The Somerset reporter., 1906-10-18
STATE AND GENERAL

An express train rolled into Buffalo
the other day with seven car loads Of
cavalry horses for the soldiers at Fort
Ethan Allen, Vt. The horses came from
Fort Grant. Ariz., and were described as
having "stocky, 1.-THE, little bodies and
intelligent faces "
Alvah D Dorr of Bucksport shot two
deer and partridge Thursday after
noon at o'clock In about two minutes
He was about five miles from Bucksport
In what Is called the Turner district.
Fe was sitting down In an old orchard
waiting to get shot at partridge on
an apple tree, and when he brought
down the partridge two deer appeared
and he shot them both His team was
hitched near by and he loaded them on
and brought them home, being out just
two hours.
In the sweepstakes pulling match for
oxen scheduled to come off, Friday at
Topsham, to all who were any judge of
the cattle it seemed very likely that the
oxen owned by Herbert Small of Tops
ham would take first prize. During
Wednesday night some one got into the
stalls where the cattle we're kept and
poured Croton oil on the neck of the
nigh OK burning him so badly that he
was unable 10 pull a pound, Friday.
1t 10 not known who the miscreant Ia but
the officers of the fair have been keep
ing quiet and are trying to locate the
guilty party or parties.
On one acre of ground this season
Paul Saindon of Lewiston had raised
10 bushels of potatoes, 1000 pumpkins
from 5 to 25 pounds each, 271 squashes
weighing from Is to Is pounds. From
100 tomato plants he has picked 80
bushels of tomatoes He has also
raised rs bushels of carrots, Is bushels
of Beets and 10 bushels of cucum bers-
all from one acre of ground. LIE Mes
senser of Lewiston to whom we are in.
debted for the figures remarks that
ii is an extraordinary example of in
dustry. And we should say also an ex-
traordinary example OF what can be
done by extensive farming
The Spiritualist campground at Vero-
ma park on the shore of Penobscot river,
is a thing of the past and from now on,
| If the plans that are now on foot are CIR
ried out, anybody regardless of their
sect may hold campmeetings at the park
providing they are willing to lease the
privil, ge. The property originally
owned by the campmeeting association
or rather the Penobscot Spiritual Tenn
pie association, was heavily mortgaged to
Mrs. Freeman Smith of Rockland and a
year ago the mortgage was forecosed.
AS the year of exemption ended short
time ago the property has passed into
private hands and is no Longer under the
control of the Spiritualsts
A special meeting of the creditors of
the Cain Bros. OF Clinton, bankrupts,
was held at the office of the referee in
bankruptcy for Kennebec county In Au
gusts, last week to see il the trustees
should be given authority to sell all of
the property of the Cain Bros. at public
auction. A large number of he credit
ors was present and 1t was the unani-
nous feeling that the trustees be given
the authority to conduct the sale. The
auction will probably not be held within
80 days and 10 the meantime the bank
rupts are making proposition for a
composition. Willis l, Cain offers the
creditors Is per cent. Eugene Cain
offers 80 per cent, and Daniel Cain of.
fers 80 per cent. 1t is probable that the
offer for composition will come before a
meeting of creditors before the sale is
made.
Three dwelling houses. the finest resi-
dences in Island Falls, Me-, were burned
early Friday. The total loss is about
$4,000 partly covered by insurance,
The fire started in the stable of e. E.
Morse and the members of the Morse
family who were asleep in the house a
short distance from the stable, were
awakened by the cracking of flames.
They escaped with only little clothing,
none of the furnishings of the house be-
ing saved. The high wind blew the
flames directly toward the houses of
Martin L. Emerson and Carl E. Miliken
and as there is no means of fighting fire
in the village except by hand buckets,
the two dwellings we're practically at
the mercy of the flames and both were
consumed. The origin of the fire is
unknown but there Is a suspicion that II
was set by tramp. Carl E. Milliken,
one of the losers by the fire is member
of the Maine legislature.
Fire, early Friday morping, partially
destroyed the laundry building at the
Maine Insane Hospital at Augusta,
ca using loss of s25 900, with no insur.
ance. The fire caught in the dry room