The Somerset reporter., 1899-01-26
A. 8. Burke of Bingham, was In town


Deputy Sheriff Charles Haskell Of
Pittsfield, was In town Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Simpson returned
from Lewiston, Saturday evening.
Charles Burrill of Fairfield, was in
town, yesterday. the guest of his brother.
George Savage and Charles McIntire
of Hallowell, were In town over Sunday.
Edward Foster, who went South with
the 1st Maine batteries, has returned
home.
The new shape in snow shoes that c..
H, Gardner is showing will suit you.
See them.
B.F. Wells, Jr., of Belfast, who had
been visiting friends in town, returned
home Tuesday.
Miss Cora Dow of Waterville, passed
Sunday in town, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Phillips.
Miss Sadie L. Jewett left town Mon
day morning for New York, where she
will pass the winter.
s. w. Philbrick went to Greenville,
Tuesday, to attend the annual meeting
of the Coburn Steamboat Co.
A Recital will be given by Soross
Quartet, Monday evening next in the
Congregational church at 10 o'clock.
Notice the change of time from 7.30
to 8 D. m. of Under the Palms" at the
"Church on the HILL" Tuesday, Jan'y
81. 25 cts.
A stated convocation of Somerset
Chapter Royal Arch Masons will be held
tomorrow friday evening. The Mark
degree will be conferred.
Mrs. Willis Currier, who has been in
Fort Fairfield the past nine weeks at
tending the sickness and death OF her
mother, returned home Friday night.
Court Wesserunset, |. o. F., Of this
place have extended an invitation to
Court Messalonskee of Oakland, to be
their guests at the next regular meeting,
Tuesday night, Jan. 3lst, and the invi-
tation has been accepted.
The Recital by Sorosis Quartet, Mon
day evening next, promises to be the
event OF the winter 10 musical circles.
The opportunity thus afforded the public
of hearing this popular quartet will be
the only one of the present season.
The Womans Relief Corps will give a
box sociable In G. A. X. hall, Friday
evening, January "a. Price Of boxes
fifteen cents, including coffee. All are
cordially invited, who are interested to
help swell the treasury of the corps,
each lady bring box.
We learn from the brother, Mr.. c. f.
Heath, that Miss Hattie Heath, whose
death was mentioned in the REPORTER
of last week, was the daughter of Wilson
B. Heath, and that she died Jan. 9th in
Pomona, Cal, ut the home of an uncle,
John Grant, formerly of Pishon's Ferry.
The sermon at the First Baptist
church, next Sunday, will be by Henry
r. Huse, a young man about to graduate
from Newton Theological Institution.
His subject will be taken from the book
EZRA" and will illus rate incidents al d
customs at the time of the "Return from
Captivity.
Mrs. George T.. Goodwin, accom-
panied by her daughter, Miss Dora, went
to Benton, Tuesday, o attend the funeral
services of a brother, Henry Pollard,
whose death occurred Sunday last, aged
50 years. A wife survives him. The re-
mains were brought to this place. Tues
day night, for huriel in the Pollard
family lot in the South Side cemetery.
The rain storm of Tuesday which
changed during the evening to snow ac.
companied by freezing weather was a
damaging one to the electric roads.
Both lines were stalled all day Wednes-
day On the Somerset Traction the
snow pillow jumped the track in the early
morning near the Atkinson school house,
and on the Norridgewock line similar
accident happened near Harding's.
Judge H. X. Baker of Hallowell, was
unfortunate enough to fall and break his
hip bone, Saturday. His great age, "a
years, makes the casualty serious thing
20 him Iudua Rakar ia tran aurar ~
Halowell Savings Bank and the olde st
man in the State active in the manage
ment of bank. He was born In Show
hogan and visited here last summer,
taking much pleasure in looking over
the places familiar to him in childhood.
Sorosis held its fortnightly meeting at
the Library parlors, Wednesday after
noon. Papers were read: "Holsud
and her Queen" read for the writer,
Mrs. Cony Russell, by Miss Danforth of
Norridgewock Bismarck" by Mrs. r.
B. Shepherd; Germany and her
Emperor by Miss Annie Allen, read by
Miss Lena Wymsn. Music consisted of
a piano duet by Mrs. J. p. Oak and Miss
Julia Folsom and song by Miss Sara
Nj. Ward.
The death of Mrs. Nancy (Withington)
Mayo, widow of Rev. Leonard Mayo, &C.
Cured at her. home In Hodgdon, Friday
morning, the 20th instant, after an III
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