The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-04-30
LOCAL MENTION

Mr.. and Mrs. W. p. Ordway are
visiting with friends in Portland.
j. Arthur Morrissette arrived home
yesterday from a business trip to
Boston.
Mrs. Serena E. Corson OF Bingham
is visiting in town, this week, the
guest of her sister, Mrs Eldora Clark,
and other friends.
The Sunshine Society will serve a
baked bean and salad supper in g. a.
r. hall, Saturday, May End. Supper
from five to seven. Children fifteen
cents.
The REPORTER learns this morning
of the birth of a daughter on April
Goth, to Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. Pierce of
Beverly, Mass. She has been given
the name of Esther Mayo.
Mrs. F. T. Ross, of St. Steven, N.
B., with her son Kenneth, arrived
here Monday evening and are guests
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. S. w.
Philbrick on Coburn avenue.
Mrs. ]. H. Wood went to Milo, this
morning, where she is to supply the
pulpit of the Adventist Church for
the next month. Milo, it will be re-
called, is the town where the state
convention of the Adventist society
was held last year.
Miss Mae Bowman, stenographer in
the office of Forrest Goodwin, went
to Fairfield, this morning, to pass a
vacation of ten days with her parents
Miss Edith Tuck, a graduate of the
Skowhegan High School, class of 1908,
who has recently graduated from a
Portland business college, is to do the
work of the Office until Miss Bow
mans return.
Mrs. Ella Day, widow of the late
George Day of Hallowell, died Friday
of last week, at Lewiston, where she
had been taken for medical treat
ment. She had been making her
home in this place for some time past
and her son, Adrian Day, died here on
March sth last. She was 58 years of
age. The body was taken to Ply
mouth, Me-, for burial.
Harlan p Wyman of Rehoboth,
Mass, first selectman of that town,
arrived here Monday evening and is
passing the week as the guest of his
sister, Mrs. Sewell w. Smith. Mr..
Wyman is a native of this place and
resided here until 1850. He has fire.
quently visited here, the last &C.
casion being at the time of the Wy
man family reunion, in September
1868.
The ice in Lake George broke up
and went out on Monday and the fish
ing season has already commenced
there, several good catches being re
ported. The same day the ice broke
up in Hayden Lake and the water
was entirely cleared by Tuesday
morning. This is two days ahead of
the usual season at the lake, as obser-
vations of past years indicate that
April 25th is the average date for the
ice to disappear.
The Kennebec river is now clear OF
ice for its entire length and the ice in
Dead river went out during last Sat
urday night. Driving operations
commenced on the latter river Mon
day and L. p Viles managing direc-
tor of the Moose River Log Driving
Co., left here on Tuesday to see that
affairs were moving properly. The
warm weather of Sunday and Mon.
day and the rain which followed sem
the Kennebec to very high pitch
temporarily cutting off the watel
power for the most part on the Skow
hogan dams.
DR.. 2. H. S. Vaughan, formerly Of
this place, and for several years su.
perintendent of the Eastern Maine
Insane Hospital at Bangor, has es'
tablished himself in the city of Port
land, with an Office at 756 Congress
street, where he will practice as {
specialist, giving his attention to
diseases OF the nervous system. DR.
and Mrs. Vaughan passed quite I
i portion of the winter here and went
to Portland about one month since tC
make arrangements for an office ano
place of residence. Their daughters
Misses Barbara and Julia, who hat
remained here with their aunt, Mrs
q. E. Durrell, during the present
month, went to Portland, Yesterday
being accompanied to that city by
Mrs Forrest Goodwin,
The members of the Grammar
School Class, Academy Building
called at the home of their classmate
Miss Berle Lewis, last evening au6
gave her surprise party, the occa-
sion being her seventeenth birthday
The meeting place was, by previous
arrangement, at the Bethany church
on Madison avenue and from there
all went together to Miss Lewis
home on High street, their arriva
being the first intimation she hat
that she was to be thus visited
Other members of the household hac
however, been told of what was tt