The Somerset reporter., 1909-08-26
s. w. Gould Esq, and J. P. Oak left

r. 1. arrived Monday night for a
visit at the home of Manley Pooler.
AK. Butler and wife are to return,
Saturday, from two weeks vacation
passed at Owls Head, Penobscot Bay.
Mrs. Roy L. Marston left here yes
terday morning for a visit of several
weeks with relatives in Madison,
| Conn.
Mrs. Chas. w. Day and her daugh-
ter, Miss Dorothy, left on the morn
ing train for visit with relatives In
Bangor.
Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Stinchfield
and their daughter, Virginia, passed
Sunday at Old Orchard as the guests
of Mrs. Etta Seveno.
Mrs. Frank Thompson arrived
home, Monday, after three weeks
visit with her sister, Mrs. G. Nj. Barn
ard OF Jamaica Plains, Mass.
Miss Grace Merrill, stenographer
for Merrill & Merrill, left last week
for Moose Pond, Harmony where she
is having two weeks vacation.
Newall VIM of Dover, New Hamp-
shire, with his wife and daughter,
Alice, are visiting short time at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Will Keene.
Bert A. McCoombs, the proprietor
of the Livery stable, formerly owned
by Charles Fairbrother, went to Bos-
ton, Monday, on a few days business
trip.
There will be a meeting of the
town Improvement Society at the
home of Mrs. L. w. Weston tomor-
row friday afternoon, at three
O'Clock.
William II. Paine, grand master
workman of the grand lodge of Maine,
A. o. Z. W, is on a two weeks tour,
visiting lodges in Hancock and Knox
Counties.
Alfred II. Lang has bought the Co.
burn Market, until recently conduct
ed by James Lewia, and will open it
as meat and provision store about
October 1st.
Mr.. and Mrs. John d. Symons with
SONS, Leon and Harold, and daughter,
Miss Eleanor, left Monday for Hamp-
ton Beach, New Hampshire where
they are to pass the next two weeks.
J. B. Maddocks, and his cousin, Mr..
]. G. Maddocks of Rockland who has
been his gnest this week, will leave
for Bangor tomorrow to visit the
Maddocks homestead near that city.
William Silver Of Boston arrived In
town, Tuesday, and Is boarding for a
couple of weeks at F. A. Morrill's on
Main st. He Is friend of DIR. Wood
mans family, who are at G. B. Nights
for the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. B. Mathews of
Buffalo have been guests for few
days this week Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Aldrich at Kilcare. They are tour
ing through Maine In their automo-
bile, a so horse power Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Bartlett of Win
throp, Mass, arrived here yesterday,
and are registered at the Cobnrn.
They have just been for a few days.
outing in the Moosehead Lake region,
and came to Skowhegan via the Som
erset Railroad.
Arthur Bussey, of the clothing firm
of Smith&Bussey, accompanied by his
wife, are passing the week at North
Pond in Smithfield. They have with
them their nephew and niece, George
and Helen, children Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rupert E. Jackson.
Mrs. Samuel Dawson, with her
daughters, Edith and Elizabeth, and
her son, William, left today for Wor-
cesrer, Mass, where they will make
their home for the future. Mr.. Daw-
son has 4 position as warp dresser in
a spinning mill in that city and has
been there for some months.
Lawrence Coburn, boss dyer at the
Anderson Mills, has bought the Philo
Steward place on Maine street and
will occupy 1t as a home for himself
and family in the early future. Mr..
and Mrs. Steward have been making
plans to move to the Pacific coast and
will leave for California about Oct. /.
The first carload of steel Orders etc.,
for the new Maine Central railroad
bridge at this place arrived, Tuesday.
The material for this bridge was con-
tracted for to be delivered Septem-
Der LIST and this first shipment seems
to have been little ahead of that
date. 1t is expected that the work
of putting it in place may commence
at any time.
Mr.. BENJAMIN T. Weston formerly
of Madison and Miss Ethel Hayward
were married August 18th at the
BRIDES home in Portage Lake. The
bride is graduate Of Colby College
in the class of 1908 and has spent a
a good deal of time In Skowhegan.
They left Immediately for their home
in Jackson Michigan, where Mr..
Weston Is engaged in civil engineer
ing.
E. B. Nickerson has purchased a