The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-12-20

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so now ia your time to show your
friendly spirit by buying your foot
wear for men, women and children,
also dress goods at the home OF Mrs.
Ross Henderson. orders will be
taken for goods not on hand.
Mrs. Eunice Baker Is spending a
few weeks, including Christmas, with
her daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Jordan will
spend Christmas In Gorham, guests
of Mrs. Jordan's brother Ralph Good
rich.
Mrs. Barbara Atkins entertained the
Sunshiners last Thursday at her home
on Preble. street.
Northland skis and toboggans are
faster and superior to other makes.
Buy the boy one FOR Christmas. For
sale at Whitney's.
Frank Hunnewell has a crew of
men cutting white birch on the lots
which the Central Maine Power Com
pany bought of Charles Hill. They are
cutting on the portion that will be
flooded when the dam Is built. The
white birch being cut will be hauled
to the mills of the United Shoe and
Finding Company.
Ernest Sterling has Round Oak
stove to sell at bargain. 1t has
CRATES for both wood or coal.
Mrs. Eva Bachelor went to Wat
erville one day of last week and met
her husbands mother, Mrs. Hattie
Bachelor of Main Stream who will
spend the winter here with her son
and family.
The C. C. c. was very well attended
at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Jordan
last Wednesday afternoon. The
members voted to give SITS Of the
proceeds of their recent sale and
supper to the church. Victrola Sc
lections and select readings by Mrs.
MacDougal, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Ba-
ker. Popcorn and candy were SER
we'd by the hostesses, Mrs. Jordan
and Mrs. Kate Hunnewell. The next
meeting will be at the vestry.
Clinton Woodland of U. OF M. was
home for a few days.
A house to house canvas is being
made for the sale OF Red Cross
stamps.
We have a large stock of Pyrex
and Aluminium ware lunch boxes,
thermos bottles, fash lights and poe
ket cutlery. All suitable gifts for
Christmas for sale at Whitney's.
Funeral services of Arthur N.
Burke were held at Masonic Hall last
Saturday afternoon at Q p. m. Pray
er was offered by Rev. Arthur Mac
DougaI followed by Inconsistencies.
Mr.. Burke was sixty-eight years of
age and had spent most OF his life in
Bingham. The last year he has been
an inmate of the state asylum, where
his death occurred.
Mrs. Charles E. Ball, recently re-
ceived box of citrous fruit from the
groves of her brother, D. F. Judkins
OF Largo, Florida, consisting of grape
| fruit, immense lemons, oranges, tam
gerines and kumquats, the last nam
ed being a very small plum-like or
ange, with a thin rind for preserves.
! Mr.. Judkins also raises pecans,
Although the joint committee of
his superintendent union granted
Supt. Ball Leave of absence for the
winter that he and Mrs. Ball might
go to Florida. they have decided for
several reasons that the trip is not
practicable.
At the close OF the first half year
of the Burleigh high school of West
Forks, all the students Joined In mail
ing .Supt. Ball post card shower be-
cause Of his Ill health.
Report Monday from Rock Pond
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inches Of snow and still showing.
What's the matter with an Alad-
din Lamp for Xmas? You know you
get four times the light at one half
the cost OF an ordinary oil lamp.
Regular price $115O Special for
December 1915. Immediate delivery.
e. Fl. Caswell. 2w50
The following ladies contributed
either food or money to the Library
food sale last Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Nettie Baker, Isabel Vaughan,
Annie Whitney, Amelia Small, Della
Webster, Esther Collins, Lillian Ray
nolds, Elva Arno, Lettie Miller, Ma
ria Butter, Mabel Cooley, Nellie Rob
inson, Ruby Hurley, Bertha Ball, May
Topper, Lucinda Moore, Mary Baker,
Edith Taylor, Alice Goodrich, Emma
Gipson, Carrie Hilton, Gertrude Rus
sell, and Bessie Folsom. The pro-
ceeds were between ten and eleven
dollars.
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES
The seventh grade furnished the
program for the school assembly per-
iod Thursday afternoon. A short
play was presented in which Young
America" was discovered Ill of di-
sease which Uncle Sam as physician
diagnosed as case of bad English
Other members of the seventh Eng
lish class represented themselves as
remedies of various sorts, as Obser-
walton, A Magazine, Careful Speak
ing, A Newspaper, etc. Costumes
worn by the leading characters add
ed to the vividness of the portrayal
The play was developed by the pu-
pills under the direction of Mrs. E. X
Dinsmore, home room teacher of the
Junior high school.
On account of inability to see
clear and reasonable means of finan'
cling basketball, the Athletic Associa'
ton has decided TO cancel that sport
for this winter. 1t Is hoped that