The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-23

MIS-. EllLdDeIH W. OySl ACIui hSu
home Friday evening from a few
weeks visit in Boston and vicinity.
W. ]. Holway, a well known mer-
chant of The Forks with Mrs. Hol-
way were among the out of town
people at Lakewood Friday evening
| for the theatre.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Bartlett of Med
| ford Hillside, Mass. have been house
guests for several days of Mr.. and
Mrs. d. Hamlin Bartlett The two
gentlemen are brothers.
Misses Helen NJ. Halves and Ruth
Atkinson are at Ocean Park to attend
the School of Method. Both young
ladies are numbered among the pupils
at the Bethany Baptist Sunday
School.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Cleveland have
purchased the two family house on
Pleasant street formerly owned by
Mrs. Abbie Robinson and will estab-
fish their future home there. The
deal was closed Friday last.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Roullard of Sum
mer street entertained several neices
of Mrs. Roullard last week. In the
party were Miss Emma and Miss
Mile Pooler of st. Martin, Quebec,
Mrs Mary Perry of Lewiston and Mr..
and Mrs. Hector Charter also of
Lewiston.
Mrs. Lysander Robinson and her
daughter Miss Ella Robinson,
teacher in Gardiner, Mass, with their
guests, Mr.. and Mrs. George Russell
of Carroll, Iowa, were in Augusta
and at Togus on Thursday last. On
Friday they took their guests to
Athens for a visit.
Ruth Walker of Woodfords who has
been spending several weeks at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. Carl Curtis
on Madison avenue returned home
last week with Mr.. and Mrs. l.. c.
Bailey and Master Edmund Walker
of Woodfords, who have been guests
at the Curtis home.
Harry A. Foster, the new principal
of Skowhegan high school and Mrs.
Foster were at their future home on
Madison avenue a part of last week
Their household furnishings have
nearly all arrived from Belfast and
they will probably reach .Skowhegan
to remain permanently in a week or
two.
Miss Ella NJ. Flanders, a student
at the New England Conservatory in
Boston, who has been visiting with
friends in town returned to Bangor
to visit with her brother, II. N. Elan
ders the first of this week. Miss
Flanders will accompany other must
clans on Chautauqua concert tour
later. In addition to piano she has
also been studying the cello.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Curtis left yes
terday for Boston on their semi
annual business trip for the Curtis
Hat Shop. Miss Lila Weston will
be in charge of their store during
their absence. They will visit enroute
! in Portland and vicinity and on their
journey will be met by Mr.. Curtis sis
ter, Mrs. c. f. Sprague of Lexington,
Mass, the balance of the trip to be
made by automobile.
Robert E. Wyman is learning the
duties of an operator at the central
offices of the Maine Tel. & Tel. Co.
and will act as night operator taking
the place of w. o. Wildes, Jr. Mr..
Wildes, who graduated from Skowhe
gan high school last June will become
student this fall at Rhode Island
State College and plans after one
year there to enter Yale. He will
study the chemical engineering
course.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Savage Mrs
Emma Berwick of Lewiston and Mrs.
Estell Shields of Saco. who visited
here recently with their mother, Mrs.
Mary Savage and their brother, E. L.
Savage and family have gone to La
Grange. Mr.. and Mrs. E. l.. Savage
accompanied by their son, .LiRwood,
Marguerite Savage. Smith Ames, Hell
en- Ames and Edward Bilodeau en-
joyed a cost trip last week to Port
land, Old Orchard, Higgins Beach and
! elsewhere.
Thornton w. Merriam of Cleveland,
Ohio who returned home with his
parents, Rev. and Mrs. George Merri-
am from their visit with another son,
George r. Merriam and family in
Melrose, Mass, has been attending
summer school at Harvard, He will
return to Cleveland about Labor Day.
Miss Helen e. Merriam, who is also
at home, will return to Springfield.
Mass. to resume her duties as teacher
in the schools of that city about the
same time.
About fifty members of the Ella F.
Mitchell Phlathea Glass and their
guests including the gentlemen en-
! ioyed a delightful field meeting last
Friday at the cottage of Mr.. and Mrs.
! G. X. Fogg on the East shore of Lake
Wesserunsett. A short business
meeting was held during which Mrs.
Marie Fletcher Foyer, the president
resigned owing to her removal from
town and Mrs. Bessie Thompson was
elected to fill the vacancy for the
balance of the year. Games were
| played and a very delicious picnic
supper was no small feature of the
day, Mr.. and Mrs. d. F. Judkins of
Largo, Florida were the guests of
honor.