The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-11-07
TOWN and VICINITY

Two OF SROWD6Rdub m6TCudDUS,
Fred G. Dow and Geo. E. Sampson,
we're in Portland on business, yester-
day.
Chas. F. Ward Co. would like to
show you what they consider the best
line of ladies' and gents fur coats in
Somerset Co.
F. c. Sweetser, who had been the
guest of his daughter, Mrs. B. s. Kin
oaid, returned to the National Sol
diers' Home at Togus, Tuesday.
Mrs. H. L. Spaulding of Pittsfeld
visited here as the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. W. E. Hackett a portion of the
past week returning home, Saturday.
Twenty five or more people went
to Cornville from this place ON Friday
evening of last week to participate in
the dance given by Mr.. and Mrs. S.
H. Beal in their newly completed
apple house. One party of six couple
chartered blackboard as the means
of transportation.
Did you get one of those handsome
half pound boxes of Bakers fine
chocolates at Delano's sale last Satur-
day? If so, you are sure to want
another this week; if you did not,
make sure of one for such an oppor
tunity comes rarely. The sale is for
Saturday afternoon and evening only,
and the price only BIC.
James l.. Bean plans to leave here
next Monday for Joplin, Mo, where
he has employm with one of the
mining companies of that region. He
will be followed by his family in the
spring if he finds that section salts
factory as place of residence. Mr..
Bean has lived in Skowhegan for
eighteen years and has been employ
ed at the oilcloth factory all but three
= years of that time.
The clerks of Skowhegan are to
give ball on the evening of Tuesday,
November IL, and invitations are be-
ing issued by the committee, Forrest
E. Cross, Ernest H. III Gilman, Clyde H.
Smith, Archie L. Weston, Derne J.
Greene, and Abb oft w. Nelson. Mil
burn Hall will be the scene of this fes-
tivity and Kendall's orchestra of six
pieces will furnish music.
The storm of last Saturday night
caused another sudden rise in the
Kennebec and some further Interrupt
ton to the water powers connected
with the Skowhegan Dam. A small
pocket, retaining about 100 logs at
the mill of the Skowhegan Lumber
Company, gave way early, Monday
morning, and the timber started
down river. Some of the logs stopped
here and the rest have been secured
at points between here and Pishon's
Ferry. The logs lost by the Skowhe-
gan Pulp Company, last week, were
all caught at the boom of the Cushnoc
Fiber Co. of Augusta or before reach
ing that point, some 800 to 1000 sticks
at Shawmut.
Geo. H. Pishon met with some
what unusual fire loss at Mobiles
siding, two miles below Hinckley,
yesterday morning, car of hay
which he had finished loading the
day before catching fire and being
completely destroyed. There is no
clue to the origin of the fire and is
ounn0onI 10 hanY hxy
tramps. 1t was the eighth car that
Mr.. Pishon had loaded in that section
recently, He has six presses at work
this week in various parts of the
county 80 that the ten tons lost by
this fire, while representing loss of
two hundred dollars or more, do not
make a very large fraction of the
shipments being made by him.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. L. Walker will
leave here for Portland, tomorrow,
and will make their home in the Deer
ing section of the city in the future.
Mr.. Walker is a native of Portland,
from which place he came to Show
hogan thirty two years ago. His re-
turn there at this time comes about
principally from the fact that all but
one of his children are settled in or
near that city, and he and Mrs. Walk
er wish to be near them. The mem
bers of his family, now living in Port
land, all well known here, are Emery,
clerk in the dry goods store of Frank
E. Lowe; Frank, employed by the
firm of Edwards & Walker; Mrs.
Chas Goodrich and Mrs. Leon l..
Bailey. Another daughter, Mrs. Mary
Larkin, lives at Gorham, ten miles
from Portland, and the only member
of the family, whose residence is not
in Cumberland County, is Mrs. Carl
Curtis of Lexington, Mass. Mr.. and
Mrs. Walker leave many friends here
who will wish them success and
happiness in their new home. Mr..
Walker Is to follow in Portland the
same business, painting and decorat-
ing, which has been his occupation
in this place.
Winter hats arrived at Curtis.
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