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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
STRATTON


run into Saturday afternoon by a
REQ truck here in the village.
Edgar Masterman, wife and child
rem of Weld also Mrs. Masterman,
were visitors over the week end with
his brother and Mrs. Masterman's
son. Verne Masterman and wife.
John A. Bridges and s. NJ. Usher
ness were In Sabattus Sunday. Mrs.
Doris Bridges returned home with
them after a weeks visit with her aunt
Mrs. r. E. Swift.
l.. j. Hackett of Rangeley was in
town Sunday.
We are beginning to think we have
a good B. B. team here as the crack
Wilton baseball team came here Sat-
urday afternoon and were defeated 8
to by the Dead Rivers.
H. S. Blackwell of Saddleback Lake
Camps was a recent visitor in town.
Ray L. Lisherness and Charles
Tague spent Sunday at the Usher
ness camp at Embden Lake.
Tim Kicker and mother were in
Flagstaff Sunday.
J. w. Conquest and party who have
been here at his camp, returned to
Boston Sunday.
Willard Morse and family of Wells
ley, Mass, are stopping at the Con-
quest camp for while.
Verne Masterman is taking F. L..
Fosters place in the mill nights, while
Foster is having a vacation down riv-
er.
Frank w. Nutting was in Kingfield
Saturday. -p4
Mrs. Thomas Riley of Bath was
the guest Of her son and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. }. w. MacGuire over Sunday.
Friends here in town are very sorry
to hear of the i'll health of Mrs. Dion
Blackwell of Round Mountain Lake.
She is a sister DO Mrs. Ray Kicker
a speedy recovery.
Mae Vaughan has been visiting her
brother and wife. Mr.. and Mrs Clyde
Vaughan up on the farm, for the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Head motored
to Rumford Saturday to see the ruin
of the fire there last week. They
were the guests of Mrs. Healds sis
ter and husband, J. w. Dorian and
wife.
B. L. Taylor has come home from
The Preserve.
Pat Smart was out from Chain of
Ponds over the week end.
A. A. Berry went up on The Pre-
serve Sunday.
O. Weeks took an auto trip down
river Saturday.
Ray Kicker was out from The Pre-
serve for a few days recently.
Esther Savage has been helping at
s. NJ Lisherness while Mrs. Doris
Bridges was away.
Mrs. Clyde Hall has been working
at The Stratton lately.
Mrs. Vance Wilbur has gone to work
in the Enamel Shop.
Hon. c. N. Blanchard of Wilton and
Hon. J. Blaine MORRISON of Phillips
were in town lately on business.
George Vaughan and wife and New
ell Vaughan and wife went to Liver
more Falls Saturday by auto, return
ing Sunday.
/ Don't forget the Worlds Fair al
Stratton August 10Th and Both.
Trumbull's Players, here Friday
Sight, August 3rd and will be here
again August 18th, presenting "Mary's
Ankle" BY the crowd that attends
we guess. Ray will have to build ar
addition to Lander's Hall.
Owen Richmond has returned from
his wedding trip.
Tim Kicker, one of our town officials
was in Skowhegan. Waterville and
Pennington one day last week max.
ing the trip In his Buick car.
| Frank l.. Foster is down river for, q
week or more, enjoying vacation
with friends in Portland and other
places.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
RIyERSIDE-KINGFIEHD

Mrs. Amos Graffte of Dennistown,
]. s. Moulton, Christie Moulton and
Miss Josie Moulton OF North Arson,
were visitors at Nj. G. Atwood's the
first of the week.
The grandfather of Mrs. Forest Will
Der (Lord Street,, passed away We'd
nesday evening. He has been sick
In bed for some time.
Quite a scare was occasioned Friday
forenoon when the fire whistle was
blown. The fire was thought to be
Sam Moore's dwelling house on Free
man Ridge. 1t proved to be only a
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
CONCORD

Irwin Steward and family have NOV
ed on to Mr.. Jeffery's place. former
ly owned by Mrs. Olive Chase.
Miss Hazel Huggin. who has been
visiting her folks, has returned to
her duties at the Maine Central Hos
pital Her brother Earl took her
down in their new car.
Frank Atwood, took pleasure trip
to Augusta Sunday with his son
Sherman and family. Mrs. Atwood be-
ing sick did not accompany them.
Wallace Moulton is at work for P
d. Robinson.
Irwin Steward spent Sunday night
at Pleasant Ridge.
Lester Atwood is helping Simon
Howes hay.
A party of ladies were raspberryine
one day last week. up by Carry Pond
and got scared out by bear.
An aeroplane was seen to pass over
the town one day last week
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
MERCER

Miss Rachel Moore of New Sharon
is visiting Miss Irene Hilton for a few
days.
Mrs. Ida Moore has returned to her
home in town having spent some time
in visiting relatives In another town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Beck are enter
tanning friends from Massachusetts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bacon and
daughter of Hebron, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bacon and daughter of Nor
ridgewock, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Bacon
and son Chamberlain and three child
rem, spent Sunday at the home OF
their parents in South Mercer.
Ivory Tracy of Gardiner was In
town the first of the week.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-08-09
OAK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Mr.. and Mrs. Merl Yeaton and three
children of Madison were afternoon
callers recently of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
c. Fletcher.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Anderson returned
home last week from Portland after
a weeks visit with her sister Mrs.
Leo York.
Florence Taylor the little daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. o. c. Taylor has been
Evening star., 1923-03-26
BIRDS OF ANCIENT
nile TO BE SHOWN
Same Species as Those of Tutankh-
amen's Time Pictured by Swed-
ish Naturalist.

Birds of the Nile valley, such as
were familiar to Tutankhamen three
thousand years ago, will be shown in
motion pictures by Bengt Berg, Swed-
ish traveller and naturalist, at a lee
ture at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow after
noon at the National Museum, 10th
and B streets, under auspieces of the
Audubon Society.
DR.. Berg arrived here today. This
is his first trip to America. He is
here as the official representative of
Sweden to study the motion picture
industry of America with a view to
developing the use of educational films
in Sweden.
LAS a Bird of Passage in Africa" is
the title of the film to be shown
public is invited. The reels We're
shown last week for the first time in
America at the American Museum of
National History in New York.
The scenes are of cranes, storks
and other migratory birds, in fiocks
of thousands, as seen on their Sojourn
on the White Nile in Africa, associat-
ing with the picturesque native birds
of the Nile. and the great crocodiles.
Europe as writer and naturalist. and
regarded as an authority on the study
and photography of birds, has just
returned from the Nile region, where
he obtained the pictures to be shown.
From this city he will go to Chicago
and later to California.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
HADYN STRING QUARTET
MAKES GOOD IMPRESSION

Favored by ideal weather a crowd
that tested the capacity of the Cen
trail High School auditorium attended
the twenty third free community con-
cert of the Washington Community
Music Association last night.
The outstanding feature was the
Hadyn String Quartet, a new musical
organization, composed of the follow
ing: Josef Kaspar, Herman Berne-
witz, Preston Shelley and Isaac Mino-
vich. Dora and Isaac Minovich,
pianist and violinist, were well re-
ceived. Madge kanode. contralto, ap-
peared for the first time on a COM
munity concert program. She was
accompanied at the piano by Leon c.
Bailey. William B. SpangenberE, cor
netist from the Army Music School.
rendered THE Palms" assisted at the
piano by Helen Burkhart. Charles V.
Banner also made his initial appear
ance at the Sunday night concerts as
leader of the Washington Community
Orchestra.
The twenty-fourth free community
concert will be given at Central High
School Thursday night at Sis o'clock,
when the association will present the
Washington College of Music orches-
ira, under the direction of c. l.. Chris
tiani, with Marguerite Carter, violin
list, and George Harold Miller, bari
tone, as assisting SolOiSts.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
SOV|ETS ASSA|EED
/ IN FEDERAT|QN|ST
A.F.L. Organ Disputes Claims
of Progress and BIames
State for Famine.

A panorama portrait of Russia
controlled by an army of police
spies, hangmen and the relative hand
full that form the communist party
is painted for readers of the American
Federationist by William English
walling in the forthcoming issue OF
that publication, official organ of the
American Federation of Labor. The
conclusions drawn in the articles are
based on a report of Russian eco
nomic conditions prepared by the
league of nations.
The people of Russia. according to
wallinG. are now in that state OF
poverty bordering on barbarism
Shipment of grain now being ex-
ported from Russia by soviet authori-
ties constitute only another of the
long series of deeds helping along the
death by starvation of millions of
Russian soviet subjects, according to
the article.
Drought One Factor.
Though drought, which brought
crop failure, and foreign and civil
wars have share of responsibility
for the misery forced upon Russia $
population, Mr.. Walling's summary
continues the league report found
soviet pOllcleS Oh COHllScdtlO anu
denial OF incentive to individuals to
be the great cause of progressive
impoverishment that is now en-
countered.
The bolshevist authorities, "at last
trying to return to the point they
started from or at least making a
bluff at it, were represented to be
meeting the situation with statements
and paper policies" to which Mr.
Walling denies the slightest practical
effect"
Disputes Soviet Claim.
Even the soviet claim of credit for
having given Russian land holdings
to the peasants. Mr. Walling declares
was challenged by the leagues report
since before the revolutionary era
peasants owned S,000,000 dessiatines
of cultivated land, while today they
possess 224. 100000.
A complete breakdown of railroads
and a gradual cessation of the use. OF
machinery in agriculture and in
dustry, he concludes in summarizing
the report, have been the outstanding
effect of the soviet regime.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
Changes in Stations OF
Army and Navy Officers
OF Interest to Capital
rniy.

Col. Edward H. Schulz, Corps of En-
sineers. at Seattle, Wash. has been
ordered to Honolulu, Hawaii, for duty.
Lieut. Col Walter S. Grant, cavalry,
at Forth Leavenworth. Kan; Col.
Frank Parker. infantry, at Fort
Leavenworth; Lieut.. Col. George T.
Bowman. cavalry, at Newport. r. l.;
and Col. Ewing Z. Booth. cavalry, at
Fort Leavenworth, have been ordered
to this city for duty at the Army
War College, Washington barracks.
Army Field Clerk William G.. Sem
mig, in the office of the chief of in
fantry, War Department, has been
ordered to the Panama Canal Zone
for duty.
Chaplains Edward L. Trett, at Fort
Sam Houston. Tex. and Nathaniel A.
Jones. at Fort Brady, Mich. have
been ordered to Honolulu, Hawaii, for
duty.
Col Herbert B. Crosby, cavalry. and
Maj. Charles Keller. infantry, have
been assigned to duty at the Army
War College. Washington barracks.
Capt. Thomas Gordon, Philippine
Scouts. has been placed on the re-
tired list as a major, on account of
disability incident to the service.
Navy.
Lieut.. Commander Charles T. Black
burn has been transferred from the
L. .. fdlDhd u TIE snip
at New York.
Lieut. Commander Warren A. Shaw
Of the U. S. S. Prometheus has been
transferred to the L. S. S. Vestal.
Lieut.. Commander E. II. II. Old,
Medical Corps, at the Naval Hos
pital. New York city, has been or
dered to the battleship Delaware.
Lieut.. Vergil l.. Marsh, Supply
Corps. at the naval powder factory.
Indian Head. Md, has been assigned
to duty in the Department of Agri-
culture.
Lieut.. Harry A. Miller, Supply
Corps. at the Supply Corps School of
Application. Navy Department, has
been assigned to duty at the navy
yard, New York, and Ensign Theodore
W S. Runyon, at the same school,
has been assigned to duty at the
powder factory, Indian Head, Md.
Even If man fights but one duel
Evening star., 1923-03-26

selected by a committee representing
a number of the most prominent tech
nical societies and organizations
The acting executive committee ap-
pointed until their successors may be
chosen, are: w. NJ. Corse, National
Research Council, chairman: Paul
Moore, National Research Council,
secretary; w. ID. Collins. geological
survey; F. X Richtmyer, Cornell Uni
versity; NJ +. Leeds president AS
sociation Of Scientific Apparatus
Manufacturers Of the United States
John Roberts. secretary of the Associ-
alton of Scientific Apparatus Manu-
facturers, and G. K. Burgess of the
bureau of standards.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
CHURCH ENDOWS VISITING
NURSE FOR ENTIRE YEAR
st. Johns Episcopal Congregation
Desponds to Easter Call for
Assistance to Society.

The Instructive Visiting Nurse So
ciety announces the endowment of
another nurse for year. The donors
are members of the congregation of
St Johns Episcopal Church. Lafay-
cite Square, who have. as ar Easter
offering, agreed to pay a nurses sal
ary for twelve months. The sum
necessary is S1,400.
This makes the second nurse to be
supported by church, All Souls
Unitarian Church having assumed the
entire responsibility for one for some
years past. 1t also is the second
nurse cared for in a lump sum since
January l, member of the board of
Evening star., 1923-03-26

managers having endowed one of the
nurses for twelve months. This year
has also been marked by the gift of
a sedan motor car.
The superintendent of the nursing
organization announces that February
was almost as busy month with the
nursing staff as was January, and
more burdensome than the corre
spending month last year by 100 pa
tients and 700 visits. Patients ad-
mitted during the month numbered
599; nursing visits made totaled
1864. The total number of patients
cared for was 1870. Although it is
now officially Spring" there is still
an unreasonable amount of illness. it
is stated. including considerable
pneumonia.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
is BROUGHT TO CLOSE
Makers and Users of Scientific Ap-
paratus Seek to Establish
Better Understanding.

Makers and users of scientific ap-
paratus Saturday concluded a two
day conference called by the National
Research Council to bring about
better understanding between the two
groups.
Apparatus supply and standardiza-
ton of apparatus were among topics
considered by speakers. A commit
tee on organization brought in a re-
port which was accepted The re-
port suggested the formation of an
executive committee of seven, to be
Evening star., 1923-03-26
JOURNALISTIC SORORITY
INITIATES 10 STUDENTS
Banquet Follows Ceremony Which
Is Conducted by Society Con-
nected With G.. w. u.

Ten candidates were initiated into
the Gamma Eta Zeta honorary jour
nalistic sorority of George Washing
ton University. at it's first initiation
service Saturday which was follow
ed by a banquet at the Madrillon.
Dean and Mrs. William Allen Wilbur.
and Mrs. Daniel c. Chace were the
guests of honor at the banquet.
The students initiated were Marian
Barker, II. Geraldine Barlow, Louise
EApey, Lois Gates German, Marie
Evening star., 1923-03-26
TABLETS TO BE PLACED.
Memorials to Be Dedicated to Two
Medical Corps Men.

Bronze tablets will be placed in the
Naval Medical School building in this
city to commemorate the services of
Passed Assistant Surgeons Elisha X.
Kane and James NJ. Amber. dis
tinguished members of the Naval
Medical Corps, who died In the per-
formance of perilous duty.
Evening star., 1923-03-26

Even If man fights but one duel
he has second.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
|, Frances Randolph, S

French Smith Celeste WeyL Mildred
WilguS and Myrtle Yost.
The Gamma Eta Zeta soroity was
formed last April by Mary A. Brown.
Janeiro V. Brooks, Caroline f. Peter
son, Ardis Smith. Media Umbeck and
Elizabeth Whitfield. Only juniors
and seniors are eligible to member
ship Meritorious work on some
school publication and scholarship
are taken into consideration before
a prospective member is pledged.
Evening star., 1923-03-26
Vigorous Vitamines.
,ir,nipubam Ape-Heraid

From the Birmingham Age Herald.
Have you any fresh vitamines?"
asked a young bride.
Yes, num-" said the veracious
dealer. We've some that was caught
on the coast yesterday
"a pound, please"
She got shrimps.
Evening star., 1923-03-26

Little Polly had been in the kitchen.
Somebody asked her what she had
been doing. oh" she replied ser-
ously, Il was out in the kitchen
watching the cook take the shingles
off the fish
Evening star., 1923-03-26
Is England Going Dry :?
From the Kansas City Times.

! From the Kansas City Times.
A parliamentary measure designed
to make England dry is said to have
total of seven supporters. Does that
means in Parliament or out, or both?
Evening star., 1923-03-29
ATTACK ON WOMAN
REMAINS MYSTERY
Police Continue Search for
AssaiIant Seen Running
From O'Brien Home.

Early solution of the mysterious
| attack on Mrs. Elizabeth Z. OBrien,
wife OF Attorney Matthew E. O'Brien,
In the family home, at 1929 Euclid
| street. early Sunday morning Is not
expected by the police. The belief is
expressed by the police that the mys-
| terry will be solved, however, but not
| In the near future
Two things have been established.
One Is that Mrs. o'Brien was brutally
beaten with a hammer, and the other
that a woman was seen to leave the
mousse while the wounded woman was
still screaming.
Identity, of the woman seen leaving
! the house. and who was asked what
the trouble was about, has not been
esta blished. Neither has 1t been es-
| tablished to the satisfaction of the
police that she was a white woman.
Give Different Versions.
"She was either white or a very
light cOlored woman" was stated by
persons who saw her, and the detec-
| tives are inclined to believe her to be
| white.
Mr.. O'Brien still maintains that the
| motive was robbery. Detectives
Springmann and Darnall doubt that
he is correct Witnesses questioned
Dy the ueteCtlVeS tOlu QlHerent Ver-
| sions of how the supposed assailant
! left the vicinity of the OBrien resi-
dence. All agree that she went east
on Euclid street and disappeared at
18th.
"One said she ran, another that she
walked and still another that she
! staggered" said Detective Darnall to-
day.
Statement of witness that the
woman staggered was taken to sug-
gest that she might have been under
! the induence of liquor or a drug.
Petty Thefts Committed.
1t was said by the detectives today
| that they had found nothing to sub
stantiate the robbery theory. They
, admitted this morning they were al
| most completely at sea in the investi-
| cation, although they had couple of
possible clues TO run out.
The detectives had been told of
petty thefts committed in the house,
| among the articles reported taken
being a pair of earrings. When Mrs.
OBrien was questioned at the hos
pital by the detectives she said the
earrings had merely been misplaced.
She had found them.
Mrs. O'Brien is gradually recover
ing from the effects of the wounds
she received and probably will be able
to leave the hospital in a few days.
Evening star., 1923-03-29
FOREIGN.
No Attitude for Him.
From Judge.

From Judge.
A friend just returned from teach
Ing in Kentucky tells this story of
a back woodsman who had been elect
ed to serve in the state legislature.
Arrived at the Capitol, he handed his
card to the doorkeeper. That fndi-
vidual glanced at the name and said:
You go upstairs"
Like go upstairs" quoth
the embryo maker of laws. II was
elected to the lower house, and that's
where ! stay!"
Evening star., 1923-03-29
THE WEATHER

District OF Columbia-Fair and
much warmer tonight, lowest temper
ature near freezing; tomorrow in
rceasing cloudiness and much warm
er; colder tomorrow night or Satur-
day; moderate to fresh south and
southwest winds.
Maryland-Fair and much warmer
tonight: tomorrow cloudy and MUCH
warmer; colder tomorrow night or
Saturday; increasing south and south
west winds.
Virginia.-Faira and warmer tonight
and tomorrow: colder Saturday; fresh
east. shifting to southeast and south
winds.
West Virginia-Fair and much
warmer tonight: tomorrow cloudy,
warmer in east portion; colder to-
morrow night and Saturday.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm, As; s pm.
20; IL midnight. "a; am. 20; am.
1e; noon, 80.
Barometer PM, SO.O5; pm.
30.25: IL midnight, 30.39: am, 30.45;
s am, $3.50; noon. 30.43.
Highest temperature, 45, occurred at
p pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature, IS, occurred at
$50 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 66: lowest, 48.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature ana cOnQlllOn or the
water at am: Great Falls-Tem-
perature, AZ; condition, very muddy.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States coast
and geodetic Survey.)
Today-Low tide, 11:47 am; high
tide, sos am. and o:34 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide 1921 am. and
12:42 pm; high tide, 600 am. and
$3.50 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rase 500 am; sun sets
6.2S pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 5:58 am; sun
sets 6:29 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather in Various Cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
DE ETAILEO GERMAN REQUEST |s MADE
FaciIitation Of Traffic And Commerce Among Things
 Suggested To Britain

LONDON, Dec. 24.-(By Associated Press)-The German government to- day. communicated to the British government full details of the pour parlors initiated in Paris and Brus- sells requesting modification of the existing regiment in the occupied ter ritory The German aims include fla cilitation of traffic and commerce be- tween the occupied and unoccupied territories, with the removal of hin- drances to railway communication abolotion of export and import li- censes and the equalization of tariffs.
 The communication also urges the necessity of large credits and a stabilized currency for the occupied area with a view to redeeming the paper money issued by the communes. Further reinstatement of Rhineland shipping and the resumption of i'm munity for members of the reichstas and federal parliamnet, together with freedom of assembly and lndepend- ence of law courts.
 similar communication to the Italian government.
 On the subject of the faciliation of railway traffic the communication says what really is needed to relieve the congestion is the recall of all the German railway men, who alone un- derstand the complex railway sys- tems. It argues that revival oi economic life depends upon the sccur- ity of person and of property, and hence it Is necessary to reinstate the authorities and officials and to pro- tect them in the exercise of theii duties, which include the collection oi taxes which are badly needed owing to the increase of unemployment anC distress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-25
LOST = CHRISTMAS
 AT 18TH MERIDIAN
Passengers Aboard Ship Learn That Dec. 26 Fol-
 lows Dec. "A Midnight

ABOARD STEAMSHIP KOREA MARU, NEARING EIGHTEENTH MERIDIAN, PACIFIC OCEAN, Dec. 24.-"Crossing eighteenth meridian tonight. No Christmas for us this year. Regards to all"
 This was the message which flashed into the air today from the keyof T. Kajiyama, radio operator of the Korea Maru, en route from Ban Francisco to Japan, to the Radio Corr poration of America station at San Francisco.
 flash:
 As the darkness of Christmas Eve falls upon the Pacific, the Korea ap- proaches the international date line, where the date changes and which she crosses about midnight tonight
 Tomorrow will be December 26. so far as the Korea Maru IS concerned
 There will be no December 20, for the Maru, for the 400 passengers
 Today a delegation of first cab- ineers approached Captain Watapabe and wanted to know what about It.p
 Isn't there going to be any santa Claus captain?" they wistfuliy de-
 why should there be; we have no 25th," he retorted.
 .But today is Christmas Eve; can't we celebrate tonight?'
 ..Eve of what? Can there be an .eye' when there is no day of which it is the .eve'?" Captain Watanabe asked.
 The delegation. sighed and returned to awaiting passengers
 But there was santa Ciaus aboard the Maru for Japanese off eers. They are preparing the ship for festivities.