The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-08-27

Mrs. E. G. Walker returned to Port
land, yesterday, after visit here with
her mother, Mrs. A. Fowler.
A. M. Greenwood OF Pennington
has been passing few days in town
as the guest of r. F. Wilson and
family.
jefferson Robinson of Guilford is
spending his vacation with friends in
Waterville, Madison, Scion and other
Somerset towns.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. R. Berce and
daughter, Miss Vera, and Mr.. and
Mrs D. B. Berce, who attended the
Old Home week celebration in Dover
Saturday, arrived home, Monday
evening.
NJ. L. Quimby of Saltwater, N. Y,
is visiting in town with his sisters,
Mrs. George York and Mrs. Mary
Green. He will also visit with sisters
in Augusta and Gardiner before re-
turning home.
Constable L. J. Addition, who is also
an officer for the prevention of cru
city to animals, took horse from the
possession of Edward Steward yes
terday and ordered him killed, the
animal being in his judgment, unfit
for work.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Houston of Gull
ford with Mr.. Houston's mother, Mrs
Robert Houston, were in town on
Sunday last, making the journey here
by automobile. Mrs. Robert Houston
remains for the week as the guest of
Skowhegan friends.
Mrs. Joseph Lawley of Somerville,
Mass, is expected here tomorrow or
Saturday for visit with Misses Mary
and Fannie Lawley. Her son, Irving,
who has been passing a fortnight's
vacation in Skowhegan, is soon to
return to Massachusetts.
William II. Norton left here today
for Boston where he purposes to put
in several days among the automobile
dealers. He contemplates purchas-
ing large car of some kind which he
will use in transporting parties and
individuals to such an extent as he
may find a demand for business of
this kind, in this section of the state.
The REPORTER learns that Andrew
Lumsden and family with his mother,
Mrs. Ann Lumsden of this place, who
have been making an automobile tour
of Scotland, have returned to Ameri-
ca, landing in Boston on Sunday
last. Mrs. Lumsden will remain for a
few weeks at her sons home in Mas
sachusetts before coming to Show
hogan.
Miss Gladys Pennell, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Pennell, celebrates
the twelfth anniversary of her birth
today, and has invited twenty four of
her schoolmates to assemble with her
this evening at the home of her par
ents on West Front street to partici-
I pate in lawn party and corn roast
Odt door decorations of japanese lam
terms, etc, have already been arrang-
ed and other preparations made for
their entertainment.
The fire alarm cards recently dis
tributed by G. R. Fogg, the druggist,
are accurate in every particular
except that the second and third
numbers, "a and %, on the south side,
should be transposed. If the holders
of these cards will renumber these
two boxes, giving the one that now
reads "a the number 25, and the one
that now reads 25 the number "a,
they will have a correct list of the
number and location of the fire alarm
boxes of Skowhegan.
Among the Skowhegan horses
which are entered at the Eastern
Maine Fair at Bangor this week.
Pilot Nelson, owned by Parker q
Robinson and a chestnut mare, the
property of c. w. Day. Nelson Wes
ton has gone with Nelsonee, formerly
owned by B. F. Gaylord of this place,
and recently sold by him to Madison
! parties. Pilot Nelson is to start in
the 2.26 class this afternoon. The
+ Day horse is entered in the class of
gentleman's drivers. Several herds
of fine cattle were shipped from this
station, from Skowhegan farms
and adjoining towns, among them
ten or twelve head of Herefords,
owned by II. +. Danforth & Son of
Madison. This firm shipped its an
imals from the Scion station last
year but found it more satisfactory to
drive them over the highway to the
Skowhegan station for shipment this
year.
Fred Clark of Smithfield, one of the
wardens of the Fish and Game com
i mission of this state, was in town
Sunday on his way home from an
Aroostook county trip. He had been
sent to that section to appraise the
damage claimed to have been done to
growing crops by deer and moose.
He found some actual damage done
by these animals to corn and grain
and made report of the sums to be
paid the owners by the state or