The Somerset reporter., 1893-09-21
LOCAL ITEMS.

Price Ordway's horse-hlankets.
j. W. Walker, the piano tuner, Is in
town.
Mrs. II. II. Tufts returned home Fri
day night.
W. II. Wildes returned frem market
Friday night.
Mrs. Helen Howard i visiting friends
in Pennington.
Miss Kitty owen returned saturday to
her home in Cambridge, Mas.
f. &. Woodbury. and wife returned
Friday night from their Worlds Fair
trip.
The Fairfield races were necessarily
declared off owing to the rain Of Friday
and saturday.
Jas. Il. Frost and family have moved
into the lIoratio W. Cushing house, re-
Gently vacated by Geo. +. sampson.
Herbert Wentworth and +. Il. Phil
brick left home to-day for an extended
trip to Chicago n | tn =
Owing to the rain only five tickets
We're sold at this station to the meeting
OF the State Grange at Wateryile. Fri
day.
\ special meeting of the Skowhegan
Woman's Club will be held in the Pub
lie Library Paror, Friday, Sept. -. at
, p. NJ.
At the close of the morning service at
the Bethany church, Sunday, the rite of
baptism was administered TO one candi-
date.
The Non-Partisan W. c. I. L. has
litely received Il donation of fifteen dol
lars from the WasMngtonian Society of
this place.
Judge O. Il. Bachelor and Mrs. Bach
eller left home this afternoon on trip
to Fargo. Dakota, TO be absent about Il
month.
Miss Anna Phibrick of Boston, who
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
f. b. Hill for some weeks. returned
home saturday.
Mrs. W. II. Cabot and daughter, who
III company with the Captain, have been
OH a ok Weeks trip in the west and at
the Worlds Fair. returned home Thurs
day night.
Mr.. X. l.. Wade. son of \. {. Wade
of Athens. who is now located in Seattle,
Wash. has been paying his old home Il
visit the past week. and calling among
friends in Skowhegan.
Street Commissioner Gilman has had
a crew of men at work the past week
sticking up the sides of our main
streets, hauling off the refuse matter,
etc. Skowhegan streets are kept tidy
and neat. and will compare favorably
with those of any town in Maine.
Mrs. Jas. Fellows and daughter May
Elise. returned to theirh home in,thiS place
Friday night last, after an absence of
thirteen months abroad, mostly passed
in Germany. where Miss Fellows has
been studying the violin under the i'll
struction of some of the best German
masters.
The newly renovated Falmouth Hotel
is an honor to Portland and should be
Il pride to the state. Situated i'll the
metropolis of the state. it is IA fitting
monument TO the substantially of the
city and her citizens. Within the past
few months, the house has been tho
roughly overhauled throughout and is
to-day model hostelry
Messrs. Scully of Portland. Dyer of
Lewiston, SWEET of Norway. Morse of
Gardiner. and Southland of Richmond.
Names crack bicycle riders, came to
town Friday morning to compete in the
faces of the Skowhegau Wheel Club, and
after remaining over Saturday. the rain
still continuing, they returned home.
They were guests ut Hotel IIeselton.
DIR. VIM. NJ. Pulsifer was in town
Friday and Saturday. We learn that
the Doctor intends locating permanent
ly in Watervlle, where he will assume
the practice of his father This is Il
move that will be much regretted by his
former patients in this place. who had
sincerely hoped that after his residence
abroad he would continue his former
large practice here.
Mr.. Geo. +. Sampson. who for sev-
eral years past has been closely identified
with the drug store of IL, W. Cushing.
and who during Mr. Cushing's protracted
absence in California. had entire charge
of the business. severed his connec-
ton with the ''corner drug store" Sat
urdav night last. and Mr., Cushing will
again assume its management Mr..
sampson is as yet undecided as to his
future movements. but we trust he and
his family will continue to remain resi-
dents of our town.
Thursday afternoon while engaged in
the labor of putting in the new bulkhead,
the workmen were changing the posi-
ton of the large derrick, when the arm
SWING around, struck against the boards
covering window. loosening one of
them. which fell some thrty-tve feet,