The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-12-18

SOL i ueSudy, where he performed III
operation at Collins Hospital.
Mrs. Curtis TingleySis returning to
Boston Saturday after visiting with
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Kirby and her sister, Mrs. W. H.
Hight on Dyer street.
Miss Edith Gledhill and her mother
Mrs. Sarah Giedhill have left their
home in East Madison for the winter
and are for the present with Mr.. and
Mrs Morris Gledhill of Madison ave
nue..
r.. w Haines is back at his usual
winter quarters at the Ansonia Hotel
in ST. petersburg. Fla, and reports
more tourists there than ever before
In December. No limit TO the prices
on house lots he informs us.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for at the postofiice for the week end
ing December -. Frank r. Goburn,
and Glenn Wheeler These letters
will be sent TO the dead letter office
If not called for before December q.
George c. Weston of West Upton,
Mass, is returning home this week
after being here because of the death
of his grandmother, Mrs. Annie E
Steward His mother. Mrs. Warren
F. Newton is remaining for time in
her mothers home.
Mrs. George Carron and Miss AIDE
lena Landry were called to South
Boston Tuesday by the death of Mrs
Jennie Rock Price, formerly of Wat
erville. Mrs. Prize was a niece OF
Mrs. Carron and in her childhood lived
in the Carron home.
Among those to enter Kennebec
Valley Hospital this week are Russell
Lewis of Cincinnati, O., Miss Dorothy
Scott of Noridgewock, Mrs. Guy L
Scott of Norridgewock, Louis Fourier
of Presque Isle and Fred Fournier OF
Waterville Mrs MILFORD NJ. CilleS
of Bingham has been discharged.
Patients recently admitted to Som
erset Hospital are Mrs. Sadie Cur
rier of this town. Master Forres
Adams of Scion and Mrs. Jennie
White of Fairfield. Discharged, Mrs
Leon Wilbur and baby daughter o
this town. Mrs. Mildred Smith o
Calais, Mrs. Carrie Durgin of Bling
ham, Leona Dean of Madison. Mrs
Belle Wing of Athens and Willard
Written of LiYermore Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Fowler had al
alarming experience last Sunday Whit
returning from Fairfield They hat
progressed toward home as far as thu
Central Maine Sanitarium, when thei
automobile skidded on glare ice ant
WAS overturned on its side. Neithe
Mr.. or Mrs. Fowler were hurt and thu
body of the car was in no way dam
aged. The running board, mud
guards and one wheel were, however
demolished.
John H Steward who with Mrs
Steward and Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Cas-
well left soon after Thanksgiving TO
a motor trip to Florida, informs thu
Reporter from Georgia that they ar
having a fine trip, but are surprised
to find so many long steep hills ant
mountains, and such curves in thu
road as they found through Virginia
North Carolina and South Carolina
Mr. Steward added that the road from
Bingham to Jackman was fine com
pared to them.
Cases argued on Monday before thu
Law Term OF the Supreme Judicia
Court at the Kennebec County cour
house, included the Somerset Count,
case tried at the court house here
that of Harlow X Wescott, Admr. VI
Forrest Ellis This is a suit on III
account to recover for services. TIT
verdict was for the defendant and thu
case is before the law court on mo
ton for a new trial by the plaintiff
~ F.. Merrill argued for the plaintiff
and Col. Sherman Shumway for tn
defendant.
Mrs. Ella Jewett and Frank j
Doyle and family write the Reporter
from Dunellen, n J., that they heard
Mrs. Eta SWEET Bradley, formerly o
Skowhegan, singing over the radio thu
night of the 18th, adding that they en-
ioyed it very much. They said Blu
for having noted in the Reporter tina
Mrs. Bradley was TO broadcast. thu
chances were that they would not have
listened in at that time. They have
a three tube Erla Duo Reflex Theil
home is twenty-siyen miles from
New York City
At the regular meeting of the Mil
burn Commandery, L. o. G. c. helC
last Thursday evening, the follwint
officers were elected for the coming
year: Noble commander, Howard
Hilton; past noble commander Geo
Brooks; vice noble commander Carrie
Chase; worthy prelate, Evelyn Ma
son: financial keeper OF records
Maude Kincaid treasurer, Addit
Cover; keeper of records, Lena Tyler
herald, Wilbur Chase; outside guard
Frank Ryan; inside guard, Georges
Washburn; representative to the
Grand Council held at Portland
April IT and IS. Howard Hilton
alternate. Maude Adams; trustees
Howard Hilton, George Brooks, Clyde
II. Smith. The installation will be
held sometime in January
There is strong evidence that the
Riddles of Skowhegan are going to
get pretty near what they want for
Christmas, not only because OF the
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