The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-10-03
Watch for the date of Grange chicken

Special values in low priced muslin
curtains at Stewards.
Twenty large, ripe bananas for %
cents at Knowton & Thompson's.
Mrs. C. C. Steward of Caratunk is in
town visiting friends for few days.
Judkins has Just received another large
lot of ladies' French flannel waists.
Desirable front Offices, with steam
heat, water and electric lights to rent, of
w. 2. Ordway.
The Life of Mckinley given away at
Knowlton & Thompson's. Ask for a
card at the store.
Miss Lizzie H. Currier left here on
Monday for Oberlin, Ohio, where she will
remain some months.
A. X. Butler has been absent for ten
days on a professional trip in the Middle
States and us far south as Tennessee.
The Working League of the Congrega-
tional Church will meet, next Monday
afternoon, at 2.30 at the church vestry.
Sheriff Pennell, County Attorney
Cover and E. X. Delano are in the wilds
of Northern Maine for two weeks on a
hunting trip.
Phillips & Mills have removed their
law offices into the corner suite in Mil
burn block, giving them much better and
more commodious quarters.
E. n. Merrill, Esq, attended court at
Dover, last week, returning home, Sat
urday evening. Mrs. Merrill accom-
panied him to the Piscataquis shire.
They drove across country.
Mrs. Edwin MeKenney of Shawmut
and Mrs. Rose L. Kimball and children
of Jackman were in town, Friday. Mrs.
Kimball visited at the home of her brother
Cyrus Newton, for a few days.
All remember the fine oysters sold by
Delano, the baker, last year. The sea-
son has opened and they now may be
had at his bakery Saturday nights or
from the team Sunday mornings.
Jacob Riis of New York is to speak
before the Skowhegan Woman's Club in
Coburn hall, December 8. He is a
practical worker among the destitute
and criminal classes in the great city and
a lecturer of wonderful power.
The unsightly poles on Water street,
upon which the wires of the Skowhegan
Electric Light Co. are strung, having be-
come unsafe from decay and cribbing of
the horses hitched to them at times,
have been replaced, the past week, by
substantial new ones.
Plain and fancy waist flannels in great
varieties at Judkins'.
While hunting, recently, for squirrels
in the vicinity of Gardiner, where he is
George Savage was hit by
some scattering shot from the gun of a
friend who accompanied him. One Of
the shot pierced the side of the eye ball,
but most fortunately no grave fears are
that the wound will prove
Announcement is made of the engage
ment of Miss Grace Louise Jacobs of
Portland, Me-, daughter of Mrs. Anne
H. Jacobs, formerly of this town. and
Mr.. Leroy B. Christian of Hazleton,
Pa. Miss Jacobs is well known to our
people, as the greater part of her school
life was spent here. Mr.. Christian is a
native of Auburn, Me-, a graduate of the
Edward Little High School in '94 and of
Tufts College in 1900. Through the lat
ter institution he accepted his present
position as civil engineer and craftsman
with the Lehigh Valley r. r., going d.
rect to Pennsylvania from college. The
will probably occur the first
week in December, after which they
will make their home in Hazleton.
The foot ball team, who are to repre-
sent the Skowhegan high school this
season, played their first game yesterday
afternoon, at Fairview Park, having for
opponents the eleven from the Coburn
Classical Institute of Watervlle. The
visitors were sturdy set of young men
much heavier than the home boys, all of
which counts In foot ball. Notwith-
standing this fact, however, the game
was close and exciting throughout, no
scores being made in the first half. In
the last half, by lucky run, the visitors
made touchdown, later kicking goal,
the result being to 0. Our boys dem
onstrated the fact most forcibly that they
are built of good timber, putting up
game far superior to what was expected
10 their first contest. The Skowhegan
line up was as follows Day, |. e.; O.
Green, |. t.; Stinchfeld, l. e; Ward, c. {;
G. Green, r. g; Nj. Smith, r. t.. French,
r. e.; Clark (Capt.) |. h. b.; Jewett, +.
b. =; E. Smith, r. b. b.; Wildes, O. b.
The car barn of the Somerset Traction
Co., located on Madison Avenue, Is IN
dergoing extensive alterations and i'm
provements. The tracking has been
changed in the main barn, to give each
of the three tracks therein a direct run