The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-08-29
TOWN and VICINITY

Perry ;. Longley of Scion was in town
Saturday
Mr.. Albert F. Jones of Solou was in
town Monday.
Geo.ge Burrill of Fairfield was in
town Monday.
Ice cream soda every day 1t SIMPSONS
Corner Drug store.
Mr.. l.. c. Elliott of Athens was in
t9wn Thursday last.
Handsome coon kittens for sale by
Mrs. Henry Holway.
Mrs. l.. j, Parkman is visiting friends
IN Augusta this week.
Mrs. |. o. Palmer of Salem, Mass, has
been in town visiting friends for few
days.
Harold Woodbury. went to Portland,
this morning to enter shaws Business
college.
j. w. Walker, practical piano tuner of
Boston will be in town during Sept,
Address Post Office. 3w32
The attention is called to an ad. else
where in this issue of a team fol sale.
A bargain awaits the one VINO investi-
gates early.
Mrs. c. d. Miller accompanied her
husband as far as Boston on his way to
Europe and will remain there with
friends several weeks.
Miss Rose f. McIntire accompanied by
her friend Miss Cora NJ. Hit returned to
Mass, Saturday to resume her duties in
the Dalton High school.
Laforest Weston of Lynn, Mass, who
had been spending a few days with his
father, Alexander Weston, left for his
return to his home Monday.
Miss Nettie Moore, who, for the past
two weeks, has been the guest of Miss
Maude Kellet, left town Tuesday for a
visit TO friends in Hallowell.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. kidder, Mrs. Hol-
brook, Mrs E. c. Dunton, Miss Belle
Robinson and Mrs. Gardiner Malbon
have returned from Old Orchard.
Judge w. Z. Whitehouse arrived in
town Tuesday afternoon and on Wednes-
day went to Madison where he and Judge
Enoch Foster sit on a reference case.
Two eggs laid by hens of the
Plymouth Rock breed, owned by Mary
Z. Whittier of No. Cornvlle. were ex.
hibited to us last week They weighed
Z ounces and measured each 6 l-2x7 l-5
inches.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of Portland Business College, L..
a. Gray and sons proprietors. 1t is one
of the oldest and best institutions of its
kind in Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dinsmore of
Brooklyn, Mass, are visiting friends in
town. Mrs. Dinsmore is sister of S. F.
Biekford and Mr.. Dinsmore was one of
the party of Skowhegan men who sailed
around "The Horn" to California in
1919
II. NJ. Lewis ch. m. Halle and G. II.
Nelson's b. g. Silver Street were pitted
against each other at Bangor last week
in the 40 class. Halle won but it was
a close call for her. 1t took two heats TO
decide the contest. These two horses
appear to be pretty evenly matched.
The fire alarm was tested Saturday
morning to the great satisfaction of all.
1t was just blaze enough to get out the
force and show the complete working of
the new alarm system and also just
enough to burn hole in the floor of the
stable of West Clark on Pleasant street.
At meeting held at the Congrega-
the several Christian Endeavor societies
in town and the Epworth League of the
Methodist church were represented, it
was unanimously voted to extend an in
vitation to the State Christian Endeayor
society to hold its next annual meeting
here in September, 1896.
As Mr.. Edwin Cottle and his sister,
Mrs. 6. c. Dickinson, were returning
from Madison to Skowhegan, Sunday
the 18th, between eight and nine o'clock
in the evening, Mrs. Dickinson noticed a
foot person walking very near the edge
of the road. AS they came nearer to
him she saw that he came up near to the
horse and tried to get hold of the bit.
The horse being high-lifed one, they
made their escape. This happened in
the &C. called Russell woods. Mrs. Dick
inson being a woman of poor health and
very nervous has not fully recovered
from the fright.
The friends of Willie B. Hoyt, who
went recently to Portland, were panied
to learn of his death in that city on
Tuesday last. He had a good position
with H. S. Melcher and Co., wholesale
grocers on Commercial street. While
wrestling In the store he received
severe injury to his spine and died two
days after. He was the sou of the late
Fred and Mida (Jacobs) Hoyt, and had
spent the past few years in Skowhegan.
He was former member of the class Of
'96 in our High school, and also a men,
Der Of the Lyceuh League. His death