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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

The commissioners have refused to
grant guides certificates on application
by five Tobique Indians from the pro
vinces. These Indians are understood
to offer to cut prices in a disastrous
fashion. On that ground the commits
sioners believe that it would be very
unfair to the regular guides to have
outsiders come in like that, and take
their business away. They refused the
application of the Indians. With 1000
guides in the State, the number which is
now estimated to be in the business,
there seems to them to be quite enough
without any imports right away.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

"A man has to keep his eyes open to
be a politician nowadays, remarked
one statesman.
Possibly that is correct as general
principle. replied the other, but if you
had looked around at your colleagues
while you were making that last speech
of yours you would have had your
doHbts. Washington Star.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
"Blot Out the SUM-

AT Princeton young theologue per-
suaded fellow student to go into the
auditorium and listen to him while he
rehearsed a sermon. The preacher in
embryo began. His subject was Light.
With violent gesture with the right
arm, he said, blot out the SUM" With
u similarly frantic movement of the left
arm, he roared, blot out the moonl"
Then with a combined gesture made up
of both arms, he beloved, blot out
the starsl" But it was enough. The
auditor arose TO leave with hoarse,
cruel whisper, Turn off the gasl"--
New York Mail and Express.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
AN iNDlCTM EMIT.

Low browed woman thht stole my love
Fairer than /. less true.
You fooled him first with your willy tongue
And your eyes deceltful blue.
You looked IN his I'LL you made him swear
His first love WIS all IA dream,
While you let him toy with your yellow hair
And bask in your smiles false CLEAN.
Weladay for your eyes 50 bright
Weeping has made mine dim.
You would smile on though he lay in his
grave
could have died for him.
Hartford Times
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
TRY ALIENS Foor.EAsE,

A 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 1t to- day. Sold
by all druggists and shoe stores for 25c. Trial
package FREE. Address, Allen s. Olmstesd.
lie Roy, N. Y.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
His Unole's Longest Day.

There was i'll those days Il serious
hammered Irish member named Blake
(not to be- COMPOUNDED with the EXPIRE
mier of Canada, sitting member for
South Longford), who is remembered
for brief correspondence he read to
the delighted house. 1t was introdut d
in a speech delivered in debate on the
Irish Sunday closing bill. Mr.. Blake
had, he confidentially informed the
house, an uncle who regularly took six
tumblers of whisky toddy daily. This
troubled him, and after much thought
he resolved to write aud demonstrate
with his relative. The following was
tho letter:
MY DEAR UNCLE-I write TO say how pleased
l should be If you could see your way to Civ
ing up your six glasses of whisky n day | am
sure you would find many advantages in doing
so, the greatest of which would be that, AZ !
am persuaded, il would be the means Of length
ening your days
The uncle replied:
MY DEAR NEnHEw-I am much obliged to
you for your dutiful letter. l was so much
struck by what YOU said, and in particular by
your kind wish to lcngthen my days. that last
Friday l gave up the whisky. | believe you
are right, my boy, as to my days being length
ened. for. bedad. it the longest day l ever
rcmember
H W. Lucy in North American Re
view.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
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 tor
property in Skowhegan viii
lage. Also a desirable fam
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, 1897-08-05
A Restorative.

Supplicant-I'm faint from lack of
food.
Rich Lady generously How dread
full Here, smell my vinaigrette. New
York Journal
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

In Sydney newspaper lately there
was this advertisement: Wanted a
man able to teach French and the piano
and to look after a bull.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
MICHIGAN House
Lake George,
CANAAN. MAINE.

Season Of 1897 Opens Saturday, June 18th.
The best of boating, bathing aud fish
ing. Fine croquet grounds. An excel
lent tennis court. Large, commodious
stable. An ideal inland resort
Many desirable changes have .been made al
this popular inland resort since last season, and
as the comfort and pleasure of the guests vii
looked after personally by Mr. and Mrs, Wal.
bu H. this is sufficient guarantee as to the stand
ard to be maintained.
No inland resort in Maine surpasses this all
mirabe 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. TIE
fishing Is first-class and fine boats for rowuz
are always at the wharf
The table as the Mohican House Is famous
throughout Maine as being unexoelled at a SIN.
liar resort for variety and quality
On and after Sunday, June 20, a blackboard
accommodating II people will leave the skaw.
hogan House every Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock
for this resort. Fare, round trip, 80 cents Par.
ties desiring to visit Lake George on any week
day may also engage this team on most favorable
terms.
GEORGE {. WASHBURN, Prop.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
From Boston, Portland, Lewis, - .ustA
Materyille SkoMhegAn and Bangnr

RS-tFlag stations; al which trains will stop
on signal or notice to Conductor
VIII not stOp except 10 leave or take Freight.
tNid not stop
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Norridgewock, for Mercer land Electric
Cars to and from Skowhegan.) At Arson. for
Sawyer's Mills, (Starks);
No. Arson, for North and West New Portland
Dead River. Flagstaff and Eustis At Bingham
Tor Forks, Moose River, May6eld, Kingsbury
and Abbott.
w. M AVER SUPT.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
AUCTION SALE.

shall sell at public auction on Thurs
day, the twelfth OATH day of August A.
d 1897, at eleven O'Clock in the forenoon,
at the office Of Forrest Goodwin in said
Skowhegan, the following personal prop
erty, belonging to the estate of Omar
Clark of Carratunk, in said county, to wit :
Twenty (2o) shares stock in the New
Portland and Eustis Telephone Company,
par value S. 90 per share,
Fifty-one SD shares stock in the Bling
BAN and Moose River Telephone Com.
'pany, par value $40 90 per share.
Two shares stock in the Skowhegan
Pulp Company, par par value 500. 90 per
share. wv 30
Two sixty fourths interest in schooner
u. w, Hathorn.n
Terms cash at time of sale.
Dated July 27th A. D. 1897.
WILLIAM H. CLARK,
Guardian of Omar Clark.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05

NO. 8.

Change OF Time commencing Monday, June 2st.
NJ 90 co. 400 500
THE LAKE, $50 100 915 lib 130, 230, 400, $50,
AR 00
NJ, 200 400 600 9O p
NJ.
9l5 1045 PAS 300 800 100 500,
n ito WATER
A M.
romSk name fons
nconnec with
A M
a DC t
A
-spcia Carsfu for Trole Picnic
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1897-08-05
Somerset Railway.
CHANGE OF TIME,
Commencing June 2lst, 1897.

Trains Will run as follows. connecting at Oak.
land with Maine Central Railroad Trains to and
from Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Waterville
Augusta, Gardiner, Bath Skowhegan and Ban.
gor.
For Boston, Portland, Lewiston, Waterville
AuRustR. SkowheRAn and Bangor
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05

FOR RENTING. 800 High street for the
V. Duerson as dental office and resi-
dcncc; oldest stand in the city. Apply
to l.. c. BROOKS, en-, Portsmouth,, Va.
OCl-iw
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
notice.
Owing 10 the heasy pressure OF adds
" sroater portion of tho Portsmouth
locni Will be f"und on the 6th paso.

#...Tk ~
as railway, in Berkeley, broke herNlincs
during the high wind and drifted over
TO the United States buoy wharf, this
city, smashing into the lighthouse ten
ger Maple, damaging the latter's Joiner
work to q considerable extent.
special Officer Huyrbert, Of the coun-
~, saw q colored man in the vicinity of
park yesterday morning act
ing In a suspicious manner He waS
placed under arrest and a pistol was
found on his person. He was carried
before Justice Ainsworth. where he gave
his name as st. John Edwards. He was
sent to jail for thirty days.
Thomas WinbuSh, colorcd. went to
the house of a colored woman named
Emma Smith, on King street Sunday,
and because she refused him breakfast,
attempted to choke her boy. He was
arrested. In the Mayors court this
morning he was fined $40 and placed un-
der a bond of 500 for IL months. Be
ing unable to furnish the bond he was
sent to- Jail.
The property OF The city almshouse
has undergone "a wonderful change at
the hands of the keeper, Mr.. John
Bright. The house has been r%epainted,
and the outbuildMlgs, trees and fences
whitewasired. and the entire property
presents a very pleasing appearance
from the read. The city is ITO be con-
graaulated aon having UGH an efficient
official in charge.
Sunday night a colored man while
walking along bingham street, near
High, accidentally hit his foot against
a pistol, causing it to explode. The ne
gro, thinking some one was shooting at
him, began to yell murder and in n shor
time u crowd of people gathered around
him. The pistol was picked III and still
had three loads in it. How it came to
be there is a mystery.
Whether to build a $65, 600 or n $50, 600
church is the question that is now ag-
itatinG the general committee having In
charge the plans and other preparations
for 81. Pauls Catholic church. The
committee is divided and 1t is hard to
say which will be the victors. In the
meantime 1t Is suggested that several
thousand dollars may be saved by cut
ting off that proposed one hundred and
ninety foot Stccple.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
M NEWS
NHW FIRH

The Roanoke Times OF October 1st
contains the following, and as will be
seen, ds complimentary ITO the Chambers
FIRE company, of this city:
"A largely extended meeting OF the Cit
asens OF THE nonthw est section of The
CITY was held last night IN q vacant
storeroom ON Park street for the. pur-
pose or organizing n new fire comlyar,;,
"hlcn was done The name given the
new organization is THE Chambers
rare company No. l." named in honor
OF nhc Chambers Steam Fire Engine
company No. 2 OF Portsmouth, Va, 1.
being one of THE largest concerns In
the Umated STATES, and all its members
are warm personal friends of the Roam
oke j. b. Anrbroselli was elect
ed chairman, after which addresses
were made by Chief McFNall and l.. t.,
~Uookabfil, CT 'the fire Department.. OF
hceis were elected as follows, to serve
until january 1st: President, DR.. w,
Il. Colburn; first vice-presideart, n. b
Newton; secretary. w. C. Mas:ncup,
treaSurer, ]. w. Minnick. A committee
Ioi unree was appointed ito draft suita-
oiy bylaws and ehc organization will
present Its claims for recognition ITO ,th,
Ere Board and el,e City Council at hts
neMt regular meeting. This is a wise
move on the part of THE pecDle of Tho
fitth ward, as some protection from
IRE is badly needed -in-tlis a45ttt14
which will he embraced by This nov
company.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
A NEW ELECTRIC LIGHT AND c 4.
COMPANY.

Judge Watts, of the Hastings Court.
IN Facatfon, yesterday granted 4 char
Ter no n Columbia Electric light II
Gas Company. which purposes TO man
ufncture, sell and transmit TO cons,,m-
ers electricity and gas for light, heat
and power.
The company Is capitalized ut $1,000,
With power TO increase to 500, $50, ard
has for its president Charlie Adamsun.
OF Cedartown, Ga; secretary and treas
urer. William Il. Stokes. OF Ihiladcl-
phia, Directors. Charles Adamston,
William f. Stokes, Griffin Callahan, OF
Philadelphia, and j. Walter White, OF
Philadelphia.
The principal office will be in this
city.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
DISTRIBUTION OF BANNERS.

There are four banners which tho
classes in Monumental Sunday school
strive for every month. They We're
awarded Sunday as follows:
Fer attendance, Ito Miss Daisy Hanra
hans class; percentage, 100.
For punctuality, to Miss Ruth Owens
cless; percentage, %.
Tor coqItItbu uions-Males. 10 George
~. G.. SCOTS class; average, $1.0S. Fee
males. Miss Fannie Whites class; aver
age "a LIS cents.
Seventeen classes had an average at
tendance of ovcr so per csnc.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05

New store and all new and fresh gooda
lust opened. I'rlces TO suit the lines.
Give him n call. Don't forget tho place
the Parker cid stand. se9-1m
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
FILE AMERICAN GUARD.

Peabody Council. Junior Order OF
limited American Mechanics, will to-
night organize u company Of the Amer
!can Guard, the uniformed branch Of
the order. The guard will organize
with q membership of tw~"Tty-ona. The
organizing committee is composed of
Messrs. w. NJ. Lynch. H. L. Foster and
b. B. Bradley.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
RENTS COLLECTED.

This Office Is prominently located, md
secures the first call from persons tlrsir-
ing to rent houses, thus getting the best
tenants.
We also make larger returns than any
other agency, and will submit copies OF
reports for the past fourteen years TO
prove this assertion.
Place your rent roll where YOU will
get the largest return.
JOHN l.. WATSON.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05
ADv'S.

DRlFTED from West Norfolk draw
bridge n 16-fcot Self, painted white,
trimmed in yellow. lead color inside; no
name. y reward If returned 10 +. S,
GLASSETT, 515 High street, Ports
mouth. oc5
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-10-05

LOST.-On Dinwiddic. High or Efhng-
ham street. one diamond and ruby pin.
Reward if returned 10 this office. 22S
High street, Portsmouth. oc2-tf
The Progress., 1897-03-27

cents per bushel, but it can be and
is done by many farmers. l have
planted in my life forty EIGHT
crops of corn: have made forty
seven crops. never bought corn
for my farm but one year in my
life, and think anybody else can
do the same. I may say that
have always farmed on upland.
l refer you to DR.. w. G. Stubbs
and DR.. Dalrymple as to who I am.
A. v. ROBERTS.
The Progress., 1897-03-27

The United States Marshallship.
By common consent, it seems,
the contest for the United States
marshallship for the Western Dis
trict of Louisiana will be between
the present chief deputy, Mr.. A.
Fl. Bernstein and Mr.. B. F. (Doc)
O'Neal, of Benton. Each has his
supporters, who are warmly advo-
eating their special favorite.
The Progress is led to make this
comment just here by picking up
an old special from Benton to the
Shreveport times, which reads as
follows:
Benton La, Feb. 4.-The Repub-
lican parish committee has endors-
ed and recommended B. F. O'Neal
to be appointed United States mar
shall for the Western District of
Louisiana. Mr.. O'Neal has a very
full endorsement by the members
of the bar, which is non-political.
Mr., O'Neal is an old time Repub-
lican; he was elected and served
three full terms as sheriff of Bos-
S1er PARISH, ana ne served as q
member of the school board, and
helped to start the first public
schools after the war; he also serv-
ed as president of the police jury,
and was a delegate to the late Re-
publican convention at ST. Louis.
While Mr.. O'Nea1 has always
been-a Republican. he has COM
manded the highest regard Of those
who knew him, regardless of poll
itics, and his many friends in Bos-
sier parish will be glad should he
be appointed marshal.
The Progress., 1897-03-27

tons standing in the way of all
progress and all Christian enthu-
siasm. The difference between
the Roman Catholic church and
the Protestant has been that the
former has one pope and the latter
many. There is no country on
earth where it requires less timber
to make a pope as in this country.
Let US in all our denominations
brave the equality that comes from
standing on our platform and in
the service of our Master; the
preacher of a mission station side
by side with an archbishop, and
the minister that breaches in lin
en- coat, a brother to him that has
a new color of gown for every
change in the SERVICE
The Progress., 1897-03-27
Pave Texas Avenue.
To The Progress.

To The Progress
When Mayor Mcclellan resumes
the work of paving again he should
begin at the head of Milan street
and drive ahead straight up
Texas avenue to his historic stake.
This avenue is the thoroughfare
which binds and connects every
important suburb with the heart of
the city. Everybody uses it-driv-
ing, walking Or riding, and it is
the Common property and pride
of all of the citizens. Thrice has
Texas street been paved, planked
or graveled and it is always passa-
BILE. While the avenue, the very
throat, so to speak, of the city is at
times almost impossible.
Along this avenue comes almost
the entire wagon trade which cx-
changes it's agricultural products
for the merchandise of the Shreve-
port merchants.
The gardner who furn ishes our
tables with vegetables can only
get to town by way of this avenue.
Away back in 1910, the original
town company realized the impor-
lance of this avenue to the future
development of the city and made
it wide, spacious and inviting.
They dedicated it to public use and
left to their children the work Of
improving it. Modern invention,
and the rapid growth Of the city
have ripened the time for us to
fulfill our part of the work.
Vitrified brick is the thing, the
duty is imperative and we should
no longer delay. Nor Isl it without
satisfaction to know that non-resi-
dents who have placed fabulous
prices upon their holdings along
this avenue, will pay a large part
of the cost.
Col. Leavenworth, who finds
Lynchburg, Virginia, a much nicer
place to live than Shreveport, will
have to look out for the cost of a
--feet front, while Mrs. Rig
gina, who occasionally pays us a
visit, will only have to calculate
the expense Of about----feet
along the front of her $1,000 lot
property.
Four dollars a square yard forN
the street along side of a wagon
yard and nursery is not a pleas
ant contemplation for one study
ing nonresident economy, but it
cannot be helped.
There ore many reasons why the
work should commence, continue
and be completed. But among the
most amusing reason why it should
be done at once was suggested by
The Progress., 1897-03-27

The Progress is making no big
bass drum blow, but just listen on
the streets and you will hear it the
most talked about paper in Shrcve-
port; ask the letter carriers and
they will tell you that it has the
largest subscription list, then take
a glimpse at it's pages and sec if
YOU don't realize that the mer-
chants think it splendid adver-
Using medium.
The Progress., 1897-03-27

A. V. ROBERTS.
by Request.
The following was sent US by
Christian woman from Hot Springs
with the request that we publish
it. We do so willingly, though we
are sorry that the name of tho pa
per from which it was ia ken is I'M
known; as we would like to give
the proper credit.
We like the sentiments, though,
because it displays that tolerance
which we like Editor
WHICH DENOMINATIONS?
The following words of DR.. Tai
mage are very significant in view
of some happenings in the South:
eve come to think less and less
of the name of a church to which a
man belongs and more and more
of the good which he accom-
plishes. l no more hold the Ro-
man Catholic church responsible
for the prosecutions in the past
than I hold the Puritan descend
ents of New England responsible
for the fact that their descendants
burned witches. put the piety of
many a Roman Catholic servant
girl of my household against the
harshness and arrogance of some
priding themselves on their ortho-
doxy. Protestants do not like the
pope of Rome; but we have in all
our Protestant denominations little
popes with thumb-screws in their
vest pockets, and they would burn
at the stake tomorrow all who
differ from them if they dared. l
like Roman Catholic pope five
hundred times more than a Meth
odist pope, or a Congregational
pope, or Baptist pope, or Pres
byterian pope. If you are going
to lord it over Gods heritage, put
on YOUR canonicals and let us see
who you are. All our denomina-
tons to-day are laboring under the
fact thatisome ecclesiastic has sat
down on them, and they are impa-
tlently waiting for his funeral.
All along the line of our great de-
nominations, the word will after
awhile be given, and there will be
a rising up that shall be the eman-
cipation of Christendom. l have
been told by men in all the great
denominations of Christendom in
this country at different times, that
there are men in their denomina-
The Progress., 1897-03-27

This field made an average of
e 1-2 bushels per acre, or 4O5 BUSH
els.
1t will be noticed that. no charge
is made for the manure applied.
This is because it was homemade
manure and did not cost anything
aside from the labor of cleaning
out the stalls and raking the lots,
which is necessary for the comfort
OF the stock. Now, is it not evil
dent that we can make corn cheap
er than we can buy it, even allow
Ing that we can get good prices for
cotton?
I believe it is the farmers duty,
not to say interest, to produce
cverything consumed on the farm
ny his stock, at least, and almost
everything that his family needs.
do not claim that have or can
Always produce corn as cheaply as
the foregoing shows, but do claim
that it can be made even cheaper
oy using fertilizers that will cause
the land to produce from 35 to SO
bushels per acre, which is not hard
70 do. Many, perhaps, will doubt
the practicability of making corn
IN the South at less than fifteen
The Progress., 1897-03-27

Cheap Corn VS.. Cheap Cotton.
MANSFIELD, La, March 18th,
Editor Southern Farmer: There is
a great deal being written and said
nowadays, Mr.. Editor, about how
to raise cheap cotton. Would it 1
not be as well to see if we cannot
raise cheap corn, and how to do
it? -.
In the winter of 1S92-93 the Rev.
Cyrus Harrington, knowing that-I
always had corn to sell, asked me
how much it cost me to. raise a
bushel of corn. I could not give
an accurate debtor and creditor
account of any plot of land, or of
the whole place.
That year planted a little field
of eighteen acres, and kept an ac-
count with the same. l will here
transcribe a page from my planta-
ton note book, entered each day
as the work was done:
Co, of cultivating eighteen acres
of corn, including the preparation
of the land
February 27-2 1-2 days with mid
die breaker, hand, mules 80. p rs
March 2-3 days distributing horse
lot manure, hands, yoke oxen. 50
March SO 1-2 days listing, 2 hands,
mules ................. W
March 60 1-2 days middle breaker,
hand, mules .........: 70
March 30 1-2 days planting,
hand, 1 mule. -. ........... .... 50
April 10-Broadcast harrow, 1 hand,
April 1-Broadcast harrow, 1 1-2
days, hand, 2 mules ...... Is
April q, "a, Is, IS, q, S-Hoeing and
thinning, 1 hand. Observation-Disclosures. 50
May 1, SO hands, 2 mules, with
Nay II, Isl hand, i mule, Planet
Jr., cultivator 2 90
$50 rs
This field made an average of
e 1-2 bushels per acre, or 4O5 BUSH
The Progress., 1897-03-27

Mr.. D. G. O'Malley says he was
perfectly astounded at the size of
Shreveport, and enthused at it's
show of progress.