The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1900-03-22
SOMERSET PICK-Ups

the Crookertown Lumber Go = mill at
Bigelow, WAS burned, Tuesday of last
week. The loss WAS s. 600 and there
was no insurance. The company will
rebuild at once.
John Page Of Hartland, is doing
lively business saving spool wood Mr.
Page not only employs a number of
men, but is great help TO the farmers
who are fortunate enough to have
growth Of birch on their farms.
Quite an amount of lumber is being
landed in Sandy stream. A. Il. Chase
and Gould Bros. of Lexington, expect to
land about $40 M. J. {. Viles expects
TO land 1000 cords of pulp wood and a
number Of smaller lots are being hauled.
Several small burglaries have been
committed in Madison, the past few
weeks aud evidently seems to be the
work Of boys and suspicion seems to
centre upon two Of the village, who are
in fair way to get themselves into
trouble.
The little son of Pearl York of Bear
Hill, was seriously injured while at play
IN the woods near Fairfield by the wood
cutters accidently telling a tree on him.
One hip was broken, his teeth nearly
severed his tongue and bis head was
badly injured, with possible fracture.
DR.. E. P. Goodrich, who has been
practicing medicine in Pittsfeld, for
several years, has moved to Plymouth.
where he will locate DR.. and Mrs.
Goodrich have made many friends dur.
ing their stay in PittsfeId. and their de
cision to locate elsewhere will be much
regretted.
Palmyra has only about 800 voters
now and had not over $50 in 1850, yet as
a Pittsfield Advertiser correspondent re.
calls, that town sent 1s7 men into the
Union army in the Civil war and of that
number all but two were volunteers.
This is record for patriotism that it
would be difficult to excel.
The trustees of Hartland Academy
have purchased a complete set. consist
ing of volumes Of "The History of Our
Country by Edward 5. Ellis This is
fine work, beginning with the dis.
covery CT America and taking it to the
present time. 1t will be a great add
ton to the school library.
1t seems that the race of good, old
fashioned mothers is not extinct vet
The Fairfield Journal says a man came
into store in that town, the other dav.
and remarked that everything except
ing the boots, that he had on, viz:
stockings, shirts, undercothes, outside
clothes and cap were spun, woven and
made by his mother
! W. w. Jacobs of Pittsfeld, in com
pany with his brother. Timothy Jacobs,
will do quite an extensive business this
spring in their sugar orchard. They
have about 1000 trees and will tap about
300 of them. Mr.. Jacobs states that
those who have trees to tap believe with
the large amount of snow on the ground,
there is the best of reason for expecting
large flow of sap.
Representative Roberts, of Massachu.
sets, formerly of East Madison, Maine,
was honored again, last week, BY
Speaker Henderson, who made him
chairman of special committee to ex.
anime the condition of the document
room of the House. The committee is
given power to inspect the papers on file
and to report on what ones can be well
destroyed. Representative Heatwole of
Minnesota and briggs of New York, are
the other members of the committee.
At the annual meeting of the firemen.
at Madison, recently, the following
officers were elected: Chief engineer,
j. W. Tompkins; first assistant engineer,
d. NJ. Nichols; second assistant engi-
neer, Vernon {. Williams; general secre-
tary, Linden II. Williamson; foreman of
Hose Company, No. l, F. P. Laid; first
assistant, Il. r Pierpont; second assist
ant, Charles P. Lancaster; clerk, Stanley
Renter; foreman of Hook and Ladder
Company, C. L. Thompson; first assist
ant, Eugene Leeman; second assistant,
c. W. Pierpont; clerk, o. II. Benson.
Mr.. Andrew Cathcart was instantly
killed at Long Pond, Jackman, Monday
of last week, by being run over by pair
of horses. He had been driving team
in the woods for his brother, " lillian,
and on Monday, while returning from
the landing, pair of horses driven by
/ Will McCollor became frightened and
ran away, and in endeavoring to stop
them was struck by the pole of the sled
and knocked down. The horses ran
over him, stepping on his head aud kill
ing him instantly. Mr.. Cathcart was 25
years of age. He leaves an aged mother,
two sisters and three brothers.
Madison will have boom in the build
ing line the coming season. There is a
we'll founded rumor that the Great
Northern Paper Co. will put up at least
sixty new houses. The company will
begin the erection of a mill at Fishing
Falls. A town hall and srmory will be
erected on Main street. The NJ. E.
society are making plans to erect new
church building on the site of the one