The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-03-12
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
TOWN and VICINITY

member may luNlLe one RucSG.
Miss L. NJ. Withee left here Mon
day morning, to attend the millinery
openings in New York City.
Mrs. Herbert Spaulding of Pittsfield
made a brief visit here last week as
tbe guest of Mr., and Mrs. w E.
Hackett.
Mrs. Edgar Murphy went to Mas
sachusetts Monday, to pass the week
as the guest OF Mrs w. F. Bowen in
Melrose.
Miss Blanche Pollard left here
Saturday to pass this week and next
with friends in New Hampshire and
Massachusetts,.
Miss Rose Carver of No. Haven,
Me, a student at Colby College
passed Sunday in town as the guest
of Mrs. j. o. Smith.
Miss Mabel Smiley and her young
brother, Kenneth, passed Sunday as
quests of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Craw
ford In w aUerVllle.
John E. Taylor, in charge of the
skowhegan Office of the law firm of
Ames & Taylor, made business trip
to Portland last Friday.
NJ. s. Adams, of the firm of Adams
& Burns, passed Friday and Saturday
of last week in business trip to
Gardiner and other down river points.
Among the up river business men of
prominence, in town on Tuesday,
were H. j, Craig of Bingham, ac
countant in the Office of the American
Realty Company, and Wallace Emery
OF North Arson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Langley and
their young daughter, Estelle. will
leave here for Beverly, Mass, next
Saturday. Mr.. Langley expects to
secure employment in the shoe
factories in that place.
Mrs. Edwin Bailey of Harmony
arrived here last Friday from Boston
and remained over Sunday as the
guest of Skowhegan relatives. Mrs.
Bailey's husband is the proprietor of
the hotel at Harmony.
Harlan P. Wyman, former resi-
dent of this place, was elected chair
man of the board of selectmen, at the
town meeting in Rehoboth, Mass,
last Monday. He had previously
served as second on the board.
George E. Young, member of the
senior class of the Skowhegan High
School, went to Lewiston this morn
ing. He is suffering from an attack
of appendicitis and an operation for
it's relief is to be performed at the
Sisters Hospital.
Palmer & Company are busy on a
big lob for Jonas Edwards & Son, the
Lewiston firm for which they have
done SO much business in previous
seasons. The entire order is for 100
farm carts, amounting to about
$500, half of which must be COM
pleted by April LIST.
The third federated me citing of the
Woman's Club, Sorosis and Town
Improvement Society will be held in
the library parlors on Friday, March
18th at 2.30 p. M, under the auspices
of the last named society. Members
of the Town Improvement Society are
requested to refrain from personally
inviting guests to this meeting.
Rev Theodore l.. Frost was sum-
moned to Boston last Saturday to
officiate at the funeral of Mrs. l.. M.
Hazelton, who died at the Deaconess'
Hospital in that city on the 9th The
deceased was a distant relative of
Mrs. Frost. During the present week
Mr.. Frost Is the guest of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur II. Frost of
Boston.
Hiram Berce has been driving bay
colt, Alice G. ten months old, about
town the past fortnight which has
attracted considerable attention.
This colt is by Stirling, dam, Nettie
W. Skowhegan will recall the dam
as one of the racers at one time
owned by the late Edwin Gledhill.
She has a record of 2.214, and became
the property of Mr.. Berce after an
accident which broke one of the
bones in her leg. The colt above
mentioned stands thirteen hands high
and weighs 600 pounds. She shows
a fine disposition and has developed
nicely in the brief time she has worn
the harness.
The Colby College Glee Club was
greeted with large audience in
Grange hail, Friday night. The con-
cert was given under the auspices
and for the benefit of the senior class
of the Skowhegan High school. The
Colby Club has appeared here many
times in the past and has always Civ
en- the best of satisfaction. The same
may be said of the concert of last
Friday night. AT the close of the
program hop was rendered the Wis
iting collegians, for which music was
furnished by Kendall's orchestra.
The members of the club were enter
tanned in the families of the high
school students.