The Somerset reporter., 1900-04-26
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ton
George Booth las taken tie contract
to sort aud pile the logs # the Great
Northern Pa er % at Madison This year.
THIS contract viii keep from forty to
sixty men busy large part Of the sum
mer
Henry Fuller of Hartland has pnr
chased nap la launch To be placed on
Moose pond the coming summer. Mr..
Fuller will make extensive additions to
his already attractive cottage. making it
one OF the finest places on the shore OF
the pond
The teachers who have been secured
for the town schools outside the village
OF Pittsfield are as follows: District W.
o. Nellie Robertson; District No ,
Fannie Humphrey; District No 3, Helen
Names; District No. ), Irma Rogers.
District No 10, Fife Horne.
j H. Russell of Madison has taken
the contract to build the new addition
to the Indian Spring Wooden mill. to
replace that which was recently DESTROY
ed by fire. The new structure will be
66xl10 feet with tar and gravel roof
$4,000 feet Of hard pine will be used in
the building and it will be completed in
about 60 days
a large crew of men and boys turned
out one day, recently. with saws and
axes and worked up large pile Of fire
wood for William Clifford of Detroit.
AS MIR. Clifford is unable to do any work
himself he esteemed it a great favor in
time of need. After the Job was done
Mrs. Clifford treated the crowd 10 a fine
baked bean supper.
AS DR.. Hooper of Fairfield was driving
in Waterville, Friday morning, his horse
became frightened at the electric ear
and bad smashnp resulted. He was
driving in road cart and leading one of
his horses This horse became fright
ened and, rearing, came down on the
road cart, completely demolishing it.
The doctor escaped without injury.
Mr.. William Hall, while attempting to
shift a belt on a pulley at v illiam How.
ards saw mill in Starks, Tuesday after
noon of last week, was seriously injured.
lie used a pole to shift the belt and it
caught in the pulley or belt and was
driven back against his chest, making a
wound about two and one half inches
deep, breaking one rib and tanning his
arm and shoulder
Excitement ran high one day recently,
in Hartland, when it was learned that
two more valuable dogs were poisoned.
Lawyer Browns dog was away from the
house less than four minutes and as all
the dogs have been poisoned in that
locality 1t would seem that the culprit
lived not far from Mr.. Browns house
Close watch will be kept and if the man
can be found it will 60 hard with him.
Alvin Carr of Hartland, one of the
section men on the ). & NJ. R. r., met
with very severe accident, recently,
that will be likely to contine him to the
house for some time Mr. Carr and an
other section man were running on a
hand car when Mr.. Carr became faint
and fell in front of the car, the same
passing over him cutting him badly and
leaving him in an unconscious condition
An Armenian named Jacob johnson
was arrested Saturday night in Madison
by Deputy Sheriff Harding for stealing
old junk from the Great Northern
Paper Co. For some time past the
company has been missing various arti-
Giles and watch was set and suspicion
was directed toward Johnson His
house on Perkins street was searched
and 1900 lbs. of lead, copper and brass
couplings (some of which had never
been used) were found.
The Watervile & Fairfield Railway
and Light Company is rushing the work
of improvement which is now going on
throughout the whole plant. f. W
Brann will have charge of the improve
ments in the road bed of the electric
road. New rails will be laid on College
avenue and new sleepers put in on the
Plains in Wateryille and from the car
barn to Railroad street in Fairfield
New joint irons will be put in the entire
length of the line. At the power station
in Fairfield the machines will be placed
in close connection with the water
wheels which will give more power. A
new water wheel will also be placed in
the station there. The contract for
the new cars calls for their delivery
on the LIST of May. Something like
1000 will be expended.
The last Board bulletin has the fol
lowing from Somerset county: Number
of farm stock, 100 per cent; value, 100
per cent. Amount of stock fodder on
hand, IS per cent. Cost of wintering
farm animals, 104 per cent. Some re-
ports of decreased cost on account of
warmer barns, better balanced feed, and
increase in amount of ensilage fed, but
more estimates Of increased cost on &C.
count of higher price of feed. Acreage
of land plowed last fall, 95 per cent.
Quantity of corn grown will probably be
considerably increased, in most sections