The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-10-11

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Ross is selling those best nickle plated
copper tea kettles for 30 cents.
For choice molasses candy nothing
quite equals Delano's velvet kisses.
\. G. Hill returned to Augusta, sat
urday where he has employment for the
winter.
Miss +. b. Dunton returned home
Thursday, of last week from Boston and
New York
Miss Mlnta Powers came to Skowhe-
gan, saturday night for "A two weeks
vacation.
Mr.. George II. Whittier OF Cornyile,
was in town, saturday, and made the
REPORTER call.
Miss Margaret Partridge of Augusta
is spending few weeks with her aunt,
Mrs L. 5. Prescott.
Miss Annie f. Allen returned home
Saturday evening, from visit to friends
in Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. c. j. Dow, Mrs. f. II. Folsom
and Mrs. C. p. Sawyer are visiting
friends in Waterville to-day.
That laughing comedy, Aunt Sally,
will be at the opera house, tomorrow
evening. Tickets at Arnolds.
The neatest thing out-vegetable
brushes-priee DC, former price, 10 cents.
At IL. d. Rowells, 30 Water st.
The Richards Co., after shut down
of nearly Il year started up their mill in
this place this week on full time.
c. W. Cook returned home Thursday
of last week from his Aroostook trip.
i Illness prevented his earlier return.
Wentworth Il Oak, the house furnish
ers, hung Il handsome new sign over
their place of business on Saturday.
The verdict in the case Gilman vs. In
habitants of Cambridge was 500 for the
plaintiff, not Sl,00, rs given last week.
The ladies of the Congregational
society will give Il harvest dinner at the
vestry, Island Avenue, Wednesday, Octo-
Der 10Th.
Mr.. CD. Bailey removed with his fam-
ly to Portland, ON Friday last, in which
city they have taken rooms and will
board for the winter.
Business is booming at the Shoe factory,
and more experienced help is needed in
every department. About $50 people are
now on their pay roll.
Goodrichs sale on Norman X. flour
has been phenomenal, aud still contin-
ues with no complaints. 1t is only 81
with a , lb. package of soda with each
barrel
Mr.. NJ. O. Dean of East Madison rails
ed some fine large apples of the AleXan-
dria variety, this year. He exhibited to
us three the combined weight of which
was 81 - ounces.
5. d. Saywood, accompanied by his
two sons, Joseph and Charles, and Henry
Frost, passed three weeks at his camps
at Ellis pond on a fishing trip, return
ing home Friday last.
Mrs. Belle Clann of this town spoke
at the Women's Foreign Missionary
meeting at Portland, Thursday last.
Her subject was the Congo Mission
her field of labor for several years.
At the regular morning service at the
Congregational church yesterday, Mr.. G..
W. Horn of Lewiston, OBLIGATED in the
choir and rendered solo, which was
particularly pleasing to the audience.
We learn that the high school have
secured Col. Balm of kentucky for "A
lecture in November. Always popular
with Skowhegan audience Col. Balm
may be sure of speaking to well filled
house.
Sibbey Cowett, while employed with
the team, removing garbage from our
streets on Friday last, in jumping from
the cart, struck in such Il manner as to
produce double fracture of his ankle, a
bad break.
Veterans who are interested in the
history of the great rebellion, in which
they took an honorable part, will do
well to step in to the REPORTER office
and examine the Century War Book
we have secured and which we offer
with our paper. Call and learn our
favorable terms made to subscribers new
and old.
The Lyceum at the Skowhegan High
school are discussing practical questions.
That at recent meeting was; "Resolv-
ed, That cotton or wooden mill would
have been more beneficial to the citizens
of Skowhegan than the Skowhegan q
Norridgewock electric railroad" Harold
Hanson and Charles Whittier, affirm. :;
Wallace Blunt and Charles Viles, neg.
The lyceum decided in favor of the rail-
road. Their subject for consideration
last Friday evening was, "Resolved
l hat the Latin scientific course offers
more inducements to a boy not entering
college than the English course Rich
ard Sprague and Harry Phillips for
affirm; Harold Woodbury. and Ed
Berry, neg.
aptain NJ. X. Bean of the South
Beach railroad arrived in the city last
niyhi from AsheVillc. y C.. where he