The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1905-11-30

PURCHASE Oh an organ tOT tho bCuuol
room.
Bingham.
Every body is making ready for Thanks
giving.
Mrs Nathaniel Brown and Mrs. Albert
Clark OF Caratnnk we're in town, last
week.
Charlie Baker was at home last sun.
day.
Mount Moxie Lodge ID having work to
do at most every meeting.
f. Ii. Colby went to Bangor on bust
ness trip on Monday.
Chris. Steward of Caratuuk was in
town the first of the week
Everett hurchill and Walter Curtis
were the guests of their sister, Mrs
Harry Cummings, last week.
Lander & Moore's bookkeeper, Miss
salisbury, is boarding with Mrs. Davis
Howes
clyde " hitney was quite i'll, last week
George Colby made her regular trip
to Madison on Thursday TO receive
further instruction in music.
Mr.. Everett, of the firm of Mahoney
& Everett, contractors on the Moxie
Pond section of railway, was in town &C =
compaEied by his wife on Sunday and
Monday last.
There was a consignment of hsh which
arrived at this station on Wednesday
night in a government fish car. Part OF
them were taken to Pierce pond and
part 10 Otter pond.
F. II. Colby was confined to the house
by severe cold day or two last week
Mrs. Albert Clark of Caratunk was the
guest of her father, John Owens, on
Thursday and Friday last.
Sue Whitney was in Oakland and
Waterville, Saturday and Sunday last,
returning, Monday
Mrs. s. w. Childs of Detroit, Mich.
has been up on the Dead Water r. r.
division with her husband during the
past week.
The Stars and Rebeccas' met again on
Thursday afternoon TO sew for their sale
to come off in December.
Lena Preble, who has kept millinery
in Lander's block during the past season,
returned to her home in Richmond last
Monday.
Thomas Howes and wife are cooking
for crew of seventeen men on one OF
the Dead Water railway sections.
Mrs. George Rogers and Mrs. Lila
Mitchell both from the Lockwood sport
ing camps on Chamberlain Hill were in
Bingham shopping on Saturday last.
Mrs. Ben Adams returned from Au-
burn on Friday last. Mr.. Adams has
been taking his meals at Mrs. Maria Car
ney's during her absence.
Walter Piper Is having q Thanksgiy-
ing vacation at home from his school
work in Pittsfield.
The Bingham Grange held it's usual
harvest feast dinner on Saturday last
and 1t was of the usual first class quality.
The evening was very pleasantly spent
in a social manner, marches and games.
Saunders Bros. aud Russell have just
completed the work of placing a new
engine and boiler in their mill at the
station The boiler is eighty horse
power return flue type, with a sixty foot
smoke stack. They have abandoned
their mill near the river and have built
an addition to the mill at the depot.
During the winter and spring they will
use about one thousand cords of white
birch in the manufacture of bowels.
More than five hundred cords of this
will be brought down over the new SOM
erset Railroad extension from West
Moxie about two hundred and fifty cords
will be RATED down the Kennebec river.
The remainder will be hauled in by
teams. The birch which is brought on
the railroad will he faken 1iraCt from
the cars into the mill sawed into square
bowels, then stacked In the mill yard
till seasoned. They will then be turned
into round bowels of different sizes and
shipped to the various firms using them.
Four dowel machines are kept running
and eight or ten men are employed.