The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-12-20
SOUTH NORRIDGEWOCK.

Jack Frost has been paying stiict at.
tenton to business up here IN Maine for
the past two weeks.
The base for the soldiers monument
has been placed in position at the cor
ner.
Russell and STANLEY are filing Their
ice house and Others who put up ice are
busy getting in their crop
We were misnformed, last week, in
regard 10 the date Of Prof. Cooks musi.
cal convention which is coming off at
North Arson and 1t is TO be he'd on the
10Th, 9th and 18th of this month
MISS Evelyn Worthley, one of our
young lady teachers, closed thirteen
weeks term of school in the Morrill,
district in Rome, last week. and is al
tending the present term at the -tate
Normal school in Pennington, where
she has already taken part Of the COURSE.
The Congregational society held their
TAR at the vestry on yesterday afternoon
and evening.
Mrs. 7. {. Shorey left town, yesterday
morning, to pass the winter in Boston
aud New York
The fire depart ment was called out on
Sunday afternoon at about hall past two
o o'clock 10 fight fire which had gained
great headway in the upper part Il
! W. Spauldiug s house on Nam street
| lheY responded a promptly as possible
! with the chemical but 1t looked as
| though nothing could save the building
| The boys started in with good courage
! however, and found that the chemical
was a canton at putting out conf tgra=
| ton After half dn hours hard work
the fire was all out but the root Was
! practically burned OF A feature which
| made 1t hard to fight fsas the fact thai
| II was atned directly on Is tie rafters
and the space between each SET ot raft
ers made little lie pocket of its own
and had TO be fought individually. The
little three gallon hand extinguishefs
also come in for their share Of praise
and did much toward keeping the tire
i'll check in one section of he building
while the chemical was at work in an
| other II is more and more apparent
| that II We had had the machine before
! the Frederic and NickeTson fire both
sets of buildings would have been saved
for the fight would not have been half
as hard in these as the one on Sunday
afternoon. Those who were skeptical
at first as 10 the merits of "A chemical
engine have now changed their mind
and feel that the little fellow is a II right.
| The fire originated, it is thought,
around one of the ehimneys which burn.
ed out in the forenoon and must have
gotten hot enough to set the wood work
on fire at the ridgepole and which did
not break out until it had filled the en-
tire available space between the top aud
the plastering underneath. Nearly al
the goods were removed in good shape
| The house was insured for $3.50, and
| Mr. Charles f Jones with whom the
policy was placed, was up, Monday, to
see about adjusting the loss. Mr.
@paulding has moved b family into the
rent in Piummer Buffers house at the
corner for the winter. The house was
insured for $3.50 with the Charles Fol.
some-.ones agency. represented by Mr.
Frederic, and the loss was settled and
paid within three days.
And now the boys congregate aud say
what someone should have done an
what they ought not to have done. bur
they did the business anyway, and judy
| ing from the looks of the house they did
a number one job and it don't matter
how it was done the result shows for
| itself