The Somerset reporter., 1907-07-11
TOWN and VICINITY

visiting at the home OF his parents,
Mr.. and Jos Buker.
F. Y. Cayouette of Boston is in
town. lie plans to pass the months
OF July and August here.
Miss Eva Knowlton has gone to
Southport where she is to be employ
ed at a summer hotel until September.
George Grover and family of Lynn,
Mass, have been occupying their cot
tage at Hayden Lake for the past two
weeks.
Mrs George Merriam, accompanied
by Master Ralph and Miss Marion,
have gone to East Ware, y. II. for a
visit with relatives.
Company E Band gave a concert at
Depot Square last evening, which was
much enjoyed by those who had the
opportunity to hear it.
Mrs. Augustus S. Nelson went to
Damariscotta Mills yesterday, where
she will be the guest of her parents
for the remaining weeks of July.
Freeman Jones sold a fine four
year old colt by Trotwood, last week
to DR.. c. A. Palmer of Brunswick for
$500. It pays to raise good ones.
Misses Barbara and Julia Vaughan,
daughters of DR.. and Mrs. ?. H. S.
Vaughan of Bangor, are guests OF
their aunt, Mrs. G. Edward Durrell.
Mrs. Edward Laycock and Miss S.
A. Stubs, both of Lawrence, Mass,
are guests at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stocks Barrows on Turner ave-
nue..
Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Swan of Boston
arrived here last evening and are
registered at the Coburn. They plan
to make fortnight's stay in Show
hogan.
At the regular meeting tomorrow
Friday evening of Bloomfield Tenn
Pile, No. II, Pythian Sisters, the de-
gree will be conferred on five candi-
dates and refreshments served.
S. II. Swain, Dist, manager for the
E. A. Strout farm agency of New
York and Boston, reports the sale of
the c. H. Cromwell farm in Harmony
to Oscar Wentworth of Merrimac,
Mass.
Mrs. Emiline Spaulding has bought
a summer cottage at Old Orchard Me.
and has gone to that place for the
Sc ason. She is to make it a business
venture as we'll as a home for the
summer and will take boarders and
roomers.
The pianoforte pupils of Mrs. Dora
Traitor Nye will give recital in
Engine hall, Wednesday evening,
July II, assisted by Miss Vivian
Laughton of the Emory School of
Expression, Boston, reader, and Miss
Florence Wyman, soprano.
Among the Skowhegan students
who took honors at the recent college
commandments may be noted the
name of Miss Ethel Knowlton who
secured special mention for her work
in German at Colby College. Miss
Annie Alice Harthorn, who has often
visited here, a junior at Colby, took
the first prize, in the women's divis-
ion, for her class.
Mrs. E. L. Marsh of Waterville,
with her two children, Elizabeth and
Mandana9 and Miss Hannah Page,
with whom they passed a portion of
last week as guests, went to Water
vile, Friday afternoon, to join the
Woman's Club of that city in one of
their summer field meetings. The
meeting of Friday was specially en-
joyable one it being held on Blake's
island at one of the Belgrade Lakes.
A crew of twelve men were occu
pied Saturday afternoon in cleaning
out the debris which had accumulated
in the power canal on the south side
of the river at and below the River
side Pulp Mill during the past two
years. To permit this to be done the
most of the gates were closed at the
bulkhead near the. South Channel
bridge and for this reason the power
of the Somerset Traction Co. and the
manufacturing plants on that side of
the river was abridged or entirely
cut off for the afternoon.
Two hundred and seventy eight
tickets were sold at the Skowhegan
station, Tuesday, for the circus at
Waterville. This is somewhat be-
low the usual sale for such occasions
in recent years and far behind the
high record which was established
when that famous Snowman, p. T,
Barum, first exhibited in Waterville,
in the early seventies. The sales on
that date exceeded 900 tickets, 800 of
which were for the special circus
train which left in the early forenoon.
1t is of interest to note that the rate
for transportation to Waterville, in
Guiding admission to the circus has
not changed for forty years, the
people who went to see Barum in the
seventies paying one dollar, the same
figure as those who attended Four
paugh's on Tuesday. One reason for
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