The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-05-16
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS

Very few couples live to celebrate
their 83d wedding anniversary as Mr.
and Mrs. II. K. Griggs of Portland
will next Thursday. Mr.. Griggs en-
Joys the distinction of being the old
est Freemason in the city.
After many years of unsuccessful
struggle for recognition the conf
dence of ultimate success by Moody
Boynton seems likely to be justified.
for the Massachusetts house has pass
ed a bill authorizing the use of his
bicycle railroad from Boston to Fall
River, and it has been presented to
the senate. This type of railroad calls
for but one rail, and that it is expect
ed to revolutionize present transpor-
tation methods is shown by the claim
of it's inventor that passengers could
be safely carried from New York to
the Pacific slope in "A hours.
a circular sent out by Colonel T.. c.
Harrington of Augusta, secretary of
the Maine Sportsman's Fish and
Game association announces that the
annual excursion of the organization
will probably be to Kineo about the
second or third of July. The circular
also calls attention to the fact that a
new route il now open to kineo by
way of the Somerset railway 50 that
parties will be able to go by way of
Bingham and Moxie Point, opposite
Kineo, in addition to the Greenville
route which has been heretofore fol-
lowed.
Harry l.. Hilton of Bangor, civil
engineer in the employ of p. II.
Coombs, has received an appointment
to government engineering position
at West Point. He leaves within the
next days to assume the duties of his
new position Last year Mr.. Hilton
took the Civil Service exams. for CT
vii engineer and passed successfully
He has received many offers from the
government but has declined all of
them until he was offered the West
Point position at large salary. Mr.
Hilton will be employed in the cree
ton of the new academy buildings and
it is expected it will take five years
to complete them.
Geo. Maggie, the insane convict who
escaped last Wednesday from an at
tendant of the Bridgewater Mass. }
State Farm while he was visiting a
dentists office in Middleboro, Mass,
was recaptured Sunday by the Provi
dence police. Maggie was walking
along Wickenden street, short dis
lance from the Third District police
station, when~Ae was seen and recog
nized from a printed description by
Officers J. G. Whalen and Peter Brom-
ley. When taken to the police station
he admitted his identity, but said he
would not return to Bridgewater with
out contest.
Judge Fremont Wood, who is pre-
siding at the trial now in progress in
Idaho, State vs.. Haywood, is a native
of Winthrop, son of the late Thomas
9. Wood, who formerly lived about
half mile from the village. His
brother, the late A. G. II. Wood, who
died last August at Winthrop, was
prominent in G. A. K. circles. Judge
Wood was born in 1865 and left Win
throp in 1880. He prepared for col
lege at Towle Academy and was in
Bates College two years. He studied
law with Hon. Wallace r. White in
Lewiston and has been practicing law
at Boise City, Idaho, where he had
built up large and lucrative prac-
tice. He comes of strong and sturdy
stock and those who know him be-
lieve that exact justice will be done
all parties in the trial which bids fair
to be one of the most important ever
held in this country.