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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1908-09-15
tuesday, October Is, 1903.
Is HEAD OF MULCH cow.

All except three will be fresh in the early fall
and some of them may be fresh by day Of
sale. All of these cows are good mixers, Of
mixed Jersey and Durham stock.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Price Never Changed.

The Rev. Simon Turpie was an elo-
quent speaker. but he seemed TO have
a list of sermons which, when he once
began he went right through to the
end and then started at the nrst ser
mon again, and so on
A young man In the congregation
was about to leave for South Africa.
but the Sunday before he departed he
attended the church service
In the course of his lecture the min
lister used an illustration in which were
the words. "A mah can easily purchase
two sparrows for threepence."
The young man. after being absent
for about three years, returned and
again on the first opportunity attended
divine service Strange to say. he
heard the same narrative by the same
minister, the phrase striking him most
being about the Two sparroWs for
threepence"
At the close Of the service the min
lister. in his courtesy, came and shook
hands with the youth and welcoming
him back to his home, asked him If
he noticed any changes about the
place
The Young man. evidently quite I'M
concerned, replied. Aye. man, there 8
two or three changes. but there's yin
thing | can see-tbe price o sparrows
is aye at the same auld figger. "-Glas-
gov News
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Swept From Vessels Deck.

John n. Brookings, former citizen
of this place, lost his life at sea on
Sunday last. Mr.. Bookings passed
little time in Skow hogan as his call
ing kept him from home most of the
year. His wife and daughter, now
Mrs. G. A. Fairbrother of Portland,
resided here for some years, previous
to 1904, and all members of the family
were well known to people of this
community. The following Is the ac-
cident as given by the daily papers:
First Mate John N. Bookings of
the coal steamer KanaWha whose
home liz in Gardiner, Me. was swept
from the decks of the steamer by q
giant comber as she was weathering q
southwesterly gale off the Jersey
coast Sunday noon. The story of the
accident was brought to port too ay by
the steamer.
The Kanawha was bound from Nor
folk with cargo of coal for ProVi-
dence. Mate Bookings was walk ing
the forward deck when the big wave
struck the boat. In a moment he was
swept through the life guards and
was struggling in the steamers wake.
The body was recovered by a volun-
teer crew from the Kanawha but life
was extinct.
Bookings, it is said had decided to
give up the sea and settle down with
his wife and daughter at Gardiner for
the remainder of his life. He was
planning to go home i'll December.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Skowhegan Grange.

Motor vehicles, the damage done
to the highways by their use and the
equitable tax to be levied upon them.
were the questions discussed at last
evenings meeting of Skowhegan
Grange. A memorial addressed 10
the senators elect from this county
and the representative elect from
the town of Skowhegan, was adopted
expressing the opinion of those
present that special fee or license
of two dollars per horse power
should be assessed upon all motor
vehicles annually, the amount thus
derived to be expended through the
Maine Highway Commissioner for
road Improvement
Worthy Master Parker appointed
a special meeting tc. next Monday
evening to receive applications and
confer the first and second degrees.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Absurd STAGE Business.

Theatrical production is full of alb.
surdities in business \ situat ton is
required, situation is thrown in. II
makes not the slightest difference If II
be trolley car crew of song and dance
brothers manning yacht in the desert
Of Sahara. You have the trolley crew
and the yacht, and if the scene hap
pens to be section of the arid west
where typhoons take tue place of WA.
terspouts-well, so much the worse foI
the scene. And If the conductors col
lect fares from the sailors to carry oul
the business of the song we Are Jol
ly, Jolly Street Car Men, the audience
must be prepared to submit calmly Il
a sandstone Immediately following
which is necessary to bring on the
wind machine and stereopticon. When
n comic opera (heaven save the markl
opened at Madison Square roof with
Japanese costumes. Broadway dialogue
a Marian setting and Irish comedy
there were absurdties enough to de
light dozen stage directors.-Henry
Z. Warner in Bohemian Magazine.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Alnhahst of the PLAYHOUSE.

I'VE keep learning things all the
time said an infrequent theater goer.
IL stopped In front Of theater the
other day to buy a ticket of specu-
lator, and asked him If he had a good
single near the front
"'Here's one in o. he said, 'thir-
teenth row, third seat from the aisle
Now, you know, don't carry the
relative positions of the letters of the
alphabet in my mind all the time.
have to work for a living and have
other things to think of. But 1t struck
me that O must be fartherdown the
line than thirteen, and so just count
ed up the letters on my finger tips. and
| made 0 come fifteenth and | said so
to he ticket man, but that didn't wor-
ry him any
There's no A in this theater.' he
said and there's no in any orches-
ira in town
And having my finger tip figuring
thus handily knocked out, bought the
ticket. Washington Post.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Views Water Street After Two
Years.

William Il. Fuller, who had been a
ledger at Hotel Coburn for a long
time, confined to his room since his
fall two years since, has been trans
ferred to a new boarding place at
Mrs. Sophronia Wyman's on Island
avenue. Mr.. Fuller had not been in
good health previous to the time of
the accident above referred to and,
about the middle of November 1906.
he fell down flight of stairs, break
ing an arm and sustaining other in
juries. Since that date he has not
been able TO take step, unassisted,
on one or two occas ions when he has
been taken to other apartments
opening from the same corridor on
the same floor as his own. The
transfer to his new domicile was
accomplished Monday in the auto of
his physician, DIR. l.. A. Dascombe,
and it was made the occasion for a
journey down Water street as far as
the municipal building. This struc-
ture, the new Merrill block, the !. P.
Merrill stores, and the new building
ON Sampson corner have all come
into being during the two years of
Mr.. FuIler's illness and these changes
were of course of great interest to
him. At Mrs. Wyman's, Mr.. Fuller
will have front room on the ground
floor and will be so situated that,
even if his health should not improve
over les present condition, he can be
taken out on the lawn occasionally in
the pleasant weather of next summer.
Since Mr.. Fuller's incapacity to
attend to business, his drug store on
Madison avenue has been in entire
charge of William Lord, who is just
now completing his twenty seventh
year i'll his present position. This is
clerkship of unusual length. OF
course since the illness of the owner,
Mr.. Lord has had no opportunity for
time off and it so happened that he had
taken no vacation for two years
previous to the accident to his en-
ployer There has been, therefore, a
period of four years during which
Mr.. Lord has not failed to be at the
store for the full hours of every
business day, a record, doubtless,
very rarely duplicated.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Meeting of Sorosis.

The second meeting of Sorosis was
held at the library parlors, Tuesday
evening, Nov. L. The subject was
miracles of Modern Invention" and
the meeting was in charge of Mrs.
Mary Lord. The programme opened
with a duet by Misses Sarah Snow
and Mary Emery and was followed by
a paper on Aerial Navigation" by
Mrs. Kate Jewett. Song and encore
by Mrs. Simpson, Miss Edith Lewis
accompanies. \ series Of readings
pertaining to the subject OF the day
were given by members. \ humor-
ons reading by Mrs. Maud Jewett
completed the programme. The
hostesses for the evening were Mrs.
Angie Steward and Miss Bessie Alien.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
He Couldn't See the Joke.

THE motherin-law joke isn't half
as funny to me as II was when / was
a bachelor" said young New Yorker
to his old chum. I've got a pretty
good mother-in-law myself, and she's
visiting us now. That's all right too.
But here's my crouch:
"Wheneyer we go out in bunch. as
we generally do ma grabs the baby
every time we sit down-subway, ele-
waited, bridge. surface or ferryboat.
Just grabs the kid. you know. as If It
was her private property; exhibits IT
in a way to everybody near by. tells
the woman next to her all about how
to raise children and what she's doing
for this particular one; attracts gen.
eral attention. you see. with my baby
as a star performer and my wife and I
sitting there without chance to say a
word and looking as II We wanted to
apologize for being on earth"
Don't think that's funny. eh ?" said
his friend. "How your sense OF humor
has shrunkr'-Ne York Globe.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

Geo. W0wefi Esq went to Au-
gusta, Npjay, to look up legal
data in III volumes of the Maine
State u RLibrary at the capitol.
This is sDom followed by the at
torneys No. all sections of Maine to
quite an stent. Every lawyer or
law firm pos considerable library
of legal gdEles to which new re-
ports are AGed from year to year as
they conf 1t but no private library
is anythi Ike a complete repository
of all tho zepl works to which an at
torney n&yhave occasion to refer.
The Som efst Law Library answers
the purp seif supplementary ref
erence irKDG but it often occurs that
the infor 01apn wanted may not be
found th&ft and in that instance a
visit to tn ate capitol is necessitat-
ed. nj
The So Meet Law Library is hous-
ed on ID econd floor of the new
wing of Tue courthouse, built a few
years sin te The library has some
thing lik&8D volumes and is being
added to be rate OF several hun
dred voluhs year. The funds for
it's main G{ance were formerly de-
rived fro lien per cent apportion-
ment froiEte amount paid into the
county tr Asry from fines imposed in
the sessidHsf the Supreme Judicial
Court in 6county, for violations of
the prohi ttry law. The last legis-
lature CHI ed this to an annual pay
ment of b and this sum is now
available Rfy year for the purchase
of new la boks. The library is un-
der the sd @ision of the Somerset
Bar AssodDpn, to which all the at
torneys D ldcing in this county be-
long, and the immediate charge
of WilIiaE Seekins, the Clerk of
the Some Y Courts. Under his di-
rection it been carefully arranged
since its hlation in its new quar-
tiers. Mr. Sekins is also clerk as
we'll as LID ban of the Somerset Bar
Associated Edward T. Danforth is
its treasu bind the late Judge Bach
eller was epresident. A successor
to Judge heller will doubtless be
designate the December term of
Court. T place is usually accorded
by courte the Oldest member of
the Some &eBar.
The Son bet Library of Law aims
to furnis tie books for reference
which fewEpWate Libraries would be
likely to h. Among these may be
mentione&te department of English
law, whic livery complete, includ
ing the 1prts of the Scotch and
Irish tribr "a, and thelaw reports of
several o&te states of the middle
west. At augusta, where the state
Law Libra Sis maintained, the law
reports of berry state in the union
may be pnd The state library
numbers two hundred thousand
volumes 6s Kept up by the addi-
ton of pr ta every legal refer
e enoe work Importance as it is is
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
NUMBER At
Skowhegan Pharmacist Reappointed

0hoH gan HHdI UdClSi Kedpp0Inted
Frank ". Buchanan Of this place
has recently been notified Of his re.
appointment by Governor Cobb ar
member of the Maine board of Com
mlTsionefs Of Pharmacy for the term
OF three years. This is a position
much sought after by the druggists
OF this state and Mr.. Bnekuarn,s
continuance as member Of the com
mission may be regarded as lust
recognition Of his standing as a
scientific practitioner Of his chosen
calling. Governor Cobb's action va.
taken upon the unanimous endorse
ment Of the Maine Pharmaceutical
association. The other two members
OF the board are Frederick H. Wilson
Of Brunswick and Charles II. Davis
Of Bangor.
Mr.. Bucknam has taken an interest
IA the drug trade much broader than
The state Of Maine. He was infuen-
tai in the formation of the New
hhgIahd Association Of Boards IF
Pharmacy and is the secretary and
treasurer of that body. The princi
pal object Of the New England ar
ISOLATION has been to standardize the
requirements for admission TO the
pfactlce OF pharmacy in the New
England states. In this connection
II may be said that during Mr.. Buck
nam term as pharmacy commits
slontr the requirements Of the Maine
board have been raised and the POM
has been reached where a diploma
granted by this state will secure. on
presentation TO the pharmacy com
mission of most other states OF the
union, registration in the area under
their jurisdiction.
The work of the Maine board has
received general recognition from
the pharmaceutical boards Of other
states III other ways. One of its
members, MIR. {. II. Davis. has been
made first vice president of the
National Association of Boards of
Pharmacy and during the past year
the Maine commissioners were asked
to prepare alset Of questions. to be
used as a model set by the boards of
other states in conducting their ex-
aminations.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
The Popular Coral.

The dealer held up two strings Of
coral They We're Of equal size. but one
was dark and dull In hue. the other
beautifully pink and translucent.
"The dark one" he said. lis worth
80 cents; the pink one is WORTH S3oo-
That is what makes coral So popular.
1t suits all pockctbookS. All over the
world II goes These strings of rough,
uncut beads are for the dead II India
They arc put round the necks Of the
bodies about 10 be burned in the CHATS.
These large and blood red beads go
10 Africa. They are much liked by
the natives. whose dark skins they
perfectly suit Here are "A lot Of coral
hands with fingers extended in a V
the gesture that wards of the evil eye.
The coral hands are for Italy, where
the belief in their efficacy is wide
spread. Buffalo Express
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Death of William P. Bailey.

News was received here on Mon.
day Of the death Of William =.
Bailey former citizen of this place,
at his home in Maiden, Mass.
The deceased was born in Winthrop
in 194l and came to SkoWhegan about
1870 as superintendent Of the Bailey
oilcloth factories, succeeding his
brother, John ". Bailey. Pre- vious to
coming here he had learned the bust.
ness OF oilcloth manufacture in the
factories now operated By c. NJ.
Bailey's Sons Company at Winthrop.
lie had also served for a few months
III the Union army in the war Of the
Rebellion. His Skowhegau residence
was for something ike seventeen
years and during that time he was
very prominent in the business and
social life Of the town.
Upon his removal to Maiden. about
1883, he became connected with the
sales department of the {. NJ. Bailey
Company, with the care Of their
customers in New England, and this
position he held at the time of his
death. He often visited here, the
last occasion being in the summer OF
1907. At that time he appeared to
his friends to be in robust health but
1t seems that he had nor been well
for something like year past, the
end coming on Sunday last and being
ascribed to heart failure. Funeral
services were observed at the Maiden
home on Tuesday afternoon and the
remains were brought here for inter
ment
MIR. Bailey was married IN the early
sixties to Miss Charlotte Cove OF
Readtield and to them were born four
children, three of whom are now
living, Mrs. d. Wilder Colby of
Sprlngvale, William M Bailey OF
Maiden, and Mrs. Carl j. Toiman.
Mrs. Bailey died in about 1854 and a
subsequent marriage was contracted
with Miss Jennie Merrill of Auburn
who survives. The children of the
latter union are two daughters,
Misses Edith and Helen. The sur
yivlng relatives, other than those
just enume rated, are a brother, John
+ ". DdiiCgi vi OidISS, ~ j., dHu
half brother, Chas. NJ. Bailey of
Winthrop.
Mr.. Bailey's name appears among
the names of the Past Commander
of De Molay Commandery, the year
OF installation in that office being
1878. On learning of the fact that
interment was 10 be made here, ms
Templar comrades made arrange
ments to provide an escort from the
railway station to the cemetery
Those taking part in this duty were
Colonel w. r. q. Estes, Gen. Isaac
Dyer, Levi G. Emery, Joseph P. Oak,
c. F. Ward, Col. a. G. Blunt, W. IL.
Wides and B. F. Eaton, all Past Com
manders; and Sir Knights +. w.
Bucknam, Geo. E. Sampson, c. A
Ross, Fred c. Dunlap, q. r. Fogg,
c. II. Wilbur, Robert w. Lord, A. p
Merrill, William II. Halves and J. e
Griffin, the last named being the
present Eminent Commander of De
Molay Commandery. Prayer was
offered at the grave by the Rev. B. B
Merrill
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
The Surnriss of Sliunitaa

~ have never quite made out" says
a writer in Near East" why the
plain of Sliynitsa has come to be re-
garded as the scene of one of the great
decisive battles of the worlds his
tory. 1t did not even decide the Servo
Bulgarian war in 1885 That was de
cided by Austria intervention. The
battle Of Sliynitsa is really only re
markable for the comical fact that
both sides thought they were defeated.
and while Milan Of Seryia was hurry
ing home In confusion Alexander OF
Bulgaria galloped all the way back to
his capital before he learned that the
tide had turned. Nowadays the vii
lage looks sleepy enough. poor and
dirty like most Bulgarian villages. but
almost gay when the sun shines upon
Its red roofs"
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
SKOWAEGAN MARKET



OATs-6sls cts.
Wool-Unwashed, IS to 10 cts.
HipES AND SKiSs-Hides, 90 S Is, tnmmed
VT lamb SKINS % tt 90 ti>i oai skins. i5 to "A
cents per pound.
BrISs--Hanl PICKED yellow eyes, ts.s0 TO s5so;
pea beans, 81 Sc.
BHEF-Dx beef. to Is.
PovITRy- Fowls, Ie to u cts per To-. chicken, -
to l. cts. Turkeys, - 7se.
ROUSE Hao-7 10 cts.
TAtLaw-RouEh, tts, per IL,
ByrrEH-frSt quality stamped, IS 70 go cts. per 10.
E1GS-ss Is. per doz fresh.
POTATOES .obper bushel
CHEksE-Ioc to Isc per ID.
RETAIL Market.
Flous-spriuE ~hea, Patent, s7.so to Ss.as. Win.
ter wheat pat 50 TO g 90 Winter wheat eboloe,
5000
CoRS-S $40 per bag, meal and cracked corn. 81 IS
per bag Oats ts cts bu.
{ s MEAL, sos per bag.
FsEp-Middhngs, 800 per cwt; Gluten, SIZE par
cwt
SFRiNG BRAN-st.3S per eNt.
Mixed FEEp-SL45 per cWt.
SALT PoRE-Is 70; by the Dbl, lbs, Sao-oo.
CHKESE-1s to 20 cts per h.
BUrTER-37 10 - cts per ID.
EGGs-5s cts per doz, fresh.
TEAs-aS TO 90 cts per ID.
CoFFEE-1o to IS cts. per ID.
LAsp-Domestc, is cts Pure - cts Compound,
10 cts.
NiolAssrs-Pure Ponce, to go eis. Pure RaItA
does, 80 cts.
Sl.oo; Brown, is lbs. 70. 81 o.
PorAToES7s cts. per bushe
Dry FiSH-Cod, TO 10 CTS. per 70, POI ock, r1ts.
OWoSS-s cts. per ID.
PouLrEY-Fo~is, IL cts, per Ii; Chicken Psr
ID Turkeys, sse TO 3oo.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

The best way to catch rats is to put
with oil OF rhodium. into a trap. This
induces them to enter readily and even
draws them from considerable dis
lance, as they are extremely partial to
this oil. An ounce of oil OF rhodium
will cost you 80 cents. Catnip TO cat
is nothing like rhodium TO rat oil
Of rhodium is made from species OF
bindweed and is used in perfumery.-
New York Press.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

NARROW WAS three years old. One
day his mother said to him, Now,
NARROW, you may sc outdoors to play
for awhile, but If see YOU crossing
the street to play with that naughty
little boy Willie Burr again I'll give
you hard. hard spanking"
Half an hour later the mother looked
out after her boy and saw him playing
with Willie Burr. She raised the win.
dow and called with forced gentleness
NARROW, come here to nAer'
NARROW came, but as he did so he
turned TO his companion and said
You stay wight here. Willie. I'm
dom In to Diet spanked. Ill be wight
back "-Delineator.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

Now that we all feel the pulsations
of new business enterprises, people
begin to think more about advertis-
ing. The art of advertising is, to a
business man, one of the most import
lance. Persons or firms who adver-
tise judiciously, and as literally as
their business will permit, ARE sure of a
handsome income from their expend-
lures. 1t is we'll to consider first,
what mediums are peculiarly adapted
to the kind of business which one fol-
lows, and when once selected they
should be adhered to strictly until the
public becomes conversant with his
name and place of business, and soon
customers, by familiarity with his an
nouncements, will look with interest
for every fresh bulletin. Scores of
merchants can today bespointed out
in every American city who, by pur-
suing this intelligent policy, have first
attracted public attention, and have
built up colossal fortunes upon the
advantages gained by newspaper ad =
vertising. But it is not to advertising
alone that the merchant must look for
success. He must be faithful to the
pro misses he makes to the public;
otherwise he will very soon forfeit it's
confidence, and lose both money and
trade by his misdirected enterprise
The public is too sharp to be caught
by tricks. The newspaper affords the
very best advertising medium to be
made use of by the merchant to in
form the community of the. advant-
ages to be gained by patronizing him.
and when purchasers flock to his
store, let the goods offered exactly
agree, both in quality and price, with
the statements he has made in his ad :
vertisements.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19
Harsh Music.

The politician caught with the goods
was counseled by his friends 10 stay
and face the music.
For an instant he listened TO the
clamor of denunciatlon.
Great Scott" he exclaimed impa-
tiently do you call that music?"
A moment later he was out. of hear
ing .-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

On the first day of June 1909, the
gates of the Alaska Yukon Pacific
Exposition at Seattle will be thrown
open to the public. For four months
and a half the first great Pacific
Worlds Fair will receive visitors
from all parts of the globe. 1t is the
intention of the officials to break all
exposition records, to establish a
precedent and have all complete and
in readiness on the opening day.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

At the National Grange session in
Washington, reports showed that the
grange increased its revenue during
the year, about $40, 900 and now has a
surplus of Sill, 277,4 AZ. The organiza-
ton has been strengthened with 10
per cent increase in membership,
while 302 new oranges have been es-
tablished. The Grange is strongly in
favor of the parcels post law and
postal savings banks.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1908-11-19

The newspapers were undoubtedly
the chief factors in the national cam
paigu, just closed. 1t was truly an
educational campaign, and from
calmly reading the newspapers, and
candidly considering the arguments
advanced there, and weighing them
in the scales of reason and conscience,
came the "silent vote" which was
such mighty factor in the election.
That was much more effective than
the spectacular part.