The Somerset reporter., 1899-06-08
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

The house barn and outbuildings be-
longing to the Church estate, situated
near Canaan village, were burned to the
ground Wednesday afternoon. Insured
in the Parks Bros agency.
Col. W. 6. Morrill, of Pittsdeld, will
hold races at Union Trotting Park, Sat
urday, July 1st. He will offer purses
amounting to S415 and will have a 81
class, trot and pace, purse 800, and
20 class, trot and pace, purse 800.
Of their own free will the students Of
the Hartand academy have agreed to
keep study hours in the evening and
will begin at o'clock every night and
from that time until retiring they are
to attend faithfully to their studies
Over twenty sheep belonging to Mr.. "
S Merrill of Harmony died short time
ago by their being out in the rain aftel
shearng, aud now his whole herd Of
cattle, L head, have been condemned as
afflicted with tuberculosis and were kill
ed this week
AT recent meeting of the Madison
High school Alumni Association the
following officers were elected: Presi
dent Clara Hunnewell; yice president
Mrs Mont Hilton; secretary and treas
urer, Eugene Remick. executive com.
mittee, Mrs. Mont Hilton, Lizzie Bal
lantine and Mark Spear.
AT IA meeting of Madison Village Cor
poration saturday, it was voted to put
Coughlin's residence; also to raise So
to pay rent of the same during the
balance of the financial year. 1t was
also voted to raise 800 to finish room
in Fireman's hall and to paint the IN
terror of the building; also that the
money be expended under the direction
of the assessors.
At little after nine o'clock Thursday
morning last, Joseph Hutt Of oakland.
one Of the men who is taking care OF
the pacing stallion, Johnnie Wilkes at
Fairfield, was seriously injured by being
bitten by that horse. Trainer Fred
Titon had just given the horse a work
out mile and had come to the barn to
cool OFT. Hun took a sponge of water, as
is the custom at the close Of a workout,
to "sponge out his mouth. The horse
seized the mans hand as soon as ii was
in his mouth and chewed it, mangling
the whole hand and above on the wrist
in fearful manner. team was pro-
cured and the injured man taken to the
Office of physician, where the wound
was dressed and the man taken to his
home in Oakland. The wounds are of
such a nature that it was not practical
to sew them up and it is feared that
Huff will loose his hand as a result Of
this accident. MI. HUI is a man forty
years OF age and has family dependent
upon him for support.
All the people could not get into the
Opera House AT Hartland, on Tuesday
evening, who went to listen TO tie
speech of Gov. Powers before the stu
dents of Hartland Academy. People
from all the surrounding towns were
there and helped make enc Of the larg-
est audiences ever assembled in Hart
land. The Opera House stage was
prettily decorated with plants and
flowers and upon it sat prominent Grand
Army men, the seeotmen aud school
committee of the town. In the front
center of the hall sat the members of
the Grand Army and back of them were
the school children Of the village.
Much credit is due the principal of the
academy, f. ". c. Wig4ln, for the Way
in which the program was carried cut.
The exercises commenced with a piano
solo by Miss Dora Tratton, followed 10y
recitations 10y Misses Ethel Butts and
linda Gordon and piano solo by Miss
Trafton. Prof. Wiggin then in a very
neat speech introduced Coy. Powers,
who spoke for about one-half hour on
the topics incident to the day, The
governor held reception after the eA-
ercises in front of the stage and all Who
wished shook hands with him.