The Somerset reporter., 1894-11-08
TOWN and VICINITY

". Ii. JORDAN, Fsq., ol dtciN hIc Was
in town Tuesday.
A pretty line of stamped goods At
W. b. Stewards.
4 new lot of cloaks and fur capes ar
rived at Ordways.
County Commissioner, Geo. II. Clarke
of Bingham was in town yesterday.
The upper story of g. 5. Hills stable
has been leased for bowling alley
Mrs. Chas. Murphy left home Tuesday,
IN a visit to her mother in lIakensack,
y. J.
Melvin Palmer has been appointed
postmaster at East Fairfield, vice George
II. Pishon.
Miss Hattie Bickford left home on
Tuesday, for visit to Miss Kate Cor
don in Hillsboro, n. IL.
Mr.. Floyd c. Brown of Maytieli, was
in town, Monday, ON business and called
at the REPORTER Office.
Several young people from this place
farm home, two miles from town, Tues
day night.
Mr.. Jas. White and daughter Margar
ct. have returned to Skowhegan, aud
again taken up residence after AN absence
of some years.
Mrs. C. d. Whitehouse and son of
Augusta, were in town visiting with
friends over Sunday, returning to their
home, Monday afternoon.
W. b. Steward will give 10 per cent
discount Wednesdays aud Saturdays to
all cash customers purchasing dry goods
to the amount of 80 cts. and over.
Two dancing schools are being formed
in town for the present winter, one for
the extreme young, and one for Older
dancers DESTROYS of learning the latest.
The close cars for the 5. Il y. road, so
long in arriving, we are assured by
Supt Gerald, will be here aud in USE
this week. They were at Waterville
yesterday.
Wesley Day an employee at the pulp
mill of the Richards Paper Co, crushed
two of his fingers ON Saturday, by their
getting into the pocket of one of the
grinders.
The family of II. +. kimhall parlook
of green peas, October y, picked from
vines which grew from peas that ripened
this season. An occurrence very much
out of the common.
Samael Robinson of the firm Robinson
Bros, accidentally run his hand into the
buzz p!aner saturday, forenoon gouging
out the ends of all the fingers on that
hand, taking the nails as we'll.
The charity ball of the Woman
Relief Corps, promises to be largely at
tendsd, both on the floor and in the gal
lery. kendall's orchestra is to be rein
forced for the occasion by two musicians
from down river.
Little Miss Gladys Gerald of Canaan.
picked a green cucumber from the vines
Saturday morning last, and senl it to this
office. 1t is quite curiosity to see a
green cucumber inches long, picked
from the vines in November.
Miss Isabel c. Campbell of Waterville,
who came to the home of +. F. Danforth
ESQ, some weeks since on a visit and
was taken i'll, died Tuesday, and yestes-
day the body was taken to that city for
burial. Her age was 81 years.
Morning meeting Sunday, in the First
Baptist church, the subject for discus
sion will be, The sins of omission, Malt.
% 14-30. There will be preaching in
the evening at I o'clock The subject
will be, The Judgement.
The mill and water privileges of j. II.
Dane, sash and blind manufacturer, was
bought the past week by shepherd and
Anderson. the object of the purchasers
being to obtain more shore rights. that
they may develop other property owned
by them in the same vicinity, and
which they were otherwise prevented
from connecting with shafting. We
learn it is the intention of Mr.. Dane to
lease part of the mill thus disposed of
aud continue his business as heretofore.
Morris Gedhil, designer at the
Coburn Wooden Mills, was caught in
the freight elevator and had "A most mi
r4culous escape from death at the mill
yesterday morning. We learn that the
elevator was descending partially loaded
with bobbins, as it passed through the
room where Mr. Gledhll was one basket
of bobbins was noticed badly tipped, and
he fearing they might spill and mix,
hastily reached in to right it. For the
moment the iron bar across the elevator
was forgotten and as it descended,
caught him across the Eeck, throwing
him from his feet. His cries brought
Daddy" Leach to the rescue and with
astonishing presence of mind and quick
ness the course of the elev Itor was
changed upward. When extricated Mr..
Gledhill was naturally daZed, and 1t was
feared at first his squeezing was of
serious nature, but the physician sum
moned found no bones broken. Beyond
laying him by for few days, the acct
dent sustained Is trivial, but had the