The Somerset reporter., 1890-01-02

The Maine Pedagogical Bocisty h1ld ~
Annual Meeting at Bangor last wsek. Il
was well attended by leading Educators
| In the State.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year;
President-W. W. Sietson, Auburn.
Vice President. +. Sampson, Saco.
Secretary and Treasurer-H. M. Esta-
brook, Gorham.
Executive Committee-W. w. Stetson,
z. P. Samson, II. NJ. Estabrook, Helen N .
Fuller.
At the annual meeting OF the truste, =
of the Maine Hospital Friday. ex Gov.
Robbie was reelected President, and Dr.
K. A. Thompson, Secretary.
At the quarterly meeting of the State
hoard Of health In Augusta Yesterday DR..
| Webster was chosen president pro tenn to
| fill the vacancy caused by the resignation
of DR.. Gerrish. Resolutions Of regret at
the retirement of DR.. Gerrish wera pass
ed
We are informed that heavy freight Is
now hauled across the County to strike
the rail at Scion instead of Skowhegan as
| heretofore.
| Railroad Commissioners Wildes,
Mortland and Bowers made their final in
spection of the Dexter and Foxcroft ex.
tension Friday afternoon, q special train
from Waterville conveying the commiss-
toner's over the entire line. The new ex-
tension has been accepted by the Com
missioners.
| In obedience to law passed by the
Legislature, a system of free text books
will be adopted for the public schools of
| h..G a. - 1af nd N<l au trnt
paration for this event, State Superin-
tendent Of Schools N. A. Luce issued a
circular. lnstructing Superintendent,
School Committees and Supervisors as to
their duties under the new law.
Mr.. Willis II. Wing, secretary of the
Republican State Committee, has obtained
position At Washington as clerk of the
committee on public buildings of which
Congressman Seth l.. Milliken is chair
man, He leaves for Washington in a
few days.
A review of the ship building industry
in Maine shows the tc tai number of ves-
sells of all kinds built in all yards during
the year just closing is SO, and the ton
mage is 1854, S04.
VIM T. Eustis of Dixfield was united
in marriage to Miss Elizabeth C. Stowell,
Monday morning, by Rev. G. B. Hanna
ford, after which the contracting parties
left on their wedding tour. Both were
residents of Dixteld. MIR. Eustis is the
well-known third party politician who
was at one time nominated by that party
for Congress in the second district.
Governor Burleigh has nominated
Frank W. Butler of Pennington for reg
lister of probate of Franklin county, in
place of Elmer E. Richards, resigned.
M. N. Rich, Secretary of the Portland
Board of Trade, in his annual report on
the business outlook in Maine. speaks in
most encouraging terms of the prosper
Gus state of affairs. There has been a
large increase of various industries
throughout the State, evidenced especial
ly by the great demand for machinery
and tools of all kinds. Farms have been
brushed up and new lands brought into
tillage. Farm stock has been improved
and dairyng increased, and almost every
thing connected with the agriculture of
the StaJe has undergone marked improve
ment
The Steamboat Company have about
completed a contract with builder Bar
bour of Bangor to build steamboat t.
run between Waterville and Augusta.
She will cost about 81 900 AMI will draw
when loaded about two feet, and fifteen
inches when light. She will be seventy
feet long and twenty-five feet wide.
Specifications and details are being pre-
pared and the work will be proceeded
with at once. The river is to be navigat-
ed WdterriHe Sentinel.
Oliver Il. Mansell, a well-known lum-
herman and resident of Greenvlle, was
crossing a cove on Moosehead Lake re-
Gently, from 1Omhegan Stream TO Baker
Brook, and when some distance from land
the ice gave way beneath him. He had a
goa1stick with brad in it that he took to
help himself along on the ice, and As he
went into the lake he took that in his
mouth. Then began desperate struggle
for life. The ice broke all around him.
and at one time he gave up all hope of
ever getting out He threw his hat and
gold watch on the ice as far as he could,
hoping they would be found and his fate
would be known. He then made one
more effort, broke ice and swan as far a
he could, and with all the strength he had
threw himself partly out on stronger ice.
With the aid of the goadstick, which he
had kept in his mouth all the time, he
succeeded In getting out. The day was
cold and he had not been out of the water
long before his clothes were frozen stiff.
In that condition he walked three miles
to his camp.