The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-04-02
TOWN and VICINITY

ear of grain.
Miss Ethel Brainerd is passing the
present week in Augusta as the
guest of her sister, Miss Marion
Elliott Chase, nine year old son of
E. B. Chase, was operated on at the
Somerset Hospital, Tuesday, for
adenoids
James A. Hoxie was in Augusta on
Friday of last week, summoned there
by the illness of his niece, Mrs.
William Harvey.
Mrs. Matte Goodwin gave a thimble
tea to eighteen of her lady friends,
Friday afternoon of last week, at her
home on Madison avenue.
Miss Gertrude Pierce, daughter of
Ingram Pierce of Bingham, passed
Sunday in town at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. Levi w. Weston.
Mrs. L. b. Jewett and Mrs. F. P.
Pennell are passing the present week
In Lewiston, guests at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. G., w. Phillips.
Mrs. G.. Wallace Nash and her
daughter, Miss Edna Cushing, are
passing the week in Portland at the
home of her father, William II. Pear
son.
G.. A. Flye is working at his trade
in Vassalboro, building a house for
Robert Snow, who, previous to TWEEN
ty years ago was resident of this
place.
Miss Mabelle SWEET of Bangor,
sister OF Herbert l.. SWEET of this
place, who mad been visiting here
since last week, returned home
Tuesday
Mrs Rupert E. Jackson with her
son, George E., have gone to Cam
pello, Mass, to pass the month of
April as guests of Mr.. and Mrs,
Elijah Alden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine S. Viles of
Newport, n. H., with their two
children, Dorothy and William Pay
son, arrived here Monday to be
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs E.
P. Viles on Madison avenue.
Wauneta Council, Degree of Poe
cahontas, l. o. R., gave social at
the close of their regular meeting in
Grand Army Hall, Thursday evening
of last week. A program of musical
numbers, readings and Rotations
was carried out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Wood arrived
Saturday evening from Baltimore.
Mr.. Wood has been attending den
tai college i'll that city the past
winter, having now completed his
third year. He will return next fall
for the final year of the course.
Miss Edna Taylor passed Sunday in
town as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur G. Bussey. Miss Taylor is
teaching school in Kittery Point,
Me-, but has been passing the spring
vacation at her home in Norridge
wock. She taught in the Skowhegan
schools in 1905 and 1907
Judson w. Packard has gone to So.
Newburg, Me-, on the invitation of
the Rev. E. II. Boynton of Hampden,
to assist in a series of revival SER
vices now being conducted in that
place. Mr.. Boynton is the gentle
man who has been in charge of the
annual campmeetings at the North
Arson Camp Grounds for several
years past.
A birthday party occurred at the
home of DR.. and Mrs. Pulsifer on
Madison avenue ON Friday of last
week to celebrate the ninth birthday
of Master Libby. On the same after
noon, at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ennis, on
Leavitt street, Miss Ruth enter
tanned her young friends in honor of
her tenth birthday.
r. II. Townsend, who was 80
severely injured by fall from high
up OH the wall of his house, last
December, has been slowly recover \
ing through the winter. The worst
injury WAS the fracture of his right
hip and this is so nearly recovered
that he can bear his weight upon it.
He is able TO get out of doors on
pleasant days, walking with the aid
of crutch and cane.
A very pleasant event took place
at Milburn Hall on Tuesday evening,
under the auspices of Sunset Chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star, The
evening opened with an entertain
ment program in which Kendall's
Orchestra gave several numbers and
vocal selections were rendered by
Miss Mary Mitchell and Mr.. Carroll
Goodwin. Following this, there was
dancing in the larger hall, with
music by Kendall, and those who
preferred cards to dancing arranged
tables of whist in the smaller hall.
The committee of arrangements were
Mrs. Annie Cakes, Mrs. Kate S. Simp-
son, Adam Simpson and G.. II. Smith.
The first of series of socials which
Skowhegan Grange proposes to hold
at its hall during the next few
months, occurred last evening. The