The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-08-08
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sition i'll dog days.
Mrs. Kingsbury and son OF Spring
field, Mass, are spending their vaca-
ton with Mr.. and Mrs. Orrin Jones.
D. j. Haynes celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday last week. There
we're fourteen guests present. Among
the out of town guests were his sister,
Mrs Blaisdell of Oakland, Mrs. Annie
Whitney of Lewiston and his son, Her
bert and daughter OF Providence, X.
|. The day passed very pleasantly,
tokens of esteem were presented TO
Mr.. Haynes. Refreshments of ice
cream and cake were served.
Geo. Chandler who has been suffering
for several weeks with sciatie rheu-
matism at the home of his wife's par e
ents in Mercer returned home last
week but is still confined TO the house
and unable to be about without the
aid of crutches.
Mrs. Leslie Jones of Augusta has
been visiting her husbands parents
Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Jones few days.
Mrs. Varney and daughter, Marion
of North Chelmford, Mass, are max
ing short visit with Mrs. Sarah Ere
deric.
Z. S. Miller is having his vacation
spending a couple of weeks in Boston
and New York.
The annual reunion of the Eaton
and n II. S. Alumni Association will
be held August IA. A business meet.
ing will be held in the high school
room at 4 p. m. At 9 p. m. supper
will be served at the Grange hall,
toasts will be responded to by mem
bers from the different classes. Ken
dall's orchestra will be in attendance
and give a concert from to 3, after
which social hour will be enjoyed.
Mr.. Hamlin Eaton will be present and
1t Is expected that teachers who had
charge of the school at later periods
will also be in attendance. The com
mittee request that all of the mem
bers make an effort to be present and
make this one of the biggest and best
meetings that the society has ever
had.
A few of our people went on the ex
cursion to Kineo, Sunday. They re-
port a drowning accident which oc-
Cured at the wharf short time
previous to their return, when one OF
the workmen connected with the
railroad walked off the edge of the
wharf In the darkness and being I'M
able to swim was drowned. His body
was recovered later.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilder Ward have a
new piano.
The new addition to the corn shop
Is being painted by Arthur Rogers.
An entirely new platform is being
made at the railroad station the old
one having become quite rotten. 1t
seems only few years since the old
one was put in. 1t is proposed to
lower the end in front of the freight
house to the same height as that III
front of the passenger entrance.
Ralph Ketchum returned to Boston
Monday after spending the greater
part OF his summer vacation here.
A very sad accident occurred here
Saturday morning when Joseph Webb
was so severely injured as to cause:his
death at seven O'Clock that evening
Mr.. Webb and J. #. Welch have been
at work cutting and peeling hemlock
lumber in Fuller's woods on the north
side of the river and was cutting down
a good sized tree at the time the acct
dent occurred. The top of big
beech tree which stood 30 feet away
had been broken at some time by the
wind and fallen over and lodged in
the hemlock on which they were at
work. They both saw this and after
the hemlock had started to fall the
beach top became dislodged, its
weight breaking the other end from
its original tree it fell rapidly in the
direction of the choppers. Mr.. WEIGH
called to Mr.. Webb that it was com
ing and Mr.. Webb started to run but
instead of running away from the
direction of it's fall he ran directly
under it. Even then he had nearly
cleared the zone of danger, another
step and he would have been safe,
but the large end of the falling top
caught him between the shoulders
as he was and crushed him to the
earth. Mortified, Mr.. WEIGH ran to
his assistance and pulled away the
treetop, he tried to And out the ex-
tent of the injuries but as he could
get no response from his injured COM
panion, he made him as comfortable
as possible and ran for assistance.
Physicians were telephoned for and
on their arrival they discovered that
the blow had broken his spinal col
umn and that there was no possible
hope for his recovery. Mr.. Webb
was only conscious for a minute or
two after he was hurt and that was
while he was being moved to the re-
sidence of Benz. Smith where he died
later in the day. 1t is an extremely
sad case. Mr. Webb was an honest,
hard working man and had a wife
and six small children dependent up
on him for support. He was forty
one years of age. The funeral SER
vices were held at the home on Tues
day afternoon. A rather singular
coincidence was the death of his bro
Their which occurred several years
ago. While Mr.. Webb was telling q
tree his brother who was at work
with him in that vicinity had chang
ed his position until he was directly
in line with where the tree fell, his
head was crushed and he died
instantly. Mr.. Webb was in no wise
to blame for the accident as the
underbrush hid his brother entirely
from his sight.
Rev. and Mrs. F. G.. Davis and
Florence have been at North Pond
rusticating.
We learn that Leland Merrill has
accepted a permanent position with
the grocery firm of Bracket q Rus
sell.
Harry Devereux had a very severe
attack of sickness Saturday night, he