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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1910-03-24
Fer additional County News see
pages three, eight and ten.
N0RRIDGEWOCk.

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Clyde Whittier has been in town
from Coed Will spending his vaca-
ton with his aunt and grandmother.
The schools are having a short va
cation and Miss Chase, Miss Lancas-
ter and Miss Jeffreys are spending the
time at their homes.
Rev. w. H. Smith will occupy the
pulpit in the Baptist church next
Sunday morning and Easter services
will be observed.
The regular meeting of the Village
Improvement Society will be held this
week in their rooms The committee
in charge are Mrs, Sarah Frye. Mrs.
Clara Hamilton. Miss Carrie CleNe-
land and Mrs. Alice Hale. The sub
ject will be Famous Women. With
roll call, language of flowers.
Mrs. Sarah Allen is confined to the
house by sickness.
On Tuesday evening of next week
the ladies' of the Baptist society are
planning to give a supper and enter
tainment in their vestry,
The dancing class gave very much
enjoyed dance at the Grange hall on
Friday evning of last week with
Towne's full orchestra to furnish
music. There were over forty couples
on the floor AT the intermission ice
cream and cake were served.
Miss Eva Sawtelle is spending her
vacation at her home in Sidney.
The third and fourth degrees will be
conferred in Somerset Grange on
Thursday evening of this week. After
the ceremonies harvest supper will
be given in the dining hall.
The regular monthly Rebekah sup
per will be given in their hall on
Friday evening of this week.
Miss Clair Woodsome is spending a
short time in Augusta visiting her Sis
ter.
Charles Fairbrother was in town
last week visiting friends.
Several new machines arrived last
week for the shoe shop and new men
are constantly being taken on. Mr..
Normandy left this week for a few
days In Boston to attend to business
connected with the shop.
In the examinations at the close Of
the winter term of the High school,
some very good work was done. The
following pupils gained 100 per cent in
the studies named: Leo V. Winslow,
geometry and bookkeeping; Elmer
Campbell, commercial arithmetic;
Nancy P. Savage. geometry and book
keeping; Gertrude Green. algebra. In
daily work the following received 100
per cent: Zetella G. Fairfield In Eng
lish history; Hildred Parlin in English
history and botany. In the Senior
class the highest average of rank for
the eleven terms now finished is 97.16,
Hildred E. Parlin; the second Is 95.S5.
Eva l.. Sawtelle. The class numbers
seven, six girls and one boy.
DR.. Edgar w. Emerson of Man
chester, N. H., addressed the people
interested In spiritualism at their hall
on Tuesday evening of this week and
gave some very interesting tests. The
next speaker will be here on the 9TH of
April, Mrs. Katie M. Ham.
Russell Haynes was given very
pleasant surprise party on Thursday
of last week, the occasion being his
SEVENTEEN birthday. The company
spent the day very pleasantly. Among
those present were Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam J. Haynes, Mrs. Nancy Emery,
Mr.. and Mrs. Enos Gilman of Nor
ridgewock. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Haynes,
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Stevens, Mr. and
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MERCER.

Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Bigelow were
in Skowhegan one day last week.
Miss Lizzie Jones of Norridgewock,
is stopping at Henry Harris.
John Williamson got home Saturday
last from the woods.
C. H. Girdler was home from Show
hogan over Sunday.
A quilting was held at the Metho-
dist vestry Thursday of last week.
Dinner was served at the vestry at
noon.
Bertha Girdler was III Skowhegan
Monday last.
Mrs. Mary Worster is one of the
oldest women In town, and will cele-
brate her 90th birthday April 8. She
Is uncommonly active and with the
exception of rheumatism, enjoys good
health.
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CAMRRTDGE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Ring were in
Abbott one day last week.
There will be dance in Masonic
hall Friday, March 25. Music by
Cram and Crockett of Dexter.
Frank Kimball has so far i'm
proved as to be able to walk around
the house with just the aid of cane
Friends to the number of forty-five
called on Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Saw
yer Thursday evening for social
time. Candy and nuts were served
during the evening and all had a
good time.
Miss ely Watson is at home after
visiting friends in Rockport.
Harry Parker went to Sangerville
Sunday where he has employment.
Earl Clark Is at home from Port
land.
The Bailey & Gilman saw mill be-
gan operations Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William King of
Parkman were in town last week
the guests Of his brother, Elijah
King.
Miss Lucy Ham is in Bangor visit
ing friends.
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UNITED STATES BRANCH
Royal Insurance Company Ltd.

OF Liverpool, Eng.
ASSETS, 81 DEC, 1909
Real Estate owned by the Com
pany, unincumbered, $4,152, AZ
Loans on Bonds and Mortgages,
FIRST liers) 495, 10000
stocks and Bonds owned by the
Company, Market Value, 5,033, 074.90
Cash in Company's principal
Office and In bank, 282.847.97
Interest due and accrued. 67.504.05
Premiums in due course
Of collection. 1,211.4S7.02
Other property, 80,613.90
Aggregate of all the admitted as
sets of the Company at their
LIABILITIES, 81 DEC. 1908
and Claims s57s.7s5.ss
Amount required to safely REIN
1866 2s.3s
All other demands against the
Company, viz: Commissions,
etc, 69.484.94
Total amount of liabilities ex-
cept capital stock and net
surplus, S,312,64I.32
Surplus beyond capital, 3.01o,920.94
Aggregate amount of liabilities, ee.
Including net surplus, $11,323.56S.26
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AN AWFUL ERUPTION

of volcano excites brief interest, and
your interest In skin eruptions will be
as short. II you use Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. their quickest cure. Even the
soon healed by It. Best for Burns,
Cuts, Bruises, Sore Lips, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains and Piles. 1t gives
instant relief. Csc at G. r. Fogg's,
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PALMYRA.

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Bradford have
gone to Revere, Mass, where they
have employment.
Walter Keene of Boston is in town
N. T. Sinclair is quite i'll at this
writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. G.. Johonnett are in
Damariscotta visiting at the home of
their son, c. H. Johonnett.
Miss Mildred Taylor has a position
in a bakery at Pittsfield.
Mrs. John r. Bennett. who has been
very Ill is reported as slightly better.
Mr.. Nickerson of Burnham is visit
ing at George Marson's.
J. NJ. Taylor Is confined to his home
by illness.
E. T. McCabe went Monday to New
York on business.
T. McCabe during Mr.. McCabe's alb
sence in New York
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Cole have moved
to the home of Mrs. Augusta Cole
where they intend residing for the
present.
PALMYRA GRANGE.
Palmyra Grange held regular
meeting Saturday evening with about
% members present. 1t was voted to
grant the request of Columbia Grange
for a sum of money toward building
hall. The third and fourth degrees
were conferred upon one candidate
and one application for membership
was received.
Miss Bessie Leavitt related an
amusing story; H. l.. Goodrich gave
talk upon the subject of Giving"
Mrs. w. A. Blaisdell quoted an item
from a newspaper.
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r. n. Ceilings

Opp. Dunlap Laundry, Skowhegan
does this work in most thorough
workman like manner. Goods called
for and delivered. A postal will bring
him to your house " 18th samples. tf3
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DON'T

Throw Away Old Furniture
have 1t Re Upholstered, repaired, re-
painted and re-juvenated and it will
look as good as new.
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Casualty Company Of America,

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The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04
Mark Twain On Advertising

There are many ways cf-brlng ing home to the man who doesn't advertise the necessity for doing so. Many forceful arguments have been advanced why press advertising should be looked up- on as the surest means of obtain ing publicity Samuel L. Clemens (''Mark Twain who has a good head for business as well as for humor, knows the value of the advertisement. At a recent dinner and told a story which contained some wit and much wisdom, and. it ran something like this:
 When I was editing the Vir-- ginia City Enterprise, writing my copy one day and mining the. next, I tried in many ways to drive home the fact that adver- Using pays. One day received a letter from a subcriber saying that he had found a spider press ed between the pages of his paper He wanted to know whether this signifed good or bad luck. 1 re- piled to him through our Ans wers to Correspondents column. as follows:
 " Old Subscriber-The finding of a spider in your copy of the Enterprise was neither good luck nor bad. The spider was merely looking over our pages to find out what merchant was not ad- vertising in them, so that he could spin his web across hls door and lead a free and undis- turbed existence forever after. '' American Gentleman.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04
The RSIbrOOk News

Published every Friday at HOlbroOk,
 Nsvajos County, Arizona by SIDNEY sAHP, Editor and Publisher Joseph Lopez, Foreman. Admitted to the, mails at Holbrook, as second class matter, May IA, 1909. Rates of. Subscription in advance
 One years $2.0o
 Advertising rates made known up or application
 All advertising will be run until or dered out.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

Married at Pinedale Jan. 18th, Miss Ethel L. Shaw of Kirkvilie, Mo. to Mr. Horace F. Owense of Pinedale, by the Rev. James Peterson. These young people are well and favorably known here and have the well wishes of ther many friends.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04
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Rev. M. F. Ault, of Winslow. preached toa fair sized audience at the old school house last Mon day. He will hold services atthe. same place during the year, at least we so understand.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04
Territorial Officers

 Governor Hon. R. E. Sloan. fer. Sec. G. U. Young. Ter. Treas. E. E, Kirkland. Ter. Aud. w. c. Foster. Atty. Gen. J. B. Wright U. s Dist Atty J. B. H. Alexandel
 NAVAJO COUNTY OFFICIALS. Sheriff, J. F. Woods. Recorder and Clerk, c Hess. Probate Judge and County Sup erintendant, R. c. Smith. Clerk of the Dist. Court, w. B. Woods.
 Treasurer, L. D. Divelbess. Dist. Atty, W. P. Geary. County Supervisors, Q. R. Gard ner, Chairman, James Scott and A. B. Sutton.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

only effect will be to delay state hood few months longer than would have been the case under the Hamilton bill and would, i'll fact, be little different from the Hamilton bill save in the power given congress to reject the con- stitution if carried.
 Statehood, say the friends of New Mexico and Arizona, to- night, is assured by the summer of 1911 and they are correspond ingly happy.
 Spence Shumway says he will build three houses just as fast as he can get to them. Go it Spence, your name will be writ ten on the eternal sands of the Little Colorado river. 
 Mrs Nellie Robinson Dead.
 After an illness of several weeks Mrs. Nellie Robinfon died at her home at Adamana, on Tuesday the first at six o'clock in the evening and was brought to Holbrook, Wednesday where the body was buried in the Hol- brook Cemetery Wednesday evening.
 Mrs. Robinson was a widow having lost her husband some time ago, but leaves two children to mourn theireloss. She had lived at Adamana, for the last three years but had lived there while a girl and was known to every one in that part of the country, where every body was her friend. She was a native of Missouri.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

Clarence Owens has been to- Missouri where he purchased a. fine thorough bred Jack.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

Dr. and Mrs. Bolden and child ren are here this week from St Johns,
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

M. A. Grouse is repairing and fixing up the old printing office and when completed will look like a new building. J. E. Berger is doing, the work.
The Holbrook news., 1910-02-04

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RAISING MONEY i'm KANSAS
Two Loans On OF Bill Provide Fund,
Needed hY Traveller.

Here is 80 incident that d Chanute
man tells as having occurred in Ger
tain Kansas town. lie was in INV
ticket office and watched the proceed
lngs, says the Kansas City Journal.
man came up to the window ana
asked for % ticket to Kansas civ. in-
curing the price.
Two twenty-five said the agent
The man dug down into d weII-Worn
pocketbook and fished out bill. ri
was p bank note for So. It was also
all the money he had.
How soon does this train 20 ?D Nv
inquired. nm
agent. ~
The man hurried away. soon WI
was back with three silver dollars
with which IL bought ticket, M
Pardon my curiosity" said tha
ticket seller, but how did Won rat
that money !? Itiisn't loan, Tor see
YOU have disposed OF the 81 BILL
That's all right" said thu man
"N0, didn't borrow. Invent to nawn-
shop and soaked the bill for $40
Then ID # started back here mat s an
Old acquaintance, To whom N sold tha
pawn ticket for $3.50. IT then haa SS'
and IT, has the pawn ticket fOr whirh
the w Dill stands for security, VI T
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instance. He was an elderly German
Workingman, and he crossed to De
troit in the ferry that II took back over
here. J. w. Lewis, deputy customs
| collector, signaled man and goose in
side his Office.
"Feefty cent Feefty cent That's
all pay for him !" the owner OF the
goose protested, waving ii above his
head in emphasis.
Flop Lewis threw the goose into
a scales hopper. The dial showed
seven pounds.
''Thirty-fve cents duty" Lewis COM
manded.
But meester Feefty cent That's
all give for him. Thirty-five cent
more It's too much Y"
The thirty-five cents was paid, Lewis
grasping the goose politely but firmly
in one hand and holding out tariff
manifest for the Germans signature
in the other
do people buy anything but pro
duce in Canada and bring it over Q"
asked Lewis.
"Oh, yes. Here in Detroit they 20
over and buy English clothes. Here's
an ad noticed the other day.
They can buy and English-made
% hat i'm Windsor for SO. They wear
old hats over on the ferry, and throw
them away when they wear the new
ones back"
Farmers in Southern Michigan and
farmers in western Ontario are the
most prosperous in the world. Both
can produce food at the same arbitrary
cost. Why, then, should the prices OF
farm products be from 15 to 100 per
cent higher in Detroit than here?
This was the natural question after
! visited the Windsor market house
and priced everything for sale there.
w. y. Cheney, who runs the biggest
grocery in Windsor said !:
MY candid opinion, after twenty
eight years In the grocery business On
both sides of the river, is that III I'D %
per cent cheaper to live in Canada
than in the United States. You can
buy first quality groceries and pro-
duce here for less money than you can
get second-rate goods in Detroit.
Hundreds OF Detroit people live
over here in summer and rent homes.
It, cheaper for them to 20 to work
in Detroit and pay the ferry rate than
to stay in Detroit and pay Detroit
How does the tariff come in on
that ?'
Here, I'LL show you. See this plug
of tobacco? It's made in England,
and this il q quarters worth. The
leaf in that plug was raised in the
United States, shipped to England,
made into plugs and shipped back here
into Canada. And yet Ii is better than
II other brands that sell FIR 1RtS mora
money fn Detroit. TIL IL wasn't, why
would people from Detroit come to my
store and 20 out with their pockets
\ full or 1T
THE duty or the tobacco, if export
vi 1851 feet across TO Detroit, would
| To- $1.65 o. each pound plug. The re-
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AUTOMOBILES,

No longer are they to be considered
simply vehicles of pleasure Out west
the farmers are using them for saw
ing wood and grinding grain during
the week and to 90 to the County town
ON Saturday and to Church on Sunday.
And their advantages are being recog-
nized in the East and a large number
have been delivered i'm Westminster
this spring.
The enormous growth of this indus
try will be appreciated only when we
recall that it il estimated that the sale
of motor cars for the year 1910 will
amount to 100000, 100000. This l. a
pretty biz business, and will be larger
when the machines are cheaper. If
the tariff duty was removed from iron
and other necessities, they could be
built for less, and from present indi-
cations that time l. rapidly approach
ing, and it cannot come too soon for
either the men who make or those who
buy this convenience of modern life
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There. was paid by the American
people as duty on this cheese and but
ter over $2,0O0,000. Yet the farmers
Of southern Michigan get no more
for their butter and cheese than do the
farmers of western Ontario. Why, then,
the high prices only 1851 feet away
And who gets the extra profit on the
Michigan produced butter and cheese =?
The Central livery stable rents a
horse and sleigh all afternoon for 81.
Tn Detroit the same rig rents for $1.5O
an hour.
Horses live on hay. III they eat
Ontario hay it costs the liveryman
here Sill ton. If they eat the same
hay In Detroit, 1851 feet away, il
costs the Detroit liveryman $14.50 a
ton. But the Detroit horses don't eat
Canada hay. They eat Michigan hay.
But 1t costs $14.5O a ton, too. The
tariff On hay is 81 ton.
The farmers around here and
around Detroit sell their hay for the
same price to the jobber.
Who gets the extra profit that the
tariff wall EFFORTS from the horse-own-
81
On any snowy Sunday afternoon
dozens OF Detroit young men cross the
ferry, rent q sleigh, and cross back tn
Detroit, paying 10 cents ferryage each
way. They take their girl friends
riding for less than VI third what thew
would have TO pay if the ferry didn't
help them across that 1851 feet Of
water.
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WESTMINSTER, MD.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL u, 1910
THE TARIFF MUST GO.

The tariff l. nothing but legalized
form Of robbery, which view of IL was
never appreciated by the wage-earner,
until he discovered that since the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Bill be-
came law, he can not live a. well as
formerly and that his wife il having
trouble to get along with her allow
ance. If he happens to be living in
Detroit, he j. daily exasperated by the
sight OF his friend and fellow work
man, who lives across the line
in Canada, still buying his neces-
sites for the same price he did year
ago. This makes him realize that the
tariff IL the cause of the enormous in
crease in the cost of living, which
started the moment the new tariff law
became effective; and he can no long
CT b. fooled by the talk that the farm
ers are getting his money, because his
friend tells him that the farmers in
Canada get a. much for their food
stuffs, as the farmers i'm Michigan.
Golfers recently published an in
teresting table showing why the
American family was having trouble
to make both ends meet. It showed
that while wages had gained only
three per cent since 1908, the price of
all necessary articles of food and
clothing, last year gained 11.2 per cent
and this year gained over last year
lit per cent. Il 1t any wonder in the
light of these figures that people are
having trouble to live and are neces-
sarily Disguised with the Republican
party |? And i'm view of these indispu-
table facts, the President has the tenn
Gritty to say that this Ubiquitous law IL
good one If this il true, what
would bad one be )?
Some people will never believe
thing which il told them, If 1t il
against their preconceived notion of
things, but when the stomach and till
are both empty, conviction that some
thing l. wrong will naturally come.
And we think il has come to the Amer
lean people who are now beginning to
realize that for fifty years they have
been voting, not for themselves but for
few men. Claiming originally that
it was to protect our infant industries,
and then when they became large, the
working man, the tariff has through
fraud and chicanery continued to be
sustained by the American people
when the reasons for its existence no
longer prevailed. But the results of
recent elections show that the people
now see its monumental rascality and
like all other unclean and dishonest
schemes, the tariff must 20.
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JEFFERSON DAY.

Last Wednesday was the anniver-
sary of the birth OF Thomas Jefferson,
founder Of the Democratic party and
author of the Declaration of Independ-
ence. lit was recognized generally
throughout the United States and the
homage and tribute paid to him IL a
gratifying sign OF moral awakening
among the people.
Born an aristocrat, he forsook his
friends and their party and sided
with the plain people; inheriting q
fortune, h devoted ii to the good OF
his Country and died at the advanced
age Of eighty three pauper; the lar
gest slave owner in the country, he in
troduced bill to abolish slavery, and
when his measure was defeated said
"I tremble for my Country when
reflect that God il just" And no
thought was more often expressed or
words quoted by the AbolitiOnists than
these in their fight for the emancipa-
ton OF the slaves
"a peculiar thing about Jefferson's
writings il, that like the Bible, they
are quoted by both sides to contro-
versy. It was from them that Lincoln
drew inspiration, and werecall recent
~ when the Philippines were purch-
ased,- how hi acquisition Of Louisiana
was relied upon a. justification for
this foolish act. And this comes from
the fact that he dealt with man il The
raw and in hi greatness laid down
principles and enunciated truths
which have since served e. sign posts
TIL guide us not only III our political,
but;also in our private life. What he said
was true not only in his day but also
in this, for mans nature Il unchange-
able and the same passions, hopes and
desires bend and sway IT. today ~ in