The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-12-27

Saturday, Dec. 20 and Monday, Dec
81, C. Il. Gardner will unload a car Of
grain.
C. w. Jewett has been the guest Of
friends In Augusta for several days thi.
week.
Miss s. Madeline Ward is passing the
holidays In Boston as the guest of hel
sister, Mics Mae Ward.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Curtis of Boston
have been in town, this week, guests Of
K. B. Curtis and family.
Fred G. Heald left here, Friday OF
last week, for ten days. visit with bis
brother, Geo. Hesld 10 Boston.
The dates for the annual fair of Skow
hogan Grange are Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday, Jan. 16, II, and Is.
Dean 8. Swift of Norwood, Mass
passed Christmas In town the guest oil
bis parents, Mr.. and Mrs. N. Fl. Swift.
Remember the lecture by DR.. Chas. A
Eastman On 1.-THE r al Indian" at the
Bethsny Baptist church, January II b.
Admission 25 cents.
Mrs.. g. w. Cover and her two daugh-
tiers, Doris and Carolyn, are passing
Christmas week at Mrs. Covers former
home In New Sharon.
Frank z. Emery of New York City,
accompanied by bis daughter, Miss
Clara, have been passing the holidays In
town with his wife and family.
Miss Elsie Walton, who is pursuing
the study Of music Ia Boston, arrived
here, Monday evening, to pass the week
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman
L. Walton.
Mr.. and Mrs. r T. RDss of St. Ste
phen, N. B., and their two sons, Ken
meth and Walter, have been guests of
s. W. Philbrick and family during the
present week.
DR.. j. e. Wymsn OF Lynn, Mass. has
been 10 tswn the past week as the guest
Of his mother, Mrs. Sophronia wymap.
DR.. Wymsn has accepted a position az
one OF the house physicians at a Lynn
hospital.
Major and Geo. Hawley OF Idaho are
visiting 10 town with their sisters, Mrp.
Leon Buteau and Mrs. Hauzeb Marceau.
They are to pass the winter 10 the east,
In Maine and at Point Lewis In Canada.
their former home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Goodwin and
Mrs. Edith Shepherd passed Christmas
10 Pittsield as guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
r. w. Briggs. Miss Lola Goodwin, who
has been visiting with Mr.. and Mrs.
Briggs for the past two weeks, is to
remain until after New Years.
Clair r. Marston is at home from Port
Deposit, Md, to pass the holidays with
his mother, Mrs. Sarah s. Marston. His
brother, Coburn s. Marston, midship-
man On the battlesbip Iowa, Ia at the
port OF New York with bis vessel, but
will not be able to make Skowhegan
visit at this time.
90 Jan. lst, New Years day, the post
Office will be closed as follows: Prom
$50 a. N. to 10 do a. M, from II 90 a. m.
to 1.l5 p. No.; from 80 p. N. to 30 p.
M; from 30 p. N. to 40 p. M. and at
6 90 at night. No trips will be made by
the rural carriers. City carriers will
make the regular morning trip only.
Frank |. Estes with crew of men and
sixteen horses is hauling lumber on a
contract with j. B. Soule, at Mount ABB
ram, near Kingfield, In Franklin county.
Mrs. Estes left here last Saturday,
for Boston, where she will be the guest
of her son, w. A. Estes until the middle
OF January. AT the conclusion of her
stay In Boston she will go to New York
city to pass the winter with her daught..
err, Mrs. D. e. Dorothy.
r. N. Nash and G. N. Mcmillan, two
students at the Yale School OF FORESTRY,
arrived here Friday evening of last week,
for a brief consultation with Roy l..
Marston, until recently member Of the
faculty at Yale. They went to BIng-
ham, Saturday, and from that place
through the woods to Moosehesd Lake
on snow shoes. They are to pass the
month of January at the Hollingsworth
and Whitney camps on the west shore
of the lake, making study of Maine
logging methods.
The following officers were elected at
the annual meeting OF Sunset Chapter,
Order of the Eastern Star, Friday even
ing of last week: Worthy matron, Mrs.
Cornelia S. jackson; worthy patron,
Geo. W. Nash; associate matron, Mrs.
Laura II. Dinsmore; secretary, Mrs.
Julia Robbins; treasurer, Mrs. Issie
Williams; conductress, Mrs. Annie L..
o kes; assistant conductress, Miss
Edith M. Gledhill. Other officers to be
appointed by the worthy matron, will be
announced at the next meeting.
The cash receipts of the Skowhegan
postoffiee for Christmas week were in
excess of any corresponding week in its
previous years. The local agent of the
American Express company has not as
yet completed his accounting of the
Christmas period but has gone into it