The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-10-08
TOWN and VICINITY

EQWdIO ~ hOltlll 10 OApCCICd
home today from a business trip to
Boston.
Don't forget the millinery opening
ate E. Poulin's Friday and Saturday
of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Simpson passed
Sunday in Hartland at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Linn, Jr.
]. R. Philbrick and Walter F. Rob-
bins attended the meeting of the
Maine Optical Association in Lew
iston yesterday.
William Mitchell, superintendent of
the Maine Spinning Company, has ar
rived home this week from a vaca-
ton trip to Philadelphia.
Rev. Lester Sheaff of Newcastle,
Me-. passed Tuesday and yesterday
in town as the guest of his sister in
law, Mrs. Walter H. Ward.
Emory F. Estes of Winterport is in
town and will pass the month of Oc-
tober with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F. l. Estes, on Madison avenue.
Miss Harriet Bussey, who has been
in town for the past six weeks, the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Arson
Savage, returned to Portland Tuesday.
R. F. Parker has sold his five year
old driver, Tara, to Harry Adams of
Haverhill and the horse was shipped
on Saturday. This horse was by
Tarratine and was raised by Eugene
Parker. The price paid was four
hundred dollars.
Mrs. Walter P. Ordway gave
garden party at her home on Water
street, last Saturday afternoon, in
honor of her niece and namesake,
Miss Adelaide Helen, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John II. Lancaster. Fifteen
of the young lady's playmates were
delightfully."- entertained from two to
four and given an automobile ride to
complete the pleasures of the after
noon.
Rev. Theodore l.. Frost closed his
passionate at the First Bap LIST church
with the services last Sunday and he
and Mrs. Frost left by the morning
train on Monday for their new home
at Manchester, Mass. Mr.. and Mrs.
Frost were entertained during the
last few days of their residence here
at the home of Deacon and Mrs. Ed
win Marble on Spring street.
Robert W. Haines and his sister,
Miss Lizzie Haines, went to Lewis
ton Saturday, passing Sunday in that
city and at Poland Springs. Miss
Haines return ed here Monday and
her brother has been passing the rest
of the week with friends at Pema
quid. Mrs. Dexter W. Kensell of
Portland and Mrs. E. G. Denton of
Read fied were in town as guests of
Miss Haines at the Coburn Tuesday
and yesterday.
The children of the Parochial
Schools enjoyed their annual outing
and picnic on Tuesday. Something
like three hundred participated and
marched up Water and Elm streets to
the Sacred Heart Farms about nine
O'Clock. They were in charge of
their teachers and the line marching
two abreast, made a column an
eighth of mile long. The day was
passed on the slope near the river
bank with games and speaking, and a
picnic lunch at noon.
Quite an extensive job of rock ex
cavation has been entered upon by
the Kennebec Log Driving Company
on the lodges along the easterly side
OF the North Channel, just below the
North Channel bridge. There are
three principal projections of ledge
which interfere with log driving OPP
erations which will be removed to a
few inches below the present water
level and the entire amount of rock
thus taken out will total 375 cubic
yards. The work has a somewhat in
direct connection with the efforts
which have been made to avoid the
big Jams which have made up from
the pier of the railroad bridge one or
more times in about every driving
season in the past. A boom hung
from the foot of the island, as early
in the summer as the height of the
water would permit has been of con-
siderable advantage in this respect,
but, as the water fell and these lodges
which are now to be removed came
above the surface, the logs gathered
in punches, in the North Channel
taking just the right direction to car
ry away the protection boom. 1t is
believed that by strengthening the
channel the current will take sharp
er turn down the northerly side of
the river and that the Jams on the
railroad bridge piers can be largely
avoided. If this is the case, the cost
of the work will be saved in every
summers operations. The excavat-
ing is being done by Horace E. Reed
under a contract with the Kennebec
Log Driving Company.
The animal and poultry regulators
and other goods, manufactured by
Pratt's Food Company, are sold by