The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-08-20
N ORIA AN SON

NJ ORTIZ ANSON
There were ten passenger cars in
the train that went to kineo and
and forty tickets were sold at this
station.
E. w. Scott has closed his labors as
electrician for the Carrabassett Stock
Farms Company.
E. A. Brown, clerk in the meat
room of Porter & Marston's grocery
store, is having his vacation this
week.
Roscoe Eames son on the river road
is reported to be quite i'll.
Miss Oracle Baker of Bath is visit
ing her sister and husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry B. Spaulding OF KEN
nebec Avenue.
Wallace Parsons is at Indian Pond
surveying land.
Work was commenced Tuesday on
the Farmers Telephone line on the
south side of the Carrabassett river.
Monday was rainy and very cold
for the season.
A Democratic Club is being formed
in this village.
The afternoon Pullman train was
about three hours late Monday after
noon. The cause of the delay was
the collision of two freight trains at
Norridgwock, little past noon, when
the caboose and two cars of the noon
down freight were badly damaged.
That left the 80 train from Kineo
above, and the Pullman below the
wreck. The night passenger arrived
about 7 o clock.
New cutters have been installed in
the corn factory here. Monday,
Supt. Emery with his men were set
ting them up and testing them for the
work. 1t is thought that the factory
will start in about two weeks.
J.L. Parlin commenced work for
NJ. P Moore in his grocery store,
Monday morning.
The subject at the F. B. church next
Sunday afternoon at $50 O'Clock is
"Why did God make Man with a ca
pacity for sin and then punish him if
he did SIM"
Supt. Paine has engaged Miss Susie
Clark of this village to teach the Lin
coin school at New Vineyard, and
Everett Burbank for the High school
there. Mr.. Burbank has taught for
the past four years in the Flagstaff
High school.
The Moore reunion takes place
ne KIT Wednesday at Lakewood. Many
descendants of Major Moore living in
this village are planning to attend.
THE Town MEETING
At the special town meeting, Sat
urday, the voters of the town did not
A. to ba oh q i'm raOQrd
to the erection of new school build
ing different from a former vote.
Every article in the warrant was
passed by. The town did not vote TO
issue bonds but left this matter in the
hands of the selectmen to procure the
necessary amount by loans. Several
men of the town offered to furnish a
part of the required sum at once.
The original plan calls for a building
! made of wood, two stories high, 81
feet long and SO feet wide, with four
school rooms, two on the ground
floor and two up stairs, each room to
be 30 . x3O feet and Is feet high. The
basement is to be under the whole
building, feet high, to be made one
half concrete and the other half brick,
and steam heat throughout. The two
rooms are for the primary and inter-
mediate schools and one of the upper
rooms for the grammar school. The
plan was made by COombs & Gibbs,
of Lewiston and can be seen at the
store of F. T. Crane. 1t is the inten-
ton of the committee that the work
will be pushed rapidly until the build
ing is completed, the grading for the
basement is already under way. In
regard to the purchasing of the school
lot the town voted the following
Whereas, Maria G.. Emery and
Wallace Emery, widow and son,
respectively, Of Mark Emery, late of
Arson, deceased, propose donating
to the said town of Arson the sum of
Seven Hundred Dollars, in memory
of the said Mark Emery, said money
to be used as the School Committee
of said town shall think best, In or
about the erection or furnishing OF
the new school building to be built by
said Town in North Arson village, on
land purchased for that purpose by
said Town of the said Maria G. Emery
and Wallace Emery; provided the
town will vote to accept said gift and
place a tablet of bronze or otner
suitable material inscribed with the
words "Mark Emery School," either
alone or in connection with some
other name, in some appropriate
position inside of said building or in
the outside wall of the same:
Now, therefore, as evidence of the
appreciation by the inhabitants of
said Town of the generosity of said
gift and as a token Of esteem and
respect for the said Mark Emery,
it Is
Voted, That the Town of Anson
accept said gift, the same to be used
as the Soho d Committee of the town
shall decide toward the erection or
furnishing of the school building to
be erected in North Arson village on
the lot purchased by ID OF said Maria
G. and Wallace Emery; that said
school building be known either
alone or in connection with some
other name, as the "Mark Emery
SCHOOL," that tablet Of bronze or
other suitable material, inscribed
with the words, "Mark Emery
School," either alone or in connsc-
tion with some other name be placed
in some appropriate position inside