The Somerset reporter., 1907-09-26
Brace l. Lawley returned to Massa-

1hAoSbeo AhOoNoys w 0NS
studies at Tufts Medical College.
Money deposited in the Skowhegan
Savings Bank before the 10th of the
month will begin to draw interest
from the 1st.
Among the choice things for your
table at the Skowhegan Market this
week are salmon, tinker mackerel,
halibut, smelts, cod, paddock, bake,
fresh cod tongue, oysters and CLAIMS.
Mrs. Mabel Witham Jones has just
returned from Boston with a new
stock of millinery, which she will be
pleased to show her customers at her
new location, over the shoe store of
A. E. Bison & Son.
A. NJ. Thompson, real estate dealer,
reports the sale of the G.. F. Berry
farm in Embden to P. F. Matherson of
Hopewell Cape, N. B. and the G. s.
Robinson farm In Starks to w. A.
Gosh of Derby, Conn.
During the shower which passed
over this paT of Somerset county
Tuesday afternoon lightning struck
the buildings on the Mclaughlin farm
on the Molunkus road in East Mad
ison. These were owned by Will
Wyman of East Madison and occupied
by Bert Russell and family.
John Waugh of Norwich, Conn. is
in town. Mr.. Waugh was boss card
er at the Anderson mills for twelve
years, resigning that position to ac-
cept the superintendency of the card
ing department of the Reliance
Worsted Company at Norwich, three
years ago. This is his first visit to
Skowhegan since going to Connect
cut.
At the regular meeting Of the
w. C. T. q. in G. A. R. Hall, last
Tuesday afternoon, Miss Margery
Morrison gave an interesting talk be-
fore an audience of about fifty ladies
on the work done by the West End
Neighborhood House, N. Y, with
which she was connected last winter.
The annual meeting was postponed
on account of this talk and will occur
the second Tuesday in October.
A lady residing in a nearby city has
secured the return of her gold watch,
lost on Water street In this place last
week. and advertised for in the last
issue of the REPORTER. The watch, a
handsome gold time piece, was found
by Phillip Lessord, young son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Lessord, as he was
on his way to the Parocial school last
Wednesday morning, just as he was
about to turn into the school grounds.
He took it home with him and. the
advertisement of "watch lost" coming
to the attention of his parents as they
were reading their REPORTER the fol-
lowing evening, they lost no time in
forwarding it to the owner.
Mrs. Alice (Comstock) Hight, a
native of Athens, who had been pass
ing the summer in this county, re-
turned last week to her home in Low
ell, Mass. She had been the guest of
her niece, Mrs. Ella Hight Crowell of
this place, and had passed some time
with Mrs. Ralph Dodge of Cornville
and with other Somerset county rela-
tives. Mrs. Hight is the widow of
Randall Steward Hight and is now 70
years old. Her husbands father,
Winthrop Hight, was one of three
brothers who were among the first
settlers of Athens. She moved with
her husband from Athens to Lowell in
1885 and this is her first visit home for
d years.
BENJAMIN Butler of Avon has been
visiting in town since last week as the
guest of his son, Amos K. Butler, Esq.
He is eighty years of age, but seems
to enjoy perfect health and has the
appearance of man at least twenty
years younger. Mr.. Butler proposes
to go later in the fall to visit his
brother in Boston, who is thirteen
years his senior. The Boston gentle
man, Notwithstanding his ninety
three years, continues the active
management of number of pieces of
real estate of which he is the owner,
and, moreover, does with his own
hands, considerable amount of the
repairing on same, including the out
side work and roofs as well as the
interior.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Norton had
the pleasure of entertaining, for
brief visit last week, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
L. Hunt of Walla Walla, Washington,
whom they had not seen for nearly
twenty years. Mr.. Hunt is native
of Reedfield, Me. and has visited
there previous to coming to Skowhe-
gan. While in that town his attention
was called to an advertisement of un-
claimed deposits, printed in an Au-
gusta paper by the Augusta Savings
Bank, among which his name appear
ed. On calling upon that institution
he found that an original deposit,
of 800, the existance of which he had
forgotten, had amounted, with the
accumulations of interest, to over
$500, at the present time.