The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-09-07

Spiritual campmeeting at Lakewood,
this week.
F. Leon Gage returned to Worcester,
Mass, Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. d. Packard are visit
ing friends in Massachusetts,.
All kinds of imported soups just Ie-
ceived at A. (. Bisson's.
Examine +. g. Head & Cos. line of
Winchesters for bargains.
A new lot of those trimmed felt hats
received, today, by E. B. Curtis.
The Town Improvement Society have
had two boxes for waste paper placed in
the lobby of the Post Office.
AT Wings drug store a speciality is
made of prepared foods for children, and
a complete stock always on hand.
Leon Gage returned to Worcester,
Mass, Monday, after having passed ten
days with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
Gage.
The subject of Rev. E. 7. Adams SER
mon, Sunday, Sept. 10Th, will be "How
to succeed, or breaking away from old
methods"
The subject of the sermon Sunday
morning at the Congregational Church,
will be 1.-The Obtainment of Power"
All are cordially invited.
The Savage rifle is said to have
more points of merit than any gun on
the market. Sold in Skowhegan only at
at f. G. Heald & Cos.
c. NJ. and F. E. Conant of Cambridge,
Mass, who have been visiting A. r.
Jewett and wife and other relatives in
town, have returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. o. Childs returned to
their home in Dorchester, Monday, hav-
ing visited Mrs. Chlds' parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. N. Owens, for two weeks.
During the absence of DR.. X. II. Pulsi-
fer from town DR.. w. M. Pulsifer of
Waterville, will be at the office every
| forenoon to attend to all calls.
Miss Annie Allen has returned home
from Cushings Island, Portland Harbor,
where she played with Kendall's orches-
ira at the Ottawa House, the past sea-
son.
By special request w. j. Colvile has
consented to speak in G. A. r. hall on
the scientific principles of Spiritualism,
Sunday and Monday evenings and Tues
day afternoon.
Mrs. n. M. Parker, who with her son
Earl, and daughter, Miss Coralie of
Somerville, has been visiting her sister,
Mrs. w. H. Weston, for several weeks,
returned home, Monday.
The Alexander Crawford farm situat-
ed on the road running north from the
Canaan road to Malbon's Mills, has been
purchased by Chas. II. Gardner of Del
bert Smiley, to be occupied by him as
home.
Are you a smoker? If so, you should
call at A. E. Bisson's restaurant and see
for yourself one of the finest assort-
ments of imported Key West and domes-
tic cigars ia Maine. His stock of pipes
and fancy tobaccos is also unexcelled.
George Williams of this place, while
at the farm home of Stafford Eaton,
yesterday, was injured by kick from
farm horse, being struck in the thigh,
the calk on the shoe of the animal cut
ting deep cash, which bled profusely.
He was brought to town and the wound
dressed.
An alarm of fire was needessly rung
in Tuesday night, from box "a at the
Post Office, occasioned by the overturn-
ing of the oil stove in Coburn Hall block
which took fire. The stove was carried
into the street and allowed to burn itself
out, the damage to the stove being the
only loss.
DR.. and Mrs. +. II. Stevens entertain
ed in an admirable manner party of
forty-five young people from town at
their handsome summer home, "Bloom-
field on Friday evening last. The affair
was of strictly informal nature, thus
making the occasion all the more enjoy
able. There was dancing and other en-
tertainment. Ices and cake were served.
The party made the journey from town
in buckboards.
Kennebec Baptist Association will
meet in the Bethany Church at l0.45 a.
M, Tuesday, Sept. IL The meetings
will continue throughout two days.
Some of the principal features of the
meetings will be the annual sermon.
Tuesday a. M, by pastor Spencer; ad-
dresses by Rev, DR.. Dunn and President
Butler, Tuesday afternoon, also adj
dresses by DR.. G. +. Meserve of Shaw
University and Rev. j. l.. bearing of
Japan in the evening. On Thursday,
Rev. DR.. Pepper will preach the Doctri-
nal sermon In the afternoon and there
will be young peoples session in the
evening.
Nearly million copies of Ebert
Hubbard's "A Message to Garcia have
been distributed since it was published
in March. The President of an i'm