The Somerset reporter., 1906-06-14
STATE AND GENERAL

The full ticket az nominated by the
Republican county convention of Ken
pebeo county at Augusta last week is
AS follows: For senators, olonel
VIM NJ Aver of Oakland, F. l. Brown
Of Readfield and George W. Heseltou.
of Gardiner For sheriff, Frank J. Ham
of Belgrade: for county attorney, Guy
A. Hildreth of Gardiner; for register Of
deeds, Harry =. HAYES of Vassalboro;
for county treasurer, James K Blanch
ard OF Chelsea; for county commissio ner,
Charles f. Kilbreth of Winthrop.
There is such a thing as being too in
dustrIous That is the way the beavers
in the colony on Frank McDonald's farm.
Fort Fairfield, have been, and they have
flooded his farm in several places along
the brook to considerable extent. He
is now going to get rid of them, and
Game Warden G. A. Southland of Sprsgues
Mil la in town catching then alive and
disposing of them according to orders
from the State game commissioners
One beaver on Monday was caught by
his hind foot in a steel tray, without
hurting the foot much, either. Tuesday
he was shipped by express to Dr. Cecil
French of Washington, D. G.
III j
collection of Lincoln pictures and
orher mementoes of the nations first
martyr President to be found in the
state of Maine, as large as can be seen
in o. r. Terry's Office at the Sawyer
Publishing House, Wsterville Mr..
Terry who Is a great admirer of Lincoln,
has been several years making the
collection, and he 10 justly proud of
his display Although there are no
.arge works in oils, in his collection,
Mr.. Terry possesses several very rare
and beautiful likenesses, including one
of the famous Rice photographs, OF
which there are only a very fe" in ex'
istence.
A jolly party of railroad ageots and
their families left the North station,
saturday, at 10 a. m, for the seventh
annual outing of the Boston & Maine
Agents Association at Rangely lakes
Every division was we'll represented, with
over 100 in the party. Two special cars
were attached to tain No %, but there
we're no hooks used Arriving at
Portland at II 40. dinner was served
and tho Mountain View Hotel was
reached at I 10 p M, where the party
remained over night. Sunday all took
a steamer for a trip up the lake, dining
at the Birches on Students island.
/ Monday morning they left for home ar
irving In Bost IN at 4 p. m.
With a target being towed at the rate
of eight miles an hour, and with -four
mortars firing In unison, the soldiers Of
the 23d and oath companies of coast
artillery stationed at Fort Mckinley
made an excellent record of Is out of a
possible 100 shots last week The shock
of the heavy charges was felt over the
entire city, windows as far as DeerinI
Centre rafting most noisily The gov
eminent steamer Weilzsl was towing thu
target. This record Is one of the fines
that has been made by any practise
shoot at the fort for some time and If il
does not break the record stands wei
toward tho front in point of accuracy
The saving of the state capitol from
destruction by fire Thursday night wa
accomplished in a spectacular name
by Gov. Blanchard assisted by man
louisiana Legislators dressed in thei
night clothes and by hundreds of Batoi
Rouge citizens supplementing the FIR
department The fire destroyed tn
capitol's eastern wing above the frs
floor The less is about 100000
Among the valuables in the Senat
chamber where the roof fell in was tn
famous painting, The Battle of New
Orleans, valued at $4,000, The legis
lature now being in session, the senat
will meet in the Elks' theatre Th
capitol was first built in ls47 and wa
destroyed by fire during the Civil War
The present structure was erected il
1880.