The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-07-19
STATE AND GENERAL


Deputy enforcement Commissioners
Tebbetts. Stackpole, Page. Pare, Gift
ford and Towne made a Sunday morn
ing call in the TOgus Home district aud
unearthed quite a quantity of the ar
dent.
seven girls were drowned Thursday
in Cedar river. only three blocks from
home, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. while wad-
ing The smallest child slipped into
deep hole and in trying to rescue her
ak others were drowned
The net value of the estate left by the
late John A Mccall former president
of the New York Life Insurance Com
pany was only $40 1856, acc riding to tho
report of the appraisers of the estate,
which was fl led in the surrogates Office
Thursday
Urban Brann, conductor on the Water
Vile Il Oak and electric railway, was
thrown from a swiftly moving car, last
week, and has injuries that are believed
TO be very serious. A sharp shower
was on and the curtains of his open
car had been drawn. Ia attempting to
pass from the front end TO the rear,
Brann missed catching a standard and
was thrown from the running board.
Two hundred members of the Maine
State Coa Dealers Association met IN
Bath Saturday for their annual Field
day, as guests of the local association.
They were given a sail on the Eldorado,
which gave them view of the city
from the water front, reception at the
Kennebec Yacht Club, an inspection OF
the Bath Iron Works and the batteship
Georgia, after which dinner was served
at the New Meadows Inn, the party be-
ing divided, while one was at dinner
the other being given an hours sail on
New Meadows river.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was arrested at
Glenburne yesterday by deputy
United States marshal on a warrant
charging her with having misused the
mails She was brought to Dallas and
after appearing before U. s. Commits
sloner A J. May, was released on bond
in the sum of 81, 800 The examining
trial is set tor July 81. The warrant
comes from Guthrie, Okla and speci-
fies that she deposited in the post office
publication containing an improper
article headed "a private talk to boys"
Deputy United States Marshal Hasty
arrested Charles Manuel at Houlton
last week and took him to Bangor where
he was arragned on a charge of SNUG
Cling wool. Manuel had been under
suspicion for some time time and was ar
rested in the WOODEN mill at Houlton
after he had sold quantity of wool.
lie is said to have admitted To the 9th
GERS that the wool was smuggled but
asserted that he did not smuggle II. He
was selling it for the man who had
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September term of the District court
which sits at Bath.
Mrs Clara y. Sawyer of South Port
land who was reelected president at the
annual meeting of the Department of
Maine Ladies of the G. A r., has issued
general orders No. /, in which she an-
nouuces the following appointments:
Secretary, Mrs NJ. Wallace, China; IN
spector, Mrs. Mary r. Clifford, Auburn;
librarian, Elizabeth A. Haggett, Bath;
patriotic instructor, Mary Tarbox,
Fryebury; corresponding secretary, Alb
bic r Bradford, Thomaston; press
committee, Florence M " allace, China;
Lena Aldus Strong, Camden; Katherine
NJ. Brown, Augusta; Lucinda E. Lee
Grow, Portland
Postmaster General Cortelyou has ia
sued an order to go into effect Aug
resembling the regulation under which
patrons of rural mail routes are COM
PEELED to purchase boxes from one of
the two hundred listed manufactures
who have put on the market 800 differ
ent styles of boxes, approved by the
department. Patrons will be permitted
to construct their own boxes provided
that in doing 80 they conform to the
requirements of the department. The
patron must secure the approval of the
postmaster for the office which serves
the route and paint on the box the
words, approved by the postmaster
general"