Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-09-25
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Death of One of Somersets Most
Prominent Woinen-Verdicts
Returned in the Supreme
Court-Lumber Burns
VIOLATORS OF GAME LAW
IN LOCAL COURT

Mrs. Caroline (Fletcher) Dole. one
women, having been well known in
literary work for many years and I'M
I'll the last few months a resident
of Norridgewick, died in Jamaica
Plain. Mass, Wednesday. She was in
her 98th year. Mrs. Dole was the wi
dow of the Rev. Nathan Dole. She
was the mother of the Rev. Charles
f. Dole, d. D., who is so widely
known as a Unitarian minister and
writer, and of Nathan Haskell Dole.
the author and poet. Since November
Mrs. Dole had been staying in a pri-
vate sanatorium to be near her sons.
Mrs. Dole before her marriage was
Caroline Fletcher. She was born on
July %. 1917 at Norridgewock and
was the daughter of Amos and Sally
(Ware) Fletcher. She had lived the
major part of her long life in her
native place where she attended the
schools, continuing her studies in Hal
lowell and later going to Massachu-
setts where she finished her educa-
ton at DR.. Vaughan's school in Sa-
lem. She was married in the early
forties at NorridgeWock to Rev. Ma
than Dole who was a graduate of
Bowdoin College in the class of 1886.
They lived in Brewer where he was
settled over a parish at the time of
their marriage and remained there
until 1850 when he went to Boston as
editor of the Missionary Herald and
other publications Of the American
Board. They made their home in
Chelsea. Upon the death of her hus-
band in 1855 Mrs. Dole returned to
Norridgewock to live in the old fam
lily homestead which her father had
built. All her life Mrs Dole wrote
poetry and for many years the Christ
mas service at the Unitarian church
in Jamaica Plain, of which parish her
son, DR.. Dole is minister, has included
ahymn, the verses of which were writ
ten by Mrs. Dole and adapted to the
music of some familiar tune, possible
for the congregation to sing.
The latest industry in this section
that the people have become cognizant
of Is the raising of cats to rid or
chards of mice. The owner is Angus
tus s. Dickerson. One of the biggest
troubles that the orchardists have had
to contend with is the mice girdling
the trees during the winter. Protec-
ton in the way of wire shields is
costly. Mr.. Dickerson raises each
spring a large number of cats that
are kept in the fields and orchards
throughout the summer and fall
months. They keep the fields clear of
this pest. Mr. Dickerson has a big
pear and apple orchard and in the
past ten years since he has developed
this industry he has never had a tree
girdled by mice and his neighbors who
have exercised this method keep their
fields and orchards free of mice.
The funeral services for tbs late
Mrs. Lizzie H. Dow, widow Of Eylves-
ter Dow, took place at 10 A. NJ, Thurs
day, Rev George Merriam officiating.
Mrs. Dow died Tuesday at her home
on the Russell road at the age of SO
years. Mrs. Dow was born in Nor
ridgewock and after her marriage liv-
ed in Cornville until six years ago.
She was the mother of two children,
a son and a. daughter, both now de-
ceased. She is survived by brother
and sister, Ruel Vickery. who lives In