The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-07-23

Mrs. VIVA IL. Hill mas gone 10 pass
the next few weeks with friends in
Gouldsboro and vicinity.
Or. Wadsworth and family who
have been passing a vacation at
Hayden Lake, have returned to town.
Rev. and Mrs. B. B. Merrill and
family have gone to pass the vacation
season at their cottage Standpoint,
Me.
Manley Pooler went to Boothbay
Harbor Saturday to pass few days
with his family at their summer
cottage.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. WEIGH of Oak
land are passing the week in town as
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Heselton.
Professor J. Abbott Kendall left
here for Mouse Island last Friday.
He is to furnish music at the Samoset
House until September LIST.
George D. Pierce of Bangor, with
his two children, Fred and Audrey,
passed Sunday in town as guests of
his sister, Mrs. r. F. Homsted.
Misses Nellie and Lena Lewia left
by the morning train today. They
are to visit Old Orchard and some of
the cities and towns of Massachusetts.
Mrs. Lila M. Keinath of New York
is expected here Saturday. She will
be the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. P. Cannon, for the next two
weeks.
Miss Bertha M. Hall of Chicago is
passing the summer in town as the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. c. Davis
Miller. Miss Hall is teacher in the
Chicago public schools.
Miss Gwendoline Quimby, daughter
of Mrs. Grace Quimby of Boston, re-
turned home last Saturday, after
passing her vacation in town with
her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
A. Pitts.
Miss Mary Mitchell, accountant at
the office of the Maine Spinning
Company, left here for Lawrence,
Mass. Monday morning. She will be
the guest of friends in that vicinity
for the remainder Of July.
The Savings department of the Sec
ond National Bank pays interest at
the rate of per cent; interest COM
mences the first of each month on de-
posits made on or before the 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Mcconnell
and their young son, William, re-
turned last Saturday, to their home
in Lewiston. They had been guests
for fortnight at the farm of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Mitchell on Bigelow hill.
Paul Murray arrived home last
week from Boston where he had been
for a visit of several weeks with his
daughter, Mrs. Lawrence T. Plunckett.
Mrs. Plunckett accompanied her
father here, returning home on
Saturday.
A. E. Bison left here by the early
train Tuesday morning to be present
at the great celebration which is TAX
ing place at the city of Quebec this
week. He may return by way of
Montreal and is expected to arrive
here on Monday.
Mrs. Lottie A. Lovejoy, who had
been the guest of her brother, Geo.
E. Sampson, left here yesterday for
Phillips. Mrs. Lovejoy's home is in
Seattle, Washington, to which city
she removed some twenty years
since. This is her first visit to Maine
since 1898.
Walter P. Ordway has sold the
handsome pair of drivers he has had
in use for The past year to William
Reynolds of Waterville. They were
bays, six years old. They were
driven to that city and delivered to
their new owner by Chester Chase,
Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Lucy Taylor left last week to
make a visit with friends in Bucks
port. She was accompanied from
here by Mrs. Hattie Merrill of Scion
and Mrs. Grace Ripley of Bucksport,
the latter returning home after
visit with Somerset county friends.
Mrs. Ripley is accompanied by her two
daughters, Rachel and Marion.
There seems to be more than the
usual number of tramps drifting
through Maine this summer and
Skowhegan is visited by fair share
of these travellers. AS is usually the
case, it is impossible to ascertain
where they are coming from or
whittier they are bound. They usual
ly tell of employment they have just
left in a nearby town and of some job
they have in community little
further on but are very rarely able
to give names of either employers or
places. What is surprising about the
matter is that they give very little
trouble to the officers or to the gen.
eral public. They must subsist by
some means but they rarely call up
on the police of Skowhegan for lodg-
ing or food and no reports have been
made of depredations committed by