The Somerset reporter., 1902-07-03
TOWN and VICINITY

saturday.
IN. Merrill went to Portland, yester-
day afternoon on professional business.
Rev. Harrison D. Barrett of Boston
has been in town this week on business
Mrs. Cynthia Steward returned to
Skowhegan last week for stay of some
length.
William Hackett was in Waterville,
Tuesday on business connected with the
foundry.
Allie Lander, former clerk OF Hotel
Heselton, was greeting frien 8 here one
day this week.
Mrs. Mary c. Horn took the morning
train on Tuesday for visit to Portland
and Boston friends.
Mrs. w. A. Richardson of Lewiston,
has been the guest of her father, George
H. Pishon, this week.
Special Sale on Ladies fancy h'dk'fs.
marked down from Is, II and 19c to
121.2c at Miss Williams.
Mrs. Charlotte Anderson returned to
Skowhegan Monday night to pass the
summer with Miss Helen A. Sanborn.
Miss Annie Maddocks left, Tuesday
morning, for Rose Mary Cottage, York
county, where she will pass the summer.
Harold and Miss Mabel Ross went to
Haverhill, Mass, Tuesday morning,
where they will spend part of their va
cation.
Mrs. Abbott Kendall returned, Satur-
day, from Waterville, where she had
been in attendance upon Colby COM
mencement.
Guy c. Mayo, formerly fireman with
Joe Bacon on trains II and Is, has been
promoted to engineer and is running the
late Saturday night train.
The regular monthly business meeting
Of the Epworth league will be held in
the vestry Thursday evening after pray
er meeting. Let all be present
Skowhegan attorneys present at the
new law term of court in session in
Portland this week are Forrest Goodwin,
George w. Cover and S. w. Gould.
Frances Powers received the prize for
best writing, and Lena Packard for
greatest Improvement in penmanship in
the tenth grade during the spring term,
The next meeting of the Social Circle
of the NJ. E. church, which was to have
been held Monday next, is postponed
one week on account of the W. G. T. u.
field day.
e. A. Yost of Portsmouth, Ohio, a
graduate of Bowdoin, 1901, who has
been visiting relatives in Cornville and
his classmate, Howard Wyman, of this
place, left, Tuesday afternoon, on his
return home.
Miss Bertha L.. Soule of Bath, former
assistant in the Skowhegan high school,
now in the high school in Bangor, visit
ed in town several days the past week
and renewed pleasant acquaintance
with friends and former pupils.
Mr.. Jothsm Bixby and wife of Long
Beach, Cal, accompanied by their son,
George H., Jr., and daughter, Miss Fan
nie, have taken rooms at Hotel Coburn
for several weeks. Mr.. and Mrs. Bixby
were residents of Somerset county in
early life.
An admirable opportunity is offered to
young lady readers of the REPORTER
who have desire to learn lucrative
profession by the advertisement in an
other column from Boothby Surgical
Hospital, Boston. The graduate nurses
from the training school of this hospital
stand at the head of their profession and
are always much sought after.
Mr.. George Fl. Pishon Of Skowhegan,
during the month of June, just closed,
loaded SO cars Of hay and shipped them
to the Boston market. He has also
pressed and put into storehouses 300 tons
additional. Mr.. Pishon ships hay from
railroad stations in Skowhegan, Nor
ridgewock, Scion, Madison, Arson,
North Arson and Pishon's Ferry. He is
Justly deserving of the title, HAY King"
as he has been In the business for 20
years and has shipped more hay from
Somerset County than any other man or
firm. The long time he has been In the
business and its volume, indicate that
the farmers of this county believe he
gives them fair deals.
The new police headquarters in our
town which the Assessors decided to
locate in the Brown & Ward building on
Court street, have been completed and
taken possession of. They consist OF a
main room of commodious size and well
lighted, in the rear of which three cells
are arranged for the safe custody of
those unfortunate enough to come with
In the pale Of the law. Inside of
each cell is a cot and lavatory. The
furnishings of the main room consist of
an ample number of chairs and large
desk of sufficient proportions to permit
Of several making use of 1t at one time,
and it is here, In the future all matters
coming before police court will be
heard. G. W. Pullen has been installed