The Somerset reporter., 1908-08-27

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passing the week with Skowhegan
relatives.
C. A. spaulding of Caratunk who
conducts the Pierce Pond sporting
camps was in town this week.
NJ. P. Salley who had been passing
the month of August at Old Orchard
beach returned home Monday night.
Miss Bertha Pullen of Augusta has
been visiting in town as the guest of
her grandmother, Mrs. Amelia L.
Pullen.
Miss Lena Lord of Saco returned
home Monday morning after a weeks
visit with her grandmother, Mrs.
Irene Lord.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Pepper of Con-
cord, Mass. with their daughter, Miss
Eunice, arrived last evening by the
late train and are guests at the home
of Mrs. Helen s. Coburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry L. Mitchell
with their son Abner left on the early
train Tuesday morning for Boothbay
Harbor to spend a week with Mrs.
Mitchell's brother Edgar H. Emery.
Professor J. Abbott Kendall will ar
rive home from his summer engage
ment and will be in town next week
and will be prepared to fill engage
ments with his orchestra on and after
September first.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Merrill went by
train to Newport this morning where
they have an appointment to join ii.
A. Bennett and family of Newton,
Mass. for an automobile tour or
Penobscot and Piscataquis counties.
Miss Mae Ward, who had been pass
j ing the summer with her father,
Summer c. Ward, left for Massachus-
etts, Monday. She will visit with
friends in Athol for a few days and
resume her duties as teacher in Bos-
ton at the opening of the school year.
Hon. Forrest Goodwin spoke at a
Republican rally last evening at
Guilford in company with Hon. Bert
NJ. Fernald. Mr.. Goodwin was taken
to that town yesterday afternoon by
Mrs. Edith S. Shepherd in her tour
ing car, others of the party being Mr..
Mr.. Goodwin's wife and sister.
Edward P. Whiting, local mail car
rier on delivery No. 3, has been as
signed to the duties of weighing the
mails on the Skowhegan and Boston
route of the Railway Mail service.
He made his first trip from here yes
terday and will be thus employed for
one hundred and five days, the period
during which the mails on New Eng
land trains will be weighed. Leroy
Jones is officiating as substitute car
rier meanwhile.
Miss Alice Moore and Miss Ger
trude Cole of Boston, who had been
passing the week here as guests of
Miss Annie Hayden and, Mrs. II. K.
White and family, left to return home
this morning. Miss Moore is the
daughter of Mrs. Katie Parker Moore,
formerly resident of this place.
The two ladies' made tramping tour
of part of their journey to Maine,
walking most of the distance from
Portland to Skowhegan. On the way
home they will visit relatives in
Bangor and return from that city to
Boston by boat.
There was largely attended hear
ing before Judge Bachelor at the
Courthouse, last Saturday, Ira G. But
Ter being the respondent, charged
with assault upon Llewellyn Pitts
with intent to kill. The trouble oc-
Cured the previous evening in Keen
Vile and in the encounter Pitts re-
eeived wounds from knife in the
hands of Butler. Butler claimed to
have acted in self defence and the
Judge evidently felt that no case was
made out against him as he ordered
him discharged. s. W. Gould acted
as counsel for Butler.