The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-12
SOMERSET PICK-UPS

, " hitten, dealers in groceries and meats,
Fairfield, have Dissolved partnership.
Mr.. Written is to continue in the bust
ness
The Fairfield High School observed
Arbor day by closing the school for part
of the afternoon session and each class
setting out tree, the botany class made
handsome flower bed. The school
yard was cleared up.
Mr.. w. W. Fogg, of Bangor has given
instruction to have the cottage bearing
his name, at Good Will properly repaired
and painted at his expense, and Mr.. c.
NJ. Bailey, of Winthrop, has arranged to
have the Bailey cottage painted and re-
paired at an early date.
Louis o Haskell, editor of the Pitts
field Advertiser, and a member of the
committee of the Maine Press Association
to make arrangements for their trip to
st. Louis, left Monday morning, with the
association for their trip, the association
meeting there May 1919.
George H. Morse, Esq, of the law
firm of Morse & Anderson, Pittsfield,
left on Friday for Mendicino county,
California, where he is extensively in
| terested in timber lands. He expects to
be absent about one month and will at
tend the meeting of the Mining Congress
in Idaho.
Two admirers OF the character of Dan
lei Alexander Mcdonald, who died last
September and was buried in the Good
Will cemetery, at East Fairfield, have
provided suitable memorial tablet to
mark his grave. The tablet vas placed
in position by Baker & Marble of Show
hogan, last week
E. NJ. Frost of Palmyra probably
handles more eggs than any other dealer
in this section. Usually at this season
of the year he has thousands of dozens
in cold storage, but this spring has been
so cold and backward, and the eggs have
held so high as rule, that only frac-
ton of the usual number have been
bought by him.
Frank Willis house in the southern
part of Pittsfield is quarantined, six
members of his family being i'll with
smallpox in a mild form. Miss Daisy
Willis, a relative of tho family, is also
afflicted with the disease at her home
in the western part of the town. DR..
g ha IF
was there, Thursday, and confirmed the
local physicians diagnosis of the cases.
Every precaution has been taken to pre-
vent the spread of the disease.
<. E. Davis & Co. Augusta, received
from Bingham, saturday, for display
purposes, about the most curious speci-
men of bear that has yet been placed
on exhibition. AS to general shape the
bear is not unlike others of his kind, ex-
cept that his head is not strictly bear
like, but it is his color that marks him
as a curiosity among his fellows. In
stead of being a glossy black, as the
bear of the Maine woods usually is, he is
of light grayish brown, suggestive of
the cinnamon bear. Another popularity
is his hair, which ia soft and silky, and
and very thick, like fleece.
The principal topic of conversation,
at Pittsfield, Saturday afternoons meet
ing OF the grange, was Corn Three
papers on this subject were read. The
fast was by j. D. NJ. Foster, whose sub
ject was 1.-THE Preparation of the
Ground. 1.-THE Best Variety of Seed
for an All Round Crop was treated of
in paper by j. w. Moses, and the final
paper was by Jennie Patten, whose sub
ject was 1.-The Best Method of Canning
for Home Use" Readings were given
by Emma Maxim and Mary Wills and a
vocal solo by Annie Frost. The ques-
ton box in charge of the lecturer closed
an interesting program.
The firm of Hunter, McMasler & Co,
Pittsfeld, which for many years has
conducted an extensive grocery and feed
business in the Dobson block, corner of
Main and Park SITS, has been dissolved.
Messrs. George H. Hunter and Albion
p. McMaster, senior members of the
firm, who have been connected with the
business of this store through several
changes of firm names for the past 20
years and have been closely identified
with the business activities u this town
for more than half century, have re-
tired from the business. On Monday
May 2, the business reverted to the new
firm of Hunter & McMaster Co.,