The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-08-27
TOWN and VICINITY

Miss Georgia r. Davis is visiting
with friends in Waterville.
Mrs R. K French of Portland has
been visiting in town, the guest of her
sister. Mrs. Calvin Eaton.
Mrs. J. E. Wadsworth and her two
children, Prudence and John have
cone to Old Orchard for fortnight's
outing.
Miss Allie Goodrich, saleswoman in
Lambert's confectionery store, is
passing a two weeks vacation in
Boston.
Mrs. s. l. Titcomb, one of the oper-
ators at the office of the Maine Tele-
phone Company, has gone to pass a
ten DAYS vacation at her former
home in Guilford.
Mrs. E. C. Dunton and Mrs. w. H.
HAYES, with her two children, George
and Helen, who have been at Old Or
chard beach since the middle of July,
arrived home last week.
Mrs. E. E. McIntire and her daught
er. Miss Rose. who had been guests of
Mr. and Mrs. H. NJ. Weston for a
short visit, returned to their home in
Winchendon, Mass. last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis McCord, who
passed the summer at their cottage
at Lakewood, have returned to New
York. They will appear in vaudeville
again this season in his sketch, "Her
Last Rehearsal"
Mrs. Martha futile passed Sunday
in Waterville as the guest of Col. and
Mrs. F. E. Boothby and is visiting
during the week with friends in Oak
land and Gardiner. She is expected
home on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Berce depart
ed Oh the afternoon train Saturday.
They have been visiting at Chas.
Gamage's. They will visit Gardiner,
Southport and Boothbay for a few
days, then return to their home at
,Haverhill, Mass. Master Arthur
Berce accompanied them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewia Lacroix of
Vienna, Me. were visiting Show
hogan friends last week. They were
formerly residents of Skowhegan but
have not been. here since they pur
chased their present farm home IN
Vienna and moved there in April
1906. They were guests while here of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. B. Heselton, Miss
Clara Vosmus and other friends.
Delbert F. Judkins, of the firm of
Wildes -Judkins Co., left here, Satur-
day of last week, accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. Leroy Judkins of
Athens, to visit Mr.. Judkins' sister,
Mrs. Mellen A. Whitney, in Elgin, Ill.
Mr.. JudkiDs in company with his
brother in law, Mr.. Whitney, will go
further west, visiting Denver, Col.
and other places, and will arrive
home about October LIST.
R. B. Marshall. chief geographer of
the United States Geological Survey,
and Frank Sutton, the geographer in
charge of the Atlantic Division, were
in town Friday evening of last week,
They were on their way to visit the
Topographic party, now mapping the
Ellsworth area, and came to this
place to confer with DR.. George Otis
Smith, the Director of the U. S. Geo
logical survey.
The ninth annual session of the
High Court of Maine, Independent
Order OF Foresters, was i'll sessi on i'll
Lewiston Tuesday and yesterday.
The delegates who attended from
Court Wesserrunsett of this place
we're Chas P. Adams, c. N. Bragg,
Charles A. Burnor, j. H. Murray,
Robert Burpee and A. o. Abbey. L.
l.. Walton, Esq, high counsellor of
the High Standing Committee, also
attended.
Coroner L. j. Addition was sum
moned to Bingham on Friday of last
week to hold an inquest in regard to
the deaf of Lee Baker, who was kill
ed while at work about his train
which was being made up in the yard
at Birch Point, the terminus of the
Maine Central railroad at Moosehead
Lake. The deceased was about 20
years of age and a resident of Bing
ham. He was employed as baggage
master on the Somerset division.
Station agent Eaton is anxious that
those who are to attend the Central
Maine Fair at Waterville next week,
should be on hand at the ticket win
dow early, and, so far as possible,
have the exact price the ticket,
$12o ready to tender him. The fair
commences on Monday and if those
who go all arrive at the ticket Office
during the last ten minutes before
train time, and many hand out a two
dollar bill to be changed, some might
fail to get their tickets on time.
A drama, "The Blind Boy" was
presented Wednesday, the 10Th, by
amateurs, between eight and fifteen
years of age, in the stable connected
with the residence of Clarence B.
Hight, on Baptist Hill, which had