The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-01-28
Bingham

mdTh lplu5lnOTe HAS DouSut Il hoIet'
Representative D. 5. Moore was at
home over Sunday.
Ed Fogg has gone to visit his brother
in Abbott.
Henry Lane aud wife of Carry Ponds,
were in town Saturday.
Chas Smith has moved his family into
Sarah Millikcn's house.
Mrs Clara Baker was at sko"hegan.
one day last week.
Lephe Dinsmore is on the sick list.
Susie Whimey, who has been working
for Mrs. Frank Hilton, famed her
shoulder so badly by fall that she was
obliged to go home.
Selden Cleveland has been quite sick
with pleurisy.
Mrs. Fred Ennis has not been as well
as usual.
Albert Page of Fairfield, manager Of
Lawrence, Newhall. Lumber CO., passed
through this place Friday, to visit their
camps.
Nelson Hayden is setting up machin-
cry near the station TO saw long logs
into pulp. The lumber will be hauled
from Rabbit Ridge by Henry Wash
burns teams.
Anon Baker has teams hauling wood
from the cork shop. He has contracted
to haul fifty cords, which ne works up
by machinery.
John Redmond started his teams for
Perees pond last Friday morning.
S. A. Dinsmore of Boston, was in
town last week
Schools having closed, Mr.. and Mrs.
Rounds returned to Cornish, Saturday
last
Miss Leila Corliss has been visiting in
town.
Donigan and Hunnewell discharged
part of their crew which has been cut
ting pulp wood, Jan. 20, having nearly
completed their contract. Thy have now
six hundred cords cut and piled in May
field which is being delivered at this
station. The remaining crew is yardng
maple for the hewn last blocks, some
seventy thousand of which will be made.
Mr.. Donigan ia interested in two other
camps which will furnish five hundred
cords or more of pulp.
Albert hurry is hauling pressed hay
from the south part of Bingham, to Ed
Berry's place for Thales Spaulding.
There is large amount of pressed hay
in this section waiting for market but
az yet there is little call for it. The
usual price is $l2 80 per ton delivered
in Bingham.
willard Carl has been hauling lumber
from the Gordon place to Bracket Il
Andrews mill
Herbert Hilton, with four horses be-
longing To Washburn, started for the
woods, Thursday. They are to haul
from VIM. Morris yard on Ten Thou
sand Acres.
John Lander returned from Auburn,
Friday night. He says the business of
the Fritz Bros. Last Co. is booming.
When John Bray of Pleasant Ridge
came home from the woods, few day
since, he found that some thief had
broken into his house and left it in
very disorderly condition. A good sin.
gle harness was taken besides other
things. For three years many of the
houses In that neghborhood have been
closed during the winter, and each time
they have been broken into and articles
stolen.
The snow storm of Thursday put
rainbow smile on the faces of all the
lumbermen. 1t commenced showing at
5 A. NJ. and at 3 p. NJ. ten inches had
fallen at this place, and fourteen inches
at Pat Murphy's, West Forks.
The teams are rushing the pulp wood
to the station at lively rate. At times
the street in front of Kennebec block
is blockaded with them Fifty to sixty
cords of pulp wood are shipped daily
from this station.
1t is estimated that three-fourths of
the lumber cut is now piled on the yards,
and never has it been varded so cheaply
as this winter. The recent snow insures
fine wagon shedding, and if no serious
breakup occurs, it will be profitable
lumber season. Colby and Preble have