The Somerset reporter., 1909-06-24
BINGHAM.

f
i Mrs. Abel Hunnewell of Kingtield
has b en- among friends in this vlcin-
ity during the past week.
Mrs. Rose Adams who has been
very i'll is now improving and Henry
Chase is able to be about.
The district meeting of the Rebeeca
Lodges will be held here next Tues
day evening. The Scion Degree
Staff will work the degree. Supper
will be served at the Fraternity Hall
at six p. m, and visitors will be able
to return home on the 11-29 train
from Bingham Heights.
Mrs. Thomas Reynolds is under
treatment at the Sisters Hospital
Lewiston.
Mrs. Forest Gates is reported as
improving after a very serious oper-
alton at the Sisters Hospital.
S. A. Smith was down river the
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs Lynn Taylor of STRAIT
ton have recently been visiting reia-
tives in town.
Earl Andrews arrived home from
Monnt Hermon on Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Taylor are
visiting friends in Stratton this week.
Miss Edna Denhum of Bowdoinham
returned home Immediately after the
close of the high school. There was
no graduating class from this grade
this year but there will probably be q
good class next year.
Mrs. Blanchard of Stratton is the
guest of Mrs. Earl Taylor.
Alice Murphy of Skowhegan has
been spending few weeks with her
parents, MIR. and Mrs. Patrick Muir
ply.
As Albert Murray was clearing the
attic OF the old building he has been
moving he found human thumb
preserved in bottle of alcohol. For
at least fifty years no member OF any
family living in this house have lost
either finger or thumb, and the hand
to which this belonged must have
long ago mouldered to dust.
Frank w. Higgins of Starks mem
Der of the last legislature from Starks
district and the legislative sponsor at
the Higgins high school law enacted
last winter was in town last Thurs :
day.
Mrs. Frank Merrill who has been at
Kineo a week or two with her daugh
ter Mrs. Ed Bunker, is now at home.
Merton Goodrich was at Waterville
on Friday last.
Inez Miller, who has been in King
man several weeks is now with her
sister Mrs. Edward Miller.
Myron Whyte of Waterville has
been the guest of w. B. Goodrich and
family for several days.
Mrs. Mary Pooler returned from
Moxie on Sat urday last. She caught
six trout while out fishing Friday
evening. Her daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Lapoint of Moxie was also in town on
Saturday.
Last Monday as John Bergonzi and
Davis Howes were filling gas tank
for Johns new SODA fountain, the tank
exploded with tremendous force with
noise enough for an explosion of dy-
Mantle Earring all the near by build
ings. The top portion struck beam
overhead cutting 1t nearly in two.
Mr.. Howes was rendered insensible
for short time and Mr.. Bergonzi was
thrown against the room and they
were both completely deluged with
"fz.n They were fortunate to escape
being seriously hurt.
Governor Bert M. Fernald will visit
this section for few days fishing,
next week, arriving Monday and will
be the guest of Senator A. F. Donigan.
Mr.. Donigan invites all the people
who can attend to meet Mr.. Fernald
at Grange Hall, Monday evening,
June 2S' after the reading to be given
by Miss Leavitt. After the reception
MIR. Donigan will provide refresh :
ments of ice cream and cake and give
short dance.
The Rebekah Lodge of District No.
16, comprising North Arson, Scion,
Bingham and New Portland will hold
district meeting with Centennial
Rebekah Lodge, Bingham, June 20.
Trains leave North Arson, 1928 and
500 p. m. Members are invited by
Centennial lodge to come on first
train. Supper at six p. M, lodge
opens at seven p. m. Train leaves
Bingham, 1130. The President and
Warden of the Rebekah assembly will
be present.
Very pleasing graduation exercises
were held in the Congregational
church last Friday afternoon and
evening. The church had been taste
fully decorated for the occasion and
the large attendance of parents and
friends showed the great interest
there is In these occasions. Those
who graduated from the Primary
grade and recited appropriate selec-
lions were Harry Baker Miller, Mil
dred Smith, Cassie Arno, Harold
Chase, Sara Chadbourne, Norma La
point, Hazel Smith, Althea Robinson,
Moses Cilley, Gladys Vaughan, Mel.
lie Hill, James Scott, Lou Carvill,
Mildred Miller, Colby Robinson, Dom
aid Golf, Marian Miller, Eva Bean,
Guy Temple, Barbara Reynolds, Eta
Mahoney, Raymond Higgins, and
Helen Cahill. From the Intermediate
grade the following were the gradu-
ates Bessie Curtis, Norman Collins,
Dorothy Baker, Mary Carney, Ken
meth Beedy, Laura Baker, Marie Ca
hill, Ernest Miller, Junah Merrill,
Mona Baker, Gladys Reynolds, Clyde
Badger; Gladys Baker, Alice Lander,
and Geraldine Baker. Teachers were
Jennie Cahill, May B. Baker, Elisha
Holway, Sarah Doyen in Bingham;
Ida Morris, Laura Noddin, Florence
Bruce in Concord; Winnie Norton
Sadie Jones, Belle Spaulding, Artie
Young in Moscow. There were ter
who graduated from the grammar
school in the evening, each one rem
dering their part with much credit tc
themselves and to those who had as
sisted them. The following is the
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