The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1885-12-09


Holbro k K Halves have full line of
goods for the holidays and will have some
thing further to say about them next
week.
Another blizzard, everything knocked
askew. except buttons ZIG flour, that
stood the racket and is selling faster than
ever.
Heselton Bros. x Co., give notice chat
until Jan. 1886, their store will remain
open every evening except Sunday, until
8 O, lock.
C. I. Sleeper comes out this week with
a new ad telling of the many useful pres
ents that may be selected from his stock
of dry goods.
Notices are published in another col
umn calling meetings Of the stockholders
or our National banks for the election of
officers for the ensuing year
Bixby & Bucks holiday ad is large
enough tn be seen without especial atten-
tion being called. What they say speaks
volumes to holiday shoppers.
Go to j. \. Dcaly's and see the new line
of cloakings he is selling at bargain and
have them cut free of charge good
line of Sawyer and Dexter woolens.
How many are forming new res buttons
for the new year we are fast approaching,
and how many kept good those formed
at the beginning of the one now almost
gone?
Ladies you will find Fairgrieve's the
place to get nice fresh chocolate drops as
he makes them a speciality. He keeps the
celebrated fruit chocolate drops.
Parties who desire a copy of. our
holiday edition, issued Dec 23rd, should
send us their names at once. We shall
only print sufficient number to supply
the advance demand. 1t promises to be a
fine number.
Don't you want to make some friend a
a Christmas present that will last the year
through and cause him or her to think of
you at least 80 times? If so subscribe for
the REPORTER and direct US to send it to
that friend. Only Sl.j0 per year
Professional divers from Portland ar
rived here last week to search for the
young lad recently drowned at the eddy
and alluded to in our last issue. After
an hours. labor they were rewarded by
finding the body very near where is disap-
pcared.
Mr.. d. d. Curtis, formerly of Mercer
in this county and brother of Mr.. L. b.
Curtis of this town died suddenly of par
alysis at his home Westheld, Mass, the
It'll inst. He was a manufacturer and one
of the most prominent and respected men
of his town,
1t was not until Saturday last week that
we We're reminded that winter was upon
us. A small snow squall on that date,
hardly sufficient for sleighing accompanied
by cold blasting wind, was but a fore
runner of what is to come Since that
time the weather has had a decidedly win
terish aspect.
The entertainment given by Whtmorc
4 Clark's Ministries at Coburn Hall last
evening was well patronized and they
gave evident satisfaction to the mass of
those in attendance. Some of the jokes
were rather old and those never imprt We
by aye but they introduced many new ones
with new features which together with
the music rendered had pleasing effect.
We give our readers this week the first
of our holiday supplements. Besides
over eight columns of news
and other interesting matter, our sub
scribers, or at least many of them who at
this season are thinking what they can
give their friends as a Christmas gift, will
find this way new advertisements to be
found thereon great aid to them in max
ing selection.
No better evidence could be wished that
w. II. Swain & Co. are receiving lots of
freight than that evinced by the actions
of the gray truck horse of ii. 7. Thyng
Yesterday morning. The horse in qucs-
ton was left standing at the depot while
its owner was looking for freight for
truckagc. Soon boy informed Hiram
that his horse had disappeared, and when
found he was standing at the store of the
above named firm all backed up for UNI
unloading whittier he had come without
guidance.
In private note from Mr. J. NJ. Wall
the local manager who had charge OF the
chestnut company that gave so unSatls-
factory an entertainment at Coburn Hall,
last week, he informs us, and we have
good reasons for believing the same, that
the company came to him with the best
recommendations from other managers
and it Vas not until he reached his hotel
after the performance that he discovered
to what extent our people had been vic
timized by the company
While taking the machine apart, which
furnishes the power for the electric
light. to discover the reason for its not
working properly, dastardly deed was
found to have been perpetrated by some
scoundrel, viz: The discovery of quite a
quantity of coarse gun powder having
been placed in the journal of the dynamo.
Had this not been discovered thus early,
it would have tended to disabled the ma
chine for some weeks more, or perhaps
worse, blown the concern up, injurlng
some of the workmen.
The new electric light is now working
complete, the cause of the recent trouble
being discovered to be in defect in the
machine. OF our business places that
now have the l9hts are the following,
who have one or more each w. +. Ba-
con, W. b. Steward, Geo. Cushing, Tea
Store, w. f. Robbins, V. Z. Nickery, Ed
Pumaow, IL. w. Cushing, S. Whittier
A. w. Quimby, Robinson Hall, Estes &