The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-09-20

The Curtis children are boarding
with Elder Robinson during the ILL
mes of Walter Brown with scarlet
fever
Forty-one pupils in the high school.
Pretty near time for new building
isn't it?
Farm Bureau meets with Ida Chad
bourne this week.
Louise Mccarthy is recuperating
from an operation in Kennebec Valley
Hospital.
Brand new boy baby in the family
of Leroy LaGross.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hight and son
Rofe from Readfield and Mr.. and
Mrs. John Goodrich of Lowell. Mass.
have been visiting at Walter Bemis'
home.
Elder Turner and family have left
for his new parish in Biddeford.
REUNION
A reunion of the Hatch family was
held in Canaan at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. +. Cooley. Wednesday, August
%. Those present were Mr.. and Mrs
Everett Cooley. Mr.. and Mrs. Everett
Reed of Harmony. Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
Cooley and Master Clayton Cooley OF
Newport. Attorney and Mrs. Ira S
Hatch of Long Beach. Cal, Miss A.
Ella Hatch of Gorham. y. H, and AL
freda A. Hatch of Bethany Conn. This
is the first reunion in which the fam
lily have all been together for eigh-
teen years as Mr. and Mrs. Hatch
have been living in California and
this is the first time they have visited
their old home during that period
While dinner was being prepared the
family rendered several selections of
old familiar hymns learned while at
tending singing school at Harmony
many years ago taught by William
Brown, deceased. At II o'clock a
bountiful dinner was served. During
the afternoon the party enjoyed a ride
to Lake George. One of the out
standing features of the ride was that
Mr.. and Mrs. Hatch rode in the same
carriage which they had owned and
enjoyed during their early married
life when living in Hartland while
the other members of the party used
the more modern means of convey
ance, automobiles. On their return
to the Cooley home ice cream and
cake were served and thus ended
perfect day.
The census shows that 225,000 ma
tive born sons and daughters of
Maine. New Hampshire and Vermont
have moved to other states within the
past ten years. Somerset county
has contributed her share to this gift
Of old New England stock which the
three northern sentinels' have made
to their sister states and we venture
to- say that no people OF the whole
near quarter million are happier or
more welcome in their visits home
than our own The numberless re-
cent news items OF these home-com-
ings would be but few lines of
print to the stranger but to us they
tell long stories OF many happy visits.
, An example of the numerous visits
enioved by some Somerset homes is
seen in the visit of six Bostonians at
the home of Miss Eva Furbush during
the past week They were Mr.. and
Mrs Edward Bailey, Mrs. F. o. Turn
err. Professor c. f. Turner, Miss Es-
telle Farrar and Miss Olive Woods.
The fame OF Miss Furbushs hospital
ity and the quality of her table are
such, however, that perhaps the only
wonder is that there were not a hall
hundred visitors instead of a half
dozen. To quote one OF these guests:
There really is no work of creation
to surpass the creations of a Maine
cook. To Paris for styles perhaps
but to Maine for food. And no table
in Maine can be better than Eva's.
It's just naturally impossible Merely
to look at the array of delectables
which the table supports produces
such a flood of salivary secretion
that a thrice blessed mortal is quite
unable to voice his firm conviction
that digestion is the chief end and
aim of all existence