The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-05-16
LOCAL MENTION.

at the Maine Central hotel, Tuesday.
Edna Page left here yesterday in
tending to make the journey to Bos
ton and also TO visit for a few days
with her aunt, Mrs. Hollis Randall, in
Augusta.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard and her sis
apolis, left Monday for Old Orchard
for a weeks visit to Mrs. Eta Seve-
no. They will also visit friends in
Portland.
Walter p. Ordway who has been de
tanned at home by illness for the past
five weeks is just getting about again.
He was able to ride up town for the
first time, Friday of last week, and
has passed a few hours at his place of
business on some of the days of the
present week.
Rev. Fred A. Leitch arrived home
last evening from trip to Chicago.
On the return journey he stopped at
Bellville, Ontario to see his brother,
Rev. Robert II. Leitch. Mr.. Leitch
expects to receive his diploma as
Doctor of Philosophy in June, at the
closing exercises of the college year
of the Illinois Western University.
a Massachusetts paper announces
the death, on May s, of Daniel f,
Frazier, stating that he was born in
Skowhegan IA years ago. The ac-
count says that he went to Cambridge,
Mass, in 1859. He had served as
alderman in the city of Cambridge
and seems to have been prominent as
a merchant and manufacturer.
Rev. George Merriam went to
Washington, d. c., Monday morning
To attend the national anniversaries
OF the American Baptist Missionary
Iuion, the Baptist Home Mission So
ciety and the American Baptist Pub
location Society, all of which occur in
that city during this week and next.
Mr.. Merriam will also pass few days
at the jamestown Exposition, and
will have an opportunity to attend
the notable joint meeting of the nor
thern and southern Baptist associa-
tions. While in Washington he will
be the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Geo. o.
Smith.
Fred Kincaid, who had been in
Fort William, Ontario since August
of last year, arrived home Monday
Monday evening. Mr.. Kincaid had
planned to come in March but was
taken i'll with rheumatic fever just
previous to starting and has been in
the hospital most of the time since.
Nay S. Varney left here for Fort Will
liam about fortnight ago to accom-
pany him home, and as soon as Mr..
Kineaid was able to travel set out for
Skowhegan with him. He stood the
journey nicely and hopes to be free
from his malady and about again at
an early date.
During the high wind of Friday
afternoon last the staging built at the
standpipe, for the purpose of making
certain repairs, came very near being
blown down. 1t is of wood and sew
enty five feet high and altho secured
with several guy ropes, when the
workmen returned after the noon
hour, they found the top had moved
tho foaa of fha
standpipe and the whole structure
seemed about to fall. One of the
men, Chas. Gammage, formerly lived
on the Maine coast and had consider
able experience as a sailor He took
the chance to climb about forty feet
on the leaning staging and attach the
additional guy ropes to prevent its
final destruction. After the wind
went down it was worked back into
place and secured in such a manner
that it will stay until the repairs are
completed
Thus far in May we have had a
snow storm every Saturday, the last
one being on the eleventh of the
month, very late for that kind of
weather. 1t is not new record of
its kind, however, as our older in
habitants recall that on June u, 1913,
there was snow fall of two inches
in this section and in the northern
part of the county the same storm
covered the ground TO the depth of
six TO twelve inches. The weather
at the time of the storm of 1913 was
comparatively mild and the snow
disappeared very quickly and with
little or no damage to crops. From
recollections of that storm and OBJ
servations of the two we have had
somewhat out of season the present
year, it would seem that they do not
do much damage to grass or growing
crops and are not as much to be
feared as the frosts. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that we are now done
with snow storms until September at
least.
People are beginning to let the
fires die out in the heaters.