The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-04-16
TOWN and VICINITY

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Mrs. F. R. Steward passed Sunday
in Pittsfeld as the guest of Mrs. F. L.
Smith.
Ernest Bickford of Fairfield passed
Sunday in town with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. F. Bickford.
J. Edwin Taylor, manager of the
local office of Ames & Taylor was in
Auburn on business, Monday.
Jos. P. Oak arrived home Monday
evening from brief visit in Bangor
with his brothers, Chas. Z. and F. E.
Oak.
Mrs Joseph Sayward, with her two
children, Elizabeth and Wallace,
have been visiting Waterville rela
tives this week.
Mrs. E. S. Booth of Watervile
arrived on the evening train Tuesday
for TWO weeks visit with her
sister, Miss Lydia Carney.
Mrs. Maud Carr, wife of postm aster
Carr Of Norridgewock, has been pass
ing the week in town as the guest of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Wing.
Mrs. Laura j. Perkins of Somer-
vile, Mass, arrived here Monday
evening, planning TO make a visit of
considerable length in Skowhegan
and vicinity
Fred F. Lawrence, attended a
meeting of the special educational
committee, appointed by the last
legislature, at Topsham, Me-, last Fri
day. Mr.. Lawrence is the official
stenographer of the committee. The
meeting in this instance was held in
come ction with the Sagadahoc
teachers association.
Elsewhere in our columns this
week will be found two important
announcements in the political line,
the call for a Republican caucus to
choose delegates to the Waterville
and Portland conventions, and the
call for the Republican County con-
vention which will occur in Grange
Hall in this place, on June 23d.
Miss Bertha Soule, formerly as
sistant in the Skowhegan High
School, made brief visit here this
week, leaving for Bangor Tuesday
noon. Her home was formerly in
Bath, Me-, but she has been teaching
for some years in BROOKLYN, N. Y.
She has been passing her Easter
vacation in Maine and took the
opportunity to see her Skowhegan
friends, among them William H.
Fuller, who has now been an invalid
for a long time and confined to his
room at the Coburn.
Captain w. T. Ansell, of the Sth
United States Infantry, was in town,
Tuesday evening, and made an i'll
spection of Company E. All but two
of the men now on the rolls were pre-
sent and the officer expressed him
self as we'll satisfied with all the COM
pany's affairs. Captain Ansell has
been recently assigned to this state
by the U. s. government and attached
to the staff of Governor William T.
Cobb, with headquarters at Augusta.
This was his first inspection of Co. f.
On Thursday of last week, DR..
Brock of Portland, assisted by DR..
Wadsworth of this place, who has the
care Of the patient during his illness,
performed an operation upon Francis,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Friend, for
the relief of condition OF the right
lung, brought about by pneumonia,
of which he had been Ill since early in
March. The operation is said to be
one of the most delicate known to
surgery and was performed only
when consultation with other special
lists had determined it to be impera-
tive. The patient is ten years of age
and has been very i'll from the first.
The case has attracted more than the
usual attention and our readers will
be pleased to learn that the operation
seems to have afforded the relief
hoped for and recovery seems reason
ably assured.
The ice in the Kennebec above
Skowhegan falls broke up last Sunday
morning and the river has since
cleared as far as Scion. Above that
point it seems firm and probably will
not start for some days. The ice
clogged the racks and shut out the
water from the wheels of the Ameri-
can Wooden Company SO that they
could not run by water on Tuesday
forenoon and other plants had SINH
lar troubles. The average date for
the going out of the ice at this point,
determined by records of the past
twenty FIVE years, is April II, so that
the present year may be five days
ahead of time in this respect. Plans
are already being made for the
stream drives. E. P. Viles, president
of the Dead River Log Driving Com
pany, is of the opinion that work on
that water can commence by the Goth
this year, which will be a few days
earlier than the season of 1907.
G. R. Fogg has a stable to rent.