The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-12-07
North AnsOII.

/ The new corn factory looms up on the
south side and gives that part of the
| town more active appearance.
Work at the shank factory has beer
unusually good this fall and large
amount of extra time has been made.
The butter factory agitation still con
! tinues with an increasing interest among
the farmers to make the project a sue
cess. 1t is thought that from four tC
six hundred cows can be had within a
| radius of i've miles of this village. The
preliminary steps are being taken to
make survey and see what can be
done. Already a paper is being cir.
culated to see If the requisite number OF
COWS can be secured, and as before men
toned there is no doubt as to what the
result will be.
Seth Parlin arrived here Saturday
from Illinois, after an absence OF ~
years. Arson is his native town and he
has come back to pass the remainder OF
his days. Mr.. PaIlin left this town in
1876, moving West with his wife and
twelve children. He will make his
home with his brother, John Parlin.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Taylor spent
Thanksgiving with Mr.. and Mrs. W. Il.
Goodrich of Bingham, returning home
Saturday.
Mrs. Daniel Caswell of Embden, who
has charge of the large farm while her
husband is in the Vest, has been pur'
chasing cattle and sheep to winter, dur
ing the past few weeks, and has also
bought few very choice turkeys which
will be kept at this farm.
James Hodgdon of Embden is 80
years old and was out deer hunting re-
Gently. He is a good shot and the game
that escapes his eye and ear must be on
the watch. Few meB of Mr.. Hodgdon' s
age are more active than he. We have
enjoyed many pleasant chat with him
during the past few years.
Chester Bailey does not let his large
numbering interests interfere with his
farming and stock business this winter.
While at home recently he purchased
two Hampshire Down lambs of Column
bus Hilton of the south part of the town
fer which he paid $50 Mr.. Bailey has
some very fine Oxford Downs which he
purchased one year ago, all of which
will be wintered at his large farm just
above the village.
The SO 900 bankrupt stock of groceries
and provisions of w. w. Cooley is being
sold off at remarkably low prices at the
store formerly occupied by him in Madi-
son. Ii YOU have not already done so
YOU should attend this sale and see what
a lot of necessaries you can buy for a
little money. The stock includes all
kinds Of heavy and fancy groceries,
provisions. tobacco, etc.
While Ben Foster of New York was
passing his vacation in this village last
summer, he painted several pictures
from nature of places about this town
and one of them, which gives night
scene looking up Elm street from the
Congregational Church, has been accept
ed by the jury as one to be exhibited at
the international Exposition in Paris
next season. This painting is about
3Ox36 inches and is one of two hundred
and fifty selected from many thousands
presented. 1t is, indeed, gratifying to
his numerous friends here that the
efforts of his labors have been received
80 favorably. Mr.. Foster is great
artist, and strange as it may seem the
street this painting portrays is the one
which leads to his early home and where
his boyish feet trod 80 many times along
the shore of the beautiful Carabassett