The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-08
TOWN and VICINITY
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Miss Minta Powers is visiting relatives
in Pittsfield, this week.
Henry Mckinney of Jackman. was in
Town several days last week.
\ lot of eolored dimities and organdies
marked down to cts. at Stewards.
Mrs. H. A. Appleton of Bangor is the
guest of her sister, Miss Helen Sanborn.
Miss Dora Cleveland arrived home,
Tuesday afternoon to spend her yaca-
ton with her parents.
Miss Angie E. Smith of Scion, class of
nj skowhegan high school was in town
calling upon friends early in the week.
Hoa. ). ". Carr, insurance commits
soner. arrived in town, Tuesday, re-
naming over until Wednesday morning
You can get your moving machine
repaired. scythes new sectioned in the
best manner at the Island Machine Cos.
There will be a service at the Bush
school house, Sunday afternoon, July
II. at 3 o'clock. All are cordially in
yted.
Albert Whorf of Madison, recently
sold a nice yoke of four year old steers,
rising seven feet, to futile Bros. for a
good price.
See Maine State Fair advertisement in
our columns this week. They offer
great attractions, aud novel ones of
much interest.
Deputy Sheriff F. p Pencil of Har-
mony who was officiating at the county
Jail during Sheriff Viles' absence, re-
turned home, Tuesday.
The elegant Hillside Farm separator
cream is received fresh daily by Skowhe-
gan Cash Grocery and Jas. Lumsden q
Co, for sale in scale half pint glass Jars.
A special parish meeting will be held
at the Universalst church, Monday even
ing, July 18th, to take into consideration
the matter of interior repairs of the
church editiee.
L. W. Brown has nice pair of match
ed bays, Hambetonians, 6 and : years
old raised by Mr.. Merrill of Scion, that
be hitehed double for the first time few
days ago. They make stylish team
J. H. Knight of Richmond, Me-, who
came here to search for the body of the
young man drowned in Hayden Lake,
returned home, Tuesday afternoon. He
visited his brother J. D. Knight, who
resides here, his wife accompanying him.
The pastor will preach at the First
Baptist church next Sunday morning
upon "Demonacal insanity; it's symp-
toms and cure" 1t the evening the
Parable of the Prodigal Son" will be
continued, with special reference to the
young mans reflection and resolution.
Mrs. Orrin L. Greenleaf of Haverhill
Mass, who has been visiting her sister
Mrs. B. A. Sawyer and other friends and
relatives in this and adjoining towns for
the past three or four weeks, left for her
home Monday morning. Mrs. Greenleaf
was accompanied by James Wood of
Starks who goes to visit his daughter
Mrs. Harry Gale of Amesbury, Mass.
Additional fire alarm boxes have been
side, one on Main street near the resi-
dence of Llewellyn Goodwin; on the
north side, one at corner Of Pleasant and
Summer streets, and one on Madison
avenue, at Russell road near residence
of |. j. Smith. The calls are %, for the
box on the south side; 81, for the one
corner of Pleasant and Summer street {;
AZ, for the one near |. j. Smiths.
Call at A. f. Bsson's restaurant if you
desire high grade imported canned goods,
as he carries complete assortment, put
up IN Bardeau, France. He has chicken
with olive and mushroom sauce, French
peas in glass, mushrooms in tin or glass,
and pressed chicken, also mock turtle
and tomato soups, clam chowder that is
very fine, olives, shrimps, steak with
mushrooms, as we'll as ten different kinds
of imported sardnes. Any of these
goods are served to perfection at his
restaurant, l19 Water ST.
Mr. Heman Whipple, the veteran lum-
herman of Scion, was in town Friday.
Mr., Whipple and his son, William, took
the Moose river drive from the bridge at
Jackman village to the lake by the Job
last year and this year, and were fortu-
nate in making clean drives both years,
particularly this year. Mr.. Whipple
says the drive this year was the cleanest
Tor 10 years. With the exception of
Churchill stream where ate out a quarter
OF million is left back, there are scarce
~ any logs in brooks or streams any
where on the Kennebec waters. Nr.
Whipple first began work in Somerset
lumber woods, and on the streams and
lakes for Eleazar and A. & p. Coburn,
sixty years ago, when he was Is years
old, working for them forty-five years.
There was two years he ''laid OFF, as he
expresses it, otherwise he would have
been in the lumber business sixty years,
and il any man knows the Kennebec
river and tributaries and the Kennebec
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