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

O., will return home this week after
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lessor.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Trial of Lewis
ton visited during the fair with Mr..
Trials mother, Mrs. Lessor
Ora Oak of Riverside, Cal, has
started on his return journey after
visiting at his old home in Garland
and with his cousin ]. p. Oak and
families here. This was Mr.. Oak s
first visit back east for thirty-s
years.
ed to their home In Randolph Sun
day afternoon after a visit since Fri
day with their son, George A. Moore
and family on High street. On Sat
urday they took a rip in the Dead
River regions.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cabot of
Bridgeton were guests Friday at the
home of ]. Wallace Blunt. Mr. Ca
bots mother, Mrs. Augusta Cabot and
Mrs. A. G. Blunt have been here for
several weeks from Bridgeton staying
with the Blunt family.
The w. C. T. U. will hold their
monthly meeting with Mrs. Lizzie A.
Marble on Spring street, Tuesday
evening. September 25th. The pro-
| gram will be in charge of Miss Cert
rude Weston and all ladies interested
are cordially invited to attend.
Miss Flora Hill who recently came
here from Maynard, Mass, to make
| her home with her sister, Mrs. Hiram
, Bearce. has engaged the store on
| Madison avenue, which is this week
| being vacated by F. X. Poulin and at
latter date will open a tea room
! there.
Mr. and Mrs. w L. Watson of st.
| Petersburg departed Friday after Wis
| iting with Mr. and Mrs. F. o. MURDER
and also with Mrs. Abbie Robinson
and Mrs. Helen Brown. They will visit
| for short time in Portland return
ing to st. Petersburg the last of the
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bowling are
| spending this week in Portland where
they formerly resided. Tomorrow
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Gilman will leaYe
for Gorham where thew will attend the
fair and then go to Portland return
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Bowling. The
| two ladies are sisters.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Leighton and
| daughter Helen and Mrs James Ste
wart of Portland are arriving tomor-
row for a visit with the families of
| w. Fl. Hight and Samuel Kirby on
Dyer street. The many friends of
the family will be glad to greet them
in Skowhegan once more.
Karl Philbrick leaves today for a
few days visit in Brunswick. after
which he will enter the Harvard Bust
1 ness School of Administration. His
!! younger brother. William Philbrick
will not return to Bowdoin this fall
but will take business course al
some school in Portland.
Steps are being taken toward con-
verting the Butler barn on the lot
| purchased by the town for a new
high school building, into manuel
training quarters for the Skowhegar
students. A furnace has been pur-
chased to heat the building. Supt
and Mrs. W. b. Woodbury. and family
will move to the Butler house on the
property the first of next month.
Married at the Bethany Baptist
parsonage on Thursday evening, Sept
10, David Opal Cox and Miss Eva
Florence Adams, both of Skowhegan
Rev. George Merriam, the Bethany
pastor, ofiiciated using the double ring
service. The couple were unattend-
| 81 10.
Mrs. George Cox and the bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. George
| Adams.
George w. Cover and G. B. Fair
| grieve enjoyed three hours and forty
minutes of fishing at Moosehead Lake
| last Thursday. This exact time is
ascertained from the fact that the
| two anglers travelled to the fishing
grounds by rail The left Lakewood
| on the $50 car and were back at their
starting place at seven o'clock the
same night. The only portion of the
trip made by automobile was the re-
turn from Madison to Lakewood
Mrs. Otto r. Folsom-Jones and son
Charles. Il, of Washington, d. c.,
nave Dttn d WtSh Will utI
husbands parents at "The Terrace"
on Locust avenue the family all hay-
| lust previously spent some time at the
beaches. Owing to the brevity of Mr..
Folsom Jones vacation in Maine and
his having been examined in the mean
time and passed examinations success
fully for admittance to the bars of
| Maine and the District of Columbia,
he/was unable to visit this year his
old home town.
The village and rural schools in
| Guiding the high school are all in
session. Among the new teachers are
| Prin. Harry Foster who has moved his
| family here from Belfast, and Miss
Evelyn Bridges Of Easton, teacher of
Domestic Science, who taught in this
department at Arson Academy last
year Miss Airline Plummer is one
of the new teachers in the seventh
grade, while new TEACHERS in the Gar
field school are Miss Helen NJ Wal
cot and Mrs Harry Foster Miss
Charlotte F. Doe is new at the Park
| school and Hazel V. Goodrich. Mrs