The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1901-10-31
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.

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The Convention OF Pittsfield District
S. 5. was held in Hartland in the NJ. E.
Church, Tuesday, Oct. 20, afternoon
and evening.
Mr. Peacock, principal of the Hart
land high school, handed in his resigna-
ton Wednesday morning which was ac-
cepted by the trustees The vacancy
was filled Friday by Mr. Thompson from
the south. The pupils speak in very
fiattering terms of MIR. Thompson.
Thelma, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Ivory Pease of Fairfield, who had
been i'll with typhoid fever for several
days past, died, at 4 a. m, Thursday.
Her age was years. The funeral took
place on Friday, conducted by Rev. j.
F. Rhoades, pastor of the Universalist
Church.
According to the Agricultural bulletin
for the month, in Somerset county the
yield of oats, So bushels, quality, 100 per
cent; mixed grain, yield, 80 bushels,
quality 100 per cent. Yield of sweet
corn, $40. Potato prospects, 103 per
cent Potatoes are not rotting much in
most parts Yield of ensilage corn, ID
tons. Amount of stock fodder, lis per
cent.
Mrs. Thos Danforth of Madison COM
mitted suicide by taking Paris green at
her home on Head street, Friday night.
This was the second attempt, the first
being made on Tuesday, was not sue
cessful because of an overdose of the
poison. Mrs. Danforth was born in
Harmony and was about sixty years of
age. The cause of the deed was a fear
of becoming town pauper.
William Dobson of Pittsfield is to
erect one of the best and most expensive
cottages yet constructed at that resort,
on the shores of Lake 5ebasticook, New
port, next season. Mr.. Dobson has Sc
cured a delightful site on Mere point,
near the cottage of G. NJ Barrows, hav-
ing frontage on the lake of 400 feet.
Preston Jersey, the Pittsfield architect,
will make the plans for the contemplated
cottage
The trial of the equity case the Lock
wood Manufacturing Company and the
Hollingsworth & Whitney Company
against 81 mill owners on the Kennebec
and its tributaries to restrain them from
throwing refuse material into the river,
was on Saturday after the admission of
the evidence relating to the amount of
debris thrown into the river, continued
to November 20. Somerset mill owners
are largely interested in this case.
The new line of the Bell Telephone Co.
to North Dexter, which has been erected
the past summer, was put in operation
few days ago. The central office at
North Dexter is in the Office of Elbridge
Flanders. This line in connection with
are great additions to the rural means of
communication for Dexter people and
at the same time gives these villages
communication with tho world they
have long needed and desired.
Mrs. Abbie Damon, of the Lancey
House, Pittsfeld, met with a painful
accident, Wednesday morning. She was
in the laundry of the hotel, engaged in
cleaning some delicate fabric with pre-
paration containing gasolene. Unwit-
tingy she went near hot stove, and
the gasolene ignited, instantly envelop-
ing her arms and face in flames Some
one threw a sheet over her head and
smothered the fire, but not before she
had sustained several painful burns.
The annual meeting of the Universal
list Sunday school at Pittsf1eld was held
recently and the reports read showing
the very prosperous condition that has
been in evidence the past year. The
new officers elected are as follows: Su.
perintendeut, Mrs. W. r. Hunnewell;
assistant superintendent, Mrs. c. E.
Vickery; secretary, Miss Susie Stevens !;
assistant secretary, Miss Claudia Priest
treasurer, Miss Edna White; pianist,
Miss Iona Perkins; assistant, Miss Bes.
sic smith; librarian, Everett Libby;
assistant, o. S. Haskell.
st. Adams correspondent in one of
our contemporaries has the following:
'ln town not many miles from this
city lives man whose wife died He
hired a man to dig her grave. The man
had other work to do, so he made
very quick job of it. He was one hour
and half digging the grave. The man
worked for 10 cents an hour when he
worked out, 30 this man wanted to pay
him 10 cents for digging his wife's grave
He told the man ii he was so mean as
that he was welcome to the job, and he
would dig a hole free gratis for him any
day he was called on if he was 80 cussed
mean"
Mrs. Brown, mother of Mrs. Eta
Brown of Fairfield, whose death occur.
red Tuesday, was buried, Thursday
afternoon. The funeral was conducted
by Rev. George r. Palmer, pastor of the
Methodist Church. The Baptist choir
sang several appropriate selections. Mrs.
Brown was sick only few hours. heart
failure being the cause of her death. Her