The Somerset reporter., 1904-11-24
TOWN and VICINITY

turned home from Washington, FRIDAY.
Election OF officers at the next meet.
ing of Russell Relief Corps, December
ID.
Mrs. Fred Oak of Bangor has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Oak this
week.
Hon. Samuel Libby of Orono is in
town the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Il.
c. Bassett.
j. w. Blunt witnessed the great Har-
ward Yale foot ball game at New Haven
last Saturday.
The Lotus Male Quartet, Miss Liver
more reader, will give their concert on
Friday evening, Nov. 25th. See window
hangers.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederic w. Roberts OF
Portland were guests OF relatives in
town over Sunday, returning home on
Monday.
At the meeting of Sorosis next Tues
day evening, "gentlemen's night" Chas.
H Pepper ct Coae9rd, Macs, is to give
talk on Japan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred r. Phlbrick pass
ed Sunday in Brunswick as the guests of
F. c. Whitehouse, general manager OF
the Bowdoin Paper Co.
The attention of the towns people is
called to the fact that the Working
League of the Congregational society
are to hold their annual fair at
their vestry on Dec. 9Th and 9TH. Full
particulars next week
That greatest of all pastoral plays,
"Sky Farm" comes to Coburn Hall FRI
day night of this week. 1t was one of
the biggest hits of the season last year
in both New York and Boston, running
several months in both cities. They od-
vertise the big city production.
Lovers of good music are finding much
to interest them in the public meetings
of the Musical Club, at the First Baptist
church. The next will occur Monday,
Nov. % at SIS p. M; subject, "Ameri.
Chu muslCs OOIOS duu SClCStlOuS ny ltiC
chorus and Imperial orchestra. Ad-
mission l5c.
Father Lacroix was in Madison, Sun
day, assisting at an observance of the
Forty Hours devotion; he also partici-
pated In the same ceremony at Fairfield,
Monday. This observance was held here
10 81 ha
week and occurs once each year in every
Catholic parish.
The second evening in the series Of en-
tertainments which make up the annual
fair OF ST. Mary's church occurs on Sat
urday the 10Th In the hall OF st. Mary's
convent. The program includes a May
Pole dance by the children of the parish,
an old fashioned Canadian dance, with
songs and other specialtes.
Rev. Daniel Onstott passed Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week at West
Cornville, where he assisted Arthur
Hobart in establishing cooper's shop.
Previous to entering the ministry Mr..
cooper's trade and from the skill then
acquired he was able to furnish Mr..
Hobart and his associates just the assist
ance needed at the outset of their bust
ness.
Miss Dora P. Cleveland arrived home
from the West, Saturday evening, after
an absence of ten weeks. Among other
places, she visited her aunt, Mrs. Kate
Cleveland In Cleveland, New, the town
being named for her uncle, Abner c.
Cleveland, now deceased. She also went
to Colorado, to Salt Lake City, Utah and
to the fair at St. Louis and on her return
journey, stopped for a time with rela-
tives In Norwood, Mass.
A. N. Bullens of Boston, an tffical of
the New England Telephone Co., gave
very interesting talk on telephony be-
fore the Mems Club, last Monday even
ing. Mr.. Bulens is an enthusiast on
the subject and thoroughly conversant
with the history of the telephone from
the time OF its invention. The speaker
showed to the audience a model of the
telephone as first invented, also the
various forms Of cable and Instruments
in use at the present time. Mr.. Bullens
WAS assisted in his explanation of the
various appliances by Stephen Wing of
Watervile, manager OF the New Eng
land lines in this section.
The Park House in Hartland, conduct
ed by f. f. Pumlow, was raded last
Friday. Sheriff Lang went from here
accompanied by officer w. r. Clifford, ar
irving at the Park House at ten O'clock
a. ~, where he was met by deputy
Lewis Fish and officer Geo. W. Brown of
Hartland, also by deputies Geo. F. Aver
OF Athens and Fred Lucas OF 81. Adams.
After considerable search a trunk was
found which 1t seemed best to examine
and Mr.. Lang called for the key. He
was told that It had been lost and that
no one bad opened the trunk for more
than year, but notwithstanding this
assertion, 1t was broken open and found
to contain forty-nine quart bottles Of
whiskey. MI. Lang WAS prepared to
take Mr.. Pumlow under arrest but he
had disappeared about the time the
trunk was opened and has not since been