The Somerset reporter., 1909-06-17
BINGHAM.

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Crosby Spaulding and Mrs. Bert
| Spaldine of Caratunk were in town
on Tuesday of this week.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Dawes of Skow :
hogan, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence Dunton, and they are all
planning to take fishing trip to some
/ of the ponds this week.
Mrs. F. II. Wilson of Newport has
/ been the guest of her daughter, Miss
/ Wilson the past week.
Walter Piper, who was hurt two or
three weeks ago when thrown over a
i dugway by his horse being frightened
by an automobile, had to come home
and have his injuries attended to for
/ a week or more. The cut on his nose
has proved quite serious, blood poi
soning having set in. Monday he
again resumed his job as time keeper
/ and it is hoped he will be able to con-
tinue his work.
/ Mrs. George Pray of Wateryille,
has been in town the past week, the
guest of her husband.
Mrs. Angus Davis and little daugh-
ter from Mosquito, were in town last
Saturday.
Mrs. Sarah Abbey and Mrs. French
of Scion, were in town one day re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Winslow of
/ Waterville, were visiting Mrs. Louis
Hopkins, last week.
Mrs. Fred Wilson of Skowhegan, is
| the guest of DR.. and Mrs. F. G. Will
/ liams.
Mrs. Marta Savage, Gertrude
! Pierce and Belle Cool have returned
from several days spent at Pleasant
Pond, i'll Mrs. Savage's cottage.
Miss Johnson of Waterville, was in
/ Bingham, recently, the guest of Mr..
French.
Mrs. Clark of New Portland, is Wis.,
iting her daughter, Mrs. A. s. Burke.
Road Commissioner Colby is hav-
ing the whole of Main street gravel
ed with the object of avoiding the
deep mud in future, and ultimately
making better road.
Merton Goodrich returned home
last Thursday from Orono, where he
received the degree of Bachelor OF
Science from the University of Maine
for work in mathematics. He was
graduated with high honors for schol-
arship, having completed the full
four years course in three years.
Mrs. Christopher Steward of Cara
funk was recently in town.
Belle Colby, who has been i'll for q
week or more, is now improving.
Mrs. Sarah Milliken is spending
two weeks among friends in West
brook and Gorham and will attend
commencement exercises.
Mrs. Rose Adams is quite i'll and
efforts are being made to prevent the
illness developing into pneumonia.
Her daughter, Mrs. Wayne Collins, is
caring for her.
The graduating exercises of the
Bingham Primary and intermediate
Schools will be held in the Congre-
gationalist Church on Friday after
noon at two O'Clock p. M, and Of the
Grammar grade in the evening at 7.30.
The whole community were sad
dened last week by the death on
Wednesday of Ethel Howes, wife of
Davis Howes and daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur N. Burke. Her
death came after very brief illness
from pneumonia, at the home OF her
parents. Her husband was sum :
moned from South Dakota and ar
rived in Waterville on Sunday noon
making the remainder OF the jour-
ney by automobile. Funeral SER
vices were held at the home at p.
m. on Sunday. Many beautiful
flowers gave testimony to the fond
regard of many friends. She was
about twenty-five years of age and
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who will be sadly missed by those
who love her.
Bingham has been terribly stirred
up during The past week. Albert
Murray is having the old Smith house
moved. He purchased this historic
landmark covered with hallowed
me mories and with an attic full of
corncobs of F. H. Colby and hired
Jim Briggs of Madison to move 1t.
The route taken by the house under
the careful guidance of Mr.. Briggs
keen eyes, and the steady hands of
his noble crew, was across Main
street and down over the steep hill
between w. B. Goodrich's store and
the post office, thence along Baker
street, across Sam Andrews garden
to it's destination on the land owned
by Mr.. Murray near the river. The
attempt to move house and ell to-
gether had to be abandoned as they
Separated one night after the start.
The house being wide and the street
being narrow, electric light wires,
telephone wires and poles, side
walks, trees and foundations of
buildings had to suffer, causing some
comments and anxiety on the part of
| = Tho land yuharo tho
house stood will be graded and makes
fine addition to Mr.. Colby's lawn.
MIR. and Mrs. A. N. Clark passed
Sunday in Skowhegan and left there
Monday morning for a trip to Massa-
chusetts and New York City. They
were to visit in Newburyport and
Boston, in the latter city with Mrs.
Clara French and her son Edward.
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