The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-09-18
The Interesting News Of
Somer3c.'3 FtsZ Towns
BINGHAM

BINGHAM
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Smith and
daughter Alice recently took a very
enjoyable trip along Penobscot Bay.
spending the week end with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Trundy of Stockton Springs
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Russell visited
his parents at Lakewood over Sunday.
The Dora Goodrich W. {. T. L. Will
meet with Mrs. Olive Hilton tomorrow
evening for their regular monthly
meeting. AT a special business meet
ing of the union last Friday evening
Mrs. Emma Hill was elected a dele
gate to State ConYention at Portland
Sept. "a, % and 26.
Fred Temple spent Saturday and
Sunday with his son Guy at Trout
dale. During his stay they went
fishing to Big Sandy with the result
that their catch of twelve rout
weighed fifteen pounds.
Mrs. Edith Dinsmore, vice president
of the Western Somerset Teachers
Association, wishes to inform the
Somerset teachers that there will be
a joint meeting of the two county as
sociations in ~Skowhegan. Oct. T..
FOR SALE-Seven room house on
Murray street. Complete bathroom
and modern plumbing. Electric
lights. city water. Ample room for
garden. X. r. Robinson, Bingham.
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Mrs. George Hill and two children,
and Mrs. Fitzgerald, all OF Connect
cut are guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Gates.
Harold Doe has sold his house on
No., ,4,.nt 40 DIsJa-l.. AIa.144
Mr.. Doe has purchased of Lane and
Pierce the L. c. Pierce place. He
plans to make it a dairy farm and
will establish a milk route in Bing-
ham village.
call Harry Cohen. n. +. Phone 6se3.
Farmers 22-3, Skowhegan. tf37
Mrs. Fannie Smith has returned
from Lakewood and intends to go to
Waterville to assist in the care of
those who are sick in the family of
her son, Benz. Smith.
Minnie Davis will be at Jennie Hun
newells store all day and evening OF
Friday, Sept. 10th, with IL full line of
fall and winter millinery.
Henry Ward OF Lakewood has given
to Bingham Union Library quite a
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biography and others. f. II. Caswell
kindly went after them on Monday
last. In due time they will be made
ready for the patrons of the library.
Rev. and Mrs. Lincoln Goodrich of
Taunton, Mass. called upon w. b.
Goodrich, his cousin, and S. r. Good
rich last Monday. He visited the
home place of his mother, Lucy
49, DALI, urIArA Il L. DoEar ~
lives, and the home farm where his
father Rev. Lewis Goodrich was born.
Mrs. Winnie Henderson is enter
tanning guests this week.
y Mrs. Esther Collins and Miss Essie
Marston are spending two weeks in
Guilford with friends.
Leroy Colley seems to be making
good progress toward recovery.
Many Bingham citizens attended
Skowhegan fair on Friday and said it
was very good. Annie Rollins and
Wilder Rollins, both made an airplane
flight while at the fair.
From Sept. / to Sept. II, four and
one quarter inches of rain fell in
Bingham and nearly six and a half
inches fell in the northern part of the
county. This eliminated the danger
Vi OlCpL hiCS dlu 40 lhC pohho oid
lakes are fast filling; will insure
plenty of water for the manufacturing
plants along the Kennebec this win
ter.
The storm of Sept. II was very
heavy in Bingham. At moo the wind
was gale force increasing to high gale
at $40 p. m. The air was full of
flying leaves and small branches. An
annie fraa In Chnutar RpIlinc' orch ard
went down, also a branch from a big
elm was twisted off and a portion fell
upon the roof of the house formerly
occupied Mr.. Miner without doing
much damage. The sheet of rain
was driven by the wind up over the
roofs of houses, causing leaks where
none had been before. Many trees
were blown down in the woods and
some wood roads are rendered impas-
sable.
P. A. Woodland and family, Miss
Elizabeth Thompson and her sister
Mrs. Hamlin of Waterville motored
to Kineo last Sunday. "a
George Beane of White River Junc1a
ton, Vermont, recently visited y his
mother. Mrs. Iva Quinn and sistef,
Thelmas Beane. a
Ihlb. Lucy olllllu NOON did VI /
violence, r. |. Is a guest of Mrs. Isa-
dore Ftzsimmons and other friends
in this vicinity.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express IL thanks
and appreciation to our relatives,
friends and n~eighbors for their kind
ness, sympathy and gentle services
to our mother during her illness; and
for their kindly sympathy and assist
ance to us at her death; also for the
beautiful floral tributes; and to the
singers for the service they rendered.
Especially are We grateful to Rev.
Mary F. Sampson for her frequent
ministrations and continued kindness
to the deceased.
Robert Laurison and wife
Mrs. Sadie Beane and husband
John Laurison
Mrs. Kate Beane and husband
Mrs. Maggie Merrill and husband
Mrs. George Beane and husband
Thomas Laurison
Miss Eva LauriSOn