The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-07-04
Now for the plorions Fonrth

It's the time when those cannon
crackers get in their work.
Mrs. Mary Carr returned from Massa.
chusetts, last week, to care for her
mother, Mrs. Hilton, who is in very poor
health
Several of our people attended the
show at Waterville, Monday.
The grangers from Skowhegan pre-
sented an old folks concert at the Bap.
list Church on Monday evening to a fair
sized house. The old time costumes
and songs were very entertaining.
The following officers were elected at
the regular meeting of Echo Lodge K. of
?. II. II. Cross, chancellor, com; F. Z.
futile, vice chan; T. c. Holt, of r.
and S. and master of finance; Horace
Jones, master of exchequer; John Cleve.
land, master of work; {. n Staples. pre-
late; H Otis, inside guard The degree
of knight was conferred upon one candi.
date.
The firm of Veasie d Tobey has been
dissolved by mutual consent, Mr.. Veasie
remaining and Mr. Tobey going out
Mrs. Carrie Boardman of Philadelphia
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
A. Hilton.
Mr.. II. II. Cross recently picked an
apple measuring nearly three inches in
circumference and an apple blossom
from the same limb.
Quite number of the farmers com.
menced haying, Monday morning, and
still larger number will begin next Mon
day morning.
The people who have cottages at North
Pond are enjoying them this hot
weather.
The district meeting of Sunday schools
for the towns of stark, Mercer, Smith
field and Norridgewock met here in the
Baptist Church, last week. The
Off elected were: Rev. II NJ Hey
wood, pres d; the uperintendents of the
various Sunday schools, vice presidents;
Mrs. Carrie Ames, sec Miss Mary Page,
treas; Miss Bell Adams, supt home
dept; Mrs. Sarah Frye, supt. primary
dept; Miss Martha Haynes, supt. nor.
NAL dept.
Mr.. Hamlin E. Hale and Miss Alice
Williams was united in marriage, sun
day. Their many friends extend con.
gratulations.
The V. l. S. will meet with Mrs Lucy
Hussey, Friday afternoon of this week.
The meeting will be in charge of Mrs
Mary Spaulding Subject, miscellaneous
with quotations the same.
Our boys found though proposition"
in the Bingham club, who visited them
here for a game, last Saturday after.
noon. The game was called a few
minutes after l 80 and our boys who
hau xn-fn -
lately, were feeling confident that they
bad the election clerks all fixed for the
occasion, but the rush with which the
Bingham boys ran in four or five scores
in the first inning rather disconnected
them. 1t was not until the fourth or
fifth inning that our boys got to playing
ball and then it was too late to cover up
the gap The nine full innings were
played and the score stood 10 to is in
favor of the Binghams
Miss Mabel Wells will take a course of
instruction in primary teaching at
waterville, this summer.
l. X. Folsome, Esq is engaged this
month in settling land damages for the
Wiscasset, Waterville and Pennington
railroad and will be away nearly all the
month He has made arrangements to
be in his office Saturdays
And now we are in peck of trouble
when everything seemed going ON pros
perously for the big boat race, now
Ames and Sawyer come out with what
is it? and everything seems to be dented
In various places, and some won't play
The question isis 1t a catamaran? If
it is a catamaran. is it a boat, a raft, a
at drau ri AnF
or hay rack? And should it be barred
out? Aud if not barred oHt, why not?
And if barred out, why? AS we have
mentioned before in this column Mr.
Bracket has been building a flying and
has been going about with a satisfied
smile and calmly fixing up the shelf on
which to put the prize cup while the
others have been rather conceding that
he would probably get it, but still get
ting ready to make him hustle if be did
But along on the quiet DR.. Ames and
Charles Sawyer have been keeping still
and saving wood literally, the result of
this saving has become apparent To the
others when they launched their catam-
aran on North pond, Monday. and made
railroad time across the pond and now
the others say they don't like the princi-
pdl Vi lHe luluR anu uon pcIltNt II
boat anyway but an aggregation of
boats Now If ii is boat and under
the limit in length it couldn't be barred
out, If on the other hand it's fleet or
squadron of boats it might be possible
that the doctor might be getting more
boats IN race than what was bargained
for and it looks as though we needed
expert testimony to find out where we
are at George Simonds says that he
don't care whether it's a boat or not he
is willing to race his boar against it and
if the doctor has created machine that
can get around the pond quicker than
the rest of them he is glad for him.
The doctor isn't saving anything and We
don't know whether he's still saving
wood or not.
Stops the Cough and works off the Cold