The Somerset reporter., 1908-01-09

Chas. F. Ward has been i'll with the
grip and confined to the house since
last week.
Edward N. Merrill, ESQ.,, is passing
portion of the present week in
/ Boston on legal business.
Albert G. Bowman, manager of the
Bowman Hardware Co., passed yes
erday on business in lewiston.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter P. Ordway are
expected home tomorrow from a
brief visit with friends in Portland.
Miss Louise A. Cass returned to
/ Portland this morning to resume her
studies at a commercial school in that
city.
The next meeting of the Sunshine
Society will occur with Mrs. Minnie
Wiley on Turner avenue on January
Is.
Mrs. D. IL. Thyng and Miss Carrie
Smith of Waterville were in town
over Sunday, guests of Mrs. Thomas
Lunday.
George Tantish left here yesterday
morning for business trip to Boston.
He expects to be absent for week
or more.
Miss Lila V. Howes, who came
here to be present at the funeral of
the late W H. Davis, returned to
Burlington, VT, Tuesday.
Mr.. w. Arthur Watson will be in
town this week and will receive
orders for piano tuning at the music
store of j. N. & l. j. Smith.
The members of the Ladies' After
noon Whist Club were entertained by
Miss Lola Goodwin on Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. Edith s. Shepherd.
w. H. Emery has for sale one
wagon sled, for single horse, and two
pungs, also an office safe, good as
new, which will be sold at bargain.
A. n Davis is critically i'll at his
home on Water street, from nervous
shock attributable to the death of his
brother. w. H. Davis, which occurred
on December 3lst.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Westcott were
called to Madison Tuesday to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Westcott's
mother, Mrs. Martha S. Gray, who
died suddenly on Sunday.
F. H. Carpenter, formerly agent Of
the American Wooden Co., In charge
of the Anderson Mills in this place,
came here from Providence, r. L.,
his present home, to attend the
funeral of Edward P. Page. He re-
turned to Rhode Island Tuesday.
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. 1, 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.
Miss Carolyn Brainard, who had
been in town for the Christmas holi
days, took the train on Monday
morning to return to the Burnham
school in North ampton, Mass. Miss
Brainard expects to complete her
attendance at that institution with
the spring term of the present year.
G. F. Woodland of Greenville, agent
for the Coburn Steamboat Co, has
been in town this week, comforting
with S. w. Pbilbrick, the clerk and
treasurer of that corporation, re-
garding the annual report. The
annual meeting of this corporation
will take place at Greenville on Jan
uary 49,
Geo. Tilton died, Monday, at the
Tilton farm on the Norridgewock
road. He formerly resided in Mon
son and came to this county about
eight years since. He was a brother
of the late Horatio Tilton and of
Miss Abbie Tilton of this place, by
whom he is survived. Funeral cere-
monies were observed, yeste rday
forenoon, conducted by the Rev. b.
B. Merrill. His age was SO years.
Darius Houghton received a fall at
the works of the Island Machine Co.
last Monday morning, from the effects
of which he will probably be laid off
for week or ten days. The acct
dent occurred by stepping upon a
roll. The first report was that one of
his hips had been fractured but it is
now stated that no bones were brok-
en-. In point of service MIR. Houghton
is the Oldest employee at the Island
Machine Works. By the present
company and their predecessors, he
has been employed for between thirty
and forty years.
Or. L. A Dascombe made the jour
ney to the home of patient four
miles above Athens yesterday in his
automobile The roads were heavy
with mud after the storm of the night
before but the trip was made in good
time and without serious incident.
The chief difficulty experienced was
on some of the steepest hills where
patches of ice caused the wheels to