The Somerset reporter., 1905-07-06
TOWN and VICINITY

Miss Adelaide Smltn Oh new 1oTk
cry passed the Fourth as the guest of
AZ and Mrs. E. B. Carter.
Mrs Geo. w. Phillips Of Vinalhaven,
Me-. has been the guest OF her sister,
Mrs. f. P. Pencil, during the past
week.
n. NJ. Pratt of Portland with his two
children, passed several days in town,
the past week, as the guest of his sister,
Mrs. VIVA Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. II. Swain went to
Waterville Saturday morning, for a few
DAYS visit with their daughter, Mrs
Gertrude Thompson.
Miss Flossie Wyman had as her guest,
fer few days recently, Miss Florence
Slower from Massachusetts,, former
Colby college classmate.
Messrs. NJ. Rocamora and R. L. Reade
are located In Skowhegan, calling on the
neople here relative to the distributing
of the Latest Road Survey of Maine.
Miss Eta Hall, who had been the
guest of Mrs. Olive Dealey for the past
seven weeks, returned to her home in
Cambridge, Mass, Friday of last week.
Chauncy Adams, M. D. of Concord, N.
H.. and his son, Master Edmund, arriv-
ed here, Thursday of last week, for a
visit with the doctors sister, Mrs. j. z.
Clark
Miss Lenna Nye, who had been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Nye for
several weeks past, departed, Saturday
morning, for Bethlehem, N. H., where
she has employment for the summer.
Mrs. S. F. Greene of Solon and Miss
Cora French of Westwood, Mass, were
visiting Mrs. Gala Heselton, Friday and
Saturday. Miss French has been the
guest of DR.. and Mrs. Greene in Scion
for several weeks.
Mrs. E. w. Marble received the sad
intelligence by wire, Saturday morning,
of the death Of her mother, Mrs. E. A.
Ladd, which occurred very suddenly
that morning at Hayerhill, Mass. Mr..
and Mrs. Marble left for Haverhill by
the l250 train.
Mr.. and Mra. T. H. Anderson of Port
land passed the Fourth with relatives in
town. Louis A. Anderson, who has been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Ander-
son for time, left here 10 their COM
pany, Yesterday, to return to his home
in Rhode Island.
About the most exciting part OF the
celebration was the lively scramble for
the envelopes dropped from the balloon,
the finder of the order for a suit was
boy eleven years old, Roland Wyman,
who has been made happy by receiving
the ten dollars worth Of goods presented
by Chas. F. Ward Co.
w. F, Shaw, formerly superintendent
of the Anderson mills of this place, now
at the head of a large textile plant in
Dayville, Conn, was in town, yesterday.
Mrs. Shaw came to Maine with her hus-
band, stopping in Fairfield for brief
visit with friends, after which she will
come here to pass several weeks.
6. w. Smith of Canaan has been
awarded the mail contract on the route
between that town and Skowhegan for
the four years beginning July 1st. The
Athens line has also changed hands, the
new proprietor being Oscar L. Bucknam
Of that place. The stage line to Nor
rdgewock will continue in the hands of
Chas. A. Fairbrother of that town, who
has been proprietor of it since the dis
continuance of service Of the NOrridge-
woek electric road.
Ringing Brothers great circus is to
be al Waterville next Monday, and the
Maine Central offers round trip rate of
one dollar from Skowhegan, which in
cudes the price of admission, with cor
respondingly low rates from Hinckley
addition to the regular train service
there will be special train leaving here
at go p. no., and one returning from
Waterville after the evening perform
ante, leaving there at l0.45.
Sherman Smith of Los Angeles, Cal,
and James Clark of Pasadena in the
same state, arrived by last evenings
train and are guests at the home of Hon.
Forrest Goodwin. Mr.. Smith is accom-
panied by his daughter, Miss Annie, who
passed the summer here, two years SINCE
lie will be remembered as a son OF the
late Obed Smith of Cornville. Mr.. Smith
went to the Pacific coast twenty years
ago and this is his first visit to Maine
since that date. He plans to pass July
10 this vicinity. Mr.. Clark Is promi-
hent lumberman and mill owner of
California, who is now in Maine for the
hrst time. He will pass four or five
weeks in the east.
Al Of the sons and daughters of the
late Calvin Stinchfleld with many of
nose related to them by marriage, held
family reunion at the Stinchfeld home.
stead, the present home of Delbert F.
Smiley, near Dudley's Corner, last Sum
Jay. The following is list OF those
present; Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard, DR..
and Mrs, W. s. Stinchfield and daughter,