The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-01-17

The Somerset Railroad never skipped
a stitch, the mail was five hours late on
Saturday night, but the fault was with
the Maine Central.
The Skowhegan & Norridgewock
electrics, however, found the storm
rather too much for their muscle, they
made one trip, Saturday forenoon, but it
continued to snow and soon piled their
right of way full again so they decided
to abandon the attempt until a more
favorable time. In the meantime there
will be stage connections twice a day
with Skowhegan. That's why we feel
showed in.
The installation of the officers of
Cedar Chapter No. 81 o E. S. will occur
at their regular meeting, tomorrow
night All the members are requested
to be present with their immediate
families.
The roads were broken out in remark
ably short order after the storm, by
Sunday afternoon the streets were full
of pleasure teams and some of them de.
veloping a pretty good clip
There were no services in the churches
sunday morning, it was impracticable
to get to the Congregational church on
account of the mass of snow and Rev F.
q. Davis, who was expected to be
present to deliver the sermon in the
Baptist church, was detained by the
storm and did not arrive. 1t has been
a very long time since a Sunday has
gone without service in this village be-
fore.
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returning to his work on the Maine
Central, Monday.
The MINISTRIES which were to have
been given in the K. of p hall by the
Pythian eisterhood, last Saturday even
ing, were postponed by the storm and
was given last evening
The meeting of the V. l. s. which was
to have been with Mrs. Dyer on Friday
afternoon of next week, has been Oh ang-
ed and will meet with Mrs. II. X Sawyer
instead, on account of the sickness of
Mrs. Dyer's mother, Mrs. Cyrus Bean.
Il will be NJ ticed that the ladies have
again come back to their old day of
meeting, Friday afternoons, every other
week and now the world will move
serenely on. some time ago they, in a
weighty reasons that heretofore and
throughout the past they had been max
ing great mistake by meeting on this
day, they therefore then and there re
solved that they could visit the schools
better on Friday afternoons if their
society met on Tuesday; SO Tuesday ii
was made and the world has been full of
calamities ever since. At their last
meeting they took account of stock and
found that as the schools were running
all right and the school committee
would look after them anyway if they
didn't, they would just turn back in the
error OF their ways and meet on the
time honored day on which they had be
come accustomed.
Mrs. Cyrus Bean, who has been suffer
ing for a number of days from bron-
chitis, is somewhat better and has been
able to sit up several hours, this week.
Twelve of the members of Quinne.
basset Lodge No. 100 |. o. o. +. attend
ed the district meeting at SkoW hogan,
Monday evening, and report a fine time,
two degrees were worked and fine
banquet served.
Mrs. Cora smith left, Friday, to visit
relatives in Canada for the remainder of
the winter.
We are pleased to learn that the
people of Skowhegan are agtatiDg the
temperance question. 1t is growing
movement and there seems to have been
special reasons for the rum sellers of our
shire town to hug themselves during a
long term of years during which they
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low license the way the law has been
enforced, il is not only detriment to
that town but also great injury to this
one as we'll and any movement to en-.
force the law here has been met with
the extremely stale saying, "0h, its no
use to shut up the rum sellers here for
they can go right to Skowhegan and get
all they want to pay for" until it seemed
as though there couldn't be any temper
ance people in our sister town. Port
land seems to be dry at present and 30
far as we have been able to learn there
has been no grass cut in her streets as
yet IN consequence of it. We know there
is law enough and we trust there is
grit enough to make Somerset County
dry.
The contract for carrying the mails
between this place and Smithtield for
the next four years commencing with
July /, has been let to A. Kelly OF
Smithfeld for $l70 per year which is a
little less than is now paid on this route
The contract from this place to Mercer
has been awarded to Russell and Stanley
of this place for $S4S, the present price
being s200, which makes a substantial
increase. The government has put q