The Somerset reporter., 1907-12-12
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS

Mrs. Louisa NJ. Taft, mother of the
secretary of war, who had been fail
+ ing for number of days, died at
/ Milbury, Mass, Saturday.
i Chicago was selected as the place,
j and June 18, 1908, as the time for the
next Republican National convention.
The ballot stood 81 votes for Chicago,
| IS for Kansas City and four for Den
yer, the vote being made unanimous
after the result was announced.
A lot of English walnuts have been
picked this season from a tree on b.
M. Patterns farm in Topsham. The
tree was grown from a seed planted
33 wears ago by William Patten, father
of B. M. Patten, and this Is the first
time that it has produced walnuts.
! The station agents of the Bangor q
Aroostook have made their return of
the game shipped from their stations
during the month of November and
grand total of game for the month is
1859 deer, 90 moose and II bears.
This total In comparison with that OF
November, 1905 shows loss of 119
deer, a gain of two moose and gain
Of IA bears.
Seldom are four generations found
working together in one potato field,
but an instance of this kind was to be
seen on the Curtis farm at West Har-
rington during the past fall. The
represe natives of the family there,
we're as follows: James F. Curtis, 70
wears old, we'll and smart, his son
Elmer B. Curtis, 81 years old, and his
grandson Harie ID. Curtis, 80 years
old, and his great grandson, Chester
G. Curtis, years old.
The Jury in the case of the state OF
Kansas against the international
Harvester Co., reached verdict
against the company Thursday on az
counts. This verdict charges the
co npany with being a trust and en-
tering into an unlawful combination
to control the price of harvesting
machinery, and to force dealers to
handle its products exclusive. The
original suit was on rs counts. The
ma ximum penalty which may be i'm
posed is 81, 200 on each count.
The War Department is about to
advertise for bids for airships. The
chief signal officer of the army, Brig.
Gen. James Allen, has drawn up the
specifications which provide for a
dirigible balloon with silk gas bag
which will stand a three hours test
ard will make at least 20 miles an
hour either with or against the wind
The airships are to be equipped with
gasoline engines and must be capable
of carrying two passengers weighing
$50 pounds and 100 pounds of ballast.
1t is expected that at least half q
dozen bids will be offered.
A double shooting due to an acct
dent occurred Saturday at Trenton,
while Cushman Alley, Fred and John
Mayo were hunting. They were
walking single file through the woods
when the rifle carried by John Mayo,
who was in the rear, was discharged
accidentally. The bullet passed
through Fred Mayo's arm and enter
ed Alleys back, penetrating one lung.
Alley was taken to the Bangor hospi-
tai In critical condition. Mayo's
wound was slight one. The young
men are under 80 years of age and
Fred and John Mayo are brothers.
A local paper in Aroostook county
in order to show what has been done
In that county in the past growing
potatoes without the use of com
mercial fertilizer cites the fact that
r. A. Shaw of Caribou, recently had
returned to him letter which he
wrote to his parents in 1879 when
living In Washburn. This letter
recites the information of piece Of
potatoes raised by him, that year
(1S79) which Welded at the rate Of
GAG bushels per acre. No fertilizer
was used in growing this phenomena
crop and in fact at that time com
mercial fertilizers had not been use6
in potato culture to any extent any
where.
Carleton's Sportsmer's Journa
gives to a Hancock county town
ship-No. is the credit of being the
banner township in the State for the
number of moose killed this season
No less than IS moose were killed OF
No. 18 during open season, nearly al
by Cherryfield men. -Four were
killed on No. 10, Ave on No. 8, one IL
Otis, and the up river towns contri
butte half dozen more. Thirty fivt
moose in one season for Hancock
county and this In a county In which
only II years ago, The Ellsworth
American recorded the killing of ,
moose by U. s. Jordan, Of Amherst
as "the first moose killed in thil
section for IS years."
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