The Somerset reporter., 1900-11-01
SOUTH NORRIDGEWOCK

There will be an autumn tea in the
vestry of the Congregational church,
Friday evening. EverybOdy is invited.
A small admission fee will be charged.
Don't forget the election, next week.
It's big affair extending from Maine
to California and from Michigan TO Key
West. Don't miss it.
Rev. b. f. Turner left, Monday, for
Buckheld. Mrs Turner will leave, this
week, also.
Nr. and Mrs. Charles Barker will
leave, Saturday, for Boston, where they
will spend about ten days before con
tinuing on to Florida, where they are to
spend the winter.
Mr.. William Colby died, Thursday of
last week, after long and extremely
painful Illness from cancer. The fu-
neral occurred, Sunday afternoon, at
the house. The Masonic ceremony was
held at the grave The interment was
in the south side cemetery.
The work of labelling the cans in the
shop will be flushed, this week.
The farmers who planted chicory
for the New York factory are now busy
pulling the crop and getting it to the
cars. AS general things the roots are
very small and long and the method
adopted to get them out of the ground
is to pillow a furrow as close to the row
as possible and then go along with a
fork and tip the roots out into it, We
have heard no estimate made yet by the
farmers as to whether the crop was a
paying one to raise or not.
Mrs w. r. Brown and daughter,
Linnie, are visiting friends in Clinton.
Mrs c. Il. Fuller is visiting friends in
Freedom.
The boys are getting together with
the object of forming band and all are
enthusiastically practicing at it. CIT
may mean several things and after
awhile it will mean music, probably.)
There is little discord now, and prob
ably they will not be in good shape to
celebrate McKinley's victory, next week,
but you just wait and about next spring
they will have quite repertoire TO Sc
lect from and we expect many pleasant
concerns at the band stand, next season
Mrs. b. +. Turner was presented with
solid silver table spoon and oyster
tongs by the members of her sunday
school class, and Rev. and Mrs. Turner
were presented with silver cake basket
by members of the society and friends.
They wish to express their thanks for
the presents.
Philander Rowe of Smithfield was up
before Justice Haynes one day, last
week, upon complaint of his neighbors,
who claimed that he did things which
he should not before their children and
talked to them in an intimidating man
ner. Rowe is a town charge and the
selectmen of Smithtield, who didn't
know what else to do with him, fixed up
an old schoolhonse for his occupancy
and furnished him with the raw mate
rial upon which to live. The children
of the compliments, two of whom are
girls about ten years Of age, were oblig-
ed to pass this place on their way to and
from school, and the compliments main
tanned that upon two occasions at least,
the defendent had given cause for the
complaint set forth in the warrant,
Rowe very vigorously denied the charge
and said the whole matter was the re-
suit of grudge held by one of the
complainants in regard to an old stove
trade which occurred several years ago.
The justice evidently thought that the
children told the truth for he gave Rowe
thirty days in the county Jail.
The farmers will get all their chicory
in today, making a shipment in all of
about 200 tons In one case it amounted
to 500 to the half acre and from there
down to almost zero, depending largely
upon the amount of care bestowed
upon its cultivation.