The Somerset reporter., 1904-09-29
New ADVERTISER EkTs.
TOWN and VICINITY

Mrs. A. R. Jewett, are visiting this
week in Lewiston.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. @. Woodbury. are
passing a portion OF this week at the
Maine State Fair In Lewiston.
ANY kind of shoe repairing left at A.
e. Bissons & Sons will receive prompt
attention by skilled workman at lowest
prices-rubber heels specially.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson S. Towle are en-
loving three weeks vacation during
which they will visit relatives in Lewis
ton, Auburn and other places In Maine.
Miss Marion Klby of Washington, d.
C. who had been the guest Of her cousin,
Mrs. Ned Lambert, for the past few
weeks, returned home yesterday morn
ing.
The members of the Queen Esther Cir
Gle of the N. K. Church will go to Madi-
son, Saturday, to be the guests of sim
liar organization In that town for the
afternoon.
Mrs. 81. A. Bussey and her daughter,
Miss Harriet, went to Gardiner, yester-
day afternoon, for visit with relatives.
They will also visit In Portland before
returning.
1t is grape season now and the people
of Skowhegan and vicinity are consum-
ing about two tons week Of this fruit.
The favorite varieties are Concords and
Delawares.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Cabbott of Vel
lesley Hills, Mass. were guests at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. Wallace Blunt
for several days recently departing for
home, Tuesday morHing.
The standplpe of the Skowhegan
Water Co. is receiving coat of dark
brown paint. 1t Is seventy-five feet high
and eighty feet in circumference making
5000 feet OF surface to be covered.
Mrs. l.. j. Addition and her guest,
Mrs. Fred Lancey Of Boston, returned
Friday evening Of last week, from a
visit with friends In Hartland and vicin-
Ivy. I1nhSOy NOPoA NCo ioi hSi hOAnS
in Massachusetts,, Monday morning.
Street commissioner Geo. II. Webb is
rebuilding the foot walk from the end of
the railroad bridge, strengthening it and
changing the grade slightly. The Water
street end, for about ninety feet, is to be
OF concrete.
DR.. and Mrs. Meserve of Raleigh, N.
C. were in town, Friday of last week,
guests of Geo. Phllbrick and family.
DIR. Meserve is president of Shaw Col
lege, colored school located In Raleigh,
which is maintained 10 large measure,
by Baptist missionary societies of the
North.
Mrs. Kate M. Kendall, who underwent
seelous operation at a Lewiston hos
pital and who had remained there sever
al weeks for treatment, arrived here,
Saturday evening, quite improved in
health and is now at the home of Mrs.
Olive Dealy on Pleasant street. Mrs.
Kendall was fortunate enough to have
the care of her intimate friend, Mrs.
Flora Z. Dealey, during most of her i'll
ness.
w. r. Clifford went to Portland, Nor
day, with Harry Jackson who had been
sentenced by Judge Bachelor to the
State School for Boys, during his miner
ity for the larceny of watch. The
parents of the boy, who live on the
Ellis farm on the river road about five
miles from this village, brought him to
town and his arrest and trial was with
their approval as they had become con-
vnced that it was best for the young
mans future that he should have a
strieter discipline than they were able to
provide.
The Skowhegan Water Co., have com
pleted the laying of its six inch main
from East Front street to the Marston
Mills and have established a hydrant
about $50 feet from this company's
buildings and about 200 feet from the
Shoe Factory, thus giving thes e two
manufacturing plants the benefit of our
fire protection system which they have
heretofore enjoyed only In limited
measure. With this addition the Water
Co. now has eighty-one hydrants and
twelve miles of water mains. The street
on which this new line Is put in, runs
past the east entrance of the Park
school, from East Front street. 1t will
ultimately be extended across the Maine
Central tracks to form a junction with
Olive street.
All of the iron work for the new
bridge has been shipped and the first
carload has arrived and been trucked TO
the scene of operations. Every piece is
marked with serial number 80 that it's
place In the structure may be readily de-
termined. The part of the material
known as eye beams comes from Pen
eoyd, Pa, and the balance from Elmira,
N. Y. During this week the false work
has been put In place from which the
permanent structure Is to be built.
This false work consists of huge piers or
bents, as the bridge workmen term them,
made of logs Joined together with plank.
ing, resting ON the bed of the river and
rising to within about six feet Of the
level Of the new granite work. These