The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-10-01
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

Seven thousand cases of canned
sardines slid into the Eastern Steam
ship Co.'s dock at Lubec one night
last week when the floor of the Lubec
Sardine Co.'s warehouse collapsed.
The employees had left the building
for the day when the crash came.
There were 81 900 cases of the fish, all
without covers, but two thirds of the
goods did not go into the water. The
loss on the sardines is $4,000 and the
damage to the building is about
$1,000.
The sardine factory of the Eastern
importing and Manufacturing Co.
and the clam factory of II. 8. Kane at
Addison were burned early Friday.
The total loss was estimated at $780,
900, on which there was some insur-
ance. Both factories were located in
two-story wooden buildings. The
| fire started around the smokestack
on the sardine factory and burned
rapidly. The losses on the sardine
factory were divided into $4,000 on
the building, $4,000 on machinery and
$l0,0 900 on stock and goods.
Crops appear to be better in guam
tity and quality this year than ever
before. The quality of potatoes is
very good and the yield promises to
/ be large. In this section they will
/ average better than 100 barrels per
acre. The streets are full of teams
| hauling potatoes to the different sta
/ lions and the farmers are getting
! S1.25 per barrel with a good prospect
of an advance the coming week. AT
one hotel Wednesday were eight
prominent potato suyers, among
i them Representatives from Ohio, In
diana, New York, Georgia and Flor
I ida. These men we're buying in car.
= load lots of the local dealers. They
will probably bup up 200 car loads
this wee K tor immediate shipment.
These outside buyers are all enthusi-
astic over the quality OF the potatoes
and they will make a big purchase.
| In fact, such unusual activity at this
time of the season was never noted
before.
More than eight million feet of par
TALLY finished lumber, piled in T. 0
yards of the Geo. w. Barker Co, ana
the Jordan Lumber Co., i'll Milford,
Me, was destroyed by dre early
today, which required the co-opera-
tion of the fire department OF Bangor
and Old Town before it was finally
controlled. The lumber was valued
at almost S175,00O, the loss being
equally divided between both COM
panies. Each was protected to the
extent of about 80 per cent by insur-
ance. The burning lumber made a
spectacular sight, the hames leaping
| high in the air over a stretch OF ten
acres, divided in the center by the
tracks OF the Maine Central Railroad
and bordered on one side by the Pc
nobscot river, and on the other by
the outskirts of the Gowns. which the
fire did not reach. Entirely dried of
all dampness by the long drought so
that they were like finder, the boards
which were piled 90 feet high burned
tiercely making it impossible for the
! iremen to approach sufficiently near
to make inroads upon the body OF
flame and checking the fire only by
soaking the bordering piles. Traffic
on the six tracks of the Maine Central
Railroad was tied up for more than
six hours, and was resumed only after
wrecking crews had gone to the scene
and laid out new tracks to replace the
warped and twisted rails.
In the next Maine House of Repre-
sentatives. unless there should be a
change by recounts, there will be 81
Republicans and 81 Democrats against
! 50 Republican and So Democrats In
that branch two years ago. OF the
Republican members, r. B. Bradford
of East Livermore, Willis B. Hail OF
Caribou. Chadbourne w. Perry OF
Fort Fairfield, D. VI. Libby of Amity,
William F. Spear of South Portland
/ Howard Davis of Yarmouth, c. Ray
mond JOY of Eden, S. Reed Allen OF
Richmond, George G.. Weeks of Fair
field and Cecil F. Clark of Hollis have
had legisla tive experience, while on
I the Democratic side Merton o. Ed
wards and Henry E. Frost of Lewis
ton, Alvan SNOW and Lemuel H
Slower of Brunswick Andrew P
Havey of Sullivan, William R. Pat
/ tangall of Waterville, JOB H. Mont
gonery of Camden, Frederick S
Strickland of Bangor, G. Gilmore
Weld of Old Town, Charles L. Farm
ham of Bath, Fred w. Thurlough Of
of Cutler. A lbert w. Hubbard of Per
ry, Elisha W. Pike of Eastport and
! Luther r. Moore of Saco nave served
/ in the lower brancl.