The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-05-18

town Tuesday.
Norman Bassett, Esq, of Augusta, is
in town this week.
Daniel Lewis, ESQ. was admitted to
practice In U. s. courts at Portland,
Monday.
Curtis reed. % cases of new hats to.
day and he offers them at one-half their
value.
Mr.. and Mrs. FL. A. Appleton of Ban
gor, are the guests of their sister, Miss
Helen A. Sanborn.
Miss C. N. Bixby of Pennington,
arrived in town last evening on visit to
her brother, Hon. A. K. Bixby.
Mr.. w. L. Estabrooke, superintendent
of the Monsoon R. R., with his wife spent
Sunday with C. w. Folsom and family.
Miss Ethel Mudgett, who is taking a
course at Shaw's Business college, Port
land, arrived home, Tuesday night ON a
vacation.
Miss Emily l.. Harvey, returned mis-
sionary from India, will speak in the
Methodist Church, Friday evening next
at 7.30 o'clock.
The Shirley house on Water Street has
been purchased by K. n. Merrill, who is
moving it on to lot owned by him on
Bush Street.
The members and congregation of the
Bethany Baptist Church tender recep-
ton TO their pastor and family at the
church parlors tomorrow (Friday) even.
ing at Z As.
Mr.. and Mrs. ?. P. Herbst were in
town, yesterday, on their way home to
Waterville from fishing trip up river.
They report good luck and had a fine
string of trout to verify it.
Charles Fl. Playse was in town over
Sunday to visit his family. During the
past six weeks Mr.. Playse has been in
Bingham where he organized an A. o.
U. w. lodge of % charter members. He
left home last Monday for Newport.
Henry Richards of Gardiner, one of
the directors in the Skowhegan Water
Power Company, is in town this week,
attending the hearing before Judge
Savage, also A. Stafford and II. c. Dag.
gett, photographic engineers, of Lowell,
Mass.
! Twenty-three members of Bloom field
Assembly, Pythian Sisterhood, went to
Norridgewock on the six o'clock car,
Monday evening where they assisted in
entertaining the degree team from
Auburn which came in special over the
Somerset Railway.
Miss May E. Ward, daughter of Sum-
ner F. Ward of this town and teacher
in the Agassiz school of Boston, has re-
Gently been appointed as a member of
the committee to select and arrange
drawings and water colors of the Boston
schools at the Paris exposition in 1900.
1t is long and marvellous step from
the daguerreotype of 1910 to the photo
graph of today; the process then was
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simple that a boy or girl can easily
master it. C. w. Folsom, the prescrip-
! ton druggist, carries fine line of
cameras aud supplies and can demon
state to you how easily and cheaply
you can make and finish photograph.
Conductors Geo. l.. Barbeau and Geo.
! Of ha Moinn
accompanied by their wives, are in at
tendance upon the annual meeting Of the
Order of Railway Conductors in Detroit,
Mich, this week. Mr.. Barbeau is a DEL
egate from the State of Maine division,
and Mrs. West a delegate to the Wo-
mans auxiliary. Baggage Master
George Dudley is In charge of Conductor
Vests train in his absence.
Mr.. q. Willis Morse of Worcester,
Mass, has been in town for two weeks
past, the guest of relatives, his mother
being a sister Of the late B. D. Savage.
During the time he paid visit to Garry
Ponds and had great catch of trout
nearly 300 in five days, and these ponds
and their genial manager will get much
free advertising by MIR. Morse, as he is
manager of the summer hotel, 1.-THE
Sycamore" at Lake George, N. Y.
Wallie Goulett, about Is years of age,
who is 10 the employ of the Bloomfield
Shoe Company, met with an accident,
Thursday afternoon, which resulted in
the loss of the little finger on his left
hand. The thumb of the same hand WAS
also badly cut and bruised, but WAS not
amputated. Goulett operating u
! heel cutting machine when the accident
occurred. He was feeding the heels to
the machine and allowed his finger to
remain under the die, which by down
/ ward movement, shaped the heel, with
/ the above result.
Daniel S. Cleveland, nearly a life long
resident OF this place, who for several
years past has passed his winters with
children in Lawrence, Mass, and his
summers on the home farm here, died In
that city on Saturday last. after an i'll
ness covering two weeks, the cause of
his death being due to paralysis, he
having suffered three shocks. Seven