davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1922-10-17

to slrsirais should give cause for
alarm. Ire harm comes quite as
much from exaggerated reports a.
from the afiment itself. The ratio Of
deaths 10 sarvivals indicates that the
ailment 4. not more dangerous than
other ~aiiruents due 10 Infection By
micro-orEnnirms
To the best o. knoTledfe infection
Is doe chiefly TO meats which, owing
10 Imperfect preservation. have be-ii
contaminated by exposure TO IN cir.
After b bacillus has entered the iiv-
lag body u creates the poisonous pto-
maine There are very many pto.
maines. but only few are toxic Pnc-
tieaily all OF them result from the de-
composition OF substances rich IN nj.
troEenous m~atter--nsh. fIesh. milk
products, and certain vegetables.
Illness from food poisoning Is com
mon enough. especially in the summer
months. Not much is due 10 ptomaine
poisoning: most Of II Is preventable-
And when foodstuffs are protected
from flying dust and from contamina-
ton By insects M other carriers H.
ness from food poisoning Is noticeably
reduced.
, 1922-10-17

I have found in all my tr~tpsactions
that where Mr.. Mondell has found a
deserving case, that he has gone the
limit in the interest OF the ex-service
man and IL Is surely a pleasure for
me to show my appreciation. and 1
know OF no other way than the writ
ing OF this letter so that the people
Of Wyoming may know just what
kind OF a mar Mr.. Mondeli is and how
carefully and thoughtfuliy he looks
after h interests OF even the most
ordinary citizen like myself. 1 am
more than pleased to do all that I
can. to help Mr.. Mondell In any way
In this election. as I think that he is
the kind OF a man, that the people OF
Wyoming should have and the ex-
service men never had a better friend
in congress. Inc they will make a
great mistake II they do not go down
the line for him in this election. A
fellow realizes just what kind
OF a man p state OFFICIAL is untl he
needs assistance and help. especially
II he is not a nan OF influence and
wealth.
Too often the man in authority
might not render the service and. as.
sistance needed. unless, he thought
that IT was going to someone of promi.
hence, that would result in an ad.
vantage to him.
I am prompted in writing this let.
ter as a token of appreciation of Mr..
Monlell's efforts rs a public servant,
in behalf of a citizen of Wyoming.
HARRY PORTER.
143 y. Beech St. Casper, Wyo.
, 1922-10-17
Elk Service Man on
Mondell.

Harry Porter. OF Park county. Wye,
formerly OF Lexington, KY discharged
from the army in h early part OF
1919; before entering service. and
after discharge, an employe Of w. r.
Coe OF Cody. wyo.
Since discharged from servicA. has
been unable to do anything. owing to
disability. except for three months
since hat time. Mr.. Porter went to
Parkersburg. w. Va, in hope Of re
gaining his heath, but met with no
Improvement, and on tho advice Of
friends. he found It necessary TO. call
upon the representative from the state
in which he enlisted, which was the
state OF Wyoming,
Here "a what Mr.. Porter has TO say:
I called upon the Hon. Mr.. Mondell
to assist me at the time I was nat
on my back and Unable to earn a
iiTing. l was in the state OF West
Virginia at this time and had gone
from one locality to another in the
hope OF regaining my health so that I
could take up my regular line OF EN-
ployment.
I would say that CONGRESSMAN Mon.
dell tool just as much interest In my
case at h a time while I was residing
in West Virginia as he could pos
sibly have taken. had i been in the
state of Wyoming, which he repre-.
SCENTS.
As the result OF Mr.. Mondel's ct
forts. while the government had only
allowed me a 10 per cent disability
Mr.. Monden secured me a full 100 per
cent disability; also secured me vo
cational training. which ! am Atill tax.
ing today, and showed me every cour
tesy hat It would be possible for 4
man 10 be shown under the circum
stances 1 fee that l would be very
ungrateful II I did not show my appre
citation for all the kind efforts Mr.
Mondell has put forth in my interest
and I know from experience that my
case Is not the only one where he has
dealt out mercy and assistance to de
serving men.
It's a pleasure to mention the pa
tience Mr.. Mondell has shown in the
last three years. 1 ave written Jsome
200 letters to him and ! have in ne
instance failed to receive a reply tc
every letter by return mail. and III
some cases the congressman went tc
the trouble OF wiring me.
, 1922-10-17
Whu Should IL Oppose.

TUsT AS THE SOUTH wants protection through
d the votes of Republican members OF congress,
SO the south wants the advantage of a merchant
marine without supporting the national legislation
necessary TO secure it. Southern members OF CON
rress voted for various items of protection in the
Republican tariff bill when these items were OF par
ticIlar interest to their own states, but when the
bill came up for final passage they voted against
IL Southern members of the senate and house
vote for appropriations LOT the improvement Oh
rivers and harbors in. their section of the coun-
try but they refuse their support to legislation
that is necessary to make those rivers and har-
bors most useful in building up the foreign trade
One of the most prominent and ably edited OF
Southern newspapers recently said: For Texas
ports TO get the most out of the Panama canal
It is clear that they must build up a large volume
of traffic between them and the ports of the Pa
cific coast, the west coast of South America and
the Orient" That is manifestly true, but the
editor might have gone further and said that
for Texas ports to get TIE most out of foreign
trade it is clear that they must build up a large
volume Of traffic between them and the ports of
all foreign countries.
times during the merchant marine discussion that
no retail merchant would depend upon his rival
for the delivery of his goods to his customers. Yet
that is exactly what the United States does when
it permits the bulk of our foreign commerce to
be carried in ships sailing under the British, the
Japanese, the German or other foreign flags,
The amount the United States pays for the
carrying of our trade in foreign bottoms is the
least important of our losses. Far more serious
is the failure to build up and maintain perma-
nent trade relations which supply a constant
and dependable demand for American products,
Every ship company, every ship captain, every ship
officer OF employee, Is a booster for the trade of
the country under whose flag he sails. Every per
manently operated shipping line is a builder of
trade for the port from which it sails.
If we pay good American money to foreign
ships for the carrying of American goods we are
placing in the hands of our commercial rivals
the means by which. they may gradually supplant
us in foreign markets which they can as well
supply.
On an average, the ports of the southern states
are closer 10 the center of American production
than are the ports of any other section of the
country. The South, therefore, should be the
strongest advocate of any measure that is ,neces
sary TO assure the establishment of a permanent
and adequate American merchant marine service
to all parts of the world.
, 1922-10-17
Presidential Approoal.

president HARDING is apparently thorough,
L ly satisfied with the accomplishment of the
present house of representatives under the lead
ership of Hon. Frank w. Mondell, judging from
a recent letter addressed to the Wyoming repre-
sentative, who is a candidate for United States
senator. The presidents letter follows:
81 am addressing you in testimony of my appre
citation of the great public service of the present
house of representatives and of yourself as its
majority leader. 1t is an acknowledgment which
I record in this manner with the more satisfaction
because of my warm personal sentiment for your
self, as well as my high estimate of your perform
ance in one of the most trying posts under our
government.
at has been a pleasure and reinsurance To
know that your fine resources of patience, sound
judgment, candor and legislative experience were
always ready for application to the problems which
have confronted the administration.
"Few congresses have been called upon for
such arduous service as has been exacted from
the sixtyseventh. 1t has been in approximately
continuous, sitting from the day it came into exis-
tence. In the realm of achievement, its record
Is notable. l doubt if any congress in our history
has accomplished so impressive a volume of work
touching so wide a range of national interest.
"Nlthout attempting TO suggest an enumera,
, 1922-10-17
The Letter That Miscqrried.

EX-SEkN ICE MEN over the state are awaiting
Ia the reply of Mr.. Joseph C. OMahoney, Sen.
ator hendricks campaign manager, to the in.
quiry sent some two weeks. ago by an exservicc
man of Basin. Since there is a remote, chance
that the letter has not reached its destination. a
copy of it is given herewith in the hope that it may
fall under the eve of either the senator or his
manager. The letter follows:
"You state in letters to the various posts Of
the American Legion of Wyoming that Mr.. Ken.
drick was for the bonus. Although Mr.. Kendrick
was not in Washington when the bill was before
the senate, you state he was paired for it.
"If / were running for a public office and ]
had two very good friends who wished TO see
me elected, one went to another county and
said he would vote for me by mail when election
came around, the other stayed at home and worked
very hard for me to see that 1 was elected, which
was the greater friend?
"Mr. Mondell stayed in Washington to see that
the ex-service mems bonus bill passed the house
of representative, and he worked, talked, and voted
for the bonus, which CARRIED in the house through
the efforts of Mr.. Mondell with fifty ballots To
spare, while Kendrick was. in Wyoming campaign
ing and claiming he was doing ms much for the
bonus as he could by being paired for it.
- Il ask you, Mr.. O'Mahoney. which was the
greater friend Of the exHserviee man."
, 1922-10-17

b eternaliy ringing the chansos M
Narration and ThcE1nopyiae am ~
ing back TO read Ia aSscurs terts \.
Creek and LATIN. and Of tts tke,so
lars OF patriotic vlrtuc- thank a.
that we can ma them nearer hous.
or OWE country. on our own SOL
that strains Of the nobies, s@n,in,a,
trat ever r~eiled in he breast Of ma
are breathing to us out OF ever r.r
OF our counrrys history, In the ns.
eioquence OF n mother tongue-th,f
the colonial and provincial couneu, y,
America exhibit to US models Of ~.
spirits and character that gave Cr..c.
and Rome their name and their pral..
among nations- Here We ought 10 e.
for instruction-the lesson IS plain
j. clear. K is appiieAble-Edwa-d
Everett
, 1922-10-17
Think about II

I'VE SHALL HAvE lowe taxes when we have
w state, county, city and school governments
which find ways and means to get along on less in.
cope-not before. We shall have such ~economizinc
governments whe7 VIC have a psblic determined 10
enforce economy upon its disbursers Of taxes-not
before. We shall have a public determined TO en-
force economy only when it refuses TO heed the ap-
that, or the other improvement or innovation OF
service or whatever 1t is that the public is per
suaded il must have.
We need political leaders pledged 10 economy and
business efficiency in government. not ~poiiticai
~persuaders' seeking to put something new over on
the people, thus swelling the tax blu and creating
more offices.
, 1922-10-17
The Casper Tribme's Program

irrigation project west of Casper to be Authorirs1
and completed at once
A complete and scientific soning system for the
city Of Casper.
comprehensive municipal and school recreation
n-rk sy.tem. including swimming pools for the chill
deem OF Casper.
conpletion OF the established Scenic Route boule-
yard as MANNED by the. county commissioners 10 Gar
den Creek Falls ard return
Better roads for Natrona county and more high
ways for wyoming.
More equitable freight rates for shippers.of the
Rocky Mountain region. and more frequent train serv'
ice for Casper.
, 1922-10-17
Scuthed

He srieved because his country's ship
Served sinful booze upon her trip,
And with the Very best intent
He laid his plans for betterment.
He executed his design
a hole below the water line
"And thus" he cried. there is no
doubt
The wicked stuff win all run ont
But something went extremely wrong
Despite his cal and morals strong;
The hole that was his special pride
Let too much water get inside.
And that is how II came to he
The ship Just vanished from the sea,
And on the ear far and wide
No Starry Flag could be deserted.
-McLandburg Wilson.
, 1922-10-17
An Enchantress Fooled

Blue her eyes and very bright
Eyes accustomed TO subdpe:
Stumbling me. they made me quit.
Blue.
D4 the usual thing ensuee
s., I didn't az adeu
Didn't wilt beneath her blight.
rior my suit to her renew.
No, ] simply took TO fight
Blew.
May Villains Ward.
, 1922-10-17

tion Of the accomplishment for which the country
is indebted to the Sixfy-seSenth congress, and
its Immediate predecessor, il is BETTING to ap-
praise the general results. which have been so
helpful TO American welfare that they will not
fail TO appeal to the approval of the American
people"
, 1922-10-17
Americas Inspiration.

How is the spirf. Of a fres people
TO be formed ard aninistcd and
cheered. but .ous OF the s~to1chouse Of
its historic rsooiieetionsi Are we &c
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
Special Poultry and Swine Prizes to
be Offered mt SkOWhegan Fair

The Somerset Central Agricultural
Society offers $1,000 cash for the best
exhibit
w. p. Ordway offers $1O0 for best
exhibit made by a boy or girl under
IL years of age.
Blunt Hardware Co. offers one "a
inch dry mash feeder for exhibit COM
ing longest distance.
George A. Innes offers one setting
Partridge Plymouth Rock eggs for
best Partridge Rock male shown.
Blunt Hardware Co. offers one s.
quart drinking fountain for largest
entry Barred Rocks.
Geo. A. Innes offers one Regal Dor
cas- White Wyandotte Cockerel for the
best display of White Wyandottes
Steward & Smiley offer two, 5-pound
packages of DR.. Hess Poultry Pana-
cea. One for cockerel, Rhode Island
Red and one for best pnllet Rhode
Island Red.
Farmers Union offers IA pound
Pratts Poultry Regulator, best pen
Leghorns, any variety.
Spauldng Il Watson, grain dealers
offer one quart Pratts' Poultry Dis
enfectant for best exhibit of pen of
chicks, cockerel and pullet; one quart
Pratts, Dip and Disenfectant 10 oldest
exhibitor.
Bowman Hardware Go. offers one
gallon II. J. Smiths Fly and Insect
Killer for best white Plymouth Rock
cockere and one gallon of the same
for best display by lady exhibitor.
Farmers Union offers five bottles of
Hog Tone one each for latest hog eX-
hibited, for largest and best boar any
breed, for litter Of pigs with mother
coming longest distance, for youngest
exhibitor and for exhibitor with larg-
est number OF swine.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
Nj Cox 10 Teach at Pennington

Pennington Normal School opeee4
Tn - wilh the largest advance
re- stra'iou in lis history
TIL assistant principal. Arthur u
Ibaaas. s. NJ, is on leave Of absence
for oue year and is teaching biological
science i'm the Yale School at Chang
IA. china. His place is taken. as
teacher Of physics and chemistry. By
Efsai J.. Dearborn. Ed. r., Of Corinna.
. graduate of the University Of Maine.
- and Pennington Normal school.
-. During the past year he has
been teacher of physics in the Orono
High School and he comes to Farm
iAeton with high recommendation
from his instructors and Superlntend-
ent Chase at Orono.
Emma VI. Mahoney Of Scion is pro-
NOTED in the Training School from
ere9ea five and six 10 grades seven
am eight, and becomes assistant sn-
Rer}isor of training. Julia p. Cox Of
SboNhegan, graduate Of the school
LAST june, takes grades 1--WE and six.
II. Alta Tracy of Littleton, Farming
Lon Normal 81. takes grade four, vice
Ethelyn Walls, resigned.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
DR.. BROWN ESTATE IS
SETTLED
Good VII Home Association Receives
Liberal Giit. Probate Court SeS-
Siuns

The September term of PROBATE
Court opened Tuesday at the Court
House with Judge c. o. Small pre-
siding Considerable routine bust
ness was transacted, among the out
Of town attorneys in attendance be
ing ". II. Mitchell, Newport; l..
r. Folsom of Norridgewock and c.
f.. kames of Scion.
An administrators account was al
lowed and the estate of the late DR..
LeWellyn Brown of Norridgewock is
now settled. Dr. Brown left an es-
tate, the estimated value of which to-
tailed, SS29S1 GS. He died in June
1916, leaving the estate practically en-
tlre to his wife, the income of the
same to be used during her life time
and the residue at her death to be
divided among relatives and different
institutions She died February z,
1922 and the provisions of the doc
tors will have been carried out which
gives the sum of $25,O40 to six neph-
ews and nieces in equal amounts of
S4340.00 The Norridgewock Baptist
Church has received 10000; Good
VIII Institution $49,509.2S and the
Childrens' Home at Augusta $500 90
Charles J. Savage of Norridgewock
IS executor of the estate.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
|PA1H CHAUTAUQUA WILL RETURN TO
SK0WHEGAN NEXT YEAR
# Closed Last Friday Evening. Magic Circus
Delighted Children and Grown-Ups

were furnished by the Redpath Co.
Parts were assigned to the local
children as follows:
Bears. Arthur Thibodeau, Leonel
Savage; monkies, Norman Archer
Taylor. Terry Patten; seals. Emery
Estabrook, Carlyle Cowett; Kan
geroos, Albert Decker, George Pat
ten; trick mule, Stanley Kimball.
Charlie Chaplins, William HAYES,
Emile GAIA, David Halves. Leroy
Baker, Lester Pickett, Edward Cas-
tie.
Clowns, Arthur GARNER, Stanley
Castle, Gerald Perry, Frederick Bur
rill, Clarence Whiting, King Cum
mings, Billy Cummings.
Lions, Clifton Jacobs. Merrill
Cover; Tigers, Lyndon Huff, Ken
meth Perry; cats, Carroll Savage,
Eldred Stevens, Maurice Dolbier,
Richard Goldsmith; rabbits, Joseph
Viles, Phillip Flagg; frogs, Donald
Dionne, Gordon, Briggs, Edward
Quincy; giraffe, Henry Valliere and
Henry Thomas.
Strong Man, Howard Mason.
Living statues who are Japanese
girls, Thelma Greenwood, Evelyn
Archer Taylor. Madeline Lewia, Eth
elyn Savage, Gertrude Emerson,
Ruth Thurlow, Peggy Green.
Greeks, who danced and played ball,
Rachel Tobey, Thelma Elliott, Kath-
arne Butler, Charlne Cole, Marion
Rolfe, Ethel Rowell, Ethel White,
Shirley Patten.
Snake Charmer Eleanor Rowell.
Trapese girls, Helen Rolfe, Althea
Green, Dorothy Plummer, Frances
Bean.
Gypsies, Ellen Boyd Eleanor Fer
Edna Adams, Clara Ritman, Leah
Waslfburn.
Irish girls Elizabeth Brown. Muri-
ell Cover. Frances Lancaster, Eva
Ames.
Indian Girls, Priscilla Lord, Doro-
thy Beauford, Eleanor Stevens,
Glennis Haines.
Flower girls, Eunice Spencer,
Barbara Witham, Emily Weston
Annie Emerson, Lois Tobey. Barbara
Cowlen, Marie Stevens, Norma Eli
OFT Evelyn Malcolm, Pauline Stev-
ems.
Queen of flower girls, Elizabeth
Jewett.
Spanish dancer, Helen Ames.
The closing lecture Friday evening
was delivered by the Hon. Frank b.
Willis His topic was The Question
of the Hour" Mr.. Willis is one of
the four big senators and is the man
who nominated President Harding
Thoroughly conversant with his sub
iect he handled most Interestingly
government problems. Sufficient guar
antors were obtained to insure the re-
turn of chautauqua to Skowhegan
again next year.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
CULL|NG DEMONSTRA-
TONS IN FULL SWING
Determined Effort 10 Make Farmers
See Value OF Poultry fulling
In Their Flocks

A determined effort Is being made
by County Agent c. A. Storer through
the agricultural extension service to
put before the people in Somerset
County interested in Poultry Ilus-
bandry. The Importance of culling
their poultry flocks.
From figures already secured It is
evident that practically one bird in
every three is not profitable pro-
Queer This being so, it is good bust
ness and good poultry management to
Gull out the Improbable hens. 1t is
important that the flocks should he
culled this month. Cnlls cnt the pro-
fits. They eat good feed that costs
good money and the returns are below
the cost of keeping them. To assist
every poultry man desiring it, the EX-
tension Service is sending out leaf
let giving detailed information neces-
sary To successful eulling. Thirty
culling demonstrations are already in
progress in Somerset County.
Those already held have been as
follows: At Arthur Chadbourn s.
Canaan; Ernest Croker. South Ca
naan. Albert Ward, IIartland; Ste
phen Boulder, st. Adams; Charles Null
len, North Arson; I. l.. Brown, Scion;
Ralph McInnis, North New Portland;
II. A. Nye. East New Portland; W. NJ
Werner, West New Portland; Byron
Hurd. Athens; Fred McGollor, Corn
vile; Maude Marcia, IIinckley; Maur-
ice Emery, Shawmut; y. E. Bunker,
North Fairfield; George Wood, Fair
field; Ralph Clifford, Blacks Mills;
Mr.. Morrow, Larone; Sanford With
am, Norridgewock. Others scheduled
are Sept. Ia, Scion Fair: Sept. Is,
A. II. Fuller, Mercer; Sept. Is, Mr..
Carter, Palmyra; Sept. %, Warren
Caldwell, Skowhegan Sept. 20. Henry
Boynton. Malbon's Mills; Sept. 81,
Hartland Fair; Sept %, L c. Pierce,
Bingham and Charles Collins, Mos
COW; Sept 80, f. II. Luce, Madison
Center; Sept. 30, Mrs. Ed Rowell, East
Madison and North Arson Fair.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-09-14
Elizabeth
Canton Auxiliary Organized

Last Thursday evening following
the regular session of Canton Som
erset, Somerset Fortress No. of the
Ladies' Auxiliary Patriarchs Militant
affiliated with Canton Somerset No. &c
was instituted. The institnting of
ficers were Brig. Gen. l.. w. Ger
IRISH, Dept. Com. of the Dept. of
Maine assisted by Maj. Roy A. Hutch
ms of Gardiner, assistant adjutant
general and Capt. William Soule Of
Norridgewock. The following officers
were elected President, Mrs. Mary
M. Hurley; vice president, Mrs. Im0-
gene Soule of Norridgewock; secre-
tary and treasurer, Mrs. Elya G..
Green. There were twenty-siX char
ter members as follows: Elva G..
Green, Cora Hurley, Mary NJ. Hurley
Louise NJ Furbursh, Lena r. Black
we'll, Alfredo Cool, Carrie e. Berce,
Emma ]. Williams, Lila Bessey,
Mabel Miller, Norridgewock, Sarah
Withee Norridgewock, lmOgene Soule,
Norridgewock, Emma +. Gipson,
Bingham, Eunice G. Hardy, Eva M.
Fecto, Carrie E. Bigelow Emma B..
Folsom, Lila NJ. Morrison, Blaneh c.
Adams, Dassie Thompson, Addie Saw
yer, Annie A. Loomis Angie B. Stew
ard, Ava V. Sheridan, Iva Quarrn,
Ethel M. Christensen. Refreshments
of ice cream and saltines were serv-
ed after the work. Meetings will
be held the first Thursday of each
month,