The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-06-24

in town this week.
Ordway has Concord wagon and a
pneumatic tired Stanhope carriage
tor sale.
Miss Lizzie Hussey is visiting this
week with her cousin, Mrs. Bertha
Flage, in Kennebunkport.
C. H. Lewis of Greenville has been
on his anLaa. vacation visit to
Canaan and Skowhegan this week
Miss Morrison's first course of six
talks on Musical Appreciation, Bach
Brahms will begin Monday June 3Oth.
For further information address rs
High st.
/ Mrs. d. F. Judkins and her son,
Donald, have gone to visit friends in
Lewiston and Rumford Falls. In the
latter place they will be guests of
Miss Emma Shorey.
| Lakewood Inn is now open for bust
ness under the personal management
of E. K. Delano. Dinner and supper
parties solicited, large or small.
They make speciality of Sunday din
ners; all meals, so cents
Evangelist j. W. Packard of this
town departed for North Newburg,
Friday, where he held religious SER
vices in the evening. Saturday and
Sunday he was in South Newburg
doing the same kind of work.
Mrs. Anna Pullum of Plymouth,
Mass, who has been visiting at the
home of her father for some weeks,
returned home Saturday, and was ac-
companied by her sister, Miss Sadie
McIlwrath, who plans to make stay
of some length.
On the last trip from Lakewood to
Skowhegan, Saturday evening, car
was temporarily disabled by the
burning out of motor. In Stacking
to another car bound for Skowhegan,
Isaac Wheeler, the conductor, dis
located his shoulder.
Misses VERNE and Iva Sanborn left
for Peaks Island, where their father
has cottage, Friday morning. Miss
Iva plans to spend the summer with
the rest of the family all of whom
are there, but Miss VERNE expects to
return in two or three weeks.
Mrs. M. A. Merrill has been on a
trip to her husbands cottage at
Standpoint, departing Thursday and
returning Monday. Tenants from
Bangor have rented it for the season
and she has been down to transact
little business along that line.
Messrs. George Sampson and Archie
Weston returned Friday from seven
weeks trip out West, where they
have been buying up wild lands.
Mr.. Sampson spent most of the time
in Seattle, Washington, at the
alaska Yukon Exposition" al
though he made short stop in Van
couver, B. c., and in other places
along the way.
The Kennebec Journal of Saturday
morning published the news of mar
riage, at Portsmouth, n. H., on June
18th, of Mr.. Lees Hall, until recently
of this place, to Mrs. Anna Burns of
Lawrence, Mass. The bride had been
a resident of Skowhegan during the
past year, being employed until re-
Gently in the finishing room of the
Marston Mills.
The following pupils of Jewett
School, Grade l, were not absent dur
ing the spring term of ten weeks:
Julia Cox, Wilfred Corvette, Linden
Green, Eva Turcotte, Edward Tur-
cote and Freda Tureotte. Emily
Dore and Amelia Corvette were absent
one day only, while Freda Turcotte
aged five years was absent only one
day during the school year of thirty
six weeks.
j. Wallace Blunt arrived home last
Saturday from six weeks business
tiAt3 odi AhS w IlStl hO floluCO llldli1
cities of the middle west and the
Pacific coast. In the section last
mentioned he made brief stops in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Tacoma,
Portland and Seattle, visiting of
course the Alaska Yukon exposition
in the latter city. His daughter, Miss
Mollie, who accompanied him as far
as South Bend, Ind, passed the time
with her aunt, Mrs. David Stewart, in
that city, and returned home with her
father, joining him on his eastward
journey.
Daniel F. Hobart of East Madison
was in town on business last Friday.
Mr.. Hobart lived here for four years,
in the late fifties, in the house on
Water street now the residence of
A. E. Bison and family. He is now
SO years of age and of course re-
calls many incidents which most of
the present generation know of only
as history. The unusual high water
in the Kennebec, known as the
"Great Freshet," occurred while Mr..