The Somerset reporter., 1909-05-13
TOWN and VICINITY

Orders taken for braiding embroid-
erv and buttonholes at Miss Towne's,
P. Merrill Block, Room II.
Mrs. Alfred Bartlett of Madison
visited here this week at Cold Brook
Farm, the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Cyrus Newton.
Mrs. @. E. Lewis of Portland is
passing the week in town as the guest
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Bernard of North avenue.
The Afternoon Whist Club was en-
tertained Tuesday by Mrs. Jennie S.
Philbrick at her home on Maple
street. Refreshments were served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Walton of
Norridgewock, with their daughter,
Mrs. Lloyd Powers of Hallowell,
passed last Thursday in Skowhegan.
Mrs. Roy L. Marston arrived home
Monday evening. She had been for
a visit with relatives in New York
City and with her mother, Mrs. H. s.
Parmalee, in New Haven, Conn.
Two meetings of the Somerset
County Teachers Association are an
nounced. One at Pittsfield on Friday
May %, and the other to occur here
on Friday of the following week, June
4th.
G. II. Davis, owner of Kilcare cot
tage, will sail from New York next
Saturday for stay of six weeks in
Europe. Mr.. Davis is well known in
Skowhegan, visiting here often in the
course of a year.
Mrs. Carlos Dorticos and little
daughter Carmencita of Schenectady,
N. Y, arrived Saturday night and
will be the guests for the next three
weeks of Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Simpson.
The two ladies are cousins.
Frank L.. Whittier of Springfield,
Mass, is the guest of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. S. L. Whittier, who are now
settled in their new home on Spring
street, having moved there recently
from Mount Pleasant avenue.
Messrs. Roscoe Eddy of Bar Harbor,
Abner w. Nichols of Augusta, with
Kingsbury B. Piper and Herbert w.
Libby of Waterville were in town
over Monday night. These gentle
men have been prominently iden-
titled with the Initiative and Referen
dunn league of Maine and they came
here for conference on League
matters with Skowhegan parties who
are interested in the same subject.
William T. Clark, who passes a por
ton of each summer at his Lakewood
cottage, is completing the season with
the Mrs. Fisk Theatrical Co. They
were in Kansas City last week and
have dates in the west and on the Pa
cifc coast up to the first week in July.
Mr.. Clark's wife and their daughter,
Miss Ruth, joined him on this western
trip and will remain with the COM
pany to the end of the present sea-
son.
Routard, the stallion purchased by
the Skowhegan French Coach Horse
Company, three years ago, was sold
last week at auction by order of
the trustees. @. H. futile was the
purchaser and the price paid was
$3.50. Routard is a Percheron. He
was bred in France and imported by
Columbus, Ohio parties. From
Columbus he was brought to Show
hogan three years ago. The original
price paid for him was $4,000. He is
six years of age and very handsome
stock animal.
Messrs. Walter P. sOrdway and
Alonzo P. Merrill, president and
secretary, have issued a call for a
special meeting of the Skowhegan
Board of Trade to be held at the
Municipal Court room, tomorrow
evening. Several matters which
could not be deferred to the regular
meeting, due to occur next week, will
be brought up, among them the ques-
ton of a celebration for July 4th, and
the relocation of the foot walk on
Court street in connection with
the regarding of the depot grounds by
the Maine Central Railroad.
Mr.. and Mrs, Carlton P. Merrill
were among those to attend the
funeral of the late Geo. G. Purington
at Pennington last Sunday. They
were close friends of the deceased,
seeing much of him and his family
before they left Farm ington to make
their home in Skowhegan. In his
position as trustee of the Farming
ton Normal School, Mr.. Merrill had
frequent occasion to confer with Mr..
Purington, the principal of that in
stitution. He had planned to meet
him at Waterville for a brief inter-
view ON Tuesday Of last week but Mr..
burlington was detained at Monson
and prevented from keeping the ap-
pointment by the illness which re-
suited fatally on Thursday.
8 it. Oak Show Case for sale. Ira
A. Norton.
Look In Jewett & Pennell's window
and see the variety to be bought for