The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1909-08-19
TOWN and VICINITY


rain last saturday for home.
No YOU want a good clean burning
.oal for winter? The Lewis Coal Co.
rouId be pleased to take your order
and deliver you the best coal mined.
Afr and Mrs. w. A. Wescott return
\ last week from Pleasant Pond
wbere they have been occupying the
clarke cottage, with a party OF
| friends.
Miss Beatrice Genthner, steno-
orapher in the First National Bank,
10, for the White Mountains last
saturday where she is having short
vacation.
Mrs. Benjamin Fairbrother return
ed home from Sydney last week,
vbere for several weeks past she has
been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
David Fields.
Miss Eva Otis of Springvale, who
has been visiting friends in town for
several weeks, returned home Tues
day. Miss Myra Akeley left with her
for Wilton, where she is spending a
week or two with an aunt.
Mrs. Alfred futile of Livermore
Falls was in town last week as the
0uest of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Towle.
She is at present visiting in Athens
her former home, where she has not
been for twenty-nine years.
Miss Annie M. Johnson of Provi-
dence, r. [. has been visiting Mrs. M.
E. Bean and her daughter, Mrs. John
Currier, this week. The three ladies
became acquainted through passing
the winter together in Ashville, N. @.
few years since.
Mrs. Herman Avery with her chill
dren, Ralph and Dexter, arrived
home last Friday from Prospect, on
the Penobscot river across from
Bucksport, where she has been visit
Ing relatives for the past few weeks.
She also made short visit in Brewer,
her former home.
" A. Turner left here on Monday
tor Plymouth, N. II. where he be-
comes a member of the band con-
nected with the AL. F. Wheeler cir
Gus. He is to play the trap drum and
will remain with the tent show until
The fall engagements of Kendall's or
chestra, of which he is member, re-
Quires his return here.
Rev. George Merriam and daugh-
ter Marion left this morning for
Sharon, Mass, where they are to Wis
it Mr.. Merriam's brother, Rev. E. I.
Merriam D. D., who is editor of "The
Watchman," New England Baptist
Paper, for ten days or more. There
Eill be no 1915 service the next two
Sundays in the Bethany Baptist
Church.
Lieutenant E. G.. Oak, son of Hon
Chas E. Oak of Bangor, is passing
Phe week at Hayden Lake as the
quest of his uncle, j. P. Oak, and
amily. Lieutenant Oak is from the
battleship Maine, now undergoing
epairs at Portsmouth, N. H. He
vas graduated from the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, in
so5 and has been in the active naval
eryice since that date.
In charge of the Working League,
md participated in by some of the
nembers of that body, thorough
leaning campaign was put through
1.-THE Congregational church, during
BE annual church vacation, and COM
leted last week. The vacuum
Neaner, and operator in charge,
ere utilized for several days and
ashions and carpets, as well as walls
nd wood work, were cleared of dust
amost satisfactory manner.
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Foss of Worces-
%, Mass, former residents of this
lace, were in town, Monday, guests
thinner of Mr.. and Mrs. @. Davis
ller. They were on their way
ONE from Corinna where thew had
zen for a visit with relatives. Mr..
ss was IN business here for a long
efod, a member of the firm of Gray
foss, stove dealers. Their location
as on Water street, portion of that
0T occupied by the Philbrick &
ard block. Head Brothers who
ea1 out of business at the time of
eCoburn Hall fire were their sue
Pssors.
A'Y. Forrest of Key West, Fla,
Is In town yesterday. He is the son
D. e. Forrest, form erly of this
ace, and passed his boyhood here
10 ten years of age. This IS his
VI visit here after an absence of
gnteen years. Mr.. Forrest is in
afge of the station of the United
'eiess Telegraphy Co., at Key
eH. His corporation is the largest
Inc world in their line of business
Wis erecting at the present time
stations at the rate of $50 year.
iather j. G.. Forrest, above mem
ned, was in the plumbing business
~, founding the business now car
On by the Steward Hardware &
0moing Co. His home for most of
Time since leaving here has been