The Somerset reporter., 1896-02-20
I. O. Haines made a business trip to

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Boston this week.
The hairdresser will be at Colby's
Wednesday, Feb. 26.
Mrs j. p Merrill went to Boston, this
morning for brief visit.
Have you seen that pure linen paper
at Bixby d Bucks, 20 cts, per Id.
+. A. Bison passed the past week
in Boston, returning home last night
Miss Lizzie Williams is officiating AS
assistant in our Leavitt street schools.
Go to Bragg's and get some green cut
bone for hens. Coburn Ave, Skowhe
gan, Me.
Rev. B. c. Wentworth Hill preach at
the Revere school house.next Sunday p
NJ. at o'clock
Mr.. Ansel Hol~ay will attend meet
ing of the executive board of the State
Grange at Augusta, tomorrow.
Hon. Edward Wiggln Master of the
State Grange arrived in town Wednesday
evening, and returned to Augusta this
morning.
Mrs. Z. j. knowlton, wife of the post
master of Manchester, n. II. is at the
Anidrosis Sanitarium for the treatment
of rheumatism.
Leslie II. Brown and wife who have
been visiting in town for few weeks,
returned to their home in arlington,
Vt, yesterday.
Col. w. r. G. Estes. received a letter
from a correspondent recently
name of our town spelled "Schorrohe-
gan" A bad spell.
To Judge from the interest manifested
in the Millburn's Club coming produc-
ton of The Octoroon, they will be greet
ed by crowded house, Friday evening,
the 2Sth, inst.
The weather of Monday and Tuesday
morning was the coolest of the winter
thus far. Thermometers about town
registering from Is To y degrees below
Monday a. M, and 10 degrees lower still
on Tuesday.
"Aunt Jemiman will be at the Skow-
hogan Cash Grocery, Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week and serve
delicious pan cakes to all callers, made
from the celebrated flour that bears her
name.
One of the important characters in the
cast of "Phe Octoroon" published last
week, Den Trifysse to be assumed by
DR.. F. O. Sawyer, was accidentally
ommitted. The east is published in its
entirety this week.
Hon. Waldo Pettengill of that lively
Maine "boom town. Rumford Falls, was
in town yesterday, accompanied by
Hon. c. A. Harrington of Norridgewock.
Mr.. Pettengill and Mr.. Harrington, were
associated as members of the Execu-
tive at Augusta, two years 1884. Mr..
Pettengill is one of the active business
men of Rumford Falls and promoter
of the large enterprises established
there.
Mr.. John Brown, a young man well
where he passed his early manhood,
died at the home of his wifes fathers,
John II. Webb, Wednesday morning of
consumption. For some years past and
since marriage he with his family have
resided in Boston, where he has been
engaged in the manufacture of shoes,
but frequent visits home have always
kept his memory fresh in the hearts of
his friends, who will sympathize deeply
with the young wife in the loss she has
sustained. His age was about 81 years.
At the regular meeting of the Womans
Club Wednesday afternoon, Shakespeare
COMEDY of Errors was on the program
with the following characters: Solinus,
Duke of Ephesus, Mrs. Flora Il. Brainerd ;
Algeon, Merchant of Syracuse, Mrs Geo.
Webb Antipholus of Syracuse, Mrs. j. p.
Merrill; Antipholus of Ephesus, Mrs. G.
V. Richards; Romeo of Ephesus, Mrs.
f. W. Allen; Romeo of Syracuse, Miss
Mary 5. futile; Angelo, Mrs. j. w.
Gage; merchant, Miss Sarah j.
Anderson; Aemilia, Mrs. Ada Niles;
Adrianna, Mrs. Abbie Wildes; Luciauna,
Mrs Edith Shepherd; gaoler and officer,
Mrs l.. A. Dascomb servant, Mrs. VIM.
Doran.