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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
CONDEMN McNAMARAs
Lyceum Committee Reports Excellent
Progress

Shocked and aggrieved by the news
from Los Angeles, Skowhegan Local
Socialists unanimously passed the fol-
lowing at the meeting in the select
mems office Monday night: Resolved,
That Skowhegan Socialists, condemn
ing all use of violence in the struggle
between labor and capital, hereby de-
mand that the Mcnamara brothers be
made to expiate their atrocious crimes.
While we regret their betrayal of fol-
lowers and sympathizers, we are proud
to point out the fact that the McNama-
ras are not Socialists, and have never
been to the slightest degree affiliated
with this world wide movement for
the uplift of humanity" The lyceum
committee reported more than $50
course tickets sold, and the secre-
tary was directed to advise headquart-
ers accordingly. Three new members
were admitted and a special commit
tee was appointed to canvass for
signatures to a petition asking Con-
gress to pass the Berger Old Age
Pension bill.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
WOODBINE LODGE.
Degree of Honor Elects It's New
Officers.

The meeting OF Woodbine Lodge, No.
4, Degree of Honor was largely al
tended last Monday evening when the
annual election OF officers was held.
The result was as follows: Chief OF
honor, Mrs. Ella II. CroWell; Lady Of
Honor, Mrs. Ella G. French; Chief of
ceremonies, Mrs Mae Z. Pratt; record
er, Mrs Ava Y Sheridan; financier,
Mrs. Emma Simpson; receiver, Mrs.
Ada l.. Abbey; usher, Mrs. Celeste
Roullard; assistant usher, Mrs. Clara
Eaton; inner watch, w H. Paine,
outer watch, Nathan Thomas. Repre-
sentative to the Grand Lodge Mrs.
Ella H. Crowell; alternate, Mrs. Emma
Simpson.
At the conclusion of the business
session a luncheon of sandwiches,
cake and coffee was served under the
direction of Mrs. Emma Simpson and
Mrs. Clara Eaton and following this a
pleasing program of readings and
music was entertainingly given.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
Real Estate Transfers.

A. tie office Of the Register of Deeds
the following real estate transfers
have recently Teen recorded for
Somerset County:
Anson-Iohn Fitzsimaons TO Robert
{. Perkins; Flora {. Fitzsimmons 10
Robert c. Perkins
Canaan-Betsy r. Goodrich ct ais to
Roswell E. Goodrich.
Caratunk-Kate NJ. Comber to Will
liam H. Comber
Detroit-Alden b Rice to Almeda
G. Babcock.
Fairfield-Fred Tupper to Elmer E.
Tupper; Ernest L. Gray to Harriet F.
Bates.
Fairfield and Naturalization Gas
and Electric Co to Central Maine
Power Co; Wateryille and Fairfield
Railway & Lighting Co. to Central
Maine Power Co; Watervlle & Fair
field Railway and Light Co. to Water
Vile. Fairfield and Oakland Railway
Go.
Ne0 Portland-Cora N Walker 10
Franl q Emery
Norrideewoek William l.. Wad'eigh
10 Nathan Trefrey.
Pittsfeld r. Libby et al TO
o. h NcKechnie; Charles Il. Hunter
to Charles E Yickery; +. II. Hazolton
10 Samuel Il. Harris; Fannie Il. Me
Tagsart 10 f. II. Hazelton.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
BATTLE FLAG MISSING.
Search for State COlOrs of the 1st
Maine Regiment.

When the regimental battle flags
are returned to their new cases in the
rotunda of the State House there will
be included the flags of every Maine
regiment which participated in the
Civil war, with the exception of the
1st Maine Infantry,
This regiment had two National col
ors, one being presented by Maine peo-
pie in Boston and the other by Maine
people in New Yorb when the regi-
ment went to the front.
The regiment had no regimental flag
but it is said that flag bearing the
coat of arms of the state in blue was
presented the regiment as it was leav-
ing Portland Ex-Department Com
mander Edwin C. Milliken says that
the flag was carried in the parade al
the National encampment in st. Louis
and efforts are being made to trace
it.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
New O. T.. $. Officers.

The annual meeting of Sunrise
Chapter O. f s. was held Friday
evening and the following new officers
were elected to serve for the ensuing
year; Worthy matron, Miss Edith
Gledhill; worthy patron, Roy Lancas-
ter; assistant patron. Mrs Minnie
Pishon; conductress, Mrs. Blanche
Sheaff; secretary, Miss Blanch Pol
lard; treasurer, Mrs, Izzie Williams;
finance committee, Mrs Abbie Robin
son, Mrs. Vina Hill and George W.
Cover.
The installation will be held Jan
uary 9TH, and the members of the
order are contemplating plans for the
entertaining of the public on this oc-
cassion.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
TAFT'S MESSAGE IS
ABOUT TRUSTS
Vigorously Upholds The
Sherman Law
Recommends Federal Incorporation
viii Take Up Other Subjects
Later.

In the annual message submitted to
Congress last Tuesday, President Taft
establishes the admirable precedent of
making that document a serial, instead
of a treatise so exhaustive that no
ordinary man cares to read it. This
first installment is devoted entirely
to the trust problem, indicating thereby
that the President considers the large
corporation as affording the greatest
issue confronting the country.
After reviewing at length the sue
cessful suits of the Government
against the Standard Oil and Tobacco
trusts, the President explains in de-
tail how these combinations have been
broken up, and put under injunctions
to insure actual competition among the
component corporations. TO the re-
peal of the Sherman law the President
is steadfastly opposed, but in consider
ing the complaint that the law as nov
construed by the courts is too indie
finite he says:
i see no objection, and indeed | can
! see decided advantages, in the enact
ment of a law which shall describe
and denounce methods of competition
which are unfair and are badges of the
unlawful purpose denounced in the
antitrust law. The attempt and pur-
pose to suppress competitor by un'
derselling him at price SO unprofita-
BILE as to drive him out of business OF
the making of exclusive contracts witt
customers under which they are re-
quireG to give up association with 9th
er manufacturers and numerous kin
dred methods for sitting competition
and effecting monopoly should be de
scr.bed with sufficient accuracy in {
criminal statute on the one hand tC
enable the government to shorten its
task by prosecuting single misdemean
ors instead of an entire conspiracy an(
on the other hand to serve the purpose
of pointing out more in detail to the
! business community what must b,
avoided.
The demand of the business inter
ests for construction legislation II
harmony with industrial evolution il
recognized as follows:
renew the recommendation of thu
enactment of a general law providing
for the voluntary formation of cor
porations to engage in trade and com
merce among the states and with for
eign nations and that the federal char
ters thus to be granted shall be yolun
tary, at least until experience justi
ties mandatory provisions.
VIM II. TAFT
The White House, Dec. 5, 1911.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
THE FORTY FIFTH tNNtTAL cen
CLANE.

The 18th annual conelaye OF De
Molay Commandery, No. 10, Knights
Templar was held last Tuesday even
ing. The following new officers We're
elected: Eminent commander, Alonzo
p. Merrill; generalissimo, Arthur r.
Jewett; captain general, George Il.
Plummer, prelate, Harry A. Dins-
more; senior warden, William II.
Hawes; junior warden, Maurice p.
Merrill; recorder. William r Elliot,
treasurer. Gridley r Fogg trustee,
Arthur Il. JeWett
During the evening the new officers
we're installed by past commander.
John C. Griffin who was assisted by
past commander. ]. W. Blunt
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07

This piece of road which lies about
five miles from the Canaan town line
is 1860 feet long and was graded 28
feet wide. A cover of eight inches of
heavy clay was spread upon the road
to the width of Is feet. The road was
then plowed with a big plow which
brought sand up from the oottom and
gave both clay and sand thorough
mixing.
1t is gratifying to the citizers of the
town to know that the sum of $1750.27
which was appropriated by the State
and town and which was estimated as
the cost to construct 200 feet built
the entire stretch of 1850 feet.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07

Mrs. Anna c. NJ. Tillinghast of
Livermore Falls, state lecturer of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union
will give an address on The Model
License system and How 1t Works in
Other States" at the Opera House next
Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock.
Mrs. Tillinghast is one of the ablest
women orators in America and no one
should fail to hear her. She has
lived in four licensed states and is
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07

The second annual meeting of the
Maine Live Stock Breeders associa-
tion will be held at the University
of Maine, Orono. Dec. IA and Is. All
sessions are public and it is hoped that
many will take advantage of the time
to meet the Live Stock Breeders, dis
cuss his stock problems and see the
University There will be special
rates on the railroads.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
Reports Herd of AlblnO Deer.

Bert F. Spencer, warden for the
Commissioners of Inland Fisheries
and Game in District No. 1, the ex-
treme Northwestern portion of the
state, reported Dec. 4, that on his
journey out" he saw herd of albino
deer. This statement created stir,
as a white deer is very rare, Warden
Spencer also reported that he fire.
quently saw the large herd of caribou
he reported to the department early
last spring.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
THE FARMERS INSTITUTES FOR
SOMERSET COUNTY.
IT. Adams and Cambridge Oranges
viii Entertain the Commissioner
and Corps of Speakers.

Farmers Institutes in Somerset
county will be held this month as
follows: Friday, December Is. Grange
Hall, ST. Adams, at 1890 A. NJ and
1.30 p NJ; Saturday, December 16,
Grange Hall, Cambridge, at 1890 A. NJ.
and k30 p. NJ.
The speakers will be c, E. Embree,
of the Long Island Potato Exchange,
Riyerhead, y. Y, W. F. McSparran,
Furnlss, Pa, and G. A. Yeaton, Assist
ant Horticulturist Dept. of Agricul-
ture.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
An Alarm at Night.

That strikes terror to the entire house,
hold is the loud, hoarse and metallic
cough OF Group. No mistaking 1t, and
fortunate then the lucky parents who
keep Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
on hand. II. w. Casselman. Canton, N,
Y. says: 1T is worth its weight in
gold. Our little children are troubled
with Group and hoarseness, and all
we give them is Foley's Honey and Tar
l always have a bottle of It
in the house" All druggists.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
OLDEST EMPLOYEE
HAS RESIGNED
After More Than Sixty
Years Is Pensioned
William Frye the Gate Keeper at the
VI. {. II. X. Crossing Has Ceased His
Labors.

William Frye. The oldest railroad
man in New ENGLAND has resigned his
position a. gate keeper a. the Russell
< Water street CROSSINGS Of the Maine
Central r. r, this village after more
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07

we'll versed in the subject on which
she is to speak.
During the campaign Mrs. Tilling-
hast did an unusual amount of good
work and is well known throughout
the county and state as a speaker
of great merit
The address will be free and a cor
dial welcome is extended to the public
to be present. There will be special
musical numbers and it is hoped there
will be large attendance.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
SKOW He CAMS NEW
STATE ROAD
A New Piece of Road Built Between
this Village and Canaan

A new piece of State road between
the towns of Skowhegan and Canaan
has recently been completed under the
direction of Highway Commissioner,
f. l.. Ford of this town and f. E.
Greenwood, c. E. of Gkowhegan
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07
WITH the Coming of Middle Age

There is a letting down in the physical
forces often shown in annoying and
painful kidney ard bladder ailments
and urinary irregularities. Foley KID
ney pills are a splendid regulating and
strengthening medicine at such a time.
Try them. All druggists.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-12-07

Mrs. {. r. Oliver and little son, Carl
went to Portland Tuesday where the
latter will receive medical treatment.
They purpose TO be gone about one
month
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
Reverse Bar the Real Thing

life, and when anything's wrong II beats
fast or slow or 1t jumps beat, like an old
guys heart. Then we know, we shut off
steam and climb down to see"
rs It true that engines vary and men get
attached to different ones?"
'"True7 Course it's true Engines are just
like women-some are contrary all the time
and some ere agreeable all the time. Some
smile and then put poison in your coffee.
Some you scold and some you kiss My old
S9-why, I'm married to her and wouldn't
give her Jfp for half my pay. I've had her
three years now. When she goes I'll CO.
Don't you feel the responsibility when
YOU'RE pulling q train-load of passengers2''
That's what the old man asked me
once. I never stopped to think of it, 1
answered him.
"'WhatP he yelled, jumping up and
banging down his fist. You didn't? Why
didn't your
"''Cause IL did I'd go crazy 1 told
him. There's only me and my smoke in
sight, and when we're running through fog
or storm or snow. I look across at where
he's shoveling coal, calm like, and say 10
myself: There's only you and Danny there,
and Danny's going ahead with his work.
Now you're going TO do the same, and you
amt going to think about anything else
You're going to bring yourself and Danny
through, and II you two come through, the
rest will follow New York World.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
Wedding Etiquette

The only expenses the bridegroom has
for wedding are the fee for the clergy
man, the gifts for ushers and that for the
best man and flowers for the bride.
The bride or her parents pay for her
carriage and for those for the bridesmaids
The families of both bride and bridegroom
may sit at the supper table, or only the
bridal party. II the parents of one of the
couples sit there. then both must do so.
The bridegroom engages the clergyman.
II the bride has worn a satin or other
dressy frOck, 1t is expected that she will
change this for cloth gown before going
away Otherwise she may leave directly
after the supper.
The bride is taken up the aisle, proceed
ing the ceremony, by her father her
mother having already arrived and being
seated near the spot where the ceremony
is to take place. The bridesmaids precede
the bride. two by two, to the marriage
place. and stand at her left during the
ceremony. They really have no duties.
The bride furnishes their flowers. After
the ceremony they stand in line with the
pride and bridegroom to receive the quests.
The bride is at the head of the line. with
her husband at her side, then the maid Of
honor and the best man. and then the
bridesmaids.
Guests are brought up to the bride bv the
ushers end they walk the length of fbs
receiving line, congratulating the newly
married couple and greeting the brides
maids.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30

A veteran engineer, who at the age Of
Sc has been serving on express trains for
twenty years, recently met an old friend.
To the question, "How does It feel TO run
. miie-a-minute train?" he answered.
Feel? Man that's the only time l live
When | climb up on the high seat, jam my
cap over my eyes, and reach for the re-
verse bar I'm not the man you see now.
I've fed o nthe excitement so long that I'm
q fiend for IL nova 'speed-dope.'
Many a night I've driven my train-and
made time too-when II was showing so
hard I'd have to run ahead while we were
taking water to see II the headlight was
still burning. My smoke and ! couldn't
tell II from the cab-nothing ahead but a
wall of black. Sometimes we wouldn't
know we were moving, except for the
tossing OF the engine sn, fhe'track
did you know that an engine has a
hearth" he rambled on. you've seen a
doctor feel a patients pulse when he
wants to find out what's the matter with
his works? Well that's the way we do 1t.
When we rush through the night, maybe
with death around the next curve, we don't
sit with our hands on thet'throttIe. as the
engineers do in the story fbookss Reverse
bar that's IT, fSs2e
"The reverse bar'Ht he engines heart.
We never let our hRau Talskss its clutch on
the reverse. ItSbestHi with the engine s
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
Must Stand for Santa -

Not to be outdone by the bill just in
troduced prohibiting tights or short skirts
in public, Senator Robinson of the Kansas
legislature, has prepared a bill providing
a fine of $500 for any adult who tells a
child there Is no Santa Claus. The senator
says that IL tends 10 scatter illusions and
although Kansas is a big state with plenty
Of room for scattering, he doesn't propose
TO have an illusions scattered free and far.
Several legislators are preparing amend
ments lacking on few other illusions
such as Old Mother Hubbard, Jack Frost,
Little Red Riding Hood. the North pole.
the Costofiiving, the Downward Revision,
Mrs Harris, Joe Miller, Old King Cole,
Hoyle Colonel Bogeyr VOX Popuii and Pro
Bono Publico. The other legislators think
these illusions should be cherished by
young and old as well.
Senator Robson is there" with legisla-
tion for all needs. He has q bill prohibit
ing bands on cigars, saying bands ruin
many Of them He has been asked for his
opinion on bands in restaurants and
whether they ruin meals.
A bill is also pending in the Kansas leg
islature prohibiting female performers
from appearing In tights or skirts which
did not reach four inches below the patells
OF kneecap.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
Democratic Diplomacy

On the morning OF election a farmer
came into Hiram Morse's blacksmith shou
to have his horse shod
Purity busy this morning, BinP" in.
quired Morse, as he raked the embers to-
gether on the forge.
Yep" answered Bill. "Haint got hardly
time ter go ter tn village an vote"
Wall I'm purity busy myself" said
Morse, casually. "I'n tell yer what we'll
do" he added, after a moments thought.
Longs yer a republercan an I'm A
democrat, wen pair off, Jest as they do IN
congress an neither on us vote. What do
yer say2"
Bill agreed to the proposition, but after
election it was found that the blacksmith
had paired off with every republican Gus
toner who had come into the shop
Metropolitan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30

The high cost of living has almost put
Cupid out Of business on the East SIDE
of New York according TO the Tribune
He sits with dropping wings and an empty
culver. in an attitude Of abject despair, be-
cause so few OF his arrows aimed at the
hearts OF men and maids seem to have hit
the mark lately Yet II is not the fault
OF the Jewish maidens. These watch and
wait as before for a lover, but in vain.
with the increased cost Of living along all
lines, husbands have advanced in value in
Yiddish quarters until they are now rated
as luxuries. and are almost beyond the
reach Of the poor Rachels and Rebeceas'
The most discouraging phase Of the matter
Is that the young men are aware OF the
fact the demand for husbands exceeds the
supply, and they hold themselves high
scornins offers Of marriage and dowriea
that they would gladly have accepted a
short time ago.
'Why," exclaimed an indignant mother,
"a man without a shirt to his back these
DAYS demands that his wife bring him a
big bank account"
THAT is true" complained another ma
iron. 1T broke me all up to buy hus'
bands for my two daughters. II I had
any more they would be compelled to re-
main single"
Some Of the sons OF Israel who are in
duced to marry drive sharp bargains.
Not long ago at an East side wedding
which had been arranged by a schatchen
the Hebrew marriage broker the ceremony
was delayed by the refusal Of the pros
pective bridegroom TO so on with 1t unless
more money was forthcoming than had al
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
Old Folks

We have heard a great deal lately about
long-Iived. people, but It Is probable that
the oldest two people in the world today
are Frau DutkisVitz and another odl lady
named Babavasilka, The former lives at
Posen, in Prussian Poland, and was born
on February 21. 1Ts5. She is. therefore, 125
years old. The latter. however, is nine
months her senior, having been born in
May. l7s4. She is still a fairly hale old
woman, and for nearly 100 years worked
in the fields. Her descendants number
close on 100, and these now make her a
Joint allowance. She lives at the village
Of Bavelsko, whose neighbOrhood she has
never quilted during the whole of her long
life. She remembers events which hap
pened at the beginning Of last century
much more clearly than those OF the last
forty years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30

down TO the bottom OF the pages Is diff
ferent again. Especially as the lines have
to mean absolutely nothing and yet sound
just grand. For instance, what would you
say 10 something like this
" Vague chaos, muffled in the filmy sheen
OF dank inanitys cold truth,
Peers sightlessly at hidden worlds
And comprehend forsooth.'
''On second thought, never mind what
you think. So do l or. rather neither.
You can't hire a man at a detective
agency to put a patch on anything like
that and turn 1t out az a snappy. hand
tailored piece Of work. And even II there
was a strike and out Of town poets were
imported TO take the nectar and ambrosis
out OF the honest toilers' dinner pals, the
works would stop because the union poets
would carry the wheels away with them
And they could keep busy in their adver-
sity."
What would they do in adversityY
asked Friend Wife.
Write 'ad' verses" said the Tired
Business Man.
Copyright 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-01-30
oalm UnderDIffIcuItIes.

A welisknown Boston physician was on his
way TO hts office one morning recently when
the sidewalks were a glare Of ice. While
going down the street he met a lady com
ing in the opposite directions. The lady was
unknown 10 her.
pavement they both slipped and came to
the Sidewalk facing each other. with their
pedh extremities considerably entangled.
While the polite doctor was debating In
HE mind what was the proper thing TO do
under the trying circumstances the problem
was solved by the quick -witted lady, who
quietly remarked:
"Doctor.s II YOU will be good enough to
rise and5pick our your legs, ] viii take
what renlAins. Human Life,