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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16
AGRICULTURAL COURSE
CONTINUED from Page one)

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study OF things connected with the
work Mr. Patten paid the students
/ for their work the same wage as h
would pay those whom he hired regu-
uarly. The class win from time to
time 20 again to Mir Patterns farm
and take up other. phases of the farm
life.
One of the most interesting trips
that the class has taken to do dem
onstrating work was to the farm OF
Ansel Newton at East Madison, re-
Gently Mr.. Newton has a fine herd
OF registered Ayrshires and the class
had the chance Of doing new work ii
scoring. 1t proved of special inter
looked over the premises and each
student made a score on the SAM
tary and general condition of the tie
up and milk room. The milk room
which includes the equipment for
handling the milk, ideal bother, cool
ing system, sterilizer, etc. was scored
AL Mr. Newton runs milk route 10
Skowhegan village, having over 20d
customers daily and is the only car
rier who carries the milk in cases
packed in ice during the delivery. The
class then examined the stock and
scored them according TO the Uniyer-
sity of Maine system This system ac-
cording TO the individual parts Of the
COW scores ten points. The head was
first taken up and all parts noted, as
for the breadth of forehead, proper
ton of horns, shapeliness of head.
breadth of muZzle, the width Of the
jaws, etc, the brightness of the eve
and the proportion of the ears. Thu
rest of the body was treated with the
same systematic method and Mr.. New
toms herd scored we'll.
Mr.. Newton has a COW, Elizabeth OF
Maple Grove, that calved year age
that is now giving 20 pounds of milk
day. She won the prize at the Bos-
ton show last fall. He has another
COW, Lilly, that calyed December 25th
that is now giving 80 pounds a day;
another one that calved January l,
that is giving 80 pounds. His entire
herd of ten COWS averages about ITO
quarts of milk a day
The class made special notice of the
feeding ration and found that Mr..
Newton mixed 200 pounds of mixed
feed, 200 pounds of cottonseed, %
pounds of linseed oil meal, 100 pounds
of shoemaker together and gave each
COW one pound of the mixture to every
four pounds of milk; added to the
mixture was dry beet pulp as a sue
culent.
The interest in agricultural courses
in the State is growing. State Supt.
Smith is working hard to satisfy every
one in getting the courses started in
the various schools. He has given no
tice to the following: The Superin-
tendent of Schools of each town will
be clad to attend meeting to help in
the work of organizing a BOYS and
Girls Agricultural club. He will ad-
wise about school and home gardens.
He will holm nIan an exhibition of re
Suits
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16
The Bank Majority,

1t is stated on reliable authority
that there are more than n million
and a half different brands OF cigars
Yet there are only two kinds OF
cigars made. good and bad-mostly
the latter.
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large that it could not be sawed with
the up and down. saw that was then
used and it was sawed into four foot
lengths and made into clapboards
and the clapboards are now on Mrs.
Bakers house. There is not board
that has a knot in it.
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Pretty well ali the big things WON
IN do are done for men. believe
Foolish 1t may be, but | suppose its
human nature We are made so. and
must put up with it-Robert Hichens
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Il have been somewhat costive. but
Doan's Regulets gave just the results
desired. They act mildly and regn
lat" the bowels erfectly."-George Il.
Krause. 300 walnut Ave. Altoona. Pa
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16

It's the man who has big balance
who seems to hate to draw a check,
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16

1t. It's n sim pie
matter just get n
bottle of II A Y :
HAIR II EALTH
today. Use II regu-
larry and you'll not
be troubled with
gray hair or dis
tresslng Dandrufi'
that's so annoy ing
and irritating
ii A Y & II a | X
HEALTH is just as
good for men as wei.
All druggists sell It
for b0c. or Sl.00 and
Will give you your
money back II It's
sampson 6 Avore
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-05-16
REGARDING SANITARY CONDI.
TI0NS

A Communication That Should be of
Interest to the Farmers of the
Community.
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Society Women

Gray or Faded Hair Does Not Match n
Graceful Form or Handsome Face
Beautiful hair-natural colored every
roman wants livery woman can have
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The path to the poorhouse is paved
with gold bricks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
THE BANANAS A FACTOR
In Reducing "Hgh Cost of Living"
Says American Consul.

Washington. Dec. 27.-The humble
but nutritious banana, in the opinion
of American Consul julius D. DreHer
at Port Antonio, Jamaica, must be
reesoned with as a real factor in re-
dueiag the high cost of living" The
United States consumes five times as
much of the fruit as any other single
country.
1T is encouraging in this day Of the
high cost Of living say Mr.. Dresh
er, Ito have good reasons for believing
that TIE banana is destined to play no
small part in meeting the worlds de-
mand for larger and cheaper supply
of wholesome food"
Drought and u;rieanes. however
have worked have with the jamaican
crop, although Consul Dresher brl ives
that increased yields in the other West
indian islands and in Central America
may make UP the deficiency. In the is
cal year. ending June 10, last, the ba-
naHas exported from Jamaica alone
according to MIR. Dresher. tota!led Al,
go. J39 punches.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
KENNEBEC.
SSALRORO

No services at the Riverside church,
Sunday, Dec.29, as the two windows
that were sent to Portland for repairs
have not yet been returned. Should
Sunday be cold day the church could
not be properly heated.
EAST-Mrs. Mabel Van Dyke and
son Thomas of Halls Stream, Can,
are guests for the Holidays of Mrs.
van Dykes parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ezra
Lord.
Miss Susan Butterfield of Lancaster,
Mass, is passing a few days during
Christmas week with her grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jeremiah S. Butterfield.
Samuel Q. Gates. Colby ~, is at home
for the Holidays from Salisbury, Pa,
where he teaches in boys school.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Mower entertain
ed at Christmas dinner Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Mills of Waterville Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence Rowe and son Carleton of
Riverside and Samuel c. Gates.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hersom and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bonsall and Henry
Bolsall, Jr., of Waterville. were din
ner guests, Christmas day, of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Taylor.
Mrs. Clara Seward was a weekend
guest of her sister Mrs. Emma Far
well, in Winslow
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred S. Wallace and
son Stanley were Christmas guests of
Capt and Mrs. J. w. Brown of China.
Christmas observance exercises took
place, Wednesday evening, in the
Methodist church. Contrary 10 the
usual custom the children were the en-
tertained rather than the entertainers
The Shepherds story" an adaptation
from Florence kingsley's, THE Cross
Triumphant, was read by Rev. MIR
March, tile choruses being given by q
selected choir. After the reading, San
ia Claus appeared from the chimney
place and distributed a tree full of gifts
TO the young people present.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
NATIONAL HOME.

Officer Of the day, Capt. McDevitt.
Daniel X. Peacock returned to the
Home from furlough, passed with rel
atives in Boston.
Peter Prock. who has been passing an
extended furlough in Rockland, Me, re-
turned, Friday.
The funeral of the late Charles w.
Knight will be held from the Home chap
ell at > p, NJ. Saturday, Rev. J. e. Coch-
rane officiating. Gettysburg Post. G. a.
Il. of Boston, of which he was a mem
Der. sent a silk American flag 10 be used
to drape the casllet.
Religious services will be held at the
Home chapel as follows. sunday: Mass
and sermon by Rev. FIR Nclligan at SIS,
Protestant services by Rev. J. +. Coch-
rane at 1890 o'clock Singing by the choir
in the hospital in the evening.
The bill of amusement at he Opera
house for Saturday evening Will be vaude-
willie with motion pictures. The subjects
will be: Along the River Nile" Queen
of the Kitchen" 1.-The Desert Sweet
heart" 1.-THE Prisoners Story" and The
Shuttle of Fate"
Meniah Dow. late Co. G, ID Me Inf.
and John J. Pumpkin, late Co. II, LIST n.
Y. H. A., have been admitted to the
Home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
NEW YEARS HONORS
To Be Conferred by King George
Prominent Architect Is Named.

London, Dec. 27.-The honors to be
conferred by King George on New
Years day have given rise TO some in
teresting rumors. The vacancy in the
roll of the Order of Merit naturally
creates the greatest speculation. The
name of Mrs. Humphrey Ward has
been mentioned in this connection, but
it is likely that. while she will re-
ceive some recognition, this greater
honor will go To so-.1e member Of the
British Academy. hany people would
like Sir Aston Wabbc. the architect, 10
become the successor to the late Sir
Lawrence Alma Tadema as a men,
Der of this order. Johnston Forbes
Roberts, the actor, it is said, will on
this occasion be dubbed a knight.
Prince Arthur of Connaught, the son
of the governor general of Canada, is
due to receive a dul1edom, probably
that of Kent, but this may be post
poned until the Kings birthday.
New peerages viii be few and all of
them outside of Parliament, as the
government is not willing to run any
further risk of losing bie-elections,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28

manuscript in the Bodleian library at
oxford is supposed to contain most OF
his poems, which are chiefly religious in
character
A unique find" the receipt given to
umbrica Junnaria, discovered at Pom
pei, is now in the National library at
Naples. The Vatican library at Rome
ranks high, not from the standpoint of
numerical accessions, but ON account of
the priceless Importance of its manu-
scripts and archives. Other notable
libraries in Italy are the Ambroslan at
Milan, the Laurentian and the st. MarR
de Florence and the Padua University
library.
Few libraries in the world are more
smasnifeently housed than the Vatican
library Its treasures include 100000
volumes, 1900 incumabula, 500 Aldines and
a number of biographical PARTIES"
There are two early manuscripts o. Virgil
in the Vatican and in the Amrosian libra
ny at Milan and Had, all before the
fourth century and distinguished by
paintings based upon classical models.
There are 31,S73 Latin and 41S Greek
manuscripts. 1t contains also the pa
Iimpsese of De Republica by Cicero, pro-
duced in the fourth century of the Chris
tian era, and fourth century Terence.
The treasures of the Vatican library are
three parts, the department of printed
books, archives in manuscripts, con-
sisting of correspondence of the Holy
See with the governments and poren-
tates of the world, and literary manu-
scripts that are world famous.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
AUGUSTA CHURCHES.
Sunday Services, to Which All Are
Cordially Invited.

= SoUTH PARISH CONGREGATIONAL
&hurch, Rev. Clayton d. Boothby, minis
Her, phone 52I-M: Morning worship at
8.So Sunday school at 11;45 in the chapel;
Young Peoples service in the chapel at
$50 O'clock: mid-week service in the
chapel on Wednesday at k30 r. M.
Itreet b. p. Hope, pastor: Morning SER
mon on what the New Year Contains
s4or Us ALP; Sunday school at noon Y.
IA S. c. f. at As; evening service at 7.30
&Fith sermon on .HoW Can We Make the
New Year Better Than the Old?' prayer
meeting Wednesday evening at 80.
a PENNEY MEMORIAL FREE, BAP-
pastor: Worship and sermon at 1890
&ubject of sermon, The asst Irrepar-
Nble, The Future Available" Sunday
school at Has, 500 in attendance last Sun
day. want 500 next Sunday. Graded work
for the young folks. Bring the children
one sunday and let them see a modern
school; mems meeting at 1l.45, a live
themes; exangelistic service at 100 con-
Rregational singing. sermon on the
changing year. followed by testimony
& SAINT MARKS church. Pleasant
Etreet Rev. Brian c. Roberts. rector.
SSunday after Christmasl: Holy eu-
kharist. 7.3o a. NJ; Sunday school $50 \.
~; mathis, htany and sermon, 1870 A.
M; evensong, 7.30 +. NJ. All services
conducted by the rector.
e CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Society: sum
a.
alan Science Sunday school at u NJ. j;
"wednesday evening meeting at 8 o'clock.
Reading room open to the public daily
from to =. NJ. Christian Science hall.
f23 Water street
UNITARIAN church, corner state and
Oak streets. PAU s. Phalen. minister,
Is Spring street, telephone 205-M); 10 30,
n. NJ. morning service with sermon by
She minister; Has A. NJ. Sunday school,
q j. NJ, vesper service,
& The w c. T. L. will hold the Sunday
Services as usual at their rooms over the
electric waiting room Mrs. Lyford will
8 UN1vERsALIST church, Winthrop
Street, Rev L. w. Coons pastor. resi-
Gence Y Crosby street, phone 3SS-M:
Morning service for Old Year Sunday at
1870 o'clock, sermon by the pastor upon
*The \ dice Of the Old Year; Bible school
All noon; devotional meeting of the Y p.
T., Il. at $50 p. NJ, topic THE Mercy of
God" Miss Marian Soper, leader
D GOSPEL MISSION: Sunday school at
" o clock; gospel services at and 100 +.
Nj Different leaders for each service.
Meetings every evening during the week
accept "Wednesday.
Green street, Henry +. Dunnaek minis
ter fphone 5s1-W, residence 10 Green ST.:
1890, morning worship with sermon; sub
ject. Thou Art! Thou Shalt Be- 1130
Sunday school, six departments, VIM. d.
Hutchins superintendent; $50 L. NJ, Ep-
worth League service: 7.30 F. NJ, wor-
ship with sermon; topic, THE Journey
of Life
s.sPIRITUALIsT meetings at 2 30 and 739
r. NJ Sunday, G. A. r. hall w. l..
Waldron speaker and message bearer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
OLDEST KNOWN BOOKS.
Most Ancient is the Papyrus Prisse in
the Loucre.

One of the oldest writings in the world
is an INSCRIPTION in Egyptian hierogly
phcs preserved in the Ashmolean mu-
scum at oxford, England. What is re-
graded as the Oldest piece of literary
composition and the oldest book extant
is in the Papyrus Prisse in the Louvre
at Paris.
1t is in Egyptian Hieratic writing and
it is ascribed to B. C. 2520. but supposed
to have been composed as early as b.
c. 1850 Curiously enough. says d writer
in the Editorial Review, it consists of q
treatise on How to Behave Wisely"
Much of the advice given in language
quaint and forceful is applicable to this
day just as to that bygone past.
The oldest guide book in the world is
Pausanias' Description of Greece" de-
scribing a journey made through that
land, of wonderful memories by an OBJ
servant old antiquarian of amiable tenn
per and simple faith
The oldest Latin document is a wax
table in cursive lettering formed by a
stylus and dated A. ID. So. 1t was dis
covered at Pompeii in 1875 and can now
be seen in the National museum at
Naples.
The book of Kells, produced in the
seventh century, is "the glory of Trinity
college, Dublin. The taste and delicacy,
the originality and the elaboration of
coloring place it among the wonders oil
the world" The book is so perfect that
one can examine it most closely under
the strongest magnifying glass without
finding lack of alignment or an IRE
gularity in interplacement
The medieval miniaturists raised the
art of Illuminating to the highest pima
Gle of perfection. The most renowned
miniaturist was Guida Clovio Q49S-157S.)
The examples of his work in the British
museum are not placed on public exhibit
ton, being regarded as too precious to
run risks at the hands of our curio hunt
ers or iconoclasts.
Among the superlative "rarities" are
the printed books sent forth during the
first % years after printing art had come
to stay. Such are the "a copies of the
Mazarin Bible of Gutenberg and Schief-
fer about 1445, the Mentz Psalter by the
same printers in 1887, this was the first
book printed with a date the first edi-
ton of Livy d469), the only copy of which
on vellum is in the British museum
where also are the Bedford Hours, the
Sporza Book of Hours and Queen Mary s
Psalter
1t is now almost impossible to obtain
an example of Cations press, except III
portions of books. 1t is known that
there are $50 examples extant In the
world. England possesses four-fifths of
that number, 81 being unique.
Cations ''Cato," third edition, was the
first in which printed signatures were
used and it was also the first English
book to be illustrated by woodcuts.
The earliest personal name in English
literature is that of Caedmon in the
middle of the seventh century. The
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
EMPLOY TOY BALLOONS.
Mexican Rebels Use Novel Method OF
wireless" Signals.

FL Paso, Tex Dec. 27.-Toy balloons
are being employed 10y the rebels in
northern Mexico as a system of wire
less TO give information regarding
the movement Of federal soldiers
Every time 4 troop train departs from
Chihuahua City, TOW balloon floats
up from the center of the state cap
ital A relay of the simple signals tells
the rebels, government troops are
coming.
destruction of railways has made the
telegraph uncertain, and as the fed
erals do not employ wireless telegra-
ply the rebel advices are in many in
stances ahead of the federals infor
nation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-28
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The readers Of this paper will be
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the only positive cure now known to the
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the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system, thereby destroying the founda-
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work. The proprietors have so much
faith In its curative powers that they
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that 1t fails to cure. Send for list of
testimonials
Address F, ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constspa
observation-disclosures
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tan. after a lapse of thirty years.
Most OF the Buer war medals at
WooIwich belong to irreguiars who
joined on the outbreak of the war, and,
after it was over, scattered all over
the world. But many regulars have
have rot troubled TO claim the medal,
alleging that it is too cheap. and
considering that 10000 of the medals
were struck, it is certainly never likely
to become a rarity.
Before the days of Waterloo very
few medals were issued, and those that
were were highly valued. The first
medal ever issued was that given TO
the Eliaabethan seaman who defeated
tie Armada, and the earliest military
decoration WAS a silver badge issued
~ Charles [ IN 1643 for Presentation to
soldiers who had distinguished them
selves in forlorn hopes.
Waterloo was the first occa' 1on when
there WAS Il general issue of medals.
and since that time instead OF issu-
ing too few medals. We have gone.
perhaps to the other extreme. Sol
diers point out that the sans ddecora-
ton is awarded TO the man who has
been fighting ut the front and carrying
his life in his hands for mouths as to
the man in regiment which has
never stirred from the base of opera
tons or SO much as seen the enemy.
Every effort is made by the author
tiles 10 see that medals reach their
owners, and il the owner of a medal
happens TO be dead. the medal is for
warded to his next of kin. Yet there
are still large numbers unclaimed, and
according to the regulations now in
force, at tile end of ten years time
the medals viii be broken up and the
silver debited to the mint.
The Victoria cross. of course, is a
decoration of quite another character,
end a soldier would as socn think of
parting with his life as with his V. c.
Gut this is far from being the case
with other medals and Mr. Rudyard
Kipling tells how he has seen soldiers
wager their Indian GENERAL service
medal on the toss for the price Of a
pot of beer.-Pearson' Weekly.
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First Snow Storm
OF the Season
Was a Hummer.

The first snow storm of the season
came. Friday, and it was hummer
good old-fashioned northeaster
which drove the wiseacres. who had
been predicting that we were not go
ing to have much of a winter after
all, back 10 the chimney corners.
In all about a foot of snow fell. The
storm ragged on during the entire day
and it was not until between and 10
p NJ that its force had perceptibly
abated. Drivers of teams, who started
out in the early morning on wheels,
changed them to runners long before
noon.
The l., A & w. st. Ry. had it's
snow plows out all day and was able
to keep all the lines open but with
some difficulty. Cars We're half an
hour er more late in the early eve
ming bat the services was maintained
on all the branches except the State
street line. which went out of COM
mission early in the day, both on ac-
count of the snow and on account of
the moving of building, which stop
ped at nightfall at the corner of State
and Court street.
A train wreck combined with the
severe storm to the eastward. which
was much heavier than in this sec
ton. raised ructions with the Maine
Central service between Augusta and
Bangor Train 102, which is due at
Augusta, at =. NJ, did not reach
here until S.14 p. NJ, four hours and
IA minutes off schedule. Train IL, due
at 625. pulled into the Augusta sta
ton, at S43 P. NJ
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BOW

Herbert Given is passing week
in Hartland with his friend, Ralph
Nuttine
Nr and Mrs. A. j. seigars enter
Ia ned at Christmas dinner Mr. and
Mrs Albert selears Mr. and AIRS
Frank Sc.sars and son Frank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Small and fam
lily. Nj. and Mrs. Ralph Small and
daughter Elizabeth OF FAN River
Mass.
Miss Vivian Small II PlainviHe. q,
and Mrs. sarah Small were guests of
Mir and Mrs Leander Small, Christ
mas day.
Mrs. Charles NJ White and daughter
Marion passed Christmas with Mrs
Whites parents Mr.. and Mrs. Fletch-
or Of Augusta.
Mr., and Mrs NJ II. White e. l..
White G. NJ. White and Horatio Alex
ander We're guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Libby, Richmond, Christmas.
George Robinson is visiting his
brother in Auburn, for week
Guy and Mildred Seigars are to en-
terrain the y. P. s. c. f. of the Ridge
church at their home, Saturday eve
ming.
Rosie Coleman, who has been stay
ing with Mrs. Crockett, for two weeks,
has returned home.
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Asylum Lodge Election.

3 Asylum Lodge, No. 20, l. o. o. f.,
at the annual meeting, Friday night,
Elected the following officers: Noble
Grand, John F. Howes: vice grand,
William F. Currier; recording secre-
Harry, Edwin F. Weston; financial see
Hetary. Alfred d. Weeks; treasurer.
Herbert C. Griffith: trustees, George W.
Merrill, Frank G. Harrington, Will
bans B. Getchell; custodian, Orrin E.
jEarnham. e