The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-02-09
TOWN and VICINITY

Miss Lillian L. White passed Sunday,
IN Waterville.
Twenty-three degrees below zero last
Monday morning.
Joseph Beattie Of Old Town, was In
town over Sunday, the guest of T. H.
Anderson.
w X. Clifford returned Friday even
ing, from business trip TO Augusta and
and Gardiner.
Rupert +. jackson, bookkeeper at the
Column wooden mills, passed sunday at
his home IN Augusta.
Think of buying So so boots for $2.49,
that is what you can do at c. II. Gard
ner's during this sale. See ad,
Mr.. S n. Dow, Que of Cornville's well
known citizens Was in town, Tuesday,
aud called at the REPORTER office.
A social dance will be gwen in Grange
nall, Saturday night, Feb. II, to which
all are invited. Music by kendall's
orchestra.
Mrs. Augusta Moore returned to Gar
diner, Friday afternoon, after brief
visit with her sister, Mrs. John
Brookings.
Greenleaf Lawrence of South Gardi-
ner, was in town, Tuesday, on return
from his lumber camps in the Dead
River region.
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Rochester, n. H., Monday morning,
where she is the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. Charles II. Burrill.
Nearly so couples attended the dance
IN Grange Hall, Friday night of last
week, given under the auspices of the
;. of V. and as result the order added
about $1,000 to its treasury
The first of a series of Lady's Nights
&t the Milburn Club will occur on FRI
day night of this week. Messrs. j. w.
Steward, f. G.. Dow and G. E. Avore are
The committee of arrangements.
The Skowhegan Woman's Club has ac-
cepted the invitation of the Waterville
Woman's Club and will attend the lee
ture to be given by Mrs. Alice Freeman
Palmer next Wednesday evening.
Mr.. Ezra Stevens OF East Madison,
has been subscriber of the REPORTER
since 1912 when he with his father,
David Stevens moved into that town.
Moses Littlefield was the publisher then.
IL is reported that several unsteady
inclined young ladies of our town have
in mind the presentation of minstrel
performance with all its ri ceteraS in the
early spring.
Miss Nellie Amazeen, Cornvlle. went
to Auburn, Tuesday, called there by the
sickness of her sister, Mrs. Ellsworth,
who lies at the hospital in a critical con-
dition but little hopes has been enter.
tained of her recovery.
The Bethany Christian Endeavor SER
vice on Sunday evening next, will be
held at : O'Clock. The young people
unite with the Woman's circle in mis-
sionary meeting, the subject being
vited
Augustus Pierce, president of the Leg
Omathenian club was in Waterville,
Thursday afternoon, making arrage-
ments for the debate March 30. The
subject is. "Resolved. That 1t Is Not for
the Best interests of the United States
to Acquire and Hold Territory in the
Eastern Hemisphere"
Hon. Hiram Moore of Madison, ar
rived from the scene of his numbering
operations, near Greenville, Tuesday.
He says logging is excellent and that
there has not been a winter during his
remembrance when more lumber had
been on the landings at this time in
February than the present winter.
Wednesday of last week, while work
ing moulding machine in the shop of
NJ j. Allen, Fred Higgins had the mis-
fortune to get his left hand caught in
the knives. The thumb and third finger
were badly split. 1t was close call
from a more serious accident as the
glove he had on at the time was torn to
threads.
Ralph Foss and James Riley put
in day recently fox hunting in the
vicinity of "Bigelow Hill" and as a
result, they shot the silver gray that
beenIseen in that vicinity by several this
year. The skin was beauty, weighing
III lbs and was sold to j. P. Merrill for
$35 90. This is the third silver gray fox
captured in that vicinity within two
years
W. Il. Brown, who is acting for Catlin
4 Read, buying horses for the New
York market, is leaving quite a little
money with the farmers and horsemen
in this vicinity. His firm want only a
certain class of animals and when he
finds a good one of any other kind in
which dollar profit promises, he has no
hesitancy in buying it. He now has at
his stables Is horses to be shipped to
New York for his employers, and Mon
day Mr.. Brown will ship IA good ones
to the Boston market. He now has an
order for SO coachers for the New York
coaching club and we learn that a parry