The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-07-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TOWN and VICINITY

Joseph L. Steward made a business
,triu to Monmouth, Tuesday.
Miss Nettie D upham Of lewiston
is passing ten days o. her vacation ia
town.
Mrs. W NJ. pulsiier and Master
Libby left here yesterday O. pssa fae
next ten days At orr's Island Nj
Mr.. and Mrs Fred F. Lawrence lsf
Tuesday tor Bethlehem, n n where
they are TO take vacation and rest
until the middle Of August
G. II. Boardman Of Vinelsnd y J..
former resident Of this place. Is -
come to Maine tbs summer and ex
peeted here ia the early future.
During the absence OF sheriff clyde
II smith, who LETT for Canada aud
The west in his touring ear iazf week.
Deputy Willis { Emery Of North An
son is stationed here as acting
sheriff.
George, the youngest son of Mr..
ard Mrs. Chas North, has gone 10
otter Pond to pass two weeks va
cation with his brother, Fred North,
one of the proprietors Of the Otter
Pond Camps.
A. NJ. Clark, representing the
Skowhegan Granite Company, Of
which his brother, Mr. Clarence NJ
Clark, is the junior partner, has been
in Massachusetts, this week, soliciting
orders for the output of the quarries
which this company has recently
opened in Cornville.
James f.. Chase, a dependent, who
had been boarded at the expense of
the state, during the past ten years,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs Alfred
Austin, in the eastern part CT this
town, died last Friday, aged S6 years.
He was the only state dependent liv
ing within the limits of Skowhegan.
Brace l. Lawley, who has been pass
ing his vacation in Maine, with fire.
Quent visits at the home of his pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lawley of
this place, returned this week to Bos-
ton. He will pass the rest Of his sum-
mer in study and practice in the
hospitals of that city and will resume
the work of his medical course at
Tufts College in September, where he
has now the junior and senior years
to complete.
About a dozen of the boy and girl
playmates of Miss Dorothea Frances
Woodland accepted the invitation
issued earlier in the week and as
sembled as her guests, yesterday
afternoon, at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. P. A. Woodland, at
No. % Summer street. The occasion
was Miss Dorothea's third birthday.
The little people passed delightful
afternoon, games suitable to their
age and refreshments carefully de-
signed to please young appetites, each
having place on the program.
Lawrence Coburn, who has recently
returned to this place from England,
was among the losers by the big fire
which destroyed so much property on
the water front in Boston last week.
His household goods were in the
wareroom at the pier where they had
been landed from the steamer and
were burned. Mr.. Coburn is employ
ed at the present time in the position
he held for SO many years, that of
boss dyer at the Anderson Mills, in
the absence of David Stewart, who is
called away temporarily by the illness
of his brother.
The first coal elevator ever con-
structed in Skowhegan was started by
the Lewis Coal Company at their new
storage building yesterday. The
conveyor occupies an inclined tower,
about forty feet high, and is driven
by a seven horsepower electric motor
The work done yesterday was by way
of test, pending some reequipment
as to belts etc. One car of forty tons
was unioaded in an hour. The capac-
ity when fully utilized will be some
thing like fifty tons per hour. The
storage capacity of the elevator is
about eleven hundred tons. 1t is so
arranged that teams can be driven
under it and the loads taken on from
the bins through ehutes arranged for
the purpose.
John McIlwrath, who has met and
become acquainted with about every
body in Skowhegan and vicinity, dur
ing the past three years, through his
employment with the local telephone
exchange, went to Boston yesterday
morning to become one of the force
of FIVE electricians at the Harvard
Medical College. The position thus
vacated at the local Office of the
Maine Telephone Co., that of tele-
phone Inspector, will be filled by
Earl Thibault, who has been in their
employ for some time in various ca
pacities. Mr.. McIlwrsth's work in
his new situation will be such as per-
tains to the construction and repair of
electrical appliances in use by the
medical profession, including X-ray,
static machines, etc. The position