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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-01-28
No. New Portland.

The winter term of high school which
closed Friday, was in every respect a
success. The attendance was the largest
for long time and the scholars were
Interested from start to finish. Prof,
G. b. Kimball, the principal, worked
hard and deserved success. There will
be a vacation of two weeks, then a
spring term of eleven weeks. This will
make thirty weeks of high school in all.
Mr.. Kimball will teach the spring term,
G. c. Sheldon, Esq. was at North
Arson, Saturday, where he acted as
counsel for the defense in suit heard
before Commissioner Collins.
F. L. Norton of Lexington was in
town, Tuesday, on business.
Prof. M. E. Sawtelle, principal of the
high school at West New Portland,
spent Sunday as the guest of G. c. Shell
don, Esq, He left Monday A. NJ, for
Sidney, where he will spend his vacation
with his parents.
N. II. Moody came home out of the
woods, Friday, to attend the funeral of
his mother.
Rev. c. w. burlington preached Sun
day on Repentance.
S. S. Walker, deputy sheriff, went to
Lexington, Monday, on business.
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For sheer originality in matters
of food / commend the following direc-
lions, which one Of the Partisan papers
gave to its Subscribers, The supplies
were getting lower and lower in the
Prussian grit city. Seine gudgeons
would not bite, so the anglers took to
the sewers. Take long, strong line
and a large hook. Bait with taIlow and
gently agit-ee the rod. In Il few miu
utes rat viii come and smell the sa-
worry morsel 1t VIII be some time before
he decides 10 swallow it, for his nature
is cunning When he does, leave him
five minutes to mediate On 1t, then pull
strongly ana steadily. He will make
convulsive jumps. but be calm and dc
not let his excitement gain on you.
Draw him up, ct VOLTA votre diner. -
London News.
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Emblem Centre.

Fred Vittum of Scion, was in town
the 23d looking for beef cattle, veals and
sheep.
Fred Skillngs has gone to Embden
to haul timber for S. S. Chase.
Stephen NORM started for the woods
with four horses the 23d to work for Lee
roy Gray.
Malon Boyington of Madison, was in
town over Sunday.
Sidney Dunbar cut his foot quite bad
ly one day last week while splitting
wood.
H. w. Lowell's apple packers were in
this section last week. They did not
buy many fer their prices were too low.
Frank f. Bosworth did quite bust
ness last week with his dog and gun.
In five successive days he got five foxes.
Next.
Frank S. Burns of Concord, is hauling
hay from his Embden farm.
Fourteen below zero on the morning
of the % continuing cold and clear all
day. II.
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North Arson

Bert Lane. one o. our local sportsmen,
from the beginning of the hunting sea
son in the fall to January /, 1877, killed
. foxes, mink, , otter, deer, looms
and fisher.
Miss Rosea +. Mantor graduated last
Monday from the training school for
nurses connected with Bellevue hospital
in New York city, after two years
course of study and practice in the hos
pital
Among those from out of town who
attended the Masonic sociable Thursday
evening were Mr. and Mrs. w. B. Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Savage, Elmer Quint,
Nelson Crymble and son Byron, all of
North New Portland.
+. II. WEIGHS numbering teams con
sistng of eight horses from Stetson went
through this village Sunday morning on
their way to Dead River. A small crew
OF men were with them. They stayed
in Athens Saturday night
f. S. Parsons has fitted out team
and began carrying the express to and
from the station Monday morning.
NJ NJ. Thompson came down on the
morning train Monday from Bingham
on his way to Kingfield where he will
do some surveying in running lines
through timber land for parties there
Perley Walker of Embden, returned
home Friday night from Hoboken, n.
j.. where he has been studying in
Stevens Institute of Technology for the
past few weeks He will go to Orono,
Saturday, to begin his work as an in
structor in that department at the
State College. Mr.. Walker is an
academy graduate in the class of % and
from the State College last year.
The past week has been a hustling
one for the lumbermen. During Sdtur-
day, Sunday and Monday forty-four
horses for the woods were put up at the
Somerset stables Among them were
Frank Estes teams of Skowhegan, con
sisting of eight horses going up onto
the Kibby and Basin for Joe Niles.
Lawrence, Page & Newhall of Shawmut,
had nineteen horses going to Alder
Stream.
Fifteen horses and men from New
port passed through this village Tues
day morning on their way to Alder
Stream to haul logs for Lawrence,
Newhall & Co., of Shawmut. They
stayed in Madison Monday night. 1t is
Sdlu blldl IHlS nGn Has HedTly Two
hundred horses in the woods this win
ter.
This town, perhaps, has its share of
smart, old gentlemen, at least, it would
appear so when one day last week, the
coolest of the winter with the theo-
mometer from 10 to 20 below zero, Mr,
John Taylor, II years of age, was en-
gagged in piling wood on the Cara
bassett shore. Mr.. Taylor has always
been Industrious and this most com
mendable characteristic he still retains
in his late advancing years.
Friday afternoon Walter Howe and
Miss Myrtle Conley were out sleigh rid
ing on Pleasant street and as they were
nearing the railroad crossing below the
cemetery, the horse became frightened
at special train coming up the grade.
The horse turned sharply to the right,
tipping the sleigh over, throwing the
occupants out and ran up the side of the
track as far as the corner of the trotting
park where it stopped until Mr.. Howe
came mp to it. The train was brought
to a standstill for a short time. No
damage was done.
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Fairfield.

A little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Hill
ton of Shawmut. fell Saturday, and
broke his hip aud sustained other severe
injuries.
DR.. and Mrs. Farnham have been visit
ing Mrs. Farnham's parents at East
Madison, for few days.
AT meeting of the directors of the
Textile Mill Co., held at the office of
A. f. Gerald, last Saturday forenoon,
1T was decided to lay the matter before
the stockholders of the company and a
call was issued Monday for that pur-
pose, to take place next Monday after
noon at three o'clock in Steamer En-
CINE Hall.
DR.. G. NJ. Twitehell of Augusta, was
in town Monday.
Miss Alice Lewis of Skowhegan, was
the guest, Monday, of Mrs. George Nor
risette.
Mr.. S. P. Felker, district deputy grand
marshal, |. o. O. F., was in. town Mon
day, from Clinton.
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Brazil'a ,JunRlea,

The jungles of Central America and
Brazil are masses of vegetation so dense
that it is practically impossible to pene-
trate them. Swain aud his party, when
crossing the isthmus of Darien, labored
hard with their hatchets and maohetes
the whole of one day and achieved but
half mile. In many parts of Central
America the underground renews itself
SO rapidly that it is almost impossible
to keep road open through it. In one
instance, in Honduras, road 16 feet
wide was made by engineers and
laborers through jungle. the under
brush aud vines being cut away even
with the ground. Two weeks later, re-
turning 10 complete the work by laying
stones ON the roadbed, they could rot
find the road, the vines having com
pletely filed the vacant space.
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blackwell

The much needed STOW fell Thurs
day last, to the depth of fourteen inches,
blocking the roads and making it neces-
sary for them to be broken out.
Mrs. Arthur d. Knights is in very
poor health; DIR. w. q. Sawyer of Madi-
son is attending her.
Mrs. Amanda Thompson and Mrs.
Ada Mann of North Arson, spent few
days last week with their cousin, Mrs.
Elyra Veasey.
Mr. and Mrs. l.. II. Gilman went to
Brighton, Saturday, for a weeks visit
among friends and relatives in that
place. Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Gilman
will keep house for them during their
absence.
Albert Fitzgerald has engaged to cut
fifty cords of wood for Frank WEIGH.
Senator T. d. Salley cane home from
Augusta Friday night, and spent the
Sabbath with his family, returning to
Augusta, Monday morning. c. b. NJ.
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The South Carolinian has always ar
rogated to himself the name Caroinian,
and he has never been on very familiar
terms with his northern neighbor His
feeling for his southern neighbor, the
Georgian, is also one Of mere tolerance,
for tho latter has long been called the
southern Yankee and fairly deserves the
appelation. He has much Of the
shrewdness and push that mark the
typical down easter" and he has a
considerable share of that worthy's
moral earnestness. In addition he has a
good deal of the Virginian s geniality
and love of comfort of the North Caro-
liniar's unpretending democracy and OF
the South Carolinian tendency to ex-
hibtions of fiery temper.
But over and above everything else he
has an honest ana hearty and hot uH.
founded pride in Georgia, and a sort of
Masonic afiiliation with every person,
animal, institution, custom-in short,
thing--that can be called Georgian. He
may not always stand for culture, bat
he does always stand for patriotism,
state and national. He loves success,
strength, Mgntforwardness and tHe
solid virtues generally-neither l. IL
averse to the snowy one5-but above all
he loves virtue in action. Though pos
sessed of strong clear intellect, he is
moro particularly man of five senses,
of which he makes as good use as he
can. He may not always taste the
sweetness or see the light of the highest
civilization, but he has IA good healthy
appetite for life w. p Trent in At
lantic.
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Madison.

Miss Susie Hilton is at home from
Boston for a short time
Sidney Watson has returned from
Someryille, Mass, where he has been at
work the past year.
f. w. Cook attended the banquet
given in Portland by the Equitable Life
Insurance Co, to its Maine agents. He
reports big time, all hotel and. travel
ing expenses paid by the Company.
Eben York was taken to the Insane
Hospital last Friday.
o. r. Hooper is at home from Camden
for few days.
+. l.. Powers, Jas. Burwood and Addi-
son Gilman went to Oakland and install
ed the officers of Oakland lodge A. o.
U. W. last Thursday night.
The Indian Spring Wooden co. have
just received two new spinning mules.
The young people have had about two
acres scraped on the river SO that they
can enjoy skating.
George Collins of Lowell, Mass, is
visiting his brother, W. II. Collins, boss
fnisher in the Indian Spring mill.
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LarOile.

B. Z. Wentworth will hold service
here next sabbath at 30. The usual
evening social will be at G.30 All are
cordially invited to attend as there is
always room for one more.
The late snow has started business up
and the horses are now in the harness
all day.
Many of the up river woods teams
have hut just started for their work the
lack Of snow keeping them out.
We're you speaking of large hens egg, /;
II so, 5. Rancourt and son can 90 YOU
enc better IA they have one recently
seen by the writer that measures in cir
conference six inches one way and eight
inches the other.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-01-28

East Madison Grange. No 22s p of
H., celebrate their twentieth anniversary
on Feb. 9Th. 1t is hoped that all charter
members will be present and participate
in the exercises of the day. Program
Music; history of grange by worthy
master, A. f.. Bosworth; remarks for
good of the order by NJ. o. Dean aud
others paper, by sister LIZZIE Bosworth ;
song, by sister Carrie Holmes; reading,
by sister Lottie Roberts; essay, by sister
Eliza Mclaughlin; instrumental music,
by sister Paul and brother Paine; read
by sister Clara Holmes; essay, by sister
Ellen Paine; song, by choir; reading,
by brother Ezra Stevens; reading, by
sister Sophia Reed; essay, by sister l..
c. Jewett; song, by sister Kate Reed
reading, sister Emma Lincoln; dialogue,
Misses Harville; poem, sister May
Marcia; song to close.
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Harry Booker and Charlie Davis of
Madison, came into this place Sunday
afternoon on horseback.
viii Mitchell of Arson valley, was
here Monday.
Willis Quint of Scion, was in this place
Thursday.
Jefferson Preston of the Gray district,
was here Friday
Orlando Walker of the Hilton district,
and parties from Pennington passed
through this place Friday night with
about 200 fat sheep.
Robert Tozier, Ora Pullen, Mrs Brad
ford Spencer, Mrs. Martha Spencer and
Mrs. Eden Qunt are on the sick list
T. ]. Moore is cutting pulp wood for
the Madison mill. He has Olin Gordon
and Chas. Houghton of Norridgewock,
to work for him.
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lsnded on Indian pond nine hundred
thousand feet. Colby, Ere and San
b1rn have yarded on Pierce pond over
three million feet. Monday they start
ed thirty-eight horses and twelve oxen
to hauling from the yard. The week
ending Jan. lGtf, they yardei three
thousand five hundred sticks. one Two
horse team driven by Omer Firth, yard
irg 91,925 feet Of spruce during that
time.
Nj +. \. Merriman of Madison, was
in town Monday night. on his way To
do scaling at Pierce's pond. lvErrE.
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L. +. McIntire and Asher Davis
started for the woods last Tuesday.
Mrs. Jennie Greene is visiting friends
in Portland foI few weeks.
Mrs. May Lang and Mrs. Alice Nc
Carthy of Berlin, y. H., are in town,
visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Sumner Holway.
Stanton Day arrived home from Bos-
ton, last week.
The ". c. T. L. met with Mrs.
Thomas Cross last Saturday.
News was received here, Jan. %, of
the death of Mrs. Susan Smith, widow
of the late Nicholas Smith of Richmond.
The interment will be in the village
cemetery
We understand there is to be another
rifle shoot at the Falls, Friday, Jan. 20.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Swain we're at
Skowhegan, Saturday and Sunday.
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Canaan.

Lafayette Gleason has another very
sick colt which they think is very lit
tie better at this writing, One of his
horses, sick in the same way, died few
weeks ago.
Misses Shellie Harris and Allie Good
rich visited the school in the Burrill
district, Wednesday of last week
Business is quite lively since the
snow came. Many are getting their
teams ready for the numbering regions.
sherman Horne, Cecil Gardner, Horace
Mason and others will send teams in the
woods from this place
Mrs. c. d. Harris went to Pittsfield
last Thursday and returned home sun
day.
Mrs. a. F. Berwise is spending a few
days with her mother at East Skowhe-
gan.
f. $. Philbrook, Colby '9s, preached
here last Sunday. He announced that a
Mr.. Hathaway will come next Sunday,
accompanied by +. =. Herrick.
The c. +. society meets at the church
Saturday evening for the regular month
ly conservation service. All are invited
to attend.
Miss Addie Jewell visited friends in
So. Canaan recently.
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Monday evening at Fairfield Centre,
Hon. J. H.-Manlcv of Augusta, deliver
ed his lecture emit led 1.-The Home aud
the State In spite of the cold, good
audience was present to listen to this
charming story of the home life Of New
England, and especially of Maine, and
the Influence the State Is exerting
throughout the nation Il is a lecture
which should be heard in every town
and village-helpful in tone, eleyating in
spirit aud earnest devotion to the best
interests OF the State and home.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-01-28

Presiding Elder Royinton held quarter
ly meeting services at the Methodist
church last Sunday.
The spring term Of Ripley high school
will be held in the town ball, eommenc-
ing Monday, Feb Is, to be under the
instruction of +. p. Dyer of Hartland
A petition praying for change in the
limits of Water street, is in circulation,
and the same will probably come before
the town at the March election.
Mrs Edward w. Farrar is in very
poor health.
viii Woodceck is very low.
+. l.. Briggs closes term of school in
Cambridge this week.
f. b. Nutter has bought farm in
Parkman and will move on to the same
during the winter.
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CORRESPONDENCE
NIayheld.

% below IHro here Wednesday morn
ing the 20th.
Our pastor Rev. Joseph Moulton held
a meeting here Sunday at 10 A. NJ.
Mr. Ryan is at home from the woods
on account of the sickness Of his son.
F. NJ. Wyman lost a heifer short
time ago.
Mrs. Annie Campbell and son are at
work for Selden Cleveland at Bingham.
Mrs. Smith is stopping with her
daughter, Mrs Homer Cooley this
winter.
Miss Maria Hall is with her sister,
Mrs. Nancy Morrison at Brighton.
II. f. Cook has a very lame horse.
Twenty horses passed through town
Sunday from Parkman. They will haul
pulp.
At the west part of the town there are
thirty men cutting pulp and some cut
ting last blocks.
b. w. Adams has teams hauling pulp.
S. A. Chamberlain and wife were at
Bingham, Saturday.
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Too Much Inn Name.

'fIhere 1t is again, groaned Chump-
ley. This time he's arrested for blow
ing safe That fellows making life a
long and dismal nightmare for me-"
what Is il this time?'
same Is its been half a dozen other
times-R. II. Ghumplev caught in nm
other desperate crime; my name, my
initials. III Der there are thousands Of
people using that man record in max
ing up mine. Every once i'll awhile
pick up paper to read that I've whipped
my wife. though / never had such an
article; raised a check, beaten a hotel,
stolen bicycle or committed bur-
glary.
But no one viii suspect you.
"They WON'T | have barrel of let
tiers referring TO the matter. Ministers
labor with me, lawyers offer to defend
me, women roast me to turn and
crooks want to enter into partnership
with me. | have had some of the worst
pugs YOU ever saw call upon me with a
view to doug business y
at doesn seem possible y
81 tell you it's right The thing q
making me desperate I've always led a
respectable life, and to have this bugbear
bobbing up continually is enough to
drive IA man crazy. -
Il believe it's providential, Chump-
ley. [ wouldn't accept tvlt name Of
yours if crown went with it. It's just
as suggestive as Greenhorn would be.
Every one who hears it thinks of a
chump. Fave it changed and thank your
lucky stars that some one else stole it. -
Detroit Free Press
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The Forks.

Geo. Smith Of Bingham, passed
through town last week, on his way
home from the woods.
Chss. Ham of Bingham, has been
clerking at The Forks hotel the past
week.
Herbert Hilton of Bingham, was in
town, Friday, on his way into the
woods.
James Kinsley got hs finger broken
while working in the woods one day last
week.
Mrs. Larry Comber has come out of
the woods where she has been stopping
the past few weeks.
Mrs. Andrew Farley is working for
Mrs. Frank Durgin.
Albert Adams and Abel Rowell of
Scion, were in town last week.
Wallace York went into the woods
with his team Monday to haul for Geo.
Wilson. n. l.. Y.
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An alarmist doctor says that when a
person begins to have doubts about the
spelling of common words, TO write an
unnaturally small hand that shows a
tendency 10 WAIVER above and below a
straight line and to grasp the pen with
unnecessary force, especially at the end
of long word, then that person is suf-
fering from brain exhaustion aud ought
either to take IA complete rest or else TO
find work of an altogether new and diff
ferent kind San Francisco Wave.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE.

Whereas Elizabeth r. Rollins OF Csrrstunk
in the County of Somerset and State of Maine,
by her mortgage deed, dated the eighteenth
day OF October A. d. 1888, and recorded n the
Somerset Registry OF Deeds, Book 200. page
All, conveyed to Abbie F. Webster OF said
Carratunk a certain parcel OF real estate,
situated in said Carratunk, and being lot
Numbered Four in the First Range of Lots in
said Carratunk, and being the same premises
conveyed to Elizabeth r. Rollins by the heirs
of Joseph CLARK; and the said Abbie F. Web
ster by he T deed OF assignment dated Novem-
ber,. A. d.. 1888, and recorded in Somerset
Registry of DEEDS, Book 226. page E5S, trans
ferred, assigned and conveyed to me, the un-
dersgned the said mortgage deed the note debt
and claim thereby secured and all her right,
title and interest by virtue of said mortgage
in and to the real estate therein described
and whereas the condition OF said mortgage
has been broken now therefore, by reason OF
the breach OF the condition thereof, I claim a
foreclosure of said mortgage.
Dated at Skowhegan, January 26th, A. ID.
1897 3w4
ESTHER B. CLARK
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The Social Position Of Actors.

The time was i'll France when the ac-
tor had no social position, and certainly
no spiritual one. Special dispensation
was necessary when the Catholic church
allowed a mass TO be said for the repose
of an actor soul. In The Chautauquan
Professor Warren, describing the Mo-
liere period, writes:
The social position of actors in Mo-
Heres time was low one. Not from
any prejudice against the stage evil
IDENTIFY, since dramatisfs like Corneille
and Scarron wee on the same footing
at the Hotel de Rambouillet and the
other salons Of Paris as poets and essay
lists and were elected to the French
Academy as readily. Indeed. it would
seem as though the composition of plays
was the shortest road To distinction in
the Paris of Moliere, as it is today. But
with the actors it was another question.
Their wandering, unsettled modes of
life had evidently told against them.
They were not admitted to society
whether their conduct was good or bad.
They were not even considered in the
light Of literary persons. Moliere met
his friends. Boileau La Fontaine, Flu
retiere at public cafes. AS writer of
comedy he was either not taken serious
ly or had incurred too much hostility on
the part of influential sets, the clergy
through "Tartuffe, :" the salons through
Lies Femmes Savantes. " As an actor
he was considered an outcast with his
class, and when, on his deathbed, he
Z 1
peal fell on deaf ears till it was too late
So that it was with the greatest difficult
ty that his widow procured a bit of con-
secrated ground in which to lay the re-
mains of the unshrived comedian.
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the ground and if smooth or icy would
slip badly. But very little snow from
Calvin ID. Eaton's to a, Strickland ~
usual Something ought to be done to
save more snow on that piece of road.
A large four horse team from Detroit,
was seen on the stage road to Sko"he
gan ON their way 10 Dead river where
they will find plenty OF lumber all cut.