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MORE FREIGHT
NDCOALCARS
u. S. Railroads Place Big
Contracts to Avert Winter
Fuel Shortage.

Three government agencies moved
yesterday to avert the coal famine
threatened for next winter.
!. The Railroad Administration
awarded contracts for 7e.ooo additional
coal and freight cars. bringing the
total Of car orders let in the past few
days to 10000. OF this total 50.ooo are
to be coal cars. deliveries Of which
are to begin July /.
2 Tho Shipping Board announced
that fifty wooden coal barges OF 800
tons capacity each will be built on
the Atlantic seaboard, and that con-
tracts also are to be let for a feet of
twenty-five mammoth sea-going
tugs to tow these barges up and
down the coast.
VIII Distribute Posters
3. The Fuel Administration an
nounced plans for the distribution i'm
mediately Of 100000 brilliant posters
calling on the public to place their
winter coal orders at once to prevent
congestion next fall and winter. Cam
paigns to that end are TO be launched
in every State.
Construction OF the coal cars and
barges will give Fuel Administrator
Garfield the transportation facilities
he has demanded ever since he took
office. Lack of them. he has averred,
was principally responsible for last
winters coal shortage. and the fuel
less days he ordered.
Although congested railroads and
the huge demands for locomotive
power resulting from the military
necessity of rushing men and sup
plies to the seaboard, have COM
bined to halt many coal shipments:
the Fuel Administration officials are
now entering the fight against time
with far greater optimism than they
have evidenced for months.
The barges to be built for the
Emergency Fleet Corporation will
be used in the New England coal
trade. They will be made OF wood
REINFORCED with steel. and deliver
les will begin in August and Septem-
Der. The tugs will be ready at the
same time.
Allotment Of Orders.
The Railroad Administration an
nounced the allotment of orders for
the 100000 freight cars. The Amer
lean Car and Foundry Company is
to make $4,000. half of which are
for coal and the other for general
freight. OF the 10000 others. 81
900 are double and single sheathed
box cars and $4,000 are for coal.
The latter are divided into: $4,000
composite gondola coal cars of So
ton capacity, 5000 low side gon-
dolas of 70-ton capacity, and $4,000
hopper coal cars of 55-ton capacity.
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ITALIAN.

Rome. May THE War once is
sued the following statement to-
day:
There were patrol encounters at
Stoccado and Mont Fenera. The
enemy was driven back at Sasso
Rosso.
ARTILLERY activity was intense at
Tonale. on the Asiago Plateau. and
on the lower Piave. Three enemy
airplanes were bought down by us
and two by the British
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GERMANY AND HOLLAND
SETTLE THEIR DISPUTE
Arrange for Shipping Sand and
Gravel Over Dutch Railway.

Amsterdam, May 2-The Allgemeine
HandelsbIad says an agreement has
been reached between Germany and
Holland, based on the transit of small
Netherlands territory, Germany sim
ply declaring that the material will
not be used for military purposes.
The agreement stipulates that no wal
material must be transported by the
Limburg Railway. The paper adds,
however, that It is possible food will
be allowed to pass on that line. Ne
gotiations are preceding.
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BAKER REQUESTS $l5,OOO,OOO,0OO
FOR INCREASE OF AMERICAN ARMY
. TO MINIMUM OF 100000 men
American Colonel
Killed IN Action

With the American Army in
France. May 2-Lieut. Col.
Richard II. Griffiths. command
ing one of the battalions OF the
Eighteenth Infantry, has been
killed in action on the Picardy
front.
A shell burst close to his dug
out door Just as he was COM
ing out. Lieut.. Col. Griffiths
was one Of the best-known Of
ficers of the American expedi-
tionary force. He Joined IL
after service with the British
army.
At the outbreak Of the war
Griffiths was a major in the
Philippine constabulary. He
served in the Spanish war with
the Tennessee volunteers and
the Thirty-seventh United
State volunteers.
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Blue Devil Throws
Kaiser Into River

Yonkers, n. Y, May 2.-HomeI
Whited, one Of Pershing's nifty, senl
to America to help the liberty loan
was cheefed by. 10000 today as he
threw an effigy of the Kaiser into
the river. The effigy had been ex.
hibited and every bond buyer was en-.
titled to kick It.
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was a time like the present
when the public is so prone to
listen to statements Of high
qualities, best values. fair
prices, because the trend of
public thought is toward econ
omy.
This is the psychological mo-
ment to iterate and reiterate
quality. value and price.
CONTINUED On PAGE THREE
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BULLETIN.

Amsterdam, May 2-Peaee be-
tween Rumania and the central
powers L. to be signed imme-
dIateIy, the kOelnich Zeitung re-
ports. The controversy between
Turkey and Bulgaria regarding
the readjustment of their from
tiers has been settled, the paper
says.
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Ships Arrive Safely
Despite Submarines

London. May 2.--During the past
week shipping arrivals at British
ports were. 334. sailing 363. One
sailing vessel of 100 tons was sunk.
These figures were given. by the
Exchange Telegraph tonight.
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merchant ca n
m axe such
strides in the
confidence OF
his public.
There never
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LIBERTY LOAN
SALES NEARING
DESIRED GOAL
Officials Confident Mark
VIII Be Passed Before
Campaign Closes.
TOTAL NOW s2,75l,3So
Plea of President Wilson for
$50 Purchasers Meets
National Response.
TOTAL NOW $2,75l,36O

VIII you lend your automobile
as well as your money to help
boost liberty bond sales in WASH
ington?
The Liberty Loan Committee
needs a number of cars to be used
today and tomorrow for street
speakers.
The machines will be needed be-
tween II and p. m, and between
3 and $50 p. m.
II you want to lend yours. tel
ephone Liberty Loan headQuar-
ters-Frankiin e2so-Now.
Record Number.
With only two days remaining o
the Third Liberty Loan campaign !
was estimated last night that tn
number Of subscribers to the LOAF
would be double the number Of sub
scrioers to the second loan, whicl
was double the number Of individua
purchasers Of the first liberty loan
and Treasury Department Official
were confident that the country woul'
oversubscribe by far the minimum
Of g, 900. .o0o, 900 asked for even thougl
the official figures reported to then
had not reached that amount.
The official total for the nation las
night was s2,751. 800, 100. This amour
is based on Federal reserve bank re
ports at the close Of business May
and shows a gain Of $172, 81 zoo for tn,
twenty-four hour period reported
With the honor flag, showing IL
quota has been subscribed, ffyin;
from the District Building. Washing
ton viii continue On It's way to doubl'
the amount asked OF it
Every street corner in the business
section OF the city will be constantly
used for impromptu loan addresses BY
members Of the committee. A small
army of speakers will scour the city
in automobiles, donated by patriotic
citizens of the city. for the purpose
Seek Automobiles.
A great many automobiles are need
ed for the purpose and the committed
has issued an appeal to automobile
owners in Washington to donate theil
cars for this purpose for today anc
tomorrow.
The usefulness Of an automobile fol
bond selling has been demonstrated
by the remarkable success of the of
fetal liberty bond sales car, donated
by Charles w. Semmes, which has
been going day and night since the
was inaugurated and which
has taken in several hundred thou
sand dollars worth of subscriptions.
CONTINUED ON PAGE Swo.
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3 JOURNALISTS
ON TRIAL WITH
LICHNOWSKY
Harden, Councillor Whiting
and Wolff Prosecuted In
Memoir Case.

Amsterdam. May a Berlin
wireless dispatch says that Maxi
milan. Harden. Councillor Whiting.
and Theodore Wolff will be prose-
cuted along with Prince Lichnow-
sky.
The trial of Prince Lichnowsky.
German ambassador in London at
the outbreak of the war. for writ
| ing and allowing to be published
a long memorandum assailing the
German government end fatty
blaming Germany's provocative pol
icy for having caused the war.
promises to be a most sensational
event.
Men of International Note.
The foregoing dispatch connects
men with the case who are noted
far beyond the borders of the Ger
man empire as fearless and consis-
tent critics of the Prussian system,
The news that they will be tried
with Prince Lichnowsky indicates
the discovery of a conspiracy. pre-
sumably at the base OF the Lich-
nowsky memorandum's publication.
How this sensational indictment,
entitled My London Mission" found
its way into the office of the Stock
holm Politiken, the foremost Swed-
ish Socialist organ, has so far been
veiled in mystery. The prince
himself declared he had made only
few typewriter copies of the
memorandum which, he asserted,
was not destined for publication but
for his family archives.
OF the three men reported to 5e in
volved in the Linchnowsky affair,
Harden is the most picturesque and
best known. while Wolff is the most
influential Harden achieved nter-
national fame years ago by his per
sistent attacks on the Kaiser n Die
| Zukunft. These began when the
Kaiser dismissed Bismarck, whose
protege Harden had been, and they
have never ceased. Some years te-
fore the war Harden revealed in his
weekly the inner workings OF the
"Canarilla'' at Potsdam. which re-
suited in the Round Table" scandal.
Is TagebIatt Editor.
Wolff is the editor of the Berliner
Tageblatt, perhaps the only nor
social paper in Germany today that
has steadfastly clung to its moder-
ate liberal and democratic principles,
and has often defied the censor and
suffered for IL by repeated suppress
/ sions.
Councillor Whiting is a political
writer Of Radical lesnings. who. like
Prince Lichnowsky. repeatedly az
tackled German diplomacy in the
press.
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Secretary Baker told the committee
he did not desire to estimate the num-
ber OF men # might become necessary
to raise ''for the reason that any num-
ber implies a limit and the only pos
sible limit is our ability 10 equip and
transport men, which is constantly on
the increase"
OHer. Contrast.
Contrasted with Secretary Baker
request for ST., ,o0O. O.OOO. .OOO for the new
Amy plan are the following war aP-
preparations made since the United
States entered the war:
For the army, S7.aS. .SS5. EsSss
For the navy. 81, ,S05. .6e0. .9IS.57
For merchant marine. S2.O34. COZ oO0.
For aircraft. SS4O,O0oOeO.
The members of the committee ap-
peared to be unanimously in favor OF
urging Congress to grant the huge ap-
preparation without delay. There was.
however. indications Of opposition TO
the blanket power requested concern
ing the number cf men Il may be nee
essary TO call. Chairman Dent said:
II am willing 10 vote for an army
Of S.00o.OoO men. introduced a bill
Yesterday indicating my willingness to
do that. and / named 5.O0O.OOO only
because 1 thought that was the
largest any one would suggest.
would willingly vote for even more.
But 1 will not vote for an indefinite
proposition. a bull which sa. . that a
department may do as Il wishes with
out check of any kind.
Congress might as well be aboI-
ished."
Kahn supports.
Representative Kahn, Of California,
said:
Il am delighted that there is every
indication OF the most vigorous sort
Of military program. Men at the
front, that is the question. not the
methods of legislation. When we get
back TO normal times we will 20 back
to the usual methods Of farming bills.
Il hope there will he more training
camps built, more men put through
them quickly. and placed on ship
board for the other side where Il 10
necessary for them 10 get their hnal
training. l will gladly support such
a program.
Representative Fields, OF Kentucky.
ranking Democrat, who will apparent-
ly take Dents place as leader on his
side said:
This is an unheaud Of power In
American history, but / do not baiseve
this Is the time TO stand on technical-
tiles. Like the Bolsheviki. We might
argue theories OF government while
the Germans wrought our ruin.
On previous similar line-ups. the
Fields-Kahn forces have easily trf
umphed over the Dent followers
Secretary Baker made his statement
to the committee in executive session.
He was accompanied by Mai. Gen.
Peyton c. March. Chief Of Stan. ana
Maj. Gen. Euoch K. Crowder, Provost
Marshall General Members OF the
committee discussed the testimony
freely and Mr.. Baker himself issued
the following summary:
The War Department program
was presented 70 the committee this
morning. II involved expedfttnx
the training OF men and incresSin- ?
the army as rapidly as ability :
equip and transport them ca =, ,
forsseen. declined to discuf a
numbers OF the proposed arr for
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Advertising Talks
(For Advertiser and Reader.)

There never was a time like
the present-when an honest
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Swiss Spy Shot.

Paris, May The Swiss spy
Nivereeld was shot by firing squad
this morning.
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Millions now living viii ever Die.
Hear Judge Rutherford in ais grest
free lecture at Polls Thea II, pm
Sunday. May 5.-AdV. =
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Is Tageblatt Editor.
,

Have 10e5 nutritive meals a year
eat more potatoes for every day.
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The World TIA. Fac a.

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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-06-06
WOMEN TORTURED!
Suffer terribly with corns because Of
high heels, but why
care nowf

Women wear high heels which
buckle up their toes and they suffer
terribly from corns. Women then pro-
coed to trim these pests, seeking relief
but they hardly realize the terrible
danger from infection, says Cincin,
natl authority.
Corns can easily be lifted out with
the fingers II you will get from any
drug store quarter Of an ounce OF a
drug called freezone. This is sufficient
to remove every hard or soft corn or
callus from ones feet You simply ap-
ply a few drops directly upon the ten
der, aching corn or callus. The sore
ness is relieved at once and soon the
entire corn or callus, root and all, lifts
out without one particle of pain.
This freezone is a sticky substance
which dries in a moment 1t just
shrivels up the corn without infiaming
or even Irritating the surrounding It's
sue or skin. Tell your wife about
this.
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Sunday School Convention Next Sat-
urday

The following Is the program for
the annual Somerset County Sunday
School Convention, to be held here,
Saturday next, in the Bethany Church:
Morning Session-10.30 a. m, Devo-
tional Service, Rev. Henry Clay Turn
err, Skowhegan; 11.o0 a. m, Reports
of President, Secretary and Treasur-
err; appointment of committees; 11.30
a. M, Sunday School and the War"
Wesley j. Weir.
Afternoon Session-200 p m, De-
votional Service, Rev. ]. S. Clark,
Madison; 2.20 p. M, reports of dele
gates and committees; ESQ p. m
Christian Patriotism, Rev. j. j.
Hull; 800 p. m, Question and Ans
wers, Wesley ]. Weir; 3.45 p. M,
Divisional Conference.
Evening Session-715 p. m, organ
recital; 7.30 p m, song service;
Scripture and prayer, Rev. George
Merriam; music; saluting the Flags =;
Offering; 500 p M, address "A Bible
Message from Camp Devens', Rev r.
NJ. Holman, Fairfield,
The officers of the association are:
President, Guy F. Williams, North
Arson; Secretary and Treasurer
Hannah r. Page, Skowhegan. All
desiring entertainment over night will
please notify Rev George Merriam,
Skowhegan. All attending the Con
ference, please bring lunches. Coffee
will be served at the Church.
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BUSY BUSINESS MEN
Science Helps Them Out After Reck-
IessIy Abusing the Stomach

The most reckless man in regard to
health is the busy business man. AT
noon he rushes out for a bite to eat.
He bolts his food without proper masti-
cation and heaps on his stomach an
extra burden greater than ii is able
to carry without breaking down.
His overworked stomach is crying
for help: it appeals to him for relief
in various ways; Expulsion of sour
gas. water brash, sour taste in mouth
heaviness after eating, shortness of
breath, bad breath. etc.
One Mi-o-na tablet taken with or
after each meal will help any sufferer
from dyspepsia wonderfully 1t aids
the stomach in the work of digestion
which il must perform.
Mi-o-na tablets are sold by G. r.
Fogg with a rigid guarantee to over
come dyspepsia and all stomach trou-
bles. or money back They make eat
ing a pleasure
Mi-o-na cleanses and purifes the
stomach and bowels and puts viEor and
strength into the overworked tissues
It is the surest stomach tonic in the
world.
Sold by leading druggists every
where.
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Seven Men Leave for Fort SlOcum

Seven Somerset County young men
took the 1895 train Friday for Fort
Slocum, n. Y, where they commence
military training. These we're: Nor
man l.. Fogg of Bingham; Ben Leblanc
Of Madison James ketcham of Lily
Bay; Ohauncey B. Shorey of Jackman
Station; Charles F. Sidell of Cornville,
and John G. Goodness Jr., and Carroll
b. Flanders of Skowhegan AS no
officer had been sent to take charge
of this contingent, Mr.. Flanders, the
last named, was appointed leader by
Board. Hazen L. Jewett OF Scion had
been scheduled to leave with this
party, but was excused on the ground
Of being engaged in agricultural labor.
Charles Ericsson Of Long Pond was
also included in the list, but could not
appear to go with the party, because
he is at present under quarantine,
there being small pox in the household
where he is staying.
These young men were escorted to
the train by the Skowhegan Band and
detachment of boy scouts, the latter
body being largely increased in num-
hers owing to the rally which was
being held in town, last week In
the procession which marched to the
train was also a committee of young
women from the Red Cross, attired in
the regulation Red Cross uniform.
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CITY OPERA HOUSE
Week of June 10

M0NDAY-ARTCRAFr
ELSIE FURGURSON
ROSE OF THE WORLD"
WAR NEWS WEEKLY EVENTS
BURTON HOLMES TRAVEL
Photograph AND COMEDY
TUESDAY-BRADY MADE
ROBERT WARWICK and
DORIS KENYON
"A GIRLS FOLLY"
SECOND EPISODE OF THE
RED ACE"
Featuring
MARIE WALCAMP
ALSO
WAR NEWS WEEKLY
WEDNESDAY-FOX DAY
PEGGY HYLAND
IN
THE DEBT OF HONOR"
ALSO
L-KO COMEDY IN TWO REELS
THURSDAY-METRO DAY
HAROLD LOCKWOOD
IN
THE AVENGING TRAIL"
ALSO
METRO TRAVELOGUE
FRIDAY-PARAMOUN
VIVIAN MARTIN
MOLLY ENTANGLED"
AND THE
"SON OF DEMOCRACY"
End Episode
THE CALL TO ARMS"
Everyone should follow this series of
the life of Lincoln for its education
al value
SATURDAY-WORLD FILM
MADGE EVANS and
HENRY HULL
THE VOLUNTEER"
Featuring
FATTY ARBUCKLE
In Comedy Drama Entitled
FATTY AT CONEY"
Next week on Wednesday and Thurs
day We play Theda Bara in Cleo
patra. Prices 25 and 35c to all.
Advance sale of tickets at Samp-
son & Azores.
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Duncan Hall returned to Augusta,
Friday, after visiting his father. =.

Duncan Hall returned to Augusta,
Friday, after visiting his father. :.
Miss Grace Thomson and Miss Annie
Scott attended Commencement exer-
cises at Bates College, Lewiston, last
week.
Mrs. Lena Cleveland is now licens-
ed insurance agent under the laws of
Maine, and is a partner of the firm
of A H. Cleveland G. Co
1t is reported that the Robt. futile
place, corner of Court and Cross
streets has been sold to Charles A.
Ross, owner of the adjoining property
Mr.. and Mrs. James Hillens have
gone to their cottage at Lakewood for
the summer. Since their marriage
they have been occupying apartments
at the Oxford.
Ohildren's Day exercises will occur
at the First Baptist Church at the
morning service, next Sunday. Music
by children and addresses by Olin and
Leighton Tracy, sons of the pastor
Mr.. and Mrs. c. n Bragg with their
daughter and her husband, Mr. and
Mrs. NJ. ]. Greene. are to leave for a
two weeks automobile trip the middle
of this month. They are to go to
Massachusetts and return through the
White Mountains.
Mrs. A. F. Mccarthy, whose home
has been in Skowhegan for ten years
leaves the last of this week accom-
panied by her son Donald for Ulster
Pa. She will probably go to Wash
ington, d. c., next winter, and does not
expect to return again to SkoWhegan.
The members of Carrabassett Lodge
l. O. o. F. are to meet at their hall
next Sunday at 2.30 p. m. to carry
out the Memorial Day obseryances OF
the order All members of other
bodies of Odd Fellowship, especially
those visiting in town, are invited to
be present.
Miss Alice Rogers, formerly a COM
positor in the office of the Somerset
Reporter, is now at work in the Lew
iston Journal office. She had been in
Bradford, Mass, a part of the winter
and more recently in Pennington. AT
the Journal office, her first work was
to read proof, but she Is now study
ing to be linotype operator.
The pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes
School, who deserve honorable men,
ton in school during the month OF
May are Cecile Goulette, Emile
Thibeault, Leon Gagne, Elizabeth
Bizier, Catherine Bernier, Henriette
Poulin, Lillian Leclair, Irene Lacroix
Blanche Bernier, Marie Bizier, Helen
McQuade, Bernadette Lacroix, Verna
Meunier. Germaina Tlxcotts.
Quite a large number of our young
people were home for Memorial day
and to attend the Junior Exhibition
Those from Pennington Normal were
Miss Agnes Mantor, Beatrice Smiley
Helen White, Helen Merriam, Doris
Tobey, Elizabeth Marsh and Marion
Adams. From Colby, Miss Doris
Cover and Libby Pulsifer. From
Madison, Miss Florence Burrill, Alta
Young, Lana Nottage.
Thirteen young men and women left
town last Thursday for Brownville
Jet, twelve of whom were to drive
home new Buick cars that had been
shipped by the way of Canada, to Holt
& Hight. These young people were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Steward, Florence
Phiibrick, Walter Hight, Frank Mad
den, Clifton Whittemore, Frank Fol
som, Roy Keene, Vim Keene, Everett
Rowe, Benz. Witham, Ralph Tibbetts
and Harold Holden.
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FIRST Of Big Serial Tomorrow Night

The first episode in THE Son of
Democracy" will be put on, as part
OF the program at the Skowhegan
Opera House, tomorrow evening. This
picture makes use OF the principle
which has immortalized several great
works of fiction. Its builds its story
around the life Of one of the greatest
characters in history Abraham Lin
coin is 1.-The Son OF Democracy. What
he did and how he lived, as boy, young
man, lawyer and statesman, is of new
er failing interest. In our present
world crisis, widespread knowledge
of Lincoln's life must be a general
public benefit. This is one of the
pictures which is most worth while.
Everyone will want to see the open
ing of this great serial. Usual prices.
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Don't forget the Primaries, Monday,
June II. Vote for FOLSOM for State
Senator.
Wood working shop and machinery
for sale. See ad in Everybody's col
umn. Eugene Tarbox.
Canton Somerset is to have a $50
O'Clock supper. this Thursday even
ing, at their banquet hall. This will
be followed by degree work.
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WAN

Two sewers and two burlers
wanted at once. Apply to
Somerset Worsted Mills
East Madison. Mail Address
R. F. D. 4 or S. Telephone,
SkoWhegan 1928 tf21