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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-03-09
!: R||s|NESS AND PROFESSIONAL WO.
MEN Of Sk0WHEGAN HAVE CLUB
Elizabeth Dyer is First President Miss
,bel Lord Present at Organization Meeting

course of her remarks the speaker
stated that there are already in the
United States $4,000 women organiz-
ed as members of the Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, and gave
many of the benefits to be derived
from membership in the same. She
urged federation both State and Ma
tional. Mrs. Florence Higgins was
appointed the agent for the club pub
LEGATION which is the THE Independ-
ent Woman" Twenty-four signed
the membership slips and a lprge
number of other women have signi6ed
their willingness to become affiliated
with the organization. Mrs. Eliza
beth Dyer acted as chairman of the
meeting and Mrs. Mabel Phillips Jud-
kins was secretary pro TEN. The
nominating committee was composed
of Miss Adelena Landry, Miss Blanche
Jewett, Miss Isabelle Dionne, Miss
Dorice Chase and Miss Amanda Car
riveau. The club is considering
rooms for suitable headquarters and
he outlook is most promising for n
successful organization.
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by the Judge. Mr. Heald, who is a
great fayorite with Skowhegan boys,
entertained with witty remarks and
spoke particularly upon the value of
the relationship between father and
son. He announced that a Father and
Son banquet would be held at Madi-
son on March %. that another would
be held at North Arson and probably
at Bingham. Scion and Pittsfield He
pronounced the boys as the most pre-
eious raw material the country pos
sesses and as the most contingent
asset. He told the boys first of all
10 trust their dads and to be willing
10 tell these dads of the ambitions OF
their lives. He advocated that the
men give time to the boys and take
time To be chums with them. He adj
Slsed the fathers to take their sons in
on the ground floor and urged CO.
operation between the Dads and Lads.
Phe last speaker of the evening was
Governor Baxter who was introduced
by Judge Lawrence as Our Adopted
Father, and the governor in his win
ming manner said. ut is a real pleas
ure and privilege for me to be in
Skowhegan." The governor spoke on
the favorable conditions in and about
Skowhegan and early in his remarks
stated that he had special fondness
for the town as it was the home of
the young man, Bruce White, who
was to marry his niece. He compli-
mented the high school orchestra and
he wanted to see the people working
together as one family, as the family
is the center of everything He re-
ferred to his own State House family
of 354 members and introduced his
pair of twins, one of whoma he said
claimed to have been born in every
town and plantation in Somerset
County. G. r. Chadbourne, his priv
ate secretary, responed as the twin
thus described. The other twin was
introduced as Charles S. Brown, SUI
perintendent of public buildings and
when the twins were asked to stand
up together they were given three
rousing cheers.
Governor Baxter spoke at length
upon the relationship of Father and
Son giving personal recollections of
his own home life. He referred to
the boys and girls of the State as its
greatest asset and he urged that the
minds of the boys should be impressed
with a great responsi Utility when they
leave home for they must carry on
the traditions of their fathers and
mothers so that Maine will he re-
spected. He reminded the boys of the
necessity that they learn to say "No"
in times of temptation and mentioned
to them the necessity of acquiring the
habit of learning to express them
selves. To the fathers Governor BaX-
ter said, they must teach the boys to
have respect for the law, the founda
ton of everything. that makes for
good citizenship. The governor add
ed that he had more respect for the
bootlegger who took mighty chances
with the law than he did for the man
who purchased illegal goods from the
bootlegger In this connection he
spoke of the excellent conditions in
Somerset County, complimenting
Sheriff Mooers and adding that no
County in the State had finer sher-
in than did Somerset County. He
spoke of the splendid work carried
on in Y Nj. c. A. activities of Jeff
Smith and Arthur Head, and urged
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TUrR ND son BANQUET"
continued from Page One)

ones too. the responsibility Of
in some measure to show our
,iation for what our Dads have
or us in getting up this banquet
\ showing such an interest in
elfare.
me first say what we boys
by Dad. our Dad is the finest
We have. the best chum we
the dearest friend we could
the safest haven in time of
the safest defence in time of
d, and the greatest incentive to
Is.
netimes wonder if we realize
bw Daas are doing for us by
NJ Of Us and Looping FOR us. It's
I Dad we 20 when ge want
good sound advice. and advice
[arres. rs to our Dad we go
" other thing to help us along
| struggle in He.
|reoyer our Dads trust US. and
a mighty big thing IN this
Our Dads expect us to be hon
!. trustworthy and loyal fellows
is up to us not to disappoint
Do we realize what a disap-
bent il would. be te our Dads if
build see his son fail in the race
all know when we get trim
b baseball, football. or track
that our own disappointment
IN not as keen as our fathers.
Der if We realize what a disap-
bent it would be to our Dads if
bud see lis fail in the big race
L II The failure is honorable.
bw that We can expect sympathy
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Mrs. Harriet Parker, who has been
spending some time with her son, II.
b. Parker on Bridge street, left Tues
day on her return to Bucksport.
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Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
Work Starts Monday
on Highway Project
From Clifford West

Special to The Tribune.
Clifford, Sept. 2S.-The work OF
grading the Roosevelt highway from
Clifford on west to Rudyard will be
started next Monday morning from
here. Foreman j. +. Holsapple moved
his camp here Monday, expecting tC
start the work Wednesday this week
but was unable to obtain enough mer
to make it possible.
After consulting with Road Superin.
tendent Bowery, who vas here also
they decided to postpone the beginning
Of the work until next Monday. Five
or six men and as many teams will BIZ
needed to start and anyone wishing
to get or can call on or write TO Mr.
Holsapple at Fresno this week, OIL
show up for the work Monday.
The work will be pushed as vigor.
ously as possible and the crew here
will use about 20 men and 40 head Of
horses when once in full swing, which
force, it is hoped, can be obtained il
the near future when the harvest ant
threshing work is completed.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29

afterwards recanted by the persons
who did the swearing, or disproved
by reputable witnesses. But At
torney Mcdonald was also hired by
the attorney general as a lawyer
in the case in addition to Mr..
Freeman. Considering the fact
that the attorney general has a
whole corps of lawyers hired by
the state and paid by the state to
assist him, it would seem to US
that two expensive outside assist
ants is a trifle extravagant. Both
were employed at the request OF
Governor Dixon and with his ap-
proval.
No wonder the governor wants
new taxes and more taxes. The
expenditure of taxpayers money
in the Conley case proves conclu-
sively that he needs more money
lots of it.
The different funds that were
tapped in this case seems to indi-
cate that the governor was scrap
ing the bottom of every fund that
had any cash balance in it to pay
the expenses of the Conley case.
There is of course grave doubts OF
the legality of taking money appro-
priated by the legislature for irri-
CATION or board of equalization ex-
penses to pay extra lawyers fees
in a civil action against the ex-
warden of the penitentiary, but a
little thing like that does not seem
to disturb Governor Dixon or the
attorney general. Perhaps they
figure that they were entitled to
use board of equalization money
any old way because they spent the
time in political boosting over the
state that the statute says they
should have spent in Helena on the
task of equalizing taxes.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
MEN HEAR
TROUBLES Of MILK
RIVER WATER USERS
Board of. Review Meets to End
Differences of Settlers and
Reclamation Service.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Malta, Sept. 27.-The board of re-
view appointed by the secretary OF the
interior, composed of c. NJ. Nye. as
sistant chief engineer of the Great
Northern railway, st. Paul; %: Il. n
engineer of the geological survey
Washington, ID. c., and Dr. Eafi ,
Schofield Of the United States agrIcul-
tural department, met with the water
users of the lower Milk River VaIe!
Monday and Tuesday for the purpose OF
reviewing the costs OF construction OF
this board is to adjust the differences
between the water users and the re-
clamation service. ;,
e. e. Jones. engineer, has been In
Malta for some time and has Travelled
over q considerable portion OF tne
project, and is well acquainted WITH
conditions on the project.
VIII inspect Canal
Tuesday evening the board of re
view departed for Glacier park. where
they viii spend several days looking
over the Sherburne lake and st. Mary's
diversion dams. and it Is planned tc
follow the canal from where the water
leaves St. Mary's lakes to where il
empties into Milk River. They will also
| view the canal that was built several
years ago, and which was abandoned
later. From Glacier the party will re-
turn to Havre. going from there tc
| Nashua.
After completing the trip Of inspec-
ton the party will again return to this
| CITY. where they will take up the work
in detail and hear the complaints anC
| grievances of the water users of the
valley. 1t is estimated that 30 days
will be required before the board viii
be able to complete its report. The
process will be slow and tedious, owing
TO the fact that the water users have
| filed with the board their statement
of conditions, which will cover prac.
| ticalIy every point to be discussed and
which will be called to the attention OF
the board of review.
Colonization Advocated
Tuesday evening an informal meet
ing was held at the Commercial club
rooms, at which time the business men
of the city met with the board. DR.
Schofield gave an interesting talk be-
fore the land owners and water users
along colonization schemes and asked
them to get together on a land price
for a term of years and then have the
Great Northern road bring in a number
Of experienced farmers who will de-
velop the valley to its highest degree.
At a recent meeting the matter OF
the price of construction of the Mill
river project was thoroughly gone into
and it was found that at the present
rate the water users would be unable
to pay out, and this meeting is called
for the purpose of going over the entire
cost and getting a reduction II possible
so the land owners will know just
where they stand.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
SEES GOOD EFFECT
Of PROHIBITION IN
STREET CAR TRADE
Manager of Butte System Says
Few Extensively Drunk Pas
sengers Now Encountered.
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
Butte, Sept. 2S.-The good effects
of prohibition are more noticeable on
the street cars than anywhere else.
according to J. r. Wharton. manager
of the local street car system. In
auor, he says, is still to be had IN con-
siderable quantities, but drunkenness,
frequent with night riders, has practi-
cally disappeared:
rarity.' stated Mr.. Wharton. what
ever the experience may be elsewhere.
we can say that as far as it concerns
us, prohibition has been an unqualified
success"
The activities of the federal prohibi-
ton agents yesterday among the boot
leggers and soft drink establishments
directed his attention to the subject.
Before prohibition" he continued
"our carmen frequently had to put Of
fensiyely drunk passengers off the
cars in order to protect other pas
sengers. Reports of incidents OF this
sort were almost daily occurrences
and every holiday brought a succession
of fights, but it is different now. We
do not have to retire cars from serv-
ice in the midst Of holiday traffic to
have them washed and cleaned. Our
men are no longer faced with the ne
cessity of defending themselves from
men crazed with liquor, nor of putting
off drunken men whose actions and
conditions are offensive to sober car
patrons.
"a prominent Butte journalist wrote
an article the other day, asserting that
in the olden days, the hours from 10
to midnight cemented more friendships
and healed more enmities than whole
weeks and months do now. But our
experience in pre-prohibition times was
that there were more fights between
those hours than at any time of the
day or night"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29

Many of the people to whom
these sums were paid were already
on the payroll, it is stated.
T. H. Mcdonald, the governors
private investigator seems to have
made an especially good thing out
of it. He drew down nearly three
thousand dollars of taxpayers
money for compiling a lot of con-
victs' testimony %reflecting on
Frank Conley, much of which was
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29

past that they have exported heav-
lily, selling their goods in Europe
in competition with cheap labor.
Mellon is a director in the Alum
mum Company of America, of the
Aluminium Cooking Utensil com
pany. of the Aluminium Ore COM
pany, of the American Metal COM
psny. of the Northern aluminium
company, of the Pressed Metal Ra-
ditator company and of the United
States Aluminium company. Under
this prohibitive tariff rate a pecul-
lar result obtains: The treasury
will receive no revenue, while the
public will be mulcted shamefully,
yet will have to pay other taxes to
the treasury to make up for those
lost because the tariff is so high as
to prevent importations.
"The new wool tariff is SO out
rageous that it will take almost a
billion dollars each year in addi-
| tional prices, over what they should
be, from the pockets of the consum-
ers. This amount alone, in four
years, would pay the entire bill for
the soldiers bonus. The people,
who would like to see the boys get
the bonus will have to pay this
bill, and yet the soldiers will go
without their recompense. One OF
the most ironical frauds in the wool
tariff is the fact that it taxes as
pure wool every fake and fraud
that by any stretch of the truth
can be classed as wool. A work
mans blue winter shirt, which he
fondly thinks is wool, has placed
on it a duty of 10S per cent, though
there is no real wool in it. To
call il wool is an insult which even
a sheep should resent. The goods
used to make these shirts usually
contains from 80 to IS per cent OF
shoddy and the remainder is cot
ton. Many folks think the word
shoddy merely NEAR a poor grade
of wool. That is correct as far as
it goes, but the fact is that shoddy
is made from the ~ragpicker's rags,
pulled to pieces by machinery and
again spun and dyed. The long ii.
Der and the life of the original
wool are gone and the garment in
which it Is used is of short life,
poor quality and of little warmth"
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
THE CONLEY CASE.

THE case OF II Stdte ASoAio'
l Frank Conley for the recovery
of 100000 alleged to have been
wrongfully converted to his own
use has been in the hands OF the
court for some weeks now. A de-
cision in the case may be expected
shortly. Pending that decision
comment on the merits of the case
may be improper and possibly in
contempt of court. However, that
does not apply to comment on the
cost of the case to the taxpayer.
Some weeks ago The Tribune print
ed a facsimile of a voucher drawn
on the prison maintenance fund
and Endorsed by both Governor
Dixon and Attorney General Ran
kin for $4,000 in favor of James
Freeman of this city for legal SER
vices in the Conley case. When
Mr.. Freeman was employed in this
case the attorney general publicly
announced that no state funds were
available to pay for his services,
and that he had called him into the
case al the request OF Governor
Dixon, on the understanding that a
private subscription had provided
funds to pay Mr.. Freeman the ST.
500 he charged for his services.
The money SO raised was used tor
political purposes and Mr.. Free
man was paid out of money appro-
priated by the legislature for the
support of prisoners, in breach OF
promise both on the part OF Gov
ernor Dixon and Attorney General
Rankin. No defense or explana-
ton of this breach of faith with
the public has ever been made,
either by the governor, the attor-
new general or the governors
newspapers. They all ignored the
matter. Now comes the Montana
Democratic club which exposed
this breach of faith on the part OF
Governor Dixon with further rev.
Citations about the cost of the Con-
lev case. 1t seems that Governor
Dixon and the attorney general
spent over thirty thousand dollars
in prosecuting this case, and they
raked the money from eleven dit
ferent funds as follows:
State examiners expense appro-
priations, $66e.e0; state account
ants expense appropriation, S.
1856; state prison revolving fund
appropriation. S5,o2e.24; irrigation
commission expense appropriation,
S1oe.56; state prison maintenance
appropriation, S14,s6o.53; consoli-
dated boards, expense appropria-
ton, $271.63; public service COM
mission expense appropriation,
Sl.so; state board of examiners ex-
pense appropriation, $23S.14; board
of equalization expense appropria-
ton, Se8o.47; budget expense ap-
preparation, $1,000; attorney gen.
erals expense appropriation, $1,000
This Conley case seems to have
furnished a fine meal ticket for a
good many people.
The club charges that the $780,
olo.o3 taken from different state
funds was paid out as follows:
Warden M. w. Potter. $685.
A. E. McFatridge, clerk
of board of examiners. 4,438.14
Investigator T. M. Nc
Donald 5,s47.04
Attorney J. w. Freeman 2,Soo.oC
Mrs. D. B. Noble ....... lo.ol
A. w. Waggoner ...... lo.oe
Fred E. Buck .......... Al;
Estelle Harvey ........ Zo.ot
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
THE BONUS BILL.
WALLACE BASSFORD, a

WALLACE BASSFORD, a po-
w litical correspondent en-
ployed by the national democratic
committee, asserts that the new re-
publican tariff bill will cost the
people of the United States in in
creased prices in a single year more
than the cost of the soldiers bonus
bill would be in twenty years. He
says:
"In this column, under date OF
July 81, the statement was made
that when congress would adjourn,
some time along in the fall, there
would be no bonus legislation, and
that republican members who were
voting for it were doing so with
their fingers crossed, knowing the
president would veto the bill. This
writer went further and gave the
entire plan which would be fol-
lowed-that the bill would pass
both houses, would be vetoed by
the president, and that the effort to
pass it over his veto would succeed
in the house and fail in the senate.
This was not ~prophecy-it was
written from knowledge of the re-
publican plan to hold the soldier
vote in line for the republican
members and those republican SEN
ators who have to go before the
people in November. When they
voted for it and made fearful ap-
peals for other votes they knew
their votes would not make the
measure into law, for they knew it
would fail in just the mi stated
in the letter above mentioned,
which appeared in hundreds OF
newspapers throughout the country.
ct is estimated that the bonus
bill would have cost the taxpayers
about four billions, scattered over
a generation or more. The presi-
dent and Secretary Mellon cannot
see how the people could pay the
| price, but they have no hesitancy
in approving the new tariff bill
which will take from the peoples
pockets, in increases in the cost OF
manufactured articles, almost four
billions each single year until the
awakened and outraged public
drives the law and its makers out
into the cold. Mellon himself will.
be the greatest beneficiary, in al
likelihood, of all the men who viii
fatten their present wealth off Of
the needs of the people. This mod
ern Shylock controls, as merely
part of his great wealth, all OF ths
aluminium manufacturing in ths
land. His influence has raised ths
tariff rates on imported alumiur
wares to such a high point tina
there will be no importations; nj:
companies will have no competition
and the prices can be lifted to dou
BILE the present figures and the pub
lie will simply have to pay. There
is no escape. Under the new law
with the help of a little joker, thu
import duty on aluminium wares i:
II per cent, while under the Under
wood law it was 20 per cent. TIL,
latter rate protected the American
aluminium worker and put much
revenue into the treasury; the new
rate keeps out the foreign wares
hence the treasury will get the rev
enue therefrom, while it gives Mel
Ions companies a complete monop
oily. They have suffered so LITTLE
from foreign competition in thu
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
Hail Damage Totals
$105, 900 Under State
Policies, Is Report

Helena, Sept. 2S.-(By The Asso-
ciated Press. Damage to grain crops
in Montana covered by the state board
Of hail insurance this year totaled APP
proximately $1O5,000 according to e.
X. Bowman of the board. More than
$4,000 was in partial losses, which
will be offset by taxes due from the
farmers, but payments in warrants in
cases where the loss was considerable
will amount to between $6S,000 and
$4,000.
The state land board Thursday
morning voted to purchase from school
funds $4,000 of the warrants of the
hail board. to be redeemed the first
of the year. The purchase will enable
the hail board TO make payments
promptly to the damaged farmers.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-29
Wheat Averages 40
Bushels While Oats
Average 80 Bushels

Special to The Tribune.
Havre, Sept. 2S.-T. J. Troy Of
Havre spent the first of the week on
his farm near Laredo, while threshing
was under way.
According to Mr.. Troy, his wheat
weighed about 81 pounds to the bushel
and averaged 40 bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Troy further stated that his
oats averaged so bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Troy has a large acreage under
cultivation.