The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-22
STATE AND GENERAL ITEMS.

of helping elect William Howard Taft
The Maine Free Baptists are nov
officially on record a. faVOring q re-
union Of the Baptist and Free Baptist
denominations
In the yards OF Bangor and Brewer
they have made 100000 bricks this
year, decrease from 1907, using 3, 400
cords Of wood in the kilns.
The Lincoln County News has the
big apple to date. 1t measures l5f
inches, weighs 90 ounces and was
raised By Elisha Dreamer Of Broad
Cove.
In the Maine House Of Representa-
tiYes next winter there Will be 100
Republicans and 81 Democrats, Re
publican gain OF Il over the Legisla
ture of two years ago.
Big cucumbers are not all they
raise over in Troy. a correspondent
writes uB of squash raised in that
town this year weighing 104 pounds
and pumpkin weighing 1861 pounds
President Lucius futile Of the
Boston x Maine will be one of the
speakers in Portland before the
Maine Teachers association on Oct
%, the subject being "Industrial
Education" Over 1900 teachers are
expected to be present at this
gathering which convenes Oct. Is.
Up TO last Saturday IS carloads Of
potatoes had been shipped from the
Maine Central station in Foxcroft and
several from Dover and East Dover
stations on the Bangor & Aroostook,
which is more than half the total
number shipped last year. This indi-
Gates that this year will see the larg-
est number ever sent out by Piscata
quis farmers.
Pres. Roose yelt has signed con-
tract with the Outlook to act as an as
soclate editor after his retirement
from the Presidency on March next.
This is made subject to the existing
contract to write the story Of his At
rican travels for Charles Scribner's
Sons. His work in connection with
the Outlook is to cover political and
economic topics.
The State convention OF the Maine
Society for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis will be held at the
Pine street Methodist Episcopal
church, Portland, Thursday, Friday
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session will be held this Thursday
evening, when Rev. L. L. Harris will
offer prayer, the president, DR..
Stephen H. Weeks of Portland, will
speak and Dr. Estes Nichols will de-
liver an illustrated lecture on the
work accomplished at the sanatorium
at Hebron,
In the Supreme court Saturday the
jury returned a verdict of S23, OIL. 66
in favor of Edward O'BrIen, plaintiff,
in a suit for $4,000 against j. G.
White & Co, for personal injuries
sustained while at work as a ineman
on the construction of an electric
power line from West Buxton to
Portland for the Consolidated Electric
Light Co. The accident happened on
the 2sth of August, 1907, as a result
thereof, O'Brien claims that he will
be crippled for life.
William Moody of Belfast, so years
old came to terrible death on
Saturday afternoon while at work on
a small farm that he owned in Bel
mont. He had started a brush fire
when it is supposed that he was
stricken with shock or overcome
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or 80 near that it spread to him. He
was alone and helpless and from all
appearances was literally roasted to
death, being horribly burned about
the head and shoulders.
Burr C. Miller the Paris sculptor
who was in April last awarded the
contract for the Reed memorial
statue to be erected in Portland, was
given two years and a half in which
to complete and 80 far as the COM
mission knows will require all of that
time. The famous speaker will be
represented standing up holding q
parchment in his hand and the artist
has succeeded admirably in bringing
out the several characteristics OF
carriage and personal appearance for
which Reed was famous. The figure
will be about IL feet high and will
surmount a shaft of granite which
will be without any particular deco
ration. The estimated cost OF the
monument will be about S35 900. Ii
will be erected on the Western
Promenade, the best residential sec
ton of Portland.
No picture drawn by the pen of the
most talented writer can exaggerate
the evils of intemperance. The fol-
lowing graphic and pathetic picture
Of the condition of things in rum
cursed Bangor, is drawn by the News
of that city and it is as true as it is
pathetic:
Come down east, TO Bangor or
Brewer or Old Town and visit the
tenement districts. Learn that many
tenants have received notices to quit
because they cannot pay their rent.
Learn also that the grocer5 and mar
ket men and other traders are giving
heavy credits to poor families wait
ing for the time when the cost of
living shall be reduced, and the chill
dren can get work. No rum seller is
ordered out of his place for non-pay
me mt of rental. No grocer or marke t
man complains that the saloon keeper
fails TO pay his bills.
In this connection it would be in
teresting to know how many OF the
delinquent tenants have run behind
with their rent because they have
spent most of their earnings in the
bar rooms. 1t would make a pitiful
story to recite how many inmates of
our almshouses were sent thither be
cause they we're victims to the saloon.
There are bright and handsome chill
dren who are staying out of school
because they lack clothes that are fit
to wear, because the money which
should have purchased garments has
been passed out over the open Maine
bar.
Oh, yes! it is an old story that was