The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-10-10
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q. w. Heselton, Esq, of Gardiner
was In town Tuesday, the guest of
w. H. Heselton and family.
Walter Hight is passing the present
week in Boston on business for the O..
F. Ward Clothing Company.
Mrs. Francis H. Wing arrived home
last evening from visit with her son,
F. H. Wing, in Livermore Falls.
Emory F. Estes of Winterport has
been passing his vacation in town.
He expects to return home next
Monday.
Mrs. Sarah F. Moody of Oakland is
visiting in town this week, the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. G.. Moody on Tur-
ner avenue.
Money deposited in the skowhegan
Savings Bank before the 10th of the
month will begin to draw interest
from the LIST.
ID. G. Bean of Bingham took the
train from the Skowhegan station
Tuesday morning for business trip
to points in Franklin county.
Forrest Herrin of Cornville has
shipped from the Skowhegan station
this season over 200 barrels of apples
and is still buying fall and winter
fruit.
A Baked Bean and Salad supper will
be served in Grange Hall, Saturday,
October u from $50 to under the
auspices Of the young ladies of the
High School. Price % cents.
Fred G. Dunlap, chief of police, has
recently been asked to aid in the ap-
prehension and return of Chas. E.
Palmer, youth of sixteen years,
formerly of this place, who has es-
capped from the State School for Boys
at Cape Elizabeth.
Chas. w. Day has commenced the
erection of a blacksmith shop on
Madison avenue, on the Palmer lot,
just south of the Skowhegan Marble
Works. The size of the building will
be 38 by % feet. 1t will be occupied
by D. B. Berce who is now located on
Court street.
At the regular me Getting of Skowhe-
gan Local Carpenters and Joiners of
America, to be held at Labor Union
Hall this evening, the matter of a
banquet is to be brought up. 1t is
proposed to have a supper in the near
future to which members and their
wives will be invited.
Messrs. w. r. G.. Estes an1 7. j..
Addition arrived home last week with
the first two deer of the season. They
were both fine bucks, shot near Chad
bourn's ranch, in Moscow, where
these two gentlemen have been in the
habit of making an annual excursion
in the hunting season for several
years.
John Farnham was astonished last
week to find blossoms on some straw
berry plants which he had recently
set out in his garden on Summer
street. He did not contemplate rails
ing crop of berries ithis fall and
thinks these plants have certainly
made mistake in blossoming at this
season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gorham Powers left
here Monday morning to return to
their home in Granite Falls, MINI.
They had been guests for the past
three weeks of Almond F. Sanford,
who is Mrs. Powers brother. On the
way home they will visit in Portland,
and in Boston where their son is at
tending the Harvard Law School.
Robert Haley of North Brookfield,
Mass, who had been in town to at
tend to two cases which he had on
trial at the Somerset Supreme Judi
cial Court, returned home this morn
ing. Mr.. Haley was formerly of
Cornville and until three years ago
lived in that town on the farm where
he was born. One year since he
bought stand of buildings in North
Brookfield, Mass, and now lives
there, his daughter, Mrs. Mary Nc
Color, with her children, making
their home with him.
The canning factory of the Portland
Packing Company on Spring street
closed today noon. So far as the corn
canning season is concerned, they
might have ceased operations last
week, but Superintendent Chas.
Chute was advised by wire Saturday,
that half a carload of lima beans had
been shipped him to be put in cans,
and this has occupied his attention for
a part Of the present week. The lot
made 1900 cans. The work of label
ling will be commenced very soon and
will continue during the next six Or
eight weeks.
The Chas. F. Ward Co. are ready
for the man who wants good fur
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