The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-04-25

w. w. Stoddard has recently pur-
chased for his daughter, Marion, a
fine new piano.
A. S. Burke was down river last
Tuesday.
Wallace Turner of Moscow has sold
his farm to Clarence Andrews.
Mrs. W. Z. Andrews was sick last
Saturday and Sunday.
c. E. Millett has new sign in front
of his barber shop.
Chas. Owens and John Hardy are
painting Thomas Cahill's tenement
house on upper Main st.
Mrs. Cordelia Burke has been con
fined to her bed by illness the past
few weeks.
Mrs. Margaret Smith, who has been
i'll at the home of her son, William,
for several weeks, remains about the
same.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Gould went
down river last Saturday.
Chas Saunders and wife have gone
to y. Waterford to see Mrs. Saun-
ders father. Mr.. Saunders will re-
turn next week and Mrs. Saunders
will remain several weeks.
Work on Ben Adams new barber
shop is progressing finely.
David Bean is now able to be about
town.
II. Price Weber Co. had full houses
each of the three evenings they were
in Bingham.
John Whitman from Hotel Rock
wood. Kineo Station, was III town,
last Saturday.
Thomas Mullen, for many years
station agent at Bingham, has been
promoted to the position of train dis
patcher at Oakland, and will move
his family there very soon.
f. H. Colby returned from Bangor
on Saturday.
Henry Sands and wife are going to
lockwood to work for Henry Holden
this summer.
Mrs. Walker Mason has gone to
Lowell to join her husband, who is
working at that place.
Henry Washhurn and wife, who
have been spending the winter in
California, returned home on Monday
night.
Ralph Gallant came home from n.
Arson, Saturday night, and is attend
ing High school.
Will Snow and wife of Skowhegan
were in town, last week.
Leslie Wells, who is working for
the American Shoe Finding Co., has
moved his family to BrownVille.
Mrs. Joseph Whitney returned
Wednesday night, from Pittsfeld and
Skowhegan.
Inez Holt was at Scion, last We'd
nesday.
Lawrence Livingstone of Oakland
was at Bingham, last Monday.
Mrs. Robert Hilton, Mrs. w E.
Andrews and Emma Hilton were
shopping at Waterville on Friday OF
last week.
James Martin of Pleasant Pond was
in town, also at Scion, last week.
Effie Robinson returned from Port
land, last Friday night.
The American Shoe Finding Co. are
running evenings to make up for lost
time, while repairs were made. They
are rushed with orders for shanks
faster than they can fill them.
Owing to vacancies in some of the
rural schools, Miss Christine s. Long
ley of Plymouth came Saturday to
take the school near Albion Clark's;
Miss Alice A. Smith of Skowhegan
near Peter Mahoney's; and Lula M.
Holway of Madison, the school i'll
Isaac Holway's district.
Miss Marion Hamilton of Bates Col
lege was the guest of Mrs. Z. Il, Ellis,
Friday night, and on Saturday she
went by stage to West Forks to teach
the Burleigh High school.
Mrs. Lizzie G. Brown and son,
Manson, of Detroit, passed through
town, Saturday, en- route to West
Forks, where Mrs. Brown teaches the
primary school and her son attends
the High school. Mrs. Brown is the
assistant in Somerset Academy of
Athens and takes school during the
summer vacation.
A dramatic entertainment and ball
for the benefit of the library will be
given Thursday night of this week in
Kennebec Hall. The laughable farce
comedy, "A Rank Deception" will be
presented by the following cast of
characters:
Mrs. Francis Charmington,
MIS-. Myrtle Cummings
Madeline Dering, Miss Georgia Colby
Dora Vanderveer, Mis- Belle Colby
r, ginald de Buster Arlie Dinsmore
George Washington WheelshoPt,
Carroll Clark
Frederick Charmington. Walter Robinson
MAYFIELD.
V. P. Hall has gone to Bangor to
visit relatives.
School commenced Monday taught
by Miss Bertha Cook.
Perley Bryant Is at work for Mrs.
Bradshaw, at the Forest Lodge farm
In Brighton.
Rena Brown has returned home to
attend school.
Forrest Matthews of Brighton was
in town one day last week.
Mark Webster visited his father in
Bingham recently and reported that
he was improving in health.
F. M. Vittum of Scion was in town
one day last week.
Frances Cook has gone to Kings
bury, where she will teach the school
there.
Miss Annie Bryant has been home
on visit and has now returned to
Bingham hotel.
Mrs. Clarence Dutton of Bingham
passed through town Saturday on her
way to Abbott to meet her husband
there who is life insurance agent.