The independent-reporter., 1910-12-22


cutting wood.
Mrs. Harry Turner and children,
who are the guests of Mrs. n. T.
Pooler, will leave for California soon
after the holidays.
Emery Estes, who has been con-
fined to his home by injuries re-
ceived during cavern" last month.
is able to be out and around once
more.
Horace Jewett has begun the con-
struction of his new house which he
will build for home on Chandler
street. He plans to finish 1t in early
spring.
Miss Maude Merrill, teacher In
the High scheol at Keene, NJ H., is at
home with her parents. DR.. and Mrs.
J. n Merrill during the Christmas
vacation.
The places of business of the Gro
GERS, Feed and Provision Dealers
Association will be closed Monday at
IL. NJ, December 26, In observance Of
Christmas holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Taylor of
Freeport are guests at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs j. B. Davis
and at the home of his parents, Mr..
and Mrs CharIea Taylor
NJ Gerry Plummer of the local Y.
NJ C. A. has received word from State
Secretary Jefferson c. Smith. that the
annual Boys Conference will be held
In Bangor, February 24-25-26.
George Stackpole died here Monday
at the home of his sister, Mrs. Gage
Titon on the Norridgewock road. He
was about rs years old. Funeral
services were held Wednesday at 10
a. m. He was a veteran of the Civil
war and had been farmer nearly
all his life. For several years, how
ever, he has lived with his sister. He
was never married.
Henry Thomas, who has been en-
ployed by the State as an inspector
to determine the valuation of Maine
forests and has been In Jackman the
until after the Christmas vacation
when he will again take up the work
at Moose river. He left Tuesday for
Boston where he will visit his brother,
Levi for few days.
The low water conditions on the
Kennebec River in this section are
being felt seriously by mill owners,
lumbermen and people in general
The water in the river is the lowest
that has been known for several
years There is only foot and four
tenths head at Moosehead lake at
present. This is about five feet low
er than the highest guage. At the
close of the driving season last spring
1t was six feet. The pulp mills in
Skowhegan are feeling the drouth,
the time
There Is a new industry in Show
hegsn instituted by Joseph Roderick.
He manufactures cement blocks
which are used as material for build
ing houses, cellar walls and chin
neys. He is about to build a cement
house which will be the first in this
town and the second in the county,
Amos Gerald of Fairfield having the
first one.., Mr.. Roderick has already
started to build the house, having
completed the cellar. He has taken
the cellar, covering over the top of 1t.
and uses it for a place to make the
Gem mt blocks to be used In building
the house. The house is situated on
North street.
C.. N. Johnson of Waterville was in
town Tuesday, and in reply to inquir-
les IS to the state of the potato mar
ket, said that the immediate outlook
was not particularly bright. The pre-
liminary estimates put out from
Washington had indicated a short
CROP but more recently revised show
ed about thirty million bushels over
a fve-year average. Still this esti-
mate is forty million bushels below
last year, and Mr.. Johnson does not
expect to have potatoes dumped as
they were in the spring. His latest
advices indicated that there was de-
cided crop shortage in the Provinces,
and also in France, where the esti-
mate was three hundred million bush
els below normal. His firm had writ
ten to several American consuls in
France, with the hope that an export
market might be found there. Frank
lin Berwin, who is associated with
Mr.. Johnson will start south imme-
diately after Christmas, visit all the
principal cities along the Atlantic
seaboard continuing to Cuba and pos
sibly France. Nothing will be left un-
done towards finding an outlet for the