The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-01-15
North AnsOn.

North Arson.
Friday morning was the coolest yet.
| The thermometer registering 20 below
zero.
E. Il. Marston has returned to Kenpe.
bunkport, after "A short visit with his
mother.
Miss Elizabeth Dinsmore of Madison
was the guest of Miss Louise Twaddle,
Saturday and Sunday.
Phineas Eames of Embden has not
been as well of late. His son, Frank, is
staying with him, this winter.
Mr.. Sturtevant and son. Frank. who
have been visiting at j. d. Benjamin's
returned to Newport, Saturday.
Stilson Wells of Marysfied, Calf,
who has not been here for 81 years, is
visiting his brother, Robert Wells.
| Mr.. and Mrs. j. N. Hilton and Mrs.
Cross of Scion were guests at the meet
ing of Emerald Rebekah lodge, Satur-
day evening.
Miss Hattie Jones who is sick at Oak
land as previously announced of typhoid
fever, is doing well although the fever
has not abated very much yet.
Miss Ida Dumphry of Dexter has been
the guest of Mr.. Dumphry and Mr.. and
and Mrs. sharpe during the past two
weeks. She returned home, Wednesday.
Monday rough day-stove pipe
down at the academy-school, Saturday
Teachers and students are pushing their
work with unusual diligence at this old
institution.
One of the coolest mornings recently
supt of schools went the rounds of the
village schools to see if the scholars were
comfortable. He found the school
rooms fully as comfortable az could be
expected.
Wallace Emery has recently purchas-
ed matched pair of bays, strip-face,
young and handsome. For size, speed
and style-they are hard to beat. A
finer looking pair of gentleman's drivers
is seldom seen.
Mrs. Flora f. Berry, wife of Lewis
Berry of North New Portland had a
paralytic shock, the 9Th instant and, an
other the h instant, and is reported
critically i'll, though slightly improving.
Her sister, Mrs. FL. +. Elder of Dover,
N. H., arrived, last week.
The many friends of Allen F. Gray
will be pleased to learn that he is I'M
proving, and the past two years spent in
Denver, Col, have been very beneficial
to his health. He is located 200 miles
north of La Junta, where about rs per-
soma from North Arson, Madison and
Norridge ~ock are staying, who went
| there to be benefited by the invigorat-
ing climate.
1t is rumored that the extension of
the electric road from Madison to this
village is being contemplated and ex.
tended on to Kingheld and that the
power on the Cleveland Rips, so called,
just above here on the Carrabassett is
to be utilized for that purpose. Should
such scheme materihze il would put
this village and upper Carrabassett
towns in touch with-Madison, Skowhe.
gan and kennebec towns down the river
at low, fare rate.
The installation of the officers of
Emerald Rebekah Lodge took place
Saturday evening. d G ID NJ, Mrs
Winifred Norton, assisted 7 G, Miss
Ethel Hilton, acting as = NJ, both of
Northern Light Rebekah Lodge of Scion,
installed the following officers: G,
Jamesetta Benjamin; V G, Alice Pullen
II 5, Josephine Moulton; ), Emma
Andrews; T, Frances Danforth; ",
Laura Wing; Con, George Allen; {,
Ella Hilton; | G, Gertrude Caswell; O
q, John d. Benjamin; X 5 N G, Flora
Collins; L 5 y 6, Laura Clark; r V
q, Sadie Berry; l. 5 V &, Abbie Donley
b. 5. Collins was appointed Captain of
the degree staff. 1t has been most
successful year for the lodge. The
membership now numbers $50. Five
more propositions for membership are
in the hands of the committee. Satur-
day evening was most enjoyable oc-
casion. Light refreshments IF ice
cream, cake and coffee were served
Emerald Rebekah Lodge has a bright
and happy outlook for the coming year.
Mrs Julia A. Williams, relict of the
late Lemuel Williams, died at the home
of her son in Anson, Dec. 2Sth, aged Sc
years and months. Mrs. Williams is
the daughter of David Albee and Nancy
Walker, and was born in this town and
spent nearly all her life here She
came from family remarkable for its
longevity, her mother living to be Q7
years old, her grandmother Walker over
90, and her grandparents on her fathers
side attaining the ages of IS and 10l
years. Mis- Williams died of old age
and had been in poor health since sep.
tember. She was married in 1875 to
Lemuel Williams, who died Oct %,
1898. They were both descended from
families who came here about 1871, and
the homes of their birth, childhood and
married life, were on the Brook road
Six children were born to them of
whom three are living, John and Fair
field of Arson, and Mrs. Augusta
Wyman of Lancaster, II. Mrs,
Williams was a member of the old Free
Baptist church up the Brook" She
was a woman of gentle, loving dispo-
sition, dear, sweet old lady whom
everyone loved and respected.
Not EXcelled.
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