The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-05-21

frops are nearly al ia the ground IN
this section. Gentle fains vii assist
the growth now.
There was miniature forest fire. sun.
day night, and Monday. on sunset hi9
IN the pine grove Oh land owned by Rev.
A. NJ Haywood, il burned over quite
large territory, sunday night. aid the
assistance Of the lie department vas
asked for, Monday morning. Tie clerai-
, cal engine was taken up the bill and
did considerable execution but could
not completely extnguish the fire null
ing away in the depths Of the heavy
layer of pine needles with which the
grove was carpeted, aud during the lat
ter part Of the day, Monday, the fire
again broke out in places. causing much
hard work for Mr.. and Mrs. Haywood.
1t il supposed that the fire caught from
a lighted match dropped by some stroll
Ter on Sunday. In these extremely DRY
conditions in the fields and around build
ings, one cannot be too careful with fire.
Cecil Campbell returned home from
! Los Angeles Cal, saturday night. after
! spending the winter IN California, where
/ he has been working at his trade as
stone cutter. Byron johnson also re.
! turned at the same time. Mr.. johnson
reports that though the climate is very
fine and the scenery magnificent. he
could not entirely enjoy it, as he was
troubled nearly all the time during his
stay there with rheumatism, which was
even more severe than he had been sub
ject to here.
Children's day will be observed in
Somerset Grange by a special meeting
on Saturday evening of this week, when
all the little ones belonging to the fami-
lies of the grangers are invited to at
tend and partake of the good things
which will be provided on that occasion
Those members who are so unfortunate
as not to have children of their own will
be allowed to borrow some ones else
The program is to be furnished by the
little ones, all of whom are invited to
come prepared with something to speak
or sing, of course all cannot speak or
/ sing, but enough are wanted to have a
good entertainment.
At the regular meeting of Somerset
Grange, this evening, the question of
buying lot will probably come up and
every member owes it to themselves to
be present and have word to say upon
the subject.
George Harlow has just fitted out a
nice delivery team to run in connection
with his grocery store. Sidney Knowl-
ton has been engaged to take charge
of it.
The New Sharon and Norridgewock
Telephone Co. have been very busy the
past two or three weeks getting their
lines changed about and switch board in
stalled. The new office is in the rear of
/ II oil
pleasantly arranged. All the the lines
in this section are now owned. by re-
cent purchase, by this company, and
they have been putting up a new line of
poles on the back end of the lots off
from Main street for the accommodation
of all their wires and have removed all
of the poles on Main street from Poets
corner to the top of Waterville hill or
will remove them at an early date. They
will soon have the changes completed
aud will then be a position to give good
prompt service.
The Village improvement Society will
meet with Mrs. {. A. Whiting tomorrow
afternoon The meeting will be IN
charge Of Mis-. Whiting and MIS-
Jeanette Johnson
! There was ball game, Saturday after
noon, between the local nine and the
Madisons. The boys made things inter-
esting fors the visitors and the score
stood Il to in favor of the Norlidge-
wock boys. several differences of
opinion occurred during the progress OF
the game and the umpire came in for
good share of fault finding by the visi-
tors. We have good strong nine at
| the present time, which has been very
successful SO far this season
Mr.. Holland is moving his family to
North JAY, where he will work at his
trade Of stone cutting. Mrs. Holway
expects to move into the rent which was
vacated by him on the north side of the
river.
BY the burning out of the chimney
| the little house on the north side of the
river, next to the old county building,
caught fire one day last week fortn
nately Selectman D. q. Wood was near
by and saw the fire and was able to ex-
tinguish it in a few minutes with the aid
of hand fire extinguisher. These little
machines do most excellent work on a
small blaze and this village is pretty
well supplied with them in the private
residences and stores. 1t is a good
thing to have some extra charges handy
for reloading them in case of quite an
extensive fire.
The Misses Clarke returned from
Baltimore, where they have been spend.
ing the winter, Saturday.