The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-08-02

boarding In town for few weeks.
Mrs. w. Fl. Wildes returned home,
Tuesday, from the Isle of Springs.
W. F. Swan of Boston arrived in town,
Monday night, on his annual vacation.
Mrs. E. C. Walker Of Portland is visit.
Ing her mother, Mrs. Augustine Fowler
Miss Ella Stevens of Macon, Georgia,
is visiting her cousin, Mrs. w. II.
Spencer.
George A. Parlin, editor OF the Ma
chias Union, was in town few days
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Curtis OF Boston
are passing week in town with rela-
tives.
E. P. Mayo of Fairfield, manager of
the Turf, Farm and Home, was in town,
Tuesday.
Read the new ad of the South Side
Grocery Co. and learn about their great
| flour sale.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Appleton return
ed to their home in Bangor, Monday
afternoon.
Miss Marguerite Libby of Melrose,
Mass, is the guest of her cousin, Mrs.
John w. Steward.
Roy L. Marston is taking the census
In Fairfield in place of w. F. Mutt, who
is seriously sick.
Mrs. Geo. W. Smith of Plymouth,
Mass, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
ohm w. Delano.
Mrs. G. H. Crimming and little daugh-
ter of Haverhill, Mass, is the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Geo. w. Cover.
Mrs. P. Il. S. Vaughan and children
of Augusta are visiting with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wentworth.
Sturtevant's is the only gallery in
Maine producing the new permanent
platinoid picture by new process.
Mrs. Abbie Halves returned home,
Tuesday, to Lancaster, N. H., after a
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
A. Pitts.
Charles Lawrence of Gardiner and A.
B. Page of Shawmut, two prominent
Kennebec lumbermen, were in town
Saturday.
The Methodist society are to hold a
sociable at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
H. Atwood, Madison Ave-, Friday night
of this week, to which all are invited.
The guessing contest at Goodrich's
opened to the patrons OF the soap sale
was won by Mrs. A. W. Bourget, the
number of peas in the bottle being 713.
f. W. Bowley, who has for 20 months
conducted the New York Variety Store
in town, has closed out the business,
and thinks of returning to Lewiston, his
former home.
Mr. W. S. Cobb superintendent of the
stitching department of the G. S. & l..
Co.'S. factory has taken up his residence
on Madison Ave-, in the Robinson house
near the corner of Leavitt street.
Rev. DR.. w. H. Spencer returned
from New York on the afternoon train,
Saturday, and services will be re-
sumed in Bethany Church, Sunday
morning next at the usual hour.
Mr.. Palmer Taylor of Springfield,
Mass, was among the arrivals by Friday
nights train, coming to join his family,
who are passing several weeks with Mrs.
Taylor's mother, Mrs. Pauline Hill.
Mrs, Geo. A. Kilham, accompanied by
her son, Charles, will leave next Monday,
on the a. N. train, for Yarmouth, N.
S. Mr.. Ned Chase of this town will &C.
company her as far as Portsmouth, N. II.
The advertisement of the Shaw BUSH
ness College appearing in this issue
should be of special interest to the
young men and women of this vicinity,
who desire to secure first-class bust
ness educational minimum cost. For
full particulars send for catalogue.
The Fairfield Journal in abiding to
the reception given at the public library,
Wednesday next, pays our ladies the
following deserved compliment: IA
good idea for other clubs to follow.
Skowhegan club women do things about
right anyway"
The fine chestnut horse OF f. X. Della
no was considerably injured Sunday
afternoon last. The animal became
frightened as it was being unfastened
from the carriage at their summer home
at Hayden Lake and in wild run about
the ground became entangled in wire
fence.
Please bear in mind the reception
given by the Womans' Club, the Town
Improvement Society and the Sorosis in
observance of Old Home Week, Wednes-
day next the 9th instant, from 10 a. m.
to p. m. at the public library. Citizens
as well as visitors are cordially invited
to attend this reception.