The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1896-10-01
North Arson.

Work is being resumed on the new
dam at Madison \ new substantial
Golfer dam has been build and electric
lights have been put under the bridge to
enable the work 10 progress continu-
ousy, day and night. Work was dis
continued on the dam late last fall on
account of high water.
During the past ten months four OF
our citizens on the board of trustees Of
Arson Academy have died a. follows:
Hon. Asa Moore, Hon. J. J. Parlin
Charles I. Getehell and Sherman w.
Hapgood.
The good farmers OF Arson and
Starks, loaded l. cars with fine cattle.
at Madison for the Lewiston State fair,
this fail. Are there many towns in the
State that could do better and the stock
prize winners besides.
Officers OF the law are reported to be
after one Dyer Of Franklin county who
with some companions rode up to the
house Of Wyatt EEutf in Arson, near the
New Vineyard line and terrorized and
abused a crippled son and frightened
the women folks of the household. Mr.
HUH was away and Henry Tuttle, a
neighbor who attempted to interfere
, with the rowdies, was set upon and
cruelty beaten by them. When Huff
returned and viewed the ruins aud
heard the story his family told him. he
posted away to Pennington, and laid the
case before Judge Chandler. AS the
judge was uncertain as to whether the
Hun house was near enough to the
county line to be within his jurisdiction,
he advised the man to get a warrant
/ from a Somerset justice, and Hun has
done this.
Cephas Walker OF Emblem, sent from
this station one day last week thirty
cases Of choice apples, one and one-half
bushels in a case. They were to be
shipped from Boston to Scotland. Mr.
Walker is one of Embden's enterprising
farmers and fruit-growers. His fine
orchard consists Of 800 trees mostly
grated, and it receives the careful at
tention his experience in orchardng and
knowledge OF the different varieties of
fruit is capable of giving. It's a long
way to send fruit from the northern
farms Of Somerset county to Europe,
and it speaks we'll for Maine apples that
they find a market in foreign lands.
Fifty years ago such transportation was
not thought Of and to the people of
that time the idea OF its being a proba-
bilitY had never been conceived. The
little, scrubby, native fruit that then
grew on the rocky hillsides Of New Eng
land has been supplanted by as choice
fruit as grows anywhere else in the
country. our farmers are beginning to
realize this fact and the growing interest
in fruit culture among them is more
apparent every year.
The annual cattle show aud horse trot
will be held on the North Arson trotfng
association grounds, Monday, October
9TH. and Wednesday October 7th. At
the cattle show premiums of 5l2 are
offered for draft horses and IS for draft
oxen and smaller premiums tor other
stock. At the trot the 2.lS class and
2.2G class have been declared oil and the
2.32 and 10 classes will be trotted
Wednesday, These grounds are well
located for Il good show and trot and he
management On that day will make them
sat sfaCtory to all attending. Let all
Lake hOId and help uiahe these aal :
among the best that the eli Wesr oolnrr-
set Agricultural society has ever known.
On account OF the cattle show and fair
held at Stark,, Tuesday October 8, il
was thought best TO hold the trot on
Wednesday to accommodate the people
in these towns SO that all could attend
the shows. See large posters.