The Somerset reporter., 1886-07-07

h land as one of the invited guests.
n Dntton Co. are not asleep but ar,
/ wide awake and are kept SO BY the ur
, gent demand for l776 hour. every Dbl
t warranted
Our Harmony correspondent sends Il,
an account of the celebration Of the an
at that village, but it is too late to use
this week
l. q. King. secretary of the Har ford
track association, left here Saturday
morning last, accompanied by friend
for few days fishing up river
It's now decided that all differences be-
tween Capitalists and Knights of Labor
can be amieably adjusted by both parties
using buttons l77G flour
Mr. Geo. A. Cragn of Ada, Mimi. for
merry of Skowhegan, is visiting friends
here. He reports fair grain crop pros
peel in the part of the State in which he
resides.
/
early hour in the afternoon the REPORT
Ek will 20 to press early in the forenoon,
and all copy for advertisements must be
handed in Tuesday afternoon.
+. L. Goodwin departed Monday for
Belfast, where he has been engaged to
I'LL the position of pitcher in their base
ball nine the remainder of the season
We hope to have that club visit us before
the season closes.
The Elmwood trotting association were
much encouraged by the large crowd in
Attendance at the recent Fourth of July
meeting and propose to hold another
meeting in August, of which announce
ment will be made later.
We see by Boston daily that the en-
ployeeS in the job room of Rand, Avery
Co., printers, Boston, recently made
their foreman, c. A. +. Emery, formerly
resident of this town, an elegant pres
ent, as slight token of the good feeling
existing between 1.-THE boys" and the
| boss"
DIR. A. G. Young, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, made the REPORTER
call Saturday last on his way home from
East Madison, where he has been inNesti-
eating the cases of diptheria that prevailed
there of late. We give his account of it
in another column.
Leonard Heath of this town informs us
that he has been prospecting up river
acting as guide for several Boston par
ties, and found in Carney's stream, Mos
cow $50 specimens of gold to the value
of about SD. He did his prospecting at
odd jobs and spent some or days at it
all told. His largest specimen is "A fine
one very pure and weighs 90 grains.
Mr.. Pat Mckinney, the veteran guide
of Moose River, was in town last week.
He has a resort for sportsmen three miles
from Moose River village, between Long
and Attean Ponds, where he keeps teams
boats and fishing tackle in abundance.
1t is splendid place to 90 for game and
enjoyment, and is well patronized by
sportmen from other States as well as
Maine.
The many special trains of the past
week enabled our citizens to visit other
portions of the state, returning the same
evening The band muster at Mariana
cook was we'll attended, numbers visiting
it from here each day, while the train
that left this station on Sunday last for
the same place was well filled Augusta
and Portland were the other destinations
to which excursions were run.
Interest is now beginning to center in
the coming Grand Army excursion to Cal
fornia. Major +. W. Haskell will 20
from Waterville, and S. A. Nye, Everett
Files and Benjamin Bunker will probably
represent Fairfield, Col. A. w. WildcS
and Brooks Savage are booked to 90
boys would like to attend, but cheap as
the rates are it's considerable to pay for
few days of pleasure.
r. T. pattcn visited IIartand Saturday
last as contestant in the bicycle race an
nounced As the purse did not fill he
rode friendly contest against horse
for full mile, and was beaten by only
trihe, making the distance in the remark
able time of 326 5-s, which we are in
formed is the fastest time yet made in this
State. After receiving the guarantee ac
corded him by the management he return
ed home on his machine.
The base ball game of Saturday last be
tween the Augusta and the home teams
upon the trotting park was rather tame
affair to the audience, as after the first
inning it could be seen the visiting nine
were no match for their contestants and
were sadly in need of practice. Our boys
played a most faultless game, having the
assistance of F. +. Goodwin who covered
third base and w. =. Goodwin on the sec
ond, both of the Colbys. King was very
effective throughout the game, not hit
being made oil him. At the end of the
seventh inning, owing to IN injury to the
Augustus catcher, the game was called
with the score standing 10 to 0 in favor
of our boys on Monday our boys re-
turned the visit and played in Augusta
before an immense crowd The Angus
tas were reinforced by several players
from ncighboring cities thus strengthen
ing their team, but were easily defeated
by score of II to ). our boys returned
home by the late train from Portland ju-
bilant over their victory.
of Wilson Days Theatre Company
who are To play weeks engagement at
Cohurn Hall, beginning the 18th inst the
advertisement of which appears in anoth-
err column, we take the following from
press notice in Laconia, n. H.:
DAYS International Theatre Company
closed the, W ck's engagem, Mt at the
opera house Saturday evening, playing
| Under the Gaslight to fully 900 people
The engagement thus brought to a
close was one of the most remarkable in
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