The Somerset reporter., 1909-08-12
NORTH AN SON


Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. L. French arrived
home from Portland, Saturday night.
Supt. Emery has been making re-
pairs at the corn factory during the
past few days.
1t is announced that Governor Fer
maid will be at the Scion centennial
on August 18th.
Rev. A. D. Dodge of Waterville
will preach in the Free Baptist church
next Sunday at 2.30 p. M.
Capt. S. T. Hutchins Circle, G. A. r.,
will hold its next regular meeting,
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 2Sth.
The jurymen from Arson are as
follows: Grand jury, Eben Sweat;
Traverse Jury, Fred o. Paine, Harry
g. Hilton.
Charles Crymble received letter,
Saturday, from Dead River that Tru-
man Durrell was very i'll and not ex-
pected to live.
Mrs. E. @. Andrews and sons, Carl
and Arthur, and their friend Miss
Snow, have been staying this week at
Emblem Lake.
Have you got new Lincoln penny
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0OO, 900 have already been distributed.
Portland banks have been putting
them out in large numbers during the
past week.
Rev. and Mrs. G. e. Brooks of the
NJ. E. church went, Monday to Po-
land campground to remain two
weeks. During his absence the pull
pit will be supplied, Rev. G. E. Paine
occupying it next Sunday.
This week sees the end of getting
hay with most farmers for the season
of 1909. The long drag in the hot
weather has been hard for both man
and beast. There is no sport about
this work as any man can testify who
has done it.
At the Methodist church, Sunday
afternoon, four members were re-
ceived into the church, and the rite
of baptism was administered to two
children and two adults, one being
immersed. This service was con
Quoted by Rev. G. A. Brooks of Madi
son.
On Friday, friends in Portland re-
ceived the following message from
Sir Franklin Simmons, who was on
board the White Star Liner Baltic:
"Approaching New York over a
smooth sea. All we'll" This gentle
man SO we'll known to Maine people
as Sculptor Simmons, is cousin of
Judge Simmons.
The new foot bridge across the
GUARDIANSHIP, attached to the rail
road bridge has been painted this
week. This bridge was much needed
at this place and is really the main
thoroughfare for the people along
upper Elm steet and the village, es-
pecially all who go to the mills, fac
tory and south side generally,
L G. V. Bailey met with a bad acct
dent on Wednesday of last week,
while unloading hay He had set the
fork which is run by power and the
hay as it came out of the rack pushed
him off the end of the rack and he
fell onto the barn floor breaking his
right arm near the shoulder. 1t was
a bad break but he is now doing well
as could be expected.
1t is said that the potato balls are
more numerous on the potato plant
this summer than at any other time
for years. Once they were plentiful
and many farmer can recall the in
cident of his boyhood days when
throwing them was part of the
sport on summer night. OF their
scarcity in recent years no one as yet
has attempted to explain the reason.
The pulp drive of the Great North
ern Company at Madison is being
driven over the falls here. This
company mas $4,000 cords to come
down this season. The work is being
pushed both day and night and the
falls are lighted by electricity SO that
the work can be successfully done.
A false dam has been put in near the
Abbott place so that the howage
of the water will float the pulp over
the rips above.
THE ANsoN SCHOOLS.
The public schools of the town will
begin August Both, excepting the
Hawthorne school which will begin
Sept. 18th. The following are the
teachers James Thorne, Mark
Emery Grammar; Emily NJ. Sawyer,
intermediate; Nelly Parlin, Primary;
Irwin Nichols, Garfield Grammar;
Jet Briggs, 9th and 9th Grade; Annie
Roberts, Bird and 4th Grades; Nellie
Holway, 1st and End Grades; Bertha
Paine, Sub primary; Florence Nod
din, Lowell; Nellie Pullen, Haw-
thorne; Roxie Merrill, Franklin;
Bertha Oliver, Emerson; Winnifred
Packard, Shakespeare; Flora Berry,
Longfellow.