The Somerset reporter., 1907-12-12
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The fine wheeling for the first few
days or December has been good for
the autoists and the motors have
been about as plenty as in summer
Many of the ladies object to this
state of affairs and say that they do
hope snow will come soon so they
may drive their horses with some
comfort. The mum Der of horses that
are frightened however are becoming
beautifully less and it is now only an
occasional one that seems to mind
them.
Mr.. Roy Trueworthy has gone to
Bangor to work and while there will
take lessons on the cornet. Mr..
i Trueworthy is already quite an
accomplished player on this instru-
ment.
i Mrs. Jeanette Johnson, Mrs. Joshua
/ Hilton and Mrs. w. f. Brown recently
received some California Gala lily
bulbs and seeds through the kindness
of Miss Ethel Richardson who spent
a number of weeks of the past summer
here with her mother visiting her
aunt, Mrs. F. J. Watts.
i Mr.. f. A. Hilton spent several days
of last week in Massachusetts, re-
+ turning home Saturday night. He
accompanied the remains of Mrs.
+ Thompson to Lowell where the in
i terment took place.
Mr.. Louis McIntire was up river
hunting last week and returned with
/ two fine deer, one of which weighed
125 lbs, and the other 1875 lbs. After
/ his return Mr.. Hamlin Hale made a
I fine photo of them.
Good sleighing is reported in many
of the Massachusetts towns, some
eight or ten inches of snow in the
vicinity of Lowell.
Mr.. John Adams remains about the
same. At present he is able to sit
up little every day but is still I'M
able to help himself very much.
Mr.. and Mrs. George o. Carr at
tended Chapter meeting at Show
hogan last Friday evening.
Mrs. Hattie Field is visiting friends
in Waterville for a short time.
Rev. John Dinsmore formerly of
Madison but well known here and
who has also many relatives residing
in various parts of Somerset County
died in North Harpswell Sunday at a
very advanced age.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Caswell are
visiting their old home in Harrison
and will visit many other friends in
various Maine towns before returning
here.
Mr.. William Wheeler has returned
from Monmouth where he has been at
work in canning factory. Mr..
Wheeler has prospects of another out
of town job.
The primary and intermediate
schools have been closed on account
| of the scarlet fever, a number of cases
of which have been reported. 1t is
said that several parties have been
lax about obeying the quarantine and
that the contagion has been spread
in this way.
Mrs. Osborne of Skowhegan has
been visiting her brother Mr.. B. B.
Wells for few days.
Miss Enid Holbrook has 80 far i'm
proved in health that she is again able
to attend TO her duties in the store
and is In Portland, this week, select
ing her Christmas goods.
Mrs. Arthur Rogers liz confined to
her bed and has been failing quite
rapidly for the past few days.
Rev. j. Fl. Gould attended the Ken
nebec, Somerset and Waldo Minister
ial Association meeting held at Mad
ison, Tuesday OF this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Whiting have
issued invitations to a large number
of their friends to attend the tenth
anniversary of their marriage on
Wednesday evening of this week.
They are very pleasantly located in
their residence on the north side and
the event will be pleasant one. An
account will be given in our next
issue.
Mr.. Ralph Whitney OF Aroostook
County has been visiting his brother,
Mr.. William Whitney of this place.
Mrs. Webster Reed of Madison is
spending few days In town, the
guest of Mr.. William Longley.
Mr.. William Watson of Kingfield is
in town this week on his annual pill
grimage for the sale of calendars for
advertising purposes. 1t is also very
pleasant for him in that he has the
opportunity of making a several days
visit with his mother and sister, Mrs.
M. A. Watson and Mrs. A. ID. Brack-
ley.
Rev. J. III. Gould of the Congrega-
tional church will give course of
lectures in the Congregational vestry
under the auspices of Mrs. HI. w.
Smith and Mrs. d. G. Wood, upon the
Literature of the Bible. They will
be held on Wednesday evenings COM
mencing at eight O'Clock aud will be
open to the public at nominal fee.
Miss Jones of the farmers Tele-
phone Company is sick at her board
ing place, with the scarlet fever.
There came very near to being
another railroad accident here last
week, Friday, when snow pillow was
sent up over the road without notify
ing the track crew who are putting on
the new steel rails. AS these rails
are considerably larger in both width
and height than the old ones, it
follows that when they are placed
alongside the old ones on the outside
of them, that they project something
over an inch above them. OF course
this does no harm when a train goes
by but with the snow pillow it Is an
entirely different proposition as the
snow pillow extends for a number of
inches outside the rail and cuts the
snow down to the rail level. At the
time when the pillow passed through
here the track laying crew had just
one rail placed in the position men
toned and they were working within
about three rails length of the south
end of the bridge which crosses the