The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1899-10-05
SOMERSET PICK-UPs.

laying mortar in his cellar.
William A. Murray of Pitrsfeld has
been rendered the position of assistant
instructor in civil engineering for the /
ensuing year, at the University of Maine
his alma mater.
Two recruits, Frank L. Stokes of Ban
gor, and Phineas p. Cunningham of
Lowell were examined at Pittsfeld, the
22d, for the army, and left the following
Monday for Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont,
TO join the regiment
The members of the gun club shoot at
the range on the McCarty road at Pitts
field, every ednesday afternoon, and
there is a good attendance and some
quite good scores. II. c. Hunter is high
snan 80 far with a score of 10 out of
possible %; Nate Bowman second,
with II out of %.
Roy Libby, former Pittsfeld boy, is
meeting with good success and estab-
fishing quite a record in the electric
business in Massachusetts. Since April
LIST he has installed over forty thousand
feet OF electric wires, completed two
hundred bell jobs, used fourteen hun
dred feet of speaking tube, besides
doing quite an amount of telephone,
police signal and repair work, and is at
present wiring a nice house in West
Newton.
Wednesday afternoon of last week,
while Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Merry of
Madison were off the west end of the
toll bridge on their way to the cattle
show grounds, they were run into by
man alleged to have been intoxicated
who was driving pair of horses, and
their carriage was completely demolish-
ed. Mr.. and Mrs. Merry were both
Merry is seriously injured. Mr.. Merry
escaped with slight bruises. The man
whose name is Turner, was arrested
and is awaiting trial
Mr.. Lewis Daniels and Miss Nellie
Carr both of Pittsfield, were married,
" ednesday evening, by Rev. F. d.
George of the F. B. Church, at the lately
purchased home of Mr.. Daniels in the
south part of the town. Both the bride
and groom are well known Pittsfeld
people, being active members of the s.
OF V and Ladies' Aid Society Only
! immediate relatives of the contracting
! parties were in attendance at the cere-
mony Miss Gertrude Daniels, a sister
of the groom, coming from Augusta,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kelly, also rela
tives of the groom, coming from Fair
field, to attend the ceremony.
The Somerset Cattle Show and Fair at
Madison, opened, Wednesday of last
week, with good showing of cattle,
horses, sheep and swine, and all the
accessories in the line of fakirs, peanut
vendors, pop corn peddlers and tent
shows. The hall was filled with farm
| products in great variety and the dairy
department was complete in it's exhibits
of butter and cheese. The fancy work
was well shown up and also ancient and
rare curios which attracted considerable
attention. Flowers were in abundance.
Fancy quilts, rugs, tides, mats, and
everything pretty and useful made by
the patient and skillful hands of the
ladies of the vicinity.
The fifteenth annual report of the
Somerset railway for the year ending
June 30, 1885, has just been issued.
The gross earnings are $50, 1875 40, opera
ting expenses, $s4, 81 10, net earnings,
S25, 1888 g. The gross earnings exceed
those of the previous year by $13, 061 81.
| The Increase would have been greater
had it not been for the suspension of
business IN the mills at Madison and
Caratunk Falls, due to the enlargement
and repairs being made there. Since
the last report final decision has been
rendered in favor of the stockholders by
the u S. supreme court in the action
brought to test the legality of the title
to the property gained by foreclosure of
the Somerset Railroad Company's mort
gage. The case has been pending for
over six years. Supt. Aver says that
100,2 45 tons of freight have been moved
and "a, 429 passengers carried No pas
sengers or employe has received injury
during the year.
A case involving a novel point in law
has been handed up to the law court
from the Kennebec superior court. 1t
is pauper case, brought by the town
of Nnslow against the city of Augusta.
At the same time Winslow has brought
suit against Pittsfeld for like amount,
not knowing which of the two defend.
ants is responsible for the care of the
woman. 1t seems that the pauper in
question, who now resides in Winslow,
was born in Dexter and moved to Pitts
field with her father in 1856, where she
lived continuously until she was IA years
of age her father gaining a residence
there and never receiving pauper sup
plies. They then moved away from
Pittsfield, but until 1877 they had never
gained residence in any other town.
She was married twice, her first hus-
band not gaining pauper settlement,