The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-03-12
W. B. Steward went to Boston, this
to purchase new goods.


morning, to purchase new goods.
Rev. B. B. Merrill was in Water
vile on Monday at the meeting of
the Central Maine Ministerial Asso-
citation.
George H. Gobel spoke on Social
ism in Milburn hall last Saturday
evening, under the auspices of the
local organization of that party.
Miss Mabel Smiley will leave here
tomorrow, for Westboro, Mass, where
she enters hospital training school
to study the profession of nursing.
Ansel Newton left on the Tuesday
morning train for Orono to take ad-
vantage of the four days instructions
given by the College of Agriculture.
Mrs. Hugh Breingan and daughter,
Anna Belle, were in Auburn two days
last week, the guests of her sister,
Mrs Ira L. Judkins, formerly of this
place.
DR.. F. S. Bigelow, who has been ill
for some months of pneumonia and
the conditions which often follow
that disease, is still confined to the
house, but improves slowly from day
to day.
Mrs. Julia Nay Kincaid arrived
home, Monday evening, from New
York City, where she has been at
tending the millinery openings for
the past fortnight, and has resumed
her position at Miss Withee's.
Mrs. Horace Eaton died, this morn
ing, at the family home in East Show
hogan. She had been i'll for a long
time and death came as the result of
a complication of diseases. The fun
eral will be from the home next Sat
urday afternoon at one O'Clock. A
more complete obituary notice will
appear in our next issue.
The members of the Glover Leaf
and the Afternoon Whist Clubs were
entertained at the Coburn by Miss
Sarah j. Anderson, Friday afternoon
of last week. Miss Anderson is a
member of both organizations. A
special supper was served in the
dining room at $50 The uniting of
the two clubs for an afternoons play
is not common occurrence; Improved
on this occasion a most enjoyable
one.
The Blunt, Riverside and Malbon's
Mills schools closed last Friday. The
other rural schools will close tomor-
row The reopening of the rural
schools will depend upon the condi-
tions of the roads and the weather.
They usually open for the spring term
about the middle of April. Grade
VIII of the village schools will close
tomorrow, and the other village
schools, up and including Grade VII
will close one week from tomorrow
for two weeks vacation. Miss Edna
Conforth, teacher of Grade TX, owing
to the death of her father, was obliged
to close her school last Monday. This
school will reopen for the spring term
term, probably, Monday, March %.
The visit of D. q. Hughes of Brown
vile here last week recalls the days
when slate was mined at Mayfield and
ed ~ or
Mr.. Hughes was the superintendent
of the works at Mayfield but passed
quite a portion of his time here, as
the company for a time operated a
factory in this place where the slate,
brought down in slabs of considerable
size, was finished and put through
process which gave it the appearance
of marble. Many Skowhegan people
were interested in the quarries and
Silas Leland of this place was pay
master for time. Preceding Mr..
Hughes management the late Warren
F. Bacon was superintendent. The
distance from railroad point, twenty
five or more miles, proved so great
disadvantage that the venture never
paid and the business was abandoned
some time In the seventies.
"The Fogg boy wasn't there, is
the mild manner in which little Helen
the three years old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George o. Smith expressed
her criticism of the Sunday School In
Washington, to which she was sent
on the first Sabbath after the arrival
of the family in that city, some weeks
since. Miss Helen, during the early
part of the winter had been an at
tendant of the Bethany Sunday
School in this place, and member of
the kindergarten department. The
''Fogg boy" who wasn't there, in
the school in Washington, and who
had evidently made a favorable i'm
preston upon the young lady, is
Raymond, the young son of Mr..
and Mrs. G. Z. Fogg, also a member
of the Kinde rgarten. Both had been
very constant in their attendance and
it seems that Miss Helen, in spite of
her journey to Washington and the
new surroundings, could not make it
seem just right to miss Master Ray
mond from the class at Sunday School.
Ready for Business.