Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-26
SK0WHECAN.
Little bernad0tte P00|er
Is Terribly Burned
BY Fire Caused by Overturned
Lamp In the Room.
Ex.Sheriff Frank P. Pencil Is
III With Appendicitis.

| An alarm OF ire was pulleu III lloiii
| Box II, located at the corner OF East
| Front and South streets at lO3o
Wednesday night. The blaze proved
| to be in the story and a half frame
dwelling house occupied by Leon
Routin and family. 1t was soon eXtln-
guished, the damage being confined to
two rooms ana probably amounting to
some 5000. Just how it caught is a
mystery.
| In the room on the first floor where
the blaze originated were sleeping
Miss Leontinc Boutin, girl some II
years of age, and her little niece, Ber-
| nadctte Pooler, who had come over
to pass the day and decided to pass
| the night. 1t proved to be a NEST I'M
| fortunate decision on her part. When
| tho two girls retired for the night a
| lamp was left lighted on stuffed
| chair near the head of the bed. 1t is
presumed that the baby. who is four
| years Old, must have turned in her
sleep and tipped over the chair.
| In speaking with the writer the
| Boutin girl stated that she was awak-
| ened by the smell of smoke and the
| room was all ablaze. She rushed up
stairs and notified her father and
| brother, who We're in bed and asleep.
| The brother went and rung in the
alarm while his father hurried to the
| burning room and picked up the mat
| tross with the little child upon it and
carried her out in the open air, break
| ing down door to secure an exit
| The baby was frightfuly burned,
but the burns We're not deep and while
painful she will recover. Medical aid
| was slow in arriving and before the
physicians arrived the child suffered
| great agony. She is the daughter of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frank PoOlcr of Law
| ton street Her parents as well as her
| grandmother left a week ago on an
| excursion to Canada.
| The bed was completely destroyed
| and all the furniture of the room was
practically ruined. So hot was the
| blaze that the paint in the sitting room
| adjoining was blstcrcd. When the
| writer entered the room the lamp was
on the dressing case and the chair on
| which it had rested was badly burned
| That both the sleeping occupants of
the bed were not burned to death IS
| considered remarkable 1t was evident
that the lamp did not explode. The
chimney was not even broken, al
though it was biackened by smoke.
| The house is situated close to a num-
Der of flmsily constructed dwellings,
| and that more serious fire was avoid
| ed is remarkable
| Frank y. Pencil, sheriff of Somer-
| set county from Jan. /, 1889, to Dec. 81
| 1902, is lying critically i'll at his home
on West Front street The news of his
sickness came as a shock to his many
| friends here. On last Tuesday, in the
| Republican convention for Somerset
county, he placed in nomination the
name Of Edward n. Merrill of this
! town for senator for the western part
| OF the county. 1t was Il masterful
| speech and Mr.. Pencil then appeared
to be in his usual rugged health II
| appears, however, that he was taken
| sick coon aftcrward and Wednesday
| his condition grew worse with alarm
| ing rapidity. At 3 o'clock Thursday the
writer in communication with his ply
| stefan, DR.. l.. A. Dascombe. was told
that his symptoms were a little more
favorable. While Dr. Dascombe does
NOT diagnose it as appendicitis, it is
| possible that this is what Mr.. Pennel
| is suffering with. DR.. Dascombe stated
that he hoped an operation would not
be necessary. Since serving his term
as sheriff Mr. Pencil has made his
home in this town He is in the real
estate and insurance business and is
the tax collector of the town.
|! A party of Skowhegan ladies, com
posed of Miss Florence Wyman, Mrs.
j. w. Blunt. Mrs. D. A. Haig. Miss
Lola Goodwin, Miss Mollie' Marston,
MRS Edward Whiting, Miss Ethel S.
Walton and Mrs. Alice Gledhin, left
mere on the noon train Thursday for
Plttsfield. They passed the afternoon
there. returning home that evening by
automobile.
DR.. and Mrs. G. W. Phillips of Lewis
ton arrived here Thursday forenoon,
called by the illness of F. p. Pennell.
Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Pennell are sis
ters.
c. H. Pepper of Lexington, Mass,
arrived Thursday and is the guest of
MRS. Helen S. Coburn. He came East
TO attend the Commencement at Col
by College of Waterville, of which he
is graduate and of which his father.
Dr- w. G. b. Pepper, is a former pres
ident
The Misses Olive Greene and Jeanette
L. sturtevant arrived home Thursday
from Colby College and will pass the
summer vacation here with their pa
rents.
The 18th season of the Mohican
House at Lake George will open next
sunday. Frequent concerts will he Civ
en- during the day by Kendalrs Or
chestra Of this town.