The Somerset reporter., 1907-08-29
TOWN and VICINITY

open on Saturday morning next.
DR.. Byron Ingalls, of Boston is visit
ing the family of L. L. Walton, this
week.
J. A. Morrisette's summer clearance
sale of clothing closes Saturday night.
Take advantage of it.
Miss Margery Carleton of Oldtown,
Me, arrived last week and is the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Steward.
The places Of business of the Gro
GERS and Feed Dealers Assn. will
close next Monday, Labor Day, at
II O'Clock, noon.
Mrs. F. o. Sawyer and her daugh
ter, Fancher, left here, yesterday, to
pass the remainder of the week with
relatives in Dexter.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Wescott have
returned home from Caratunk, where
they were guests of A. B. Clark at
their Pleasant pond cottage.
DIR. P. II. s. Vaughan is in town, the
guest OF Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Durrell.
Mrs. Vaughan and two daughter
have been in town for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Whittier and
son of Springfield, Mass, arrived
here Saturday of last week and have
been guests at the home of Mr.. Whit
tiers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
Whittier.
A fishing party composed of Maude
Kellet, Genoa Sanborn and William
Spofford of this place and Linwood
Sanborn of Caratunk, made the hand l.
some catch Of $50 trout one day last
week, in the vicinity of The Forks.
Martin F. Hall of Chicago, who had
been the guest of his nephew, d. W.
Rowe, and other relatives in Somer-
set county since the last of June, left
Tuesday morning for Lynn, Mass,
where he will visit on his way home.
About seventy five Skowhegan
people joined in the Grange excur-
sion to Moosehead Lake yesterday,
the total number going from all
points being nearly 800. Most of the
excursionists passed the time in a
tour of the lake on the steamer Ka-
tahdin. Those from this place ar
rived home about ten O'Clock, report
ing very pleasant day at the largest
of New England's many lakes.
Mrs. G. P. Eaton of Quincy, Mass.
is visiting in town as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Dinsmore. Mrs. Eat
on resided in Skowhegan for several
years, previous to 1898, her husband
being employed as engineer at the
shoe factory. Mr.. Eaton has been
for the past three years in the employ
of the w. L. Douglas Shoe Co. and at
present serves them as machinery
expert and engineer.
Miss Maud Merrill arrived home,
Monday evening, from Camden,
where she had been the guest OF her
Colby College classmate, Miss Marion
Wadsworth. The six masted schoon-
er, Myrtle B. Crowley, was launched
from the Rockland yards on August
2lst and Miss Merrill had the privi-
lege of witnessing this event. The
Myrtle B. Crowley has attracted
more attention than most of the ves
sells built in Maine for the reason that
a schooner rugged craft of six masts
is very rare.
About five hundred people were
present at the exhibition given at
Fairview Park last Friday by Annie
Oakley, the reputed crack shot rifle
woman. Mrs. Oakley was demon
strating the qualities of the U. M. G,
cartridges and the Remington rifle.
1t was a rare treat for those who at
tended the exhibition as Annie can
surely "Do the stunts" such as
breaking five targets thrown at once
into the air without a single miss,
and many other equally amazing feats
Among the items of news concern
ing the fraternal orders it may be
mentioned that the semi annual in
stallation of officers for Skowhegan
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, will occur
this evening. District Deputy Geo.
Simpson will be installing officer.
Somerset Chapter, which does not
hold meetings through the summer
months, will resume its regular con-
vocations with a meeting tomorrow
evening. The Golden Rod Branch of
the International Sunshine Society,
which follows a similar custom in
omitting meetings during the sum-
mer, will hold it's first meeting after
the summer vacation next Wednes-
day, September
Master John Emile Wadsworth en-
tertained fourteen of his friends at
the home of his parents on Madison
avenue, last Friday afternoon. All
the young people were OF Skowhegan
except Misses Barbara and Julia
Vaughn of Bangor, and Mistress Pris-
ella Elliott of Guilford. Games were
played on the lawn from three to six.
Among the most amusing of these