The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-02-04
TOWN and VICINITY.


from Smiths music store, has been
placed in the new opera house.
The members of the Glover Leaf
Whist club y ere entertained at the
home of Mrs. Edith s. Shepherd on
Thursday of last week.
Mrs. Maud Dyer left here to return
to her home in Pittsfeld, last Mon
day. She had been the guest of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank E. Hoxie since No
vember last.
Miss Maude Holway, Of the REPORT
Err composing department, will leave
tomorrow for Portland where she will
be the guest of friends until the mid
die of next week.
SWANS farm sales the past week
are the x. L. Baird farm in Athens
/ to John Trim of Stockton, Me. and
! the II. p. Nichols farm in Arson to A.
W. Reed of Benton Falls, Me.
William H. Paine, one of the grand
officers of the Maine Lodge, Ancient
Order of United Workmen, was pres
ent at the installation of officers OF
the local lodge at Gardiner, on Mon
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Trask, resid
ing on Cedar street, have the sympa-
thy of neighbors and friends in the
death of their infant son, which occur
ed on Monday of the present week
from congestion of the lungs and
heart failure.
Work at the paper mill has been
interfered with to some extent by
the recent storms and low tempera-
ture, the 20 or more degrees below
zero yesterday morning causing a
complete cessation for the day. A
picture of the excavation for the
raceway which has been going on for
some months past and which was
described to some extent in our last
issue, may be seen in the show WIN
dow of the Steward Hardware Plumb
ing Company.
Harley Annis left here this morning
for trip to Casco where he has a
painting contract to carry out on
some buildings that will be devoted
to the summer hotel business next
season. Casco is a town not often
heard of in this section, little village
of less than thousand inhabitants, in
Cumberland county, about 30 miles
from Portland. 1t is not far from Ma
Piles, where Mr.. Annis has done work
before, which doubtless led to his
securing the present contract.
E. w. Adams, at present employed
as loom fxer in the Marston Mills,
went to Pennington yesterday to ap-
pear as a witness in a case on trial in
the Franklin County Supreme Judi
cial Court. He is really party in the
case for the cause involves the own
ership OF some hay, purchased by
him, upon which a prior claim was
subsequentially alleged. The Incl
dent which gives rise to the suit &C.
Cured while Mr.. Adams was operat-
ing q farm in Arson last summer
Previous to going to Arson, Mr..
Adams resided here, employed In the
Anderson Mills. and was Skowhegan's
chief of police for the year 1905. He
resumed his Skowhegan residence
about two months since.
Mr.. and Mrs P. F. Cover of Wy
oming arrived here last week and are
to remain for an extended visit with
Mr.. Covers brother, F. r. Cover, at
his home on Russell Ave, in
Skowhegan. Mr.. Cover went to the
west twenty five years ago and has
been since that time in Colorado and
Wyoming. He has become engaged
in the cattle raising business and is at
present the owner of an extensive
cattle ranch in the state last named.
Mr.. Cover is delighted with the pro-
gress Skowhegan has made during the
years of his absence and makes the
unqualified assertion that neither IN
the towns Of the west, with which he
is familiar. nor in those through
which he has passed in his travels has
he seen evidences of greater or more
substantial prosperity.
A hearing at Augusta yesterday on
the proposition of the Parlin Stream
Dam Company to build dam on the
outlet of Lake Parlin, in Parlin Pond
Township, resulted in quite an atten'
dance from this section. Messrs
Henry Crowell and George t. Tib-
belts, county commissioners. with h..
l.. Colby of Jackman, road agent OF
the section of highway likely to be
effected, were on hand to attend to
the interests of the county while a
large number of citizens from the up
per Kennebec and from the vicinity OF
Lake Parlin were present, interested
In various considerations in the out
come of the matter. Among the lat
ter were William Piel of New York
City, son of Michael Piel of Lake Par
lin, @. S. Adams of Jackman, Frank
D,ru;, ~ Tho Eorka Ga0rpa McClin-