The Somerset reporter., 1908-05-21
TOWN and VICINITY.

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Mrs Iva Gage, who had been in
Worcester. Mass, fer several weeks
past arrived here Saturday evening.
Mrs. Alice spaulding Of Pittsheld is
passing the week IN town as the
guest 81 her brother. William E.
Haekctt.
John y Fogler arrived home
Saturday morning q last week, from
Wssh.nRtan. u g where he had
Heeu since early iu April
Sire hffHaf s,rout Of Gardiner is
.sasfug ~ week Ia town AZ the
#aa.t &c 8f and Mrs B T. Steward
= #Hs.f HaHe au High street.
0ha- = eHsny VII be at the Ok
#.H# il - mast IF next week. Or
#sH Mt piano tsning may be left
HH.fe otat bIn-more 4 Bickford's.
fae fare 10 Lakewood, for the an
s meeting OF the International
saash.ue Society, nett Wednesday,
Nas ~ 9lll be- twenty FIVE cents
- lbe round trip.
Herman steinberg Of Berlin, Ger
many. sas among the arrivals by last
eeeningvfs train Mr. Steinberg was
In The clothing business here about
eight years since.
Niss Edith Gledhil, accountant at
the oface II the Maine Spinning
Company. left on the noon train
Monday 10 pass a weeks vacation
With friends in Providence, r. l.
The members OF Russell Relief
Corps have accepted the invitation
of Russell Post to attend services
with them at the Bethany Baptist
Church next Sunday. The ladies
will meet at Grand Army Hall at ten
o'clock A. NJ.
In the recent news from the fish
ing at Lake George, 1t is reported
that Fred Hubbard of Massachusetts,
with guide, caught six salmon, and
one pickerel there one day last week,
weighing seventeen and one fourth
pounds.
Mrs. J. P. Blanchard, who has been
caring for her sick mother, Mrs. Lo-
vina Bumpus of The Forks, since the
first of January, returned to her home
in this place last Thursday, her
mother being very much better at
this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Alec Williams have
sold their farm in Waterville, of 172
acres, for $4,000, and have moved to
Oakland. Mrs Williams mother,
Mrs. Sarah F. Moody, formerly of
this place, goes to their new home
with them.
c. G. Grover left here this morning
for Pleasant Pond where he and his
son, Wesley Grover, have contracts /
to build several cottages during the /
coming summer. One of these is for
Forrest H. Colby of Bingham and two
are for members of the faculty of
Bates College.
DR.. +. II. Stevens of Cambridge, /
Mass, was in town over Sunday on a
visit to his summer home, Bloom
field cottage. He was accompanied
by S. r. Ellis of that city. Mr.. Ellis
is well known breeder of race (
horses and wintered at DIR. Stevens
farm the mare Prairie Lily, I'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Wood arrived
Monday from Baltimore, Md E, and
will pass the summer as the guests of
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Wood. /
They were accompanied by their son,
Karl. Mr.. Wood has just completed
three years of the four-years course |
in the Maryland Medical College.
F. j. Parker left here this morning
to return to his home in Jamaica
Plain, Mass, after brief visit with
his brother, Frank Parker, at his
farm home in Norridgewock. While |
here Mr.. Parker selected several ma
tive white birch trees of suitable size |
and had them shipped to Massachu-
sets, to be set out about his resi-
dence.
A party of twenty or more Showhe-
gan business and professional men,
by several gentlemen
from other parts of the state, leave
tomorrow for a few days fishing at
Moosehead lake. They are to go by
way of the Somerset extension and
will have headquarters at West Out
let Camps. They will return here
Monday afternoon.
The last issue of the Good Will
Record contains the announcement,
by Rev. and Mrs. g. w. Hinckley, of
the engagement of their daughter,
Miss Alice, to David r. Porter of
New York City. Miss Hinckey is
frequent visitor here and is almost
as well known to Skowhegan as
though an actual resident of this
town. Mr.. Porter is an official of the
International Young Mems Christian
Association and is widely known.
He also enjoys the distinction of
having been the first student from
New England to be awarded Rhodes
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