The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-11-14

day, November is, G. H. Gardner will
unloadla car of grain.
Agent David A. Haig of the Ander-
son Mills arrived home yesterday
from a business trip to Boston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Sinclair and
their daughter, Hazel, arrived home
from Kennebunkport, yesterday.
Money deposited in the skowhegan
Savings Bank before the 10th of the
month will begin to draw interest
from the 1st.
Miss Goldie Parkman and Mr..
Chester Dana returned to Auburn,
Monday, after passing a few days in
town as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. U. K.
Parkman.
In the present season of houseclean-
ing it will interest the ladies Of Show :
hogan to know that the Somerset
Steam Laundry makes a speciality of
laundering lace curtains.
Thos. Simpson Of Warren, Me-,
arrived here Tuesday evening and
is passing the week as the guest OF
his brother, Adam Simpson, at his
home on Maple street. Mr.. Simpson
is boss finisher in the Georges River
Mills located at Warren.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G Durrell left
here Tuesday for Oxford County.
Mr.. Durrell has some business matters
in view in that section and they will
both take the opportunity of renew
ing acquaintance with friends which
they have in Paris and Norway.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Viles were in
Gardiner, Monday TO pass the day with
Mrs. Blaine S. Viles and her two
children, Dorothy and William
Payson. Mrs. Viles, who has been
visiting in Gardiner with her parents
since the first of the month, returns
to her home in Newport, N. H., today.
The James Kennedy Theatrical Co.,
of which Miss Adelaide Boothby Smith
is leading lady, is booked at Water
vile opera house during the present
week. Miss Gertrude Carter of this
place will attend the performance,
this evening, and Miss Smith will re-
turn here to pass the day, tomorrow,
as her guest
Mrs. B. S. Flagg, Mrs. E. L. Ford,
Mrs. Geo. Wiley, Mrs. Flora Dealey,
Mrs Flora McPheters and Miss Hattie
Flagg, all members of Bloomfield
Temple, Pythian Sisterhood, of this
place, went to Waterville last Monday
to attend school of instruction in
the work of their order. They were
guests of Havelock Temple Of Water
vile and returned here Tuesday.
The remains of the late Joseph
Lehay, who was killed in railroad
accident at Dover, N. H., last Friday
were received at this station Monday
night. They were taken to the home
of Mrs. Lehay on Lawton street, who
accompanied them here. Burial was
at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning in the
South cemetery. Mr.. Lehay was a
member of the Order of Railway
joining them when In the
employ of the Maine Central.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crosby Kinds of Chi
cago arrived here last Monday and
are guests of Mr.. Hinds' parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Kinds of this place. 1t
will be recalled that they were on
their way here about two months
since, but that Mr.. Kinds met with an
accident in Boston, a sightseeing
on which he was riding
being overturned, and he has been
detained in hospital in that city with
a broken leg for the past seven weeks.
A small number of books Of recent
fiction have been purchased and
placed on shelf in the Public
Library by the Advisory Board, and
they will be let to readers at cents
each per day. The money received
will be used for adding to the col
lection, and the books after time
sufficient to pay for their cost will be
turned into the Library. This ex-
pedient for meeting the demand for
new fiction on the part of a class of
readers has been employed success
fully in other libraries, and is to be
given trial on small scale here.
At the recent convention of the Ma
tional Spiritualist Association at
Washington, Rev. H. D. Barrett de-
clined a reelection and DR.. Geo.
Warn was made his successor. Thus
Mr.. Barrett lays aside the responsible
ity of an office which he has held since
the foundation of the National Asso-
citation, fourteen years ago. He has
accepted the charge of the editorial
bureau of the National Association
and will be located at Washington
during the coming winter. Mr.. Bar
rett arrived here, Monday, and pass
ed day or two at his home in Ca
nan. He left this morning for Wash
ington, where he will commence his
new duties at once.
William Donaldson & Son, proprie-
tors of the South Side Grocery, have
disposed of their business to H. s.
Hubbard of this place and F. G. Furbel
of Canaan. who will carry on the