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Mrs.. Mae Parkhurst Jewett

Mae f. (Parkhurst) Jewett
Nav Is at the family home, 8
81. Waterville. She was the
Of the late Philandsr c. Jewett
she survived about six years.
Jewett was born in st. AL
| Nav S, 1S4s. the daughter OF
and Mary Parkhurst. She
I,ed A keen and active mind with
.ounced taste for education and
,bced teaching school at the age
pnteen. She was a teacher of
ii ability and endeared herself
Bills and parents. She taught
Olson and Skowhegan. She
raduated from Lowell CONNER
follege in 1873 and from Farm
I Normal school In the class Of
She was married to Philander
uett In 1880 and Is, survived by
lughters, Florence j.. wife OF
| lancaster and Rosalind May
y, State Home Demonstration
!. University of Maine.
! Jewett was a member of the
| Baptist church. Waterville. Her
III always the center of her
|suA affection and here her in
h was strongly felt. She was
> bright and cheerful, always
b on the sunny side Of life. She
h sadly missed by her relatives
Many friends. 80
hsSal services were held Friday
boon from the home, Rev. E. c.
emore ofiiciating, ! assisted by
". Quarrington. The body was
: to Skpwhegan for interment In
hnily lot there. The bearers
Henry Hoxie, Herbert Brown,
les Estes and Wallace Judkins.
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r..ehers Reelected

-. teachers who have al
rss asa stowhegan schools DOL ar, are
q ., .as principal of the h,aa a,sn
Mss tssM Ht school building, har,
) osrfema ,rsctor of music and
smith Downs oa supervisor Of
Helen ellen school board have el ss.ea
, r'u teachers, although tn. as9,n ,nsls
,S ss Who have not yet denn''e''
= to .a aseep principal, Harry 4,
se nsl,ast, Miss D. M. Elliott.
Ethel bel. n GLADYS H.. Kicker, Miss
r. s Simmons, A. o. Dostie, coach q
sh , s,'"a director, Miss L, c.
aJs y assistant physical direc-
rs A .ss commercial depart
.ss ), ant mt Downs, manual train
ue I,.s GLADYS Hamor. super.
s ~ home economies, &, Jun
- s N 10 Lottie NJ cates Z. Mrs. !.
" ~. a, ar and Mrs. Eva A. Web
Y. !.s ,S1'S building htin principal sl: q
e, w.. Della A. Sanford: nlth
var sss,on Caldwell; fourth and
.,'.s Ruby Lathe; fourth. Mrs.
ss' Foster; Lincoln building.
A. MIS- Mildred Lewis, Miss
uoainson, Miss Marie Goldam-
,n,,diug. sixth grade. princi-
Alice E. Mitchell; nth
rs ~, AID Della F. Stone; fourth
sis. Lizzie T. Higgins; third
~. No kate c. Holbrook; Acad-
!',ain,. first grade, Mrs. Sarah
's. second grade. principal,
,..,s W. Healy. Mrs. Nancy
who for some years mas
;, the White school on the
- road in Madison has been
n the Jewett street school.
x.,,,sa Twitchell. the helping
NO has taught at the Parker
= me river road on the north
ne river will doubtless be
\ the Malbon's Mills schooi
h school remodeled because
e.,tion is much more accessible
teachers who wish to visit
.ialpg teachers school on Sat-
a. this school will keep on
n, and Monday will be observ-
,he day off duty when the help
.Shsr will visit the other rural
4, The teachers in the Sother
schools have not as yet been
| N fN9yl
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placed thereon A copy 10 be sent
to the bereaved family and one sent
to the Independent-Repo for pub
LEGATION.
Resolved. that our charter be drap-
ed for thirty days in remembrance Of
our departed brother.
ELVA J. MEMBERS son
MIRIAM II. COLBY
JENNIE RUNNELLS
Committee on Resolutions
Moose River, May "A, 1928
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ton and of what that tree may mean
in the future.
Interested citizens witnessed the
ceremonies which had been so charm
ingly arranged by the various COM
mittees having the matter in charge.
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Card OF Thanks

We wish to express to the neighbors
and friends our sincere thanks for
their kindness during the sickness
and death Of our dear mother and
sister; for the fruit and beautiful
flowers sent to her from different so
cieties and to Rev. Gardner Wills Tor
the words of comfort.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. c. Hilton
and family
Mr.. ]. C. Knight
Mr.. and Mrs. 8. H. Williams
Mrs. Emma Morrow
Mrs. Ella Hilton
North AnScn, May "a. 1898
The sweetest type OF heaven ID
home,-J, G, Holland.
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Card OF Thanks

mn TO express our heartfelt
the neighbors and friends
tindness and sympathy and
~ Beane Post and the Ladies
o. the American Legion for
!ul flowers they sent at the
= recent sorrow.
!taia witham
Oseil Bray
mildred Padham
piay
Aaine, May "a. 1923
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Resolutions OF Respect

WHEREAS, 1t has pleased the
Great Master of the universe to re-
move from our fraternal lodge our re-
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sAeent- Reporter $3.50 q year.
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Summary by States of 1923 Model Cars Registered in The
Noyes-Buck Companys New England Territory as
reported for week ending April Il, 1923
Does not include anv cars which were registered last year
NJ. E.
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Do YOU know what the king
bolts arc! They are really the
connection between the front
axle and the front wheels of
your automobile. Your driv-
ing ease and safety depend
on the size and strength of
these two important pieces of
steel. If you drive an Olds-
mobile you will have the benz
eft of king bolts that are l
inch in diameter instead of
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had been a colonel of cavalry during the
Civil War and had earned by his bravery
most honorable record. In New York,
where he had been born, the families of
both his parents were well-to-do and So
cially prominent.
Spofford had learned to love the South
during his campaigning. He was winding
up his affairs in the North preparatory to
settling down in Louisville.
The wounds left by the war were slow
ly healing and Spofford's personality and
breeding soon won him friends among the
best of the city. There was in Louisville,
however, as in all the South, a number of
families who were not yet prepared to
greet any Northerner as a friend and
brother. To these ''irreconcilables" the
Yankee colonel was anathema-an in
vader and an enemy. Among these fam
lies the bitterest, perhaps, was that of the
Kyles.
Robert G.. Kyle, the father, was
wealthy manufacturer. The Kyles were
leaders in the oldest and most exclusive
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"No daughter of mine shall every marry
a Yankeew swore her father at the last.
Il would as soon give her to black. !"
Anne was forbidden ever again to speak
or write to her lover-ever even to look
at him. She was not allowed to go to any
of the homes that made Spofford welcome.
It never crossed the fathers mind that
he would be disobeyed.
But he was Love is not so easily de-
feated, and when it cannot take the right
road it too often will take the wrong.
And so it was with these two-the
passionate Southern girl and her hand
some Northern soldier-sweetheart They
did meet-too often.
They planned to elope. Before their
plans could ripen Spofford was summoned
North to settle some loose ends of his
estate. He left, promising to return
within a month.
But he had not been away many days
before Anne became frightened. After
all, she thought, perhaps her father had
been right about the Northerners. Per-
haps-perhaps, John would never come
back. Never meant to come back!
Like a frightened little girl she cr.pt
to her mother with her secret-that she
was soon to become mother!
I"What shall l do, mother! Oh, what
shall l do!' sobbed poor Anne. Don't
tell fatherv' she prayed.
But there was no keeping secret such
a thing as this. There was nothing the
mother could do but tell the father And
the proud old Southerner, as he listened,
saw all his plans for his children go down
in ruin about him and all the future and
that fair name which had been unfair
nished for many generations blackened
forever.
Two things had to be done. The shame
concealed if possible, and the wrong
avenged
Among the slaves of the Kyles that the
war had freed was young negress named
Eliza Hill. She had been given to Anne
when the latter was just beginning to
toddle She was loyal to the Kyles with
that peculiar, almost fanatical loyalty
which so often was found in the old South
between trusted blacks and their white
masters Liza Hill considered herself one
of the family, and the Kyles knew they
could trust her fully.
So that night Anne was taken to her
cabin and hidden. 1t was given out by
the family that she had gone away for
time. to visit relatives.
And while his sister lay there in the
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* TOT, many days ago suit was
N brought in the courts Of Alameda
County, California, laying claim in
behalf. of certain Frank S. "HiIl'' TO
the fortune left by Anna Amelia Kyle,
who died in Oakland in April Of 1921.
The Kyles had lived in Oakland for
more than forty years. Originally
there had BEEN four of then,-1nother,
father, Anna and an older brother,
Robert Bruce Kyle. They were known
to be Southerners, aristocrats of the days
"before the war; and wealthy.
They were trife more than eccentric,
the neighbors thought. They made no
friends. Their home became Oakland's
s'House of Mystery" Anna, it was sup
posed was unmarried, a spinster.
Yet when she had died those who came
for her body found hidden beneath her
pillow pair Of tiny baby shoesl
They had wondered why an ''old maid''
should cherish such things. They found
it rather pitiful.
When Hills claim was filed those little
baby shoes were revealed as not mere
pitiful symbols of motherhood denied,
but the only food for nearly fifty years
of mothers starved heart-the symbols
of tragedy so grim, so sorrowful, so
unusual that even a motion picture
scenario writer would have hesitated to
use it for a screen drama. -.
For that claim proved that Anna
Amelia Kyle had been far from
spinster.
Hill was her son, born out of wedlock,
a "love-child."
The shoes had been his when almost
half century ago the unhappy mother
had been forced by her father to abandon
him to a black servant, former slave,
who was to bring him up as-a negro!
During those years they had meant to-
Anne Kyle the baby she had lost. All those
years she had wept over them, kissed
them and fondled them and talked to
them, kept them hidden from the father
and brother who had given up their nor
NAL lives to make themselves her jailers
ano living barrier, so long as life should
last, between her child and the Northern
lover who had brought shame to their
door and wrecked the lives of all of
them.
And all that time the child in whose
veins ran mingled the blood of one of
Kentucky's oldest, most aristocratic FAM
iIIes and the blood of two of the North's
best had believed himself to be black.
Ali his life he had believed the faithful
old black nanny who had brought him
up Just like all the little black boys
around him. was his true mother.
Yet his white blood had fought hard
for recognition.
Believing himself at least part negro,
still he had not been able to live with the
blacks as one of them. And, filed with the
traditions Of the South, he had not been
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remained closed to spofford, but other
doors did not and soon Anne met the
handsome Northerner. Almost at once
that same perverse magic of love which
threw Juliet into Romeo's arms cast it's
spell upon the two. To the warm-hearted
Southern girl young Spofford was young
Lochinvar from out of the North" To
him Anne Kyle was the perfect blossom
of romantic perfection.
One night their lips met and their-vows
were given each other.
All this was long before the day of the
fiapper, the cigarette girl, bobbed hair
and the knee-length skirt. Parents in
that day had something to say-indeed a
great deal to- say about a daughters
prospective husband. Anne Kyle knew,
of course, the hatred of both her father
and her brother for the North. But she
thought, poor child, that she would be
able to show that father that her beloved
John was not like those other yankees"
And as dutiful daughter, she felt that
she must tell her mother and father all
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And what she feared was exactly what
chill" set out to do, to have a reckon
ing-perhaps to kill-those who had
deliberately wrecked his life, before his
baby feet could walk.
Many months he sought him. And then,
as though led by the mysterious hand of
fate, he arrived in Oakland the very day
after Robert Bruce Kyle had died. Hill
saw the death notice, read the story of
the blouse of Mystery and knew that
this Robert Bruce Kyle could be no other
than the uncle he sought. Death had
cheated him of vengeance, but it had
probably saved him from murder.
His suit foilowed-less to secure the
money and jewels that were his mothers
than to prove the white blood so long
denied its rights and to enable him after
nearly lifetime to live among and as
one of his own kind.
1t was in 1875, as Hill tells the story,
that there came to Louisville stalwart,
handsome young Northerner. His name
was John Pembroke Spofford. He was
romantic figure even for the South. He
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shack of the former slave, awaiting the
miracle Of motherhood, Robert Bruce
Kyle, her brother, waited at the command
Of his father for her lovers return. John
Spofford must be killed, but secretly. He
could not be challenged to duel, since
that would be to publish the cause Of the
affair. No, Spofford must be put out Of
the way more quietly. Yet he must know
why death was being meted to him, else
the vengeance would be incomplete.
The days went by-slow, nightmare
filled days and nights to the broken
hearted beauty hidden in the squalid
cabin of the negress; slow days and nights
to John Spoford, counting impatiently
the hours still between him and the girl
he loved and of whose misery he knew
nothing.
And at last John Spofford came back
to Louisville. As soon as he had arrived
a message decoyed hin1-to the cabin where
was his sweetheart. He saw her at the
window, but before he could set foot on
the threshold Robert Kyle stepped out,
cursed him as his sisters betrayer and
shot him twice, as the brother thought,
through the heart!
Anne Kyle saw him fall, and tainted
When she came to her senses many hours
later her brother. and the body of her
lover were gone.
eyes," Liza told her, "your brother
sure killed that man. He's done righted
you, Miss Anne! They took the body
away somewhere. An your brother, he's
done gone to Mexico"
But Liza Hill lied. Robert Kyle did,
indeed, think that he had killed Spofford
and had fled to Mexico. Yet Spofford
was not dead. The bullets had not
pierced his heart. Eliza, given the task
of getting rid of his body, had seen the
Northerner open his eyes. He had beg
ged her to take him into her cabin and
let him die beside his love. But Liza
considered herself Kyle. She hated the
Northerner as bitterly as did her master,
yet because her young mistress loved him
she had not the heart either to finish the
job Robert had hungled or TO let him die.
So she carried him into another cabin
long deserted, and there gave him what
aid she could.
For days Spofford lay between life and
death, the most of the time unconscious.
And during all that time Eliza Hill gave
her young mistress no hint that her lover
was not dead. If Spofford lived, well and
good, it was no concern of hers; if he
died, well and good, too, she had done
the best she could for him for the sake of
"Miss Anne" But Liza Hill would not
lift a finger to bring Spofford to the mis-
tress whom she thought he had so cruelty
wronged.
And three days after Spofford was shot
boy was born to the daughter of the
aristocratic Kyles in that howell that had
seen generations of black babies born to
slavery within it's walls. Spofford, strug-
Cling with the angel of death, knew moth
<~~,<:.,ad an Mart parAA
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about her heart
and this prince
Charming " h o
had come so sud-
denly and wonder
fully into it.
She told them.
And telling them
she let loose a
storm which swept
away every last lit
tie vestige of hope
from her heart.
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Ell S o n
Robert Bruce,
h a d g o n e
through the war
with honor and
was a typical,
romantic, fire
eating Southern
er. His sister,
Anne Amelia,
was considered
one of the hand
soonest Of Ken
lucky bellies and
h a d b e e n
brought up in
the traditions of
the old South.
The father was
a picturesque,
stern gentleman
o f t h e o d
s C h o oil; tn =
mother an ami
able cI1lt1Ired.
Southern lady.
The door of
t h e S t a t e l Y
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*
whites because of
same belief-althoug
freak of nature a
thought, his skin wa
dark; nor had he
negro features. An
he had gone through
years, in worse case
Halls famous MAN
out a Country, !"
since, although un-
co m prehendingly,
Hill felt himself to
be a man without
a race.
At last the death
of his true mother
released the black
woman, now a
withered old crone
of ninety, from the
promise she had
given the Kyleg
when the baby hail
been left with her.
"You amt my
child, honey" she
said. "The Lawd
knows I've loved
you as though you
was. But you
amt. You amt
black! You're a
white man"
And then she
told "Hill" the
story of his birth
and of his mothers
long martyrdom.
She would not tell
him where his
uncle lived, be-
cause she feared
what he might do.
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of .Louisville's social
circles. They had been
pioneers in Kentucky,
their ancestors having
emigrated to the South
land from Wales early in
the Seventeenth century.
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cl 1923, by American Weekly Britain Rights RessvOd
, 1923-01-13
LEGISLATION TO
help FARMER IS
HARDING'S AIM
Economic Situation Of
Agricultunsts Is
Recognized.

FREDERICK. Nd. Jan. 13.-Presi-
dent Harding is earnestly hoping 70,
very useful legislative accomplish.
ments." al h present session of con-
gross "tn the direction of ameliorating
the economic situation of the agricul.
turHl industry" he said in a letter
read here Thursday at the eighth
annual convention of the Maryland
Agricultural society and affiliated Or.
CARNATIONS.
Those who read his recent address
to congress. Mr., Harding was sure.
he said, Appreciate the keenness'' of
his interest in behalf Of the aErIcul-
ture industry" The president feels
strongly, he wrote. that the DISPOSE
ton Of congress IS equally favorable
and hat It Is possible to look orward
with a good deal OF confidence to
some very important achievements"
President H%ardinK's letter. which
was addressed to Col. d. John Mar.
key. president of the chamber OF com.
merce. follows:
Dear Mr.. Markey.
Il have received your most cordial
invitation to the gathering OF farm.
ers which is to be held at Frederick
on january II. ] regret exceedingly
that the pressure Of public duties, to-
gether with the insistence of personal
cares, render an absence from Wash.
'ngton at that time impossible, and,
therefore that ! can not have the
pleasure OF accepting your Invitation
I would be glad to have you con
Vey my compliments to the gathering,
, 1923-01-13
ITCHING Burning
ECZEMA NSCALP
n Plmples. Formed Hard Crust.
Hair Fell Out. Cuticura Healed.

had eczema on my scalp. It
broke out In little pimpIes which
formed a hard crust. My scalp itched
and burned SO badly / was up half
me night. My hair fell out terribly
n l could not comb It.
This trouble lasted about ,hres
months before I sent for a free Sam
pie of Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
l bought more and / used two boxes
OF Cutieura Ointment with the cl,ti-
cura Soap when / was healed"
!Signsdl Miss Gertrude Harrington,
1910 Delaware Ave. Butte, Mont.
cuticura Soap to cleanse and pu-
Ttfy, Crtieura Ointment to soothe
and heal and Cuticura Talcum to
powder and perfume are ideal for
daily toilet purposes.
aanIls E.sARr.sbyNAn. Addr-sr -cutisurA Lab
oIAtor1ea. Dspt u, Maiden ao, Ensa. % Rold everv,
Ehsrs soap sc. Ointment Is and SOC, TIE "a
~ Suteura Soap shnvos without mug.
, 1923-01-13

CACnln IS charged with plotting
against the safety of the state as the
result of activities in Essen.
When Cachin entered. shortly after
the premier and attempted to slip into
his seat unnoticed. tho deputies OF
the right center rushed to the center
of the floor. pointed at him and
shouted demands that he be expelled.
NJ. Poincare was cheered for fully
Ave minutes by a crowded chamber.
He made no appeal for sympathy nor
effort at eloquences as 10 began his
speech.
make n serious appeal to the indus.
trial interests OF Germany she would
have no need for a moratorium.
after having been led from con.
ference to conference and after mis-.
understanding after misunderstood.
ing, we came to the point whore We
felt we were being led into eN,rlcahIa
complications and there was nothing
we could do but watch our interests
in Germany.
THAT is what we are going to do
for the present. We may be obliged
to resort to constraint in case Ger
many remains u%nyielding. We have
betA lAAA4tAAN " lOIlk puI W. Whnltu
first to exhaust every means of COM
promise and persuasion.
I'VE have made everys concession
compatible with our own situation.
Unfortunately we have been unable
20 agree with our allies, the British"
"I want" the premier emphasized,
TO pay the warmest tribute to the
courtesy and loyalty with which Mr..
n1ror Ta-T z0-EfY1soI che yae1fta-
tions. But to our great regret, we
found the British plan was such n
profound revision Of the treaty Of
us to accept It"
The premier said there was no pos
sible comparison between the inter
nllied debts and the r~eparntions. The
latter, he said. must be paid first.
Resuming his outline of the steps
leading to the present situation, he
said;
"A plan Oh financial reorganization
very reasonable in It's terms was pro
posed to Germany by the r~eparations
commission. Germany did not 9 ut
to accept it. Consequently there was
nothing o France to do but consider
measures might be taken thai were
likely to protect her interests.
Our experts have estimated the
production from the measures we
have started to enforce, a billion gold
marks per year"
In describing the French plan. NJ.
Po,ncare said, at comprised the
eventual occupation OF Essen and
Bochum. II Germany failed to carry
out our demands"
Referring to the nouncemen of
the withdrawal of the American
forces from the Rhineland, the
premier said It was entirely to Presi-
dent Harding's credit that he re-
NAMED consistent with the views ex-
pressed during his political campaign,
when It was intimated that the pres
ence Of the Americans was no longer
advisable Dr. necessary on the Rhine.
, 1923-01-13

and to indicate to those who will be
present. that I am earnestly hoplnp
ior very useful legislative accom-
piishnents at the present session Of
congress IN the direction OF, ameliora.
tins h economic situation of the ag.
rlcuitural industry. Those who have
note OF my address to the CON
gress on December 8 will. / am sure,
appreciate h keeness of my interest
IN this behalf. I feel strongly that the
d sposition OF congress is equally fa.
vorable and that it is possible to look
forward with a good deal of conf.
denee to some very important achieve
ments.
Most sincerely yours.
WARREN c. HARDING"
, 1923-01-13
Has His JuguLar
Severed Watching
Hockey Players

NEW HAMBURG, Ont, Jar. IA
While watching a hockey game here
between Seaforth and Hamburg. z. r.
Helmuth had his jugular vein severed
by the skate Of a player who collided
with another. The injured man bIed
to death. Mr.. Helmuth was leaning
over h boards as the players collided,
the skate striking him just below the
ear.