The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1906-08-09
STATE AND GEN ERAI.

The valuation of the real estate in
Fairfield is S73Z, 800; personal property.
S251 240, Number of polls 582. The
rate of the corporation for the present
year has been established at so DOT on a
dollar (seven mills.) This added to the
tax of the entire town, county and
State. makes total rate of 030 [ hirty
mills) an unusually heavy tax for that
town
The Boston & Maine Railroad 40.
nounced Tuesday that q new Office, that
of passenger traffic manager, has been
cr+a-ed and that Dana j Flanders of
Maiden. for many years general pas-
sepger and ticket agent OF the road, will
fiji the new office. Mr. Flanders will be
succet ded as general passenger agent by
c. N Burt, now general passenger agent
for the eptral Railroad of New Jersey.
The changes will become effective
sept /, Mr.. Burt formerly was con
nected with the Boston & Maine In The
capacity of assistant passenger agent
Mrs Thomas w. Lawson, wife of the
Boston fnancier, died at brentwood,
Mr. Lswson's summer home in Solitude
Mass Sunday forenoon. Mrs. Lawson
had been suffering from heart trouble
since June 70 last With the ex-
ception of her SOD, Arnold, all of Mrs
Lawson's children and her husband
we're at Der bedside when the end came
Arnold Lawson arrived home shortly
afterwards. Mrs. Lawson before her
marriage to Nj Lawson in 1873 was 4
Miss Goodwllde of Cambridge. Ar
rangements for the funeral will be made
tomorrow.
Judge Percivsl Bonpey who since
1878 has been Judge of the superior
I curt OF Cumberland county, dropped
dead, sunday evening. in Denmark,
where be has been passing the summer
Judge BoDney had not been well for
about two years and shortly before the
close of the May term of court he suf-
fertd paralytic shock His condition
rapidly improved so that he was sooB
able To walk out and later he went TO
Denmark He was walking short
distance from the house when he passed
away, the direct cause If his death
being heart failure.
Ernest Gee of Sabattus. until recently
a clerk at Lewiston hoteD, was kuied
by an electric car sunday while riding
from Bath to Lewiston. The car GA
turnout. when VI Gee accidently
drol ped package, and he stepped from
the Car TO recover it. Al be stopped to
pick up the package be was struck By
an east bound car. One leg was severed
and the other was 80 badly crushed thai
amputation was necessary His Injuries
were dressed in Bath, and he was placed
aboard an electric car to be taken 10
4 inn
there He was thirty years old and uu-
married
That Houlton is TO have a wooden mil
is now practically an ssured fact A
bert A Burleigh & sons have offered 10
deed to the corporation tract of land
that is in every way suitable near the b.
"a This land is 10 be given the cor
p1ration and is most substantial testi-
monial that the gentle men above named
are Interested in Houlton. The railroad
company will build a spur which will
dispense with trucking. matter Il
great expense as the raw and finished
material will be brought to and taken
directly from the mill. Another in1i-
cation that business men are satisfied
that the proposition IS sound one ia
that $45 900 has already been subscribed
and the committee have been but few
men. The mill will be built so that Its
capacity can be readily incerased but a.
first will run ten sets This means
employ ment for over 200 skilled help
and means great deal from the busi-
ness andpoint not only to Houlton but
TO entire eastern Maine Anyone com
ing to Houlton to live now would find It
rather difficult to find rents go that with
the addition of several hundred people
1t easy to see that houses must be
built, which means business also