The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-11-12
SOMERSET PICK-UPs.

hessrs Frank eek, II K Lanct..
ter and L. I. eeks Of Pit'teell are
buying apples for shipment to E5ge,ud.
They have been shipping soua= apples
abroad for several years The prevail
Ing price there this fall is 81 30 per bbl
II. l. Williams, formerly proprietor
of the Park House Hartland in which
business he grew to manhood bis father
having run this house for many year,
before him, has purchased residence
in Watervile where he is to remove
with his family
Miss Bertha Files, instructor Of Greek
at Maine Central Institute, piusfeld.
has been obliged TO resign her position
on account Of i'll health, and has re
turned to her home in Lewiston. Miss
Ethel NJ. Yiekery has been engaged ~
fill the position
Repairs on the Madison wooden mill
are progressing rapidly 1t is expected
that work will be resumed this week
The repairs are quite extensive and
when completed all danger from high
water will be obgiated. New water
wheels have been put in and practically
the west end Of the mill containing the
wheel house is newly built.
o. f. CUTS of North Arson, the
former football player at Bates and
Harvard's tackle in 1901, was in the
wreck of special train taking the Pur-
due university team and its supporters
to Indianapolis recently and it was re-
ported in the early dispatches in Boston
that he was among the killed. Later
dispatches denied this, but after work
ing over the injured all of Saturday and
Saturday night, he was ordered to the
hospital Sunday afternoon and will have
both legs in plaster casts for several
weeks. There were crushed bones in
both ankles His brother at Providence,
r. l. has been notified. Cuts wa
coach of the Purdue university eleven
On a small farm in Palmyra four
active youths (?) in five days dug four
hundred and thirty five bushels of pota-
toes from one acre of ground. While at
work such remarks as these were heard,
-"Dan, come here and help lift this
potato into the sack, . Joe, when you
go down bring up the cant dog The
youngest of these merry laborers was
sixty-eight, the oldest seventy-six.
" hen they gathered around the refresh
ment board a sprightly maiden OF
seyenty-seyen joined in the repartee,
while the matron smiled her benedic.
ton. The united ages of the remark
able group of six persons was fouI
hundred and thirty-eight years. Truly
there are no "old folks now.
Fire broke out, early Friday morning,
in the power house of the Wateryille &
Fairfield Electric Ry. & Light Co, sit
uated on the land formerly owned by
the N. Totman & Sons Cos. mill priv.
lege in Fairfield, and afterwards sold to
the Electric Light Company. The fire
spread very rapidly and nothing could
be done to save the plant. James Tib-
belts, who was in charge, first discover
ed the blaze and gave an alarm as quick.
ly as possible. The building was not
valued for much, but the machinery
was estimated to be worth between
$4,000 and $1,000, which is about covered
by insurance. The plant is the one used
for the incandescent system of lighting
and now the work will be done at the
auxiliary plant until new arrangements
are made. There are number of diff
ferent theories in regard to the origin
of the fire and as yet, it is not known
what the direct cause was. The blaze
was hot one and 1t is fortunate that
other buildings were not injured