The Somerset reporter., 1899-01-19

was at the Court House, Monday.
DIR. w. +. Merrill went to Augusta,
this morning to attend legislature.
Gen. and Mrs. r. b. shepherd lrft on
This mornings train to spend the day AT
Augusta.
DIR. w. NJ. Pul.ifer of w .terville, was
in town over last night, called here pro
fessionally.
Charles Playse was home over Sunday,
going to Bangor on Monday for few
days visit.
The meeting of the Town Improve
ment Society was adjourned from Jan.
13 h to Jan. 27th.
The examination for the Normal class
will take place 10 the Methodist vestry
at p. m. Monday.
DR.. w. (. Fellows of Bangor, was in
town yesterday to visit Mrs. Il. Sawyer,
who has been ill for some weeks.
Ansel Holway went to Augusta by
Tuesday mornings train, on business
connected with the State Grange.
Walter Savage was sick with the grip,
last week. He returned to his duties at
the cash grocery, Monday morning.
Mrs. Nora Nutter of Corinna and Mrs.
Bertha Hall of Lead, So. Dakota, are the
guests of their aunt, Mrs. C. d. Miller.
Miss Lillian Taggart, who has been
visiting her mother at Readheld for
several weeks, returned Monday night.
Miss NJ .ymie Gaylord of Boston, ar
rived hone, Monday night, on visit to
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Gaylord.
John Lancaster, book-keeper and
telegraph operator at the Maine Central
station, passed Sunday with his mother
in Iallowell.
A meeting of the directors of the Town
Improvement society will be held at the
residence of Mrs. b. F. Eaton, Saturday
afternoon at o'clock.
Middle, near Pleasant ST., two tenements.
So month. One tenement near Unver-
salist church, So a month.
Rev. DIR. w. H. Spencer of Waterville,
preached at Bethany Baptist church,
Sunday last, and is expected to occupy
the pulpit again next Sunday.
Hon. Chas L. Oak, State Land Agent,
and mem Der of Maine Fish and Game
Commission, was in town over Monday
night, the guest OF his brother, Joseph
| p. Oak.
Mr.. Ralph Ames will enter the law
office of E. N. Merrill, the latter part of
the week, where he will study law with
the intention of fitting himself for that
profession.
G. Walter Snow, who has been clerk
ing in the grocery store OF D. II. Bart
/ lett for the past year has gone TO Bos-
ton to attend the business college Of
Bryant & Stratton.
At the Universalst church next Sun
day morning, the subject will be The
Worlds largest Factory. The pastor
will ofiiciate. The public is cordially in
vited to be present.
Messrs. Harold Phillips and Chester
Mills, law-students, have opened an
office in NJ ilburn block to do collection
business, and at the same time will con-
tnue the study of law.
At the Congregational church, Sun.
day, Rev. Geo. X. Goodwin of Scion,
will preach in exchange with the pastor.
The subject in the morning will be
"How do we know there is a God?"
Among the nominations by Governor
Powers, last week, were Turner Bus
well, Scion, and Forrest Goodwin,
Skowhegan, for notaries public, and
Forrest Goodwin for justice of the peace
and quorum.
There is to be recital in the Congre-
gational church, Monday evening, Jan.
30 by Soross Quartette, given under
the patronage of several OF the club
women of our town. Posters and later
notices will give full particulars.
Elsewhere is notice of the annual
meeting of the Somerset Central Agricul-
tural Society. Members should attend
this meeting, one and all, and inaugurate
measures to put some vitality into the
old society. There is no good reason
why fair should not be held annually.
Other societies not so well situated have
ereditable cattle shows and fairs aud
why should not the Somerset Central?
Mrs. Rose Anna Hartsock of Toronto,
Canada, who has been doing missionary
work among the Catholic families here
for the past two months, In the interest
of the Baptist Missionary society, closed
her labors, Friday OF last week, and left
for Waterville, Saturday morning, on
the same mission. Mrs. Hartsock has
spent several years 10 Africa, and has
been farther up the Congo than any
other white woman.
The mid winter meeting of the Maine
Federation OF woman's clubs is to be
held at Augusta at the State House,
Thursday next, the 18th instant for
which an attractive programme is an
nounced, with business reports of com
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