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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1923-07-05
You Can Rent az
Adding Mach

We have several adding ms -
new, Of the very latest model =, ),
$3.50 per day, 1920 a ween =. n, n
month. Machines for sa'e ~ ',
stallment plan, ten dollars hat
and M. Let us show 20"
will do for your business. ,urp|
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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LEXINGTON

Misses Clarice Pinkham and Abbie
Dexter of Kingfield are visiting
friends and relatives here for few
days.
Ernest, the little child of G. w.
Pinkham cracked his collar bone Mon
day by falling from his high chair.
c. s. Allbee and Mr.. and Mrs. How
ell Atwood have moved into the large
Churchill house so called for the sum
mer.
Master Waldo Dexter returned home
Saturday after few days visit with
his great grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Sylvester Chapman.
Both schools closed Friday. The
Misses Ruth Green, Shasta Allbee
and Stacy Pinkham of the mill school
will enter high school this fall,
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NOTICE

have left my wife, Mrs. Eva Moody
Hunnewell. with good and just
cause and 1 win not pay any of the
bills contracted by her after this date
ORLANDO II. HUNNEWEI.L.
Scion, Me-, July s, 1928. 1w27
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SOI0N

Professor HUNT VI f1tUiou fatduchhy
and Mrs. Hunt and daughter are the
guests of Dr. and Mrs. j. o. Piper.
They all go to a cottage at Pleasant
Pond for a week.
Miss Laura Pierce and Katherine
Darmedy of Waltham are spending a
two weeks vacation with Mrs. Sarah
Pierce.
NOTICE-If all persons having pa
pcrs In the late Judge Buswells office
in Scion, Will leave their names with
Mrs. Buswell she will see that they
have them as soon as possible.
Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Thorne and
daughter Reta of Millinocket were
the over night guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
VIM. Miner last week.
Ask your druggist for 2525 liver
Mills tf12
Mrs. VIM. Miner has for guests her
daughter and husband and grand
daughter from Vermont. They arriv-
ed by auto Sunday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dana Waugh, Mrs
Ethel Holway and Mrs. Bertha Good
rich were In Skowhegan Monday az
ternoon shopping.
Miss Chispa Rowell has returned to
Pennington to her work there for the
summer school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight Mcfarland OF
Auburn and her father Mr.. Metcalf of
Lynn and two brothers are In town
for a week.
A. C. Head and Fred Magoon were
in Skowhegan Monday to attend a d.
rectors meeting of the Farmers Tele-
phone Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Malon Patterson. Mr.
and Mrs. Magoon were In Norridge-
wocl and New Sharon recently.
At Caratunk Theatre, Saturday
evening, July 7, Universal presents
Gladys Walton in "The Girl Who Ran
Wild"
The Ladies' Home Circle will meet
this week Thursday afternoon with
Mrs. Restella Games.
Misses Marion Wiley. Edith Hume
we'll and Matte Merrill have gone tc
the Normal School at Pennington fol-
the summer work.
Cleon Whipple met with an accident
while working in the woods the Other
day He received a bad cut below
| the knee with an axe ana IL required
| the service OF Doctor who had to
take several stitches to close the
wound.
T. A. Shorey and family spent the
week end with HIS daughter in Lin
! coin.
Mrs. Nora Tozier and Lulu Tozier
are working at Lakewood.
Allen Hodgdon has a new Hupmo-
bile roadster.
James Turner has returned to town
and gone to housekeeping.
Lois Knowles who has been attend
ing school In Lowell, Mass. for the
past year, came home Saturday.
The worthy matron desires a good
attendance at the chapter meeting
Thursday evening as there is business
| of Importance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gerald Curtis Of
| Schenectady. N. Y. are receiving con
CALCULATIONS on the birth of son.
Miss Lois Titc0mb and friend o.
Lowell, Mass. were week end guests
of Mrs. Walter Knowles.
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News of Somerset's, Busy Towns

from Bingham through the courtesy
of Mrs. Olive Hilton were in attend
anee. These were Mrs. Herbert h
Lister, Mrs. Eta Holt, Mrs. Olive l.
Hilton and Mrs. l.. w. Moore, pastor
of the NJ. f. Church. The Conven-
ton was one of the best we have been
privileged to attend and the last one
of series OF four held at various
places in the Augusta District.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper
will be observed Sunday morning, the
sth, at 1890 a. m. All the other ser
vices at the usual hour. The Ladies
Aid will meet with Mrs. Ella Holt
Tuesday afternoon at 2 p. m. All are
most cordially invited to come.
Tuesday evening at 7.3O the mid
week prayer service at the church.
There will be preaching service at
the Lincoln schoolhouse on Chamber
lain Hill road at three o'clock next
Sunday afternoon. If the people oil
the neighborhood desire it, these ser
vices will be continued during the
coming three or four months. We
wish also to organize Sunday school
IL that seems desirable. Come out
next Sunday and let as talk it over
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Lauriston Young and family have
bought and moved on to the Loire
Howes' place.
We understand that Mason Luce OF
Athens Is planning on buying. the
Mrs. Nye Lane place.
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NOTICE

Cornville, Maine,
June ., 1923.
To the Honorable Board of County
Com naissiOners,
Skowhegan, Maine.
We, the undersigned. legal voters
of Cornville respectfully represent
that public convenience and necessity
would receive far greater benefit by
having the Paine Hill Road" changed
from its present location to the fol-
lowing location, viz beginning a few
rods east of Paine Bridge" thence
easterly following the "Old Road" TO
a point where the New Road" swings
northerly around said hill, and In duty
bound viii ever pray.
j. C. SCOTT
and nineteen others.
STATE OF MAINE
County Commissioners Court,
Somerset County.
Received and filed July 3, 1928.
Attest: w. T. SEEKINS, Clerk.
tSenD STATE OF MAINE,
SOMERSET, ss.
Court of County Comm ssioncrs, March
Adjourned Term. July 3, A. ID. 1923
Upon the foregoing petition. being
satisfied that the petitioners are res
ponsible and that an inquiry into the
merits is expedient, 1t is Ordered, that
-
store of George w. Bates In cornville
on Saturday, September l, A. ID. 1923 al
ten o'clock n. m. and thence proceed
to view the route mentioned in said
petition; and Immediately after such
view n hearing of the parties Will be
had at some convenient place In tn.
vicinity, and such further measures
taken In the premises as the Commits.
sioners shall judge proper.
And il Is further Ordered, that notice
of the time, place and purposes oil
the Commissioners meeting aforesaid
be given to all persons and corpora
tions Interested, by publishing an at
tested copy of the petition aforesaid
with this order thereon, in the indie
pc ndent Reporter, n public newspaper
printed at Skowhegan, in said county
and also attested copies of the same Il
be served upon the Town Clerk o.
the town of Cornville and to be posted
In three public places in said town
the publication. and serving and post
ing of the same to be at least thirt,
days before the time appointed FOL
said view, that all interested may thef
appear and be heard. il they thinl
proper.
| Attest:
w. It. SEEKINS, Clerk.
A true copy of the Petition and Or
der of Court thereon.
Attest:
Iw27 w. T. sEEKINs, Clerk
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TAYLOR'S THEATRE
NORTH NEW PORTLAND
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY Z
A Gigantic Picture
"coUs CRUCIBLEs

GODS CRUCIBLE"
A story of the snow-capp7d Rocky
Mountains in Canada. See acres
of wheat being harvested; see the
villain caught In a cabin and dyna-
mite lighted under 1t. A smash
ing climax.
4 piece orchestra for pictures and
dance
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The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
HOW COME

The San Francisco Examiner in a recent is sue states that ''While the Alaska railroad was built with the idea of hauling coal to Se- ward when operations began, it was discovered that one of the grades was too steep to admit the hauling to its proposed destination.''
 Ten cars of coal came out over this grade recently and each week heavy trains are being hauled between the ends of steel. It must be remembered that the locomotives used are far from powerful, and are of the 1898 type, with ten or twelve foot fire boxes and small trac- tive power. These engines in the states used to are hauling nearly that here. The grade so far as we have been able to ascertain is slightly over two per cent, which is exceeded on dozens of roads in the East and West So far as con- versation with railroad operatives can reveal, the small trains are the result of medium light steel and construction work on bridges and culverts and not from grades encountered. It
 is certain that these are being eliminated as rapidly as possible. Coal not only can be hauled over the road, but it is being hauled over it daily, and is sold here delivered at $10 per ton, equal in quality to any outside coal and preferred by local users.
 With the construction of bunkers here the amount of coal to be delivered would only be controlled by the number of trains used. There is no question as to the amount that can be ,hauled if it can be furnished at the mines.- Seward Gateway.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
Enttnrtul }Bupf nf Chr Unrhnua Dutlu Ut1nfa

watchword is Not one cent for ships, but mil lions for 'pork''
 A third bill may be mentioned: that for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal The eminent desirabi]ity of it has been generally recognized Yet there is vigorous opposition to it, not on it's intrinsic merits, but because it provides for the purchase of that one canal and nothing more. Democrats are insistent that if it is to pass it must be amended so as to provide also for the purchase of the Dismal Swamp Canal. It is precisely the same og-rolling business that is responsible for the "pork'' '' grab in the Army bill "You tickle me and I'll tickle you' is the order of the day. Is an appropriation proposed for great government work i'll New England? It is demanded, under pain of opposition to it, that there shall be coupled with it another for something in the South. Is an appropriation made for neces- sarv improvements in great harbor in Rep resentative Smith s district? There must be appropriations for like Improvements in the districts of Representatives Brown, Jones and Robinson, no matter whether there is any thing there to improve or not.
 There is no more vicious and corrupt ten dency in our national politics than this. Its effect is to reduce the conduct of public busi- ness to mere division of spells, so that public funds will be applied not where they are most needed for the general welfare of the nation, as tlc Constitution prescribes, but where they are most demanded for ''fxing the fences' of log rolling politicians. What to do about it is a problem which is first to be submitted to Congress itself to solve; seeing that it is one of Congress:s own creation. It is to be hoped that Congress will solve it, promptly and de- gently. If it does not, there is no doubt that thc people themselves will soon takt it in hand in q manner not to the log-rollers' liking.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
Medicine for a sick busi- ness is Advertising. 1t works wonders while you sleep.

result in causing a completely new climate being ordered for this locality, and one which we will not be used to. A tropical climate would put us to shame with eastern papers, which are fond of believing that we live in igloos and dress in furs It would also be very lnconvenient for our honest, sturdy toil- CTS of the soil who now plant spuds and tur- nlps with no assurance that they will not come up asparagus or cantaloupe.
 Personally the editor of the Gateway has no kick to make because by the time the change IS effected he will be in much hotter place than Alaska can ever become, even under Democratic administration. But it will not work hardship on onr cheechaco friends, who like to meet the boats, with fur coats and parkas on, to show they are true sour doughs. But it behooves every true Alaskan to register protest oyer the innovation with the Weather Bureau at Washington. We deny their right to shift us without our con- sent Delegate Sutherland should be notified lmme diately.-Seward Gateway.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20

ever, it seems to be expected of every self-re- pecting newspapr to brew a kettle of fish oS some kind, and the Tribune doesn't want to be the only one with nothing to say even though we say nothing in saying it. There was one thing even our obtuse editorial mind could understand and that was the necessity of doing something to save and perpetuate the fish. But the minute reserves were created for allowing fish escapement up goes another awful howl, with everybody calling everybody else names
 Just as soon as two and two make four, if enough fish escape, everyone will have fish, but if the fish don't escape mo one will have fish, and there you are. Let's have an arms- tice, or a moratorium or ultimatum on the fish and after enough shall have escaped to insure a supply, then we can begin to fight all over again about who~catches them and how they shall be caught-Sitka Tribune.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
THE EARTH SHIFTING

From time to time the Gateway has called attention of its readers to serious fact; one that will undoubtedly have more to do with Sewardites than other residents of the Terri tory, and one which the Chamber of Commerce should take immediate cognizance of The climate is changing. We have suspected this every since our only B. V. D.'s were stolen, but now have verification from no less a parsonage than Colonel J. Jensen, Danish scientist of Copenhagen He reports that Greenland is moving westward at the rate of 20 yards year, and that this is caused by the earth gradually shifting its axis. If this be true in a few thousand years Sewardites may find themselves in Japan, or awake and find Greenland nestling in their front yard
 The movement has been difficult to detect, asserts the scientist, for the reason that the area of the Pole is very small, but the fact remains that Seward is being shifted from its original location without the consent of its citizenry. If this movement continues it may
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
THEY PAY-YOU PAY-IT PAYS!

It isn't what you say that counts; t's what people hear and understand of what you say.
 You could fill a book with what you wanted folks to know, but if nobody reads the books you haven't told anybody anything.
 No matter how important your advertising message may be, you must 'get it across'' in order to get results.
 Unless the public accepts it and acts on it. vour money is wasted.
 That's why it is dol1ar-wisdom to choose your methods carefully
 You can invent just so much in advertising. Ct should be definite proportion of the bus mess you plan to do.)
 You want to put this where it will yield the quickest surest, largest returns in increased trade
 It must not only offer your story to the pub lie. II must offer the story to them in a way they'll welcome.
 It must reach them at time when they Ire willing to be reached.
 It must have the weight of ready-made con- fidence behind it.
 All these you get when you tell your story Ill the newspaper chosen by the very ones you want to reach.
 They pay their money for this paper, be- cause they want it. They want the news it gives.
 It will hardly occur to them to trade with a merchant who isn't anxious enough for their business to publish his invitation in the me- dium they themselves have picked out for him.
 When you put your story in the paper they pay for the privilege of reading, then it is pretty certain to pay.
 No other method exists of making equally sure that your story is welcome
 They pay to get it.
 You pay to reach them
 Therefore
 It pays.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
THINGS WE THINK ABOUT

~ A mikman is as newsy daily paper
 Enthusiasm carries enterprise along as much as capital.
 The most important question of life, perhaps is what to do next.
 The ideal man is afraid of nothing or nobody, and nothing or nobody is afraid of him. The to get thing done to say it can't be done, and then the right man will spit on his hands and do it.
 More genius is required sell a book than to write one
 Where there is brain shortage nerve is the only hope.
 Health much from leaving medicine alone as from taking it. a paying basis.
 well placed kick sometimes supplies the exact kind of lift" needs.
 Court attendance is supplied by two classes-those who go and those who taken.
 Heck says: "The of advertisin is at the root of many stage divorce.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
PORK PREFERRED TO SHIPS
It pays.

Nothing could be more graphically illus trative of the quality of statesmanship which largely prevails at Washington than the at titude of Congress, especially the Senate, to- ward two or three pending measures.
 One of these is the ship subsidy bill, which has been filibustered to death, says recent Boston Transcript editorial. It is recognized to be necessary for the maintenance of our commercial marine on the high seas. The President has earnestly pleaded for its pass age, and such passage is desired and demanded by the States which provide the overwhem- ing bulk of the nation s revenue But a min oritv group of senators from States which pay an insignificant fraction of the revenue stub bornly oppose it and, taking advantage of the rules of the Senate, are striving to defeat it by cowar6iy filibustering.
 Another is the Army bill. Into it senators have insisted in injecting, in defiance of the Presidents wishes and in flat repudiation of the budget system, an appropriation for river and harbor improvements far greater than that asked for in the shipping bill to maintain our merchant marine. The proposed appropriation is uncalled for and unnecessary. It is "pork, :" pure and simple. Yet the senators insist upon it They are unwilling to spend $2O,OOO,OOO to keep the American flag flying on ocean com merce; but they are eager and determined to spend $29,OOO, ,0O0-as one Congressman has pertinently described it-for pumping enough water into brooks and creeks to make them navigable for flat-bottomed ducks Their
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
MOVIES ARE AN EDUCATOR

The enormous growth of the motion picture industry is something almost bewildering and while there has been prejudice and misappre- hension at times, aroused against certain com panies and certain pictures, still the fact re- mains that the class and kind of pictures are carefully censored and arranged else the n- dustry would never have held among clean minded American people as it has. When trouble with individual stars has occurred the the film companies have as a rule taken talked about pictures from the screen. Will H. Hays, President of the Industry, insists that the value of the film as teacher and preacher can not be overrated. There is going on in the mo- tion picture production a careful censorship that IS bound to put the movies on the top notch both as to entertainment and also as in structor and educator. The movie is used in schools and churches and promises soon to be used as a most comprehensive way to teach astronomy.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
THE PROSPERITY CHORUS

Here are some of the straws that show which way the prosperity wind is blowing in the United States:
 Southern Pacific Railroad has ordered 50 new locomotives, Al passenger cars, and 4,525 freight cars, costing $12,000,000; industrial buildings in New York State outside of New York City were planned for construction in 1922 to the value of $15,7 ,0OO, compared with $9334 900 in 1921; customs receipts for Feb ruarv are estimated at $55,O00OO0, and the years total is placed at $500,0O0,OO0 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has ordered 6,OOO coal cars, 2,000 box cars; 51 steel pas scnger cars, and 36 locomotives of largest type, costing $20,0000O0; Panama Canal traffic in 1922 increased over that for 1921 by 8 per cent in transit 12 per cent in tolls, IA per cent in net tonnage, and 28 per cent in cargo ton mage; freight cars in need of repairs on Feb r1ary numbered 209,471, showing a decrease in the past year of 121, ,379; tourists will spend $3OOOOOOO in Florida's greatest season; in January new buildings for five boroughs of New York City totaled $44,550,O00, the great est January on record, and 33 per cent more than for January 1922.
 All of the above facts are taken from the business columns of single issue of daily
  versity of subjects could be compiled from al most every days news. It is evident to even the casual reader that the country is on a wave of great industrial activity rapid growth of foreign trade, and plenty of employment at good wages
 The reasons for the improvement from the deplorable conditions of 1920 and 1921 are fundamental Confidence and contentment have been instilled into the business world and into the minds of all intelligent people by the policies of the Republican government at Washington The lifting of large part of the Federal tax burden, the determined campaign against every form of Governmental extrava- gance, the sagacity with which Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has handled the national finances, the success of the President and Secretary Hughes in keeping free from foreign .entanglements, and the substantial progress toward the solution of situations that seemed to menace the future peace of the nation have all contributed to the improvement in our welfare.
 There are some Democratic partsans who still indulge in their criticisms of the Republi- can Congress and executive departments, and a few of them will be left even after the com pletion of two more years of Republican rule. But vast mapority of our citizens are putting true value on conditions that surround them, and are giving credit where credit is due. At the next election they will record their ap- prOva in well-merited endorsement of Presi- dent Harding for another four year term.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
THE FISH QUESTION

We have been in the Territory some twenty years, most of the time on the Coast, but what we do not know about the fish question, would fill the Congressional Library. We have read and listened to fish experts, near experts, can nery1nen, fishermen, officials and pencil push CTS, only to become the more confused. How
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20
VOICE OF THE ALASKA PRESS

Seward tot who recently arrived in this camp from sunny California recently returned home from Sunday school and said: Mother do you really believe that God to Alaska Steward Galway
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20

Current reports indicate that Alaska will have an increased output of copper two principal pro- duc1ng mines at kenneco and Latouche the Kennecott Copper Corporation has an adjoining property known as the Ladysmith, at Latouche, and that will mean increased development greater endowment of Alaskans.-Juneau Capital.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-20

Among the many matters of moment to be discussed by the Anchorage Chamber Commerce at the regular monday luncheon should be the all-imporant question of ways and for supporting the Anchorage band Every indication suggests unusually active summer augmented by the proposed national celebrities and uncounted tourists, of or less prominence Also there the question of Anchorage spirit that needs inspiration the amusement of the people, to say nothing of the decided advantage of we'll organized band for local affairs-Anchorage Times.