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The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-09
Revere.

School closed In Revere, Jan. Sd,
taught by Minnie NJ. Fall. The evening
was devoted to exercises enjoyed by
fifty invited friends. The scholars very
creditably performed their parts and. to
Judge by appearances, we'll entertained
those present. The program was as fol-
lows: Lords Prayer; words of well
come, Alice Smith; quotations by all /;
The coast guard, all; The New Year,
Margie smith; tableaux, A mans feet
where his head ought to be, Ralph Col
Inns; dialogue, A morning call, by Pearl
Collins and Lottie Pike; song, Nellie
Gray, Ralph Collns; A little girls
thoughts, Mabel Hall; dialogue, Making
him feel at home, Ralph Collins, Margie
Smith and Lottie Pike; The trials of a
boy, Walter Giles; Stiffness, personified,
Harold Rowell; Too late for the train,
Lottie Pike; The bachelors sale, Har.
old Rowell; dialogue, plantation scene,
Alice Smith and Paul Giles; Sockery
Who said "rats," Margie smith; The
bald headed man, Paul Cities; dialogue,
A good joke, Margie Smith, Walter
Giles and Harold Rowell; Reyeries of a
school girl, Horace Tibbtts; dialogue,
Ways of saying Eyes," Riley Hall and
Lottie Pike; tableau, Laboring under
difficulties, Paul Giles and Alice Smith ;
Guilty or not guilty, Lottie Pike; dia-
logue, An entirely different matter,
Riley Hall and Horace Tibbitts; Slightly
mixed, Margie Smith; tableaux, Agree
ment and disagreement, Lottie Pike and
Ralph Collins; Popping corn, Harold
Rowell; Aunt Terminals courtship,
Alice smith; tableau, Old Bach, Hor-
ace Tibbitts; Best COW in peril, Riley
Hall; dialogue, Dad says SO, any how,
Alice Smith and Harold Rowell; tab
leau, An angel of prayer, Pearl Collins;
Good night song, Margie Smith. At the
close of the exercises the teacher was
greatly surprised by the pretty gift of
painting from her pupils, which she
regards as choice remembrance of her
pleasant terms of school taught in
Revere.
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Scion.

Mr.. o o. Vittum was at Skowhegan
several days last week.
Judge Boswell was at Skowhegan a
part of last week.
Miss Jennie Coolidge has returned
from visiting friends in Portland.
Miss Annie Martin, who has been at
work for Mrs L. y. Merrill for the past
few weeks, left here for Vermont, Fri
day.
Mr.. L. S. Merrill, d. d. G.. NJ, was at
Bingham, Friday night, to install the
officers of Mount Moxie Lodge of l. o.
o. r.
: Mr.. Frank Vittum went to Boston,
Saturday, on business.
Will Allen of Wellington and Mr.
Leighton of Cambridge were in town on
Sunday.
DR.. ). f. Green and wife attended the
Odd Fellows ball at Athens, Friday
night.
DIR. s. +. Green, W. III. Soper and
Lewis Whipple went to Bingham, Satur-
day evening to attend a Masoni meeting.
Mrs. Fred Sevey and little daughter
OF Mt. Vernon are In town visiting her
husband and his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. Ii. Sevey.
The Ladies Home Circle meets with
Mrs. K. ). Pollard, Thursday afternoon,
Jan. 10th. All are required to bring
their thimbles.
Thursday evening of last week the
officers of Keystone Chapter, o. e. s.,
for the ensuing year were installed by
District Deputy, Mrs. Charles Ward of
Cedar Chapter South Norridgewock,
assisted by Mrs. L. P. Gates of Keystone
Chapter, acting as marshall. The of.
foers are: Mabel Magoon, w. NJ; NAL
on Patterson, w. p; Jennie Goodwin,
A. M; P. S. Longley, Sec. Lydia Cross,
Treas; Anna B. Buswell, Con-; Emily
Patterson, A. c.; Mrs. Thomas Matson,
Adah; Mrs. o. o. Vittum, Ruth; Mrs.
Frank Vittum, Esther; Ethel Hilton,
Martha; Mrs. Turner Davis, Electa; Mrs.
Oliver Hilton, Warden; o. w. Hilton,
seminal; Sarah Pierce, chaplain; Mrs.
p. 5. Longley, organist.
Mrs. Lucy Dinsmore of North Anson,
district deputy and Mrs. Mont Danforth
acting as grand marshal visited Northern
Light Rebekah Lodge, Saturday evening,
for the purpose of installing the officers
for the present year. They are: Olive
Spaulding, noble grand; Mary French,
vice grand; Mrs. Ruby Cross, Rec. Sec.
Mrs. Marcellus Irvine, financial Sec
Sarah Thompson, Treas. At the close
OF the meeting lunch was served.
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Canaan.

The Canaan Grange Dramatic Club
presented their play, THE Deacon's
Tribulations," Jan. Ist, to large and
appreciatiye audience. The parts were
finely rendered. The play was one of
the best the club ever presented. They
will play in Hartland, Friday evening,
Jan. 10.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Tozier passed Fri
day and Saturday with friends in Clinton.
Walter f Farnham returned to Wa
terville to resume his studies at c. L.,
Jan. 2, after vacation of two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hubbard returned
TO Madison, Jan. 9. after passing week
with his parents in this village.
Mrs Rollins, who is very i'll with pneu-
monia is some better at this writing.
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"You are an iceberg" exclaimed her
elderly but well preserved adorer. pale
with anger and modification. "A dozen
Cupids, with hundred arrows each,
could never find a vulnerable place in
your fiinty heart"
Not If they used an old beau to
shoot with" coldly replied the beauti-
full girl
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-09

A cross between a headless cabbage
and the turnip produced the rape plant.
Cabbage and turnips themselves are
relatives; the lettuce plant also claims
near kin to them, and far back in plant
life grew a parent plant with some Of
the characteristics that each now
claims as its own. from which all
three, and many another plant also
descended
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The Largest Coin. In Circulation.


The largest gold coin now in circu-
lation is the gold ingot, or "loof," Of
Anam, French colony In eastern Afri-
ca. 1t is fiat, round goldpiece, and on
1t is written in india ink its value,
which Is about EOS. The next sized
coin to this valuable but extremely
awkward one is the obang of Japan,
which is worth f10 and next comes the
benda of Ashanti, which represents a
value of about go. The California fifty
dollar goldpiece Is worth about the
same as the benda. The heaviest sill
yer coin In the world also belongs to
Anam, where the silver ingot is worth
about f3. Then comes the Chinese
tael, equal to about shillings, and
then the Austrian double thaler.
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Probate N Office.

KENNEBEC IS. In Probate Court. at Augusta.
in vacation, December 3ist, A. ID. 1901.
Edward F. Danforth, Trustee under the last
will and testament of Mary A. Smith, late oil
Skownegan, in the Somerset County. deceas-
presented his third account for allowance:
Said Edward +. Danforth being Judge of the
Probate Court IN said somerset County, and
Kennebec being an adjoining county.
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three
weeks successfully prior TO the fourth Monday
of January next In THE Som ERsET REPORTER, a
newspaper printed In Skowhegan, that all per
sons Interested may attend at Probate Court
then to be holden at Augusta, and show cause IL
any, why the same should not be allowed.
3w2 G.. T. STEVENS, Judge.
Attest: W. A. NEwooMB, Register.
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Embden Ceutre.

The farmers are storing ice. 1t is of
fine quality.
Mrs. Thomas Collins of Bingham is
visiting her parents and other friends in
town.
Melen Berry is pressing hay at the
Francis Burns farm.
Stephen NORM is hauling logs for G..
W. Dunbar.
j. L. Hodsdon is hauling wood from
Black Hill for Emery & Co. w
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Mayfeld.

Most every family in town has the
mumps.
A little stranger came to to the home of
Charles Haskell. 1t is boy.
w. B. Snow, Bible agent, was in town,
Sunday.
Harry Hilton has returned from Show
hogan.
Following is list of people over 10
years OF age in this town: Barnet Elan
ders. 81; H. E. Cook, IT; Z. j. Brown,
76 Mark Gerald, II.
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East Mercer.

Fred Wiley is slowly gaining so ne is
dressed.
Edwin Lane is hauling pine from the
Whitcomb place, which he and John
Frizzell have recently purchased.
The neighbors and friends Of Fred
Wiley met last Thursday and cut nice
lot of wood for him.
Winnifred Lad has returned to her
school in Pennington.
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w est Athens.

Frank Wescott has returned home from
the woods, where he has been at work
Walter Corson who, has been at home
for three weeks, went into the woods the
first Of The week.
Eugene Knights is moving his family to
Scion.
Daniel and Will Huff, who we're at
home from the woods to spend New
Years, went back last week.
The mumps are prevailing in town.
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Extremes Meet.

Peter Cunningham was telling one
evening where he had been dining and
what he got. I'VE had thing never
saw before-a soup made of calves
tails"
Extremes meet" was the remark
of Douglas Jerrold. at that time the
prince of wits in England.
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Probate Notice.

KENNEBEC IS. In Probate Court. at Augusta,
in vacation, December 23rd ID 1901.
Edward #. Danforth, Trustee under the last
will and testament of Mary A. Smith, late OF
Skowhegan, in the Somerset County, deceas-
ed for the benefit of Derne j. Greene, having
presented his third account for allowance:
Said Edward F Dauforth being Judge OF the
Probate Court IN said Somerset County, and
Kennebec being an adjoining County.
ORDERED, That notice thereof be given three
weeks successfully prior to the fourth Monday
of January next In The SOMERSET REPORTER, a
Newspaper printed In Skowhegan, that all per
sons interested may attend at Probate Court
then to be holden at Augusta, and show cause II
any, why the same should not be allowed.
3w2 q. T. STEVENS, Judge.
Attest: w. A. NEwooMB, Register.
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West Harland.

d. M. Parks teams are hauling pulp
wood to Hartland to be loaded on the
cars there.
Viala Steadman has gone into the
woods with four horses for the winter.
Mrs. Myra Moore, daughter of Dane
and Annie Nevens. died at the home of
her parents in Hartlani, Dec 80, of con-
SUMPTION.
School closed, Friday, Jan. sd. on &C
count of the small number of scholars
able TO attend. c
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No Right to Live.

. Beggar-Won't you give me some
money, professor? My money is all
gone, and / can't live.
Professor-How old are you?
Beggar-Forty years, sir.
Professor-Forty years! Don't you
know that according to the latest NOR
tality tables the average age of the
male population Of Europe reaches only
thirty-four years and five months? Sta
tistically you have no right to live any
longer anyway Meggendorfer Blat-
ter
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Mrs Hattie Chase returned from Water
vile, Saturday. where she has been caring
for her sister. Mrs. John Harris, and lit
tie daught r.
James Harmon has purchased small
tract of land by the side of Black Stream
and he and his son Earl will cut the lum-
Der upon il this winter.
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81 was troubled for about seven years
with my stomach and in bed half my
time," says E. Demick, Somerville, Ind.
'I spent about 81 900 and could get
nothing to help me until l tried Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure have taken a few
bottles and am entirely we'll. Cures all
stomach troubles Geo. e. Sampoon.
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His Ambition.

Young Jones-I mean to so live that
when l die all the great cities of the
earth shall quarrel over the question
of my birthplace.
Young Brownies; each one will lay
the blame on some other.
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Madison Centre.

Most everyone in this vicinity is busy
cutting ice.
There is nice road across the lake.
Miss Emma Day Of Skowhegan made
her grandmother short visit, last Satur-
day. She started for Pennington, Mon
day, to attend the Normal school.
The post office at Madison Centre will
be discontinued after Jan. I4th.
The Ladies' Aid OF the Spritualists met
with Miss Olive Hayden, Dec. 18TH, Ad-
journed to meet at the same place, Jan. IA
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Irate but Unmusical Father-For
gracious. sake, Mary, give us rest!
Daughter-Can't do 1t, pa. There's
none in the music.
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The individual who gets into the
habit of giving way to depression is on
the broad road to ruin.-Chicago News.
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WAN lied.

Young women to write In publishing house.
Apply in own hand writing at once TO
lw2s SAWYER PUBLISHING CO.
Watervil1e, Maine.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1902-01-09

The Imperial Court of China has re-
turned to Pekin amid demonstrations of
great splendor.
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Browns Corner.

Mrs. Paul Tarrio is better.
Mrs. Sarah Nevans and son, Roscoe
Hart, visited friends in Athens on Satur-
day.
The fine shedding is being improved by
all who have any business to do.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18
MAY MOTOR TOURS.
A GENTLE INTEREST INTO AN
ACUTE CRAZE.

Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont and Mrs. Will
lie Vanderbilt, Jr., Shows a DispO-
sitiOn to Set Up Racing Stables,
and Are Furthering the Fashion
of Motor Tours Extending Over
Three States SOmetimes-These
Expeditions Are Good for the
Health and Guarantee Heaps of
Fnn-Tbe Autos Pennant and Lug
gage Rails Give "a Very Sporting
Look to the Smart Touring Cars.
New York. May 16.-May is regard
ed, by those who know, as the choice
month for motor tours. and if there is
one circumstance that more tnan any
other is calculated to add piquancy of
interest to this vivid mode Of travel
it is to tour as the guest of an expert
feminine motorist. She will steer you
through the green spring landscape at
any pace you like, from ten to fifty
miles an hour, and she can talk about
the comparative merits of artillery
wheels the Berry system. dashboard
fabrication, and single levers for speed
changes, with a dazzling ease and con-
fdence that inspires awe and admira-
ton. This is all because motoring has
advanced from gentle interest into
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

frequently worried or excited the strain
will tell on their nerves in a nervous
headache-which by its prevalence
among women and its infreouencv
among men is marked as a forerunner
of female disease.
Miss Fannie c. Shepard, of Hiram,
Ohio, and a student at Hiram college,
studied too hard and was sufferer
from headache, and she was so nervous
she could not sleep at night. She says !:
-Four years hard study told on my gen.
eral health until l became pale and thin and
lost much of my natural vitality. / found
that sleepless nights and frequent headaches
warned me that must take better care Of
myself. Mother had been Using Wine of
Cardui with good results and SO she advised
me to take it. did so for three weeks and
with such satisfactory results that feel it
bot just to you to acknowledge what
blessing and help it was to me. 1t is a good
thing to know that you have a medicine
which is reliable; it is half the cure, and
Wine Of Cardui is certainly all you claim
for it."
Miss Shephard's close application
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

On the floor lies a snow white rubber
mat with linen covered footrest for
the companion of whoever may be at
the levers. and in stables where the
immaculate condition of every car
riage is insisted upon these covers are
put on freshly Numbered every day. A
white duck lap robe with heavily braid
ed edges is sometimes used, though the
excessively smart novelty is a rug Of
soft, bleached doeskin that washes and
has silver corners.
Up-to-Date Cars.
This type of motor vehicle is always
provided with a clock and a stop-watch
attachment on the dashboard for reck-
oning rates of speed, and in a niche
under the seat fits the motor toilet box
and the motor bag. The bag is a min
iature satchel, lined with red or green
watered silk and furnished like a shop
ping bag, while the toilet box is stocked
with powder hairpins, handkerchief
puff, etc, for renovations after a long
and dusty ride.
Such concessions to mere fancy the
chauffeuse of an any number-of- horse
power tonneau carriage regards with
plying scorn. Silver mounted gongs.
that tinkle like the triangles in an or
chestra, are not suitable to her ma
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

an acute craze among the progressive
and wealthy women. Some in this
class such as Mrs. o. H. P Belmont
and Mrs. William Vanderbilt, r., show
a disposition to keep racine stables,
have imported record breakers at an
outlay of many thousands, ard took
experimental lessons If Fourniar when
he was on this side.
Others have rented speedy, big auto
cars and are giving touring parties this
month, and then there is the woman
who is bound to be picturesque and
who runs an electric stanh0De or ber-
ceau phaeton that is fitted up like a
jewel box inside. But whatever phase
of the situation may be presented, one
fact is plainly evident that the women
are gently but firmly determined to ex-
tract all the pleasure and profit posi-
BILE from the hsrseless carriage, and to
learn to control these machines with
their own fair hands.
For Both Fun and Health.
That there is a large amount of very
real profit to be extracted from an au-
tomobile is proven by one woman who
tried all the rest of cures and diets in
the country with a view to bolstering up
her poor nerves and feeble digestion.
AT that psychological moment. so thrill
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18
SERIOUS LADY MoT0RIST.

She Drives "A Fierce Looking Ma
chine and Dresses iH Severe Sport
ing style.
New York. May 16.-Silver gray, or
that new, peculiar and most realistic
tone in dress fabrics called potato
brown, have come to prevail in the
choice of all smart, well appointed
motor suits. Whether you run a seven
horse power tonneau carriage or a
spider runabout, or merely expect and
hope to be asked to tour in somebody's
car, a well fitting. perfectly equipped
motor dress seems to be an essential
in every wardrobe.
The tailors, and dressmakers, and
nilliners regard the situation very
seriosuly, and have imported from
France various startling ideas and
equally aggressive cloths. but the
American woman, who always knows
what she wants and dresses for her
part with praiseworthy practically
and perfection in detail. has her mind
made up perfectly firmly on the ques-
ton of what autO-car costumes shall
be.
What to Wear.
It all depends, in such centers of
fashion as Newport, etc, whether you
are an automobilist or a serious motor
list. The automobile. whether it is a
lxurious little, low swung phaeton, a
basket surrey, a little, graceful stan
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

and some of them are of the finest
brown Holland linen, more or less
treated with lace applica tons, it is
sure TO have a loose body, fiaring skirts,
wide sleeves and an abundance of
capes falling upon the shoulders.
Under such coat ANGLING may be
worn. from a tea gown to a severely
tailorish white duck suit, and in the
country. for morning exercise, a COM
plete white wash dress of duck, pique,
or linen is considered very sweet and
appropriate. These white suits are
piped and collared often in the wearer's
livery eOlors, for nothing is smarter
with all types of horseless carriages
than for the owner TO show the red and
brown, red and blue. or red and green
that is worn by her servant, and that
is also apparent in the trimmings of
the carriage itself.
Motor Hats and Wells.
On her head the woman who man.
ages the levers wears anything that is
comfortable and becoming, though it is
very we'll known that the big, elongat-
ed turbans and thee hats with rolled up
side brins so all-pervasiVe this spring
have been the result of a study to find
a shape of headgear that is both be-
coming and comfortable when speeding
along in the electric and gasoline car
riages. over the hat or turban of
chasseur shape. from two to three wells
are worn as a rule. French women
have so far forgotten their conquetry as
to adopt goggles, and big mica visors,
that render them hideous and inhuman
in appearance; the Americans will have
none of these unless racing or long
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

touring is in order For general pur-
poses they wear one thickness of black
net over a layer of white tulle, and then
upon these a brown or green made-up
automobile veil is put on after and is
slipped off before she descends.
A good automobile veil is a yard long
and has a draw-string in its upper and
lower edges. One string is pulled tight
about the hat crown. the other gathers
the fullness under the chin, and the
ends are caught with two little gilt
clasps at the rear. This baggy top
veil shuts out the dust and dazzle of
the sunlight. though some women pre-
fer gray veil. the others buy those
that show a strong greenish cast in the
silky mesh.
AS a rule. gloves match the wells, and
a big, baggy pair of potato brown wash
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-18

this sort of nomenclature the American
woman eXcelS. Another feature of the
touring car and one that always differ.
entiates the party on tour from those
merely doing" a few counties for
run is the pennant. 1t is a bit of tr-
angular bunting streaming from the
front of the cars roof and showing the
owners initials in white on the ground
of her livery color. There is something
sporting and business-like in this de-
tail, while no other word but SHIP
shape characterizes the admirable
stowage of essentials in the pit AM
under the seats of the tonneau body
Touring Needs.
Into a limited space must fit the
owners tool kit and working apron
racing caps and goggles for everybody
rubber roquelaires for a party. ScotG
plaid lap robes, few books, a writing
and mending outfit and a luncheon
baskt that is a wonder and a triumph
Last, but not least, is the surgar!
chest. They all fit in, however, and
they all are needed. The lunch baskeI|
out of which ten people can be served
is provided with aluminium utensils, on
which the owners initials and the.
name of the car are engraved. Ihese
same distinctive marks are embrold-
cred on the napery, and out OF the
center of the basket comes a BAMBOO
and canvas contrivance which, Wheh
stretched and braced, forms as COM
Portable a little tea table as any one
would ask.
On all the tours, undertaken OF
planned so far, it is the rule to carr!
along a professional and liveried chaul-
oil repairs
see to the daily cleaning of the Venice
and its works, and who can also 10
duty at the wheel when host, hostess
or guests wish to be relieved. inns
chauffeur is uniformed in accordance
with the colorings of the car. Wnlp
cords, breeches, leggins of the same,
waistcoat of the cars color and a MI, NJ,
folk jacket and cloth, fiat cap sS So,
to be one of the favorite outtlts. Inv
women who patronize the lighter hoi
less carriages lean to the lntelllS
and rather understood tiger. Inc edII'
conner in the country house nelsnpo-s
hoods now whisks around in heI ne Us
dog carts, with an exceedingly sleAuI.'
rosy boy in pale gray cords, silver ~
tons, white gloves and white Ste
Alpine hat, about which goes a 49,
leather band fastened with .ba
clasp. The slenderer and rosleI
youngster and the trimmer his "ai9 H.
the greater is her pride in him am Il
is strange, but true, that, thousH %
requires far less time and brains .be
look after an automobile than 70 20
needs of horses, the groom tnereol -os
ceives just twice the amount III lis
that he used to claim when dLi- .ra
and not machines were under me-
Fanny Enders'