The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1886-06-23
County Clippings

i Ma an cn1pNahlc season. ana a token
Of their appreciation of his >ers ices
i they left him $500 in cash.
The directors of the Me>>alonskee \
kennebec Railroad held a meeting al OAK
land Monday To I'LL the vacancies in the
board. The Board now stands j. Bod
we'll HalloNell Selden Counor, Elias
+ Mlhkcn. NJ. Y. b. hase, Augusta; l.. ID.
Emerson. John L. Hubbard, q. L SteN
en>. Oakland William Atkinson, Emh-
den. t.. 4 Field. Sidney. J. r. BodwelE
President. and q r. Stevens Clerk. j.
X Bodwell. Elias Milliken, Vim. Atkin-
ION and T.. 7 Stevens were chosen a
committee to confer with a Ike commit
tee of the Quebec and WiscaSset Rail
road to correspond wi parties in Cana
da in furtherance of the building of the
Quebec & WiseaSSct road.
They have sma-t women in Arson one
Of them had a highway tax of Sl.d, and
i sir went on the road aud worked ii ont
The Fairfield Electric Light Co. are
i now running - lights which j. doing
well.
The Baptist Church at Arson has been
f revived and it, pulpit i being supplied by
+ state Missionary Noyes Of Waiervile and
Addison Il Lorrimer of Colby Gniscf-
/ sitY.
The Maine Manufacturing Company
Fairfield. contemplate some permanent
i Improvement, in their business in the
construction of large building for
painting aud storing their good
The piles have been driven for the
/ foundation Of the new engine house for
the steamer Fairfield The building will
/ located near the bridge and be ~ by 81
be feet with a tower for the hose. The
building viii cost Sljo1 10 construct ac-
cording to the plans and specifications
made by Mr.. Geo. W. Norton.
Tuesday, Joseph Marshall. one Of the
/ men employed by Mr.. John Brown on the
new abutmcnt of the toll bridge. Fair
field, carelessly stepped between two
granite stones being hoisted by wind
/ lass The stones came together, crush
ing his leg above the ankle 50 that the
bones protruded through the flesh in
several places.
our lumbermcn complain that many of
the men in their employ are almost worth
| less from drunkenness. 1t Is fact that
we are having altogether too much of
good thing in the way of liquor selling
cider is brought into our town by several
out of town parties and sold by the gal
lon. keg or barrel which accounts for
most of the trouble says the Fairfield
journal
Henry X. Lancaster, of Palmyra, TT
Gently lost 20 cords of wood by fire. 1t
is supposed the fire was set BY some one.
The town of Harmony has voted to
take Sl0,ooo stock in the Sebasticook &
| Moose Head Lake Railroad, and it i like
" that individuals will subscribe an equal
amount, $4,000 having been taken already
1t Is Sala 'nat tiI's ihs.'res ,ile confluence
ment TINS laii Oh Work on that sectioh VI
the ROAD between iiartiaiiu an" iiariiiohs'
he Monsoon people naturally are illei'
elated at the course ol events anu .hG
STATE says III 'he course al au eAte'i,'e' :
afllcle on the slt"atloli' ny thc loh "i
lHS'' uounliess hohSoh VIII ~ Co''' II, u"
by nroad gauge ROAD WIN 'lc Maint
central anu by Jcceihper ioNH' sii"l,
cut OF 10 or 50 miles IRON flttSieid VIII
lanu passengers NJ 'rcehSllic'
A branch of the w. c. I. |. has been
organized in Hartand, under the dircc.
ton Of Miss c Hamilton There are
; % members at presctt, and ~ gentlemen
have Joined as honorary members. \ Jul
venle Band of 80 children has been or
ganized at the same place, under dlrec
, ton of Mrs Levi Weston, of Skowhe
gan. a 1t0tldl lIlltitNi III Itlllp'ihH''
work seems to have been aroused.
: The conrsp of the iIartlnnd railroad n,
. pursued now will start somewhere in tn,
vicinity of the depot, at Pttsteld run
ming across the field Of Mrs. Thomson
and crossing the Canaan road east of +
V. Weymouth's stand. 1t then pursucs 1
straight course, passing to the west o.
e Morrell's barn; then leaning to the ives
, it crosses the fields of Augustus LIB,
:. and Benjamin Parks from there
= makes slight curve to the east III th
Y south field of Mrs. Richard Parks, ant
i then runs directly through Mrs. Parks
long field 1t then bears again TO the cas-
+ and crosses the road at the northwestern
, boundary of &. II. Hunters lot; there i
= strikes the southwestern boundary o
Mrs. Marion Wrights lot and runs direct
- ly to the north-caste II boundary, thu
: cutting the Held directly III TWO. Ihl
course brings 1t to the banks OF Douglass
= Pond; following along the banks OF The
pond it passes through the pastures OF
TtbbettS. Collemore and Thomas. Aitel
passing these lots 1t bears again To th'
left and crosses the following persons
land: Morrell' Dexter, Maxwell estate
of Simeon Dyer, Gardiner Dyer, Davis
John Pooler, Howard Estes Mlclae
t Dyer, Moan Goodrlch, estate OF Isaac
Goodrich, and crosses the road near Ste