The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-08-13
TOWN and VICINITY.

DR.. F. S. Bigelow went to Augusta,
Monday, called there professionally.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. DeWere of
Portland, are guests this week of their
nephew, Sheriff G. II. Smith.
Miss Edith Cabot arrived here Fri
day afternoon from Providence, k. l.,
and is the guest of her mother, Mrs.
Fannie J. Cabot.
William Walker of Port Gamble,
Wash, who is visiting Col. and Mrs.
W. r. G. Estes, returned Sunday from
a visit OF few days at Kineo.
Ira A. Norton is recovering from a
severe attack of inflamatory rheuma-
tism which confined him to his bed
for week at his home on Madison
avenue.
J. Edwin Taylor of this town has
bought the cottage at North pond,
Smithfield, owned by F. c. Holt of
Norridgewock, The papers were
passed Friday.
Mrs. c. II. Tilton, the Misses Fran
ces and jeanette Lord and Miss Doro-
thy Coffin left Monday morning on
the $40 train for Monhegan where
they will pass the week.
Stanley c., the black gelding owned
by Stanley c. Chalmers of this town,
took second money in the PIT class
at Pittsfield Saturday afternoon. The
best time of the winner was 2.174.
J.F. Williams, accompanied by his
grandson, Walter Weber of Lewis
ton, left Friday morning for a fishing
trip to Moxie pond. They made
headquarters at the Jones sporting
camps.
Miss Winnibell Cover and Robert
Wildes, who had been attending the
summer school at the University of
Maine, arrived home Friday after
noon from Orono. The term closed
that noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Durrell and
their son Bin, who had been the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. l. Sawyer,
left Monday for visit with his bro
Their James at the Seguinland, Five
Islands. They will then return to
their home in Whitingsville, Mass.
D. H. Perkins, superintendent Of
the public schools in this town and in
Madison, arrived home on the after
noon train Friday from Orono where
he had been attending the superin-
tendents' school of instruction at the
University of Maine. Mrs. Perkins
and her son, Master Frederick, who
had been guests of relatives at her
former home in Brooksville, returned
at the same time.
Mrs. Mary A., widow of the late N.
P. Wood, died at $50 Sunday after
noon at the family home, A East
Front street. She had been sick for
the past ten months and death came
as welcome relief from her suffer
ings. Death was probably due to
cancer. Mrs. Wood was a native of
but the greater part
of her life was passed in Skowhegan.
Her age was ~ years. She leaves
one daughter. Mrs. c. E. McIntire,
with whom she made her home. The
funeral was held yesterday afternoon
I'll he at-
tended by Rev. T. L. Frost, pastor OF
the First Baptist church. Burial was
in the South cemetery. Mr.. Wood
died some nine years ago.
Attention is directed to the an
nouncement of the Atlantic Tea Com
pany in our advertising columns this
week. The members of this firm are
John F. Kehoe of Providence and
Clarence j. Hayden, formerly OF East
Madison, but for the past five years
resident of Rhode Island. Mr.. Kehoe,
who Is a native of Providence, has
been twenty three years in the bust
ness which this firm will carry on
here, nineteen of which was In the
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co.
Mr.. Hayden has also been engaged in
the same business for the five years
since he left East Madison and both
are experts in all knowledge of the
goods which they will offer to the
public. Their store on
Water street, next to the Second Ma
tional Bank, has been given fred
front" and built over as to it's interior
to adapt it - their business. Sat-
urday NEXT is their day of opening.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Brown on Main st. was saddened by
the death of their youngest daughter,
Berle Brown, who died after
protracted illness of some ten months.
Taken with typhoid fever about one
year ago the little girl never fully re-
covered. All that care and love
could do was done, the best of nurs-
ing, the tenderest love could not stay
the gradual waste of disease. During
her long illness Berle was patient and
suffered with fortitude and resigna-
ton. At school she was bright and
quick, beloved by all her little class
mates, shs will be missed when school
opens, but not forgotten. The ser
vices were held at the home on Sat.