The Somerset reporter., 1908-07-30
TOWN and VICINITY.

at Dyer's.
Miss Helen Frame of Bingham ii
visiting in town at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. II. Pishon.
Mrs. Ethel Buker of Boston arrived
here Monday and is the guest of hel
'tsister, Mrs. f. F. Fairbrother.
III Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Jewett arrived
Nome yesterday from weeks vaca
Hion trip, passed at different points
about Moosehead Lake.
Miss Myrtis Genthner, stenogra
pher at the Office of Butler & Butler
is passing a fortnight's vacation a
Damariscotta, her former home.
Mrs. w. b. Pierce Of Beverly
Mass. was in town Thursday and Fri
day of last week. She came to ac
company her daughter, Miss Rachel
here, to pass the month of August
with her grandmother, Mrs. JOSEPH
O. Smith.
G. ?. Estes left here Monday, foI
/ Brunswick, departing from that place
the following day to attend the an
nual convention of the Beta Theta Pi
fraternties of American colleges.
Mr.. Estes goes as delegate from the
Chapter of Bowdoin College.
Mr.. c. F. White of Boston and Mrs.
c. C. Simpson Of Kenduskeag, brother
and sister of Mrs Albert r. Smiley,
arrived here Friday of last week. Mr..
White has returned home, after a
brief visit, Mrs. Simpson remaining for
the present as Mrs. Simley's guest.
Mrs. George Philbrick arrived
home Friday evening after a two
weeks sojourn at Squirrel Island, she
being the guest for this time of DIR.
and Mrs. G. II. MeServe of Raleigh,
n. c. DR.. MeServe owns summer
home at Squirrel Island and he and
his family come to Maine each year.
He is the president of Shaw Uuiver-
sity of Raleigh.
DIR. H. l.. Jackson of Waltham,
Mass. was in town Saturday of last
week. The doctor was formerly a
resident of this place and had an
Office for the practice of the optical
profession on the second floor of the
building near the Merrill shoe store.
afterwards destroyed by the fire of
September 1907. He has been the
guest of relatives in Hinckley but will
pass some time in Skowhegan before
returning to Massachusetts.
DIR. Luther Whitman of Barre,
Mass. returned home last week after
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert n.
Pratt, at Edgewood Farm. Mrs.
Josephine Davis, who had also been
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt for a
few weeks, returned to her home in
Auburn last Thursday. Miss Ger
trude Cook of Sierra Madre, Cal. a
teacher in the public schools of that
city, arrived at Edgewood Farm on
Monday Of the present week, for a
visit with her cousin, Mrs. Pratt.
Skowhegan friends of Professor and
Mrs. Jefferson Taylor have received
marriage announcements of their
daughter, Miss Agnes, to Mr.. Frank
Gore Reid. The ceremony took place
at the home of the bride in Ontario,
Cal. on July 7th. Mr.. and Mrs. Reid
are to reside at Long Branch in the
same state. The bride is a native of
this place and her parents resided
here for a considerable period, pre-
vious to 1885, while Professor Taylor
was principal of the Skowhegan High
School.
In spite of signs posted in conspic-
uous places about Coburn Park,
warning people against doing damage
to the trees and buildings, the com
missioners find that some persons
have been SO thoughtless as to cut
their initials in the wood work of the
fences and shelters. The commits
sioners wish to give the widest pub
licity to the fact that punishment
will follow If the guilty parties can be
apprehended, especially if the pro-
pensity for carving is INDUCED in
about Coburn Park after this date.
The SkoWhegan Electric Light
Company has been operating its plant
by steam this week, the water being
shut out of the wheel pits for the
purpose of putting new steps under
the water wheels. One of these
wheels had not been re-stepped for
ten years and the other for nearly the
same time. They would have run
longer but Superintendent Abbey
thought it best not to tempt fortune
too long and preferred to do the
work now, when the water was cong
paratively low and the season was
otherwise favorable for the work.
Work will be commenced at an
early date, under the supervision of
street commissioner George II. Webb,
on new sidewalk on the west side of
Madison avenue, between W ater and