The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-05-26
SOMERSET PICK-UPS

deavor Rally under the auspices of the
Congregational and Free Baptist 30
cieties, at the Congregational church,
Madison, Saturday, May 2sth, beginning
at 10 30 a. m. and closing at 40 p. m.
Gordon Dobson has sold through Has
kell's real estate agency, two building
lots on Hartland avenue in Pittsf1eld to
Walter B. McCausland. These lots are
located just north of the home of Frank
Lowell, and Mr.. McCausland intends to
build nice house there this season.
Farnham & Harding are building an
addition to their shop on the Island in
Pittsfeld. 1t will be 12xl8 feet and will
be used for the accommodation of their
boiler and engine. They will put In
a new 25 h. p. automatic engine, which
will give them additional motive power.
The marriage of Mr.. Thomas A. An
derson, of the law firm of Morse & An
derson, and Miss Marie louise Bryant,
oldest daughter of DIR. Z c. Bryant, has
been announced to take place at the
Free Baptist church, Pittsfield, Wednes-
day, June 1st, and invitations have been
issued to as many people as the church
accommodates.
The new General Secretary of the
State Sunday School Association II. Z.
Lufkin of Yarmouth, has requested the
Somerset Co. Association to postpone
its annual convention till the early part
of July, that he may be present and as
sst in the work The convention will
be in Bingham, and the exact date will
be announced later.
Mr.. L. O. Haskell of the Pittsfield Ad-
vertiser, who is attending the meetings
of the national organization of news
paper men at st. Louis, and incidentally
taking in the worlds fair, sends back
word to those who intend to 60 to the
fair not to hurry about it, He says it is
great show but says he would not ad-
wise Maine people to attend the fair for
some weeks yet. if they would get the
best Impressions and see everything in
its completeness.
The class of '04, Maine Central Insti-
tute, have already engaged talent for
their commencement concert, which
will be held in Union Hall on the even
ing of June 10. The Apollo Male Quar-
tette of Boston will be the leading at
1 fra hn Ht,0 ftTafF
class at M. c. l. numbers twenty one,
ten girls and eleven boys. They have
had very good group picture made by
Loder, which will appear in the next
issue of their school publication.
Preparations are being completed for
the dedication of the new public library
building at Pittsfield and the unwilling
of the soldiers monument on Saturday
of this week. Memorial day will be an
ticipated slightly, and the regular Me-
mortal day services will be part of the
other exercises at that time. The wet
weather of the past week has delayed
somewhat the work on the foundation
of the monument, but it is being pushed
and the monument will be in place on
that date. The library building is now
complete and the furnishings were put
in place the first of the week.
Levi c. Emery of SHOWN gan, Frank
L. Harding of Madison and Calvin H..
Jones of Athens, who were appointed
by the Supreme curt for Somerset
county to examine the proposed high
way between Asquith station on the Ca
madam Pacific railway and the mouth of
Moose river, are attending to that duty,
this week. This road, which is about
seven miles in length, was laid out by
the county commissioners last fall, but
there was objection by number of per-
sons over whose land it was to run.
They will decide whether public neces-
damages.
Minot Preble, son of Mr.. William
Preble, was almost instantly killed, the
afternoon of May 10th, at the upper
mill of the United Box Board d Paper
Co., on the Island at Fairfield. Young
Preble was employed in the chip tower,
and was engaged in feeding the chips
and other small stuff into the carrier.
He was alone at the time of the acct
dent, so it will probably never be known
how he came to his death, other than
the fact that his arm was caught in the
cog gearing, and he was carried into il,
mutilating some parts of the body in
terrible shape. A fellow workman
heard an unusual noise in the tower,
and went up to see what the trouble
was, where he found the young man,
and at that time life was nearly extinct,
DR. Robinson was summoned, but could
be of no assistance.
The adjusters have made satisfactory
settlement by the fire loss of the prop
erty of the Pittsfeld Electric Light Il
Power Co. large crew of men are
now at work clearing away the debris,
preparatory to erecting new buildings
Mr.. Smith, the manager of the corpora
TONS affairs, hopes to get the electric
lighting system in operation about the
LIST of June. In rebuilding, the ar
rangement of the different parts of the
plant will be much better and more up
to date than the old plant. The corpo-
ration probably will retain its private