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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-14
LeightOn-M0sher

A most attractive wedding was that
Of Miss Florence Mosher and William
Ernest Leighton, which was sOlemniz-
cd Tuesday evening at the home Of the
brides parents, Mr. and Mrs Frank ].
Mosher in Portland in the presence
If relatives and close friends The
groom has for the past few years
been in the accounting department
at the First National Bank and Is
popular in this section. He Is a
Wesleyan University man His bride
is graduate of Portland High school
and has been a prominent young lady
in the Forest 81. Principal and
Mrs Ralph " Leighton attended the
nuptials The couple viii occupy a
cottage at Lake Wesserunsett this
summer prior TO locating in skowhe-
gan. A large circle of friends are
extending hearty fluctuations
~ Sales girls wanted-M. B Hesel-
ton.
Annual Merchants Day IN Skowhe-
gan, next Thursday.
SIC fibre silk hose for ACC at Stew
ards, Merchants day.
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Special Town Meeting

There is 10 be a special town meet
INK week from Saturday for the pur.
pose Of determining whether or not
the Opera House shall be LET for NOV
ing pictures and furthermore 10 reg
ulate the number OF licenses that the
selectmen shall give In Skowhegan.
The County commissioners have re-
Gently laid out highway ia the voin-
ny Of Susie Brook and II ia the duty
Of the town to raise money for its
construction at this meeting
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-14

The loyal manner in which the pub
lic eo-opsrated Ia the re-capture of
Galway. after his recent escape, is
worthy OF more than passing mention
Had there been a less generous effort
tho result might have been very much
prolonged and perhaps have been I'M
successful For the public and for
myself wish 10 thank those who do
mated the use Of their automobiles
and Ali who. without expectation OF
remuneration we're so prompt and
generous In their assistance
HARRY l. GOODRICH Sheriff
skowhegAn Maine June IA. 1917
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Great bargains at Stewards Mer-
chants day.
Special bargains at Dyer's, Mer-
chants Day.
A fine line of switches, in all shades,
at Miss Towne's, Merrill block.
Fire, Smoke and Water Sale, Armory
Hall, Thursday, June 81 at o'clock.
Special discount on all trimmed hats
on Saturday, June 18th at the Kin
caid Millinery Parlors. Discount on
all goods on Merchants Day.
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Moving Picture Theaters Combined

business transaction OF consider
able Importance has been consummat-
ed the past week, combining the Star
and Bijou Moving Picture Theaters
under one management In the deal.
CLYDE H Smith has disposed OF his
interest in the Star Theater 10 Michael
st Ledger. and a cop partnership has
been formed which includes that gen
tleman. Willard f Smith and Myron
Smith, under the title OF the
Smith st Ledger Company This
firm will operate both theaters
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Tickets for AlamHl Baaqact

those who can do so are urged 10
purchase tickets for $ IA 3 Alumni
Banquet during the aay. tomorrow
friday Of Mrs vivian Woodbury. at
the once Of X l. Marston Mrs.
Woodbury. Will also have them on sale
az The municipal court room lgst prev
lols 10 the Commencement sueFclsea
% those Sho have previously engaged
'hem The banquet is 20 be "a Ma
sonic block banquet room inatead II
orange ball as previously announced
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You will get 10 per cent discount at
Dyer's, Merchants Day
Ten per cent discount on all goods
at Stewards Merchants day.
Music at Green Bros. 5-10c store
Saturday. There will be a song
big song hits This is the first time
Skowhegan has had anything like this
and we want everybody to come. This
is special feature and all songs sell
for 10c on this day.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-14
ORDER YOUR CAR Now


You should select and order your
'ef neS So ss Ia have n IN season
sNa fon certainly can select one from
'es large variety the Overland Models
uoefed this year which are at the
overland sAlesroon
ca are cordially Invited 10 come In
ana iook them over
fD0iAER AND EMERY
Opposite Post once
'N 20 Atsr Street Ss0@ hogan. Ne
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-14

Don't do your shopping Merchants
Day until you call at Dyer's.
Special prices on Wool Dress Skirts
at Stewards, Merchants day.
Fire, Smoke and Water Sale, Armory
Hall, Thursday, June 81 at 8 o'clock.
Annual Merchants Day in Skowhe-
gan, next Thursday
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IRE snsoss aaa Water sale. Armory
MAJ thursday. June 81 Al cloSk
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-06-14

FIRE. smoke and Water Sale. Armory
Hall. Thursday. June q at o'clock
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We spread before you the latest and best Newest
Summer Models. Your eye for beauty. your ap-
probation of detailed refinement and you exaction
OF fit finish and make will be satisfied You are
invited to examine Every garment is worthy of
attention from the quality standpoint
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
ORIGINAL OF sEpALIA.

According to the Youths Compan-
ion the city of Sedalia was both found
ed and named by General George r.
Smith, who was distinguished citi-
zen of Missouri during the years o.
he civil war and the periods immed-
lately before and after that struggle
lie was Virginian by birth and a
kentuckian by upbringing; as a young
nan he came to Missouri and settled
II Georgetown, which is three miles
forth of the present city OF Sedalia.
He was prominent both in politics and
business and was instrumental in the
building of the Missouri Pacific Rail
way from st. Louis to Kansas City
Turing the SOS of the last century.
He could not induce his fellow
ownsmen TO make the necessary ef-
'ort to have the railway pass through
Georgetown, and, forcseeing that that
Jould condemn the village to recay,
lie bought a large tract of land beside
he railway tracks and laid out a
ownsite there, from which in course
If time has grown the fiourishing city
Of Sedalia.
When it came to furnishing a name
or the, new settlement, General Smith
determined to christen it Sedville, in
lonor of his younger daughter, Sarah,
whose pet name in the family cicle
gas "Sed." ne of his friends, Josiah
Tent of St Louis, suggested that
vile" was commonplace termina
ion, and that Sedalia would be more
BEAUTIFUL and unusual name. General
NTH approved of the suggestion, AMI
iedaiia came officially into being
Then he and his family, the first in
,abitants of the new town, moved
hither in 1859.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
ADVANCE IN PRICES.

A table showing the increased cost
4 railway supplies has just been is.
ned by the St. Louis Il San Fran
isco Railway. II shows that 50 per
ent of the supplies bought in 1915
ill cost $3,S50,0OO more this year
han then--an increase of 119 per
cnt. The rest of the material has in.
.reased 90 per cent.
If the same number of axles is
ought this year as in 1915, says the
.ummary, the cost will be 257 per
cent greater The increased cost Of
rake beams is Sc per cent. The same
lumber of high speed drills would cost
$1,000 more and the same number of
ontinuous joints would cost S152.O0o
more. IL the same number of track
pixies is used in 1917 as in 1915 the
;ost will he 100000 higher. Boiler
ubes have increased 201 per cent and
steel wheels 107 per cent.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
ONE OUT OF EVERY TEN.

One out of every ten persons l..
France is a soldier in the war. That
is terrifically heavy mobilization. In
no American war has the number OF
soldier in proportion to population
equaled that.
During the entire eight years of the
American revolution 100000 soldiers
served under Washington. Had they
all been in the army at once it would
only have matched the present French
mobilization; but there were never
100000 soldiers in the revolution at
one time-less than one peson in thir.
ty of the population.
About one in twenty, counting mil
tia who never heard the whiz of a
bullet. was the best they did in the
war of 1912.
The war of Mexico required only
enc in 200.
Mobilization in the confederate
states during the rebellion was heav-
Ter than in the Union states. The big
gest Union army in the field at one
time was about 100000, or one out
of every twenty of the northern popu.
lation.
The war with Spain called out only
one man from each 900 Of population.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22


his address of March 4, 1866, the oc-
casion of his second Inauguration.
Mr.. Lincoln in part said:
"Fondly do we hope. fervently dc
we pray that this mighty scourge OF
war may speedy pass away. Yet
il God wills that it continue until al
the wealth piled up by the bonds
mans two hundred and fifty years o
unrequited toll shall be sunk, AM
until every drop of blood drawn wit
the lash shall be paid by another
drawn with the sword, as was said
three thousand years ago. SO still il
must be said: The judgments of the
Lord are true and righteous alto
gether.' With malice toward none
with charity for all. with firmness in
the right as God gives us to see the
right, let us strive on to finish the
work we are in, to bind up the ma
tons wounds, to care for him who
shall have borne the battle, and TO,
his widow and his orphans-to do al
which may achieve and cherish q
just and a lasting peace among our
selves, and with all nations"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
NEW STATE IN uNlon.

The agitation for a dry Illinois and
the susceptibility Of the Solons at
Springfield, have made the vets sit
up and take notice. Following the
example OF Davenport and Scott
county, which were once ambitious 10
be counted greater than the state of
Iowa, so Chicago and Cook county
would like to cut loose from the rest
of the state of Illinois and maintain an
oasis on the Lake front.
The vets want Chicago cut away
from the rest of Illinois and created
into a new state OF it's own with all
the privileges. attributes. and auth
GRITTY that a commonwealth now en-.
joys, including two United States sen.
ators. a legislature OF its own, and all
OF the trimmings.
The first legal step to secure such
a condition was taken in the Illinois
senate through a joint resolution in
troduced by Senator John T. Denvir
of one OF the west side districts. The
joint resolution Isl a memorial to CON
gress to create the state OF Northern
consisting Of Cook county as
at present bounded, and the state Of
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
CAN'T Stop SUNDAY.

Even the war will not stop Billy
sunday in his proposed resent upon
Chicago next fall. .......
The question whether the prospects
If war would make it desirable to
postpone the coming of the evangelist
md his party to Chicago at the time
agreed upon was put up to the COM
mittee of 100 in a letter from Mrs.
Sunday.
IF the committee thinks the pros
jects of war make it desirable to. post
oone the campaign" Mrs. Sunday :
etter said, Mr.. Sunday is willing to
cancel the engagement"
1--WE must have salvation in Chica-
20 whether there is a war or no war,
Mr.. Peterson chairman OF the commit.
tee, replied. The question was pvt
to vote by the chairman, and the d.
cision unanimously reached to go
ahead with the plans for the biggest
campaign ever held by Mr.. Sunday.
With Sunday and the Illinois state
legislature both after them the vets
of Chicago will know how it feels to
be chased by sub marine.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
THE RURAL CHURCH.

A rural church conference was re-
Gently held in Columbus, Ohio, and
the Journal of that city was struck
with some of the reports made 1T
was pleasant" says the Journal, ito
hear one of the speakers talk of ma
ture and country SCENERY as promo
i tive of religion. In fact, one can
hardly separate the love of God from
the love of nature, which is his handi-
work. Ones religious condition it to
be suspected if he does not include
the love of the bees, the flowers, the
bords, the stars, the creeks, the grass.
Why? Because every one of these has
Gods meaning in it, just as surely
as verse in the Bible, and often
much more understandable. And then
there is spirit in nature that com.
municates itself to man, very like
that which come to him in prayer
A person who cannot feel God in a
rose or a star is an atheist"
1.-THE countryside. with all it's bloom
and leaf and sward and brook ought
to Sbe of immense support to the rural
church, and country preacher who
does not feel this influence and COM
municate it to his people fails TO
utilize his finest opportunity The
Sermon on the Mount is a part of
every hillside and it's meaning may be
best obtained when nature smiles
That's the doctrine of the rural church
and its whole-souled people"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
MILLIONS OF FISH
FROZEN TO DEATH
ICE AT MceREeoR rs INCHES TO
FEET IN THICKNESS.
FIRE CAUSES DEATH OF TWo
Needle Found in What Cheer Won1-
ans Foot After .Twenty-Three
Ycars-Grafters swindle Dan
Vile Woman Out Of $500.

MhCregor, Feb. 19.-Millions of
fish it is believed have persisted in
the upper Mississippi this winter.
due to the great depth to which the
river was frozen.
Ice at McGregor is now twenty
five inches to four feet thick. In
the shallower back waters where
most OF the game fish stay ice has
formed to such a depth that the fish
have been suffocated underneath it.
In cutting holes in the ice near
here this week the bottom OF lake
was found literally covered with
dead bass. On the same day two
McGrcgor fishermen white SEEMING
through the ice near Waukon juno
ton found two thousand pounds of
dead fish in haul of 5000 pounds.
Similar reports are coming in from
shoremen all along the river. The
aggregate loss along the shores of
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mime
sofa undoubtedly will reach into the
millions and cause an advance III
price this summer.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
BIG SUM FOR SCHOOLS.

The Finance Committee of the Chi
cago Board OF Education, at meet
ing the other day, established wha
may be the worlds record for spend
ing money. II went at the rate o
$4,000 a second, or more than $780,
600 minute, and the board member
were able to- maintain that pace TO-
nearly 1000 seconds.
The building budget for 1917
amounting to $6,566, $3.50, wa
passed in half an hour. During tho
year the board will spend nearly 81,
100000 for new buildings and $1,000,
coo for new sites. For the first time
in long period the board opened tn
year without a deceit in the buildin:
fund. On Jan. there was $341, 90
unexpended from the revenue, foI
1915. That is due to the increase
in. the building fund from $4,500,00t
to $6,O00,0O0.
Following are the principal items
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
IN. c., is DEAD.

The above announcement comes
like a bolt out OF clear sky to al
readers OF the Herald and particu-
larly to the members of the Herald
staff and the Correspondents Asso
citation. Mrs Nellie Cruzen was
beloved by all who knew her. Evel
cheerful bright and witty. she wa:
the life of many gathering of Tho
Herald reporters. Her correspond
once was always complete and terse
no,1ocal happening in her neighbor
mood was ever overlooked, but wa
told clearly and concisely. No tasl
was too great and none too small fol
IN. c." to accomplish. In her home
life Mrs. Criaen was the embodiment
of those Christian qualities tina
make home the most enjoyable place
on earth In the words OF the Mas
ter, our readers, correspondents ant
staff say: We'll done, good ant
faithful servant"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
NEW MINING VENTURE.

History records that Croesus, KinG
of Lydia, was the greatest financie.
of early times, and his enormous rich
es have ever been referred to more
often than many of the better things
in sacred and profane records. His.
tory also records that Croesus escort
ed a committee of his subjects
through his palace one afternoon in
February II. and after the committee
had looked at Croesus' heaps of gold
one of the visitors, who was the first
muckraker evidently, said it was
wicked that anyone should have 50
much wealth and that something was
going to happen to it. 1t did; half
an hour later most of the big noun
tain overhanging Sardis buried the
city, and when the earthquake was
over Crocsus' wealth was hurried be
low mining depth,
But now comes Prof. Howard But
Ter, of Princeton University, who an
nounces that he is going over to Asia
Minor very soon to resurrect the
buried treasure. In 1909 Professor
Butler headed an expedition TO Sardis
and, though he found only bronze
statues, his excavations were OF great
scientific worth If Prof. Henry New
ton OF Iowa coal field fame were still
alive, and he would 70 with Mr.. But
Ter, there would be no doubt of the
success OF the present great under
taking.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
WHY NOT ECONOMIC,

The desperate situation into which
the finances of Iowa have plunged is
a revelation to everyone, and a pecu-
liarly hard one for new governor to
face. 1t is to be sincerely hoped that
the state legislature will be wiser
than congress, and instead of taxing
the people to death for worthless COM
missions and political salaries, will
lop off some of the necessary OK
penses and practice economy.
While Iowa is rich state and can
stand heavy strain, there is no use
to put it to the test unless the neccs,
.sity arises. which up-to-date has not.
All will recognize the fact that it
costs more to live, but the people are
cconomizing to make ends meet, and
ii is up to every government, large or
small, to set good example to its
people.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEES.

Investigations are the style in poi
itics nov. observes the Shreveport
(La.) Times. From Congress down
TO state legislatures they're all doing
II. Commissioners are renting roll
top desks, hiring stenographers, sum
moning witnesses, seeing the country
and smoking choice cigars (often at
taxpayers expense). Cost of living
is the fayorite subject now. but the
labor question, decline of country
life, taxation and many local prob
lens are continually being raked
over. If the people would elect
their servants on a basis of business
rather than politics there would be
more Investigations that really in
vestigate and fewer reports that
merely create paper stock for the
junk man."
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
AoT.srovE STUFF.

wv NFI NV ~
''Lyin, next year, will be higher than
Scat
Said the Post-ofice chair-warmins
Gloomer
AS he ratified his paper and tugged at
his hat,
Mother stab at the helpless con
sumner"
'But it don't make no difference to
you nor to me
If its gas-wagons, gun-wads, taters or
tea
Or bacon or buckwheat or boots.
No Stree.
We gotta dig up the Mazoomer."
"They ought to do something in Uncle
Sans laws
To give us consumers protection.
The combines and trusts and mon
oplies jaws
should be bridled and gagged In
subsection"
They've cornered the metal and
leather and wood
And the gas and the oil and whatever
is good
And they'd corner the water and air
If they could
And we chip in to boost their col
lection.
"This country they say is supposed
to be free
But Ii never was free, not a minute.
For nobody never give nuthin to me,
The forty odd years I've been in it."
by rights we should have our free
automobiles
And free gasoline and free tires for
the wheels.
Tobacker and clothin and lodgin and
meals,
And we would but the trusts are
aginnit"
There amt no use Twin no more
Z declare
Yawned the chair-warmer drowsily
blinking
And he shifted his feet on the oppo-
site chair
And in slumber went gloomily sink
ing.
And he nodded and snored as he'd
done every day
In his dreamland of Freedom and
laborless pay
And the folks who had seen him
would hurry away
And indulge in this manner of
thinking.
THE country is freest in Freedoms
true sense
To the chap who will smilingly
settle
There's joy in his heart that is real
and immense
And there's always meal in his
kettle.
Though Gloomers may turn him fool
and a crank
There will always be juice in the gas
oline tank
And ducat or two in the little iron
bank
OF the man who would win on his
mettle."
Nal Rose. Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
THE WAYS OF CHICAGO.

While the papers keep talking about
coal famine in Chicago the average
Chicagoan will tell you that no fuel
famine exists. 1t is. more properly
speaking a money famine In other
words there is plenty of coal in Chi
Icago and anyone willing to pay a pre-
MUM could have a hundred tons
dumped into his bin everyday.
Illinois coal which ordinarily sells
in Chicago from $3.50 to $500 per ton,
ran up to $1,000 a few weeks ago.
The investigation and threatened
prosecution made at the time, brought
the price down to $500. That has
been the ruling price for the past
week or so, but coal was awfully
scarce and hard to get at that figure.
However, if one offered $500 per ton,
paid in advance, he had no trouble
in getting the goods. 1t is the little
fellow who suffers as the big FELLOW
can and will pay the price rather than
endure the Inconvenience There is
a dark man in the wood-pile some
where.
1t is also reported in Chicago that
firsh are scarce and hard to get and
the price is accordingly. There are
Chicagoans who will tell you that the
fish are scarce and hard to get and
cold storage by the hundreds of tons,
awaiting the beginning Of Lent. Then
when other flesh is tabooed as, an
article OF diet. the fish will be put on
the market and sold at a big price.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
Graftcra Get $500.

Burlington, Feb. 19-The pace
are searching for Doctors Anthony
and haines posing to be from St.
Francis hospital at Chicago who are
alleged to have swirfd,ed Miss Belle
Mix, of Danville, Iowa, out Of $300.
They posed as oculists and tested
her eyes claiming to drop three
drops of radium in one eye to cure
cataract and charged $500.
A local bank cashed the check at
ter verifying the signature.
Later the Chicago hospital wired
the men were frauds and the police
were notified. Officers believe the
men are headed for the Tri-citics.
. Both are over fifty years old.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22

s = II
useful members liz the Friends church
at Winona, Ohio. She felt keenly the
loss of her husband and children but
was enabled to bear the years of lone
Illness with Christian; fortitude. The
last few years of her life she was not
able to attend church services but Of
ten expressed her desire to do so. She
frequently spoke of her love for the
Savior and her joyful anticipation of
soon going to dwell with Him and
the loved ones gone before. Her
peaceful death was fitting close to
her serene and exemplary life, She
was a member of Oskaloosa Monthly
Meeting of Friends for many years,
having lived near there more than
eighteen years.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-02-22
city win Not paw.

Some time ago a barrel of Olsen
fectants was shipped to Oskaloosa
city together with apparatus for it's
use in the city hall. Neither Olsen
fectant or apparatus. was, used as the
contents of the, barrel disappeared,
seeped out or leaked away. Now
comes the company furnishing the
material and threatens suit If the city
don't come through with. payment or
a claim OF almost one hundred dollars.
And the city is inclined to let the
company sue.