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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23
Athens.

Mr.. Henry Stickney died of eonsump-
ton last Friday morning after long ill
ness. Mr.. Stickney was about So years
of age, an honorable, respected citizen,
who will be greatly missed. He leaves a
wife and two children, Mrs. u. j. L merry
and a son, Merit N, who have the sympa-
thy of their many friends.
Mr.. Chas. Barker has been in rather
poor health of late but is thought to be
improving.
Mr.. Eugene Cole of Boston, and Asa
Cole of Augusta, have been visiting theiI
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah Cole,
Miss Rena Hayden of Garland. is at
tending Somerset Academy.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23
Il. Madison

Mrs. Rebccka IIunncwell Is visiting
friends in town this week.
II. f. York of Athens, passed the Sab
bath with friends in town.
Messrs Leon and Elmer Witham have
gone up river on a hunting trip this
week.
Frank Lincoln has got out OF the
woods
Mrs. Henry Reed entertained d few
friends at her home Monday evening lay
a social chat and singing, 4 pleasant
time was the result
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23
Snlitllfeld.

Mr.. Daniel Stevens has hired the saw
mill of Isaiah Tibbets at Smithfield, and
it started Monday, much TO the salts
faction of the people as 1t had been idle
all winter.
Mr.. Benjamin Tracy of skowheegan Is
visiting his children in Smithtield and
Mercer,
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23

lectmen, w. W. Hamhlet, :. Homer, l..
Lombard; treasurer; n. II. Savage, sup
ervisor: y. Bray collector and constable,
Sabin Dunton; voted against building II
new jail as we don't propose tn furnish n
better home than we have ourselves for
u class to 20 there, rather then get their
living by the sweat Of their brow AS We
farmers have to back here in northern
Maine. :.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23

Helen Kidder of Bingham, little girl
of twelve years, has employed her leisure
time this winter in praiseworthy man.
ner, in the making of Il quilt for one of
the homes of Good viii Farm. The quilt
contained ~ squares of four pieces each,
and was quite an undertaking for one so
young.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23

The Barden House, the only hotel in
Phillips was Quilted by fire Monday
morning. 1t caught from lamp which
broke in Landlord Leonard Pratt's
hands. BY hard work of the fire depart
ment, with hand engine, the fire was
confined to the hotel. Loss by fire and
water estimated ut $4,000. Part of the
contents Of the house were removed. in
sured for S3O0O
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23
HIS

season we are showing line
of Oak and Ash Chamber Sets
from $4,000 to $1,000. They
are beauties. Our $25 and $50
Ash Sets in Stylish make and
finish are not equaled in
Maine. We have the cele-
brated Pilgrim Spring Bed
also the genuine Hartford
wire Spring Beds and all the
cheaper grades. By great
care in selection of goods and
making prices as low as we
have, we hope when you all
see our goods we shall not be
obliged to run this.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1893-03-23
Concord.

Our town held its annual election, Mar
18th Chose W. W. lamblet, clerk; Sc
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
GOV. STONE SCRAPS.
Missouri's Chief Magistrate Re-
sents an Imputation With
a Blow.

NEVADA, No., July 1.-Yesterday
afternoon Governor Stone, Congress
man Morgan, State Senator Wright,
Postmaster Ingels, Frank P. Ander-
son and John Cole were sitting in the
lobby Of the Hotel Mitchell when ex-
County Recorder King appeared and
asked Congressman Morgan if be had
heard his testimony before Referee
Casey.
Mr.. Morgan replied that he had not
and King exclaimed: "Well, l told
the truth, but Stone told a die"
The governor, quickly rising, seized
MIR. Anderson's crutch and struck at
King, who warded off the blow with
his arm and umbrella. The next in
slant the men grappled. but they
were at once separated.
The governor was thoroughly
aroused and used his full command of
language to express his indignation.
The trouble grew directly out of
the suit of the county now pending
against the ex-county recorder.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
-Kaiser's Little Havanas
are still the best.
Those Shoes.

The BAzoo has been made famous
in many ways.
The most recent manner that it has
been called to public attention is the
naming brand of shoes THE BAzoo.
A pair of this choice brand has been
forwarded the manager of this paper
by Mr.. L. S. Parker, manager of
1.-The Jefferson Shoe company"
They are model foot wear and fit
as perfect as could be desired.
1.-The Jefferson Shoe company" is
one of the staunch and reliable manu-.
facturies of the west and its goods
stand at the head and large and sue
cessful run is predicted for The
BAzoo, inasmuch as the paper has
stood about quarter of a century.
the shoes will scarcely ever wear out.
To Mr.. Parker and the other gen.
tlemen associated with him. The
BAzoo manager makes his most pro-
found bow for the very timely and
excellent present.
Success attend THE BAZoo SHOE.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

State Board of Public Works from
1855 to 1861. This body was long
ago abolished in this state. The re,
ports of the five constitutional con-
ventiOns held in this state are interest
ing.
There are pamphlets and catalogues
OF the Missouri State university of
church conventions, conferences and
synods; of the adjutant general and
state school superintendent, normal
schools, reform schools and asylums:
journals of the senate and house ORC.
ceedings of secret societies, etc., etc.
The messages Of the Missouri COVER
nors, from the time of Governor
Boggs in 1886, to that of Governor
Stone IN 1892, are exceedingly inter-
esting documents.
There are 200 documents, bound
separately and handsomely, on
the subject Of geology.
MIR. Sampson is a laborious student.
possesses fine literary judgement and
taste and is engaged in a work which
will be fully appreciated and highly
valued long after he shall have passed
from the stage of action.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
Compliments from Home.

In speaking of Mr.. and Mrs. Gill
". Peaslee, who were married in
Sedalia yesterday, the Windsor Rerieu
SAYS:
Mr. Peaslee is too well known in
Windsor 10 need an introduction at
our hands. He is thorough bust.
ness man, and up in commercial
circles. He has just commpleted a
beautiful home on Tebo street, which
is elegantly furnished and awaits the
coming charming bride.
No young lady ever had more
friends in the community in whi.,l
she was reared than has Miss
Mckinley in Windsor. She has
taught school here for several years
las. year teaching at Wilburn Neb.
She is a lady of culture. education
and refinement, possessing many graces
of mind and heart which characterizes
the noble woman.
Mr.. and Mr.. Pea-lee will he at home
to their friends in Windsor, after July
18th. The Rerier congratulates
them.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

IS expected that the doors of the col
.ege will be thrown open for the adj
mission Of students about January l.
In the meantime DIR Cool will
continue raising funds for the institu'
ton so that when the doors are open.
ed the building will have no debt
hanging over it. 1t will require hard
and earnest work, but DR.. Cool is
capable and willing.
DIR. Cool arrived in Sedalia Friday
and will remain on the ground super.
intending the completion OF the college
building and its appointments, and in
the field raising funds.
His family, who are now at their
summer home, Lake Bluff, near Chi.
cago. will not arrive in Sedalia
until later. His family consists OF
his accomplished wife, who has been
an able and advantageous second to
the doctors life work, two sons and
two daughters. Mrs. Cool was a
sister of the late ex-Attorney General
McCarty, of Illinois. She and the two
sons were members OF the Wiley uni
versity faculty and added very ma
terially in the astonishing success OF
that youthful institution.
DIR. Cool has consented to occupy
the pulpit at the First Methodist
church, this morning at II o'clock.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
other men would have faltered. 1t i,
characteristic of the man.

other men would have faltered. 1t is
characteristic of the man.
The Wiley university, under the
presidency of DR.. Cool, has made
wonderful progress since it wasopened.
two years ago. That the doctors eff
forts were appreciated it evidenced by
the following resolution passed by the
Texas conference:
Resolved. That. as conference,
we rejoice greatly in the prosperity of
Wiley university, under the presi-
dency of DIR. p. A. Cool, and that we
wiu cordially cooperate with the
Fr.edman's Aid and Southern Edu-
caional Society in the erection of
greatly needed additional buildings.
The success of the Wiley University
under DR.. Coors control marked that
gentleman as the proper person to
have charge of the George X. Smith
college of this city, which will be one
of the most important colleges under
the control of Freeman's Aid society.
1t will have for its field of operation
the states Of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa,
Illinois and the Indian Territory. 1t
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
Found Something.

On Friday last the parties who are
now employed in digging and search
ing for the hidden Spanish treasure,
which is said to amount to one million
and half dollars. and which is said to
have been buried near Knob Noster,
succeeded in striking fair sample Of
lead ore. The searching party are
veryhopefulanda putting iorthe every
effort to realize the find. The rock
which is one of the clues uoou which
they work, has been found with GER
tain peculiar marks upon it.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

The aged gentleman Of whom this
article is designed to be brief biogra-
ply, is still at his post of duty and
will likely die in the harness Labor
is his inspiration, and when he ceases
from that, it will only be because his
hands have lost their cunning and he
can no longer lift from the magic box
es the little leaden messengers which
have revolutionized the things Of this
strange world.
Nearly seventy-four years ago he
was born In Farquier county, Virgin
ia, and was early apprenticed to the
printers trade. In the common
schools and in the Office he received Il
clever education and became more
than ordinarily skiiltui in his chosen
occupation. His native intelligence
and his untiring industry advanced
him rapidly in the regard and conf
dence of his employees back in the
distant days of the Old Dominion.
In the spring of 1S43-fifty long
and eventful years ago-Mr. Caldwell
entered the newspaper business on
his own account, at Boonville, Mo-,
as proprietor, publisher and editor of
the Boonrille Observer. That city was
then at the highest pitch OF its COM
mercial prosperity. 1t commanded
the immense Southwest trade and its
streets were daily crowded with great
canvas-covered wagons loading
merchandise of many kinds
from the numerous wholesale
Establishments and passing out in long
white lines to the southwark. Mag
nificent steamers, palatially appointed,
and crowded with freight and passen-
gers, plowed the foamy current of the
Missouri, and fll.d the now almost
deserted wharves and mammoth ware
houses with vast cargoes of goods from
st. Louis. Those were the halcyon
days of the historic old city. The
river captains, pilots and clerks, who
were supposed To be special connoi-
seurs in such matters, declared that
Boonville had the prettiest women of
any town between St. Louis and st.
Joseph. Their charming daughters
and granddaughter of to-day would
seem to bear out the assertion, il
there be anything in hereditv.
Mr.. Caldwell returned to Virginia
in 1876, on account of his wife's i'll
health, but came back in 1850 and
purchased half interest in the paper,
which, for a time, was turned into a
tri-weekly. and climbed the golden
stairs, after brief existence, in 1851.
The next paper he was connected
with was the Boonuile Patriot, which
was conducted until the outbreak Of
the war in 1861, when the mater ial
was boxed up by Colonel Worthington
then in command of the post, and
shipped to Jefferson City.
The proprie:or's sympathies were
naturally with the South. The old
Virginia blood in his veins asserted
itself and he espoused the Lost
Cause" but did not remain long in the
army Whether any of Sigels flying
dutci men" ever hit the dust at his
hand is somewhat predetermined.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
An Old virginian Who Has Been
In the Newspaper Business
Sixty Years.
Printer, Publ Usher and Editor in
the City of BoonviIle a Half
Century.
He Still Stands At the Case,
Rounding Out a Romantic
and Honored Career.

The printers of the olden time are
gradually passing from the field of
active occupation and leaving their
uncompleted tasks to younger men.
They formed a noble body of workers
and they raised the art preventative
to high standard of excellence, such,
indeed, as has not been surpassed in
this day of invention aud advance.
ment.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

Quite an amusing incident occurred
at the depot yesterday morning. An
old gentleman from the rural districts
was on his way to Clinton to visit
some of his kin, ard had get his valise
in the waiting room awaiting hi, train.
Not having travelled much he was
more or less excited, and when the
train pulled up-he hastily picked up
his valise as he supposed, and got
aboard. About this time another
gentleman entered upon the scene
and missed his grip, he hunted the
old man up, and showing him his mis-
take claimed his own valise. The old
gentleman made break for the wait
ing room and found his valise all
right, and the way the old man
hustled across the platform to his
train was a caution. The spectators
enjoyed hearty laugh at his expense.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04

last, has selected as the president Of
that college the Rev. DR.. P. A. Cool,
late president of the Wiley university
for colored people at Marshall, Texas.
The last named college is also unde,
the control of the Freedman's Aid
society.
A better selection than DIR. Cool
for this responsible position could no.
have been made. The writer has
known him as a minister in Central
Illinois and as lecturer for a number
of years, and knows whereof he
speaks.
DR.. Cool is native of Ohio, having
been born in that state in 1850. He
was educated for the ministry in the
Methodist Episcopal church at He'd
ding college at Abingdon, Illinois.
For the past twenty-three years he has
devoted himself with zeal to pastoral
work and teaching, with a series o:
fiattering successes that few men A.,
tain. He is close student. a ripe
scholar and most afiable gentleman.
As a public speaker he is captivating,
interesting and always has something
to say, something that is new. fresh,
instructive and entertaining.
DR.. COors pleasing ways, and his
ability as pulpit orator and pastoral
wOrker-twO qualities rarely con-,
bined-soon Won his way into popular
favor, and during his twenty years
connection with the Central Iiiinui.
conference, he was pastor of the very
best churches within the gift Of tie
conference. No minister is bette.
more widely nor more favorahiy
known in Central Illinois than d..
Cool, save the possible exception o.
the venerable "Uncle Dick" Haney.
DIR. Cool is not only renowned
as pulpit speaker and a pastor, bat
has won distinction upon the lecture
platform as well. He has not only
successfully lectured in this country,
but in 1881 he visited Europe and lee
tured in many parts of England. al.
ways meeting with the success that
his ability and eloquence justified.
The doctor is an aggressive mar
with strong convictions. but Is lot
fanatic, biased nor unwilling that any
man shall hold opinions opposed to his.
He believes that men are won to his
way of thinking-which of course he
believes is the correct one-bv logical
argument and not by upbraiding. He
Is liberal in thought and liberal at
heart and winner of friends because
he is good and true.
When the Wiley university was to
be opened two years ago, the Freed
mems Aid society cast about tO.find
the suitable man TO take charge OF
the institution. DIR Cool was decid-
ed no as Just the man. Overtures
were made to him. 1t was great
sacrifice to give up pleasant pastoral
work and lifelong friends and 90 to a
distant state and take charge of a
negro college. But DR.. Cool felt
convinced that il was his duty to do
so and he made the sacrifice, when
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
Society Stirred.


Butler, Mo had a swell wedding.
1t was at the residence of James
McKibben Esq,
The parties to the contract were
Miss Mabel l. McKibben. daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. McKibben.
The groom is Col. Sam F. Canter-
bury, cashier of a bank at West
Plains, Mo.
About the only people who have
enough money to get married are
bankers, and in Nebraska they don't
60.
In this Butler match, the Rev.
VIM. Stephens did the legal and
religious part Of the wedding in good
old Methodist style, from start to
finish.
The groom wore black.
The bride had fine cream satin
toggery.
She looked lovely.
All brides are booked for that sort
of an appearance.
Then they had flower girls who will
he brides if they live-at another day.
\ bow and arrow of white roses
were over the heads of the couple
when the ceremony was performed.
The Indian who uses bow and ar
row was not present. but there were
l25 pale-faces on hand to eat the
wedding supper.
The card of invitation said, mo
presents
This is an innovation and will not
be tolerated again ut swell affairs in
staid old Missouri.
The world smiles on Mr.. and Mrs.
Canterbury to-day.
The BAzOO congratulates all inter-
ested parties.
May they go through life in can
ter and get 100 per cent happiness and
more, too, unless it is prohibited by
legislative enactment.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-04
Selected as President of George
r. Smith College.
Something About This Amiable
Preacher, Teacher, Orator
and Lecturer.
His Work at Wiley University
shows That the Selection
ofOr. Cool Is a Timely
One.

The Freedmen's Aid society, which
is the board of control of the George
r. Smith college oft city, the corner
stone of which was laid on May 81,
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-03

Senator Coke has departed for
Washington. He has s'id he would
vote against the repeal Of the Sher-
man bill. We are led to hope and
believe, however, that the senator
will chang his mind when the time
comes to vote.-Day Globe
1t is strange that paper usually
so fair as the Dly.Globe should
continue to misrepresent and, by
insinuations, seek TO have It's read
ers misunderstood the utterances of
Senator Coke upon al occasions. 1t
the Day.Globe has rtai what Sena.
tor Coke has said about voting for
the repeal of the Sherman law 1t
must know it's utterances as above
clipped, do not correctly represent
him. The democratic platform de.
clares in favor of the repeal of the
so.called Sherman law, it also com.
mits, in the same clause, the party
to the maintenance of the double
standard and "to the use of both
gold and silver without dis
against either or
charge for mintage" here it should
be remarked, parenthetically, if this
last does not mean the free coinage
Of silver it does not mean anything.
Senator Coke understands, judging
from his published utterances, the
whole clause to be mandatory the
repeal of the Sherman law
ard the simultaneous passs %
Of laws to carry into effect
The will OF the party, this the
senator has repeatedly declared him
self in favor of. He does not oppose
The repeal Of the Sherman law but
will vote against it unless provisions
are made for giving force to the
whole plank.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-03
Volcanoes In the United States

Volcanoes In the United States
Excluding Alaska, states Mr..
Ralph s. Tarr, the United states
may be said to be non.volcanic
country at present, but it has not
long been so. A chain of volcanoes
extends from Southern South Amer.
lea into Mexico; then there is a
large space with no volcanoes, and
the interrupted chain begins again
in Alaska, curves southwark and
joins the chain of Japan. The in.
termediate non.volcanic region has
just emerged from an era of stupen-
dous volcanic activity. That this
activity may be in some degree re.
sumed in the future is not inproba.
BILE, for in the west are volcanoes
so recent, as like Mount Shasta, to
retain their conical form, and some
of these are perhaps no more dor
mant than was Ne:uvius before the
fateful year 70, when it buried
Pompeii and Herculaneum beneath
the most terrible storm of stones
and ashes ever known TO man. In
the canyon Of the Colorado, in the
deserts of Nevada and Utah, and in
New Mexico exist small lava flows
that must have been erupted in very
recent years, probably since the
white mans discovery Of the CONT
nent. These seem to record the
death throes of the country's latest
volcanic giants. The volcanoes
have evidently played an important
part in bringing to the surface
stores of metals, and the richest
mines are found in the volcanic dis.
tricts of Tertiary times.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-03

plating his successors among the
acistocratic. lsui.owning, law.giv-
ing, privileged class from which
surviving Toryi.m draws its sup
port. If he held woman to be but
his servile minister, at any rate ne
married a wife openly in church
and lowered her generously. If
he was arrugant, a. any rate ne took
no unfair sdvantsge of his a1ver-
sary If he was intolerant OF con.
tradiction, he was careful to select
proper time and placa for knock.
ing his adversary down.
The old English gentleman would
have been incabe Of regarding Mr..
Glad=tone's opinions aud policies
otherwise than a, pestiferous an.
archy, but he would have respected
the office of Prime Minister too
much to tolerats the pelting of that
person with missiles in the public
streets.
There is a new English gentle.
man, much superior to the old, but
he comes of different class in the
main, and England is not yet suffic-
iently escaped from midi~vali IN to
make this new and better type of
gentleman a controlling influence
over British manners. With his
genius and patriotism, with schol-
arship, culture and ~ intellectual
activity, which should render him
unapproachable in influence,
Mr.. Gladstone holds power by
virtue of the common peoples will
alone, and is socially of less conse-
quence than any little lordly de-
bauchee who has inherited 4 noble
name to disgrace it, Huxley and
Bryce aud all that group of great
scholars and cultivated gent emen
must give place and precedence in
English society to every titled
dunderheai who may happen to
come their way.
the emancipation of England
from the thraldom of mad avail
falsehood has been slow and is yet
far from complete The aristoc-
racy in its decay has exchanged its
old, frank and honest brutality for
something much less admirable, but
still holds sway over the minds of
men i'll all that relates to social life
and manners. In its presence, as it
now is, the judicious must grieve
over the disappearance of the fine
old English gentleman, with his
dogs and his drink, his dull narrow.
ness of mind aud the conventional
which was saving salt
in his composition.