The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Misses katherine Holman and Nellie
RYDER of Bangor, Bertha Norris OF
Portland. Katherine Morrill, of Cum
berland Centre, Christine Pierce of
Frankfort, and Anna Skinner of
Brewer.
About p. m, Wednesday of last
week a cloud burst passed over An
dover. coming from the northwest and
going in the northeasterly direction
across the village, accompanied by
lightning and thunder. In District
Four the rain came i'll torrents, wash
ing away five or six bridges in the
vicinity, Outlying the roads badly and
also the interYale.
James H. Trask, progressive far
mer of the town of Sidney. is the
owner of what is perhaps the best
breeding SOW in Kennebec county in
size of filters farroWed. The animal
is White Chester, and she recently
gave birth to a litter of Is pigs. This
is the same animal which last fall
farroWed ID pigs, L of which Mr..
Trask sold for 50 each or s36. If any
farmer in the State can beat that re-
cord he is yet to be heard from.
Frank Hamlin, just chosen attorney
to the board of civil service commits
sioners of Chicago, is the son of the
late Hannibal Hambin, vice president
eff the United States during the first
Lincoln administration. The young
er Hamlin was born in Bangor. Me,
in 1862, graduated from Harvard and
and from the Boston University Law
School and then went to Chicago to
practice. From 1895 to ls97 he was
assistant corporation counsel for
Chicago.
The home of Miss Ada Coffin
in PittsfieId was the scene of a
pretty wedding at noon on Wednes-
day of last week. The contracting
parties were Allen Hackett and Miss
Collins Youngest sister, Mrs. Jennie
Coffin Porter, both of this village.
Rev. O. H. Tracy of the Baptist
church, was the officiating clergy
man. Only immediate relatives and
a few friends were present. After a
lunch had been served Mr.. and Mrs.
Hackett drove to their home on South
Main street.
This year is the 10th anniversary OF
the ''wet summer when Belfast post
poned part of its big Fourth Of July
celebration to the 9TH of August.
Many places in the State had planned
for demonstrations on the Fourth but
rain interfered, and some towns had
it on the installment plan, Belfast
among the number. The season was
so wet that on low land on many
farms the hay was cut and stacked on
the driest place that could be found
and hauled off after the ground froze
in the winter.
A young man, giving his name as
Frank Wilson was arraigned at Sand :
ford court, Friday, charged with a
ed here, recently. A search of the
wife disclosed stolen property enough
guilty to some of the breaks, but de-
MED making them all. He was he'd
in $500 for the grand jury. The
couple came here some three weeks
ago and Mrs. Wilson has been work
ing in one of the mills. They are said
to have near relatives at Biddeford
Wilson is about "a years old.
The Great Falls houses of the Amer
lean Ice Company at South Gardiner
were burned Saturday together with
the old Johnson homestead, which is
also owned by the ice company l.. {,
Ballard, Maine manager OF the ice
company, estimated the loss at $40,
900 with no insurance. The building
has a capacity of Al, 900 tons of ice but
were empty. AS the houses were
situ ated close to the Maine Central
tracks train service was interrupted
by the fire and telegraph wires were
burned cutting off Geographic service
south and west of Gardiner Saturday
over the railroad wires. The origin
of the fire is not known.
Nine. Lillian Nordica, who is to
establish an American Bayreuth on
the Hudson river, near New York
city, and who has paid $4,000 for
the site, sailing for Europe from New
York on the French liner Savoic
The noted singer will go to Paris foI
gowns and to Munich to consult al
architect as to the designs for the
Lillian Nordica Festival House, which
is to be the name of the institution
she will found here, and she will re
turn to America in time to keep hei
engagement with Oscar Hammer
stein. Previous TO sailing Nine
Nordica intimated that she was i'm.
PEELED largely to the undertaking be-
cause of desire to aid the young wo-
men of her native land. She says
that the best of teachers will be pro-
vided for the festival house, as they
will get more money for their ser
vices than they can make abroad.
Wallace Everett was held without
bail to await the action of the grand
Jury at the October term of the Su
preme court, Friday after a hearing
before Judge VIM. F. Jones in the
Municipal court on the charge OF
numbering Edgar L. Radcliffe The
State claims Radcliffe, who was q
years old, was locked into dynamite
magazine in the Brown mine on Paris
hill a week ago Friday, morally
wounded by a dynamite explosion
which wrecked the building and then
stabbed in the neck with a knife
!. There were five witnesses introduced
by the State to show probable cause
for holding the respondent. DR.. B
F. Bradbury, who performed the post
norton examination, was asked II
the wound in Radcliffe's neck was
probably self inflicted and replied that
in his Judgment it was not. No wit
nesses were called for the defense
Oscar B. Peterson of Jemtland, in
Aroostook county, a senior at Colby
college, was drowned in the Mesa
lonskee stream at Waterville, Friday
afternoon. Peterson and Harold W
Kimball of Houlton, also college
student, were in a canvas boat with
IoI. 4.