The Somerset reporter., 1897-06-17
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.
Pittsfield is planning big celebration


for July 8.
! Vim B. Brown Esq of Hartland, and
Chas. o. Small Esq. of Madison have
| been nominated disclosure commission.
ers by the governor.
Mitchell & Hutchins are to build dam
near abe Lemont Spooner mill, in New
Portland, to increase the power of the
! grist and carding mill.
Mr. E. p. Mayo reports that the contri-
! buttons to the fund for grange cottage
/ for girls at Good VIII Farm are now
sufficient to warrant the committee in
procuring plans and specifications for
the building. The location of the cot
tage has been settled.
DR.. C. A. Moulton and wife, of st.
Adams, were driving ia Palmyra We'd
nesday evening when their horse be-
came frightened at the noise made by
a double team and threw the occupants
of the carriage out, and Mrs. Moulton
received severe injuries about the head.
The horse ran to Hartland village, where
he was finally stopped near the scene Of
the fire which was in progress.
1t is said that there is good probabili-
| ty that another building will be erected
upon the site of the opera house burned
at Hartland in Wednesday nights con-
! fagration to be used for the same pur-
pose. The members of the different
secret societies have no good place for
meeting and the need of the hall will be
more keenly felt now than ever before
for all have had an opportunity to real
ize the value of one.
A pretty good joke is told at the ex-
pense of a well known Hartland man.
On Wednesday night he heard the alarm
of fire and going to the door of his resi-
dence saw a bright light in the direction
OF Palmyra caused by some one burning
a brush pile He hastily harnessed his
team and started in that direction and
it was half an hour before he returned
to find that the cause of the alarm was a
| fire nearer home.
| Willard Reed, formerly of New Port
land, who dropped out of sight about ii
years ago and was reported dead soon
after that time, as his relatives had no
news of him, has returned from his trav-
els and is now resident of Liyermore
Falls. Mr. Reed tells an interesting
story of wanderings in many lands and
places, since his departure from New
Portland. Two years were spent in
Central America. He has been COW
boy in the West and herder Of cattle in
Texas.
When school at West Portland village,
closed Friday evening, little Verna Rick
er, little crippled eight year-old girl,
went home, but on arriving there found
she had left her rubbers at the school
house, so went back to get them. She
found that the schoolhouse was locked
and she tried to climb into one of the
windows. In climbing in, she got but
part way through when the sash came
down upon her neck, and when found
she was dead.
Following are the officers of the Som
erset county w. c. I. U. recently elect
ed: Co. Pres, Mrs. f. NJ. Chandler,
st. Adams; Co. Sec, Mrs. A. l.. Nining,
st. Adams; Co. Treas, Mrs. Levi Tay-
lor, Pittsfeld. Supts. of departments
Evangelistic, Mrs. Eunice Lewis, Pitts
field; Narcotics, Mrs. f. c. Bryant, Pitts
field; Juvenile Mrs. o. A. Chapman, So
Ion Franchise, Mrs. A. l.. Vining, St.
Adams; Lumberman' Mrs. f. A. Clark
n. New Portland; Social Purity, Mrs
F. II. Brown, Fairfield; Hygiene, Mrs.
Felker. Madison; Railroad Work, Mrs
Marcia, Shawmut; Press Work, Mrs
Lawrence, Shawmut; Scientific Temper
ance instruction, Mrs. NJ. l.. Boynton,
L. ST. Adams; Peace and Arbitration,
Mrs. NJ. F. Bunker, n. Arson; Temper
ance Literature, Mrs. Vose, Madison;
Fairs, Mrs. Lucelia Stafford, Hartland !;
Homes for Homeless Children, Mrs. F.
w. Hovey, Pittsfeld; Sunday School
WORK, Mrs. Mechlin, Madisoni Syste-
matte Giving, Mrs. b. f. Spaulding,
Pittsfeld; Flower Missions, Mrs. Hew-
EFT, Madison.
Lewiston Journal; Creed has found a
flaw in Congressman Dingley's character"
writes our Washington correspondent.
"Dingley took his grand daughter to call
on the speaker recently and introduced
the hahv with much onsto and evident