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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-04-22
SKOWHEGAN LOCAL NEWS


land after visit with relatives in
town.
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week end visit with Mr. lies in
Lewiston.
Arthur X. Ac(@ulIan. a student al
Bowdon College spent the week end
-
Mr. and Mrs William Mitchell have
been in Boston and Providence r l.
for some day
MI, ana ME- ''e2fSe y aloo'e anu
Sunday with Mr. Moore parents i'm
Gardiner
Mrs. Fred Palmer and three chill
dren. Who have been guests ~ lie
home of her father. john Delauo.
haYe departed
Reg George Merriam wont t0 Wat
prs5llo Fr.dar afternoon to aftaaa no
bu mess Matler- pertaining DID rsu.
gious topics
Mr. and Mr. chester Ilas.eS ol
summer street srent HE ~e"k end
Win Mfs- lIhsset sister and family
~ AajefF3ile
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1chaoI faculty accompanied by her
brolhe Fred Chase. visited Win Miss
Gladys Chase and Elliot chase at
MI ana MIS-. iierpeIl plfeIh ana
ha"o haan ,,;s;ting rolatiyes in mis-
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a ,.ieit Win reIotivne nfior Ia return
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Mrs. Grace Tolman, who mas been
suffering from the effects OF fall
for the past five weeks, was able 10
leave Saturday for Portland to VISIT
her daughter Miss Jessie Mc'fregor'
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One OF the pleasant social events of
the past week was the social affair
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. |. ].
Smith when their daughter, Miss
Geneva Smith entertained the mem
bers Of the Century NJ +. Church
choir Refreshments were served
before the departure of the musicians.
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~. La cnand como time visiting
her father. John J. Lander in Brook
line. Mass. and with relatives in
Lawrence. Mass.
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Kenneth Copp and George H. ia"eS.
two High School students were pas
sengers out on the morning train sat
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At the meeting Of Sunset Chapter
I o f. S. held Friday evening, Mrs.
Bessie A. Smith gave pleasing pipe
orpan recital and Mrs Ethel NJ.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1920-04-22
$50 NEW WHITE
DRESS SKIRTS

In this lot skirts of Garbardne Popn, Pique and
Surf Satin made in great variety of handsome styles
that very attractive In the lot quite number of
sizes up 36 inch waist bands Prices very
able for such we'll tailored skirts $780, 800 $50 and 1000
each.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

Hopkins University, and he had begun
his career as instructor in philosophy
in Lake Forest University, ILL.,, from
which he went to Smith College and
then to Bucknell University, Pa, as
tutor in philosophy, ethics and psy-
chology, and finally as professor of
logic and ethics in Columbia Univer-
sity in 1895-1920, from which he re.
tired to repair his broken health.
Pounds American Institute of Research
Meanwhile, in 1908, he had founded
the American Institute for Scientific
Research. In that undertaking he had
the cooperation of such men as the
Rev. DR.. Minot J. Savage, the Rev.
DR.. R. Heber Newton, the Rev. DR..
Isaac K. Funk, then at the head of the
publishing firm of Funk & Wagnalls.
Henry M. Alden, late editor of Har
per's Magazine, gave the project his
approval, as a quest in science, al
though he did not further identify
himself with it. DR.. Weston D. Bayley
specialist in the medical aspects of
psychology, was keenly interested.
He wrote long reports of seances
for his journal which seemed out of
keeping with his own high profes-
sions. Among them was the interview
with his wife's spirit, in which the
name of a living woman of means. who
was represented as more than willing
to marry the professor, figured gro
tesquely.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
The FurrOW
Ne0Us and V1e0Us Ab0ut kbe Farm

tilizers is IL per cent of total plant
food, including either nitrogen, or
phosphoric acid or potash, separately
or in combination. The spring inspec.
ton of the Pennsylvania Bureau of
Chemistry indicates that the proper
ton of high-grade fertilizers on sale
in the State has greatly increased ovec
the low-grade brands.
The unsuccessful farmer is the one
who purchases the low-grade ferti-
lizers, because the product is cheaper
and then applies from 100 to 200
pounds to the acre. Plants do not
have the power to walk around the
farm seeking food and on such an in
sufficient diet they do not thrive. In
some Of the successful potato, onion
and tobacco districts of the State as
high as 1900 pounds of high-grade fer.
tilizer are used to the acre and the re-
suits obtained fully justify the expendi-
ture.
What Makes the Peaches Wormy
Did you ever split peach open and
find worm curled up close to the pit
and wonder how it came to be there
That worm is the larva of the snout
beetle, little dark colored beetle
about one-fifth of an inch long with a
snout that is half as long, that is used
for digging holes in the fruit in which
the eggs are laid. The plum curculio
is it's proper name, and it infests
peaches, plums, cherries and apples
in our fruit gardens and some wild
plants.
1t is too late now to stop this years
damage, but get ready for next year.
Keep all ground in orchard clean cult
waited until August 1st. That will
break up the cells in which the worms
transform to adults, so lessening the
number to emerge next year.
The Bureau of Plant Industry, Penn
sylvania Department of Agriculture,
Harrisburg, will gladly send spraying
schedules to tell when to spray to
catch those not killed by cultivation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
This is the Life

That's what many people think
about camping out in the summer.
And there are certainly all sorts OF
contrivances and arguments for the
campers comfort.
For the motor camper there are
automobile beds, with waterproof in
closures which fold up and fit on thu
running boards.
Or you may have automobile tents
of good size that are not too expensive
for consideration.
The sports shops are showing all
sorts of rubber and oilskin garments
for various kinds of weather, khaki
clothing of many kinds, rubber blan.
kets, ponchos and camp blankets.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

duces the vitality of hog or causes
its general systematic resistance to be
lowered, invites the attack of apv dis
ease to which it is exposed, and hog
cholera, because of it's almost univer-
sal prevalence, is usually the disease
that makes its appearance in a herd
in which there are many hogs whose
health and resisting. powers are abnor-
NAL
The most common of these predis-
posing factors are intestinal parasites
(worms), improper feeding, unbal-
anced rations, insanitary surroundings,
an attack of some other disease, or
any condition which reduces the vital
ity of the animals.
Spread of the Disease
The virus of hog cholera may be
carried from farm to farm on the
wheels Of vehicles and upon the feet
of animals such as horses, cattle, dogs,
chickens, pigeons and buzzards.
Streams running through premises
where the disease exists or into which
carcasses of cholera-infected hogs
have been thrown, will carry infection
to hogs having access later in their
course.
The improperly buried of Incomplete
ly burned carcasses of higs which have
died of cholera constitute one of the
greatest menaces that can be encoun-
tered by the hog raisers in any com
munity. Dogs dig these carcasses out
Of the ground, communicating their feet
and bodies and then drag them
through the neighborhood, spreading
the infection about premises in gene
raj, including those occupied by sus-
ceptible hogs.
Prevention of Hog Cholera
The factors involved in preventing
the introduction of nog cholera into
a herd may be classified as precau-
tionary measures, sanitation and vacci-
nation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
Protect Tomato Plants; Vegetable e
Household Standby

| With Pennsylvania acreage of to.
matoes smaller than usual this year,
on account of the shortage of farm
labor, the Bureau of Plant Industry.
Department of Agriculture, warns the
growers of the State, both commercial
and the small truck gardner, to pro-
tect the tomato plants against de-
structive diseases. There are several
diseases which attack the tomato plant
spraying the plants at intervals Of ten
days or two weeks, with bordeaux
mixture.
The growth of the tomato appetite,
not only in Philadelphia, but the entire
United States, is one of the romances
of the dinner table. Up until 1880 the
tomato was believed to be poisonous
although the plants were grown for
ornamental purposes and the tomato
was known as the "love apple" About
$50 the vegetable was first eaten, but
| it was not until after the Civil War
that it set out upon it's conquest which
has placed it in one form or another,
on nearly every dinner table in Amer
lea The tomato is of South American
origin and is member of the Solan-
ceae family, of which the poisonous
belladonna, to the tobacco and the pc
tato are also members The first to.
matoes grown in this country were
little larger than cherries and only
through the application of science has
the vegetable reached it's present high
standard.
Eliminate the Use of Low Grade
Fertilizers
That the farmers of Pennsylvania
are losing thousands of dollars each
month through the purchase of low
grade fertilizers, is the warning sent
out by the Bureau of Chemistry, Penn
sylvania Department of Agriculture
The usually accepted line of denmark
alton between high and low-grade fer
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
All Told

They were couple of bookmakers
with very little capital. They had
lost heavily over a certain race and
were forced to suspend payment
When their clients turned up next day
to receive their money they found
a closed door, on which the following
intimation appeared:
Results of Liverpool Spring Cup
Star of Doom, 1; Queens Advocate, 2;
Wuffy, 3; Also Ran-Me and My Pal"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
Can Spirits Speak To Us l.?

Some of the most noted scientists
CT America attended the funeral of
Prof. James Hervey Hyslop, secretary
Of the American Society for Psy-
chical Research, who died from blood
clot, in Upper Montclair, N. j., re-
Gently, after several months illness.
Sir Oliver Lodge called Prof Hys
lop "the chief representative of psy.
chical research in America" Believ-
ers in the power of the disembodied
spirit show unusual interes5 in his
death because as founder and spoKes-
man for the society he worked out by
study and had published the belief in
spirit contact and he printed an &C.
count of a personal experience, in
which he said he had talked with his
wife, who had been dead some years
Thus both reason and practical result
lconfirmed him in the assurance that a
spirit could talk with the living.
Spirits Fail to Carry Out StipuIations
EARLY in the life of his society,
dozen years ago or more, at a gather
ing in his house of member friends
and investigators, each of those pres
ent wrote a note, not disclosing it's
contents to the others, sealed it ana
placed it in special compartment Of
the society safe, at the residence.
A mutual stipulation was that none
of the notes should be disturbed or
unsealed until the departed spirit o.
enc of the writer's should appear to
che or more of the survivors and re-
veal the contents with the message
from the spirit world. The several
writer's agreed that if message and
rote were alike, or substantially SO.
that conformity would be accepted as
proof that a spirit could, of it's own
will, communicate with friends on
earth.
Some of the note writers have died,
and no sign has been reported from
them.
Prof. Gyslop made light of this ap-
parent neglect, which, he said, was
merely negative testimony and worth
less, the implication being that per
haps the writer's, in their lifetime, hal
lost interest in the matter, or at mosI,
that they could not break the restraint
of their spirit control" AS it was
the purpose of the writer's to see what
their spirits might do without invoking
the help of medium, Prof. Hyslop
regarded the failure of the spirits thus
released to reappear to any of the
party as merely an incident in scieu-
tifc inquiry, nowise affecting the
power of communication in some form.
Survivors of the underwriting party
have felt, through all the intervening
years, that the real test would come
with the spirit of Prof Hyslop, for
while others night slip or yield to re-
straint, his spirit-in the interest anc
for the credit gof the cause to which
his high taleats had been devoted
would make sSecial effort to keep the
compact Of the note writers. That Is,
the test which " N now be awaited.
Prof. Hyslop undertook psychicaf
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
Pennsylvania Bureau OF Markets
Opens Branch Offices at Erie and York
Will Keep the Public Informed Regarding Local
Farm Products Markets

Branch offices of the Pennsylvania
Bureau of Markets, Pennsylvania De.
partment of Agriculture, have been
opened within the last few days in Erie
and York.
Each Office will issue market re-
port, which is designed to put before
the public information regarding the
local market for farm products.
In addition, reports on the large mar
kets which are of particular interest
in each district will be furnished by
the United States Bureau of Markets.
Information covering the Harrisburg
territory will be issued directly from
the main Office of the bureau.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

An electric wrench has been de-
veloped for speeding up the work
around automobile garages and shops
where most of this work is done.
This appliance may also be used as a
portable drill, screwdriver, buffer CT
grinder, and costs from two to five
cents an hour to operate. A feature
of the device is the special clutch
with an adjustable pressure of 10 to
60 pounds, by means of which the nut
or bolt is frightened to the desired
pressure, after which the power is au-
tomatically shut off.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

These market reports will be issued
to all of the newspapers in each sec.
ton and everyone in the district
should receive the information with a
minimum loss of time.
During the fruit season, special re-
ports will be issued at Erie on the
grape market. The same will be true
of the peach and apple shipping points
of Adams and Franklin counties.
With the establishment of these of.
fees, the bureau now has branches at
Lancaster, Allentown, Wilkes-Barre,
Scranton, Erie and York, in addition
to the main Office at Harrisburg.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

research as a trained student, pre-
fessedly unwilling to accept anything
short of scientific truth in the line of
his inquiry. He has supplemented
his college course in the University Of
Wooster with course at the Univer.
sity of Leipzig and another in John,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

on the end of the pull-chain painted
with radium paint so it will adver-
tise it's presence to the guest who gets
up in the night to close the window
and then cannot find his or her way
back to bed. Other Thoughtful hosts
see that the switch button is so treated
to save embarrassment and annoyance
to the guest, so there is no paw
ing around in the dark in search of the
light.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

Jane had just commenced school,
and the teacher asked her a question
in numbers which she was unable to
answer. She walked up to the teacher
and said in low voice. ''If you won't
ask me that I'll give you some of my
animal crackers"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
Precautionary Measures


Precautionary measures include all
of those which in any way prevent the
coming of hog cholera virus to the
herd or premises. The location of the
hog lots should be some distance from
the public highway and from streams
of water.
No trespassing should be permitted
in the hog lots.
Unnecessary visits to other herds
should be avoided.
If a neighbor has hogs sick from
any cause, do not visit his farm, or per,
nit him to visit yours, for the disease
may later prove to be hog cholera.
Never permit hogs to run at large
on public highway.
Never corral a stray hog and con-
fine it with the herd
Do not introduce recently-purchased
hogs or returned exhibition stock into
the herd until they have been isolated
and observed for a period of three
weeks at least; even then they should
be dipped in an antiseptic solution
before they are permitted to mingle
with other hogs, as they may carry in
lection on their feet or bodies.
Do not purchase or keep on the
premises an unthrifty, unhealthy o.
"runt" pig.
Do not drive into the hog lots from
the public road.
Confine your dog and insist on your
neighbors doing likewise, especially if
hog cholera exists in the neighbcr.
hood.
Keep the hogs free from worms and
lice, and remedy any insanitary condi-
lions which reduce their vitality and
resistance.
Beware of the Community boar"
and other exchange of stock.
Keep butchers, dead animal col
lectors and stock buyers away from
the hog lots.
If an outbreak of cholera occurs in
your community, protect your own
herd and your neighbors' by reporting
to the State Department of Agricul-
ture, Bureau of Animal Industry,
Trenton, any violation of quarantine
by the owner Of quarantined hogs. II
he is not acquainted with the danger
to which he exposes the hogs Of the
community he should be informed.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

A safety cartridge fuse remover,
made of an extremely tough insulating
material and resembling a pair OF
pliers in design, has been invented to
remove and replace cartridge fuses
of half to one and half inches in
diameter
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23

There are fifty or more household
devices that can be used on the house
lighting system, such as electric irons.
small stoves, coasters, chatting dishes,
water heaters, percolators, washing
machines, water pumps, fans, sewing
machines, meat grinders, bread mix
ers, buffing and grinding machines.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-07-23
Electrical Helps

A device for lighting and magnify
ing the copy being read by the type
writer operator is being developed
by Rochester concern. The device
Eliminates one line of copy at time.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-25
DARING BANK ROBBERY
IS STAGED BY BANDITS
Cashier OF Pennsylvania Bank Locked
In Vault While Robbers Take
$165,OOO and Escape.

Pittsburg, Penn, May 25.-Six auto
mobile bandits Monday escaped with
Sl65,OOO in currency and bonds from
First National Bank of Finleyville, a
small town on the Pittsburg and Char
leroi suburban line.
During the noon hour the bandits
drove up in a high-powered car and
entered the bank.
The assistant cashier, John Jones,
was at the counter and he was ordered
to the vault, where two of the robbers
stood guard. There was no other en-
ployees in the bank at the time. the
others being at lunch. He was not re-
leased from the vault until they came
back, as the robbers locked the door
before departing.
The men took all the money in the
drawers and on the shelves after they
had driven Jones away from the coun-
ter. One of the robbers guarded the
door of the bank. After obtaining all
the loose money and securities They
then leisurely left the bank and start
ed their automobile toward Washing
ton. Penn
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-25
MAYSVILLE LAYS
PLANS NOW FOR X.
7. meet IN 1922
Club Is Being Organized To Go TO Mt.
Sterling Next Year en- Masse in
Effort TO Bring State COncIave
Here Following Year.

At the meeting of the Maysville
Commandery Knights Templar held at
the Masonic Temple Monday evening
plans were laid for bringing to Mays
vile in 1922 the State Knights Templar
Conclave-
committee composed of Sir
Knights j. A. Dodson, A. G. Sulser and
Edw. M. Smith was appointed to or
ganize club of local Knights Templar
who will begin at once to lay aside
monthly assessments to pay all ex-
penses of large delegation of Knights
to go to Mt. Sterling next year as an
escort to Eminent Sir S. p Browning,
of this city, who will then be elevated
to Grand Commander the highest Of
flee in the state This strong delega-
ton from the Maysville Commandery
will also make every effort possible to
have the State Conclave meet in Mays
vile in 1922 when Mr.. Browning will
preside as Grand Commander. 1t has
been many years since the Conclave
was held in this city and a strong dele
cation should be able to induce the
grand body to select Maysville as their
meeting place.
The tentative plans for next years
trip to Mt. Sterling include the taking
of our famous Boys Band to furnish
music in the great Knights Templar
parade and between fifty and one hun
dred local Knights are expected to
join the club and make the trip.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1920-05-25
COUNTY SCHOOL
FIELD MEET IS TO
Be A GREAT EVENT
state Y. VI. c. A. Authorities are Max
ing Extensive Plans For First An.
nual Meet at MaysIick Fri.
day Afternoon.

The first annual Mason County
School Field Meet on the athletic
grounds of the Mayslick Consolidated
School to be held on Friday afternoon
under the direction of the Kentucky Y.
NJ. c. A. promises to be the biggest
athletic event ever held in Mason
county and will be but the beginning
of new interest in athletics among the
schools of Mason county.
There will be present at the meet to
act as judges some of the best known
instructors in athletics i'm the state of
Kentucky. These men will come from
the Lexington Y. NJ. c. A. and from
Kentucky University There will also
be instructors in school play who will
give the students attending the meet
ing something new in play ground
athletics.
The program includes all kinds of
races and jumps and setting-up exer-
cises as well as a tug of war between
the scholars of schools represented.
For the past two weeks the teachers
of the various schools in the county
have been getting their students ready
for the meet and big time is prom
sed, Several Maysville people will go
out as spectators and the Maysville
High School and some of the local
grade schools will more than likely
have representatives in ;he various
events during the afternoon. Upon the
success of this first meet will depend
the future of these meets which cost
the State Y. NJ. c. A. considerable
money and time and the teachers and
school folks in general in the county
should lend it their hearty support.