The Somerset reporter., 1908-06-04

Miss Jennie Delano of Augusta re-
turned home yesterday morning after
a brief visit here as the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. J. w. Jewett.
Miss Sarah Swain, who is employed
as a stenographer in an Augusta
office, returned to that city Monday
after passing Sunday with skowhegan
relatives.
The date of the Democratic county
convention has been fixed for Tues
day, June Is. 1t will convene in
Grange Hall, Skowhegan, at half past
ten in the forenoon.
A party of six motor cyclists passed
the time from Saturday to Monday at
Pleasant Pond reporting nice catch
of trout. ]. A. Morrissette getting
the biggest, pounds.
Mrs. William b. Drew of Portland
left here Tuesday morning after a
visit at the home of Mrs. William
Doran. She is to be the guest of
relatives in Fairfield before returning
to Portland.
William H. Brown, who was under
went surgical operation at the Sis
tiers Hospital in Lewiston, about three
weeks since, has arrived home. he
believes himself to be making good
progress toward recovery.
r. ]. Cleveland, who has been at
work for the Skowhegan Electric
Light Company for the past two
years and half, has accepted a posi-
ton with Reed & Hall OF Lewiston
and left here for that city Tuesday.
Reed & Hall are the firm that have
the contract for wiring the new Mum
icipal Building in this place.
The Juniors of the Skowhegan High
School are rehearsing play, "a Case
of Suspension, to be. given in con-
nection with their exhibition on the
evening of Monday, June Is, in
Hall. Aside from the play
there will be nine recitations or other
speaking parts by members of the
class. All seats in the hall are to be
and reserved and tickets
will be on sale at the City Drug store
next Monday. Prices 35 and 30 cents.
E. W. Marston of Oakland, Cal, has
oeen in town this week, arriving here
asst Tuesday. Mrs. Marston, who
him as far as Boston, is
% go to Rangeley Lake the last of the
present week and Mr.. Marston
will join her there in the early
uture. They will pass quite a por-
ion of the summer at Rangeley and
n other parts of New England. Mrs.
Marston is a delegate from Califor-
Tia to the biennial session OF the
General Federation of the Women's
Clubs of the United States, which
meets in Boston on the last week in
June.
Mrs. Lucy Hobart Day, who is do
ng field work in Maine at the present
line under the auspices OF the Ma
ional and Maine Woman Suffrage
Association will speak in the parlor
Of the Congregational church Friday
evening, June 9Th at 7.45 O'Clock for
he local w. G. T. Z. No admission
will be asked. A cordial invitation is
extended to both men and women to
be present. Mrs. Day has held many
positions on National Com
nittees and was for eight years pres
dent of the Maine Suffrage Associa-
ion. She is also an earnest temper
lnce worker and much Interested in
clubs.
The storm of last Saturday night
started rise in the Kennebeo river
which, by the following Monday
morning, bad amounted to sixty
inches. At this pitch both pulp mills
we're obliged to discontinue opera
ions, the mill of the Skowhegan Pulp
20. resuming again on a small scale
yesterday. There has been too much
current all the week for driving and
he crews of the Kennebec Log Driv-
ng Company, from the lake to the
'iver's mouth, are laid off Temporal
lily. The rise is just the thing for the
tream drives, however, and they are
,ep orted as completing their work
yery rapidly this week. ~
Geo. Weymouth, Is Water St., has
or sale second hand top buggy in
rood condition which can be bought
1t a great trade IL called for soon.