The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-10-20

The latest card games. j. D. symons.
Furs of most all kinds and qualities
at w. II. WiIdes.
R. L. Mitchell made business trip to
Gardiner Tuesday.
James A. Hcxie has been visiting rea-
lives 10 Augusta several days this week.
Grand cloak and suit opening next
Tuesday and Wednesday at Judkins'.
Mrs. Walter 2. Ordway returned Tues
day evening from q short visit with
friends in Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Doran left here
on the noon train Monday for visit Il
two weeks with friends in Augusta.
Mrs. B. F. Eaton and her granddaugh-
ter, Miss Pauline Oak, passed Friday
and Saturday of last week in Portland.
Mrs. Mary J. Weleh and her little
daughter, Mabel, h4ye arrived home
from East Fairfield, Vermont, where
they had been visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Randall, former
ly residents of Skowhegan but now max
Ing their home in Waterville, were guests
of friends here for quite portion of
last week.
Among those who attended the launch
ing Of the battleship Georgia at Bath re-
Gently WAS Stephen G. Mayo of this
town. Mr.. Mayo takes much interest in
such events.
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Williams returned
to Boston Saturday noon. She had been
passing a months vacation in Somerset
county, dividing the time between Show
hogan and Hsrtland.
The Colonial Motion Picture Co. pre-
sent their entertainment ia Coburn Hall
on Tuesday evening next, under the aus
pieces Of Skowhegan Lodge, K. of p. 1t
is an entertainment that interests and
entertains all classes of people and no
doubt the company will be greeted by a
full house.
The parsonage at the corner of Madi-
son avenue and Winter street has been
thoroughly repaired, including wiring
for electric lights, painting and papering.
Rev. Geo. Merriam the new pastor Of the
bethany society expects to move here
with his family from Freeport, Me-, some
titDa duripo navt uaab
The Western Union Telegraph Co. ia
rearranging its wires In Railroad square.
The old pole at the corner near the Wes-
tern Union Office is to be left to the sole
use of the New England Telephone COM
pany and the telegraph wires are to be
moved to new pole which has been set
at the corner of the Maine Central depot.
W. r. Clifford shipped to Phladeph-
ia firm, Saturday LAST, seventeen mount
ed deer heads. They were fine speci-
mems of Names principal game animal
and will find ready purchasers in the
cities at from $40 to $50 each. As pack
ed in crates ready for shipment they |
made two good loads on the team of the
American express company.
Beginning with this week, Mr.. and |
Mrs. james G. Durrell will enter upon |
the management of Hotel Oxford for the
winter. Mr.. Durrell has had eighteen |
years. experience 10 the hotel business,
during which time he has been connected |
with he Heselton, with the Maine Hotel |
In Auburn, the Somerset at North An |
SOD, and for the past ten years with the
Samoset House at Mouse Island, the |
most of the time as lessee and manager |
Charles S. Pratt was severely injured |
at Lewiston last week, by falling from
the tender of his locomotive to the pit of |
the turn-table on which the machine |
stood at the time. He was at once taken |
to his home in Watervlle. Mr.. Pratt |
was for long time resident OF SkoH
hogan, and since moving to Watervile |
he has been engineer on trains running
here, so that his acquaintance with
Skowhegan people has been continued. |
Mrs. Vine Hill, a sister of Mr.. Pratt, is |
at present in Watervile, assisting to
care for him.
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