The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1898-03-17
SOMERSET PICK-UPs.


dentally killed, Saturday morning, while
shovelling out a landing for logs at
Carrying Place. The pile started and
rolled over him. He was unmarried.
In the death of Isaac Fl. Lancey Pitts
field loses one of the pioneer business
men of the town. He was IA years OF
age moved to Pittsfeld when he was five
and had always lived on the site of his
present residence. He was always close
ly Unidentified with the business interests
of the town and was not only one of Its
most prosperous but one of its stanchest
and most respected citizens.
Warrants for search of four places in
Pittsfield where illegal sale of intoxicat-
ing liquor was suspected, were placed in
the hands of Deputy Sheriff e. B. Haskell
Tuesday evening, with orders for i'm
mediate service The papers were
served by officers Haskell and Corey,
and in three of the places no intoxioat-
ing liquors we're found but in the other
several packages of liquor were seized.
Palmyra citizens have many acts of
neighborly kindness on record to their
credit. The neighbors and friends of
Horatio White assisted in procuring
him supply of firewood Thursday.
On Saturday evening there was pound
party for his benefit at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs +. w. Brooks. Mr..
with the exception of an invalid son,
live alone, and the effort of their friends
was meritorious one.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL " oodbury of Hart
land were happily surprised on Friday,
Feb. 25th, by the return of their son after
an absence of twenty-three years. He
was accompanied by his little son, Willie.
On the 9th of February the following
members of the family gathered at the
homestead in West Hartland: William
Woodbury., Spokane, Washington; N. M.
Woodbury., Hartland; Mrs. L. Burton,
Pttsfield; Mrs. c. X. Wheeler, Lewiston !;
Mrs. Almon Soule, st. Adams. There
was one missing, their eldest daughter,
Mrs. Eugene Richardson, who is laid at
rest in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
Wednesday last March 9th, there was
tried in the Kennebec S. j. court held
at Augusta, the case of Harry A. Jones,
administrator, VS. Manufacturing Invest
ment Co., of Madison; an action brought
by an administrator to recover 5000
damages for the death of Fred Poitras
on the 18th of March, 1897. Poitras
was killed by being struck on the head
by a block of four-foot wood, which fell
from the top of the hook or elevator
used to carry the wood from the cars in
to the mill. DEPENDENT claims that
Poitras was not exercising proper care
at the time, and that since the accident,
changes have been made which would
make it impossible for similar accident
to occur again. Verdict of 5000 for
plaintiff.
Alton Clark was arraigned before
Trial Justice Paine at North Arson,
Thursday afternoon, on complaint and
warrant charging him with breaking
and entering the sheep shed of Mrs.
Tarr, in the night time of March LIST,
and stealing two of her sheep. Clark
pleaded guilty. He was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury at
Skowhegau. The bail was placed at
$500, and John Parlin, his father-in-law,
was surety Soon after the theft it was
learned that Clark had been away from
home on that night, returning the next
night just before midnight. The two men
whose sheep were also missing, hunted
for a week in Madison and Skowhegan
and at last found their sheep, all four in
the possession of o. o. Vittum & Son of
Scion, to whom they had been sold by a
man calling himself Thompson, but
whose description strengthened the
suspicious that it was no other than
Clark, who was subsequently arrested.
This case has aroused much interest,
since Clark on three different occasions
charged Edward Cannon with the
larceny of sheep, resulting in three
trials, Cannon being each time acquitt-
ed