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CHAPTER Xxx

Dosoe nd Ds sS,eak III miles spt
miles of hisck road had rur backward
bsossth their wheels Tbn hs
E-uut5ed. What fcd uss tr
dream Of soch thing
More r1iles went under before bes
curiosity led hr 10 say. tainax
what we're you dreaming ofY
BE laughed and ga not soEwer fo
snocber while Toen bs laoEha
again
do you really want 10 kno~r
~ think So"
We'll you couldn't hate me sny
Do-e tsen you DO. 50 I'll tel you !
SD 20 Eyseif mat i ucCld neysr b
the sa-e Of any woman
Hts not that am sTinSy about M
Dooey. D0 that I vU1ldnT take cha
greatest pleasure 'n peupe-irins ny.
sell fn- - .0y-i but that
/ wao, her tc -sEe my Er-s q. Efts
no' - tsl o. salary. Some Of
these women -hioF th-y sre dong q
man rr~-DsrCOus favor ~ letting
nm support them Thst doesn't get
NE httle BIT / believe & man does
Sousn JUS e. much honor es she
co-1s hin. snc sacrifices & blamed
sght more. He gives up his freedom,
and ~ she gives up herr she's only
giving NJ something she doesn't Know
how 70 U.s. snyEgy."
daphne had rarely found Q man
"ho would talk 70 her With Dusne's
usnEDess. and II there is anything
mai Interests z woman more than an
3thSr II Is TO hear wODsnEind sn-
'!yzed, even sstiriLed She was eager
'or more vinegar.
You won't be shocked and snHyT
oe ssE-d.
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13 MILLION JARS OF NAPORUF
DISTRIBUTED SINCE OCTOBER.

An idea OF the work ~e have ac-
complished this fall may be given
by our production figures
go jars OF VapoRuh manufactured
and distributed since last October
one iar tor every two families in the
entire T'nife5 S,a-as
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pcoOise her wee Dochine % rhst prof.
fer 0 his looCnS-
While she waited N e battle a TN
pclst-s, be regsinec self-cortd With
ref-cocteIopt- in q general GoA 1
seersuool Z sp-oaonseS - musea
-Tn foo 70 think that jon could
1--we ne
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-03-07
The Deal Schedule For Last
November, Which Was Post
poned on Account of the In
huenZa Epidemic, Is Now Re-
inStated-Good During the
Month of March.
OVER ONE MILLION JARS
OF VAPORUB PRODUCED
EACH WEEK.

i is with pride that We announce
% TIE drug trade that the shortage
e FscE.s NaPoR-o. which his lasted
since Is; DrtCoer is -ow owe. COME.
S-1ce January IS. Ee have Deel run
1trE our laboratory tw@rry-;hrec
AID haE hours out o. every twenty
four Last week we shipped tie last
Cur hack orders. and retail drug
ISIS therefore. are no longer re-
Ues.@d 70 order in small quantities
only
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NOVEMBER DEAL RE-INsTATED.

Tbs deal. which ve had expected
20 put OF last Noren Der and which
had 20 be postponed on sccount Of
he shortage OF VapoRub. Is rein
stated 'or the month OF March This
allows 3 discount Of 10 per cent on
shipments from ;obbers' stock Of
Quantities o. from ! 20 4 gross 5
-'e- cent of this discount is allowed
y tie loboer and PEI cent by US
We atrise the retail druggists 20
olsce the.- o-ts-s Immediately. so
Ihs; The jobbers will be able 10 get
p-onp; shipments TO them.
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DRUGGISTS! VICK'S YAP0RUB
SHORTAGE OVERCOME AT LAST.

this demand they responded molly.
Retail druggist kept open day and
night and slept where they dropped
behind the prescription eouuto..
Wholesale druggists called their
Szlesmen on the road 10 help al or
ders--hundreds "lr"h ns 70 ship
Vick's Nap'fub Dy 'he 4uickes'
f""''' ''Fa'''''
'hf"hN'''7 'n ~
'hh'7h w '''' 'S'
In this emergency we nave Tied
20 do our part. "" secured ih@
country FOR "a" matsrials-our
Trafilc Manager bp"h' h'k Gays nm
ing freight cars in--"e shipped 'aw
materials ~ carload los by cypress
and pl'ad"d "iih mt'D'2"'n'eTs =
Increase fh"ir deliveries 70 ".
But II was a slo" process Some
OF our "a" materials are produced
Only )" '''" Pp.'' 90
Wy we're 20" ''' S"'pHisii olL'd
,.uraI -, W. ha.s.
s.,aa .ha ,.a.a
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-" '' WI
MINUTE DAY AND NIGHT.
pv January 1s, NE h,d ev.,v,h
! ''a"' " pu' =" Jul htsH' 'H'i'' end
since then our laboratory has been
2:;:::; &C. :::: a: $:: III ::
quired force Of 500 people ON,
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Miss Emma +. Sickney

Miss Emma F. Stickney died at her
home 1926 Elmwood Avenue. Chicago.
H., on Feb. 20, having been in failing
health for the past year Miss Stick
2, 1888, the daughter of DR.. George
W. and Cynthia (French) Stickney,
and lived here until she went to Chi
cago. Her grandfather and great
grandfather, Benjamin Stickney and
Benjamin Sr., served in the Revolu-
tionary War in various enlistments,
the former as fife-major and the latter
as sergeant and lieutenant. Miss
Stickney's father graduated from Bow
doin college in the class with Henry
W. Longfellow and Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, and shortly after located in
North Anson, where he practised
medicine for more than sixty years
and was said to be one Of the best
read and most skillful physicians on
the Kennebec river. His wife was a
highly refined intellectual woman, and
their four daughters, Sarah, Lucy,
Ellen and Emma and the one son,
George, were brought up in an atmos-
phere of books. DR.. Stickney was
connected with the Academy as trust
ee the greater part of his residence
here, and for the year 1856 was prin-
cipal His daughters were finely ed
ucated and were teachers in the in
stitution for a number of terms. In
the early seventies, Miss Stickney
went to Chicago where she was a
successful teacher for a quarter OF
century These later years have
been spent with her two sisters, Lucy
who never married, and Mrs. Ellen
Metcalf, both now deceased, but all
lived to be over 81 years old. Their
declining years were frightened by
The tender care of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Abbott and daughter, formerly OF
North Anson. The funeral services
were held on the Monday following
Miss Stickney's death, and the re-
mains were taken to crematory and
the ashes will be brought to North
Anson for interment in the family lot
in Sunset cemetery.
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A LARCENY CASE FROM
PLEASANT RIDGE
Parties Bound Over to April Term

Samuel Dawes and John Gordon
both of Concord were in the municipal
court yesterday, answering to a
charge of larceny. 1t was alleged
that they broke into the camps owned
by James A. Kelliher of Waterville.
These camps are situated in Pleasant
Ridge and the break is supposed to
have occurred last September.
Gordon and Dawes were arrested by
deputy sheriff Frank l.. Gipson of
Bingham, after he had searched their
camp at Concord corner and found
some of the goods which had been
missed from the Kelliher camp. Cor
don and Dawes claimed to have re-
ceived these things OF a man by the
name of Floyd Adams. After their
arrest, they sent for Mr.. Adams and he
confessed to having taken the goods
from the Kelliher place. This state
ment was repeated at the trial yes
terday. This led to the arrest of
Mr. Adams. He was bound over to
the April term. His bail was assess
ed at $500 and at a late hour yester-
day afternoon, he had not furnished
the required securities.
William II. Hawes Esq. was counsel
for the above parties and Deputy
Sheriff John A. Mooers appeared for
the State.
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Death OF Mrs. Alma +. Steward

The sudden death Of Mrs. Alma E.
Steward occurred at her home on
North avenue. last Friday afternoon,
after an illness of about three days.
She had been in poor health since
last winter, but within the past few
months had been improving. Mrs.
Steward was born in Solon seventy
one years ago. Her parents were
the late Tilson and Esther tBurkel
Bosworth She had been resident
of Skowhegan for about six years. In
1868 she was married to Harrison G.
Steward. who passed away about 1883.
They were the parents Of three chill
dren. one who died in infancy. and
two now living. These are Howard
Steward who is engaged as salesman
for the Skowhegan Monumental
Works and Henry l.. who is in the
United States service. Mrs. Steward
was a charter member of the East
Madison Grange.
The funeral services were held last
Sunday afternoon at one O'Clock with
Rev. George Merriam officiating. The
remains were placed in the tomb. The
pail bearers we're Mrs. Stewards four
nephews, Leland Bos worth of Ports
mouth. y H. Forrest Bosworth OF
Cornville, and Joseph and Harry Bos-
worth OF East Madison.
The deceased is survived by her
two sons already referred TO, and
brother a. f. Bosworth OF Cornville
There are also several nieces and
nephews surviving.
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TOBEY MOOERS MARRIED
IN PENNSYL LvAN|A
Bride is "A Native of France

II Tobey Mooers. son of Sheriff and
Mrs. John A. Mooers Of this place,
was married at Wayne, Pa on Febru-
airy 3. to Miss Marguerite Elizabeth
kuehner of Paris, France The we'd
ding took place at one of the promi-
nent homes of Wayne, and the account
given in the local paper, indicates
that the ceremony was very elaborate.
Skowhegan is proud to claim Mr.
Mooers as one of its most distinguish
ed young men. He attended our
schools and graduated in the class of
1914. Upon his entry at Bowdoin
College he was said to be the only
grandson of former Bowdoin gradu-
ate. During his college course, he
developed special capabilities in Eng
lish. both as a writer and a speaker
way. He was on the editorial board
of the Quill. a college publication, for
,
editor of the Bugle Editorial Board
Early in his junior year he was chosen
class poet.
Long before the entry OF the United
States into the war, there was or
ganzed an American Field Ambulance
Service-of which a member of Cen
eral Joffre's staff said, at is the finest
flower OF the magnificent wreath Of
fered by the great America TO her lit
tie Latin sister"-and Mr. Mooers left
TO become an Ambulance Driver.
Upon his return, after six months SER
vice, chiefly in the Champagne Sector,
he found himself in great demand for
speaking appointments and was per-
haps the first of. the homecoming boys
TO tell to Maine audiences. who lis
tened with bated breath, the story of
the great war, in which they were
then coming to see they had so much
at stake.
llt dClbakiilldliNt W II ltu ~ lhi0
marriage was formed while Mr..
Mooers was attending summer
school ut Dartmouth in 1918. Since
his study there. his time has been
divided between service at Camp
Devens and with the Chemical Re
search Station at Washington, Since
his discharge from the latter institu-
ton, he has been employed as Pro
fessor OF English at the Pennsylvania
State College. This also he has re-
signed to accept the appointment of
Vice Counsel to Belgium, sailing on
February s. Mrs Mooers is a teach
er in the Philadelphia public schools
and remains to continue her work in
this capacity.
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Benefit Card Party Tomorrow Evening

The committee in charge hope =
raise 300 by the benefit card parts
for the relief Of devastated France.
tomorrow evening To do this. pc
or more people will have 70 purchase
tickets. Have you bought yours
These tickets are on sale at Samp-
sons Drug store If you have no.
bought one there. or Il you have not
purchased of the committee. you can
buy one at the hall
BE it remembered that France was
something more than our ally in the
great war She stood on guard in the
path of the Hun Her present needs
are great Your share in tomorrow's
benefit is a small thing 10 ask for such
d purpose
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Threaten To Blow Up School

A former resident of Somerset
County. Mary ]. Pfister by name, is
at present teaching in Millmont. a
suburb of Reading, Mass. Her school
was in a building against which the
enmity of some of the foreign born
pupils and parents became directed
According to the Reading Herald, one
of the boys. John Dabillo, ten years
of age. threatened to shoot the teach
er and others declared their inten-
ton of blowing up the building. OF
course all the teachers were good
deal frightened by this threatening
language, but pluckily continued their
school under police protection.
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Joseph Right Gets In Wrong

A horse belonging to Gerald c.
Marble, OF this place, got tired OF
waiting for its driver at Norridgewock
and came alone by the road on the
south side of the river. lie was 40
minutes on the way, between Charles
Worthleys residence in Norridgewock
and the south side grocery, where he
was caught by Ernest Groder John
Right, who sells marble and other
quarry products had borrowed the
team of Mr. Marble to make the trip
to Norridgewock last Monday morning
He left the horse unhitched in the
Worthley dooryard, and the animal
evidently felt at liberty to start off
for home as above narrated. No in
jury resulted either to the horse or the
vehicle.
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Do YOU READ EVERY.
BOOYS COLUMN?
Many Things ef Interest in That De-
partment Every Week

I'D YOU read ever body's column in
so. and you should also read little ads
on page four Of this edition In the
last. one OF these ads was inquiring
about Robert Smith. formerly Of Bling
ham Some one who gave her addres
a Box 81. Winslow, wanted TO know
what had become OF this young man.
Another ad va from lady sho had
lost one Of pair Of m!ttens and hop
ed that somebody might have picked
it up and be looking for an opportuni-
~ 10 return II to her Some party
who gave the address q IS "" OF
Pittsheld was looking for d house
keeper
This week in eyerybodys column
you will notice offered for sale. par
lor stove, household furniture, incuba-
tor yellow birch cord wood. hot air
furnace brown mare, desk telephone
five shoats, gas engine. twenty-five
cords stove wood, saw mill machinery.
two 100 pound horses, harness, wag-
ons, sleds. and other farm outfits.
parlor coal stove. Ford automobile.
fifty bushels of wheat, cedar
posts. four year old colt, mems and
boys underwear silent salesman show
case. Central Maine stock, a Jersey
COW and bull. second hand stove. two
horse front wheels, driving horse. one
organ. Royal Typewriter. wood-saw-
ing outfit. dry stove wood iunks. Berk-
shire swine.
You will also note ads OF people
who want to buy; small sized cream
tank. heifers and pullets. ." maple
plank. typewriter desk 1000 pounds
beeswax. cedar stumpage, veal hides,
etc. and live poultry
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Rebeknh Lodge

The Priscilla Rebekah Lodge held
its regular meeting in |. o. o. F. Hall
Tuesday evening with a large attend
ance After a short business session
the following program was given;
America, by all; vocal solo, Charles
Turner, Mrs Eta Bradley accompany
ing him on the chorus, and encore :
a litter was read from Capt. Charles
T.. smith. son of J. " Smith. also an
extract from a Paris paper by Mrs,
Lillian Smith; vocal solo with encore
Mr. Eta S. Bradley; extracts were
read from letters received from Capt.
Iohu W Healy tson OF Mrs Lizzie
UalyJ by Mrs. Leila W. Healy, vocal
solo. " c. Hobart with encore, a
letter from Lieut.. Enroll Chase, son
Of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Chase, by Mrs
z Il. Chase; tableau, The star
SpAnsled Banner" by all. Refresh
ments we're served in the banquet
hall which had been very prettily
decorated with flags for the occasion
The following committee was appoint
ed on entertainment for the next
meeting J y. Smith. Delbert Por-
ter aud L. f. Jacobs.
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dent of Skowhegan, coming to this
town in 1874. He had then
been married ten years to Miss Addie
Maria Smith. Norridgewock school
mistress and the daughter of Edmund
Smith Of our neighboring historic
community. Five years following
their marriage the couple made their
home in Fairfield, the town of Mr..
Cannons nativity. He was engag-
ed in farming there and moved
thence to the Beech Hill section of
Norridgewock where he purchased a
farm in partnership with his brother
in-law. the late Prescott Smith. Five
years he and his worthy wife tarried
there and then they came to Show
hegan, Mr. Cannon obtaining employ
ment in the saw mill of the late l..
W Weston He was engaged in
other activities thru the earlier years
of his life but for some time has been
retired. Not many months after his
marriage which occurred in Skowhe-
gan, October 10. 1861, Mr.. Cannon
enlisted in the army and served his
country for nearly II months in Com
pany B, 21st Regiment. He saw
active service at Port Huron. In
his later years he had been promi-
nently identified with Russell Post Of
the Grand Army of the Republic, an
organization of which he had been
the Commander, while he was an
honorary member Of the 4th Maine
Battery Association. Besides the
widow, the deceased is survived by
by one daughter, Mrs. Bernee Smith
of Springfield, Vt. There was an
other daughter. Mrs. Lila May Klein
ath, for many years resident Of New
York City. who died Jan. 26, 1917
Born February oath, 1887, he had at
tanned the venerable age OF SO years
at the time of his death.
The funeral services were held last
Monday at ten O'Clock. with Rev.
George Merriam ofiiciating. The re-
mains were placed In the tomb. The
pail bearers were Frank Thompson,
X. F.. Homsted, John Phillips and F.
Marion Mills.
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Stock PlacardS Very Cheap

Elsewhere in this issue will be seel
l list OF the advertising placards, "To
Let" For Sale" etc, which we keel
printed and ready for sale. When tn.
need for any one OF these occurs
these ready printed signs should
prove a convenience. The price, Is
cents each or two for 25 cents, makes
them available for many purposes
where, if they had to be printed to
order at four or five times this cost
they would hardly be wanted. Look
INDEPENDENT CO
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Former Maine Woman Dies In Calf.

Mrs. Angie Bates Brown, daughter
of David and Jane Bates, died in Sac
ramento, Calf, Jan. 3, 1919. She was
born in Bingham, about 80 years ago,
being the eldest of eight children
She went West a good many years
ago, and has resided in Sacramento
for the past 80 years. Mrs. Brown
was twice married, her first husband
being Americus Lancaster. Four chill
dren were born to them Charles, who
died in Skowhegan a few years ago;
Ernest, Cora and Schuyler, all of Cal
ifornia. A daughter by her second
marriage, Mrs. Dolly Brown with
whom she lived has tenderly cared
for her during her last years. For
the past two years she had been a
great sufferer from paralysis and
heart trouble.
Besides her family already mention
ed, she Is survived by two sisters:
Mrs. Naomi Jackson of Madison ana
Mrs. James Powell OF Pleasant Pond
also six grand children, four great
grand children and seventeen neph-
ews and nieces.
She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church and active In all
church work.
She had made several visits to Me''
the last one being eight years ago, at
which time she was unusually smart
for one OF her age.
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Chapman Concert

The annual Chapman Consert, which
has afforded 80 much pleasure In
years gone by, and Is looked for as
regular as the Festival itself, we are
happy to announce will take place on
Tuesday evening, March 25th. A
Chapman Concert means the best in
music, as all kinds are embraced in
his programs. Mr.. Chapman takes
great pleasure in announcing for mis-
artists, Miss Virginia Rae. beauti-
full Southern girl with a most charm
ing personality and wonderful color.
atura soprano voice. Critics and
friends are whispering the future OF
Galli-Curci for this young artist. Also
Miss Ruth Pearcy. one of New York'a
best contraltos; and Nicholas Cara
gust, the Russian violinist Don't
miss the musical event of the year!
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Auction Next Saturday

There will be an auction sale next
Saturday, at the Linwood House, at
o'clock p. m. You should bring your
things early, the day before, or IN tne
forenoon il convenient, otherwise ear
ly Saturday afternoon. We can sell
anything. horses, cattle poultry-ilve
stock of any kind, household goods
personal effects, and property OF every
description.
DR.. E. W. WHITE, Auctioneer.
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A WAR VETERAN DIED
LAST SATURDAY
Long Identified With Russell Post

Henry P. Cannon. son of Nathan and
sarah (Holway) Cannon, died at his
home on Mcclellan street, at 9.15 last
Saturday morning after an illness of
several weeks.
AS the years roll by and the vet
Grams OF the Civil War are gradually
departing for the other land where
" warfare and carnage there are
none, we are learning more and more
the value of their life and influence
in the world in which they have lived.
Henry P. Cannon, another of these
survivors of the sixties has answered
the call
In consequence the faltering foot
steps and kindly greeting of one
more old soldier will be noted no
more. Mr.. Cannon was long a resi-
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Next Grange Meeting

The program for the Grange meet
ing. Wednesday evening OF next week
Is as follows: Whistling SOLO, Roy
Tuscan; reading, Laura Dinsmore
vocal solo, Willis Hobart; reading
Mrs. Lois W. Patten; piano solo
Harry A. Dinsmore; talk Mistakes IN
History, R. T, Patten; song. James
Pope of Mercer Grange; recitation
Charles w Day.
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To The Voters of SkOWhegan

Gentlemen
understand that at the next Town
Meeting the Selectmen will ask you to
express by your votes whom you de-
sire for Road Commissioner and they
will appoint the man you elect.
With that understanding, l expect
to be a candidate and solicit your
sufferage
Should receive the appointment l
shall be actuated by only one desire
and that will be to see so far as ! can
that the money raised for the main
tenance of the highways shall be ex-
pended where it will be for the best
interests of the whole town.
Very truly yours,
F. F. PENNELL.
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MUST PAY TAXES

The law requires that unpaid taxes
including the name OF the individual
or firm in arrears, shall be published
In the annual town report. which is
now being compiled. To avoid this
undesirable publicity. all taxes still
unpaid should be settled at once.
ADAM SIMPSON. Collector