The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-11-25
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

ING LnbIHOIDcl6I ltSlsAClSh Jho' N'A y
at a m, Saturday at North Arson.
The new England Telephone Com
pany has extended its line from Madison
to North Arson. The system is first
class and it works to perfection.
DR.. c. p. Sawyer, who went to the
Virginia hot springs some weeks since,
returned Thursday afternoon greatly
benefited by the trip and treatment.
Rev. l.. w. Coons will sever his con-
neetion with the Hallowell Uniyersalist
church at the close of the year, aud on
January /, 1898, will 60 as pastor to the
Universalist church at Pittsfeld.
The Pittsfeld post office will be moved
to its new location in the Lancey block
on Main street in few days, and new
printing Office will be opened up in the
place now occupied by the post office.
Pittsfeld is likely to make bid for
the w. & @. repair shops. 1t was sug-
gested at the board of trade meeting the
other night that power from the electric
plant it is hoped to secure could be thus
utilized.
Mr.. Jesse Fletcher of Starks, had
green sweet corn the first of the month,
which was untouched by the frost and
was so late in planting, on account of
the backward spring, that it had just
matured sufficient for eating.
A pastor now living in Mercer cele-
brated his Both wedding anniversary last
week. On his first charge he received
1900 year and supplemented his income
by doing carpenter work. A more gen
erous parish contributed "a spare ribs
one year.
A little son of Chas. A. Springer of
Detroit, met with a very painful acct
dent Monday in his fathers mill. Young
Springer was attempting to cast off a
belt with his foot when the pulley
caught the foot in such manner as to
break both bones of the leg just below
the knee.
1t seems probable that nothing will be
done on the Pioneer mill at Pittsfield,
this fall. The bids made by the con-
tractors have been at figures above what
Messrs. Dobson think would be required
to build it by days work, and unless
the contractors give better figures, the
firm will wait until spring and then con-
struct it without outside help.
Program for Pittsfield Grange, Satur-
day, Nov. 81: Song, choir; recitation,
Sister Eta Nelson; essay, Sister Ida
rowle; question, what constitutes true
success in farming?" Bro. Eben Thomp-
son, Sister Eta Varney and others; reci-
tation, Bro. Chas. Whitman; paper,
"How can the raising of poultry be made
profitable?" Sister David Libby; song,
Sister Flossie Davis.
Rev. G. w. Hinckley, of Good Will
Farm, has recently received check for
81 ,677.0 from Harper &c Brothers, New
York, which is the surplus from the
Harper Round Table fund after paying
for about 800 volumes, which are to be
the nucleus of the Round Table library.
The money is to be invested and the
interest used annually for the library.
Two deer, buck and a doe, have re-
Gently been received for the Good Will
museum.
Contractor Murray is at work with
large force of men, additions to which
are made daily, on the grading of the
W. & Q. extension between Burnham
and Pittsfeld. The work was COM
menced on the Burnham end but will
soon be extended along the WHOLE line
and will be pushed as rapidly as posi-
BILE. 1t is now expected that the trains
will be running to Pittsfield in six weeks
says the Pittsfield Advertiser.
Louis Lunt of Boston, who deals quite
in old junk, is taking down
the three huge digesters of the old pulp
mill at Shawmut. These came into the
possession of Lawrence, Newhall & Co.
after the burning of the pulp mill prop
erty, and as they are of no use to that
company they now pass into the care of
Mr.. Lunt at fraction of the original
cost. With them goes the last vestige
of project, which at its conception
babe fair to make Shawmut known in
many commercial part of the world.
The worsted mill of Fairfield, which
has been operated by Sampson &
Williams, is to be run under new
The corporation is form
ed by Mr.. Sampson and will be known
as the Kennebec Worsted Mill company,
with $4,000 capital, of which 500, 900
is paid in. 1t is the purpose of the new
to extensively increase their
operations and manufacture so far as
possible the worsted yarn used at the
North Vassalboro mills, which in part is
purchased from outside concerns. This
means decided boom to Fairfield, as
The number of employees will be nearly
doubled.
A little child of j. II. Hays, living
near Colquitt, Ca, overturned pot of
polling water, scalding itself so severely
hat the skin came off it's breast and