The Somerset reporter., 1903-12-24
TOWN and VICINITY
1904 almanacs at Bueknam's.

Il. l. tALtbD Will IuTnlsn you uiieoBe
books, any road.
J. N. Smith went to Foxeroft, Friday
returning Saturday evening.
A full line of horse blankets and fur
robes at Blunt Hardware Co'a.
Mrs. J. F. LongIey of solon has been
the guest of her brother, W. S. Gilman
this week.
John F. Phillips departed Wednesday
for St. Louis, Mo, where he will remain
for some months.
The Olio club met with Mrs. A. P
Barton at her home on Water ST., Thurs
day evening Of last week.
Ordway has a modern tenement to
rent on Water street with electric lights,
bath room and furnace heat.
Mrs. Ralph Ames, who has been visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Allie I. Whittier,
for some weeks, returned to her home
In Portland, Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. A. Z. Bessey and her daughter,
Miss Bessey, of Watervile were In town,
last week, guests of DIR. and Mrs. W. h.
Spencer, returning home, Friday morn
ing,
Miss Myrts E. Genthner, stenographer
In the office of Butler & Butler, departed
Wednesday afternoon, to pass the holl-
days with her parents in Damarscotta,
Maine.
On Sunday last a Christmas sermon
was preached at Bethany church by the
pastor, and the exercises in the. Sunday
school were with reference to the birth
and life of Christ.
Mrs. Elmer Thibault of Clinton took
the 1.35 train for home, Friday. She
has been for week or more In Wes
Athens, where she was called by the
de, tn of her father, Geo. Drury.
Chester Mills, Esq, of the firm oi
Phillips & Mills, who had been In town
for some days, returned to Jaekmant
Friday. On the way he was to stop al
Dover, having business at that point
Daniel Gilman, citizen of Aroostook
county, has been the guest of his cousin
w. s. Gilman, for some days past MI
Gilman's yield Of potatoes, last season,
WAS over eleven thousand bushels. He
:. ~ 49,, ~ Hhao Gilman of BINGHAM
Miss Mae Dascombe and Miss Edith
Lewis arrived home from Boston by
Friday evenings train and will remain
for the Christmas holidays. Miss Das-
combe is pupil at the vocal school OF
W. l.. Whitney and Miss Lewis is study
ing at the N. E. Conservatory of Music
Mr.. James A. Hoxie took the train fol
Hartford, Conn.,, Friday morning, &C
companied by Miss Myrtle Hoxie, WHIT
will go with him to visit with the fam
ilv of Mrs. John Stoors In Hartford, anC
Miss Laura B. Hoxie, who will pass thu
vacation with her mother, Mrs. Jenni'
Hoxie, in Lynn, Mass.
Mr.. D. q. Kinney of Utica, n. Z.
and Blaine Viles of this place left her
for the Dead River region, Saturday
They are to visit the scene of variou
numbering operations and make repor
of the manner In which this business !
carried on In Maine for the Yale Schoo
of Forestry, of which institution thel
are both members. Mr.. Kinney Is alst
connected with the U. s. Bureau o
Forestry.
Pennell & Co. have sold very recently
the Eugene Tcz'er farm, No. Fair fielc
to Hiram Skillings of Caribou; Isaiah
Crowell farm, Canaan to Harry Hooper
OF Ellsworth; Samuel Atkinson farm oi
Skowhegan to Mrs. North of Bangor
Partridge place of Skowhegan to Fred
Palmer; Wood-lot in Madison to Simon
Gates of Skowhegan. Ii you have real
estate you want to dispose of, a good
time is to list 1t now and get it in their
new catalogue.
A. w. Gilman of Foxcroft, Commits
soner of Agriculture for Maine, and f.
s. Adams of Bowdoinham, president of
the Maine State Dairy Association, were
In town, Tuesday morning, on their way
to the Farmers Institute at Canaan. K
A. Rogers of Brunswick, Il. w. Ellis OF
Embden, r. H. Libby of Newport, and
E. P. Mayo, editor of the Turf, Farm and
Home, accompanied them. Farmers
Institutes were also held In No. Ansor
ON Wednesday, and In Norridgewock or
Thursday, nearly all of these gentlemen
attending.
The class parts, which are awarded tt
those having the highest rank for foul
years, have been announced for thu
class of 1903, Skowhegan high school
Miss Lila Howes gains the honor of tn,
yaledictory while the salutatory goeI
to Miss Mary Nay. The rank of fou
students In this class was very close, al
reaching within per cent Of the high
est Ben B. Fogler and Miss Leila Fair
brother are the two, In addition to thos,
given, to attain this high rank. Th'
remaining class parts, viz the class will
class history and class poem will b.
bestowed by vote of the class at the be
ginning OF the winter term.