The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-11-21
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.


A notice was posted Saturday In
Dexter indicating that after Nov. 18th
the working force would be reduced
one quarter to one half at the Amos
Abbott %, the Dunbarton Co.'s and
the Wassokeag Co.'s wooden mills.
This will affect about 400 employees
and will reduce the weekly payroll by
about $500. This change Is made ow-
ing to the inability to secure business
just now to warrant running the mills
full time.
The Central Maine Potato and
Starch Co.; was organized at Water
vile last week with capital stock of
800, 900 for the purpose of buying and
selling potatoes and manufacturing
starch. 1t is reported that the com
pany will erect big torehouse on
Sanger avenue, near the Whittemore
furniture building. Jacob Hedman is
president, Charles H. Atchley, vice
president, and S. P Hedman, clerk
and treasurer.
Shipping men of Philadelphia are
greatly interested in the voyage of
the big seven -masted schooner
Thomas W. Lawson, which cleared
from there Friday for London. The
Lawson will carry cargo of 1900, 600
gallons of gas oil, valued at about
870, 200, and will be the first schooner
to sail for the United Kingdom from
this port in years. The big schooner
was chartered by the Standard Oil Co.
from the Coastwise transportation
Co.
A prominent st. John river lumber
man, who has operated at the head
of the river for So years, predicts that
the total amount Of lumber to come
down the St. John river to the booms
of the st. John Log Driving 20. next
spring will not be more than 10000, 100
feet. The driving company this
season handled over 1876, 000,000 feet.
The continued rains of summer and
fall have made everything 30 soggy
that work generally is impeded.
Former Governor W. s. Taylor, who
has been an exile in Indiana since the
murder OF Goebel, will return to Ken
lucky and surrender the day after
Governor ELECT Augustus B. Wilson
takes the oath Of Office. Every prep
aration has been made for the return
of Taylor. Attorneys have been en-
gagged to represent him and people of
wealth will BE present to give bail in
any amount IL the Judge before whom
the motion for bail il argued grants
the motion.
On the outskirts of Passaic, N. j.,
Friday, four men held up paymaster
and fed with satchel said to contain
between $4,000 and $1,000. Three Of
the highwaymen were later arrested
after an exchange of shots with the
police but the fourth escaped with the
booty. The man robbed was Pay
master Knapp of the Worthen Il
Aldrich Co., cotton dyers, at Dele
wanna, N. j., two miles from here.
He was driving to the city to deposit
the money when the men appeared
in the road at lonely spot and took
the money from Knapp at the point
of shot gun.
Two Eastport, Me, Indians, who
have been camping on one of the
islands in Boston harbor for several
weeks received Sl86 from the city.
last week, for killing seals within the
harbor limits. Under the law a bounty
OF SO is paid for each seal killed in
Boston harbor. The Indians, AZ re =
suit of their labors appeared at the
office of the city clerk, one day last
week, with the tails of 50 seals that
had been killed by them. After the
tails had been counted by one Of the
clerks, the Indians were given an
order on the city treasurer for S1S6,
which they collected.
"a dispatch from Chicago says, thirty
| five carloads of Kansas flour stood on
the tracks near the Polk street station
Friday preparatory to being hauled to
New York on its way to Europe. This
is one of the first consignments OF
Kansas products which the farmers OF
that state have decided to ship direct
TO Europe instead of having them
handled by brokers and agents. The
farmers have organized and insist that
the gold which will be forthcoming
from the products shipped to Europe
shall go direct to Kansas without be-
ing dropped off in New York. The
present shipment is valued at $3.50, 900.
A tickling cough, from anv cause. is
quickly stopped by DR.. Shops Cough Cure.
And it is SO thoroughly harmless and safe,
that DR.. Shoop tells mothers everywhere to
give it without hesitation even to very young
babes. The wholesome green leaves and
tender st ms of lung-healing mountainous
shrub furnish the curative properties to DR..
Shops Cough Cure. II Gains the cough,
and heals the sore and sensitive bronchial
membranes No opium. no chloroform
nothing harsh used to injure or suppress.
Simply resinous plant extract, that helps to
heal aching lungs. The Spaniards call this
shrub which the Doctor uses. "The Sacred
Herb" Demand DR.. Shops. Take no
other G. r. Fogg.
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