The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-10-24
TOWN and VICINITY.


Yesterday on business for the Bow
man Hardware Co.
Howard n. Wagg of Chicago passed
Sunday in town as the guest of Geo.
H. Webb and family.
Miss Fancher Sawyer passed Sun
day in Waterville at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. F. j. Goodrich.
Mrs. Jennie Thomas OF Augusta
passed Sunday in town as the guest OF
her brother, George B. Stafford.
Henry Pearson of Portland has
been in town, this week, the guest OF
his daughter, Mrs. G. Wallace Nash.
DR.. George o. Smith left yesterday
to return to Washington, after a
weeks stay at his home in this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. W. Linz, -, Of
Hartland passed Sunday in town as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Simp-
son.
Mrs. D. II. Perkins and her young
son, Frederick, left here, Monday, for
visit with relatives in Dyer Brook,
Aroostook county.
Invitations have been issued by
Skowhegan Sorosis for Halloween
party at the Library Parlors, the
evening of October 31st.
Chas. H. Pepper, who had been Wis
iting Skowhegan relatives since
Thursday of last week, left yesterday
to return to return to his home in
Concord, Mass.
Mrs. G. j. Abbey and her sister,
Mrs. Frank Sedgeley, of Waterville,
have been passing the present week
in East Weymouth, Mass, as guests
of NJ. A. Carter and family.
Mrs. Geo. T. Tibbetts of Hinckley
and her daughter, Mrs. Wade G.
Wheeler, have been visiting in town
as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. F. Parker
and Laban E. Allen and family.
John H. Lancaster, assistant agent
and operator at the Maine Central
railway Office, is at Moosehead Lake
on his vacation. FL. Nichols of Win
throp is in the Office during his alb
sence.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Davis Miller, who
have been at Corinna and Newport
for the past few days, are expected
home this evening. They were pres
ent yesterday at the fiftieth anniyer-
sary of the church at North Newport,
where Mrs. Miller attended with her
parents when her home was in that
section of the state.
Ernest Vigue and Miss Marie M.
Godin of Portland have been guests
during this week at the home of Mr..
Vigue's mother, Mrs. Jasper Jen-
nings, in this place. Mr.. Vigue COM
pleted a course at dray's business
college about eight months ago and
has since been in the employ of A.
A. Lane & Co. of Portland.
Miss Alice Whittier of Jay, Me. was
in town last week and with her BROTH
er, Philander G. Whittier, drove to
the farm in Cornville which was
their early home. Miss Whittier was
delegate from her section of the
state to Sunday School convention
at Waterville, this giving her the OPP
portunity to visit Skowhegan.
Sylvanus G. Morse of Boston was
in town, Tuesday, calling on Albert
Dyer and other friends. Mr.. Morse's
home was formerly on the north side
of the river, on the road from this
town to Norridgewock, and he has
many acquaintance here. He went
to Boston about wenty years since
and is now in the insurance and real
estate business in that city with an
office In the fremont building. He
has been obliged to give up business
temporarily on account OF ill health
and is passing the time at Norridge-
wock with his sister, Mrs. Lizzie T.
Jones.
A freight engine got off the rails at
the turn table of the Skowhegan round
house, Tuesday afternoon. 1t was a
big fellow with three pairs of drivers
and had visited this place on it's trial
run after coming out OF the repair
shop at Waterville. The engineer
and fireman were applying their
muscle to the turn table when the en-
CINE started and, although the en-
gineer jumped in as quickly as pos
sible and reapplied the air breaks, the
machine ran off the end of the rails
far enough so that the first pair of
drivers rested on the granite of the
surrounding foundation. The main
line passes nearby at this point and