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The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
North Arson.

Bert Mantor is at home from Boston
this week but will return soon.
+. Tompson and Il. Brown of Skowhe-
gan were in town last Mon lay
There will be harvest concert at the
Cnivcrsalist church next Sunday,
Bailcy's teams start for the wood 5
Tuesday morning.
Frank Donley, BENZ Hilton, F. Pur-
rington and Harry Hilton We're in New
sharon and Chesterville several DAYS,
last week.
c. Marshall and his two daughters,
Lizzie and Rachie, went to Boston, Mon
day.
ST. Cpix returned home one day last
week and he is looking finely. He has
now negro trainer.
Geo. Marshall returned to Boston,
saturday.
There was some talk of cattle show
here next week but it is not yet decided.
win Benjamin has moved his shop 10
the store next to +. +. Collins.
The persons who attended the state
convention at Lewiston last week, re-
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
bingham.

The fail term Of the Grammar and
High schools commenced Monday
\. :. Burke returned saturday, from
Portland.
DR.. and Mrs.. \. 4. Piper entertained
the Y. p. 5. c. L. on Friday evening
with ''cob-web party"
Miss Agnes Foss went Tuesday to
Randolph. where she will remain
through the winter.
\ large number of Bingham people at
tended the cattle show at Scion, last
Saturday. There was Il very good
showing of cattle and horses, fakirs
were in attendance selling their wares,
with an accompaniment of much loud
talk.
The Debating Society meets this
Thursday evening at Union Hall.
Next Thursday evening the Adelphian
club holds a meeting at the chapel. 1t is
important that all members shall be
present.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
Emblem.

Apple buyers would do we'll to come
this way.
c. f. Lane is prepared to buy poplar
pulp wood, delivered to the railroad.
G. f. Lane has fine lot of steers for sale.
This has been great year for yellow
corn, some of the finest lots we have
seen for many years are being husked.
A. j. Libby thinks he has raised sixty
bushels shellcd corn per acre, this year.
A very little is being said about
Numbering this winter, the market is
very low on all grades of lumber, those
buying stumpage must buy low and be
economical as possible, in order to get
wages for their labor. The Hunnewell
boys of Carrtunk, have six hundred
thousand to be wagoned six miles,
which they intend to let from the yards.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
Carritlinl<.

Saturday the Scion cattle show and
fair took from here ID. II. Williams, w.
ID. Moore and Mrs. Moore, Z. II, Baker
and Mrs. Baker
It's a shooting match and dance Tues
day at the Forks, at Matte kennedy's.
A COW this time they will shoot for.
The boys are round now borrowing hal
ters, but notice our boys most always
bring something home and its most al
ways the first prize.
Mrs. Geo. Baker has been down to
Bingham visiting all the week.
The city school will give an entertain
mcnt and box sociable some night this
week.
We are glad the dance here this week
is to be Friday night.
Archie Clark is home from No, Arson
this week on the sick list.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

Capt. Geo. II. Davenport OF Bel MAJ stoh,
Mass, is . most popular and widely
known man, especially in Grand Army
circles. He is Pension Agent and every
body knows him He is best known to
the whole country through his discovery
of "Davenport's Silver Pomade,' proba-
bly, the best article Of its kind in the
world.
Capt. Davenport is most entertaining
speaker. and his relation of the following
incident will be interesting to everybody.
81 had been troubled severely for years
With heart disease, and the effect of ma
Iarial poison contracted in the army /
vas so nervous and weak that was unable
to do any hard work for years.
81 consulted many doctors but have
found no good results from them. | finally
used DR.. Greene's Nervnra blood and
nerve remedy, and can say that it has
done great things for me.
~ have been helped in the heart trouble
more than from any and all other things |
ever used. find that for weakness and
nervous excitement it is a great help
For instance, on Memorial Day address
ed the G.. A. r., at Northiield, and on the
following day at Whateley gave an adj
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
tOrnyille.

Silas Wyman and wife of Waltham,
Mass, formerly Of Cornyille. are visit
ing friends and relatives in this vicinity.
Fred NJ. Perkins has sold hi. farm to
Oscar Green and bought the Nathaniel
l.. Smith place of Melvin Palmer
Melvin Palmer has bought the store
etc. OF George Pishon al Pi-hon's Ferry,
and will move there with lis family i'm
mediatcly.
Gertie Ward of Athens, commenced
the winter Term of school ia District No.
:. Oct. sth; Lottie Currier in District
No. &.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

Mr.. j. Watson has moved in the vii
lagc in he tenement known rs the Gil
bert house.
Mr.. John Grant will stop with Mr.
Gerish Wilder. Mrs. Grant is very
poorly in health
Business seems very good and tn,
weather beautiful. Indian summer is
here; we wish it would always remain
with us.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

Mr.. Melinda steward has been visit
in ia brighton, the past week.
Mr.. Dr. Ames and her mother OF
NorridgcWock, were in town last week.
Fred Turner aud Miss Lila Stinchl"ld
ol llarthnd. were recently married by
Rev. !. ". llincklcy.
There was a pound party at Rev. Mr..
saudtord'- Monday evening
Mr. and Mr. Merton Stirkney are the
proud po--e-scrs Of a baby girl
The mlny friends of belmont 7. judi
kn- -ymplthile with him in his recent
bereavement.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 9.-Thc Unlver-
sity Press, John Wilson Il sons, made an
assignment yesterday. for the benefit Of
the creditors, to William b Reid, chief
clerk ut the Press. The announcement
will be received with surprise, as the firm =
financial standing was believed to be
sound. Next to the Riverside Press, the
University Press Ia the oldest and largest
printing establishments in Cambridge.
The concern was established In 1899, and
with only lapse of about one year has
been running ever since. The firm en-
ployS from 300 to $50 hands
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
Emblem Centre.

Geo. w. Copp has bought and moved
on to the Thomas Steward farm, and is
repairing the buildings and making
other improvements.
j. l.. Hodgdon and wife are visiting
friends in Norridgewock.
Isaac Savage and wife are visiting
friends in this vicinity.
S. A. Bcal of North Arson was in
town the first of the week.
Mrs. Nahum Chick has returned to
| Fairfield.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION.
In Fitting Spectacle Bows to the Ears Both
Must BE Considered.


Must BE Considered.
Having selected pair of frames with
nose piece of tho right height and
spread to bring the glasses into the
proper position, and having had them
fitted with glasses made in accordance
with tho oculist's prescription, the OPP
tician now proceeds TO fit the completed
spectacles to your head. You might put
them right ON and wear them off just
as they are
But no; he reaches over and places
the bows over your ears himself. Then
he tries the spectacles gently, as they
rest upon your nose, taking hold mt tho
outer ends Of tho frame, here the bows
hinge Not just right. He takes them
off again and smooths the bows out be-
tween the tips Of his fingers and changes
their shape little and tries them again.
Better, but not just right yet. He takes
them again and smooths out and bends
in little more You observe as he hands
them to you, as he does this time, that
the bows have not only been changed
somewhat in chape, but that now they
vary i'll sweep and curve. You put them
on and find that they fit perfectly and
very comfortably. He touches thom and
finds them right and says 80.
But the bows are not alike" you
say.
NO." says the optician, but they
are now made to fit Your ears are not
just alike. One of them is little big
ger than the other, and they are not
placed exactly alike on the head.
WHAT" you say, and he says: eyes,
There are very few of us that are perfect
CT just alike ON both sides. New
York Sun.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
st. Adams.

Quite number of farmers have gath
cred most of their winter fruit. Some
will have quite good crop. j. w.
Jewett has several barrels Of Northern
spies, very nice ones. They will com
mence canning apples at the factory
next Wednesday.
Sunday night, we had Il heavy frost,
the first of the season to kill or freeze
plants.
The bridge is not quite completed yet
II has been quite n hard job, rs it was in
very bad condition. 1t will most likely
be finished this present week.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
a Discriminating Observer.

''Thoso two men seem mighty badly
who WAS coming up stairs backward s.
AS not to miss anything. ''They re call
i'll names an threaten to do one an
other.
w hat is it," asked the bookkeeper.
"A fiyht?"
"Na thought they WIS fighters,
but L guess they re only pugilists -
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

Monmouth is much elated over the
announcement that Il large clothing
mandatory is to be located there very
soon. Boston gentlemen representing
some of lie largest clothing eoucerns
at the Hub have been in town, nrg0tlat-
ing with W. W. Woodbury. for contracts
in coatmaking that will oblige Mr..
Woodbury. To employ over 100 gir's.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11

7FIt is easier than usual this year to pick
out the shrewdest and most sagacious
Democrats. They are tn he told by
their retiring qualities .-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
Cambridge.

Miss Sarah IIurd of st. Adams, is
teaching our village school.
Mrs. J. b. Mitchell returned home last
week, after four months absence ut the
Aroostook.
Mr.. Joseph Mitchell is visiting rela-
tives in town. He resides at New
Hampshire.
bad colds are very prevalent in town
at present Mrs. \. Brown is on tho
sick list.
The box sociable at Union church, on
Saturday evening, was very well pat
ron2ed. The quilt was voted to Miss
Louisa Horne, rs the most popular
young lady; the sofa pillow was voted
20 ORA Quimby.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
SHERIFF'S SALE.

STATE OF MAGNE.--Somerset 5. $: -,
Taken on execution wherein lh1Ha.ts
Beale, Frank II. Beale and Elisha T. '..tN
man all of Augusta in the county OF h' tnts
bee, CO. partners under the style of e. li'iI-
Co.. are creditors, and George c. LoN, -
Detroit, in the county of Somerset, Is ~
highest bidder therefor on Saturday, October
eth, A. d. 1884 at ten of the clock in the i'.
noon, at the Office of Frank w Hovey IN . -,
field, in said county OF Somerset all the
title and interest which the said Geor-
Lower has in and to certain piece or ia
of land situated in Detroit aforesaid as
county of Somerset and being descrl"t X
the west half of Lot numbered Forty IL, -
in the Third Range OF lots in said pv't -
containing one hundred acres OF lana ny,. ,.-
less. being the Homestead farm formerly -
cupied by the late Jesse E. Dorman. ,A.r.
Dated at Detroit this 18th day OF SEPTEMBER
4. ID. 1894. 1T
H. S. NICKERSON, Deputy sher'u'
3w39
The Somerset reporter., 1894-10-11
CORRESPONDENCE.
Palmyra.

Samuel Dexter raised nine hundred
heads OF cabbage this year, most of them
nice ones.
Mrs. Mary A. Wright has been ill for
several months.
John G. Harding is making repairs on
his buildings.
o. NJ. Whitman raised pumpkins this
year that weighed over fifty bounds.
Some in this vicinity have left their
potatoes In the ground till now thinking
they kept better there.
Next Sunday the BuInham "praying
band" will hold meeting at the school
house in district No. ID.
George Mills, Walter Green and son OF
Stoneham, Mass, came to town a few
days ago. Mr.. Green and Mr.. Mills are
In the northern woods after game.
Rev. j. w. Grindnlle and Joseph Rayns
of Bangor were in town last week.
The widow of David Sweetland, who
will be 50 years old next February, has
for the past few months been partially
insane.
Mr.. and Mrs. belmont Burgess OF
Corinna were In town Sunday.
Mr.. Frank Robinson has sold the
Weeks farm and will move his family t,
the Aroostook Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. G. Sinclair aud daugh
ter are visiting In the western part OF
the State.
C. NJ. Jewett and wife have beer
spending few days in Stetson.
Randall McCrllis, who has beer
spoken of before. Is failing fast, c. r
McCrillis wishes to thank his neighbor'
for their kindness in helping husk ou
his corn.
Miss Nellie Simons has gone tt
Augusta to spend the fall and winter
with Mayor Milliken's family.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Eaton who has been stop
ping with her sou, MIR. {. +. Libby, hai
returned to jackson.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
BOARD.
Forty words inserted under this head
one week for 25 cents. cash in advance.

WANTED-Summer boarders at quiet
W farm house, situated two miles from
village on direct stage line. For further in
formation address, W. S. WARREN, Cor
nish, Me. 1872
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
Farmers Field Day.

A Farmers Field Day Meeting will be
held at the Maine State College on We'd
nesday, June 6, 1894. The programme
of the day will consist of inspection of
the grounds and buildings of the Col
lege, exercises by the students and ad-
dresses by visitors and members of the
faculty. The buildings will be open, al
lowing all to see the museums, labora-
tories, workshops, forcing houses, reci-
tation and drawing rooms, apparatus
and other facilities for/instruction. The
machinery of the Dairy Building and
the Mechanic Arts Department will be
III operation.
Parents who have children to educate.
and young men who wish to become
acquainted with the opportunities offered
in the several courses of study will do
well to visit the college at this time. All
who are interested in the institution
are cordially invited to attend.
Round trip tickets, for one fare, will
be so Id at all stations in Maine on the
Maine Central and the Bangor & Aroos-
took railroads, good to go to Orono on
the 9Th and 9th, and TO return on the
9th and 18th.
Beans aud coffee will be served for re.
freshments. For anything further, visi-
tors will depend upon their lunch bas-
kets.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
A Sign of Better Times.

When everybody is hoping for the return
of better times, each straw that shows the
wind to be blowing from that quarter,
is worthy of special notice. There is no
barometer SO reliable as the demand for
goods. Nobody buys stock for fun or for
appearances.
Our advertisers, The Charles E. Hires
Company, Of Philadelphia, transact business
over a very wide field, dealing in every city,
town, village and crossroads in the country,
They report that the sales of Hires Root
beer so far this season are very much in
excess of the same period last year.
When it is remembered that their annual
sales have before this reached the enormous
total of 2,880,27S packages, which euaIs more
than gallon for every family in the
country. it would seem at first thought that
there is little room for further growth.
Thirst for it, however, seems to be univer-
sal as this years report shows very large
gain, Indicating that ere long the person
who does not drink Hires Root beer will be
somewhat of curiosity.
No temperance beverage has ever any
where nearly approached Hires Rootbee1
in popularity. Its wonderful success can be
accounted for only on the ground that it is
just what the manufacturers claim-an
honest extract of natures most healthfu]
roots, which slakes thirst, improves health
and pleases every member of the family. Its
remarkable sale certainly proves that
millions enjoy Hires Rootbeer.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
A Peculiar Religious Sect.

A curious sect, the River Brethren has
just met in convention near Abilene, Kans.,
They are of the Quaker faith, and are to be
found scattered in small congregations all
over the United States and Canada. Last
year their annual conference was held in
the Dominion, and the year before it met
in Pennsylvania. A fashionable church in
Abilene was offered the River Brethren as a
place of meeting, but they declined to use
it. preferring to hold sessions in their own
church. barn-like structure on the prairie
several miles distant from Abilene. 1t has
two stories, the upper divided into dormi-
tories with beds and bedding, and there the
women and children will sleep. Tents and
sheds will accommodate the men. The
River Brethren originally came from Swift
erland and are of German descent. They
settled first on the banks of the Susquehan-
ma in Pennsylvania, and afterwards, formed
other colonies in Ohio, Michigan, and Kan
sas; the one in the last-named state has
1000 communicates. The River Brethren
are practical farmers. They always have
crops to repay their labor. They build the
big red barns seen nowhere else in the West
and fill them with produce. Their houses
are painted white and are old fashioned,
roomy, and plain. In the history of River
Brethren settlements in Dickinson County,
Kans., there has never been pauper among
them. They refuse to have anything to do
with politics in the sense of agitation,
claiming no part in the government except
the privilege of paying taxes" SO strict
are they in the matter of Sabbath obser-
vance that they refused to visit the World S
Fair because 1t had been kept open on Sun
day. The women have no fashions, their
dresses always being of the plainest de-
scription, without lace or founces. The
Bible, which is their guide in all things,
furnishes the rule for many curious Gus
toms. The brethren when they meet each
other kiss, but never is this greeting ex-
changed between the sexes. At church the
sexes occupy opposite sides of the room and
the men do the talking, the women remain
ing silent. "as becomes them. according
to the brethren's belief.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
Commencement at Colby.

Waterville, May lS.-The programme for
Commencement week at Colby University is
announced as follows:
Sunday, June Acknowledgements sermon
by President Whitman at 1870 a. M, at the
Baptist church; annual sermon before the
Boardman Missionary Society and College
Christian Associations by Rev. DIR. Booth of
Holy oke, Mass, at Z AS p. m.
Monday, June REPRESENTATION day exer-
cises of the Junior class at $50 p. M, on the
campus; Junior exhibition at I.45 p. M, at
the Baptist church, followed by a concert
at City hall by Chambers band of Portland,
under the auspices of the Junior and Senior
classes. The concert is to be followed by a
hop under the same auspices.
Tuesday, June 28.-Class day exercises at
1890 a. M, at the church, at p. M, on the
campus; annual meeting of the Alumni
Association in Memorial hall at 2 p. M In
the evening at 7.45 an grafton will be de-
Evered in the church, the speaker not yet
announced.
Wednesday, June Commencement day
exercises of the graduating class, conferr-
ing degrees and presentation OF diplomas;
Alumni on the campus in the afternoon.
and concert on the campus by Chandier's
band in the evening". followed by the presi-
dents reception In Memorial hall.
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19
REMARKABLE REAL ESTATE BOOM.
History Of the Richardson Land Com
pany at WOOdfords.
Twenty-one, Out of Twenty Six Lots Sold in
the Past Two Months-AlsO Six Houses
Being Built and Already Sold.

A remarkable transaction in real es-
tate has taken place in Deering this
spring. Last January Mr.. Charles B.
Dalton was in Lancaster. N H., and in
con versation with a business friend,
Mr.. N. M. Richardson, of the firm of N.
M. Richardson & Co., furniture dealers,
the latter said that he had an acquain-
lance, Jew, who went to New York,
invested in real estate and cleared $780,
900 in short time. He, Mr.. Richardson.
had some ready money soon coming
due and resolved to try his luck in New
York. He had previously dealt in real
estate in Colorado. Mr.. Dalton said, with
out attaching much Importance to his
remark, Better come down and invest
in land in Deering." Mr.. Richardson
appeared interested and asked questions
and finally Mr.. Dalton told him that at
first he spoke idly but that he really
thought that the necessary money and
push could bring about land boom in
Deering this spring.
lii the course of two weeks Mr.. Rich
day purchased the land between Ocean
street and the Maine Central station,
known as the Widow Sawyer property.
He got sleigh and drove to West Cor
ham, despite the bad weather, where
Mrs. Sawyer, now Mrs. Bryant, lives, and
made the purchase of her land, that he
has since laid out into 26 house lots.
The next morning he drove out to Aliens
Corner, and purchased of MIR. Owen b.
Hill another piece of land adjoining the
Sawyer place.
This resulted in the forming of the
Richardson Land Co., and the putting
through of Sawyer street. Previous to
March Both but one lot WAS sold; since
then, period of but little over two
months, 81 of the &c lots of the Sawyer
land have been sold. Five houses are
now being built by the company. They
are already sold and another is sold
that has not been begun yet. Most of
the land has been sold to Deering and
Portland people.
the Both Of March, Mr.. Vinton Earl of
Rumford Falls, a we'll Observation-Disclosures,
was waiting for the train at the Maine
Central. He stepped across the tracks
on to the land and within ten minutes
had pur chased three lots at 6 cents a
loot. Since then he has purchased two
more, making $500 worth in all He
will build two houses Immediately.
This boom in real estate has been al
most unprecedented in Deering and is
one of those extraordinary events that are
seldom seen anywhere, especially in Maine
just as good land has been on sale in
Deering for the last twenty years in
many places, but nobody ever thought
of buying it. And there is no particu-
lar reason why people should have pur-
chased this land so quickly and extern
sively. Of course it's special need is a
roadway across the tracks to Forest
Avenue, and that will probably be
brought about. The land has not been
particularly advertised, but simply some
how the current of popular approval set
that way, and those people intending to
build, or to speculate, purchased land
there. Of course the company has made
a good profit out of their lucky invest
nQnt
The Portland daily press., 1894-05-19

The eighty-ninth commencement and the
one-hundredth anniversary of the incorpor-
alto 1 of Bowdoin College will take place
June 24-28. Following is the official order
of exercises:
SUNDAY, JUNE "a.
Baccalaureate sermon before the gradu-
ating class, by President Hyde, in the Con-
gregational church, at p. m.
MONDAY, JUNE rs.
Prize exhibition, by speakers from the
junior class, in Memorial Hall, at pm.
TUESDAY, JUNE 26.
Senior class day exercises, grafton and
poem in Memorial Hall at 10 a. m.
History, prophecy and parting ceremon-
les under the Thorndike oak at p. m.
Promenade concert and dancing in the
evening.
Annual meeting of the Maine Historical
Society in Massachusetts Hall.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE ~.
Public graduation exercises of the Acad-
emical and Medical Departments and the
comforting of degrees by the president in
the church at 1890 am.
Annual meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa
Society in Adams Hall at 8. m.
An address on the religious history Of the
college by Professor Egbert Coffin Smyth,.D
D., (class of 49,, of Andover Theological
Seminary, in the church at 4 p. m.
A reception by President and Mrs. Hyde of
the Alumni, guests and friends of the COL
1ege in Memorial Hail from 8 to 10 m.
During the evening, if the weather is fa-
vorable, there will be an illumination of the
campus and buildings. with an open air
concert by the Salem Cadet Band.
THURSDAY, JUNE %.
Annual meeting the Alumni Association
in Memorial Hall at $50 a. m.
Public exercises in celebration of the CEN
tennial anniversary of the incorporation of
the college in the church at 10 a. m.
Grafton by Chief Justice Melville Weston
Fuller, L. LID. (class of '53).
Poem by Professor Arlo Bates, A. M, (class
of '76).
The public literary exercises will be fol-
lowed Immediately by the centennial ban
quet, given by the trustees and overseers
to the Alumni and guests of the college,
James McKeen, Esq, of New York (class of
'6D, president of the Alumni Association,
will preside at eabanquet, which will be
served in tent on the campus