The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-07-18

Mr. and Mrs Robbins are enjoying
a weeks outing at North Pond in
Smithheld.
DR.. Cora M. Johnson left Saturday
! for Foxcroft where she will be the
guest of friends for few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. L. May of Bos
ton are visiting in town as guests of
Mrs. Alice Gledhill on Madison Ave.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carr Curtis of Boston
will arrive here tomorrow to pass
Mr.. Curtis vacation with Skowhegan
relatives.
Chas. Green and family have gone
to StrattoRto pass the remainder of
the summer where Mr.. Green has
large business interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Viles and Mr..
and Mrs. S. W. Philbriek made a trip
to Rangeley Lake and Eustis in Mr..
Niles touring car last week.
Mrs. c. B. Wilson and her young
son, Ellis, of Medfield, Mass, are
guests this week of Mr.. and Mrs. E
7. Goodrich on Pleasant street.
Miss Grace and Annie NJ Keene, OF
Cohasset, Mass. have been guests of
Rev. and Mrs. T. L. Frost during the
past week. They expect to return
home tomorrow.
Mary Moore was summoned to
Newport Monday by message ad
visng her of the death of her brother
Arthur Moore of that place which oc :
Cured the previous afternoon.
Mrs. w. M. Pulsifer and maste r
Libby leave here this afternoon for
Fort Fairfield, Me. where they will be
guests of Mrs. Pulsifer's brother, A.
P. Libby. They will be accompanied
from Waterville by Mrs. Pulsifer's
mother, Mrs. Helen NJ. Libby
John w. Delano became the owner
of a five year old mare last week,
bought of E. E. Hurd, and bred and
reared by him at his farm on the
Lakewood road. She bears the name
of Lady Pembroke and is full sister
to Miss Black who has record of 2.20.
The Board of State assessors is in
session at the Court house this morn
ing, according to announcement
previously published in these col
umns. Hon. Otis Hayford, the chair
man, is unable to be present being
detained at home by illness in his
family.
The stone in the foundation walls
of the municipal building has been
surveyed and settlement made with
Ephraim Corvette who did the work
under contract. There were 357 cubic
yards in the completed job for which
Mr.. Corvette receives $500 per yard,
a total of S714.
Elmer E. Bailey of Auburn has re-
Gently secured a position as foreman
in the stitching room in the local
plant of the Commonwealth Shoe and
Leather Co., and began his duties
Tuesday He replaces Arthur b,
Fardy, resigned, who with his family
will leave Friday for his new home in
Auburn.
On Sunday next there is to be an
excursion over the Somerset Extern
sion to Kineo, with a low rate of fare.
Skowhegan people desiring to patron
ize it may do so by taking the $50
a. m. car over the Somerset Traction
line making close connection at Mad
ison, and upon the return of the train
to Madison at 1227 at night a special
car will be in waiting This will give
excursionists eight hours at Moose
head Lake.
The finishing of goods made at the
Somerset Worsted Mills, which has
formerly been done at the Marston
Worsted Mills in this place, will here
after be carried on at the works of the
former corporation at East Madison.
Their finishing department, which is
under the superintendent of F. A.
Brown of Staffordville, Conn, COM
menced operations on Monday of the
present week and gives employment
to quite an additional force. They
are in search of more help for this
new department and have inserted an
announcement in our advertising col
umns this week to that effect.
A corporation under the name of
Carrabassett Dam Company was or
ganized at the Office of Forrest Good
win last Saturday, for the purpose of
improving the Carrabassett river for
log driving purposes. The principal
object is to furnish driving facilities
for the timber on Jerusalem township,
owned by the Great Northern Paper
Co. The officers chosen were as fol-
ows: President, A. Ledyard Smith OF
Madison; treasurer, Fred A. Gilbert
of Bangor; clerk, Forrest Goodwin of
Skowhegan; directors, l. B. Wood,
and F. A. Gilbert of Bangor, E. P.
Viles and s. w. Philbrick of Skowhe =
gan, and A. Ledyard Smith of Mad =
ison.
An alarm was pulled in at 100 Sat
urday afternoon from box 81 at the
corner of Madison avenue and Leavitt