The Somerset reporter., 1903-03-26
SOMERSET PICK-UPS.


The population is about 500 and the tele-
phone subscribers number sixty.
Geo. Frost of Pittsfield has four COWS
and one two year old heifer that produc
ed 171S pounds of butter from Jan. !.
1902 TO Jan. 1903, besides furnishing the
milk and cream used in family of four.
The painters of Pittsfield have form
ed a combine whereby they agree to
work ten hours for each working day,
the wages to be twenty five cents an
hour or two and one-half dollars per day.
Hollis 7. Whitney and Miss Lettie j.
Cook of Pittsield we're married by Rev.
L. w. Coons, the 14th inst. Both par
ties are we'll known operatives of the
Pioneer wooden mill and popular with
their many friends.
A little son of Leslie Strout in Ripley
has pet rooster which he has trained
so that he harnesses him to little
wagon in which he will haul few sticks
of fine wood about the yard. And the
rooster doesn't seem to dislike the per-
formance either.
Z. o. Sturtevant, formerly superin-
tendent of the Waterville & Fairfield
electric road, is engaged in promoting
an electric power plan for lighting the
towns of Madison and Arson, also the
adjoining towns of Embden, Starks,
Scion and Cornville.
II. . Lancey of Pittsfeld has gone
to Philadelphia where he will take a
special course in textile school Mr..
Lancey has been studying the wooden
business at the Waverley wooden mill
for the past year, and is now finishing
his training in that line.
After long and painful illness Mrs.
Bessie II. Hilton, wife of Hartwell Hill
ton died at No. Is Corporation st. Mad
ison at 80 a. m Tuesday the II Mrs.
Hilton had been employed in the Madi-
son Wooden Mill but suffered from a
shock last June and since then has been
a constant sufferer.
Wallace, son of Harlow Wescott of
NJ adison met with serious accident,
recently. He was starting the gasolene
engine, used by his father in saving
wood, when the machine started sud
denly breaking both bones of the fore
arm. 1t was bad break and will lay
him mp for some time.
The Robert Dobson company have
under consideration the introduction of
much larger steam plant for use in
connection with the Pioneer wooden
mill of Pittsfeld. 1t will probably be
of about double the capacity of the pre-
sent one and large enough so there will
be practically an auxiliary outfit in case
of need.
Preston Emery, a well known scaler
returned Thursday morning from lum-
bering operation on Martin Stream which
is being carried on by r NJ. clark. Mr..
Clark has cut about $50, 900 feet of pine
on stumpage this winter and now has a
small crew driving the logs about five
miles to Blacks Mills where they will
be sawed for market.
At meeting q the Kindergarten AS
ISOLATION held at Pittsfeld, Thursday
afternoon, it was decided to open the
school on Monday, April 9th. The
former Kindergartener, Miss Julia Brad
street of Halowell, will have charge Of
the school. This kindergarten will now
be public school instead of the private
one heretofore conducted.
George Bragg of Palmyra was arrested
Saturday, charged with having stolen
horse and wagon from his father on
Thursday last. Mr.. Bragg traced his
son to Bangor and found it in the stable
of James w. Clark, who had traded,
Friday. The son claims the horse as
his property, while the father says he
can prove that it belongs to him.
The school board have assigned the
schools in Palmyra the following teach
ers: village Emma Johonnett; ell, Helen
Bragg of st. Adams; Gale, Mrs. L. B.
Foley; Warren hill, Freds Head, Detroit;
Egypt, Nellie Rand; Parkman. Lula Mil
lett; Goodwin, Florence Parkman; South
Union, Miriam Folsom; Madawaska,
Sadie Homestead; Carr, Blanch Varnum.
Henry Pariin recently sold a we'll
mated pair of three-year old steers to
Charles Smell of Starks. Mr.. Parlin has
two more pairs of matched three year
old, white faced steers one pair filling
the line at 6 feet, 6 inches, the other
pair little less. These steers are nicely
shaped, handy and well hitched. They
would be sure to please the most fas-
tidous.
Mrs. Lucy, wife of Joshua Davis of
Harmony, passed away March 10th,
after an illness of several months, dur !
ing which she has suffered much, but
has borne it with much patience and
resignation. The deceased was about
As years of age and leaves beside the
husband and adopted daughter, one
sister, Mrs. Chas. Millett of Mayfield
and one brother, George Packard of
Parkman.
HenIy Leech and Leslie Graham of
Madison left, last week, for Kents Hill,
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