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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23
SINCE TWENTY YEARS AGO.

I've wandered to the village, Tom,
I've sat beneath the tree,
Upon the schoolhouse playground,
Which sheltered you and me.
But none we're left to greet me, Tom;
And few were left to know
Who played with US upon the green
Just twenty years ago.
The old schoolhouse is altered now,
The teachers are replaced
By new ones not one bit alike,
The ones our lessons faced.
But the same old bricks are in the wall
The teachers come and go,
But their methods, far from the same
AS just twenty years ago.
The 'blue back speller" is unknown
Its teachings to impart,
But the pupils are, by teachers shown,
"Our method" how TO start.
The parents work arithmetic,
And Americas cities show;
Now the teachers" take the papers up
But not twenty years ago.
We used to work our own 'sums" Tom,
In the school room, you and I,
But now the children bring them home,
Their parents heads to try.
The teachers" draw their salary now
AS through the year they go,
And "assign" now, but used to teach,
Just twenty years ago.
The scholars dare not speak word,
After passing through the gate,
They dare not be one minute soon
Or Just one minute late.
We used to start just any time
And play along, you know,
And play ball till the bell should ring
Just twenty years ago.
We used to take our states, you know,
But now tits ink and pen,
And new book every year to learn
The same things we learned then.
Our books were never out of style,
The master then would show
The way no work sum, but that
Was twenty years ago.
We used to call them "Masters" then
Or teachers" some would say,
But they are called INSTRUCTORS" now
For ''the master" passed away.
Yes our master sleeps beneath the hill
Where the flowers we planted grow
Where he "taught" us then, but oh,
how changed,
Since twenty years ago.
" ANONYMOUS.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23

Secretary of war Taft in letter
which he has made public, voices the
policy of the Administration respecting
the future of the Philippines. Secre-
tary Taft states that this policy con-
templates indefinite retention of the is
lands with the possibility,iu the re-.
mote future, of independence for them.
the Secretary seems to regard this as
possible, but not probable, in the time
Of the next generation.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23
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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23

Kentucky coal miners and operators
are far apart on the wage question.
The operators offer the present scale,
7s2 cents, and the miners demand s2t
cents. There are other points of differ
enee.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23
To The Creditors Of the Carnegie Ner.
camille Company.
Chas. Burger ct al,
vs..
Carnegie Mercantile Co., ct al.
In Chancery Court at Johnson City,
Tennessee,

All creditors and other persons in
terested in the Carnegie Mercantile
Company are hereby ordered to come
forward and exhibit their demands and
claims and have themselves made par
ties to the bill in this cause within the
time prescribed by law, to-wit: BY
the first Monday in April, 1905, next,
or they will be forever barred.
This notice will be published for
four successive weeks in The Comet.
This March 9th, 1905.
E. A. SHIPLEY, G. & M,
ByS T.. MILLER, ID. g. & M.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23
Senator Bates death was a great
calamity to the state and may be greater.

Things continue to occur to popular
ize the movement for the election of
United States senators by the people.
Memphis News-Scimitar.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1905-03-23
HE above picture of the
man and fish is the trade
mark ofScott's Emulsion,

lllurk OF 0cOUU Emulsion,
and is the synonym for
strength and purity. 1t is sold
in almost all the civilized coun-
tries of the globe.
If the cod fish became extinct
it would be a worldwide calam-
ity, because the Oil that comes
from its liver surpasses all other
fats in nourishing and life-giving
properties. Thirty years ago
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| Send for free sample.
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The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
The Sturgis Commission.

AUGUSTA, April 6. Gov VIM I. Cobb
today announced the members of the COM
mission to enforce the law prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
for which provision was made by the Stur-
gis bill passed by the recent legislature.
They are Waldo Pettengil of Rumford
Falls, Norman l.. Bassett of Augusta, and
Alfred II. Lang of Skowhegan.
1t is not necessary that the appointments
be confirmed by the council, the governor
alone having discretion in the matter. The
commission will be provided with an Office
at the statehOuSe and at once will take up
its duties under the supervision of the gov
ernor. Mr.. Pettengill is vice president and
general manager of the Portland & Rum
ford Falls railway Mr.. Bassett is a law
partner of Judge Leslie c. Cornish of Au-
gusta and Mr.. Lang formerly was sheriff of
Somerset county. The first two are Repub-
licans and the last is a member of the Demo-
cratic party.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
FREEDOM,

FREEDOM.
c. b. Sampson is in Boston this week on
business. Miss Mertice Small, who has
been visiting her brother, DR.. A. NJ. Small
returned to Sunset last Friday. Herbert
Clarke returned to Newport last Saturday.
-. Chester Grant returned to Colby last
Thursday. I'D. W. Dodge came home Fri
day night from Portland, after an absence
of twenty five days. Mrs. Dodge came with
him. Miss Louise johnson has the Ger
man measles. Mrs. G. E. Bryant is sick
tana April 10th. They were: Mr. and Mrs.
Luclus Cunningham with two little chill
dren, Mr. Clarence Brown, Mr.. W. A. Crit
lin and Wayand White We all wish them
great success. Mrs. j. B. Wiggin return
ed home last Friday night from Boston,
where she had been for spring millinery
.... Mrs. Margaret Stephenson is quite sick.
Mr., Frank l.. Hanscom was here Sun
day and preached here and at ThOrndike,
returning to Bangor Monday mOrning....
The Ladies' Circle met with Mrs. Anna
Stephenson last Thursday, Mrs. L. II.
Thursday, April Goth. -. Mr.. Nathaniel Nc
Farland is able to be down street after his
severe attack of the grip. Miss Lillian
HutchlnS returned Saturday from Lewis
ton. Mrs. Denicoe is keeping house for
DR.. Small. Mrs Melvin McGray of Burn
ham and her little daughter Vera are visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mcfarland.
1.-The selectmen started April 1st to take
the towns valuations. These warm days
remind US of flower gardens and house
cleaning. Mrs A. l.. Stephenson will be-
gin school in Burnham Monday, April 18th
....Ihe young ladies' society of Freedom
Academy, The Kappa Mu, gave public
meeting last Wednesday evening. Follow
ing is the program:
Piano solo, Miss Winfred Dodge
Paper, Poets and their music,
Miss Blanche Sibley
Paper, National Hymns and their signiti-
canoe, Miss Nettie Ramsay
Solo, Miss Gertrude Jittlefeld
Paper, A Group of Composers,
Miss Mildred Clary
SOLO, Miss Maud Nichols
Paper, Cradle Songs, Miss Josephine Brown
Paper, Story of an Eagle,
Miss Louise Sibley
ODE written by Miss Ethel Merithew
we la Kappa Mu, sung by the society
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
MONROE.

MONROE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Henderson of Haver-
hill, Mass, and their three children are Wis
iting her mother, Mrs. j. H. Lufkin. Mr..
Henderson, after weeks vacation will re-
turn to his work, leaving his family here for
longer stay. The many friends of Mr..
Loren Robinson are sorry to hear that he is
in very poor health this spring. :: Mr.. Ed:
Billings family have moved into their rent
and got settled. The ice has gone out of
the stream without a freshet. Lewis
Richie, who recently had severe attack
of thetgrip, was left with a rheumatic trou-
BILE which confines him to the house most Of
the time. 20. Miss Linda Chase had call
from the principal of the Pennington Nor
mapSchool to 60 to Augusta and take a po-
sition in public school there. She left at
very short notice and took the position. =.
Mr.. S. P. Ackley, teacher of the High
school, has been appointed superintendent
of schools in town for the ensuing year....
The W. c. T. U. met with Miss S. A. Man
sur last week. The next meeting will be
with Mrs. r. W. Mayo
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

Exposure to sudden climatic change
produces cold in the head and catarrh is
apt to follow. Provided with Ely,s Cream
Price so cents at Druggists or Ely Brothers,
Sc Warren Street, New York, will mail it,
The Balm cures without pain, does not
irritate or cause sneezing. 1t spreads itself
over an irritated and angry surface, reliev-
ing Immediately the painful Inflammation,
cleanses and cures. Cream Balm. quickly
cures the cold.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

Tie editor of our esteemed county
contemporary, the kennebunk Enter
prise. evidently forgets that to proper
IL give credit for editorial matter re
printed from exchanges is regarded as
one of the fundamental principles OF
journalistic courtesy Biddeford Jour
nal.
The same principle does, or should,
extend to news articles other than those
of a minor character. When we find
an article prepared with much care
appropriated by an exchange we natur-
ally feel little hurt, but when we
see that article copied and credited to
said exchange the otfense rankles. The
practice has become so common, how
ever. that we have given up protesting
against it.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

TROY.
The death of Mrs. Thomas Reynolds, nee
Alice Bennett of Troy, occurred at Unity
last week. The remains were brought to
Troy Thursday for interment in Fairview
cemetery. The High school, taught by
F. W. Bisbee of Sumner, opened last week
with fourteen pupils. Miss Maud Munroe
has been elected superintendent of schools.
-. Miss Azuba Myrick is attending the
Normal school in Pennington. Among
Mitchell and Milton Carleton. Mrs. 9. O..
Wyman and Mrs. Thorn IS Shaw, who have
been seriously i'll, are now cOnvalescing. 4:
Mrs. Alma Green and little daughter OF
Wilton are spending few weeks with her
Mrs Lou Smith Whiting, formerly OF
Troy, was united in marriage March 9th
to Mr.. Walter A. Taylor of Pittsfeld, Rev.
Eta G. Tracy performing the ceremony.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
The Races at pittsfeld.

Col W. g. Morrill,, proprietor of the
Union Trotting Park, Pittsfeld, has an
nounced that the big August meeting at
Pittsfield will be held August ., g. 4, and D.
The June meeting will occur Friday and
Saturday, June % and "a
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

For the second time, we believe, we
have mixed up the Waterville dailies.
Last weeks item referred to the Mail
and not the Sentinel.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
Camden's Browntail Moths.

The Camden school children are waging
war against the browntail moth, and dur
ing the past week hundreds of the nests
were destroyed Just 113 nests were taken
to Mr. Bramhall at one time, the proceeds
to be divided among three boys.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
SWANvILLE.

SWANvILLE.
Mrs. f. L. Cunningham and daughter
Edna went to Brooks Friday and returned
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. II. M. Chase have
received cards from their nephew, Mr.
Henry A. Chase, and Miss Gertrude Eaton,
who were married April 9TH in Roxbury,
Mass. They were formerly of Waldo,
Maine. .. Mrs. George Brown is going to
Searsp0rt this week to do dressmaking.
Mrs. Mabel Knox and children will return
to their home in Maiden, Mass, this week.
-. Prof. A. E. Bailey returned to Newton,
Mass, last week. ...M Mrs. Charles Hartshorn
is rapidly regaining her health.
JACKSON.
Mrs. Mary Edwards is visiting friends in
Belfast. C. F. Fogg has leased his farm to
Mr.. Rines from Aroostook county and has
moved his goods to Brooks, where he has
rooms at NJ. E. Miller's.... E. Gould has
returned from Freedom, where he has been
clerking in the store of A. b. Sparrow the
past winter. 80 The assessors were per-
ambulating the town last week to ascertain
the wealth of our citizens. &c. w. Gould
has bought farm in Dixmont.. Charles
Wright is at work repairing the buildings
of Henry Fletcher. ...H. II. Rich, who has
leased his farm to Mr.. Hughes from Aroos-
took county, is now repairing his summer
cottage preparatory to moving in. Percy
Small is doing the carpenter work ..,,P. a.
Hasty, =. Of n. Law School, has been visit it.
ing his parents. Announcements are out
for the marriage of Mr.. Hasty to Miss Annie
thornton OF Bangor, on April 18th. W f.
Gould will begin saving the stock of long
lumber at his mill this week.
STANDPOINT.
Mr.. A. W. Shute and son George were at
home from stmr. James T. Morse recently
for a few days....F. S. Hartman was in
Belfast Saturday on business Mrs.
Sarah Jordan Clifford visited her sister,
Mrs. True lleagan, in Belfast recently.
DR.. Philbrook from Castine was here the
| Clifton Richards of Buck sport is here for a
visit. The r. r. Co. have rented the
Daggett house of +. F. Perkins for a board
ing house. Mr.. Perkins recently bought
| the MaXiield farm of the r. r. Co. and will
begin moving the house as soon as it is
vacant. IA new lot of yarn arrived last
week for the knitting factory....N. C..
Partridge and wife, Mrs. Maud Blanchard
and Mrs. Nettie Griffin, went to Belfast,
Tuesday,. The travelling is very bad and
SO much heavy teaming makes the roads
almost impossible in places. -. Miss Susie
while: MIR. John French and Miss Ruth
French came from Boston last week for a
short visit. Their father, n. S. French,
accompanied them back and will enter a
sanitarium in Dorchester for treatment. ..
Stmr Reliance landed supplies here
several times the past week for the y. NJ.
5. r. Co.. .Schr. Pearl arrived Friday from
Rock land with grain for F. S. Hartman.
MIR. John Brewer and son Dawson came
from Seboeis recently to work for f. F.
Perkins. Mr.. Foote from Bangor preach
ed here Sunday 1t was the first Sunday
service since Christmas. :. The first
founders were caught here March 3Oth
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
"Lest We Forget"

How many recall what TRANSFERRED of a
Sunday, on April 9, 19O5-fOrty years ago!
Old soldiers who were there surely will not
forget !-BridgtOn News.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

Under the caption can Interesting
Town." the Bangor Commercial! pre-
sents some facts concerning the early
history of Machas, and then says of
present conditions:
At its recent town meeting a most
creditable record OF municipal manage
ment was presented. The town is out
of debt and has assets amounting to
2.576. 80. of which S565.44 is cash in the
strong box. 1t has a fine library
building, given by a native son in honor
of his parents, and to the free reading
room in this library the town appro-
priated the sum of $500. It has a vii
lage improvement society which pre-
sented to the town at its last meeting
artistic signs or markers for the streets,
which were accepted by the town, and
it was voted that residents living on
unnamed streets were requested to
decide upon names and send them to
the selectmen within one week that
markers might be provided for them.
The selectmen were also authorized to
remove all advertising signs from the
town bridges. 1t appropriated $500
for bridges and sidewalks, $500 for
schools, 5000 for state roads, besides
other generous sums for public and
municipal purposes.
We should like to live in Machias.
That last remark indicates that the
Commercial has correct appreciation
of this historic town. The writer es-
teens it privilege to have spent his
boyhood there and to nave been able to
keep somewhat in touch with it's peo-
pie in later years. What it is today it
has been, to our personal knowledge,
for more than half century. There
is not more refined, intelligent, public.
spirited and hospitable community any.
where on the face of the earth.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
SEARSAIONT.

SEARSMONT.
Mrs. Willard Sherman of Appleton is
visiting her sister, Mrs. r. Ness. -. Samuel
Miller has returned from three months
visit in Boston....J. L. Bean and John
Levenseller have a large amount of lumber
in their mill yards and have put on night
force. There was quite an excitement last
Tuesday. Fred Marden set fire to a pile of
brush on the ploughed land some distance
from the buildings. A strong northwest
wind was blowing which carried the flames
to the grass land, on which it ran like
prairie fire. A large force of men turned
out and fought the fire, conquering it
just in time to save Doctor Millett's build
ings, thus averting serions conhagration.
80. Mrs. j. Nj. Fletcher has gone home to
Belfast to arrange her business before
going to Germany. She will return here
and spend the time with her brother, II. E.
Holmes, until she sails. Mr.. Austin Hunt
of Camden has bought the Dyer farm and
moved his family there. The people of
Searsmont welcome Mr.. Hunt, as he was
formerly from this place and is held in
high esteem
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

TROY
Mrs. Edward Roundy from Clinton has
moved into the Getchell house at Rogers
Corner. The family OF Edwin Whitaker
are i'll with the measles. -. Mr. l. j. Wright
has employment in Pittsfield. Hiss Annie
Cook is enjoying much her pleasant situa-
ton at the home of Donald Chase in Unity.
Miss Eta Bagley, trained nurse, ar
rived at the bedside of her grandmother,
Mrs. II. D. Bagley, two days before her
death, and most tenderly cared for her, full
filling the last sad offices until the funeral,
which occurred April 1.-THE remains of
Mrs. VIM. Written, only daughter of John
Hillman of this town, were brought to
Troy April 6, for interment. :. The death of
Miss Eunice Ward, an aged shut-in, occur
red recently.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
THORNDIKE.

T..
Charles Fogg, who is teaching in Hebron,
passed his vacation with his sister. Mrs.
Fred Ham,. Samuel Kelley and wife
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Harmon and
other relatives in town last week, returning
to their home in Portland Saturday -.
Willie Ward will work for II. L. Wing this
season, and Pearl Hamlin of Jackson has
hired with John Clark for year. -. Lottie
Gray passed Saturday with Mrs. Lizzie
Morey... Mr.. and Mrs. b. A. Gowen were
in Montville Friday to attend the funeral of
their neice, Miss Florence Gowen. Mrs
Louisa Hunt and Mrs. }. II. Stevens are
quite sick DR.. Hurd attends them. Mr..
+. L. Philbrick is sick with the grip. Rev.
Mr.. Hanscome has preaching service at
Harmons hall every Sunday at p. me-.
Mrs. J. {. Whitney has returned home from
Embden. Miss Ida Washburn of Water
vile was the guest of Mrs. c. B. Cox, Sun
day. Miss Milie Fletcher, who has en-
ployment in Pittsfeld, is passing short
vacation with her mother.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

The South Boston News celebrates
its goth anniversary this year. Estab
lished in 1885 by the present owner,
John J Merrigan, it has the distinction
of being the only weekly newspaper in
New England that has ever enjoyed
such long existence without change
of editor or proprietor.-Press and
Printer.
This is a claim to distinction that
cannot be sustained There has been
10 change in the editor of The Journal
since 1879, and there are other Maine
papers which can go farther back than
that
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

1t is conceded that for the past three
or tour years the expenses of a weekly
paper have increased Paper, labor and
materials are all higher and, While a
publisher may say he makes up his
loss on subscription and in his adver-
Using. it will be found that the local
merchant will generally put about so
much into his advertising anyway, and
there is a limit to his ability to pay
American Press.
That is very true. And so far as The
Journal is concerned its rates for adj
yertisjng are lower than they were 20 to
- Years ago. Small, transient adver-
tisements are fifty per cent less, and
yearly rates are given in many cases
where a short term rate fifty per cent
higher was formerly charged. Then so
many advertising agencies have failed,
causing heavy losses to publishers gen
orally, that their business is no longer
profitable. We see it stated that the last
failure of a Boston agency-it has fail
ed several times-has cost the newspa-
pers nearly 100000.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
The Republican Journal.
BELFAST, THURSDAY, APRIL ID, 1905.

Judge Dunno, mayor-elect Of Chica-
60, is the happy father of 10 children
Well Dunne.
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13

A man is selling an improved Jon
athan apple. Now, as a matter of fact,
the Jonathan apple doesn't need i'm
proving. Why not improve the Ben
Davis?-Atchison Globe.
Why is it that although no one has
good word for the Ben Davis it is so
extensively and successfully grown for
market. We read not long since OF
section of Illinois that was devoted al
most exclusively to raising that much
derided apple, and at handsome profit
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
NORTH PALERMO.

Mrs. Emma knowlton Tarr of Ventura,
Cal, is the guest of her cousins, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Marden. Mrs. Tarr was
formerly of South Montville. but for 81
years has been a resident of California. -.
Mrs. Mary Bachelor, a lady of 50 years,
who has been at home with her aughter,t
Mrs; Horace Black, the past winter, is
much improved in health and will go to
Philadelphia this week to pass the sum
mer with her son, VIM. II. Seaverns.
Lena Clark and John Hatch OF Colby, who
have been passing the vacation at their
homes, have returned to Watervile.
Edith Nelson of Freedom Academy is de-
son of Coburn passed her vacation with her
friend Vera Jewett in Augusta. . Mrs.
Rufus Rowe, who has been at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Jessie Bessey of Albion,
for a short stay, has returned home
The Republican journal., 1905-04-13
SWANVILLE CENTRE.

George Beal lost nice COW last week
MIR. Rector has moved his family to Belfast.
lone of Mrs. H. P. Whites hens laid a
double-yelked egg last week which measured
inches one way and the other. Mr..
Staples, who drives +. F. d. No. l, has
bought horse of Everett Lenfest Fred
Webb lost nice steer last week. VIM.
Clements went to Monroe last week to visit
l.. O. Robinson, who is very sick. The
schools will open April 24th. Mr. Seeley
will carry the cream on the route formerly
carried by Fred Curtis.... The schools in
town are to be taught by Miss Lotte
Staples in No. and .: Miss Gracia At
wood in 3 and 4; Miss Lavone Clark in I
Miss Leila Sprague in s. Miss Ham of
Monroe has been visiting Susie Belle Mad
docks. david Wingate has bought the
Everett jenkins farm, lately owned by
Wingate and RYDER.