The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-09-07
Mr.. Roswell w. Taylor came to town


Mr.. Jas. White has been the guest of
\. Lumsden and family the past week.
Mrs. Prince of Lowell, Mass, is the
guest of her uncle. +. B. Hill and fami-
ly.
Miss c. Z. Burrill has returned and
re-opened her dressmaking rooms, in
Heselton Block.
Picture framing of all kinds and a fine
stock of mouldings always on hand, at
Bragg & Narney's.
Harry Cushing returned home Tues
day night from Il visit to the Worlds
Fair and to relatives in Massachusetts.
DR.. Fred NJ Eaton of Camden. y. j.,
accompanied by his wife and baby is on
a visit to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs, B.
+. Eaton.
Miss Nettie Spaulding of Norfolk, Va,
left Skowhegan en- route for home this
morning, but will tarry in Augusta for
a few DAYS.
Head, Will Donaldson. Fred Weld and
Robert Mckenzie made up Il party that
took in the Fair to-day.
A barge will leave Fairbrothers' stable
for Spiritualist Campmeeting at Hay
den Lake, Sunday morning at o'clock.
Tickets round trip 50 cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Langley left
home Yesterday for Exeter, \. H.,
where they visit a son, who is to leave
there soon for Colorado because ill health.
Mrs. c. Davis Miller, Miss Louise
Coburn, Miss Grace Coburn and Miss
Bessie Knox leave this afternoon for
Chicago to spend few weeks at the
Worlds Fair
Mr.. Henry Judkins. proprietor of the
Elmwood Hotel, Waterville. accompan-
pied by his wife drove to Skowhegan
yesterday morning passing the day, re-
turning at night.
S. f. Nane, the manager of the Hilda
Vernon Co., who last week played an
engagement at Coburn Hall, was strick-
en- with a paralytic shock at Madison,
on Monday, dying from its effects last
evening.
Miss Farmer, Principal of the Bos-
ton Cooking School, will deliver free
lecture on cooking at G.. A. Il. Hall,
Thursday afternoon the 18th inst, at 2
o'clock. All ladies' are respectfully in
vitcd to attend.
The new concrete walk promised the
business houses along the east side of
Madison Ave, above Russell ST., has
been laid by Commissioner Gilman the
past week, It's Il good one and was
laid none too soon.
y. W. Brainerd and wife, Mrs. l.. W.
Weston. Mrs. Hiram Gilman. Mrs.
Martha Herrin, Mrs. George Tantish and
Miss Blanche, and VIM. b. Snow were
among those who went from here to the
State Fair this morning.
In the 2.3l class trotted at Lewiston.
yesterday. the gray mare Combine,
owned by Geo. II. Clark and in the
string of Fairview Farm, won the race,
taking the second, fifth and sixth heats,
and lowering her record in the fifth heat
to 2.26 IL.
The corner drug store of II. W. Cush-
ing has been undergoing thorough
course of treatment the past week, at
the hands of the painters and paper
hangers which adds much to its appear
ance. New electric lights of 30 candle
power each have also been put in.
The exhibitions of Pawnee Bills Wild
West Monday afternoon and evening
last, are highly spoken of by all in at
tendance. The show arrived by special
train of Is cars Sunday morning, leaving
at midnight Monday, and the men con-
nected with ii conducted themselves in
most orderly manner during their
stay.
Cd. Mason, a Canaan character who
was in attendance upon the Wild West
show with a liberal amount of liquor
aboard, undertook to give little of the
"wooly west" exhibition himself, flour
ishing revolver and making loud talk
Officers Tuft and Thing gathered him
in, and the next morning at a hearing
before Justice Bachelor he settled for
Sl5.00.