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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-11
MALBON'S MILLS

Charles A. Loomis who recently re-
ceiyed a broken rib by a kick from
one of his horses Is recovering and
has been cared for by a nephew, Ell
mer LOOMS.
Albert Leighton of Whitinsville,
Mass, is visiting relatives in town
and a cousin, Mrs. Charles futile OF
the Notch road.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles s. Smith from
town were Sunday visitors at the home
of his sister and husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles futile on the Notch
road
Myron Whittemore who has recent
" bought the large farm of his faith
ers, C. P. Whittemore, Is having some
repairs made both outside and inside
before they move in which they ex-
pect to do in few weeks.
Miss Cora Loomis Is having her
eyes treated by specialist in Water
Vile and has made several trips to
that city recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Watson Elliott and son
and wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Elliott
and children who have been living for
several months in the Flewelling
house moved to Shawmut on Monday
Lawrence Wiley who. has been
studying at the North Eastern College
in Boston, visited his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Verne Wiley for few days
last week, before going to South Am
erica ON business for the United Fruit
Company.
Professor Elroy LaCase, principal OF
Fryburg Academy who was in town
last week on business pertaining to
the court, was the guest Of his sister
and husband, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Walker, while here. rs 3.
The continued dry weather and the
scarcity of water on the farms is get
ting to be a serious problem every
where. Signs of rain, but none comes.
All signs fail in dry time, true
saying this year.
Mrs. Charles Holden Of the cross
road who was called to Jackman a
few weeks ago by the serious Illness
of her aged mother and who returned
home a week ago, has again gone to
Jackman because of her mothers con-
tinued illness. While Mrs. Holden
is away a cousin from Canaan, Mrs
Cassidy, is keeping house for her.
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AySON CENTER

Arthur Leavitt of New Vineyard was
buying lambs in the Valley one day
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Locke OF Lane
Hill were calling ON friends here Fri
day evening.
John Soule of Pennington was here
Wednesday to deliver and set new
monument on Andrew CUNTS lot in
the Arson Center Cemetery Mrs.
Soule accompanied her husband and
spent the day visiting with her Sis
ter, Mrs. Simeon Quint.
Omar Gates went to Lane Hill and
helped John Lock gather some of his
apples last Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr.. Locke Is one of the few orchard
lists who will harvest good crop
this season.
Harry Reynolds and a party OF
friends attended the races in Show
hogan last Saturday.
Samuel and Simeon Quint have re-
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The Interesting News Of
Somerset's Busy Towns
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Mrs. Emerson Joy and little
daughter of Bristol, r. l. are the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Holway.
Miss Emma Mahoney and friend
and Miss Evelyn Butts were nome
frok. Pennington for the week end.
Mrs. Elsie Burleigh and little
daughter Elizabeth Of Vassalboro
were the guests of Mrs. Burleigh's
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac Holway
a few days last week.
Mrs. Caroline Gerald of Fairfield
was the dinner guest of her nieces,
Sunday.
About sixty-five of the friends OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Obed McClintick and Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Davis, who were
spending a week at cottage at
Pleasant Pond, gave them a surprise
party Saturday evening taking gifts
as we'll as good wishes with them.
Thomas Tuscan has purchased the
Marshall Williams stand on the cor
ner of Pleasant and School streets
Turner Davis Is spending a rev
days in Boston and will attend BLOCK
ton Fair while there.
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Magoon OF
Lancaster, n. II. were the guests OF
their uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Magoon a few days last week.
DR.. and Mrs. J. o. Piper are spend
ing a few days in Portland.
Aubrey Kelley who has been bag
gage master on the Maine Central has
left and is working in the pulp mill.
Quite a number from here attended
the races at Bangor last week.
Remember the D. A. r. meeting
with Mabel Magoon, Friday of this
week with picnic lunch at noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. H. Andrews took
trip to the White Mountains the last
OF the week.
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benjamin Charles is in very poor

BENJAMIN Charles lie in very poor
health.
A teachers meeting was held at
the Robbins schoolhouse on Wednes-
day evening. Supt. and Mrs. Tapley
of Oakland were also present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Robinson Jr.
and Marshall Robinson have moved
to Foss Hill.
Mrs. Wyman Boynton and two
children of Millinocket are visiting
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Grant
Jessie Grant, little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Grant was taken to the
Pennington Hospital Saturday where
he was operated on for adenoids.
Quite few from town attended the
fair at Mercer, Tuesday.
A daughter was born to MIR. and
Mrs. Mason Tracy Saturday. Sept. g.
Miss Eva Blaisdell has returned to
Augusta after spending a week with
her parents MIR. and Mrs. =. l..
Blaisdell.
Charles Tibbetts has gone to Show
hogan where he has employment on
the State road.
Earl Durham has gone to Massa-
chusetts where he has employment.
James Durham has returned to his
home in Phillips.
The new road between Rome and
New Sharon which has been under
construction for the past two seasons
has been completed.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thurston, Mrs.
Galen Workman, Mrs. Nathalie
Thurston and Leman Turner motored
to Lewiston Sunday where they were
the guests Of relatives.
Levi Wentworth was a business
caller in Gardiner the last of the
week.
Nearly all of the summer camps
are closed for the season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Tracy were
callers in Gardiner, recently.
Willis Tracy and Miss Sawtelle of
Aliens Mills were callers in town
Sunday.
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of baby boy October 9Th. He mas
been named Edward Periey, MS weish'
was thirteen pounds.
Lea Smith sold Ford car iass
week to Henry Ladd OF Wellington.
warren and Henry Jones have gone
to Shirley to work in the woods for
Mr.. Hichborne.
people are busy digging potatoes
and report a good crop and of good
quality.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-11
HIGHLAND

Several in town attended the fair
at North New Portland, Monday
Fl. H. Gould has moved his family
to what is known as the Getchell
place.
Miss Bessie Howard Is spending a
few days with friends in Kingfeld.
Mr. and Mrs. e. w. Scott of North
Arson were visitors at Mrs. Eliza
Towards Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Penney who
has been visiting in the Aroostook
County. have returned to their sum-
mer home
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BAKERS SIDING

Ray Hilton, who has been In Bos-
ton for a few weeks, has returned to
his cottage here.
Ivan Hodgdon and J. M. Ferris made
a bushes trip to Bingham Saturday.
Plans are under way for a big
dance here Thanksgiving night.
Mrs. Hodgdon and Mrs. Ferris took
a trip with their husbands around
Bald Mountain last Thursday. 1t
was hike of about 35 miles.
Charles Philbrook's spare crew is
on the siding here.
Pat Whelen of Indian Pond was a
caller here one day the past week.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-11
CORNyILLE

There will be preaching service
at the Town House next Sunday after
noon at $50 conducted by Rev. Geo.
Loring Thurlow. Fred Kennison of
Skowhegan will sing during the ser
vice, with Mrs. S. M. Cover playing
the accomplishments.
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BRIGHTON

Quite number of people here at
tended the Fair at Athens. October
End and report large crowd and a
very good fair
Mr.. and Mrs. Perley Brown are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth
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HIGHLAND

Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Dunphy were
business callers at Pennington Mon
day.
Bert Savage and Herbert Webb of
New Portland are in town repairing
the New England Telephone line.
Blanch Packard has gone to North
Arson to work for Mrs. Lester Berry.
Warren Gould is visiting friends
and relatives at North Arson.
Roy Parsons of Dead River was a
caller in town Saturday.
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Your Income

VOUR annual earning capacity or in
come is measured by the amount of
life's necessities it will buy.
The American Wooden G Company has
through its activities contributed great
deal to raise the standards of weaving and to
lower the cost of clothing, thus enabling you
to use larger portion of your income for
other things essential to life and happiness.
Sixty mills equipped with every textile ma.
chine known to increase and improve the
weaving of cloth, more than $4,000 work.
ers, skilled in operating and caring for those
machines, large resources and ready access
to the worlds markets rendering possible
purchase of raw material in immense guam
titles and at favorable prices-these are the
advantages of large-scale operations which
lower costs of production so that the ulti-
mate user of wooden and worsted fabrics
may benefit. A8
AmdcaaW6denC Company
vmxVood Prazkkm
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ROME

A terrible automobile accident oc-
Cured about eight o'clock on Sand
Hill between Belgrade Lakes and
Rome Corner, when the Ford touring
car driven by Mr.. Yeaton of Belgrade
Deport and containing two other men,
Frank Tibbetts and Will Stevens, both
of the same place, collided with the
Chevrolet car driven by viii Knight
of Rome. The Belgrade car was
coming down the hill and in some I'M
known manner the accident occurred.
Those of the Belgrade car were thrown
out and Frank Tibbetts was badly
hurt. He was taken to the home OF
Mark Drury and DR.. Lloyd of New
Sharon was called, but he was taken
Immediately to the hospital where he
was in very critical condition with
crushed skull and other minor in
juries. The other two were only
badly shaken up and had a few cuts
and bruises. The car was badly stove
up having tipped over twice at last
landing on the side headed the other
way. In the knights car luckily no
one was hurt.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-11

Gently purchased three COWS from the
herd of Charles McGoff. Mr.. McGon
has had blood-poison in one of his
hands and finding it hard work to milk
his herd of sixteen cows is selling
nearly all of them.
Mrs. safah Booker has recently had
a new monument placed on her lot
in Arson Center Cemetery. The work
was done by Gerald C. Marble Show
hogan Marble Works.
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DODLrN DIST. = NORRIDGEWOCK

Quite a number from this neighbor-
hood attended the fair at Smithfield,
October 3rd.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Boyington
from Waterville were calling on Mrs.
Ella Sanford Monday evening, October
LIST.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Stevens and
Mrs. Ella Sanford were callers at
Walter McIntires last Sunday evening.
Frank Beane of Caratunk was a
caller on Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Beane
last week.
Frank Marston who has been i'll for
a long time, passed away last Thurs
day. The funeral was Sunday from
the home of his brother, William
Marston as Mrs. Marston is in a very
critical condition.
Mrs. Susie Storer and Mrs. Ella
Sanford were business callers In
Madison last Friday.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-10-11
RIvERSlDE-KINGFIELD

August Warrie with a party shot
a big bear on the Pennell place on
Millay Hill this last week.
DR.. E. F. Pennell and party from
Auburn are in town few days.
Leonard Riggs and Emery Streeks
are digging their potatoes.
Alton LaBelle and Muriel French
were married Saturday evening. Both
are well known In town. Congra-
tulations.
S. J. Williamson Of New Portland
Is planning to move to Kingfield as
soon as he can harvest his crops.
Snow Friday and Saturday on Mt.
Abraham. High winds with specks
of snow here.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Atwood of Con-
cord, Mr.. and Mrs. Alton Lane and
son Walter of Embden, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Jackson of New Portland were
visitors at Manley Atwood's Sunday
Otis Hutchins is poorly we are sorry
to hear.
C. G. Atwood of Carrabassett was
In town Saturday evening. 1t will
take all of the month to finish work
on the state road there.
Alice Atwood is working for Mrs.
Mabelle Davis few days.
Mrs. Sarah Streeter who has been
sick sometime, passed away Tuesday
evening. Mrs. Streeter was about SO
years old.
r. l.. Hogan of Millay Hill has
been hauling his oats up to the Saw
age farm to be threshed. Raymond
Gould and Sherry Lovejoy have been
helping him..
DR.. f. F. Pratt of New Portland
was at M. G. Atwood's and Earl Wings
Friday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01
GODDESS, DRUNKEN AND LEWD
RULERS OF RUSSIAN WRECK

Communications from Russia which
are now appearing in the metropoli-
tan press report that on the occasion
of the Russian Christmas that festi-
val was celebrated by the "young
communists" by ribald attack on re-.
ligion. Images of all the sacred char
acters in the Bible were burned, the
nativity of Christ was made a jest,
and in the snake dance parade were
crtoons coarsely deriding religion,
.lewd daubs portraying the person
ages high in holy writ, legends assail-
ing devotion to God, and other sacri-
ligious reflections on all things sa-
cred, the while the paraders profanely
sang to tn etune of the majestic Rus
sian hymns vulgar and obscene songs
deriding worship. There was that
about the affair which is reported to
have been indescribably shocking and
revolving.
One can we'll believe it and at the
same time place ones estimate upon
the stability of a government that
acknowledges no God and which
laughs in contempt at reverence. The
promoters Of the terrible excuses in
cident to the French revolution pro
ceeded just exactly as these Russian
communists are proceeding. They
made a mock of God and a byword of
His religion, but in the long run they
all drank deep at that fountain of
blood at which their victims had been
compelled to drink-Danton, Robes
pierre and all the other deriders of
the Godhead perishing by the gore
stained guillotine before it ceased to
, purge society. The average Russian
is nothing if not reverent and even
tually he will take a terrible toll from
those who now in their madness
and folly bring low all those things
which he has been taught are to be
kept holy.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01
THE FARMERS INDEPENDENCE.

Who is so independent as the far
mer? He can produce his own food
when others find it scarce and cruel
~ high priced. He can cut wood to
burn when there is a coal famine. He
could even provide his own clothing,
as of old, if it paid him to do it.
There is a reminder of all this in an
article in the Dillon, S. c., Herald
showing how sheriff Lane of that COM
munity grew" his own blankets.
From a small flock of Sheep" the
editor writes, che gathered 80 pounds
of wool. He sent the wool to a mill
and got back eight ten-pound blankets
at a cost of So each, or a total of $24.
The same blankets are retailing at
SIS each. The difference of $120 which
Sheriff Lane saved from producer to
consumer represents the middleman's
profit"
Fine-provided the cost of sheep
raising was moderate. AS to this the
Dillon Herald says: "a lamb born in
December will weigh from 80 to 100
pounds by the following July. If not
sold for mutton, he is ready to shear
in 1Ymonths. In the spring and sum-
meF they feed themselves. In the
wi'1ter they thrive on a small allow
= nsce of cotton seed, velvet or soy
beans, a patch of velvet or clover.
The food cost is a small outlay of
cash for seed plus little work. But
even if it had cost the Sheriff as much
to produce as to buy the blankets, he
would still have gained, according to
the Herald, which says "On each
blanket the producer is making his
lands turn out SIS of natural wealth
that much richer, whereas every dollar
kept at home makes his community
that much richer, whereas every dollar
sent away from home makes his COM
munity that much poorer. Sheriff
Lane has proved that a flock of sheep
is profitable"
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brain that mean the making of hab-

brain that mean the making of hab-
its.
That is why little lapses, little
turns from the straight path, are so
tremendously important. They all
help to make weakness in charac-
ter, so that it crumbles under strain.
Early when Wallace Reid began to
go wrong his friends thought it didn't
matter Each dereliction was little
thing. What if he did go the pace?
But the time came when it mattered
horribly. The character he built could
not stand up.
Another thing. In those early days
he thought he was having a good
time. The path he took seemed the
easiest way. But it was not. The
moral code is not something arbitra-
ry, something whose penalties may be
lodged if we are slick. 1t embodies
the actual experience of the race. We
cannot get away from it. Look about
you at the men and women you know.
Did not Browning state the exact
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01
POOR WALLACE REID!

Poor Wallace Reid! Clever, genial.
lovable, what a career he might have
had. How much laughter and delight
he might have brought to the world .
what satisfaction to his faY,ily and
his friends. And now all those bright
prospects lie in ruins.
He was weak, we say. He contract
ed the drug habit He couldn't help
himself. 1t wasn't his fault that he
went wrong. Fast friends in the first
place were to blame. He only wanted
to be a good fellow.
Well, and if it were all true, there
is still the tragedy of the wasted life.
There is still the broken home. the
dead hopes.
But couldn't he have helped him
self? Not perhaps toward the end.
But at the beginning?
At any particular time we are
much less free than we suppose. Our
range of choice is limited. What we
can do today depends on what we are
today; and what we are today de
ponds on what we did yesterday and
the day before. 1t depends on our
character, which is the sum of our
habits.
81 won't count this time," says Rip
VanWinkle as he takes his drink.
But, as William James, the psycholo-
gist, pointed out, Nature counts this
time; counts it in the groove in the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

Mr. Herbert Shaffer, of Baltimore,
is spending few days of this week
at the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lloyd c. Shaffer, in Oakland.
At st. Paups NJ. Z. church last night
a joint meeting of the churches of the
town was held in the interest of the
Lords Day Alliance of Maryland. The
attendance was quite small, but the
interest evinced by those present was
great. The assemblage was addressed
by DR.. W. w. Davis, of Baltimore.
Miss Helen Offutt, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. W. R. Offutt, of Oakland,
who recently underwent a serious sur
gical operation at the Western Mary
land Hospital in Cumberland, was
brought to her home in Oakland Tues
day afternoon, being accompanied by
her mother, who has been in Cumber-
land with her daughter since her en-
trance into the institution. The lit
tie patient is now we'll on toward re-
covery.
According to the claims of the
management of the Swarthmore
Chautauqua, 95 per cent of the COM
munities they visit invite them back.
In 1912 the Swarthmore Chautau1ua
began with al towns in four states.
In 1922 it served over 800 towns in IS
States and three Canadian provinces.
Of the Al towns, "a are still on their
lists; of the 1913 which began in 1918,
70 are still with them.
Referring to records of longevity,
the Easton Star-Democrat says edi-
torially, IN part: "There must be
something in the pure water and
fresh air and wholesome foods of
Talbot to keep US well and help us live
long. If we are not mistaken, the
average length of life is greater in
agricultural sections than in indus
trial. This is true with US. How
ever, the air and sunshine and water
and foods of TALBOT argue for long
life, and we doff our plumes to Lady
Grace Talbot, the fairest of all the
Shore" Talbot may be the fairest
on the Shore and may boast that her
people live longer than in any other
county in that portion of the State,
but for health, longevity and pros
perity, coupled with happiness, Gar
rett, on the Western shore, yields the
palm to no other county of the en-
tire Commonwealth of Maryland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01

Influenza.
8. The death rate in cities is de-
creasing more rapidly than the death
rate in the country.
Why Is The City Death Rate Drop
ping So Fast?
The city PREVENTS disease and
the death rate Immediately drops.
The Public Health Nurse is one of
the chief means the city employs to
prevent disease.
Let us free Garrett county children
of their many defects.
Let US not allow contagious and in
fictitious disease to kill our people.
One Dollar For Prevention Beats Ten
For a Cure.
Let everybody join the Garrett
County Public Health Association.
State Board of Health Directs Nurses
Work.
After funds have been raised for
public health nurses by the Garrett
County Public Health Association, the
State Board of Health will appoint the
nurses, decide at what two places
their headquarters are to be, and d.
rect all their work. The County
Health Association will have no con-
troll over the work of the nurses or of
the places where they work.
DR.. j. H. Mason Knox, chief of the
division of the Maryland health de-
partment which will have direct con-
troll of the nurses work, is especially
anxious to meet the needs of peiple
in rural sections. 1t is his purpose
to station nurses in places where they
can give the best service to ALL the
people of the county, even in the most
inaccessible parts.
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Celebrated Ninetieth Anniyersar,

Celebrated Ninetieth Anniversary.
On January 4th, 1923, Mrs. Lydia
Green, widow Of the late jefferson
Green, of this county, celebrated her
goth anniversary at the home of her
son, Mr.. John w. Green, in District
No. IL, with whom she resides. The
good fanny and the friends of the ell
der Mrs. Green took advantage of
this rare occasion and had for her an
old-fashioned birthday party at which
both a sumptuous dinner and supper
were served. There were thirty-four
guests present to enjoy the day. Mu-
sic was the leading attraction and
was greatly enjoyed. Mr. James w.
Green, who is a fiddler of ability and
one of the old school, played the VIC
lin; Mr.. Leland Swauger, the guitar
others the victrola, etc. Mrs. Green
is still able to go about. She has 8
children living; AZ grandchildren; 60
REORGANIZATION and 2 great
REORGANIZATION. She is a mem
Der of the NJ. f. church. The writer,
on his rounds with the rural mail,
was privileged to stop and enjoy the
splendid dinner with these people and
It was treat We join in wishing
Mrs. Green a continuation Of happy
new years. A. B.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1923-02-01
ABOLISH LIQUOR
LAW YIOLATORS

Authorities are Urged to Act Prompt
ly and Support the Federal Govern
ment--Law and Order Must Prevail
The Law as Set Down Must Not
Be Trampled Under Foot.
The following, an editorial appear
ing in the Cumberland Daily News of
last Thursday morning, has called
forth words Of commendation from
all classes of citizens Except the
bootleggers) in Allegany county. The
article is a strong plea for law en-
forcement, practical and so thorough
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Statistics show that
l.. Country people have MORE
PHYSICAL DEFECTS than do the
city people-more defective teeth,
diseased tonsils, and adenoids, more
eye, ear and breathing defects, more
unclean and undernourished children.
more heart disease and mental de-
fects.
2. The country has more deaths
than the city from
I Typhoid fever
WhO0ping cough