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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-07-04

health. | believe the Compound will
cure any female trouble. Mrs. ALICE
HELLER, Christopher, Ill.
Nervousness is often symptom of
weakness or some functional derange-
ment, which may be overcome by this
famous root and herb remedy, Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, as
thousands of women have found by
experience.
If complications exist, write Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass, for
suggestions in regard to your ailment.
The result of its long experience il
ut your service.
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TOBEY DIST.-NORRIDGEWOCK

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Bigelow of
Bangor were visitors at E. P Hol-
ways last week.
Harry Everett is at work for the
Central Maine Power Co. at Rice
Rips, Oakland.
Alice Bigelow visited her daughter
Lou Yeaton last week.
Ansel Holway is stopping at e. H.
Tobey's.
The many friends OF Sara Burrill
are sorry to learn OF her recent ILL
ness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phil Thessel have re-
turned home from Houlton and Mr..
Thessel has resumed his work at the
shoe shop.
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to see him. Late reports advise that
his condition Is little improved.
Ansel Nickerson went TO Waterville
Thursday and purchased a horse.
Miss Laura Stanley was a business
caller in Skowhegan, June 9th.
The quota for Mercer In the War
Savings Stamps Is $4,000. At this
writing we expect to reach the quota
and hope to go "over the top.
Frank Condor Ia at Birch Point
camps with about twenty boys, for
few days.
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CONCORD

P. K. Norris spent the week end at
his home in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hughes spent
few days recently at the home OF
Everett Churchill In Starks.
Mary Wing has been quite Ill with
pneumonia for the past week, but Ia
gaining quite rapidly now
Mrs. Walter Garland vas In Madi-
son one day last week.
Mrs. Simeon Howes recently visited
friends in Lewiston.
Miss Marie Cahill went to Lewiston
hospital last week and underwent an
operation for appendicitis. Mrs.
James Kelleher OF Bingham accom-
panied her.
Miss Florence Garland had her right
hand quite badly injured while work
ing in the wooden mill at Madison.
N. J. Owens was On Madison last
week.
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Card Of Thanks

We wish to thank all friends and
neighbors for the kindness shown US
through the long sickness; also for
the beautiful flowers at the time OF
the death OF our dear husband and
father.
Mrs Frank B. league
Mrs. Nellie NJ Clark
Skowhegan, Ne, July 4, 1872
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nervousness, q n q
was in q run down
condition. Two of
our best d octors
failed to do me any
good. | heard 30
much about what
Lydia E. Pinkham s
V e e e t a BILE Com
pound had done for
others, | tried it
and was cured. |
am no longer ner-
yous, am regular,
and in excellent
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-07-04

In an article published
by a newspaper urging
State ownenhip of water
powers, appears the follow
ing statement:
1t is believed that up
wards of forty million dol
lars of watered stock is
now floating down the
stream of time in Maine 8
hydraulic speculations. -
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MERCER

Warren Chapman recently received
a dispatch from Camp Devens stating
that his son Frank was critically i'll
with pneumonia. Mrs. Grace Tracy
and Mrs. Helen Wade went Thursday
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. S5e n
~.-ls@l'
Dose
An extremely low price for q

remedy of such great medicinal
value. But in these times when it is ne =
essary to economic 80 closely we are
sure you will be glad to know that such
a reliable household specific as the True
"L.F." Atwood Medicine can be bought
everywhere; that it may be depended up
on to relieve many of the everyday i'll
nesses that are bound to occur in all fam
lilies. 1t is very highly commended for
indigestion, disordered liver, clogged in
testines, constipation, colds, headache and
impure blood. - Buy today, the genuine
al. F." made by the L. F. Medicine Co.,
Portland, Maine.
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MADISON CENTER

Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tfbbetts OF Ath-
ems were calling on relatives at Lake.
wood last Sunday.
Miss George Hayden with her
brother Robert are guests OF their
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CONSTANT PAIN
after EATING
The Turtufss Of Dyspepsia
Corrected By "FTult-a-tlves"


"For two years, I suffered fortunes
from Severe Dyspepsia. l had
constant pains after eating; pains
down the sides and back and
horrible bitter stuff often came mp
in my mouth. tried doctors, utthey
cid not help me. But as soon as /
started taking 'Fy-ntt-a-ttVes' torFsHtt
Live,- Tablets began to improve
and this medicine, made of fruit
Juices, relieved me when everything
else failed"
MRS. HUDSON MARSHBANK.
soc. box, C for So so, trial size 25c.
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-TIVES
Limited, OGDENSBURG, N. Y.
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HOW THIS
NERVOUS WOMAN
GOT Well.
Told by Herself. Her Sim
cerity Should Con-
vince Others.

Christopher, lll.-"For four years I
auffared from irregularities, weakness,
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-07-04
Water Powers in Maine

The total capital, including
stock and bonds, of all public
utility corporations doing an cleo
trical business and reporting to the
Public Utilities Commission Of the
State of Maine is $62, 112,929.00.
This includes all electric rail
roads in the State, which do not de-
velop their power but purchase the
power from electric development
companies. The capital stock and
bonded Indebtedness Of these rail
roads is about $7,00O,0OO There
is also included in the total amount
reported to the Utilities Commits
sion, electric companies operated
by steam power and certain gas
plants owned by companies using
electricity. The amount reported
also includes the capital stock and
bonds aggregating $4,35O,0OO of
two electric companies selling cleo
trio current in Maine, but whose
power development is located out
side the limits of the State, one in
New Hampshire and one in the
Province of New Brunswick. Fin
ally, in the amount reported is all
the capital stock and bonds of
those public service corporations
which buy their power from cleo
tric development companies, but
which do not develop their own
power The aggregate capital of
those last mentioned corporations
equals several millions of dollars.
When the total capital stock and
bonds Of the electric railroads, the
steam and gas plants and others
mentioned is deducted from the
$62,0OO,OOO reported to the Public
Utilities Commission, there re-
mains but little in excess of $40
100000 to represent the capital
stock and bonds of all the water
power development companies In
the entire State
Can a more absurd statement be
made concerning the capitalization
of the Water Power Companies
than that quoted in the parallel
columns 1t implies that the con-
struction of dams, the acquisition
of fowage rights, the transmission
lines and the distributing systems
of all the leading and many of the
smaller hydro electric development
companies in the State has cost no
real money.
Again we are constrained to ask,
why do the advocates of State own
ership deem is necessary to exag-
gerate to the point of absurdityf
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FAIRFIELD CENTER

Freeman J%anes and Erwin Fuller Of
skowhefa .spenf Sunday here.
Mrs J>kaAn aichins is entertaining
friends from Freeport
Mrs Clara Hun. who has been Wis
ting friends here. has gone TO Her
bert Murrays al North Fairfield
Mr. and Mrs Eugene Tozier and
Donald Tozier OF Waterville. spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs. y. ".
Tozier
Mr.. and Mrs Grover Hewes OF Bos-
ton are here for a weeks visit with
Mrs. Hewes' parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wood.
Mrs. Edith Pease and her grandson
Donald Spaulding of Bath and Mrs.
ROBBIE Jordan OF Oakland. called on
Mrs. George Cannon, Wednesday Of
last week
The family OF W j. Tobey, who
passed the school year at their home
in Waterville, have returned to their
farm here for the summer
Mrs. Mary z. Steward made brief
visit with her brother, Luther Allen,
on Ohio Hill, last week, and called
on friends at the Center before re-
turning to her home In Skowhegan.
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EAST POND ROAD-0AKLAND

Charles Roberts was caller at
Fred Brooks OF Smithfeld, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer and family and
William Cunningham attended the
Rowe-Moody wedding at Norridge-
wock Thursday evening.
ROWE-MOODY
William z. Rowe and Miss Mildred
Moody we're united in the bonds of
matrimony, Thursday evening at the
home OF Rev. Taylor Of Norridgewock.
The bride wore dress of white silk
poplin, trimmed with pink roses. The
groom wore a blue serge travelling
suit. Mr.. and Mrs Rowe will reside
in Kineo at present, where Mr.. Rowe
has employment reception was
held at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Pal
mer In honor OF Mr. and Mrs. Rowe,
Friday evening They received many
useful gifts. Ice cream and cake
were served. Games played, all en-
joying a nice time.
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Signed) WIN. NJ PENNELL, Publicity Agent
FOR
RUMFORD FALLS INTERNATIONAL
OXFORD PAPER ANDROsCOGGN
GREAT NORTHERN 20. MANUFACTURING
UNION WATER POWER a
UNION ELECTRIC WORKS
ANDROsCOGGIN RESERVOIR CO. PEPPERELL MANUFACTURING
CO.
CENTRAL MAINE POWER MANUFACTURING
ANDROsCoGGIN MITE co
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
WORDS FROM HOME.
tatements That May Be Investigated
Testimony of Americas Citizens

When an Americas citizen comes
to the front, telling his friends and
neighbors of his experience. you can
rely on his sincerity. The statements
of people residing in far away places
do not command your confidence.
Home endorsement is the kind that
backs Doan's Kidney Pills. Such tes-
timony is convincing. Investigation
proves it true. Below is a statement
an Americas resident. No stronger
proof of merit can be had.
J. c. Beck. engineer, Seaboard Air
Line railroad, Hancock avenue, says:
Riding over rough roads and the jar
ring Of the engine made my kidneys
weak I suffered for several years
from pains in the small of my back
)oan's Kidney Pills had cured many
others of the same trouble, so 1 got a
box. Efter taking them as directed,
] was cured"
Price Coo at ali dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for a kidney remedy-get
IDoan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Beck had. Foster ilburn Co,
Mfrgs. Buffalo. N. Y. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
SAY SWIFp AND co. WASTE
is MENACE no HEALTh

MOULTRIE, Ga, March claim
ing that waste emptied into the Pilcp
creek just east OF MouItrie by the PLAN
of Swift & Co., here is a menace Of
the health Of persons residing near
the stream, number appealed to the
state board OF health to investigate
the case. 1t is asserted that the
Pilco creek is a stagnant stream for
nine or ten months year and for
that reason the refuse from the pack.
ing house might as well be poured
upon the ground as emptied into the
creek. The condition of the water Is
such that hundreds of fish have been
killed
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
REFUSED TO STAND
UP WHILE RECITINC
LESSON in GERMAN

CHARLEROI, Pa, March 9.-The
refusal of all but three of the local
high schools senior class to stand UP
while reciting their German lessons
has been the principal topic since the
outbreak of the rebellion last Tuesday
Three of he pupils who left school
with the others have changed their
minds and returned.
The revolt was started by girl,
but every boy in the class calamity
refuses to divulge her identity. In a
statement issued by the class, but
written by the boys, they say: When
called upon to stand she refused to
do so not because she wished to dis
obey, but because she did not wish
to honor the German language.
why do we pledge allegiance to
our flag, sing The Star Spangled
Banner subscribe to the Liberty
Loan and different war funds, all the
while carrying German box under
cur arms?" the statement concludes.
Prof. S. r. Grimm, principal of the
school declares that feeling against
Germany had nothing to do with the
action of the pupils, but that they
we're trying to use the teaching of
German as camoufage and make
anti-German capital out of it. On the
other hand the girls say that when
they went back to Scohol on Wednes-
day morning Prof. Grimm told them
he would not tolerate any Bolshevik
The boys declare they wish to return
70 school, but will not stand while
reciting German, and the parents or
most of them sympathize with the
stand they have taken.
We have always obeyed reasona-
BILE requests" they say, this being
the first time we have not obeyed
None of the fifteen have said any
thing about not wanted to be- told
what to do, as reported, as we know
we have to obey the teachers, and it
Is not obedience we are objecting to.
Such an affair never could have hap
pened in any other room, as we would
have obeyed the teach
er's orders"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
GAINESVILLE SHIPPING
THIRD CAR OF HOGS

GAINESVILLE, Ga, March g.
Veal and Jordan are this week ship
ping their third car of hogs bought
from the farmers of this vicinity with
in the past few weeks, for which they
have paid the farmers $4,000 to $4,000
car. They bought about so hogs
from Thomas G. Scott, the big Monroe
county farmer, and more than 80 from
Charles H. Mathews, of this city.
Mr.. Veal began buying and shipping
the early part of last year. and he
states that the present production of
hogs by farmers of this section is
about three times what it was then,
showing how they are turning their
attention TO diversifvation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
To Pass FOOdStuffs.

HARDIN, March Am agreement
has been reached between the consular
corps here. railway officials and Chi
nese customs officers to permit the
export of foodstuffs by way of Irkutsk
ard Vladivostock and also for the ship
ment Of Manchurian products to Vlad-
livestock for export to the Allies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
BUSINESS INTERESTS
Of SAVANNAH URGED
To ELECT CANDIDATE

SAVANNAH, Ga, March 9. - Full
approval of the suggestion that the
business interests of Savannah unite
t. select the next mayor and board
of aldermen as means of sparing
the city a bitter political campaign
was voiced yesterday by Mayor Pier
pont
This statement from Mayor Pierpont
makes it emphatically plain that one
of the two local factions is willing
for the business interests of the city
to take charge of the situation and
prevent division among the people
during these times of national peril.
In making this announcement, the
mayor took occasion to warn the city
against the danger of electing mayor
who will wink at the violation of hte
state liquor laws II do not believe
that any man fit to be mayor Of Sa-
vannah will indorse openly or tacit-
~. policy of non-enforcement of the
state laws against liquor, and do not
believe that any man who will indorse
the policy of law enforcement and
repudiate it after election would be
fl. to be mayor or to hold any other
ocefi of trust and honor"
Mayor Pierpont's statement follows:
"As have already announced. /
will not be candidate for reelection
to the mayorality. My only interest
in the once after this year is that
it be medium for good Government,
which naturally means for law and
enforcement and progressive steps
calculated to promote the welfare and
growth of the city.
Like other citizens, and particular
to the business men awake to the best
interests of Savannah, I must dspiore
the efforts that are being made to
inaugurate a bitter campaign that, e
permitted, would tend to keep the
community divided and enrolled over
a period of ten months. The legis
lative election is in November, the
election in January of next
year. During all those long months
cur country will be straining itself
more and more in preparations for
war and in actual conflict
1T i'll becomes Savannah at this |
time to dissipate its energies, to di- |
vide its people, to embitter them
against each other, and to draw on
itself the condemnation of the state,
simply that few politicians may
create an upheaval and by the infu-
sion of discord seek to promote their
own personal interests. believe the
good sense and the patriotic spirit Of
cur people as a whole will put stop
to it at once.
"A regards the mayor and alder
men, analrs OF nauonal security and
the regular routine of the municipal
ity's business have fully occupied their |
time and no thought has been given
by them to the conduct of another
LEGAL political campaign.
$50 far as the mayoralty is concern
ed, will merely say that l do not be-
lieve that any man fit to be mayor
of Savannah will indorse, openly or
tacitly, a policy of non-enforcement
of the state laws against liquor, and
] do not believe that any man who
will indorse the policy of law en-
forcement and repudiate it after cleo
ton would be fit to be mayor or to
hold any other Office of trust and of
honor"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-10
To Prevent The Grip.

Colds cause Grip-LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININT Tablets remove the
cause. There is only one "Bromo
Quinine." E. w. GROVES signature
on box. S0c. adv.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Moral Disaster May
Become Military Crash

Even if our Allies make no further
gains and the battle lines stabilize them
selves as they stand now, Foch has won
victory Of enormous Importance. To-
day marks the beginning of the fifth
month since the opening Of the German
campaign of 1918. In that period more
than 100000 American troops have been
transported across the sea. Britain has
had time to raise new levies, the Allied
armies are infinitely stronger in all re-
spects than they were when the German
attack began, and after loss of at least
three-fourths Of million in casualties
German victory is as far away as it was
on March 20, on the eve of Ludendorffs
first and greatest blow
1t is conceivable that the Allies will not
pass to the offensive. 1t is possible. al
though unlikely. that further accentua-
tion Of the Mangin drive will result in a
considerable Sedan and in the capture of
large German forces caught in the salient
between Rheims and scissors. It is more
probable that the Germans will have to
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

gains of the present battle amt the sur
render of the far greater gains incident
to the collapse of the French on the
Aisne in May, but it would mean the
abolition of that "Paris 'front.' so fire.
aquently mentioned in German dispatches.
y In a word, the situation on Friday,
July 10, when this article is written, was
this: Mangin's thrust had been imme-
diately and locally successful. 1t was
already on the edge of scissors and
across one of the vital German roads.
The problem now was whether within
the next few hours the Franco-American
forces could be pinned down and the Ger
man salient southwark to the Marne pre-
served, or whether the Germans would
have to retreat behind the Vesle River,
or even the Aisne, abandoning that front
on which they could alone make later
drive for Paris.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Foch Able
To Strike Back

But if the position of Rheims was
difficult on Wednesday night the whole
situation as Foch could see it at that
moment was extremely favorable. Ex-
cept for the single local achievement
about Rheims the entire German often
sive had failed. 1t had failed without
achieving preliminary gains which COM
promised French reserves or compelled
Foch to devote his resources to repair
ing breaks. He was in position now to
launch a counter offensive. His enemy's
troops were engaged to the uttermost.
They were wearied by days Of bitter
fighting. Their food and ammunitions
were beginning to run short. In word,
the critical moment of the battle had
arrived, a moment that must have re-
called to the Allied Generalissimo that
other time when at the crisis of the bat
tie of the Marine he launched his counter
thrust at La Fere-C -Champenoise which
decided the issue of that other battle.
Foch struck promptly on the front be-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Promise of a
Smashing Triumph

AS l close this article unofficial an
nouncement is made of the fall of Sois-
sons. This would be logical consequences
of the success of Thursdays push, not tn
be avoided unless the German counter
thrust were at once and tremendously sue
cessful. 1t would deprive the Germans of
their chief lines of communication south
ward to the Marne and almost inevita-
bly, foreshadow retreat to the Aisne
Taken together with the news of the
capture of $4,000 prisoners and nearly
200 guns, it seems to hold out the
promise of a smashing triumph. There
is left TO the German now only one line
of railway TO munition his troops On the
Marine, and even this is under long range
FIRE.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

greater service our troops are to render
hereafter.
There remain two months of campaign
ing weather. There remains the possi-
bility of one more German offensive, but
every sign that one can now see Indicates
that we have already turned the corner.
The second Battle of the Marne, while
it lacks the grandeur and the extent of
the first, may prove only less significant
than the first in the history OF the war
and as fatal to German plans in 1918 as
was Joffre's victory to German hopes in
1914.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
THE SECOND BATTLE OF THE MARN

Here was exactly the situation which
Kluck confronted when on September
his w Reserve Corps holding the flank
on the hills west of the Ourcq River was
suddenly assailed by Maunoury's whole
army and driven rapidly backward.
Kluck saved himself from ultimate
disaster by promptly recalling all his
infantry from south of the Marne, and
in the succeeding days he finally checked
Maunoury and even pushed him slowly
back toward Paris. But by recalling his
troops from south Of the Marne he aban-
doned the German thrust against the
French armies and opened the way for
the return Of all the French forces to the
offensive and with subsequent victory
of the Marine.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Fall of Scissors WOuldC Give Promise of
Triumph Moral Disaster May
Become Military Crash-Foch's
Victory May Prove as Fatal to
German Plans as JOffre's
Copyright 98-The Association New York Tbune)

menace to Paris for the present CAM
paign and carry with it the doom Of the
great German offensive of 1918.
On the other hand, recognizing how
vast are the issues at stake and how
fatal to the morale of their own peo-
pie would be the announcement that the
second battle of the Marne had ended in
a defeat comparable with the first, we
must believe that the Germans will make
every possible effort to avoid any re-
treat and to retain their positions, which
ATE vital to the largest strategic purpose
of their campaign.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

already gone. 1t is hardly too much 70
say on the present showing that the Ger
mans have suffered defeat at least
comparable with the defeat of their
allies, the Austrians, on the Piave a few
weeks ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

by counter attack by the French, either
about Rheims or elsewhere, the cathedral
city would fall and the French would be
obliged to retire behind the Marne, Civ
ing up that salient which in their hands
practically prohibited a German push
toward Paris