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X The News of Somerset's Busy Towns *

prices from s. to $3.50 marked down
10 $35o We have about "a boys
Suits. short pants, made from rem
nants OF Mems Sutings, prices from
$3.50 to $500; take your choice for
$3.50. We have an elegant line o
fnickerbocker Suits and Odd Pants
All our heavy rubbers. including Col
Seal are marked down from - TO .
FER cent We always carry the best
line Of Mems Shoes in town and prices
the lowest Witner Caps at Il price. l
marked down $100 for SIC. soc fo'
&c. Winter Caps at half price. l
you give us a call we will convince
you that we do not wish to carry
over any winter goods. See our new
line OF Linen Collars and Fancy
Shirts. During February we will al
SO make a 10 per cent discount on al
ends OF Furniture Clothing bough
= us pressed free of charge. DOM
CAMS kennebec Clothing and Furni
TIRE House. Bingham.
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BINGH AM.

Bingham got only an edge OF a
storm Tuesday when il showed all
day and only about an inch in I'll.
Augusta and other down river towns
had big snow storm
Mr. and Mrs. +. j. Wing of STRAIT
toa. who have been guests of Mr.. and
Mrs Earl Taylor at Taylor's lumber
camps. returned TO their home Tues
day of last week.
Gertrude Pierce has recently been
in Bangor.
Miss Davis, principal of the High
school was in Lewiston Friday and
Saturday to attend the Stanton club
banquet of Bates alumni
S. A. Smith, II. |. Goss and J. j.
Lander were in Augusta last week.
Miss Dawes of Madison is the guest
of her sister, Mrs Fred Smith
Charles Spaulding. who has been
operated upon for appendicitis. has
recovered and returned from the Sis
ters hospital at Lewiston.
Mrs. Daisy Rines has been very i'll
the past week.
The colored slides of Africa as
shown Sunday evening al the church
were very fine indeed and merited the
large number who made the neces-
sary effort to go out on so cold
night to see them.
Mrs Charles Fentiman of Scion.
has been spending few days with
her son. Walter, and his wife.
Lea Hussey has some July pullets
that are doing themselves credit and
proving very satisfactory to their
owner by laying large eggs, One of
them lays an egg every other day
measuring 712x6 is in and another
has the daily habit of laying one I
ASKS in. These are actual measure
ments taken at this office and we are
hoping to hear if there are any bet
ter pullets in the county.
The selectmen will be in their Of
flee February Is, and begin the set
Element of town affairs on that date.
News has been recently received oil
the death of Mrs. II. NJ. Turner of St
Paul Mimi Mr.. Turner will be re-
membered by many Bingham people.
and is the son of Sumner w. Turner
formerly of this place. Mr.. Turner,
Jr is at present superintendent Of
Roselawn cemetery in St. Paul.
GREAT BARGAINS FOR ALL.
Here's bargains for we'll dressed
men. boys and children Watch our
store for opportunity during Febru-
airy We are getting in our spring
line of goods. The kirschbaun tailor
made Suits are the best on the mar
ket in quality, style, fit and make and
we guarantee that for every dollar in
vested you get your money back in
wear. We also ask you to look at the
Talbot and other clothing lines we
are carrying for the spring of 1911.
These were bought at the lowest pos
sible figure and will be sold at very
small margin of profit. Our Over
coats and Fur Coats we do not in
tend to carry over to next season and
have marked them down less than
cost Overcoats, prices $3.50 to $21,
marked down to &C. $40 and SO. Fur
Coats $3.50 to $21.50 will be sold
for $14.50. Better Coats, $3.50 to
1880 Corduroy and Canvas Winter
Coats. marked from 1915 to $l90.
One table full of boys and youths
Overcoats, listers and Refers,
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StDION.

The Ladies' Aid will give free
dinner to the members and their
families in the yestry Tuesday.
Rev J. K. Wilson is spending the
week in Bangor.
DR. S. F. Greene was in Bingham
Sunday.
Little willard Cross is gaining quit
fast and his nurse. Miss Davis, went
to Bingham Monday afternoon on Il
case of pneumonia.
Oscar Gray of Castleton. North Da
kota, who has been spending the week
with friends in town. is in Skowhe-
gan this week.
Miss Nellie Winsbury is quite sick
with pneumonia.
Mrs. L. w. McIntire was in Show
hegan a few days last week.
Miss Genevieve McIntire lett here
Tuesday for two weeks stay with
friends in Auburn.
Rev. and Mrs. Brooks of No. An
son were in town over Sunday. Mr.
Brooks spoke in the Congregational
church Sunday morning and in the
NJ. f. church in the evening. Rev.
J. r. Wilson went to No. Arson to
occupy the NJ. f. pulpit there as Rev
Elisha Knox was sick and unable to
go.
Mrs. Nellie Smith came home from
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premises conveyed to said Samuel D.
knight under the name of Samuel D.
knights by Jane and Frank Thomp-
son by deed dated July IA. 1903, re-
corded in the same Registry of Deeds
Book 264 page sos: also third par
eel of land situated in said Skowhe-
gan bounded and described as fol-
lows to wit, on the East by the Road
leading from Skowhegan to Water
Vile. on the South by a cross road,
on the West by land owned by Ed
mund Adams and on the North by land
of Ansel Allen and George Bigelow
and being the same premises conveyed
to said Samuel d. Knight by the name
of Samuel d. Knights by deed dated
July 13, 1903. recorded in same Reg
istry of Deeds Book $50, Page ! Sc Said
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SURPRISE PARTY.
SHERIFPS SALE.
STATE OF MAINE.

County of Somerset. IS.
February Sth a. y. 1911.
Taken this eighth day of February
A. u. 1911. on execution dated tie
eighteenth day of January A. u. 1911,
issued on judgment rendered by the
Supreme Judicial Court, for the Coun-
ty of Somerset and State of Maine, at
the term thereof begun and held on
the fourth Tuesday of December a. ID:
1910. to wit, on the fourteenth DAY OF
J. Greene of SkoWhegan in said Coun-
ty against 5. D. Knight of said Skow-
hogan for one hundred tifty-siX dol
lars and nine cents debt or damage
and twenty-one dollars and three cents
costs of suit and Will be sold at pub
lie auction on the third day OF April
\. y. 1911 at ten o'clock IN the fore
riI in Skowhegan in the County of
Somerset aforesaid all the right IN
equity which S d. Knight of said
Skowhegan had on the twenty third
day of November y. d. 1909 at three
hours and ffty minutes o'clock in the
afternoon, when the same was attach-
ed on the original wit to redeem the
following described mortgaged real
estate situate in said Skowhegan III
said county. To wit:
A certain lot of land situated In
the road leading from Pishons Ferry
to the Samuel Bcknell Farm bounded
and described as, follows, to wit:
Northerly by land formerly owned by
Samuel Bicknel and land of Henry
Varney on the Westerly by the Pish
ons Ferry road aforesaid. on the
south and West by land of Roy Dun
bar and being the same land described
in a deed from Frank and Abel Thomp
son to Samuel u. knight dated Sep
TENDER seventh y. d. 1901 recorded In
Somerset Registry of Deeds. Book 269:
Page 526: also a second parcel of
land situated on the opposite side of
the road from the first parcel above
described, bounded on the north by
land of Kendall Snow ct ais. on the
East by said road first mentioned
above. on the South by land of Loren
b. Allen. on the West by land of said
Kendall Snow ct ais, being the same
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STAR

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Duley and fam
lily are at home again after an alb
sence of two months. spent in bust
ness affairs at Rumford Falls.
John Higgins of Rowe pond camps
is stopping at Hotel Elmwood for an
indefinite length of time.
A Plymouth Rock hen owned by A.
G. Sawyer recently laid an egg meas
uring eight inches one way and SIX
the other.
Mrs. w. w. Moore, who has been
sick the past week, is on the gain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Bartlett are
spending a few days at Pennington
Falls.
Mrs. A. G. Sawyer has been on the
sick list the past ten days, but is
much improved at this writing.
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Mrs. NJ. p. Pollard's Saturday where
h has been sewing.
Mrs. Georgia SeYery came home
Friday from Pennington where she
lgs been spending IA week with hel
on.
Edward Shaw, eye specialist. was in
own the last oil the week.
George Spofford. who has been at
work in Bingham the past three
months has moved back to town into
the upstairs rent in the house with
Walter Knowles.
At the next Grange meeting Feb
8. the program will be as follows;
BEADING, Cora Murphy; song, Lester
Nitham: reading, Jennie Goodwin;
.ong. Bertha Goodrich; reading
'lora Curtis, topic, Fertilizers il
ieneral.
The l.. II. {. will meet with Mrs
everett Butts Thursday afternoon.
Miss Marion Drake, who has beef
he guest of relatives here and IN
Athens, returned to her home in Som
srvllle, Mass, Saturday.
Mrs. A. y. Starbird was in Madison
Monday
The Women's club will meet with
Mrs. J. o Piper, Wednesday, Febru
lry l..
Remember the Valentine party in
he hall Friday evening, February 10.
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real estate is subject to mortgage
given by said s. ID. Knight by the
name of Samuel D. Knight to the Bow
ker Fertilizer Company of Boston in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
recorded in the Somerset County Reg
istry of Deeds Book $50 Page AT. on
which is said to be due about five hun
dred and fifty dollars. And the last
two parcels of land are subject to
prior mortgage given by said S. d.
knight by the name of Samuel II.
knight to Abel f. Thompson of said
Skowhegan recorded in Somerset Reg
istry of Deeds Book 2S3 Page 1874 ON
which is said to be due about two
thousand dollars.
PERLEY {. FDSS
3w-6 Deputy Sheriff
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HARTLAND.

Mrs. Annie Fish and Mrs. James
Schwartz were in Augusta Wednesday
and Thursday OF last week to at
tend the mid-winteT meeting of the
Federation of Woman's clubs.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Whitcomb re-
turned Saturday from weeks visit
to their home in Pennington.
Chester f. Cavanaugh of Bangor
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L MRnE


Twenty-one tons of bridge material
we're delivered at the bridge abut-
ment last week.
Henry Treat has two teams hauling
fir bolts to the station'1rom the Ord
way lot.
There is considerable business be
.ng done at Embden station this win
Ter.
F. w. Lanes family are suffering
from the measles.
Austin Williams and wife of Madl-
son and Airs Alice Deleweane and
daughter of Caratunk, were visiting
at Albert Spaulding's the first of the
week
The selectmen will begin to make
up their annual report this week.
The portable saw mill at Boying-
tons Siding commenced saving last
week
Good crossing on the ice at the fer
nv
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Farmers mechanics. railroaders, la
borers rely ON DR.. Thomas Eclectri2
Oil Takes the sting out of cuts.
burns or bruises at once. Pain cam
not stay where it Is used.
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was a guest Friday OF Mrs. Walter
Henderson.
Mrs. Martha Hurd is very i'll at
this writing with pneumonia. Mrs
Hurd being 90 years years old much
ANXIETY is fetl for her recovery.
Postmaster f. G. Varney went Sat
urday to Portland to be in attend
anoe Tuesday at the trial of the man
arrested for breaking into the Hart
land postohice in December.
Miss Hazel Williams has been con-
fined to the house for several days
with the humps.
Dr. Jennie Fuller. delegate-elect,
WIS in Augusta Thursday of last
week to attend the mid-winter meet
Ing of Maine Federation of Wo-
mans clubs.
John Lewis Fish returned Monday
to Boston to resume his position on
the advertising staff of the Boston
American.
Mrs. L. B. Eastman and Miss NJ,
Grace Walker, returned Tuesday to
their home In Warren after visit
of several days with relatives in
town.
At the home of Councilman ana
Mrs. Edward F. Littlefield in Belfast,
February !. their daughter, Miss
Acel and Dr. Ernest Shepherd
Weber of Hartland, son of Mr. and
Mrs. c. S. Weber, were married
SURPRISE PARTY.
A very pleasant surprise was ar
ranged for Mrs. A B. McAllister Mon
day evening by the Epworth league,
it being the occasion of her birth
day and monthly business meeting of
the league. The two were combined
into one of great delight to Mrs. Nc
Allster as she only expected the
regular business meeting Refresh
ments were carried by the party and
a social evening followed
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
Pennsylvania Baseball
Schedule Is Ratified

PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 16.-The long
waited-for University of Pennsylvania
baseball schedule has crept out of con-
hnement and been ratified.
AS the faculty went down the list
of games they passed over June z, the
date of the Harvard game, as they
did all the others, and the only thing
which can prevent the resuming Of ath-
letic relations between Harvard and
pennsylvania in major sports will be a
heavy rain in Cambridge on the day
games games Saturday. April 2. at New
Franklin Field. Princeton has the
usual two dates. Straw hat day will
be on May s, when Princeton plays at
Franklin Field. On May q, PennsyI-
vania journeys to Princeton.
Cornell is scheduled to play four
games, two at Ithaca, and two at
Franklin Field. The first two come
fairly early in the season, while the
Quakers at Ithaca on June 19, and an
other game with Cornell at Franklin
Field on June g.
As has, been announced. the Univer-
sity boys will play the Phillies at the
u.
Extensive trips to New England and
South have been fixed. The Southern
trip includes games with Dartmouth at
Atlantic City, Johns Hopkins at Balti-
more, Virginia at Charlottesville and
Georgetown at Washington On the
New England tour, Brown, Harvard,
Dartmouth, and Holy Cross will be met.
The new dates are: April u, Trinity;
April II, Johns Hopkins; May 10, Ford
ham, and June IA, Orange Field Club.
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
Woman Advocates
An Arm yof Cooks

Compulsory military service for men.
urges a German female advocate of
women's rights, should be Offset by
compulsory domestic service for wom-
en-. On the theory that life in barracks
and drill in the manual of arms have
benefited German manhood, she asks,
why will not life in the kitchen and
exercise In the use of pots and pans
similarly raise German womanhood?
If Germany ever organizes a stand
ing army of cooks 1t may force all
Europe to follow its lead. Culinary
conscription is a severe measure, but
when enforced in Germany other ma
tions might be expected to adopt It.
There would be more reason in doing
SO than in following Germans lead in
militarism. There is more real need of
cooks the world over than of soldiers.
1t Is possible to get along without
fighting, but not without eating.
The only question is whether the i'm
perial army of cooks could be reduced
to the same machine-like discipline and
precision of habits as the Kaiser s
army. Would they submit to orders
with the same blind obedience? Would
they tolerate being uniformed all alike,
and in matters Of personal adornment
submit to authority with the same
meekness as the recruits report for
duty when the time arrives for military
rVice?-New York World.
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
Saves Human Life;
Costs Him &.75

A Chicago business man, recently re-
turned from a tour through Germany,
was telling an interviewer about the
red tape he found in the government
service there.
Here Is an instance" he said, that
came under my notice while 1 was in
Berlin. A workman going home caught
sight Of a man lying on the railroad
tracks, evidently with the intention of
committing suicide. A train was rapidly
approaching, and If the man was to be
saved immediate action was Necessary.
waving his handkerchief to stop the
train, the workman threw down his bas-
ket of tools, climbed fence, ran along
the track, and dragged the would-be
suicide out of danger. Then, feeling.
no doubt, that he had done his duty to
his fellow-fnah, the workman shouldered
his bag and went home.
Two days afterward he received a
letter from the police. 1t did not con-
tain a medal, Testimonial to his cour-
age, and presence of mind, or words Of
thanks. What, it did contain was a
schedule of fines to which the humane
workman had made himself liable. 1t
a.. -. Marks.
Damaging fence by climbing over It,. 8
Trespassing on railway.........,......, 4
Stopping express train without first
informing station master or the sig
mailman on duty. 10
Leaving bag of tools, to the danger of
the pubic .......................... 2
Total ...--..-..... .......................19 10
THE mark is about equal to Is cents
Of United States currency, sc that the
fines amounted to about $.75 for saving
the life of a fefiow-being, and in Ger
many the police have supreme power
over the life and property of the law
abiding citizen. A German friend who
related the incident to me prided him
self on the fact that his nation was so
businesslike in it's methods, and gave
the above incident as an apt illustra-
ton. on."-Providence journal.
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
Princeton Team Short
After Mid-Year Exams

PRINCETON, n. J., Feb. 16-The re-
suits of the mid-year examinations at
Princeton have been announced and the
freshman class suffered chiefly in re-
spect to the men who failed to pass
enough subjects to keep them in col
lege
Four Of the strongest football players
on the freshman team of last fall failed
to pass the required number of subjects
to stay in the university. The loss Of
E. C. Waller, captain, will be the most
keenly felt, but in ]. H. Boyd, A. Ball
and R. Matter, the 1911 Princeton eleven
has lost three of the most promising
candidates.
1t usually happens that the mid-year
examinations remove from Princeton
several of her most promising fresh
man athletes, but rarely have they
proved as disastrous as the ones just
passed. Waller was not only captain of
the freshman team last fall, but he was
the mainstay OF the backfeld, being one
of the best plunging backs, seen in
Princeton since the days of Jim" Nc
Cormick.
1t was largely due to Waler's splendid
defensive playing and punting that the
Tiger cubs were enabled to beat Yale.
Next to Waller the most promising
varsity material for next year was Ball,
who played tackle and was practically
the only lineman who had both the
weight and playing ability to make a
star forward on a varsity team. It
was on Ball that the Tigers were de-
pending to strengthen their line next
year. Boyd and Matter, the other two
football players to fail in their studies,
both played in all of the freshman
games last fall and were considered
among the strongest players on the
team,
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
CLOTHING EXPERTS
ELECTING OFFICERS
Technical Features of Tailor
ing Occupy Delegates
Morning Hours.

Blackboard demonstration of methods
of cutting and talks on the construction
Of clothing engaged the delegates Of the
National Association of Merchant Tall
ors at the Arlington Hotel this morning
Such technical features of tailoring as
block patterns, long measures, waist
suppression and balance and attitude
were presented by experts in each of
these lines. The hall was crowded and
the work today attracted wide attention
from visitors as well as from members
of the association.
After recess for luncheon the tailors
began the election of officers. A warm
fight is expected when the question of
the city in which to hold the next an
nual convention is discussed. Richmond,
Va, and Cleveland, Ohio, are two strong
bidders against Washington for the next
convention. Other Eastern cities are
also in the running.
The annual banquet of the association
will be held this evening. Arrangements
are in the hands of Edwin Doll, chair
man; j. G. Haffer, and Samuel H.
Spring.
Tomorrow morning will be devoted to
sightseeing and in the afternoon the
delegates and members of their families
Will witness a cavalry drill at Fort
Myer.
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
CARRIES DEAD BABY
TO POLICE STATION
Mother and Two Other Chill
dren Were Starving
and Freezing.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16-"Well, what dc
you wapt?" Lieutenant Judge, Of the
Fifth street police station, demanded
yesterday rather abruptly when he saw
little group of foreigners in front
Of the desk. 1t was about the hour
when he gets tired of visitors who want
him to settle their petty troubles.
Something in the woman's expression
softened mis- tone as he looked up. She
made no answer. She could not speak
English. From under a threadbare
shawl she drew gaunt arms, bare al
most to the shoulders, and mutely ex-
tended toward the policeman the al
most nude body Of an infant. The child
was dead.
Tears coursed down the woman 5
cheeks, and two little girls, one six years
old, the other four, who were cling
ing to her skirts and shivering with the
cold, began to cry softly with her.
Taken to Hospital.
Lieutenant Judge became very ac-
tive person in an instant. He sent d
call for an ambulance to Bellevue Hos
ritaI, he summoned the matron of the
station, he summoned a policeman 10
take the woman and her living children
to a warm room and he sent another
policeman for food and hot coffee.
When the ambulance surgeon arrived
from Bellevue he said the babe had been
dead for at least six hours. He placed
the mother and the two little girls in
the ambulance and rushed them to the
hospital 1t was said there that the
three were near death from starvation
and that It would require an heroic
struggle to save them.
Deserted By Husband.
With the stricken family there came
to the station-house Jennie Cuttito, ten
years old, who explained that her
mother had found the woman and her
children starving in the street and had
taken them to her home and fed them.
They had been in the house three hours
before Mrs. Cutttto discovered that the
woman had a dead child under her
shawl. She then told her daughter to
take the afflicted family to the police
At the hospital the woman said she
was Mrs. ROsalie Schwartz. Until
few days ago she lived at u Seventh
street, where her husband was janitor.
He had disappeared early in the week,
she said, and she was forced from her
rooms and had to take shelter in an un-
occupied room in a building near by,
in which there was not a stick of furni-
ture, no heat, no food, no water.
The police OF the precinct got strict
orders to make an exhaustive search
for Schwartz.
The Washington times., 1911-02-16
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