The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-01-31
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tants They can't remember anything
like them in former days.
The ladies' of the Baptist church are
preparing for an Easter sale which will
take place the latter part of March.
Miss Lucy Judkins has returned to
her work In Hale's shoe store, after be-
ing out for a few weeks on account OF
Ill health.
The revival meetings will commence
next sunday with two services, ono at
! 10.45 aud the other at 7 p m. In the
Baptist church. Special music will be
rendered ON both occasions by Misses
Averill and Chad wick of Lewiston.
There was an attendance of about 80
couple at the poverty ball given at the
i Grsuge hall on Friday evening OF last
week. Kendall's orchestra was In at
i tendance and furnished music for the
occasion. Some of the costumes were
very unique. Phillip Carr received the
prize of fountain pen for the most ORR
ginal one among the gentlemen aud Miss
j Maude Moore the box of stationery for
| the most original one among the ladies.
| During intermission a fine supper was
served in the dining hall below. I'm
doubleday a larger crowd would have
been present had it not been for the
severe weather.
Some fine ice is being cut and harvest
ed from the Kennebec now. Farmers
living o number of miles from here are
getting their ice from the river and
drawing 1t to their homes.
c. b. Hutohins is about to add some
novelty making machinery to his mill on
the Mercer road and among the things
he contemplated producing will be door
stops. chisel handles and medicine
| boxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. g. Wood, Mr.. and
Mrs. Cony Russell aud Mrs. Warren
Walton returned from Augusta. Friday
night, where they had been attending
the Federation of Woman's Clubs Dur
ing their stay there Mr.. and Mrs. Wood
and Mr.. and Mrs. Russell attended a
reunion of the Danforth family at Gar.
diner and Mrs. Walton made short
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd
| Powers.
! Ward Taylor was In town one day last
week, he has been at work on the som
erset Extension for several months He
said that be left the extension with the
intention of stopping at Madison for a
| few days but got to sleep on the train
and when he woke up he found himself
at Norridgewock.
Mrs. Marcia Watson is improving
quite rapidly from her sickness and has
many callers to cheer her up
A new ticket case is being installed in
the Somerset depot at this place, of
larger capacity than the former one No
new tickets have yet been received for
the stations on the extension.
Miss Dorothy Folsom has been con-
fined to the bed with pneumonia during
the past week but Is getting along nice
ly and hopes of her quick recovery are
entertained.
@. s. Jewett and family have moved
back into town from North Fairfield,
where they have been living for the past
two years, and will live In the Wallace
Taylor house on Main street. 1t will
seem like old times to have them again
with us. although during their stay In
North Fairfield they did not forget their
old home and friends and frequently
drove to town to the social gatherings.
Union meetings will begin in the
Baptist church next Sunday evening
and continue up TO and including We'd
nesday evening On Thursday evening
and the remainder of the week the
meetings will be held In the Congregs
tional church.
! Fred M. swan of Boston was in town
Monday, on business connected with the
banking house by which he is employed.
The grammar school Is having a two
weeks vacation, accustomed by the
teacher, Mrs. Folsom, having to be out
10 h.
who is sick with pneumonia.
Stella, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Leslie Rogers, whose sickness we
noted last week, died on Wednesday
morning of last week, from brain
trouble. She was three and half years
of age The funeral services were held
on Friday forenoon at the house, Rev. j.
II Gould OF the Congregational church
officiating. The two boys who have
also been sick are now much better,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lunt had a girl
added to their family on Thursday of
Last week and John Is wearing a CORE.
spondingly wide smile.
Harry Harris arrived here from his
home in New Jersey few days ago, and
has completed arrangements for the pur-
chase of the Orrin Jones' farm and will
take possession sometime In the spring.
Mr. Harris is young man we'll known
here and intensely interested in farming.
for several years past he has made it his
home summers at the Fernside Dairy
farm. He is graduate of Rutgers Col
lege of New Brunswick, N. j., where
he also was greatly Interested in the
agricultural propositions as taken up by
that institution. He expects this season
to make potatoes his chief crop. DIR. j.
N. Harris and wife of New Brunswick,
N. j., are also contemplating coming to
| Maine to live and will make their home
this summer with their son, later buying
suitable place for their own use.
Fred Hurley of Skowhegan was in
town last week visiting his aunt. Mrs.
Jeanette johnson.
Mrs. Caroline Dole was taken critical,
! ly Ill, Sunday, and fears we're entertain
ed for time that the end was near but
at this writing she is considerably better.
Mrs. Lydia Rsmsdell la still confined
to the house by sickness.
The severely cold weather of last
week frozs up the big gasoline engine
which runs the w. a. Ward Co.'S grist
mill, bursting a casting, which put 1t
out of commission until another one can
be procured.
| Mrs. Vesta Morse writes from Call.
fornia, where she Ia spending the winter
with relatives, that the climate Ia lovely
and mild and that they have had only