The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-12
North Arson.

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/ Boston Friday to be the guests of Mr..
and Mrs w. c. Emery few days.
/ They all returned TO this village Thurs
/ day evening.
The camp meeting at North Arson
will be held from Aug. % to Aug. 30,
and will be under the direction of Rev
/ b. {. Wentworth of Skowhegan, as Rev
/ A. 5. Laid, the new presiding elder, is
obliged to lead the camp meeting at
/ Strong, which comes off the same week.
/ Several interesting speakers from out
/ side are expected to be present
Rev. and Mrs. o. NJ. Hilton and
daughter Harriet, of Auburn, y. y,
arrived here the first of the week to
visit with relatives.
Croix Wilkes, owned by Jefferson
/ Spearin, trotted in the 30 class at the
races in Kngfield, Tuesday, and Daisy
c., owned by Andrew Hilton, started in
the 40 class at this place.
DR.. and Mrs. Andrews returned home
Thursday night They have been absent
from town three weeks, visiting their
former homes in Lowell and South Paris.
George II. Clarke attended the races
at Pittsfield last week and returned
home Saturday afternoon. His gray
mare Pauline was in the races there and
did some very creditable work In every
race in which she started this mare gave
proof that she is very fast.
The rear drive in charge of John Ca
hill was taken off the river, Saturday
night, having reached the upper boom
between here and Madison. The next
thing is to break the big jam which is
being done as rapidly as possible with a
large crew of men, but the sorting of the
! logs makes the work necessarily slow.
Bulletins 80 and 81 from the Maine
agricultural experiment station came to
hand last week. Bulletin 80 contains
the full text of the law passed last win
ter entitled IAN act to regulate the sale
of agricultural seeds" No. 81 gives the
text, "An act to regulate the sale and
analysis of concentrated commercial
feeding stuff. These bulletins are worth
the perusal of every farmer. Copies
can be had by addressing the agricultu-
raj experiment station, Orono, Maine.
Mrs Edwin Collins and son, Arthur,
went to Pleasant Pond, Friday, for a
weeks absence.
DIR. Chauncey Cragin of Rondout, y.
Y, arrived here Saturday evening, the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs BENZ Mantor,
where his family has been visiting for
several weeks.
Mr.. Ernest G.. Walker, formerly of
Embden, now a newspaper man in
Washington, has just returned to that
city after an extended tour through the
west. He visited Chicago, Denver,
Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, San
Francisco, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle,
ST. Paul and Minneapolis, besides
numerous smaller cities on the trip,
travelling almost 1900 miles in twenty
eight days. OF this distance over $500
miles were travelled by rail and steam
boat and little less than 400 miles were
ridden on bicycle. The tour out from
Washington was by the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad and the Central Pacific,
the tour back was by the Mount Shasta
route from Frisco to Portland and from
there to st. Paul by the Northern
Pacific. A stay of three days was made
| in the Yellowstone Park, ride of 100
miles being taken there on bicycle in
stead of on the regular transportation
coaches. Mr.. Walker has written some
exhaustive letters of his vacation for the
Washington Post
James Hall died in Moscow, Saturday,
and was buried in the cemetery at this
village, Monday afternoon. He was be-
tween eighty and ninety years of age.
Mr.. Hall was we'll known in this village
and long time ago was employed for a
number of years in the store owned by
the late Franklin Smith. He was a
literally educated, genial, kind-hearted
gentlemen. He had six sisters and
three brothers, of whom most, if not all
are dead. Mr.. Hall has been gone from
this village the most of the time for a
great many years, and of his associates
who knew him familiarly in those early
days only very few remain. He was
the son of James Hall, perhaps better
known as Preceptor Hall who taught
in Arson academy for quite number of
years prior to 1884.