Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-26
SKOWHECAN.

According TO a report coming iron
the selectmen's office. Friday. Their
are 2es farms in Skowhegan amountin;
tc s2S2,357, not including buildings, o
II per cent of the total valuation o
me real estate of the town. 1t wa
found that Ia farms have 100 acres o.
more; 81, 200 acres or more; S have 800
acres or more; and two have 400 acre!
Or more. Thirty six per cent of thu
farms of Skowhegan have 80 acres 81
less. The average valuation OF thu
farms is about $1,000 per acre. The
largest farm is owned by E. y. Mer-
rill VINO las Gao acres. There are twelve
farms owned by non residents. DR.. r
II. Stevens of Cambridge Mass, own
ing one of 235 acres. the Shawmut
Manufacturing Co. owning islands OF
400 acres.
g There are to be married. next week
in E,mbden, George c. Patten, aged z
wears and Mrs. Catherine d. Lawrence
aged So.
Following are the vital statistics OF
tho county recorded during the pres
ent week: Births: 10 Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest w. Bane, a daughter, Ripley;
Marriages. Pleasant Ridge, Clifford
ltfdn anu MI y Eva AA-iAt = ttHif-ls 49,
OF Bingham; Deaths: George w. Po-
land, Athens, aged "A Mrs. George
Scribner, Athens aged 81: Mrs. John
Oliver, Norridgewock. ?
William Pitts purchased, Friday, the
Allen place on the Middle road, owned
by George Tibbetts
Harry S. Dyer Of. Dover has purehas :
ed the clothing, boot and shoe bust
ness of Samuel Vose, in Madison, and
will take over the business at once.
Mr. yose has been in business q years
An interesting event took place
Thursday evening, at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. George Arnold. on Madison
avenue when they entertained as
guest of honor, Hon. D. ID. Stewart
the dean of the Somerset County, Bar
The evening was passed in playing
cards. Mr.. Stewart liz not only the old
est lawyer in the country, but has been
praeticing law the longest of any one
in the county, He was admitted 10 the
bar in 1S47, and is now SO years old.
The next oldest lawyer in the county
is T. B. Barrett, who began the prae-
tice of law in 1861.
The NJ G. Swain Co. composed OF
Miss Marion Swain and parties from
Skowhegan, has rented the Palmer
Merrill store on Water street, where
a fancy goods business will be estab-
lislied in the near future.
John F.. Tilden, former Baptist
minister. now an insurance agent in
Portland was calling on Rev. j. G. Os-
borne Thursday.
The heavy rain of Wednesday night
and Thursday gave the farmers set
back in the digging of potatoes. The
ground is so wet that no more potatoes
will be dug for the next few days
Omar Perkins and Howard Perkins
have gone to the big woods to get a
deer and will be absent several days.
Walter Morrill, has leased his farm
In Cornville to S. Perkins. Mr.. Per-
kins has sold his place in Cornvilie.
Miss Harriet Cleveland principal
of Harmony High school, will pass
the weekend with her father, Norris
M Cleveland.
Miss Gladys hatcher recently under
went an operation for appendicitis. and
is now fast regaining her health.
What bids fair to be the greatest re-
llgious and social survey ever accom-
plished IN this State was begun, this
week, by Rev j. q. Osborne. pastor of
the First Baptist church, who will be