The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-11-22
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visit in Portland.
Marked down sale of hats Saturday
at the Cay0uette Shop.
Miss Myra Rowell, stenographer at
the Parsons Garage is reported as
very i'll at her home on Madison ave.
nue. with pneumonia.
George W. Hopkins has purchased
of Greenwood & Butler the new dwell
ling just completed on one of their lots
at Gem street extension.
f. w. Cronkhite of Cornville has
just returned from Marlboro, Mass,
where has was called by the sudden
death of his brother, Zebe Cronkhite,
merchant in Marlboro.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Holden OF the
Malbons Mills section have returned
from Jackman, having been called
there by the illness and death of Mrs
Holden's mother, Mrs. John Kinds.
Mrs. Augusta Holt of Canaan has
come TO Skowhegan for the winter to
live with Mr.. and Mrs. Charles vii!
liams who have recently taken an
apartment in the Dunton house on
Madison avenue.
Thursday, November 2sth, Thanks
giving, holiday hours will be obser-
we'd at the Skowhegan post office.
Stamp window open to 3. No de-
liveries by city or rural carriers. Mon
ey order window closed all day.
Arthur Williams will occupy the
lower tenement of the house on East
Leavitt street owned by Mrs. Addie
b. Gee of Lewiston, which Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Plummer contemplated
for time as a future residence.
The Town Improvement Society
will meet Friday afternoon( tomor-
row. in Library parlors. Mrs. Mary
w. Libby, the new superintendent at
the State Reformatory will give the
address of the day. Members may
invite guest.
L. NJ. Sanborn, who returned last
spring to his farm on the Scion road.
above Lakewood is building new
barn there. There is already a fair
ly new bungalow dwelling on the
place. This was formerly the C. w.
Goodrich farm and the buildings there
were burned.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at the local post office for the
week ending November IT: Donald
Beane, l.. w. Chadbourne, Mrs. Mar
guerite Martin, Mary Simmons. Isabel
M. Smith,, These letters will be
sent to the dead letter office IL they
are not called for before December
1st.
A turkey is to be awarded as one
of the first prizes at the whist party
to be given under gfhe auspices of the
Ladies of st. Anne In the Convent Hall
Monday evening. There Is to be a
social after the whist, a good orches-
ira having been engaged for the oc-
casion. The proceeds are to be APP
piled to the church debt.
Skowhegan will receive $11,519.16
according to the appOrtionment of the
State School Fund, totalling $1,603,-
S9707 This was determined by the
school census ending June Both last.
Cities and larger towns are receiving
various amounts. Other Somerset
County towns will receive the follow
ing: Fairfield, $S,305.23; Madison,
s8,778.SS; Pittsfeld, $5,603.79
The Clementine Weston w. c. T. u.
will hold its monthly meeting next
Tuesday afternoon at 2.45 o'clock at
the home of Mrs. Philo Steward on
Baptist Hill. The subject will be,
1.-THE Marching Mothers of the CRU
sade," and the program will be APP
plicable to the fiftieth anniversary of
the organization of the first Woman's
Christian Temperance Union which
will be generally celebrated on De-
cember 14th. A large attendance is
desired.
Pupils who have not been absent
from the Jewett street school for the
past five weeks were: Norman Leo,
Phillip Roderick, Flavilla Croker,
Shirley Crocker, Lorraine Henderson,
Glendora Flynn, Frances Risteen, AL
tana Edwards, Louise Pratt, Jessie
Jones, Lois Smith, Airline Curtis, Cliff
ton Whitney, Wilbur Whitney, James
Stinchfield, Leon Cowett, Clayton Leo,
Katherine Lessard, Rowena Erb. Alice
Risteen, Emma Laney. Absent on
account of sickness, Walter Boulette,
Eva Wentworth.
Probation officer NJ. w. Savage and
Mrs. Savage took Edmund Morrison,
the former Good Will student who
was connected with the larceny of
an automobile at Arson last summer,
to the Sacred Heart school at Scar
boro on Thursday last. The boy
pleaded guilty at the last term of
court to the charge and afterwards
returned to Good VIII Farm under
the custody of Probation Officer Saw
age. It did not seem wise for the lad
to remain at that institution however.
and through the efforts of his mother
who lives in Rangeley he was taken
to the school in scarboro.
A special conclave of De Molay
Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar
was held here Tuesday evening with
about ITO Sir knights In attendance.
The Orders of the Red Cross and
Malta were conferred during the late
agtarnoop and at a 40 O daIiciouu hon