The Somerset reporter., 1905-11-16
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ChllY.
November seems to be making up in
bad weather for the extra good weather
We had in October
The snow which came on the 9th is all
worn out In the roads leaving them In a
very muddy and disagreeabe condition
It's about time to look up the roosting
places of the turkeys. Thanksgiving Is
due soon.
The ladies of the Congregational so.
eiety are very busy getting ready for
their annual fair and sale which has been
set for the date of December 9Th. These
occasions require long time for prepar-
alton and tho Thimble Society of this
church do not let their thimbles and
needles get rusty, but keep eVerlastingly
at it making aprons aud fancy articles
which are disposed of at good figures
when the sale comes around.
Mr. Charles Smith, our veteran picker
stick man, left Monday morning, to visit
the Massachusetts cities where looms
are used. to look up the picker stick
trade. Although Mr.. Smith is along in
the seventies he does large business in
his line aud looks after all it's details
himself
The twenty-horse power gasoline en-
CINE recently ordered by Mr.. Frank Full
Ter for his saw mill arrived, Monday,
and will be set up at once 1t is Mr..
| Fuler's intentions TO use this machine
to help over the times when there is no
water In the pond
Ross Haggett, who has been visiting
| friends here and WAS up river hunting
for few days, left, Saturday, for Rhode
Island, where he has good position.
While up river he had the good fortune
to get very fine buck deer and remem-
bered his many friends here with
samples of it.
The Baptist Ladies' Aid society will
meet on Thursday afternoon of this
week with Mrs. Arthur WEIGH. The
work of preparing articles for the an
nual fair and sale of this society is being
carried on industriously and already the
quantity of articles prepared would load
IA small ship.
There was a full house, Sunday even
ing, at the Baptist church to listen to
the Sunday school concert. The little
people did credit to the school. The
program, consisting of about twenty Sc
lections, some of them short, was well
rendered.
Miss Greta True of Clinton is visiting
her cousin, Miss LinDion Brown, for
few days this week.
Carl Groes returned home from up
river, last week, with very fine deer,
sample pieces of which found their way
to the tables of a number of his friends.
Mrs. Mary Burgess has been spending
a few days with her parents in North
Arson
Mr. Charles Barker is making prepar-
atoms TO attend the jubilee meeting of
the Knights of Pythias at Bangor, the
10Th of this month.
Miss Nellie has returned from Water
Vile where she has been spending a
numbtr of weeks assisting her aunt,
Mrs. Spaulding, who has been in poor
health.
Electric lights have been put into Geo
Porter's and Herbert E Hale's houses
and G. l.. Carr's blacksmith shop, this
week, and lots of others are waiting 1t
seems to be taking the same course tn at
that tho telephones did For a long
time after the first telephone was first
introduced here there was only the one
instrument which was the terminal of
the New Sharon and Norridgewock Tel
ephone Company's line, the other ter
mnal being in New Sharon village. No
one wanted telephones and even the
messages to the physicians had to be
sent out from the telephone Office by
carrier. This state of things lasted for
several years and changes were made in
the company but still the line was used
! for toll purposes only and no one seem
ed to think of taking on subscribers and
| on the other hand no one seemed to be
anxious to be a subscriber Finally a
few instruments were connected on to
this line direct and it wasn't long before
the craze commenced and everyone,
nearly had telephones. Now it would
seem a hardship indeed to get along
without them. SO with the lights, for
long time the business pretty nearly
stood still here but for the past two
years, the demand for them has been
constantly increasing and more lines are
constantly being added to extend the
system and new patrons are being taken
on as fast as the work can be done.
Walter and Louis McIntire got very
fine buck deer, one day last week, just
short distance back of Dodlin hill. Sew
eral other parties have also been fortu-
nate in securing their venison without
the trouble of going away from home.
A seven hundred pound moose went
down through here on the train, Friday
morning, which was shot up river. 1t
was consigned to parties in Waterville.
Milford Tibbetts, Alvin Otis and Mr.
Robinson arrived home from Pleasant
pond, Saturday, with good sized deer
each.
The remains of Mrs. J. f. Mcintosh
of Starks were taken from this station,
Saturday, to Lynn, Mass. for interment.
At the meeting of Somerset Rebekah
lodge, last Friday evening, the degree
was conferred
The stills and floor tmbers for the
st floor of the new grange hall are in
place and Mr.. Gould, the head carpen-
ter, is keeping good crew of men busy
framing the remainder of the building
Morris Moore is at work at the Som
erset Railroad station for Mr.. Caswell,
assisting him in the freight and express
business.
We are sorry to learn that Mr.. Cyrus
Bean is not quite as well as he has been
during the summer, the change is very
slow however. While few months ago
he was able to walk considerable dis.
tarce by the aid of someone helping him,