The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-11-20
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vacation. Our teachers viii attend the
convention at Skowhegan. tomorrow.
where they have part- assigned them.
Principal smith Of the high school will
have paper on school government and
the other teachers vii have part Ia
the discussions.
The National Temperance day IN the
churches will occur SUNDAY. and ar.
rangements are being made for it's
proper observance This observance Of
the temperance problem war established
by the w. {. T. U. several years ago.
Miss Evie Ames was in town. last
week, visiting her brothers, DR.. J. d
and +. l. Ames She left, saturday
for Caratunk, where she vii teach ten
weeks term of school.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Baptist
church will meet with MIS-. William
Bracket, this afternoon.
The Thimbie society Of the Congre.
gatonal church met with Mrs .. Z.
Fields, Tuesday, in an all DAYS session.
with picnic dinner. It will take lots
of money to buy all their articles when
they have their sale, and everybody can
have an apron if they can get the cash
to buy it with.
The senior class of the Norrdgewock
high schooi will give an entertainment
in the high school building. this even.
ing, consisting Of recitations. songs.
instrumental music and a laughable
farce. The scholars of this school have
reputation of giving fellow his
moneys worth.
Services were resumed in the Congre-
gational church, Sunday morning. after
vacation of three weeks. Rev ". L.
Jennings and wife came home, Friday
morning of last week, one train earlier
than they had been expected, 50 that all
the preparations the ladies had expected
to make were not completed. They
received most cordial welcome. how
ever. A five cent sociable was held in
the vestry on Monday evening for ac-
qualntance sake.
There was degree work and an oyster
supper i'll Echo Lodge, Il of P. or Tues
day evening, with a grand good time
Although the members got home before
morning, it was rather a late session.
The Quinneb assett Quartette threat
ems never to forgive us for getting their
name in the paper, last week, as the
Somerset Quartette That's one Of the
trials of an absent mind.
The Misses Brown of Madison are
visiting their friend, Miss Alice John
son, on the British side. On Saturday
evening a number of Miss Johnson's
friends assembled at her place of bust
ness and gave her a surprise party, the
occasion being her birthday There
were seventeen present. Games were
played and some talking done. THE
party was all girls)
The auction sale of the remains of the
Quinnebassett will commence today and
continue until everything salable is sold
out The articles consist largely of
furniture. bedding, doors, windows, and
the hot water heaters.
Another alarm of fire was rung in
at about nine o'clock, Thursday evening
of last week, for blaze in the cellar of
the Norridgewock Hotel. The boys
came out promptly, but their services
were not needed, the fire having been
put out by the hotel fire department
with the contents of the ice water tank.
The origin of it is somewhat of a mys-
terry, it having caught in barrel which
contained small amount of paper rub
bish, but which was some distance away
from the steam heating plant Various
parties about the hotel had been in the
cellar only a short time before and
found no signs of fire, but when Mr..
Fairbrother went down it was blazing
up in good shape, having charred the
floor timbers above considerably. II
was fortunate that it did not occur later
in the night as the cellar contains a
considerable quantity of wood and
had it gotten into that it would
haya haan liG11t,1t 70.
There was good attendance at the
Ladies Aid society which met with Mrs
II NJ. Haywood, Friday afternoon and
evening of last week. A picnic supper
was carried to which the gentlemen
were also invited. Many ayailed them
selves of the opportunity and pleasant
party was the result and the minister
vouches for the fact that there was
plenty to eat.
Mr.. Joshua b. Wells of Phillips has
been visiting friends in town during the
past week. Saturday, he called upon
Mr.. and Mrs Isaac Smith and later
visited Mr. sumner Robinson and wife.
Mrs. Charles Pickering of Gardiner is
visiting at Frank Smiths for few days
The Village Improvement Society will
meet tomorrow afternoon with Miss
Emily Danforth. The meeting will be
in charge of Mrs. Grace Smith, and the
quotations will be from the poem of
miles Standish.'
Bracket & Russell have just returned
from Boston with a load of twenty
heavy horses which they will use in
their sales stable They are a fine
looking lot of horses.
John Ward, who has been at work in
Bangor during the past six months, is
at home again.
North Arson.