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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-06-27
SMITHFIELD.

Clarence Harlow of Charlestown,
Mass, with his two children, was in
town last week to visit his mother.
The children are to remain through
the summer with their grandmother.
Mrs Clarence Boom, who has been
critically i'll, is gaining.
The Larkin club met with Mr.. and
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-06-27
STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO
IIICAS COUNTY as

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Ia senior partner of tn firm of F. j.
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aforesaid, and that said firm will pay
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for each and every case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by the use of
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-06-27
~ The News of Somerset's Busy Towns Il

Miss Leah Flanders has returned
from a visit with relatives in Athens.
Joseph Barker of Athens was visit
ing at G. E. Flanders one day last
week
Guy Barker of Athens was in town,
Sunday
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-06-27
MAYFIELD.

Mrs. Florence Padham Esler and
husband of Sangerville were in town,
Saturday.
John Steward of Skowhegan spent
Sunday at G. E. Flanders.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-23
Good News for Christmas Shoppers----Art Embroi- dered Goods Half Price

IUN8t! anu tUTIUTFUN, tHIITe StOck hand embroidered goods at our ART DEPARTMENT will be sold at F price-just think of such a timely offering. Fancy Pieces Center Pieces, Scarfs, Waists, Dressing Sacks, Pin Cushions Bags. Pillow Tops, etc. Choice of any hand embroidered article at F price. Of course you krow. the prettiest things will be picked out in the morning hours
 If you are interested-most women love a piece of hand embroidered goods-thcn come early and look over these articles Nothing rserved Re- member Art Department.
Arizona republican., 1912-12-23

Sewing Boxes, new styles, S1.00
 to .SS.5O Sewing Baskets, S1 50 to $4 DO Scissors Sets, $2.75 to $7. 50 Shopping Lists soc to-. 7Sc Address Books 75c to S1 .25
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05

with an ultra stylish mothers ideas OF
beauty and propriety IL q sight to make
tas Sot,s weep and the loafers before
the pool halls smile.
It Is asserted that Rockefeller made
$s4.oo0,000 thru the recent advance IN
5his holdings. Perhaps he can see his
way to taking up that $29.000.oo0 fine
now?
In Chicago recently the city council
failed to pass an ordinance providing
for clean and safe milk supply, which
had been prepared by the milk COM
mittee of the council and the city
health department after much study
and consultation with all parties in
terested The failure Of this ordinance
to pass, together with the enactment
OF a law by the Illinois legislature pre-
venting cities from demanding tuber-
culin test of cows furnishing the city
milk supply leaves the city almost
helpless IS regards the safety of the
milk for its babies. The chief source
OF opposition seems to be the small
dealer. who evidently opposes it be-
cause he does not wish to curtail his
profits by the added expense necessary
to cleanliness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
indictments in the Hsnning Case.
rch;oouo Pocord -Hera1d1


It is morally and practically certain
that the Henning suit against clarence
s. Funk was the work Of willful plot
tiers, conspirators and perjurers VINO
we're determined to ruin the chief
witness against the clique that had
boasted of putting Lorimer over"
Now that the grand jury has indicted
Henning's attorney. Donahoe. for con-
sp;racy to defame MI. Funk, and two
other persons for conspiracy and per-
Jury respectively, 1t would be improper
to comment on the guilt or innocence
of any particular defendant. The ac-
cused are entitled to absolutely fair
trials, and they will have them.
It il. however, proper to point out
that in a case Of this sort delay IL bad
for every one concerned. and especially
for the cause Of law and justice. The
state should insist on q prompt trial
and resist every effort to gain time and
kill public interest in the case. Perjury
and conspiracies Involving the subor-
nation OF perjury are grave offenses
under all circumstances, and doubly
grave when employed for purposes OF
malicious revenge against public
spirited citizen who had rendered the
nation great service.
We have been too tolerant Of perjury
and false swsaring In court These
practices are a1armingly common, ~
Judges and prosecutors have frequently
testified. Chicago has chance to show
that perjury cases Commanding ma
tional attention can be handled vigor-
ously and effectively here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05

an advancing tendency. The industrial
and trade situation is thus In advance
OF the speculative securities market,
but the sluggishness Of the latter Is
not an indication Of suspicion as to the
reality and permanence of the former.
Liabilities Of commercial failures for
July are $16,09S,460, Of which $685.
222 were in manufacturing, s7,f47,41s
in trading and S2,7s3,S19 in other COM
mercial lines. Failures this week num-
bered 291 in the United States against
232 last year, and "a in Canada COM
pared with AZ year ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05

the standpat pundits who now are the
presidents party. But what an utter
ance from the complacent friend. bene-
ficiary, and minister Of Theodore
Roosevelt.
The address is lexicon OF the
catchwords of standpatism. This was
the ammunition Of Uncle Joe Cannon,
Of Payne, OF Dalzell, of Tawney, OF all
the redoubtable leaders Of the wing
which opposed Roosevelt and every
one that Roosevelt favored. 1t is the
chosen language. the picked rhetorical
devices Of the old regime, OF the voices
that one by one have been silenced
in the senate and in the house.
STARTED by sensational journalism
and unjust and unprincipled muck
raking," he now declares. "demagogues
have seized the opportunity to inf1ame
the public mind that they might turn
peculiar conditions to their own adj
vantage"
The muckraker and the demagogue!
How we had them pilloried during the
fight for rate regulation, for conserva-
ton, for the limitation OF the speak
ership autocracy, while Mr. Taft was
snugly seated in the head demagogue's,
the hess muckrakers cabinet!
And what better device is there than
this!
"In the ultimate analysis. I fear. the
equal opportunity which those seek
who proclaim the so called social JUS
tice involves a forced division Of prop
erty. and that means socialism"
Mr.. Taft's case ts weak. Is 1t as
weak as this pitiful utterance? Is the
opposition so strong that it has to be
misstated? What is the panacea that
Mr. Taft asserts his opponents pro-
pose? Who has promised the millenni-
UNI? Who proposes any constitutional
change ito permit the instantaneous
expression Of the people in constiu-
tional amendments?" Who declares
that votes are bread. constitutional
amendments work, etc. ETC.? No one
among Mr.. Taft's opponents.
A case is weak indeed that must
resort to the rhetoric which the COM
mon sense of g. generation has tested
and found delusive.
As for the closer and safer general
ization Of Senator Roots brief notifica-
ton speech, they must fall with some
thing of the effect Of sardonic irony
after the Chicago convention. We have
seen. thanks to Senator Root and his
associates that the rule Of law" Is not
an alternative to "the rule Of men,"
INT "the rule OF men, itself. And deep
or than any Of Senator Roots solemn
sounding principles is one from
wiser and higher source:
'The letter killeth, but the spirit
giveth life"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
PAVING FOR SMALL TOWNS

The citizens of Clear Lake have de-
cided to pave the business streets of
their small town, and it is the wisest
move that could have been made in the
way of civic Improvement. In these
days Of concrete pavements at close to
81 per square yard the paving cost to
a twenty foot business front is less
than $40 per annum for a street pave
lnent forty feet wide, and the improve
ment to the appearance of the town is
nearly 100 per cent.
One who has seen the up to date
and citified appearance of paved cities
in southern Iowa, and of such county
seats as Eldora Hampton and Toledo
in central Iowa. can appreciate what
it means for a town when its citizens
decide to pave
But next to paving is the Importance
of we'll graded and dragged streets
when not paved. Spirit Lake and
Spencer both have boulevards of
beauty and metropolitan appearance
because they are well graded, while
the unpaved streets of the larger
town of Mason City, rough and i'll
kept, cheaper the appearance of resi-
dence property. In western Iowa the
town of Denison can display some
homes as palatial as those seen in any
large city, but they are lost and dis
figured by the most neglected kind of
city streets that man could imagine.
At Logan, the next county seat west,
one can find a contrast of we'll kept
streets in town. 1t seems so strange
that the wealth and the enterprise
which has made possible such magnif-
cent homes in Denison would tolerate
such deplorable city streets in front of
them. But all of these towns had
better do as Clear Lake and dozens
of other towns are doing. Concrete
pavements at a cost of $40 per annum
to residence lot for a thirty foot
street and SO per annum to business
lot for a forty foot street are improve
ments too good to be passed by.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
Topics of the Times

ono thing to be noticed is that the
big wheat fields and the steel mills are
both clamoring for more men at higher
wages.
Any kind of weather is moose
weather.
Another thing to remark: big crops
at good prices mean that one or more
of the boys will have the money to
Ego away to school on All the farm
profits do not go into automobiles.
With paving, stamping and clashing
of horns the herd is milling round the
big bull moose today.
A little more rain for the pastures
and hot weather for the corn are prin-
cipal planks in the Iowa farmers plat
form which would carry unanimously.
Except for an occasional yelp nobody
would know that the hound dog ever
existed.
The Iowa City Republican says farm
trade has fallen off in that town one
half from its volue one year ago.
What's the matter? Doesn't the sa-
looms keep business?
Speaking Of old maids and married
women Helen Gould seems to have
done better than her sister Anna.
~ /.
a 1e-year- girl fixed up In accord
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
Iona Newspapers
WARNS ROAD SUPERVISORS.
ITraer Star-Clipper.l

The Rolfe Revielle says that Mrs.
Charles DeGroote, east Of ERADICATE,
has Instituted proceedings In the
courts, in which she will claim VS.
COO damages from Pocahontas county
for the death of her husband, VINO was
killed by his auto running of the
grade at the Des Moines river bridge
This public highway problem becomes
more serious as the auto business IN
creases There is no question as TO
the liability OF the county. Inere are
culverts in Tara county which are ia
BILE at any time to cause disaster, the
expense OF which the county may have
to meet. Some Of these are too short
and there are open bitches half cover
ed with weeds at each end Autos
are liable to plunge into these dltches
with DISASTROUS results Road super
intendents ought to realize the In
crease of liability these days and TO
employ every safeguard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
The Mule.

The Mule.
am the Mule: along the precipice's
utter edges
walk demurely. stepping surely
Across the slippery Lodges
OF smooth worn rock; derisory I grin
The while note the mental state
wherein
Is cast my rider-who is but fool.
am the Mule; at peep O day. yawning
they shivering rise
And seek me, bearing ropes. and swear
ing:
Entrapped, my gentle eyes
They cover with a cloth; and on my
back
Is rudely roped the dolori'c pack
Which I again buck oft-such Is my
rule.
The mountains cool gives sway: live
oaks the pines replace:
The blackboard, swerving, down tho
curving
Cart road flies; the pace
More furious grows: slack hangs the
loosened trace.
Grimly the trembling travellers back
ward brace
The time has come-1 balk- am the
Mule.
C. F. Grogan in London Spectator.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
HOW BUSINESS KEEPS UP.

The crop situation. upon which ma
tfonal prosperity so largely depends,
! is in an eminently satisfactory posi-
ton. Some uncertainty still exists as to
{ cotton, as is evidenced by the wide
fluctuations in the market for cotton
options, but the latest news shows i'm
provement in the eastern cotton sec
ton, with lack Of moisture again re-
[ ported in the southwest notably Tex
as. The grain crops are in very
promising condition and every day now
adds to their security from unfavorable
tweather developments.
A noticeable note Of optimism pre-
walls in business circles in most sec
tons Of the country. which is not ap-
I preciably affected by the usual excite
ments of a presidential year. The great
prosperity Of the iron and steel indus
try is steadily maintained in all it's
important branches: and the railroads,
already in possession of traffic, as
indicated by gross earnings in the
. three weeks Of July, "a per cent
larger than last year, are preparing for
a still larger business by liberal ar
rangements for rails and equipment on
| q scale in excess Of most former years.
A midsummer lull prevails in mer-
,.chandising in dry goods, yet many or
ders are coming in for future delivery.
The shoe trade also maintains recent
Improvement. The generally advancing
tendencies Of the business situation are
fstrikingly indicated bank clearings
for July, which show gains Of IA per
cent over 1911 and of So per cent over
sas10, and these grains are well dis
(1rfbuted over the different sections OF
yAhe country. proof that business i'm
provement is national in scope. The
July failure exhibit still shows the eff
fleet Of the former strain by the large
lnumNer Of defaults and the increase in
&labHities over the corresponding
4 nonth in the two preceding years, a
result which is largely due to the in
9sass in small failures.
Trade expansion contrasts with
n1psculativs dullness. 1nasmuch as the
INCREASED Industrial and mercantile
!. Separations involve larger demands fo1
senoney. white requirements in connec.
:Aion with moving the crops will also
sAs heavy. Il H. on the whole, fortunate
w. ~ - : .l4 *
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
Eaw rre,s live Lena.


Frank A. Waugh, professor Of horti-
culture in the Agricultural College OF
Massachusetts. lays down the general
rule that only one tree out OF every
twenty planted ever grows to maturity.
He therefore advises those who plant
trees to plant literally. He goes on to
say:
Effort should be made also to select
those which have grown on rich, we'll
drained soil. The theory that trees
taken from the forest or from inclem-
ent conditions will be more hardy runs
quite opposite to the fact. Indeed, the
best plan is everywhere to buy young
trees from the nurseries. Nursery
trees have clean. symmetrical tops and
are likely to have a hundred times the
more good rootage than trees taken
from the field. Everything rs in favor
Of the nursery grown tree. except the
price. and very often the expense Of
digging and bringing in half dozen
good sized naples or pin oaks from the
woods Is greater than the cost Of better
trees of similar size from the most ex-
pensive nursery in the country."-Wo-
mans Home Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
sino The Battle,


sing the song of the great. clean guns
that belch forth death at Will.
"Ah, but the wailing mothers, the life
less forms and still"
sing the song Of the billowing flags,
the bugles that cry before
.Ah, but the skeletons Tapping rags, the
lips that speak no more~'
4 sing the clash of the bayonets. OF
sabers that flash and cleave
~And wilt thou sing the manned ones
too, that go with pinned up
sleeve?"
I sing acclaimed generals that bring
the victory home.
"Ah, but the broken bodies that drip
like honeycomb"
I sing the hosts triumphant long ranks
Of marching men.
"And wilt thou sing the shadoWy hosts
that never march again.
Harry Kemp in the Forum
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
KENYON NO TRIMMER.


Occasionally we hear some repupn-
can denouncing Senator Kenyon as
nolitical wabler and trimmer. But
It Is to be noticed that the senator
does not trim when it comes to vot-
ing. He steadily pursues the course
he has marked out in the senate ana
with singular courage and highmlnd-
edness insists upon the things he be-
lieyes to be right. BY the aid OF
Senator Cummins he has succeeded
In forcing report Of his bill forbid
ing the shipment Of liquor into pro-
hibition territory altho he knows sucn
action will cost him votes in Iowa. he
stood with Cummins. La Toilette and
Borah in the recent tarin votes, vol
ing for the La Toilette wool bill. and
against the Penrose substitute, even
when Senator Cummins accepted 1t as
a step in the right direction. Senator
KENYON is not trimmer. He Is one OF
the most incere and courageous public
servants this or any other state has
contributed to the nation and Iowa Will
be singularly recreant to the welfare
OF the state and nation II she permits
him to be defeated this year on &C
count of the political turmoil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
Her Ambition.

"poor Harriet Quimby." said a New
YORK editor. as he regarded magazine
oto1raph Of the dead flying woman.
ash. used to work for me. and very
rood stories she wrote, too.
"Uhen .he took to flying and made
a success Of it, said to her:
81 suppose. with all tnis Zane, 'n ,s
dearest ambition Of your cnildnooo 10
Sratified, eh?
".No.' she said, smiling. had no
desire for fame In my childhood
remembers school question: WHAT IL
1t your highest ambition to beg" Tne
answer / gave to this question was:
missionary, and II not that, MIL
linery or clerk In candy store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05

Would you have better health, more
strength, clearer skin, stronger nerves.
more elastic step? Use Holiis1er
Rocky Mountain Tea, the great Veses-
able regulator and tonic. one soc
package makes 105 cups OF tea. Mcbrloe
& Will
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
AN E1GHTY-ACRE FARM.


A man who owns eighty acres OF
land and has sense enough to till 1t
makes the lot Of country newspaper
men look like last sad remnant OF
a Dutch lunch The farmer has the
best Of 1t all around. He Is AZ indie
pendent as an express company. He
doesn't have to write q soulful obitu-
ary over some peak headed fellow who
kept on display an exhibit Of cut-plug
profanity that would make the efforts
Of a steamboat mate sound like the
meeting Of an Epworth League. He
doesn't have to 30 into raptures over
the beauty Of an openface bride with
cast Of countenance that would blow
out the gas. The farmer isn't required
to lie until his back teeth fall out about
the sterling manhood Of the BRIDE
groom with ears like caluifiower
plant and the brain power Of yearling
shoat He doesn't have to run con-
test for the most beautiful young lady
in the community. make everybody
sore and then print a 75-cent halftone
of the beauty that looks like tintype
Of grandma at the age Of 13.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
70 Mend sheet hsuslc.

Cut . piece Of manila paper. the
size Of the sheet Of music, - You
would for . picture mat. paste this
over the edges Of your worn sheet OF
music. and II will last for years.-
Woman's Home Companion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
ABUSING ROOSEVELT.
Marion Register.1

The administration newspapers are
working overtime IN abusing Col.
Roosevelt and his friends IN Iowa.
What they expect to gain by II
passes understanding" The people
have not forgotten the splendid admin
istra ton he gave the country during
his seven years in the White House,
nor have republicans forgotten that
he left his party united and victorious.
The victories he won in the republic
can states from Maine to California
during the primary campaign Is evil
dence Of the confidence they still have
in him as statesman and republi-
can. They believe. too, that he was
cheated out Of the nomination In June.
They believe that he is the nations
greatest citizen and the peoples choice
for president. Abuse and villif1catton
viii! not change their opinion or BELIEF.
They believe and still believe that II
he had been nominated he would have
reunited the party and that his cleo
ton in November would be by a
greater majority than that Of 1904
when he won by 45,000-twice the
majority given to Taft in 1908. five
times the majority given to either
Grant or McKinley-SO0 times the ma
jority given to Garfield. They know.
the party so that it went down In over
whelmirg defeat. 100000 in his own
state Of Ohio To the men in the adj
ministration sanctums In Iowa let 1t
be said Lay on McDuff, and id
be he who first cries hold, enough"
Roosevelt or Wilson be elected in No
vember. Under which banner?
TAFTS SPEECH CONTRADICTORY.
Nevada Representative
President Taft received a. the White
House Thursday the committee that
had been sent to notify him OF his
nomination, and he replied to the
notification in an. elaborate speech. 1t
has become so obvious that In the
presidential race Mr.. Taft is only
third, and bad third at that. that
his speech would hardly attract at
tention were it not for the fact that
he Is still president Of the United
States and hence in a position to at
tract some attention to anything. His
speech is summarized as putting first
emphasis on the preservation OF con-
stitutional institutions. next on the
tariff and third on the regulation OF
the trusts AS to the first 1t may be
observed that if our constitutional In
stitutions have gotten where they have
to be sustained with an army OF dele
gates who have no constituencies and
a large part Of them dishonesty seat
ed then such institutions are in bad
way: and as to the second. platitudes
in behalf Of protection made by the
president who sought to destroy pro-
lection for agriculture with Cana
dian reciprocity are an insult to pub
lie intelligence. while as to the trusts
the president appears to justify his
administration chiefly by citing legts-
lation that was forced by Senator
cunmins and others onto the Wick
ersham bill in spite Of the obstruction
of the administration. If the president
only knew it, his very speech OF &C
ceptance ie in utter contradiction 10
the whole course of his administration:
but he does not know 1t. If he were
able to know he would be better
president than he is and probaply
would not be sliding so rapidly down
to oblivion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
PAGE COUNTY SKIRTS.
rShnraodooh World 4

The feminine effort in shenandoah
to make an umbrella cover serve the
purpose OF walking skirt isn't 50
pronounced as IN some other cities
we have been IN. Still some OF the
creations we have noticed covering
the lower half Of women's anatomy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05

The, dizzy about-face which Mr..
Taft has executed since he ran As
pledged progressive republican four
years ago Aas not been more striking
ly illustTatSd than in his-respoDse to
noun1 ement Games quite 6ppropriately
IRONS the caAttdate Of Mr.. W iIian1
BarneA III Ator Boies Pshf6ts. and