The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-11-29
TOWN and VICINITY

Frank Gage is passing Thanksgiving
week with friends in Lewiston.
Osdway has nice tenement to rent
near MaIston mill and shoe factory.
Dolls and fancy aprons a speciality at
the Congregational fair, December 4
George Simpson furnished the Hol-
lander coffee for the Methodist dinner.
The Second National Bank pays three
and one.half per cent on time deposits.
Skowhegan merchants as whole OBJ
served Thanksgiving by closing their
places of business.
Get your orders In early at Delanos
for ice cream and sherbets for your
Thanksgiving feast.
Ernest Vigue is home from Portland
to pass Thanksgiving with his mother,
Mrq. Jasper Jennings.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Walker left here,
yesterday, to pass Thanksgiving and the
remainder OF the week in Portland.
Ten cans of salmon fry, consigned to
HAYDEN lake, came In on the train, Sat
urday, and have been deposited there.
o car F. knowlton returned to Massa-
chusetts, Saturday, after passing several
months at his farm on the Hayden Lake
road.
Be sure and get one of those special
two pound boxes of pure candy for %
cents, for Thanksgiving, today, at
Delano's.
The election Of officers will occur at
the first meeting In December, Of Russell
Relief Corps, to be held, Dec. Z h. A
large attendance is desired.
Edwin W. Marble, marble cutter and
monument maker, has set very nice
Quincy granite monument on John Wee
toms lot in Bloomfield cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. II. Hutchins have
been called to New Portland by the
death of his father, Elias Hutchins,
which occurred Tuesday morning.
William E. Hacke,t, Eugene F. Parker,
Isaac Pierce and Thos. Lawley were
drawn, Saturday, to serve as traverse
Jurors at the December term of court.
Most Excellent High Priest james E..
Blanchard of Augusta is to make his
official visit with Somerset Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons, at their regular con
vocation tomorrow (Fridsy) evening.
Mrp. J. W. Fogler of Washington, D..
C. arrived, Saturday evening. Her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. b. F. Baker, are not
In as good health as could be desired and
Mrs. Fogler will pass the winter with
them.
The next regular meeting of Wood
blne Lodge No. d. OF FL. will be held,
Monday evening, December third. At
the close OF the meeting the members
will give an entertainment and serve re-
| freshments.
The sale of fancy articles, foods, cam
dy, puffs and aprons, at the Congrega-
tional vestry, will open at 2 O'Clock,
tuesday, December 4. and continue
through Wednesday. Supper will be
served in the vestry, Wednesday, from
$50 to p. m.
Lowell W. Chase has recently formed
partnership with his brother, Geo. f.
Chase, and the firm is henceforth to be
known as L. W. Chase & Co. Mr.. Chase
has been In the livery and carriage busi-
ness In this place for thirty years and,
except for six months of that period, has
been entirely without business asso
ciates. Mr.. George F. Chase, who now
becomes partner, has been In his BROTH
ers employ for somewhat over four
years, In charge OF the business at the
Heselton House stables until that loca-
ton had to be relinquished Oh account
of the sale OF the lot to the town.
M. j. Mitchell, who was for four years
10 the employ of the Great Northern
Paper company and stationed at Cara
funk Ia the care OF their interests In that
section, for most Of this period, has re-
Gently accepted similar position with
the Msttawamkeag Lumber company
and will move his home from this place
to Stockholm, Arroostook county. Mr..
Mitchell has been for some weeks at Is
land Falls, near Stockholm, where the
Mattawamkeag Lumber company have
been installing new machinery. Mrs.
Mitchell, accompanied by her young
daughter, Miss Louise, left here this
week to join her husband and from that
place they will 20 to Stockholm 10 the
early future.
Chas. North and his son, Fred, went
to Pittsfield, Saturday, and installed a
Minneapolis Heat Regulator at The resi-
dence of f. w. Briggs. This extremely
useful invention, for which Mr.. North Is
sole representative for Somerset county,
puts beat ION tap" like electric light,
gas or water. You simply press, or in
this case turn, button to mark the de-
gree Of heat desired and the regulator
does the rest, opening and closing the
hampers at the heater to maintain just
the amount of fire required to keep the
house warmed to 60, 20 or so degrees as
is desired. Mr.. North has recently in
stalled these regulators in the residences
of several Skowhegan people, among
hem +. McNeelie, Mrs. <. B. Sbep-