The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-08-02
SOMERSET PICK-UPs.
The Linn Wooden Mills of Hartland
shut down for few days last week, OF
account of break in the main gear.


Company will soon begin upon the de-
velopment of the water power there to
its fullest extent.
A new compressed air hoist is being
put into the machine room of the Great
Northern Paper Company's mill at
Madison, to take the rolls of paper from
the winders. This hoist has four foot
lift with capacity of 2400 pounds.
The canal of the Great Northern
Paper Company at Madison is to be
widened from the bridge to the corner
of the wood room. The work was
commenced Wednesday of last week.
johnson 81 johnson are In charge. The
logs have been removed from out of the
way.
large crew of men are at work at
the canning factory at Pittsfeld making
cans at the present time. A little over
400, 900 have been made and 1t Is intend
ed TO make 100, 900 more. The corn
will begin to come in about the first of
Wutu q OAOfF Vi ~ WIN
be employed.
Mr.. Y. B. Turner and little son, Leon,
of ST. Adams left, Thursday, for Cali
fornia with the remains of his wife.
who died, June 20, from injuries re-
ceived by being thrown from her car
riage. Mr.. Turner will take the Central
Pacific route, and go direct to Sacra-
mento where she will be inferred in the
family lot.
Ground was broken at Fairfield, Thurs.
day, as the fist step in the erection of
10000 public library, which has been
presented to the town by Hon. Z. j.
Lawrence. Horace burlington 81 Co. of
Waterville, have been awarded the con-
tract to carry on the construction and
they received orders to push the work
as speedily as possible.
The East Somerset agricultural so
ciety is getting out advertising matter
for the August meeting to be held on
August 10 There will be a 2 so class
and 2.26 class, purse 500 in each. A
special feature of the meeting will be
base ball game for a purse of S25, be-
tween the Hartland and Bangor teams.
The Maine Central and s. & NJ will run
a special train.
The Somerset case of Frank S. Bige-
low vs. Levi r. Bigelow ct ais, was taken
up by the law court at Portland, Satur-
day morning and orally argued. 1t is
suit brought to foreclose a mortgage
given by Levi X. Bigelow to John Il.
Bigelow, and later assigned by him to
plaintiffs. At nisi verdict for plain
tiffs was given by the jury. Danforth &
Gould for the plaintiff; Orville D. Baker
for the defence.
DR.. Porter of Pittsfield was called to
Burnham, last week, to attend a singu-
lar case. A heavy rasp had fallen
through crack from the floor above,
point downward, hitting nine months
old baby on the head and penetrating
the skull to the depth of one and one
half inches The baby lived week in
possession of all it's faculties, then sud-
denly lost consciousness and fingered in
that state Until Tuesday, when he died.
Death was due to brain fever resulting
from the wound.
Miss Mabel Brown, young lady, who
has made her home in Pittsfield for the
last few years, dieo Monday afternoon
of last week, of consumption. Her age
was 80 years and nine months. Miss
Brown was taken with the grip few
weeks ago and it settled on her lungs,
afterwards developing into consumption.
She has lived at John N. Martins for
the past ten years and the funeral was
held there on Wednesday. The many
friends and acquaintances of Miss Brown
will deeply mourn their loss.
w. A. French, formerly of Lisbon
Falls, has formed partnership with
C. A. WILDER of Madison for the practice
of law under the firm name of WILDER &
French. They will continue to occupy
the office formerly occupied by C. A.
v ilber in Union Hall. Mr.. French is a
graduate of Bates college, class of '94.
He studied law with John H. Maxwell
at Livermore Falls and was admitted to
Franklin county bar, September 80,
1898. Since which time he has prac.
RI sad Ia at Tiahnp Talla
W. D. Mitchell of Palmyra, whose
death recently occurred was born in
1888 and was nearly 81 years of age. He
was in California when the war of the
rebellion broke out and served his
country in California regiment. For
several years he had been respected
member of the G. A. r., and was buried
under their auspices. He had also filled
several town offices in Palmyra and was
a good citizen. He leaves widow and
two sisters to mourn the loss of kind
and affectionate husband and brother.
The new cheese factory at Ripley,
owned by r. l.. Ramsdell is proving a
very successful enterprise. The factory
will turn out 1900 cheese this season at
an average weight of 35 lbs. each. Mr..
Ramsdell finds no trouble in disposing
OF his cheese as several large concerns in
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