The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-15
Note particulars of our mammoth
yoting contest on page z of this issue.


where he had been for a brief visit
with his daughter, Mrs. Arthur Bige
low.
Don't forget the meeting of the
Board of Trade, tomorrow evening,
at the municipal court room. All
citizens invited whether members or
Rev. Robert Morris of Bangor, who
has been supplying the pulpit at the
First Baptist church, has received
and accepted a call to become the
pastor of that parish and will enter
upon his labors next Sunday.
Mrs. Chas. H. Pepper and her
Miss Eunice, who had been
in town as the guest of her mother,
Mrs. Stephen Coburn, for the past
mouth, returned to their home in
Concord, Mass, Tuesday morning.
Mrs. NJ. E. Bean arrived home last
Thursday evening. Mrs. Bean had
been absent about three months, pass
ing the time IN st. Augustine and
Fort Gates, Florida, the latter place
being on the st. John river and i'll the
heart of the orange country.
The Easter lilies, which formed
part of the floral decorations about
the altar, at the Bethany church, last
Sabbath were sent, after the services,
to those who by reason of i'll health
and infirmities were enable to leave
their home to attend the morning
worship.
A company of the friends and rela-
tives of MIR. and Mrs. Adam Simpson
gathered at their home on Monday
evening last, April u, to congratulate
them on the 3Oth anniversary of their
marriage. A handsome sideboard
was presented the host and hostess
to commemorate the event and the
evening was \ - % s''f's4'
soUlability,
Monday, April 10Th, Patriots da>
the postoffice will be closed as fol
lows: From $50 a. m. to 1870 a. m,
from II a. m. to 1890 p. m, from 80
p. m. to 2. 40 p. m, from 26O p. m. to
4.5O p. m. and at 800 p. m. at night.
City carriers will make one collection
and one delivery, the regular a. m.
trips. Carriers will be open until 800
p. m. Service will be performed as
usual by rural carriers.
Miss Gertrude Fletcher of Angus
ia has been engaged by the committee
to take charge of the manual training
and drawing in the Skowhegan
schools. Miss Fletcher has had train
ing in the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn,
N. Y, and the Normal Art Institute
of Boston. She has also taught in the
Schools of Sanford in this state. Two
of the rural schools, the Riverside and
the Blunt districts will open on Mon
day next.
AS will be seen by an advertisement
is this issue, Hackett & Witham, after
much investigation, have taken the
agency for the celebrated Buick au-
tomobiles. Their first shipment ar
rived this week, Model 10 Tour
about, 22t h. p, and it's dandy, and
has attracted much favorable COM
ment from all who have seen it; it
sells for S1050. The Buick cars are
acknowledged by many to be the best
cars on the market at the price.
Professor George G. Purington,
principal of the State Normal School
at Pennington, was in town yester
day, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Carle
ton P. Merrill. Mr.. Purington is a
native of Embden in this county and
80 years ago taught the South Gram
mar school in this place. He attend
ed the meeting of the Maine Civic
League in Waterville, yesterday and
came to Skowhegan for conference
with Mr.. Merrill, who is one of the
trustees of the Normal school.
Rival packing concerns sent repre-
sentatives here last week TO make
special Easter displays of their goods
in the show windows ofthe Skowhegan
Markets. Amour & Company occu-
pied the windows of Adam Simpson
and Jewett & Pennell on Madison av-
enue while firm with a nearly un-
pronounceable name, SchWartzchildes
& Sulsberger, made displays at the
Coburn Market and at Parker & Nays.
Package hams held the chief place
among the commodities thus adver-
tised.
A Portland paper of last week con-
tained the news of the death of Frank
E. Perry, formerly of this place. The
deceased had served on the Portland
police force and more recently had
been employed by the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
He was injured while in the discharge
of his duties as brakeman and died
at hospital in Providence, r. |. He
is survived by wife and two sons,
also by father and mother, Mr. and
Mrs. George F. Perry of Portland,
and one sister, Mrs. Lottie Sargent,
of Nashua, N. II. He was born in this
place in August, 1869.