Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-26
March Term Of Somerset
S. j Court Re-COnveenIleess.
Several Cases Of More Than
Passing Interest TO Be Heard.
An Aseldent-.Reporis from Moose
head.-Corn IS Years Old.

The Junior Exhibition of the Show
hogan High school which will be held
May "a in the Opera house. will con-
sist of play, "A College Town The
parts assigned were given out, Thurs
day. The cast: Prof. Papp, Donald
Philbrick; Jimmie Cavendish, Sher-
man Shumway; Major Kilpepper.
Clifton Wheeler. Leviticus, Charles
Sheridan; Tad Chesseld inc, Carroll
Morrill,; Scotch McAilister, Gerald
Marble; shorty Long. Carroll F1an-
ders: Billy yanDoin. Joseph A. San
ford; DR.. Twiggs. Chester Nutting;
Mrs. Bagsby. b. currie: Miss Jim
Claiming. Louise Merrill; Margery
Haveland. Marie Brown Miss Jane
Cavendish, Agnes Manter: Cleopatra
Papp, Helen Pratt. Mrs Mollie Steles,
Eunice Chase; Mrs. Twiggs, Airline
Burnor.
Miss Ethel I.itchfield entertained a
few young ladies'. Wednesday evening,
at the home of Mrs Sarah Palmer on
Pleasant street, in honor of Miss Cath
crime Albert, who has been telephone
operator here for about year and l.
tc go to Egan to teach school.
The officers and members of Cara
basset Lodge. Mo- 81, ]. O. o. f., viii
observe their e3rd anniversary, Friday
evening. s4sg4Ga So
At a recent meeting held by the
Christian Endeavor Society of the
Congregational church the following
officers were elected: President, Wi
mona w. Paddock; vice president,
Myrtle E. Moody: secretary. Freda
Harris; corresponding secretary. FL
mer E. Harris; treasurer, Margaret
Smith.
A reception to Rev. II. G.. McLaufin,
new pastor of the Methodist church,
win be given. Monday evening, by the
church and parishioners.
The March term of Somerset 5. j
court was re-convened, Thursday, and
Justice A. r. Savage presided. Tho
regular term of the court was adj
journed before the equity docket was
taken UP and at the time of adjourn
ment this date was set for the hear
ing of the various equity cases with
others that might be presented.
The first case taken up was Joseph
Smell VS.. Irma Rogers and Albert
Smell. George w. Cover appeared for
the plaintiff and Butler and Butler
represented the defence.
Another case presented for the
courts consideration was by Walton
& Walton In behalf of the town of
Ccrnville VS.. Affie futile of Mercer.
CornviIfe asks that the defendant be
compelled to help support her mother,
WHIT Is a pauper on the town of Corn
vile.
A case especially interesting to
Skcwkegan was that of John r. Wads-
worth versus the Kennebec Log Driv-
ing Co. The suit is brought for the
purpose of prohibiting the log driving
company from blasting logs at the
SkcwhegaIi dam, DIR. Wadsworth set
ting up that it is public nuisance
and being necessarily so considering
the fact that Somerset hospital. which
ne owns. is situated within a few feet
of the falls. DIR. Wadsworth claims
that unnecessary blasting was done
last spring and caused much disturb
ance to his patients and that it was
not done only in the day time but
as early as o'clock ip the morning.
He further claims that il was not
necessary for the company to blast
N-~~ fSt0 -ci n tbtS If1u pAh-F1 al
apron" on the dam the logs would
have passed over and not stopped at
the foot of the sluiceway and no
having done this more blasting had
been done than heretofore. The de-
fence is that the company had not
blasted logs unnecessarily, last year, at
the dam and that 1t had blasted no
more than previous years.
DR.. Fl. C. Taggart is the newest as
pirant for representative in the Dem
ocratic primaries. His petition was in
circulation here, Thursday and viii
be filed, Friday. EThere are now four
Democratic candidates in the town
for the office. -
c. HI. Knowles of Westbrook was
here, Thursday, in the interest of good
roads. He was in conference with C.
p. Merrill, president of the Board of
Trade, and others getting automobile
owners to join the association for good
roads.
The body of J. B. Maddocks was TAX