The Somerset reporter., 1907-07-11


guest of Geo. w. Rowell Saturday
and Sunday.
Mrs. Fronie Seaver of Boston is in
town for two weeks visit with A.
M. Thompson and family.
John B. Nichols of Boston passed
the 4th as the guest of Jos. P. Oak
and family at their Hayden Lake
cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo L. H. Smith are
passing the week in Lewiston as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. William c.
Wildes
Mrs. Geo. w. Cover with her two
children who have been visiting rela
tives in Massachusetts for the past
month arrived home Monday even
ing.
Roy B. Lancaster is passing his va
cation in town with his parents, Jos.
H. Lancaster and wife. He has been
in West Derry, n. H., for the past five
months.
The Skowhegan team was defeated
in the game of ball played at Elm
wood park, Norridgewock on July 4th
the home nine winning by the score
of 5 to- 8.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. Ordway ar
rived home yesterday They had
been visiting with friends in Port
land and vicinity since Thursday of
last week.
Ira A. Norton and Mrs. Mary Webb
left Monday for Boston. They ac
companied their guests, Mrs. I. P.
Talbot and daughters who had been
visiting them for the past week.
Geo. Cleveland has bought the
Arlie Shaw shop at the corner of
Water and Court streets and may be
found there in the future by all who
may need his services in the barbering
or hair dressing line.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stinchfield of
Jamaica Plain have been guests of DR..
w. S. Stinchfield and other relatives
for the past two weeks. Mr.. Stinch-
field has been in Massachusetts for
three years. He is now employed at
the shoe factory of Thos. Plant & Co.
Robert Blackwood, superintendent
of the Marston Mills, made a brief
visit to Providence, r. l., last week.
Mrs. Blackwood and their son, Wal
lace, returned with him to pass few
days in Skowhegan. They plan to
establish their home here in the fall.
There are four children in the family
all boys, besides the one that accom-
panies Mrs. Blackwood on the pres
ent visit.
Jewett Savage is now marketing
strawberries grown from the plants
known by the name of "Brandywine."
He will gather six bushels from 400
plants. They are of unusual size and
have a flavor which is just about per-
lection for anything in the fruit line.
These are the plants which Mr..
Savage recommends to his customers
as best adapted for cultivation III this
vicinity. The 400 above mentioned
had been planted for 13 months.
John D. Symons has little animal,
brought him by friend from Michael
Stream in Moscow, which has every
appearance of being young lobster.
He has a body about two inches long,
covered with a hard shell of the same
form and color as the lobster, and has
the lobster claws and exhibits the
same tendency to use them if finger
is incautiously put within his reach.
On reply to inquiry the professors at
the University of Maine state that it
cannot be lobster as they are never
found in fresh water. They give it
as their opinion that it is some va
riety of the crayfsh.
When N. L. McQuillan arrived at
his home on Madison avenue at noon,
last Friday, he found lively blaze
extending up the southern end of his
stable and just commencing to make
Roadway on the inside. He succeed
ed in checking the flames on the in
side OF the building with what water
could be put on with pals and DR..
Wadsworth kept the fire on the out
side in check with a standard fore ex-
tinguisher, which he brought from
his home, until the arrival of the fire
department. One line of hose from
the hydrant at the corner of Madison
and Leavitt streets easily finished the
work. The damage was small and
covered by insurance. The fire is
supposed to have caught from fire
crackers as some boys had been play
ing with them in that vicinity during
the forenoon.
We publish in the advertising de-
partment of this issue the announce
ment of the Eastern Land Company
regarding auction of building lots in
tract on Madison avenue recently
acquired by them, and henceforth
TO be known as somerset Park"
The tract, until recently owned by
Samuel Smith, is just south of the