The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-05-16
NORRIDGEWOCK.

lliilt IuaN INV
Quite snow storm this week, some
of the potatoes which have been
planted will be rather surprised.
Ada Nadeau arrived home from
Bingham, last week, and is under a
physician's care, she expects to leave
this week for the hospital where she
will be operated upon for appended
tbs.
Mr.. Craig of the grammar school
was in Pennington over Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dougal Mcdonald are
the happy parents Of twins, born last
week
Mrs. Sarah Frederic returned from
NJ Massachusetts last week, where she
has been spending the winter with
friends.
Mrs Albee of upper Main street has
quite a curiosity i'll the way of a cat
who has adopted a couple of chickens
and are bringing them up in the way
they should GO \ short time ago
Mrs Albee had a hen which Matched
out three chickens and AZ the wealth
er was cold she decided to take them
away from the hen and keep them in
the house until warmer weather.
About this time the family cat pre-
scented her with an assortment OF
kittens, which were promptly Killed,
in the meantime one of the chickens
had also decided to quit, For day
81 two after the kittens were killed,
Mrs. Albee noticed that the cat was
watching the chickens closely and
thought that she wanted them for a
meal and really didn't care very
much if they were disposed of in that
way. However, the cats thoughts
were in different direction entirely,
and she was soon found in the box
with the chickens telling them that
she had always been a mother to
them and they evidently believed it
for they yell Justify whenever the cat
is out of sight and keep it up until
she returns when they become as
any well behaved chickens should be.
One day one of the chicks got out of
the box and pussy was sorely dis
tressed until it was replaced and now
when one of them gets out the cat
asks very prettily if some one won't
please replace her feathered Off
spring. The chickens on the other
hand are constantly interested in
pussy eyes anu poSh az VhOiii WYNN
ever the opportunity offers, causing
their feline mother much annoyance
and constant lodging to avoid losing
her eyesight.
Louis Whiting lost a valuable dog
this week by sickness. Mr.. Whiting
is fond of pure blooded registered
stock and had succeeded in getting
one of his fancy so its hard luck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Farrand are
spending a few days in their cottage
in Mercer. Mr.. Farrand took a fish
ing outfit with him SO we presume
they are living upon fish.
G.. s. Jewett has moved upon his
farm on the Smithfield road and is
going into the hen business upon an
extensive scale. When he moved
from upper Main street one of Mr..
Albee's bantam roosters disappeared
at the same time and was found out
on Jewett's farm where Mr.. Jewett
had good story about the rooster
getting upon his loads of goods to
crow which he did not recover until
the team reached the farm with the
goods, where Mr.. Jewett as he says
was very much surprised to find him.
The story is probably so in all the i'm
portant details as Mr.. Jewett has al
ways been considered man of truth
and ferocity. But Mr.. Albee almost
thinks that If he hadn't made prompt
search that some dandy away down
in Mexico or some other foreign
country would have been surprised
later on by a bantam rooster jumping
out of one of them air self heating
cans when he took his best girl out
for a canned clam bake.
G. w. Watson returned to Boston,
Monday, after spending few days at
Rev. II. M. Heywood's.
Nellie Hussey returned from Med
field, Mass, where she has been
spending the winter working in the
straw shops.
Rev. F. G.. Davis will be with us
again in little over two weeks and
his many friends here will be glad to
see him.
We note that our superintendent of
schools, Mrs Alice Folsom, and Miss
Florence Hall will have papers before
the Somerset Educational and School
Associations at Fair
field on the oath and 25th OF this
month. Mrs. Folsom is greatly in
terested in her work and is making
earnest efforts that nothing may be
neglected which will tend to make
the schools better. She will spend
some time this week in visiting the
schools of Skowhegan and next week
will make a trip to Pennington for
the same purpose, that she may COM
pare the work done in other towns
with that done in our own schools.
The management of the Somerset
railroad, which Is now the same as
the Maine Central, are making prep
arations to put in more sidetrack in
the yard here to accommodate the
increase of shipping and have al
ready notified some of those who
have buildings upon railroad prop
erty, to remove them at once.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sawyer, who
have been very sick for some time,
are now considerably better.
Miss Ethel Ward and friend of
Skowhegan were in town, last week,
and did much to enliven the program
at the Rebekah meeting, Friday even
ing, by their fine selections upon the