The Somerset reporter., 1898-09-01
E. B. Curtis has house to rent.

K. B. Curtis has house to rent.
Miss Linda Graves has been visiting
with friend in Dexter the past week.
Clauss shears are the best, Blunt sells
them.
The next attraction at Coburn hall
will be "a Rabbits Foot" on Sept. 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. L. Goodridge return
I'd to their home in Deering Monday
morning.
L. c. Emery, chairman Of the board of
seleetmen went TO Embden yesterday on
town business.
j. F. Pollard recently sold $4,000 lbs
of wool. He has bought 1000 wool
skins thus far this season.
Charles Gaylord went to Bangor Mon
day morning taking with him Mollie c.,
who is entered in the 2.24 class.
Frank Chase, who has been passing
several weeks with his mother in Ames-
bury, Mass, has returned to town.
Edward Emery of Gardner, visited
relatives in town Friday. Mr.. Emery
was formerly with Bixby & Buck.
Look over the voting list at the post
office and see that your name is thereon.
IL not on see the selectmen and get it
put on.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Page, their daugh-
ter, Miss Camilla, and c. G. Hum, all
of Shawmut, enjoyed carriage drive
to Skowhegan Sunday.
j. F. Holman Esq, of Athens was in
town Tuesday. His son, Ernest n. Hol-
man, left the same afternoon for kents
Hill to continue his studies at the Maine
Wesleyan Seminary.
Mr.. and Mrs. lothian Bixby, lothian
Bixby Jr., Miss Fanny Bixby of Long
Branch, CAL, were among the arrivals
last Thursday evening and are the guests
of Hon. A. R. Bixby.
Thos. Tantish and B. F. Bigelow were
drawn as grand jurors by the selectmen,
Saturday last for the ensuing year and
A. Fl. Lang, VIM. D. Bradbury and
Frank S. Morrill, traverse jurors for the
September term of court.
D. G. Richards of Camden, secretary
of the State Committee Of the Peoples
party spoke in Grange Hall Thursday
evening to fair sized audience. Char
les Murphy called the meeting to order
and Charles L. Nye presided.
Mr.. w. l. Dennis, of Woburn, Mass.
whose place of business is 5 fremont St.
Boston, was in town Saturday with his
brother George Dennis of Madison. He
formerly resided in Somerset and is
spending short vacation here and in
other Somerset towns.
Mr.. E. p Viles and Forest Goodwin,
Esq, have recently purchased Jim Pond
township, situated near Eustis in Frank
lin county. 1t is a full township con-
tanning about $4,000 acres. Mr.. Viles
had an interest in the township before
and he and Mr.. Goodwin have purchased
the balance.
Eastman Hathorn of Athens shipped
5 pairs of nice Hereford steers to Bangor,
Saturday morning, to be exhibited at
the Eastern State Fair. There were 2
pairs of 3-year-olds that grit & feet 8
inches, 2 pairs of 2.year-olds nearly as
large and one pair of yearlings. He will
ship them from Bangor to Lewiston to
be exhibited at the Maine State Fair
the week beginning Sept. 5.
The excursion from Waterville to
Lakewood last Sunday was largely
patronized. About 400 people came on
the train, which arrived here at 1890
a. 10. and most of them went to Lake
wood, while others passed the day with
friends here. Halls band gave concerts
at intervals during the day at the lake
and dinner was served at Lakewood
Inn.
The remains of Mrs. Frank Clark, who
died of heart failure at her home in
Freedom, that morning, were brought
to Skowhegan on the afternoon train
yesterday and at once taken to the home
of her parents in Cornville, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Warren, for burial. The funeral
will occur tomorrow forenoon at 10
o'clock. Miss Addie Warren of the
REPORTER composing room, is a sister
of the deceased.