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

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"a the guest of Mrs. Marion Mills at
her home on Pine st.
George Foster, 80 long resident of
this place is now connected with the
Salvation Army at Portland with the
rank of Envoy.
Mrs. W. E. Blake Of Calais is. ex-
pected here next week for a visit
with her father, Henry A. Varney, at
his farm home on the river road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Groder with
their two children, who had been
visiting at the home of Henry McKen-
new in Jackman, arrived home last
Friday.
A. T. Murphy, former Skowhegan
boy, now travelling representative Of
Anew York glove house, was in town
Saturday, the guest of his sister, Mrs.
H.B. Goodwin.
There will be meeting at the
school house in the Bigelow Hill
ueighborhood next Sunday afternoon
at half past two, conducted by the
Rev. Fred A. Leitch.
Mrs. Helen N. Howard went to Au-
yusta last week to be the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. W. H. Gannett. From that
city she plans to go to visit with
friends in Melrose, Mass.
Miss Olive Hayden and Mrs. E. P.
Moore of Madison Center took the
train at the Skowhegan station last
Saturday to attend the annual con-
venton of Maine Spiritualists at
Augusta.
Mrs. Addie Boucher of Portland ar
rived last week and is the guest of
her sister, Mrs. Hiram P. Thyng.
Mrs. Boucher was formerly a resident
Of this place removing to Portland %
or 80 years ago.
George W. Gould, former resident
Of this place, arrived here last Thurs
day. Since leaving here, about two
years since, Mr.. Gould has been in
Rhode Island and for the past year
in New York City.
County Treasurer, E. P. Dyer of
Hartland, was in town last week,
settling with the jurymen at the close
of the September Term of the Su-
preme Judicial Court and attending
to other matters at the Courthouse.
Of the two great musical festivals
held in Maine this fall, one at Bangor
and the other at Portland, the latter
city seemed to be the favorite with
Skowhegan people. Probably thirty
residents Of Skowhegan have attended
at Portland during the present week.
Harold D. Ross of Pittsfield, Mass,
arrived here Monday evening and is
passing a two weeks vacation in
town. Mr.. Ross was graduated from
the Skowhegan High School with the
class of 1902 and from the University
of Maine four years later. In June
Immediately following his graduation
at Orono, he entered the employ of
the General Electric Company at
Pittsfeld. He has been home but
once since the time, for Christmas
week, 1905.
The bridges on the Susie Brook,
about three miles from this place,
which were carried out by the storm
Of last July, are now nearing compile
ton. The one on the river road has
been up and ready for the planking
for some weeks but the failure of the
iron stringers to arrive has prevented
its completion. Commissioner Webb
is to put in wooden stringers and lay
the planks on them for use this
winter, unless the iron work arrives
very soon. The upper bridge, the
one on the Canaan road, is not so far
along but the piers are above high
water line and the end of the present
month will see it open for travel.
The piers at both bridges have been
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believe them to be substantial
enough to last for one hundred years.
At the expiration Of that period it is
probable that the business streets of
skowhegan will embrace the Susie
Brook district and require a re-
arrangement of the bridges at that
point.
Horace A. Toward of Waterville,
road master of the third div ision of
The Maine Central system was in
town Tuesday. Mr.. Toward Is walk
ing rather more slowly than usual, at
The present time, and with a pro-
bounced limp, as the result of an in
Jury to his right leg received in the
"aterville yard on October 3. This
was the night OF the wreck at Benton
and Mr.. Toward had just returned
With one Of the engines from the
scene of that disaster. In Fastening
through the Waterville yard, in his
Preparations for taking the train to
return to Benton he fell over . switch
stand in the darkness and sustained
The injury above mentioned. Mr..
toward has been railroading for 80
years and for much of this time his
duties have kept him on moving
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