The Somerset reporter., 1909-03-25
TOWN and VICINITY

The members ei ehe baoioo AAeoi
..on Whist Club were guests of Mrs
Wallace Blunt last Friday.
Among repairs and changes made
=, the Dunlap block has been a real
ootrance, for an emergency exit, al
he Empire Theatre.
Several Bingham business men were
in town this week, summoned as wit
-osses in case on trial, among whom
-.ra A. S. Burke, B. F. Adams, and
sryin Moore.
sW. Philbrick arrived home today
,.om business trip to Kineo. He
.os accompanied to that section by
T. Bradstreet, well known lum'
hartman of Gardiner.
Miss Mary G. Pollard left Monday
srsrnoon for Hampton, N. H., where
abe is employed as a teacher in the
,ublic schools. During the spring va
cation she has been the guest of hei
,,ther, j. Fred Pollard.
Fred F. Lawrence, Judge of the
skowhegan Municipal Court, and
Carlton NJ. Holt, manager of the loca
telephone exchange, accompanied by
their wives, left here yesterday morn
inp for a vacation trip to Boston
Miss Edna Conforth, who taught
one of the schools at the Academy
building on Baptist hill, in 1908, is now
one of the teachers at the Edward
Little High School in Auburn. The
senior class of the Edward Little
School has been on trip to Washing
ton for the past fortnight and Miss
Oonforth accompanied them as chap
erone.
The Whiteside Strauss Stock Co.
will play return engagement at the
Opera House on next Saturday Marcel
Nth For the evening performance
they will present the greatest of al
tramp plays, "Tne King of Tramps";
and for the matinee at 2.30 the beau.
tiful comedy drama, 1.-THE Girl and the
Judge" Evening prices will be
&c., 25c., and 15c. for children while
the matinee prices will be Soc, zoe
and 1Oc. Seats will go on sale at the
office of the Somerset Traction Co.
Friday morning at $50.
The Fourth Annual Report of the
Maine Commissioner of Highways
Just received by the REPORTER con-
tains full page picture of the three
by four feet concrete culvert, built by
the highway department of the town
of Skowhegan on Middle Road last
summer. This was a part of the sc
called Estate Road" work done by
this town in 1898 and the above re-
port gives very carefully prepared
figures as to kind and quantity oil
work done and the cost, including the
eulvert used as an illustration.
A Skowhegan friend of Mrs. Mary
B. Bean has just received from that
lady, who is passing the winter ir
Florida, box filled with blossoms and
vedure of that winterless land The
most striking of the collection are the
orange blossoms and with these are
leaves from the bay tree, needles from
the yellow pine, also palmetto and
live oak foliage and southern moss
Florida has it's frosts and flurries oil
snow, about once in generation, and
when it does it is the saddest of al
dreary places, for plants and animals
alike seem defenseless against any
thing except sunny atmosphere. In
most years however, it is either
spring or summer the whole twelve
months through.
John L. Houston of Guilford, for
mer citizen of Skowhegan, was chos-
en- secretary and treasurer of the re-
Gently formed Maine Wooden Manu-
iaClulbIb AoSoCtuUlOil3 az OhOAt i1OSo
ing in Augusta on March 9TH. The
president of the association is Cor
don Dobson of Pittsfield, who has
had much to do with building up the
textile industries of that town and is
we'll known throughout this state and
New England. Most of the Maine
woolen manufacturers have former
y been allied with the general textile
interests of New England, which in
Guided the manufacturers of worsteds
and worsted yarns. The wooden
goods men have now the belief tn at
their branch of the textile business
has been Disseminated against to
some extent by the Dingley schedules
and they purpose, in the tariff revis-
ion about to be entered upon, to see
that their interests as they view
them are properly protected. These
considerations have lead to the form
alton Of the Maine Wooden Manufac-
tures' association at this time.
liver Johnson Bicycles at j. N. and
|, ]. Smiths.
Many good things for your table are
now obtainable at Hotel Coburn Mar