The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-10-22
New hats today at Curtis.


Mrs. Forrest E. Cross and her son,
Ardale, are visiting with relatives In
Pittsfeld.
Note announcements of auction
sale at the Bachelor homestead, on
Water street, next Saturday, publish
ed elsewhere in this issue.
Mrs. w. E. Blake of Calais, who
has been visiting for the past week
in Portland, is expected here tomor-
row to pass few weeks at the farm
home of her father, Henry A. Varnsy,
on the Waterville road.
The annual meeting of the Maine
State Teachers Association and the
Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools, will occur in Portland on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
next week. The sessions of the
village school of Skowhegan on
Thursday and Friday will be omitted
and nearly all of the teachers will
attend the meetings at Portland.
The football team of the Waterville
High School, booked to play at Fair
view Park on Saturday afternoon,
last, did not come. They wired on
Friday to the effect that it would be
impossible for them to fill their en-
gagement aud later made explanation
that they were used up from their
game with Coburn Classical Institute,
on the previous Wednesday, in which
they we're winners with a score of
four to nothing, and this with other
considerations made it necessary to
cancel their Skowhegan date. The
Farmington's are booked to play here
next Saturday with the Skowhegan
High School eleven.
Father A. o. Lacroix and Augustus
Gilblair of this place made a hunting
trip up river last week, each having
the good fortune to capture deer.
They left here on Tuesday and arriv-
ed home on Friday, and for a portion
of the time were in the company of
Hon. Albert F. Donigan of Bingham
and Father Jouvin of Fairfield Aus
tin Pond Camps and Lake Moxie
were among the places visited.
Father Lacroix's visit to the Upper
Kennebec was primarily in answer to
a call to see John German of The
Forks, who was critically i'll. Soon
after the message was sent here,
however, it was decided to take Mr..
German to the hospital at Portland
and he had gone previous to Father
Lacroix's arrival.
A debating society, in the form of
the National Congress has been or
gained by the junior Young Mems
being proposed to conduct it after the
plan followed during last winter.
The officers will be chosen monthly.
At present Arthur Merrill is speaker,
Elroy Lacasce vice speaker, and Earle
Huckins sergeant at arms. Each
member is supposed to represent
some state in the congress and bills
are presented, referred to committees
debated and passed, or elected, after
the style of the Legislative branch of
the national government. a six
O'Clock supper was sernd to the Y.
NJ. c. A. Members last Saturday
evening at their rooms over the
Steward dry goods store, Z. A. Mark
ham, Milburn Fowler and Ralph
Brown being the committee of ar
engagements.
Charles H. Chute, manager of the
Skowhegan Plant of the Portland
Packing Company, was summoned to
North Arson the first of the present
week to assist briefly in directing the
operating of the plant at that
place owned by the same corporation.
The foreman of North Arson factory,
Willis c. Emery, has been i'll and for
a time at least unable to superintend
its affairs. The work at the Skowhe-
gan factory is chiefly labelling and
casing at the present time. The corn
is being shipped in car lots to widely
separated points east of Mississippi
river. One car last week left here for
Atlanta, Ga, consigned to l.. W.
Rogers, and it so happened that it
went out of here as a part of the
freight train on which Mr. Rogers
brother in law, James Lowe, is con
ductor. Mr.. Lowe noted the name on
the car and called superintendent
Chute's attention to the fact that its
contents of 1900 cans was going to a
member of his family.
Occident Flour best on earth.
Lightbody's famous headache pow
dera, the guaranteed kind, at Samp-
fon x Azores only.
w. H. Norton is ready to make en-
gagements to take parties for trips
about town or to distant points, by
Telephone, SILL.