The Somerset reporter., 1907-12-12
TOWN and VICINITY.

II. j. Craig, accountant in the
of flee of F. H. Colby of Bingham, was
N town CD business Monday.
Mrs. Chas. w. Hayden went to
Readfeld Saturday, summoned by the
critical illness of her mother, Mrs. d.
c. Wells.
Mrs. A. Osborn has closed her home
on Middle street in this town and
will pass the winter with her brother,
B. B. Wells, in Norridgewock.
Mrs. William W. Cakes who had
been the guest of relatives in New
Rochelle, N. Y, since early in NO
vember, arrived home Saturday.
Mrs. w. E. Blake of Calais, Me-,
is expected here in the early future
to remain until after Christmas as
the guest of her father, Henry A.
Varney.
William H. Paine, grand foreman
of the Ancient Order of United Work
men, grand lodge of Maine, made an
official visit upon the local lodge at
Newport, Monday evening. He also
attended a meeting of the executive
officers of the grand lodge held at
Waterville yesterday,
-, Mrs. Edith 8. Shepherd gave a
bridge whist party of ten tables at
her home last Friday afternoon.
Aside from the Skowhegan ladies In
the company there were present Mrs.
Harry G. Turner of Los Angeles, Cal,
Mrs. Gordon Wayness and Mrs. F. W.
Briggs of Pittsfie cid, and Mrs. Briggs
guest, Miss Helen Davidson of To-
ronto, Canada.
An equity hearing took place,
Thursday of last week, in the Probate
room at the court house, before Judge
A. K. Savage of Auburn. The action
was brought by J. Palmer Merrill
against the estate of Francis Low.
Merrill & Merrill were the attorneys
for the plaintiff and the defendant es-
tate was represented by Geo. w.
Cover OF this place and s. S. Brown
of Waterville.
The contest on at Robbins jewelry
store for the $50 in gold and s24 in
silver is beginning to wax warm al
ready. 1t started as contest be-
tween Skowhegan Grange and Co. e
Band, but the past week the Catholic
Order of Forresters has entered, and
from now on to the end there bids fair
to be some hustling among these or
ders. The conditions appear in Mr..
Robbins ad on page eight,
Sherwin Hilton, formerly of Sandy
Bay, Me-, was in town over Sunday,
the guest of his son, Alfred Hilton, at
the Jasper jennings farm. He had
intended to take the noon train from
Hinckley but the river was so high
that he could not cross at Pishon's
Ferry and he was Obliged to come to
this village, taking the train which
leaves the Skowhegan station at 1880.
G. w. Emerson has been buying
ash lumber and man ufacturing shovel
handle blocks this season as for many
years, and now has about two thou
sand dozen blocks in this vicinity,
ready to be hauled to the station on
the first snow, to be loaded for ship
ment to the shovel handle factory at
lewiston He also has timber under
contract sufficient to make about as
m any more.
Mr.. Q. Aubin left here on Tuesday
for st. Anselme, Dorchester Co unity,
Province of Quebec, where he is to
pass the winter with his brother. In
May he will move to ST. Jarvis, a
town not far distant from st. Anselme,
expecting to occupy the Aubin home
stead where his boyhood days were
passed. Mr.. Aubin came here in 1884
and has been employed at the r. l..
Mitchell factory during the inter-
vening years. His sister, Miss Eloise
Aubin, who has been a resident of
Skowhegan for the past sixteen years
will join him at st. Jarvis in the
spring Through the present winter
she will make her home with Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Vigue.
The frozeh ground and ice of the
past few weeks created Q regular
! harvest for the blacksmith shops aid
entailed corresponding expense on
all those that have been obliged to
use horses for driving OF teaming.
One Skowhegan shop has shod on an
average of thirty horses per day for
the past fortnight or more and all the
smiths lii town have been driven with
this work. 1t Is rather an unusual
season in this respect and this feature
of it can only be brought to an end by
fall of snow that will cover the
ground and make sleighing. Many
horse has come to grief on the
slippery roads and one, owned by
Harry Ellis, farmer living in the
E.at Cbou,houon poinh borho0d fall