The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-04-04

THE CHRISTIAN ESDEAyoR Society Of the
Congregational church,. W. spauding, presi-
dent A. Whitcomb, Jr, vice president; Hattie
A. Longley Sec. and Treas. Meetings Sunday
eve in vestry
BAPTIST CHuRoH-Rev. b. F. Turner, pastor.
Sunday-Morning service, 1890; Sunday school,
| IL M; prayer meeting, P. NJ.
THE CHRISTIAN ENDEAyoR Society of the
Baptist church-C. A. Whiting, Pres. Mrs
Mary B. Whiting, Cor Sec; Miss NJ. J. Haynes,
Treas. Meetings Wednesday evenings in vestry
| at 7.30.
And now its mud, though in many of
| the roads outside there is from two to
| ten feet of snow.
The band boys will give an instru
| mental and vocal concert in the K. of
T. hall, tomorrow evening.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Barker returned
from the south, Monday afternoon.
They have been spending the winter in
Florida.
| The oyster supper given by the men,
bers of G. A Writings class in the Bap-
fist Sunday school at the Baptist vestry,
| last Thursday evening, proved to be
very successful affair. There were
upwards to a hundred present. The
| boys showed they were adopts at max
lbB cAtW anu tnO uGnduu was ROOd III
it. After the supper short entertain
ment was furnished. The net receipts
were about six dollars and fifty cents.
Mr.. Charles Savage's family are all
sick with the grip, this week.
All trains on the Somerset were delay.
| ed here about three hours, Monday
evening, by the derailipg of two cars of
the up freight. The accident occurred
at the upper switch toward bridge hill
directly in front of the section house,
one of the cars running into the plat
form in front of it. The wrecking train
from Oakland was soon on the spot with
a good crew of men and by careful work
| the derailed cars were placed upon the
track again with practically no injury to
| them. The rails were badly twisted out
of shape and new ones had to be placed
in position before the delayed trains
could pass over them.
The V. l. 5. met with Mrs. A. o.
Frederic, last Friday afternoon.
W. W. Huntoon and son, James, ex-
pect to leave, this week, for Boston,
where they will spend few days.
| Mrs. Arthur WEIGH was operated upon
last week, by DIR. Thayer of Waterville
for appendicitis and is getting along as
well as the surgeon expected. We un
derstand that the operation was unusu-
| ally difficult on account of the rapid
progress which the disease has made.
| Mr.. William Bracket, of the firm of
Bracket & Russell, left for the West,
NJ onday afternoon, accompanied by Mr..
Charles Russell. The object of the
journey is to purchase a lot of western
| R.r
been doing a large business in this line
during the past year, and have shipped
here and sold large number of excel
lent work horses which have been Civ
ing great satisfaction to their purchasers.
| Mr.. Harry Simonds is at home from
lSkowhegan for short vacation, while
the shoe shop in which he has employ
ment, takes account of stock.
The V. l. S. will meet tomorrow after
noon, with Mrs, Annette Burgess The
subject is "a talk with the cook with
quotations, fayorite recipes.
All the April LIST jokes were worked,
Monday, or at least they were tried and
some of them worked.
The members of the Baptist Sunday
school have been preparing con-
cert for Easter, which will be gwen in
the church, Sunday evening.
Mrs. Charles Knights, whose illness
from paralysis we noted, last week,
passed away on Thursday afternoon.
The funeral occurred Saturday, and the
interment was IN the south side Gem
etery. She was a most estimable lady
and her sudden death is a great shock
to her family.
Miss willard, who has been teaching
the grammar school, has resigned To
accept position in one of the schools
at her home in Strong
The high and grammar schools closed
last Friday, for two weeks vacation.
The village schools will commence on
Monday, the 18th of this month.
The library committee have met and
| chosen Cony Russell as chairman and
Miss Henrietta Z DanfoIth, Sec The
committee ask for contributions of
books. Many have good books which
| they have read and would doubtless be
| glad to help good thing alorg 10y con
| ributing one or moIe copies Il is
suggested that those who have such
books and wish to give them, 10 hand
| them in to f. ". Spaulding, So that the
committee will know what they are to
have and thus it may save duplicating
the books when they buy.
| Mrs. Sarah A Gould was shocked,
last week, to receive the news of the
death of her son, Alfred Cilley, who
lived in Richards, So. Dakota. He was
SO years 'of age and leaves a family
The cause of his death was pneumonia.
The second presentation of the play,
"A Fighting nance or the Blue and the
| Gray" seems to be attended with noun
| tains of difficulties All last week the
| girls were anxiously scanning the
weather signals and consulting Herrick's
almanac to see just when there was
going to be fair night when there
wasn't something else going on. Neither
: the signals or the almanac helped them