The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-06-20

AIMING tlle diiiNals ny HIST 'N'hluS
train.
Miss Florence NarHey, Who I1- been
visiting in Boston returned home ln.~.
day night.
Arthur u. Goodrich of Lewiston is H.
town, the guest of his brother, E. T..
Goodrich.
L. L. Walton Esq. lift home this
morning on professional trip to North
ern New York.
DR.. A. Z. Farnham of Fairfield has re-
ceivad an urgent invitation to speak at
Monroe, Me-, July It'll.
The first strawberries from the beds of
our local growers We're marketed yester-
day, and brought Zoe per box.
Mrs. w. II. Gannett aud daughter of
Augusta have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
w. Il. Clifford the past week
The Deering mower aud Champion
horse rake are leaders and can be found
at Steward Bros, ls3 Island Ave.
Mr. Bert Foss of Boston, accompanied
by his newly welded wife. is passing an
annual vacation with his uncle, B. y.
Foss.
+. L. Goodrich, Mrs Fred French,
Mrs. Whiting and Mrs. Holloway attend
ed the funeral of a cousin in Wateryille,
yesterday.
Misses Mary and Flora Murphy left
home Monday for Poland Springs, where
they will otliciate in the dining room the
present summer
Miss Eva A. Dow, who has but recent
ly retired as head nurse at Boothby
surgical hospital, Boston, is visiting
friends in town this week.
Will the finder of the Irish Setter dog,
having collar with registered number
254, return to j. c. Griffin, Skowhegan
and be rewarded.
f. r. Goodrich went to Waterville,
Yesterday to attend the funeral of
George Sanders relative who died
quite suddenly at Bangor. a few days
since.
Mr.. Albert Fellows of Boston and his
sister, Mrs. A. w. Miller of Clinton,
Iowa, spent week at the home of their
mother at Athens, returning therefrom
Wednesday morning.
Sheriff Vies is right after the opera
tives of those snide games of chance and
vendors of the ardent, who last season
followed up the horse trots in this Wei
nifty. He means business and they must
go.
Mr.. NJ. O. Whittier of Mercer was in
town Tuesday, driving IA pair of fine
Also colts from a Shooting Star mare.
They are well matched up, one four and
the other five years old and they make a
very stylish team and strike fine gait.
Will Stinchtield. who has been the de-
livery clerk of the American Express
Co. in this place has been promoted to
messenger service, and given the Show
hegan-W ateryille run, to commence
mOuudN ilCAl' llC II W OV SuCNtNutu DA
Edgar c. Dunton on the team.
Mr.. S. II. ,Iosephs, general manager of
Sells Bros. enormous united shows, has
been in town this week, making arrange
ments for this mammoth organization
visit to Skowhegan, on Wednesday, July
18th. It will be a big day for Skowhe-
gan, as show of such magnitude is
sure to draw the people for miles around,
The Somerset Traction Company com
pleted its organization under the charter
granted by the legislature last winter on
the nth instant by election of K. b.
Shepherd, Lewis Anderson, j. o. Smith,
s. w. Gould. A. G. Blunt, j. Z. Oak and
! L. II. Anderson directors; X, B. Shep-
herd, president; J. o. Smith, clerk; I.
II. Anderson, treasurer.
Nr. II. Weston of Logtown. Miss, ae-
companied by his sister. Miss Eliza. ar
rived in town Saturday evening, ON a
visit to their brother and sister, l.. W.
Weston and Mrs. Mary Varney Mrs
Leonora Spaulding who has been pass.
ing the winter at their home in the
south, came north at the same time and
has been visiting in Portland this week
and will arrive home tomorrow.
The concert by the Phila May Concert
company in Coburn Hall, Monday even
ing, for the benefit of the graduating
class, was attended by good sized
audience. The program consisted of
eleven numbers many of which were en-
cored The singing of Phila May was
| by far the most enjoyable feature of the
evening. The reader gave several select
ions effectively, but was at her best in
Long Ago" which was response to an
encore.
Woodbine Lodge Auxiliary to the A.
O. [. w. held a very interesting meet
ing last Monday evening, large num-
Der being present. Four candidates
were initiated and received into full
membership. At the close of the meet
ing refreshments were served consisting
Of ice cream and cake. The ladies also
served saw-dust pie in whose ample
bosom reposed not -four and twenty
blackbirds' but various small articles,
both useful and ornamental. This last