The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-02-25
TOWN and VICINITY.

passing the week in town as the guest
of Miss Hannah R. Page.
Mrs. Emiline futile has gone to
Garland for four weeks visit with
relatives in that town,
Miss Grace Jewett has entered the
employ of Drs. Hill & Whitney and
their Office will be open daily, except
Sundays, from to II a. m. and from
1.30 to g. p. m.
Fifty articles have already been
submitted for the town warrant and
the prospect is that this document, as
finally made up, will equal or exceed
In length any of its predecessors.
Miss M. E. Cummings, bookkeeper
at the factory of the Commonwealth
Shoe & Leather Company in Gardiner,
paid visit to the Skowhegan factory,
operated bythis same firm, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Davis Miller left
here today on the noon train for
Washington, D. G. They will witness
the ceremonies OF inaugural week and
remain for time as guests of DR.. and
Mrs. Geo. o. Smith.
Chapman, Holt & Company have sold
during the present week one lot of
$4,000 lbs. OF wool and the same was
shipped to New York City, consigned
to w. P. Yerrington. This was all
purchased during the past eight
months from growers in this locality.
The names of the four Skowhegan
citizens, who are to serve on the petit
iuries at the term of the Supreme
Court to convene on March IS, were
drawn at the Office of the selectmen
last Friday. They are Frank II. Wing,
G. Milton Lambert, B. @. Fletcher and
w. 8. Gilman.
Such of the Skowhegan schools as
did not observe the anniversary of
the birth of Lincoln, held exercises
last week of a patriotic nature sug-
gested by the season of Washington's
birthday. The schools were closed
on Monday in memory of Americas
first president.
The Bijou Moving Picture Theatre,
opened by DR.. A. A. Borden, few
months since, has been leased to w E.
McPhee, the proprietor of the Happy
Half Hour Theatre in the Dunlap
block. The latter amusement hall is
to be closed and the business carried
on by Mr.. McPhee at the Bijou.
w. E. Hackett was at Bingham,
Monday, in conference with the local
electric lighting company with refer
ence to replacing their engine which
WINS demolished by an accident on
Saturday. The machine is past re-
pair and the mishap seemed likely to
shut down the plant for a week at
least.
Mrs. Mary Stewart, mother of the
groom, and her daughter, Mrs. T.
Casswell, both Ut Alora, Ontario,
have been in town this week, coming
to be present at the marriage Of Dav-
i'd F. Stewart and Miss Mary g. Mars
ton on Tuesday evening. They are
guests at the home of Mrs. Sarah s.
Marston on Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Briggs of Pitts
field and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Jewell
of Fairfield were in town on Tuesday
evening to attend the Stewart Mars
ton wedding. Mrs. Briggs and Mrs.
Jewell are members of the Phi Psi
Club, social organization TO which
the bride belonged, all of whom were
invited to be present.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes: 81
ha ye recently witnessed play which
would commend to every discourag-
ed, fault finding, discontented man or
woman who sees these lines. The
play is "Paid in Full". 1t is to be
commended as distinctly worth
whileo. "Paid In Full" will be the
attraction at the Skowhegan Opera
House, Wednesday, March Sd.
About one hundred people came
here on the special train from Water
vile, last Friday evening to attend
the entertainment and benefit at Con-
vent Hall. The minstrel show, given
on the 9Th OF the present month, was
repe ated, and two plays given, both
the latter by the pupils of st. Mary's
school. In one of the plays was in
troduced dance, with eight of the
young people in told folks" costume,
and the other was Of the nature of a
farce, entitled 1.-THE Four Prunes".
DR.. Chas. r. Viles has recently pur-
chased the Pierce cottage property at
Hayden lake. The tract contains
something like twenty five acres,
with about thirty rods on the lake
shore, extending back to the highway
known as "Lovers' Lane" The cot
tage commands one of the finest
views in the Hayden Lake valley, the
near view being directly up the lake,
and in the distance are the mountains
of the upper Kennebec with such
well known peaks as Bigelow and
Moxie.
The officers CT Crescent Tent,
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