The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-07-01
TOWN and VICINITY.

day for Five Islands where she will be
employed during the summer months.
Miss s. Madeline Ward arrived
home from Boston, Monday night,
after a months stay with her sister,
Miss Mae.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eben G.. Emerson of
Portland and their daughter, Hester,
passed Sunday as guests of Skowhe-
gan relatives.
Mrs. J. NJ. Mitchell of Boston is in
town, the guest OF her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Shepherd II. Swain, for a
six weeks visit.
The well drilling machine operated
by j. NJ. Scribner is now at work
putting down we'll for futile
Brothers at the Skowhegan House.
Misses Lottie Davis and Lucy Tay-
! !or left here Tuesday morning for
Kennebunkport where they have en-
/ ployment at hotel for the summer.
| 9. J. Abbey. the electrician, on his
! trip to Massachusetts purchased a
new touring car, a "Reoo which a
chauffeur drove here from Boston
/ last week.
! William Wildes, the youngest son
of W. H. Wildes, is to return home
this week from Mt. Hermon where
for the past two months he has been
attending school,
Miss Miriam S. Merrill, the eldest
daughter of DIR. j. N. Merrill, left
Wednesday for visit with former
schoolmates in the towns of Han
cock and Rockland.
James Galway has rebuilt his ia
nous clock and it will be on exhibit
bition in the Fletcher block, near
Hoyt's Express, next Saturday and
Monday, July Sd and 9th.
Mrs. Harry Mitchell with Mrs. Low
Their, Miss Vera and Master Earle
spent the weeks end at Whalom
Park. They will spend the next two
weeks at Fitchburg and Revere.
Louis Dow, postal carrier on local
delivery No. 1 of the Skowhegan
office, accompanied by Mrs. Dow,
has been passing vacation at Garry
Ponds and in the Dead River region.
Mrs. Ii. G. Stevens, who bad been
the guest of her niece, Mrs. G. M.
Lambert, at her home on Pleasant
street, left here for Lewiston last
Saturday. Mrs. Stevens home was
in Skowhegan for short time,
something like thirty years ago.
The sisters of Harvey Goodwin,
Misses Emma and Mae, arrived Mon
day from Massachusetts whe re the
former is teacher In Everett, the
latter in Newton Highlands. They
are to spend the summer with their
mother, Mrs. William Goodwin, of
Canaan.
Eugene Lowell, formerly employed
in the telephone office in Skowhe-
gan, and for the past few years in
the Harvard Electrical School, was in
town over Sunday. He left for the
woods Tuesday where he will work
with the forestry crew under r. L.
Marston during the summer months.
A party of six boys from the Con
gregational Sunday School took
"hike" to the Pines and then to
Bigelow Hill, Tuesday. They had
dinner at the former place and slept
in their blankets in the latter. Mr..
Thomas G. Lord and Rev. B. B. Mer-
rill being with them during the day
and MIR. William Paine at night.
William H. Paine arrived home
Saturday evening from business
trip for the Ancient Order of United
Workmen, of which order he holds
the highest office in this state. He
passed Sunday, the Goth at New
Sharon and subsequently visited the
local lodges in Pennington, Liver
more Falls, Rumford, South Paris,
Norway and Mechanic Falls.
Skowhegan friends have received
news of the marriage of William
Waldron, for several years sub
master of the Skowhegan high sch COL,
to Miss Marion L. Hewins of Jamaica
Plain, the ceremony occurring in that
city on Thursday of last week. Rev.
DR.. w. H. Spencer, formerly pastor
of the Bethany church of this place,
was the officiating clergyman. The
groom is now the principal of the
high school in Brewer in this state.
There seems to be a concert of ac-
ton among the retail merch ants, and
other places of business, as to closing
on Monday next, that date being re-
cognized as holiday in place of the
Fourth which falls on Sunday. The
grocers, provision and feed dealers,
as per notice elsewhere, will close at
noon and the other retail establish
ments, the banks, etc. will be closed
all day. The textile mills and most
other manufactures will also close for
the day.
Gordon Bragg and Alice Varney
had an exciting and dangerous ex-
perience while canoeing at Hayden
Lake, last Saturday night. The wind