The Somerset reporter., 1896-06-11
TOWN and VICINITY.
New shirt waists at Judkins'.

III tO6n. IIbldg.
Charles f. Warren Of Norridgewock,
was in town, Saturday.
Homer Jones came home from Bos-
ton, Saturday evening.
4 new color in ladies kid oxford tie
at Gardiner & Frost's.
Z Miss Lola Goodwin went to Wood
4 fords, Saturday morning.
D County Attorney B. S. Collins OF
. North Arson, was in town Friday.
4 County Commissioner Geo II. Clarke
of Bingham, was in town, Saturday.
Miss Grace NJ. Wood of West Medford,
Mass, is in town, the guest of Hon. and
Z Mrs d. H. Bartlett.
Bragg < Yarney do picture framing
and can show you fine line of mould
ings. If.
a great tine at Lakewood Grove,
Madison, next saturday; opening under
the new management.
J +. X. Delano has secured the services
! Of Robert Wentworth to act as clerk at
Lakewood Inn, the coming season.
George Donaldson went to Oakland,
Saturday morning, where he caught for
. the home team in their game with
J kent's Hill.
Mrs. 7. G.. Lancey visited her father
in town last week, returning to her
home in Pittsteld. on the afternoon
train of Friday.
Miss Lizzie Currier, who has passed
the winter as the guest of her uncle in
Brooklyn, n. y, returned to Skowhe
gan, Monday evening
! Derne Green, who Las been taking a
} course in Eastman business college at
Poughkeepsie, y. Y, returned home
on Thursday evenings train.
Mark Savage of Bingham, was in town
! Tuesday evening in attendance upon the
, special conclave of DE Molay Comman-
! derry, of which he is member
The new management at Lakewood
Grove, Madison, formerly Iayden'sl
has made great preparations for the
, opening day Saturday next.
, Col. Henry g, Staples of Augusta,
president Of the Maine Mutual Fire
Insurance Co., was in town last week
on business connected with the local
agency.
! At the Maine Medical Association
} session held at Portland last week, DR..
j. n. Merrill of Skowhegan, was APP
pointed one of the visitors to Maine In
sane Hospital.
! Harold l.. Hanson of this town, Colby
, 80, won third place in the running
broad jump of the field day contests,
Friday, at Is feet 6 inches, which scored
one point for Colby.
II. d. Hall, who is connected with the
, Boston Globe, accompanied by his
J wife, arrived in town Tuesday, and will
pass the summer at the home of the
latter in Wellington.
The following named pupils in Leavitt
Grammar school were not absent or
tardy during the term: Earl Smith,
Peregrine White, Clyde Giles, Ethel
Knowlton, Laura Murray, Maud Ware,
Lillian White, Miriam Merrill, Harold
Ross, Lonnie Merrill, Colby Huff,
Franklin Danforth. The whole number
of pupils in the school was "a.
Mr.. Charles II. Pepper, wife and son,
Mrs. Helen S. Coburn and daughters,
Misses Louise II. and Grace NJ of this
town arrived in New FORK, Friday, on the
American Line steamer, St. Paul, from
Southampton, making the trip in 6
days, 4 hours and 10 minutes, and
breaking the record of the New York of
the same line by hours and "a minutes.
About fifteen members of Skowhegan
lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythias ae-
eompanied by their ladies, avaled
themselves of the invitation of Echo
lodge No. 1903, of Norridgewock, and
attended the dance and social at Miller's
hall in that place, Wednesday evening.
Music was furnished by Kendall's or
tiICSll a. anu NtI6 StIFtu
in Grand Army hall. The party went
and returned ON a special car.
A horse, attached to a dump cart, the
property of j. G. Neyins, the truckman,
while standing on the south side, Fri
day morning, near Thompson's market,
became frightened at an electric car
coming down the hill and backed up
against the wooden railing 1t was not
strong enough to support the weight
and gave way, the horse and cart pitch
ing into the river Encountered as he
was with the names and toward wheels
the animal could not swim and was
dro wned The body was recovered.
The cart was badly demolished.
Among the returning chevaliers on
Friday evenings train from the field
day at Rockland, was E. T. Goodrich,
who had an almost miraculous escape
from serious injury the evening previ-
Gus. 1t seems that a number of the
tSkowhegan chevaliers decided to re-
turn home on a mixed train Thursday