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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
SkOWHEGAN WITNESSES
The Names of SkoWhegan Persons
Familiar To All

Who are the witnesses?
They are Skowhegan people
Residents of Skowhegan who have
had kidney backache, kidney ills,
bladder ills, who have used Doan's
Kidney Pills. These witnesses en-
dorse Doan's.
One Skowhegan resident who speaks
is Mrs D. Clukey, 81 French St She
SAYS: II suffered great deal from
a dull ache across my kidneys 1t
hurt me to stoop over and felt lame
and sore across the small of my back
Occasionally | had headaches and
dizzy spells decided to try Doan $
kidney Pills and got some at Fogg 5
Drug Store About five boxes
strengthened my kidneys and my
back again felt as it should The
other symptoms were relieved also.
Price soc, at all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy get
Doans Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Clukey had. Foster-Milburn
Co, Mfgrs Buffalo, y Y
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19

A TRIBUTE TO KENNETH MATSON
Kenneth Charles Matson was one of
quite a large class and eompanionship
of fellows who are, as he was good
charactered studious. athletic of
sunny disposition and with more than
average prospects for a career OF use
fulness and success in life. He was
companionable, as we'll, TO those much
his senior in years and experience He
was a very dependable fellow in all
his engagements. He added greatly
to the High School baseball teams eff
fcieht playing while serving as short
stop. With many of his companions,
he profted much from his attendance
upon the State Boys Conferences,
striving in public and private to live
out the self-imposed VOWS of Christian
living there assumed. 1t was youth
full Christianity of course but always
sincere. He was member OF the
Island Avenue congregational church.
an active member of the Christian En-
deayor. Sunday School, and Church
choir. He was a very acceptable ac-
communist to the Mems Chorus and
faithful to its work; also Tor the
Temple masonic) Quartet outside
the Lodge, and his earnest effort in
this work was deeply appreciated by
its members He also had been
member of the Boy Scouts. Perhaps
no other youth near his age in the
PARISH or even in the town, was so
actively as he identified with, and use
full in, so many and varied organiza-
lions This was due to his versatile
abilities. which. thought not in any
one direction particularly brilliant,
certainly, by his painstaking efforts,
became exceedingly useful leaving no
unimportant vacancy in either case.
1t must be great comfort to his
erief-stricken parents that he lived so
Yorthily, and is mourned SO sincerely
by old and young-testified to by the
large attendance at the memorial ser
vices. No greater honor can there ne
than to be the parents of so splendid
a fellow. Hard it is to have one such
20 from us now, when the country Is
coming to very much need youths
of this type to aid in repairing the
wastes Of the present, and 10 solve
the serious problems OF the new day
inst ahead Yet to think of the mat
Ter from his experience now, we dare
believe God knows the best Let
all our youths strive, not only 10 make
a living, but to make LIFE
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Relekah Meeting

Priscilla Rebekah Lodge held its
meeting in |. O. O. f Hall, Tuesday
evening. with a good attendance. Ar
rangements were made for a benefit
at the Opera House, September 30.
The picture is to be Mary Pickford
in The Little Princess.
It was also voted to have the roll
call and a $50 supper at the next
meeting. which will be October l.
Each member is expected to come
prepared to give a quotation in ans
wer to their name. The chairman OF
the various committees are supper
Mrs Cora Hurley: decorating, Mrs.
Bertha Hall; program. Mrs. Myrtle
Lamb
After the meeting a piano solo by
John Oddly, with encore, and read
ing by Mrs Emma Folsom and on
core was enjoyed
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Elect Officers

At the annual business meeting of
the Madison Spiritual Association the
following officers We're elected Presi-
dent, George B. Cutter, Boston; vice
president, Chas A. Perkins, Madison
Center; secretary, Mrs. Imogene Clark
Merrill, Caratunk; treasurer, VIM. II.
Clark, Caratunk; directors, Miss Olive
Hayden of Madison Center; Mrs Annie
Morrill, of Skowhegan, w. E. French Of
Madison. J. ID. Reyes, Scion Bunker.
The sale conducted by the Ladies' Aid
Society during the campmeetings has
been we'll patronized, and special
parties arranged by Landlord and Mr.
Thomas Cahill Of the inn have been
greatly enjoyed The sessions have
throughout been very helpful
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Goodwin Hun

Miss Nora NJ. Goodwin and Merle
G. Huff were united in marriage We'd
nesday, September Il, at the home OF
the brides mother Mrs. A. b Good
win at North Fairfield The double
ring service was performed by Rev.
0. II. Tracy of the First Baptist
church. only the relatives being pres
ent Roger and Mary Goodwin,
nephew and niece of the bride, acted
as ring bearer and flower girl. The
bride wore white crepe meteor and
georgette with a veil fastened with
white sweet peas and carried a bou-
duet of rose buds After the cere-
monv refreshments were served. Mr..
and Mrs. Huff will enjoy a short we'd
ding journey. after which they will
reside i'm Northport.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Valley Fair Next Week


The premium list of the Wesserun-
sett Valley Fair has just been issued.
This event occurs Thursday OF next
week. The officers are Harvey d.
Eaton, president; J. E. Chapman,
treasurer; W. r. Tibbetts. secretary
The directors are Harvey d. Eaton,
Frank Fox, Charles Chapman, Charles
+. Dunton. Charles F. Brayton and II.
5. Elliott. Howard Chapman, clerk.
Premiums are offered for dairy herds
and draft horses. sheep and poultry.
There are also premiums for yeget-
able. fruit and dairy exhibits all arti-
eles of household manufacture, quilts.
fancywork. paintings and flowers.
The committee on fruit consists Of 3.
p. Barker. Arthur Woodman and A +.
Bosworth. dairy products, Mrs Cha.
futile, Mrs Fred McCollor, Mr..
Chas Chapman; quilts, Mrs. Abbie
Gardner. Mrs. Dell Hobart, Mrs Al
mon Whittier; fancywork. Mrs Carrie
French Mrs. Belle Austin and Miss
Gladys Hamox; paintings and flow
ers, Mrs Fannie Austin, Mrs. Gertie
Woodman and Ella Ellingwood.
1t should be borne in mind that
Athens is a real agricultural show.
The products of the farm and farm
home are given precedence over less
important matters.
The directors of the Wesserunsett
Valley Fair Association met Monday
afternoon Plans were that all those
who are interested in the fair, be re
quested to meet Saturday afternoon to
help fix up the grounds.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Seven Hundred and Five Registered
Last Thursday

Seven hundred and five men be
tween the ages of eighteen and forty
five we're registered at Skowhegan
last Thursday by Chief 4 X Butler
and his assistants Registration was
held in the City Building The fol
lowing returns were received last Fri
day from the registrars of various
other sections in Somerset County:
Canaan. GO; Ripley, 81; Hartland,
143; Flagstaff, II; Pittsfeld go;
Concord, "a; Mayfeld, 4 Brighton.
Is; Norridgewock, 100; Dead River.
"A; Highland Plantation. II and
Athens. l06.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19

Buy Thrift Stamps every day
Keep up the War Savings Campaign
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Death OF Mrs. Mary hathaway Wy
man

Ssowheean relatives have been ad-
Fi,ed, this week, of the death OF Mrs.
Mary Fl. Wyman. at her home in Re
haaoth Mass. on Monday last Inc
deceased was the widow Of Harlan +
NSnan, a native Of Somerset County
Who resided in SkoWhegan
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
COrnViIIe Grange

Cornville Grange held its regular
Saturday evening with very
good attendance The following pro
gram WIS carried out: Songs by
Herbert Blackwell and Maud Smith;
humorous readings by the members;
story, Herbert Blackwell: remarks. L.
l.. Smith; piano solo, Hildreth Jud
binS
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19

Mis- Arlen Mckinney, who went to
Boston to continue her musical stu
dies. about ten days since, arrived
home today, summoned by the critical
illness Of her father r. S. Mckinney.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Death of Kenneth MatSon

Kenneth Matson died early last Fri
day morning after an Hines of about
ten days. He was the only son Of
Mr. and Mrs Charles Matson Of Mid
die street He was born May %,
1872. the family home then being on
Leaytt street in the house now owned
and occupied by William r Seekins
The parents we're married in Madison
and resided there for eight years.
The mother was before her marriage
Miss Alice Kinkenney of Freeman and
the father was native OF Solon They
have lived in Skowhegan for some
thing like % years, the larger part
of this time on Middle street.
This young man WAS greatly belov-
ed by young and old alike. He was
keen and active in school, in work
and at sports. His death is a grief
10 the entire community
Funeral services were observed
Sunday afternoon at two O'Clock from
the home, Rev Charles H. Mckinney
officiating
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19

ing at 80.
W. W. Creation OF Madison avenue
is among those who have become a life
member Of the Somerset Central Agri-
cultural Society. this year.
Mrs. 5. L. Foster is expected to re-
turn tomorrow after visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. jenkins on
Water street for several days.
Mr.. and Mrs Everett Lowe arrived
here last Tuesday night from Boston
after being called there owing to the
death of Mrs Loves mother, Mrs
Michael McGee.
Bruce H. W. White arrived home
last Monday night from summer
spent in Machias in the Geological
Survey. He expects to return to
Bowdoin, this fall.
Miss Vera MeCoombs will leave here
tomorrow friday for Marlboro,
Mass, where she will resume her stu
dies at St. AIMS Mrs Marie Boul-
lette will accompany her.
Mr.. and Mrs Benjamin c. Thomp-
son of Boston. who have been visit
ing friends in Aroostook county for
the several weeks, are spending a
few days at the Skowhegan House.
Some of the pupils of the Skowhe-
gan High School are to participate in
corn roast at Birch Point, Lake
Wesserunsett by invitation of Lang
don Jewett, tomorrow. Friday even
ing
Rev c. II Mckinney arrived home
last evening from hurried trip to
Augusta He was summoned there
as a member of a committee charged
with responsibility in one of the war
work campaigns.
Mr.. Frees is to move his barber shop
into the corner store of the Dascombe
& Griffin block and the store now oc-
.cupied by him he will use for a bill
lard and pool room having a door
way cut thru connecting the two
stores.
A horse belonging to Charles Nc
Glaughlin ran away from the place
where he was left at the Farmers
Union Store last Friday He was
captured on Water street. but had de
tached himself from the vehicle doing
it some considerable damage.
Howard Steward, who for several
years has been a salesman with the
E. W. Marble Co. has severed his
connection with the firm and accepted
a position in the Witham Market. Mr..
Steward is an old hand in a market,
having had previous experience.
Mrs. Fred Decato expects to return
to her home in Providence, r. |. next
Monday. She has been in town for
the past three months as a guest of
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fore her marriage Miss Flora Nigue.
She has with her her little sor Ro-
maid, aged seven months.
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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19
Revised Election Figures

Including some slight changes in re
turns of the election published last
week, the latest figures available are
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-09-19

Moscow population in 1910 was BIS
Ripley population in 1910 was 434
Skowhegan, population in 1910 was
5341
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-01
If the peoples of the earth are not to
become t0iling millions for the Pruss-
ian Junkers and the PrusSian kruppS
if they not to be Terror=Ridden slaves at
the mercy of German kaser's will, Prussianisrn
must be driven back within its own borders
ana kept there

Not only English freedom, French
institutions, our free government all that our
fathers fought for, all that free peoples
prize, is threatened by an enemy that would
impose his own hateful Kulture on every free
institution in every Liberty loving land.
That is why the war must be fought
on European Soil. We are fighting in
Europe now that we may not have to
fight in America, on the very thresholds
of our homes, later.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-05-01

We are fighting for the safety and
liberty of our children, our homes,
our country. No price is too great to pay
for Victory.
Americans, you are called upon to
back our armies in France, to furnish them
the guns and shells and ships and aero
planes, the enormous quantity OF every
Sort of supplies that they must have to
defeat the Prussian armies and drive them
back across the Rhine.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
Tells HOtU to Stop q
 Bad Cough surprising results from this famous old homemade syrup. Easily prepared and costs little.

If you have 8 severe cough or chest cold accompanied with soreness, throat tickle, hoarseness, or difficult breathing, or if your child wakes up during the night with croup and you want quick help, try this reliable old homemade cough remedy. Any druggist can sup ply you with 2h ounces of Pinex. Pour this into pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. Or you can use clarified molasses, honey, or corn syrup, in stead of sugar syrup, if desired. This recipe makes pint of really remarkable cough remedy. It tastes good, and in spite of it's low cost, iG can be depended upon to give quick and lasting relief.
 You can feel this take hold of g cough in a way that means business. It loos- ems and raises the phlegm, stops throat tickle and soothes and heals the irritated membranes that line the throat and bron- chiaI tubes with such promptness, ease and certainty that it is really aston ishing.
 Pinex is a special and highly concen- trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, and is probably the best known means of overcoming severe coughs, throat and chest colds.
 There are many worthless limitations of this mixture. To avoid disappointment, ask for "21h ounces of Pinex" with full directions and don't accept anything else Guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction or money promptly refunded. The Pinez O., Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
SHIPS ANCHORED IN
 BOSp HORUS

ConstantinopIe, "wednesday. Nov, 21.---By The Associated Press)--- There were fifty British, French and Italian battleships, cruisers and de- stroyers in the Allied squadron which anchored today in the Bos- phorus. The newspapers and the acclaim the allied squadron as deliverers.
 The headquarters of the British and French contingents have been es- tablished in Constantinople. A Brit ish aerial force is on the outskirts of the city.
 Food prices in Constantinople, ac- cording to the Turkish finance min ister, have raised twenty times above those obtaining before the war. Disor ganization of the railroads in Asia Minor today compelled the govern ment to abandon the ration of wheat bread which it issued during the war.
 Of the 59 officers and men who have remained with the United States gun boat Scorpion in the Golden Horn Slnce uIpIoludI1c IeidIlOAl0 "SA0 70'0i ed 25 have married Levatine women
 Nearly all the American missions except those in Constantinople and Smyrna have been occupied by the Turkish army, notwithstanding that all have been engaged in relief work Of about TO Americans in educational and relief work in Turkey all are re- ported well.
 Dr. Linton Crawford, of North Adams, Mass, died at Trebizond or Sept. 26.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
ALLEGE WOMAN
 KIDNAPPED IS
 IN RIGHT MIND

Continued From Page One.) foremost authorities on nervous dt- seases in the country, and Dr. Frank Wade Roberts, the most famous spec ialists in their line in the country.
 According to the complaint Mrs Erickson was induced to visit Con necticut and was then committed to the sanitarium 'as an insane person, while in fact she is sane.
 Major Hammond was the first wit ness called, and after reciting his Qualifications and experience, told of making an examination of Mrs. Erickson in Stamford, Nov. 23. He spent an hour with her, talked with her of some of her experiences, and related some of the stories she told him and then pronounced her decid- edly insane, "a constitutional psycho- pathetic" incurable, and dangerous to be at large.
 Dr. Frank Wade Roberts, for many years in charge of the psychopathtc ward of Bellevue hospital, and an au- thirty on nervous diseases, testified in the same general tenor. He said Mrs. Erickson told him she had twice been confined in sanitariums before, and he understood a brother is now an inmate of the Mcfarland sanitar- ium in Westport and insane.
 Alexander H. Erickson, who is ac- cused of having kidnapped his wife and having her confined in an asylum, was twice married, and was the sec 1 ond husband of Mrs. Erickson. Her first husband, was named Griffin, and there was a divorce. One of the ! reasons why the experts decided Mrs. 1 Erickson is insane, Is because she al- | legged a conspiracy between her first and second husband against her, and | told the doctors that the food at the i sanitarium was poisoned.
 l Erickson was engaged in importing 1 and exporting, and was reputed to be 1 a millionaire. He died little more
 than a month ago in New York from l the influenza epidemic, and his estate
 is estimated to amount to more than l a million dollars.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26

of the Seaboard Air Line Railway; Hale Holden, president of the Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy; Julius Krutzschnitt, chairman of the South ern Pacific; L. F. Loree, president Of the Delaware & Hudson; Samuel Rea president of the Pennsylvania system; F. D. Underwood, president of the Erie; Henry Walters, president of the Atlantic Coast Line, and Daniel Will lard president of the Baltimore 6 Ohio.
 During the controversy over the | form that the railroad contract be- l tween the government and the roads 1 should take during the period of uni fled operation the National Associa- tion of Owners of Railroad Securities | and the Railway Executives Advisory l Committee worked independently and their views on some of the issues were
 so divergent that they were popularly
 considered almost at loggerheads The executives, therefore, are not ex.
 pected to be influenced one way oi
 another by the Association of Owners
 of Railroad Securities, which assert
 that it won most of the concessions
 in favor of security holders that tho Director General of Railroads yielded in making out the form of the con. | tract The executives body repre-
 sents the corporate interests of 90 pei
 cent. of the railroad mileage of the l nation.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
ANCIENT THREAT
 LEADS TO FIGHT IN SALOON;FINES
Original Provocation Was Insult to Soldier and Worst Offender Gets
 Biggest Fine.

Insults heaped on an American sol dier last January, in a saloon at the corner of Wordin and Bostwick ave- nues, which led to an assault on An Saturday night, eliminated in John Ernie and Alexander Gondales each being fined $25 and Louis somozyin being fined $50 and costs by Judge Bartlett in the city court today. Err nie and G+ondales were arrested fol- lowing the fracas and charged with breach of peace, while Somozyin was charged with assault. Paul Ernie was also arrested Saturday night, but his case was nolled today.
 According to Kocaany, who sus- tained severe decorations of the scalp and head which he claimed were in flicted by a tall man, who remains unknown and the three amaigned this morning, the attack on him was the result of a threat made last January. He told the court that at that time he had met a friend of his at the saloon by appointment. The young man, a soldier in the National army, then stationed at Camp Devens, had named the Bostwick avenue saloon as the place of meeting. Kocaany said that he entered the saloon and asked for his friend. A tall man stepped up and said: "Oh, you mean the soldier. Well, he is no good and neither is his uniform"
 The next meeting of the pair was in the saloon on Saturday night and Kocaany said that the stranger made good his threat with the aid of three friends.
 i Judge Bartlett in imposing sentence took it for granted that Somozyin if
 not really the big man referred to- l had more to do with the assault than
 any of the other defendants, and fined i him accOrding1v
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
R. R. EXECUTIVES TO DISCUSS FUTURE
 CONTROL OF ROADS
Presidents Will Meet In New
 York City on Dec. 4.

The views of railroad presidents from all parts of the country, on the issue of the time of the return of the management of the roads to their se- curity holders, will be expressed on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at a conference at the Chamber of Commerce, at 65 Liberty street. The launching of a campaign last Friday by the National Association of Owners of Railroad Se- curities to have the railroads prompt ly returned to private operation gives unusual significance to the forthcoming meeting called by the Railway Executives Advisory Com mittee.
 Representatives of the committee indicated that the executives would canvass the whole scope of the rail- road problems arising from after the war conditions including such matters as the time when the railroads shall be returned to their owners, the manner in which more unified transportation system shall be re- tained for the future, and the settle ment of financial relations between the railroads and the government
 T. De Witt Cuyler, Philadelphia banker and railroad executive, IS chairman of the Railroad Executives Advisory Committee and the other members of the committee are: c. B. Seeger, acting chairman of the Union Pacific; s. T. Bledsoe, general counsel of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; A. H. Harris, of the New York Central; F. M. Hyzer, vice | president of the Chicago & North western; B. F. Bush, president of the Missouri Pacific; A. J. Earling, chair man of the Chicago, Milwaukee G& St. Paul; Howard Elliott, chairman of the Northern Pacific; W. J. Harahar,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-26
ALLIED COUNTRIES
 CANCEL CONTRACTS WILL POOL SURPLUS

Tours, Thursday, Nov. 21.---Con- tracts aggregating one billion dollars have been cancelled dby the Ameri- can Expeditionary forces since the signing of the armistice. In future, the American, British. and French governments will popl their surplus stocks and will buy through a con- mon purchasing agency.
 Forty thousand men engaged in the American supply service will be sent to advanced areas as replacement troops for the army of occupation. The supply department will continue it's routine work as long as necessary.
 Forty-three constitution projects in cluding a deep water dock for twenty ships terminals, warehouses and rail- roads have been cancelled.