The Somerset reporter., 1909-04-22
TOWN and VICINITY

NJ and Mrs. H. Nj. Cullen arrived
sneIe saturday last from visit with
f,Isuds in Portland and Boston.
Mrs.. d. W. Colby of Springvale was
in town last week, the guest of her
sister in law, Mrs, edward r. Vail
on Pleasant street.
There will be meeting of Bloom
field Temple, Pythian Sisterhood, to-
morrow Friday evening. Refresh
ments will be served.
Mrs. Joseph L. Steward left here
Monday morning to join her husband
in Bangor, where they expect to be
permanently located.
An announcement regarding the
New England Fruit Show to be held
in Boston, next October, appears in
another column of this issue.
Two candidates were initiated at
the last meeting of Russell Relief
Corps, Friday afternoon of last week.
delicious meat and salad supper
was served.
Miss Louise Cass returned to Port
land Tuesday after passing brief va
cation here with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A Cass. Miss Cass is en-
ployed as stenographer with the firm
of Lord Brothers in that city.
The Ministerial Association, com
posed of the Congregational Clergy
men from the counties of Some fset,
Kennebec and Waldo, met at Angus
ia, Tuesday. Rev. B. B. Merrill, pas
tor of the Island avenue Church of
this place, was in attendance.
Fred T. Addition passed Sunday in
town with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. J. Addition. Mr.. Addition has
been one of the accounting force at
the Offices of the Boston & Maine
railway in Boston for some years and
has recently been promoted to the
statistical department.
Benjamin K. Presley, for many
years news agent on the Maine Cen
trail trains, has opened fruit and
confectionery store at Bingham and
plans to locate there permanently.
He was in Skowhegan last week,
home from Portland and Boston
where he had been to purchase por-
tions of his stock and store fixtures.
Rev. DR.. Fred A. Leitch, pastor of
the Centenary Church, accompanied
by Mrs. Leitch, left on Tuesday morn
ing to attend the session of the Maine
Conference at Berlin, N. H. While
Berlin is in another state, it is in
cluded in the conference district
which has most of it's territory in the
state of Maine. Bishop McDowall of
Cincinnati, Ohio, presides and the pro-
ceedings continue for four days, clos
ing Saturday morning. DIR. Leitch
has several important reports to make
as secretary of the 1tinerants' Insti-
tute and registrar of the Board of Ed
ucation.
Lyman Barns of Norridgewock was
taken on the noon train Monday
from this station, to the Eastern
Maine Insane Hospital at Bangor.
He became violently insane, last
week, was brought here by Deputy
Sheriff Chas. E. Bigelow, Saturday,
and committed to Somerset Jail for
safe keeping. A hearing was set for
Monday forenoon but he became
rational enough to appreciate that he
should go to the hospital for his own
good, thus doing away with the ne
eessity for any legal steps in the mat
ter. while the inmates and attend
ants of the Jail had plenty of SYM
pathy for his misfortune, they were
very willing to see him depart,
as he kept up an almost unceasing
racket during his stay, greatly
to the disturbance of everyone in
the neighborhood. Mr.. Barns is
man of about 80 years, un-
married and without family connec
tions in this vicinity. He came from
Monticello, Aroostook county,a few
years since and is said to have similar
periods of dementia during his resi-
dence here.