The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-10-29
TOWN and VICINITY.

Miss Maud Thompson and Miss
Maud Plummer are on a vacation trip
to Portland.
7 Miss Emery's piano recital, tomor-
row Friday evening, at the vestry
of the First Baptist Church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward r. Vail are
to occupy the Colby house on Plea
SAINT street and are already establish
there.
Mrs. Frank Drost and her daughter
Miss M f. Philbrook left here yester
day for a visit with friends in Old
Town and Lincoln.
The Lewis Coal Company has moved
its office from the location they have
previously occupied on Court street,
to Madison avenue, opposite Hotel
Coburn.
Miss Nettie D. Upham and Mrs.
Robert Uphan and little son were
guests in town over Sunday, return
ing to their home in Lewiston yester
day morning.
Adam Simpson has moved his
market, from the location where he
had been for the past nineteen years,
to more convenient quarters at No.
IS Madison avenue.
On Wednesday, November II, the
J % h.. T,f he n
al Society will serve harvest dinner.
The annual fair of the League will &C.
cur on December l and 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Boyd of Fort
Fairfield, who were just returning
from a trip to New York, passed FRI
day and Saturday in this place as the
guest of Mr.. Boyd's sister, Mrs,
Joseph l.. Steward.
R. f. Hall, Esq, of Dover was in
town on business yesterday. Mr.
Hall is the law partner of Hon
Frank E. Gurnsey, the recently
elected congressman from the fourth
Maine district, succeeding the late
Llewellyn Powers.
The home which is being built or
Dyer street by Mr.. and Mrs. B. T
Steward, is now ready for the plas
terers. H. B. Goodwin is the builder
and the carpenter work thus far has
been done by crew of four men in
charge of Chas. Gammage.
The new office of Hoyt's Express
Company, 1919 Water street, opposite
REPORTER Office, will be opened Mon
day. Rates to and from Portland and
Boston and other local points, 10 cents
for small packages, lbs. and under
Other charges in same proportions.
The freight business at the Skow'
hogan station continues good. Five
hundred sheep were shipped or
Monday by Frank L. Hight and a cai
of cattle on the same day by Manley
Holt. Among other shipments this
week have been n car each of lumber
and potatoes each day.
The old and reliable Maine Farmers
Almanac, published by Chas E. Nash
of Augusta, has just been issued and
will be welcomed by a large number
| of friends, many of whom have wait
ed with anticipation for its annual APP
pearance for full generation. The
publisher has our thanks for a copy.
Elisha Moore of East Madison was
before Trial Justice o. A. Priest in the
Skowhegan Police Court, Tuesday
afternoon, having been arrested
earlier in the day by game warden
Frank H. Russell, on charge of killing
two muskrats, contrary to the Maine
Fish and Game laws. Mr.. Moore
plead guilty and paid fine of twenty
dollars and costs.
Mrs. d. Wilder Colby and her
young son, John, left here Friday
noon of last week They passed the
night with Mrs. Colby's uncle, c. M.
Bailey, and family in Winthrop and
the following morning were joined by
the two daughters, Miss Charlotte
and Priscilla, all going to Maiden,
for visit with Mr. and William P,
Bailey. They will return next week
to Sanford. Me-, Where Mr.. Colby is
now employed as superintendent of
Schools. Mr.. and Mrs. Colby have
passed most of their lives in Show
hogan and come of families who were
for many years prominent in the
business and social life of the town.
They leave many warm friends to re-
greet their removal and the taking up
of perm anent residence in another
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. James @. Durrell have
arrived here and are registered at the
Coburn. They have closed the Sc
guinland at Five Islands, Me-, the
summer hotel OF which Mr.. Durrell
has been the proprietor the past sea-
son. A prosperous season is report
ed. The locality of Five Islands is
said to be most picturesque and the
Seguinland very attractive. This
would in part account for Mr.. Dur
rell's patronage but his friends be-
lieve he would not lack for guests,
even II he were to locate in a place
far less cheerful. He has been in the