The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-04-23
STATE AND GENERAL.

hired girls.
Hon. Harold NJ. sewall, former
minister to Hawaii, will soon open a
law office at Bath.
The first brick block in Caribou will
be built, this season. by the Caribou
National Bank. Its estimated cost is
$4,000.
Among the students attending the
Eastern State Normal school at Castine
are 113 who have had experience in
teaching.
The dates of the Eastern Maine State
Fair this year are Aug. % to 20 inclu-
sive, the week preceding the Maine
State Fair
Rufus NJ. Sewdll of Wiscasset, noted
Maine historian, died, Friday, aged so
years. He was author of Ancient Do.
mains of Maine and other historical
books OF value.
DR.. G.. NJ. Twitchell, editor of the
sets by order of his physician, who in
sists on complete rest from business until
the effects of the grippe have passed off.
L. T Carleton, chairman of the com.
mission of inland fisheries and game,
has completed revision of the inland
fish and game laws and copies of the
work will soon be ready for distribution.
Mayor Boothby of Portland, announ-
ces that arrangements have been made
whereby the through train between
that city and New York would be put
on, June 15-a week earlier than it was
last year.
The proprietorsa of fruit stores and
other establishments In Pennington,
who have been in the habit to a greater
or less degree of opening their places
of business on Sunday, have been order
ed to keep them closed.
Maine music lovers will be interested
to learn that Madame Dora Wiley. Ten.
mis- of Bangor has been engaged to ap-
pear as leading soloist at the regular
weekly concerts In the new Majestic
theatre, Boston, commencing last Sun
day.
Friday night the 10Th fire broke out
in the car shops of the Maine Central at
Thompson's point, near Portland, and
before it could be controlled, the entire
plant, with the exception of the round
house, had been destroyed. The loss
will reach fully $4,000.
G. W. Walker of Chelsea puts in a
claim for his flock of sheep that will be
hard to beat. He has ID sheep of the
Shropshire grade and they are the
mothers, this spring, of "a lambs, all
alive and full of briskness. Two of his
sheep had twins that weighed 20 pounds
per pair.
That Panama canal is big under
taking. The number of men that will
be employed on it, with all the machin-
cry that will be used, is thirty thousand,
and even with that force it ia not ex-
pected that Yankee "hustle" will sue
coed in putting the ditch through in less
than eight years.
At the final session of the quarterly
meeting Of the executive committee of
the Maine State grange at Waterville,
olu nf OF Cd
that Is field days, one for each county
In the state, should be held during the
coming summer. These meetings will
be addressed by speakers from out of
the state.
Every -four mill in Minneapolis and
practically all of the merchant spring
wheat mills in Minnesota and the north
east shut down entirely, Thureday, and
will cease turning out -four for an
indefinite period. This act has been
forced upon the millers by the con-
ditions surrounding The manufacture
and sale of -four.
Caleb s. Haskell, one of the Oldest
twins in this country, died at his home
in New Gloucester, Mass, the 18th inst.
He was born Aug. Ia, 1914 and his twin
sister, Mrs. Judith p. Bradbury who
resides in Roxbury, Mass, survives bin.
His father who lived to the age of 81
years had a twin sister who reached
the age of 81.
The Railroad Commissioners have
received petition for narrow guage
railroad from the Phillips & Rangley
road near the crossing of the south
branch of Dead river to Redington town.
ship, passing through Dallas, Longtown,
Coplin and Redington Plantations. 1t
is to be called the Eustis Railroad Co.,
and is capitalized at SIS, 900.
The department o. agriculture has
issued comparative statement of the
wheat crop of the world showing that
the total of 124, 422 900 bushels in 1902
was distributed as follows: North
America, ISL 10000; South America.
1884 900; Europe, 1,79s, 933, 600; Asia,
$3.50, 42s, 900; Africa, $4,000, 600 and Aus
tralasia, 1927 900. The crop in the
United States was 670,O63 900
The reunion of the Boston Colby
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