The Somerset reporter., 1902-12-25

Northern Spy apples, Just right to eat
o. F. Knowlton Corporation.
The weather aud sleighing have been
superb this week; just right for Christ.
man shopping.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fifield Mitchell OF Can
aan were calling on Skowhegan acquaint.
ances, Saturday.
Miss Emma Frances Hutchinson Ia
passing the holiday vacation with Miss
Helen A. Sanborn.
The annual meeting of the Milburn
Club will occur at their club rooms,
Monday evening next.
Mrs. e. R. Vail of Greenville Is 10
town to pass the holidays with her
! s:aeet.h!ees. 9. Mrs.. Mrs ]. 4. Ceisyy.
Mrs. D. W. Colby and two children
went to Maiden, Mass, Tuesday morn
ing, to pass the holidays.
The popular Thelma perfume, which
all ladies delight In can be obtained only
at g. r. Fogg's drug store.
C. G. Whittier of Chicago, formerly
of Skowhegan, Is In town renewing old
acquaintances here and In Athens.
F. Fl. Baker passed through town,
Saturday, on his return to Hallowell
after brief visit with his aunt In Brigh.
ton.
Mrs. Clarence Pierce was the guest a
few days last week of her daughter,
Hazel, returning to Waterville, Friday
morning.
Howard Wyman, student at the Har-
ward medical school, returned home Sat-
urday night to pass the holiday recess
with his mother.
The holiday meeting of Soross will be
held at the Library Parlors, Tuesday
evening, Dec. 80. Each member may
invite one guest.
E. W. Marble has arrived home from
an extended visit to Massachusetts, and
New York City where his daughter has
been studying music.
Miss Linda Graves, teacher in the
Rockland, Mass, public schools, arrived
in town Saturday night and is the guest
Of her aunt, Mrs. Myra Arnold.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ira A Norton and her
mother, Mrs. Mary Webb, have closed
their Madison Ave. home for the winter
and taken rooms at the Oxford.
Miss Mabel P0oler, who Is attending
Laselle seminary at Auburndale, Mass,
was among the arrivals Thursday night
and is passing the holiday vacation with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. T. Pooler.
The Universalist sewing circle meets
next Thursday afternoon with Mrs.
Adam Simpson, Maple street. The
ladies are busy completing arrangements
for their annual fair to be held In Grand
Army hall next month.
The masquerade ball In Grange hall
last Friday night under the management
of Messrs. Chucotte and Stitham was
very successful affair. Fifty couples
were present, half of whom were mask
ed. This (Thursday) afternoon sun
light hop will be given in the same hall
under the management of the hook and
ladder boys, the proceeds to be given to
the relief fund.
This Thursday afternoon, Christmas
day, there will be a Christmas enter
tainment and tree 10 the church at $3.50
O'Clock. Lantern views illustrating
1.-THE First Christmas" will be exhibited
also lantern views illustrating "Santa
Claus" Singing by chorus choir, also
singing and recitations by the children
Remember the time, 80 in afternoon
All cordially invited.
Mr.. Isaac Dorothy met with painful
accident one afternoon, last week, which
will lay him up for brief time. He had
been in town with a load of wood and
returned home just at dark. Unhitch-
ing his horses he led them into the barn
and in doing 30 run his foot against a
hay fork that had fallen down In
his absence, the tines penetrating his
boot and entering the foot to quite a
distance. 1t is wound that requires
attention.
At the First Baptist Church on Sum-
day morning there will be worship at
10 45 with sermon by the pastor, the
| second sermon In the series Of "Giant
tasks to which Jesus Christ calls the
young men of today" 2. 1.-THE puri-
| fication of public affairs from political
| corruption" Other services as usual.
la view of Christmas day coming on
Thursday there will be no prayer meet
ing In the evening but a special prayer
meeting In the vestry on Friday night at
7.30. All are cordially invited.
The Skowhegan Mems Club held
meeting in the Library Parlors, Friday
evening last. The subject under consid-
GRAFTON was the Reclamation Act passed
at the long session of the present con-
gress, or irrigation of arid lands 10 the
west. The leading speaker was George
Otis Smith of the U. s. Geological Sur
vey, whose field work for some seven
years past has given him familiarity
with the systems of irrigation practiced
In various western states, and Its benefi-
cial effect uDOn the aDriculfural and ho-