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The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
Death of w. C. Young.

The death of William c. Young oc-
Cured on Sunday last at his home on
Russell avenue. The deceased was
born in Maytield in this county, in
1885. In the days when stage lines
were important means of communi-
cation, he was employed as a driver
on the route that ran from Skowhe-
gan to Moosehead lake. After ceas-
ing to be thus occupied he became a
hotel keeper, being connected as pro-
prietor or clerk with different hostel
ries about Moosehead lake and at
other places in Somerset and Piscata-
quis counties. He had been a resi-
dent of Skowhegan for about ten
years.
His wife, formerly Miss Elizabeth h
j. Foss, to whom he was married July
l, 1858, survives, also a sister, Mrs
Caroline Starbird of Garland. There
are no other relatives except the four
children of an adopted son, the late
William P. Young of Greenville, Dick
A., Phil c., Faith b., and Ruth F
Young, who were held in the relation
Of grandchildren by the deceased and
beloved by him as such. Mr.. Young
was a Mason and in his last illness re
ceived care and attention from the
members of that order which was the
source of much comfort to him.
Funeral services were observed on
Tuesday, conducted by the Rev
George Merriam, pastor of the Beth
any Baptist church.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
Parmenas Encampment Installs
Officers.

At the regular meeting of Parmenat
Encampment No. IS, 1. o. o. F. Tues.
day evening Jan. 26, the following
officers were installed, Leon S. .Mer'
rill, "Grand High Priest" of the
Grand Encampment of Maine being
the installing officer, assisted by
Willis A. Bailey, "Grand Representa-
tive:"
Chief Patriarch, Willard G. Eaton;
Senior Ward n, Ben NJ Eaton; Junior
Warden, g. Milton Lam bert; Scribe,
Willis A. Bailey; Treasurer, Howard
Q. Taggart; High Priest, Herbert C.
Young; Guide, George II. Burns; lst
Watch, Forrest K. Brown; I'd Watch,
Edward Spear; Sd Watch, Thomas
Lawley; 4th Watch, Fred A. Wood
Inside Sentinel, Thomas Tantish
Outside Sentinel, George E Morrill,;
1st Guard of Tent, Risdon D. Baker;
I'd Guard of Tent, Hugh Hurley.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
Municipal Court.

Having been arrested by game
warden Fred H. Clark OF Smthfield,
on January 9th, Archie A. Corson of
this place appeared in the Skowhe-
gan Municipal Court of Saturday of
last week, and plead guilty to viola
tion of the Maine game law. The
offense consisted in permitting his
name to be used as the owner of a
deer, which did not belong to him,
the rightful owner, Massachusetts
man, having induced Clark to do this
as part of plan to ship the game
out of the state in violation of law.
A fine of $40 and costs was imposed
and paid.
J. G. Viles has logging wagon sled
for sale.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
hot and cold drinka aid Laundering

Hot and cold drinks at Lambert's g
soda fountain.
James Brooks will unload a car of
feed on Saturday of this week and
the following Monday.
Bin w. Page and J. w. Steward
left here on Tuesday for a business
trip to lockwood and vicinity.
Mrs. Elmer Harris, who has been
critically ill with grip for the past
fortnight is reported as slowly i'm
proving.
Mrs. John F. Phillips left here Tues
day morning for Jamaica Plain, Mass.
for visit at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Chas. NJ. Barnard.
George Plummer, George NJ. Nash
and Chas. A. Ross are in Waterville
today, in attendance upon meeting
of the state Master Plumbers Asso-
citation.
Mrs. Sylvia Towle, residing on East t
Front street, is i'll of dephtheria,
having been taken with that disease
on Sunday last. Antitoxin treatment
was administered, seemingly with ex-
cellent results, and the case seems at
present to be of mild type.
Chief of Police Fred G. Dunlap was
obliged to provide lodging for fami-
ly of seven gypsies over Monday night.
AS Mr.. Dunlap considered their pres
ence rather Improbable to the town,
he succeeded in inducing them to
take their departure on the following
day.
In order to systematic matters to
the good order of the institution under
his care, and also with view to the
general convenience of the public,
Sheriff John A. Mooers has decided to
appoint Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons as visiting days at Somer-
set Jail.
Miss Dorothy Coffin has been very
ill with dyphtheria since Thursday of
last week and her condition is still
such as to cause deep concern. The
report this morning, however, is to
the effect that she passed a comfort
able night and that her symptoms are
regarded as more favorable.
Mrs. Benjamin B. Merrill is passing
the present week as the guest OF
friends in Brewer, her former home.
Her husband, the Rev. B. B. Merrill |
was pastor of the Congregations,
Church in that city from 1888 to
1904, preceding his acceptance of the
Passionate of the Island Avenue
Church in this place.
The company of entertainers who
have been occupying Grange Hall for
the past two weeks, in giving public
ity to Kickapoo Indian Remedies, will
continue to interest all who care to
attend, the balance of the week.
They are to go from this place to
Madison and will give a series of
free shows in that place.
Mrs. Susie Brickett of Augusta,
who was in town on Friday of last
week to play the piano accom-
paniments for Miss Harriet Marble
at the meeting of the Town Improve
ment society, entertained COM
pany of Miss Marbles friends at an
informal musical, at her home on
Spring street i'll the evening.
Miss Emma Morse, who made her
homo in this place, in the family of
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. T. Pooler, for over
thirty years, died at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Nathan True, in Litchfield,
Kennebec County, yesterday. Fun
eral services will be observed in
Litchfield tomorrow at twelve O'Clock.
The interment will probably be in the
family lot in the cemetery at st. AL
bans.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28

There are little things that you ex-
pect of your market man which play
a most important part in the furnish
ishing of your table. Not always the
things you eat but the attention paid
to your orders and the care that every
requirement is met. Things on time,
no detail too small to be worthy of
attention is my motto. Let me han
die few orders and you will be
pleased with the result.
Tel. 29-4. ADAM SIMPSON.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
Republican County Committee
Organizes.

A meeting of the members of the
Republican County committee for
Somerset County, elective at the
County Convention, on June 23d, 1908,
was held at Hotel Coburn, Skowhe
gan on Saturday, January 23, 1909,
for the purpose of organizing. The
following members were present
Louis o. Haskell of Pittsfield. +. A.
Gilman, Madison, w. +. Mitchell,
Fairfield and F. =. Pennell, Skowhe-
gan.
The following officers were elected :
F. P. Pennell, chairman; Louis o.
Haskell, secretary; F. A. Gilman,
treasurer.
No other business being presented
the meeting adjourned to meet again
at the call of the chairman.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NotIce-Selectmen
Notice-Daniel Lewis
narket-A. r. Jewett
Por Sale--L. G. Emery
Wanted-C. w. Cooley
mig Sale-Ira A. Norton
For Sale-H. b. Whippe
Remnants-W. Z. Ordway
SiIk Sale-Novelty silk Co.
lust Arrived-J. ID. Symons
Present Bills-Geo. II. Webb
For Rent-Green Il Barnard
Legal Notice-W. T. Seekins
GOOD Whip-Sampson& Avore
FOR Sale-Mrs. A. Z. .DOrnberger
rake Your Choice-C. F. Ward Co
Poreclosure-First National Bank
Uosiery-tireen Il Barnard Shoe Co.
Rubber Plantation-E. F. Fairbrother
Notice-Steward Hardware & Plumbing Co
Insurance eStatements-Herbert Wentworth
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28
For Sale

Two good sound horses for sale; +;
kind and fearless. Price reasonable.
1w4 MRS. A. p. DORNBERGER,
81 North Ave, Skowhegan, Me.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28

Mr.. T. a. Rippey of Boston, who has lately
returned from his 3d visit To La Iacualpa No
Rubber Plantation in Chiapias, Mexico.
will be Mt Hotel Coburn Friday eve the 29th
Inst. All who are tor may be- interested In
this great property are respectfully asked to
meet him by,
T.. +. FAIRBROT1lER, Ag't for Maine.
The Somerset reporter., 1909-01-28

Green and Barnard Shoe Co. are
selling all their heavy weight winter
stockings, 25c grade, two pairs for
25c.
The average man has his price, and,
of course, the foreign man is but an
average man.
There are altogether too many ways
of making people unhappy.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
HOSIERY FROM JAPAN.

Representative Duncan f. Nc
Kinlay, of California, formerly
Assistant United States District
Attorney at San Francisco, has
furnished some facts and figures to
Chairman Payne, of the Ways and
Means Committee of the House,
and to the public, which show that
American capital has a controlling
interest in a number of large stock
ing factories in Japan, and these
concerns are "hooding the world
with low grade women'S hosiery"
Mr.. McKinlay went to Japan in
1905 with the Taft party, and spent
much time investigating Oriental
trade conditions. He learned tina,
American interests at that time con-
trolled eight or nine large Japanese
factories engaged in the manufacture
of cheap cotton goods, including
stockings. The scale of wages in
those factories is from IL to "A cent
day.
With the products of these and
other industrial concerns established
in Japan, the Japanese are rapidly
driving American and European
goods out of many marksts in
Europe and America, but especially
in Asia. In 1905, says Mr.. McKin-
lay, we sold to China $50, 600, 900
worth of manufactured goods.
In 1906 we sold S35, 200, 600, and
in 1907 but $4,000, Ooe. Those
figures show a falling off in three
years Of nearly SO per cent of our
trade in China; and Japan, with her
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
NEW DEPOT ATAAST.

At last the authorities of Kansas
City and the great railroad interests
have got together and agreed on the
main issues Of the new union depot.
All that remains now is to fix up
a few minor details and submit the
proposition to the people for ratiti
cation.
1t has been a long struggle,
spreading out over several years.
1he matter surely has been threshed
out thoroughly and when finally put
through it would seem that every.
bodys interest should be protected.
1t will be a great thing for Kansas
City to have a big fine modern
union station. She deserves it and
her commercial importance de-
mands it.
Kansas City's commercial i'm
portance grows as this great western
territory expands and improves.
1t is necessary that she have ship
ping facilities adequate to the
volume of her business, and that
she have the capacity to take care
of the immense throngs of people
that swarm through her borders
annually.
The old rookery of depot that
has disgraced her for so many years,
did its work and outllved Its useful
ness many years ago. We smile for
Kansas City and congratulate her
step forward.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
VirgHJennin 0S DeSerter.

Virgil Jennings, after MS "Trip
around the world with tue war ship,
was granted two weeks turlough.
He came to Chanute to enjoY himself
among old time friends.
About the expiration of his time.
he left here, presumably TO rejoin his
ship, However, he only went to
Kansas City. He afterwards returned
TO this locality and spent his time
here and at other towns below. He
was posted as deserter and officers
were ou the lookout for him. Deputy
Sheriff Whitehead saw him Saturday
night and arrested him
He is now 10 the Erie Jail awaiting
preparations to have hIm returned 10
the naval authorities in the East.
Since this is VirRiPs second offence
he cannot expect much lenieucY.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
J. II. Donaldson Gone.

HI. Donaldson, an old citizsn OF
this locality, AMI one OF our most
reliable men, died at his home on :.
Evergreen, Saturday evening.
Mr. Donaldson had passed the
allotted span Of life, being II years OF
ags He had faithfully done his lifs's
,.sk and the weakness of old age came
upon him. He murnered not as one
having fears of the future, but laid
du,etly down and fell asleep. ~.
The funeral services were conducted
,,.dav frem his home and the re-
mains deposited 10 ElmwoOd.
9s had lived in this locality since
1881. Mrs. Donaldson is stu living s
aod iooI one son. Ben Donaldson, and q
asaehter, as Mrs. May Gough'
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21

cheap labor, is rapidly securing
control Of that great market.
Japan is experimenting in cotton
raising in Korea, and buys millions
of pounds of China raised cotton
every year. There are now, says
Mr.. Mckinlay, forty cotton fac
tories in Japan which declared
dividends last year of approximately
80 per ceAt. At that time many
American mills in the South were
idle.
The fact that J'pan sold millions
of pairs of women's cheap hosiery in
this country last year probably had
something TO do with the silence of
the wheels in those American fac
tones. There may be cheaper
labor in the South than in the North,
but even there labor is dear COM
pared with the IL to "a cents per
day paid the laborsr ia Japan.
These facts, of course, were not
known to the ladies who got up the
big petitions from women to Con-
gress Indignantly protesting against
an increased Tariff tax on gloves
and hosiery for women; but it would
seem to the miad of a mere man
that really they have something to
do with the question. Rochester
"Chronicle."
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
McCune Drug Store Wall Paper, House, Barn and Carr
The School Trouble.

Last Monday afternoon a number
of the parents of the high school
pupils who felt agrieved, and some
others, met in the library building
and talked the matter over and ap'
pointed a committee to meet with
the school board Monday night and
insist on the reinstatement Uf the
students in good standing. The
committee met the board and argued
the matter.
The board, after deliberate
consideration of the whole matter,
decided that these pupils who had
deliberately absented themselves
from their classes without excuse,
must comply with the regulations OF
the school and take all examinations
the same as is required of any other
pupil under similar conditions, and
gave the pupils till Wednesday noon
% be In their places or stand sus
pended for the balance of the term.
Much as we sympathise with these
young people and regret the plight
they have got themselves into, we
do NJ! see how the board could
decide otherwise without subyeruDg
the discipline of the school.
1t has become a case OF open
rebellion. These young people
have become all worked up and
excited over the matter and many
of them have the full sympathy and
support of their parents.
The whole lamentable buinesss
has been a disgrace and great detrl'
ment to our schools.
Though the decision of the faculty
and board may seem little hard in
individual cases, as we remarked
last week, the discipline OF the
school must be maintained at all
hazards.
LATER
The school board had a called
meeting Tuesday afternoon and
upon the request of the faculty Of
the high school, the board agreed
that the absent pupils might be ad
mitted without the dreaded examina
tions, where their grades met tn,
requirements, if agreeable to th'
faculty, by the pupils signing al
apology to the board and an agree
ment to observe strictly all require
ments of the school. rhe boys ant
girls promptly signed up anC
Wednesday morning were all il
their places, and the incident i
closed.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
nd Carriage Paints Phone $685. Street No. Ill w. Main
DO you WANT THAT?

Free sugar would quickly put out
every sugar factory in Colorado.
Do you want that done? Free cat
tie and hides will drive the stock
growers out of business in Colorado.
Do you want that, toe? Congress
man Martin, thous Democrat,
does not, and voted to retaia
Tariff ON hides. Am :rican labor is
not cheap and we do not want it to
become as cheap as In Europe and
Oriental countries. Do you?
1t is this very fact that the con-
sumer pays the freight that enables
this great people to lay Its wage
earners the highest prices in the
world; that enables them to be bet
ter educated, to dress better and
live better, because of this very
Tariff that you complain of. The
inhnitesimal sum paid by a Tariff
on pound Of sugar by each indi
vidual is never felt, but it has en-
abled thousands Of people engaged
in producing sugar to find steady
employment at more than double
the wages paid in Cuba and other
countries from which sugar is i'm
ported. 1t has induced capital to
engage in producing beet sugar.
And you have seen established in
your own state nearly twenty fac
tories that produce annually 6oo,.
900 900 pounds of sugar, giving
employment to more than $4,000
people-the ranchman, quarryman,
coal miner, railroaders, and we
could extend the list to a great
length opening up new wealth
producer for our state, which now
almost equals the output of our gold
and silver mines. And you would
kick like hades # the Tariff should
be taken off of the minerals we
produce.
If you arc for Colorado you must
be in faver of protecting our in
dustries regardless of what the cost
may be 10 each of us. The money
stays here, but if our industries
close, through Free Trade, such as
you seem to want, some other
nation will have the trade and
money, and our people will have te
resort to the old system of working
! for just enough to keep them alive,
as. was once the case when this
nation was practically on a Free
Trade basis.
High wages enables US to pay
high prices for goods, and we ough,
not to kick against Americans get
ting the best of everything, parlic-
ularly wages.-tueblo Opinion.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
THE RETIRED FARMER AND
HIS ADVISERS.

Farmers who retire and move to
town are more reckless of their neg
lect of fresh air and exercise than
city men, with their golf and other
forms of outdoor amusements, man
age to make their play help their
bodies. They are constantly the
REGIMENTS of free advice. What
CITY man has not been warned or
the advantages of cold baths, OF
suitable clothing, of sleeping with
the window open, of temperate
eating and of exercise in the
open an? But the poor retired
farmer with a fat bank account
and nothing to do, is often a victim
of the prosperity which takes him
away from his work and places him
in a community where he has nothing
to do. He sits around the house.
ulays cards with his cronies and eats
more than he can stand without the
physical labor to which he has been
accustomed. The general truth OF
This statement holds in thousands OF
small towns throughout the great
middle west, especially. The
uwomen folks" particularly the
wives are not 50 often victims OF
the easier life of the town after the
rough work of the farm. This is
because they usually continue to do
their own housework, thus keeping
up A wholesome amount of exercise.
A Wisconsin farmer, o. years OF age,
told us the other day how he retired
from the farm twenty years ago and
how he came to continue the
physlcal exercise which keeps him
in good condition. 1t was
country editor in Iowa, who hap
pened to give him the right advlve
at the right time. He had Just
moved into town and turned the
farm over to his sou-iulaw, when
he chanced to visit the editor, who
was an Old friend. Here is what
ths editor said TO MIN:
"You are as now, Charlie, ana
you have moved into town to take
it easy and have a good time
Well, I'll give you from two to fur
wears to live. l have lived in this
one place for thirty-fve years and
have seen a perfect stream otpros
porous farmers retire, move to town
and then die, quickly. Their
average life after they leave OIL
work is about three years. This is
not guesswork. 1t is calculation
l have made from facts which l
have collected" ;"
He called for more specific infor
nation from his owR town. he
took the main street, which is in
habited chiefly by well-to-do retired
farmers, and began to make a list
of the widows. There were twenty
seyen.-Collier'1 Weekly.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21
THE NEW GOLD DELUGE.

LET US give up Solu peloie IL oe
comes too cheap for monetary uses,
and adopt silver" exclaimed Cheva-
lier in 1856. What would that
French economist say If he were
here to read the story that the Rand
district in South Africa is telling us
these days, and what it has been
ceiling for many months past? Ex-
pressed in terms of dollars and cents,
the gold yield of the Rand in April
was a small fraction less than SG3,-
900, 900. As the tendency is grad
ually upward this average may be
expected to be more than maintain
ed throughout the year.
OF the worlds $425, ooo, 900 OF
gold product in 1923 the Rand con
tributed about $I35, 900, 900.
Probably it will furnish 500, ooo,-
900 for 1909. The worlds aggre-
gate will very likely be at least S. &c.
900, 600, allowing for falling of
il some of the other countries.
The worlds gold yield is much mole
than twice as great now as it was in
he year in which Mr.. Bryan MADE
lis first campaign for president. Ii
much more than four times as
great as it was in the year in which
Mr.. Cleveland was first elected.
And the drift is steadily upward.
On the worlds prices and trade,
what will be the consequence of
this great and continuous expansion
Of the gold supplYP
Fifty four years ago, when Cheva-
lier sounded the alarm against the
gold deluge, the worlds product
was S14s 900, ooo. That was gold
productions high water mark until
recent times. The stream from the
California field, discovered in lS4S,
was reinforced in those DAYS by the
food from the diggings in Australia
which were found In 1851. These
had more than tripled the worlds
OF tpIl in eight years. But the
downward turn started after 1856,
when California's and Australia S
placers began to run out, and the
upward movement did not again set
in until the opening of the new fields
in Cripple Creek, the Rand, Kloh-
dixie and Alaska. The big bank in
Chevalier's country has more gold
to-day in its vaults than were in the
government repositories of all the
great countries combined inhis time,
and the hoard is increasing steadily.
The world, however, is larger now
than it was half century age, and
the number of enterprises which ap.
peal for exploitation is far greater
rhe general level of comfort in most
of the industrial countries is higher
than it was then. Much of the ex-
pansion in the worlds trade in the
past decade and a half has undoubt-
edly been due to the large increase
in the gold supply, Aud there are
no indications that the limit of in
crease is in sight.-Globe Democrat.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-05-21

Last Monday night a heavy rain
fell over central and western
Kansas. In places 6 to 8 inches of
water fell.
The daily sentinel., 1909-01-25
d. vollmer is sick this afternoon

ID. Vollmer is sick this afternoon
with cold and the grippe.
Secretary Chapman of the County
Fair Association is now comfortably
and conveniently settled in the new
Schiesswohl block.
The Royal Highlanders are to have
a royal good time on Wednesday
evening at Q O'Clock in the basement
of the odd Fellow Hall. The enter
tainment will be of the nature of
box social" to which all Highlanders
and their friends are cordially in
vited. f5f
This morning another carload of
the finishing material and lumber for
the Y. NJ c. A. building arrived in
the city and is being unloaded. The
finishing work in the great building
is now going forward very rapidly.
The completion of the Y. NJ. c. A
structure is now near at hand
Very emphatically do some of the
leaders of the Good Citizenship leag-
ne and the Anti-Saloon league de-
clare that Misrepresentation is being
employed in an effort to get sigma
lures to the petitions asking that the
city vote by wards and not by COM
munity as q whole, on the saloon
question One of the leaders declared
this afternoon that several new in
stances of alleged misrepresentation
have come to light today. They de-
clare that if Alderman Hertz. whom
they charge with being at the head
of the ward voting movement, is hon
est in his declaration that he has no
desire TO misrepresent matters, he
should call down one or two of the
men in charge of the petitions whom
the Anti-Saloon people claim are MIS-
representing the facts.