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East COrnVille.

school in the steam mill district taught
by Miss Elge Fogg closed Friday, July
:. Miss Fagg furnished a bountful
treat Of peanuts and candy, and it is the
unanimous opinion of all concerned that
we have had the best school that has
been taught in this place for a long time.
Mr. Harry Richards and wife of Park
man. visited at a. l.. Maxwell's. Tues
day and Wednesday of last week.
Mrs. Geo. b, Moore and her three
children Of skowhegan, Mr.. and Mrs.
has. futile Of Norridgewock, and Mr..
August C. Nelson and wife Of Monson,
visited at \. l.. Maxwell's recently,
Mrs futile, Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Nell
sou are daughters Of Mr.. and Mrs. Max
well.
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termaster's shed and looked down at the
boys for a minute or two without a
word. Then he spoke quietly, saying:
That is not the way to load boxes, men
Put them in straight and carefully. Do
your work like soldiers.
"Old Hannibal, who was s1ouching a
good deal at his work, turned with i'm
pudent bravado toward the officer and
was Just IL the act of saying that he did
not want any quartermaster' clerk to
give orders to him, when he started in
surprise. saluted and, much to the as
tonishment of the boys, lifted his hat.
The look of impotence went from his
face like a flash, and he said, All right,
general, we will do it just as you want
it done. Then all the men recognized
in the quiet man the commanding gen
eral of the army.
Grant followed every look and word,
and he probably understood old Hanni
bal better than that rough old fighter
understood himself. There was twin
kle in his eye as he said: Remember,
men, these provisions are going to half
starved soldiers You ought to get as
many boxes in the wagon as possible.
When mules are so scarce and roads so
dangerous, the more boxes in the wagon
the more men you feed. The boys got
up in the wagon, Strengthened out every
box and loaded all carefully as the gen
eral directed This was only three or
four days before the battle Of Chatta-
nooga, and while the fight was in prog
ress old Hannibal said he knew that
Grant wasn't limpin round Chattanoog
for uofbiu -
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South st. Adams.

The Pomona grange held a meeting
with the St. Adams people last week.
A number OF different oranges were re-
presented.
Lifelet Smart and wife and little daugh-
ter Lucie were in town visiting last week.
Mrs. Mile Biglow, OF Hartland former
" of this town passed away last week
She leaves a husband and large number
Of relatives to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Gertrude Palmer has made an at
tempt to start small hennery, she has
had g chicks hatched out, having So
living at present
] L Palmer has commenced his work
as tax collector.
Steve Seekins has returned home from
Hartland where he has been at work, his
health would not permit him to continue
longer,
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Concord.
Strawberri

Strawberries are the order of the day.
All the schools in town closed last
week. Miss Cynthia Healey closed a
very successful term in the Bluff district
and Miss Venessa Page closed one in the
Corner district.
A picnic was held at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. B. M. Berrys July 2nd, about
seventy-five being present. The after
noon was spent in playing croquet until
the shower, then both young and old adj
ourned to the barn where they spent a
few happy hours at the old fashioned
sport of swinging. Mr.. Berry had ar
ranged two swings and they did their
duty for a few hours in first class
manner An excellent supper was
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Palmyra

Grass IS growing finely. it needs more
sun to harden it up. Haying will be
late if let alone fair crop will be har-
vested
Mrs. Fairfield feathers was hurt quite
badly short time ago by their dog run
ming against her. wrenching her leg.
She is nearly helpless.
Byron Sanford is building an addition
on his barn.
{. NJ. jew EFT was in Bangor last week
visiting his daughter, Mrs. A. l.. Chase.
Mrs. y. T. Sinclair, who has been sick
a long time is lot improving much.
Mrs. Mary \. Palmer, widow of the
late Arnold Palmer of Auburn, is visit
ing relatives in town.
Constable Dyer is making the number
of dogs less in town.
Albert Wyman went into his pasture
last week. and found his colts nose full
of hedge hogs quilts. He took the colt
to DR.. Fish of ST. Adams, who threw
him and extracted the quilts. The colt s
nose was badly swollen, and the task
was not pleasant one.
Russell Bennett of Danforth, was in
town last week
Rev. V. D. Sweetland was called to
Plymouth to attend the funeral of A. z.
Jewett, who died June 23d.
{. NJ. Jewett and J. II. Baker are
shipping granite to Newport for the
abutments and piers for the bridges.
This granite comes from Jewett's quarry
ia Hartland, one of the best quarries in
the county.
Mrs. Ethel Rollins of Brighton, Mass,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. James Frost.
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Athens

school in district No. II. closed Fri
day, July md, under the instructions of
Ms Lena \. Corson. Whole number of
scholars attending school. 33. Average,
number, Il. Among hose not absent
one day are. Belva Il. kineaid. Hattie NJ,
Whittier, Susie Brown, Lucy NJ, Avery,
Esther NJ. Avery, Daisy NJ. Avery, Amy
kincaid, Lula N. Holway, Emily j.
Gorson. Roxanna Corson, Eugene Moves,
BAIL Hodgen, Wallace CoIson, Mer on
futile. Islotte Corson, Cony futile,
Edith Deyoll. Freddie w. Tuttle was
absent four days on account of sickness,
Delbert Whittier, Bertha +. Avery and
Colby Bowden, two days.
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Season of 1so7 Opens satnrday. June 1etl

Season of 1897 Opens Saturday, June 1eth.
The best of boating, bathing and fish
ing. Fine croquet grounds. An excel
lent tennis court. Large, cOmmodious
stable. An ideal inland resort
Many desirable changes have been made at
this popular inland resort since last season, and
as the comfort and pleasure of the guests will he
looked after personally by Mr.. and Mrs, Wash
bum, this is sufficient guarantee as to the stand
ard to he maintained
No inland resort in Maine surpasses this adj
mirable place with its beautiful lake fine hotel,
numerous cottages, large amusement and dane
ing pavilion, croquet and tennis grounds, bowl
ing alley, swings and other amusements. The
fishing is tirst-class, and fine boats for rowing
are always at the wharf
The table at the Mohican House is famous
throughout Maine as being unexceed at a sim
liar resort for variety and quality.
On and after Sunday, June 20 blackboard
accommodating u people will leave the Show
hogan House every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock
for this resort Fare, round trip, so cents. Par
ties desiring to visit Lake George on any week
day may also engage this team on most favorable
terms.
GEORGE E. WASHBURN, Prop.
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Bone and Sinew,

1--WE cannot succeed, said the prime
minister, without the sinews of war. "
"By sinews, . said the private secre-
tary, who occasionally moved in the
lower circles, Il presume you mean
bones.
And it was with great sorrow that he
found himself compelled to explain to
his chief that dollars We're often so des
ignated by tive vulgar. Typographical
Journal.
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FAITH AND THE UNIVERSE.

A trembling star that steals along,
Vast nights belated wanderer;
A pale ghost by the splendor strong
OF Venus and OF Jupiter;
A world forlorn, with one sad moon
To light across the unsounded deep
Her clouded orbit and. the 5woon
OF her dream shaken, shuddering, sleep
Is this the place where one should say
Was found creed for all the spheres
That truth - sole sun IS the weak ray
That fits thro' our embarrassed years?
No thought Of God august, benign,
Born of hopes, reasons puzzled strife,
May fully the yelled force define
Which feeds the roots Of Countless life.
Joseph Truman IN Spectator.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-08

A Brooklyn man has told reporter
that ride in a trolley car cures his
headaches. After long day S work in
his office he starts home with head
ache, and after riding three miles the
headache is gone. He thinks the air Of
the car is filled with electricity, and
that the cure is due to that, Perhaps,
however, it is only the fresh air that
works the cure.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-08

Mr.. W. II. Smith, editor of The Argus,
Benton, Pa, recommends a remedy for
darrh@a which he has used with magi-
cal effect. several weeks ago he
says, Il purchased a bottle of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Darrhot Rem
edy, and after using less than one-third
Of the contents the results We're magical
-etfeeting an entire cure. heartily
and eheerfully recommend the remedy
TO all suffering from diarrhul." This
remedy is for sale by Horatio w. Cush
ing.
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1t Made No Difference.

There had been little family jar and
she was sulking.
"You have no right to refuse me, "
she said when l promised to marry
you, l told you that l always wanted
my own way, and you said that made
no difference. "
well, it doesn't, does it?" he retort-
ed. you don't get it, do you?"
Thus it happened that she called him
q mean thing. Chicago Post.
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A Brazen Girl.

Miss Highup-It's perfectly scandal
Dus Did you hear about Miss de Pink?
Miss Tiptop-No. What has she done?
"Oh, the most immodest thing mag
Unable. She's let all the world know
she is crazy to get married by going
and joining a cookery school. New
York Weekly.
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SOlOn.

Mrs. Olive W. Spaulding invites all
those interested in |. O. o. F. especially
Rebekahs, and also all those Interested
in - ct. supper and good time, to the
home of her father, lothian Williams,
Scion, July Is, 1877. \ cordial welcome
to all. supper from to 9. Entertain
ment will be furnished
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served at about four O'Clock to which all
did ample justice and the evening MAS
spent in playing games, etc. Mr. and
Mrs. Berry receive the thanks of all
present for their labor aud trouble il
trying to have all enjoy themselves.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-08

There is to be seen at Schwarzenberg,
In Saxony, a linden whose trunk is %
feet in circumference, and two others at
Schneeberg, one 16 feet and the other
ID feet in circumference.
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TRY ALIENS FooT.EAsE,

y powder to be shaken into the shoes At
this season your feet swollen and hot and get
tired easily. II you have smarting feet or tight
shoes try Aliens Foot Ease. 1t cools the feet
and makes walking easy. Cures and prevents
swollen and sweating feet. blisters aud callous
spots. Relieves corns and bunions Of all pain
and gives rest and comfort. Try it o.day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial
package FREE. Address Allen S. olmstead
LIE Roy, N. Y.
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For Sale.

Cottage House of seven
rooms at East Madison, to-
gether with stable and car
riage house and two acres OF
land. Would exchange for
property in Skowhegan viii
lage. Also a desirable farm
with good buildings. This
place is situated in a good
neighborhood with good
schools and has nice water in
house and barn. Apply to
MCCLELLAN & SAVAGE.
Milburn Block,
Skowhegan, Maine
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-07-08

If you stand palm in the window,
be careful that you turn the pot around
every day, so that one side of the plant
does not get the sole benefit of the
suns rays
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GRANT IN DISGUISE.
A Reconnaissance on the Quiet Whie,
Took the Boys by Storm.

Zone day at Chattanooga, says one
of the soldier boys writing in the Chi,
cage Inter Ocean, "a lot of us were
loading hard tack and bacon into a
wagon train that was to be sent to half
starving men, and were giving more at.
tention to badgering each other than to
the work i'll hand, when lame man in
fatigue dress, walking with some diff
Guilty with the assistance Of cane,
passed along the high porch Of the quar-
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SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot. Ease, powder for the feet T.
cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out OF corns ana bun
ions. It's the greatest comfort discovery OF
the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes tight-htting
or new shoes feel easy. 1t is certain cure for
sweating, callous and hot, tired. aching feet
Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Trial pack
age FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmsted, lie Roy
n. Y.
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"Oh, mamma murmured Flossie, in
frightt ned tone. as her dear little baby sister
leaned forward and grasped her farthers cigar
which she attempted to put in her mouth
wouldn't it be dreadful If Bessie turned out
to be a new woman
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Dissolution of Co.partnership.

The firm of Woodbury. & Gage is this day
dissolved by mutual consent. All parties in.
debted to the above firm are requested to make
immediate payment. The books will be at the
old P. o building until August 1st. 81, after
that date they will be left with an attorney for
collection.
Skowhegan June eth, 1897 3w26.
EG WOODBURY..
JOHN w. GAGE.
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Cereal Coffee Drinkers BEWARE!

II you have been deceived and tried one of
the cheap bran substitutes now on the market
claiming to be the original and to have great
food value, and you got a poundi of poorly
roasted bran for your Csc. and poor weak.
BRAN, don't be discouraged but try GRAINsO
1t is made from solid grain, nicely Drowned
and pounds for DC Grain o takes the place
of coffee at Il the price. Get package ofyour
grocer to day.
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Imported Bay Rum, l. cents a bottle
glass stoppered. at SIMPSONS, corne
druggist.
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From Boston, Portland, Lewiston. Augusta.
MAteryilIe Skn Legan and Rananr
rAGF CONNECTIONS

ss-tFlag stations; at which trains will stop
on signal or notice to Conductor
I'VE nj stou except TO leave or take freight.
tWij not stop
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer, land Electric
Cars to and from Skowhegan.) At Arson. for
Sawyer's Mills, (Starks);
No. Anson for North and West New Portland
Dead River, Flagstaff and Eustis. At Bingham
for Forks, Moose River, Mayfeld Kingsbury
and Abbott.
W M AVER SupT
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SOMERSETTRACTION CO.
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Somerset Railway.
CHANGE OF TIME,
Commencing June 2lst, 1897,

Trains Will run as follows, connecting at Oar.
land with Maine Central Railroad Trains 10 ana
from Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Wateryiljs
Augusta Gardiner, Bath Skowhegan and Ban.
gor.
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NOTICE.

Whereas, my wife, Ora J. Cookson, has this
day left my bed and boa d, without just
cause. this is to give notice to all persons
whomsoever. not to harbor or trust her on my
credit as l shall pay no more bills of her CON
tracing. 3w26
Palmyra, Me. June 25th 1897.
ADDISON COOKSON
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Grass i, growing finely. it needs more
sun to harden it up. Haying will be
late. if let alone a fair crop will be har-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

| London is to have another electric
underground road in two deep levels
| between Earls Court and the Mansion
house. The necessary permission will
be granted at the coming session Of
| Parliament. That body has already
sanctioned six underground electric
roads projects and more are in the air
| Some of them call for tunnels 95 feet
I below the sidewalk The new service
will probably provide a train every ,
II minutes, travelling Il miles an
hour. including stops
! They are Introducing office girls in
| Chicago, and those vino have them in
their employ are very we'll pleased with
them. They say that the office girl is
superior to the office boy in many par
ticulars. In the first place she does not
know how to whistle, and she does not
smoke cigarettes. AS a rule she has
/ absolutely no taste for dime novels. She
is usually bright, quick and energetic,
and ever 50 much cleaner and heater
than any boy can be. Testimony upon
this point is almost unanimous, and
most Of those who have tried Office
girls declare that never again will they
have an Office boy around the premises.
A Brooklyn woman the other day,
while vigorously busting a chair she
had bought of a dealer in secondhand
furniture, was surprised to see the bot
tom Of the seat fall out. Picking up
the wreckage, she discovered an old
brown and dirty paper covered book,
which, on examination, proved to be
! bank book The contents showed that
it belonged to an old Wall street
apple woman who died ten years ago,
and it contained a statement showing
that she had to her credit in the Sea-
mans Savings bank the snug sum of
So 900. The son and heir will come into
possession of the money. Her furniture
was sold after her death, and among
the articles was the chair spoken Of
above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-29

picturesque. The river itself often
broadens in lake-l.ke expanses, stud
ded with islets. l was astonished to
find a much more abundant wild vege-
tation on the banks than l had seen
anywhere in this parched country
Long grass afforded good pasture, Gov
cred the soil left by the shrinking Nile,
and close to the water it was beauti-
fully green. Here and there grew
date palms, and we rode through
groves of trees, camel thorn and
acacias, some Of consiG cradle size.
But it was all wild growth; cultiva-
ton there was none, though years ago,
before Mahdism fell as a blight upon
the land, there were villages Oh these
shores inhabited by peaceful peasants
here, as III the settled regions lower
down, was Heard the perpetual moan
OF the sakiyehs; the irrigated fields re-
turned rich crops, and groves Of date
palms, now cut down, shaded the ap-
breaches to each hamlet. This has now
for long been the debatabie land,
wherein no man dare dwell, the de-
serted frontier belt between Mahdism
and the territory under the rule Of
Egypt protected by the frontier force.
But though no men now occupy the
land, the vegetation sustains numbers
of wild creatures. GaZelles, goats and
sand grouse abound here, while all the
trees are full of singing birds. Though
traversing an uninhabited country, the
road was far from lonely; we met fire.
quent return conveys, cavalry patrols,
and now and then overlook a small
party of travellers, for example, a
couple Of Greeks marching up to Akas-
heb, driving before them donkeys laden
with tobacco and other luXuries to be
retailed at a good profit to the soldiery.
We, of course, occasionally passed dead
camels in our way; but the loss Of these
beasts has been remarkably small, con-
Sidering how many thousands of them
are engaged in the transport of sup
plies We passed the night within the
zariba at Tanjur, at which pest half OF
the Fourth Battalion was stationed
Just before reaching the camp we saw
lying high and dry On the sand by the
waters edge the hull Of a wrecked
steamer. This was tn = Gizeh, which
ran on a rock and foundered at the
announcement CT the last Nile expedi-
tiOn.-LCndon Times.
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MAGGIE'S IDEA OF VENUS.

Somewhere in WashingtOn-just
where is not necessary to the main
point at issue in this short article on
the development and indevelopment OF
art in the national capitals a mansion
presided over by woman of wealth
and refinement. She is a most ar
tistic woman, too, and in her house
are some unusually fine pieces Of paint
ing and statuary. There is also a
Milesian maid, by name Maggie, who
knows deal more about house clean
ing than she does about sculpture. and
Maggie has been trying for long time
| to cultivate her taste UP to the point
OF properly approaching the painted
and carved beauty with which she
daily comes in contact
Not many days ago the mistress and
the maid were going over the house
with brush and broom, putting it in
especial order for musical that was
to be given to a few artists and fash
ionables, and the mistress observed
that the maid on three several occa-
siCns passed by with cold neglect of
cloth and brush a beautiful figure of
the Venus de Medici, il an alcove just
off the hall.
Here, Maggie" she called, "why
don't you brush the dust off this
figure?"
What wan, menu" inquired Maggie.
with great innocence.
'The Venus there in the alcove, of
course. See," and the lady touched it
with her finger, you have left dust all
over it,"
''Yis, ma'am," confessed Maggie, "but
l do be thinking for a long time, mem,
that there aht to be something on it.
mem"
1t was delightful and logical ex-
cuse, perhaps, but the lady could
scarcely accept it, and Maggie's brush
removed even the dusty drapery she
wished to leave.