The Somerset reporter., 1907-10-31
TOWN and VICINITY.

The Here and There Club will meet
with Mrs. Herbert y. Pratt, Tuesday,
Nov. 5.
DR.. |. R. Boothby is expected home
tomorrow from a brief business trip TO
Boston.
Why don't you try family wash
ing by the Peoples Laundry They
say they are fine.
C. F. Cleveland has returned to
skowhegan after about one months
residence in Dexter.
Saturday next, Nov. 2, c. II. Gard
ner will unload car of grain at
prices which he says will save you
money.
Earl Smith has been passing the
week in town with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. J. N. Smith. He expects to
return to Boston tomorrow or Satur-
day.
William II. Brown who has been in
Pascoag, r. l., for the past two years,
arrived home this week and purposes
to resume his residence in Skowhe-
gan.
Sampson & Avore, druggists, have
a new lot of the Compound Syrup OF
White Pine and Tar, the popular
cough remedy which they sell under
a guarantee.
William Snow of lewiston returned
home Tuesday after visit here with
his sister, Mrs. Geo. A. Fiye. Mrs
Snow is native of Skowhegan but
has resided elsewhere for the past
twenty five years.
Mrs. William w. Cakes left here
Tuesdaylfor New Rochelle, N. Y, to
be present at the marriage of her
brother, w. H. Loughrey. which
occurs in that place today, to Miss
Grace P. Jarvis, also of New Rochelle.
R. H. Merrill & Son have removed
the remainder of their stock of boots,
shoes and rubbers from the Robinson
mill, to the store next door west of
Arnold i& Curriers' grocery store,
Water street, near their old place of
business.
There will be free lecture on
Christian Science at the Grange Hall
on Monday, November IL, by Judge
Septimus J. Hanna, of Colorado
Springs, Col, member of the Board
of Lectureship of the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, Mass.
Arthur Stetson of Houlton and Miss
Ida Proctor of Waterville were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward P. Whiting
over Sunday. Mr.. Stetson grad
} uated from Colby University with the
class of 1907. His health requires a
change of climate and he is to pass the
present winter in Phoenix, Arizona.
Attention is called to advertise
ment in another column of Sproul,
Paul. and Company of Boston, com
mission merchants. G.. F. II. Paul, a
native of Scion, and at one time one
; of Skowhegan's reliable business men,
Ia one of the members of this firm, a
sufficient guarantee of their RELIABLE
ity.
The following recent sales are re-
ported by the E. T. Goodrich Farm
Agency: The Geo. o. Berry farm in
Cornville to Alec Easier of Presque
I,In ko Tn1. IN To in En
hogan to Lizzie B. Green of Madison;
the NJ. ID. Goodrich farm in Cornville
to Gainsley Bitterling of Fort Wayne,
Ind.
Michael st. Ledger returned to
Winslow, Tuesday, after a visit here
with his family. He has been en-
ployed the past summer on the grad =
ing of the Augusta Il Waterville cleo
trio railroad, having had charge of a
crew of 70 men. He is now driving
his own team on the construction OF
the new dam.
Archie l.. Weston has arrived home
from Big Island Pond, in the northern
Y part OF this state, and become sales
man in the store of the Bowman
Hardware Co. During the past sum
mer he has been employed as lookout
under the state system of forrest fire
protection, his signal station being Oh
Snow mountain.
The observance, known as the Forty
Hours Devotion, held annually at
st. Mary's church, concluded at hall
past eight this morning. 1t began al
the same hour on Tuesday morning
and its entire duration is PRACTICAL,
three days but it takes the name Of
! the "Forty Hourso from the fact tina
the Blessed, Sacrament is exposed
v ,,no,, tho II of uariOua tinpa dur