The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-12-26
TOWN and VICINITY.

Tickets for Mr.. Phidelah Rice, i'm
personator, are on sale at W. +.
Robbins store.
Earl w. Smith of Boston Is passing
Christmas week in town with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Smith.
Miss S. Madeline Ward left here
last Friday to pass Christmas with
her sister, Miss May Ward in Boston.
Lorenzo Thompson of Auburn is In
town and spent Christmas with his pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Thompson.
Anyone finding a Knight Templar's
charm will be suitably rewarded by
returning the same to Meirilps shoe
store.
Miss Marion Brainerd returned to
Augusta this morning after a brief
visit here with her mother, Mrs. +. T.
Brainerd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Gledhill of
sykesville, Md, arrived, Tuesday
evening, for visit with Skowhegan
relatives.
Mrs. Frank Wyman returned TO her
home In Old Orchard, today, after a
visit here with her daughter, Mrs.
Walter Waller.
Miss Eva Knowlton, who has been
teaching in Milton, Mass, is passing
her vacation here with her parents,
Mr.. o. F. Knowlon.
Mrs. j. II. Gregoir and Miss Nellie
Morrisette of Augusta are passing
Christmas week as the guest of
Skowhegan relatives.
DIR. George o. Smith, chief of the
United States geological survey, ar
rived here, Tuesday, to remain over
Christmas with his family.
Mrs. Calvin Eaton and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Vonie Eaton, went to Fair
field, this morning, to visit Mrs.
Eaton's sister, Mrs. Fess Colcord.
The Christmas meeting of the Town
Improvement Society will be held
tomorrow friday afternoon at the
Library Parlors at the usual hour.
Messrs. Bert Spaulding and Frank
Randlett of Pittsdeld, with their
wives, passed Christmas day i'll town
as guests of Mr.. and Mru. W. +.
Hackett.
Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Goodwin,
Miss Lola Goodwin and Mrs. Edith b.
Shepherd passed yesterday in Pitts
field as guests of Francis W. Briggs
and family.
Z. B. Carter has taken lease Of
the Weston house on Madison avenue
and he and his family will establish
their home there before the end of
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. w. Webber and
young son of Auburn, passed the
Christmas week in town as the guests
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. F.
Williams.
Mrs. o. NJ. Hilton of Newton. Mass
with her two children, Harriet and
William, arrived Monday evening
and are passing the week as guests Of
B. s. Flagg and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crosby Kinds, who
has been passing the m onth of Decem-
Der in town with his parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Fred M. Kinds, returned to
Chicago this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Linn, Jr., OF
Hartland arrived in town, Tuesday
and were the guests over Christmas
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Simpson at the
family home on Maple street.
Miss Francis Lord, who has been in
New York City since last August,
arrived home, Tuesday. Her niece,
Miss Dorothy Coffin, who had been
visiting with Portland relatives, re-
turned with her.
The goose which has been exhibited
in the show window of the Bowman
Hardware company for the past ten
days was won by Mrs. Paul Ronllard
of this place and M. N. Robbins OF
Madison, each having guessed 972,
the exact number of nails in the jar
On Dec. "a, 1907 it was voted by the
Trustees of the Skowhegan Savings
Bank to pay dividend at the rate of
four per cent on Jan. l, 1908. This
will be one half of one per cent more
tn an they have previously paid and
OF course will be appreciated by the
depositors of that Institution.
Mrs. Lenora Spaulding left here,
Monday, to go to the Pacific coast.
She was to pass Tuesday with W. H
Pearson and family in Portland and
proceeded to Boston, yesterday, leav-
ing that city at noon with one of the
Raymond & Whitcomb excursions foi
California. She will pass the winter
in Pasadena and In March will go to
Tcaoma, Washington, for visit with
her brother, E. J. McNeelie, and hel
nephew, Harold Varney.
Hats about half price at Miss
Withee's.
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