The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-04-02
TOWN and VICINITY

IL has Il fine line.
H. c. Fuller Of Hartland was in tow
on business Friday.
J. Abbott Kendall plays tonight in al
orchestra at Boothbay.
Miss Sarah j. Anderson returned
from Boston Friday evening.
Mrs, Lillian NJ. Towne of Bingham
was in town last week, the guest o,
friends.
Mark Dinsmore, prominent Bling
ham business man, was in town las
week
The. high and first grammar schools
closed Friday for vacation of two
weeks.
Dr'W. NJ Pulsifer of Waterville, at
tended the Milburn Club reception Fri
day evening.
The Gniversalist Sunday school will
give a concert in that church Easter
Sunday evening.
c. NJ. Phillips of Fairfield, was in
town Friday on business connected with
his numbering interests.
Mr.. w. II. Hart of Portland, general
agent of the Aetna Life Insurance Co.,
was in town yesterday.
Tickets for the Tufts Glee Club con-
.rt, Friday evening are selling fast.
Secure your seats at once.
Willard Moody left Friday morning
for Berlin Falls, n. H., where he has a
situation in a shoe factory.
George A. ShurtleG passed few
days in Portland last week, returning
home Thursday evening.
Mrs. l.. j. Stevens of North Cam
bridge, Mass, is in town the guest of
Mrs f. X. Buck, Madison avenue.
George X Smith of Winthrop, regis
ter of deeds for the county of kenne-
bee, visited friends in town last week.
| New trimmed hats every day at Mrs
kncaid's in prices from $l.50 up. Come
in before you purchase. 1t will pay you
Mrs f. A. Roby OF New York city
arrived by last evenings train on a
visit to her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alden
French.
The board of selectmen have appoint
ed Hiram Gilman street commissioner
and he assumed his duties Friday
morning.
Mrs. Chandler futile went to Water
Vile, Friday afternoon, where she will
remain several days as the guest of Mrs.
Charles Smith.
Miss Helen Libby of Waterville was
the guest of Mrs. f. o. Sawyer Friday
and was in attendance upon the Milburr
Club reception.
Ex-postmaster Harrison Piper of Lin
coin, one of that towns leading
merchants, was in Skowhegan few
hours Friday.
w. A. Bailey and E. w. Wilson have
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Anderson and A. H. Patten as Travers,
jurors from this place, for the term o
United States court which convenes il
Portland, April %.
Willie Austin was arrested Wednes
day, on the charge of retaining
pocket book This was the propert,
of Benoice Judkins and it is said Austin
found it in the road.
Miss Lora G. Cummings and Mis-
Alice Hall assistants in the high schoo
lett Saturday to spend the two weeks
vacation at their homes, Saco, anC
Yarmouth, Mass, respectively.
The students composing the Tufts col
lege glee club are to be rendered II re
ception at the home of Rev. Geo. +
Leighton, at the close of the concert
Friday evening.
A school of instruction for the officer
of the Second Regiment Inf. n. G. $. NJ
is to be held in this place, April u to %
under the direction of Col. G. A. Phil
brook, commanding said regiment
They will make their headquarters a
Hotel Heselton. and the school will b,
held in Coburn Hall.
BY invitation of the Auburn Assembl,
of Pythian Sisterhood, several member
of Bloomfield Assembly No. % of thi
place will be their guests this evening
Among the numbers who will atten(
from here are, Mrs. l.. \. Dascomb, Mr.
f. c. Dunlap, Mrs. Jos. Partridge, Mrs
G. A. Dealey, Mrs. A II, leaton, Mrs
Albert Watson, Mrs. L. l.. Ford, Mrs
VIM. Donaldson and Misses II. b
Rowell and Margaret Lumsden.
Amherst Spotlord of this town, fol
lowed the sea for % years prior to tn
war of the rebellion mt which time Ii,
entered the navy and served his eountr,
until the close of the war. He exhibited
TO us yesterday IA Certificate given hin
on starting on his first voyage iron
Bath in October 1898. 1t is in good stat
of preservation notwithstanding its age
His first voyage was Cuba, and when h
arrived there he was paid off in Mexican
dollars. He retained one OF them as
souvenir of the voyage and has it yet
1t bears the date 1871.
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