The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19

hloS 11eieu y. hight anu Mlob dya
lene Decker are both at home from
Colby College for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold C.. Woodbury.
were week end guests OF the Misses
Pooler at their Boothbay cottage.
Albert Libby for many years
barber, has bought of Norris Roullard
MS grocery store on French street.
Mrs. Tilson Foss and family of
bingham were callers at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Preble on Sun
day.
Miss Lois Patten arrived home Sat
urday from Providence, r. |. where
she has been attending Brown Uni
versity.
During the vacation of Edward J.
Roy, Carleton Carnage is substituting
as mail carrier on the south side of
the river.
Blunt Hardware Company are driv-
a new International delivery truck
purchased from the Clough Motor
Company.
w. H. Cummings has been in at
tendance at the Republican National
Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, during
the past week.
Mrs. Gladys Pennell Batchelder and
little son Franklin of Portland are
here to visit her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. P. Pennell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Berube, form
erly of this town but now residing in
Chisholm, were week end guests of
relatives in town.
Callers at the home of Fred Dionne
on the East Madison road Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Israel Levesque
and family of Fairfield.
Mrs. William Martin with her
daughters Effie and Eva and sons
Herman and Kenneth have gone to
Lake Grove, near Lewiston, for the
summer.
N. M. Clough and family of Au-
gusta accompanied by e. l.. Clough
and wife of the Lakewood road en-
joyed a trip TO Lake Parlin over the
week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. Jewett and w
+. Porter are leaving today for Bow
dom College to be present at the grad
uation of their sons, Langdon A. Jew
EFT and Herman Porter from that in
stitution.
George H. Halves, who for several
months has been in Connecticut and
Massachusetts in the employ of The
National Survey Company, map max
ers, has returned to his work after
visiting at his home here for several
days.
Mrs. Bertha c. Britton has return
ed from Boston where she has been
visiting through the winter. Mrs
Britton is the proprietor of a way
side farm down on the river road SER
wing dinners by appointment com
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Myron c. Tilton who
have been living in New Bedford,
Mass. arrived in Skowhegan Satur-
day and are to reside here. Mrs.
Tilton was formerly Miss Lillian Hnr-
ley, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Hurley of West Front street.
Clarence J. Hayden of Enfield, N.
H. was a week end guest of his
daughter, Mrs Alfred S. Preble and
his mother, Mrs. J. S. Hayden. He
was accompanied on his return Mon
day by Mrs. Hayden's mother, Mrs.
Frank Green of West Front street.
Augustin Dionne, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Dionne, left last week for
Madawaska and surrounding towns
in Aroostook County, where he will
visit relatives and friends for about
three weeks. Mr.. Dionne has not
visited his native town since he moved
here seven years ago.
Charles Stevens, a machinist for
the American Wooden Company and
who received an injury to the eye
some few weeks ago, has returned
from Portland where he has been
patient for a month or so at the Eye
and Ear Indrmary. The vision of
the eye has been reduced to nearly
Horatio S Weston of Logtown,
Miss, has been visiting Skowhegan
president of the H. Weston Lumber
COMPANY anu VI Iu6 LANAI Lie III
surance Company. These are both
Mississippi corporations. the latter
being located at Jackson, the capital
of that state. He is also president
of the Hancock County bank, located
at Bay St. Louis, and has other i'm
pOrtant interests in different parts of
the south. Mr. Weston has an i'm
pOrtant business errand to bring him
north at this time, as he wishes to
himself with the pulp and
paper industry. This may lead to
the construction of a pulp and paper
plant to utilize Mississippi timber
growth which has lately been found
suitable for that industry.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. John La
ney on Maple street was the scene
Wednesday evening of very pretty
shower party given by Miss Gertrude
naney for Miss Marie Louise Landry
in honor of her approaching marriage
to George f. Lapointe of Augusta
The decorations were green and
white, beautiful bouquets of lilies of
the valley, tulips and lilacs were in
evidence on the center table Miss
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