The Somerset reporter., 1891-08-06

- e"''tA "aa III toWH yes
tsrday..
Mr. g. II. Jones Of Athens was in tow
Wednesday.
County Attorney Hoyey and wife o
Pittsheld. were in skowhegan last wcel
Friday.
Miss Mallie James Of plainaeld, n. j..
arrives Tonight on visit to Miss Mabe
Ward.
Splendid hay weather this week bs
given farmers opportunity to finish i
good shape.
K. W. Brown hqa Just returned from
Aroostook where he parcha.el 800 head
Of cattle.
Col Wldcs, wife aud daughter are
spending week at Cape Porpoise and
Mouse Island.
Mrs. Omar Clark of Girra'unk and
Miss Martha Holden OF Moose River were
In town yesterday.
p S. Longley of Scion, and L. c. Az
drews of Bingham, were registered al
Hotel Hesclton Wednesday.
Mrs. Gala B. Ward returned Friday
from her extended visit to her daughter
Mrs Frank c. Ross in st. Stephens, n. b
Mrs. Eta b. Calvert of Peabody, Mass
Miss NJ. b. Noyes aud Mrs. Minnie Whit
ney of Lynn, Mas, are visiting friends
In town
Mrs. Mary Wyman who has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Charles Miller for
several weeks. returns to her home in
Newark, n. j.. to-day.
Mrs. II. II. Bigelow accompanied Miss
Merrill to Michigan last week, for a
months visit Miss Matte Smith has
charge of Mrs. Bigelow's business mean
while.
All members of the Skowhegau Lodge
of the A. o. L. W are requested to meet
at their Hall tomorrow evening at 7,3O
A full attendance is requested Per or
der NJ W.
A reunion and basket picnic of the Odd
Fellows 10 Somerset county will be held
at Hayden Lake, Thursday, August ID.
All Odd Fellows are invited to participate.
Music, dancing, &c.
Capt. F. Ii. Wing has some very tail
sweet corn in his garden and brings to
the REPORTER a stock that stands feet,
inch, which he says is fair sample of
the whole patch. A tlue specimen surely
for so cold season.
The East Madison Lodge of Ancient
Order of United Workman will hold a
basket picnic at Hayden's Lake, Tuesday
the It'll instant TO which the public is
invited. Officers Of the Grand Lodge are
expected to be present and speak.
The managers of the Skowhegan eX-
change of the Shaver Telephone ar put
ting in several private lines in adjoining
towns that are giving great satisfaction.
Last week they visited FAN fl I'D and Ma :
ison and this week were at Pittsheid.
+. X. Delano has sold the fine caribou
that has been on exhibition in his store
for several months past to Fred c. Phil
lips, Portland. general agent of the Equit-
able Life Assurance Society. 1t was ship.
ped Monday last, the price being $50.
Two years ago DR., S. +. Gonant pur.
chased farm between this place and
NorIidse wock, north side. That year the
farm cut ten tons of hay. The present
year the Doctor got 80 tons off the same
farm, and some say this is not much of a
hay year either.
Mes,rs George II. Pishon, H. IL. Tufts
and j. H. Frame, accompanied by their
wives, are enjoying a most delightful
vacation trip along the coast of Maine,
going fl st to Muse Island, thence to
Portland and down to the Islands, and
home by the way of Bsr Hsrbor.
Wm. Davis and VIM. Je Ut of this town
are finishing up the large barn at Good
VIII Home. They have been at work
there ten days and it will take them some
weeks longer to complete the job. The
walls of the barn are to be clapboarded
the outside finish put on, and stable, gran
cry and carriage apartments finished IN
side.
The Leland Tanning Company have
established branch of their business in
Portland " here they have leq5ed yard
and buildings. Messrs. Foss & Baker with
T. |. Moves run the tanning business
there under the process understood only
by Mr.. Noyes and his son, and Mr.. Silas
Leland with A. II Noyos continue to run
the business here Their work has out
grown their facilities here and they eX-
pect to greatly extend it by locating at
Portland The company is improving
their plant In Skowhegan also.
Mr.. II S. Philbrick of the Thompson,
Houston Electric Co., was in Msdison
Bridge, Monday, where thif Co. is in
stsling for the Manufacturers Invest
ment Co. one of the finest Isolated cleo
trio plants in the State of Maine. 1t con
sists of Two large T. II. special type in
cludescent and on Arc Dynamos. They
have an arc light in each one of the large
iron Digesters, where the men are lining
the inside, which makes the interior as
light as day and gives them pure air as
well. This makes the eighth pulp mill
plant in the State installed with Thomson,
Houston Apparatus which speaks well Tor
their system.