The Somerset reporter., 1900-01-25
Somerset People In the South.
New Orleans Daily Picayune. Jaa, Q. isoo.l


"Dr. d. s. Hunnewell of Madison, DR..
5. r. Greene and wife, Solon, and G. A.
Coleman of Jackman, all In Somerset
Co., Me-, are guests at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel. They arrived from the rigid re.
gions of way "down east" early yester-
day morning, and as soon as assigned to
rooms, proceeded to open all the win
dows, turn on the electric fans and
remark on the hot, sultry weather 1t
WAS Just comfortable outside, one OF
those oalmy days New Orleans Is noted
for, but it was radical change from the
four feet of snow on the kenDebec river,
where they are now packing ice twenty
inches thick. With these energetic New
Englanders this is pleasure and pros
pecting tour. They will leave for Texas,
this morning, and will be absent month
or more, looking into the timber re-
sources adj ,cent to Conroe, Cleveland,
Liberty. Beaumont aud other Texas
towns. making Houston their headquar-
ters. DIR. Greene has a brother-in-law,
Mr.. w. L. Whipple, stopping In Conroe,
who is a practical lumberman. He has
been in Texas three winters, and has
invited some of his Maine friends to look
these large tracts of timberlands over
with view OF organizing company to
operate saw-mlls and deal in lumber
supplies. Somerset county, in which
the Cosmopolitan guests reside, is where
some of the great pulp and paper mills,
owned and controlled by the Great Inter
national Trust Pulp and Paper Co., are
located. The Trust companies are grad
ually getting control of the timber oil
Maine. These concerns can use the
stumpage to cleaner degree than the
saw mills. This is why we are going to
Texas TO look around, said DR.. Greene
We have never been south below Wash
ington before, and are now seeing what
we have been reading about for years.
The trip, so far, has been the most inter-
esting we have ever taken. The day
WAS spent seeing the city,"
EpIToR OF THE RRPoRTER
1909 Rusk Ave,
Houston, Texas.
send the above article from the New
Orleans paper TO the REPORTER. II
northern friends.
The two doctors and Mr.. Coleman are
off exploring, will have been gone a
week tomorrow p. M, don't know Wnen
they will be back to Houston. | have a
Iut DOhluluk PihSC dhN od SbJ'f''e
myself very much. like the hospital
ity of the southern people. This is a
delightful climate. am writing by the
open window. Roses bloom all the year
around and the days are like our beauti-
full September days. Houston has TO-
600 population and 10 600 In the subur
ban towns. IA r. K. run into Houston.
The Houston cotton receipts for Aug.
81, 1899, were 543 ,059 bales. Yester-
day a. M, attended the highest toned
colored church (Methodst Trinity in
the city, and they took me TO be a mis-.
sionary. | told them no, but was good
Methodist, and had to be introduced to
the pastor, superintendent of the public
(colored) school, lots of the teachers,
and they were educated and refined.
They have the same cordial way the
white southerners do. The market is
the place to go to see the sights. All
nationalities. | like in the south, but |
had rather live north. There are many
elegant homes here aud so many north
ern people, in fact, almost every one is
from different States in the union.
Very sincerely,
MRS. SELDEN +. GREENE.