The Somerset reporter., 1900-05-17
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

Frank Batchelder, who lives in the
vicinity of Castle Harmony, Hartland,
had the good luck to capture five nice,
large offers. The skins will easily sell
for $40 each.
The Misses Clarke, the we'll known
authors, "Sophia May and "Penn Shir-
ley" have returned to their home at
Norridgewock after spending the winter
with friends in Massachusetts.
D. r. Donnelly of Fairfield has the
contract to lay the pipes for the Fairfield
Water Co. 1t will take about ten thou
sand feet of pipe or about 8 car loads.
part of which have already arrived.
A break in water pipe in mill No. 1,
of the Linn Wooden Co. at Hartland
recently flooded the spinning room and
might have done considerable damage
if it had not been early discovered by
the Waterman.
The annual prize speaking contest at
Good Will Farm, East Fairfield, for the
Lamoureux and Thrall prizes, will take
place, Friday evening May Is. The
music will be furnished by the Auriel
Quartet of Winthrop.
Mr.. Dority of Portland was in Madi-
son, Wednesday of last week, and pur-
chased of WILDER Hilton the chestnut
horse, Fortune" This horse has
taken first prize, as gentleman's driver,
the past two seasons at the Madison fair.
Mr.. Hilton has driven this horse a mile
in 2.34 2 over Somerset park,
Miss Edna George of Cliftondale,
Mass, arrived in Pittsheld last week
to begin her duties as teacher of elocu.
ton at Maine Central Institute. Miss
George was graduated from the Emerson
School of Oratory, Boston, recently and
has accepted position to teach oratory
and physical culture next year in a
seminary at Waterford, Texas.
The can making machinery that has
been used in the corn shop at Corinna
in the manufacture of the cans to be
used at that factory during the packing
season is ready for shipment to the fac
tory in Pittsheld, which has been in
process of construction for the past few
weeks. Two hundred acres of corn
have been engaged for the new factory
which is all they care to handle for the
first year.
The old Totman mill in Fairfield, the
last of the many mills which used to saw
lumber there, passed into new hands
last week and is now owned by
the Watervile & Fairfield Electric Rail-
way and Power Co. who will soon use
the power for the generation of cleo
tricity. This mill has been in the hands
of the Totman family since 1916, when
the late Ezra and Nahum Totman started
the mill.
The work of relaying the ties of the
Watervlle & Fairfield electric road has
begun. The work of reconstruction is
under the direction of II. H. Toward,
roadmaster of the Maine Central, who
personally inspects all the ties put in,
and to date he had rejected about one
half that had been sent there for the
job. The power station will he ready
for service about the middle of June
when also the new wheel cars are
1t is rumored that new telephone
line from Madison to New Sharon may
be built before another fall that will
give good local service and long dis
tanoe connection Poles we're set from
" laughs corner, where the Franklin
line passes to junction with
the New Sharon & Norridgewock lines,
last fall, with the understanding that
either the New Sharon & Norridgewock
Co. or the Franklin would put the wires
on; thus giving a much needed and bet.
ter service to both lines as well as the
people along these proposed lines who
have furnished and set the poles, a
chance to obtain good telephone con-
nection. All are interested that this