The Somerset reporter., 1902-10-16
TOWN and VICINITY

o. F. knowlton Company.
Z. p. Viles was in Portland, on
business, Tuesday of this week.
Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Huse are visit
Ing for two weefs In Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. Walter Pierce and daughter are
spending this week in Portland visiting
friends.
/. W. Weston has the rebuilding of his
mill, destroyed by fire about year ago,
well along.
Miss Mary Lslley is passing two
weeks vacation with relatives in Boston
and vicinity.
Mr.. J. E. Bryant of Freedom was in
town over last night, looking over some
farm property.
c. r. Cook started, Saturday morning,
for New Brunswick where he will pass
a part of his vacation.
d. W. Lewis attended a meeting Of
the New England Coal Dealers Assn.
at Portland, Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goodspeed of Wilton were
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. q. b. Fair
grieves few DAYS last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. n. McQuillap are taking
a brief vacation In Boston, leaving here
by the morning train of yesterday.
At the cattle show at Madison, Sat
urday afternoon, the local team defeated
the Skowhegans by a score of 3 to 2.
H. p. Merwin left, Thursday noon, for
Mt. Clemens, Mich, where he will re-
main an indefinite time for his health.
E. X. DelaDo returned, last week,
from his trip to the Austin, and brought
In fine buck deer that weighed 165 lbs,
Capt. Nathan Fowler returned from
his G. A. r. trip to Washington, Tues
day. He was much pleased with the ex
cursion.
The Social Circle of the NJ. E. church
will meet with Mrs. f. p. Pennell,
Court street, on Monday afternoon at
o'clock.
Van Nelson has purchased house on
Mechanic street, south side, of Mrs. Rob-
inson and moved his family there from
Northern avenue.
Frank Perry visited relatives here last
week returning to Portland, Thursday
afternoon. Mr.. Perry is now on the
police force of that city.
Wilkie C. Clarke and Fred II. Wing
started for Moosehead Lake, Friday
afternoon, where they are passing the
week in search for game.
Miss Ethel E. Moore brought to the
REPORTER Office, Tuesday, branch of
a raspberry bush with several we'll de-
veloped ripe berries thereon.
Miss Lizzie Currier, who recently re-
turned from an European tour of several
months, will spend the winter in town
at the home of Hon. D. H. Bartlett.
Last Friday night at about o'clock a
deer was seen In the graden of s. G.
Ward on Middle street. The animal
evidently came from the woods back OF
the corn shop.
NJ. Il. Cain returned from Galesville,
Wisconsin, last week, where he had
been since May with his daughter, Mrs.
l.. S. Keith. He is glad to get back to
the Kennebec valley again.
Mrs. Henry Sheridan went to Bowdoin.
ham, Saturday morning, to visit her
parents. She was joined by husband
Tuesday, who timed his visit so as at
tend the Topsham fair.
Friday night in alghting from the
electric car he had just reached town on
from Madison, Weston Clarke made q
misstep, breaking a small bone in his
ankle and SCATTERING another one,~
Miss Lucy Kendall who had been in
! town some months left on her return to
her home in California, Tuesday after
noon. She will spend some weeks In
Massachusetts and Ohio, expecting to
reach the Pacific coast early in Deem
Der.
The remains of Mrs. Lucinda Clarke
were taken to Bethel for interment,
Saturday morning, accompanied by Mr..
and Mrs. Hiram Perkins. Mrs. Clarke
died, Thursday, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Perkins, of organic heart
trouble, aged Is years,
Miss Ethel Walton, accompanied by
Miss Sue Marsh of Providence, X. l.,
left Boston, Saturday morning last, on a
visit to Miss Ella Spaulding at her home
in Sioux City, Iowa. The three young
ladies were classmates at Lassell Semi
nary. They will visit many other sec.
tions of the West before they return.
DR.. and Mrs. A. Il. Smith, who have
been passing portion of the summer at
his old home in West Athens, left yes
terdsy, for Minneapolis, where they
reside. A longer visit was made than
was intended when they came, but the
lateness of crops detained them. The
doctor is an enthusiastic angler and has
plenty of Maine fishing stories to tell the
Gophers upon his return.
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