The Somerset reporter., 1909-02-04

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Smiths.
Stephen G.. Mayo was among the
Skowhegau visitors at the state capi-
tai, yesterday.
Walter F. Robbins has leased the
most easterly store of the new j. Pal
mer Merrill Block. He hopes to be
established there early in March.
Fred G. Dow has been Ill and con-
fined to the house for the week past.
Typhoid fever was feared at first but
this disease, happily, did not devel-
op and Mr.. Dow is now convalesc-
ing.
Mrs. w. II. Boyington and her
daughter, Miss Julia, sixteen years Of
age, left here this morning for For
est Hills, Mass. where Miss Boyington
is to enter DR.. Emerson's private hos
pital for an operation.
Friday evening, February 10, the
popular drama 1.-THE Lighthouse by
the Sea" is to be presented in the
Opera House, for the benefit of Mil
burn Commandery, U. o. G. c., with a
strong local cast, under management
of Chas. K. Charming.
Orrin NJ. Packard, who has been at
tending an automobile school in Bos
ton for some months past, has re-
ceived his license as chauffuer and is
now employed in that capacity by a
Massachusetts, automobilist. He ex-
poets to return to Skowhegan in the
spring.
The friends of Mrs. Helen G. Wing,
proof reader and accountant in the
office of the REPORTER, will be graft
fed to learn that she is copvalescing
from her recent illness, and has been
able, for the first time for nearly a
month, to go out of doors, during the
present week.
Actor William T. Clark, who will be
recalled by many Skowhegan people
and especially by those who are mem-
bers of the Lakewood or Hayden
Lake colony, is in Buffalo this week,
his company, playing Salvation Nell,
of which Mrs. Fiske is the star, being
booked at the Teck Theater for the
early part of February.
Miss Marie Louise Merrill gave a
masquerade party at the home of her
parents, DR.. and Mrs. J. N. Merrill, on
Water Street, last Monday evening.
The guests were thirteen of her
schoolmates of the ninth grade, from
the Academy Building, and the event
was a celebration of Miss Merril's
thirteenth birthday. A supper was
served at two O'Clock.
Mr.. Fred Turner, formerly manag-
er of the City Drug Store, has accept
ed position in Bath, in charge of the
drug store owned by Harry G. Web
ber. Mr.. Webber is also the editor
and proprietor of the Bath Indepen-
dent and gives his chief attention to
the publication business, thus leaving
Mr.. Turner the chief responsibility SO
far as his pharmacy is concerned.
The Skowhegan friends of Lester
G. Stevens of Cornville and Miss
Alice Getchell of this place have had
occasion to congratulate thes popu-
lar young people on their marriage
which occurred at North Arson on
Wednesday of last week, Rev. T. B.
HIATT of that town being the officiating
clergyman. Both are prominent
members of Skowhegan Grange and
otherwise we'll known and esteemed
in this community.
Miss Dorothy Coffin, who has been
i'll of dyptheria for several weeks
past, continues to improve and pres
ent Indications point to an early and
complete recovery. Her aunts,
Misses Frances and Jeanette Lord,
with trained nurse have been car
ing for her, and on Saturday last Miss
Frances developed an unmistakable
case of dyptheria, of comparatively
mild type, but sufficiently severe to
confine her to the bed for the present.
About thirty members of Milburn
Commandery United Order of the Col
den Cross, went to Madison last Fri
day evening to witness the installa-
ton of the officers of Somerset Com
mandery of that place. The cere
mony was performed by David w.
Lewis, deputy grand commander of
the order for this state, Mrs. Henriet-
ia Gates of this place serving as past
deputy G. c., and w. A. Smith, also
of Skowhegan, acting as deputy grand
herald.
E. E. Bailey, who had been in
charge of the stitching room at Skow-
hegan Factory of the Commonwealth
Shoe & Leather Company, since the
spring of 1907, has gone to Auburn to
accept similar position with Ding
ley, Foss & Co., said to be the largest
shoe concern in that city. Mr.. Bailey
is enthusiastic in his praise of Skow-
hegan as place of residence but well
comes the opportunity to return to
Auburn as that city was formerly his
home. In his position in the Dingley,
Foss factory, Mr.. Bailey succeeds A.