The Somerset reporter., 1908-11-19
TOWN and VICINITY

Rev. A. o. Lacroix' passed Monday
in Fairfield, participating in the cere
mony of the Forty Hours Devotion
George II. Markham has bought the
Bigelow granite quarry in Corrville
See his announcement in another
column.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Viles arrived
home Monday, from brief visit with
their son, Blaine S. Viles, at his home
in Augusta.
Among the Skowhegan people at
tending the famous theatrical pro.
duction "The Man of the Hour" al
the Waterville opera house last Mon
day evening, were Mrs. Fred. r
Philbrick and Walter H. Hight.
Mrs Fred A. Leitch attended the
annual meeting of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society in Lewiston
last week. She went as the repre-
sentative of the missionary society
connected with the Centenary M. E.
church of this place.
Mrs. Eta Seveno and her sister,
Miss Lena Cook, arrived here Tuesd ay
evening and are guests at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Curtis. They
are TO go to SoloE for a visit with
friends before returning to their
home in Old Orchard
Mrs. A. F. Smith of Hillsboro
Bridge, New Hampshire, with her son
Harry, and daughter, Miss Laura P.
Smith, arrived here last week. They
are to make their home this winter as
members of the household of Mrs
Smiths brother, F. M. Mills, on Pine
street.
Carl A. Powers, of the Skowhegan
High School, class of 1905, is passing
two weeks vacation in town with
his sister, Miss Frances. at the home
of MIR. and Mrs. y r. Elliott on
Alder street. Mr.. Powers has been
head clerk at the Russell Cottages, a
summer resort in Kearsarge, N. H.,
during the past season.
There has been a slight change in
the time table of the Somerset Trac
ton Co. on account of the low water
in the river. Until further notice
cars will leave Skowhegan for Madi-
son at $3.50, 1885, $50, 1885 a. m. II 05,
200, $50, 500 and 700 p. m. Local
cars will leave Skowhegan for Cold
Brook at 8. 80 a. m. sos, 500 and 900
p. m. The Regular Sunday Winter
Schedule will be run.
One wave of prosperity, at least,
has arrived at Skowhegan. The
Marston Mills, where OF late looms
have been operated by day, is to put
on night crew in the weaving de
part ment, sixty looms to be thus
operated on the night shift at
present. There are plenty of orders
ahead for the light weight season.
The management are aiming, as ad-
ditional employees are taken on, to
give the positions to residents of
Skowhegan and vicinity.
Claire r. Marston has located some
camps and has crew of men at work
on what is known as the Dyer tract,
between the Madison and Russell
roads, about three miles from this
place. He has bought the stumpage
on this piece of about one hundred
and thirty five acres, and contracted
to deliver the logs at the Spear &
Emerson steam mill, near the Jesse
Reed place, during the coming winter
The timber is chiefly fir, poplar and
hemlock and there is in all probably
six to eight hundred thousand feet
Mr.. Marston has recently graduated
from the Jacob Tomb Institute at
Port Deposit, Md, and this is his
first important commercial enter
prise.
John O'Reilly, proprietor of the
Silver Spring Bottling work, calls the
attention of the REPORTER to an arti-
ele recently appearing in a metropoli-
tan daily, which gives facts of the his
tory to show that many, probably
most of the presidents of the United
States, have been descendants of Irish
ancestry. Among those of Celtic
origin, according to the Investigations
OF author, are Roosevelt, Mckinley
Jackson, Madison and Thomas Jeffer-
son. From the interest taken by Mr.
OReilly in the article in question and
his events pride that so many of the
Irish race have been called to the
highest Office within the gift of the
American people, the REPORTER is
led to b elieve that his own ancestors
either on the paternal or maternal
side and perhaps both, may have de
scended from those who once dweit
in the Emerald Isle.
All kinds of tlavoring extracts at
Fogg's drug store.
Big heavy horse for the woods,
about 1900 lbs. Sound and good