The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-03-15
Norridgewock.


stage and making two trips day for
the convenience of the public.
Mis-. Cyrus Bean, who has been very
i'll for a number of days is now little
better.
Nj. Blaisdell and wife of Wateryille
visited Mr.. aud Mrs. Almon Blaisdeli
last week.
Mr.. Fred Horne has sawed over eight
| hundred cords of wood about the village
this spring and still there is more to be
cut up. |; would hardly seem that so
much would be used with so many US
ing coal
Miss Webb of Brooks is working at
Wilbur Tsylor's for the present. Mrs
Taylor is still very poorly.
The Baptist Society will have a soci-
able at the residence of Mr.. g. Fl Blais-
dell this evening They have attempted
to have several before this at other
places but have been prevented about
half of the time by storms.
Mr. Proctor of the corn shop has been
spending a couple of weeks visiting his
friends in Portland and vicinity.
The corn shop is shut down at present
waiting for tin.
DIR. Ames and Smith removed couple
of cancers from Mrs. Theodore Perkins
one day last week very successfully.
| Mrs. Perkins is getting along very nice
| ly DR.. Smith also removed small
cancer from the lip of Mr.. Orrin Jones
few days since.
A new flag decorates the flag staff of
the nigh school building.
DR. Smith spent sunday at the home
of his parents, in Hampden.
Mrs. Charles Morse is on the sick list
this week.
Miss Enid Holbrook has secured
position for the season as milliner at
| Ashburnham, n ii.
Pussy willow buds have made their
| appearance here already but no May
| flowers have been reported as yet.
The Village Improvement Society
I will meet in their parlors in the library
tomorrow afternoon. The meeting will
be in charge of Mrs. A. d. Brackley.
Mrs Annie Merrill and Mrs Georgia
Farraud. The subject is Art"
Mrs. Georgia Farrand returned from
Augusta a few days ago, where she has
been visiting friends.
Mr.. viii Taylor who was operated up
on some time since at Auburn for appen-
dicitis, has recovered sufficiently to re-
sumo his position in the store where he
was at work previously.
The young ladies of thu Congregational
church are preparing for an entertain
ment which will be given in the near
future. The program will be of mixed
nature comprising musical and humorous
selections of pleasing nature.
Seventeen members of Quinnebasset
Lodge [. o. o. F. attended the district
meeting at Bingham last week and a
larger number were In attendance from
the Madison and Scion Lodges. 1t was
on Friday evening, the night of the SO
we're storm. but good time Is reported
The special train on the Somerset, which
conveyed them had hard time OF it
being nearly three hours on the road
from Bingham.
While the storm of Friday night was
pretty tough here not nearly as much
damage was done as there was in many
of the surrounding towns The wires
of the Norridgewock Il New Sharon and
The Farmers Telephone Companies
suffered the most and Saturday forenoon
nearly everything about the service was
In a demoralzed condition which how
ever was rapidly Strengthened out by the
linemen. A heavy current on the Far
mers' line burned the wires badly lead
ing to the instrument in DIR. Smith 8
house and a number of others oil the
subscribers of this line we're obliged to
get up in the night and turn the switch
of their instru ments to kesp the bells
still. The damage to the wires OF the
Electric Light Company here was of
trifling nature although the fuse at the
station was blown at few minutes past
seven 10 the evening by limb getting
down across the high voltage wires, and
the lights were off for the remainder OF
the night.
The Minstrel Troupe of Somerset
Grange who have been busy for several
weeks preparing a program, will give
their entertainment In the Taylor
Whiting building on Mechanic street on
Saturday evening of this week. They
have also arranged to reproduce the
show at Fairfield Centre some time dur
ing next week.
MIR Thomas Taylor returned from
Bangor last week and the high school
resumed it's work Monday morning.
Miss Mabel Packard who Is at home
/ from Pennington on her vacation, has
been suffering from q severe cold which
she contracted while there.
The m ain water pipe OF the Ames sup
! ply broke last week whore it crosses the
stream just below the bridge on main
stream and all the water ran to waste
for the time being After consider
able amount of trouble they succeeded
in getting In repair so 1t is again in
working order.
The interior of the building owned by
A. G. Ladd Company of Fairfield was
destroyed by fire on Friday night of
last week 1t Is In this office that the
J local paper of our town." The Norridge-
wock Gazette" 10 printed, consequently
there was no issue this week. We learn
however that they contemplate arrange
ments whereby it will be resumed next
week
A company of twenty-five of the
young friends of Miss Linnion Brown
met at her house on Tuesday evening of
last week and gave her surprise party.
The evening was very pleasantly spent
playing games and eating candy and
apples A beautiful present of toilet
set and box of bonbons were left to the
young hostess to remember the event by.
There will be special meeting of
Somerset Rebekah Lodge this evening
to confer the degree which was to have
been done on Friday evening of last
week but was postponed by the storm.
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