The Somerset reporter., 1907-01-24
NORTH ANsON

day there was an Interesting meeting VI
the grange.
Frank Green was called to New Port
land, Monday, on account of the illness
of his niece.
The Ruth Heald ragin Chapter, d. A.
r., will meet with MIS-. Ameda Cults,
Friday afternoon. This is the annual
meeting for election of officers, aud a
full attendance Is desired.
Mrs. V, b. Hilton returned home,
Friday. from visit of Jew days with
her SISTER, Mrs. William n Prince, of
Portland. " lille there Mrs Hilton at
tended the annual meeting of the Name
Genealogical society and two meetings
of the Elizabeth Wadsworth chapter, ID.
A. X.
Hay and pulp wood are being shipped
in large quantities. from this station
b. j Dunphy of Kennebec avenue
commenced loading his pulp, Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. j. Ii. Stevens and fami-
ly were the guests of his mother in Oak
land during sunday.
Tuesday morning was another cold
wave-35 degrees below faro in some
places in the village.
Miss Harriet Longley of Norridgewock
has been the guest of friends on henne-
bee avenue during the past week,
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Washburn of
Bingham were in town Monday on their
way TO California, for three month
absence
Mrs Jesse Spaulding went to salem,
Mass, Monday, for few weeks visit
with her daughters, Mrs. Mary Egan and
Mrs. Susie Neville.
Miss Alice Moore is quite ill with
pneumonia at the home of her uncle,
Philander Moore, in Holyoke, Mass.
where she is visiting.
Miss Nina Fenlason continues very i'll.
Monday, there was consultation OF
doctors in her case. The cause of her
illness was typhoid fever.
The installation of the officers OF
Northern star lodge of Masons took
place, Tuesday evening. The list of OF
ticers has already been mentioned.
F. II. Spaulding of Kennebec Ave re-
turned home, tuesday, from Norridge.
wock where he had been the guest of
Mr.. William Longley for few days.
The annual meeting of the Congrega.
tional church and parish will take place
at the church vestry, Thursday, (to-dat)
at 10 o'clock a. m. Refreshments Will
be served
Miss Eunice Jones and Miss Addie
German of Oakland arrived in town,
Saturday, the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. f..
". Scott They returned to Oakland,
Monday afternoon.
The engine was moved from the lower
works at the pulp mill to the new dam
and will be operated there for the pres
ent, the drills being put to work, Wed
nesday. breaking up the lodges for the
walls of the mill.
Miss Anna N. Lewis, field secretary of
the Womsn's Auxiliary to the Maine
Missionary society, will occupy the pull
pit at the Congregational church next
sunday morning, January 9th. che
will also speak at North New Portland
in the afternoon and evening.
j. d Benjamin and q. l.. Hovey who
have recently purchased valuable
tract of timber and wood land just
across the river in N ADDISON. are having
100 cords of wood cut on the lot this
winter, the choppers being George and
Fred Flanders and George Blckford.
j j. McMann, who has charge of the
building of the new pulp mill, will start
for Boston, Saturday, for an absence OF
two months. While in the city he will
take course at the Y. Nj. g. A. Engi-
neering school and the auto school ar
irving here to resume his work about
April lat.
The week ending Saturday, the 10Th,
was the most severe week of the winter
" ednesday. the 18TH. the thermometer
stood degrees below at noon with a
clear sky. At night the cold wave was
more intense and Thursday morning the
thermometers about town registered all
the way from rs to AZ degrees below
zero. Ga the high hills in Madison,
east of this village, it was the coolest
ever known. Some claim chat the Their
mometers registered the lowest of whic b
any record is made for several years.
w. s. Jones is building some boats
this winter, already having two neal
completion.
George Perry is moving his family
into the tenement at the barn of the
{ arrsbassett Stock Farms.
hay is bringing a better price at thit
time than it has for some years past
Quite large quantities are being pressed
and shipped in this vicinity.
Encouraging news was received here
by Mrs. Leonard Spearin from her hus-
band, Tuesday, who is in the Massa'
chusetts General hospital for treatm emit
THAT the serious operation expected
would not have to be performed. That
different line of treatment is TO be fol
lowed, which is, indeed, a great relief
not only to the family but to the many
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Spearin in thit
village.
The village schools close this week
1t is fair to presume that the small
children, who are brought into the vii
lsge from the rural districts are glad o.
1t. 1t would seem unnecessary ano
wholly uncalled for to compel very SIN al
scholars to be conveyed several milei
each day In the coolest of winter wealth
or, in order to obtain the rudiments o
an education, when just as good instruc
ton and far better Accommodations coulC
be had at home In an old time district
school. When Arson disposed of thu
rural school houses, for mere pittance
80 to speak, 1t was step in the wronG
direction.
An alarm of fire was given over thu
telephone during the cold morning o
Thursday, at about eight o'clock. Thu
dwelling house of o. ". Bryant on Up
per Main street had taken fire from
stove funnel where it epteredIthe chin
ney and when discovered the hamel