The Somerset reporter., 1896-04-09
TOWN and VICINITY.
Read Gardner & Barnard's ad.

Have your pictures framed at Folsom
and Narney's. Aft
Roy l.. Marston, Bowdoin 80, is home
for weeks vacation.
The assessors are busy taking the
valuation for assessment of taxes,
Geo. b. Stafford and Hon. c. A. Mars
ton have been i ! Boston this week.
Lewis Anderson left home Tuesday
morning on business trip TO Boston.
Walter E. Palmer of The Friends
school, Providence, X. l., is in town this
week.
In looking for jackets aud capes, re-
member W. B. Steward has an attractive
line.
Miss Pearle Curtis returned home last
night from Boston, where she has pass
ed the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. II. Totman of Fair
field were guests of B. F. Eaton and
family yesterday.
+. A. Totman of Fairfield was in town
Monday on business connected with
numbering matters.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the kennebec Steamboat in our
columns this week.
Next Sabbath morning Rev. l.. H..
Copeland will repeat his sermon on
"Christsm" He does this by request.
The lamb of &c and straw berries have
made their appearance in Skowhegan
and can be found at the market of F.
5. Cairns.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. H. Reed of Harmony,
were in town Monday, making the trip
the afternoon.
Hauling has been tirst-class in most
weeks past, giving fine opportunity for
closing up numbering operations.
Edw. p Coffin, Esq, was in Augusta
Tuesday i'll attendance upon meeting
of the high Court of Maine |. O. f., Of
which he is the grand high secretary.
Horatio W. Cushing and wife departed
by the morning train of Saturday on "a
visit to friends in Portland and Boston,
and will extend their trip to Nav Jersey
aud Washington, d. c., expecting to be
absent until the first of May.
Rev. b. c. Wentworth and Mrs. Went
worth are attending the Maine Methodist
Conference at Auburn this week. The ses-
sion began Wednesday and will continue
until Monday. y. w. Brainerd, Esq, is
lay delegate of the Nj. L. church here to
the conference.
Miss Agnes b. Stafford who has been
in Lewiston for the winter. returned
home Monday afternoon for the summer,
but retains her position in the choir of
the Congregational church, she has held
for some months, and will visit that city
each Saturday for the Sunday service.
Sunday the 18th, at I o'clock p. M,
Rev. A. Biever, a Jesuit from Galveston,
Texas, will preach for the last time at
ST. Marys. rhe subject of his sermon
will be ''Indulgences and Purgatory.'
A large cross will be blessed 10 memory
of this years mission. The public are
cordially invited.
A grand concert and ball is to be
given in Coburn Hall Fast Day eve,
Wednesday, April 22d, for the benefit of
the Skowhegan base ball club. The
concert will be given by Hobbs military
band and the music for dancing by
kendalls orchestra. The boys are in
hopes that the people will help them to
swell the receipts.
Conductor wellington Sprague has re-
Gently been promoted to the position of
Division Superintendent of the Quebec
Division of the Maine Central system,
with headquarters at Lancaster, n. II.
He enters upon his new duties April
oath. We learn w. A. Richardson is to
succeed Conductor Sprague and VIM.
Jones will be transferred to Richardson's
present run while the noon train in here
Is to be put in charge of Conductor Geo.
\. West of Waterville.
From the present outlook we are to
have base ball team TO represent our
town this season that we can boast of.
As far as made up it will consist of
Locke, p. Donaldson, G.; Murphy, | b. !;
Brigham, 2 b.. Vigue, 3 b.; with Pooler
and Moore in the field. The new pitch
er, Sperry II. Locke, comes from New
Hampshire, where ne made great re-
cord in the box last season and Is sure
to add great strength to the team. The
two remaining men to complete the team
are expected soon.
th' Auidrosis Snitarium has been in
The hands of the painters nd decorators
Tor some weeks past, every room, prac-
tlcaliy, from basement to roof, having
received attention. And right here, it
might not be ouI of place to state that
Anidross, itself, is prOspering as it never
prospered before, the business for the
month exceeding that of the correspond
ny month of last year by several hun