The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-11-15
TOWN and VICINITY.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER r. 1894.


Hon. Stanley Plummer of Dexter, was
in town over Sunday.
Miss Agnes b. Stafford passed Sunday
. with friends in Watervile.
} DR.. L. A. Dascomb made profession
! al trip to Watervile, to-day.
Mr.. Walter Carpenter of Brattleboro,
Vt, passed Sunday in town.
, j. Ii. Hutclius has removed his bar
: her shop over the old post office.
Miss Cora Baker passed Friday and
! Saturday in Augusta with friends.
|. Mrs. S. NJ. Sawyer went to Waterville
, ON Saturday, returning home to-day.
Over fifty people came from So. Nor
ridgewock to the theatre, Saturday
! night.
} Remember the dance at So. Norridge-
wock Wednesday night. Car back after
words.
VIM. Clough has contract for build
, ing five tenement houses at Fairfield,
} for Amos f. Gerald.
Hon. A. h. Bixby left home this morn.
ing for Boston and New \ ork after holi-
day goods for his firm.
Hon. Andrew Ilawes of Deerng was
I in town Thursday last on business con-
nec5ed with probate court.
J Mrs. l.. S. Pike of Athens who is
spending the winter at Watervile was in
town Thursday of last week.
w. S. Varney has removed from
Water St, taking the whole of the
J building at Madison Avenue,
Goodrich has one lot of first class
| sweet corn, which he will sell while it
lasts Zoe per can, 3 for 25 cents.
J Henry Galway returned home last
} week, from Fairfield, where he has been
doing an extensive Job of grading.
Mrs Ellen Cover of Canaan, returned
! home, Monday night last, after a few
! weeks visit with friends in Massachu-
sets.
There will be preaching service in the
First Baptist. church, every evening this
week except Monday and Saturday, at
7.l5 o'clock.
Several members from Somerset
Lodge, +. & A. NJ, paid a visit to
Lebanon Lodge at So. Norridgewock,
Saturday evening.
J The missionary society of the First
Baptist church, will hold meeting
Thursday afternoon, $50 o'clock, with
Mrs. Charlotte Robinson.
The Congregational church has eX-
J tended call to Rev. Charles S. Bates,
} who has supplied the pulpit here several
times, to become its pastor.
County Commissioner Clarke of Bing-
ham, WIS ia town, Thursday, on his
return from meeting of the board of
commissioners in Athens, to hear a road
petition.
L. S. Dutton went to Portland, Fri
day, and in the evening participated in
the banqdet given by one of the vice
presidents of the Equitable Assurance
Co. to the agents in Maine.
The "Comas Club which is composed
of the commercial travellers of New
England, recently held a meeting and
banquet at the Tontine House, Bruins
wick, at which X. w. Haines of this
place was elected one of the vice-presi
dents.
Two Farmers Institutes are announc-
ed for Somerset county as follows. at
Fairfield Center, Friday, Nov. %, and at
No. New Portland saturday, Nov. q,
both of which will be addressed by John
Gould of Ohio, on clarifying and its
several branches
The Buker Pill Co., is distributing an
ingenious mechanical toy, the balancing
butterfly, bearing their advertisement.
The enterprisng druggist, Roland T..
Patten, has a supply of these butterflies
which he will give to each caller at his
pharmacy.
Rev c. V. Hanson went to Waterville,
this morning to attend meeting of IA
committee of the Trustees and Alumni
of Colby University, appointed at the
last commencement, to make prepare
lions for fitting observance in June
, next of the seyenty-fifth anniversary of
the college.
The Womans Mis- ionary society, of
the Bethany church, held largely at
tended meeting at the home of Mrs. G.
V. Hanson, on Friday afternoon, of last
week. Mrs. Belle Claflin gave deeply
interesting talk on her missionary expe-
riences in Africa. Questions were freely
asked by many in attendance, and the
meeting was one of universal interest
and profit.
) Prof. c. j. IL. Ropes of Bangor Theo-
logical Seminary, preached at Island
Avenue Congregational church, last Sun
day morning and in the evening gave the
first lecture in course of the English
Bible, covering Wickliff"s and Tyndall' 8
translation. Next Sunday evening, he
will deliver the second lecture in the
course covering the time of Clayerdale
and his successes till the authorized