The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-02-11
TOWN and VICINITY

the week Win iTleuus III IoIoiahu'
Mrs. w. E. Blake of Calais arrived
here on Monday and is the guest of
her father, Henry A. Varney.
Mrs, Roscoe M. Reed of Richmond
has been in town this week, the guest
of her brother, John H. Lancaster.
Edgar c. Dunton left here Tuesday
morning for Springvale where he has
temporary position in shoe factory
making room.
The Bowdoin College Glee Club is
to appear in the opera house on Feb
ruary 22nd, under the auspices OF the
Senior Glass, s. Fl. s.
Mrs. William G. Young has gone to
Guilford to make her home for the
balance of the winter with her sister,
Mrs. Martin N. Marsh. She plans to
return in the spring to occupy her
home on the Malbons Mills road.
The regular meeting of the Town
Improvement Society will be held on
Friday, Feb. 18th at 2.30 P. M. in the
Library parlors. The day is to be OBJ
served as Lincoln's Day and each
member has the privilege of inviting
one guest.
J. G. Phelps Stokes and his wife,
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes are to lect-
ure here i'll the Opera House on March
IL. They are of New York City and
among the most widely known phil
anthropists and students of sociology
of the time. Tickets are to be but 10
cents, any seat.
E. F. Fairbrother was summoned to
Hallowell on Tuesday to attend the
funeral of his sister-in- law, Mrs.
James r. Fairbrother. He passed
yesterday at Augusta as the guest of
Frank Thompson, Skowhegans legis-
lative representative, and arrived
home last evening.
e. L. Savage was in Portland Mon
day and purchased six steel beams
which will form the chief supporting
strength for the top of the race way
at the paper mill. These pieces of
steel are 81 feet long and 81 inches
deep and each one has sustaining
strength of thirty thousand pounds.
Postmaster Isaac Dyer requests that
parties mailing papers at the collec-
ton boxes do not crowd them into
the openings. When this is done it
obstructs the boxes so that it is i'm
possible to mail letters. When it is
desired to mail papers that will not
enter the boxes readily, it is request
ed that they be placed on top of the
box. II so placed they will be col
lected by the carrier, the first trip
thereafter.
Thomas Lewia, twenty years of age,
sustained serious injury to his right
hand, Saturday last, by getting it
caught in a saw at the word working
mill of Adams & Burns. The damage
consists in severe lasceration of the
first three fingers with the loss of a
portion of the bore in one of them.
1t is thought at present that amputa-
ton will not be necessary and it is
hoped that the hand may ultimately
recover large measure of its useful
ness.
William Halves, who took the ex-
animation for admission to practice
OF law in the courts of this state, at
Bangor on the End and 3rd of the
present month, has received notifica-
ton that he was among the number
to meet successfully the test. The
examination was conducted in the
dity hall and there were twenty one
applicants, nineteen young men and
two young women, Mr.. HAYES, how
ever, being the only one from this
part of the state. Mr.. Halves has
every right to be regarded as Show
hogan boy as this town was the place
of his birth aud has never ceased to
be his home. He is graduate of the
Skowhegan High School, class of 1899
and his law Office studies have all
been under the guidance of Forrest
Goodwin, Esq. He has also had the
benefit of full four years. course at
Colby College and two years attend
ance at the Harvard Law School. He
will open an office here in the early
future.
E. M. Blanding of Bangor, the
founder Of the Industrial Journal, and
at present it's business manager and
editor, was in town last week. The
Journal occupies field, all its own as
it is the only publication in this part
of New England devoted exclusively
to industrial news. It's favorjte work
is in reporting new enterprises, pro-
jected or just getting under way, or
new buildings of a'public and import
ant nature, and the latter considera-
ton is what brings Mr.. Blanding here
at the present time, the fame OF
Skowhegan's new town hall having
come to his ears. He proposes to
have description of the building In
an early issue of the Industrial Jour
nal and incidentally will give some
thing of Skowhegan,s industries as he
views them. The Journal has Otter
heep of great assistance in locating