The Somerset reporter., 1904-05-26
Tenement to rent, s7.0O-Ordway.

Blinn Page, F. Fl. Carpenter and J. Fl
Hutchins are at Moosehead Lake this
week on fishing trip.
Parties looking for bargain In q
"Bike" buggy will find one, nearly new,
at Chas. Falrbrother's stable.
William Roderck has enlisted In the
regular army, and started yesterday for
Texas, where he Is to be stationed.
The base ball team from Colby College
Is to play the Skowhegan Regulars at
Fairview Park Monday afternoon.
Ruel Reed went to Cambridge, Mass.
Friday, where he will visit his sister
Miss Flora Reed, for the next two weeks
The members of the afternoon Whist
Club were pleasantly entertained by
Mrs. John W. Steward last Friday after.
noon.
J.H. Murray is agent for the celebrat
ed "Perfection Blue Flame" oil stove
and can save you big money on the pur'
chase price.
The summer schedule OF the Somerset
Traction Company, which we print in
full In another column, goes into effect,
Saturday next.
The DR.. Mari place on North avenue
has been purchased by B. L. Flanders, a
prosperous farmer of Hartland, who is
to move here with his family.
Mrs. Gordon Wayness, who has been
the guest of Mrs. Edith Shepherd for the
past week, returned to her home In
Pittsfield, Monday afternoon.
Mrs. William Mckinnon Of Mortified,
Nova Scotia, arrived, Thursday evening
of last week, and has resumed her
position as matron at the hospital.
Members of Russell Relief Corps will
attend church with Russell Post Me-
mortal Sunday. All members are re-
quired to meet at G. A. R. Hall, Sunday
a. m. at 10 o'clock.
Mrs. Elijah Alden with her little
daughter departed, Saturday morning,
for her home in Campello, Mass. Mrs.
R. E. Jackson accompanied her to At
gusta, returning, Monday morning.
Chas. Green is expected home from
his California trip In about two weeks.
The rumor that he had decided to locate
on the Pacific coast seems to be without
foundation. We are credibly informed
that he purposes to continue his resi-
dence in town.
Postmaster Dyer has issued a notice,
which appears In another column, as a
warning to parties who have maliciously
tempered with street letter boxes.
There is a severe penalty for such an Of
tense, and the guilty party should be
dealt with accordingly.
The first Quarterly Conference of the
M. E. Church was held at the vestry,
last evening, with Rev. c. A. Southland,
presiding elder of the Augusta district,
as presiding officer. All reports sub
mitted were encouraging and the out
look for the year is most satisfactory.
Mrs. S. W. Coburn, who has been
passing the winter with her daughter,
Miss Julia Coburn in Concord, Mass ,
was among the arrivals, Saturday even
ing. Her granddaughter, Miss Florence
Pooler, who had been visiting in Massa-
chusetts for time since her return from
the South, arrived by the same train.
During the thunder storm Sunday
afternoon lightning struck the barn on
the farm owned by Myrton l.. Dennis in
North Cornville and it was burned with
storehouse adjoining, nothing being
saved from the contents Of either build
ing. BY good fortune the flames did not
reach the house which stood near by.
The loss on the two buildings, with the
| livestock and farming tools In them,
was about 5000, on which there was
$3.50 insurance.
Rev. B. G. Wentworth, who was pas
tor of the Methodist Episcopal Church
here for the four years ending in April,
1900, has recently returned from the
session of the General Conference Of the
Methodist Church in California, where
he went as a Ministerial Delegate from
the State Of Maine. His first charge
after leaving here WAS at North Berwick,
subsequent to which he has held the
position of presiding elder for the Port
land district, his place of residence being
Old Orchard, Me.
The new refrigerator or cold storage
recently put in by E. T. Goodrich at the
Depot Store, connected with his meat
market, Ia a model of its kind, having |
the modern improvements. 1t holds two
tons of ice stored in compartments ex-
tending across both sides near the cell
ing with a ventilating apparatus be
tween, and the whole room is lined with
insulating paper. Experts pronounce
this refrigerator up-to-date in every par
ticular, and this addition permits OF the
continuance of this branch OF Mr.. Good
rich's business during the warm months
AS heretofore he guarantees to serve
customers choice cuts of meats at money
saving prices.
There was plenty of base ball In which
Skowhegan was Interested, last Satur-