The Somerset reporter., 1899-06-29

Old POINT LODGE No 3l4 |. q. G.. Tt l.
Frederic 4. r. Leslie Jones sec; Mabel v ellis
Treas Regular meetings Thursday evenings in
Grange Hall
SoMERsET GRANGE No. IS 2. of Il F. Hol-
way, aster; +. II. Tobey, sec; Eben Miller
Treas. Meetings Thursday evenings on or be
fore fun Of the moon and two weeks after al
Miller's Hall.
BATES Posi- No. bs G. A. RE. c. Doyen,
Commander; II. II. Cross, Adj; H. Z. Hale
Quartermaster Meetings first Tuesday even
| ings in Grange Hall.
BATES RELIEF Corps No. l4-Edith Tomp-
kins, Pres; Mary l. Carr, Sec; Electa T.
Iobey, Treas. Meetings second and fourth
tuesday afternoons of each month at the homes
OF the members.
THE VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT soCIrTY-Airs.
J W. Hathaway, Pres; Mrs. }. D. Ames
first and third FRIDAY afternoons OF the month
The great and glorious fourth will be
with US next Tuesday.
The small boys are saving pennies for
fire crackers.
Miss Jennie Payne is at North Arson,
at work in the Postal telegraph Office.
DR.. !. L. Taylor of Boston, was in
town over Sunday, visiting his mother,
Mrs. b. A. Johnson.
Our ball team played with the Skowhe-
CAMS last Saturday, Winning the game on
score of 20 to -. The Skowhegan
boys will play here next Saturday.
The farmers have their hoeing nearly
all done and many of them will commence
haying next week They report that
there is prospect of light crop unless
there Is more rain.
The Y. |. S. will entertain visitors from
Skowhegan. tomorrow afternoon, at the
QuinnebAsset Inn. Refreshments will be
served. The pleasant location. nice
scenery and cool rooms make the Quinne
DasSet an ideal place 10 meet and enjoy
summers afternoon.
Any former member of the Eaton and
Norridgewock high school, who has not
received circular for the reunion July
20. 1899, will please send his or her ad-
dress to the Secretary, Mrs. Blanche
Tobey Ware at once.
Dores Carleton arrived from Massachu-
sets, Sunday, on visit to his parents
We hear there were other reasons also
and will report later.
S. K. Fuller has some sweet corn that
was twenty-four inches high four weeks
after planting.
The Normal class of Bible study met
with Mrs. A. Whitcomb, IT,, Tuesday
evening.
William Aver OF Oakland and Judge
Philbrick OF Waterville, were in town
Tuesday of this week.
Sherburn Leighton of Harmony, vas in
town, Monday, on visit to friends.
The Baptist church was very prettily
decorated, Sunday. in Observance of
Children's day, the little ones were as
sembled in the front body pews where
they could readily hear all that was SAID.
Mr. Turner read selections from Mark
10 IA, Suffer little children to come unto
me and forbid them not for of such is
the kingdom of Cod" and Luke 1910
The text was from John 6;o, There is a
lad here, which hath five barley oaves.
and two small fishes but what are they
among so many?n Ia the remarks the
little ones were shown that even though
small and weak they could be helpful in
many ways. their attention was held
closely and no doubt they were able to
tell more OF the sermon when they got
home than many OF the older ones. In
the evening a concert was given by the
members of the Sunday school. The
church was prettiy decor ted and an in
teresting program devised by the Baptist
Publication Society was carried out in
connection with Rotations and songs.
The following is list OF the presents
at the wedding o. Miss Elizabeth Nioker-
son and Mr.. Defne J. Greene, last week /:
Silver sugar bowl. cream pitcher and
spoon holder from Mr. and Mrs. I. b
Nickerson, Mr.. and Mrs S. 3. TibbettS
and Ays Nickerson; silver olive dish,
Mr. c. T Green; oil painting, Mr. and
Mrs. |. H Record; cake basket, Perley
Veasie and Mabel Wells; berry spoon,
Mr.. and Ms c. n Staples; silver ladle,
David Staples; silver picture frame and
picture, Nellie Hussey; a nice cook book,
Mrs. A. o. Frederic; nut dish, L. (.
Whiting. T d. Cahill, F. A. Trench. +.
Z Jewell, f Z Deveroux; twenty-five
dollars in money from other parties.
Mrs. William Burgess is improving and
expects to ride out this week.
Harry Spaulfing Of Waterville. is visit
ing his aunt, Mrs. Geo. Hussey for few
days.
Miss Florence Higgins OF Skowhegan,
is visiting at DR., AmeS.
Mrs. T. A. Croker has gone to Wor-
cester, Mass, to spend the summer
The town is happy over the sale OF the
Bombazee Water Power and it is expect
ed that this power which has been laying
idle since the creation of the Kenue6ec
will be utilized for manufacturing pun
poses sometime in the near future.
There was a baptism Sunday and two
new members taken into the Baptist
church.
Strawberries seem TO be drug on the
market Just now
Sidney Jewett reports having green
peas for dinner on the y of the month
and one of our market gardeners, Mr..
Carleton has been selling them all the
week, he picked bnshel from his vines
on Monday.
Mrs. F. q. Sawtelle and two daugh-
ters arrived from Providence, X. l.