The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-07-28

| town, Monday.
Fred F. Lawrence of Colby, 1900, was
in Watervile, Friday.
Miss Marion Brainerd is visiting rela-
tipes in the town OF China.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Colby of Bingham,
were In town, Wednesday.
Ralph Ames has position in drug
store at Boothbay Harbor.
Mr.. E. E. Hill of Bingham, was in
town, Monday, on business.
Lewis Moore of Boston, was among
the arrivals by Tuesday nights train.
Mr.. A. Fl. Yeaton has been nominated
for the legislature by Skowhegan Demo-
Gratis.
Sixty-three tickets were sold at this
station for the Old Orchard excursion,
last Sunday.
Mrs. w. B. Steward went to Pemaqud,
Friday morning, where she is passing a
few weeks with friends.
We publish statements, this week,
showing the financial condition of Show
hegan's National Banks.
Misses Elizabeth aud Emma Hutchin-
son went to Hallowell on Saturday, to
attend the funeral of an aunt.
These sultry nights are cool at Lake
wood. The breeze from the lake keeps
the air clear and refreshing.
Attorney General Haynes and DR.. W.
NJ. Pulsifer of Waterville, were In town,
Friday, on professional business.
H. D. Eaton, Esq, of Waterville, with
Mrs. Eaton and children arrived in town,
Tuesday morning, on their way to
Cornville.
Mrs. Edward Heath and children of
Waterville, are in town visiting at the
home of Mrs. Heath's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. II. S. Steward.
Mrs. Arthur p. Charter, who was the
guest of Hon. and Mrs. S. j. Walton,
several days last week, returned to Bos-
ton, Friday morning.
A portion of the concrete walk on
Madison avenue between Summer and
Leavitt streets, has been thoroughly re-
paired, the past week.
The Chinese sponges shown In the
window of c. W. Folsom, the prescrip
ton druggist, are quite a novelty and
superior bath sponge-only ten cents.
speculation for somebody is to be
found in the Androsis Sanitarium at
Skowhegan, as all this humane work will
soon be transferred to the Quinnebasset
Inn.
Among the recent arrivals at the
Quinnebasset, Norridgewock, are F. g..
Baldwin and I. 2. Terry of Ansonia,
Conn.,, and H. F. Peyton of Providence,
r. |.
Extensive improvements are to be
made in the upper story of the old post
office building and when completed we
learn it is to be occupied by local
physician.
John Lashon, Waterman at Mitchell's
steam mill, had his hands badly burned,
Tuesday night, while he was feeding the
furnace with saw dust, by the door
bursting open suddenly.
Augustus Burrill, while at work tenn
porarily in the planning mill of Adams &
Caswell Thursday of last week, caught
the third finger of his left hand on the
buzz plaiher losing it down to the first
joint.
FL. Fl. Choate, D. D. S. of Lewiston,
was In town, last week, and purchased
here and in neighboring towns, eleven
cows for the sanitary milk farm at Au-
burn, of which he has the general super
intendency.
Last Thursday evening a large number
of friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Cockburn paid them a visit at their new
home on Mt. Pleasant avenue. A very
pleasant time was enjoyed. Refresh
ments were served.
Mr.. B. F. Eaton has a paper written
by Mr.. Totman of Clinton, in 1912, with
creosote that dropped from a stove pipe.
This extemporized ink is nearly as clear
and black as it WAS when spread upon
the paper Sc years ago.
Clifton White of Philadelphia, who
with his mother is boarding in town for
the summer, received an ugly wound in
his left hand, last week, by the acciden-
tai discharge of revolver, which was
loaded with blank cartridge.
Get up theatre party for Lakewood,
next week, and enjoy a good car ride,
see clean, up-to-date performance in the
theatre. Let Manager Fairbrother know
one day in advance and good seats will
be reserved free of all expense for you.
The reception which the Skowhegan
Town Improvement Society was to have
rendered the board of officers of the
Maine Federation of Womens Clubs at
the library parlors, Tuesday evening,
was indefinitely postponed on account of
the illness of Mrs. Alice Frye Briggs of