The Somerset reporter., 1898-02-10
North Arson.

The degree staff of Table Rock lodge
100, l. o o. F., will work the inftiatory
degree tonight upon one candidate. D.
d G. NJ. Leon y, Merrill of Scion, is
expected to be present.
The Concord stage missed the trips OF
Tuesday and Wednesday on account OF
the storm last week and the New Port.
land driver went up Monday night and
did not return until Friday.
The snow in the woods is reported TO
be three and one half feet deep. IL
looks like a heavier fall of snow this
winter than there has been before for
years. Wood choppers are finding II
difficult to get out the annual supply for
the village market.
Harry Andrews, the youngest son of
Joshua aud Clara Andrews, died Tues,
Feb. 1st, at his fathers home Embden.
He was not of rugged constitution and
had but recently recovered from typhoid
fever when pneumonia symptoms de
veloped which resulted in his death.
His age was fifteen years
CT. Cookson of New Sharon,
was showed eas dsfe through the storm,
sold to s. Bunker & Son matched pair
of black horses, one by Gen. Withers,
the other by Black Max. These horses
are very nicely matched, stand 16 hands
high and weigh 100 pounds each.
Bunker & Son have also brown mare
5 years old by Bronze Boone and A.
year-old filly by Cylex that are both
good ones.
Tuesday, Postmaster Hovey made a
trip to Skowhegan.
4 Do axx1 In, ,efIf n.s
Camilla, of Shawmut, were in town, Fri
day.
Among those from this town who at
tended Pomona grange at East Madison,
Tuesday, were Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G..
Robinson, ID. NJ. Norton and George
Savage.
Miss Lena Donly came home Mon
day from Portland where she has a
position as bookkeeper ia the office of
the Evening Express. She will visit at
home for a few weeks.
c. II. Nelson, who recently purchased
Pauline of Landlord Clark, took her to
Boston, where she was sold to European
parties This mare is a sister to Com
bine and she has record of 2.2S4.
The remains of Miss Jane Andrews
were brought DtIt lIOIl huOulh l.
day night for burial. She was the
daughter of Levi Andrews. She was
laid to rest in the family burial ground
on the old home farm in the western
part of the town.
The anniversary of Arson Grange S8
in connection with the harvest feast will
be held the 10th. State Master Obadiah
Gardner of Rockland, State Lecturer
Elijah Cook of Vassalboro, and Master
G.. l.. Weeks of the Augusta Grange, are
expected to be present. There will be
private meeting of the Grange at 10
O'Clock a. m. at which time Master
Weeks of Augusta Grange will assist in
the working of the four degrees and
will exemp!ify the unwritten work. At
noon baked bean dinner will be served
to all members present. At 2.3O p. m.
public meeting will be held in ARA
bassett hall where the lecturer of the
state grange will speak upon the good
of the order. In the evening there Will
be dramatic and musical entertain
ment in Carrabassett hall, the following
is the program: Music, duet by Mrs.
Emma Dunton and Mrs. Ella Benson !;
recitation, Mary's Singing Lessons by
Paulenah May Simmons; music; solo by
Mrs. Emma DuntOn; grange goat; music !;
drama, Champion of Her Sex, by mem
bers of Skowhegan grange. The North
Arson band will be present and assist in
the music.
Mr.. Charles Henry Getchell, of Des
Moines, Iowa, was in town few days
last week. Mr.. Getchell passed his boy
hood here, and returned after an absence
of thirty-seven years. He is the eldest
son of the late Henry F. Getchell, a
prominent merchant and lumberman in
this village forty years ago. Henry F.,
occupied store that stood where Car
rabassett Hall now stands. He moved
with his family to st. Louis, in 1857, and
from there to Des Moines, in 1861,
where he resided till his death in 1871.
Mrs. Getchell died about three years
ago. The Getchell residence in this
village, is the house now occupied by
Mr.. Sam'l. Bunker. Charles went to
sea in 1857, and was here on visit in
1861 at the beginning of the war and has
not been here since. He went with his
father to Des Moines, in 1861, and there
engaged in the lumber business, which
he has followed ever since. Only few
of the old residents and his schoolmatse
were here to greet him on his return to
the home of his boyhood. All the build
ings between Masonic hall and the resi-
dence of Edwin Collins have been built
since he was here, the old ones on the
south side of of Main street, including
his fathers store, having been burned
in 1868 All the stores on the south of
Elm street, excepting the Jones block,
have also been built since 1861. His old
fr;ands " ere clad IN hear of his pros4
perity and happy life, and hope to meet
him here again.
Mrs. l.. p. Lincoln, Miss Lizzie Mar
shall and Mrs. j. ID. Benjamin went to
Skowhegan, Tuesday.
Rev. G. II. Laughton pastor of the
Methodist church, in this village and at
Embden, died at his home on Madison
st Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock. The
cause OF his death was bad cold and
the feeble condition of his heart. His
daughter from Augusta, arrived, Tues
day night, a few hours before he died.
Last fall Mrs. W. S. Jones found a
large ugly, looking worm on an apple
tree and carried it into the house, plac-
ing it on some maple leaves over the
mantel. There it went into a chrysalis
state, and last Monday Mrs. Jones hear
| ing a cracking among the leaves found
that a beautiful butterfly had come
forth from the chrysalis. 1t is yellow
with black spots upon it and measures
about five inches across. Butterflies
are grateful change from 40 degrees
below zero weather