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The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
LOCAL MENTION.

j. A. Goodrich, proprietor of Hotel
Oxford, was on business trip to
Pittsfield, yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Pishon
left here Tuesday morning for visit
with friends in Boston.
Mrs. T. II. Anderson and Mrs. New
ell R. Perkins are guests this week of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. K. Perkins.
Dern J. Green arrived home yester-
dav from a brief visit in Portland as
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde l.
Giles.
X. C. Woodard, of the firm, K. G..
Woodland & Son, arrived home, last
evening from a brief business trip to
Dexter.
Mr.. and Mrs c. Wesley Grover at
tended the Sportsmen's Show in Bos-
ton last week, arriving home Friday
evening.
Chas. H. Clark, went to Waterville
Tuesday planning to make that city
his home until next fall. He will be-
come member of the household re-
siding at homestead maintained in
Waterville by Frazier Gilman of
Brooklyn.
Miss Nellie White, who has been at
home for brief vacation from her
school in Beverly, Mass, is to return
Saturday. She will be accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Chas. B. White,
who will be the guest of her sister,
Mrs. Roland d. Lindsey, in Beverly
for the next few weeks. Miss White
and her sister, Miss Katherine, have
been teaching in Beverly since the
beginning of the school year in 1905.
Edward Haines, for some years
foreman of Bryant & Company's wood
working mill at Pittsfeld, has entered
the employ of McQuillan & Pooler of
this place and is to move his family
here in the early future. Mrs. Haines
is a cousin of Messrs. w. +. Hackett
and Leon Witham, proprietors of the
ISlhlil 4huSilIlIC ~ wi anu Abip'
Arthur Neil, parents of Mrs. Haines,
are to come here with their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elbridge G. Wood
bury of Auburn have been visiting in
Skowhegan since Saturday, guests of
Mrs. Woodbury's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas Reed. Mr.. Woodbury. has
been occupied, since his removal
from this place to Auburn, in general
repair and carpenter work on tene
ment property and other real estate,
chiefly located in the city of Lewis
ton, owned by his sister, Mrs. Augusta
A. Getchell.
Pork is only one of the products of
Oak Hlll Farm, the property Of +. n.
Merrill, Esa., but one would Judge
from the frequent large shipments
than it must be very important one.
Ten porkers, aggregating two and
one half tons in weight, Were shipped
To the Brighton market, Monday, this
making a total of over six tons ship
ped by Mr.. Merrill during the past
year. These hogs are kept under the
Oak Hill barns and in the various
pigeries during the colder months and
500 loads of manure worked over by
them have been hauled out and spread
over the farm during last fall and the
present spring. For a part of the
summer the pigs are given the run of
a section of pasture land. Their feed
varies at different seasons, turuips,
potatoes, meal, apples and corn all
doing their share in the fattening pro
cess. The price received during the
last twelve months has been from six
to six and one half cents.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

more reason fzrta lid that lfe 1nief
~tatrs Is eaaa. 4. u .t alyance " o,nef ma
TONS and
Whereas ~ te..r ~ taat .tate IA Tor
tn bencht II faass aaI ar -. .doaI5 be
higher in Or .er tda' IT, ba,d#a i ,asa,l5 IN
sh1u i be more egasll, dsIdeH.
Therefore rs .isei Tia ~ aearIY ea-
dorsr the wofk Of X. rs.eaaf.e D#nfQan
IN the last Legislature ,a tte .ose,aFa,is6
# the 1,h an gam e5ma.,,.#a. - 6.as=
1li AM postal savings banss
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

There are 285 lock boxes at the
Skowhegan postoffice and of these 253
were rented at the expiration of the
last quarter, March 81 April /, the
new rates went into effect, nearly
doubling the previous price for boxes,
and az result 50 boxes have since
been surrendered leaving the number
rented at 1853 The patrons who have
given up their boxes now receive
their mail at the residences or places
of business for the most part, but a
portion of them, prefer to call at the
transient window. So far as the
sorting of the mail or its handling and
delivery at the Office is concerned the
amount of time and labor required is
not increased or decreased by this
change. To take care of the addi-
tional amount of mail to be distrib-
uted through the local deliveries, an
extra carrier has been employed and
will be kept on duty for such portion
of each day as is found necessary.
The government loses, of course, the
rental of the idle boxes, but the in
increases receipt from the boxes
which are rented at the advanced
price, makes the net revenue about
s25 larger each quarter, than it had
previously been.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
The New Holiday.

Tomorrow, the 10Th, will occur the
new holiday, called "Patriots Day."
substituted by the Legislature recent
ly adjourned for Fast Day. This is in
tended as a recognition of the battle
of Lexington. The little hamlet of
Lexington, eleven miles northwest of
Boston, has the exalted honor of be
ing the scene of the first conflict of
the war of independence between the
Americans and the British, April 19,
1775, and on this sacred historic spot
stands monument to commemorate
the patriotism of the eight Americans
who fell in the encounter against the
well drilled red coats, who after the
battle continued on to Concord
Bridge. Several Americans were
wounded.
Legend and poetry have illustrated,
with masters hand, every minute
of these eventful scenes; but no i'm
agination can make incidents more
dramatic than shown by the actual
facts in the case. This first battle of
the Revolution was fought on Lex
ington Common, little green in
front of the meeting house. They
were always "meeting houses" then,
not churches" The preconcerted
alarm was given, and the Lexington
minute men, numbering seventy per-
sons, under command of Capt. John
Parker, formed into line, while the
British were commanded by Maj. Pit
cairn. AS the column under Pitcairn
approached, each party could observe
the number of the other. Parker saw
that his command was wholly out
numbered, and directed his men to
retire. Pitcairn, at the same mo-
ment, rushed forward, with the words
which were long after repeated in
every household -"Disperse! rebels,
oieperse!~ On either side there was
the most eager wish that the respon-
sibility of the first shot should be
thrown upon the other party. Each
party, in word, wanted to show that
the other struck first. The truth is
there was a "fiush in the pan" on the
American side, and then the British
"pitched in". The Americans return
ed the fire, and the conflict was be.
gun, and a war of seven long years
was the evidence of that fact.
We have no idea that the hours o.
the new holiday will be given up tC
the contemplation of the beginning
of the fearful struggle for our coun'
try's independence. Rather will they
be devoted to various forms of amuse
ment and recreation. But still the
minds of many will travel back to the
stirring events which had to do will
the foundations of the temple of Ii
berty and Union.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
PETITION.

To the Honorable Bosrd Il >electmen,
u ihe Town 4 ssoa gan, Maine.
We the undersigned respectfully ass per
mission 10 set and maintain poles On the
southerly side Of H'oam1=l3 Sire :. as located
by STAKES driven on sad street, and u put
up and MAINTAIN wires AM nx;ures on said
pyles, dated thIs Is.h DAY Of A9nl. 1907.
NKo"4HstN EafCIHc LlofT COMPANY,
hy { !. Abbey, superintendent.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
One Trial Ended.

We have not defiled our fair col
,n,ns or bothered our readers with a
renort of the trial of the young de-
generate, Harry K. Thaw, for the
murder of the noted and justly ia
nous New York architect, Stanford
White, which lasted fourteen weeks,
and ended on Friday by the disagree
ment of the jury-seven standing for
his conviction for murder in the first
degree, and five for his acquital on
account of insanity at the time of the
killing. The jury deliberated nearly
forty eight hours, but were hopeless
" divided, and came near having a
knock down fight before they separ-
ated. Thaw was remanded to the
Tombs without bail, to await a second
trial, which cannot be given until
next fall, as there are some fourteen
alleged murderers awaiting trial.
This remarkable and extremely sem
sational trial has elected great and
peculiar public interest. 1t has shown
the corrupting influence of great
wealth wrongfully applied, and of an
overpowering depraved taste. Stan
ford White, the victim in the tragedy,
was a betrayer of youth, beauty and
virtue. They furnished the food on
which this vampire fed. An architect
of great resources, who carved from
stone and wood, marble and iron, ar
tistic structures that made his name
famous, but whose hellish mission in
the darkness of night was to pull
down in hopeless ruin little girls OF
enchanting loveliness and winning
WAYS. These were the kind on which
his near soul feasted. Perhaps Stan
ford White ought to have been killed
He deserved the fate. Thus said five
of the Jurors by their action. But
this is government that protects the
bad as well as the good, and Harry
ThaW was rot commissioned to kill
Stanford White. Thus most truly said
seven of the good men and true who
tried the case. The written and or
ganic laws of the land must be obey
ed, and SO the young man must pass
through the ordeal of another trial.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Aprii 5, 19o7.
Upon the ~ going petition ordered that
puohe notice thereof be given 5y printing
tins petition with hls order thereon. IN the
somerset Reporter. and nau-et7 be al least
fourteen DAYS before the seth DAY of April
\ u. 1907, On which "a a, clgck 7. N.
a, the Selee,mens o-aoe IL sad Town, pub
lie healiug VII he hell, Where residents AMI
gamers Of preper,, on sat street, % be
affected ttersas, a1A all other per, n in
terestel staajt aave fui opp rtuni,y =
show cause vhs sach aerlHU >h.u.i nst e
grated.
W TIE ~e.ec,mea. endorse thereon that
NJ personal notice or o,her naticr than the
aboye Is Necessary t. Re gwen - the peti-
s.nefs t. tte re-. er,s and owners It prop
erty h he arezted tbrseay z0io
X. r. FaEEtt. ~-.--tmeu
=. II. bi4Hi-=t.. 3fttr Town
A. II. Nau>, 1sfsklaaegan, Maine.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

CHANCELLOR Day of the Syracuse Tn
Nersity, in a recent address condem-
ned the hurtful practice of drink on
students, and had this to say about
smoking:
u have been criticised in the pa
pers Of late for my action on the
smoking habit. | believe on the
evidence of the best medical authori-
lies OF this land that it is an exceed
ihgl} damaging thing physically for a
oo} OF 10 to take up the practice of
smoking cigars and cigarettes. And no
loang man of that age in college,
with his nerves still immature, should
indulge in the habit"
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
Good Horses for Somerset.

J. Lichtenfels "A retired merchant of
New York City, who became the own
er of the Geo. Fortier farm in East
Madison, in June of last year, arrived
here this week. Mr.. Lichtenfels
made the purchase to provide him
self with a summer home for himself
and family, passing the winters in
New York. He comes alone at this
time to lay out the spring work at his
farm and attend to such repairs as are
necessary and will return to the city
for his family in June.
While here last year he took much
interest in Maine breeds of stock, es-
pecially of the horse kind, and noted
that there were many heavy horses
used and much demand for them but
very few of them were bred in the
state. Believing that this class of
horses could be profitably raised here
he devoted the time during the past
winter to ascertain where the most
approved breeds could be obtained
and brings with him on this trip four
high grade brood mares, of the heavy
draft type, three Brown Shires and
one Black Belgian, purchased in Iowa
and Ohio, after careful Investigation.
They are young horses, four to six
years of age, weighing around 1900
lbs. and standing about 18 hands high.
Mr.. Lichtenfels purposes to breed
them himself or should farmers and
horse men of this section appreciate
their value and wish to purchase them
for breeding purposes, he will dispose
of them and attempt to duplicate the
purchase in the western market, with
which he is now throughly acquaint-
ed.
A representative of the REPORTER
was shown these animals at the SkoW-
hogan House Stables and they GER
tainly appear to be grand stock for
draft purposes and such as would in
cease the reputation of this section
for fine animals if the proper atten
tion of breeders was devoted to them.
These animals may be seen from now
on at Mr.. Lichtenfe's farm, East
Madison and he will take pleasure in
showing them to all whe may be in
terested.
The eight days closing next Sunday
have been denominated "Self Denial
Week. by the Salvation Army and
the members of that organization
throughout the world, for that period
are supposed to abstain from all lux
uries for the double object of demon
strating their devotion to religious
things and accommodating something
toward maintaining and extending
their work. Special services will be
held at the headquarters in this town.
Saturday evening and Sunday. An
exchange prints the following with
regard to the Army:
During its little less than twenty
six years of successful work in the
United States the Salvation Army hat
clearly demonstrated the fact that ii
has a specific and very important
mission to fulfill in reclaiming the
lost, rescuing the outcast, lifting the
fallen and minister1ng to the bodies
as well as to the souls of men. In
fact, The Army seems to have 3
sphere of usefulness and philanthropy
peculiarly its own in that its eminent
temporal head, General William
Booth and his distinguished daughter
Commander Eva Booth, leader of The
Army's operations in this country are
enabled by their wise direction of af-
fairs to follow lines of effort which nc
other religious and benevolent move
ment has ever attempted.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

James H. Eckels, for a long time
comptroller of the currency, died at
Nhleago on Monday, death occurring
"hiie he was sleeping. Elk President
Cleveland and others pay tribute
70 the mans great worth as an
official.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Cuba is to be given another trial at
self government as soon as Secretary
Taft thinks she is ready for it.
REAL ESTATE TRANSPORTS The
following are the real estate transfers
recently recorded in the county reg
istry:
skowhegan-Lucy E. Crowell to
Effie c. Furber; Lola W. Chase ct al
to Lucy K. Crowell; Walter p Ord :
way to VIM. j. Groder; Ellene l..
Tuttle to Michael F. Rogers.
st. Albans-Clyde II. Smith ct al to
Helen NJ. Brown.
Palmyra-Fred r. Davis to A. p.
Martin, $500; Chas. E. Cooley to Oil
yer A. Kinsman.
Smithfield- c. Tucker to Ar
thur Heald ct al, $500.
Fairfield-Joseph Blais to Edward
c. Rice; E. c. Rice to Martha j. Rice
Harmony-Wallace L. Marble to
Martha j. Bailey; Chas. II. Cromwell
to Orson Strall.
Solon-Carrie B. Longley to Cora
E. Chase; Eta Bell Curtis to John A.
Tuscan.
Athens-Josephine L. Wiley to
Harvey d. Eaton.
Mercer-Ellen S. Viekery ct al to
Chas. F. Smith.
Anson-Geo. w. Booth TO Arthur
E. Hilton.
Concord-Margaret j. Ellis to Lii
lian E. Dunton, $50; Lillian E. Dun
ton to Redmond c. Dillan, 500.
Starks-Arthur Z. Hilton to VIM.
b. Hilton.
Dead River-R. T. Sampson to Ell
mer A. Sampson.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

So great has been the pressure upon
Governor Cobb to allow the use OF
his name for a third term, he found ii
necessary on Tuesday to issue a state
ment to the public. He says that for
business, personal and party reasons,
he will not be a candidate; he has
had much honor from the Republican
party and the people, which he fully
appreciates, and at the close of his
present term will labor in the ranks
for the interests of the party and the
State. Those who know Governor
Cobb will understand that this state
ment settles the question.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
WANTED.

ea.. fas l,.,rA. iiuustNo6e.
WILLS q Shine.
-. D. 4 81. No. ~to0arsaL Mr
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Our Italian people are just now
making it lively in the murder line in
Maine. They are altogether too
handy with the sharp knife.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
Church Notes.
ISLAND AVENUE CoNGRfGArloNAL

ISLAND AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL
Sunday evening at the o'clock service
there will be special music and an address by
a layman. subject, drifting
The Good Will Club will meet with Mrs.
LaCasce on Main St. Wednesday afternoon
If stormy it will meet Friday.
The Working League viii meet in the
parlor Monday, April ~, at 2 O'Clock. Busi-
ness of importance.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Hon Sidney Perham, who died in
Washington, last week, was one oi
our most respected Elk Governors
He was born on a farm in Woodstock
where he was reared, acquiring a
common school education, with a
term or two at Gould Academy III
Bethel, out from the doors of which
went many men who afterwar be-
came famous in the nation. AT Is
he became a teacher, profession
which he followed for fifteen years
He held the various town offices; was
on the Board of Agriculture; served
in the State Legislature; was Presi-
dental elector on the John G. Ere
mont ticket; and was Clerk of Courts
in Oxford county. He was three
times elected to Congress by large
majorities in the Second district; was
elected Governor in 1870-7l-72; and
afterwards held government posi-
tions He was in the Goth year of his
ny tlC was carry iu Ca APOhChO vi
the cause of temperance, and con-
tinued its firm friend. While not a
man OF surprising brilliancy, he was
true and steadfast, and always had
the confidence of the people.
Commander Rob't. E. Peary ex
poets to start July /, on another trip
III an attempt to reach the North
Pole. He will go on the Roosevelt,
which has been thoroughly repaired
Feary said that he intended to follow
as nearly as possible, the plans of his
last trip. He believed that the last
attempt had been planned properly
and that no Improvement could be
made on it. The experience gained
IN that attempt would be valuable to
hlm IN the coming dash for the pole
and with more favorable weather
conditions he believed that he wou Id
be successful.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
FIRST BAPTIST.

The pastor will speak in the morning o
The Heavenly Vision, in the evening o
Jonah Ashore.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

The arts of peace are more power
full than those of war. 1t is curious
to note that while the British con
quered the Beers, five years ago at
the cost of many millions of money
and many thousand of lives, the Beers
have now gained control of the coun
try by the peaceful art of casting the
most votes.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Great preparations had been made
for the peace Congress, which is be-
ing held in Carnegie hall, New York,
at which there are distinguished rep
resentatives from all parts of the
world, advocating universal peace
1t seems to be the opinion that this
Congress will work along practical
lines, and that it might result in the
adoption of an international arbitra
tion treaty.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18

Cuba is to be given another trial at
self government as soon as Secretary
Taft thinks she is ready for it.
The Somerset reporter., 1907-04-18
The Somerset Reporter

r., n,ished every Thursday at Skowhegan, Me
nv ELMER +. McNEELIE.
The Forrest City times., 1907-07-05
Piat tn KILL Callnt-

St. Petersburg. July.=From reyolu- tjonaIy sources beee have been ea- taincd details ot teec. ..5Hay plot to compass the murder 9t Count Hitte. The assassination vas pIanne1 =bs the Moscow branch of tHa Jai0n of True Russian People. fae plot how eyer. was betrayed by legoIutioHists, who gave Count Witte warning. The man entrusted with 1he execution ot the plot was q leader Of the Moscow branch named Kasantseff He enlist cd four others il the carrying oal of the plans. who, pretending loyalty. induced him to go iut1 the woods in the vicinity of St Petersburg b set the bombs from d secret hiding place. At this point the fcur turned on and killed Kasantsef The procurator of Moscow searched the lodgings of ka- sautsef and found considerable com promising material.
The Forrest City times., 1907-07-05
HERE'S ons ON THE sRooKEY-
Gets Sentry Gall Twisted When Dsz.
 Zled by Commander.

A drummer sometimes gets his or ders twisted. but never quite so badly as the ''rookey' l saw down at Chick. amauga when the troops were being mustered in for the Sqanish-tmcrican war says a travelling man in the St. Louis Post-Disratch.
 This boy, fresh from St. Louis. was on the way to the front and proud of it. He had his first assignment to guard duty and he had been carefully Instructed as to calling Who goes there9"
 The officer Tn command of the d. vision was dignifed martinet. The "ruokey' had never seen him. About midnight the general came home from a reception in town. He was all fixed up in his dress togs and he was the swellest thing the new guard ever saw. As the general passed his post the boy gazed at him open mouthed Just in time he remembered he was expected 10 say something. So be gasped:
 There goes who2"
The Forrest City times., 1907-07-05
New Automatic Rifle.

The self-loading or automatic musk. ct is now being seriously considered as the infantry arm of the future. The equipment of the great armies of the world with an improved rifle is hardly completed when the mechanics begin work on a new weapon At the recent examinations of the German War Academy the automatic rifle was one of the themes for discussion. The piece now on trial has a magazine holding ten cartridges; the recoil is utilized 10 load and cock Consequent. ly the soldier can remain quietly in position, never removing his eye from the target, and fire his ten sh9ts.- New York Sun.
The Forrest City times., 1907-07-05
JAPAN INDIFFERENT
Goes Not Care How Many satt,eship. America Has In the Pacific.

Washington, July.-"No. Japan would not regard t as an uufriendy act II the American government saw fit to increase her naval representation n her territorial waters on the Pa eihc coast, or even 1T she sent addi. tionat men-of-war to the Asiatic sta. tton. She would not look upon it as menace or regard il With regret. ," These were the words of Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador to the united States, when his attention was called to the publi, he'd reports that the General Board of the navy had recommended to the president that the battleships of the American fleet be sent around to the Pacific coast Al the same time the ambassador ex. pressed great deal of interest in the stories printed, and asked fl they were true. He disliked. he said, to appear n the public prints when there was no reason for il, but ic felt al per. feet liberty to say what he did on this subject.
 The ambassador recalled that it is the custom and practice of nations to send vessels of their fleets into the waters of other nations, and instanced the fact that very recently several Ja- panese warship5 had visited American waters at the Jamestown exposition.
 For the momeu, the embassy off. e1als are not contemplating any action in the matter of the denial of the in. telligence office privileges to the Ja- panese at San Francisco Mr. Aoki reiterated that that question can be taken up in the courts and by the per sons affected by the Police Boards de cision, and ii the decision of the Judg- es is such as to leave room to believe that the treaty rights of the Japanese have been denied then the embassy will take the matter up with the State Department. The question for the time being is one for the courts, he added Mir. Aoki said taat the Nichi Nichi, the Japanese newspaper which has been making some adverse com ment on the intelligence office cases. does not represent the governments attitude on the question. and that some of it's observations were not just.