The Somerset reporter., 1908-11-19


Fogg's drug store.
Miss Iva N. Jackins of Houlton ar
rived here Tuesday for brief visit
with Skowhegan friends.
Miss Williams has a full line of
linens for shirtwaists and fancy work
Stamping done to order.
Miss Alice Getchell arrived home,
Monday evening after a months visit
with relatives in Massachusetts.
Miss Mollie Caswell of Waterville
was the guest of Edward F. Merrill
and family Tuesday and yesterday.
Miss Louise Coburu arrived home,
Monday evening after two weeks
visit with relatives in Massachusetts.
Remember the supper at the vestry
of the First Baptist Church, tomorrow
friday evening, from $50 to z.
Price % cents
Edward N. Merrill, Esq, left here
Tuesday for business trip to New
York City and other points, the most
distant of which is Dulush, MINI.
Mrs. George McCombs of Water
vile arrived here Saturday evening
and is passing the week as the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Roullard
The places of business of the Show
hogan Grocers' and Feed Dealers AS
ISOLATION will be open on Wednesday
evening next, the 25th, and closed all
day Thursday, Thanksgiving day.
Mohican Tribe, Independent Order
of Red Men, Is to have special coun-
ell fire this Thursday evening at
which will be present Henry R Gillis
of Calais, Great Sachem of the great
council of Maine.
Five thousand small brook trout,
from three to four inches long, were
liberated in Hayden lake last week.
They were from the United States fish
hatcheries and were put in in contin-
uance of the custom of stocking the
Hay den Lake water, late in each fall
season. Something like 1000 fry were
put in in the season of 1907.
Joseph Packard and wife of Win
throp, who had been visiting in town
at the home of his brother, Edwin D.
Packard, and with other Skowhegan
friends since last week, returned to
their home in Winthrop yesterday.
Mr.. Packard was a native of Skowhe-
gan but left here about thirty five
years ago to make his home in Ken
nebec county.
Henry s. Philbrick arrived here
from the Moose River region last
evening. He has been one of a sur
at work on Attean township, under
the direction of J. G.. Hutchinson of
Bangor. The snow storm of Sunday,
which was seven inches III that To-
cality, put an end to the work for the
present season.
Fourteen young ladies', friends and
former schoolmates, arranged a sur
prise party for Miss Frances Powers,
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. William
r. Elliott, last Monday evening, the
date being an anniversary of her
birth. 1t was so arranged that Miss
Powers was at a neighbours at the
time they arrived and was summoned
home to find her guests ready to
greet her.
MIR. and Mrs. Roy l.. Marston left
here this morning for New Haven,
Conn. They are to attend the Har-
yard Yale football game on Saturday
next, and the following week, Mr..
Marston is to 20 to West Point, N Y,
to attend to his duties as forester of
the United States Military Academy.
Mrs. Marston is to visit for a time at
the home of her mother, Mrs. II. S.
Parmalee in New Haven.
Miss Alice j. Buzzetl aud her sister,
Miss Rose, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred J. Lang over Sunday.
The first named, who has been teach
ing at Stonington, Me-, is home for
the Thanksgiving vacation, which she
Will pass at the residence of her father,
George NJ. Buzzell, in the Bigelow
Hill neighborhood. Miss Rose is en-
ployed as stenographer at the office
of Hea b < Andrews in Augusta and
returned to that city Monday.
The Skowhegan factory of the
Commonwealth Shoe Il Leather Com
pany resumed its regular ten hour
schedule on Monday of the present
week. They had been working but
nine hours daily since last April,
This change TO full ten hour day
has a note of encouragement in it,
but is more in preparation for in
creased business than for orders
actually at hand. There has been, it
appears, a very slight Improvement
in the market for shoes, with feel
ing among manufacturers that orders
of good volume will be received in
the early future.
All kinds of havoring extracts at
Fogg's drug store.
English violet, the most delicate OF