The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-06-10
Bingham.


town on lis way home from fishing
trip to Carry pond. He said fishing was
good, but weather was bad.
Mrs. Abel Moore is visiting her sister
/ in New \ DIRK a few weeks.
The Ladies' Missionary Union met at
the Congregational Vestry. Tuesday.
Henry Armstrong of Jackman, was in
town last week.
Chas. Jones and +. : Dutton Of Skow-
! hogan, were in town Tuesday, soliciting
fire and life insurance.
Mrs. f. G.. Williams went to Skowhe.
/ gan, june lst.
Mrs. Chas. Colby was at n. Arson
! last week.
/ The selectmen have contracted with
Carl Gates to build a school house in
Dist. No. 6. The building is to be COM
pleted by Sept. lst.
Will Hill is very busy this spring re-
pairing and making cant dogs for the
drive.
Changers picnic at Lake Maranacook
the 10Th inst. Excursion rates from
Bingham.
A large jam of logs formed on an is
land nearly filling the channel, near
'hilander Morris's. The current of
the river was thrown across this low in
tervale doing considerable damage by
quilting.
Fred Clark of Carratunk was in town,
Friday. He fs having some improve
ments made in his house here, which he
has rented to Ed Fogg, reserving two
rooms which will be occupied by Belle
Clarke
j. J. Lander and Mark Savage with
party Of friends from Mass, have been
spending a week at Parlu Pond.
In Moscow Carl Gates has moved into
Chester Smiths house, and Jerdie Hun
ea ell has moved into the Fred Baker
house.
Geo. Markham, who opened restau
rant here has returned to The Forks
! Benz. Smith will continue the business.
The Masonic Lodge will celebrate
their anniversary Saturday, June 18th,
| by public installation, followed by re-
! freshments and sociable
The picnic for the Junior Endeavorers
| has been postponed from June 18th to
June 10Th
AL Martz Specially Company was here
/ the Sth.
Henry Collins and Fred Baker have
been building new wood sheds.
Mr.. Steel. the mail contractor who
bid off the Abbott stage line, was here
looking over the route.
Fred Preble is having his house paint
ed. After finishing this job Chas. and
Harvey Owens will paint kennebec hall
building.
The Ladies' Aid Society met last week
With Mrs. Clara Bray.
Mrs Douglas and little child are visit
ing Mr.. Douglas at Florence Landers.
Mrs Fred Clarke is at her mothers,
Mrs. Lincoln Baker.
Abel Moore is sick with sore throat
DR.. Piper was called to Rowe pond to
attend sportsman of Lynn, Mass, who
had been taken sick with COMMISSIONS
The doctor had dark travelling, reaching
the pond near midnight. The sick man
recovered enough to be able to return to
his home on Thursday.
Mrs. Alonzo Spaulding died of con-
sumption last week. Her remains were
taken to Harmony for burial.
Mrs. Norris Bray who has been visit
| ing her parents, has returned.
Guests for the Whitcomb reunion,
which is to be on the 9th, began to arrive
on Monday.
Does everyone realize what a terrible
power there Is In water. IL not, they
should witness the breaking of jam of
logs in some Of our rough tleams. In
Pierce pond stream, which falls thou
sand feet in three miles, jam had form
ed in the short bend. 1t was a rough
mass of hundred thousand fee of lum-
Der, great logs crossed and interlocked,
some standing straight up. The front
OF the Jam had been worked down by the
men, and now the head of water was
coming from the dam at the pond. We
can hear it coming. With seething,
gushing roar, it strikes the jam, the up
stream end of which is tightly packed,
making a comparatively water-tight
dam. The mass groans, creaks, quivers,
then resounding crash-the key log
somewhere in the snarl of lumber has
broken, and now it all goes rushing and
crashing down the stream. The rear
bend, but was pushed high and dry over
the point of ledge. Logs sixty feet long
are forced end over end. Well may the
men stand back and cheer on such
mighty work. The jam passed in five
minutes, but for some time could be
heard the thunder of the logs as they
rushed over the rocks and falls in the
stream below.
Jennie Spaulding has the measles.
She is stopping at Dan Robinson's.
Hartwcll Richardson of Auburn, and
Isaac Temple of Gardiner, arrived in
town on Monday nights train.
Monday afternoon at about 2 o'clock,
Abel Moores barn was discovered to be
on fire by Mrs. Basil Melvin, who gave
the alarm. In few moments the barn
was completely in flames and the house
connected was on fire. By hard work
and the use of fire txtinguishers, and
water that had to be brought thirty rods
up steep hill, the house was saved in
damaged condition. The origin of the
fire Is mystery as none of the men
about the buildings smoke. jeff Brick
EFT took his horse from the stable about
ten minutes before fire was discovered.
The buildings we're insured for five hun