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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-02-09
No. t'ornyilIc

Mrs Nathan Weston S ln very h'ehle
health this winter.
MI aud Mrs PHILIP Gauiner have
gone down river.
Arthur Calden has reformed from his
trip to Massachusetts.
Mrs. X. A. Mclntire and her daughter,
Miss Ann, who have been visiting ut f..
l.. Hight, have returned to their home
in Auburn.
We learn that the citizens of Madison
have generously contributed money
enough 10 rebuild the barn of Mr. Piper,
which was burned a few weeks ago.
Hard slcighing now.
Mrs. Ambrose and two daughters, who
have been stopping at Mr. Pugh', for Il
while, have returned to their home in
Skowhegin.
Allie squire came home from the
woods sick with the grip.
John Sands is slowly improving.
lamc, A. Burns formerly of Lynn has
purchased the Albert Moody farm at
East tornyillc and has moved his family
to that place. Mr.. Burns has been a
sailor until within the past 10 years
which latter time he has been following
the shoe business. He has been arouud
the world visiting most every city and
country of any note, aud finally settles
down in TIN good old town Of t"rnville.
lie j. a hustler and the good people of
the town viii see a fine kept farm in
every sense OF the word. The farm lies
between Daniel and Jeremiah Moody's
and contains about 90 To 100 acres with
good buildings and orchard. Mr.. Burns
family consists of himself WIFE and ono
daughter. Is years of age. Jeremiah
Moody, wife is II sister to MI Burns.
Cornvlle j. fast becoming quite ,nnl-
mer resort for Lynn people. Sey raj have
spent the past couple of seasons with
Mrs. Elizabeth Moody family, and
others are contemplating taking sum
mcr hoarders. Mr.. Burns will tit hi
house up this winter and receive num-
Der Of hoarders from Lynn who hive
already engaged board.
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West pittSticld.

one day last week quit" delegation
troin the Grand Army and ". Il. {. met
for social time AT g. W. Patterns.
Each comrade wa- sire he WAS the man
that saved the lnion and many were the
tales of hcroism and suffering. When
dinner WAS announced, strange to say,
everyone ate with clear conscience.
Mrs j. {. liam of iIaltlaud visited her
brother, Mr.. StiGsou, last week.
Abel Patten aud daughter OF Skowhc-
gan, accompanied by a gentleman friend
of Stoughtou, Mass, visited friend, at
West Pitt stield one day recently.
Mr.. Berry of Portland ha, hceu buy
ing apples in thi, vicinity.
Business j. not a. actiN" T. formerly,
the road, being hard.
Mr. Jewell OF Canaan WAS here last
week pcddliug medicine that wa- rcc"m-
mcudcd "a chr" all ills.
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IIIt. Forks

Two young mca last Thursday night
purcha -cd y fine coil Of Scott burgiu.
and with that and = stolen sled from
Henry keuncdv's door-vard belonging
to G. s Pierce, Friday morning started
for their home in { mazda. Charles Ken
ncdy t"lephoned round to stop them at
Jackman hut it is supposed That the
message Aas not received.
Last Friday might the rrrW of mru in
J, :. Longlcy's camp about eight o'clock
in the evening, saw, rs they described, a
stream al fire In he heavens, II would
tir-l brighten and then die away, sud no
on" COULD make out What II Wa-.
!. II. Frame of Skowhrgan, also N"-c~
Thompson Of bingham, wrr" in town
last week,
David Rogers died saturday at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. |. :. Young,
the remains will hr carried 10 Madison
tnr burial.
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Madison.

Rev VI. Mitchell of Madison was driv
ing pair of colts Thursday afternoon,
aud when near Greens Block Il dog ran
OUT aud frightened the colts, which turn
cd around and upset the sleigh, throwing
Mr.. Mitchell out. They then ran down
Main street, across the bridge, and col
lidcd with a team on the Arson side be
longing to smith Il Hilton. They broke
the back oil of the sleigh aud injured one
of the colts very badly, cutting on the
breast near the left fore leg n wound
three or four inches long aud ten inches
wide. No person WAS injured.
J. +. Quimby, esq, wife and son visit
cd f.. V stevens aud family u few days
last week.
Messrs. Robinson 4 fillmore closed up
their bakery in Whitney Block this week g,
on account of sickness in Mr.. Robinson :
family. They intend 10 reopen in the
spring,
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The directors of the Dung Mcn's
Christian Association haze secured
rooms in the bank building and will tit
them up ut once. The room, include
the old Commercial Union office aud the
large room in the rear OF this
John :. Webb died suddenly SUNDAY
afternoon nj hi, home in Clinton. About
o'clock he IWokc from - nap aud CON-
planned of feeling i'll, and died in Il few
minutes. He had been subject to heart
trouble.
\ peculiar accident happened sunday
to Jumper in which Mr.. F, +. Ham
mond was driving up Main street. As
the horse neared the post office at good
speed one shoe of the jumper caught in a
frog of the electric road turnout 1t
wedgcd firmly In and As the horse went
ahead something had to give way. The
harness held and the jumper was twisted
into kindling wood. Then the harness
broke and the horse came 10 a stand7till
without further damage.
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Endorsed for Ohice.

uice looking old gentleman with u
horid complexion approached the ap
poiutment clerk of the treasury one day
with an application for place, Endorsed
by some letters of recommendation.
When the official asked him question
he sand: Please write it down. | am 50
deaf thar | coulA not hear sound if u
cannon were fired off close to my ear.
General McCauley thought that this
was rather a disadvantage for an appli-
cant for employment as a clerk, but he
asked the stranger to write his name and
address. The old gentleman shook his
head 1T is impossible" he said 1
cannot write at all, because my hand is
pal,ied Washington Cor. New York
Sun
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RIPPLE,

Evergreen Lodge |. o. e.. /. will have
an oyster supper and installation neXt
Saturday night, Feb. Nth.
Horace Frost and sou, |. Is Frost, W
II Farrar and Henry Butler have been
irving their luck AZ Noo-rhead the past
week.
George Watson has been ullahlc IN at
tend to his school which he is teaching
in Cambridge, ON account OF sickness
during the'pas two weeks.
Edgar aud Lester Ham,dell arr on the
sick Ii. this week.
+. l.. Briggs closed term Of -chool in
st. Alhan- last week
Ed Bullard l. saving Wood around
town with "A steam engine.
Town schools will clo-c Thu week.
Lizzie Baur ha, finished her school in
81. Adams, aud i at h"m".
Chas Hanson has gone 10 Brighton
with stock.
\hnut four inches "f SNOW fell here
Friday, aud saturday Ms thu roughc,t
day for tn" winter
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Notice of Foreclosure.

w heras, J. Ebent1eer swift, of Mercer in
w the County of Somerset. state of Maine.
by his mortgage deed, dated December tenth.
4. D 1898 and recorded in Somerset Registry
OF Deeds. Vol. 200, Page 1877, conveyed to II. x.
White and W. Wilde the undersigned IA
certain piece OF parcel of real estate, situated
in Mercer village on Elm street, in said County
and bounded and described as follows; viz
EaSterly by the road leading from Mercer
village to Starks, Northerly, by land formerly
owned by William Robbins, deceased Wester-
ly aud ooutherly by land of Geo. Diegles to
the rend above mentioned. containing one
acre, more or les Also another piece of land
situated IN said Mercer and de >cribtd
follows; tIl. hegining on tine West side of thr
road leading from Mercer to St9rks TO the
Northeast coIner 81 The above described land
and running North-.astcriY on line OF sad
twcntF six fcet, thence, wcetlY PARALLEL Nth
North in, above premises To II point, ~ feet
North OF the North west corner thereof.
the nee, Southerly % feet toisaid North west
corner. thence Easily on said Sw.fts North
line to first mentioned bounds, and whereas
the conditions of said Mortgage has been
broken. now therefore by reason OF the breach
Of the condition thereof We claim forcclo 2
sure al said mort gage 3wi
HENRY X. WHITE
W II. WILDES.
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Brighton.

Teams hauling hay last Week made
II 20 Il dak far rWo llnr,r-, IN" horse,
SIC
Death ontcr.1 the home OF Mr. and
Mr.. Gcorgc l.. Hayden, Monday Feb. G,
aud took from their loving care. their
sweet baby; only three months aud
twcnty-.eycn day did ne make their
home bright. but their light has gone
out Much sympathy is felt for them in
their bereavement. Baby Guy VA, a
beautiful baby, fair to look upon.
With breaking heart and fearful eye
We sat at midnight's soem hour
Beside the cradle where baby lav with
death 30 nigh.
Grief stricken, without the power
To humbly ask the reason why my nahv
must die
Friends came with loving word, and said
II should not mourn as thus mourn.
They'll never know how my heart blcd
At every kindly word they said,
There lay my darling baby. dead.
Why should thus so sadly mourn
For him. my darling baby boy
He only from this life was borne
To realms of endless, fadclcss 10y,
My baby Mess, pure and free.
Fast hv the never fading tree OF lllr
supreme
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SO. Madison

Mr.. A. H. Ward was in Skowhegan,
Monday.
Mrs. Walter IIolway r'main- about
the same.
Mr. George Jones drove four larSe
fat oxen to Norridgcwock last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Johu War,l were in Fair
field last week visiting relatives.
Mr.. Charles iIoughton and wife went
to I.aronc 10 visit rheir uncle, who Is
quite sick.
Mr. VIM. Blunt aud wife OF Sko~hr-
gan, were in town Tuesday.
Mr. j. ;. Wheeler and wife Went To
Skowhegan Wednesday.
Mr.. y. T. We-colt i az Madison at
work.
We are sorry to hear that Mr. ned
IIolway i very sick.
Mr.. q. f. sStcvcn- and Ritc of the
Center wrre in this vicinity la-t wcrh.
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Browns { orner.

We understand we are to have pri-
vatc school this spring, but il is not yet
known who the teacher is to be.
Every body WAS awake to the fact sat
urdav morning that there was full
grown BLIZZARD on hand for one day at
least,
We learn there is to be a party Of gen
tlcmcn aud ladies visit the lumber
mems camps within a few day. If they
do they will probably lay out for good
time generally.
Folk, are practicing the atrictcst econ
omy with their hay n many are little
short.
Hon. Y K. Futile. Who i desperately
l., carue>l about uur proposed Railroad
hI- recently been lo augusta iu IT. inter
1T. but he Railroad dos not ,eem f.
matrriali2c very fast.
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[ aitaaD

Mr.. Irving Huntington and wife have
returned from Mass, whore they went
last fall to work in the shoe factory.
Their return is du" to the sickness of
Mr.. Harrington.
A. there wasn't much snow it drifted
into the roads around town after the
storm aud wind of last week. it was a
great mystery to some of our residents
where all the snow went to- 1t was
discovered however, to be upon the
Pitt-field road. between Mr. VIM.
Church's and John Bingham's. Nine
men worked there all day Sunday to get
it -hoveled through, and report the
drifts u be six feet deep.
Miss Noble of st. Adams Is visiting at
Albert Burrll's.
Geo. Farnham vas called to Lewiston
Monday, lay the serious illness of his
lister.
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Athens.

lua. the little II year old daughter Of
Chas. T.. Emery, is dangerously III from
what i feared to he some foreign sub
stance in the appendix. DR.. Thayer Of
Watervillc was in consultation with DR..
Amcs Friday He confirmed the diagno-
sis of prs. Ames and Dascomb, but owing
to the frailness of the child and the great
danger attending such cases, did not
think an operation advisable.
Miss Carrie Wade is at home from
Boston, where she is employed rs nurse
in a hospital.
Mrs. Hurd OF Worcester, Mass. il Wis
ting her son, Peter +. Hurd.
Somerset Academy closed Friday for a
vacation of two weeks: There was an
entertainment by the students Friday
evening.
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Frederick | of Prussia WAS killed by
fear. His wife Was insane, and one day
she escaped from her keepers. and dah
blin= her clotne, in blood rushed upon
her husband while ne wa, DOING in his
chair King Frederick imagined her to-
be the white lady whose ghost was be-
lieved TO appear whenever the death Of
a member Of tine royal family was to oc.
cur. aud he was thrown into fever a;d
died IN six week. Dr. Elder in Wa.
iugton Post
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HARMONY.

The village school closed la-t Wedne--
day after a very successful term of TWEEN
tv weeks. taught by Mis- Sara Hurd.
The whole number in attendance, 81, ay-
erage "a Those not absent one day,
Minnie Marble, Flora pcnnell Charlie
Mclaughlin. Those absent one day,
Johnnie Libby aud Oracle Davis.
The Free High school began Feb. g.,
under the instruction OF : Everett Per-
kim of Bates College.
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Notice Of Foreclosure
HENRY X. WHITE
W. II. NILDES.

Thomas Young OF starks. in the County of
somerset md state of Maine, by his deed dat
ed the third day OF July 1854, recorded in Som
erset Registry of Deeds, book 1872. page 1872.
conveyed to me. the undersigned, in mort
gage, q certain parcel of land situate in said
Starks containing about twenty acres, lying
on the westerly side of the road leading from
Corson's Corner to the residence OF Mehitable
W. Pease, bounded in part by said road and
in part by the Sandy river, being a lot of land
occupied by said Thomas Young at the time
of his decease. IN connection with his home
stead farm, but detached from it, and being
the same premises conveyed to said Young by
decd of Isaac l., and Mary Corson dated June
IS. 1861 recorded in said Registry, Vol. 20.
Page l02, which deed or the record thereof. as
also deeds therein referred to, may be re
ferred to for further description of the pre-
misses.
And the condition of said mortgage having
been broken. /, the undersigned, by reason
thereof, claim a foreclosure.
Jan. ~, 1893, 3wb
LLEWELLYN BROWN
By EpW. Lowe, his Atty.
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OUR DANGER.
LOOK OUT FOR THE SPRING or
1898!
Forewarned is Forearmed
The Hatheries of Cholera,
and what is to be seen there
If the Disease Breaks Out
in New York, where will it
End?

There are few things which have never
come to pass which seem surer of coming
than Cholera this spring. Three well
known physicians, one in Boston. two in
New York, have said this. \ recent des-
patch from Hamburg in the daily papers
says =:
at is feared that the seeds OF death
sowed last summer will Yield a fruitful
harvest in the spring
There is no lodging this dread disease
in the spring and summer of 1905
The country is ripe for it.
Our lax immigration laws will be wholly
response Die for the death rate through
Cholera during 1895
For wears the United States has been
Europe's sewer All the scum OF her hu
man tides have been skinned OFT and la
died to our shores
Austria, Bavaria Poland, Russia. Tur-
key Italy, China, these and many other
foreign countries send the rag-tag and
bob-tail, the vicious. the d.praved the
vile the diseased, and the utterly lost, to
our shores. This they have been doing
for years with the utmost inpunty
As famous New York ply stefan rc
Gently remarked to the writer
"How San we escape Cholera ncXtyear?
OF course il won't break out up on 5th,
| Avenue, but it will eventually reach there,
and ali over the land 1t will break out
over Oh FORSYTH, and division, and Hester
streets, and the Bowery, and Cherry Hill
and thu Five Points, and Roosevelt street,
Those points are points OF dirt aud yer
min
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Clara Jane Edwards has placed Oh our
table two large hen eggs. They are
about tho size OF turkey eggs. Clara
Jane says that the hen that laid EN- ha>
laid two of this size every day for the
last fonr years but has now gone to set
tin. The eggs have been broken IN the
frying pan and they have each two yolks.
\ little calculation will show that this
is nearly 5000 eggs in the space Of four
years from one hen, equal to $4,000 com
mon sized hen eggs.--Stewart County
Hopper
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NERVOUS PGOSi'RiIi0N and
EEYyIPELlS Cured.


ShOpN DlsDuAlHt Co.:
Gr\rra7utN:- For u number Of
year, have been severely afflicted
with Try ,'pchs, Bilious Trouble. and
Nervous Prostitution. | lost flesh and
bee, iuc much run down in strength.
Ids than a course of SkODA'S DIS
CONII,Y. with the LITTLE WI
LETS. has completely ruy,l u". !
have gained 20 lbs. in flesh, and nrVcr
was In more perfect health IN my life.
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Il. Madison.

f.. ~ Amc- who has been at work for
the Interstate Hallway Co. was at home
for a few days last week accompanied
by Mr.. Henry Segrayes of Attlehor-
ough, Mass.
Sima Prescott who has been on the sick
list for the past week is now much better
Jennie Henderson il visiting friends in
" II.
Addic Prescott has returned home
from Lewiston, where she has been VIZ,
ting friends the past week.
Tho calk shop hands arr busy at pres
rfif
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While Ethan Allen was held a pris-
oner in New York an offer was made
him of large tract of land in Vermont
or Connecticut, as he preferred, pro-
vided he would espouse the cause of
England. His reply is characteristic;
"If by fidelity have recommended
myself to General Howe. shall be
loath by unfaithfulness to lose the gen
erals good opinion. Youths Com
panion
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Iarlin Pond

!. IT, frainc stopped here fur-daH on
hi- way 10 ,Iachmau.
Wm Mckay and VIII ar" At work at
The parIin Pond lIou-e.
Martin Hilton made Il trip Ia bingham
Monday and hack Friday.
T.. G.. Hall of Cartatuuk AN Fred
Clark OF bingham Werr here Friday.
There Ms an eight inch snowfall
Friday.
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There was Bavarian prince who wa
so entirely accustomed TO being contip-
ually waylaid and followed about by
his admirers that once on coming ont %
the Frauenkirche Church of Our Lady
feeling himself held back by the CLOAK
he turned abruptly round and angrily
exclaimed, This is really not the
place before he saw. to his relief, tina:
it was only his cloak which had hitched
in passing on nail Exchange
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The two men who are said ia /. the
most difficult Of access by mftrviewers
are Colonel lngersoll aud Archbishop
Corrigan. Whilc there Is great di.
yergenee OF opinion upon certain reli-
gious questions. both agree II lerpins
from within the pencil reach q rtpor'
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Bangor People swindied

BANGOR, Me- Feb. IA large lumber
of people in Bangor ana vicinity have re
Gently been swindled hy agents of Com
panies which they called the "Boston
Art company the boston Portrait
company" etc. The agents solicited pic
lures to be copied, in each case collecting
% ceuts or Il "a advance.
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a writer in an English paper asserts
that American muttonis not as tender and
Juicy as English mutton because of the
habit of fattening on corn or grain of
some sort, while there the most Of the
mutton is fattencd on turnips and rape,
with little grain of oil meal to finish it
off. There seems to be no lack of evil
dence of the superior quality of English,
or even Of Canadian, mutton over that of
iered in the states, and il may be that the
writer is correct in assigning the cause
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Mercer.

The BOYS returned from Gardiner last
week where they have been at work on
the ice.
No meeting Sunday on account OF bad
roads.
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NEW YORK, Jan 8l.-A special to The
Press f.am Washington says, Mr. B aine
LEFT VIII b-.tawinI all his property on
Mrs. Blame, and making her sole execu-
trix without bonds The total value of
The estate is estimated at ss10,000.
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Nv little boy, Harry, has suffered
for wears with bad humor, on his
head, which baiilcd the skill of physi-
clans, and did not yield to other rem
edies tried. Asystcmatic use cNter-
nally of SKODA'S GERMAN SOAf.
and SKODAS OINTMENT, has COM
plctcly cured him, Respectfully
MRS. l.. +. INGRAHAM.
Mrs. Ingraham is lady Of culture and
rctinement, widely and fayOrably known,
and her endorsement speaks for itself.
skopA DISCOVERY CO.. BELFAST. NE.
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HANOVER, \ IL, Jan 20 by the viii
Of Mrs Laura + Merriam, wutow of Silns
Merriam. merchant of Chicago, Dartmouth
college will receive 5000
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one of the principal features of the
meeting of the legislature ON Monday
afternoon was the large number of
strong petitions that came in iavoring
the passage OF some law enabling The
druggists to sell liquor for medical pur-
poses. There are several largely signed
remonstrances to the passage of such Il
bill. The petitions for the bill took the
lead in number certainly. Over twenty
came into the House 10 say nothing OF
the Senate.
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Shawnut.

Henry Farnhsm. who was injured at
Hermon Pond some weeks ago, while
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our G"elllng places
KINGS S.ARSA-
PARILLA is skill
fully combined by a
chemist Of long eX-
perience in the Sc
lection and prepare
ton OF drugs and
can be implicitly re-
lied upon as the most
valuable preparation
OF the kind on the
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market. Price per bottle IS cents, and
every bottle is sold with the positive guar
antee to refund the price If it fails to bene-
Mt. Tie original and the oldest remee'p
on the market sold ontht "no are, no PAY
blan. O6tainadA efaN medieinf dealers.