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

| wheaton college.
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Henderson of
Lowell Mass, who have been guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Willard H. Cum
mings have returned home.
Miss Edith Young leaves next Tues
day for Carmel, N. Y. where she will
enter Drews Seminary. She gradu
ated from S. H. S. in 1922.
Mr.. and Mrs. William R. Matson and
daughter jeanette of Newtonyille,
Mass. are guests this week of Mr..
and Mrs. George l.. H. Smith of North
i avenue.
DR.. and Mrs. Levi Wyman and son
! Newton who have been spending the
| summer at the Whittier cottage at
Lakewood left yesterday on their re-
turn to Chester, Pa.
| There will be a meeting of the BPW
| Club next Tuesday evening at 7.30 in
| the club rooms. Important matters
are to come before this meeting and
every member is urged to be present
Miss Annie Russell of Washington,
| d. c., who has been passing several
| Wctho Will a. Odh anu idnily az
the Lake left on her return Monday
afternoon. She was stopping en- route
to visit in Boston.
Among the out-of-town press repre-
| sentatives here to cover the fair last
week were G. M. Hatch of New Vine
yard, we'll known writer of agri-
| cultural topics, Miss Ruth Henderson
0f Do, Of Wotar.
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Webb and Mr..
| and Mrs. E. L. Baird with the latter's
two children were here from Hartland
Friday to attend the fair. Messrs.
Webb and Baird, are among the up
to-date farmers of the Webb Ridge
section.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Donley of So.
Weymouth, Mass, have been visiting
with Harold Savage and his mother,
Mrs. Flora Savage. Mr.. Donley and
Mr.. Savage were friends together when
both were students at the Eric Paper
Art School in Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hall of Green
vile were week end visitors at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. M. E. Smith,
Mrs. Smith being their daughter. Mr..
Hall is the Post cane holder in Green
vile and was one of the interested
patrons of the Skowhegan fair Fri
day.
Edward Ramsdell and Merritt
Dickey, both of Canaan, have with
drawn the appeal from their sentence
given by Judge Sawyer in the lower
court in connection with an illegal
possession of intoxicating liquor
case, and on Monday began serving
their sentences of two months each
in Jail. The fines were $100' and
added costs.
Clyde H. Smith accompanied by
Miss Margaret Chase, Miss Mildred A
Beal and Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Murray
went to Portland Friday. Mr.. Smith
spoke Friday evening in Portland City
Hall on the 48-hour question at a
Labor Meeting, the other speaker be-
ing U. S. Senator Powers of Rhode
Island. Mr.. and Mrs. Murray visited
with their daughter, Mrs. Gordon
Bragg while in the Forest City. Mr..
Smith is in Bar Harbor this week
speaking before the Maine Fedora
ton of Woman's Club on the same
topic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer E. McNeelie
are to establish their home in New
Haven, Conn. Mr.. McNeelie, who
has recently become treasurer of the
Uciah Grape Products Co., has been
in New Haven for some time past,
his offices being in the Chamber of
Commerce building. Mr.. and Mrs.
McNeelie were residents of Skowhe-
gan for many years, Mr.. McNeelie hav-
ing been prominently connected for a
long time in the publishing business
| In this community. Mrs. McNeelie,
who has been visiting in Skowhegan
and vicinity during the summer, left
last week for Augusta, where she will
| be the guest for a time of her sister,
Mrs. Blaine Owen.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira s. Hatch of Long
Beach, Cal, who went west from
Hartland eighteen years ago. were
among the visitors at the Skowhegan
Fair last week, visiting while here
with Mrs. Hatch's cousin, Mrs. Eliza
| beth Watson of Turner avenue. Mr..
and Mrs. Hatch have been visiting
| with his sisters in Harmony where he
resided before living in Hartland and
| they were accompanied to Skowhegan
| by Miss Eta Bradbury and Charles
Bradbury of Pittsfeld, former friends
| in Hartland. Mr.. Hatch is now an
attorney at law and is secretary to the
| United States Commissioner. He has
also served Long Beach as its mayor,
since his residence there.
A Masonic funeral service was held
| Thursday morning at O'Clock for
the late Walter Gordon Wyman, SO,
who was electrocuted while repairing
electrical mechanism at the Maine
| Spinning Mill from the family home
| on Island avenue. William T. Seek
| ms, a past master of Somerset Lodge
| assisted by Rev. George Loring Thur
low, conducted the ceremony, accom-
panied by large delegation of lodge
members. There was also a large
concourse of friends in attendance.
| The casket rested in a bower of beau
| uful flowers and set pieces, which be-