The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-01-31
SON EkSET PICK-UPs.

~ r 'oIdlu mas presented TIE Long
fellow school, Fairfield, with a bss
relief Of "Panl Revere on bis famous
ride" for which they are very grateful.
Wednesday evening of last week The
regular mid week meeting at Good viii
Farm took the form Of memorial ser
vice for the late iliam II. Holding Of
Lewiston. He was member of ibe
Boys Orchestra, which for two or three
seasons has furnished music at the
Good " i'll asse mi les
The madison Wooden Mill 60. have
received large orders on light weights
and will start a night crew. The Indian
Spring Wooden Mill Co. of Madison have
also received orders on light weights
enough to run the mill night and day
for three months, and will start a night
crew in a few days
I b. Weston has petitioned the leg
islature to be set off from Madison Vii
age Corporation. A remembrance was
in circulation, last week, which was
signed by the greater number of the
business men of Madison. Mr.. Weston
was one of the most active parties in
working for the organization of a VII
lage Corporation and the people as a
rule do not feel like letting him out at
this stage of the game
Car Inspector Greenwood of Fairfield.
while fixing a coupler on car of a
freight train, Friday evening, was pinch.
ed by car backed down on him by the
engineer, who did not know he was
there at work. He was caught on the
right side below the shoulder. He was
taken to his home in Fairfield where
Drs. Thayer and Boyer of Waterville
examined him. No bones were broken,
and although he was severely iammed.
it is hoped that he will not be laid up
long
The traffic over the line of the Sebas
ticook & Moosehead railroad has more
than doubled since the line was opened
to the Main Stream terminus a few
weeks ago. The increase in the freight
business promises to exceed the expecta.
lions of the managers and they are more
than satisfied with the showing made
thus far. One day, last week, Is carloads
were landed at the junction from one
days trip. The people from Main
stream and surrounding towns are tax.
ing advantage of the increased facilities
for reaching the markets and are ship.
ping out their produce, potatoes, hay
and pulp wood by the carload.
The Weekly Leader of Pontiac, H.,
OF January 10, contains an account of
Christopher w. Sterry of that town,
who WAS native of Somerset county.
His death occurred the 8tb inst, of
pneumonia. He was born in Somerset
county, Maine, August II, 1926. His
father, Samuel Sterry, served in the war
OF 1872 and MS grandfather was one OF
the heroes of the revolutionary war.
His father died In 1927. The mother
was Hannah Harding Sterry, a devoted
Christian woman, was born in 1888 and
died in Maine in 1871 at the age of So
years. He had hard time In boyhood
but went to Illirois early in life and
achieved a competency and honor,
there.
The second animal convention of
Chapter Masons comprising the Chap
tiers of Dover, Dexter, Newport and
Pittstied was held at Pittsfield, Wed.
nesday evening, Jan. %. The different
degrees of the hapter work were con.
ferred upon several candidates, the
Chapters from each town comforting
degree. The Mark Master degree was
worked by St. Johns Chapter, the Past
Master degree by Piscataquis Chapter,
the Most Excellent Master Degree by
Stevens Chapter, and the Royal Arch
Degree by Ira Berry Chapter Howard
ID. Smith of Norway, Grand King, was
present at the ceremonies and expressed
himself as fully satisfied with the man.
ner in which the events of the evening
phSseu anu the interest manifested in
this section among the hapters.
In the presence of Good Will Rebekah
Lodge, No. so, and Fairfield Lodge, l.
o. o. F No. SO, and large number of
invited guests, the officers of Good Will
Lodge were installed, Thursday even.
ing The installing officer was Mrs.
Laura Felker of Clinton, district dep
uty president of the Rebekah Assembly.
who was assisted by Ida NJ Bean, grand
marshal of the same place. Following
we're the officers installed: n. g.,
Bessie Brown; V. e., Mabel Rackliff;
Rec. Sec, Hattie Clifford; Fin. Sec,
Mabel Rackliff; Treas Mary Gray;
Con, Bertha Mclaughlin; warden, Mrs.
Ann Tozier; inside guardian, Cora
Written; outside guardian, Benjamin
Rackliff; Chap Mrs. Knowlton; K S.
n g., Mrs. Robinson; L. ;. n. G., Mrs
Poland; r. S. V g., Clara Marble; L.
s. V. g., Helen Rackliff. Refreshments
followed the installation exercises.
A petition has been received saws the
Pittstield Advertiser from Augusta by
Selectman c. E. Vickery, requesting
that he secure signatures to the same
in favor of resolve to be presented to