The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-06-18
General markdown in straw goods
at Miss Withee's.


Address H, REPORTER Office.
Miss Nettie B. Upham and her sis
ter, Mrs. M. E. Bigelow, of Auburn,
passed Sunday as guests of skowhe-
gan friends.
MIR. John G. Griffin and family are
to remove tomorrow to their Hayden
Lake home, Kildare, where they will
pass the greater part of the summer.
Mrs. J. B. Maddocks left here on
Saturday last for Melrose, Mass.
where she will be a guest of her
daughter Mrs Annie G. Marshall, for
two weeks.
Mrs. l.. j. Stevens and her daughter
Miss Luella Stevens, of Cambridge,
Mass, arrived here Tuesday evening
and have opened their summer home,
Bloomfield Farm.
1t was found necessary to change
the commencement exercises of the
ninth grade school, from Friday as at
first announced, and they occurred
today Thursday at the First Bap.
fist Church.
Mrs. Lizzie Williams Dyer of Bos-
ton, who has been visiting at the
home of her father, r. II. Williams,
in Hartland, is to arrive here to-
morrow to be the guest of her aunt,
Mrs. G. B. Fairgrieves.
Mrs. E. ]. Friend went to Augusta
Monday morning, and from that city
has gone to a summer resort near
Portland, in company with the
family of her daughter, Mrs. George
Friend, for a stay of several weeks.
In addition to their complete line
of haying tools of all kinds, including
the Diamond Hay Carrier, Steel
Frame Grind Stones, Etc, the Blunt
Hardware Co., have added fixtures
and repairs for moving machines
and rakes. 2W
Owing to the destruction of his
stable by the fire of last Tuesday and
his consequent inability TO store the
property conveniently E. 7. Goodrich
offers for sale one driving horse, one
carryall, one top buggy, one new
concord wagon, one second hand
concord wagon, one carryall harness
and one driving harness.
A. H. Wyman, who had been for a
month past at Chester, Pa, arrived
home last evening. He was the
guest of his son, Levi P. Wyman, who
is one of the faculty of the Pennsyl-
vania Military College, and it was his
privilege to be present at the com
mencement exercises of that institu-
ton.
The committee who are at work on
the Fourth of July celebration are to
hold a meeting this evening. Some
things that have been recently added
to the program are a hose coupling
contest, between representatives of
two companies of the Skowhegan
Fire Department, and an exhibition
drill by Company E, also a motor
cycle race, the latter to occur as a
part of the afternoon program at
Fairview Park.
Some gentlemen interested in the
coming Fourth of July celebration
and also in the races which are to
occur at Fairview Park on that day
visited the western section of Somer
set county yesterday. The party
consisted of Walter H. Hight, Derne
Greene and Chas. w. Day and they
were taken over the road by Bin w.
Page in his new touring car. They
found everybody interested in the
celebration and horse owners gen
orally planning to enter their horses
here.
The annual reunion of the survivors
of the Sd Maine Regiment will occur
In this place on Wednesday,, August
~. This Regiment was recruited in
the various towns of the Kennebec
valley and, of the 100 or more orig
inal members now living, the larger
number are residents of towns and
cities between Gardiner and The
Forks Six members, Jefferson Saw
age, w. H. Weston, Charles Grover,
Simon Grover, Danville Fish and s,
F. Emerson are residents of Skowhe-
gan. General o. o. Howard was the
first Colonel of the Sd Maine and its
survivors recall this fact with great
pride.
Albert r. Smiley met with lively
adventure while making the rounds
of his cream route for the Skowhe-
gan Jersey Creamery on Saturday
last. He was coming down the Swain
road toward Dudleys Corner when
his gray mare stripped her bride off
by catching it on the end of the thill.
She started to run and, as it was a
down hill road ahead and as Mr..
Smiley had no means of checking her,
he thought best to jump and did so,
sustaining some slight bruises in this
action. The horse turned to the
right at the corner near the school
house and upset the team, breaking
up the cream containers and splitting
most of their contents. She was
finally stopped at the Lowe farm.