The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-05-31
MADISON


of Mrs. Ellen Gee, Main street Mrs.
Gee will be assisted in entertaining
by Mrs. Villa Hilton, Mrs. Lydia
Will and Mrs Effie d. Weston.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Odd Fellows Building
Association was held in Odd Fellows
Hall. Monday evening.
The Madison-Anson Board of Trade
will hold a banquet this evening in
the Congregational church dining
room. The banquet is to be served
by the Womans Association. The
ladies of the members are to be in
yited and it is expected that Mr.. Sar-
gent of the State highway depart
ment will be present and give the
address.
AT the next regular meeting of Key
stone Lodge x. of p held Tuesday,
June 5, the rank of Knight will be
conferred on two candidates.
Several of the members of the local
w. c. T. L. were in Skowhegan, Tues
day to attend the Somerset County
w. c. T. L. convention.
When in Skowhegan on that auto
mobile trip, add to your enjoyment
WIFI IL DOA Va CllLdDtLh byCl iiOhip
Made Candies. Upstairs over Jerry
Coles, corner Madison and Russell
Streets. 3w20
C. f. Davis, John White, John Ham
ilton, James Spence, E. G. Burns. Os-
car Flanders, DR.. j. p. Lancaster, II.
Fl. Haines, G. ID. Perkins and F. A.
Gilman were in PortlAd last week to
take the 32nd degree, the Consistory,
in Masonry.
Girls taking Home Economic work
in grades and high school have form
ed a d. s. Club with the object of
buying equipment for The Home Eco
nomic labratory, earning money by
sandwich and home made candy sales.
A sale was held Wednesday of last
week at the Junior high school build
ing which resulted in a good sum for
the treasury
The Junior Red Cross Council meet
ing will be held tonight directly after
| school at the Pleasant street building.
AS this is the last meeting of the sea
son report of the years work will
! be given from each room.
| All the schools were closed Friday
! to allow the teachers to attend the
ltdCHcIS tOnNeullOH Ut oOiOi. Hc
junior high school orchestra was
| present and furnished music In the
| afternoon.
For the first time in the history of
| the association, the Madison high
school alumni will devote whole day
to the Commencement week exercises
and this will be held on Friday, June
%. The days program will commence
with field events in the forenoon on
the Old Point avenue baseball
grounds At zap. m. will come an in
spection of the new high school build
ing. AT 2.30 baseball game be-
tween the school team and the alumni.
The evening events will be banquet
at $50 o'clock and the Alumni Ball
at $50.
The Madison high school senior
class debate held. Thursday evening
in the Free Baptist church for the
prize of s25, given by Judge G. o.
Small, was followed by great inter
est by small but appreciative au-
dience. The general excellence of
the arguments and their delivery re-
fiected much credit on the training
given in the school. The debaters
were selected after . series of inter
class debates. The judges gave the
decision to the negative side. The
question was: Resolved THAT the
Federal Government should provide
for the compulsory arbitration of dis
putes between capital and labor in
the railroad and coal mining indus
tries" Affirmative, Elmer Russell,
Wesley Sawyer. Pearl Hapworth !;
negative, Thelma Davis, Dorothy Bird,
Erlon Viles; alternates. Moses Mani
gan, Linwood Brofee. Chairman, Prin-
cipal, w. F. Holman. The judges were
Principal Guy F. Williams of Arson
Academy, Miss Bridges, also of Arson
Academy and Frank N! Merrill of this
place. Music was furnished by the
high school orchestra led by Mrs.
Arlen Mckenney Riley.
Last week several of the veterans
accompanied by the clergy visited the
different schools for the purpose of
patriotic instruction, At each school
there was short program by the
children and speeches by the visitors.
Sunday six members of N. A. Weston
Post accompanied by members from
Marcellus Perkins Circle attended SER
vice at the Free Baptist church where
a special sermon appropriate to the
occasion was given by the pastor,
Rev. E. B. Tetley.
On Memorial Day N. A. Weston
Post, G. A. r., Tardiff Post. A. L. and
other patriotic organizations assem-
bled on Main and Madison streets at
l o'clock, where the parade was
formed headed by the Boys Band.
They marched to the old cemetery
and the soldiers monument where ap-
propriate exercises were held. The
return march was up Weston avenue
to Bean, to Maple, down Maple to
Main I'D Main to Union Hall where the
following exercises were held: Mu-
sic; prayer, Rev. E. B. Tetley. The
Grafton was delivered by DR.. A. o.
Thomas of Augusta, State superin-
tendent of schools. After the adj
dress the line of march was again
taken up to the Arson Madison bridge
where flowers were cast on the water
in memory of the sailors of the Civil
War. Walter Ray acted as marshal