The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1912-08-15
- The News of Somerset's Busy Towns II

meeting which begins, Friday, Au-
gust 10th. Posters are out announc-
ing the program.
Joseph Matson of Scion was IN
town, Sunday morning.
Don't forget that Wednesday, Aug.
y. is the Odd Fellows and Rebekahs'
picnic day at Lake Embden. o. W.
Savage will carry those who have
no other means OF conveyance by no
tlfying him the day before.
John Rowe sustained a slight para
lytic shock, Sunday, but is improv-
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lysander Robinson
went to Cornville, Friday, for short
stay
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Savage and lit
tie daughter, Leona, are spending Old
Home week at Bingham, the guests OF
Rev. and Mrs. T. b. HIATT
DR.. Phillip Campbell and family
started for their home in the west,
Tuesday. The doctor had several pa
tients while here, who took the Chiro-
practic treatment, which is a new
school of medicine not yet practiced
very much in the east.
Gladys and Wilbur Moore of Arson
have been visiting at their uncle's,
Leon Newton, during the past week.
W. f. Mclean and family are visit
ing relatives at Augusta this week.
Those from this village who attend
ed the reunion of the 4th Maine Bat
terry at Skowhegan were Charles
Crymble, a member of this company,
l.; IA
and L. P. Lincoln, a member OF the
Sons of Veterans. About 20 members
of the 4th Maine were present, among
them being Llewellyn Lincoln OF
Winthrop, Mass, who returned with
his brother, l.. P. Lincoln, to this vii
lage. John Rowe is another resident
member of the 4th Maine Battery, he
and Mr.. Crymble being the only ones
here, but Mr. Rowe was not well
enough to attend.
Rev. p. j. Robinson of Littleton, y.
H., has been the guest of his brother,
l.. c. Robinson for a few days.
There is a general complaint among
the people on the streets of the high
cost of living and it is mostly among
the consumers. The fact Is, there are
not producers enough, and the de-
mand for farm products is greater
than the supply. If it is SO, as stated
that the consumers in the towns and
cities have increased three times as
fast during the past ten years as the
producers in the country it must of
necessity make every farm product
high and growing higher None of
the young men reared in the country
villages these days are seeking agri-
culture as an occupation This vii
lage has not produced farmer in a
generation. When one realizes that it
is the most honorable calling in the
wide world, that the first man of the
earth was tiller of the soil and the
last man will be a tiller of the soil,
it is strange that more do not follow
it as business. 1t is claimed by
some that the work is hard, unattrac-
tive and unprogressive; admitting
that some parts of the work is labori-
Gus, at times, modern ideas and
modern farm machinery has elimina-
ted the drugery from the farm, that
/ was the custom in our grandfathers
days. The young man starting out in
life that is afraid of hard work. and
is looking for an easy job generally
takes his vacation early. 1t is hard
work that does the business and fort
innate is the man, be he young or old,
who accepts the condition and puts
his hands to the pillow. No trurer
words were ever written than the
following from the pen of EX-Presi-
dent Roosevelt: 1.-THE law of worthy
life is fundamentally the law of
strife; it is only by hard labor, pain
full effort, indomitable courage and