The Somerset reporter., 1903-08-27
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

The dates for the county fair at Mad
ison have been placed on October 9th
and 10th.
The Fairfield baseball team were de-
feated, Saturday, by the Watervilles by
a score OF 2 to l, in one of the most ex-
citing contests of the series.
The Pittsfield lodges of Odd Fellows
and Rebekahs are making arrangements
to attend a grand field day at Camp
Benson, Newport, Saturday, Aug. 90
A F. Gerald is to build an extension
on the south end of the opera house at
Fairfield, to accommodate the increasing
business of the F. H. Brown Clothing
| Co
The 10th annual fair of the East Som
erset Agricultural Society will be held
at their grounds in Hartland, Sept. IT,
18th and 49, There will be races at the
park on the afternoon of the last two
days.
The Pittsfelds were defeated at Dex-
ter, Saturday, by the local team, to 2,
in hard-fOnght contest. A special
train from Pittsfeld and Hartland
| brought 400 enthusiasts to witness the
contest.
The new Universalist church at Madi-
son is progressing finely. The wires for
electric lighting were put in the first of
church will be ready to be dedicated by
the first of October.
A corporation has been organized at
Starks for the purpose of making "Gilt-
Edge Jersey Bntter," with a capital
stock of $4,000 The officers are S.
Norton, president; D. II. Bartlett, secre.
tary: w. w. Moore, treasurer,
The fourth annual reunion of the de-
scendsnts of Ebenezer Mower was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. stephen
Larrabee in Cambridge, Me, Aug 13.
After the arrival of eighty-fve of the
Mower tribe literary program was car
red out.
The Kennebec District Lodge of Good
Templars will meet with Fairfield Lodge
in Fairfield, on Wednesday, Sept. Sd.
There will be both a day and evening
session and it is expected that Hon. A.
II. Newbert of Rockland, Grand Chief
Templar of Maine, will be present.
Madison merchants are looking for
the party who has been amusing himself
of late by scratching and cutting the
plate glass in the large show-windows OF
their stores. Nearly every window from
the Morse Clothing Co. to Briggs gro
Gerry store has been disigured in some
way.
Among Maine's recently organized
corporations is the Jackman Building
company, organized at Jackman, for the
purpose of erecting buildings and secur
ing real estate in Jackman or Moose
River, with $4,000 capital stock OF
which nothing is paid in. The officers
are: President, Daniel Hancox; treas
urer, Abram Newton.
Following is the program for Pittsfield
Grange, Saturday, Aug 20: Song
choir; reading, Bertha Foster; song
Annie Frost; question, "What farm
crops are most profitable in this local
typ Opened by A. p. McMaster; story
Geo. Varney; song, Flossie Davis; read
ing Nellie Crawford; Important Events
of the Year, Ivan Felker; song, choir.
Every friend of Good will Farm will
be pleased to learn that s12 900 has beer
added to the permanent fund of tn,
Good will Home association in August
This Is to be known as the "Rufus G
King and Susan V. King Fund" in mem
DRY of their son, Alfred R. King, Mon
mouth, Me. This Is a substantial in
crease of the permanent fund of the as
ISOLATION. There are yet four months IL
which to complete the 500, 900 hoped
for In 1908.
There is a good prospect that credit
able soldiers monument will be erected
; at Pittsfield. The project of building {
monument in memory of the town.
deceased soldiers and sailors has beer
agitated more or less for more than
dozen years. The ladies auxiliary o.
the Grand Army Post have now abou
$1,000 on hand for this purpose. A gooo
site for the monument Is now available
on the library lot at Main and Railroad
streets The Grand Army have voted tt
locate the monument on the library lot
and that location is generally acceptable
A committee of prominent citizens hal
been raised TO solicit funds. 1t is pro
posed to build monument costing from
$4,000 to $4,000, and to have it completed
so that it may be dedicated on mex
Memorial day.