The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-08-15
TOWN and VICINITY

NI>lilHz Ii! parents ID Town.
John Ngua and wife of Watelville
are Visiting with friends in to~n.
Mis-. Helen Brown Haynes returned
to Boston 10y the mornings train.
+. I. Goodrich and family are passinl
the day in Waterville aud Oakland.
Mrs. John Dealey and Mrs. Llewel!yI
Goodwin are passing the week at Hay
den Lake
John L. s5mon, left Saturday nom
ing for two weeks vacation in Ports
mouth \. H..
". :. Yarney is closing out his stocl
of calfetugs dIarelies. curtains, etc.
below cost this week.
Mrs. John Written and Miss Emma
Whitten1eu1ned Saturday evening from
stay Of several weeks At the sea shore
Mrs. Many Xnney and family, have
taken up their abode in their cottage AT
Madison pond for the remainder Of the
month,
Mrs. :. d. Sargent OF Gouldsboro,
WHO has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. q.
:. Hill, returned to her home Saturday
morning
Mrs. {. F. Jones and three children
left Friday afternoon for Albany, y. y,
where they will visit relatives for sever
al weeks.
Mrs. \. G.. Ordway and Mrs. Grin
Priest left Saturday morning for Dres-
den, where they will attend the Metho-
dist camp meeting.
Miss Marguerite Libby Of Melrose,
Mass, who has been in town as the
guest OF Miss Agnes Stafford. returned
home Saturday morning.
Joseph I.a.hon brings Us in sprig
from bush bean plant that has on it six
pods well filled, each pod measuring
over : inches in length.
Mrs. l.. Perkins left saturday morn
ing for Stoneham, Mass, where she will
remain a few weeks as the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. +. +. Bunker
The sleepers for the Somerset Trac-
ton Company's electric railway are
being distributed along the line of the
road. The poles are being set
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer NJ. Taylor and
little son of springfield, Mass, arrived
in town. Saturday evening, on visit to
Mrs. Taylors parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +.
i. Hill.
The races at Fairfield yesterday had a
good attendance from this place. Many
went in the morning more in the after
noon, and all returned on Il special at
night.
If You want bargains in rugs, lace
curtains, fixtures, window shades etc,
visit W. :. Valney's this week as he
closes Saturday night. Goods way
down.
Mrs. Joseph Philbriek and Misses
Florence and Alma Burgess Of Boston,
who have been spending several weeks
with relatives in town, returned home
Saturday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. II. NJ. NOISE who have
been at Lake George since early sum
mer. left this morning for New York.
Mr.. Morse will travel the coming season
with the Halen x Hart company.
Mrs. benjamin Gushing, having sold
her home in this village, Saturday, ac-
companed her son, Mr.. Bert Gushing
and wife, who have been visiting here
for a short time, to Pottsville, Penn,
where she will reside fer the present.
Remember the attractions at Camp
Benson, Thursday next. The First
Maine Cavalry reunion, Womans Relief
Corps meeting and a speech by Cor
poral" Tanner. If fifty 60 from Show
hogan station they will be given return
train the same evening.
The stock and business of the Great
Bargain & 10 cent store formerly run
by IL. d. Row ell & Co., has been pur-
chased by l.. G. Salisbury for the past
three years connected with J. G. Darrah
of Wateryille. The new proprietor is
a young man of push, and will no doubt
prove welcome addition to Skowhe-
gan business men.
Members of Russell Post 6. A. X.
and Russell Relief Corps to the number
of twenty-three visited Blunt Post G. a,
H., Bingham, Friday last, leaving here
ON the $50 electric and returning
Saturday morning. Several mem
bers of Bates Post, Norridgewock,
joined the party there. The party with
members of Blunt Post held a campfire
in G.. A. L. Hall with speeches, music
and an hour spent socially much to the
enjoyment of the visitors.
At special town meeting held last
Saturday afternoon in Coburn Hall 1t
was voted that the town offer a reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons who committed
the assault on Mary j. Cain on the 18th
of June last. The meeting was called
to order by Town Clerk Webb and w.
II. Fuller was unanimously elected
moderator. Remarks were made by
Alonzo Richardson, Zenas Vaughan and
Moses K. Cain, all speaking strongly in