The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-04-19

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pital.
Fred Hayden, court stenographer,
spent Sunday at his home in Port
| land.
Julian ]. Conroy will return Sat
urday from few days business trip
TO Jackman.
Friends of Mrs. Pauline Hill will
regret TO learn of her illness at Som
erset Hospital.
Mrs. Cora Grover of ! Cherry street
is i'll with pneumonia at kennebec
Valley Hospital.
Charles Day of Portland who has
been visiting friends and relatives in
town, returned home Sunday morning
Master Edward Page son of Mr..
and Mrs. Bin w. Page, will be able
to leave Kennebec Hospital this week
after an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Lester Packard and Miss Au-
drey Campbell are among the local
people who are receiving surgical
treatment at the Somerset Hospital,
The extension meeting which was
to have been held April T, but was
| POSTPONED on account of the weather
will be held Saturday, April Il. All
/ ladies please bring sewing equipment,
Harold Larry who accompanied his
family here from Weld, returned TO
that place Tuesday to supernfend the
removal of goods to Skowhegan where
their home will again be established.
Mrs. George Beers who has been
i receiving medical treatment at Ken
nebee Valley Hospital and Joseph
Patrick who suffered a broken right
leg, have both been discharged from
the institution.
David Thurlow, son of Rev. and
Mrs. George Loring Thurlow Is re-
ported as recovering from an opera
| ton for appendicitis, performed after
! sudden attack on Monday night at
n Somerset Hospital.
It will be of interest to many Show
hogan people that Prof. Elroy o. La
casce, son of Mrs. Eta Lacasce Of
this place. has been reelected To the
Ili lllNlDdlSllD VI II g0bui - AAN''hNiF ~
Fryeburg with a substantial increase
in salary.
Ned Angin of Boston was the guest
Of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Lindsay over
Monday night, attending the Chapman
concert. He departed Tuesday aC-
companied by Mr.. Lindsay who was
leaving on a business trip to the
coast.
Miss Magma Dougherty, formerly of
SkoWhegan, who has been employed
by an art weaving concern in Phil
adelphia for the past two years has
recently purchased the business. She
was formerly a sewer in one Of the
local textile mills.
Places of business such as the
stores, banks, etc. will be closed to-
day in observance of Patriots Day
i The American Wooden mill plants will
4 operate as usual owing to the large
number of orders which have To be
filled at the earliest possible date.
Word has been received in Show
hogan of the death of Ansel Knight
who formerly lived in this town,
WHICH OCCuIItu III AtileDOlO, MdoS.
He is survived by widow and three
children. Funeral services We're held
Friday in Attleboro. The deceased
was about seventy years of age and
once lived on Madison avenue. He
was brick mason by trade.
I Harry A. Dinsmore. r. |. Deputy
Grand High Priest OF the Grand Coun-
ell, who was present at q special as
sembly of Maine Council No. :, r. q
S. NJ. at Biddeford last evening, will
attend the Scottish Rite meetings in
Augusta next week and Tuesday will
go 10 Belfast to inspect King solomon
Council Later next week he will go
to Presque Isle on Il similar efrand.
The Working League 70 the FEEDER
ated Church held their regular meet
ing in the church parlors Monday af-
ternoon. Mrs. Ella Holt gave an in
teresting reading and Miss Florence
Norton played piano solo. Refresh
ments of tea, sandwiches and mints
were served by the officers, Mrs. ina
G. Hill. Mrs. Nettie Norton, Mrs Ncl-
lie Hopkins and Mrs. Nellie Conant.
The next meeting will be held on
Monday. April 30 and will be May
party.
Attorney Bernard Gibbs Of Madison
who returned last week from win
ter at ST. Petersburg, Florida, was
at the Court House Tuesday on bust
ness. One of the trophies of his
trip was the skin Of rattle snake
which he shot while away and which
measured six feet and five inches in
length. The stomach of the reptile
contained a full grown rabbit when
shot His family accompanied on
his trip south, it having become
custom to spend a part of each win
ter in the south.
Walter f. Cleveland, who is staging
! the "Runaways" to be given tomorrow
evening, leaves Saturday for Boston
| for business for the Philbrook co.
This was his last booking for the
present season and he will go 10 his
home in Coventry, VT, He will later
engage in his usual summer work Of