The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-03-14
TOWN and VICINITY

TOWN and VICINITY.
Postmaster Moor of solon WAS in
town yesterday.
New ginghans, sateens, ducks, per-
Gales and dress goods At Juakias'
Morri. Gledhil made brief visit to
Boston and Providence this week.
The special town meeting Saturday
next promises to be qHite a lively one.
Miss Cora Han, who has been Miss
Blanche Btxby's guest, returned home
yesterday.
Mr.. {. W. Frost of Cornvillc left home
for Detroit, Mich, Monday morning to
be gone about two months.
Mr.. c. 4. Kimball, postmaster of
East Athens was III town Monday and
called at the REPORTER office.
Ralph Hi. son of L. b. Hill returned
to Springfield, Mass. yesterday where
he is in Attendance upon a commercial
college.
Miss Ettie Holt on Tuesday, went to
Lynn. Mass. where she enters the milf
merry parlors of relative to learn the
business.
D. B. Hobart of East Madison. went to
Augusta, Tuesday, in the matter of the
division of that town. Mr.. Hobart is
much against any change.
Mrs. He. Decker hands the REPORTER
ripe strawberry on the stem, from
plant which she has grown among her
house plants the present winter.
Mrs 4. F Sjiuchlield leff home Mon
day for RoXhnry, Mass, where she ex-
poets to remaa about two months with
her daughter Mrs. William Swan.
Members of the Woman's Club are re-
quested to hand their ballot for officers
and directors to the nominating com
mittee, at the next meeting of the club.
Miss Sara Ward who had been at her
home in this place for a brief vacation.
returned to Boston, by the afternoon
train of Monday to continue the study OF
vocal music.
Walter Seekings and Mr.. Brigham of
st. Adams, Arthur Dinsmore and +. ).
Baker of Bingham. John Metcaif and
Hiram Weymouth of New Portland,
were at the Probate Court room, Tues
day.
Mr.. d. T. Mills of the Moosehead Pulp
and Paper company, at Carratunk Falls,
was in town Saturday. He SAYS husi.
ness is fair with the company. They
are grinding pulp all the time they have
the waters TO run their wheels.
A good number of our citizens attend
ed the funeral services of Mrs. c. II.
Pishon yesterday, among whom We're
Mrs. +. G, Dunton, Mrs. W. II. Emery,
and Messrs +. f. sturtevant and j. y.
Smith who provided vocal music for the
occasion.
The full eclipse of the moon sunday
evening WAS an event of interest to
many people. Clouds INSTRUCTED the
view at times but quite portion of the
five and one-half hours the phenomenon
was on good views could be obtained, SO
upon the whole conditions were favor
able to observation.
The buildings with power at the Ma
chine shop on the Island have been leas-
nI "a Of ~ 10
to be known as the Island Machine Co,
composed of JAS. Holt, George Board
man and Augustus Gilbair. The pres
ent occupants, the Bacon Manufacturing
Co., will, it is thought, seek new quar-
tiers and continue business, unless a
satisfactory sale of their machinery and
patterns can be effected to the new COM
pany.
The office of publication of the Somer-
set Argus has been moved from The
Lttlefield building, Elm street, to 145
Water street, up one fight, in the room
lately occupied by Co. f. National
Guards as an armory. 1t was formerly
for dozen years or so, the home of the
REPORTER which moved into better
quarters on the ground floor of the same
building in 1882. The building on Elm
street from which the Argus removed
was erected by Moses Littlefeld for use
as a printing office, fifty odd years ago,
was occupied by him as the publication
of the Skowhegan Clarion, some 25
years until he sold the paper to Smith q
Emery in 1867, who removed it to the
second story of the brick block on Water
street, now occupied by Walton d Wal
ton as a law office, and changed the
name to SOMERSET REPORTER The
Littlefield building is to be occupied by
Nahum and Philo Steward, steam heat.
ers and plumbers.
Kid gloves fitted and warranted at
Ordway's.
Another lot of those famous CD
corsets just arrived at Judkins'.
The best grades of -four at the lowest