The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-12-24
TOWN and VICINITY.

Miss Frances Lord is in town to pass
Christmas with her sister, Miss
jeanette Lord.
Miss Emma Cote left on Monday
for Lewiston, to be operated upon for
appendicitis at the Sisters Hospital.
Mrs. Joseph o. Smith lett here this
morning for Beverly, Mass. TO pass
! Christmas and the week following at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will
/ liam B. Pierce.
Miss Winnifred Sanborn, the oper-
ator at the Skowhegan office of the
Western Cnion Telegraph Company,
went to her home i'll Belfast Tuesday
She had been i'll the preceding fort
night and is now to have short vaca-
1 ton and rest.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Mckinney
i Of Jaekman were in town on
/ Tuesday. They were called to
/ Waterville to attend the funeral of
Mr.. McKinney's sister-in- law, Mrs.
Edward Mckinney, and came here
for a brief visit with Skowhegan rela-
tives
The children who have been study
/ ing music with Miss Harriet Marble
gave a Christmas recital at the home
of the teacher on Spring street,
Tuesday afternoon, singing an unpub-
4 lished carol. The exercises we're also
i intended to mark the closing of the
fall lessons and the young pupils will
now have a ten days vacation before
taking up the winter series.
Miss L. M. Smith, who arrived here
/ from the west recently, informs the
REPORTER, she plans to pass the
winter here, with her father, Dr. A.
It. Smith, and to return to Spokane,
Washington, in the spring. She Is
then to resume her position as ac-
countant and cashier with firm with
whom she has been employed much
OF the time for the past seven years.
William Lumsden of Boston was
here for brief visit last week and
returned Saturday morning accom-
panied by his mother, Mrs Ann Lums-
den. James Lumsden of Everett,
with Mrs. Lumsden and their two
sons, Bruce and Bin, are to go to
San Diego, Cal, for the winter, and
Mrs. Lumsden will occupy his resi-
dence in Everett until his return.
! Word has been received here of the
marriage Of Matthew N. Clark, until
recently of this place, which occurred
at Niagara Falls, N. Y. on Thursday
of last week. The bride was Mrs.
Henrietta G. Shultz of Niagara Falls
and the ceremony was performed at
the Parsonage of the First Presby-
terrain Church, by the Rev. Albert S.
Bacon, in the presence of Mr.. and
Mrs. J. @. Kryder, relatives of the
bride. Skowhegan was Mr.. Clark's
home for many years. He left here
for Niagara Falls, on November 18th
and is at present employed at an cleo
trio lighting station in that city
Word has recently been received
here of the marriage of Lieutenant j.
N. Merrill, Jr., only son of DR.. and
Mrs. J. N. Merrill of this place, to
Miss Mabel d. Gee of California. The
ceremony was performed al Zambo-
anga, Mindanao, Philippine Islands,
by the Episcopal Rector, on October
31st. Lieutenant Merrill went to the
PHILIPPINES, in the regular army serv-
ice, in May 1903. He afterward
served one year with the customs de-
partment of the Islands and has been
a member of the Constabulary force
for the past two and one half years.
He has not been in the states since
leaving, over five years ago.
l.. L. Walton, Esq, and William II.
Paine arrived home yesterday fore
noon from Augusta, where they had
been to attend a meeting of the
executive committee of the Grand
Lodge of Maine, Ancient Order of
United Workmen. The principal
business of the session was perfecting
arrangements for the annual meeting
of the Grand Lodge, to be held in
Bangor on the third Tuesday in Feb
ruary. Other members of the execu-
tive committee were John F. Knowl- |
ton, Ellsworth; Fred Emery Bean,
and F. M. Fish, Hallowell; George s.
Longley, No. Arson; James H.
Mcmahon, George o. Cross and J. F.
Hill, Waterville; A. M. Spear, Gardi
ner; Edwin Stone, Biddeford.
A pair of horses attached to a
scraper and in use by the Skowhegan
Ice Company, broke through the ice
on Saturday afternoon last, and one
of them was so chilled that it died
soon after being gotten out. The an
imal thus lost was mare, called "Old
Kitty" one of pair purchased by
w. G. Savage, the manager of the
Skowhegan Ice Company, when he
first went into business for himself.
She was twenty years old and, in dol
lars and cents, far less valuable than
her mate, which survived, a young