The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-10-03

Mrs. Geo. 8. Webb is passing the
present week in Auburn at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Helen A. Robbie.
Cecil H. Tilton, of this office, lief.
yesterday to take in the Brockton
fair and to pass weeks vacation in
Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. Martha Beal, who passed the
summer in Skowhegan as the guest of
her cousin, DR.. F. =. Bigelow, started
Tuesday for her home in Alpena,
Mich.
Miss Louise Cass and Miss Edith
Tuck left Tuesday for Portland, where
they will attend the Miss Sawyer priv
ate schoolfor business. They will re-
main for the winter.
c. Davis Miller, president of the
Somerset Central Agricultural Soci-
ETY., left Tuesday to pass the remain
der of the week at the Brockton fair.
He will visit relatives in Boston and
Lexington, Mass, on his way home.
R. E. Washburn, leader of Company
E Band, h as made arrangements for a
course of instruction on the cornet
with Charles Johnson, director of the
Brigade Band of Lewiston, and took
his first lesson Tuesday of this week.
Mrs. Mary H. Hilton who has been
living with her daughter, Mrs. Onie
M. Banks, in Belfast, for several
years, has returned here. She has
taken rent on Heselton street for
the winter and may make her home
in Skowhegan permanently.
DIR. and Mrs. E. H. Stevens started
Monday by auto for their home in
North Cambridge, Mass. Since
August theyhave been occupying their
summer cottage, Bloomfield. His
mother, Mrs. L. J. Stevens, and sister,
Miss Luella B. Stevens, will remain at
Bloomfield for a few weeks longer.
The quarters on Madison Ave,
occupied before the fire by Reynolds
& Thorndike, BARRIERS, have been
thoroughly renovated and on Saturday
morning next, will be reopened by
by A. H. Elwood and Arthur Dunlap,
who have formed a partnership and
who proposes to run a barber shop
second to none in this section.
E. G. Bradley, who had been passing
vacation of month here with his
brother and sister, left Tuesday for
New York. The first of November he
will be joined by his sister, Miss Grace
D. Bradley, and they will go to Seattle
for the winter Their brother Charles
will join them later. They have
leased their home here on North
avenue for one year.
The remains of Mrs. Deborah R.
Nye, who died in Dorchester, Mass.
on Sunday last, were brought to this
town for internlent, yesterday, and
funeral services are to be held this
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Minnie
E. Green on East Front street. A
more extended obituary notice of
Mrs. Nye, who was well known and
highly esteemed in this section, will
appear in our next issue.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. o. Roberts and two
children left Tuesday for their new
home in Lowell, Mass. Mrs. Roberts
had been there for the past few
months, where she has established
herself in the millinery business. Mr.
Roberts will follow his trade, that of
barber. They have been residents of
this town for the past 10 years and
both will be missed in the Catholic
parish Of st. Mary's, where they al
ways took prominent part.
Between seventy five and one hun
dred hands are at work at the factory
of the Portland Packing Company on
Spring street this week, and Superin-
tendent Chute is making plans to fin
ish the canning by Saturday night.
This can be done if the weather re-
mains fair so that the corn can be
harvested and hauled to the factory.
The frosts of September did very little
harm and, notwithstanding that can
ming was not begun until the 18th, it
has been fairly favorable season.
Geo. w. Steward, the night watch
reports the discovery of fire in the
show window of the Somerset Fruit
Company, just after midnight, on
Monday morning. The curtain was
blazing when it first attracted his at
tention but it did not communicate
with other things and died out of it
self. He procured pail of water and
waited outside until he was sure
there was no further danger. Mr..
Steward states that the electric light
wire caused the blaze, and that, be-
fore he saw the fire, he had noted
some disturbance to the incandescent
system, manifested by the flashing
of lights in the business part of the
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Cole of China,
Me-, passed Sunday in town with
Mrs. Coles parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred M. Kinds, and Mrs. Cole remains
for the week. Her brother, Crosby
Kinds of Chicago, was also expected