The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-01-30
TOWN and VICINITY

Friday.
a. II. Weston went to Boston Mon
. day morning
VIM Moore of Portland, passed sun
} day in tow
&. II. Bmliil Of Rochester, y. H., ar
. rived in town Friday.
} Walter ?. Ordway passed sunday in
! Portland, with his wife.
Mrs. A. G. Blunt returned from Bos-
ton, Saturday afternoon.
! Miss Minta S. Powers returned from
Belfast, Wednesday morning,
Capt. }. L. Merrick inspected Canton
Somerset last Thursday evening.
J Mrs. 0. b. Friend visited her daugh-
ter Mrs. G. Z. Friend in Augusta, last
week.
Misses Elizabeth and Gertrude Webb
returned Saturday from few days stay
J in Portland
Bragg It Varney do picture framing
! and can show you fine line of mould
ings. If.
J The Snow..Bound Club were entertain
J ed by Mrs. Lewis Anderson Friday after
noon last
K. w. Linn and H. L. Williams of
Hartland, attended the Pooler auction
, Thursday.
Mrs Joshua Williams is passing a few
days with Mr.. and Mrs. d. W. Weber
of Augusta.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Blethen of Dover,
were guests of DR.. and Mrs. F. o. Sawyer
over Sunday.
DR.. J. L. Pepper and L. c. Williams,
principal of Athens Academy, were in
town Saturday.
Miss Alice Lalley left Monday a. m.
Tor Gorham, where she will attend the
Normal school.
|, Mrs. Geo. +. Washburn left home this
morning on visit to her daughters in
J Haverhill and Boston.
Miss Margaret Partridge of Augusta,
arrived in town Friday on visit to her
aunt, Mrs. E. S. Prescott
J Herbert Judkins left town Mon. morn
ing for Portland, where he will take
course in Shaw's business college.
Miss Mertie Mills has been engaged as
book.keeper by w. 2. Ordway. She
will also be cashier in the new store
E. p. Mayo, editor of the Turf, Farm
and Home was in town Thursday, in
attendance upon the auction sale of
horses at Fairview.
Mr.. Terry of Ansonia, Conn, who has
been at DIR. S. F. Commits sanitarium
for the past few weeks returned to his
home Monday morning.
There promises to be large crowd at
the masquerade ball. The reserved
seats were put on sale Saturday morn
ing and were all taken before noon.
The Ladies Relief Corps, connected
with Russell Post will give a dinner at
G.. A. r, Hall, Thursday the 30th instant
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Frank Goodness died Sunday of tumor
in the head, aged rs years. He was a
native of Skowhegan, but has been in
Portsmouth, n. H., for the past six
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. p. Thompson were
called to Bingham, Monday, to attend
the funeral of their nephew, Herbert
II. Baker who died in Richmond. Friday,
the oath inst.
Mrs. E. S. Jenkins of Waltham, Mass,
arrived in town Thursday afternoon, on
"a visit to Mrs. Forrest Goodwin and
day morning.
A band of Bedouu Arabs direct from
the sandy wastes of the great Sahara,
are with the Cleveland Minstrels. They
are the greatest acrobats in the world,
some of their acts bordering on the
marvellous.
No dancers will be admitted to the
lower floor at the masquerade ball, Fri
; day evening, without presenting their
their tickets or unmasking. Lower
floor dance tickets can be procured only
of the committee.
The poverty ball given by Co. E. N. G.
5. NJ, at their armory last Tuesday even
ing was very successful. The gentle
mans prize for worst looking costume
went to Robert |. Bigelow, the ladys to
Miss Lizzie Arkwright.
Mr.. Noyes with four boys from the
Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, was
present at the morning service at the
Methodist church yesterday, and at the
Congregational church in the evening.
There was also service especially for
Sunday school children in the Methodist
vestries the afternoon.
The costs of securing Albert rhnmp-
son from the woods so that he could be
tried at Augusta for the Sawyer MURDER
were claimed from this county, as
Thompson was arrested on warrant
for larceny in this county, and then dis
charged The county commissioners