The Somerset reporter., 1906-06-28

| FOR Wnlte peTcn, pass, plcKerel ana
salmon you can get the most killing bait
at Fairgrleve's.
Miss Catherine Keene left Wednesday
morning, for Island Springs where she
will spend month with friends.
About % members OF the graduating
class of the Baptist Hill School enjoyed
picnic at Lakewood on Monday.
James Flemming left Monday morning
for Haverhill, Mass, where he will pass
several DAYS at the home of his sister,
Bridget.
Chas. Green went to Watervlle Mon
day, returning Tuesday with his new
Buick car, which he ran home from that
place.
George Lynch, chef at the Coburn,
spent Sunday with his mother In Bath,
returning home on the late train Mon
day night.
Diamond hay carriers, hsying tools of
all kinds and bug death are what the
Blunt Hardware Co. is hustling at this
season of the year.
Miss Marion Foss returned Wednesday
to her home In Pennington, after pass
ing a week In town as the guest of the
Misses Helen and Donna Tozier at their
home on Pleasant st.
A party Of about twenty members of
the Epworth League of the Centenary
Methodist Church enjoyed basket pic.
mic last Wednesday evening" at the farm
of e. E. Hurd near Lakewood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Hopkins of Ban
gor arrived on the night train, Saturday,
and will spend a few days in town as the
guests of j. D. Symonds. Mr.. Hopkins
is a mail clerk on the run from Bangor
to Vsnceboro.
William Russell, residing on North
avenue plains, reports the loss of about
% half grown chickens which were
struck by lightning in Fridays storm.
They had huddled under lilac bush for
shelter, and the heat of the bolt which
struck the ground few feet from them
was such that the feathers were singed
from their bodies.
DR.. [. l.. Sslley, Veterinary Surgeon,
went TO Parln Pond Tuesday, where he
inspected the herd of cattle owned by
Michael Piel. He found Jersey bull
infected with tuberculosis, which was
killed. This animal came from the herd
at the Carrabasset Stock Farms in North
Arson, where practically the whole herd
was recently found to be infected with
the same disease and had to be killed.
Edward F. Merrill returned home Sat-
urday on the morning train after COM
plotting his last year at Harvard Law
School. During his three years course
at Harvard, and his collegiate course at
Bowdoln, Mr.. Merrill has made an envi-
able place for himself, not only in his
studies, but in other branches of his COL
lege activity, and is starting out In life
finely equipped for his profession, He
will enter the law office OF his father,
Hon. E. N. Merrill of this town.
H. p. Merwin, who has conducted q
cigar business in town for seven years
at his store on Water st. has closed out
his business owing to continued ill health
for some time past. The. new proprietor
is Joseph Provencal, Jr. who has learned
the cigar business thoroughly and is one
Of Skowhegan's promising young men.
Mr.. Merwin will spend the summer at
Mouse Island, and expects to remove to
California In the fall where he hopes that
the climate will be bene fetal to his
health.
! Our readers in Somerset county and
elsewhere who are interested in the 81
100000 now to the credit of depositors at
the Skowhegan Savings Bank, will be
pleased to learn that the dividend pay
able July 1st at that institution will be
at the rate OF 1-2 per cent, an increase
of one half of one per cent over that de-
clsred during the past few years. There
were so savings institutions in Maine, as
| iSSoiASo III tuC ioo1 ioohO VA thC Dnuh
Examiner, and very few OF that number
have dividend rate of 3 IL per cent.
Angler L. Goodwin, who made this
place his home while In attendance at
the Skowhegan High school and the
period during which he was law stu
dent at the office of Walton & Walton,
is to remove from Fairfield, where he
opened an Office about one year since, to
Boston, where he has accepted position
as confidential clerk with Henry Wy
man, Esq, at SO State street. Mr.. Wy
man is native of Skowhegan, who has
become a successful practitioner at the
hub. Mr.. Goodwin's many friends will
regret that he has decided to leave Som
erset county.
On last Wednesday afternoon spen t
bullet from 30-30 rifle broke through
the parlor window of Howard Friends
house on Water street. Upon investiga-
tion it was found that the course OF the
bullet had been such that 1t had passed
completely through two barns before
reaching Mr.. Friends house, and owing
to the contour of the land beyond the
shot must have been fired from within
the limits of the village. l.. c. Emery,