The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-06-01
SOMERSET PICK UPS.

The hydTants about Fan field are being
flushed aud cleaned thoroughly, In order
that the new water from { bina lake,
which the users Of the water II the
Kennebec Water District are about to
have, may come clean and pure. This
water is now coming through the pipes
The new pipe organ at Fairfield il be-
ing set up at the Baptist church by Mr..
Il. L Laro Of Naitbam, Mass The
organ very fine one Il il from the
organ factory Of t. w Lane Of that city.
A water motor Is being put IN TO run 1t
by. The piping Is being done bg 4. z.
RacklifT
The Fairfield Grammar school has
decided not 10 have regular graduating
exercises, this year. as has been their
custom, but instead have engaged the
services of Mrs Laura Richards Of
Gardiner, who will give them short
address, and also give selections from
her OVID writings
he contract for building boiler
house and toilet rooms for the River
side schoolhouse, Piusfeld, and putting
in steam heating apparatus was award
ed TO harles ats and {. NJ. Jersey,
they being the lowest bidders Their
bid being Sl720 and the whole thing
must be completed by August 10
Postmaster Oramel Murray left for
Washington, D C., Friday, the 23d inst
where he will attend a meeting of the
Postmasters National Association He
will be gone ten DAYS or two weeks, and
ia sure to enjoy this we'll earned vaca-
tioD. He will visit several of the large
cities on the way, and will either go 10
Buffalo to see his son, Will, or the latter
will visit him in New York City.
The following delegates have been
chosen from the Pittsfield UniveTsalist
church to the session of the State Con-
/ venti IN to be held al south Paris, June
! and 8: Mrs. ". Il. Hunnewell Mrs
/ D. M. Parks, Abel Davis, Esq Mrs. l..
/ W. Coons and Mrs Kate Nash. Mrs O
5. Haskell has been chosen ss an alter
nate for Mrs ID. Nj. Parks and will
] probably attend IN place of Mrs. Parks
a settlement was affected, Thursday.
in the case of Edmund d. Cummins Of
Worcester, Mass. VS.. the Carrabasset
stock farm of North Arson. The action
was in the form of bill in equity call
ing for the appointment of a receiver
for the defendant corporation and was
to have been heard by Associate Justice
Spear of the Supreme court at Portland,
Thursday. The bill was withdrawn.
The terms of the settlement were not
given out.
j. d. NJ. Foster, who has been giving
out the seed corn for the canning fac
! tory at Pittstield, reports that the whole
amount has been given out, and that
some farmers had to be denied. Thg
assures busy season at the factory the
coming fall. Several men are already
at work there making cans, which will
occupy them for couple of months.
There will be an unusually large acre
age devoted to corn in Harmony, MI.
Foster reports.
Tuesday evening of last week while
the family of h. A. Aorrell were absent,
some Que entered the house, with the
evident intention of theft. They re-
turned before he had chance to take any
thing, and he retreated to the front room
unobserved. After all had retired, he
was heard on the first floor but before
the family were able to get dressed and
persue he had fled through a window.
The thief was not able to take anything,
but showed what his iptentiCns were.
People will do we'll TO keep al doors
locked, says the Piltsfeld Advertiser.
On Lot Eve, May 10, there was or
ganized in Madison by state Grand
secretary Moses Knox. lodge of
Orange Young Americans, to be known
as the Orange Boys of 1905, No, Il The
following officers were elected and in
stalled: Capt, Elisha Knox; Lieut.,
Lila spencer; Secy., Leo Bracket; Fin.
oecy., Mearl Bridges; Treas Chester
Hubbard; Chap, Earl Gregory; Sergeant,
Frank Watson; Corporal, Bonnie Gilbert;
Sentinel, Wayman Beckwith; Guard,
Elbridge Dyer; Com, Clifford Emery,
John Beckwith, Bonnie Gilbert, Mearl
Bridges, Chester Hubbard. After they
we're duly installed, there were some
very able remarks by several of the
Orangemen present This lodge starts
out with bright prospects for the future.
This is the second one in the State but
there are several more on the way ard
will soon be started, Says the Madi-
son Bulletin