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The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
White Bread.

Chop into quart of flour table
spoonful of shortening, wet with a
quart of warm water, add table
spoonful of white sugar and beat in a
half-yeast cake that has been dis
solved in warm water. Beat hard for
ten minutes, cover and set to rise over
night In the morning work in two
and one-half quarts of white flour that
has been sifted with tablespoonful
of salt When the flour is thoroughly
incorporated, turn upon pastry board
and knead for 10 minutes, then set
to rise until double its original size.
Knead again, make into loaves. knead-
ing each loaf for five minutes. Set to
rise for an hour, then bake.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Did You Ever,

Did you ever stop to figure out how
much you lose by not knowing exact
ly what your COWS are doing from day
to day? Do you ever sit down and
study hard as to why your herd gave
800 pounds of milk one night and
morning and only 273 pounds the sec
ond night and morning following? Did
you ever add fresh cow to your herd
and find at the end of week that you
were getting only as much milk as
you were before the fresh COW was
added, though you had fully counted
upon maintaining the original flow
and being better off by just one cows
milk? How often were you successful
in getting the herd back to its former
hOw under these circumstances?
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
CAUSE OF GAS IN THE cHuRN.
An Explanation Of This Peculiar Phe.
nomenon in Handling Cream.

Frequently in churning gas will &C.
cumulate after several rounds and
create a pressure inside sufficiently
great to produce a popping report at
the buttermilk outlet when the cork is
removed This delights the children
and calls for an explanation such as
is requested in the following:
what causes the compressure Of
air in churn? l have often noticed
that after several turns of a barrel
churn one would find the cream oozing
out at the sides of the cover. In
taking out the cork at the bottom the
gas would escape with force"
The compressure of air is due to the
formation of gas produced by certain
bacteria These organisms exist in
the cream when 1t is being soured for
churning. The gas is by-product,
simply speaking, and as it forms by
fermentation or other processes in
duced by the germs, it Is held in the
body of the cream, being unable to
rise and escape on account of the den
sity of the same.
The maximum amount of gas is
naturally contained in the cream just
at churning time. A little is liberated
IN stirring and pouring. Cream that
has been agitated with paddle dur
ing the ripening process will often
show bubbles on the surface. This is
the same gas as is collected in the
churn. The greater the viscosity of the
cream the larger will be the bubbles
before they break, says Coleman's
Rural World The presence of this
phenomenon indicates that more clean
illness could be practiced. The OBJ
lection to the gas is that it is liable
to impart more or less of strong OIL
undesirable flavor in cream of first
class purity.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Lima Beans Served in White Sauce

A delicate way of serving lima beans
is in a white sauce. Soak one pint of
beans over night. About three hours
before dinner drain, cover with two
quarts boiling water and simmer
gently for two and half hours. Drain,
saving the water for soup. Put into a
saucepan heaping tablespoonful but.
ter, half tablespoonful flour. a tea.
spoonful salt and pepper to season
Stir into this pint of hot milk and
cook stirring constantly until smooth
and thick. Season the beans with
salt and pepper, simmer Is minutes
longer and serve.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Eqq Sauce.

Heap two tablespoonful of butter
in (all at once) two tablespoonful of
flour, and stir from the sides toward
the center of the pan until the in
gradients are we'll mixed. Have ready
heated cupful of milk; add to this
the "roux" gradually, and beat to a
smooth cream. Season with pepper,
salt, and beat into the thickened milk
the yolks of two raw eggs and little
minced parsley. The white and yolk
of a hard-boiled egg chopped fine may
also be added.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
1he Ear.slahted Farmers.

The far-sighted farmers are plan
ming on having an abundance of rough
age for the cows next winter With
plenty of hay, corn fodder. millet tai
though millet is not an extra good
feed to produce milky straw, ETC., sup
plemented with light grain ration. II
the present high prices Of grain pre-
vail, they will be able to make money
out of their COWS next winter. The
prevailing sentiment is in favor Of
more cows. and in this the farmers
are wise in their day and genera
d0A"
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
DESIGNS In MAUVE
ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COL
oRs FOR DECORATION.
Properly Carried Out, It viii Add
Charm to Any Room-Hint as to
Oriental Rues-For the Win
dow Shade.

Mauve is becoming a popular color
In decoration. but it is color to be
| wisely and discreetly chosen on &C.
count of its propensity for not lighting
up well. 1t is a day color rather than
one for artificial light, but If carried
out in the proper manner and accord
ing to certain canons of taste, a mauve
| drawing-room or boudoir may be made
a place of undeniable beauty and
charm. The floor and woodwork
should be stained dark, to afford the
best setting for plain mauve wall pa
per, with figured chintz curtains in
some of the new art designs or in the
stiff oldfashioned flower patterns
with dash of pink or yellow in the
groups of blossoms. striking chintz
with mauve ground had large
white iris conventionally treated.
Striped curtains in two tones of Law
ender or green look well with either
plain or figured wall. but the Sc
verely plain hangings should only be
used in conjunction with figured
wall paper These come in lovely
patterns-wistaria, violets. iris and
trellis designs, making choice diff
Guilty.
In purchasing oriental rugs be sure
to avoid certain kind made from
goats hair if you are sensitive to
doors. In damp weather these rugs
grow decidedly unpleasant. and moth
ing but several days in the sunshine
seems to tone them up again. Age
does not affect this popularity, al
though it sends up the price of the
carpet. Nor can one usually detect
any disagreeable smell in the shop
where the stock is kept aired and
dried.
Window shades are often rather eX-
pensive things to replace, and yet they
soil very quickly. Many housewives
will be glad to know they can be made
out of Indian Head cotton, which can
be had for ten cents yard. Fasten
the material straight across the old
rollers-or buy new ones-with many
lacks, stitch a wide enough hem at
the bottom to hold fiat stick of the
proper width and run it in. Shades
that have become ragged at the bot
tom are often improved by cutting
and rehemming. A screw-eye fastened
into the center of the stick through
the muslin will hold the cord.
In making a plain fruit cake, If the
raisins and currants are warmed in
the oven before mixing them in, they
will not sink to the bottom in that
distressing way"
A very good pudding in which to
use cherries is made by covering the
bottom OF baking dish with the fruit.
above this layer of breadcrumbs and
Jumps of butter Go on alternating un-
til the dish is full. breadcrumbs being
the top layer. Cover the dish and
bake ten minutes more to brown the
top. If the cherries are well sweet
ened beforehand. this is an excellent
| deasert with a hard sauce favored
| with nutmeg
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
RAT HELPS TO RAISE THE FLAG

teaching him to run back and forth
through the continuance with the
Irvine between his teeth.
Then he sent Jimmy" up the pole
again, and this time the rat. without
moments hesitation, tried to get
through the pulley The hole was too
small. but Jimmy" deliberately took
the string in one paw. passed 1t
through the small opening caught 1t
with the other paw, and scrambled to
the ground with it.
rope was strung through the pull
ley with the aid OF the Irvine hal
yard, and Jimmy" munched happily
on the biggest piece of cheese he
had ever seen at once.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Doctor Sets canary's Leg.

Des Moines, 1a.-A prominent ply
stefan set a canary's broken leg here
He received hurry call to an acci-
dent case at Irwin Crawford's. 677
Fourteenth street. He snatched his
surgical case, caught car. and found
the family gathered about q valuable
pet canary. He set the tiny leg and
left the bird comfortably resting in a
nest Of cotton wool. The operation
was delicate one. but the doctor has
every reason to think 1t will be &c
cessful.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Orange Cake.

Take the grated rind of one orange,
two cups OF sugar, whites of four eggs,
and the yolks of five, one cup sweet
milk, one cup Of butter and two large
teaspoonfuls of baking powder to be
sifted through with the flour. bake in
jelly tins. Filling: Take white of one
egg that was left. beat to a froth, add
a little sugar and the juice OF one or
ange. beat together and spread be-
tween the layers.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Pare and core dozen nice apples.
put them in pudding dish with a
cup of sugar and half a pint of water,
and bake until tender. When cool, lay
in a glass bowl. Have wine or lemon
jelly made, and when it begins to con.
geal pour 1t over the apples and set
on ice. Whip some cream. flavor it
with wine or lemon, and put around
the jelly. Sliced peaches or bananas
are also nice thus.-Good Housekeep
ing.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
THEI
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TREAD POWERS IN DAIRY.
Uniform Rate Of Speed Secured by
Use of Heavy Fly Wheel.

While the small gasoline engines
adapted to running cream separators
have been hailed with delight by many
dairymen, the old tread power is still
a very economical and reliable source
of power. With a heavy" sheep, dog
or the dairy herd bull. enough power
can be produced to run the separator
and churn at practically no cost ex-
cept for the tread.
One difficulty has been to secure
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

Cut in small pieces three or four
varieties Of fruits. cooked or fresh;
mix with sugar or sugar strip and the
juice of the fruit Wine may or may
not be added. The whole is served
cold in sherbet glasses in followed
out pineapple or orange shells espe-
cially prepared for It
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12

When the weather permits, try
hitching the horses out these warm
nights; or, what is better, leave the
stable door open and let them go out
into a small lot to roll and lie down
on the ground instead of in the hard.
narrow stalls.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
Good Use for the Ram.

uniform rate of speed, but this is
solved If heavy fly wheel is at
tached to the tread. While the sketch
shows direct drive from tread to
separator, more desirable arrange
MN. is to have the tread located in
room adjoining the separator room,
where the milk will not be exposed to
the breath of the animal.
The new era. (Walden, Colo.) 1906-19??, 1907-09-12
SIMPLE TROLLEY rErAER.
Handy Way of Fastening Cow Along
the Fence.

Fasten wire from post to post, slip
an iron ring on the wire, fastening
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
NUMBER %
Lakewood Theatre.

For three days commencing Mon
day, July lst, the summer theatre at
Lakewood will be occupied by
Joseph j. Flynn's sparkling musical
novelty, "The Yankee Doodle Girl, y
a musical play that is giving excell-
ent satisfaction IN the leading eastern
summer resorts.
THE Yankee Doodle Girl,n ia by
Fred Hyland, and looked upon as
leader for bright, catchy music and
original comic situations. 1t permits
the introduction Of several high grade
specialties that are introduced at
opportune times which greatly en-
nance the merit of the entertainment.
Several original musical numbe rs
smartly dressed afford splendid
singing and dancing chorus Of pretty
girls on opportunity 70 make good
and in this respect the show is said 10
TO be step in advance of anything
yet attempted in an open air theatre.
In the excellent interpreting COM
pany, will be found the following well
known artists. Charles Saxon, lyric
tenor last season with Billy Van in
The Errand Boy, Miss Belle Ira
Hcis, PIlIhd dOuHd soprano formerly
with THE CESSNA, Robert Evans,
from ''In the Bishops Carriage
Marie Ames, contralto from Savages
Grand Opera Company, Peter Ma
guire, comedian from the Empire
Theatre Company, Florence Brooks,
a character comedian and Thomas
Carlton, from THE Isle of Cham
payne"
The chorus is pretty and exeels in
lively dancing number
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
Chase Hurd.

Mr.. F. w. Chase and Miss Gala l..
Hurd were united in marriage at II
O'Clock Wed. morning, the ceremony
being performed by the Rev. B. B.
Merrill at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. R. Berce on North avenue in the
presence of small company of i'm
mediate relatives.
The groom has made Skowhegan
his home for the past twelve years,
coming here from Massachusetts to
enter the employ of his father, Lowell
W. Chase, proprietor of the Chase
Livery stables. Miss Hurd was form
erly of Dover and during her five
years. residence in Skowhegan has
been employed in NJ. b. Heselton's
store.
On their wedding journey Mr.. and
Mrs Chase will visit in Amesbury,
Mass, his former home, also with
Mrs. Chase's relatives in Dover.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
Keeps on Growing.

The Maine Spinning Co., moved its
principal Offices, early in the present
month, from the Office building Of the
Skowhegan Pulp Co, where they had
previously been located, to the Sc
cond floor of the Robinson mill build
ing. They are now very pleasantly
situated with an outlook to the river,
the North Channel bridge and Water
street.
This corporation has had steady
growth since starting up in September
1904. Their pay roll, which was then
about 800 per week has increased to
$500 weekly and their output in the
same proportion. They first made
use of portion of the Kidder mill
but have gradually added to their
machinery until that mill is com
pletely utilized, as well as the second
floor of the Skowhegan Pulp Co.'S,
mill, on the west and the Abbott and
Robinson mills on the east. They are
at present employing about 125 hands
but have the business for larger
number and purpose to start running
by night in the early fall.
The mill was originally fitted for
low count, that is, coarse yarns,
known to the trade by numbers from
IA to "a. AS orders for other counts
could not be accepted their business
at first was principally for filling
yarns. William Mitchell, the man
ager, had previously had his principal
experience in the manufacture of
higher counts and, when additional
machinery was put in, it was of the
kind that would handle the finer
yarns. This permits the mill now to
accept for filling or warp yarns in any
number.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
Progress on Municipal Building.

The stone work foundation for the
municipal building is nearly finished
and will undoubtedly be completed
by the end Of the week. The job has
been done under contract by Ephraim
Cowett and bas been underway since
May 22nd. A crew of nine men have
been employed and only three days
have been lost on account of stormy
weather. All the stone used in the
wall was found upon the lot. In
building the various structures which
have stood upon this lot, the granite
underpining has been taken, after
each successive fire, for the founda-
ton walls, SO that there was an ac-
emulation of cut stone sufficient to
turn all the corners in the present
work. The balance of the stone came
principally from the foundation of
one of the old stables.
In excavating for the wall and base
ment sufficient sand was taken out to
fill trenches after the stones were laid
and something like 200 loads of fine
loan have been piled up at one side
of the lot and will be used on the sur
face at the final grading.
The plans for the granite under
pining have arrived and the final
plans and specifications will be here
very early next week. On their ar
rival they will be submitted to con-
tractors who propose to bid on the
work and it would seem that the con-
tract for the building above the foun-
dations can be let within the next
fourteen days.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
In the Merrill Block.

The John c. Griffin Insurance
Agency is now settled in the splendid
suite of Offices in the western end of
the Merrill block, the quarters and
appointments being such as one
would suppose might content the
proprietor for such time as he may
wish to continue in the business of
furnishing protection from fire
hazard.
An easy fight Of stairs leads from
the general entrance to the corridor,
broad and well lighted, and a few
steps to the left takes one to the en-
trance of the Griffin Agency, suite
numbers and 7, itself being provided
with spacious lobby from which ac-
cess is had by door at the right to
the general Office, and to the left en-
tering the proprietor's private apart
ments.
Miss Jeanette w. Lord, who is COM
pleting her 18th year in Mr.. Griffin's
employ with an assistant stenogra-
pher, presides over the general
offices, which are equipped with
desks, cabinets and filing cases to
facilitate the accurate and rapid dis
patch of business. Just in the rear of
these is room of ample size known
as the supply room and from this
opens vault which is built as a part
of the building itself and furnishes
absolute protection from fire for the
records and paper stored therein.
In Mr.. Griffin's personal depart
ment the principal Office fronts on
Water street, and is, in its arrange
ments and furnishing, such as any
man may be proud of. Back of the
principal room is a smaller or consul
tation room with an exit to the main
corridor.
The finish throughout is selected
quartered oak, which is the same as is
used in every part of the Merrill
block. Heavy copper finished hard
ware furnishes the doors and other
metal trimmings and the electroliers
are of the same finish and of beautiful
design.
Altogether Mr.. Griffin, in the 81
years which he has been in the insur-
ance business, has never been situated
in a way to attend to his affairs with
SO much comfort to himself and with
such convenience to his patrons, as
are afforded by his new offices.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
Matinee Races at Fairview Park
Next Saturday.

With races at Norridgewock and
other Somerset towns on July 4th and
other events to follow it looks like a
busy season for the race horses and
this leads their owners to welcome
the matinee races as chance to try
them out and fit them for the cam
paign, There was great field of
fast ones at Elmwood Park, Norridge-
wock, last Saturday and the after
noon's sport left the public with a
good APPETITE for more of the same
sort.
This has led to the announcement
of matinee race at Fairview park,
next Saturday when the same field of
horses which competed at Norridge
wock, with some important additions,
will fight it out in half mile beats for
the oats.
The classes are for 2.24; 2.36; and
three minute horses, either trotters
or PAGERS, with trotters to be given
two seconds advantage There is to
be game of ball between the Show
hegans and the East Madisons, the
latter coming here with a record of
FIVE victories and only one defeat for
the present season.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27

Now that the schools have closed
the sweet girl graduate having had
her brief and shining day-there will
be regular stampede from the large
cities to the summer resorts of Maine.
The very wealthy and extremely
fashionable will rush to Mt. Desert.
The gray and thunder-smitten pile
Which marks afar the Desert Isle
But there are in our State other
bold and rock bound shores, coves,
harbors and bays, inland lakes of en-
trancing beauty, the vast wilderness,
where wild life may be enjoyed and
the numerous farm homes where
summer boarders are welcomed.
This year the freshness and beauty of
spring have been carried over into
the opening days of summer, so that
Maine is now at her prettiest, and she
was never better dressed as she ex
tends the glad hand of welcome to
those who come to spend the summer
within her charming borders.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27
Bottom Drops Out of Potato
Market.

Those who marketed their potatoes
to thank their good fortune as it
seems now that stocks on hand in this
section must be sold if at all at very
low figures. Last week Geo. H. Pish-
on shipped car of over 500 bushels
to the Boston market for which he
had paid IS cents. The first 100 bu
shell from this car were sold for rs
cents and the balance for IS cents
Other shippers have had similar ex-
periences. 1t is early to account for
the drop by saying there is surplus,
but good judges are at a loss to say
why it should be SO pronounced in
comparison with past years. The
fact that the potato acreage has been
increasing in Somerset county and
throughout the State has been noted
but there must have been also much
more land devoted to their culture in
other states to account for the present
over supply. Aroostook county has
always been the great potato section
of New England and from that re-
gion now comes the report that pota-
toes were never SO low in price as at
the present time. They are sold at
the warehouses at 80 cents a barrel,
which is II cents a bus hel. Some one
evidently tried to corner the market,
but there were plenty of "spuds"
around and the new southern veget-
ables are commencing to come in SO
the Aroostook potato farmers are left
with lot of their 1905 crop on their
hands and in order TO get rid of it,
they must cut prices and they have
certainly done SO.
The cornering of potatoes is not con-
fined to Aroostook county for it is
said that man in a nearby city has
300 barrels stored away and will have
them on his hands unless he sells at a
loss.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27

Rev. James H. Ecob, D. D., former
ly the popular pastor of the Congre-
gational church in Augusta, but more
recently at the head of a Unitarian
church in Philadelphia, has been forced
to retire from the pulpit because he
wore untidy clothes, increased trous-
ers and because he was not "good
looking" Those who know DR.. Ecob
may be sure that he gave it to the
people "right in the neck" when he
preached his farewell sermon. Among
other things he said:
"Many ministers are resenting the
demand for a simply neutral decora-
tive ministry-a ministry punctilious,
ministry that tiptoes gently and
graciously at o'clock teas and
smiles benignly at the bridge whist
tables-a ministry whose pulpit utter
ances have the quality of what coun
try people call fox fire. pale, phos
phorescent glimmer, the product of
decayed wood.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1907-06-27

The Railroad Commissioners have
granted the petition of the Bangor
and Aroostook Railroad company to
increase it's capital stock in the sum
of 1892, 900 beyond the amount now
fixed by law, for the purposes of pur-
chasing capital stock of the Northern
Maine Seaport Railroad company,
the Schoodic Stream Railroad Co.,
and for making permanent improve
ments and paying floating debts of
the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad
company. By their recent purchase
the Atlantic, Quebec & Western Rail-
way is to be part of a projected
trans continental system that on it's
eastern end willlopen up hitherto
almost UNEMPLOYED region in northern
New Brunswick, connecting with the
Bangor & Aroostook road in Maine,
probably in the vicinity of Van Blu
rem. When that arrangement is car
ried out the Bangor & Aroostook road
will be of vastly more Importance
than the original projectors ever
dreamed of.