The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-10-24
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Cold enough for winter weather.
Miss Olney has returned from Bath
where she has been for a short time,
stopping with the Fisks, and will
spend short time with Mrs. Bolan.
The Scion Creamery Company are
painting their building here.
D. G. Wood is treating his house tc
new coat of paint.
! w. H. johnson has closed his ser
vices at the corn shop and has gone
up river as cook in one of the lumber
camps.
Mrs. Almon Blaisdell is spending 6
short time visiting her parents In
Waldo county.
About four thousand cases of corn
have already been shipped from this
shop. 1t takes about one thousand
cases to fill an ordinary freight cal
and some of the cars are sent as far as
San Francisco. The Burnham and
Morrill, goods go all over the country
1t will take from twenty four to thirty
thousand cases more to hold all oil
the pack from here. At present the
crew is labelling and no shipments are
being made.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Hilton are Wis
ting their daughter, Mrs. H S. Board
man at Orono for a few days.
Mrs. Ellis of Madison is caring fol-
Mrs. Ferris Rowe, who is still contin-
ed to the house by sickness.
Mrs. o. F. Hall has been on the sick
list this week.
The regular me citing of the Village
| IMPROVEMENT Society will be held
In their rooms ON Friday afternoon OF
this week, the meeting being In
charge of Miss Sarah Clarke, Mrs
Maria Hopkins and Mrs. Harriet
/ Field.
In recent letter from Rev. +. Il
Davis he reports the weather of New
Orleans as being uncomfortably warm
so they were obliged to wear very
light clothing to be comfortable. BY
the feeling here If Mr.. Davis has any
surplus of heavy clothing some of his
friends here, his size, would probably
feel like wearing it out for him. Ii 1t
keeps on at this rate the potato
raisers will have to dig their crop
with dynamite.
There will be a harvest concert in
the Congregational church on Sunday
evening, Nov. 3. A good program
will be provided for the occasion.
Quite a goodly number of the mem
bers of Lebanon Lodge F. q A. M. at
tended the dedication of the new
Masonic hall at Skowhegan last week
Somerset Grange will hold its sec
ond annual fair in their hall on We'd
nesday and Thursday of this week
both day and evening. The program
for Wednesday will be the exhibit
and articles on sale in the dining hal
and baby show at 2 p. m. with fine
prize for the handsomest baby. Ii
the evening there will be an enter
tainment by our local talent with
diversity enough to keep everybody
interested. On Thursday the program
of the day will be the same as Wed
nesday, with the baby show left out
In the evening there will be a grand
concert and ball with music by Ken
dall's orchestra. Supper will be serv'
ed from to 7.30 each evening. The
various committees have been work
ing hard to make the affair a success
and deserve to succeed.
Mrs. George Carr attended the
Women's Club Federation at Augusts
last week as delegate from the V. L
s. Mrs. D. G. Wood and Mrs. Cony
Russell also attended.
Mrs. William Whitney spent Friday
of last week at her old home in EN-
den.
Llewellyn Lawton is very sick with
a dropsical trouble.
Fred Swan of the firm of E. II. Roll
Inns & Company of Boston was II
town, Monday, on business.
The regular meeting of the teachers
of the Congregational Sunday Schoo
was held at the parsonage on Tues
day evening of this week.
By recent agreement the grocery
stores close every night at $50 will
the exception of Thursday and Satur'
day evenings.
The Ladies' Sewing Society of the
Congregational church met with Mrs
J. H. Gould in an all days session or
Tuesday of this week.
8. G. Morse Of Boston is spending
few days with his sister, Mrs. Lizzie
Jones.
There were two slight earthquake
shocks here, Sunday morning, al