The Somerset reporter., 1896-02-13
Mackintoshes cheap now at Ordway's.

goods at w. Ii. Wildes
w. B. Steward wants four cords of
green wood in exchange for dry goods.
L. n. Merrill Esq, left home yester-
day afternoon on business trip to Ten
nessee.
Mrs. o. ~ Priest is on visit to her
daughter, Mrs. w. Z. Ordway in Port
land.
Mrs. F. l.. Smith of Pittsfeld, is the
guest of Mrs. T. II. Anderson at Hotel
Coburn.
Arthur II. Paul who has been in town
with friends several weeks returned to
his home in Boston, to-day.
Unfortunately part of our South
Norridgewock correspondence reached
US too late to be used this week.
W. B. Bailey and wife of Houlton,
were in town over Wednesday night a
guest of his sister, Mrs. W. 4. Fletcher.
E. c. knowles, of Fairfield Maine,
special representative of The North
eastern Mutual Life" is in town for a
few days.
4 lady representing the company is
serving delicious Wheataene Flakes at
the Skowhegan Cash Grocery this week.
Call and sample
There is plenty of snow in the lumber
woods now and lumbermen are working
their teams to the utmost to get their
logs to the landing.
Gnghans 3 II cts, at w. H. Wildes'
Baker u Marble, propretors of the
Skowhegan Marble Works are getting
out some handsome work. Their latest
is monument of Norway brown pol
shed granite that is Il beauty.
Miss Ida May Maloan, the hayward
girl who is said to belong in this town,
was held by Commissioner w. 5. Choate
in Augusta, yesterday, upon the charge
of robbng the mails, for trial at the L.
s., court in Portland.
j. Abbott Kendall and j. n. Meloney
went to Bath, today in which city
they play for ball tonight. Mr.. Ken
dali has many violin pupils, in that city
aud is also instructing a Juvenile orches-
ira there of II members.
The masquerade ball in Milburn Hall
Tuesday evening last under the manage
ment of Messrs. Nay Varney and Geo.
Donaldson, was II grand success, about
% couples being in attendance. Ken
dall's orchestra furnished the music
The new Jail is not as popular with
tramps rs it was supposed it might be-
The menu is hardly up to the require
ments of these people 1t lacks variety
and some of them have intimated to the
sheriff that the quantity was not sutli-
cient. There are but five prisoners in
Jail now.
Tomorrow is st. Valentines day and
cupid will be busy sending out those
important missves that are supposed to
be effective in helping along loves
cause The mails will also be swollen by
large and small envelopes containing
comic and burlesque pictures some of
,, which are hideous in the extreme.
The Somerset Central Agricultural
Society met to hold the annual election
of officers Saturday last, in accordance
with notice published in the REroRER
but there were so few in attendance
that the meeting was adjourned for two
weeks, until Saturday the 22nd, inst, at
O'Clock P. NJ, in Grand Army Hall.
During the winter term of school at
No. 2, South, the pupils not absent one
day were Gertrude Dunbar, Harry Seek
Lotte Woods. Those not absent two
days were Roy Dunbar, Ernest Dunbar,
Clyde Blunt and Fannie White. Harley
Whitman and Ernest Whitman were not
absent during the winter term of school
at Lake George. Willie Davis was alb
sent only one day.
Mrs. Il. b. Shepherd, Mrs. F. O. Saw
yer and Mrs. F. w. Allen, have kindly
consented to assist the Milburn Club in
the production of "The Octoroonn, and
the club are to be congratulated. AL
most nightly rehearsals are being held
under he instruction of Mr. Leach, and
our people may safely look for high
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