Athens to visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Mason Luce. Mrs. Howes
had been travelling nearly week as
her boat was greatly hindered in its
| navigation by ice. The weather has
been warmer in Newfoundland the
| past winter than in Maine and she
| enjoys living in that sectio of the
| country. She will return to St.
| Georges about the middle of June and
| expects to remain there for another
| winter as Mr.. Howes holds a respon-
| sible position in numbering operations
conducted there by Bin W. Page of
Skowhegan.
| Miss King of Dover, n. Fl. spent
Sunday with Mrs. Carrie MACPHERSON.
She came here from Bingham where
she had accompanied the remains of
her brother-in-law, Frank B. Carney
| formerly of Pittsfield for burial. He
was her brother-in-l his wife form
erly Anna NJ. King having died three
years ago Mr. Carney died, May 10
at Dover n. Fl. in a hospital where
he had gone for an operation for
| appendicitis. He was the son of
John King, formerly a well known
hotel keeper of Moscow. He is sur
vived by two daughters, Mrs Gilbert
| of Reno, Nevada and Mrs. l. r. Marks
| of Berwick. His funeral was held
at her home and she also accompanied
| the body to. Bingham.
| A quiet wedding was solemnized
! last Friday forenoon at the Cleveland
Insurance Company's Office when
Ben Horne and Eta Morrison. both