Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-30
SKOWHECAN NEWS
Somerset County-Program
gs - Legislative Committee
- Skowhegan Rife Team to

Iof Relief for French Wounded with
Headquarters in Boston. Eight new
members were added to the organiza-
ton and another meeting will be held
at the Rest rooms next Saturday eve
ming for further plans.
Charles S. Smith. son of j. \.
Smith, who recently went to Boston
where he accepted a position with the
Edison Light Co. was operated upon
Sunday for acute appendicitis, from
which he had been suffering for only
short time. Indications according to
reports received here are that Mr..
Smith is doing well.
Jckr Fl. Lancaster, who since the
demise of o. A. Priest. has held the
Office of trial justice. will not serve
the remaining four years of his term
because of having been elected TO the
office Of county treasurer. He has al
ready completed his duties and anoth-
er appointment will be in order.
Owing to thu critical illness Of Miss
Angela Tracy, who has lately come
here from Lewiston to remain for a
time in the home of her brother. DR..
O. H. Tracy. there We're no services at
the First Baptist church Sunday eve
ming.
Claude Barker the well-known cor
netist of this section. who has been
passing some time with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. r. p. Barker of Athens,
left here Monday for Chicago, where
he is to join Bohumir Kryl's Band
and probably he with the Redpath
Bureau during the summer. Mr.. Bar
ker played under Mr.. Kryle's brother
last season.
The directors Of the Skowhegan
Farmers Union held q business meet
ing to transact routine business, Sat
urday night.
Judge Leslie C. Cornish opened SUI
preme court here Monday forenoon
at II o'clock following an adjournment
since the Saturday previous. In the
cases of Russell r. Cameron and Har-
old s. Moore VS.. Thos. Cahill, Joseph
Clarke VS.. Georgia Cahill and J. j.
Lander VS.. Thos. Cahill the default
was ordered removed and the cases in
stead were assigned for trial on the
first day of the April term. The case
of S. T. Baker and Perley Priest VS..
Ralph Sterling assigned for trial yes
terday was defaulted and the case OF
CLYDE H. Smith VS.. G. G. Brown was
entered neither party no further ac-
ton Following the disposition of these
cases and other business of legal ma
ture the case of Holt & Hight of Show
hogan VS.. Truman b. Carl of North
Arson was taken up. According to the
opening in the case Judge +. F. Law
renee, being the attorney for the plain
tiff, it seems that the firm bringing
suit and Mr. Carl made certain agree
ments relative to the purchase and
disposal of potatoes. 1t is claimed that
Holt & Hight offered to buy two car
loads of potatoes of 600 bushels each
from the defendant and to pay for the
same 40 cents per bushel, the deal to be
consuAated not later than Oct. IS,
1915. They signed an agreement to that
effect, according to Judge Lawrence.
In September it seems that the firm
had some talk with Mr. Carl and it
appears that potatoes having gone up
Mr.. Carl would like to have dissolved
the agreement. Finally a member of the
firm sent to North Arson and exam
inod some potatoes which were being
loaded onto car there, but which
We're not satisfactory. The plaintiffs
asked Mr. CARL to take them to q
nearby barn and keep them until they
were dryer. Mr.. Carl, it seems, thought
this ended the agreement. An import
ant fact seems to be that the contract
price was 40 cents while the market
value of potatoes at the time they
should have been delivered was 70
cents. Action is brought to recover the
sum of $500, the difference which the
potatoes would have brought had they
been received according to contract
and the amount which was to have
been paid for them by Holt & Hight
Mr.. Truman is represented by Judge
Simmons.