The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-08-31

Fred aud Elmer Tobey are making
/ preparations to attend the Coburn Clas-
steal Institute during the coming year.
Mrs b. q. True of Clinton was in
town, sunday, visiting relatives.
Burnham Il Morrifs corn shop of
| this place started up for the season,
this week, with every prospect of good
run of work They are having electric
| lights put in throughout the shop for
their night work. A new feature on the
grounds is long structure divided into
nine compartments or rooms for the
French families, each family to have a
room as long az they last. Above the
rooms are built place for sleeping
which will be much appreciated by
these tTansients.
Miss Georgia Morrow will leave on
Saturday of this week to resume her
duties at the Good Will Farm.
Miss Maud Moore returned from
Watervile, Monday night, where she
has been spending several days visiting
Mrs. G. ;. Jewett is in rather poor
health from her nerves.
Mrs. c. A. Whiting spent Monday in
| Oakland visiting with her sisters.
Quite a number from here attended
the fair at Bangor, this week.
Mrs. r P. Gardiner of Franklin,
Mass, who has been spending few
days at the Fernside Dairy Farm, left
here, Monday morning, for home, on the
way she will stop to visit relatives.
Mrs. Charles Nye and Miss Abbie
have been spending few days at the
| North Arson camp-meeting.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Spaulding had a
pretty close shave from being run over
by the five o'clock train on Monday
afternoon. They had with them at the
time one of their little granddaughter
and were driving up Main street. Mr..
Spaulding did not hear the train coming
but just as he neared the track he was
warned by Mr.. J. NJ. Pierce and tried to
check his horse, as the animal was
headed towards home and apparently
anxious to get there, it failed to come
to stop until it got onto the track and
there seemed about to stop the engi-
neer saw the situation, put on his air
brakes and gave several sharp toots with
the whistle. The whistle at 80 close
quarters had the effect of frightening
the horse and it gave a leap forward
drawing the carriage far enough ahead
so that safety was assured by a margin
of few inches and everyone who wit
messed the affair drew sigh of relief
The railroad management have been
petitioned to supply fagman at this
crossing and have already placed the
little hsgman's house IL position and it
is presumably their intention to COM
mence the first of the month to have the
crossing properly protected. While no
serious accident has ever happened at
this point, there have been number of
people who have pulled through by the
skin of their teeth.
The friends of Mrs. Philena II. Boston
will be glad to hear of her safe return
from her western trip. She travelled
alone to Chicago where she was met by
a member OF her sons family and thence
she journeYed $50 miles further to
Stevens Point, Wisconsin, to visit her
son, Harry D. Boston, prominent I'M
dertaker and furniture dealer of that
place In his charming home, fitted
with all the conveniences of modern
life, she spent ten weeks. She reports
that stevens Point compares favorably
with the most up-to.date of Massa-
chusetts towns in the care of lawns and
the interest manifested in making the
residence section beautiful. During her
stay, her son, Fred, who is in the oil
business in Indian Territory, visited
Stevens Point with his bride, which
event added much to the interest and
pleasure of the visit. Mrs. Boston is
completing an eventful summer by
spending the month of August with her
daughter. Mrs Swan, of New York, on
Frenchman's Bay, during which time
she will attend the wedding of Mrs.
Swans second son, who will become a
Benedict at shore Acres, August 80
Monday morning Mr.. w. w. Huntoon
woke up to the fact that he was num-
Der of dollars poorer in this worlds
goods than be was on the preceding
night, burglars having visited his store
during the night and helped themselves
to all sorts of clothing and others goods
which the store contained, and throwing
things about in very promiscuous way.
Investigation shows that entrance had
been obtained by breaking into one of
the front windows. A place was later
discovered down the railroad track
where the burgler had changed his ap-
parel, leaving his old clothes and don
ming the new ones. Constable Farrand
was notified and found some clues and
later in the day Sheriff Smith came up
from Skowhegan to look the mat
ter up. There are many things which
point to certain party who was in the
neighboI hood Sunday which would
seem to indicate that the officers were on
the right track and he is being looked up.
For nearly year past there has been oc-
casional breaks of nature similar to
the one of Sunday night and no clue
could be found, this time it seems as
though the party had gotten careless
AS certain young man was driving past
the store on Monday morning at about
two o'clock he observed a light, In fact
the store was flooded with the regular
electric lights which are in the store,
and the young man saw man In the
store looking about and thought it was
Mr. Huntoon. Instead of Mr.. Huntoon
however, it proves to be the burglar
that he saw and that unworthy person
age was making himself at home by sell
Getting his goods to the queens taste
with the air of connoisseur. The
young man in question did not stop to
look second time but continued on his
way and only caught the significance of
what he had seen when he heard, on
Monday morning, that the store had
been robbed. 1t was only a few nights
previous that Mrs. Frank Ames was