The Somerset reporter., 1908-08-06
TOWN and VICINITY.
)yer's Piano contest is now open.

pass an outing dl NOithPOA9'
Forty-three tickets were sold from
this station Tuesday on the morning
and noon trains for the circus in
Waterville.
Mrs. II. G.. Hilton of Lewiston was
in town for few hours Saturday.
She is the wife of Conductor Hilton of
/ the Skowhegan- South Gardiner run.
Mrs. Loring Cushman and her little
son, Thomas, of Melrose, Mass, are
visiting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
John w. Steward.
Miss Hannah r. Page has returned
from Mortified, Mass, where the had
been attending series of meetings
held under the auspices of the Con-
gregational society.
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-
posts made on or before the 10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. David H. Staples re-
turned Tuesday noon to their home
in Waterville, after a brief visit here
as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Derne
j. Green. The two ladies are sisters.
Mrs. E. c. Carpenter and Miss Ida
Davis of Somerville, Mass, arrived
in town Tuesday and will be the
guests for several weeks at Kilcare
cottage, the summer home of their
uncle, G. H. Davis of New York.
r. F. Wilson, for several years one
of the American Express messengers
on the Skowhegan-Boston run is on
his annual vacation, a portion OF
which he passed with his family at
West Outlet Camps, Moosehead Lake.
Miss Edith NJ. Gibbons of Boston,
arrived home on the 1926 train Tues
day and will pass her annual vacation
with relatives in East Madison. She
was formerly employed in Skowhe-
gan where she has a large number
of friends.
Owing to the extreme heat of Fri
day five of the men employed in the
building of the new sidewalk on the
east side of Madison avenue were
compelled to quit work at $50 that
morning. The sun baked down in
that locality and the heat was like
that of an oven.
Several Skowhegan horses took
part in the races at Waterville Sat
urday afternoon. Ramrod, the black
stallion owned by James Nutting,
finished seventh in the 225 class, and
Stanley G. was fifth in the 2.1S class.
This race went seven heats and was
won by Payline, driven lby P. B.
Gilman, a former Skowhegan boy.
G. w. Day was one of the judges.
DIR. and Mrs. E. H. Stevens, Mr..
and Mrs. William Stevens and son
Edmund of Cambridge, Mass, have
arrived at their summer home,
Bloomfield cottage, for their annual
outing. They we're accompanied by
another son, Edmond, who is the
proprietor of fruit plantation in
Porto Rico. DR.. Stevens returned to
Boston on the Pullman Tuesday
night, being called home to perform
an operation.
Haying in Somerset county is now
completed. The cut will be about
two thirds of what it was one year
ago. One Skowhegan farmer in talk
ing with a representative of the
REPORTER stated that his cut would
be the same as last year, 1875 tons, but
this was owing to the fact that quite
an acreage had been newly seeded
last fall. Otherwise mis- cut would
have been less than 100 tons. Not
wiuhstanding the shortness of the cut
the price of this staple will not be so
high as some have estimated earlier
in the season from the fact that those
farmers who have a small crop will
not winter so many head of stock as
in past years. 1t is thought by those
in position to know that hay will
not bring next spring over $16 per
ton.
The fire department was called out
at $3.50 Monday night by an alarm
rung in from box 20 on Mt. Pleasant
avenue. The blaze proved to be in the
house on Millburn street, owned and
occupied by Archie Bolduc. The
had company that evening and
more lamps Mr.. Bolduc went
to a sleeping room up stairs where he
lighted one. He assumes that he
must have thrown the match on the
dressing case where it caught fire to
the covering. A small patch of the
wall paper was burned, also dress
on a chair nearby. The blaze was
before the arrival of the
fire department and the damage was
slight. The burning dress made con-
side rable smoke and as the windows
Of the room were open passerby
saw this and rung in the alarm.
When the first of the apparatus ar
rived at the box there was no one
there to tell him where the fire was. |
1t is suggested that when an alarm is
pulled in and the blaze is not of
sufficient proportions to be seen that
Tho YNara0n r,Iillinn In thu alarm ra- |