The Somerset reporter., 1908-10-29


next tuesday.
Frank E. Guernsey has been nomi-
mated for the short Congressional
term in the Fourth District and John
P. Swasey in the Second. They will
be elected the same day as the Presi
Dental election.
~ he journeyed West. just
glimpse of Taft's good wholesome
looking and intelligent countenance
had more effect upon the people than
a dozen of Bryan's speeches. Just
watch out and see if the votes next
Tuesday don't say so.
Quite number of Republicans
throughout the country will vote
against their party on certain purely
local issues, but will be all right
when it comes to the national ticket.
That is why it is so difficult to make
close canvass this year.
In the government under President
Taft, we have no doubt but Secretary
Root will be prominent official. He
holds in large measure the confidence
of the people of every shade of politi-
cal utilization. Wouldn't he make
splendid Secretary of State?
A Chelsea correspondent of the
Kennebec journal gives this infor-
nation:
II. Z. White recently purchased a
new SOW for his dairy.
That's case of keeping pig and
making your own butter.
The Carnegie hero fund committee
has made the following award: Lin
coin j. Partridge, Bristol, Me-, silver
medal to his widow, Emma l.. Part
ridge, and S25 month while she re-
mains a widow and IS a month for
each minor child up to the age of Is.
People are busy taking care of
President Roosevelt after he goes out
of the Presidential chair, one au
thority assigning him to the editor
ship Of the Outlook" at salary of
$4,000. The President is in good
health, and fairly capable of looking
out after his own job.
Gov. Hughes put it just right when
he said that in this Presidential CON
test it is "words against deeds"
Bryan says he will do something, but
Taft has already done something.
From the sample he has given the
people, they seem ready to trust him
to do something more.
Aroostook will have to look out for
her laurels. The farmers Of central
and southern Maine are well launched
into the business of commercial
potato growing and some of the
greatest profits on the farm have
come this year from the fine yield of
potatoes. No rot appears as yet.
II. b. Lawrence of Gardiner, an ex-
tensive lumber mill owner, in speak
ing of the great losses by forest fires
in Maine, the past season, says that
few people realize how really serious
conditions are at the present time.
Nothing just like it has ever before
confronted the people of our State.
And now it has been discovered by
government experts that paper for
the making of newspapers can be
made from cornstalks at one half the
cost of wood pulp paper. If this be
so, it will greatly assist in the
preservation of the forests, and along
with the silo all the cornstalks will be
nsilized.
The second annual State conference
of charities and correction was held
in Waterville on Monday, Tuesday,
and Wednesday. Philanthropic
people are seeking to unity and con-
centrate their efforts for the unfor-
tunate and criminal classes. They
should have the sympathy and sup
port OF all.
Elections for the federal House of
Commons were held Monday through
out Canada. The returns show that
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the present Lib