The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-01
TOWN and VICINITY.

Opening of Easter Millinery, April
rs at Miss Withee's.
Remember Miss Matthew's millinery
opening, Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday of next week.
Miss Ruth NJ. Nelson has gone to
Pittsfield for fortnight's visit with
her sister, Mrs. A. s. Nelson.
/ A Christian Endeavor Social will be
held in the vestry of the First Baptist
church Friday evening, April 2. AL
are invited. Silver offering.
Miss Lettie M. Rowe left for Lam
caster, Mass. this morning, to visit
her brother, Maurice Rowe, who is a
junior at Lancaster Academy.
The regular general meeting oil
Skowhegan Cooperative Assoc'n will
be held at their store on Monday
evening, April 9Th at O'Clock.
Mrs. Maria Goodwin, who has made
her home in this place for the past
two years, has returned to Canaan
where she plans to reside in the fu-
ture.
1 George II. Pishon's Office is again
located at the hay depot, corner OF
High street and Madison avenue
This week he is loading car of pota-
toes for which he is paying 10 cts.
White pine planer shavings have
received the endorsement of stable
men as the cheapest, most sanitary
and satisfactory bedding known.
Peter w. Merry will receive car
load in bales this week and will have
them for sale.
Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Fogler, who
arrived home from the south last
week, passed the winter at various
places in Florida, Georgia and the
Carolinas. A brief stop was made, on
their journey southwark, last Novem
Der, at Washington, d. G. and also on
their way home, in the same city.
The Woman's Missionary Society
will meet Friday afternoon at 2.3O
O'Clock with Mrs. David a. Haig at
her home on Elm st. The study of
1.-THE Nearer and Farther East" will
be continued. All ladies of the
church and congregation are cor
daily invited to attend this meeting.
In our report of the meeting of
the Veterans Association at Madison,
published last week, certain remarks
as to Indian warfare on the frontier,
participated in by his father, were at
tributed to Rev. Mr.. Hams. We are
advised that this should have been re-
ported as from Rev. @. E. McColley.
John N. Merrill, Jr., who has been
in the Philippines for the past six
years, has just boon promoted to the
rank of first lieutenant in the Island
Constabulary. He is in command of
the First Company of Infantry in the
province of Zamboanga. His respon-
sibilities also include that of Assis-
tant District Supply Officer and War
den OF the Calar1an PRISON.
Edward E. Britton an employ of
the Nolin Manufacturing Go. was TAX.
en- to the hospital for the insane at
Augusta on Thursday of last week, by
r. F. Parker, chairman of the board
of selectmen. For the past three
months he had shown evidence of
mental disturbance and the physicians
summoned by the authorities to in
auire into his case decided that the
hospital treatment was necessary.
He had been employed as polisher
and grinder at the Nolin factory for a
great many years.
At meeting of the Official Board
OF the Centenary Methodist Church,
held at the vestry ON Monday even
ing, it was unanimously voted to re-
quest the return of the Rev. DR.. Fred
A. Leitch as pastor of that society.
The petition is directed to the
Maine Conference, which will assem-.
BILE at Berlin, N. H. the last Of the
present month. Should the request
be granted, as in all probability it will
be, DIR. Leitch will return here for the
fifth year of his Skowhegan passionate.
DR.. III. L. Jackson Of Waltham,
Mass. was in town for few hours
yesterday. He was located here in
the practice of his profession, as an
occulist, In 1905. He was accompa-
MED on his visit to Maine at this
time by his brother, DIR. A. A. Jackson
Of Everett, Mass. and both were
guests of their sister, Mrs. A. H.
Jackson at Hinckley. Their mother,
Mrs. A. r. jackson, who resides with
her daughter in Hinokley, celebrated
the Saith anniversary of her birth on
March 30th and her sons planned
their visit 30 as to be present on that
occasion.
The we'll known stallion, Simon
Kenton, 2.124, from the Tappan stock
farm at Winthrop, OF which our
former citizen, Edward P. King, is
superintendent, is now stabbed here,
in charge of D. B. Berse, at 224 Water
street. 1t will interest prospective
readers to note the announcement
concerning this horse, which appears
in our advertising columns of this