The Somerset reporter., 1905-08-10

Il. and Newburyport, Mass.
G. Walter Snow of Boston, electrical
engineer, is passing two weeks Vaca-
ton n town with his mother, Mrs. Geo.
D. Arnold.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Symons and their
three children left, yesterday morning,
for Portsmouth, n. H., where they are
to visit relatives for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Leonard of Somer-
vile, Mass, arrived last week and will
remain for the month of August as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Folsom.
There will be an out door meeting OF
the Town Improvement Society at Mrs.
L. w, Weston's, Friday, Aug. II, at
30 p. m. A full attendance is re-
quested.
DR.. T. II. Stevens of Cambridge, Mass.
has arrived to pass his annual vacation
with his family at Bloomfield, their
summer home, and will remain until Oc-
tober 1st.
Mrs. A. L. Smith with her two daugh-
tiers, Eleanor and Mildred, Of Roslin-
dale, Mass, are visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus w, Goodrich on
Madison avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Palmer with their
children, Reta and Burneta, who had
been visiting Mr.. Palmer's parents for
the past two weeks, left for their home
in Lawrence, Mass, yesterday.
Skowhegan club women will be in
terested to know that the annual
meeting of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs is to be held at Houlton
this year, September - h, 18th and 18th.
Mrs. Robert Houston, Frank Cushman
and his son, John, all of Sangerville,
were among the arrivals by the noon
train, Saturday. Mrs. Houston is to
remain for visit of several weeks with
Skowhegan friends.
L. w. Valentine of Spearflsh, S. d.
has been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. D.
II. Bartlett this week. Mr.. Valentine
was in business in Harmony with Mr..
Bartlett in 1866. He went to the West
twenty-nine years ago.
L. w. Chase is located temporarily in
the Fisher shop to remain while his new
repository is being built, and is now
ready to receive orders for sleighs,
pungs, ETC., or for any work in the line
of carriage repairing or painting of any
description.
Mrs. Il. II. Fisher, with her two
daughters, Marion and Charlotte, went
to Corinna, Me-, Monday, to remain for
the next few weeks. Mrs. Fisher has
recently come to Skowhegan with her
husband who is the local agent of the
American Express Co.
The management Of the Somerset
Traction Co. call attention to the fact
that there will be special car up Madi-
son avenue next Wednesday evening at
about ten o'clock for the accommodation
of those who attend the Old Home re-
ception at the library building.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Chadwick of Ar
lington, Mass, have been guests, this
week, at the home of Col. and Mrs A.
q. Blunt. Mrs. Chadwick is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. J. E. Snow of West Somer-
vile, Mass, a sister of Mrs. Blunt's,,
who is passing the summer with her.
Sheriff Clyde Smith went to Arson,
Tuesday and assisted by eight deputies
and constabes, spent five or six hours
in searching the Howard House, of
which Lawrence Mcdonald has been
proprietor for some time. Nothing of
contraband nature was found although
the officers did their work in a most
thorough manner.
j. Wallace Blunt took DR.. pascombe
to New Sharon, Sunday, in his touring
car to see patient, in consultation with
DR.. o. B. Head of that town. and there
were also in the party Hon. c. A. Mars
ton and Mr.. Cecil Fl. Tilton. Departure
from Skowhegan was made about two p.
N. and after making the call at New
Sharon the party continued their i)ur-
ney to Pennington to supper and re-
turned home In the evening, reaching
here about eight o'clock.
The little bay mare, Baby Girl, owned
In this place, went great race at Wa
terville, Thursday of last week and
while she did not capture the big end of
the money, won third place in a field of
six horses, the other five being PAGERS.
The winner of the event Argonaut, is
owned out of the state and has record
of 2.1l; his driver was the noted Cox,
who made the remark after the race that
he would give more for Baby Girl than
all the other horses in that race. This
fast little trottiDg mare starts, this
week, Friday, at Lewiston.
We publish on page six of this issue a
statement of the condition of the Show
hogan Savings Bank as it existed on the
nineteenth day of last July when Bank
Examiner F. E. Timberake made his
annual examination. By comparing the
present statement with that of the pre-
vious year it will be noted that there has
been an increase of over S56,0 900 in the