The Somerset reporter., 1899-09-28
TOWN and VICINITY

See Judkins' corset bargains, now.
Geo. w. Cover, Esq. is transactine
business today at Pennington.
Joseph Vi.es made a business trip tc
Hsllowell and Gardiner, Tuesday.
Chas. E. Cheney, piano tuner, will
visit Skowhegan, Oct. I'd. See ad.
Madame Matthew has returned to
skowhegap, and decided to locate per.
manently at Hotel Heselton. See ad.
Miss Kate Donigan, who has been
visiting friends in Lewiston for two
weeks, returned home, Monday night.
Curtis is beginning to show trimmed
hats and bonnets, and will continue to
show new ones each week during the
season.
Miss Carrie S. Greene of Bangor, is
employed in the public library, this
week, assisting in the Encouragement of
books.
Palmer Taylor of Springfield, Mass,
with his small son, Roswell, was in
town, Monday, at the home of Mrs. E.
B. Hill. He returned home, Wednesday
morning.
Miss Lords millinery opening of
pattern hats and bonnets will occur
Tuesday and Wednesday of next week,
Oct. and A. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to everyone.
We learn that F. NJ Viles is soon to
remove with his family to Brooklne,
Mass, to locate permanently, Mr.. Viles
having had very lucrative position
rendered him in that city.
We give in the REPoRTER, this week,
the numbers and location of the electric
fire alarm boxes in town. 1t would be a
good plan to cut this out and paste it in
some conspicuous place in your store,
shop, house or hat.
Chas. Viles, who during the summer
vacation has OBLIGATED as conductor on
| the electric cars of the Somerset Trac-
ton Co., returned, Tuesday, to Boston,
where he will continue his studies at the
Boston Dental College.
Mrs. George Boardman went to Bruas-
wick, this morning, as delegate from
| Bloomfield Assembly to the Grand AS
sembly of the Pythian Sisterhood. Mrs.
F, C. Dunlap, a trustee of the Grand
Assembly, accompanied her.
The teams of W. w. Swain and Paul
Roulard came into collision on the line
Of the Somerset Traction Co., on the
Madison road, Sunday, as result of
Mr., Roulard's horse becoming frighten-
ed at the electric car passing. The car
riages were badly wrecked.
Mr.. George E. Barrows of the insur-
ance firm, Blake. Barrows and Brown,
Bangor, with Mrs. Barrows were in
town over Sunday, guests of the family
Of NJ. c. Cushing. Mrs. Barrows's
maiden name WAS Gushing and she is a
relative of the Cushings in this town.
I, w. w. Atwood of the Portland
Packing Co., who, with his wife and
two children have been living at Hotel
COburn for the past few weeks, while
experimenting the pack of corn at their
factories in this vicinity, returned to
their home in Portland this morning.
Mr.. w. W. Russell of Scion, was in
town, Tuesday, and informed us that the
Scion cattle show was one of the best
the society ever held and the attend
snce was very large. Scion usually has
the stock and the people on such occa-
siOns. These are both necessary for a
successful agricultural aggregation.
B. F. Eaton always has fine garden,
although small and naturally makes a
speciality of raising the vegetable he is
most fond of-the cucumber. This sea-
son he started his plants April 26 and
on July IA enjoyed the first fruits from
the same, and has had cucumbers daily
from his garden until yesterday, Sept. 27.
new R. r. time card takes effect Mon
Gay, the only change in trains here be-
ing the morning train which leaves at
$40 and the afternoon which leaves at
lS5. There will also be change in
Train crews, with Conductor W. A.
Richardson will be F. Hooper, baggage
man, and H. G. Hilton, brakeman and
with Conductor S. Peterson, E. Fl. Gle,
saggageman, and j. F. Lawrence, brake
man. Brakeman Skillings will double
Vie road from here every day.
The showing of the colts by Stirling,
sspoken of in our last weeks issue,
came of, yesterday, at the show
grounds. Owing to the heavy rain of
'he day before several of the parties in
lending to exhibit could not get there,
snd the crowd was not large, but all
were well pleased and fully paid for the
aouble taken in getting there. The
colts shown were an exceedingly fipe
ot' with that uniform symetry and ac-
pon so desirable in breeding. The
judges drawn were Sylvester Colcord of
0hawmut; Geo. N. Weston of Skowhe-
gan and W. H. Haynes of So. Norridge-
Sock' In the yearling class they award
% hrst, to Albert Holt second, to C. d.
eaton; third, to G. d. Miller. In the