The Somerset reporter., 1904-04-28
Ripe tomatoes at RoderIek's Market

Pure insect powders at FoRR's druR
store.
F. W. Bucknam is on business trip
to Boston.
w. R. Jordan, Esq, of Bingham was
in town on business, Saturday.
Mrs. r. F. Wilson went to Boston,
Monday morning, for brief visit
John Hill of Providence, r. |. is visit
ing with the family of S. Il. Labree.
Mrs. f P. Viles returned, Tuesday
evening, from a short visit to Portland
Hon. s. j. Walton WAS in Augusta
Monday attending an important session
OF the Governor and Council.
E. F. Fairbrother returned, Wednes-
day, from Boston where he had been to
attend the funeral of friend.
G. B. Stafford, manager of the business
OF the Commonwealth Shoe & Leather
/ Co., is on business trip to Boston.
c. J. Abbey departed Monday NOM
ing for Portland and Boston on business
for the Skowhegan Electric Light Co.
Miss Abbe Luce, who is attending
/ Normal School at Pennington, arrived
Saturday evening for short visit with
her parents.
There will be a rehearsal of the Rebek-
ah degree staff, Saturday night, April 30,
Z o'clock. Degree work at the next re-
gular meeting.
! Col. L. FL. Anderson returned to Port
land, Tuesday afternoon, after a short
visit here with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
! Lewis Anderson.
Fred Williams, who was operated up
on for appendicitis at the Sisters Hos.
pital in Lewiston about three weeks
since, arrived home, Friday evening.
DR.. L. A. Dascombe went to Lewiston,
this morning, where ne assisted in four
operations for appendicitis upon patients
who went from this town, yesterday.
The flags on the schoolhouses were at
half mast, today, it being the birthday
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schools appropriate exercises were held.
G. Fl. Playse was home over Sunday
and left Monday morning for No. Sui
livan, Maine, where he is instituting a
companion court Of the Independent
Order of Foresters.
Four of Skowhegans well known young
men left by the 1.35 train Tuesday en-
route for the West w. <. Perkins,
Newell Perkins and Harold Swain go to
is to settle in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
AS Herbert Jewett and another gentle
man were driving on Water street, late
Tuesday afternoon, the reaches Of the
vehicle broke, throwing them both out.
Neither of the gentlemen were injured
and Mr.. Jewett pluckily clung to the
reins and pulled the horse up after GO
| ing few rods.
1 Misses Flora GARNER, Mabel Roderick
and Nora Vigue went to the Sisters Hos.
pital in Lewiston Monday morning to be
treated for appendicitis. This disease
has become remarkably frequent in The
last few years but it very seldom happens
that three patients depart by the same
train, all suffering with this one malady.
l.. b. Jewett has recently sold fine
/ horse to A. NJ. Ballentne of Winslow.
He was of Also stock being by Farview
i from Redwood dam. He was six
/ years old and weighed about eleven
hundred pounds. Mr.. Jewett had own-
! ed him but a few months, having pur-
chased him of Chas Loomis by whom he
was raised.
Mrs. Edith S. Shepherd arrived home,
Saturday night last, after an absence of
three months, two of which were spent
in a tour of the continent, accompanied
by Mrs. Sidney w, Curtis of Brooklyn,
i n. Y. During their absence abroad
these ladies visited the Azores, and the
cities of Rome, Naples, Venice, Paris
and London.
The selectmen report that the public
dumping ground, which they have re-
/ Gently established near the head OF Gem
eterv street, is being "patroniz9dn quite
generally by those who have rubbish TO
/ dispose Of 1t is not as conveniently
/ located a the river bank or the "nearest
vacant lot but our citizens are un-
doubtedly willing to subject themselves
to slight Inconvenience to preserve the
neat appearance of the town and to com
ply with legal requirements regarding
the disposition OF refuse.
Among the recent contracts closed by
the Steward Heating and Plumbing CO.
are new bah rooms in the residences Of
S. w. Philbrick and E. p. Viles Of this
place and one in the handsome new resi-
dence Of Bailey Bros. at North Anson,
prOprietOrs of the Carrabassett Stock
Farm. We are informed that these bath
rooms, when completed will be the equal
IN appointment OF any in Somefset
County. The reliability Of this firm is
unqueslioned on all work in the line OF
either heating or plumbing, and our
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