The Somerset reporter., 1908-06-04
TOWN and VICINITY

Memorial day, tne guests OF hef
father, Clement Bunker.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Walker of Port
land. came to this place to pass
Memorial Day and have been passing
portion of the present week in town
as the guests of friends.
Richard w. Brown of Boston, for
many years a resident of this town
and still an extensive owner of Skow
hogan real estate, arrived here last
week. He plans to pass the first two
weeks of June in this vicinity.
DR.. L. A. Dascombe was out Satur-
day in the new touring car which
arrived the previous day. This is a
Maxwell of four cylinders and "a
horsepower. 1t was shipped here
from the factory in Tarrytown N. Y.
Mrs. E. F. Russell on Leavitt ST.,
has night blooming Cerus that has
blossomed every year for six years,
this year THREATS all previous records.
In three evenings it put forth eleven
blossoms, and yet there is more to
follow.
Mrs. Chas. Drew of Newburyport,
Mass. has been visiting Skowhegan
friends since last week. She Is to go
from here to Scion to visit her
brother, Marshall Williams and will
also be the guest of her sister, Mrs.
John Walker in Emden, before re-
turning to Massachusetts.
The first municipal concert of the
season by the Co. E Military Band
will be given from the stand in Co.
burn park Sunday afternoon, Jnne Ia.
During the summer there will be a
series of 10 concerts in different parts
of the town, 5000 having been voted
for this purpose at the annual March
meeting.
Eugene Steward will move his fam
lily to Portland in the immediate flu
ture. For a number of years he has
been conductor on one of the Show
hogan Portland freights, but last
March his run was changed from that
city to Waterville, hence his change
of residence. His run is now so ar
ranged that he will be in Portland
over Sunday.
Tuesday evening the Banner Glass
of the First Baptist Church served a
Mystery Supper which proved very
interesting and amusing. A menu
consisting of familiar kinds of food
with unfamiliar names, was handed to
each person and from it each ordered
the supper. A further novelty con-
sisted in the division of the dining
room in to four compartments.
A Sunday School has been organ
lied in the Bigelow Hill neighborhood
and officers elected as follows;
Superintendent, j. w. Packard; as
sistant superintendent, Mrs. Lizzie
Parsons; secretary, Miss Gladys Bur-
rill; treasurer, Miss Lena Packard.
Four classes have been formed and
teachers assigned. The school will
meet at the school house every Sun
day afternoon at half past two.
An extensive repair job is being
done at the power station on the
South Side, owned by Mrs. Edith S.
Shepherd. The gears and shafting
connected with the smaller water
wheel are being replaced with some
of heavier and more modern construc-
ton. The two waterwheels at this
station develop something like six
hundred horsepower and of this about
two-thirds is used in operating the
cars OF the Somerset Traction Com
pany.
Ralph w. Leighton of Pennington
is to succeed D. H. Perkins as prin-
cipal of the Skowhegan High School
at the opening of the school year,
next September, Mr.. Perkins having
resigned, to accept the superin-
tendency of the schools of Skowhe-
gan and Madison. Mr.. Leighton is
native of Portland and graduate of
the Wesleyan Seminary Of Middle
town, Conn. He had taught in the
Portland High School and for the
past two years has been one of the
teachers at the Abbott school in
Pennington. His family consists of
a wife and one child.
A notice by the municipal officers
of Skowhegan has appeared for sew
eral weeks in these columns, regard
ing the speed limit for the use of
motor vehicles, and the streets in
which this was to be limited to eight
miles per hour. 1t was generally
supposed this would have the desired
result, but appearances show that
some yet pay very little attention to
it. We have no doubt our police
officers hoped this regulation would be
observed without the necessity of
making an arrest, but we believe 1t
must be becoming apparent to them
that such is not likely to be the case.
1t is TO be hoped they will do their
full duty and, if unfortunately, 1t
becomes necessary, they will not fear
to apprehend such motor vehicle
riders or drivers as are persistently
regardless of the rights of the general