The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1904-12-01
SOMER SET PICK-UPS.

adding much to the beauty OF the street.
About 81 Yankees and ID Italians are
now employed by the Sebasticook Power
Company at south Pittsfield. The power
house is about done on the outside
They are now putting in concrete floor
to place the machinery on, which is all
at Pittsfled and will soon be placed in
position.
The friends of c. A. Wilbur, esq who
went from Madison a few weeks ago to
California, will be pleased to learn
that he has purchased a house and is
pleasantly located in Pasadena Mr..
Wilbur is much pleased with the country
and is improving in health, says the
Madison Bulletin.
Louis o. Haskell Of the Pittsfeld
Advertiser announces in that paper,
that Mr. Urban G Willis. of that place,
who for several years, has held a fine
position as teacher in one of the select
filing schools in the largest city OF the
middle west. and lately has been man
ager of the correspondence and adVer-
Using IN brokers' office in hieago has
purchased half interest in the Adyer-
tiser Publishing Company.
The fish and game department reeeiv-
ed a letter from came Warden Frank j
Durgin of the Forks Friday, stating that
a large COW moose had been shot, in
East Moxie plantation. The matter will
be Investigated, and if possible the vi
olator of the game laws will be punished
Mr.. Durgin also reported that bear
had been killing deer in that region, as
] he had run across the tracks of a big
bear in the snow, and upon following
them up, found where he had killed a
deer, having probably crept upon the
deer while it was lying down, He had
eaten all he wanted. and had buried the
rest of the carcass, by covering 1t with
j leaves and snow. The deer was buck
with four prongs on its antlers.
Harry Katen, head brakeman of
freight No. rs, was instantly killed al
j Pttsfied, Wednesday forenoon, while
shifting in the yard, by being caught
between a car and the delivery platform
of he freight station. He was terribly
crushed about the shoulders and chest
! hie neck being broken and face bruised
i His age was about % years and be has a
/ family in Brewer. Coroner W :.
Simpson arrived in the afternoon and
impanelled the following jury: C. E
Vickery, foreman, F r Smith, DR. ID d
Winslow, NJ. NJ Prilay Llewelyn ParkP,
g A. Klmball The testimony of the
witnesses were heard in the office of
Morse & Anderson. The jrry exonerat-
ed the railroad company.
The new Pittsfeld Grammar school
building which has been in process of
construction this fall. is now nearly
completed and will be ready for occu-
pancy next mouth. This building is
considered to be fnlly up to the stand
j ard of any of the school buildings of a
/ like grade in any of the cities in Maine,
and the people of the hustling central
/ Maine manufacturing village feel justly
i proud of their increased facilities to
meet the growing needs of education.
The building is substantial brick
structure, two stories in height with
high basement and hip roof covered
with slate. The main building is a
tritle over 71x39 feet, the first floor
being II ? feet high and the second ID
feet high.
o e Libby of Detroit, a surveyor and
civil engineer, brought news to Pitts
field enc day last week which aroused a
good bit of indignation. Mr., Libby was
out hunting in the big woods near the
Basford farm in Detroit near what is
Familiarity known as Peltoma Point.
Mr.. Libby heard a rifle shot and within
ten minutes of that time as he WAS
hnrrying up an old wood road, came
across IA dead COW moose that had just
expired. The party or parties who shot
the animal had evidently discovered
their mistake, if it was mistake, and
knowing that stranger was coming
toward them through the woods disap-
peared, and their identity is at present
unknown although there is strong sus-
picions against certain parties who are
thought TO be the guilty hunters. The
moose was taken to Pittsheld and
shipped to Augusta by direction of
Game Commissioner Carleton.