The Somerset reporter., 1896-10-29
TOWN and VICINITY.

4 IumsdbD " 70. ~ lllelT store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leandrr f. Melntire of
Scion were in town Monday.
NJ. J. Allen of the Leland Tanning
Company, is ona business trip to B0s-
ton.
". b. Steward has an odd lot of
ladies' and childrens underwear to be
closed at one-half price.
H. 5. Robinson of Portland, civil
engineer of the Maine Central X. r..
was in town yesterday
". C. Jefiords, suburban editor of the
Daily Eastern Argus, is passing a week
of his vacation in town.
Miss Myra French of Madison was
in town Tuesday on her way to Auburn,
where she spends week NTH friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Nutting of Auburn.
who have been spending few weeks in
somerset towns returned home this
morning.
Daniel Patience succeeds Pat Murphy
at Murphy's, West Forks, also as pro-
prietor of the sportsmen'9 camps at En-
chanted Pond.
The annual meeting of the East Som
erset Agricultural society will be held in
Hartland, Saturday, November DIST, at .
o'clock IA. m.
Horace B. Dobson of Athens, Oct
18th picked branch of raspberry bush,
upon which were six large, ripe rasp-
berries and lots of green ones.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. G. Woodbury. left
home for Monmouth, this morning
Mr.. Woodbury. has brother there now,
whom he has not seen for Is years.
Mr.. X. w. Brown is full of business
AS usual but he found time yesterday,
Oct. IS, to bring to the REPORTER
office some full blown dandelions.
Clifton j. Arnold, who has been
visiting relatives 10 town, left yester-
day for Gardiner, but expects to pass
the winter in Boston and New York
And now Warren Tozier of Brighton.
not to be outdone by others, sends the
REPORTER evidences of the mdness of
the season in some strawberry blossoms.
Several OF our people have received
invitations to II social hop at the Weston
House, Madison, tonight, for which
kendalfs orchestra furnishes The
music.
J. c. Minot of Belgrade was in town
over Sunday, the guest Of Mr. Marston,
sub master at the High school, with
whom he was a cassmate in Bowdoin
college.
Charles Farbrother lost good
horse, a large chestnut, Monday night
last, by its dropping dead while enroute
by the side of another from Bingham,
to this place.
A. Spofford informs us that young
hunter, Perey Clark of Bingham,
bought a rifle recently and within four
days shot a fine deer. This was his first
big game
Mrs. Phlena Bray and her daughters,
Eolia and Alice are shortly to leave
Skowhegan for Ashville, n. C., to pass
the winter months, owing 10 the i'll
health of Miss Alice.
A Dairy Conference for the State of
Maine is to be held in Coburn Hall,
Skowhegan, during the first week in
December, under the auspices Of the
State Board of Agriculture.
The building belonging to Joseph
Turcott in which IA fire occurred that
was promptly extingushed by the fire
department, was not insured as was
stated last week
Pat Murphy, who recently purchased
the TraSk property on the Athens road
in this town, has moved his household
goods from West Forks and established
his residence here.
BY invitation of q. J. Shaw of Hart
land, a party from this place are soon
to enjoy the hospitality of that charming
resort on Moose Pond. known as Castle
Harmony. retreat controlled and run
by a club OF wealthy Massachusetts
gentlemen.
Deputy Secretary OF State, Abel d.
Russell of Augusta was in town Mon
day. accompanied by his sister, Mrs.
Sarah B. Wheeler of Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Wheeler remains 8 few days, a guest
at the home of her uncle, Judge James
b. Dascomb
Pie family of Homer NJ. Jones left
here, by the morning train Tuesday, for
Waterelle, where they have established
their home. Skowhegan has been the
family residence for nineteen years aud
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and the younger
members of the family have many friends
here. Miss Stella Jones is a student at
Colby, having entered that college in
September last.
Mr.. F. H. Preble of the firm of Colby
& Preble of Bingham, was 10 town Sat
urday and informed the REPORTER that
his firm has contracted with the Manu-
featuring and Investment Company,
Madison, to haul 3 10000 900 TT. of spruce
logs into Pierce Pond. They also will