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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04

Misses Nellie and Encie Tibbetts
left Saturday for Augusta, the for
mer to continue her studies at Shaw's
Business College. Miss Encie enter
ing to take the course.
SOUTHWEST CANAAN
George Keene and sister Mrs. Mil
bred Totman, Mrs. Harold Foster and
Miss Porteus took an auto trip to
Hallowell, Saturday.
Mrs. Alice Bowman of Fairfield
Minnie Williams of Wateryille and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Homsted of Ca
naan were callers at Reuben Reeds
Sunday.
Daniel Getchell of Portland was a
week end guest of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Getchell.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Getchell were in
Skowhegan Saturday to see Ills moth
er, Mrs. Annie Steward, who Is in
very poor health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Allen of Ban
gor were week end guests of her pa
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Moore.
Mrs. Alton Wilson and children oil
Pittsfeld passed a few days with hel
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Good
rich. =.i=6
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fernald a1t
daughter Fay and Miss Angela Tut.
tie of Aver, Mass. are spending two
weeks vacation with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Josiah Fernald and Other
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rannie Shores Of
Winslow and Mr.. and Mrs. Claud Cole
Of Lewiston were over Sunday guests
OF Walter and Asa Shores.
Miss Minnie Williams of Watervillt
Is passing a two weeks vacation a
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Ames of Pitts
field were calling in town Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Shores and Mr.
Stanley Of Watervlle were at Walter
Shores, recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hopkins ant
Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Hopkins and SOL
Calvin of Gardiner were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Irving Davis Sunday. viii.
liam Hopkins returned to Gardiner
with them.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04
THE FORKS

Minnie Judkins and her brother
John Alexander of Dredsen were
guests last week of Mrs. Eta Morris
and other friends. Miss Judkins
was a former and very popular teach
err here a few years ago.
Daniel Burns who has had charge
of the drive ait Indian Pond this
summer, leaves this week for Cold
Stream and Dead Stream where he
will repair dams for the Holdings
worth G Whitney Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Durgin, D. j.
Burns and Miss Edna Burns, drove to
Bowdoinham Tuesday, going in the
Burns machine, where they were
guests of Mrs. Durgin's sister. Mrs.
John Holden. Friends Of Mrs. Holden
are sorry to hear of her poor health.
James Kingsley with his wife OF
Skowhegan were guests OF their neph-
ew Harold Comber at The Forks Ho-
tel Sunday and calling on friends.
Lois Comber of Portland, a
trained nurse, is the guest OF her
parents. MIR. and Mrs. H. Comber at
Comber's Inn.
Mrs. Julia Barker, spiritualist
medium of Augusta, is the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. G. r. Merrill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Nugent are re-
ceiving congratulations on the safe
arrival of little daughter. Miss
Paper, trained nurse from Bangor
Is caring for them.
Mabel Mckay who works In the
land Office at Augusta is the guest OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Nc
Kay.
Earl Patten of Skowhegan with
Arthur Dinsmore of Bingham were
business callers in town.
Richard Morris who has completed
his work as fire warden on Bald Mt.
went to Skowhegan, today. Tuesday.
Lanson Hunnewell with party of
friends from Caratunk and Bingham
were in town and had basket picnic
on the point Sunday.
Prof. Dougherty OF Burleigh High
has opened Sunday school which
he hopes all the young people will
be interested in.
The Caratunk high school attended
the pictures in body. They gave
good rousing cheer for Burleigh
which was enjoyed very much. They
also passed through town in the morn
ing on their ,way7to, PaElin for a pic
mic. 80 = : -,
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New Books mt Library

The following books have been re-
Gently added to the Public Library:
FICTION
Madame Claire, Ertz; North of 36,
Hough; The Public Square, Comfort;
The Mine with the Iron Door. Wright;
The Exile of the Lariat, Willsie; Fri
day to Monday Garrett; The Alaskan,
Curwood; The Scudders, Bachelor;
Emily of New Moon, Montgomery;
The Hawkeye, Quick; Son at the
Front, Wharton; Chessmen of Mars.
Burroughs; The Hunchback Of Notre
Dame, Hugo Northern Neighbors,
stories of the Labrador people, Tren-
fell
NON-FICTION
Christ or Mars? Irwin; Some~ Max
ers of American Literature, Phelps;
Thomas Nelson Page, a memoir of a
Virginia gentleman, Page; My Exper-
fences at Scotland Yard, Thomson
Lillian Nordica's Hints to Singers,
Armstrong (editor); Ice-breakers and
the Ice-breaker Herself, Geister; Am
erican Nights Entertainment, Over
ton; The Story of a Page, Heaton
American Art Annual, 1921; Ameri-
can Library Association Catalogue
1921.
JUVENILE
Scouting on the Border, Tomlinson
Children's Stories from the Bible
Winder; Wisp, girl of Dublin
Adams; The Sahara Hunters, Rolf
Wheeler.
FRENCH BOOKS
I'm Moderne Mecene, Benson; Pres
De Lui, Dyvonne; LIE Fiancee Inconnu
LIE Marie; lie Vicaire ct lie Romancier
Pravieux; LeZeole, Bourget; II Etai'
Quatre Petits Enfants, Bazini; Sur la
Brouche, De Couleyain; La Maison al
Soleil Clauzel; Maria Chapdelaine
Hemon.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04
BROWNS CORNER-CANAAS

Mrs. Maria Lancaster, who has been
a great sufferer. from the effects OF
acute indigestion Is slowly improving
Mrs. Blanche Friend is caring for her
and DR.. Blanchard of Pittsfield is the
attending physician.
Mrs. Ralph Mullen is assisting Mrs.
Ivan Padham with her homework.
G. B. Chase has purchased a resi-
dence in Pittsfeld.
Mr. and Mrs Milford Withee went
to Old Town Sunday where they were
guests in the home of her mother,
Mrs. Henry Hayden.
IL is with regret that we learn OF
the illness of Mrs. x. A. Withee at
her home in Skowhegan. We are
trusting for a complete recovery.
Watson Elliott of Skowhegan was
at c. b. Chase's Saturday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dalton Wyman of
Pittsfeld were at Harland True's
Sunday.
Joseph Cover visited Sunday in
the home of Nelson Rowe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Chase and
Mrs. Cronkhite, the teacher at Slab
City, were In Newport, Saturday on
business.
w. d. futile has purchased heavy
work horse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edison Hunt and chill
dren, Raymond. Priscilla and Richard
went to Kingfield Sunday for a visit
in the home of her parents Mr.. and
Mrs. Hutchins.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fitzgerald and
sons Bernard and Delmore went to
Stratton and Flagstaff Sunday on a
pleasure trip.
Henry Wood and son-in-law Elias
Beaudoin of Pittsfield have purchased
farm of C.. B. Chase.
Mrs Lillace Jewell went to Wat
erville, Sunday to join her husband,
who has employment. in the Harris
bakery.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04
SMITHFIELD

Friends of Leslie Bickford will be
glad to hear that his injured hand
is so far improved that he was able
Sunday, to have the splints removed
and upon having the splints removed
finger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Bickford and
three children, Glenwood, Margaret
and Laurice, visited with Mrs. Bick-
fords mother, Mrs. Aaron Soule of
Augusta last week.
Mrs. Grace Dow is stopping with
her father for time at North Pond
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred knights of Lew
iston, MIR. and Mrs. Jessie Randalls OF
the same city are stopping at the
Knights cottage for ten days vaca-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Berry and Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Berry spent Satur-
day night and Sunday at Herbert
Berry's.
Lillian Hartford who has been i'll
for a week Is at her home in this town
and will be unable to resume her du-
ties at the Norridgewock shoe shop
for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lowering and son
Leroy of Manchester, N. H. and Mrs.
Gertrude Hartford, also Mrs. Bertrice
Starks of Londonderry, N. H. are ex-
pected to arrive in town this week
making the trip by auto and while in
town will be the guests Of Mont Hart
ford and George Hartford.
Herbert Berry Is shingleing his
house but has been laboring under
difficulties as there was hornests
nest in the attic chamber.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carol Holmes and
four children, Paul, Stanley, Sidney
and Barbara of Waterville were Sun
day callers of Alonao Groves and
Naomi Groves.
Mrs. Victorious Simmons OF Belfast
and Mrs. Charles Wing OF North
Searsmont are guests Of Mrs. Edwin
Tracy and family.
Mrs. Walter Lecain was guest oil
her son George Clement Sunday.
There Is to be seen a patch OF rasp-
berries at Henry Young's which are
just commencing to ripen.
Peter Truedel is in very poor health
and is suffering severely with neuri-
tbs In his left arm.
Leroy Ellsworth of Woodland has
been visiting with his sister, Mrs.
Charles Andrews for time.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04
MAINSTREAM

Elmer Fox was in Hartland last
week on business.
Quite number from Mainstream
attended the Harmony Fair last
Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Hurd attended
the Parkman Fair, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Merrill were
in Starks, Friday.
The families that are quarantined
here with scarlet fever are Milo
Huff's, C. Fl. Rocks, James Corson and
Ralph Libby's.
Mrs. Elvie Tozier of Pittsfield was
calling on her aunt Hattie Bachelor,
Sunday.
Hattie Dore Is in Pittsfield for a
few days.
There are quite a number here
planning to attend the Wesserunsett
Valley Fair at Athens, Tuesday.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-04
ATHENS
BUNKER HILL

Mr.. and Mrs. E. Fl. Sinclair and
baby Luie were guests at the home OF
David Thompson, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Judkins made an
auto trip of over two hundred miles
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Deering OF
Cornville were in town recently.
Harold Sinclair and Alva Campbell
were in Brighton, Sunday.
Elmer Campbell who is working In
Monsoon was at home Sunday.
Mrs. Ethel Bickford and son Leslie
we're guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Manley
Campbell for q few days last week.
Mrs. Opal Forbus of Brighton visit
ed her parents Mr.. and Mrs. r. L.
Boston, Saturday.
Leslie Adams of Guilford was In
town one day last week.
The worst thunder shower of the
season passed over this place late
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manley Campbell were
in Kingsbury, Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Thompson
Violet Sinclair and baby were in
Wellington one day last week
Those from this town who attended
the fair at Wellington report very
small crowd.
COLES CORNER
Oscar Barton of Cambridge was a
visitor at Frank Turner's Sunday.
Miss Louise Dunton spent the week
end with Adelaide Trim.
Mrs. Frank Long and brothers
Verne and Travis left Monday for
Rochester, Pa. The family have made
many friends while here who regret
their departure. Their farm has
been leased to Fred Ward and son OF
Dore Hill.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mckinney Wis
tied at Fred Wards Sunday. Visitors
that day at the Ward home numbered
tweny-three.
The Scribner family visited Lyman
Scribner in Skowhegan, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Allen gave a
family dinner Sunday. Among the
visitors were Mrs. Lottie Moore OF
Boston and Mrs. Fred Sawyer OF
Providence, r. l., sisters OF Mrs. Os-
car Mason. Mrs. Moore and Mrs.
Sawyer are visiting Mrs. Mason at the
village.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tibbetts Of Dexter
were visitors at Irwin Hanson's Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ara Huntington and
son of Guilford spent the week with
Mrs. James Cahill.
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Statement of the Condition
or THE
Skowhegan Trust Company, Skowh.,
September 20, 1923

JOHN r. MCCLELLAN President E. F. DANFoRTH Va,
r. E. ATWOOD, Treasurer ffa@
DIRECTORS-John R. Mcclellan, Edward F Danorb
Philbrick Emilio Debe. Charles w Day. Cony Russell a sa
Leroy r. Folsom 7. Goodrich, Marston s.
A. A Porter, Willard H. Cummings A. F. ps Atm
Otis Smith, Horace NJ Weston Cassius Kn
o.. Sewal, H. c. Hussey. Na(
EXECUTIVE BOARD-John R. Mcclellan, Edward n,n,
RUSSELL Day. Leroy Folsom, E. Attwood th
Goodrich, Willard H. Cum mings Harry W. Smith W ~
Organized February g.
RESOURCES LIABILITIES
Discounts $48893467 Capital Stock, .
Bonds and Stocks 69742647 Surplus ssM
Real Estate. 2096873 Undivided Profits
Furniture Fixtures 2S4473 Demand Deposits,
Cash Deposit, 2040404 Savings Deposits. SN
2455920
$125513784
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CANAAN

Mr.. and Mrs. Nichols of Roxbury,
Mass. are visiting her sister Mrs. Ell
mer Salisbury.
Mrs. Lorenzo Ames and little son of
Madison is the guest of her mother,
Mrs. Anna Gleason.
Mrs. Frances Nelson has returned
from visit with relatives in Show
hogan.
Mrs. Minnie Moore of Portland ar
rived Monday for visit with Miss
Addie Washburn.
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LARONE

1t was the privilege of the writer
recently to visit the schoolhouse in
st. Adams in which Miss Irene Libby
is instructor and 1t will be worth the
time of anyone interested in school
work to step into this schoolroom;
perhaps the others in town are equal
ly as good. The first impression
upon entering is the fact or order
and neatness and the comfortable
looking seats which remind US an
cient bodies, OF course in an inverse
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HARTLAND

j. II. Haley, Esq. is at the Show
hogan Hospital suffering with brok-
en- leg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Estes have
gone to Canada for visit with Mrs.
Estes relatives.
Bert Cole of Palmyra have moved
into the Wheaton rent on Main street.
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ROOMS AND BOARD
ARE YOU TOO FAT?

II so. you can get Eugene Christians
corrective eating. scientifically prcpased
by an expert in home cooking at the
Woods Institute. a Corrective Eating Par
lor. 91S Carson st. $3.50 week and up.
Phone Tr. S03e.
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THERE'S PLENTY MONEY If YO|
know where to find il. Let me knoll
what YOU need. +. g. Hicks, Hicks Bid
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WANTED-AGENTS TO HANLE KID
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$3.50 CAsTI-$25 MONTH

Ore-half block Of West End car line;
large rooms, newly papered and painted;
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lot, sidewalks, curbs, garage, several
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turn. Call Crockett 1l2j. Z. L. Kirby,
with RIchey & Casey, or home after 6,
Mission 3O32.
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BEAUTIFUL NEW LOWER DUPLEX.
all built-in features. beautiful elesriic
fixtures, polished floors, lin iiCum.
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ST. PAUL APARTMENTS, FURNISHED
four aud five rooms, southeast eN'
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FOR LEASE
FARMS AND RANCHES

FOR SMALL CHICKEN RANCHES.
truck gardens, factory locations, see
South San Antonio Industrial. Co., South
San Antonio. Tex. Crockett 1902.
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OIL LEASES ~
64O-Acre Oil Lease
,rtss~

Adjoining the Grub Stakes properties Al
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Price $3.50 per scre. Quick action nece
sary. Buy now before prices so TO $
and 500 Per acre. Gulf Leasing [
GIL Brady Bldg. san Antonio. Tex.
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OWNER. If YOU HAVE \ BARGAIN
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Co. Travis $500. Moore Bldg. San An
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FOR SALE - IN NEED OF NONE
what Will you pay for $50 shares
Grubstake Investment Association of Sd
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WANTED REAL ESTATE
FARMS FOR RENT

FOR SALE OR TRADE.
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BUSINESS Opportunities

DID" KILLS FOUL DOORS. CIR. $50,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-15

boxes. at ten cents per; but others
might be had at the rate of six for five
cents. Six were so had by Lettie. who
then turned her mental batteries upon
the subject of holders, essential to
safety of branch and limb. But can
dle-holders were ten cents. They came
In sets of twelve clamped to card.
and you were obliged to take the en-
tire lot or go without
Lettie stood before the display 50
long that impatient shoppers disputed
the space she occupied, SO absorbed
that the interrogations of floor-walk-
ers failed to penetrate her conscious
ness. Her heart pounded in panic.
How could she do what couldn't be
done? She looked around. A woman
stood beside her, engaged in mental
work on candle-holders. With the in
tuition of wide experience, Lette ap-
praised her instantly.
"Landy gracious!" she cried. "Ain't
1t fright the way they lump 'em?'
The woman looked up. "Ain't it?''
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-15

sections where the steps are high,
but"
"oh. sir" cried Lettie, "boys would
Just love"
Shawn interrupted Mr.. Abbott.
roint is" He paused, thinking.
IFS most Christmas" he began pres
emily.
Lettie came out of her chair.
"Cracky, amt it?"
he looked at her keenly. "I got a
boy that's crazy over machinery. Did
you say dollar?"
She nodded. Tim sorry toto ask
SO much," she stammered, now thor
oughly humbled, but Il gotta
have"
He said nothing. But presently he
drew out an old wallet with pleasant
bulge and extracted from it a green
Dill, which he slowly unfolded. 1t was
dollar bill. Lettie,s wide eyes fast
ened on 1t with unwinking translation.
1t was the key to fairyland, the thing
she had hoped for, worked for, fought
for; but now that it lay before her,
she was held in the awe of unreality.
Her breath stopped; her body grew
rigid except for the play of muscles in
her throat; a mist swan before her
eyes.
Here you are, sister," He passed
over the bill.
Lettie took it in daze. She tried
to speak. "Tha-a-ank-" Her voice
bumped up and down; her thin chest
heaved. In an ague Of emotion she
clutched the bill and stumbled out of
the office. Never before had she owned
dollar; a tenth part of It was the
largest sum that had ever come into
her hands, and that had been immedi-
ately swallowed up by the Wopple-
window debt.
"Oh, Penzie," she cried, as she burst
into the kitchen, Il got it; got 1t.
Jimmy, amt you glad?".
Depends on what you got, DEAR"
returned Mrs. Penfield, grown cautious
through much experience.
Lettie held up her tanned fist, so
tightly clenched that the bones showed
white under the bloodless skin. Slow
ly, triumphantly, she opened 1t.
"Now we can have the tree and the
party and fun-and ev'rything, can't
wef' she shouted. "Gosh, I thought
I'd never pull 1t off,
"Lettie, dear" sighed Mrs. Penfield,
1--WE got to do something bout your
language"
Lettie grinned. mot fore Christ
mas, have we?"
II expect we wouldn't have time
fore Christmas" smiled Mrs. Penfeld,
"but we got to get at it by New
Years."
Lettie reverted to matters of more
moment. "And now, Penzie, you'll do
what you promised and show me how
to buy big, big Christmas? We got
money 'nough now, haven't wer
"Oh, plenty. All we got to do is to
plan, and we'll get right at it,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1923-11-15
+ I. > + + + + + + + + + + + + .
; BABIES GET $500 PRIZE
WHILE PIGS BRING $40 .

Babies amount to little in some \
+ parts of the United States accord \
+ ing to the following report of a =
. Red Cross public health nurse 4.
+ which has been presented to the =
+ Director of Nursing Service OF the 4.
+ Southwestern Division: +
" Il was invited to te a Judge at i.
+ a baby show held at one of the 4.
+ county fairs. My chairman went +
+ with me and think we both got +
+ the surprise of our lives, some 1.
thing 1 shall never forget. We +
+ arrived at noon. After dinner 4.
+ we were taken to the fair +
+ grounds, and eventually intro I.
= duced to an elderly gentleman +
(probation officer) who directed +
us to what was called Floral +
= Hall. Then we discovered that :.
= our booth vas in an annex. We +
\ were invited into a room, which +
. was dusty and full of cobwebs. 4.
' had a broken window, one long I.
+ bench with its legs directed east T.
= and west, an old scale with the 4.
= glass broken "ff, shopping bas- +
+ ket about Il foot and a half long +
= which caught every baby in the +
= nape OF the neck, and one tiny f
= teddy bear blanket. That was the 4.
+ equipment for the baby show. +
= sent in hurry call to a doctors +
= office for some sheets, which +
= helped little. We weighed 8S j.
+ children and awarded ribbons. 4.
+ and after looking through the !.
+ catalogue, discovered that $500 =
+ was to be the first prize for the 4.
+ babies, while $4,000 was the first 4,
= prize for the pigs" =