The Somerset reporter., 1908-01-02
TOWN and VICINITY

ardson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter York of Ban
gor have been visiting Skowhegan
relatives this week.
Caleb Burns of Fort Fairfield pass
ed Sunday in town as the guest of his
cousin, George Young.
Mrs. Hattie Films of Dover passed
last week in town as the guest Of her
brothers, D. B. and H. R. Berce.
Rev. George Merriam attended a
me eting of the Central Maine Theo-
logical Circle In Waterville, Monday.
Miss vesta B. Withee went to
Watsrville, Monday, to begin her at
tendance at Morgan's businets col
lege.
Miss Esther Roullard, who had been
in town as the guest of her parents
for several days, returned to Gardiner
last Saturday.
Number 419 received the S12 mems
suit at J. A. Morrissette's on New
YEARS. day and the So boys suit went
to number 752.
Miss Gertrude Whittemore, who is
studying music at the New England
Conservatory in Boston, has been
passing her Christmas vacation in
town.
Clair Marston, a student at the
Jacob Tombe Institute of Port De-
posit, is passing his vacation in town
at the home of his mother, Mrs. q. A.
Marston.
Cecil H. Gates, graduate of the
Skowhegan High school, class of
1903, has been passing his Christmas
vacation here. He will return soon
to Chester, Pa, where he is a student
at the Grocer Theological Seminary
Miss Edith Lewis went to Boston,
Saturday, where she will pass the
winter in the study of music. Miss
Bessie M. Allen accompanied her
from this place, being on her way to
visit with friends in Massachusetts
cities.
Miss Hazel Leavitt went to Boston,
Monday, 10 continue her studies at
the Leland Powers School of Oratory
She expects to return home for a
vacation of several weeks In Feb
ruary and to complete the school
course next June.
A few ice boats have been hastily
constructed and put on Hayden Lake,
this week. They had good surface
on Sunday and again, yesterday, and
today bids fair to furnish opportunity
for this sport, the season for which lie
always very brief.
P. j. Shanahan, superintendent OF
the local plant of the Commonwealth
Shoe & Leather Company, arrived
home, Monday, from brief vacation
"trip. The time was passed at his for
mer home in Manchester, N. H., and
with relatives in one of the towns on
Cape Cod, Mass.
The Maine Spinning Company con-
tinue to operate their plant night and
day and have been little affected, or
not at all, by the recent rumors OF
sIackening business activity. They
employ 14O hands and have enough
orders booked to keep them fully &C.
cupied for some time to come.
On Dec. "a, 1907 1t was voted by the
Trustees of the Skowhegan Savings
Bank to pay dividend at the rate of
four per cent on Jan. /, 1908. This
will be one half of one per cent more
than they have previously paid and
of course will be appreciated by the
depositors Of that Institution.
The Jewett street school, which
will open next Monday, is to accom-
modate children of the first and Sec
ond grades, and from those families
only living on Madison and North
avenues above the top of the hill on
each of these streets and on the
streets leading off from them in that
territory.
Fred @. Dunlap has a "spring'
lamb, born from a Cotswold sheep or
December Is. Instances of lambs
Lai ss, he
winter, are said by sheep raissrs to
be very rare. Mr.. Dunlap has -four
Cotswolds, not a common breed in
this locality, also a flock of Twenty
Hampshiredowns.
A year ago there were Twelve
inches of ice on the river above the
dam and the Skowhegan ice company
were at work upon their field. Now
there is stretch of open water in the
center of the river, half way 70 the
piers, with ice but a few inches thick
near the shore. 1t Is condition
rarely or never seen here before
Skowhegan friends of the groom
will be interested in the anndunce.
ment of the marriage Of Elmo Guy
Bradley and Miss Eta Gage khich
was solemnized in Lowell, Masst Dec
IT. The bride Is native of that city
The groom made his home ID this
town for a number of years and was
employed in the Office of the SSmer-