The Somerset reporter., 1907-06-20

Two Kitchen girls wanted at Hotel
Coburn.
w. c. T. T., will meet next Tues
day at three O'Clock in G. A. R. hall.
Mabel Dane has secured a perma-
nent position in Portland and went to
that city Monday.
c. H. Pepper of Concord, Mass. re-
turned home today after very brief
visit in Skowhegan
The banquet which the Skowhegan
Boys Club had planned for this month
has been postponed until fall.
There will be straw berry supper
at the Methodist vestries tomorrow
Friday evening, from $50 to 7.
Price 25 cents.
The annual meeting of the Somer
set County Medical Society will be
held at Hotel Coburn, Thursday of
next week, June 9th.
Stella Kimball who has been en-
ployed in the straw factories in
West Upton, Mass, the past winter
arrived home Saturday and will pass
the summer in Skowhegan.
Edw w. Marble has just received
a beautiful statue of Memory" cut
for him by one of the best artists of
Italy, which is we'll worth visit to
the Skowhegan Marble Works to see.
Edw w. Marble is now rapidly
completing the installation of pneu-
matte machinery and tools for cutting
and polishing marble, at his works,
corner of Madison avenue and High
streets.
Mr.. w. R. Mcclellan of Greeley,
Col, is expected here this week for
few days stay. His boyhood days
were spent in Skowhegan and he
married Eliza, daughter of Levi H.
Folsom, one of our residents long de-
ceased. This is Mr. McClellan's first
visit since 1875.
At the regular meeting of Crescent
Tent, Knights of the Maccabees,
Tuesday evening the degree was con-
ferred on two candidates. After the
work a banquet was served at the
Maine Central hotel the diners includ-
ing the local members and fifteen
visiting brethren from Athens.
Thos. Howard who is usually in
charge at the Maine Central freight
house at this station has been laid off
for the past three weeks with scia
tica. He hopes to resume his work
in the early future and is accepting
his enforced vacation with such
patience as is possible under the cir
cumstances.
The Ladies' Spiritual Aid Society
has announced its annual all day
meeting at Lakewood for Sunday,
June 80, with Miss Lizzie Harlow of
Boston as the principal speaker. The
forenoon session is at 1890 and the
afternoon session at 2.30. Cars will
run from Skowhegan and Madison
every half hour with a round TIP
rate of 25 cents.
The meeting held at the Bethany
church last Sunday evening was one
of the deepest interest. 1t was held
under the auspices of the Y. P. S. c..
E. and was in the interest of young
men. The Messrs Merriam, Markham
and Burrill made an excellent report
on the Augusta convention. Hubert
Crowell spoke for the local work and
made a stirring appeal.
Messrs. L. G. Williams, Geo. T.
Tibbetts and Henry Crow ell, Somer-
sets board of county commissioners
are in the northern part of the county
this week making their semiannual
inspection of the highways in unin-
corporated townships. They left
here Monday morning and were con-
veyed as far as Jackman by Sheriff
c. H. Smith in his touring car. Claud
Barker the we'll known cornetist, of
Athens was one of the party.
DR.. A. Marks, oculist, of Charlotte,
North Carolina, who passes the sum-
mers in the north on account of his
health, is domiciled at the Coburn and
purposes to make Skowhegan his
headquarters for some weeks. 1t is
his custom to combine business with
pleasure during his stay in the north
and he will receive patients for con-
sultation and practice in the various
branches of his profession while here
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Jewett had the
pleasure of entertaining all of their
children at their home on Spring ST.,
Sunday. The five sons and daughters
with their families, including the host
and hostess, making party of tif-
teen. The eldest son, j. Fred Jswett
has resided in the west for years and
no complete reunion of the family has
been held since his departure, over
twenty years ago. He now contem-
plates resuming his residence in
Maine. Those present last Sunday
we're as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. j. w
Jewett, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur r. Je-
welt and son, Langdon, Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Morrow and Clifford w. JeWett