The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-04-26
TOWN and VICINITY.
New kid gloves fitted at ordway's.
MONDAY, APRIL %, 1894.

| "A cIlatnDer glrl Is wanted at once AT
Hotel Heselton.
Gen. and Mrs. r. B. Shepherd are in
Boston this week
Eighty of the Conference people were
quartered at the Heselton.
The reserved seats for the Torbett
Concert Company are now on sale at
Patterns.
The Sorosis will hold their annual club
banquet at Hotel Coburn, Monday even
ing April 80.
Mr.. c. w. Frost of Cornvlle, returned
Saturday from a business trip in YER
mont and New York.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Club, for the election of officers, will
occur on l hur sday next, April Goth.
1t is learned that the graduating class
of the Skowhegan high school have Sc
cured Callahan's orchestra of Lewiston
for their commencement exercises.
The appointments for the freshman
readings at Colby are announced. The
name of Miss Edith B. Hanson of Show
hogan appears among those designated.
George IL. Mcdowell of the Portland
Express, and Mr.. Holman $. Day of the
Lewiston journal, made the REPORTER
ing after the interest of their papers in
the Maine Conference. Mr. Mcdowell
remained through the week.
Extensive repairs have been in opera
ton at the Skowhegan Pulp Cos mill
for the past week, and it is expected
they will be completed the present week.
All the old timbers that were allowed to
remain at the time this mill was rebuilt,
are now being replaced by ones of
Southern pine.
The stallion, Pluto. owned at Fair
view stock farm was put to death one
day list week by Dr. Fairbanks, V. S,
During late years he has been used as a
family horse and from his fine training
he was extremely valuable in that ca
pacity, but owing to his age it was
deemed advisable to dispose of him in
the way mentioned.
Mrs. Clara d. Leavitt returned from
Belfast Thursday where she had been to
meet the other members of the commit
tee to locate the proposed Maine Vet
Grams Home. The committee have 4
favorable sites offered them in Bucks
port and in Searsport and one of these
will be selected within very few
weeks.
1t is not an agreeable statement to put
in print and we dislike to do it, but the
figures of station agent Eaton show a
falling off in the railroad business here
for March, 1894, as compared with
thing was moving brskly in March,
1893, and the business was above the
average for March, and this year very
much below.
Our bicyclists will notice that the
sclectmen have caused to be posted
notices forbiddng the riding of Bicycles
against it under penalty. The official
notice comes none to soon, and we have
no doubt but what our wheelmen will
respect it to the letter, as pedestrians
have rights as well as they, and certain
it is bicycle has or should have no
right to the use of the sidewalks to the
discontinue AID danger of our people.
The many friends of Charles IL. Pep
per, who is continuing his art studies in
Paris, France will be pleased to learn
that he has had one of his pictures ac-
oepted for the grand art exhibition and
admitted to the Paris Salon. This is an
honor that many artists spend years in
attaining, as but 300 out of 1900 offered.
one in ten are accepted by the manage
mcnt. The REPORTER extends congrai
ulations to Mr.. Pepper upon this marked
evidence of proficiency in his chosen vo-
cation.
There will be union missionary
meeting of the Baptist churches at the
Bethany church Monday afternoon and
evening. At quarter before, four Mrs.
Murrow, of the Indian Territory, will adj
dress the Woman's Societies and Mission
Bands. In the evening at half past
seven, Rev. DR.. Lakewood, of Boston,
Mr.. Murrow, who has labored many
years among the Indians, and one of the
missionaries among the French in New
England. will address the meeting.
The stereopticon will be used, and home
mission work will be fully illustrated.
All interested in mission work are cor
daily invited to attend these services.
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