The Somerset reporter., 1897-08-26
Bingham

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DAYS at Pleasant Pond, last week: Mr..
and Mrs. N. E. Bray, Mr.. and Mrs.
Calvin Ellis, Mrs. Hutchins, Miss
Hutchins, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hume
well and their son, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Collins, Mr.. aud Mrs. Thomas Hill and
! Chas. Hill.
Mark Dinsmore's baby Harold, has
been very sick the past week.
Quite an amount has been donated by
the business men along the river and 10
other places to help Henry Washburn to
replace a barn for the one recently burn
| ed.
Mrs. Geo. Clarke and party of lady
friends were in town Wednesday of last
week. They took picnic dinner under
a tree near The school building.
Few tickets were sold at this station
for the circus at Watervllle. The gor-
geous stupendousness of the great con-
glomerated extravaganza seems to have
lost its charms for the people of this
vicinity.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM Moore OF Portland,
are visiting Mrs. Moore's brother, Henry
| Washburn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Junkns of The Forks,
arrived on Thursday nights train having
been on visit down river.
H. B. Whipple accompanied by a
friend visited Carry pond with good sue
cess last week.
Albert Howe's house in Concord, was
destroyed by fire. Wednesday. 1t is
supposed to have caught about the
chimney. There was no insurance.
The schools in Moscow, commenced
Monday of this week. Rosie Andrews
teaches in the Temple district, Addie
Smith on Chamberlain Hill, and Edith
Huff in the sugar town district.
Roy Savage is attending school at
Arson Academy.
Chas. Briggs from Massachusetts,, is
visiting at Mr.. +. G. Andrews.
Geo. Foster was at home from Oak
land, over Sunday.
The Mission Union meets next Tues
day with Mrs Henry Chase.
The Ladies Aid Society met this week
at Mrs. Cordelia Burke's.
Waldo Dunton Of Moscow, and Miss
Bessie Kinds of New Portland, were
married last Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. o. p. Taylor and family Of New
York city, and Mr.. and Mrs John Taylor
of y. Arson, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. B. Goodrich, Friday and Satur-
day of last week.
DIR. and Mrs. F. G. Williams, Miss
George Cleveland and john Spear of
Boston, made a short trip to Pleasant
Pond, last week.
Thomas Whitney and wife and several
young people Of this place are at Pleas
ant Pond.
Mr.. Peter Pierce of Waterville, has
been visiting his brother, Reuben Pierce
of Moscow, and other relatives and
friends in this vicinity.
Last Monday morning work was com
menced on Henry Washburn's new barn,
also on sewer for j. j. Lander from his
house to the river.
Mamie Howay who has been having a
vacation, will return to her dressmaking
business next Monday.
last Saturday.
Herbert Palmec Of Charleston, Maine
has been engaged to teach the fall term
of High school in this village. He will
board at Mrs. Julia Colby's.
Mae Baker is to teach the intermediate
school aud Amy Bates the primary
Schools to begin Sept. 9th.
A warrant is posted for special town
meeting to be held, Sept. lat, to see
what action the town will take regard
ing proposition made by J. j. Lander
aud Henry Washburn 10 furnish water
to the town through an eight inch pipe
aud fifteen hydrants, to be used in case
OF fire, the town to pay five hundred
dollars year for period of ten years.
Mr.. bennett of Lewiston, who gave
such good satisfaction by his numerous
recitatiOns year ago, has been engaged
by the Congregational society for the
evening of Aug. 3lst There will be
singing by Mrs. Day of Boston, and
other music by local talent.
'1ncompatibility of temper" caused so
much trouble between two sisters in
Moscow, that the husband of the one
getting the worst of it, interfered to
such an extent that he has been arrested
and committed to jail.
The people of this section seem to
have given themselves to picnicing and
good times generally. Thursday of last
week one hundred and fifty met at the
"Sugar town school reunion" in Moscow,
and the same day forty-seven Odd Eel
lows and their families met as many
more at Carratunk, and all went to
Pleasant Pond. There amidst the pines
happy day was spent. About twenty
five quarts Of baked beans were consum-
ed and many other good things. There
was no special program but there was
boating, fishing and flirting.
The sugar town reunion met on the
old school house grounds, Thursday at
10 O'Clock. Two hours were spent in
social manner. The president then an
nouneed that dinner was ready to be
served, after grace was said by Risden
Baker of Skowhegan, a bountiful repast
was partaken of by the large number
present. The meeting was then called
to order by the president, j. F. Sucking
of Boston, with appropriate remarks,
music by the choir, remarks by Albert
Burke on old school days and remi-
niscences, by Il. f. Houghton upon the
school system of Maine, also by j. F.
Sucking and A. S. Burke, a song by
Florence Lander, paper by Mrs. +. X,
Baker in which she records the death of
five members, remarks by j. c. Gregory
and K. D. Baker, reading of a poem
composed and sent to the reunion by
Theodore Andrews of Scottsville, Ore
gon. Letters were read from Mrs.
Hannah Knowland of California, and
Chas. Whittier of Gardiner, Oregon
Thirty-two OF the scholars who attended
school In the old school house long since