The Somerset reporter., 1904-02-04
NOrridgeWock.

u. ). Jewett is in Baltimore this week
looking after the interests Of his new
sell. heating car. The prominent pack
ers In that section consider 1t bonauzA.
The meeting of the Village Improve
ment Society will be in the Library par
Tors on Wednesday afternoon of next
week Quotations will be from current
events and the meeting will be in charge
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Russell. The change
from Friday on this occasion Is made on
account Of the fair which they will give
later in the week
Mr.. Charles Farrand is in Portland
this week on business
Mr.. William Longley Is in Port and
attending the U. S. District Court.
John Weston Of Skowhegan was in
town Monday of this week
Several new members were taken into
Somerset Grange at their regular meet
ing of Thursday evening Of last week
There was union meeting IN the Bap-
fist Church on sunday evening
The new cushions for the Baptist
church arrived last week, and were used
Sunday for the first time They are
covered with very pretty material and
are very substantially made.
Mr.. aud Mrs Arthur Welch we're at
home last week on a vacation while the
managers of the Skowhegan Wooden Mill
were getting ready to change to a differ
ent weight of goods.
Tuesday was Candlemas day and we
didn't notice any part of it as being par
ticularly hot
Mr.. Clarence Harlow has been at home
few days from Boston where he has a
good commission business
The oldest inhabitant is non plussed
by the drying up Of the old well at Poets
corner which has always had the repu,
tation of being inexhaustible. Never be.
fore since it was dug has it been affected
seriously by drouth and this time it hello
out valiantly; for several weeks all the
families in that vicinity went TO it fol
water and some of them even drove
stock there and carried water away il
barrels and large cans until finally one
cold morning of last week it yielded VI
its last pail full and struck for less hours
at the pump handle Since that time il
has been obstinate and will notgive ever
water enough to supply it's own two
families
Miss Jessie Miller has been critically
i'll during the week and trained nurse
has been secured from Lewiston to care
for her.
j. +. Bigelow has been quite sick dur
ing the past week with bronchitis but il
improving somewhat at the presen
time.
Mrs. Cyrus Bean is suffering agair
this winter from bronchitis
On Saturday of next week the Village
Improvement Society will give Valen
tine fair in the town hall and Congrega
tional church vestry. They will have
many useful articles on sale, The fund.-
will go toward the piano fund.
Our collector is now after all the taxel
for the last year and will settle with thu
selectmen in time for them to get thu
report in the hands of the printer by tn,
goth of the month, his settlement beinl
on the 18th
There will be a rehearsal of the off
GERS OF Cedar Chapter, o. K. S., Frida,
evening, Feb. 5, 80 p. m.
By an oversight the date of the Y. l
%. hoothB was hAou loL "eunobua.
afternoon of next week, which is tn,
regular library day, and it has now beef
changed to Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 9
Members will please take note.
II. H. Cross gives the result of his oh
servations of the temperature in Janu
airy as follows: Eighteen times during
the month the mercury has dropped be
low zero and once at zero, making tn
exceedingly average low temperature
OF 10 below zero at g a. m. for thos
days.