The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-11-02
STATE AND GENERA,

Bfunswlck High school foot bail Team
mad his collar bone broken ia the game
played with Lisbon Falls Iigh a. the
Whittier Athletic field, saturday after
noon.
by rear-end coils Oh Of elevated
trains in the subway mar Park street
station Boston. about Il u m Sat
urday, nearly two score Of persons re
ceived bodily injuries, while many more
received more or less serious nervous
thOck.
A Rockland despatch say: The law
firm of Littlefeld Bros. composed Of
Congressman Charles + Littlefcld and
his brother, A. =. l.ittleheld, il 10 be-
dissolved. A. s littleheld will continue
his practice IN this city II IL hunted
that the congressman will move 10 New
YORK and eventually practice law there.
The full amount of stock, S12j, 900
has been fully subscribed far the pro.
posed wooden mill TO be built AT Clinton,
Me and plans for the immediate cree
ton of he plant are well underway
The principal stockholders are Frank
Bessey and Manley Morrison of Clinton
Au excellent water power privilege on
the upper dam of he SebasucOok stream
IL available for the mill.
Permanent bail in the sum of $40, 600
was accepted after hearing. trid ay
afternoon, in the case of Mrs. Alice r
Cooper of South Windsor. who was held
for the Superior curt of Kenneb bee
county, Wednesday, for the murder of
Charles d Northy Jr., at her home on
the afternoon of October 10, and she was
liberated. Her husband ana Casper 5
Gray, chairman of the board of select
men OF Windsor, are two of the eight
sureties.
Painters and decorators union No Ill
of Lynn, voted, last week, TO refuse TO
handle varnish for the shellac and other
painting materials cut with wood alco-
hol. he union appointed a committee
to interest other unions of painters in an
attempt to secure legislation to prohibit
the use of wood alcohol in painting
The action results from the blindness of
G. A. Bedell a member of the Manches.
ter, Mass union. now in Lynn hospital.
The fumes of wood alcohol while he
worked in confined space, blinded him
and he may never Raglan his vision.
Bangor will have the pleasure for the
week commencing, Monday, Dec IS, Of
entertaining a convention of the Maine
State grange, which will, in point OF
numbers, far surpass any convention OF
the same organization that has ever
been held in the state of Maine. There
are several reasons for this and possibly
the first may be the natural desire of all
people to visit Bangor. One reason GER
tainly is that the membership OF the
state grange has been very rapidly in
creasng in the past few years until
Maine il the membership of it's state
grange, ranks we'll up in the first hall
dozen states of the union in this respect
The new church ON Matinicus. and the
first one there, for that matter, although
the island has been settled for over a
century, will be dedicated in a few
weeks Its cost is about $2400. OF this
sum the residents of the island raised
5000, the Maine Missionary society gave
$500 and other friends gave $500. The
latter class included former residents OF
the island and also summer visitors The
leader in the work has been Rev Johr
NJ Greene. D. D. of Lowell, who hal
been in the Congregational ministry fol
over 80 years and who spends his vaca
lions on Matinicus.
An interesting compilation of the
whereabouts and occupation of las
June's graduating class from BOwdoiI
college has just been completed, and i
shows that everyone of the 63 men re
ceving a degree last June is now occu
! pied iu business or profession of some
sort, which is a fact that speaks wei
for the college and for the men Offer
of desirable positions for members o
the class have been received at the col
| lege, but az all the graduates are ALREADY
occupied they cannot be supplied. A
will be noticed, a large number of mel
are taking graduate work. One of tht
interesting facts in this connection il
! the large number of men who have 10
Gated in large cities.
Never in this State has the price o
spruce lumber been 80 high as now, 81
per thousand feet having been quoteC
recently in heavy dimension timber il
New York city, which is equal to S23.5l
at the mill in Bangor Everywhere th,
demand for Maine spruce is greater thar
for twenty years past, New York city
in particular, calling for lumber taste
than the mills can saw it. AS there il
every prospect that the heavy demand
and high prices will continue next year
! the lumber men of Maine are making
| preparations to cut much larger guam
tity of logs than usual, and have already
sen; into the woods all the men tina
they have been able to hire 1t is est
mated that by Thanksgiving time Their,
will be not fewer than thirty Thousand
men at work in the woods of the State
Amid the most favorable condition.
afforded Ly magnificent autumn weathe
and the attendance of large gatherin!
of enthusiastic speakers, the monumen
erected in memory of Vim. Mckinley
the last President of the United state
to suffer martyrdom at the hands of al
assassin, was unveiled at Springfield
Mass with appropriate exercises, Thurs
day afternoon of last week. The monu
ment stands on Peicouss hill, near on,
entrance to Forest park, an eminenc,
overlooking the Connecticut river, ont
of the most beautiful locations in tn,
valley. The knoll on which the monu
ment rests was a mass of red, Whit
and blue and on all sides of the slop,
leading down to the river the G ass haC
been cut down into a velvet carpet
| Three large grandstands accommodated
the guests and speakers, the audience
and the band
Subscribers should bear in mind tha
they are entitled to votes for all pay
n3pntI made on anhaprintiGn IN rho RE