The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-03-28
BINGHAM.


of age.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Carl and family
are at home from the woods.
Charlie Durgin and wife were recently
down from Dead Water
Mrs Alice Dinsmore and Mrs. Flor
ence Lauder spent several days of last
week at I.anders Siding also visited
Mrs. Alton Carl.
Manda Brack has been visiting at
Skowhegan for several days past.
Two cog wheels in Sumner Ellis
wind mill we're broken by the wind Of
Wednesday last.
Mr.. Beck with of Gardiner has been
visiting his daughter, Mrs. Records in
Moscow.
Clarence Dunton of StarkB was recent
ly in town several days.
George Murphy is now at his fathers
home.
Virgil Hall of Msyheld was recently
in town.
Mrs. Chas Pierce and Mrs. Stephen
Clark went to Nkowhegan last saturday,
to attend the funeral OF little child be-
longing 10 son OF Mrs. Pierce.
E. McNeelie of Skowhegan was in
town one day of last week on his way
to The Forks. where be attended the
funersl of his aunt, Mrs. Charles Dur.
gin, burial was in Bingham Village
cemetery and the remains were follow
cd 10 their last resting place by long
procession of loving relatives, who re-
manned In town all night before return
inJ tn thair homes
Charles johnson started Monday, with
a crew of men for Moxie Dam, where he
will take down all camps belonging to
Mitchell q johnson along the Somerset
Extension. These camps are to be
moved over on the B. & A. where they
have a contract to build many miles of
road. .ss---.
Kate Burke went to Boston last Mon
day.
Prof. A. w. Boston of Berwick, for
merly principal of the Somerset AGA
denny Athens will teach Bingham High
school. The term will be eleven weeks
commencing April 18th and closing
July 3rd.
A large number of the members of
Mount Moxie |. o o. r attended Dis
evening and had a grand old time.
The Grange celebrates it's anniversary
next saturday In the usual manner, din
ner and a general good time.
Linnie Baker met with ar accident
In putting some dirt into the store one
day last week. There was a cartridge
10 the dirt and 1t exploded hitting htr
hand near the thumb The wound ia
doing very nicely.
Frank Rowe is breaking up house.
keeping, having sold his house to Man
ley Hunnewel. His daughter, Lila. will
make her home at Mrs. Julia Colby's
aud little Hida will live at Mrs. j. A
Jordan's.
Bert Goodrich who was hurt in the
m Ill last week Is now able TO be about
though somewhat lame.
Miss Wilson, a trained nurse of Au-
burn, passed through town Tuesday on
her way to care for patient at The
Forks.
Clarence Spaulding of Carstunk has
been visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gustavus Foss.
Mrs. Sarah Goodrich and her niece
Mrs. Thomas Whiting the last of this
week.
Four-leaf. clover club meets Friday
with Mrs Florence Owens.
The Congregational circle met Wed
nesday afternoon with Mrs. T. 81. Foss.
Daniel Holt and daughter, Katie,
visited Mr. Hollis brother in Norridge-
wock one day recently.
The Methodist Circle held their ice
Tuesday afternoon.
The mild weather of the past few
days makes the storm of last week seem
an old story, but at 8 p. m. on March 20
the storm came bowling In from the
south and from that time until daylight
next morning the air was full of falling
snow. Then the wind came out of the
north west In gale, making Wednesday
the toughest day of the winter At noon
the train from Oakland and the freight
from the Mountain Division both arrived
In the yard, but when the passenger
train from Birch Point endeavored to
back in from the junction, one car left
the track, blocking all three trains. 1t
10 no Fourth of July picnic TO hoist a
passenger car back on the track with
the air so full of snow men can hardl y
breathe. But 1t was accomplished at 5
O'Clock p. m. and trains moved out.
The Mountain Division passenger got as
far as Camp and was stalled in the
wilderness. The evening psssengo
from Oakland arrived a. Bingham at
O'Clock, Thursday afternoon, got off the
track and broke down shade tree, and
Chas. Owens said the following morning
that he found one train in his barn, and
il 1t had killed his pig he guessed there
would have been bill TO pay.
The experimenting school Commit
tees of Athens. Bingham, Caratunk,
Concord, Moscow, The Forks and West
Forks met at the Bingham High school
building " ednesday, March 20, to reoI-
ganize the Upper Kennebec school
Officials District. The meeting was
called to order by Chairman Coney N
Robinson of Concord. 1t was voted to
retain all the former towns and planta
tions and to admit Bingham. Perley C.
Foss of Moscow was chosen Chairman;
Walter Robinson of Bingham, secretary
and Chas e. Ball OF Athens, District
Superintendent of School. Mr. Ball will
move to Bingham II he can find rent oil
rooms, as this Ia the most convenient 10
cation for him, being midway between
Athens and The Forks. II he cannot
find shelter for himself and Mrs. Ball
here, he will remain at Athens which
means loss to our schools.
Village schools begin April /, and the
rural schools April Is