The Somerset reporter., 1908-06-04
TOWN and VICINITY.

Tickets for the Alumni Ddnqaee ioi
June 18th, are on sale at Sampson
and Avore's.
MIS-. Martha Wing left here Friday
of last week for visit with relatives
in Wayne, Maine.
Miss Lillian McWilliams of Starks
is visiting in town at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. Chas. North on Mt. Pleasant
avenue.
Miss T. Z. Coyne, accountant at the
First National Bank, passed Memorial
Day and Sunday with friends in Wa
terville.
The baseball team of the Skowhe-
gan High School won from the Law
renee High School at Fairfield last
Friday. The score was II to 7.
The Famous Canadian Jubilee Sing
ers with their Imperial Orchestra will
be in Skowhegan Grange Hall We'd
nesday evening, June II, at O'Clock.
Miss Grace G. Merrill, stenographer
in the law Office of Merrill & Merrill,
went to Brunswick, yesterday, to be
present at a house party given by the
Zeta Psi fraternity of Bowdoin col
lege, last evening.
Assistant Postmaster G. Z. DuTreu
with a party Of friends, among whom
are Fred Ennis and Clarence Mantor
of this place, are on a fishing trip to
Pleasant Pond. They are expected
home ON Saturday next.
Mrs. William Morrow died in Lew
iston on Saturday of last week, aged
40 wears. Clement Bunker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Dinsmore Bunker, Miss Hannah
Bunker, Mrs. Daniel Thompson and
Lorenzo Thompson, all OF this place,
were present at the funeral, which
occurred in Lewiston on Tuesday.
Company E. Band has received
many complimentary remarks for its
work on Memorial Day and its mem
bers are rather proud of the fact that
they had full band of 26 pieces, all
their own men. Their youngest
member, Albert L. Rogers, ten years
of age, who plays the snare drum, has
been voted in very recently.
Senator and Mrs. II. II. Rice OF
Pennington were in town, Saturday,
calling on Carleton P. Merrill and
other friends. Senator Rice is a
member of the special educational
committee appointed by the last leg
islature and had been called to this
section to attend the meeting of the
Somerset County Teachers Associa-
lion at No. Arson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spencer Borden, Jr.,
OF Fall River, Mass, arrived here last
Saturday night in their touring car
and passed Sunday at the Coburn.
They had planned to continue their
Journey up river in their automobile,
but the storm of Saturday night led
them to leave their car here and pro-
coed by rail. They purposed to go to
Moosehead Lake and to make their
headquarters for time at the West
Outlet Camps.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Goodwin of
RAYMOND, N. H., are visiting in town,
guests of Mr.. Goodwin's cousin, Chas.
A. Goodwin, and family. Mr.. Good
win is a Skowhegan boy and was en-
ployed in the shoe factory here until
about ten years ago, for two years as
foreman of the stitching room for the
Bloomfield Shoe Company. He went
from here to Dover, n. H., and, after
two years. residence in that city, to
Raymond, where he has foreman's
position in one of the local factories.
Chas. G. Tozier, turnkey at the
Somerset Jail, has recently arrived
home from visit with friends in
Boston. His journey to Massachu-
sets was made via the Maine Central
and Boston and Maine railroads, as
they have been travelled so many times
by people OF this community, but ITO
mile of the return trip was made by
electric railway lines, Mr.. Tozier
being the first citizen of this place,
we believe, to accomplish so much of
the Boston to Skowhegan run in this
manner. The distance spoken of,
terminating at Sabattus, Me-, was
made in one day, and is reported by
Mr.. Tozier to have been most de-