The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-03-04
TOWN and VICINITY

Miss Maud Brackett of Pittsfield
,.ssed last week In town, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. John w. Steward.
z. C. Butler was in Fairfield on
Monday, conducting an auction sale
at real estate in bankrupt estate of
which he is the trustee.
Mrs. Mae Palmer Hathorn has ar
rived here from her home in Iowa, cal
lad East by the serious sickness of
her father Fred Palmer.
Mrs. H. s. Parmalee, who has been
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Roy
/. Marston, for the past 10 days, re-
turned Monday to her home in New
Haven.
DR.. J. F. Hill of Waterville will be
at the Office OF Hill & Whitney, next
Wednesday from 1890 a. m. to p. m.
Time may be reserved by consulting
Miss Grace Jewett at the office.
Unfavorable news comes this morn
ing from Judge William II. Fuller.
He has been confirmed invalid from
injuries received by a fall in Nov
ember 1906 and for the past few days
is said to have failed very rapidly.
Miss Hazel Leavitt, who had been
passing fortnight's vacation with
her mother, Mrs. Clara B. Leavitt, at
her home on the Norridgewock road,
returned to Boston Monday morning.
She is to complete her two years.
course at the Leland Powers school
with the coming month of April.
Friends of the family will be panied
to learn of the death of Anna, infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Thorn
as, at their home in Fort Fairfield, on
Monday last. The little one was an
only child and would have been two
years old in June next. Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas resided here until three years
since and suffered the loss of their son
Nathan, seven years of age, few
years before removing to Aroostook
county.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Fellows left
here on Monday for Washington, D. O..
accompanied by their grandson,
James Fellows White, youngest son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce M. White.
They will arrive in time for the inaug-
ural and will join Mrs. White who has
been in Washington for the past
month. Mr.. Fellows should certainly
enjoy this vacation as it is the first
that he has had since his trip to the
Pacific coast ten years ago.
Wilmot B. Whittier has a flock of
ten, grade Buff Cochins that layed 211
eggs in the month of February. Mr..
Whittier says they were kept and fed
in the usual way and he knows Of no
special reason for this unusually large
egg production unless it be that they
had rather more animal food than
most flocks, he being firm believer
in the value of that kind of food for
poultry. 1t will be noted that each
hen in Mr.. Whittier's flock had an
average for the month of twenty one
and one tenth OLD eggs which is a
very high record.
Manager Herbert l.. SWEET of the
Somerset Traction Company has pur-
chased a headlight of recent in
vention, constructed on the arc light
principal, and the same was first used
on the cars of his line last week. 1t
is SO powerful that it will light up the
track for nearly one half mile in ad-
vance of the car which carries it..
This light is especially useful on roads
which run in part through rural ter
ritory. AS so powerful a light would
be somewhat Objectionable in run
ming through the village streets, it is
equipped with a switch so that it can
be reduced in brilliancy when the car
runs into the town limits.
The first four rows in the balcony
at the Opera House last evening,
were occupied by the officers and en-
ployes of the Maine Spinning Com
to the number of 120. William Nit
chell, the manager is native of the
Yorkshire Manufacturing district of
England and the custom of asking the
employees to join with the manage
ment occasionally, in some diversion
of this nature, is one which he
brought with him to this country.
On previous occasion the employees
of this corporation were all taken at
the expense of the company on an
excursion to Old Orchard, and the
tickets for "Paid in Full' were fur
nished to the help of the various de-
partments without any expense or
trouble ON their part. In arranging a
theatre party of that magnitude it
was only natural that Manager Nit
chell should wish to secure seats for
all together and to do this some skill
full planning was necessary. As no
tickets are sold in advance of the an
nounced hour for the opening sale,
and as only ten tickets may be pur-
chased by any one person, it was nee
essary to have fifteen representatives
of the Maine Spinning Company on
hand and this number of people, each