The Somerset reporter., 1905-08-17

conference. Lightning damaged :.
dwelling In Houlton, but no one was in
jured.
! Madame Lillian Blauvelt, the prIm.
| donna will be visitor In Gardiner. tbi.
summer, spending some time with bas
friend, Miss Kate Vannah, the comno.
err Nine. Blauvelt Is now resting at tba
new estate recently acquired by her Inns
band, w. F. Pentleton in Lownset Co
Maryland, and on her visit to Maine
she will also be the guest of friends ~
Portland and Bar Harbor.
Mrs. Mary Cunningham, who was III.
oldest person In that section of tbo
State of Maine, IL not in the State. dina
sunday afternoon, at her home with be,
daughter, Mrs. Maria Quinn in Bango,
She passed her 105th birthday on INV
Fourth Up to few months ago sbs
had been in excellent health for ons
of such advanced age, and her last in
ness was comparatively brief.
Tom Butter, the bicycle rider, KNOW
as "Volo' who jumps the gap durns
circus performance. failed to do tbss
trick at Helena Mont, last week and
for half an hour. The physicians sav
they fear he was internally injured and
and will die His wife loops the oon
in an automobile and she followed with
her turn Immediately after the accident
to her husband.
The board of instructors for tba
Maine Central Institute at Pittsfield far
the year beginning Sept. 4 as an.
nounced by trustees is as follows. prof
F. U Landman, A B., principal; L. s
Walker, B. ). sub-principa; Lillian
Norton, A. B preoeptress; Florria N
Bishop, principal of Normal department.
Grace V Thompson, A. B., as -istapt.
Mrs. Evelyn Call, assistant; Ethel Y
Laughton, elocution: Mrs F, ] TAYLOR
music; Mrs Marie Anderson, photo,
graphy and typewriting.
After serving nine years of lita
sentence in the State Prison, Mn
Ellen Dolley was granted a pardon bv
left there, August 10, on the 80 train
and was permitted to return to her old
home in Windham, She was acoompa.
MED by her son, George Dolley. of
Portland, who went to take his mother
home. Mrs. Dolley is now 60 years old
and Is the second woman in this State
to receive a pardon during the last
quarter of century. The pardon to
Mrs Dolley is the first one signed BY
Governor Cobb.
Rear Admiral Charles Edgar Clark.
member of the general board of the
navy and famous for his feat in
bringing the battleship Oregon around
the Horn from San trsnciso to KEY
West during the SpanishAmercian war,
was placed on the retired list Thurs.
day, Aug 10, his 62d birthday In
honor of the event the members of the
Lake Mansfield Trout Club entertained
Admiral Clark and a number of bis
friends at dinner and reception at
Lake Mansfield, where the admiral and
his family are spending the summer.
A patent has been allowed on Motor
street cleaner invented by Napoleon ST.
Peter of Waterville. The first cleaner
made which had been in Waerville
for some time was brought to Fairfield
last week. 1t is about II feet long and
sweeps a strip eight feet wide, all being
run by Ia horse power engine. Two
brushes slanting in and back, hung at
the sides between the front and rear
wheels sweep the dirt into windrow
Is inches wide which is thrown bya
third brush into blower that emptes
into the body of the machine. Very
little dust will be made for the brushes
have bonnets and the fine particles Of
dirt are separated by centrifugal action.
The states of New York and Mich.
gan together produced two thirds of the
entire output of salt in the United
States last year, according to the report
just completed by the Geological sur
vey. New York State alore produced
80 o. per cent. of all the salt, and Nj.
chigan "a SO per cent. The entire pro-
duction in the country in 1904 was 2,
030, 002 barrels $3.50 poundsl, valued at
IS, 286 9S8, in 1908. Last years pro
duotion was the largest reported in any
year except in 1902 The average net
price per barrel is lower than in any
year except in 1902. The average price
of salt last year was less than IS cents
per barrel.