The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-12-14
ALL THE NEWS
from Somerset towns.
Athens.

Athens.
The Somerset Debating Club held its
first regular meeting at the Academy. last
Monday evening, with large attendance,
Including goodly number OF ladies and
MANY students. II. Il. Dodson not being
present to give his defamation. Evelyn
Fogg kindly consented to give an excel
lent recitation Geo. F. Aver, one of the
regular disputants on the negative OF the
question was absent and his place was
we'll filled by A Z. Osborn The debate
was spirited and seemed to interest the
audience. Besides the regular disputants,
DR.. Filing wood ana Robert Hayden par
,icipated 10 the discussion for the ffirma.
tive. and J. F. Holman Esq. and c. H.
Jones for the negative. The executive
committee reported the following prog ram
for the next meelog to DC held in Yves
serruusett hall on Monday evening, Jan.
/, 1906: Sioging; prayer; reading of
records recitation, Mrs. Ball; question,
resolved, THAI trusts are beneficial TO the
commercial interests of our country !;
affirmative. G.. F. Aver, Nj. J. Hight; neg
alive. ]. F. Holman, c. n. Jones; re-
port OF executive committee. The club
now has twenty members.
All the schools 10 town except the
Academy closed Friday, Dec 8, for the
year, full report OF which will be given
next week. The Washington school with
an ice cream festival 10 the afternoon,
several parents being in attendance. Sew
eral nice presents on the teachers desk
testified to the esteem in which Miss
Mitchell was held.
The Lincoln School Improvement
League held box sociable last Friday
evening with the following program: Re-
citing first psalm by school; Lords pray
err; hymn by school vacation song, Ma
rilla Corson recitation, Never Tell Lie,
Gala Giles; class recitation, Today; reci-
tation, Richard, Robert and Fred Wy
man; song, I've Little Dog, Gala Giles;
recitation, Three Little Graves. Marcia
Wyman; acrostc letter exercise by a
class recitation, The Vision of Lincoln,
Elsie Moody; recitation, My Country,
Cleber Moody; concert exercise, Don't
Give Up. by class; recitation by Abbe
Whitman recitation by c class, The Sun
is Gone Down; harvest song, Vera
Moody Lincoln exercise by school; SELL
ing of the boxes by auction. The last
item on the program did not prove very
interesting until some travelling salesmen
from Lewiston. who were present, took
hand. when the bidding became more
lively and the boxes went at good prices.
Enough was realized TO pay for the school
house name, which is beauty, a balance
for the beginning of League library.
Horace A. Cooley goes to Portland
soon to be examined for admission TO the
u. S. navy.
The Benevolent Society will meet with
Mrs. c. 4. Turner on Friday of next
week. Dec ~, in the afternoon. Supper
will be served from five to seven 10 the
evening. All are welcome.
The last meeting of the literary society
OF Somerset Academy was well attended
and good program carried out This
society gives promise of doing much good.
Mrs. Brown conducts daily general
exercise in spelling at the Academy Civ
ing especial attention to accent and dla-
critical marks. This is move in the
right direction and will receive general
approval.
The superintendent will meet the older
pupils oil the different schools at their re-
speclive schoohouses three different times
during this long winter vacation for an
all day drill in arithmetic, grammar, and
erhaps other branches. This is to aid
them 10 better retain what they have
learned during the past two terms. He
81 ba taanharc Kacid;pu il,
Athens and near vicinity at the Washing
ton schoolhouse on every alternate Satur-
day afternoon beginning with Jan. E,
1906, for borough drills in and discus
sions of improved methods of teaching
and school management, especially OF
those that are required in The schools OF
his district. All teachers and those wish
ing to teach The coming year will be well
coined if they bring pencils, tablets, and
attentive and inquring minds
Mr.. Merton Stckney OF Worcester,
Mass is taking vacation until Christ
mas, visiting his children and other rela-
tives in town. We learn that Mr.. Stick
ney has gone into business Tor himself in
Worcester.
A lady 10 this village with her window
open to the south, distinctly heard the FIRE
alarm in Skowhegan at the time of the
fire Sunday morning. it having awakened
her from sleep. We were sorry to hear
of Skowhegan suffering from another FIRE,
and OF men losing their winters work
Robert Hayden was called to So. Scion,
Sunday, with the hearse to officiate at the
funeral OF Sumner Hunnewell Of that
place.
Church services are held in the hall on
the Sabbath while repairs are being made