The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-04-10
News of Somerset's Busy Towns

. ceiYing conditions being unusually
fine on that night. Refreshments
were served and the visitors presented
Basil with very fine silver pencil
as a gift in honor of the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waldo Reeves We're
/ Sunday guests of relatives in Corinna.
/ Mrs. Chester Luce visited her hus-
band in Oakland over Sunday. Mr.
Luce Is employed in Oakland but re
Gently has been i'll with the measles.
Cecil Crummett Is III with the meas
/ les.
Mrs. Royal Perkins has been con
/ fined to her home with neuritis.
Please notice the advertisement of
/ Jay NJ. Pierce on this page. 2wl4
| The Kennebec Girls Club enjoyed
meeting at the home of Agnes Bennett
| last Saturday afternoon. Refresh
ments of ice cream and cake We're
also enjoyed.
Last week Tuesday Mrs Mary Allen
observed her Goth birthday and she
was made happy by shower of post
cards, fruits, candy and other gifts.
Mrs. Allen appreciated being remem-
bered very much. At noon Calvin
Pierce and Mrs. Helen Pierce were
her dinner guests.
Guy Rogers has finished work in
Madison and is at his home in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Gilman have
returned from Wateryille where Mr..
Gilman has been employed and have
moved to their home on the Skowhe
gan road.
Mrs. Dora Witham of Mercer was
II. G tn,
Sunday.
The Town Hall was well filled Sat
urday evening and the crowd enjoyed
some unusually good pictures.
Mrs. William Forsythe and little
niece and nephew of Oakland were the
over Sunday guests of Mrs. Jessie
/ Rogers.
/ Mrs. Florence Maloon was recent
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brown
/ in Mercer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Grant return
ed last Tuesday from Portland where
/ they have been passing the winter.
Walter Hilton was home from the
L. of NJ. over Sunday.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace William re-
turned Monday. from Epping, n. H.,
/ where lDPy were tdllttl VII tilAphHb vi
| the illness and death Of Mrs. Williams
father, George Tarbox. who passed
away Tuesday and sister Miss Linda
Tarbox who passed away Thursday.
! The cause of death in both cases was
pneumonia. Both Mr.. Tarbox and his
daughter had many friends in this
and adjoining towns who were shock
ed to hear the sad news and who also
sympathize deeply with the bereayed
relatives in their great sorrow.
Floyd Mitchell has copmenced his
duties as night operator at the Far
mers' Telephone exchange.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Ham were called
to Rome last week by the death of
Mr.. Hams aged mother.
/ Mrs. Hattie Lewis is i'll with the
grip Her position in the Farmers
I Exchange is being taken by Mrs. Clay
ton Atwood.
/ Ernest Gilman was in Skowhegan
Monday and attended the directors
meeting of the Somerset Farmers
/ Telephone Co.
| Mrs. John Neil is very i'll.
Howard Brown has purchased the
so-called Smith house" Of Hugh
Hight
The members of the Marshall p.
Hale Circle, Ladies of the G. A. Il. en-
loved a social and refreshments after
their regular meeting last week Tues
day.
| Several weeks ago Chester Shepard
was injured quite badly while start
ing the work car on which the section
10 thrown from tho
car and received bad bruises on his
back and ribs and during the past
week has been obliged to remain at
home on account of the injuries and
rheumatism.
Rehearsals have commenced for the
play "The Path Across the Hills
which is to be given for the benefit of
Somerset Rebekah Lodge for the new
robe fund.
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ITEMS
Spring term began March 10, with
thirty-six pupils registered. Since
that date the following pupils have
not been absent or tardy: Ellery HUFF,
Edrie Huff. Glonys Stevens, Stanley
Bigelow, Dorothy Blaisdell, Glenys
Berry, Alberta Grove Robert Miller,
Lnwood Keene, Fern Boone and Ha-
/ eel Lee.
We wish to thank everybody who
/ helped us earn our new American
Flag and football which we earned by
selling eighteen dozen pencils. They
all disappeared in three days. We
did not sell candy as reported.
Hot lunches were completed March
30, with Fudge Day. All we could
eat. They were surely made sue
cess by all the parents and much
credit is due everyone who helped.
Pupils not missing any words in
spelling the past month are Linwood
Keene, Fern Boone, Glenys Berry and
Rena Tracey who has not missed a
word this year.
Visitors the past month are; Mrs.
Mabel Miller, Mrs. Sache Tobias. Miss
Alice Hodgkns, Mrs. Jessie Sheaff,
Mrs. Kenneth Berry, Mrs. Sadie
Clark, Mrs. Sidney Goodrich, Mrs. An
ME Goodrich Miss Hilda Miller; Supt.
of Schools. e. A. Simoneau. Visitors
| always welcome.
H0XIE
Mrs. Harry Otis is sick. Dr. Wal
tore of LNoirGald Uoc bora Nndnpedov