The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-15
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trip in the Caratunk region.
Mrs. E. P. Page passed Sunday in
Portland, as the guest of Dana w.
Hall and his sister, Miss Cora.
g. N. Wood OF Mercer, treasurer OF
Mercer Cattle Show Association, was
In this town on business Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred E. Holmes re-
turned last week, from three weeks
visit among relatives and friends, in
Boston and vicinity.
Mrs. Eugene Crawford of Water
vile, who was called here by the ill
ness and death of Mrs. Esther Palmer,
returned home yesterday.
Miss Clara A. Steward went to Port
land yesterday. She will visit at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Steward
for the remainder of October.
First selectman R. Francis Parker,
tax collector Frank P. Pennen and
Geo. W. Cover, Esq, are on a hunt
ing trip in the vicinity of moosehead
/ Lake.
G. w. Emerson attended the state
Sabbath School convention in Bangor
yesterday, "a delegate from the
Centenary Methodist church of this
place.
j. Harvey White, who has been
among those attending the Portland
festival, will go to Boston from that
city for business trip of about one
week.
Miss Lillian and Margaret Smith
went to Portland yesterday, on bust
ness for their father, Sewell w.
Smith, one of Skowhegan's coal mer-
] chants.
We publish elsewhere in this issue
an announcement of the second confer
enoe of Charities and Correction to be
held in Waterville on October 26, 81
and 2sth.
B. F. Gaylord attended the Tops
ham fair this week and also made
business trip to Portland, Others
/ who attended from here were Henry
Sheridan and Perley E. Stevens,
Miss Eolia Snow Bray, who has
been in town for the past two weeks
on visit with her mother, Mrs. Phi
lena B. Bray, returned today to her
home in Northeast Harbor, Me.
Drs. Kellet and Sanborn have rent
ed the rooms over A. r. Jewett's
store and will be established there
after Oct. %. Hours $50 to 11.30 a.
M, 1.3O to $50 p. m. Sundays ex-
cepted.
Edwin w. Marble has completed
monument for the burial lot of the
late George N. Page and Edw. P.
Page. 1t is of the best Barre granite.
Mr.. Marble has spared no pains to
make this the finest granite monu-
ment in Somerset County.
MIR. and Mrs. G.. Wallace Nash de-
parted this morning for a trip to
Portland and Boston. They will be
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Pear
son in Portland and will also go to
Medford Hillside, Mass, to see Mr..
Nash's daughter, Mrs. w. A. Watson.
Some steps looking toward the
Identification of the surroundings of
the Skowhegan public library have
been taken during the past week.
White lilacs, barbaries, spireas and
similar shrubs were set out along the
front of the building. This is prac-
tically the first work of this nature
that has ever been done about the Ii
brary lot.
Ernest A. Rowell, formerly car
rier on local delivery number three,
of the Skowhegan postofiice, arrived
home last week from Jackman, where
he had been teaching school since the
middle of last August. Three years
since Mr.. Rowell taught in Moose
River SO that he knows about every
body in that region. He will return in
two weeks for the winter term.
Sheriff G. II. Smith with two of his
deputies, D. w. Lewis of this place
and Chas. Savage of Norridgewock,
passed Sunday at lockwood as
guests of John Holden and family.
Mrs. Smith accompanied her husband
and DR.. and Mrs. w. 8. Stinchfield
were also of the party. Among the
good things served to the Skowhegan
guests for their Sunday dinner were
green peas, picked in the garden of
the Holden household on the previous
day.
Benjamin K. Preslie is running as
news agent this week on the Portland
and Skowhegan route, the same stu
alton he formerly filled. For the
past few years he has been handling
the news agency business on the
Somerset road and conducting a news
stand at Bingham, but with the be-
ginning of the present summer he ac-
cepted employment again with CHS
holm Brothers of Portland who oper-
ate the news business on all Maine
Central lines.