The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-24
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Drs. Young and Lord were in Nor
| ridgewock and Canaan Tuesday ON 1
surgical cases.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dyer is leaving to-
day for Hartland where she will Wis
| 1t with relatives.
Sylvesta Holden of Portland is In
town for several days visiting his sis
ter, Mrs. Cyrus Newton.
Owing to the teachers convention
| at Scion, tomorrow there will be no
sessions of the public schools.
| Willard Hatch of Waterville re-
| turned home Tuesday after visiting
with his cousin, George E. Chase.
! Rev. H. l.. Nichols of the Centenary
Methodist Church preached at the
Federation Church in Hinckley last
| Sunday.
Mrs. Mabel Fitzgerald of Portland
is visiting her mother, Mrs. Olive
| Weymouth at the home of w. l.. Hill
on Parkman Hill
Mrs. Alta Gordon, wife of Glen
| operated upon at Kennebec Valley /
hospital Monday forenoon.
Arno Lawrence has resigned his
| position as a brakeman on the Maine /
Central Railroad and accepted a posi-
ton in the J. d. Symons store.
Mrs. H. B. Russell who is visiting
with Mrs. Clarence Hight this week
| is on her way to her home in Athens 1
| after passing several months in Con-
| necticut.
! Mrs. Howard Friend arrived home
| Tuesday evening from Orono. where
she had been visiting with her daugh-
| ter, Miss Mary H. Friend, student
at the University Of Maine.
There will be a regular convocation
of Somerset Chapter, r. A. M. tomor-
| row evening. The Royal Arch Ma
son degree will be conferred and
refreshments will be served
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Longfellow of Au-
gusta motored here on Saturday to-
spend the week end with Mr. Longfel-
lows parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
p. Longfellow of Water street.
Harmon Smith and James Erskine
of Bath are coming for the Junior
Promenade this evening in Grange
Hall. They are to visit at the homes
of Roy Sylvester and A. II. lies.
! Mrs. l.. F.. Parsons, who has been
very i'll during the winter has suffl-
GENTLY recovered to ride to Athens
with her family on Sunday, where
she called ON her aunt, Mrs. A. F. w.
Stinchfeld.
Miss Pauline E. Oak who went to
| Fort Valley, Georgia, last February
| to direct pageant for the Peach
| Festival and who has been visiting in
Washington and New York, and late
ly in Worcester, Mass, arrived home
Tuesday night.
Recent word from w. Fl. Cummings
who with Mrs. Cummings is in Eu-
rope was to the effect that they had
had fine trip into England, Scot
land and France and were then on
their way to visit some of the battle
fields in the North of France.
Local Rbtarians are anticipating a
pleasant evening next Monday hight
when they will go to Waterville to be
guests of the Rotary Club in that city
at a banquet. This Is the result of
an attendance contest last winter be-
! tween the two clubs in which the
Skowhegan Club was the winner.
The Skowhegan high school ten
mis- team suffered defeat from the
hands of the Waterville high school
tennis team at Watervlle last Satur-
| day afternoon by score Of to 0.
The summary: Singles, E. Talberth
OF Waterville defeated j. Cayouette
of Skowhegan, Ga, "a; f. LARA
! bee of Wateryille defeated II. Tobey
of Skowhegan, 81, 81; A. Neal of
| Wateryille defeated j. Carter of Show
hogan, "a, ca. Doubles, E. Tai
bert and A. Neal of Waterville de-
feated j. Cayouette and H. Tobey OF
Skowhegan, 4-6, 81, "a; G. Mon
bleau and f. Larabee of Watervlle
defeated NJ. Decker and B. Oddly of
Skowhegan, 60, 60.
! Miss Dorothy M. Elliot nfst as
| sistant at the high school arrived
home from Portland Monday evening
where she had been under quarantine
| for a month following an illness of
| scarlet fever. She will resume her
teaching next Monday. Fortunately
| Miss Elliott was a guest in the home
| of her cousin and she and her
husband who is Principal Lowe OF
the high school had both had the dis
ease. Miss Elliot felt perfectly
well at the time of her departure
from Skowhegan but on the evening
| of her arrival began to have a sore
throat. The next forenoon she
was able to be downtown how
ever, but before night became in
Except for a few days Miss Elliot
was not uncomfortabiy sick. In her
long period of teaching Miss Elliot
had been exposed to scarlet fever at
six different times within her know
ledge without having previously con-
tracted the disease.