The Somerset reporter., 1908-04-09
TOWN and VICINITY

a business trip to Portland.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Davis Miller are
on a trip to Boston this week.
The ladies are invited to attend the
millinery opening, Saturday, April
18th, at G. E. Poulin's.
Mrs. Nathan Thomas and her
Young daughter, Miss Dorothy, visited
relatives in Fairfield and Water
vile last week.
Mrs. Maria Goodwin and her
daughter, Miss Mae, spent the day,
Tuesday, with relatives in Water
vile and Oakland.
Mrs. Helen s. Coburn and Miss
ington, D. c., to pass the months of
April and May with DIR. and Mrs. Geo.
o. Smith.
Miss Sarah F. Coffin went to Lynn,
Mass, by the Monday morning train.
After brief visit with relatives in
that city she will go to New York to
be the guest of her niece, Miss M. L.
Coffin.
Miss Josephine Healy returned to
Chesterfield, Mass, on Saturday.
Miss Healy has a position as teacher
in that town, the spring term upon
which she now commences being the
last of her second year.
Mrs Mary S. Stinchfield is passing
the week in Boston as the guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Nj. Barnard. Yes
terday she attended the meeting OF
the Supreme Lodge of the American
Benefit Society, being delegate
from Kennebec Lodge of this place.
Word was received here last Sun
day by DIR. F. S. Bigelow to the effect
that DR.. George A. Fuller of Onset,
Mass. fell and broke his hip on Fri
day of last week. This misfortune
will necessitate cancelling the lee
ture which the Doctor was to have
given here on April goth.
A combination buffet, drawing
room, and observation coach, the
private car of Morris Mcdonald,
president and general manager of the
Maine Central Railroad, came to this
station attached to the 1926 train,
Monday. Mr.. Mcdonald was not
with the car but G. H. Priest,
assistant general manager, F. IL.
Ramsdell, master mechapic, and II.
A Southworth, division foreman,
were passengers. The car had been
at the Waterville shops for repairs
and the run here was in the nature OF
a trial trip. 1t was returned to Port
land the same afternoon.
J. Palmer Merrill has bought the
printing office property on Elm
street, opposite Hotel Coburn This
building, now occupied by Harlie
Annis as a paint shop, gets its name
from the fact that the Republican
Clarion, one of the early newspapers
printed in this county, was issued
there for many years. The late
Moses Littlefleld conducted the bust
ness until his death in 1867 and for a
time subsequent to that date, the
business was carried on by his son,
Frank. In later years, after being
used for many other purposes, it
became the home of the Somerset
Argus.
Street Commissioner George II.
Webb has crew of men at work this
week replanking the South channel
bridge. This bridge was opened for
traffic in November, 1906, and was
then covered with two inch plank.
Eighteen thousand feet of plank are
required and the ones that are being
laid at this time are hemlock, two
and one half inches thick. Three
years is about the longest that a
bridge, used as much as the two
bridges leading to Island avenue III
this place, will wear from one cover
ing.
All participants report a most en-
ioyable time at the leap year dance,
given in Milburn Hall, Friday evening
of last week, under the auspices of
the Senior class of the Skowhegan
High School Invitations were issued
some weeks since to the members of
the various school classes, to the
teachers and a few not connected
with the school, and the number ac-
cepting made a company of some
thing like seventy five. An inno-
walton, so far as this section is con-
cerned, was tried in connection with
this dance, making the tickets thirty
five cents each to gentlemen and
ladies alike. With this understand
ing, any one receiving an invitation
from the committee was at liberty to
accept without the heretofore nee
cessary additional invitation from
some one of the opposite sex. 1t is
a plan quite commonly employed in
other states and seems to have been
quite generally acceptable in con-