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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-22
Ocala Ten Years Ago

Evening Star April %, 1922
Rev. Campbell Gray went to Or
lando yesterday to spend a week.
Mrs. Clarence Camp, Miss Emily
Stotesbury and Miss Matte Williams
left yesterday to attend grand opera
in Atlanta. Mr.. and Mrs. Clifford
Anderson will in a few days leave on
the same pleasant errand.
DR.. Herbert Counts, who was ap-
pointed city inspector of milk and
meat at the last meeting of the city
council, will also have charge of the
administering of the anti-cholera
serum.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-22
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

Ocala Command
cry Number 10,
Knights Templar
meets every sec
ond Friday night
in each month at
8 o'clock at the
| 7, Tucas F, C.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-22
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

B. l.. Adams, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-22
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD

B. L. Adams, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-22

Masonic Hall. A. L. Lucas, E.
B. L. Adams, Recorder.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
A Busy Traffic in Beech Nuts

The picking of a few beech nuts
out on the Notch Mountain one fore
noon in September led us to the know
ledge that they were plentiful this
year and to the thought that perhaps
a market could be found for them.
With the idea of getting little money
into the hands of the school children
who have access to the big woods we
advertised to buy nuts and put an ad
in one of the Boston papers Offering
them for sale. From the first re-
ports we thought that anyone who
gathered and prepared them for mar
ket ought to have fifty cents a quart
Later on it appeared that boy or
girl ingenious and willing to keep
busy could do pretty well at picking
them at forty cents and that is what
we have paid except for very few
lots first brought in. They came in
SO rapidly that we increased our adj
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

by a lust to Kill. His short pause
in a little clearing would have proved
lataI had Il not been for his extreme
agility and alertncss. for swift
brown form swooped down with
scarce a sound. But the talons of
the owl cluched in vain and Moglat,
safe beneath bush, some ten feet
away, ohuekled at his disappointed
foe. This appalling nearness TO death
would have greatly excited any
other animal, but to the weasel it was
but an every day incident and his
heart beats were quickened not a
single beat.
Winter was fast approaching. and
his neighbors we're gradually aseum-
ing their winter garments But
Moglat, until the first light snowfall.
returned his sanr black coat, aud
then he appeared in d notified suit of
black and white.
With the next heavy fail OF snow,
he came forth rcsplendent in a new
suit OF white. with the tip Of his tail
looking for all the world as if some
joker had dipped it in a bottle of ink.
This vas great aid to him in
hunting, for only the black tip of his
tail wa visible against the snow.
With the coming Of winter Moglat
felt the need of change of diet.
SO with his customary quickness of
decision. he went that night to a near
by farmhouse and Toasted on eggs
and the brains Of some Of the choicest
pullets in the flock He repeated
this performance several nights and
one night found> the farmer waiting
for him. The charge from the old
flintlock came uncomfortably close.
SO Moglat ceased his pilgrimage in
that direction.
Life became monOtonous to him,
and, with the aid of his almost invisi-
BILE coat, he took up hunting in the
day time This innovation was
rather pleasing to him, for his
neighbors being on guard against him
at night, relaxed their igiliance in
the daytime. Moglat found rather easy
picking for a while until the animals
got accustomed to his new routine.
One sunny forenoon he was chasing
he was entirely off his guard and
barely escaped a huge hawk that
awooped down upon him. On one
other occasion a few days later this
same thing happened and he escaped
with scratch on his side. This
angered him and the next time that
the hawk appeared he did not dodge
in fear, but crouched low and barred
his wicked little teeth. The bird
entirely intent upon watching this
elusive morsel did not notice
Moglats attitude Of defense. At the
END OF his swoop, just as he clutched
for the weasel, the hawk felt a blow
upon his breast and then the world
went black. Mogolat held his grip
on the birds throat until the frenzied
heating OF his wings had ceased. then
he calmly ate the brains as if he had
made an ordinary kill. With the lust
of a kill still swirling his little brain
he failed to keep up his usual yigi-
lance The hawks mate, who had
witnessed the encounter from the
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
Wants Open Season on Beaver

Editor Indenendent-Repo
Some weeks ago ] received from a
friend in Stratton clipping from your
paper containing a communication
from Mr.. Elmer Jones. In it he res
cribes clearly and only too truthfully
the damage done to the deer by the
beaver. For years | have watched
with anxiety the great increase of the
beaver and the consequent lessening
of the number of deer. The wiping
out by the beaver of the sheltered
places where the deer find refuge and
food through the winter seems the
chief cause of the damage.
But that is not the only harm the
beaver are doing. They are serious
" iniuring the trout fishing by dam
ming the streams and so preventing
the trout from moving up and down
stream, an absolute essential in trout
life, and in shutting off In many places
all access to spawning beds. For
the last five years I have had excep-
tional opportunity to see their work
mostly in Franklin county and in that
time the increase In their number and
the spread of their activities has
been very noticeable. The damage
to the fishing has been gradual but
is now so marked as to call for ac-
ton to limit the number of beaver.
An open season for one year would
probably bring the desired result and
reduce to minimum the damage. l
would not have them wiped out, one
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
Happenings OF Bakers Siding

Spruce Nook" one of the camps
owned by Mrs. |. L. HodgdOn is let
for the winter to Mr.. Talbot, the con
tractor, who is in charge at present OF
Joholc Camp of the IL. & w. Co., for
the purpose OF housing some of his
employees. the main camp not being
large enough to accommodate the
whole crew.
Miss Isabelle Gallant of Madison, q
former teacher of this place is spend
ing her Christmas vacation at Hill
Crest cottage. the guest of the Misses
Belle and Bobbie Hendsbee, Miss Gal
liant is now a student at e. S. Normal
School, Castine.
Miss Matte Merrill, teacher in one
of the Scion schools is spending her
vacation with her sister, Mrs. Rex
Oliver.
We are glad to see Peter Marcue
back to his old post as cook at the
Johole Camp.
Mrs. Elsie Richardson left last week
for Waterville after spending the
summer at Winkumpaugh Lodge.
Bobbie Hendsbee is spending the
winter with her sister at Hill Crest
cottage.
ID. j. Kimball of Winkumpaugh
Lodge left Thursday for Vanceboro
where he will spend few weeks with
his mother before leaving for Canada
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
MOglat
fBy I.angdon A. Jewett)

tBy Langdon A JewetD
IL was autumn, the brown leaves Of
the beeches were the only bits Of
foliage which had not yet succumbed
to the wind and frost The ground
was covered with a dark layer Of
fallen leaves, but the thin, shadowy
form of Moglat, the weazel made no
sound as he glided from his den.
Moglat was sleek, black little
fellow, with a white tipped tail and
tiny red eyes. He was a very small
animal. not much larger than a chip
munk, but Notwithstanding his dim
inutitiye stature, he was the most
feared of all the dennisons OF the
forest. On this particular evening,
Moglat was, as usual hungry and
therefore blood thirsty. Although he
is the principal character OF this
story, it must be admitted that he was
one of the most cruel and vicious Of
all the carniyore in the forest.
Moglat, emerging from his den,
which If seen by the close observer,
would have been passed by as only
a mouse hole" raised his pointed nose
in the air to determine the probability
of food in that immediate vicinity.
No fresh scent forthcoming, Moglat
proceeded to reconoitre. His long
agile leaps were his greatest aid in
securing food, and also in guarantee
ing his personal safety. For he
could easily overtake any ether
animal in two or three swift bounds.
He Travelled on to small creek,
pausing at intervals to scent food.
Down the creek, short distance was
swamp. This was Moglat's goal.
What animal but a rabbit would be
found in a swamp? And what brains
were sweeter than those of rabbit?
As he entered sweet briar patch.
Moglat started up rabbit. who
vainly attempted to escape. In two
swift bounds the agile Moglat reached
his victim. He hesitated not a
second, but drove his needle like teeth
into the rabbits neck at the base of
his skull One piercing shrek and
the rabbit was his. He took a short
drink of hot blood, then turned to the
head of his victim. A few swift
slashes with his teeth, and the brain
was laid bare. Here was food
Moglat quickly ate it and then again
became a huhter. One rabbit could
not keep the pangs of hunger away
for long
During one of his stops he heard a
faint, "tweet tweet," of some sleeping
bird He noiselessly investigated
and soon found ground sparrow.
Her succulent brains We're pleasing
to his pallet. but greater was his de-
light in finding a nest of four eggs.
These he sucked with great relish
and sighed when they were gone.
Moglat again started out again in
search of game. Here his cruel
nature showed itself, for he was not
longer hungry, but was only prompted
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

Willis Sylvester, an amature trapper
Eustis region has been setting traps
Nh a brother trapper who is c. M.
l,cobs Of Eustis up on the Horse
LEX" below Long Landing on the
Ipad River. Two weeks ago a No.
New House trap WAS set with all
M art and cunningness a trapper
build possess, but in spite of all that
M next time the traps were visited
taas and all were gone. There were
Inns on the ground showing that
|batever the prisoner might be it
las of some size and Yiciousness. A
kw trap was set in place of the one
kat was gone only made more firm.
Ten days later this trap was visited
hd to the JOY and surprise OF Sylyes-
b. and Jacobs fine big cat was in
he tran held fast. He was shot
nd skined with great care and the
Fappers took up their course up the
yer on the ice. The lnad gone but
very little way when peculiar tracks
tcame visible in the snow on the
|e, on close examination it proved
be when some animal had been
tagging trap. so the trappers fol-
lived the tracks about one-eighth of
mile and saw something a little
lay ahead Of them as they came near
proved to be an enormous wild cat
lying his best to get away from his
Ersuers.
Jacobs was behind Sylvester so Syl-
Ester walked along ahead and caught
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
|UsT|S MAN WAGES FIERCE BATTLE WITH
A WILD CAT
Willis Sylvester Stays Animal with an Ice Chisel
An Exciting Combat

I'D with the animal At first the cat
tried to get away, but as Willis pur-
sued him into the swamp, Mr.. Cat
turned and charged Sylvester while
Jacobs stood on a little hill watching
the excitement With piercing
screams and yells the cat advanced
on his combatant, Sylvester had only
an old ice chisel in his hand which
he swung with considerable force but
luck was against him and he missed.
Mr.. Jacobs looked on with aShen face
nor able to. shoot as his partner stood
between him and Che maddened beast.
So there was nothing to do but wait
the outcome. Sylvester struck again
and knocked out every tooth in his
head, upper and lower jaw. Sylvester
turned and looked up to Jacobs with
wistful smile as ii to say what shall
do next Jacobs was ready with
these words OF courage, Go to it Will
lie, you are doing we'll
The battle lasted quite few min
utes, first the man then the beast
gaining, at last Sylvester got blow
with the sharp edge of the chisel
which cut its Throat then it stagger-
ed back, so did Willie. Then Mr.
Jacobs came up and finished him with
his revolver.
Both parties came home feeling eX-
ceedingly proud of their trophies and
will they might, and all commend
Sylvester on his bravery and game
spirit.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

After expanding fifty dollars in adj
yertising and paying the parcel post
charges on these shipments we are
slightly behind the game to say no.
thing of the time and labor in receiv-
ing nuts and in wrapping them in
small packages for the mail. How
ever, we have enjoyed this sort of
thing and have the satisfaction of
knowing that from one to two humid
red dollars has been gotten into Som
| erset County for crop which would
have otherwise largely gone to waste.
Probably people of all ages have TAX
en- part in the harvest but it is APP
parent that the young folks have
picked the most of the nuts. We
have had consignments brought in
here where the lot would be divided
into separate bags or packages In
such cases the bags would be marked
willie, 1-2 quarts; Sarah, 6 quarts;
James, Is quarts" This told the
story of three young people perhaps
seven, eleven and thirteen years of
age, each harvesting and keeping his
or her nuts separate so that when
sold each could have the revenue
from his own efforts.
AS the stock of nuts accumulated,
more than we were able to market,
we had to write good many parties
advising them not TO bring or ship us
more for the present but stating, what
we actually believe that we can use
them all before We get through. The
| following letter was received in ans
wer to one such communications:
| Independent Reporter Company,
Skowhegan, Maine.
| Gentlemen:
| Was so glad to get letter stat
ing you thought you could take
my beech nuts, have forty
quarts Now, can you take them
all and pay me forty cents
quart? Have worked so hard to
| pick them. Am over sixty years
| Old and do hope you can take them
all.
Think you are very kind TO buy so
many for it gives a poor person a
little money.
MRS. ELIZA WOOD,
We shall be very pleased to receive
orders for nuts III any quantity from
one quart up. 1t will be noted that
anyone ordering thirty quarts at a.
time gets Il price of forty cents. In
such circumstances we sell for just
what we have been paying and as
supe the expense of wrapping and de-
| livery.
If those who have the nuts on hand
could afford to shell them and ship
us the meats only at about $1.50 per
quart we think we might develop some
business in shelled nuts Would not
recommend this, however. until we
have exhausted every research to mar
ket the present crop in the shell. It
takes about two quarts of nuts to
yield one quart of meats, and it takes
perhaps four hours to do the shelling.
We do not think we could buy them
at higher figure than $1.50 per
quart as shelled walnuts and other
shelled nuts sell at good deal less
than that.
| Can receive few more becchnuts
In the shell Write how many you
have and we will send you shipping
| Instructions
NDENT-REPORTER co.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
b. Whipple Extends His Thanks

TO the Independent Reporter, l
fOuld like to thank the Bingham fire.
Zen and others for their aid and good
a'entions when my store house was
(urned last Saturday, also John Hun
ewell who got me home very quickly
Pom the village.
rms fire was set by men discharged
Hnout money from numbering
fmp. | have nothing but contempt
Y monopolistic numbering concern
at hires cheap inexperienced young
lloWs from the cities and after prov
q their inefficiency sends them away
zero weather, without money, to
g, to steal and to burn.
me Legislature should attend to it
mere are enough members who are
IN some way as the lawyers say
Fe'alned' by these same monopolists.
H, b. WHIPPLE-
ngham, Me-, December Fl, 1922. =
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

lofty limb OF dead fir, lost no time ia
reyenging Moglat's desd. The wsase!
sensed no danger and emily when ths
shadow Of ths hawk appeared on the
snow beside him, did he arch his
back to spring to safety. But the
relaxation, though monentary, was
disastrous. and Moglat, fast cluched
in the talons of the hawk, with a dizzy
glance, saw the whole world sink
rapidly behind him, as he sped to fur
niGh nourishment to ths mate Of the
bird be had a moment before feasted
upon.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
Uno and Guess

A Skowhegan lady has arranged
perpetual joke on her friends by nam
ing one of her pet kittens "Uno" and
another one Guess" 1t will bs
readily observed that any inquiry as
10 the name of either an NAL would.
in its rep'y, leave the questioner 3
good deal puzzled
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

vertising, using Portland, Boston. New
York, Philadelphia and Chicago pa
pers. In this way we have expend-
ed about fifty dollars, eight dollars
being for a two line ad. two inser-
tions in the Youths Companion.
There has been a fair and certain
ly very interesting result from this
advertising expenditure. In many of
the orders the customer will state
that he is anxious to see these nuts
again as he recalls having picked them
in the woods of Maine when boy.
We have had one small order from
the Pacific coast, a good many from
the Middle West, but the bulk of the
nuts of course have gone to southern
New England and New York state
The popular order is one quart,
sometimes two quarts, and now and
then some dealer would order twenty
quarts at shipment. We are offer
ing them as follows DOStDaid.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
Bank President Wants Bsechnuts

W. Henry Mathews. president OF th@
East Side Savings Bank in Rochester.
y. Y. has written the Independent
Reporter stating that he wants TO
have a taste OF beechnuts az It has
been a long time since ne has eaten
any Mr. Mathews was a publisher
OF the Democrat and Chronicle OK
Rochester Mass. for ffty-one years.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21
OF Interest to Big Woods Renders


Miss Gladys Vaughn of Scion. r.
+. d. No. . informs the Big Woods
Page editor of the finding OF baroque
pearl, the clam in which it was con-
tanned having been found in large
brook in the town of Concord. The
clans were obtained for bait for trap
ping and Miss Vaughn while looking
at some of the SHELLS found the little
pearl in one of them. She also found
several small irregular shaped pieces
of gravel with thin coating of what
appeared to be a pearl substance on
one side, with the other side dark in
color. Miss Vaughn previously found
pearl in a clam shell taken from
the same stream for which she has
been offered $40.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

open season could not do this, for they
are part of the real life of the wild,
but | would have their numbers so
reduced that they would not be men
ace to the deer and the trout, which
are so much more valuable to the
state.
Very truly yours,
DAVID magic, Jr.
Is Essex St, East Orange, n, j.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-12-21

A recent issue Of the Plcasantville
journal, New York. has numerous re-
ferences to the community house with
which Edgar Moline the genial pro-
prietor of the High Twelve Camps
above Bingham is connected. The re-
ferences indicate that the community
house is a very important factor in
town activities.
Willis Sylvester of Eustis is having
fine luck trapping beaver. He has
caught five.
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10
WHERE Is THE COAL ?

railroad to the m Manuska since these dates announce that the Pacific Coast would De flooded 19l5 a m trade that time
 years been made by naval qualities the atanuska coal were better thant of any deposits
 cong- British Columbia coal at 
 the greatest shortage m market vast effort be made get higher than for years
 fanae or
  that sece millions ready for the fleets of the where the fleets
 suspicion the statements or in the heids to woodpie somewnere is nding the bunk.--Vaidez Miner.
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10

been opened of population or the oil fields in western Seward oeg the place Territory the capital
 of that served by removing the which because of her medds h Alaskan the Fifth Division
 gained by little more eooo the seward nothing the city Anchorage the gateway thru which most The possibilities of this cou development let's put our shoulder things Let them know up the everything and anything join hands in general oos' end-Seward
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10
THE EVERLASTING sQUABBLE.

of more land for agricultural made clear the farmers ooc the cntaze all in the government or Department under Secretary wallace of the Interi under Mir Fall
 One supervising than half dozen The of the Interior Department in the present Secretary and experience of mining ana wn would handy Alaska He is said to be farming but that isn't so important to the a come
 The statement House that the President quabbe between Messrs Fall and wallace partans out the bales of red tape with wcn bound for and to end the cohnc' authority whi parayzed progress
 will "Amen! to this statement iroh' tue White House nd more power Hardng!"
 beena or more with what . abneisa dangerous but heroic removal hv the President apparently it is about me for the operation
 harmony of action both at Washington anu Alaska will bring delayed for generation.
 of the auabbng over authority the cenerng of national upon Many members of Congress and reading generally may through curiosity bit reliable map might that Alaska is part of the continent land opportunity instead or Equimeaux bearsCordova imes
 EVERYBODY MERCHANT"
 to sell and pay roll to meet would who want would you hold for local people won't doesn't pay"
 publishers every- In communities has sheet pendidly edited the everybody him" is not business
 He fails appreciate what it to his community to spread and it's opportunities for
 spent in that
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10
ty Every merchant gets his share of this

nun his of this.
 advertising the merchant publisher. publicity the town and
 The $ publicity
  thai the good accomplished
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  is.
 Only in adve The do publishing 
 supporting contributing the community -The Red Nomeord job printing done ia Nams
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10
COOPERATION.

feeling being between Seward and Ancora*e Ii would appear that has existed between the ,,v;ne rise to pickering giving before aarit osc cooperation nd will.
 We hear stand behind seward for the latter territory The building oi the men railroad interior has brought seward "
The Nome nugget., 1922-06-10

NOW-PCLL < hold Seward Peninsula bonds of and pull 4 be : only strong BUT WITHOUT CHAIN timbe wolff is power Pluribus Unnm For long time the different of little hermit villages there has been frghtful of t the with the where We have been like . dog "Geeing' and Having | hen the and Ahead weekly letter from settle in the activities, social ! feelings and expressions of the big issues confronting us all It your support and send suggestions to how to would like to be perfect mirror { he Peninsuas desires. This will require
 
 Just laying in Clear, constructive creisM community a : respondent hbenated for that local school teach writing activities and we Will : make substantial literary abors Let's show them are ourselves.
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