The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-12
Mrs. G. A. Elsmore passed Sunday
as the guest of friends iu Augusta


ing buyers in the half page ad of
Smith & Bussey in this issue.
Mrs. Annie Maddocks Marshall of
Melrose, Mass, has been visiting
Skowhegan relatives this week
Sampson & Avore will give a SOU
venir 70 every lady who attends the
opening of their new store next Sat
urdaN.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Paddock passed
Saturday and Sunday in Winthrop,
attending the Friends Quarterly
Meeting.
Edward F. Merrill, Esq, was in
Waterville Tuesday, in attendance
upon the session of the Kennebec Su-
perior Court.
Miss c. j. Williams is passing the
week in Boston, and will return Sat
urday with the latest line in Fall and
Christmas goods.
Rev Edward L. Marsh of Provi-
dence, r. l., was in town Tuesday,
guest at the home of Miss Hannah X.
Page on High street.
Mrs. S. F. Abbott expects to leave
here on Saturday next for Hyde Park,
Mass. to pass the winter at the home
of her son, William Abbott.
Note the bargain in a second hand
electric motor, shafting, etc, an
nounced by John O'Reilly in our adj
vertising columns this week.
Mrs. Fannie Snow Cabot left here
Tuesday morning for Washington d,
c., where she and her daughter, Miss
Edith, are to pass the winter.
The members of the Clover Leaf
Whist Club were entertained yester
day afternoon at the home of Mrs.
Charles Folsom Jones on Middle
Road.
Alexander Hunter, who arrived
here from Scotland two months since,
for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Thomas
Thompson, left for Lawrence, Mass.
this morning.
Edward w. Wilson is expected
home tomorrow or Saturday from
Berlin, n. H. He was summoned
there on Monday last by the death of
his sister i'll law, Mrs. JohnWilson.
Mrs. NJ. B. Heselton is visiting at
the home of her cousin, Mrs. Fred
Dury in Scion, the present week.
Mrs. Dury, who has been seriously i'll
for several weeks is slowly improv-
ing.
IChas. H. Gardiner, chairman of the
committee on the supper of the annu-
al Grange Fair, requests the members
of his committee to meet at the
Grange Hall, just previous to the
regular meeting, next Wednesday
evening.
There will be sale of Food, Aprons,
Fancy Articles &c, in the yestries of
the NJ. E. Church, Wednesday after
noon and evening Nov. 18th. A
Chicken Pie dinner will be served
Thursday Nov 18th from 11.30 until
O'Clock. Everybody invited.
The regular meeting of the Town
Improvement Society will occur on
Friday, Nov. 18th, at go p. m, at
which time Mrs. Grace Goburn Smith
will give second talk upon Mexico.
Each member is privileged to invite
one guest upon this occasion.
The Woman's Club, Sorosis and
Town Improvement Society are in
vited to the Library Parlor on Friday
afternoon Nov. 20. to meet Harriet +.
Tibbetts of Augusta who will speak
on the subject of carts and Crafts.o
This lady comes highly recommended
being a pupil of Bixby. She will bring
some of her own productions in oil,
water coors, and china painting.
The hostesses will be Mrs c. Davis
Miller, Mrs. Levi w. Weston and Mrs
Lois W. Patten.
G. r. Merriam of Portland was in
town the early part of the week, his
anxiety about his parents, Rev and
Mrs. George Merriam, and his
brothers and sisters, leading him to
visit Skowhegan at this time. lie
was unable to visit the family, owing
to the quarantine of the house by
reason of ~ illness of Ralph and
Helen of diptheria, but could APP
proach the outside and talk with
those within to some extent, through
an unopened window. Mr.. Merriam
has been in Portland since last March,
secretary of the Junior Young Mems
Christian association OF that city
His last previous visit here was in
May.
Tuesday last was the twenty fifth
anniversary of the marriage of Mr..
and Mrs Chas. North, whose home is
on Mt. Pleasant avenue in this place.
Mr.. North, who has been in Wash
ington, K. l., since September list,
+ having accepted the uperintendance
of one of the textile mills of that
place, was not able to come home,
but the friends of the family would
not let the date pass unnoticed and
Il.