The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-04-13
TOWN and VICINITY

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Miss Dona Tozler is visiting friends in
Esterville, this week.
= you are looking for spring coat
steward has fine line.
Miss C. j. Williams is on a business
,,in to Portland this week.
The Buster Brown stockings for chill
5rep at the Green & Barnard Shoe Co.
60. Danforth has recently returned
from visit Of several weeks to Boston.
complete line of plows, disk and
.prIng-tooth harrows; also seed oats and
yrsss seed, at D. A. & W. E. Porter's.
County Commissioners N. L. Merrill,
l.. c. Williams and Geo. I. Tibbetts
we're In session at the court house. Tues
day.
william Jepson returned to his home
in Lawrence, Mass, Monday, after a
,i.it at the home of his son, Horace
Jepson.
Extensive preparations are being made
NJ the Rebekahs of this place for the
entertainment and fair, to be given Tues
day. April 25th.
Mrs. William Brook, who had been
The guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. North
for week, returned to her home in
Wstervllle, Monday.
Mrs. Wide s. Appleton Of Bangor ar
rived in town, yesterday, and will be
guest at the home of Mr.. and Mrs Fred
X. Phnbrick for several days.
By recent orders received the Office of
The American Express Co. in this place
will close every night except Saturday
1t $50 O'clock; Saturday at s.
Mrs. <. B. Varney went TO Bangor,
Monday, TO assist in caring for the wife
and two children of her son, Wilder
ysrney, who are III with the measles.
Mr.. Alexander Stewart and his sister,
Miss Sarah, were guests at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs.. Fl. K. White over Sunday,
returning to their home In Watervile,
Monday morning.
Miss Cora Baker, formerly of this
place, who now follows the profession
Of 8 trained nurse, returned to her home
IL Waterville, Friday. She had been en-
gagged professionally at the home of Mre.
lothian Weston for several weeks, dur
the illness of her daughter, Miss Linnie
Weston.
Miss Ethel Walton returned, Tuesday
morning, TO the Boston University Law
School after passing brief vacation
with her parents. Miss Walton has
beer taking extra studies and hopes by
he time of the June examinations to
nave completed one half Of the three
wears course required by this institution.
M. and Mrs. S. w. Philbrick went to
Boston, Monday morning. Mrs. Phil
brick leaves that city, Saturday, for
Washington, d. C. to attend the national
congress of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution. Miss Gertrude Weston
caves here, tomorrow, to join Mrs.
Philbrick for the Washington trip, which
will occupy about ten days.
Miss Louise A. Barker, who has been
one of the assistants In the Skowhegan
High school since early in January, has
been Ill for the past three weeks at her
boarding place, the home OF MI. and
Mrs. W. Z. Briggs, and attended by a
trained Nurse. She was first fflcted
With tonsilitis and this was followed
by typhoid fever. She will go to her
home in Wayne, Me. as soon as abe ia
able to travel.
The Marston Mills are now in the
midst Of their heavy weight season and
And 1t necessary to ship many of their
nmpIe piece orders by express to get
them to the customer when wanted.
For two weeks past they have been for
Eardlng from thirty to forty pieces a
day. These daily shipments aggregate
nearly one ton in weight and must make
handsome increase in the business
'howing of the American Express Com
pany's Skowhegan office.
Sewall w. Smith and Charles A. Ross
we're In Waterville, Friday, at the meet |
ing Of the Maine Coal Dealers associa-
uon, About forty coal merchants from
Inherent parts of the state were present.
4 banquet was served at the Elmwood
dote! at noon and the business meeting
Vas held In the afternoon. We learn of
oko"hegan dealer who has bought one
thousand tons of coal at exactly the /
same figure that he paid for the same
grade at the same time last year 1t !
low seems probable that the July price |
u the best grade of anthracite coal will
De ",75 per ton In Skowhegan.
The business Of the American express
company has been increasing very rapid
at this Office in recent years and has
u late reached such proportions that one
eSm could not handle 1t. Finding an !
accumulation OF business beyond his
'oiIlty to care for it, agent Edw. Aubin |
'ooS up the m after over the phone with |
'ne managers of this division. Friday of
'a'i week, and obtained their authority |
10 put on an additional team and this |
mas accordingly been done, with Nay S.
'afne} AZ driver While the arrange
"en's are announced as temporary, it is
"seiY TO be permanent as the division |