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The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23
Mrs. Claratta l.. Goodwin.

An unusual measure of suffering fell
to the lot of this worthy woman. For
nearly two years she fought bravely for
life, but fell at last by the way. She
was born in Athens, and was the daugh.
ter of Gilman and Deborah Stevens
Leavitt. She came to Skowhegan sev-
eral years ago from Fairfield, where she
spent quite a portion of her married life.
Here she formed a pleasant circle of
friends who highly esteemed her. She
was hopeful and cheerful in tempera-
ment, and tried to make happy those
who We're around her. She was ener-
getic and resolute, and did well her part
in life. As wife and mother she was de-
voted to her loved ones, and did what
she could to make bright her home.
The funeral took place at her late resi-
dence on East Front Street on Thursday
afternoon, and the large attendance be-
spoke the affection which many had
cherished for her. The services were
conducted by Rev. c. V. Hanson. The
floral offerings were very choice. The
venerable parents and others of the
large family circle were present. She
leaves a husband, Daniel A. Goodwin,
aud one son, Everett. The burial took
place on the south side.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23
LIKE SMOKE, THE ORDINARY KIND OF CLOTHES At ANY RATE

We make SCI
rushing. husing sell money
prices clothing vanishing Combined
goods prices H Call
bargains complete They
please the Young men they disappear
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

See the new dress goods at Ordway's :.
Fred Pooler was home from Portland
over the Sabbath.
Miss Mary S Tuttle spent the sabbath
with friends in Fairfield.
l.. L. Walton. Esq, and family return.
ed from the scashore Saturday evening
DR.. F. 5. Bigelow spent SUNDAY At the
camp grounds at Temple IIghts. North
port.
Owing to the rain st week the picnic
of the Methodist society was indefinitely
postponed.
Mrs. \. ". Wildes and her daughter,
Miss Alice, are visiting friends in Massa-
chusetts. this week.
Mrs. +. p. Niles and Mrs. ;. J. Wal
ton are on Il carriage drive to New Port
land aud New Vineyard.
Doran u Wood have the contract for
putting an iron roof on the brick school
house in Canaan village.
NJ. b. Heselton will sell ON Tuesday
and Wednesday / quart porcelain kettles
worth 40 cents for u cents.
Mr.. V. d. Hilton of the Advocate job
office, North Arson. was in town last
week and made the REPORTER call.
Misses Dora Goodwin and Bessie Hall
passed Sunday in No. Arson. the guests
of W. II. Bodtsh. sister of Miss Hall.
Mr.. L. j. Lyons came to town last
week. ani is fast getting things in shape
for the opening of his new clothing
house.
The Misses Ward and Carrie Emery,
who have been visiting their uncle, ".
IL. Emery, returned to Fairfield On
Saturday.
Rev. F. II. Morgan and his family re-
turned from their vacation. saturday at
ternoon and Mr.. Morgan occupied his
pulpit Sunday.
Co. Z. returned from Augusta Friday
afternoon in good condition. The boys
made good appearance and a good re-
cord but Just failed to carry oil any
prizes.
The REPORTER is under obligation to
Congressman Miliken for copy of the
Tariff bill recently enacted by Congress
the Wilson bill with 600 amendments,
more or less.
Mr.. 5. W. Philbrick has closed a con-
tract with y. 5. Il b. 7. Steward, for
putting in hot water heating apparatus
in the Fuller house, recently purchased
by him and now being extensively re-
modelled.
John Smith of Norridgewock, deputy
sheriff, was in town Saturday. on bust
ness. During the absence of +. p Niles,
sheriff, and \. p. Spear, deputy, Mr..
Smith was obliged TO make daily trips to
this place, to attend the service of pre-
cepts and other legal business.
The High st. society and Sunday
school will hold picnic tomorrow
(Tuesday) in the pine grove near the
II. II. about one mile below the station.
All who desire to attend will meet at the
southern end of the r. h. bridge at
10 \. NJ. If the weather is unfayorable
1t will be held the first fair day
Hon. Thomas B. Reed will speak in
Skowhegan, Tuesday, September 18th.
The meeting will probably be in the
afternoon, but arrangements are not yet
definitely made. The people of somer-
this great Republican leader for more
than ten years and the meeting will be a
great one.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

PROPER medicines are essential to
yoHr recovery. Pnre drugs must
be nsed to make medicines reliable
and efticGciOns- We make a sbe-
cialty of pure drugs and exercise
e0ery possible brecnntiOn to aUoid
mistakes and errors in compound
ing any prescription that may be
brought MS to fiji. absolute &C
cnracy in preparing medicines
from pure drugs only is all fmbor-
fant to the public health. Add to
yoHr chances Of recovery tn case of
sickness by procuring your medi-
riupS fyOm
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23
Somerset Pick-lIps.

Henry Merry Of North Arson. and
Richard Marble. OF Harmony, have been
buying wool III this section the past few
days. They purchased about 10000
pounds of Mark Emery n Son. y large
quantity OF wool is being shipped by
Charles II. Clark of North New Port
land.
C. b. Southland of St. Adams has re-
ceiyed his patent box machine and set it
up. 1t saves the labor of four men. cut
ting or saving bottoms. tops. sides, aud
ends all at once. The machine was built
by Messrs. Fay " Scott of Dexter
Maine. The machine weighs Ill
pounds.
Ben Hilton's fast colt, st. Croix Jr.
won another race against "A field of old
horses at kingtield. Wednesday. He
was in the 2.4s class aud won it at his
ease in three straight heats, his best time
being 2,35 The weather and track were
bad but this WIS the best mile ever trot-
ted on the track. says the Arson Advo-
cate.
Christian Endeavor Cottage at Good
Will Farm will be dedicated August 81 .
The Annual Convention of Christian En-
deavor Societies adiourns. in Lewiston,
on the evening of August 30. Excursion
tickets on the NJ. {. X. Il. from Lewiston
to Good VIII Farm and return will be
sold for Sl.35. Tickets from Wateryille
to the Farm and return will cost 81 cents.
This latter arrangement accommodates
those who will be on their way from the
Convention to the Eastern part of the
state. Further information will be fur
niShed during the Convention.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

Of summer footwear is the
proper proceeding, when we
are in the months without an
r. That's where we are with
out a doubt. and the correct
shoes for the R-less months
will be found in our stock.
They're just the shape for
style and pleasant fit. and the
price is Just the figure for peo-
pie with economical ideas.
There's no pocketbook we
can't fit exactly, no style too
new for US to show, no quail
ty too fine for us to duplicate
with shoes that strike the sum-
NIT of excellence in every
particular. Come to Us for
the latest points on shoes.
r. n MERRILL & SON.
d6 Water Street.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

William Howard, Arson, was arraign-
ed before Justice Paine last Saturday,
for an assault on Annie Howard He
was pat under 5000 bonds to await the
september term of court. j. j. Parlin
Esq, for the state, Charles Wilbur Esq.
for the respondent.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

Receive the same care and attention with
US as large. You can safely send child
for any little thing and depend on getting
exactly what you send for. And you can
send for anything in om line. You will
find nowhere else such a complete store
New things coming in all the time. too.
Send to US when you want anything in
the line of Drugs, Patent Medicines. etc.
The variety of our customers is the best
indication of our success in running the
right sort of a drug store And we gen.
orally have ANYTHING they want. too.
The Somerset reporter., 1894-08-23

Rev. c. F. Mclntire. Of Marlborough,
\. NJ, was in North Arson, Sunday. He
is spending his vacation at his mothers
in Oakland.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
SYMPATHY FOR POOR WILSON.

Right now a great deal of sympathy
is being poured into Mr.. Wilson from
all sides. 1t began with Tom Reed
flash of sarcasm, in which he referred TO
the contrast between the time when
Wilson was carried out on the shoulders
of the Democrats and now when he Is
being carried out in another way.
President Cleveland has written HIM
letter, telling him how sympathetic he
(CievelanD is, and how solIcitous he is
for Wilson health, which has been shat
tered by his work over the tariff bill,
and to no purpose.
Wilson deserved the sympathy. He
has worked hard. He has broken his
health. He was actuated by an honest
desire to carry out the pledges made by
his party to the country. But he was
thrown down, his counsels were pushed
aside, his labor was tossed into the
waste basket. His party did not carry
out its pledges.
The majority of his party, as repre-
scented In congress-, did not want 10 carry
oUt 0AO pASuSCo LiAttO III bhC CA4S0coN
platform. This howl that the senate
made the house give in and back down,
and made them, bandit-fashion, give
up their blood or tkeic mOney-pass the
senate bill or he forever damned-is a
little thin.
As a matter of fact the house sur
rendered all too tamely. 1t didn't take
much for the senate to bluff it into
passing the sugar trust bill. The house
did kick little at first and was prepar-
ing to kick more. when Speaker Crisp
appears from a caucus, without previous
warning, introduces a resolution to ac-
cept the senate bill, and the thing is
done forwith.
Ii was a cowardly surrender. and the
Democrats all over the country who
wanted the Chicago platform pledges
kept know it and have it treasured up
against the members of the house.
Wilson deserves the more sympathy
on that account If he was sincere in
his efforts to put out bill with approx
mate free trade principles embodied IN
it, it was unfortunate for him. 1t is uu-
fortunate for him because the rest Of his
party was not with him. If it had been
the Democrats in the house would never
have consented in caucus to pass the
senate bill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
REPUBLIcAN COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Republican county and district cOhNeh-
lions for the purpose of nominating candlfaIes
for the following offices TO he filled IN the NO
venlber 1894, election. will be held August Z0'
The Offices 10 be filed are as follows;
First Clerk of the district court
Second-Probate judge.
Thrd-County attorney.
Fourth-Superintende OF public lnstruc-
ton.
Fifth-Commissfoner of the Sixty-eighth
representative distsict.
Sfxth-Three representatives from the sixty
seventh, Sixfy-eighth and SlXty-nlnth dis
tricts respectively.
; The convention will be held at the auditor
ium in this CITY at IL o'clock a. m, except the
convention for the purpose Of nominating can
didates for the district offices, which will be
held as follows. tOwit: To nOminate candidate
for Commissioner and representative of the
SiNty-egh1h district at O'Clock a m; to
nominate candidate for representatives of the
SiXty-seventh district at 10 O'Clock a. m; and
10 nominate "A candidate for representative OF
the Slxty-uinth district at ! p, IN. in Sunnower
block
Said convention is called by order of the Re-
publican county central committee, and the
apportionment shall be as follows, towit: One
delegate -at-large for each voting precinct In
the county and one at large for each ward IN
the city, and one delegate for each twenty-five
votes and major fraction thereof, cast for
Chester l. Long in the fall Of 1892. which ap-
portionment among the several wards and
precincts viii entitle them TO the following
representation. towIt:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
First ward

The central committee gives notice that the
primaries VIII lie held on the sd day of Au-
gust rs follows; In the county precincts
from the hours Of too O'Clock p. m. at the
usual voting places. In the wards of the city
from the hours of TO O'Clock =. m. at
places to be hereafter designated by the COM
mtteemen of The ward.
The qualification of voters at said primaries
shall be determined by the following rule:
That all persons who have regularly affill-
lated with the Republican party In the past,
Dr all persons who voted the Republican ticket
at the last county election and in addition
thereto announce their intention To do so in
the future, and all Republican minors who
can vote at the next election shall be qualified
voters at the Republican primaries. and the
judge of The primaries shall determine the
voters right upon this basis: That the voter
must be a resident Of the ward or precinct"
II a person Offering 20 vote Is challenged ar
unqualified 10 vote Toy one of the Judges oS
any elector. IL shall be the duty OF the judget
10 satisfy themselves as to his right 10 vote as
huCh Republican primary election within the
rule heretofore adopted. 1t shall be the further
duty of the judges to write upon the poll list
the number, together with the residence, Civ
ing street and house number OF such person.
offering 20 vote, and shall also indorse the
number on said ballot TO correspond with the
poll list number. together with the word
challenged" The poll list containing a COM
p!ete list OF the persons voting, together with
the ballots cast. shall Toe returned 10 the
Comfy Republican Central Committee.
Done by order OF The Republican county CEN
tral committee. !. II. MCCALL, Chairman.
\. NJ. STURDLvANT, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
TELEGRAPH WIRE AND SIN

Fleeter than the light of the great sun,
the telegraph instrument in the EAGLE
Office at o'clock yesterday morning
licked off the story Of the execution Of
Santo, which occurred at Lyons at 400
a. M, or nearly two hours later than
when it was put into type.
In other words, piece of news is
seemingly printed before the event has
taken place.
This flashing of story across the
British channal, into London. out of
London across the great Atlantic.
through New York and half way across
the United States Is wonderful busi-
ness. 1t is done almost in the twinklinr
OF an eye. II is done accurately and
completely.
The marvel of the telegraph, to be
sure, is rather an old story now, but it
appeals strongly to one when the feat IS
actually performed in hrs presence. as
was the case in the execution OF the
Anarchist.
Ii points moral, too, in this very con-
liSNtlOu. Cd4llO " St> an Anarchist, tie
was trying. in mad, fanaiicaI frenzy.
to help wipe out the civilization, of
which the telegraph instrument is =
part and an agent.
He was smarting under some griev-
ance, AID he espoused the cause which
rebels against and desires to annibilata
all the governmental and commercial
systems eXtant.
These symptoms are the result, not of
the corruption of enc dynasty nor the
mismanagement for q century or a de-
cade, but of long ages of human genius.
labor and natural development
These systems viii stand despite An
archists and all else. They may change
and become better year by year, they
may be temporarily suspended for a
while, but the fropelliug power Of the
world has always been progress, and i,
viii come up again and go OF upward.
When progress cannot lie restored 4 deed
like Santos VIII Ice held a benefaction
and not an assassination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Choctaw road will be sold Septem-
Der 8.
The Wichita Indians have begun the
ghost dance again.
Newkirk has voted school bands and is
on an old fashioned boom.
There is contest on at FL Reno for the
place of assistant postmaster IN Ter Mr..
Redder
1t is about time for the newspapers to
have the Red Moon Indians go on the war
path again.
1t must be about time for the Rock
Island 10 begin to build those depots at
Enid and Pond Greek.
The Rock Island track layer at King
fisher says he has been ordered to go to
Enid and begin to put in side tracks.
The Euid Wave is rather rank in its
Democracy. 1t says that Hoke Smith was
not at all to blame for the depot troubles.
The county commissioners have allowed
money for two bridges near Waukomis,
one over Turkey and the other over Skele-
ton creeks.
On the day of the bank robbery at
Chandler four marriages took place.
When bandits are so near, no one wants to
sleep alone.
There are just twelve bicycles in Still
water. 1t is safe betting that no town in
the west, as far from q railroad as Still
water Is, has as many bikes
Two Indian ponies at Waukomis, named
Eugene Debs and Dynamite Bill, had a
kicking match the other day and laid
waste half nile of board fence.
The Perry Democrat is thankful because
the old woman who used to keep strych-
nine next to baking powder in the cup.
board has passed away into history.
4 man at Blackwell threatens 10 open
up dance hall with six hand-painted
beauties" and there is long loud howl
from the respectable citizens of the place.
Bion Hutchins OF Ponca City has not
been married at al. as reported, but he
tells people to send in their congratula-
tions Just the same, as il makes him feel
good.
AT Blackwell recently in a travelling
show wild man of Borneo" was exhibit
ed The Snowman told the good people
that lie had been caught lat the expense
OF 10, COO lives and Sl4"
When Il man in Oklahoma buys a paper
he thinks nothing of changing its politics.
For long time the Blackwell Eagle has
been Democratic. but last week 1t came
out and unfurled the names OF Lincoln,
Grant and Rtaira
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
TEE ARROGANCE OF TRUSTS.

Apropos of the great trusts and COM
bines which prey upon the public, small
combines are springing up everywhere,
embracing in their reach most commo-
dities used by the people. a combina-
ton was formed in Kansas City in jan
uary last for the purpose of controlling
the price Of leading staple in building
material. Some five or six concerns en-
gagged in the manufacture of this article
had Extraordinarily cutting prices till,
by running at an actual loss, some of
them were forced to close out their re
spective plants for what they could get.
The concern with The longest purse sur
vived, and dictated the price to be paid,
and took in its weaker neighbors, organ
izing the whole industry into "com-
pany," otherwise a trust, with full power
to dictate the price on every dollars
worth of goods sold in that line This
company" holds monopoly of that
market by reason of the raw material
being obtained only in a given locality
within distance of the city-in fact it
is long distance to the nearest Compel
ing mills, and the prospects are that this
infantile combine viii not be long in the
kindergarten class of the rapidly grow
ing school of monopolies. The money
actually used as the cash payment on
this deal was $1,000, the balance being
paid in installments out of the profits of
the bushes. The balance sheet at the
end of the first six months showed a net
profit of $4,000, and it is stated by a
member of the company that the next
six months will show clean profit of at
least $50, 200. He admits that $44, 900 is
a good dividend on an actual outlay of
S., 600, but claims it as his perfect right
under the law, and openly defiies the
power of anyone to encroach upon his
vested rights"
This blooming nabob may Gnd, ere
long. that there is something in this
country bigger than his lilliputian
scheme to corner a commodity which
everybody must use. A very light tread
of the pOnderous foot Of public opinion
would spread him out so thin that the
ten commandments. in nonpareil, might
be read through his diaphanous anatomy
with the naked eye. When trusts breed
this kind of arrogance it will be so much
the worse for those who build them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
sIuCrcase.

Taking the total value of all the diff
ferent kinds of live stock the entire
loss to the farmers of the country
amounts to S312. 266, 495; their property
was worth that amount CT money less
on January l, 1894, than it was worth
to them a year earlier. Farmers lost
over sea, 900, 900 through the lower
value of their horses; they lost over
SIS, 500, 900 through the lower value of
their mules; they lost more than SILL
GOO, 900 through the depreciation in the
value of their oxen and other cattle;
they lost over $50, 700, 900, according to
the department of agriculture estimate,
through the depreciation in value of
their sheep, and they lost more than
SIS, 0o0, 900 because their hogs were
worth less money in the market.
against this total loss, exceeding
1912, OO0, 900, must be offset the gain of
81, 122, 900 in the value of mich COWS,
thus leaving net loss in live stock or
rather more than 1912, 900, 900, to which
should be added loss of $50, 073, $40 in
the value of the farmers wool clip
in the same period, which brings the
total up to 1885, 600, 600. BY this great
amount Of money the farmers were
poorer year AFTER the threat of free
trade than they were before they Sc
cured a change" Here are the fig
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
LOSSES IN LIVE STOCK.

Can You not give US western farmers
some facts about the loss in values of
live stock? I. II. DUNLAP,
Logan, Okla, June 25, 1894.
The values of all live stock have de-
creased, with the exception of mich
cows, which. on January l, 1894, showed
an increased value of cents per head,
as compared with their value January
l, 1898. The average value OF all horses
in the country which was S6l.22 at the
beginning of 1888 declined to SASS at
the beginning of 1894, the average loss
in value per head being s1S.39. Mules
also deprecated in value, being worth
SSH less at the beginning of this year
than they were in 1895. The depart
ment of agriculture also gives the loss
in the value of sheep at 6s cents per
head: of swine at 43 cents per head,
and of oxen and other cattle at IS cents
per head, as can be seen from the fol-
lowing:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
STATE REPUBLICAN TICKET.
REPUBLICAN STATE PLATFORM.

Pe-aNfrnins the Republican national plat
form of lS.s@, .., ,-.r;ot-
ism of our I9arty is in itself A guaranty TO lhe
rat;on fl al the interests OF Its defenders
their widows and orphans VIII De IIoeFaLy
cared for and we denounce thelr cruei anu
deliberate betrayal by the present DehlocfaII0
administration. ~ par,blicon
doctrine of protection. and believe that tarII
laws sbouli protect the products OF the 4Strh'
as Well as OF the factory - -;
Third. The American people favor o.
metallism and the ;epu9ilc9n paIty Ita,dnr.d
the use of both gold and silver as siahdartl
money with such restrictions ana undei
such provisions 10 be determined Dy leSIola-
tion as viii secure the maintenance OF inc
r1aritv of w lUeS of the Two mctalS, anu Ina IC
5ba si1rcbasinc and debt paying power OF the
dollar whether of gold, silver or paper, sb%iI
he al an times equal. The interests OF Inc
r,r,,ducers of the country. ITS farmers anu us
Working men demand that the mines De OPEN
ed to he coinage OF the silver OF the mines
&c tbe United States and that congress should
enact a law leyying a tax on lmportatIohs OF
foreign silver sufficient to FULLY protect Tie
products Of eur own mines.
Fourth: We favor national ARD stare IeSIs-
l9 ion for the encOuI agement OF irrigation
Fifth: we {enounce the present state al,
ministration for Is violation OF the laws ahG
contempt of the courts. lue corruption anu
incouDetencv of its officials, lis gross ms
management of the state INSTITUTIONS, ana ana
for tbe discrrdit it has brought upon the
Good name of the state. And we pledge the
Republican party and the nominees OF inns
convention 10 8 faithful and economical as
charge of all official duties ana 10 StTIct
observance and an honest enforcement OF Ine
IaWs md N obedience to the mandates OF the
courts. 49,, .;
sixth: To the maintenance OF these primer
ples we invite the support OF all paJFIoiic
citizens.