The Somerset reporter., 1906-05-10


C. Il. Davis of New York City, pre-.
pretor OF Kilcare, has been 10 town
portion Of the present week.
The regular meeting of the Town In
provement Society will be held at the
Library Parlors, tomorrow friday az
ternoon, at 30.
Levi S. Ysrney Of Boston, formerly a
resident of this place, was among the
arrivals by last evenings train. Mr..
Vsrney purposes to pass portion of the
summer in Skowhegan and other ST mel
set county towns.
A. X. Butler Of the law firm of Butler
q Butler went to Augusta on business,
saturday. The business Of the firm has
kept Mr.. Butler travelling to all parts Of
New England during the past few
months, his Maine Central mileage alone
aggregatiag 5000 miles in Il weeks.
The ladies of the New England telC-
phone exchange at Waterville, among
them Miss Lillian French formerly of
this place, gave a reception and hop,
Friday evening OF last week in the build
ing which is soon to be the new tfiice
OF the telephone company in that city
There were guests present from Bangor,
Augusta and other Maine towns and
cities and among them Misses Lena
Tobey, Airline Clark and Adelaide Law
renee and Mr.. John McIlwrath Of the
Skowhegan telephone exchange.
j. D. 5ymonds, the present proprietor
of the City Bakery, is making prepare
lions for the summer season which Is
always the busy time Of the year 10 the
bakery business. He has added a
new bread mixer and ice cream fretz r
and an electric motor to furnish power
for both. The bread mixer is the first
Of the kind ever made use OF in Skowhe-
gan. II has a capacity of one and one
half barrels Of -four, sufficient for 800
loaves OF bread. A handsome % draft
soda fountain, made by Low Art
Tile Co. of Chelsea, Mass. has arrived
and will be get up ready for the As
warm day.
AT the meeting Of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union held Tuesday
afternoon, May s the following dele
gates were elected TO attend the County
Convention Of the W. c. T. t., which
will be held in Fairfield, May 3lst and
June 1st: Mrs. l.. W. Weston, Mrs. w.
K. Clifford, Mrs. +. &. Burrll. THESE
ladies are delegates by virtue of their
offices in the local Union. Mrs. g. +
Paddock who is a County superntend-
ent. Mrs. II. a. Dinsmore, Mrs. j. N
smith, Mrs. o. A. Priest, Mrs. q. o.
Smith, Mrs. ID. NJ. Bacon. Delegate-at-
large, Mr.. Fred M. French.
Mrs. Ned II Lambert arrived shete,
Saturday night, after an absence OF fou'
months in Boston, where she had remain
ed assisting in the care OF her father, J
w. Tenney, who had been a great suffer
or from cancer OF the throat and VIII
passed away, Wednesday of last week
The funeral services were held from his
late residence, Friday afternoon, Mrs
| Lambert accompanying the remains tt
Norridgewock, his boyhood home, fol
burial. Mrs. Lambert returned to Bos
| ton on Tuesday where she will assist hel
mother in closing her home after which
Mrs. Tenney will come here to reside
with her daughter.
DR.. u. S. Hunnewell OF Msdison wal
! in town. Tuesday morning, on his way
/ to Augusta. In conversation with {
representative Of the REPORTER the doc
tor stated that of As physicians wht
were in practice in this county, 40 year
ago, four only are now living. Thu
! three besides DR.. Uunnewell are Dr. 5
A. Bennett of Norway, formerly 10 prac
| tice In New Portland, DIR. Ivory Lowe Of
Canaan and DR.. Llewellyn Brown o.
Norridgewock. These four veterans o.
the medical profession are known anC
beloved by many Somerset county FAM
! lies although not all are IN active prsc
tice at the present time. In regard tt
continued health DIR. Hunnewell Is es
pecially fortunate. He is able to TAKE
long rides ard attend to all branches O
his profession much as did 40 years since
Not many minutes after the R.a
Widow Brown company reached here
last Monday morning, member of the
troupe picked up ladies' gold watch ant
chain on Madison avenue. Not hearing
of the owner through the day, the cir
cumstance WAS announced at the per
Torrance at Grange Hall, MONDAY even
ing. Even this publicity failed to fine
the owner, but, on calling at the REPOR
TER office on Tuesday with view u
placing an advertisement In this week.
issue, the fuder of the watch learn.C
that the owner had already arranged tC
advertise her loss and tffer reward fol
the restoration OF her property. The
watch was left In the REPORTERS car
and subsequently returned. The lady
was certainly fortunate that her watch
was found by someone who was willing
to make the fort TO restore It to her.
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New summer goods at +. B. Curtis.
Fine seatrout at the Skowhegan mar
ket.
Cnmnlete stnck Of 4 lMer seeds Nh