The Somerset reporter., 1898-02-17
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

Co st Adams.
The district meeting of Odd Fellows
at Pittsfield, will take place, March or
IL. 1t is expected to be one of the iarg-
est gatherings of the kind ever held
there.
Fairfield is already talking up NAM
moth out and out old fashioned Fire
mans Muster and horse trot for the 4th,
of July aud its originators expect to
make it the great Independence Day,
entertainment of the State.
One evening last week about fifty of
Rev. |. Il. Lidstones st. Adams parish
oners gave him surprise party at the
new Methodist parsonage in Hartland.
They presented the pastor and his wife
with parlor lamp, autograph quilt, and
numerous souvenirs in the shape of
groceries.
Mr.. Samuel Titus of Madison, is con-
find to the house with broken leg
resulting from blow from an axe sus-
tanned while he was cutting wood sever
al weeks ago. The axe Clipped the
bone and fractured it so that the physi-
clan was obliged to remove three pieces
of the bone.
Gordon McTaggart of Pittsfield, start
ed for the Klondike, Wednesday morn
ing. His departure was witnessed by
large number who went to the depot to
wish him the best of luck. w. l. Bur
rill of Corrina, left Wednesday night,
for the same place and Joined Mr.. Nc
Taggart and others of the party in Bos-
ton.
The S, & III. railroad is again running
trains to the upper end of the road to
accommodate shippers of pulpwood and
cordwood. The heavy snowfall has
seriously interfered with operations and
business must necessarily be lively when
the roads get in good condition for
teaming in order to ship all that the
people in the vicinity of Harmony have
ready for delivery.
The meeting of the Madison Village
Corporation in Fireman's hall last
Monday afternoon, was of re-
markable nature. The meeting was
called to order by J. F. Withee and the
warrant read. The committee was cal
led upon for report Mr.. G. 5. Hum
phreys, chairman of the committee, re-
ported that as the money for which pur-
pose the meeting had been called had
already been paid into the treasury,
there no longer existed any need to
raise money to pay the water rent. Mr.
Remick reported that he had money
enough. Upon this it was voted to ad-
journ without date. The whole time
taken up did not exceed twenty minutes,
says the Bulletin.
The new opera house at Hartland will
be dedicated the 18th, inst. The main
hall is 45x5O feet, with a gallery running
around three sides, the gallery seats be-
ing raised. The ceiling is % feet high,
plastered in panels and beautifully
frescoed. The stage is 20x50, with three
good dressing rooms in rear OF the stage.
The selectmen's office is under the, stage,
and is entered solely from the outside.
In the basement is large and con-
venient banquet room. The upper story
contains the Fraternity hall, 34x5O feet.
This is also handsomely finished, the
emblematic decorations on the ceiling
adding much to the effect. The rooms
for the paraphernalia are large,so arrang-
ed that degree teams can be formed in
proper order ready to march out. The
upper banquet room is 25x32 feet, with
frescoed ceiling and walls. The build
ing is good to look upon as we'll as con-
venient and credit to the town.
Here is a pretty good story of the
pluck exhibited by two young people in
the late storm as related by the Kenne-
bee Journal: A Bangor young man and
Pittsfeld young lady were to be mar
ried on the day of the big storm. When
the morning broke he was at his home
and she at hers, 30 miles away, and the
raging blizzard between them. He
boarded train which ventured to pull
out of Bangor, but got stalled in the
drifts at Newport Then he strapped on
pair of snowshoes, and struggled on
against the wild elements seven miles to
Pittsfield where it is not difficultsto i'm
agine his welcome. But the wedding
dress was shut off by the storm in one
direction and the parson by the storm
on the other Nevertheless the Pitts
field girl was equal to the occasion and
putting ON her brothers snowshoes she
bravely surmounted the drifts with her
sweetheart, until they found a justice of
the peace. His door was showed up but
they climbed through window and the
knot was tied. Then they made their
bridal trip on snowshoes back to her
home, and all was as happy as though
she had worn her wedding dress, and the
marriage bells had pealed, and the
bridal trip had been to Boston as was
planned.
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