The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1895-10-31
State News.


court, Gen Choate of Augusta, Col.
Fred n. Dow of Portland, Hon. Herbert
NJ. Heath of Augusta, and others, who
passed throu h Bangor last week on
their way to Norcross for a hunting
trip, have returned with Is deer.
Judge Strout has appointed Joseph Z.
Moore Of Thomaston, receiver of the
Provident Aid Society, and Robert T.
Whitehouse, master to hear the CLAIMS
The society will close up its business
distribute its surplus, and its members
will 60 into the Bay State Beneficiary
Association.
Editor Giles o. Bailey, veteran
Maine newspaper man, has sold his
Portland sunday Times plant to Port
land syndicate of Democrats, who will
continue to run it. The names Of the
purchasers are kept secret, but Col. 4.
W. Bradbury, district attorney, is said
to be chief mover. OYertures have
been made to news agency for an
/ dIlelHbOH Telegraph service.
The 50th annual session of the Grand
Division, 5. of T. of Maine closed at
Chelsea, Thursday, and the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year g. W. p, A. W. Starbird, Wat
eryille; G.. W. A., Mrs l.. A. Purington;
grand scribe, Mrs, Annie l.. Hayes,
Chelsea; grand treasurer, II. X. Morrell,
Gardiner; grand chaplain, Mrs. f. l.
Farnham, Chelsea; g. c., II. j. White,
Portland g. S., c. II, Nesmith, West
brook.
Wilbur j. Grafton of Waldoboro, is
reported by the Rockland Star to be in a
critical condition, the result of a wound
inflicted last Thursday afternoon during
a family quarrel between Grafton, his
wife and his son, Wilbur j. Grafton,
Jr. The wound was not considered
dangerous until Monday evening near
midnight when lockjaw set in. No
arrests have been made and it is not
expected that any will be made a, Mr..
Grafton in his anti-mortem statement
said, "The boy is innocent. | was en-
tirely to blame
State Pension Agent Millken SO far
this year has received 202G applicants
for State pensions. an increase of about
800 over the total for the entire last year.
Mr.. Mllken ascribes this to the broad
enng of the scope of the law by the last
Legislature and to the discussions which
then gave prominence in the newspapers
to the States system for helping the
needy veterans Apart from several
causes for the increase there is natural
growth Of the necessity for aid which
keeps pace with the advancing years of
the old soldiers and their wives and
widows.
The ancient Maine schooner Hiram
is receiving many attentions in Boston,
due to her honorable record of 50 years.
She was built at Biddeford in 1913, but
they say "she does not look her years.
as one might remark of a woman though
this does not imply, however, that "A
woman looks younger on account of
paint The Hiram is fifty-seven tons
register, and originally carried topsail
and topgallantsail yards on the fore,
according to the ancient fashion Her
builder removed the yards and remod-
el)ed her rig fifty years ago and during
her lifetime she has been substantially
rebuilt SO that probably not more than
a few floor timbers and model are left
OF the original antiquity, which should
have been named for the Queen of Sheba
instead of the King of Tyre.
"The lime and granite industries are
principally found along the lower banks
of the Penobscot,' writes Editor Stearns
in the Marine journal. and the city of
Rockland, with its present population
of 5000 and record of l52 new residences
built III the past two years, gives evil
denee of what enterprise aud thrift in
those branches of trade can accomplish.
the State is done there and the export
of lime exceeds 100000 casks per year
The facilities for handling granite are
SO good that stones weighing 30 tons
are loaded by derricks and there is a
record of one monolith weighing 100
tons rough and 90 tons when rolled on
board the vessel that transported it,;
that was the stone of the John T.. Wool
monument at Troy
Mrs. Sarah Ware died at her residence
in Watervlle, Thursday, at the adj
vanced age of 81 years. She was the
widow of the late John Ware of Athens,
to whom she was married in 1912
Mrs. Ware was the mother of seven
children, four of whom are living. OF
these George is a prominent citizen of
Waterville; John, also of Waterville, is
a director of the Maine Central railroad /;
Edward, a large lumber manufacturer of
Winslow, who recently moved to Wat
erville from Athens, and Mrs. Ella NJ
Smith of Boston. Mrs. Ware was one
of the wealthlest women of the State
and large part of her income was ex-
pended in charity, both locally and
abroad. A free bed was kept by her at
the Maine General hospital. She do
mated the WARE parlorsf to the Unita-