The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-04-18
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.


give some of his readings at an enter
taDment given by the ladies' of the
Pittsfield Relief Corps, some time in
May.
DR.. c. S. Philbrick Of Corinth has
made arrangements 10 locate perma
nently in Pittsfeld and after Nav lat
will remove his family there. DR..
Philbrick has practiced for the past
twenty years at Corinth
AS soon as the work can be done in
the spring the water company Of Pitts
field will have a larger main laid to re-
place the section between Pttsfeld viii
lage and the Pillsbury pond which IS
nndersize and for a distance of 1000
feet
Burnham and East Wilton parties are
going extensively into breeding Aneora
goats. One firm has bought 40 of the
animals now on the way from Mexico.
Great interest is manifested throughout
the State in this attempt to produce
nlohair in Maine.
Mrs. Tibbetts of Ripley, mother of l..
II. Tibbetts, fell recently, breaking her
leg She is nearly 81 years old, and her
recovery is considered doubtful. Pre-
vious to the accident she had been able
to care for herself and had retained her
faculties, except hearing, to a remarka-
BILE degree
Thomas Bateman of Fairfield head
driver for Lawrence, Newhall d Page
Co., left Thursday morning, for the
eompany's driving operations on Alder
stream. There are about 100000 in
the drive. The water is quite high now,
and the prospects for clean drive are
very good
II. c. Brophy of Fairfield, who started
for Tignish, P. E. L., Monday, where he
will superintend the canning of Holsters,
was obliged to return home before get
ting very far away, on account of being
unable to make the proper connections,
the rain of the past few weeks working
much damage to property in some sec
tons.
A crew of thirty five men have gone
from Madison for the Kibby drive. An
other crew of twenty men from Madison,
Bingham and Caratunk, under charge
of Geo. Dolbier of Madison, have gone
up to prepare for the Moxie drive.
New booms and head. works will be
built by them before the drives are
started
Mrs. II. L. Sawyer of Madison broke
an egg while cooking the other day and
the yolk and white dropped out as
usual and also another small egg, three
inches in circumference, having a hard
shell, and being in perfect form, al
though diminutive in size. Double yolk
eggs are common, but perfect eggs, one
within the other are rare.
Bert, the only son of w. II. Lombard
of Ripley, died April 4, aged 30 years.
He had been great sufferer for the
past year. He leaves a widow, father
and sister, Mrs. Wallace Osborn of St.
Adams. Funeral services were held,
Saturday, April 9th, at the Christian
church, conducted by Rev. William
Lang. There we're many beautiful
floral tributes.
W. P. Martin shipped the John F.
Mills r.; 6 ;,l,
kept at the Martin Farm, Pittsfeld, for
several years. to Boston, recently, with
the exception of two of the breeding
stations, Chester A. and Mac Nelson,
which will be kept for the season at the
stables of Dustin Brothers on the New
port road and will be managed by
George Dustin.
F. w. Thompson, mail carrier between
Palmyra and Newport, in the four
months and II days which he used run
ners in the discharge of his duties never
missed a trip or connection with any
of the mail trains. Mr.. Thompson owns
a number of horses and he makes time,
snow or no snow. He also haus milk
to the condensed milk factory at New
port and this he has delivered promptly.
One man was fatally injured and con-
siderable property was destroyed by
boiler explosion at Lewis NJ. Mann e
Sons wood working factory at West
Paris, Thursday. The dead man is
Herbert Emmons, engineer aged 40
years, and married The entire work
ing force of 20 men were in the factory
at the time and it is considered remark
able that all with the exception of the
engineer escaped injury. The loss is
estimated at from $4, 600 to $4,000.
The freshet which carried out the fine
iron bridge across the Sebasticook river,
Wednesday, occasioned loss to Pal
myra of $1,000, the cost of the bridge
few years ago. 1t would have with.
stood the water, but the ice which came
down with great force started it from
its foundation, then an immense ice
cake struck it and the bridge was lifted
bodily, resting on the ice and was car.
ried for quite a number of rods down
the river.
The greatest damage from the freshet
at Shawmut occurred early Thursday
morning of last week, when Lawrence,
q. a