The Somerset reporter., 1896-01-23
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

hoDeTISi FORMER proprietor u ho'S'
Thacher, who took immediate posses
sion. 1t has always been Republican,
but under the new management will be
Independent in politics.
At the auction, Wednesday, of the
Lewiston MILL the property was sold TO
Wallace II. White, said to represent a
syndicate of local banks who are bond
holders, for =, 30, which added to the
lien of SIS, 1888, makes the property
cost S32, O1s. As, and is valued at $4,000.
Pressure Isle had a bad fire Friday
which destroyed two potato houses
which were filled with potatoes ready
for shipment. The loss was several
thousand dollars. The thermometer
registered Is degrees below zero and all
the firemen suffered much from the
cold
Congressman Dingley, though he is
sixty-three years of age, is as keen and
indefatipabe a student as if he were
thirty-six. In his early days he was a
LAWYER. but became a journalist. He is
still called "Goy.a DINGHY, though it is
twenty years since he was Names Chief
executive.
At the annua meeting of the State
Board of Agriculture, Wednesday oil
last week, w. II. Vinton was elected
president, j. w. Dudley, vice-president
who with George Flint will constitute
the executive committee. Secretary b.
w. McKeen was made member OF the
advisory board of the Maine State Col
lege.
Bank Examiner Undertake has re-
ceiyed a letter from the secretary OF the
Granite State Provident Association
stating that it has decided not to extend
it's business in Maine and giving notice
of its discontinuance of the same.
Loans to members on real estate Will
continue to be made as heretofore, and
relations and contract obligations exist
iny between the association and its
patrons will be maintained and carried
out.
The Savings Bank at Dexter, which
was the scene of the famous Barron
tragedy was burned early Saturday
morning. On the first floor were located
the post office and Mudgett's drug store,
on the second floor the Savings bank
and the Dexter National bank, and on
the third floor Masonic hall. The build
ing is nearly a total loss. Mudgett
drug stock was saved in a damaged con
dition but the post office contents were
uniniured. The insurance on the build
ing is IS, 900, on drug stock is $1,000 and
on Masonic 81 600. Total loss probably
$4,000.
A Boston and Maine director says
"Boston and Maine earnings show a
considerable falling off. The decrease
is in shipping of general merchandise
and the lack of snow in Maine may have
something to do with it. There is less
snow in Maine today than in Massachu-
sets. The numbering interests are
suffering greatly. Payson Tucker,
general manager of the Maine Central,
told me if Maine could have foot OF
snow Maine Central earnings would in
crease $4,000 in three months. General
business is very poor and there is no
prospect of any immediate change for
the better.
At the car shops in Waterville, the
work of re-fitting the freight cars of the
Maine Central with automatic couplers
has begun in earnest. A goodsized
crew has been put on the work and two
or more cars day are being equipped.
Though several kinds of couplers have
been tried, all interlocking, the Janney
and Gould patterns are the ones with
which the most of the cars will be fitted
The work of fitting freight cars with
universal vertical plane couplers is now
rapidly going on all over the country as
an inspection of any freight train will
show and in this work the Maine Central
is not in the least behind other roads