The Somerset reporter., 1897-12-02
TOWN and VICINITY.

E. T. Goodrich and wife passed the
day yesterday, visiting with friends in
Waterville.
Another lot of those fleece lined work
ing gloves for % cents have just been
received at Chas. F. Wards.
Mrs. Sarah Foster went to Waterville,
Tuesday, and later will go to Augusta,
to resume evangelical work there.
DIR. Alfred King, operating surgeon at
the Maine General Hospital, Portland,
was called here professionally, Tuesday.
Mrs. Robert Elliott of Andover, Mass,
accompanied by her son, James, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Lewis Auder-
son this week.
The large front room over the South
Side grocery, well adapted for a barber
shop, dressmaking, etc, can be reRted
on reasonable terms.
The annual election of officers of the
w. r. c., will be held Friday, Dec. Sd,
IN the afternoon, also election OF dele
gates to the department convention.
Abram T. Lord of Saco, and his
daughter, Miss Lena, spent Thanks
giving with relatives in town. Mr..
Lord is the son of Iasah Lord of this
town and is a prominent merchant in
Saco.
Holman S. Day, representative of the
Boston Herald for Maine with head
quarters in Bangor, was in town Tues
day, on his way down-river from Scion,
where he had been looking into affairs
connected with the pulp plant there
The subject of the pastors sermon
next Sunday morning at the First Bap-
tist church will be Enriched by an
others poverty" In the evening there
will be missionary meeting, the sub
ject being "The negroes of the south"
DR.. Walter S. Stinchield, who since
his graduation from the Brunswick Med
ical college, has been practising his pro-
fession 10 Toledo, Ohio, has concluded
to locate in this, his native place, and
has rented the rooms over Merrill &
Frost's shoe store.
A petition has been circulated among
our citizens the past week aud received
many signers, the petitioners asking that
the selectmen continue Mt. Pleasant Ave.
across the plot of land at the south end
of the railroad bridge, now used as a
wood yard by the Richards Paper Co., |
thence into Mill ST., giving straight
roadway to the south covered bridge.
Another of those enjoyable gatherings, |
composed of the men who are at the |
heads of the different departments in the |
Coburn wooden mills and their wives was
held Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday of
last week. This time it was the pleas |
ant home of John Donigan of the finish
ing department that was invaded. Incl
dentally to the visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Donigan we're presented with hand
some sideboard.
The trainmen on the Maine Central
are, one by one, undergoing examination
at the Eve and Ear Infirmary, Portland, |
by order of General Manager Evans, and
those whose vision is found defective |
are dropped from the rolls. Many other |
wise good men lose their positions from
being afflicted with color blindness,
among the number being Joseph Murray |
of this place, who has been fireman on
the morning passenger for some years.
hnI Of hor
the past week, Thanksgiving afternoon
bringing a nice snow storm of several
inches, making nice sleighing in the
evening. Friday, warm rain set in,
and by Sunday there was not vestige
of winter, the streets being dry. Since
Monday, however, we have again had a
touch of real winter weather, accompa-
MED by little snow, and the additional
snow storm of yesterday promises to
make good sleighng.
A large number of suits were brought |
against the Moosehead Pulp q Paper .
Company at the last term of court to en-
force liens for labor on logs and pulp .
wood and attachments made thereon,
and on the Gath day of November the
company filed petition and warrant I
in insolvency was issued against the
estate of said company. The usual
meeting of creditors under the mes
sengers' notice will be held at the
Probate office at the court house, Janu-
airy 18th, at O'Clock p. m.
Mr.. Heman Whipple of Scion, was in
town, Monday. He had just returned .
from his place at Long Pond. He in
forms US that the cut of logs on Moose
river will not be much more than half
that of last season. The cut along the
river aud also around Moosehead Lake
will be considerably smaller than last
year. He estimates the whole cut for
the winter to come down the Kennebec
in the spring, at not more than one hun
dred million feet against one hundred
fifty million last season. Mr.. Whipple
will cut no logs himself this winter.
can't do fine job of painting for
cheap price, can't afford it. | can't
nharoa tha cast of q inc ioh for a cheaD