The Somerset reporter., 1908-01-23
TOWN and VICINITY.

Baptist church by miss hOcn, Jan. H.
The regular meeting of the Town
Improvement Society will be held in
the Library Parlors on Friday, Jan.
oath, at 2.30p. m.
The finder of a grey robe and hand
satchel, lost Wednesday evening, on
Baptist Hill, will be suitably reward
ed by leaving at the South Side
grocery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold A. Wood, with
their little son, Karl, left here for
Baltimore, Md, on Friday last. Mr..
Wood is now in the third year of the
medical course, which he has been
pursuing at college in that city.
Sheriff c. H. Smith has been giving
bis new auto good test since Its
arrival, very extraordinary one for
mid winter Among the trips taken
was one to Bingham on Tuesday and
he ia on run to Pittsfield and Hart
land, today.
Twelve OF the school friends and
playmates of Everett F. Burnor
passed Saturday afternoon of last
week as his guest at the home of his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. A. Bur-
nor, at Al Winter st. The occasion
was Master Everett's ninth birthday.
Geo. F. Dennis, who had been in
town for two weeks as the guest of
his sister, Mrs. Esther Withee, left
here for Sidney, last Friday. He has
been making his home in Augusta for
several years but plans to pass quite
portion of the present winter in
Sidney.
Forrest Goodwin, Esq who has
been in Washington, d. c., in the in
terests of the Great Northern Paper
Company since Friday of last week,
arrived home today. One of his
duties while in that city called him
before the National Arbitration Com
mittee of the American Federation
of Labor.
In the death of the Hon. Ed. P.
Page the Skowhegan Electric Light
Company lost a member of their
board of Directors and President, and
at meeting of the Directors OF the
Company Monday the Goth, the va
cancies were filed by electing G. J.
Abbey Director and General Mana
ger, and William Doran, President.
Those who have had pulp wood for
sale have been taking advantage OF
the shedding for the past ten days.
The receipts by the Skowhegan Pulp
Co. and the Riverside pulp mill have
aggregated nearly 800 cords in that
time, and the amount paid in cash
therefore has been over %, 900. Some
Of this wood has been hauled here by
team from points fourteen miles dis
tant, one lot coming from Smithfield
and another from the vicinity of
Mainstream.
Mrs. G. E. Boucefield of Gardiner
delivered lecture on her expert
ences as missionary to China at the
First Baptist Church last evening.
The lecture was under the auspices
of the Philathea Society and the
ladies of the missionary societies of
the Bethany and First Baptist
Churches were invited to be present.
Mrs. Bouncefleld and her husband
were in China during the Boxer up
rising. They have been home about
one year and expect to return to
China in the not distant future.
The cost of breaking snow road, for
the town of skowhegan, to the pres
ent date last year was between five
hundred and one thousand dollars.
The total expense this year has been
$3.50. For fear that the public will
wonder where Commissioner Webb
could have spent so much money on
snow the present season, the REPoR-
TER will explain that some of the
sidewalk plows were taken out after
one of the very few snow falls in the
month of December, and the six fifty
represents the cost Of men and teams
for that service.
AS delegates to the third annual
conference of the Boys Clubs of
Maine, Messrs. Harry Larry, Alfred
Morrill,, Arthur Packard, Arthur Mer-
rill, Abner Mitchell, Edwin Sturte-
want, George Young, George Day,
Howard Weston, Frank Emery, E. A.
Markham and Maurice Pratt will
leave here tomorrow friday for
Portland, to represent the Skowhe-
gan Boys Club at the sessions which
will be held on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. The invitation of the state