The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-06-22
North Arson.

North Arson.
Willie Wing is at home from Bowdoin
college.
Although the water in the Kennebec
river is low the drive is being rapidly
pushed and it looks like an early drive
into the booms.
The frost of last week shaved close
in some places i'll this vicinity. Beans
were killed to quite an extent, and
others were planted again by the farm
eTs.
daughter, Mrs. L ID. Graves, of Hart
ford, conn On the way she visited
her sister, Mrs. A p Butler. IN Mass
achusetts
The grammar school will close Friday
and in the evening at ! o'clock, will
have rhetorical exercises in the Uniyer.
salist church. The intermediate and
primary schools have been invited to
attend in body.
Miss Lettice b. Allbee. Arson acade-
my 80, and Milton ?. Dutton, %,
graduate next week from Bates college.
The class consists OF tifly-one young
men aud women, and in English Miss
Albee was given second honor.
Miss Hattie Walker came Monday
night, from y estbrook Seminary, To her
home in New Portland.
The six village schools of the town
close Friday The rural schools con.
tinuo one week longer.
Miss Gertrude Goodwin of Skowhe-
gan, was the guest of Mrs. G.. II. Clarke
and Mrs. n. ri. Wing from Friday to
Sunday.
w, ". Potter of Boston, was the guest
of Supt. aud Mrs. Fairbrother the first
of the week sunday Mr.. Fairbrother
and MI. Potter took carriage ride to
Bingham.
bury port, Mass, have arrived at their
summer cottage in Solon. Monday
afternoon they took a carriage ride to
this village.
Through tho efforts of Rev. j. c.
Clancy the Kmbden Methodist Church
has started a library for its sunday
school. Prof G. &. burlington, of
Pennington, contributed 20 volumes
toward it.
Mrs. Joseph 1itcomb and Miss Aver
hart, OF Duluth, Mimi, we're the guests
of w. &. simmons and family the
first of the week. The ladies came
from Quebec on their bicycles, arriving
here Sunday. Arthur Knowles of New
Portland, met them at the boundary
and accompanied them to this village.
MI. and Mrs Ostie Allen visited the
Concord mining fields recently, and
xxh In ha - n,,1
Mrs. Sanford Robinson. 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Robinson WAS the
man who discovered the ore in that 10.
cality and has valuable claims on his
land. He and his wife extend genuine
hospitality to visitors and Mr.. aud Mrs.
Allen found it so
The tornado that swept over Wis
consin, Minnesota, and Nevada, last
week, is said to have been the worst
known in the history OF the country.
Its direful effects were far-reaching
and has saddened many a home long
distances from where it did its work.
ard Gould, of New Richmond, Wis,
brother of -. S Gould, of this village,
lost all OF his buildings and barely es-
capped with his life, having received
several bruises on the head and one arm
broken. He saw the cloud and had got
as far as the cellar stairs when he was
caught His son-in- law, G. A. Wells,
also had his buildings all swept away,
nothing saved in either case. The
dispatch received here stated that Mrs
Gould's mother, Mrs Creation, was
dead, but as she had been i'll it is not
known whether she died before the
tornado or was killed by it. Her age
was 92 years. Orrin Williams, in the
hardware business, well known here,
who was at one time employed by W. W.
Pease, lost his property and his daugh-
ter Abbie was killed and burned in the
ruins. Ward Williams also suffered
the loss of his buildings.
Merry a Clark have bought 1900
pounds of wool thus far this season,
SO, 900 of which were bought in Frank.
lin county and the remainder in Somer-
set.
Frank l.. Dutton and Henry +. Mars
ton graduated from Bowduin College
to-day. 1t is said that Mr. Duttou will
teach, and study law, while MIR. Marston
will study medicine. They both gradn-
ated from Arson Academy in 1899.
There was hearing of the selectmen
before the railroad commissioners last
Saturday, relative to a highway crossin ne
the railroad track This highway is the
new road running from the Bailey build
ings, 80 called, to the Gilbert bridge
1t appears that this is not legal high
way, and never has been, although &C
cspted by the town, from the fact that
the railroad commissioners have never
accepted it. This hearing leaves the
matter where it was in the beginning
before any road was laid out.
While in Boston recently II. +. Skid
more traded for another good horse
1t is a year-old brown gelding, stands
10 8 and weighs 1000 pounds and is
known by the name, Bender Weeden.