The independent-reporter., 1910-09-22
SkOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS

,foes is visiting her cousins in town.
There were 66 new voters added to
4ba check list during the last few
davs before State election.
The public Is especially invited to
attend the meeting tonight in the
onsra House, where a special pro-
oran is to be given for the entertain
mont of the State Board of Trade.
The regular semi-monthIy meeting
of the W. c. T. U. will be held in G.
r hall next Tuesday, September
o. At o'clock p. m, but the election
of officers will be postponed until the
following meeting. the first meeting in
October.
Misses Lillian and Margaret Smith
With their cousin Miss Luella Wy
man of Rehoboth, Mass, will take a
carriage drive the latter part of this
week to Kingfield to visit Miss Har-
riat L. Cleveland, who is teaching
school there and incidentally to give
Miss Wyman a nearer view of the
Maine mountains.
Among the active attorneys present
Of Court Tuesday and Wednesday was
Hon. D. D. Stewart of st. Albans, who
ie now nearing his ninetieth birth
10 ~ e and
shows the sprightliness of many OF
his Younger brothers. Mr.. Stewart has
several cases on the docket which he
will handle this term of court.
In regard to the State election it is
alleged that Judge Simmons says the
democrats built little blaze in the
corner of the barn to smoke out the
rats and they burned the barn. 1t may
be as the Judge says but Democrat
allows they got the rats. Now let us
build a new fireproof and ratproof
harm that will stand and do good ser
vice for a hundred years, continues
the Democrat.
Sewell Dinsmore, prominent lum-
herman and a resident of Benton, was
in town Monday. Mr.. Dinsmore fig
ured prominently in the recent auto
mobile accident at Bingham in which
ey-Congressman Weymouth of Mass
acbusetts was killed. Mr.. Dinsmore
barely escaped alive, but he escaped
without serious injury. Mr.. Dinsmore
was very fortunate in the accident
He is nearly so years old.
Sylvester Dow died Wednesday al
$50 a. m. after a comparatively long
illness. He was Sc years old. wife
survives besides distant relatives
Funeral services will be held Friday
afternoon with Rev. George Merriam
of the Bethany Baptist church Off
cating. Interment will be in Corn
Vile. Mr.. Dow was born in Corn
Vile and was farmer there all his
life except the last few years which
time he has lived in Skowhegan vii
lage.
Miss Mary Creighton of Augusta
who was in charge of the "Tubercu-
losis Exhibit at the meeting of the
Maine Federation of Women's Clubs
was another of our fair visitors 1whc
waxed enthusiastic over the civic
pride of Skowhegan. She said thai
our clean and we'll kept streets, the
fine municipal building, and the gen
eral appearance of the town were
great surprise. In all her travels
about the State she had seen nothing
to compare with it, and would carry
away very different impression
from that with which she came.
W. A. Dodge of the Pennsylvania
Steel Co., who has charge of the
erection of the new railroad bridge
here, expects to finish the work by
September oath. The rivets in the
bottom chords have all been driven
and those in the top chord with the
exception OF d rev dl One euu. Hol
remains only those in the wine
bracing,' and at the previous rate Of
driving they will not last long. If &
way could be found to cash in all the
time wasted in watching these bridge
men, it would net small fortune
There seems to be something fasci'
mating about those pneumatic ham
mers, and the way they do faster anc
better work than was ever possible
by hand.
The following is eli. ped from the
Boston Transcript in regard to Con
gressman-elect Gould: If Major Sam
uel W. Gould of Skowhegan, con.
gressman-elect from the third Maine
district, dwells in the House he oc-
cuped twenty years ago, he is the
tenant of one of the few specimens Of
genuine Queen Anne architecture the
late H. H. Richardson could find ii
the United States. When Richard
Son was at the height of his fame he
received an application from a very
rich man to design and build for the
latter a Queen Anne cottage. In vair
k1pNardonp oynloinad that oI1nh qfrnn