The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-11-08
TOWN and VICINITY


Mre. Olive s. DealeY is at the somer-
set Hospital for medical treatment.
The Second National Bank pays three
and one-half per cent on time deposlts.s
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Savage and their
daughter, Grace passed Sunday In town
as guests of Mr.. aid Mrs. w. II. Emery.
Mrs. Ann Lumsden arrived home, Sat
urday, from trip to Dexter oecasioned
by the Illness of her sister, Mrs. Morri-
son.
Miss Esther Weeks of Wiscassett, Me.
was the guest OF Miss Olive Green over
Sunday. Both are students at Colby
College.
E.. M. Breed left here, Monday, on the
noon train for Montreal, after passing
Saturday and Sunday with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Z B. Breed.
Geo. Pishon of this place, accompanied
| by F. 2. Pencil, was in Harmony, Tues
day. and bought the hay cut on the Ira
| Hurd farm during the past season.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet In Grand Army hall,
Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 18Th at three
o'clock. The public are cordially in-
vted
Invitations have been issued by John
J. McIlwrath and Ralph P. Burrill for a
mas quersde assembly to be held in Mil
burn Hall on the evening of November
thlrtieth.
Mrs. +. A. Leitch has been at So.
Paris, Me-, this week, representing the
Womsn's Home Missionary association
at the annual state meeting of that or
ganlzltiop.
Mrs. Harvey D. Eaton took the train
from this station, Monday morning, to
return to her home In Watervlle. She
had passed the previous week In Corn
Vile with her brother, Geo. f. Foster.
Mrs. Geo. o. Smith gave a talk on
Mexico before the students In the Acad-
envy building, Thursday afternoon OF
last week. There was also a short pro-
gram In which the pupils of the school
took part.
@. w. Emerson has bought all the
white ash, large enough for shoVel
blocks, OF Frank Parker, Norridgewock'
He will haul 1t to his home on Dinsmore
street and work 1t there. He thinks
there Ia enough for winters work.
There will be a meeting of Milburn
Commandery, United 0 der OF. the Gold
en- Cross, next Monday evening, at
which time number Of candidates will
be initiated. Col. A. s. Bangs, Grand
Commander, will be present and oflieiate
In the ceremonies.
The Skowhegan farm which Clarence
Langley Of Mercer has recently purehas-
ed, is the Ensign Frye place, about i've
miles from this village on the Watervllle
road. As the information came to US
%,ye understood 1t to be the Henry Frye
farm, and so stated IN our last issue, but
this was not the case.
The football team of the Skowhegan
High school goes to Pittsfield next Sat
urday. to play its fourth and last game
of the present season, its opponents be-
ing the eleven from the Maine Central
Institute. or the three games which the
skowheRan team has thus far played,
one was won by them and each OF the
other two resulted In draw.
The topic for discussion at the meet
ing OF Skowhegan Orange next Wednes-
day evening Is "What are Postal Savings
Banks, and what benefit would be de-
rived from their establishment" The
question OF the comparative profit to be
derived from the breeding Of trotting
and general purposes horses will also be
discussed The evening will close with
an old fashioned spelling match In which
the grange will be separated into two
divisions and "spelled down., the words
being given out by the lecturer.
The Coburn and the West aquednct
companies have been increasing their
water supply recently by the addition OF
new wells. The source of the West
aqueduct ls In the valley north OF the
corn factory and their new we'll has
been built 10 the vicinity of Silver street.
1t 10 10 sandy soil, about eight feet
deep and five feet 10 diameter, bricked
up from the bottom slightly above the
ground. The flow of water is very
abundant and inc, eases the water avail
able for the patrons of this company
something like 80 per cent. The we'll
built for the Coburn aqueduct is near
Jewett street. IL is of the same con
struction and the flow of water is ample.
The officials of these companies believe
they now have sources OF water supply
that will be practically never-failing.
The street recently accepted by the
town, from West Front street to the new
saw mill. is to be known as "Pennell
street." The municipal officers do not
contemplate grading this street this fall
nor is it their intention to grade Alder
street extention, but they do purpose to
I'LL the gully or run on the last named