The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-05-02
TOWN and VICINITY

II YOU htfu any tithR iH H9sRiN i'Hi-
cmber ". 3. Stewart las iafge stock.
YIN. Adams.of Carratuuk Vas in town
last week on his way home from Oak
land.
Mrs. George Fairgrieyes OF Hartland,
is in town the guest Of her son, George
b.
Jos Beatty of Oldtown was in town
the past week, the guest of 7. Il. Ander-
son.
Paul & Spear have good bargains in
-four, and all kinds Of groceries. Gall
and see them.
\ drug clerk, with two or more years
experience is wanted by sampson. the
Corner Druggist.
John W. Steward aud wife returned
home last evening from several weeks
stay in Boston.
The auction sale advertised in this
issue should call out large crowd OF
prospective buyers.
The sacrament of the Lords supper.
will be postponed from May 9TH, 10
May 18th, at the Congregational church.
Miss Maud Kellet, class Of 81 Skow-
hogan High. school, went to Carratunk
Saturday where she has been engaged
to teach school.
Vose & Son entertained ll9 babies at
their Photograph rooms on Madison
Avenue yesterday. They will give each
one a photograph.
Charles 5. Bickford, formerly of the
Brunswick Telegraph, now representing
the Swan & Sibley Company, Belfast,
was in town.last week.
Arthur b. Caldin, who passed the
winter months at his home in Athens,
has returned to Skowhegan and gone
back to his old situation at f. X.
Delano's.
a gravel train, with Il large force of
men is to be put on the line of the Show
hogan q Norridgew ock electric road at
once, putting the road bed into excellent
condition.
Miss Alice NJ. Sides of Portsmouth,
N. H., is in town, visiting relatives.
She will coach some of the members of
the graduating class of the high school
again this year.
On Tuesday evening May Il, the an
nual club banquet of the Skowhegan
Sorosis will occur at Hotel Coburn,
and this will close the meetings Of
the present club year.
f. L. Moore says he is in the carriage
business to stay and will deal in all
kinds of carriages and seighs and if any
sell cheaper then he, they will have to
dead in cheaper grade.
Herbert y. Pratt of Skowhegan, has
been elected President of the Colby
Athletic Association. He is the strong
est man in the College, his record show
ing 1893 points. Ills closest competitor
in the Association has l0ll
l.. w. Chase announces great auction
at his stable on Saturday next ut 10 A.
NJ. Tins will afford a fine opportunity
of buying anything in this line at low
price. A fine pony team complete is
also to be sold at same time. See ad.
The Soross have engaged MI Freder-
rick W. Bancroft to give Il lecture-reei-
tai on the evening of May !, in the
Bethany church. Mr., Bancrofts sub
ject will be Irish Songs and Song
Writers. The Woman's Club and Mil
burn Club will be the guests of Sorosis
on this evening
The High school ball nine were de
feated in their first game of the season at
Waterville, by score of 20 to 8, last
Friday afternoon. The battery was
Green and Lawley. The game was
scheduled for Saturday, but owing to
the Colby Kents Hill game it compelled
a change of date.
A physical examination recently oc-
Cured at Colby to determine who was
the strongest man in the University
The system was the same as is in use fat
Harvard and other colleges. The
stronges man was found to be Herbert
n. Pratt, '96. Mr.. Pratt is a graduate
of our high scnool where he prepared
for college.
A service in the interest of missions
was held in the First Baptist church,
last Wednesday evening. Rev. John
Cummings, missionary in Burmah who
is having year of rest from his work
there, was the speaker. lie gave an in
teresting and graphic account of the
work in his field, which was much en-
joyed by his hearers. The choir rem
dered several selections.
'Dorcas,n an operate comedy in
three acts, was produced at Coburn hall
last Friday evening, by the Pauline
Hall company to fair sized audience.
TO many the performance as whole
was disappointing. Miss Hall was of
course the central figure of the piece.
She sang the music of her role aceepta-
bly, and her gowns were pretty. Miss
Jea nette st. Henry as Dora was suffer
iuu from "A spvprp cold which marred