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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-12-09
ANSON CENTER

Mrs Ella Davis of Vasalboro and
Mrs Mary Ingham of Waterville who
have been visitors at the home of
their brother, George Pullen the past
week returned to their homes We'd
nesday.
Martelle Tibbetts who has been en-
ployed at the N. A. Mfg. Co.'S mill
has completed his duties there and
gone to Lexington to work for Laurie
Howes.
The fair which the shakespeare
Club held on December 1st at the
home of Mrs. Lewis Caron was a de-
cided success, buth financially and So
cially. There being a good display
of fancy articles and farm produce
besides the usual large number of the
ever popular and useful apron. A
bountiful dinner served at noon was
partaken of by members and guests.
Twenty eight being present. After
dinner there was music on the piano,
harp and cornet, followed by a real
old-fashioned "Sugaring- off" which
was treat from the host, and fur
nished a sweet ending to very pleas
ant day. The next meeting will be
at Mrs. Omar Gates on December fiji
teenth and Is the regular afternoon
meeting.
The teacher and scholars of the
Shakespeare school are trying out the
new hot lunch system, and are loud
in their praises of it.
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE NEWS OF SOMERSETS BUSI.
EST TOWNS
STRATTON

STRATT0N
Tom Moore has gone to work for the
S. NJ. Company.
We are sorry to hear of the serious
illness of Grin Taylor.
Ida Moor has gone to work in the
Type Shop.
A. A. Berry was in Kingf1eld few
days recently on business.
Fred Drake has come out from the
Preserve and is boarding with Mrs.
L. A. Knowles.
John Seavey has gone to work for
the s. M. Company.
Merle Blanchard is building a new
boiler room and putting in a boiler to
be used for heating the Service Car
age. this winter.
Clyde Vaughn is driving the stage
at the present time.
Don Emery and wife have gone to
keeping house in the rent over the
barber shop.
]. w. MacGuin has been the victim
Of severe cold the past week.
]. ". Walker Is back from his va
cation down river.
! Johnny Knowles, who has been suf-
| fering from a bad cold Is improving.
It is reported that Mrs. Pike Por-
| ter one OF the clerks in the office of
the s. NJ. Co., Is going to get thru and
that Erma Knapp is going to take her
place
A. C. Vaughn is assisting L. A.
Knowles In the boiler room at the
mill.
Vern Mastermanahas new EDISON
machine. 1t Is a dandy.
Charles Gould, Jr. and Mrs. Marie
Damico who have been working at
Eustis have returned.
Mrs. Josie Blake has gone to the
hospital.
Frank Nutting has returned from
trip to Portland.
Don Johnson came out OF the woods
and spent Sunday with his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Knowles
Joe Berry has returned for trip
down river.
Wesley Clark spent Sunday at Gene
Collins.
Leland Toger spent Sunday at home
Mrs. E. L. Vose has been confined
to the house the past week with
bad cold and sore throat. She Is
reported as gaining now.
Frank L. Foster Is away down river
this week.
Bill Arnold was married in Lewis
ton the other day and set up the ci-
CARS at E. B. Durrilrs store. Good
luck, Bill !
Sherman Taylor is working for the
8. M. Co.
Newell Vaughn has got thru work
ing for the 8. NJ. Co
Heavy rain here Sunday and fine
travelling.
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main of Hartford, Conn; Mrs. Lizzie
Roundy who resides in the west and
Mrs. Lila Purington of Canaan, one
son, Eugene Goodrich of Canaan; two
grand daughters, Henrietta and Cora
passed away several years ago. Ser
vices will be held from the late home
Wednesday, December at 1890. In
terment will be in the family lot at the
village cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. HIATT of Millinocket,
who have been on a visit to relatives
in Vermont and Massachusetts,, arriv-
ed. Thursday for a visit with Mrs.
HATS parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abner
Chase.
Frank Rowell, former resident of
this town. who has been the guest
of his wifes parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sumner Bean, returned to his home
in Auburn Monday.
Blaine Fowler of Waterville was the
guest of relatives over Sunday
Canaan Grange has postponed the
election of officers until Thursday
evening, December 8.
Mrs. Dickey is entertaining her
cousin from Monroe.
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BLACKWELL

Friends in this vicinity of Don M.
Towne, who met with an unfortunate
accident when in New York City, be-
Ing run into by a taxicab, will be
glad to know that he Is gaining quite
rapidly and Is at the home of his I'M
Gle. Arthur E, More in St Petersburg,
Florida.
A dozen friends of Mrs. Lucretia
Steele gave her pleasant surprise
last Friday afternoon at the home OF
Mrs. Sarah Adams. A social after
noon was enjoyed by the ladies. and
refreshments were served. Mrs. Steele
was given remembrance by her
guests. She departs next Monday for
Massachusetts where she will spend
the winter months with her sons and
daughters Her many friends will
regret her absence. and especially the
members of Golden Glow Branch, l.
S. S.
Miss Ida E. Moore who has been
caring for the youngest child of Lin
wood Worster during his illness has
returned home.
Mrs. Eunice Danforth, Mrs. e. O.
Danforth and Mrs. Mahalo Renter OF
Madison village were in attendance at
the meeting of Golden Glow Branch
|. S. s., held recently with Mrs. Nor
ris Moore at Blackwell.
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PLEASANT RIDGE


The Washington school closed Fri
day afternoon with the following pro-
gram which was very nicely carried
out. Much credit is due Miss Ber-
dena HILL the teacher, who prepared
the program, and took so much in
interest in getting the scholars ready
for their parts. Candy nuts, and
popcorn were served to the children
and their parents, Program, song
America, by the school; Welcome, by
Viola Beane; Five Jolly Pumpkins,
by Rena Hunnewell; Thanksgiving
song. by grades 3, 4, and 5; recitations
by Raymond Rollins; Aeyenge by Ell
NOR Rollins; I'm a Pumpkin by
grades 8 and 4; Whip-poor-will song
by grades and 4; Over the River and
Through the Wood by Ruthie Beane; ;
What I'm Thankful for by Richard
Beane; Dialogue (by severn, grades
3, A, s, 6, and 7; recitations by Everett
Rollins Snow Song by Viola and Ri
chard Beane; Goodbye by Bales Rol-
Inns and Georgia Beane.
Miss Annie Bean of Caratunk was
a week end guest of her brother, VIII
Martin.
Mrs. Emma Healey has closed her
home for the winter and moved to
Bingham.
Percy Steward of Bingham and ia
mily have moved into one of Mrs.
Healys cabins for the winter, while
Mr.. Steward is cutting lumber on the
Healy Farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Quimby of
Starks were guests of Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Berry recently for several days.
Mrs. Sidney Berry. who has been
confined to her bed the past week is a
little better at present.
Miss Birdena Hill, Mrs. Bessie Moul-
ton, ]. W. Bray and son Laphey spent
very enjoyable evening Friday at
the home of s. M. Hunnewell and son
Music on piano, violin and monograph
also singing made the time pass plea
sanity for one and all. Refresh
ments of apples and popcorn were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Tobey spent
the week end at their home in Free
dom.
The family of Wallace Foley of
Washburn moved here last week to
spend the winter with him at camp
not far from the National Lumber Co.
mill where Mr.. Foley has for several
months acted as manager.
Rollins Brothers butchered a one
year old hog last week which dressed
$40 pounds.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURES

Whereas, Selden F. Waldron and
Leafy Waldron. both of Madison, and
Lawrence f. Waldroa. Charles F. Wal
dron, Ethel Waldron, and Edith Wal
dron, all of Pittsfeld and all in the
County of Somerset and State of Maine
by their mortgage deed dated the
twenty-ninth day of December A. d.
l16, and recorded in the Somerset Coun-
ty Registry of Deeds. in Book 800. Page
4S3, conveyed to the Skowhegan Saw
ings Bank, the undersigned, certain
piece or parcel of land situate in tho
town of Hartland in the County of Som
erset, bounded east by Pittsfeld Ave-
nue.; north by land of c. o. Brown; west
by land of Maine Central Railroad
Company; and south by land of Carl
Randlett; and
Whereas the conditions of said mort
gage has been broken:
Now, Therefore, by reason OF the
breach Of the condition thereof the said
Skowhegan Savings Bank claims fore
closure of said mortgage, and gives
this notice for that purpose.
Dated at Skowhegan this 30th day Of
November, A. D. 1920.
Skowhegan Savings Bank,
BY CARLETON P. MERRILL,
It's Treasurer
3w49
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COLES CORNER

Mrs. Helen Leayitt was married to
Mr.. James Cahill of Bingham Sunday
at her residence, Rev. B. H. Johnson
officiating, owing to bad weather only
few relatives and friends were able
to attend. Refreshments were served
Mr.. and Mrs. Cahill will reside In
Bingham where Mr.. Cahill is interest
ed in the lumber business.
Miss Rosa Cribben has returned to
New York after visiting her people
here.
Jasper Leavitt has a position in
Portsmouth, N. H.
Selden Roland, and three others re-
turned from their hunting last week
with eight deer.
Ted Leavitt of Guilford spent the
week end with Mrs. Leon Brasier.
Mrs. Emery of Fairfield who was
housekeeper for VIII Nelson fell on
the ice last week spraining her arm
Mrs. Selden Roland is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Clyde Foss in Norridge-
wock.
School began at Franklin school
house, Monday. after two weeks va
cation.
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EAST NEW PORTLAND

The school on New Portland Hill
has been discontinued and the scholars
are being transported to the falls. AS
there is no freshman class in the
high school the eight grade is attend
ing there.
Miss Hildred Thompson of kingfield
is teaching The Pines school.
There was a regular meeting or
New Portland Grange Dec. 4. The
next meeting will be Saturday even
ing, December 49, This will be cleo
ton of officers Everybody come.
The Neighborhood Circle will meet
with Mrs Vida Rand on Wednesday,
Dec. 10TH
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EAST SKOMHFGAN

Mr.. and Mrs. George Emerson of
Summer ST., were Thanksgiving day
guests at the home of their daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Moody. Mr..
Emerson returned home Friday while
Mrs. Emerson remained for a few
weeks visit
bennett Emerson of Fairfield has
bought the Asa Cain farm and has
moved his family here.
Mrs. Harold Salisbury of Waterville
is stopping with her sister, Mrs. Den
nett Emerson, while Mr.. Salisbury is
working in the woods
Miss Ethel Moody, s. H. s, % was
an over Sunday visitor with her friend
Viola Corson.
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SMITHFIELD

Raymond Groves and Charles Bean
left town Tuesday for Florida where
they plan to pass the winter.
Berton Larry, shot fine large deer
in town November 80.
A large number Of friends gathered
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Moulton November 30 and presented
them with a quilt also a large number
of squares, picnic supper, and good
time enjoyed.
Fairview Grange held its regular
meeting December 4, with an election
of officers.
Wheelock Mosher Is on the sick list.
Mrs. Ella Downes made a business
trip to Augusta Thursday.
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kENNEKEC AYENUE-EMRDEN

Mrs. James Murphy spent the week
end in Bingham the guest of her sis
ter, Mrs. Sarah Baker and Mrs. Dora
Hilton.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Ward and daugh-
ter, Mr. and Mrs. James Murphy and
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Moulton attended
the funeral of Miss Vashti Lacase of
Scion last Thursday.
Fred Ward spent the last few days
of the hunting season up river where
he got two deer.
A few of Mabel Williams young
friends gave her surprise party last
Saturday evening.
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NORTH FAIRFIELD

N. E. Bunker has been monflned to
the bed the greater part Of the time
for the past month.
Mrs. E. j. Emery returned home
Friday from a few days visit with her
sister in law, Mrs. Lena Rogers of
Mercer. She also called on Mrs. He
len Choate In Norridgewock.
The Tuesday club met with Mrs.
Georgia Hoxie, November 80, with an
of IA members, one visi-
tor. Three new members were ac-
cepted. The next meeting will be
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I,ARONE

The Past and Present Club met Dec.
1st, with Mrs. Charles Handley for
the annual meeting and the follow
ing officers were elected: president,
Mrs. Florence Gerry; vice president,
Mrs. Grace Campbell secretary, Mrs.
Elizabeth Winslow; treasurer, Mrs.
Lizzie Morrow; committee on program
Mrs Vestie Chandler, Mrs. Elmira
Handley, Mrs. Lizzie Morrow. The
next meeting will be with Mrs. Eliza
beth Bartlett on Dec. Is
John and Gene Puffer have purchas-
ed a new power wood saving outfit
complete and are prepared for bust
ness.
Nat Bennett who Is stopping at ].
G. Merrow's was on the sick list last
weep.
Something out of the ordinary was
the thunder shower on Sunday last,
Dec. s.
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held with Mrs. Thomas Longstaff.
There is to be Xmas tree and en-
tertainment at the Friends church
December 25 to which all in the com
munity are earnestly invited.
Mrs. Ruby Goodwin has returned
home from visit with her son and
family in Melrose, Mass.
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SOUTH BINGHAM AND VICINITY

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Corson of Scion
have a baby daughter born Nov. 30.
Mrs. Hattie Merrill Is caring for mo-
Their and child.
Mrs Ella Campbell returned home
Saturday night from Portsmouth, N.
TT
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CANAAN

Mrs. Caroline (Bowman) Goodrich
passed away at her home in South
Canaan Sunday Dec. 5, after a short
illness at the advanced age of 95 years
and months She was the widow of
jeremiah Goodrich who died many
years ago. The deceased is survived
by three daughters, Mrs. Hannah Cor
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We can place advertising for you In
any of the Maine papers or any publ
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-21
Insects Think?'
Then Do!

CERTAIN insects are rated rs .intea.
~ lectuals-the ant, the bee, the
cockroach, and exc that old and too.
intimate friend Of ours, the bedbug.
They've got brains. Nor il this
merely a figure of speech. The mos
quito. an u%ndeniably clever insect.
possesses a recognizable brain ; and 80
likewise does the housefy, which,
though it neither tolls like the ant nor
spins like the caterpillar, is probably
the smartest of the whole bunch.
The nervous system of a caterpillar
is a mere thread along which is strung
a series of tiny knots of nerve stuff.
One finds the same arrangement in .
mosquito, but with a nerve knot at one
end expanded into a recognizable
brain. The knots are called .'ganglia."
1t is much the same way with a hut
a being. In a man the thread Of
nerve stuff is represented by the spinal
cord. An enlargement of one end Of;
the latter (speakipg in rather crude
terms) is the brain that does POUR
thinking; and the box of bone which
houses your mind machine is q com.
posite of several vertebrae at the top
Of -FOUR spine, expanded and modified
in form to serve this important pur-
pose. The intelligence of . spider,
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which is an %arachnid, is more highly
developed than that of an insect.
Grabs and Holsters have fairly COM
plex nervous systems, and must, suffer
frightfully when they are broiled' or
boiled alive; yet, because they cannot
cry out, their frantic. struggles under
such torture excite no attention.
Even IN oyster has 4 brain, Of q sort;
and a clam likewise. The brains Of
fishes are very inferior, as compared
with those of mammals, but the optic
lobes are enormously developed, be-
cause finny creatures, to get the food
they need, must be able to see well in
dim light under water.
Reptiles generally are very stupid
creatures, and SO it il not surprising to
find that their brains are remarkably.
small. That Of a twelve foot alligator ID
ne bigger than your thumb.
1t used to be imagined that thinking
power had intimately to do with the
complexity of the brain convoluticns.
But this is surely not . fact, for the
brain Of an elephant is more complex
in this respect than that Of q man and
the same is true of z whales brain.
The whale and tho elephant mann 10
require more convolutipns because they
are such huge animals, II, j. ! aotae
question for enormous bulks.
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endure fight ut extremely high levels
But, opffhe other hand, certain picked
men, perhaps seven or eight out OF
100 passed candidates, were able TO
ascend to the greatest elevations with
ont peril.
To help in solving this important war
problem m oxygen apparatus was de-
veloped, smaller than the kind used for
mine -rescue work, but constructed on
much the same principle. Equipped
with this continuance, and carrying Z
supply Of liquid oxygen along with him.
the aviator could skim along in safety
through the upper reaches Of the wel-
Kin.
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be az many as eleven. They weigh
about two and one .quarter ounces when
born.
Blue fox farming is now q prosper
ing industry in central and southern
Alaska, on islands leased BY the gov
ernment to private concerns. The
requisite breeding stock to start with
ID furnished from the Pribylnfs. the.
purchasers ordinarily paying about
500 apiece for the live animals.
White. fox ,fnrs haye been much id
fashion during the last three or four
years. and, though far cheaper chan
the blue skins, they now command .
tar higher price than formerly.
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80 freely. Thus they lose all timidity;
and when it is desired to capture a lot
Of them all that is necessary issto wait
until many are in the room and then
pull a rope that shuts the door.
r All feeding and trapping is done Of
night. The food is stored in the same
building. where, in another room. the
skins are stretched Immediately after
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Oxygen for Fliers

AT HIGH levels, such as birdmen
"A nowadays often reach, the air is %
thin that the aviator literally Closes
his breath He IS in danger Of coll
lapse from this cause.
Il waa ascertained during the war.
though not at first suspected, that about
10 per cent Of the candidates who
passed examination for the air service
were really unable to fly at attitudes
ordinarily requisite in the work they
were required to perform.
II was further determined that mors
than 90 per can't of thsn could not
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being taken. Each fox before being
killed is held up by the tail and ex-
amined. IF It be crippled or diseased
it is killed. If it be, not full grown or
in poor condition 1t is released. If it be
an exceptionally fine specimen it is lib
Grated, because valuable as a breeder.
An adult male may weigh as much
as fourteen pounds, a female ten
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Painted Flouen

RECENT experiments have lgsvS4
~ practicable to make rosebush
yield roses Of any color desired.
It must, however, be . bush that
would normally hear white foses. Tkea
it is merely . question Of wateriag
the soil with ! ysryi, dilute solutiol q
n chemical or smother.
Potash win aus Tho bush ~ pss.
duce green rosss; alum viii sivs Me-
. lilac shues and muriakie asid NtIll
turn them red. BY lise aaa1aAs
long sou1abt bluN RE has bse1rS1SdpE;
but the ehssieSa ssspaess
The sAsss
can be appltsas Nhlts
stAsF 1870 aeWaIi.
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About Uncle Sans Activities as a Farmer of Foxes

IKE everything else, blue foxes are
going up. A good skin of this
much -prized animal will cost you at
least. $500 in the coming winter.
1t. should not be confused with the
silver fox, which is a phase or variant
of the common red fox; the same ami
NAL, that Is to say, with a freak color
(black with white tipped hairs), which
may be perpetuated from. generation to
generation by selection and breeding.
The blue fox is, in the same way,
a variant of the white Arctic fox. which
has a brown and tawny pelase in the
summer time. In other words, Its
color, which is a dark blue gsay, is
abnormal and rare. But, for some
unexplained reason, most Of. the foxes
On the Pribyiot islands, in Boring sea.
are of this color.
Hence the fox farming operations in
!, which Uncle Sam is engaged on those
islands. The skins (of which he will
have about 1000 this year) are sold at
auction in St. Louis, and the next
batch will probably fetch an average
of 500 apiece. Retailers will double
the price.
Before we bought Alaska a Russian
American company held rights to the
foxes on the Pribylofs, and from 1912
to 1880 took an annual average Of more
than 1900 skins therefrom. No care
was then taken of the animals, which
were wild, feeding on birds and on seals
left on the killing fields.
Since 1896 the foxes have been reg
ularly fed in the winters, and on one
of the two islands (St. George they
may be said to be semidomesticated.
Refuse meat and ofal from the seal
killing is stored for them, either sailed
or preserved by drying, and is doled out
to them during the cold season, when
otherwise many would starve.
On the other island (St. Paul) they
are helped in the same way, but there
they are caught In steel traps for mar
ket, whereas on st. George their cap
ture is effected in such wise that they
are neither frightened nor hurt until
humanely slaughtered, and consequently
have become so tame as to frequent the
neighborhood Of houses, occasionally
jumping in through the kitchen win
dows.
The islands are small. st. Paul is
thirteen miles long and st. George
twelve miles. On the latter the foxes
are far more numerous, largely because
Of extensive rookeries of sea birds
which in /spring and summer afford
them a plentiful food supply. Very few
white mes are left on st. George, for
the reason that they are systematically
destroyed lest they impair the purity
Of the blue breed.
On st. George millions Of auks, puff
fms and INJURIES build their nests
among the cliffs, over which the foxes
In pursuit of feathered prey climb tt
places seemingly inaccessible to, g
Quadruped. They store many of thu
eggs for future meals by burying then
in moss. In winter they catch fish
and an occasional dead sea lion, whaI,
or walrus, cast up by the sea, help.
out.
An old %boathouse on st. Georg,
island serves the purpose Of a feedin,
place and at the same time that of {
trap. The food is placed in one of tn
rooms, in and put of which the foxe.