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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23
NORTH CORNVILLE.

Mary Davis and Marguerite Will
lard went to Skowhegan Saturday to
visit her sister, Hattie Towle, return
ing Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Towle were in town
last week at their summer home.
Barrett, the meat man, of Canaan,
stopped at Hotel Leighton last week.
At last a rainy day Wednesday.
G. w. Bates and family visited his
mother, Eliza Cronkhite, Sunday.
Marcia Hopkins health is poorly
this spring.
Gustavus Danforth is no better.
Those 10c thermometers and bar
ometers are selling like hot cakes at
G. w Bates
Harry Dysart is shingling the Red
Horse Inn stable.
SIR. Scott and wife have returned
to their farm on the Mulunkus road.
W. r. Wilson is making extensive
repairs on the inside of his stable.
Chas. Gardner of Athens is white
washing for G. w. Bates
H. d. Eaton. Esq. of Wateryille
passed Saturday at his farm in town.
returning Sunday.
Several of the [. O. o. f. boys are
practicing to go to Pittsfield to work
the degree team soon.
Several woods teams have passed
through town.
There is a better demand for wood
than potatoes. Wouldn't it be a good
scheme without SO much labor and
risk for some to raise wood instead
of potatoes.
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How Old People
May Prolong
Their Lives

AT advanced age the organs act
more slowly than in youth. Circu-
lation becomes poor, blood thin and
watery, appetite ftful, and diges-
ton weak. This condition leaves
the system open to disease such as
Coughs, Colds, Grippe, Pneumo-
MIA, Rheumatism, etc.
VINOL is the greatest health
creator and body builder we know
of for old people, as it supplies
the very elements needed to re-
build wasting tissue and replace
weakness with strength.
HERE Is THE PROOF
A case Is recorded In Albany, n. 7, OF
q woman who felt she was breaking
down by ago and was doomed to the
weak and feeble condition of old people
She had no strength and the slightest sx-
erfion tired her, but NINOL made her
well and strong, and she states that Ahe
feels ten years younger than she did DO
fore taking SINOL.
We ask every aged person in
this neighborhood to try a bottle
of VINOL with the understanding
that we will return their money if it
does not prove beneficial.
r. W. Bucknan, Druggist, Skowhe
ran. Me.
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small baskets in which to pack the
berries as they will stand shipment
better.
An acre will yield from 80 to 100
bushels when treated in this manner
and will bring anywhere from three
to five dollars per bushel.
Among the best varieties are Black
Cap Cuthbert. (best of red yariet-
ies) Turner, Schaffer, Golden Queen
last named for home use.)
Diseases-Anthracu attacks the
leaves. 1t will help this disease to
spray the bushes in winter with cop
per sulphate Rust attacks the foil
age and stems; this should be dug
out and burned. When attacked by
the borer, the infected part should
be removed and burned.
Blackberries are similar in cultiva-
ton to the raspberries, but they re-
quire more care in pruning. The
canes fruit but once and all the old
branches that have borne should be
cut out. Agawam, Snyder and in the
west the Kittatinny are fayorites, also
the Lucretia Dewberry which Is Wig
orous, productive and hardy.
Currants are hardy and easily
grown. A mulch during the growing
season increases the yield. They are
propagated by cuttings and increase
in yield as they grow older. Thin SO
the sun can reach them. Fay's Proli-
fic and Cherry make a good combi-
nation for the home garden. Then
there are the Wilder and Prince AL
bert Black currants. Black Naples,
avlyn Of
ten seen in the garden:
The borer is the principal enemy
and is treated by cutting and burn
ing the affected parts. The maggot
or currant worm attacks the fruit
often times. A parasite enemy has
appeared but it is doubtful If it will
be able to keep the pest in check.
weak solution of Paris green, or Py-
rethum powder mixed with flour may
be applied. For blight use bordeaux
mixture or weak solution of copper
sulphate AS the markets are liable
to be flooded with this fruit it Is wise
to limit the production to a certain
extent.
The gooseberry is similar to the
currant in cultivation and care Is re-
quired; the best variety is the Down
ing Mildew is a very serious pest.
Strawberries require special atten-
ton to details; rich soil and clean
culture give the best results. The
bed should be renewed and the plants
set carefully There are three class
es of plants, bearing perfect, stami-
nate, or pistillate flowers. In setting,
if a plant bears pistillate flowers an
occasional row of a staminate vari-
ETY. should be placed in the patch
Marshall and Glenmary are fayorites
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SMITHFIELD.

Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis Clark Of Lew
iston visited in town last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Stevens and son
Lindsey, and wife, attended the fun
eral of his niece in Augusta last
Thursday.
Tracy brothers have had five hun
dred and sixty dozen of shovel han
dies made and are hauling them to
Norridgewock.
Frank Hartford is moving to Mer-
Ger on to the farm he purchased of
Benny Tracy
Several Changers attended the Pc
mona in Norridgewock last Tuesday.
Mr.. Stendley started from the sta
ton last Thursday night with the
Smithfield mail but found such deep
hard drifts that it was impossible to
drive through. The first trip missed
for the season.
Otis Sawyer is confined to the house
with rheumatism.
Clarence Stevens has been drawn
as juryman.
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LARONE.

F. S. Goodwin of the firm of York
& Whitney Co, of Boston, was in town
last week calling on old friends.
j. G. Morrow has purchased gaso-
lene power and is now busy saving
up the wood.
F. w. Farley has been on a trip to
his former home In Aroostook.
The potato acreage will be cut In
halves this season in this vicinity.
Miss Harriet Brophy of Fairfield
closed the winter term of school In
No. 10 last Friday After two weeks
vacation school will open again with
Miss Brophy as teacher.
The many friends of Milton T. EN-
cry, formerly of Larone, and later of
Skowhegan will be interested to know
that he has left st. Paul, Mimi, and
has located in Port Lavaca, Texas,
where he will try cotton raising. He
likes very much in his new home.
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CARATTNK.

DR. Brown of Bingham was in town
St. Patricks day professionally.
Eta Morris of The Forks was in
town last week visiting relatives.
Laura Williams went to Kingfeld
last week to visit her cousin, Mrs
Drills Vose.
Bertha MeDaniels of Jackman. is
the guest of friends in town.
Town meeting occurred Monday
March 20.
George c. Jones will close his
house and go to Mosquito this week
to put up his ice and get ready for
his summer visitors.
Charles A. Spauldng and son, Ar
mond with Oral Bean went to his
sporting camps last week to get in
readiness for his family who are
coming soon.
Dana Lawrence of Skowhegan. was
in town last week soliciting orders
for Skowhegan Marble works.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Martin and
Mrs. Inza Miller have moved from
Bingham to their home in Pleasant
Pond.
Florence Shetland returned from
Portland Friday.
There is quite good lot of sick
ness in town with the prevailing cpl
demic.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Kinsley and
Mrs. John Comber of The Forks were
in town Saturday.
c. A. Williams took trip to Show
hogan last week.
The Ladies' Aid society have bought
and made pail for a covering to be
used on the winter hearse
Rev. Mr. Fitzpatrick held service in
the chapel Sunday. There was not
a large attendance owing to so many
being sick.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1911-03-23
NAMES WATER POWER
Facts That Show States Wonderful
Asset.

The State of Maine, through re-
cent educational campaign, has awak
ened to the value of its water power
as a State asset. 1t is, therefore, not
willing to give away its power rights
for nothing and forever.
From recent figures, compiled by
the national conservation commits
sion, it viii be seen why New York
and Massachusetts, which are fac
tories want Maine to be their power
house:
Maine Developed Undeyeloped
Rivers Wheels II. p Min. Max.
St Johns, III 1861 30,500 1880
st. Croix, 80 20,500 2S.7O0 40 600
Penobscot, 518 70.454 $4,000 29S,000
Kennebec, 659 1896 $4,000 $4,000
Andres
coggin, $50 101,355 10000 218.000
Saco, 100 22,302 10000 $4,000
Total, 2,172 292,228 549, 100 991S00
Note-In the above table the An
droscoggin and Saco rivers have a
drainage area in New Hampshire as
we'll as in Maine. The figures for
New Hampshire were discarded.
Hence the above figures represent the
figures for Maine of the most import
ant rivers of the State.
When it is remembered that, at a
moderate valuation, one horse power
is worth 800, and that the above Ia
BILE shows that the assumed maximum
development of the water powers of
Maine is 991 500 horse power, 1t will
be quite evident why the power COM
pany which now engages our atten-
ton has SO much money 1t is willing
to spend to get this inoffensive look
ing charter through the Maine Legis-
lature.
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MERCER.

Frank Snow started last week for
Seattle, Wash.
Calvin II. Allen of Bourne. Mass,
Is spending two weeks vacation In
town.
Addie Leeman Is spending a short
time at her home here.
George Chandler of Norridgewock,
was in town last week.
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MAnIS0N CENTER.

II. f. Spear and family have return
ed from Dead Water; also Mr.. and
Mrs. Painter.
Water is still scarce article Quite
number are hauling water.
Miss Emma Day, daughter of A.
w Day formerly of Skowhegan,
writes her aunt from Beaufort. So.
Carolina, where she is teaching
school that the climate is fine and
that shey has been in bathing ever
since she went there last August The
last time was March 20.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

There ought to be some arrange
ment by which farmer could retire
while he is a boy, and really wants
to come to town.
In most homes there Is good deal
of dissension over the effort to decide
which member of the family breaks
the most dishes.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned person whose idea of modesty
was to refer to a bull as gentleman
cow?
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MOORF,S MLLS-CANAAN.


Miss Lizzie Goodridge has been Wis
iting with her aunt, Mrs. Emily Flagg,
the past week in Winslow
G.. f. Farnham was at home for a
brief time recently from North Mon
mouth.
Misses Berle Foster and Minnie
Williams enjoyed very pleasant ev-
ening recently with Miss Fay Foster
at her home.
G. A. Williams and wife passed an
evening recently with Mr.. and Mrs.
Alton Goodridge at the village.
Frank Weymouth, who has recent
ly sold his place in the village, has
moved to the Warren Gerald rent on
Hinckley avenue.
Mrs. ]. E. Churchill is slowly i'm
proving from recent illness.
A. G. Rolfe Is also able to be out.
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X The News of Somersets Busy Towns *

Skowhegan officiating, and Saturday
morning the body was taken 70 Bling
ham for interment. From out of town
besides the above named relatives,
Mrs Dana Hall was in attendance.
The sympathy of all goes Out to the
husband by whom she will be sadly
missed
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BROWNS CORNER CANAAN.

\
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hussey of
Skowhegan were at c. B. Chase's Sun
day.
Mrs. Lizzie Allen. who has been
seriously i'll during the past winter.
is much improved.
Miss Martha Sinclair, who has been
boarding in the family of Richard
Chase came Tuesday to stay with her
mother, Mrs. Eugene Sinclair. who
has employment in the home of E.
c. Purinton.
Among those who have been sick
with the prevailing distemper or grip
during the past week are: Washing
ton Jewell, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Hilton. Mrs. Jane Hall, Elias Weber,
Heber Ogden, Mr.. and Mrs. Benja-
min Lewis and children, Mr.. and Mrs
Elijah Sewall and daughter, Celia.
We are pleased to note that at this
writing they are all Commissioning
Our mail carrier, c. H. Wheeler Is
still confined to the house and Frank
Buker is the man who delivers our
mail.
Mrs. Thomas Booker Of Cornylle. is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Theresa Green
of Brighton.
S. b. Wyman and S. c. Burrill
were in Skowhegan Monday on bust
ness.
Mrs. r. p. Chase visited a few days
this week with Mrs. James Churchill
at Moore's Mills.
Mrs, Anna Pierce, who has been in
feeble health all winter is no better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laforest Goodwin re-
Gently visited their daughter, Miss
Eva, at the home of Robert Bigelow
in Skowhegan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Rowe went to
Pittsfield and Detroit last week. where
they visited with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hubbard and
family passed Sunday with her moth
er, Mrs. Mary futile in Cornyille.
Selden Fitzgerald and Harry Harris
went to Wateryille one day last week
to attend a State Board of Trade
meeting.
Bert Lewis and George Cover, who
have been working in the northern
woods during the past six months,
returned home Sunday.
DR., Earle was called Monday to
attend Arthur Savage who got his fin
gers injured while working in Burrill
& Parsons saw mill in Cornyille.
Andrew Welsh and wife returned
from West Athens Sunday where
they were called one week ago on ac-
count of he serious Illness of her
son, Fneeue Kn'stt
MIR. and Mrs Frank Tiabetts and
family of West Hartland are moving
with their household effects to Ca
naan village where they will occupy
the house which they recently pur-
chased of Frank Weymouth.
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The most common cause of insom-
MIA is disorders of the stomach.
Chamberlain Stomach and Liver
Tablets correct these disorders and
enable you to sleep. For sale by G.
r. Fogg.
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additional pension bill that will come
up in the United States Senate next
session in April.
James Hunton is clerking in the
boot and shoe store for his father, a.
D. Bradley is taking MIR. Hunton's
place in the grocery store.
Ernest Kelley is working for the
Fullers' this winter on the Fernside
Dairy farm
Mrs. Llewellyn Morrow, who Is
with her daughter in New Jersey. Is
expected home In April or May to
spend the summer months at her
home on Smithfield avenue.
Nearly six hundred cords of pulp
wood have been hauled on Depot
street to be shipped away.
The Baptist ladies gave an enter
tainment and ice cream and cake sale
Tuesday evening.
Chas. Fentiman is happy over a
hen that laid an egg 9hxS1s and is
on the look out for more of the same
dimensions
Miss Blaisdell clerk in the Ernest
Merrill store, Is confined to her home
with the grip or bad cold.
Eddie Ireland Is the guest of his
mother, Depot street.
There is lots of sickness around
town at the present time. Mrs. II. w
Steward Is another one in this col
umn some better than last week.
Our marble and granite cutters are
busy at the present time getting out
work for Memorial day.
c. o. Small of Madison will deliver
the Memorial address here May 80.
The Norridgewock band will probably
furnish the music.
The remains of Mrs. Hanson Lake,
who formerly lived in town years ago,
were brought here Monday and
buried in the South Side cemetery.
Nelson Jones was operated on for
appendicitis Tuesday.
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ASSETS DEC. 81 1910
Real Estate, $I89,377.07
Mortgage Loans, 100000
Collateral Loans 173,106.9S
Stocks and Bonds, 6,192,413.1S
Cash In Office and Bank, 172,169.29
Agents Balances. 599,27S.63
Interest and Rents, S3,687.65
Gross Assets, $7,707,032S0
Deduct items not admitted, 1S9,639.24
Admitted Assets, $7,5I7.39356
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1910.
Net Unpaid Losses. $3S3,922.63
Unearned Premiums, 4,126,970.0S
All other Liabilities, 100000
Cash Capital, 750,00O.0O
Surplus over all Liabilities, 2,226,500.S5
Total Liabilities and Sur
plus. $7,517,393.56
3w-10
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Frankfort Marine Accident Plate
Glass Insurance Company
OF Germany

ASSETS DEC. 81, 1910.
Bonds. $1,265,O22.57
Cash in office and bank
and in hands of trustees, 34,925.66
Agents balances, 21O,633.65
Interest accrued l3,S21.o3
Gross assets, S1,524, 4O9 81
Deduct items not admitted. 51,367.SO
Admitted assets. $1,473,e422l
LIABILITIES DEC. 81 1910.
Net unpaid losses, $52736l.05
Unearned premiums. 4O9, $50
All other liabilities, 65,90495
Statutory Deposit. 100000 90
Surplus over all liabilities, 220, 296 Al
Total liabilities and sur
plus. $1,473,04221
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Phoenix Insurance Company
OF Hartford, Conn

ASSETS DEC. 81, 1910.
Real estate $141,013.38
Mortgage loans, 5O,350.00
Collateral loans, 100000
Stocks and bonds. S.S60,577.25
Cash In office and bank, 737S17.20
Agents balances. 8Uz.S32.55
Interest and rents SIIl4.49
All other assets, 55.34O.61
Gross assets $10.749,S45.4S
Deduct items not admitted, 12,1SS.16
Admitted assets, $10.737657.32
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1910.
Net Unpaid Losses. $5S2,060.06
Cnearned Premiums, 4,325,4 1861
All other liabilities, 175.000.00
Cash capital, 1000, 10000
Surplus over all liabilities, 3.655,131.25
Total liabilities and sur
plus. $1O.737, 657.32
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FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

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SkOWfiEGAN,
The Holly chieftain., 1911-06-02
THE BILL PASSES.

The bill appropriatine $50 600 for Colorado's
defense in the water suits brought by the Kansas
interests against the Graham Ditch Company
has passed both branches Of the Eighteenth
sembly.
The Arkansas Valley Ditch Association, nearly
all of whose members are named as defendants in
the case Of The United States Irrigation Company
vs.. The Graham Ditch Company and Others, now
pending in the circuit of the United States
for the district of Colorado has, owing the i'm
porance of the involved in said suit, taken
steps for the defense thereof. In addition to the
corporations named defendants in said action
all of the officers having jurisdiction of the disri
button of water in Water Division No. ?, having
been made parties defendant.
The object OF the bill above referred to is among
other things to furnish funds for the defense of said
suit. The principles involved therein broad
those involved in the case of Kansas VS.. Colo
rado and the effect of judgment in favor of the
complainant will in opinion be as far reaching
and disastrous the irrigation interests Of Color
ado, judgment for Kansas would have been in
the case of Kansas VS.. Colorado. The complainant
seeks decree adjudeins it to be entitled prior
right all bitches post dating 1884 $50 cubic
feet of water per second of time, $50 feet &C.
count of alleged appropriation by the Great
Eastern Canal, 100 feet account of an alleged
appropriation by the South Side ditch, both of said
bitches being located in Western Kansas As q
practical proposition the success of the complain
ant will mean that at all of the normal flow
of the Arkansas river water be diverted in
Colorado and that only in food times the de.
crees for direct irrigation in Colorado be supplied.
Laying aside the disastrous effect Of such decree
upon the Arkansas Valley, the whole state would
be to extent, affected as it would the
wipins of millions of dollars worth of property
values.
But this is not all. Situated as Colorado is upon
the crest of the continent and all of her streams
flowing into other states, decree such is sought
by the complainant, The United State Irrigation
Company, would furnish precedent for similar
suits in other states affecting other interstate
streams, and the net result of the whole thing
would be to practically strike down the irrigation
The Holly chieftain., 1911-06-02
MEMORIAL SERVICES
At the Holly Cemetry on Deco
ration DaV

Under the auspices of the La
dies Civic Club of Holly. memorial
services were conducted last Tues.
day. Mrs. E. M. Sherman and
Mrs. j. R. Webster, who comprised
the cemetery committee, placed
flag and pink and white rose on
each old soldiers grave, totalling
eight, when all assembled around
the most neglected soldiers grave.
where special services were held.
The following was the program:
l.. Lincoln's address at the dedi-
cation of Gettysburg National
Cemetery.
2. Special service at cemetery
read by Comrade VIM. MEG lashen
from the g. A. r. ritual.
3. Beautiful solemn solo by Mrs.
r. W. Gee (nearly 7O), who stood
by her husbands side and vol
unfairly rendered Il song while he
strewed flowers on the various
graves.
4. A very appropriate selection
by Miss Lillian Davis.
The following address giveE by
Abraham Lincoln at the dedication
of the Gettysburg National Gene
terry on November l9. 1868, was
read by Comrade VIM. McGlashen:
Fourscore and seven years ago, our
fathers brought forth upon this continent
a new nation conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all men
are created equal. Now we are engaged
in great civil war testing whether that
The Holly chieftain., 1911-06-02

nation-or any nation so conceived and
SO established-c long endure.
We are met on q Great battlefield of
that war. We are met to dedicate por.
tion Of it as the final resting place of those
who have eiven their lives that the nation
might live. 1t is altogether 6ttine a.d
proper that we should do this.
But, in q LARGER sense, we cannot dedi.
cate, we cannot concecrate, We cannot
hallow this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have
concecrated it far above our power to add
to or to detract. The world will very
little note nor long remember what we
say here; but it can never FORGET what
they did here.
1t is for US, the living, to be dedicated
here, to the unfinished work that they
have thus far so nobly carried on. 1t is
rather for US to be here dedicated to the
Great task remaining before us that from
those honored dead we take increased de.
votion to that cause for which they here
gave the last full measure Of devotion
that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain that the
nation shall under God have q new birth
of freedom, and that government of the
people, by the people, and for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.
This is the first service that has
ever occurred here on Decoration
Day and the ladies of the Holly
Civic Club have the thanks of the
few old comrades whose ranks are
being thinned by the Great Sha-
dow day by day.