The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-10
TOWN and VICINITY.

A. II. Weston returned from Boston,
Sunday morning.
. Tailor made black worsted mems suits
, a Chas f. Wards.
Miss Bertha soule of Bath, was among
the arrivals Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter &. Davis and two
: children of Portland. are in town.
} In all l05 tickets were sold from this
from this station to the State fair
Leave your coal orders with Bixby &
) Buck. Coal right. Prices right.
Call and examine Gardner 81 Frosts
special kid button boot, they will please
you.
Bragg & yarney do picture framing
! and can show you fine line of mould
ings. If.
George Belonga Of Lynn, Mass,
passed several days last week with rela-
tives in town.
} Theodore Yigue, while scuffling with
} fellow workman at the shoe shop, last
Saturday morning, fell and broke his
Z leg.
4 Miss Blanche Goodrich of Athens, left
] Saturday, for Conway, Mass, where she
is engaged to teach in one Of the graded
schools.
Mrs. Mary Z. Cook and son Lawrence,
4 left last week for Pasadena, Cal, where
they will make their home for the
present.
! Miss Nada Thompson went to Boston
this week, where she has engaged with
Miss f. b. Dunton for the fall and
winter season.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. 5. plummer of Phila-
. delphia, who have been in town a few
, days calling ON friends, returned to their
home Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Green, who have
been occupying their cottage through
4 the summer at Old Orchard, returned
) Thursday afternoon.
The Misses Agnes and Alice Moore of
I Bangor, who have been visiting the fam
lily of NJ. c. Cushing, returned to their
home Saturday morning.
Brookings Il Priest announce their fall
opening of pattern hats and bonnets,
Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept 10, lG.
All are cordially invited,
The Town improvement society,
meets Friday of this week. The pro-
gram will be parliamentary drill con-
Quoted by Mrs. Clara b. Leayitt.
Mrs. Smith Whittier and daughter
Miss Ethel, who have passed the sum
) mer at their cottage at Old Orchard, re-
D returned home, Friday afternoon.
Misses May ana Sara Ward who have
been spending the summer at the home
of their parents Mr.. and Mrs. Sumner
Ward, returned to Boston Friday.
Messrs S. NJ. Sawyer, j. f. Williams
= and Jas. Lumsden of this place, and ID
w. Weber of Augusta, are at the En-
chanted this week drowning worms.
A party of Bath people. composed of
Nh and Mrs, a. ?. Webster and Mr.. and
Mrs. f. johnson, who are making a
tour of the State, were in Skowhegan,
Friday.
Mrs. James Walker and daughter
Annie, who have been in town as the
guests of Marion Mills and family, re-
turned to their home in East Wilton
last Saturday.
Among the Skowhegan students who
enter the State college this iall are W.
c. Clark and S. y. Marsh. Mrs. j. w.
Swain, formerly of Colby, 30, joins the
Sophomore class.
Miss Dora Cleveland, who has been
passing the summer vacation with her
parents in Skowhegan, left Monday
morning for Bondyille, Mass, where
she has taught school the past few years.
Mrs. Geo. Mitchell and son of Chicago
who have been visiting Skowhegan
friends for several weeks, left Monday
morning They will visit in Bangor and
IIoulton previous to their return to
Chicago.
John Il. Boardman, secretary of the
Y. p. 5. c. T., who attended the con-
vention last week is an ex.newspaper
man, having formerly been the Gardiner
editor of the Kennebec journal. He is
now a student at the Bangor Theologi-
cal school.
Luther Howes, an employee at l.. w.
Westons saw mill, had the fingers of
his right hand jammed in a serious
manner, last Saturday, while moving
barrel of oil. DR.. Dascombe who at
tended him found the amputation of one
finger necessary.
The railroad commissioners at their
meeting of last week granted the ap-
proval of the location of the Skowhegan
d Norridgewock Railway and Power Co.
This is an eXtention of the road from
the pulp mill to the Maine Central
tracks SO that freight can be easily
transported.
. At about $50 last Thursday afternoon,
an alarm was rung in from box IS for a