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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
;lIlllbriIgG.

The noted NJ. F. Pratt delivered his
lecture From the gutter 10 the Pulpit.
here last Wednesday evening. Although
some parts of it We're meritorious. as a
whole it was not considered very com
mendahle production.
Freeman Gilman living ON sugar Hill
in Harmony had he misfortune To lose
a nice horse one day last Week. Mr.. Il.
started quite early for st Adams With a
load When near Warren Hams his horse
got into the snow which al that place
was very deep. and the continued warm
"spell' had rendered very soft aud al
most impossible. the horse received ia
iures from which he died. understand
Mr.. G.. claims damages from the town
of Cambridge.
Mrs. Samuel I.ittletield has been quite
sick for a few days but is better.
George Watson the genial clerk at the
store of J. Is. and g. Mitchell has en-
gagged to work on farm for Harris
Hamilton the coming season.
John Pcasc has let lis farm to Louis
Drew for a year,
Miss Minnie RAYMOND Of ST. Adams
who has been sick a Alfred Richard : is
fast improving under the care of Dr.
Bunker.
Albert Cole is home from Waterville
an college chum is with him.
Miss Mabel {. Brown Of PittStirld
spent Il week with her parents recently.
Elva Page is now boarding in Dr.
Bunker's family, her health is very poor.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Maine State Fair Colt Stakes and
Stake Races for 1894.

One of the facts made patent to every
business man Is that the only way to OBJ
tain and retain public attention is by
keeping, constantly before the public
The quality of ones goods will never be
recognized unless the fact is spread be-
fore the public gaze every week. In the
horse industry. in addition to this there
is demanded the fact of worth by actual
trials, so that colt Development, c, 1t
stakes and races are as necessary to
awaken and insure public recognition as
the window display or bargain counter
The Maine State Fair officers in their
desire to aid industries have been push
ing different features into prominence
One of these is the horse, and through
the colt stakes and races the character
of our stock is being established. Last
year these were made the most attrac-
tive of all races held, and the entry fees
placed so low that no breeder could af
ford to stay outside This year the same
liberal policy is continued. In fact no
society in the State has ever attempted
any such programme of guaranteed
stakes and races, while the condition
and terms bring them all within the
reach of the smallest breeder. Trotting
colt stakes for one. two three and four
year-olds; trotting stake races for horses
eligible to 2.35, 2.30 and 2.20 classes
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Madison .

Wagons out for the first time in this
village March, Eth. The sleighing is
about gone.
Geo. Hunter, loom tiXer in the Indian
Spring wooden mill has gone on IA two
weeks vacation to his home in Farming
ton.
Tn Madison mill started up with a
small crew March, l2th.
Mrs. Rowell who has been sick for
quite Il while is no better and there are
little hopes of her recovery.
Harry Russ is the happy man this
time, it is girl.
Frank Harding has sold out his under
taking business to l.. F. Edwards.
Mr., Charles Brown went to Anson
one day last week on a visit To his son.
MIR. Ferrard and family have moved
from the Old Point house into the house
owned by Mr.. Rogers on Bean Street.
Mr.. O. O. Allen has opened candy
shop in the Whitney sore on Main ST,
March 18th, married by Rev. |. Ma
thews Mr. Sumner Dinsmore of Arson and
Mrs. Sarah Smith. We wish them much
happiness.
Messrs Clifford and Small returned to
their home in Bath, last Monday morn
ing.
Rodney Hunt is putting in three new
water wheels for the Investment Com
pany.
The little child of F. Y. Gilman who
got its Jaw broken two weeks ago j.
getting along AS we'll As could he expect
ed. it takes some one all the time to care
for it.
WILDER Savage and wife have moved
into their house on Arson side.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

The temperance organizations in
Maine generally observed the ninetieth
birthday of Gen. Neal Dow, Tuesday
the 10Th, inst, his own city, Portland,
leading off in grand style with an ad-
dress by Gen. Selden Conner and other
exercises in which many prominent citi-
zens participated.
The father of the Maine law and
great champion of prohibition at his
home in Portland, received many friends
and read many congratulatory messages
from eminent advocates of the cause and
personal friends. He wears his 90 years
as lightly as do many 20 years younger,
and Iejoices greatly in the progress of
the cause so near his heart and in which
he has labored so assiduously for SO
many years.
In Skowhegan, the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union held brief exercises
in G. A. r. Hall, which were of very
interesting character and well attend
ed.
htt. III y. V DIcSlutu at
the meeting Rev. r. B. Mathews in-
voked Divine favor and at the close
Rev. 7. G. Moses pronounced the bene-
diction.
DR.. Hanson made brief remarks which
were largely of his personal recollections
of the man and of the early days of his
labors for prohibition in Portland. a
quartette, consisting of Mrs. Dunton,
Miss Lowe, Messrs. Sturtevant and
Dealey, sang several appropriate musi-
cal selections, and there were readings
by Mrs. B. A. Small, a sketch of life and
temperance labors of Gen. Dow; Miss
Zaidee Morrison, "The prohibitory
law by Neal Dow; Mrs. Geo. =. Webb
poem, 1.-The Law of Name
During the day the chairman, in be-
half of the Union, sent a congratulatory
message to Gen. Dow.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
A Jamaica CONGREGATION.

In pours the black portion of the con-
gregatiun. 1t is composed for the most
part of women. They are gorgeously
arrayed in silks and cottons of the most
bewildering brilliancy, with golden bee
hive shaped ornaments in their ears and
twists of gold about their necks, and all
are beaming and smiling with the ut
most complacency and self satisfaction.
With great many of them the first
duty is to take off their boots or shoes.
Small wonder, for half of them are in
the habit of trudging 30 or 30 miles a
day barefooted to and from market,
and the other half, if they do not use
their feet so hardly, at any rate never
confine them.
Poor or wanting in proper pride in
deed must be that woman who cannot
raise pair of boots or shoes for Sunday
use! 1t means agony, you may conceive,
to keep pinched up in stiff leather pair
of feet used to free, untrammeled move
ment but it has to be borne. and it is
borne for IA few minutes. 1t is man
aged thus: On the road to church halt
is made at about 200 yards distance
from the building for the purpose of put
ting on the boots or shoes, which have
been hitherto held in the hands. Church
is then hubbled into and the boots or
shoes taken off, to be again put on as
the service draws to close. Church is
then hobbled out of, and at respecta-
BILE distance from it the instruments of
torture are again got rid of not to be
put on again for week. ALL the Year
Round
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Resolutions of Respect.

At meeting of the Trustees of SOM
erset Academy held March Sth the fol
lowing resolutions were unanimously Il
dopted upon the death of Henry w Bart
lett
Whereas, Somerset Academy has suf
fered "A great loss in the death of Il wor
thy member of its board OF Trustees
Bro. ii. W. Bartlett, aud,
Uhereds,-by his devotion to, and his
deep interest in the welfare of the In
stitution. he has won the respect and es-
TEEN of the Board, therefore,
RcSoiced, THAT we express the higl
estimation in which we hold the deceas-
ed alike for his strict integrity and his
high moral and christian character and
the deep SORROW we feel in his death and
that we deeply sympathize with his fam
lily and relatives in this their great aiilic-
ton and,
Resolccd, That these Resolutions be
spread upon the Records. and copy
therefore be transmitted to the family OF
the deceased by the Secretary of the
Board.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
So. Madison

Mrs. George Withee is very sick with
lung trouble.
Mr.. Charles Iloughton was at the VII
lage saturday night.
Mrs Lila Ellis is sick with al abseess
10 her throat.
stllman Frost lost a good COW short
time ago.
Most of the people in this vicinity are
sick with colds.
Mrs. II. +. Gilman has been visiting at
her old home the past week.
Cony Russell OF Norridgewoek was in
town sunday,
Mr.. owen Wi;h-e remains about the
SINE.
quite a number are tapping trees aud
making maple syrup this way.
Mrs. f.. F. Stevens returned from Mer-
Ger where she has been staying with her
sister
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Electric quantity and tension-or in
tensity-are terms based ON the assump-
ton that electricity is fluid. Guam
| tity is the amount of the fluid that a
body contains as its charge and the ten
sion or intensity on any point of its sur
| insulated electricity lies on the
surface-is the depth, or if the depth
remain the same the density of the fluid
at that point. The quantity has refer
ence to the number of particles electri-
fed and the amount of force lodged in
each; the tension has reference simply
to the inductive force lodged in each.
Particles that are highly electrified
must polarize powerfully the particles
hear them, and if powerful enough
cause discharge. Tension or intensity,
therefore, is the power to polarize and
effect discharge. The quantity of cleo
tricity passing in a current is estimated
by the power Of the current to defect
the magnetic needle by the chemical de
composition it effects, or by the temper
ature to which it raises a wire of given
thickness and material The tension or
intensity of the current is the power
which it has to transmit current
against resistance, such as that offered
by bad long or thin conductor. Ten
ZION, strictly speaking, is not property
Of the current, but of the battery which
generates the current. Brook Ign Eagle.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Our Little Men and Women. for
March, comes to US from the Alpha
Publishing Company Successors to
Lothrop Magazines, Boston. And if
this issue is IA forerunner of those which
are to follow, we shall anticipate its
coming with an eagerness heretofore ex-
pressed in the Impotence of the children
when watching for their favorite publ
cation. The best and most popular
writers and artists for children not only
are represented. but their brightest and
best thought is particularly happy in its
expression. 1t sings itself in rhyme and
verse, and speaks in story, bits of his
tory, hints at science, and old-time tales
and wonders. Upon trying to analyze
+ the charm of this child's magazine we
find it is this: 1t is made for the chill
dren, therefore this is the force that car
ries weight. 1t is just what its publish
ers say it is, the children's magazine
and the best one there is, at that. Our
Little Men and Women is Sl.00 a year
specimen back number for 2 cent
stamp.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

How long will the forests of Maine
stand the "racket' of the numerous pulp
mills in the state seems to be Il pertinent
question at this time. The demand for
spruce for building purposes seems just
now to be suffering something akin to a
collapse, but this is probably temporary
and anon the merry hum of the saw will
be heard in the mills, if not this year
"some other year Ii spruce forests
were subject to the destroying effect of
the lumberman's AK alone, there would
be increased reason for greater restric-
ton in cutting but the contingencies of
forest fires and ''bloW-downs" are also
to be taken into account. The true
economic theory, it seems to us, is an
nual cutting but not to exhaustion.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

A Bingham gentleman volunteered to
the REPORTER the statement that there
had been no building of any Importance
since the road had reached that place,
except buildings that had been projected
prior to that time. In evidence of this
he cited the fine large double store and
hall erected by Colby and Preble and
Mark Savage and the Donigan block.
The former he said vas well underway
before the railroad reached the town and
the other would have been built earlier
had Mr.. Donigan been able to have Sc
cured a suitable lot earlier. We are
strongly impressed that these gentlemen
were well assured of the construction of
this road to this town before they en-
barked upon these projects, and the
''rail' is entitled to all the credit gener-
ally given it in this case and other like
instances, the opinion of our conserva-
tive friend to the contrary. notwith-
standing.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Solon's big industry is in Embdcn,
but Scion gets the lions share of bene-
fit from the 100 men who find constant
employment at fair wages in the SPLEEN
didly constructed and ably manag-
ed mills of the Moosehead Pulp and Pa
per Company. She has, however, some
smaller industries of late started which
are not to be held in light esteem. The
Solon Creamery, started by the business
men of the village, who took stock in
the enterprise and put their money and
work into it for their own benefit, doubt
less, but for the greater veal of the far
mers of that and surrounding towns,
is proving a grand success. The
natural and inevitable result of the
lumber business in the towns on the
upper kennebec is to cause farmers to
sell more hay and grain than has been
for the lasting good of farms. The
doubling or quadrupling of the cows
of these towns. it can be readily seen,
is the most desirable thing imaginable
for these lands that have been somewhat
abused. The present number of cows
can within four or five years be readily
increased ten-fold and the farms largely
increased in productiyeness and value.
The erection of steam saw mill for
manufacture of soft and hard woods for
home use and for shipment, by Capt.
Moses French and son, Perry 5. Long
ley and Daniel York, it can readily be
seen, is an enterprise that should cause
Scion to rejoice.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Somerset S. j Court.

March Term 1891
EMERY. j., Presiding.
n. W. BBAfNERD, Clerk.
f. W. HovEY, County Attorney.
A II Small, Stenogrd pher
+. p. YILEs Sheriff.
Deputies in attendance: +. l.. Harding
Hiram NJ. Waugh, W. F. Mutt
Blaine ). Yiles, Messenger.
The March Term OF Supreme Judicial
court for Somerset county convened at
the Court House, Tuesday, at ] 30 A. NJ.
Hon. Lucilius y. Emery, Justice, pre-
siding.
Rev. Il. b. Mathews of Skowhegan
oiliciated as chaplain at the opening OF
the court.
The Grand jury is the same as the
December term except three additional
Jurors and one excused, making q in all
"a follows:
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Obituaries.

Mr.. John Hartman of Bingham pass
ed away Feb. 10Th, with complication
of diseases contracted in the army OF
the Rebellion from which he was 8
great sufferer. He leaves a wife, ar
adopted son, three brothers and two
sisters to mourn his loss.
Parker NJ. Smith of Tiona, Pa, for
merly of Concord, Maine, passed away
Feb. 22d, with consumption, aged 3!
years months. He leaves one little
boy, an aged mother and one brother
his father, one brother and two sisters
having gone before to the better land
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Babyland, for March, is brimful of
good things. There is "A telling fronts
piece to amuse Baby, and more pictures
Baby will like; there are rhymes for
mamma to say over to Baby, and stories
for her to tell. This number is issued
by the Alpha Publishing Company (suc-
cessors to Lothrop Magazines, Boston,
and if we may Judge of the ability of the
new firm by the magazines it this month
sends out, we are very sure that the
children not only made new friends, but
earnest and devoted ones as well, when
the Alpha Publishing Company organ
lied itself for the sole purpose of send
ing out what is brightest and best in
children's literature. Babyland is 80
cents year; specimen back number for
2-cent stamp.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

A remarkable sight to be seen from a
balloon is the bottom of lakes and ponds.
While over Lake Erie Carl E. Myers.
the balloonist, says he saw clearly a
wreck lying under IS feet of water. 1t
was that of schooner sunk 40 years
ago. At height of half IA mile the en-
tire bottom of small lake or pond can
be clearly seen, and Mr.. Myers believes
that ON a clear day an aeronaut of good
vision could see from height of mile
submarine objects at depth of 400 or
800 feet beneath the water.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Athens.

Henry W. Bartlett, Esq, one Of tn,
most prominent aud respected citizens
of Athens, died Wednesday, March eth
after an illness of about two years OF
consumption. About two years ago ht
was obliged to give up his business and
try a change of climate for his health
He visited both Colorado and California
but failing to derive any benefit from
the change, he returned, Everything
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22
Prize samples of bad Grammar.

An English paper gives the following
sentence as the perfection of bad gram
mar; Them Sleeps is yourn. How
about the famous reply of the Yorkshire
children when DR.. Syntax' told them
that their mother was calling them:
John Leech, we think, reported and il
lustrated it years ago: Her ain I a-call-
ing we. Us don t belong to she. Dos
ton Pilot.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

The town of Bingham is now receiving
full benefit of being the terminus of the
Somerset Railway. Traders feel it, per-
haps more than other classes although
builders are not far behind in advantage.
Some even hold at this late day that the
road is no real advantage and in proof
of this make the statement that property
is not so high as it was years ago when
the northern terminus of the Somerset
road WAS North Arson.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

The Tariff bill, which for about seven
weeks has been before the Senate COM
mittee on finance, has at last been re-
ported to the Senate. 1t has generally
the same features as when it left the
subcommittee. The frantic call of New
England Mugwumps for free coal and
iron ore have been disregarded but the
sugar trust has been more successful
and duty of to IA cents pei pound,
has been placed upon sugar, and the
Whiskey trust has what it asks for
The bill provides for the abrogation OF
reciprocity arrangements made with
other countries to the advantage of
American farmers and manufacturers
thus throwing away these advantages
at the same time giving greater advan-
tage to foreign competitors. The bill
is about as bad as it can be, for the
country as whole.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Bingham is a healthy town in bust
ness way but needs more in the way of
manufactures to balance up its farming
and numbering industries. The Last
Block factory, is about the only consid-
cradle manufacturv whose product
seeks an outside market. Others sup
ply the home demand aud belong to Il
class that are sometimes underestimated
and not fully appreciated because they
do not bring cash into the place in re-
turn for their finished product. 1t is,
however, desirable to avoid sending
money out of town as well as to bring it
into town. \ penny saved, etc.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

1t Is good time to subscribe for the
REPORTER this week and have the bene-
fit of full court reports during the
March term, which is likely to be very
important one. Send us % cents and
we will mail you the paper for two
months, and you will thus secure the
court reports.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

A gentleman interested in real estate
at Scion makes the statement that farms
in that vicinity are lower in price than
fore the pulp mill was erected and put
in operation. If this is the fact it is not
to be attributed to the railroad or the
pulp mill. The probability is without
these the price of real estate would have
been very much lower now than it is
with them One hundred men extra,
continuously employed in a town like
Scion, must be an advantage to that
town, and to all lines of business there
in. 1t cannot be otherwise. Any
Somerset town would be glad to take
the risk at least.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

The prospect for extensive building
operations are not bright in Maine
towns the coming year but Bingham
will do reasonable amount for Il town
of its size. John j. Lander. Esq, has
already completed arrangements TO ex-
tend his Trick block and thereby fur
nish nice store with plate glass front
for the occupancy of the branch store of
the well-known and popular Skowhcgan
firm, Bixby & Buck. Savage Il Clark
and Colby & Preble also purpose to
build large store house the coming
season in the rear of their new block ,
to be used for the increased demands of
their own business. These firms have
extensive numbering operations and use
immense quantities of heavy merchan-
disc and must have capacious store
houses. A. 5. Burke & Co. are doing a
good business in their Depot Grain and
Feed store, and will soon get their ma
chinery for grinding corn and feed in
operation.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

go West young man. was the adj
vice of the immortal Horace Greeley a
quarter of a century ago, and this ad-
vice was needed by vast number of
people of Maine as well as other states,
so that in western states, and on the
Pacific slope Maine men are found in
large numbers, and they have made
their mark upon the character of the
new states and left their impress upon
the history of our country. Contrary to
this usual order of things two young
Ohio men, Stanton |. Day and D. T..
Mills, came East, saw Carratunk falls,
bonded the great water privilege where
the whole kennebec made mad plunge
down over the Jagged lodges 30 feet to
the "Gulf'' below. They subsequently
purchased the water power and began to
develop it on a grand scale. 1t was no
boys play and the work of constructing
a dam across the river to control its
mighty volume of water, the blasting of
canal out of the solid ledge and the
construction of the mill with its wheels
under 81 feet head and machinery suffi,
cient to drive twelve wood grinders
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

We are authorized by Mr.. Heath to
state that he has no congressional aspir-
atoms and that lie will not be a candi-
date for Congress under any crcum-
stances. We can also state that ,Mr.
Heath has declined to permit the use of
his name as candidate for the Office of
supreme judge Eennebec Journal.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1894-03-22

Bingham has of late received impor-
tant accessious to its business force
from Skowhegan; Henry Washburn,
proprietor of the Stage House, the only
hotel in the town. and good one too, as
conducted by him; Albert Murray, who
for some years run The Forks stage and
later The Forks hotel; Hon. George II.
Clarke with the firm Savage & Clarke,
a man of experience, energy and
thorough business training, whose loss
Skowhegan regrets quite as much on ac-
count of his wife and boys as upon his
own ; and last but by no means least, f. r..
Buck of the firm of Bixby and Buck, so
long and constantly in the Skowhegan
store that it is difficult to disconnect
them in the minds of the average Show
heganite. We are glad to know that he
is prospecting in his new field. His re-
liability as druggist and his unfailing
courtesy must make him hosts of friends
in one place as it has in the other