The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-08-03
TOWN and VICINITY

I'd. P. Page arrived home. Monday
evening, from short business trip tC
Moosehead Lake.
Miss Nancy J. Spesrln of Augusta Ii
passing two weeks vacation In towr
as the guest of 4. II. Lang and wife.
II YOU use Paris Green, there Is only
one kind to use. and that is Reynolds
II comes in tin boxes and Bucknam sells It.
Hon. Byron Boyd of Augusta, Score
/ tary Of State, was in town, Friday Of
last week, and dined with Senator For
rest Goodwin and family.
John B. Nutting goes with Company
f. rifle team to the competitive SHOOT
at Brunswick, today, and he will bC
company cook for the week.
Miss Luella Stevens went TO Water
vile, Tuesday afternoon, to meet MRS
William Stevens and her young SOD
Edmond, who come to be guests a
Bloomfield for the month of August
There is to be a rehearsal of the Show
hogan Choral Society tomorrow Friday
evening, at the high school building
There will also be rehearsal, Monday
at which Professor Chapman will bt
present.
There we're nearly seventy-nge in the
party leaving on the special train at 6 30,
this morning, for the excursion of DE
Molay Commandery to Belfast and Pen
obscot Bay. They are favored with an
ideal day for their outing.
The different committees on Old Home
Week are arranging their plans for the
gathering at the Library, Wednesday
evening, August 16sh, and we shall be
able to give the program and full par
ticulars in our next issue.
j. A. Roderick has purchased hall
interest In the Skow hogan Market and
the new firm will be known as Ssnborn
& Roderick. Mr.. Roderick will be the
active partner in the business and his
brother, Fred Roderick, will be head
salesman.
DR.. Geo. Fl. Tuttle, osteopathist OF
Portland, who comes here weekly and
occupies rooms opposite Hotel Heselton'
was here on his usual round last Sabbath.
He has some twenty-five patients at
the present time and each visit finds
new ones anxiously waiting his coming
Many have reasons to be thankful that
the science of osteopathy was ever dis
covered.
Rev. B. 5. Merrill, L. L. Walton
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. O. Smith, Miss Berle
and Elsie Walton, Elroy LaCasce and
Roy Paddock were among those who at
tended the Good Will Assembly al
Hinckley, this week. Mr.. Smith gave
an address on 1.-THE Life Of Geologist,
Tuesday, and the Misses Walton tool
part In the musical program in the audi
torium, last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. w. Philbrick, witt
their three sons, Donald, Carl ant
william, left Tuesday, for Pophan
Beach, Me. where they will pass thu
month Of August. Mr.Phllbrick expects
to remain with his family for the fire
two weeks, without permitting business
to interrupt his vacation the remainder
of the month he will divide bis tint
between the coast and his office IL
Skowhegan.
The Elite Specially Co., who are ap
pearing twice daily at Lakewood Theatre
this week, present most pleasing enter
tainment. Every act Is good one auC
includes Miss Nellie and little Irene
juvenile entertainers; Findlay and Burk'
In stageland satire; Jack Clahane, thu
merry Jester, who is one Of the best IL
bis line; Wonder and Belman, comedy
acrobats; Walter B Hale, master banjo
LIST, who draws wonderful music from
this difficult Instrument.
Company E leaves here, Saturday, BY
| the 1880 train for the annual muster al
Augusta. The full number of men now
carried on the rolls is fifty, having beer
slightly increased, with the other com
panies in the State, over previous years
They are commanded by Captain F. G
Dunlap, First Lieutenant B. l. Rice and
Second Lieutenant Edgar L. Murphy
Company E. Band will do escort duty
from the armory to the station. The
encsmpment Is to last seven days.
A warrant for next Saturdays specia
town meeting is posted at the postoff1ce
the citz9n being notified to assemble
at Engine Hall at two O'Clock p. m
Besides the proposition as to the pur'
chase of the Chase and Moore lots OF
Water street and the erection Of {
municipal building thereon, the com
mttee, consisting of E, F. FAirbrother
A Fl. Wyman and j. P. Merrill, ap
pointed to investigate with regard to the
advsablity of enlarging the new Fire
Department Building so as to provide {
hall for town purposes and offices fol-
the selectmen and other officers of thu
town, will make their report.
In our account of the fire, last week
we spoke, of the Fletcher block al
having been built by Amos Fletcher II
about 1916, and that was on the bes
information obtainable at the time