The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-05-29


home from Brighton. Mass, and
Springfield, Mass, Tuesday night.
Mrs. Henry Arnold of Pasadena
Cal arrived here Tuesday to visit
with Mrs. Joseph Whittemore and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Fletcher of Ar
| lington, Mass. are guests this week
of Mrs. Elizabeth W. Dyer of Madi-
son avenue.
Clyde Decker, George Oulton, Lyle
s. Moore and Don Burrill were in
Canaan Sunday where they sang at
Memorial observances.
Miss Egline Dionne, graduate
nurse of Kennebec Valley Hospital
who has been quite i'll with typhoid
fever, is convalescing rapidly.
A surprise party was given Monday
night by Mrs. Harry E. Smith at her
home for Miss Florence Philbrick
Bridge was played and refreshments
were enjoyed.
Mrs. Ralph F1ynt and three child.
rem of West Baldwin, who have been
spending sometime at the farm home
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. L. Parker, will re-
turn in few days.
Mrs. E. F. Merrill and daughter
Miss Mary Merrill, have returned
from Boston and Norton, Mass, hav-
ing attended Wheaton College festi-
vities in the last mentioned town.
Thomas Oliver, who recently moved
his family here from Lubec has pur-
chased the Fred l.. Perry bungalow on
Mt, Pleasant avenue, which he will
occupy after repairing and remodel
ling the same.
Among the local Rotarians who at
tended the. meeting of Rotary execu.
/ tives in Waterville Tuesday were w
B. Woodbury., Sherman N. Shumway
Geo. II. Plummer and Rev. George
Loring Thurlow.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Newton were
in Ellsworth Sunday to visit with
Mrs. Newton's father, Ben Jordan and
! to attend a family reunion at her
home there. While away they also
visited in Bar Harbor.
Deputy Sheriff and Mrs. J. T. Thi-
bodeau and Mrs. Edward Sayers have
been in Lewiston this week, owing to
the death of Mrs. Isadore Trial
whose remains will be brought here
tomorrow for burial in Calvary Gem
etery.
The Rebekah District meeting has
been postponed until June 18th owing
to the Illness of Mrs. Elizabeth Fos-
ter vice president of the Rebekah
Assembly. The next regular meet
ing of Priscilla Rebekah Lodge will
be held on June 3rd.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for the week ending May "a. Albro
Adams, Mrs, Edith Corson, Mrs. E.
Dean, George Terrell, James Kitchen,
Mrs. John lowering. These letters
will be sent to the dead letter office
( if not called for before June 9TH.
! Mr.. and Mrs. III. Smith had as
guests over Sunday, William Garaba-
dian of Cambridge, Mass, and Robert
McLeary of Phillips. Both young
men are students at Colby College
and conducted the services at the
Centenary Church. Thomas Nichols
was a dinner guest at the Smith
home.
Mrs. Ethel M. Christensen, Miss
Alice H. Goodrich and Miss Edith M.
Gledhill are in Portland this week at
tending the Grand Chapter session of
! the Order of Eastern Star. Miss
Goodrich and Miss Gledhill are the
respective matron and secretary of
Sunset Chapter and Mrs. Christensen
is a past matron.
W. Harold Erb, who came from
Mars Hill, Aroostook County, to work
in the Observation-Disclosures Office
about two years ago is at present en-
ployed in Bangor. At first he work
ed for the Furbush Printing Com
pany but several weeks bus since be-
came a member of the force at the
Bangor Commercial. He Is employed
in their composing department.
Patients lately admitted to Somer-
set Hospital have been Miss Iva Hol-
way, Mrs. Isabel Avery, Mrs. Louise
Wellington, Melvin Beale and James
Flemming of Skowhegan and Mrs.
Laura Barnes of Fairfield. Patients
recently discharged are Mrs. Peter
Reil and baby son, Master Warren
Stevens, Henry Watson, George
Brooks, all of Skowhegan, George
Moulton of Scion and Master Henry
Perry of Richmond.
Among the surgical patients at the
Kennebec Valley Hospital are Mrs
Orie Cover of Canaan, Mrs. Isaac
Griffith of Skowhegan, Mrs. Pearl
Vincent of Skowhegan, Harry Rowe,
six year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Err
maid Rowe of Bingham and Mrs. John
Brack and son Kenneth of Bingham,
who underwent surgical operations
Monday. Mrs. Joseph LaPointe OF
Bingham is reported as convalescing
after surgical operation last week
Patients lately discharged arc Mrs.
Robert Ford, Mrs. Frank Phalen and
Harry Corson, all of Madison.
With the idea of town improvement
especially in the section where is To-
Gated the Catholic property. Rev. }.
l.. A. Renaud is soliciting funds for
the exterior painting of the Catholic
Church, the convent and the paro-
chial school building. The sum OF
efEna nonaecaru for this nIirDOSp