The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-05-07
TOWN and VICINITY

Mrs. +. .. Sawyer and hrs. FORREST
Goodwin left here on the Sunday
afternoon train to pass the week IN
Boston.
Mrs. Chester Sturtevant Of Win
throp, with her infant son, Herbert,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs Fred
r. Philbrick.
Miss Hannah r. Page left Tuesday
for Bangor, where she will attend the
81st annual conference Of the Congre-
gational churches of Maine.
Thirteeen cans of lake trout fry
were received here Tuesday noon for
Lake George. The fish came from
the United States hatchery at Green
lake.
The Madisons won from the Show
hegans, yesterday, in game OF ball
played between the High School
teams of the two towns at Madison.
The score was three to SIX.
{. Wesley Grover, formerly of this
place, who has been resident of the
Pleasant Pond region for several
years, was in town last week. 1t re-
ported that he is to cater to tourists
and summer vacationists, during the
coming season, as proprietor OF the
"Outlet Camps" at Pleasant Pond.
The members of Carrabassett Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
with their ladies, are TO be guests OF
the Masonic Orders at reception
and recital on the evening of May
18th. j. Wallace Blunt, Eminent
Commander of De Molay Command
cry, d. II. Perkins High Priest of
Somerset Chapter, and f. {. Butler,
Master OF Somerset Lodge, are the
committee OF arrangements.
Miss < X Locke, who had been
passing a weeks vacation with her
parents in Cornville, took the train
from this station Saturday morning,
to return TO Somerville, Mass. She
is a a teacher in the Somerville
schools and it seems they have sys-
tenn of vacations there which is in
vogue in few, if any, other communi-
ties. Their plan is for vacations OF but
one week in length, alternating with
! eight weeks of school. Miss Locke
thinks the plan an excellent one and
believes that the short and more
frequent vacations, and consequently
shorter terms, permit of the best
efforts on the part of both teachers
and pupils.
F. 2. Pennell has become the owner
of the lot on Madison avenue known
as the Rich property, purchasing the
same of w. p. Ordway who only
purchased it recently. Mr.. Ordway
had cleared the lot and made some
progress with the foundation and Mr..
Pennell is to proceed at once to erect
two story brick block on the lot. The
street floor will be fitted for market,
to be occupied by Jewett 4 Pennell,
and the second floor will be built fat
style, to become the home of L. B.
Jewett who also is to have the use of a
, stable which will be built the rear of
the lot. The work will be done by
day labor, and will be pushed as
rapidly as possible.
The class of 1905, Skowhegan High
School, held it's annual curling party
at the home of Miss Bertha Merrill on
Water street last evening. The lat
ter part of the evening they ad-
iourned to the school building and
.'rearranged" all readily movable
objects about the High School room,
the final disposition of them being
homogeneous to such an extent as is
deemed fitting for the day following
the annual curling party. In contin-
uation of the festivities, all members
of the class appeared this morning,
dressed in costumes fearful and Won
derful to behold and, after brief
parade about town, proceeded to
school at the usual hour. All these
pranks are sanctioned this one time
in the year by the teachers and school
officers, it being appreciated that a
few hours of practically absolute
liberty as to department is accepted
by the students as fair exchange for
dignity and decorum during the
balance of the year.
Something like forty members of
Minerva Chapter of Madison with
a few representatives of Mount
Bigelow Chapter of North Arson,
were guests of Sunset Chapter, Order
of the Eastern Star, of this place,
Friday evening of last week. The
degrees were conferred on three
candidates and following the work a
most enjoyable entertainment pro-
gram was presented. This consisted
of an original composition, a waltz
which is yet to receive its name, by
II. A. Dinsmore, the organist of the
Masonic bodies; an original poem by
Mrs. Elizabeth L. Merrill; vocal solo
by Mrs. Eldena Halves; and a read
ing by Mrs. Violet V. Fogg. The
evening Closed with a banquet, pro-
vided and served by members of the
entertaining Chapter, plates being
laid for one hundred and fifty. A
special car on the Somerset Traction
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