The Somerset reporter., 1900-02-08
New wash silks for waists at Stewards.

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Waters yet, at e. T. Goodrich's?
Robert Wentworth has returned from
brief visit with Pittsfeld friends.
Miss Helen Steward is confined at her
home, this week, with whooping cough.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Benner visited
with friends 10 Pittsfeld over Sunday
A capable house girl can find employ
ment by applying at SIMPSONS corner
drug store.
Misses Fannie and Edith Stevens went
to Boston Wednesday to pass q week
with relatives.
Fred II. Wing has a lot of paper
tablets that he Is going to close out at
"any old price,
Next week, pictures of the city of
Florence will be on exhibition at the
public library.
Mrs. 81. s. Steward Is passing a few
days with her daughter, Mrs. E. w.
Heath 10 Waterville.
Special sale cocoanut cakes and corn
fritters, &c a dozen, Saturday only, at
the Delano candy store.
The working league of the Congerga.
tional society will meet with Mrs. L. W.
Weston, Monday afternoon next.
Elmer Thibault, clerk in W. F.
Robbins jewelry store is convalescing
after months illness with scarletina.
| For the remainder of the term the
meeting night of Miss Varnum's dancing
class will be changed from Monday to
| Tuesday.
The Joint debate between the Skowhe-
gan aud Waterville high schools, to have
been held in Waterville. tonight, has
been postponed until March.
| Last night C. A. Fairbrother closed a
contract to furnish the banquet for the
Knights Templar ball, March 2. The
spread will be served in the old Odd
Fellows hall.
Tonight occurs the entertainment,
supper and dance given by Skowhegan
Grange in their hall, postponed from
Monday night, owing to the storm. 1t
will be a gala time and all are invited.
Mr.. Fred G.. Holt, a former Skowhe-
gan boy, who has resided elsewhere for
many years, and who now holds a re-
sponsible position with the Boston Ter
mnal Co., was 10 town this week calling
on friends.
Morning worship at the U1iversalst
church next Sunday, with sermon on
'sThe Leadership of jesus, the second
in the series on the Universalist faith.
At 7 o'clock the PASTORS talk on the life
of d. L. Moody, followed by the Y. P.
! G. U. All are welcome.
F. c. Pooler, proprietor of the Fair.
view Stock Farm which is stocked with
a strain of Jerseys from the famous G..
|. Hood farms of Lowell, Mass, shipped
fine young Jersey bull to Fl. E. Barton
full-blooded animal and a very promising
one.
A stated communication of Somerset
Lodge, F. and A. NJ, will be held,
Monday evening, the II h inst, at
which several candidates will be worked
Ia the first and second degrees and
important business propositions will
come up for consideration.
Much of the snow accumulated at the
side of the business street has been
hauled away the past week, and dumped
over the bridge by crew of men, and
the new dump cart body on runners
built for that purpose has been found
just the right thing for carting it.
W. Guy Pennell, for two years clerk
in the grain and feed store of D. H..
Bartlett, has secured a position with E.
T. Goodrich, proprietor of the Cash
Grocery Company, and will begin his
new duties Monday He succeeds John
Currier, who after that date will be
employed in the Anderson wooden mill.
Sorosis met on Wednesday ssafternoon.
The subject of the meeting was "Educa-
tion' with papers as follows: "How
to Train Children and Preserve their
individuality" by Mrs. Mitchell; "Hu.
mane Education by Mrs. Giff,rd; "The
Value of an Early Taste for Good Liter
allure" by Mrs. Philbrick. The music
for the afternoon was a vocal solo by
Mrs. Judkins and songs by the Sorosis
Quartet. The next meeting of the club
will be held, Tuesday evening, Feb. goth.
Sunday and Mondays storm proved
itself much more disagreeable than the
one which occurred week ago. The
cars of the Somerset Traction Company's
electric line were housed, Sunday after
noon, and were not started out. On
Monday, all the schools, including the
High school. were closed. The enter
tainment and dance at Grange hall by
the members Of Skowhegan Grange, No.
208, p. Of H., and the meeting to be held
with Rev. Henry F. Huse at the resi-
dence of A. R. Bixby, for the purpose
of organizing the Young Mems Christian
Association, were all postponed. The
storm ragged until noon; business was