The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-07-25
TOWN and VICINITY

Wateryille lodge of the New England
Order Of Protection, Monday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Tuck of Phil
adelphia arrived here last evening for
a visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J G. Tuck.
Master Otto Folsom Jones will re-
turn home tomorrow from a success
full treatment at DR.. Kings hospital
ia Portland.
A. T. Oliver of Kents Hill, one of
the faculty of the Maine Wesleyan
Seminary, is in town today, the guest
of Carroll Goodwin.
Unfavorable weather caused the
postponement of the promenade con-
cert and lawn party advertised for
last evening by Company E Band.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. r. Livingstone and
Miss Madeline Driscoll of Boston are
guests of Mrs. Arthur Watson at the
G. W. Nash cottage at Hayden Lake.
Miss Annie T. Jones of Portland,
who has been passing her vacation
in Norridgewock, visited here this
week with Mr. and Mrs. John Nc
Pherson.
Mrs. Frank NJ. Sedgley and Mrs.
Bert Osborn of Waterville were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. c. j. Abbey
last Sunday, Mrs Sedgley remaining
here for the week.
Miss Annie Rand resumed her
duties as stenographer at the Office of
the Maine Telephone Co., last week,
after an absence of three months.
During this time the position was
filled by Miss Susie Holt of Canaan.
There will be an excursion to Togus
Tuesday, Aug. 9Th leaving Bingham
and way stations, Skowhegan and
way stations on the morning train,
returning on the afternoon train,
having hours at Togus. The rates
are very low.
Captain B. l. Rice with a team of
seven men from Company E went to
Augusta Thursday of last week to
compete with teams from other parts
of the state on the new target range.
The score of the Skowhegan team
gave. them sixth place among the 26
teams taking part.
The members of Eunice Farnsworth
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, met at Lakewood yester-
day with the Ruth Head Cragin
Chapter of No. Arson, all arriving
in time for dinner at Lakewood Inn.
The principal feature of the afternoon
program was an address by Miss
Minnie Bunker of Oakland, Cal. a
! former resident of No. Arson. Miss
Bunker has just returned from a win
ter. abroad and her talk was chiefly
on her travels in Egypt.
A party of Skowhegan autoists
have been touring in Aroostook
county this week. They are travel
ing in two cars, one owned by Mrs.
Edith s. Shepherd and carrying, be-
sides the owner, E. E. McNeelie and
wife, Herbert L. SWEET and the chauf-
feur, Byron Harville; the other, that
of Dr. F. o. Sawyer, transporting
himself and Mrs. Sawyer, their
daughter, Fancher, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Forrest Goodwin. The party left
here, Saturday morning last, reaching
Mattawamkeag that evening. The
following day the run was made to
Houlton and they arrived at Fort
Kent at the Canadian border, Mon
day night. Both cars reached Houl-
ton on the return journey, yesterday.
and.are expected to arrive here to-
morrow noon. The total distance
travelled will be about six hundred
miles.
The REPORTER was not strictly ac-
curate in it's statement last week re-
garding the time that Geo. d. Arnold
commenced business in this place.
The correct date is December 1859
Of those now doing business here, w.
H. Fuller seems to be the next in
point of years, having commenced
trade in 1850. A few years later,
May 1864, Geo. S. Webb, now located
on Madison street, opened a groc-
cry store, the location being near
the corner of North avenue and
Water streets. E. B. Curtis entered
the retail trade here in in 1857 and
the business now known as the Blunt
Hardware Co. was founded in 1858.
Most, possibly all, other business
firms in this place have originated
since 1870. The above applies, of
course, to the retail trade. j. Fred
Pollard has been doing business here,
conducting various enterprises, in
later years the buying and selling of
wool, for ffty-three years. 1t is
probably that no one is now doing
business of any kind in Skowhegan
that began before Mr.. Pollard in 1854
w. H. Norton, apiarist and manu-
facturer of bee keepers supplies, met
with the third in series of accidents,
Friday, which have deprived him of
both thumbs and of his fingers have
left him but three, these being on the
right hand. Mr.. Norton has worked