The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1903-06-25
STATE AND GENERAL.

1 that II s. Grant is candidate for the
Republican nomination for the vice presi-
dency next year.
The annual convention of the Episcopal
diocese of Vermont in session at Kut-
land last week went on record as favor
ing changing the name of the church to
| the American Catholic Church.
The president will leave Washington
at 10 on Saturday, the 9th instant, on
special train over the Pennsylvania
railroad for his summer home at Oyster
Bay, arriving there at 40 o'clock that
afternoon.
1t takes SO people to run the state
house. This includes all the heads of
the dep artments, clerks, stenographers,
hremen, engineers, laborers and watch
men 1t requires Is men just to do the
chores around the building.
The report on aluminium for 1902 has
| Just been issued by the United states
Geological Survey. The production of
aluminium in the United States during
1902 was approximately 7 1900, 900 pounds,
in 1901, the sole producer being the
Pittsburg Reduction Company.
A list of so persons appointed in I'M
classified postoff1ces, shortly afterwards
classified by the establishment of free
delivery thereat, and within six months
thereafter transferred to other positions
in the classified service, from March /,
1900, to Feb. 8, 1901, was given out
Friday. Ofthis number, % we're women.
A Bohemian named Josef Kraus, who
was fol several years the late Queen
Dragas valet, has returned to Pilsen
from Belgrade. lie hid with the other
royal servants during the assassination
in the palace and thus escaped. He
asserts that many more we're killed than
have been reported and says the assas-
sins were drunk.
The Flexwelt Shoe & Machinery Com
pany, with the largest amount of capital
stock, 100000, ever paid in by one
company under the general Maine cor
poration law, Friday filed certificate of
incorporation at the~office of the secre-
tary of state. The company was organ
lied at Kittery, to deal in boots, shoes
and leather findings.
A special meeting of the members of
Kora Temple, order of the Mystic Shrine,
was held in City Hall, Bangor, Thurs.
day night, with six hundred in atten-
dance. Degrees were worked on 1T
candidates, most of them living in east
ern Maine. At the conclusion of the
degree work, a banquet was served for
which covers were laid for 400.
Because of the heavy loses in Maine
timberland the idea seems to have spread
abroad that the lake regions of Maine
where there are summer hotels practical
ly have been burned over. A. matter
of fact not hotel nor a single sporting
camp has been destroyed. nor, with the
exception of few distant camps, have
they been threatened at any, time.
Business about the Rangeley hotels is
fast assuming summer proportions and
a very profitable season is being looked
forward to by the proprietors of the
many resorts. Just at present the fish
ing is what could we'll be termed half
way between hay and grass. The troll
ing season is practically over and it is
yet little too early for the fly fisher
men on the big lakes.
Governor and Mrs. Hill left for Boston
Thursday to be present at the wedding
of his son. Percy V. Hill and Miss Edith
Raymond which took place at high noon,
Saturday, in the Mt Vernon church
Walter Laggett, son of Mrs. Hill, acted
as best man. The bridal trip will in
clude Europe and they will not return
till fall. when the new house now in pro-
cess of remodeling will be ready for
occupancy.
The Kennebec journal on Thursday
of last week used cuts of the living ex-
governors of Maine, eight in number,
and published sketches of them. They
are Joshua l.. Chamberlain, 1867-1870;
Sidney Perham, l871-1873; Selden Con-
ner, 1891 1878; Alonzo Garcelon, 1879;
Frederick ROBBIE, 1888 1886; Edwin c,
Burleigh, 1889 1892; Henry B. Cleaves,
1893 1895; Llewllyn Powers, 1897 1900
Two of these, Conner and Powers, are
oT Son,aroat
The Maine fish and game commits
sioners have been paying considerable
attention to the enforcement of the laws
regarding the possession and transporta-
ton of game birds and birds of plumags'
The Lacey law, so called, places the
laws of the state under federal jurisdic-
ton and makes them more certain OF
enforcement Recently Game Warden
Ross of Vanceboro SO zed an extensive
. lot of gull's breasts in Eastport, making
the second seizure of the same kind
within year.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Monson Railroad Co. at
Mouson, June II, the following board OF
directors was chosen: George o. Whit
ing, Lexington, Mass; j. 5. Whiting,