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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
NORTH NEW PORTLAND

Granville Lasherness went to Lew
iston Tuesday to see his daughter
Alma. who was seriously injured by
IA fall while working at a hotel in
Pennington and taken to the Central
Maine General Hospital
Earle FenlasOn went to The Forks
Monday.
O. w. Henderson has returned from
his recent trip to Bangor
George Chapman is painting and
paper hanging at the TaEue hotel
DR.. and Mrs. Pratt were at Licking
ton Monday to assist DR.. Greene of
Scion in surgical operation on the
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Pinkham.
Drs. Greene and Pratt operated on
a three years old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thos Hogan last week for APP
pendicitis
At the banquet hall on Wednesday
evening April Is, Mr. Mitchell of the
University of Maine. who is State
leader of the Boys Agricultural Clubs
will give to the boys, their parents
and friends, talk on the subject of
their clubs. II. NJ Stiles, agricul-
tural agent for Somerset county, will
also be present In the few years
since the work began in the State,
the clubs have rapidly increased in
number and value and have for their
aim the education OF the youth in
modern methods of farm production.
Farming has made great advances in
the past decade or more and is rap
idly acquiring the dignity of "A pro
fession Mr. Mitchell is a most in
teresting speaker and it is hoped peo-
pie will avail themselves of the UNI
usual opportunity offered to hear
him, and enlarge their acquaintance
with this most vital subject.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
EMBDEN LAKE

Mrs Elsie Walker and daughters
Ina and Elva have taken rooms at
Gardner Wills at North Arson and
will reside there for few weeks
Miss Eta Barron from Sanford is
visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. j,
+. Barron for a few days.
Wednesday morning Wilbert Walk
er found one of his horses dead. This
is the fourth horse that Mr.. Walker
has lost in about year and half,
villa and Fred Mullen were callers
at l., i. Spencer's Saturday evening.
Mrs Abbie Spencer and Miss Villa
Mullin were callers at Frank Affords
Sunday.
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MOST ON

Mrs. Ed Berry and little grandson
went down river Monday
Ohio Whitney who has not been in
good health is much better
Austin Ham Of New Hampshire is
visiting his parents Mr.. and Mrs II.
Y. Ham
We understand that Miss Martha
Huff who was recently operated on
for appendicitis is improving
Milton Reynolds who was at home
last week with a severe cold, is able
to be out again.
The selectmen were taking the in
yentory of the town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Farley who
bought the Edward Andrews farm on
the Stream road and moved there a
short time ago, are we'll pleased with
their new home.
Frank Fitzsimmons of The Forks
arrived in town Saturday of last
week to visit his parents Mr. and Mrs
Henry Fit1simmons
Granville Bean is confined to the
house with a cut foot
There is no Sunday School or
Thursday evening prayer meetings
held at the Washington schoolhouse
now on account of the bad roads
Mrs. Ray Nye and little daughter
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
SOITII SOI0N

Albert c. Head is spending his va
cation with his grandparents.
The r. F.. d. came on wheels the
first time April 5th Two years age
it came the Sth of March. There
has been sixteen weeks of continn-
Gus sleighing this winter
Mr.. Laid of Rhode Island who has
been stopping at G. T. Durhams. re
turned home the first of the week
G. T Durham has sold most of his
farming tools and household goods
and with his half-brother Edward
Spear started for Skowhegan the first
of the week intending to stay there
for a while
John Spear is stopping at d. W
Jewett's
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
pTGH CORNER

Henry hatcher who has been visit
ing his sister Mrs. Charles Bowden
of Oakland, returned home last Mon
day.
Ralph Mccarthy who has been cook
ing for Sterling of Bingham, returned
home one day last week
George Merrifield of Richmond was
Il visitor last week at the home of
Delbert Parker.
Miss Muriel Richardson went last
Monday to Skowhegan where she has
employment.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
lONtORID

Vera Harris was operated upon for
appendicitis last Friday at the home
of her aunt, Mrs. Nathaniel Gerald
Drs Greene and Brown performed
the operation. They were assisted
by Mrs. Belle Hunnewell
a meeting of the school Ccnmittee
was held at the home of Walter
Hughes last Saturday.
Davis Howes who has been work
ing near Lincoln, returned home last
week.
Kenneth Packard had the misfort-
une to break his arm last Friday.
John Thompson was called home
last week on account of the illness of
his little daughter Ruth.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12

There was quite crowd at the
dance held at II f. Spears last Sat
urday night 1t is reported that
there is to be another one next Sat
urday night
Some from this place attended Eas-
ter services at Blackwell schoolhouse
last Sunday
Madison Center Cemetery assoeia-
ton met at Fred Hayden's last Sat
urday and chose the following OIL
GERS Moderator. Eli Hayden; secre-
tary, NJ NJ Moore; president, Olive
Hayden; treasurer, Fred Hayden
sexton. Ora Luce
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Gard OF Thanks

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to those who so kindly as
sisted us in our late bereavement, to
those who contributed the beautiful
flowers and to Rev II. c. Glidden for
his comforting words.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank p. Moody
and family
Scion, Apr. 7. 1917
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
, =: ;,,. n!!?s G!>!!x

Miss Alice Moore returned to Ban
gor Sunday after spending her Eas-
ter vacation with her friends
Miss Nellie Tibbetts from the vii
lage spent few days last week with
Mrs Reuben Reed
Mrs. Il. A Williams has been snf-
fering for the last three weeks rom
a severe attack of grippe.
Carroll Holt spent last week in
\orridgeWOck
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SlIMERSEI'

Mr.. and Mrs. Trevor Howes have
rented and moved into the Norton
house near Iiewett and Chase's mill
where Mr. Howes has employment
School began at the Mill school
house April End with Ezra Luce OF
Arson Valley as teacher.
Clark Luce went to st Adams last
week and bought of f. G. Crocker two
fine four months old registered
Guernsey calves.
Frank Churchill recently sold a
pair of work horses to Mr. Jewett OF
Skowhegan.
Mrs. Steve Haskell and son OF
Skowhegan have again returned to
the Clark place where MIR Haskell
works for the North Arson Mfg. Co
Mason Luce of Athens is in town
for few days visit with his mother
and other relatives
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who have spent the winter at her
fathers, Thales Spaulding's, have
gone with her husband to visit his
parents in Skowhegan and Will soon
move onto their farm which they
bought last fall
CRYSTAL Grant is boarding at Dana
Hills while the girls are attending
Rlngham high school
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April Is, If nothing happens
The remains of Mrs Alma Spohord
of Bingham were brought here lot
burial Saturday where she vas lald
to rest in the family lot.
Word has been received here that
Mrs. Carter. who has been staying
with her niece. Mr. Albert Dyer OF
SkOwhegan. had sustained a shock
Being an old resident here, she mas
the sympathy OF all
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Gard OF Thanks

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our kind friends and neigh
bors for the sympathy shown us and
for their many acts of kindness dur
ing our recent bereavement; also for
tho beautiful flowers sent by them
and by the Sunshine society.
Fred Pease
Mr.. and Mrs. Omar W Chase
Somerset, April 10, 1917
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independent Reporter. mos, 25c
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07
FARM-HELP PROBLEM

Government Plan for Organization Of
Farm LabOr-Provision Made for
Nation Wide Cooperation
Washington Dispatch.
Under the government plan for the
organization Of farm labor, the de-
tails of which were announced by the
United States Department of Agri-
culture this week, provision is made
for nationwide cooperation in the
solution of the farm help problem.
The work of organization already
has been started in about 40 States,
and it is expected that eventually ev-
cry community in the United States
will be reached. 1t is believed that
the resultant utilization of emergency
labor will begin to have an apprec-
liable effect on the farm labor situa-
ton before the season has far ad-
vanced. Meanwhile, the immediate
and acute problem of supplying labor
for the harvests, now beginning in
the southwest is being handled, so far
as the United States governments S
services are concerned, through the
existing employment service of the
u. S. Department of Labor, which
will continue TO handle such prob
lens of mass mobilization under the
new plan as it has in the past.
The plan is based on close co-ope-
| ration on the part of the U. S. De-
rartment of Agriculture and the U.
s. Department of Labor with State
committees on national defense
charged with labor matters, with the
State agricultural colleges, with the
county agents and with the
local or township labor committees
or representatives to be established
in every locality. The Department of
Agrit ulture will represent the Fed
eral authorities in determining farm
labor needs and in assisting in organ
izine all available farm labor in the
rural districts. The U. S. Depart
ment of Labor Will devote its atten-
ton to organizing labor in urban
communicates and industrial regions
and will cooperate with the farm la
Dor forces where necessary by OBJ
tanning extra labor for the populous
centers.
The plan provides for strictly loca
handling of all labor problems that
can be adjusted locally. The funda
mental unit of the organization is
the community man, who, with thu
assistance of such committees as ht
may appoint, canvasses his owl
neighborhood, finds out what farm
ers need help, and what men ar,
available for SUPPLYING the local need
and effects such adjustments as cal
be made locally. If, after all loca
adjustments have been made, ther
remains either a deficit or surplu
of labor, he reports to the "count.
man." whose business it is to effec
adjustments between the several com
munities in his county. The count
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07

have destroyed the Federal army.
They knew it, and the fury of their
repeated assaults is attested by the
fact that when the fight was over
their dead were so thick on Snodgrass
hill that a man might have walked
from its foot to it's top on their bod
les.
The companies that are now form
ing at the foot of that hill are made
up Of the grandsons of the Confede-
rate dead. They lack the military
technique, but they know who they
are. None of them pretends to be
much of soldier as yet, but they
can learn, and it would be little short
Of treason to America to doubt that
they have the spirit that carried the
gray lines time and again up Snod-
grass hill in that hopeless endeavor
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07
hat the army enlisted men. in spite

that the army enlisted men, in spite
OF their uniform courtesy to indi-
vldualss, are not greatly impressed
with the body of student officers as
a whole. Compared with the math-
ematical precision Of a regular reg
iment drill, the formations of the
boy Scouts" are pretty ragged. But
they are getting better every day.
There is little mere smoothness of
alignment, a little more snap, a lit
tie less hesitation, every time COM
pany 16 forms. The company com
mander almost daily expresses his
wonder that anybody should ever have
suspected the members of the
company of ability to be-
come soldiers, but down in
his heart he is getting a little spark
of pride in his men in spite of the
seasons OF despair that occasionally
seize him.
For there is one thing about the
training camp that counts enormous
~, although it may not show in the
hardest. After all, these men mean
business and it can be seen more
plainly every day. The college
/ songs ana the laughter, anu Lne end
less joking, are only the effervesence
of youth. Down at bottom nobody
forgets what the gathering means fol
moment.
The parade ground where the com
panies do their daily drilling is Snod
grass field, the comparatively leve
space at the foot Of Snodgrass hill
the eminence that General Wilde
held in September, 1868, when Wild
er's superior, Thomas, by his stant
was saving the remains Of Rosecran'
i defeated army during the battles o
Chicamauga. If the Confederate
could have taken that hill, they Nigh
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07

man, in turn, reports any deficit or
surplus to the Estate man., who can
vases the situation for the States as
o. whole and reports to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, which, in close
cooperation with the Department of
Labor, is charged with the distribu-
ton of mobile labor for the country
as a whole.
Thus each unit in the system acts
as clearing house for its own ter
ritory, reporting to the units higher
up only when it needs help or has
help to offer. The plan provides that
supplemental reports shall be sub
mitted by each community man when
ever changes in the local labor Sit
uation makes desirable further adj
justments that can not be met with
the material at hand or when a sur
plus of labor develops which he can
not use.
+ A great many retired farmers, Of
whom there are 100000 in the coun-
try, may be available for emergency
service under the plan of farm labor
mobilization. The plans contemplate
also the drawing Of emergency labor
from the cities under the immediate
direction of the Department of La
Dor, the effective utilization of col
lege estudents and school boys, and,
if necessary, the assignment of vol
| unteer women and girls to rural tasks
connected particularly with feeding
and caring for harvest hands or other
extra labor, or with farm canning OF
drying of surplus perishable products
In other words, the plan contemplates
supplying assistance not merely fol
field operations, but to farm womer
during their season of heaviest do
mestic duties.
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07

] will have to die as there is no help for
me- She got me one of your little
books and my husband said l should try
one bottle. l stopped the doctors
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made q
change in me and now am strong and
do all my work. Mrs. AUGUSTUS
BAUGHMAN, Box Sc, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three-
fourths of the joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's 8
Vegetable Compound
IF you would like free confidential ad-
vice address Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07

and nervous feelings
and my head both
cred me. / would
often have crying
spells and feel as If
/ was not safe. If
l heard anyone COM
ing I would run and
lock the door so they
would not see me.
I tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so | said to
nv mother 4 guess
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07
SICK WOMAN HAD
CRYING SPELLS
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Enhaut, Pa.-'I was all run down and
weak inwardly. I had female troubles
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07
100000 corns
Lifted Right OF !
Try 2 Drops of Magic "aets-It"

There's a wonderful difference b0.
the way they used to try to get rid
of it only four or five years ago.
'eGets-It" has revolutionized corn
history. It's the only corn remedy
The Robesonian., 1917-06-07

today that acts on the new prin.
ciple, not only Of shriveling up the
corn, but of loosening the corn Of
60 loose that you can lift it right
on with your fingers. Put drops OF
night. That's all. The corn is
doomed sure as sunrise. No pain.
or trouble. or soreness. You do
away once and for all with toe
bundling bandages, toe-eating salves
and irresponsible what-nots. Try
it-get surprised and lose a corn.
"Gets-It" is sold everywhere, 25c
BY E. Lawrence & CO., Chicago. IN
Sold in Lumberton and recommend
ed as the Worlds best corn remedy
by Pope Drug Co., and j. D. McMil
Ian & Son.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
HOW TO CAN

The following method is used by
canning demonstrators in the North
and West:
Select firm, well-formed tomatoes.
Scald IL minutes, or until skins loose.
Dip quickly into and out Of cold water.
Peel and remove stems and cores. Pack
directly into cans or hot jars. Press
down with a tablespoon (add no wat
err. Add a level teaspoonful Of salt
per quart. Put the rubber rings and
caps of jars into position. but do not
tighten fully. Seal tin ans completely.
Place the packed containers on a false
bottom in a vessel of water sufficient
II deep to cover them by / inch and
allow to remain at a boiling tempera-
ture for % minutes, when using hot
water-bath Gamers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
cRANOMoTHER's METHODS

Try grandmother's method OF dry
ing vegetables.
Producing food is only half the JOB.
Food which isn't needed now must
be saved for the future.
To waste food anytime is indefen5-
ible; this year it is little short of Grim
inal.
Most vegetables and fruits are large
" water, and it is the water that
makes them spoil easily.
Drive off the water by drying and
save the real food.
1t will keep perfectly in a paper box.
You can draw on your spigot or we'll
bucket for the water when you need 1t,
and make appetizing food.
Your grandmother dried vegetables
and fruits before canning was known.
If you can't get the cans or jars az
reasonable prices, practice the meth
DDS grandmother found good. Send for
Farmers Bulletin S41, which tells how
to Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington. d. c.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
A MEAT SUBSTITUTE

American Chedder cheese is a most
satisfactory substitute for meat and
may be made the important protein
dish of a meal. say food specialists of
the United States Department of Agri-
culture. Too many people use cheese
only as an appetizer. Since it COM
pares very favorably with meat in pro-
TEN content and can be kept and serv-
ed easily, its wider use is advocated.
Contrary to the opinion Of many.
Chedar or "store" cheese is not us.
ually indigestible and constipating.
One person who ate cheese as the
chief source of protein and energy,
eating an average of 9.27 ounces daily
for more than two years, did a fair
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
SKILL WITH a SKILLET

4 writer in the August Woman's
Home Companion says:
Where we are living at present We
have no gas range, only a two-burner
plate, and the coal range is so large
that it requires a great deal of fuel TO
heat the oven sufficiently to bake even
a few mullins or biscuit, so that | have
tried to find a satisfactory substitute
that could be cooked in a skillet. BY
using the skillet dry and sprinkling il
lightly with -four I bake very enjoy
able biscuit cake or scone. For these
I use simply a biscuit batter, made a
trif1e sitter, patted or rolled to about
a qu~arter-inch thickness. One must
he sure to have the fire or gas low
enough not to burn the outside of the
scone before the inside has time to
cook sufficiently. If gas is used, a
more even distribution of the heat may
be obtained by using a heated lid from
the stove under the skillet; or a heavy
piece of tin or sheet iron will serve the
purpose"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
THIS WAS ~JOhNNY-CAkE

You never ate a ~jOhnny-cake baked
on a board? You don't say! Wal, then,
you do know what ~johnny-cake is,
Hubby. Haow did they make EN-? Wal,
jest stirred up the meal wi bilin wat
er an salt, not tew thick ner tew thin,
an then spread it ontu a oak board
at was made a-puppus. an sot it up
afore the fire, tilted a leetle mite at
fust ag'in' a fiat iron. an KEEP a-settin'
ii up swtretter an stretter till that side
was done. and then turn it over and
lake tother side, an all the time keep
a-bastin' ont wi sweet cream, an
then eat it an be thankful at the Lord
made Injin corn III grow an give his
creeters the knowledge tn use it prop.
er."-From Rowland Robinson's Dan.
Wis Folks.
Maybe you don't entirely agree with
Aunt Jerusha on her receipts" May
be you have learned better ones from
the food scientists-modern amend
ments to Aunt Jerusha's original mo-
ton. But food experts are quite in
agreement with this early champion
that corr meal is one of the most
wholesome foods, that there is no inn
portant dietetic difference between
corn and wheat as sources Of body fuel.
And we've all agreed that there is a
patriotic obligation to conserve food.
So the duty becomes plain, though, as
the specialists have pointed out there
need be no sacrifice of p~alatability if
corr meal is properly made and serv-
ed.
a new edition of Farmers Bulletin
565. Corn Meal as a Food and Ways OF
Using 1t, brings Aunt Jerusha's re-
c;pes up to date. This bulletin, which
should be in the hands of every house
wife, will be sent to all who apply for
il.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
Household Helps and Hints
Weekly Service for Women Readers
ice for Women Readers

amount of muscular work and kept in
good health.
Cheese may be used in many palat.
able dishes. When grated it may be
used in soups with many vegetables.
other foods with which cheese is used
are: Macaroni and cheese. Welsh rab-
bit. tomato rabbit, baked rice and
cheese, vegetables and cheese rolls,
cheese omelet, oatmeal and cheese, and
cheese mush.
Receipts and further information are
given in Farmers Bulletin 487, Cheese
and its economical uses in the diet,
which may be obtained free on appli-
cation to the Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, d. C..
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-07-26
MILK GRAVY

Enough for family of two adults and
three children. Reduce proportions if
for smaller number.
l pint skim milk, IA cup -four.
level teaspoons butter or cooking fot
X teaspoon salt.
Melt butter or other fat in saucepan
add -four and salt mixed. Blend Add
milk gradually. Heat. stirring con.
stantly until thick.
Flavor, if desired. with any leftover
minced meat or fish which may be on
hand. or minced ham or a slice of ba.
0 crumbled.
Serve on'boiled hominy, samp, rice,
potatoes, macaroni, or slices of corn or
other bread or toast.