The Somerset reporter., 1897-11-04
TOWN and VICINITY
New stamped linens at Stewards.

! DR.. 2. II. 5. Vaughan OF Augusta,
was in town Friday evening.
Mrs Jane simpson returned from
Providence K. l., Friday evening.
/ Flannelett- night gowns for ladies',
gents and children at Stewards.
Hon. a. K Bixby left town Monday
morning on business trip to New Y ork.
You can buy any kind Of a fur gar
ment at W. II. Wildes' next Wednesday.
Miss Ethel Walton and Miss Helen
Clark were in Wateryille, saturday
afternoon.
II you want first class job of picture
framing at low price go to Bragg &
Yarney's.
MI and Mrs. II. W. Gushing returned
+ from a weeks visit in Portland on the
afternoon train of Saturday.
Free concert at the opera house this
evening at seven. The two big "Unele
Tom show bands.
Mrs. Ava Gray returned to her home
in Foxcroft, Saturday afternoon, after
visiting the family of Dr. +. S, Bigelow.
Mrs. {. II. Pullen, who has been visit
/ ing her sister in Athens, took the train
here Saturday morning for her home in
Saco.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Beattie of Old
Town, and Miss Ella Beattie of Troy, y.
Y, are the guests of Lewis Anderson
and family.
Miss Berle Walton left town Friday
morning for Boston where she will
study music this winter under private
teacher.
Frank Sampson of Penn Yam, n, Y,
who has been visiting his mother in St.
Adams, was in town over Sunday. He
started for his home Monday morning.
The auction sale at Lakewood Satur-
day, was very successful. Everything
was sold out clean and the stuff brought
good prices. hot lunch was served at
noon to patrons of the sBle.
6. f. Webber, NJ. D., of Fairfield, re-
presenting the Fidelity Rupture Cure
Company, will be ut Hotel Coburn We'd
nesday of each week, from s to II o'clock
a. m. to treat patients for hernia. If
Rev. {. V. Hanson ID. D.. pastor of
the Bethany church, has sufficiently re-
covered his strength to enable him to
resume his pastoral duties and preached
Sunday morning, the first time in
more than three months.
Miss Mary A. Sawtelle, Dean of the
Women's college, Colby University, will
lecture before the " omans club and its
guests, the Sorosis and Town Improve
ment Society, on Monday evening Nov
ember 3, at the Library parlors.
Landlord S. A. Parsons of the Mt,
Bgelow House at Dead River, was in
town, Friday. Mr.. Parsons says he
never saw so many deer as there are
now. Not a day passes but what two or
three come within easy gun shot of his
hotel. He also reports an unusually
large number of sportsmen in the Dead
River region.
Miss Michaels, one of the teachers in
the high school, gave Halloween
party Saturday evening last, at the
home of Mrs. Martha Herrin, the CO.
burn mansion on the south side The
dining room was most tastefully deco
rated. The guests spent very enjoy
able evening aud departed feeling that
they had been entertained in manner
long to be remembered.
The Womans Missionary society of
the Bethany church gave largely at
tended missionary tea in the chapel on
Friday afternoon last, Oct. 20. Miss
Louise IL. Coburn read a paper on
Egypt. The fact that the writer had
been an eye witness of much of which
she spoke, made the paper one of I'M
usual interest. Mrs. d. F. Judkins
rendered in very pleasing manner a
solo entitled Cast thy bread upon the
water. Quite a number of the mem
bers of the Woman's Missionary society
of the First Baptist church were present,
At the close of the program tea was
served. The arrangements were all in
charge of the Sunday school class taught
by Mrs. e. V. Hanson. Nearly sixty
were present and the occasion through
out was a most enjoyable one.
A good number of the county officials
who held their annual convention here,
last week, made a trip to Bingham,
Thursday, going from here to South
Norridgewock, by the S. Il N. electrics
and thence by the Somerset road to
Bingham. BY the courtesy of Supt.
Aver special train was run from No.
Arson to Bingham and return, and thus
the party was given nearly two hours at
Bingham instead of the usual time,
allowing ample time TO partake of one OF
Landlord Washburn's good dinners and
to look the village over. To many OF
the party this was the first trip and they
were delighted at the fine views afford
ed at various points on the road, es-
pecially at North Arson, where Dead
River and Franklin county hills and