The Somerset reporter., 1907-10-24
TOWN and VICINITY


been fixed for Tuesday, November 9Th.
Mrs. Charles Dore and her little
nephew, Dana Jr., are visiting with
relatives in Boston, Mass. and Sara
toga, N. Y.
Mrs. Walter Savage left Monday for
somerville, Mass, where her husband
is employed, to pass the next two
weeks with him.
C.H. Packard and his niece, Miss
Mabel Packard, have been visit
ing in Winthrop, this week, with
J. E. Packard and family.
Miss Lizzie Nye of Fairfield is visit
ing Mrs. Frank P. Huntley. Mr..
Huntley is expected home next week
from a visit with his mother in Mills,
Mass.
A Skowhegan passenger who came
over the Somerset Road from Indian
Pond, Monday, reports that twenty
three deer were brought down by the
same train.
C.H. Davis of New York city ar
rived Saturday to pass few days at
his summer home, Kilcare, and to
superintend preparations for winter
about the farm.
II. M. Pratt of So. Windham, Me-,
has been in town this week, as the
guest of his sister, Mrs. Vina Hill.
Mr.. Pratt was at one time resident
of this place but removed from here
In 1879.
concert by the Lakewood band,
under the auspices of Skowhegan
Grange, is to be given at Grange Hall,
next Tuesday evening, and will be
followed by a grand ball, for which
the band will furnish the music. The
admission to the concert Is but ID
cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. William G.. Young,
who have been visiting in town with
Mr.. and Mrs. M. V. B. Marsh and
other relatives, since last August, re-
turned to Greenville Saturday. They
will pass the winter there and con-
template returning to Skowhegan
next summer.
Mrs. It. B. Seekins of Pittsfield and
her daughter, Mrs. G. H. Davis of
Cornish, Me-, who had been guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Seekins on Leavitt
street, returned to their homes Mon
day. Seldom B. Seekins, who had
been up from Waterville to pass Sun
day, returned to that city by the same
train.
The boys of the class in the Con-
gregational Sunday School taught by
Mrs. F. r. Steward are to give an
oyster supper and entertainment at
the vestry on Tuesday, October 20.
Twenty Ave cents will admit adults
to both and the price for supper and
entertainment, to children under IL
years will be 10 cents. The proceeds
are for the Y. M. G. A. fund. Supper
will be served from $50 to 7.
Mrs. Harvey B. Goodwin and her
son, Carroll, went to Richmond, yes
terday, and were present at the mar
rage in that place, last evening, of
Miss Harriet E. Proctor to Mr.. Frank
E. PEBBLE, Mr.. Carroll Goodwin being
one of the ushers. The groom is Mrs.
Goodwin's nephew, and the bride is
a niece of DIR. G. V. Richards of this
place. Both have visited here and
are we'll known to many Skowhegan
people. Mr. Carroll Goodwin will go
from Richmond to Augusta to visit
for few days at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. w. H. Gannett.
A new society, to be known as the
Baraca, was organized at the parson-
age of the First Baptist courch, Tues
day evening. This organization, its
membership open to the young men
of Skowhegan, is to devote it's time
to the study of the Bible, chiefly from
historical standpoint. 1t will hold
meeting every Sunday noon and
probably one other meeting during
the week, the day and hour of which
has not been definitely settled. The
officers are, president, j. Harvey
White; vice president, Louis Dow;
secretary, Hunter Thompson; as
sistant secretary, F. A. Nolin; treas
urer, H. G. Gage.
The Skowhegan Local of the Car
penters and Joiners Of America held
their first annual banquet at the Maine
Central Hotel last Saturday evening.
There were present the members of
that order with their ladies', and in
vited guests, to the number Of thirty
eight. Abel H. Patten, the president
of the Union, called the company to
order at the conclusion of the BAN
quet, and introduced Rev. F. A. Leitch
who made the principal address Of
the evening. Mr.. Leitch was followed
by M. 8. Adams, r. T. Patten and
other speakers, members of the Union
and those who were there as guests.
The skowhegan Local has been organ
lied for six years, and now has a
membership of about forty. Since
their organization the hours of labor
for their crafShave been reduced from