The Somerset reporter., 1896-08-20
TOWN and VICINITY.

X. W. IIaines attended the races at
Pittsfield, Friday and Saturday.
Mrs. Clara b. Leavitt returned from
Camp Benson, Friday afternoon.
i Rev. A. J. Raeklif returned, Satur-
day, to his home IN Massachusetts,.
Braggi& Varney do picture framing
and can show you fine line of mould
!ngs If.
+ Rev. {. W, Gallagher, D. D.. of Kent s
Hill, preached at the Methodist church,
Sunday morning.
Frank Tufts and wife of Mechanic
Falls are visiting Mr.. Tufts parents, Mr..
and Mrs. II. II. Tufts.
Mrs. Emma Hanson Bartmess Of
Yonkers, n. Y, is in town visiting
/ relatives and friends
Miss Susie Bookings returned Satur-
day from few weeks vacation spent in
Gardiner and vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank burlington and
Miss Hattie Clifford of Fairfield, visited
j friends in town Saturday.
George w. Emery, who years ago
was resident of Skowhegan, passed
i Sunday in town with friends.
/ Mrs. Belle Lincoln and two children.
/ Carroll and Marion, of Lawrence, Mass,
are visiting her father, II. 5. Mosher
John Tobn accompanied by his
father and II. II. Tufts, was taken to
the hospital at Augusta, Friday morn
ing.
A ball team of Skowhegan youths
under u years of age, defeated a nine
from Oakland, on Saturday last by a
score of 8 to ).
Mr. and Mrs. win II. Mcdonald of
Pennington, were in town Saturday.
Mr.. Mcdonald is proprietor of the
Stoddard House in that town.
II. l.. Gale, the eminent evangelist,
who was invited some months since to
labor in Skowhegan, has accepted the
invitation and will be here in Noyem-
ber
Miss Emma F. Barney who has been
the guest of Miss Dora Cleveland for
some weeks, returned to her home in
South Hadley Falls, Mass, Saturday
morning.
Herbert n. Pratt left home Friday
afternoon for Norway, where he
started Saturday in the bicycle races
given under the auspices of the wheel
club at that town.
John Simpson, who has position
with the Dunn Worsted Co., Woonsock-
ct, X. l., returned to that city on the
morning train of Saturday, after pass
ing a week with relatives here.
Messrs. S. j. Walton aud Forrest
Goodwin spoke to a large audience at
North New Portland, Friday evening,
and Mr.. Goodwin, upon invitation of
Republicans of Kingfeld, spoke at a
j flag raising in that town, Saturday
evening.
Kid glove sale at Ordway's.
The season of 1s96-'07 at Coburn hall
was opened last Thursday evening, the
attraction being James b. Mackie in his
successful comedy, "Grimes Cellar
Door" The play has been seen in
Skowhegan before, but the company,
with the exception of Mr.. Mackie and
his charming wife, Louise Sanford, was
a new one. The piece was filled with
songs and dances which greatly pleased
the audience. Owing to the extreme
heat the house was small.
John Lathrop Mathews, who is on
the staff of Music, magazine pub
lished in Chicago, passed through
Skowhegan, last Tuesday evening. Mr.
Lathrop is on his way to Quebec and
is following as closely as possible, the
trail of the Bendict Arnold expedition
of 1775. During his stay in town he
was interested in sketching the black
rock at the foot of the Skowhegan falls,
from which it is said the Indians OBJ
tanned their arrow-heads. Mr.. Ma
thews is making the journey ON foot and
expects to arrive at his destination two
weeks from today.
The many friends of Mrs. Willis
Bailey We're panied to learn of her
death which occurr ed Friday afternoon.
Her age was "a years, IL months. She
leaves her husband, son, Ralph, aged
about seven years, and an infant, and
other relatives, who have the sympathy
of all in their bereavement. The
funeral services were held at her late
home, Sunday afternoon, conducted by
Rev. II. w. Kmball. There was a
large attendance of neighbors and
friends, and the Degree of Honor of
which the deceased was member, was
present in a body. The floral offerings
were profuse and beautiful.
A man by the name of Armstrong was
lodged in the jail, Friday afternoon,
having been bound over to the grand
jury in September on the charge of
larceny. The circumstances of his
capture are rather peculiar. Wednes-
day while Dept Sheriff Frank l.. Smith
of Pittsfeld was riding in Palmyra, he
+ met "A man who asked him for some