The Somerset reporter., 1898-04-21
Bingham.

our village. Two new flag poles are
soon to be erected, one at the schoo
house and the other near the Congrega
tional church. With a subscription
paper In few hours time, Henry Col
Inns had fourteen dollars for new flag
Rev. ID. (. Putnam of Bangor, preach
ed In the Congregational church botf
afternoon and evening, Mr.. Gregory be
Ing absent.
DIR. Wing of N. Arson, was In town
Saturday and Sunday.
Chas. Church commenced rafting ma
pie from The Forks to the last bloch
factory, this week.
Joseph Adams has been shingling hi
barn.
Hosea Whipple is having his house
painted and dumb waiter put in. Oar
Holt Is doing the painting and Alvanu'
Goodrich of Skowhegan, the carpenter
work.
The maple syrup makers have gather
ed in their buckets having had fairly
good sugar season.
Abel Davis of Pittsfield, and Turner
Boswell were 10 town, last Saturday
Mr.. Davis, as council for those having s
lien for wages on the pulp wood, was
making arrangements to sell the wood tC
the Moosehead Company.
George Baker of Carratunk, was II
town on Monday last
Mrs. James Thompson of Skowhegan
is with her sister, Mrs. Sam Baker.
At last the pulp wood which has beer
so long beside the river and in the station
yard, has been sold to the Moosehead
Pulp Co. Part of the wood will go or
the cars to Scion, and the remainder
will go down the river after the logs
have passed.
Chas. Corliss is taking vacation and
Walter Garland is running the passenger
locomotive in his stead.
Mrs. abigail Maxim is agent for two
excellent publications, one being the
life of the late Miss Frances E. Willard.
Land Agent Oak was in town, last
week.
VIM. Padharn and Fred Merrill of
Scion, were In town, recently, also Chas.
Ball and Chas. Sterling of Carratunk,
and Nellie French and Frank Durgin OF
The Forks.
The village schools will commence,
May 2nd. Mrs. Arthur Burke, teacher
of grammar school, Miss Ellis Of Oak
land, teacher of the intermediate, and
Lephe Dinsmore will teach the primary.
Samuel Baker died at his home about
three O'Clock, Tuesday afternoon. Mr..
Baker was q man much respected by all
who knew him and had held many inn
portant town offices. He leaves widow
and one son.
Sam Andrews and Anie Moore started,
Wednesday morning, to work on the
dam on the Enchanted stream.
Thomas Whitney planted potatoes,
last Monday.
Geo. Lawrence Of Gardiner, was in
town, Tuesday.
Donigan and Hunnewell are driving
their lumber which was landed near the
iron bridge.
The spool bar mill has shut down for
the season unless the white birch at
John Brays can be RATED. There has
been about fourteen hundred cords of
wood sawed into spool bars, which are
piled in high white tiers to season until
next July, when it will be shipped to
Portland, thence to Scotland, where it
will be made into spools. The amount
of white birch hauled would have been
much larger had it not been for the deep
SHOWS. Mr.. Packard hopes to do a
much larger business another winter.
1t is yet good sleighing at Parlin Pond,
thirty-eight miles north Of this place.
Here the roads are fast becoming settled,
there being little frost In the ground.
The deer court, which has been in ses-
sion in this place, arose last Saturday at
1887 a. m. During the time OF setting
there has been prosecuted for killing,
conveying and eating the horned moose
or fallow deer, eight victims and blind
dog. George Smith, formerly one of
the selectmen Of this town, had u lumber
camp on the ten thousand acres, the past
winter, and was arraigned for having In
his camp something that looked and
tasted like deer meat. The person who
was to have been the "star" witness
against Mr.. Smith skipped to Canada,
and as Smith with plenty Of witnesses
was present, the court refused further
delay and the case was mol pressed. W..
w. Young, ex-postmaster of The Forks,
accidently killed moose while hunting
caribou on johnson mountain. He
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to
thirty days In Jail with permission to
serve it when he chose. To avoid being
called as a witness In cases pending
against his neighbors, Mr.. Young decid-
ed to 90 at once. Eugene Clark was
next called to account for paying to Mr..
Young one dollar for piece of the meat
of said moose. Mr.. Clark waived ex-
animation and gave bonds for appearance
at the September term of court. George
Jones, while guiding party, last fall,
helped them kill three deer. This, the
commissioner claimed was beyond the
legal limit. Jones was fined. Cyrus
Briggs has an old, partially blind dog,
which, it Is alleged, wandered up an old
logging road, last winter, when the scent
of deer tracks renewed his youth to such
q degree that he caught the deer by the
throat. A man came along soon after
and cut the deer's throat to save its life,
so he said. Briggs pleaded not guilty
for himself and dog, giving bonds for
his appearance at the September term.
Lester Jackman pleaded guilty to having
In his possession, unlawfully, one deer
on Carrying Place plantation, paying
forty dollars and costs.
Madison.
o. r. Hooper and family have moved
back to town. They have been living in
Camden, Maine.