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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
FEUSSELLERS WILL MIX
WITH DOST|E'S TEAM
Pitched Battle Between the Baseball
Outfits OF Next Saturday
Races

Frank Fuessel of we'll known Fusil-
GERS dear to the old timers heart) is
bringing his regular team to Skowhe-
gan next Saturday to mix up with
the famous Pennington baseball team
in connection with the races at Fair
view, forenoon and afternoon, Mr.. Fues-
sells general idea seems to be to bat
tie the Pennington adding machine
and thro a monkey wrench into its
''innards." Taylor is elected to do
the throwing and from the way he has
been going of late his actions should
cause the fast Pennington tossers a
bit of anxiety. Manager Archie
Dostie of the Pennington team, intm-
ately known to many Skowhegan peo-
pie as a member of the s. II. S. fac
ulty, gives little idea of what repre-
sents the Pennington team by the fol-
lowing lineup: Stearns, S. s.;
Fields, LIST base: Brosnan. End base;
McGlone, C. field; Sullivan, field;
Tirney. Bird base; Reed. |. field; Can
non, catcher; Trefethen, Sullivan,
Gray, pitchers. The baseball games
Friday and Saturday will be big at
fractions at the races.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
STURGIS NOMINATED
FOR JUDGESH|P
Was Former Attorney General and
Represented State Mt the Bart
ley Murder Trial

Guy H. Sturgis of Portland has been
nominated by Gov. Baxter as an as
sociate justice of the Supreme Jul
dicial Court to fill the vacancy caus-
ed by the resignation OF Albert M.
Spear of Gardiner to become an ac-
tive retired justice of the court The
nomination will be in line for confirm
alton at the next session of the gov
ernor and council which will be held
Tuesday, August IA. Mr.. Sturgis
was elected attorney general of Maine
by the Legislature of 1917 and served
two terms of two years each, retir-
ing in 1921. While engaged in this
important official work Mr.. Sturgis
became we'll known to many Somer-
set County people as he represented
the State at the famous BARLEY muir
der trial and for several weeks was
In Skowhegan. After his retirement
he returned to the private practice of
law in Portland Mr.. Sturgis has
been twice married and has five liv-
ing children, the eldest of whom Miss
Eleanor is student at Bates College.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
CAMBRIDGE

Your correspondent wishes to make
this correction: The Chadbourne
Reunion which is to be held with Mr.
and Mrs. Horace Elliott, meets Sat
urday, August Is, instead of the 18th
as before stated.
Prof. J. X. Springall of Dexter was
a week end guest of J. P. Mitchell
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Craleton OF
Greenyille Junction were guests OF
Mrs. J. h. Gould, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah Shepard, Mr.
and Mrs. Pearl Rollins and Mrs. Jack
son, all of Dexter were callers at Val
ley Inn Sunday evening.
r. r. Head OF Belfast was in town
Tuesday and Wednesday on business
Mrs. Nae Bessey of Dexter was a
guest of Mrs. Bert Bailey last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Roddy were made hap
py Thursday by the birth of little
son.
f. w. King was in town twice last
week on business.
The Watson reunion Is to be held
this year with Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Kinney at their home on the Dexter
road Saturday, August 25th.
Miss Mabel Knowles, one Of the
teachers in Dexter Village schools
called on Mrs. MacCausland, Friday
Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hussey of Sang
erYille were guests at the Inn Mon
day evening.
Eleven people were baptized Sun
day Immediately after the morning
services by Rev. Mr.. Roddy.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
News of Somerset's Busy Towns

They are now at Pleasant Pond for
a while.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Carron, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Pierce of Barton, Vt, were
guests last week of Mrs. Isabel Car
ron.
NJ. e. CHURCH NOTES
Services as usual last Sunday
morning, with the pastor, Rev. John
Cooper, occupying the pulpit. lie
was assisted in the services by KEY.
f. L. Baker, past pastor of the Con-
gregational Church. The choir rem
dered a pleasing selection, with Mrs,
Ruby Smith organist.
Our pastor leaves town this week
for a vacation period covering the
remainder of this month.
Former pastor Rev Percy Ridlon
will occupy the pulpit at the morn
ing service, next Sunday. Every
one will be glad of this opportunity
to again hear Mr.. Ridlon, who made
many friends during his short min
istfy here.
A large delegation of ladies from
the Ladies Aid Society, together with
members of the Sunday School went
on an outing to Lake Emblem last
Tuesday, which was immensely en-
joyed by all.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
DR.. HOLT OUR STAR
REPORTER
Distinguished Visitor
Goes News Hunting
Spoke Before R0tarians Tuesday
Noon and then with Note Book and
Pencil Gave Local Observations

In conversation with DR. Holt, who
gave the Skowhegan Rotary and their
guests such magnificent address
last Tuesday, the Doctor told of an
interesting experience he had report
ing for the Raleigh IN. CO News &
Observer.
This daily is issued by the Hon.
Josephus Daniels, who will be re-
called as Secretary of the Navy under
President Wilson. DR.. Holt remark
ed to Editor Daniels that he thought
he would like newspaper reporting,
whereat Mr.. Daniels suggested that
he try his hand at 1t that very day.
AS the result of this interview, DR..
Holt took a notebook and pencil and
started out to write up the town.
The dependent Repre-
sentative could not see why DR.. Holt
could not do the same thing in Show
hogan, and was quite delighted to find
that the distinguished visitor was
willing to accept the suggestion.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
found contribution from John F.
Heaton, Senior Editor of the New
York World 1t has probably never
before occurred in the history of
country weekly journalism that two
such distinguished writer's have con-
tributed to the same issue.
Dr. Hollis observations follow:
"And now, said DIR. Johnson, let us
take a walk down Fleet Street
-Boswells Life Of Johnson.
A stranger walking down the main
Street of town notices only the
differences and oddities. One would
have to live in Skowhegan a long
while really to see things as they are.
Manager Patten tells me The indie
pendent Reporter is rated seventh
among the 10000 weekly newspapers
of the land. l tell him 1t stands
first in order and cleanliness. have
never been in a newspaper Office that
! impressed me more favorably in these
two respects
You can always Judge town by its
Fords. I saw only one disreputable
one in Skowhegan to-day.
have reason to believe the second
.prettiest girl in Skowhegan works in
store ON Water street. not two
blocks from the railroad tracks.
have been a magazine Editor 20
YEARS. yet one one Newsstand in town
Iii counted ten magazines, the names
tof which i had never even heard OF
before.
Heavens! No posters of Charlie
CHAPLIN, or Mary ,Pickford. in front OF
! the movie theatre to-day.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09

store on the big street sseemed to me
to be that of the presumably popular
! haberdashers, Messrs George & Harry
! Smith. | especially admired the
cravat in. the suit next the door.
! Skowhegan has new one on me.
saw for the first time in my life a
/ "Croeeretria."
Apparently the men of Skowhegan
are rathe hirsute. | passed by five
barber shops and not a customer WIS
in one.
My experience is that skowhegan
girls drive cars better than their
fathers.
Why all the wires around the
wooden telegraph poles?
When I asked several Citizens
whether there were any bootleggers
in town | got different answers.
Why is that the dealers I visited
asked more for second hand books
and less for second hand furniture
than dealers in other New England
towns.
Skowhegan has the broadcast streets
and the most stately elms of any City
of it's size | know Of
When I visited the garage of my
seventh cousin once removed Carlton
Holt, | noticed one sensible man had
put on cotton cloth over the front
seat of his car that was being repair
ed so that If the greasy mechanic had
TO get in the car to start it he would
not get 1t dirty.
There are three distinct types of
American Archeteeture-the beautiful
old colonial the modern charming
bungalow and villas-and the hideous
types in between Skowhegan has
perfect examples of all three.
NV guess is that the Skowhegan
Savings Bank has the best electric
display in town.
The only possible criticism I could
make of Skowhegan business men is
that they are too generous. | saw
so many cards and posters in most of
the show windows that the goods for
sale were often obscured
1t looks as tho several of the Keep |
to the Right" signs in the center of
intersecting streets had been run into. |
To seemed to me that Mr.. Pooler's |
Quality Bakery window display
took the prize for 1.-The elegance of
simplicity"
I noticed a novel and handsome |
tyne of tobacco pipe display in store
on Water street AS no name or
number appeared on the front of the |
store l cannot tell you where 1t was |
Skowhegan must rejoice in honest |
citizens. ! saw a box of loose shoes |
on the street in front of one of the |
shoe stores.
Evidently none of the Skowhegan
girls wear "knickers"
have spoken to many Rotary clubs
in America but never to one that paid |
me better attention than the Rotary
Club of this town.
HAMILTON HOLT
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09

I have been magazine Editor 20
years! yet one one Newsstand in town
i counted ten magazines, the names
of which / had never even heard OF
before.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
s O'Clock i'm the Evening
List of Merchants Who Have Contributed Skohegan Doa

I LaFond's
George & Harry sml'n
G. r. Fogg 70
observation-disclosures W
Jos. Pooler
Holt &: Hight
Waterville Motor CO.
Atkinson's Bakery
Peter Debe
J. d. Symons
S. Russakoff
Fred Wood
| J. P. Thibodeau
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09

A. Linwood Nutting
A. K. Butler
SIMPSONS Drug Store
Emery-Brown Co.
ID. A. & w. 4. Porter
A. r. Jewett
Jerry Cole
Bragg & Varney
c. w. Day & Sons
w. G.. Lord
Mills Market
Central Maine Power Co.
| Cora Cayouette
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09

Poulin & Laney
F. w. Buchanan
James Mallios
Della C. Bouchard
Hulares Brothers
Bison & Conant
F. f. Sawyer
w. P. Ordway
J. P. Oak
Blunt Hardware Co.
Curtis Hat Shop
Green Brothers
Lambert Lunch
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
BINGHAM

will be pleased to quote you rates
on any line of Insurance you may
be in need of. Large reliable COM
panies. Harold T. Wing, Bingham.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09

Heavens! No posters of Charlie
CHAPLIN, or Mary ,Piekford in front of
the movie theatre to-day.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
Farmers and Wage Farmers Hit By
Depreciation of the Dollar

Advances in the prices of nearly all
commodities have tended to depreclate
the dollar compared with its purchas-
ing power in 1918 until it IS now
worth only about 81 cents. The rise
in prices, it is predicted, will continue,
due to the tariff and other artlhclaI
factors.
Farmers and wage-workers are the
first and worst sufferers from this de-
probation of the dollar, since they "a
not mark up their product to offset
increases in the cost of what they
buy. The farmer is finding difficulty
in selling his products for prices that
cover the cost Of production. Wage
workers are confronted by a down
wrd tendency of wage scales:
The big trusts and monopolies which
control the manufacture OF food
clothing, and other consumers COM
modities are reaping all the gain from
the ascent of prices. 1t is these inter
ests also that are favored by the Re
publican p~rofteers' tariff.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
I9AO lJ91 sIlpqM :p!Q ~sseI5uoO leqN

Following are the principal meas
ures passed by the Sixty seventh Con-
gress, not including regular approprl-
tions and other routine bills:
Emergency Tariff Act.
Act creating Federal Budget Blu
reau.
Resolution of peace with Germany.
Revision of taxes.
Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act.
Act limiting immigration by quotas.
Act creating twenty-four additional
Federal judgeships.
Naval Scrapping Bill to carry out
Disarmament Conference treaties.
British debt settlement.
Filled Milk Act to prevent remova
of butter fat and substitution of oils
Act returning trusts up to $4,000
seized from German aliens during
war
Failed
The following are the most promi-
nent among more than $4,000 meas
ures which failed of passage.
Revision of Esch-Cummins Trans
%portation Act.
Soldier Bonus.
Ship Subsidy Bill.
Reorganization of executive depart
ments.
American membership in lnterna'
tional Court of Justice.
All proposed amendments to Con
stitution, including abolition of fur
Their tax-exempt securities, provision
for converting Congress in January
after election instead of nearly a yeal
later. abolition Of the Electoral Col
lege and regulation of child labor.
Larger pensions for Civil War vet
terans and widows, and retirement fol-
disabled emergency officers.
Proposals for international econo
mic conferences and measures design
ed to stabilize foreign markets.
Free passage through Panama Can
nal for American vessels.
Act to restrict deductions on capt.
tai stock items in income "a to 12i2
per cent.
Dyer Anticipating Bill.
Liberian loan of $5,000.000.
Truth-in-Fabrics Bill, requiring la
belling Of wooden goods.
Agricultural relief bills to stabilize
wheat prices, provide revolving fund
for buying and selling crops, and to
furnish fertilizer, including Ford offer
for Muscle Shoals.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
\ Problem For The Coal Commission


Three union Presidents represent
ing the entire anthracite held nave
brought specific charges OF prohteer-
ing in hard coal which deserves tne
immediate attention OF the President 5
Coal Commission. Admitting nat
their figures are incomplete because
Of the operators poncy OF secrecy the
union heads alIege that me aNera2e
o~vercharge on a ton OF anthracite
amounts, according to M aEaila3 5c
data, to SOL. VI TINS amount sliz3}
is added at the NINE p Is p#ioeo
transportation costs ana s1,'2 IS 81
ira distribution rates. In d year I3iS
system would cost the consumer 81
Too,00O beyond a Ie&lJimale pfoIlI'
most OF which IS paId by me mouse
holder who burns the more expensive
sizes.
Just now much run is n l F9eJe
assertions Hopod! cdn 9"}, me Gu
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
4 RACE FOR BEER AND WINE

Senator Frelinghuysen went u at
noon, March 4th, when Edward |. Ed
wards term began. Wine and peer
are now due-not mountain dew, old
fashioned apple jack.
Senator Edwards went TO WASH,
ington on Tuesday and took charge OF
his office in the Senate and announced
his intention to have a law passed TO
~legalize beer and wine.
Senator Edwards has a poor OPINION
of members of Congress who vote and
talk dry and drink wet" He an
nounces himself personally dry,
The man who votes and talks wet
and drinks "dry" to catch the votes
of suckers to get in office is lacking
in moral principles and conscious sen
sibilities. A mar who does not drink
what he advocates is a political fakir.
But Senator Edge was five days
ahead of him. He announced that he
had gotten Thomas McCran to get a
mass of information that beer with
three per cent alcohol was no. intoXl-
eating. With it he hopes to convince
Congress so they will pass a law
ahead of Senator Edwards plan.
Well, three years ago Gov. Edwards
got Attorney General McCran to pile
a mass of information on to the I. 5.
Supreme Court to prove that the pro-
nibition amendment to the constitu-
ton was unconstitutional. 1t filled
about twenty pages of the Congress
sional Record. The effects of that
mass sf wet ana absolete information
ON the Supreme Court was like Ger
N-s--4 -L---T-- 4ll
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
TWO YEARS OF HARDING

Warren G.. Harding completed two
ear as President, March 4th, and the
9th Congress elected with him eX-
pired. They were elected by the big
gest majority ever received. With so
many of the "best minds to legislate
and administer the government it was
expected that all the political Ills
brought on by Wisconsin would be
cured.
The first act was to reduce the
taxes mostly on the richest and big
gest corporations, give the workmen a
holiday and then to be hired at re-
duced wages.
The fact that the United States was
once at war with Germany was to be
blotted out of the public mind. The
allies were deserted. A separate
peace made with Germany. The last
act was to hand back to Germans liv-
ing in this country who did not CON
slider it fit to become citizens and
their property was seized as alien
enemies.
The departing Congress was in ses-
sion the longest and did the least OF
any for the time in session. 1t is
called the do Nothing Congress.
More were left at home at the last
election than from any other Con
gress because the people realize that
they had been buncoed by the money
powers smoke barage in the daily
papers.
The country will now have nine
months of rest from watching
national legislation, while the Presl-
dent has gone to Florida to take a
needed rest.
Having rejected a world leader, on
the plea that Congress should lead,
Congress has made the biggest izzle
in the history of the nation, by falling
from the highest expectations.
1t is the duty of the citizens to
knuckle down to the work to create
a surplus to pay taxes. If n works
hard enough they will enjoy sweet
sleep, natures great r%eStorer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09
NEW DEMOCRATIC SENATE
LEADER

Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson,
who wiz succeed Senator Underwood,
Alabama. as party leader in the
Senate, is fifty years old and at the
height of his powers. He had a
long experience in the House, was
Governor Of his State, and ever since
his advent in the Senate has dis
played marked qualities Of leadership.
He IS one of the best parliamentarlans
of the Senate, Of its most elo-
quent orators and is aggressive with
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

Clifford Pinchot, the new dry Cover
nor of Pennsylvania. has put the
patronage screws on the wet legisIa-
tors and has brought them to time IN
voting for d new dry law. Some
thought the old wet machine would
make a fgure-head out Of him IKE
they did Martin Brombaugh, but he
has enough brains and a millionaire
wife to back him up which makes INN
a real governor, not a tiabby time
server like Sproul was.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-03-09

After being in the Capitol Social
whirI for eighteen months, Mrs. Hard
ing was taken seriously i'll last Septem-
her. All admirers of the Fist Lady
Of the Land" are pleased to learn that
she has recovered and was able to ac-
company President Harding to FLORIDA
last Monday.
Evening star., 1923-11-18
AROUND THE CITY
BY Mamie Lancaster

thought to my feathers-rd like to
ask him for them-Oh. Aunty. isn't 1t
shame%
mo. I'm glad he can afford 1t.
why. doesn't he go over to the
market and buy cultivated ducks that
are cheaper, and leave mine alone"
Get out with your cultivated
ducks. You mean tame ones that
They are so! Look at the differ
ence between hothouse flowers and
little old wild ones. There's a big
difference in ducks. too"
"Of course. there's difference. One
grounds. and the othter divides his
time between puddles and a pen.
Il think you might have bought 1T
for me-"
But it was too late. The old man
had bought her duck. feathers and
all.
\ PASSING man asked a youngster
n if he would tell him the time
The youngster flashed his left wrist
forward and obliged.
A third man-an old-timey gentle
man-caught the information and.
with squint at the sky, corrected
it:
You are quite bit slow, SON..
How do you make that out, sir?"
As he asked the boy smiled his
faith in a watch that had cost a
pretty penny-a superiority tempered
with respect.
Handed down to me. son, by gen.
erationS of farmers who had to de-
pend on the sun for measuring the
hours of the day. / carry a watch
for nights and for cloudy days. but
otherwise I rely on the sun, because
it is better timepiece."
Yes, sir, I've read about that, but
don't you, guess folks used to trust
the sun because they had to. not
having any better way of getting in
forma ton? Must have been tough
before clocks were invented. You
couldn't expect people to keep proper
time without clocks and whistles
and"
The old-timey gentleman's express
sion changed from pleasant interest
to surprise-as if he didn't know
ding or short on knowledge.
Why. my boy, have you forgotten
about the Chaldeans? That Judah
owned her sun dials thousand years
before the New Testament? That
France can show one nearly as old
and that-why. lad look at the i'm
mortal records made by the world 8
first navigators and astronomers"
AS he talked the two walked of
together. the old-timey gentleman
doubtless famished for some one to
listen to him-as is one OF the pitiful
things, about lonesome age-age
being always lonesome.
And the youngster as interested
as kid at a show.
Evening star., 1923-11-18
GARAGE DOOR STRESSED.
Held No Construction Feature De.
serves More Consideration.

While the home garage still exists
on paper no feature Of its construc-
ton deserves more careful considera-
ton than choice of a door. A poorly
planned door may be a source OF
continued regret, while one that can
not be operated with a minimum Of
effort will plague the patience of a
modern Job.
Wide openings are essential in this
type of construction. Both convent
ence and safety demand that ample
width of entrance be provided.
Damaged tenders may be the price
of sacrificing this detail in an effort
to lower structural costs.
Evening star., 1923-11-18
NRINITY COLLEGE students are
giving a happy ending" to
the ancient tragedy of the


giving a happy ending" to
the ancient tragedy of the
lion and the lamb-with the
lamb lying down to be fed instead of
eaten.
There is church drive on at Trim
ity and every girl in college is devils
ing original methods of earning
money. The most successful. so far,
is the scheme of the seniors to serve
breakfasts to the sleepy-heads who
like to stay in bed on Saturday morn
ings. These patrons, nearly all soph-
omores and freshmen, ale allowed
to select from the menu and lie in
luxurious state while the seniors
bring trays to their beds.
And the novelty of seniors waiting
on sophs and freshies, when by col
lege law they ought to be hazing
them. affords the lower classes an ex-
hilaratinG sense of superiority,
which
They have to pay for.
4 WEATHER-TANN man in high
"A boots and corduroy stood at an
Avenue corner A Sam Brown belt
of duck was strung across his shoul-
ders, and in one hand was a hickory
staff that looked as if it ought to be
a gun.
They were wild ducks, fat with the
celery grasses of the lower Potomac
feeding grounds, and with feathers
that shone with metallic luster in the
sun. About everybody, in passing,
gave the ducks a glance of hungry
appreciation. Quite Il number paused
to price them, and one girl stopped in
her tracks to say to the older woman
with her.
Isn't that the loveliest purple
green you ever saw? It's more be-
coming to me than any winter colors
can wear. I wonder if ! was to buy
It, the milliner could dress the breast
properly"
II reckon SO, if she knows how. to
cook"
Don't be 50 thick. aunty If l
smooth on a hat it does on the
duck I'd have it made up. Wait till 1
price it, anyhow"
Without pauSing to see if Aunty
was agreeable, the young person who
looks her best in purple-green plum
age went and returned, dragging the
willow of defeat.
why he wants mere for his old
duck than l could send to New York
ana get Il breast ready made-Oh.
look at that old man buying them,
will you--I bet he picks on mine
Look at him punching il in the
breast-I bet he takes it home and
has it cooked without giving a
Evening star., 1923-11-18
1851 Bed Room Suite, 500

The Queen Anne suite above, in dull native wal
nut, includes dresser so inches long with crystal
mirror 80 by 40inches, large chforobe fullength
vanity case and a bow-end bed.
Evening star., 1923-11-18

A one-day sale Monday, of the five beautiful
sample suites illustrated. The prices greatly
lowered because there only suite of each kind
For five lucky homemakers-suites that were
Madame Kelsey's selections!