The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-08

tives In Dover, N. H.
Mrs. w. R. Richardson of Lewis
ton is passing the week in town as
the guest of her father, Geo. H.
Pishon.
Joseph Lawley of Somerville has
been in town this week, the guest of
his sisters, Misses Mary and Fannie
Lawley.
Miss Towne has taken the button
work of Mrs. Dealey's for a time, all
orders to be left at the j. P. Merrill
Block, room u.
Mr.. and Mrs. James w. Holt arriv-
ed home Tuesday from a ten days.
visit with Mrs. Hollis aunt, Mrs.
Mary Fuller, in Dover.
Arthur Grantham, stenographer at
the Marston Mills, arrived here, Mon
day, after a brief vacation passed
with relatives at his former home in
/ Portland.
Misses Constance and Ruth, daugh-
ters of l.. A. Anderson of Providence,
r. l., are in town, passing the sum
mer as guests of their uncle, Lewis
Anderson.
Miss Gala Packard went to Port
land last Saturday for a visit with
Miss Lillian Steward, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Steward, formerly
of this place.
J. Harvey White is working in the
local Office of the Maine Central Rail-
way, taking the place of Fred R.
Philbrick, who is out on vacation
for the month of July.
Miss Mary Bell Morse, teacher in
the public schools of Springfield,
Mass, who had been the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. l. j. Smith, left here Mon
day to visit friends in Abbott.
Misses Alice and Margery Smith
left Monday for Elliot where they are
to be employed at fresh air school
for city children, the Rosemary
House during the summer vacation.
Lyman L. Walton, Fred F. Law
renee, Geo. w. Cover and Forrest
Goodwin are among the Somerset at
torneys who are attending the ses-
sion of the Law Court in Portland
this week.
A class of the Congregational Sun
day Schoolwill give a salad supper
Sat. p. m. from $50 to 7 at the Con-
gregational vestry. Admission TWEEN
ty-five cents. Half the proceeds to
go to the Y. M. G. A.
Mrs. Julia A. Trask and her guests,
Mrs. M. E. Averill Of Boston and Mrs.
Nellie M. Cook, with her daughter,
Edna, left here this morning to pass
the rest of the week with relatives in
Fairfield and Clinton.
Mrs. Grace Piper and her son, Ran
dolph, who have been visiting here
for the past few weeks, guests of Mr..
and Mrs. L. L. Walton and other rel
atives, returned to their home in
Lexington, Mass, Saturday.
Geo. B. Grover of Ly mn, Mass, a
former resident of this tow n, is pass
ing the summer with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Simon Grover at their Lake
wood cottage. His wife and son,
Fred, accompany him, the latter be-
ing Sophomore in the Harvard Med
ical school.
Albert Stetson, the assistant editor
of the Houlton Times, was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward P. Whiting
for few days last week. Mr.. Stet-
son is member of the class of 1907
of Colby College and was in this sec
tion to attend the commencement
exercises of that institution.
Dwight F. Smith, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. l. j. Smith has accepted a posi-
ton aboard the magnetic survey
yacht, Carnegie, as engineer and OBJ
server. This yacht has been recently
completed and is under the direction
of the department of terrestrial mag
netism of the Carnegie institution at
Washington, d. G.
Miss Jane Eliza Hinckley of Good
Will Home spent Sunday In town as
the guest of Rev. and Mrs. b. B.
Merrill. She was the first matron of
that institution when it started TWEEN
ty years ago and is now the librarian
of the Carnegie library there. Rev.
George w. Hinckley, the founder of
the Home, is her brother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph E. Leavitt of
Purcell, I. t., with their two children,
Margaret and Llewellyn, arrived last
evening and are guests of Mrs. Leav-
tits parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Llewellyn
Goodwin. Mr.. Leavitt is cashier of
the Union National Bank of Purcell
and has not been East since he and
Mrs. Leavitt went to Indian Territory
at the time of their marriage, ten
years since. He will pass several
weeks in Skowhegan and vicinity and
his wife and children will remain I'M
til September.
A gentleman whose home has been
in the South, where such birds are