The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-04
TOWN and VICINITY

always in charge of a registered phar-
macist.
Chas. 4. Drake arrived home,
Tuesday, from business trip to
Lewiston.
Buchanan has just received new
line of hand colored post cards-all
Skowhegan views.
Miss e. ]. Williams has been pass
ing portion of the present week on
business in Boston
Many think Fogg's chocolates are
the best in town. The price is no
higher Have you tried them2
Mrs. Abbie Lambert will receive
pupils in painting at her home on
Pleasant street, through the month Of
April.
/ Miss Francher Sawyer is passing
the week in Waterville, with her
friend, Miss Hazel Marston, student
at Colby College.
Mr.. A. F. Dyer, Manager of the
Dyer Dry Goods Co., left Tuesday
morning for New York to purchase
new line of suits for their department.
The w. c. T. L. will meet next
Tuesday afternoon at three o'clock,
i'm the G.. A. K. hall. All ladies cor
daily invited to attend this meeting
The attention of the public is called
to change in time at the Public LII
brary. After Monday, April 8th., the
Library will be closed from six to
seven instead of five to six.
j. w. Chase, who is in charge of the
branch office recently established
here by the Masonic Mutual Accident
Insurance Co., of Springfield, Mass,
is passing the present week in Boston
on business.
Miss Marion Brainerd passed Sun
day in town with her mother, Mrs.
Flora T. Brainerd. Miss Brainerd
has been official stenographer for
the Sturges Commission, for the past
wear and has recently been reap
pointed for the year of 1907,
r.. Jewett and Willis A. Bailey
went to Ellsworth, yesterday, to take
part in a district meeting of the /. o.
O. f. Eneampments of that section.
Mr.. Bailey attends in his capacity as
grand chief patriarch OF the order for
this state and Mr.. Jewett as grand
marshall.
Mrs. Louis LUDLOW Of Waterville and
Mrs. j. II. Gregoire of Augusta were
summoned here the first of the week
by the serious illness of their mother,
Mrs. j. b. Morrisette, who was strick-
en- with pneumonia last Saturday
Mrs. LUDLOW was accompanied by her
sister in law, Mrs. Joseph Ludlow.
Brace |. Lawley has been passing
the week in town with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Thos. Lawley. The oppor-
tunitv to visit Skowhegan is afforded
bv the Easter vacation of Tufts Medi-
cal School, whore he has been a stu
dent since last September and where
he will resume his studies next Mon
day. Mr.. Lawley plans to take full
four years course at this institution
L. Clyde Church, a former Skowhe-
gan boy, has recently entered the
employ of law firm in Minneapolis.
Mr.. Church is a graduate of the Show
hogan High School, class of 1913, and
of Colby College, class of 1902. He
completed a two years course at the
Harvard Law School last June and
left for the west in August, going first
to Newcastle, Wyoming, where his
father is located in the ranching bust
ness. Mr.. Church's eastern friends
recall his qualities as of the right sort
to command respect and regard his
success in his chosen profession as
certain, in whatever portion of the
west he may decide to follow it.
Roy l.. Marston leaves here today
on an eventful trip to the Repub-
lie of Mexico. He is retained as a
forestry expert by a syndicate of
capitalists who contemplate the pur-
chase of 100000 acres of timberland
in the Mexican state of Guerrero, on
the Pacific coast side of the peninsu-
lar. Mr.. Marston goes as the guest
of President Stillwell of the Mexican
International Railroad and will be in
company with party of gentlemen
from the states who are visiting
Mexico on his invitation, this tinan-
cier and railway magnate hoping to
interest them IN the country and IN
his railway system. The train, which
Mr.. Marston will take from Kansas
City, is special for the use of this
party. Mr.. Marston's quarters will
be in the presidents private car.
The viewing of the timber tract in
question will require that it be trav-
ersed on horseback from its eastern
boundary to the Pacific ocean, after
which the objective point will be the
port of Appulico, where a steamer
will be taken for San Francisco. Mr.,
Marston expects to arrive home via
the Canadian Pacific about two
months hence.