The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-01-25

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Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Stdell of South
Scion are the parents 81 a daughter
born last Friday.
Walter Chapman of Haverhill, Mass.
returned to that city Sunday after a
short visit with his mother in town.
John c. Dane of Washington, d. G..
; was at home last week to attend the
funeral of his mother, Mrs. Rena B.
! Dane.
! DIR. H. L. Shemson of San Francis
co, Calf, for sometime located in Wa
. terville who has been visiting in that
city, was a guest on Friday OF Sus-
man Russakoff and family.
The next meeting of the Town I'M
; provement Society will be held on
February 9th with an Art Exhibition
) arranged by Mrs. Grace P. Knudson
chairman of the State Art committee.
The Good Will Club met yesterday
. afternoon with Miss Hannah r. Page
The benefit picture for the club Tues
day evening was well patronized and
) the audience was very much pleased
). with the production.
MIR. and Mrs. Homer Chase of Au
) burn were guests Friday and Satur-
! day, of their son Homer Chase, Jr.,
. who with Mrs. Chase, is temporarily
located at the home of Senator Clyde
. H. Smith. -
. "The Country Grocery Store" is to
; be presented in the early future by
local talent in Grange Hall under the
; auspices of the Town Improvement
Society. The public will be privileg-
. ed to attend There will be an adj
: mission fee.
Several members of st. Marys
choir from the church of Our Lady Of
Lourdes went to Madison Tuesday to
sing at the funeral of Rev. James A.
. Farley, parish priest of the St Sc
. bastian Church in that town. Faith
. er Farley had many friends in Show
hogan who regret to learn of his
. death.
. List of letters remaining uncalled
. for at the post Office for the week
ending January 20 are: X. P. Hall,
; Ralph Kelly, Mrs l.. Larrabee. r. La
rabee. Mrs. Lucy Moore, Max Richard
son. Mrs. S. H. Smith,. These let
tiers will be sent to the dead letter
Office II they are not called for. before
February 3rd.
Dr. and Mrs. John Shaw of Fair
field were week end guests of DR.. and
Mrs George E. Young. They also
visited with Mrs Shaw's sister, Mrs.
Jewell, who is a patient at kenne-
Il ,,rl. 10. No
lieved to be slowly improving. DR..
I Shaw is connected with the Central
Maine Sanatorium at Fairfield.
Mrs Florence w. Danforth, pres
dent of the Town Improvement So
ciety, will go to Augusta Tomorrow
to attend meetings of the Maine Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs and the
Maine Writers Research Club. Mrs.
Danforth is vice president of the
Federation and president of the Re
search Club. The latter organiZa
|, ton will have a luncheon at the Girls
Community Club.
II Skowhegan High School girls bas-
ket ball team went to Winslow Fri
day night to play with the WinsIow
girls and defeated them by score of
SIS The Skowhegan girls far out
classed the WinslOw seNtette and the
III game was rather one-sided. Miss
Margaret Chase of Skowhegan refer
eed and Miss L c. Stinchfield of the
high school faculty acted as chape-
rome. The sextette was composed of
the Misses Christine Bison, Birdfna
Valliere, Louise Stinchfield, Fern AXE
ley, Delphine Murray and Reba Vail,
Marie Bison and Albertine Chabot
substituting in the last half in place
of Christine Bison and Miss Vail.
The girls were entertained at diff
ersent homes in Winslow.
Many Skowhegan people will re-
member Mrs. Frances Kelly. for sey-
eral years a resident of Skowhegan
and will be interested to learn that
! she was last week appointed a dep
uty sheriff in Lewiston, being the
first deputy under Sheriff Murray.
She is said to be the second woman
deputy in Androscoggin County. The
appointment was, made to give Mrs.
Kelly absolute police power thruout
the county in her work as county pro-
baton officer. Her duties have been
10 investigate CdotS WV
men and young boys. Her present
appointment will make it possible for
her to make arrests, an authority
which she did not previously have.
Mrs. Kelly was for sometime night
operator in the Maine Tel. & Tel. ex-
change.
A pleasant social event was en-
joyed Thursday evening in X. of p.
Lodge rooms when the officers of both
the Knights of Pythias and Bloom
field Temple of Pythian Sisters were
installed. Lawrence Briggs of Mad
ison, district deputy assisted by f.
i Ford as Master of Arms and L. E.
Thompson as Grand Prelate installed
the following officers in the Knights
of Pythias: G.. c., George Kicker;
V. G., Herbert Judkins; prelate, H.
r. Newton: master of exchequer, Will
liam Donaldson; keeper of records and
seals, Russell Dean; master of fin
ance, B. Rice; master of arms,
Austin Sprague; /. G., Walter Games;