The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-02-21
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Saturday morning on a bushes visit
to his mill there.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mitchell left
Thursday last for a visit in Boston
and Lawrence. Mass.
Miss Ruby Lathe and Miss Anna
belle Lancaster left Saturday morn
ing for visit in Augusta.
Little Miss Sally Marston went to
WaterFille Saturday morning to visit
with her cousin, Ruth Marston.
Eardley Atkinson of the Atkinson
Bakery left Friday morning for Bos-
ton to attending baking school,
Mrs, Elizabeth Watson left Monday
morning for Lewiston and will lee
ture in different localities in that sec
ton.
Friends of Mrs. Hazel Leavitt
Langdon will regret to learn that her
daughter Jean has been i'll with au-
pendicitis. An operation resulted.
Somerset Pomona will meet with
Kennebec Valley Grange at Madison
next Tuesday. There will be reduc-
ed rates on the Somerset Traction
line.
d, LaFord, proprietor of LaFond $
Dry Goods Store, returned last night
| from Boston where he has been for
several days selecting spring mer-
chandise
| Leo Brodette of Augusta left Sat
urday after visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dumont He
was here for the concert and dance
Friday night.
/ Mrs. Hannah Parker Lord returned
Saturday to her home in Nashua, n.
II. after spending about ten days Wis
iting her cousins, Mrs. Henry Hoyt
of Skowhegan and Bert S. Kincaid of
East Madison.
Mrs. L. 7. Porter of Presque Isle
was a guest ever Friday night of Mr..
and Mrs. d. A. Porter, leaving here
Saturday morning for Readfeld to
attend the funeral of Miss Hazel
Leavitt, her niece.
sold her home on Middle street to
Mrs. Ida Purlngton, formerly of Ca
naan, left Monday morning for Au-
gusta, where she was considering the
purchase of a home.
NJ. w. Savage has harvested his
ice, having put in about thirty-three
hundred tons. The ice this year has
been of fair quality An ice cutting
machine. run by gasoline, purchased
/ 1, 4, l,
the harvesting
Miss Evelyn Chase, who has been
chosen by the students i'll the Miss
SkoWhegan contest to be Miss Show
hogan High School" visited over the
week end with a former classmate.
Florence Dionne of Wateryille, and
attended the basket ball game Friday
night.
Walter ID. Thurber, executive secre-
tary of the Maine Public Health Asso-
citation, was in town Friday, having
business with DR.. Young, president of
the Somerset County Public Health
Association, relative to the sale of
Christmas seals and health bonds. He
left here on the afternoon train for
Augusta.
Guy futile, driver of the Athens
stage, finds that horses are working
out more satisfactorily than a snow
mobile. He has sold the latter which
he used the first of the winter to
/ Ivan Chadbourne of Harmony. The
vehicle was satisfactory however, so
far as locomotion over the snowy
roads was concerned.
Mrs. Leon Wilbur left Friday morn
ing for Phillips where her young son
Everett underwent an operation for a
pus case of appendicitis, the evening
previous. Master Everett has been
staying with his grandparents at
Phillips and was taken suddenly i'll
while there. The operation was per-
formed at about ten o'clock in the
evening.
A regular meeting OF Russell Relief
Corps was held last Friday afternoon
in Grand Army Hall with a large at
tendance. Following the regular
business meeting, which was presided
over by the president, Mrs. Flora
Lewis, the following program was
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Mrs. Agnes Dunbar: readings by Mrs
Marta Morrill,, Mrs. Eliza Petty and
Mrs. Mary S. r. Burns. This was
Lincoln program.
Relatives here have forwarded
money to Walter Cornelius Croker in
Ireland. for his return TO this coun-
try. II will be recalled that notice
has been previously given of his GO
ing to Ireland when Il year and
half old to live with his aunt after
the death of his parents. He is
brother OF John Crocker Of this town
and a nephew Of Mrs. Levi Beane of
Mechanic Street, where he will prob
ably make his home for time at
least
a concert given by the Musical
Clubs Of Amherst College at the Ritz
Carlton in New York City. Friday
evening. February 18th. at sis p. m.
is of interest here as one of the mem
hers of the Musical Clubs is Wilbur
r. Miller of Foxboro. now senior at
Amherst aud CON ar Ire Ctragp