The Somerset reporter., 1899-09-28
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The Riverside "oolen Mil %. IF
Pittsfeld have now ali their looms run
ming and are required to run parts Of
their mill nights to keep up with orders.
Hon. Levi Turner OF Portland, grad
uate OF VI. {. l., has been engaged TO
deliver the Memorial address on Nav
30, 1900, before Stephen Davis Post OF
Pittsfeld.
I. A. Game, Grand Chief TempIar Of
the Maine Good Templars, was in Pitts.
field last week. He made arrangements
for the Grand lodge session winch con-
yenes there Oct l2-13
Mrs A. A. Merrill has been elected
treasurer Of the Fairfield Savings Bank
at Fairfield TO succeed her husband. tie
late Simon Merrill. Mrs Merrill is tAe
second woman in the state 10 be elected
treasurer of a bank
Miss Alta Reed, teacher in the gram
mar school in Madison, picked np her
books, one day recently, and let tie
school without warning. Mrs. r. J..
Perkins taught the following day. and
the following Monday a new teacher.
Miss Furbush, took charge aud will
teach for the balance of the term
Guy Morton, infant son Of Nj. and
Mrs. ?. c. Dorty OF Madison, died sun
day, the 18th, of commissions, at the age
of six months and four days The little
fellow had been i'll from birth and his
parents had hopes Of saving him. but at
about twelve O'Clock last saturday night
he was taken with commissions and died
at three O'Clock, sunday morning.
Bryant & cos mill at Pittsfeld. Is a
very busy place these days. Nj Bryant
has added four new men to his already
large crew and has had to turn away
several orders on account Of not being
able to fill them in time. Parts of his
mill run nights and lie is SO short Of
room that psrt OF his dry house has
been made into room for finishing
sashes.
VIM 7. Getchell of Palmyra. has
been experimenting with different kinds
of potatoes this year with the following
result: From Is hills of Beauty of He
bron, 104 lbs; 26 hills of Adirondack,
Sc lbs; p hills of North River Reauty,
so lbs; 20 hills of Enormous, 3 lbs.
He exhibits a bushel of potatoes. the
average weight of the tubers being
more than pound and "a half.
Sunday afternoon of last week, be-
tween the hours of and p. m, while
Mr.. Parker Sawyer and wife were away
from their home in Detroit, attending
the tent meeting, their house
was broken open and ransacked from
top to bottom by some sneak thief who
would have taken their money and val
uables that was in the house could they
have found them, but fortunately for
Mr.. Sawyer and wife the guilty parties
did not succeed. Mr.. Sawyer had a
nice watch stolen with some other ar.
ticles that they have missed. We hope
the right one or ones will be found.
Mr.. Elmer Adams, who lives near
Blackwell corner, was sinking stone on
his farm to get rid of them. Saturday,
the 10th inst, he dug a hole about a
foot and half deeper than stone l.
feet long by feet wide and feet thick,
weighing not less than 5000 lbs. He got
down into the hole with his pick to
loosen a small stone, when the large one
tipped over upon him and buried him
up to his chest. He was severely crush
ed and bruised, but no bones were
broken. He was obliged to lie in that
position for about twenty minutes be-
fore help arrived. 1t required the com.
bined efforts of three men and his wife
to pry up the stone and relieve him
from his trying position.
George NJ. Chapman, Esq, has in his
office in Fairfield, most valuable relic,
in the form of an old inkstand. 1t is
one of those old fashioned affairs, made
of wood and having the small porcelain
receptical in the middle OF 1t for the ink.
The wooden outside is very handsomely
decorated. or was when it was new,
while in the top is a cork, attached by
string which has been in the stand since
it was first used. The stand was given
to his father, the late Hon. 5. s. Chap
man, by the late Jonathan burlington,
one of the early settlers of the town,
and that when given to Mr.. Chapman it
was very old affair. Its present owner
prizes it very highly and as near as he
has been able to learn, it must be not
far from one hundred aud twenty-i
years old.
The Bravery of Woman
Was ora ndlV shown nv Mrs John