The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-01-14
TOWN and VICINITY


Sunday with relatives in Augusta.
Carlton P. Merrill was in Augusta
Tuesday at meeting of the trustees
of the state normal schools.
Miss Alice Smith has returned
home from Bingham, where she had
been teaching school during the fall
and winter.
Miss Gertrude Scott of Lewiston
returned home Tuesday morning after
brief visit here at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. A. E. Bison.
Miss Laura B. Hoxie left here
Monday for Providence where she
will visit for the next few weeks with
her sister, Miss Myrtle Hoxie.
Bucknam's great fire sale, which
opens on Saturday next appeals to all
classes, Men and Women, the well
and the sick. A great array of the
cut prices is given in his big ad on
page two of this issue.
K.C. Woodland and his grandson,
Clinton, arrived home Monday even
ing from a fortnight's visit to Aroos-
took county. They passed some time
in Patten and Sherman and made
a thirty five nile trip into the woods
in that section to see Mr.. P. A.
Woodland, Clinton's father, who is at
work as an accountant for lumbe ring
firm.
Fred North has gone to Rochester,
n. Y. to accept a situation as boss
finsher in one of the mills of that
city. The position was offered to Mr..
Chas. North, who is now in Washing
ton, r. l., and through his suggestion
the mill applying decided to accept
his son in his stead. Mrs. North plans
to join her husband in Rhode Island
in the early future.
Skowhegan gained some notoriety,
not heretofore enjoyed, by the fire
with which it commenced the new
year. The confagration was re-
ported in all sorts of styles, some of
bnciD ap FaiioiSO "ioh ohC
facts in tho case. One former citizen
writes from Vermont that a paper
published in Rutland in that state
gave the loss as 100000
Captain Fred G. Dunlap passed
Monday and Tuesday at Portland, at
tending the annual convention of
Maine Laundrymen. At the business
meeting, held in the parlors of the
West End Hotel, Monday afternoon,
Mr.. Dunlap was elected president of
the association, succeeding F. G.
Parsons of Bangor in this office. The
other officers for the ensuing year are
G. A. Davis of Portland and ID. A.
Healey of Lewiston, first and second
vice presidents, and F. c. Bryant of
Bangor, secretary tire asurer.
The Wildes Judkins Company have
secured temporary office quarters in
the rooms with J. Harold Phillips,
over the Ira Norton clothing store.
They propose to re-engage in the dry
goods business under the same firm
name, but have not as yet taken a
lease or otherwise decided upon
permanent location. Their safe has
been taken out of the ruins and open
ed. The contents were more or less
charred but none of the books and
papers were destroyed or repdered
illegible.
Plans for fire drill, to be partici-
pated in by the pupils in the various
school buildings, have been perfected
and the teachers have been notified
to be in readiness to march the
children out at any time. The method
employed is to give the call for the
drill, suddenly, just as an alarm OF
fire would come, at some time during
the school hours, and require the
pupils, under the command of their
teacher, TO ma rch out of room and
building, rapidly, but in perfect Or
der The drill is only a wise pro-
vision against an emergency which is
always possible and of itself serves to
furnish some slight physical exercise
and a variation of from the ordinary
routine of the study periods.
Last week was a busy one i'll the
Skowhegan insurance agencies. Of
the fifty or more companies doing
business in town, probably not one
escaped without some claim for loss,
large or small. There were about
two hundred policies in force, under
which claims were made and during
the week something like twenty rep
resentatives Of the various companies
effected were in town adjusting the
losses. These gentlemen are alert
business men and intent on seeing
that the corporations they represent
ed are fairly used, but they were
ready to allow the full limit of indem-
nifty for every insurable damage and,
it seems in every instance, were able
to come to an agreement with the
parties insured.
There are little things that you ex-
pect of your market man which play