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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
SEVERAL LIQUOR
CASES
Search and Seizure Raid
at Madison
The NanigianS and Mrs. LaFond in
Court Before Judge Brazzell. Ap.
ppals Taken. SuretieS Furnished

Two Madison women aid man
from that town We're in court before
Judge Brazzell Monday on liquor
cases. Mrs. Alphonsine LaFond was
first arraigned charged with single
sale. The testimony of one Paul
Lashus was listened to and was such
as to indicate that he had purchased
both whiskey and beer of Mrs. La
Fond, who conducts store in Madi-
son. Mrs. LaFond was represented
by W b. Brown, Esq. She was found
guilty and was sentenced to pay 3
and costs and to serve thirty days in
Jail and thirty days additional il de-
fautment of payment. If the fine
be paid however. the jail sentence
was ordered suspended. An appeal
was taken as it was in the second
case where it was alleged that Henry
D. Brophy, Fairfield Deputy had
purchased liquor of the respondent
She was placed under $24o bonds in
each case but before leaving town
settled the matter.
John Nanigian OF Madison
was charged with Illegal pos
session as it was claimed by officers
Brophy Witham Of Smithfela, Webs
ter of Norridgewock and McKenney
Of Madison that they had found
quantity of intoXicants on his prem
ises in a search and seizure raid. on
this he was fined 500 and 61 days in
jail. 1t was further claimed thai
Deputy Witham of Smithfeld had
purchased liquor in his establishment
and he pleaded not guilty on two
single sale cases as did his daughter
Miss Rosie Nanigian. who was also
charged with two single sales. An
appeal was taken IN all of these cases
thru the respondents attorney v. 3.
Brown, and they were bound oYee
Amedeo Christopher and MIS- John
Nanigian furnishing sufficient seour-
ity to satisfy the officials aid the cui-
prits were allowed 10 go.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Three Men Jailed Yesterday

Deputy Sheriff Burke of Jackman
brought down three men yesterday tc
serve sentences of fifteen days each
in the County Jail for evading car
fare. The trio who hailed from
Bangor and whose names are Tom
Donahue, Tom Moran and Tim Nc
Deary were hired to work for the
Kellogg Lumber Co. at Long Pond
and their fares were paid by the
company with the understanding that
they should recompense the company
for their transportation in work This
they refused to do hence the arrests
They were fined SO and costs or
ordered to serve the Jail sentence
heretofore mentioned.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
HAVE YOU VOTED FOR
YOUR FAvOR|TE
Contestants are "On the
Move" Now
At Least Half Dozen That Count
the Touring Car Already Theirs

This is the seventh week of the
independently Reporter Subscription
Campaign, which has now become
the chief topic of interest throughout
the entire county. The offer of a
$625 automobile as prize is enough
out of the ordinary to attract every
bodys attention. Probably not a
reader of the Reporter but has a
fayorite among the candidates and
there is plenty of evidence that most
of them are very much in earnest
that their fayorite shall win,
OF course. as the votes have been
turned in thus far. it looks as
though those who are below 10000
had abandoned the race for the prin-
cipal prize though still looking to
land one of those handsome gold
watches. Even this may not be the
case, however, as some apparently
Slow may be fooling us all by hold
ing back a big bunch of votes to
turn in at the end and land them a
winner.
Candidates are earning the game as
they go along and we now have lots
of inquiry as to towns that have not
been canvassed. We cannot always
tell that and yet we are more like
ly to know where work is not being
done better than anyone else. We
shall be glad to give the fullest in
formation on this point at any time
OF course each contestant can tell,
in a measure, where he is likely to
meet with the best success. Terri
tory where he or his family have ac-
quaintances is, other things being
equal, the most likely to yield the
best results. There is, however, a
great advantage in getting into IA
town where there has been no one
ahead. Let us help you if We can
to locate unworked territory
Candidates in District Ne. not
having made an active canvass,
prizes in that district are Withdrawn
in accordance with rules announced
at beginning of contest This leaves
good field open for candidates in
other places.
Monday, Sept. %, at p m. Will
ttFft NJ hn fln ,Ef L. 10
announcement will post the candi-
dates and their friends as to just
how much time they have left in
which to gather in the necessary
votes to win. Be sure to read
carefully our special vote offer on
page 2 of this issue
Don't forget that we mail sample
copies, without charge, to any list of
possible subscribers that you will
furnish us. Also remember that we
furnish any contestant with circular
letters or any other printed matter
that will be useful, free of charge
There are some contestants that have
not had their pictures published yet
1t is not too late to gain some ad-
vantage from this and we would sug-
gest that you send us picture at
once for this purpose. Always feel
free to come and talk the matter
over.
W J. Lashon is the winner of the
special 10000 vote offer. this week,
he having turned in the largest num-
Der of new subscriptions.
INDEPENDENT REPORTER co.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Motor Truck For Co. +

A letter from Rex Kelley now on
the Mexican Border. brings the in
formation that Capt Marston has
just presented the Co. with a Ford
Motor Truck Mr.. Kelley also speaks
very gratefully of pillow slips re
ceiyed by him from the Noman's Re
lief Corps of Newport and which he
distributed among his comrades
Same letter reports that Mathew
Green has been made a Corporal and
states that the Co. expects to remain
at Dolores only a fortnight longer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Look Out For the BurdOckS

The Town Improvement Society
have caused the burdocks to be re-
moved from the roadsides of the
community, having employed a man
for three days to attend to the de
spelling of these obnoxious plants.
The Society does not trespass on
private properties but the present
time is recommended as an excellent
one in which to care for all such
weeds, before they are too far de-
veloped
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Special Premiums for Somerset Gen.
tral Fair

Attention is called 10 the large
number of liberal special prizes
mentioned on paees - to 50 of the
premium schedules Of the Somerset
Central Fair for their forthcoming
show. These are splendid induce
ments to possible exhibitors which
will interest every one who might
rlan to make an exhibit Al Somerset
County's great exhibition
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Independent.Reporter at the fair

We shall have booth II TIC >ea
Exhibition Building during tie sga-
erset Central Fair. Thursday p
day and Saturday Of ne1 ~eeE. He
shall be pleased 10 have our patron
call on us Copies Of the vafioe-
papers published in Somerset cou1-
y in years past. VIII BE- on e2hlb.-
ton and some other objects Of IL
terest connected with SOmersef
county journalism.
The booth vii be Ia charge # a
competent representative Of OUT Of
fee Subscriptions viii be reeeiy-
ed or renewed OF orders taken for
Advertising
INDEPENDENT T-REPORTER CO
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
National Guard win be Retained

WASHINGTON. Aug. 2l-That Ma
tional Guard will be retained on the
Mexican border until it can be with
drawn without again endangerine
American lives and property. Secre
tary Baker so declared the admins
tration's policy today in answering
score of letters from many parts
of the country complaining that the
state troops We're being held in ser
vice after the emergency for which
they were called out apparently had
passed.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Would Like Your Votes

l appreciate very much the support
my friends have thus far given me in
the Reporter Automobile Contest
shall of course, be grateful for more
votes They may be left for me at
any time at Lashon & Buffers mar
ket, under Hotel Coburn.
WALLACE j. LASHON.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Moore Reunion

The Moore Reunion Association
held it's annual meeting at Lakewood
yesterday. Col, E. E. Gould of An
son was elected president; Rufus S
McKenney of Madison, vice president
and Mrs. Lottie Moore Gates, secre-
tary and treasurer.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
BiddieS are Being Stolen

Hen thieves are becoming quite
busy in North Fairfield On August
) they visited Bigelow Farm. tax
ing II hens and a fine rooster; Aug
10 they got "a hens at Frank Does
but at Urban Emery's rife salute on
their arrival at his place the cul-
prits fled.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24

A somewhat unusual feature of the
weekly dancing party at Lakewood
Theatre last Friday evening was the
presence of three generations in the
same family. These dancers were
Joseph Haskell, his son, Lewis B.
Haskell and his grandson, Joseph
Haskell.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24

DR.. George Otis Smith of the
United States Geological Survey az
rived Saturday forenoon to visit Mrs
Smith and family at their summer
home.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
THE CHANGERS At
LAKEWOOD
Galaxy of Brilliant Or
atOrS
Annual Field Event. Changes Since
W. d. Hayden's ChoNder House
Existed in 1878

Many prominent Changers are
gathering in this section of the
County today to attend the annual
field event of Somerset Pomona
which is being held at Lakewood. The
speakers have already been announc-
ed as being Past State Master c. s.
Stetson of Green present State Mas
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24

Ralph Alger Philbrook formerly of
Good Will Farm, has entered the T.
S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. Md,
having passed in the competitive ex-
aminations last April and having
stood the physical examinations in
June.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24

Mrs Frank Fulle~ and daughter
Berle have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Nye this week They now live
in Someryille Mass but once lived
in SkoWhegan.
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\ Greeting 10 Assisting Friends

No. Ans5n. Maine Aug. i. 1s16.
l am a candidate for the Indepeu-
dent-Rerorters automobile and tour
contest.
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4 Challenge to Debate

S25o0 will be paid to any Demo-
crat er Republican candidate who
will meet F. H. MaXheld. Socialist
Candidate for Governor of Maine,
Aug 81
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1916-08-24
Yours truly
SIGNED

have many other nice letters.
which I would like 10 publish. but
space Will not permit may be
given permission next week 10 let
you read some of them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14

who a point and guide him toward
higher things-higher heights even
than those to which they have attain
ed.
At the risk of seeming to preach we
wish to say to the fathers of this sec
ton that when you look upon the big
hog you have seen the ultimate. Moth
ing further is obtainable unless, pos
sibly. it be a little more of the same
porcine perfection. But when you
look upon your small son, how little
YOU can see of the limitless possibili-
ties for good and i'll that lie in that
small mind and heart, and how your
care of him is going to mould his life
into almost whatever you may will to
make it,
Why not think less of the big hog
and more of the small boy?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
MORE ABOUT A SOCIAL WORKER

In last weeks Pl%easantville Press
we mentioned the need of a Social
Worker and Visiting Nurse. The why
and wherefore naturally presents it
self to the mind of the thoughtful.
The social service of most cities is
supported by the united efforts of the
churches, clubs, lodges, etc., and in
some localities has reached a high
state of efficiency. The services in
Pleasantville might be supplied thru
Atlantic City's organization directing
this work, if this meets with the con-
sent of these parties. In this way We
could obtain expert supervision from
the very beginning of the installation
of our work, at a very much less cost
than could be expected if we operated
Independently.
Let it be understood that the above
is expressed only as a thought, n of
many that is to be enlarged upon and
discussed by every one interested.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
THE BOY, OR THE HOG.

For some weeks now, farmers all
over the states and counties have been
locking to the local fairs, some to ex-
hibit to the public the results of their
efforts and others to see and observe
and profit by the results achieved by
their fellows.
Among the many attractions to be
seer at these fairs is the inevitable
big fat hog. His hogship usually tips
the beam around one thousand pounds,
and we stand and marvel at the labor
and patience it must have required to
develop such swinish perfection.
Then if we are thinking men u
thoughts will probably pass on to
wonder if the owner of this marvel
has sons of his own, and as to how
great an effort he is making to deyel-
OPP them to the highest type to which
they are capable of attaining. The
hogs owner has been careful to elm
mate from it's progenitors all that
would tend to take from it's full and
complete development. Has he been
just as careful to weed out of his own
life habits and traits of character that
would initiate against the develop
ment of his son?
Often we have seen a boy succeed
in life despite the shortcomings of a
d%erelict father, and we have %contented
ourselves with the simple remark that
the boy is a great improvement on the
father. The tribute is weak and pal
try. Little do we reck of the fight
the boy has waged in order to rise
above his surroundings and overcome
his handicaps.
Environment is mighty and power
full for good or evil. The greatest
blessing a boy can have is parents
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14

profits, or out of the shipping public
by an increase of rates. The labor
leaders said they had had arbitration
In the past and that it was not salts
factory that now unless their de-
mands were fully granted, no power
under heaven could prevent the strike,
with it's disastrous consequences.
Under the duress of the threat, the
President of the United States and
Congress of the United States sue
cumbed. 1t was one of the greatest
national humiliations to which the
people of this country have ever been
subjected. 1t struck most a blow at
the principle of arbitration for the
settlement of industrial disputes.
mr.. Wilson as a publicist, attacked
the enactment of a federal child labor
law as an absurd extravaganza, and a
departure from constitutional limita-
lions, and now within the last sixty
days he has personally visited Con-
gress to urge the adoption of exactly
such a measure.
For the purpose of evading RESPONSE
bility for present conditions, it is ad-
vanced in behalf of Mr.. Wilson and
the Democratic Administration that
the conditions in Mexico were an in
heritance from the last Administra-
ton. The last Administration did
nothing to complicate Mr.. Wilson's
problems. Huerta had been twelve
days in power when Mr.. Wilson came
in. Up to that time nothing had been
done committing the government to
one policy or another. Had the Re
publican administration been cOntin-
ued, Huerta would have been recog-
nized, but with only twelve days be-
fore the coming in of a new Admins
t%ration, it would have been entirely
improper and inconsiderate for the
outgoing Administration to commit the
incoming to any policy on the subject.
Mr.. Wilson cannot shift the blame
for his plumbers in Mexico. He had
a clean slate upon which to write
when he came in.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
COMMUNITY

Have you ever stopped to consider
the fact that loyalty to community
interests is the highest type OF pa
triotism? Show US the mar who IS
loyal and true to every interest OF his
own community and we will show you
in that same individual a man in
whom his country can repose abso-
Lutte confidence in any emergency h a
calls for his allegiance.
On the other hand, the man who Is
careless and unconcerned for the IN
terests of his community is more than
ant to display the same spirit OF IN
difference toward his government or
his state should any serious danger
threaten either.
One of the most c~ommendable traits
of the old Scotch highlanders was
their loyalty to their W clan. Good
or bad, right or wrong, the clan had
their first allegiance. The life and
services of each member were always
cheerfully placed at the disposal OF
the clan.
Try to imagine an entire state COM
posed of innumerable communities
welded and cemented into a SYMMETRY
cal whole, each striving to excel the
others, but each, from its W local
loyalty, developing a broader and
deeper loyalty that reaches out and
embraces the whole.
Utopia, you say? By no means,
Merely what could and would be the
result if we could only be brought to
see that we owe allegiance to our W
people, but that the prosperity of 9TH
ers is in no wise a detriment to us,
but rather a help; that if each COM
munity would develop itself to the ut
most-physically, mentally and moral
ly-none would need be envious of
others, neither would any need do
aught to detract from another's in
terests.
Let US develop community loyalty
to the full-the highest possible form
of patriotism.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
PLEAS4NTVILLE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.

From the Atlantic City Union.
In the formation of an organization
of business men at Pleasantville to be
known as the Chamber of Commerce,
another forward step has been taken.
Such an organization becomes one of
the best assets of a municipality when
fostered along the right line. In At
lantic City the Chamber of Commerce
has become the guiding spirit Of pro-
erosion and many of the features
that have worked for the expansion of
the city have been p~ropagated by this
body.
After all the merchants of a city
mark the success of a town. Pleas
antville's newly formed organization
is composed in the main of the heads
of the big mercantile houses. The
men who have kept Pleasantville trade
in Pleasantville have added a civic
body that will enable the city on the
mainland to attain a greater city and
at the same time conserve home in
terests.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-10-14
Asserts the Democratic Party
and Its Candidate Are Seek
ing a Vote to Power by
DiSingenuous and Un-
sound Pleas.
LEFT CLEAN SLATE FOR
WRITING MEXICAN POLICY
Passage Under Duress of the Adam
son Bill Was One of the Greatest
National HumiIiations to Which
Our Country Has Even Been Sub.
jected.

Declaring that the campaign of 1916
is as important as the campaign Of
1896 and resembles that campaign in
that the Democratic party and its
candidate are seeking a vote of power
for disingenuous, %unsound, but allur-
ing reason, William II. Taft, former
President of the United States, deliv-
cred the opening address of the New
Jersey Republican state campaign at
Trenton.
Mr.. Taft said, in part:
"The great public advantage In Or
%ganiZation and combination of cap
ital and of wage-earners we all recog-
nize. The power they acquire may,
however, become so great as to tempt
to serious abuse and public injury,
and they have done so. Hence, we
have had the antitrust law and the
interstate commerce law, directed
chiefly against combinations of cap
ital but effecting in some measure
combinations of labor. Labor leaders
have sought exemption from such
laws as a privileged class, and in some
cases they have been successful.
While Mr.. Wilson in one of his me-
morandums attached to an appropria-
ton bill avowed his opposition to such
class legislation, he united with the
Democratic Congress in passing, at
the demand of the unions, the Clay
ton Act, which, the labor leaders
claim, takes unions out of the limita-
lions of the Trust Act.
"Unwise subserviency to the de-
mands of leaders of organized labor
finds it's browning instance, however,
In Mr.. Wilson's dealing with the
threatened strike of the Railway Or
ders of conductors, engineers, train
men and switchmen. The orders
claim to control 100000 men, who run
the freight and passenger trains of
the country, which constitute the
arterial circulation of commerce, and
are necessary not only to the bust
ness but to the health and life of the
people. Were these men able to tie
up the railways of the country, as
they said they could and would, it
would mean enormous loss in bust
ness, and great deprivation and suffer-
ing to the public. 1t would mean that
many millions of other workmen
would be thrown out of employment,
and lose the high wages they are
now receiving, because without COM
merce local industries cannot pro-
coed. The Railway unions said to
the railway president 1--WE wish an
eight-hour day, with ten hours pay,
and if we work more than eight hours,
we demand so per cent more an hour
for the extra hours. If you do not
give us this, we will not only injure
you, but we will bring disaster to the
country" The railway managers re-
fused the demand, but offered to SUBJ
nit it to arbitration. They said it
would increase their cost of operation
$60,000,000, and that this would have
to come out of the pockets of the rail-
way stockholders, by a reduction of