The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-02-16
TOWN and VICINITY

&arduer's windows?
DR.. F. o. Sawyer was called to Bos-
ton, yesterday on business.
Mrs. Goodrich has furnished front
room to rent at the Fowler house. No.
Cedar st.
W. publish the statements, this week.
showing the financial condition of our
National Banks.
The Normal class will meet next
Tuesday afternoon in the Methodist
vestry at $50.
7. H. Howard has been confined at his
bome since Tuesday by his old time
snemy, rheumatism.
Morrison & Mcclellan have an elegant
corner suit of rooms to rent. Well
adapted for millinery, dress making or
Offices.
Hon. w. I. Gardner of Patten. repre-.
sentative to the legislature, was in town
over Sunday, the guest of DR.. w. 7.
Merrill.
S. s. Ireland, one of Dexters promi-
nent merchants, accompanied by his
wife, were the guests of DR.. G. P. Saw
yer and wife over Sunday.
The ceiling in the jewelry store of
George Phibrick & Son is to be replaced
with steel one of handsome design.
C. A. Ross has the contract.
Mrs. Clara b. Leavitt, with her daugh-
ter Mrs. Frank Parker are in attendance
upon the annual meeting of the State w
r. c., in Bangor, this week, and will
visit with her daughter in Orono before
returning home.
Eight heavy team horses hitehed to
the snow pillow, loaded down with men
and boys, all under the direction of
Street Commissioner Gilman, WAS what
did the work in town, Tuesday, after the
snow stopped falling.
A musical and literary entertainment,
snder the auspices of the Christian En-
deavor Society of the Bethany Baptist
shurch, Skowhegan, was held at the
shurch, Sunday evening. collection
was taken for missionary purposes.
Gen'l. and Mrs. r. b. Shepherd left
home on Monday morning last, the
General on business trip south and
Mrs. Shepherd to Brooklyn, n. Y,
where she will visit her friend, Grace
Kerswell Curtis, until the return of her
husband.
Mrs. John w. Fogler and young son,
who have been with her parents, B. f.
Baker and wife for some months, left
Monday for New York city from which
city they intended sailing, yesterday, for
Porto Rico to Join Mr. Foger, who is
located in that land as paymaster liz
the u. 5. army.
meeting of the Skowhegan Board of
Trade is called for this evening at the
office OF Danforth 81 Gould at 730
o'clock, its purpose being the discussion
OF the epidemic of small pox now preva-
lent In Waterville aud nearby towns and
TO consider means of preventing its ad-
vent to our town.
The subject of the sermon next Sun
day morning at the Congregational
church will be Christ and the man who
makes excuses" In the evening the
first address in a series, accumulation
Stones of Christianity, will be given.
The subject for the evening will be
What is the Bible?' All are cordially
invited.
Lewis Anderson, vice president of the
Home Market Club for Maine, +. II.
Anderson, Councillor A. g. Blunt and
Hon. Edward N Merrill, represent
Skowhegan at the banquet rendered
President Mckinley and his cabinet in
Boston, this evening, by the Home Mar
ket club of New England, which is TO
be the largest and one Of the most nOta
Die banquets ever given in this country.
The Skowhegan Board of Health has
very properly made provision for free
vaccination to all the people Of the town,
and notice to that effect appears else
where in the REPORTER. While there is
no indication of the dread disease being
brought to our town, there is a POSSIBLE
ity that it may be and our authorities
are determined to take every precaution
possible. If our people do not avail
themselves of the protection afforded by
vaccination against this disease, it is
their own fault, as every physician in
the village is employed to administer it
free to all who call at their Offices ut the
hours mentioned in the published notice
Alta meeting of the Town Improve
ment society, held at the library parlors
on the afternoon of February 10th, they
entertained the Womsn's Club and
Sorosis as their guests. The program
was an admirable one, as follows -
song, Mrs. j. w Steward paper,
Holland-its people, Mrs. W. r. Clifford;
selections by quartette composed OF
the following young ladies, Eldena
Smith, Ethel Wentworth, Kate Donegan
and Elsie Walton; reading. 1.-The Belfry
of Bruges," Mrs. Lizzie Marble; vocal
solos by Misses Smith and Wentworth.
The next meeting of the club will be
held with Mrs W y RapOu Ialand