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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03
SKOWHEGAN LOCALS

The Sunshine Society will meet this
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Eliza
Petty on West Front st.
,,-., -
Ut. ana MIS- \. l.. i"''o'" ana tlle
were recent visitors at the latter's
home in Scion.
A., No., p, F., 1,.... -,
MI ana Mrs, /. r.. ilaInoS ana
uaasnler "Ienlis .. Vi alaoiG S.'ett are are
GnJoylnS , 1t lTo NeeNs oo''''E 'l oio
oiei''iu pV"'"'
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03

Joseph Paradls LETT Saturday after
noon for visit OF about three weeks
with his son Arthur Paradis in Cos
cobb. Conn.
Postmaster T. A. Webber and r. ".
Linn Of Hafiland were among the
out Of town visitors in skoWhegan
yesterday
Alec Thomson arrived hone Satur-
day morning from England. 10 spend
the summer vacation from hls studies
Al Oxford
MIR. and Mrs. George H. Plnmmer
aad son Richard TEN yesterday 10
visit until Sunday with Gil Rufher-
ford il Calais
Miss Lizzie r. Hussey Librarian at
the Public Library enjoying a va
cation 81 kenncDuukpurt She Is
expected nome Saturday
Mr. aud Mrs. william Matthew and
family 81 Hallowell formerly Of this
town. are visiting over Tie holiday
with Mr.. and Mr-. Joseph Yachon Of
North street
Mr.. and Mrs Paul r Wilder and
son Paul Of Arlington, Mass are
guests Of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Wilder
'ot Bush street. the Two gentlemen be-
ing brothers
Mr.. ana Mrs Edward ]. Dumont
and son William OF Hayerhin. left
Yesterday after visiting for several
days With Mr and Mrs + a Dumont
of North Avenue
Mr.. and Mrs.. Leslie Il Goldsmith
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03

Train children to virtue; habituate
them to industry, activity, and spirit.
Make them consider every vice as
shameful and unmanly. Fire them
with ambition to be useful. Make
them disdain to be destitute of any
useful knowledge. Fix Sheir am
bition upon great and solid objects,
and their contempt upon little, frivo-
lous. and useless ones.-John Adams.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03
|sHhegan Boy Holds Responsible
Position In Connecticut

Afrtd Nedeau. formerly of Show
pm, is now located at Central Viii
y Conn, where he holds the posi-
= Of superintendent of carding OF
hmsworth Mills, inc. of that
N, This may be of interest to
pc Of the people here, due to the
4 that Mr.. Nedeau served his APP
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03

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FII1V SERVICES NEXT
SUNDAY
uoId ot the Bethany baptist
FIl be hs ,''I,b Rev. George L0rlng
fhareTT bnrlow as Speaker

ton services, which will bt
The pas r" during the summer RI, months ndth
Order, n uI next Sunday at the Beth
III b oes,n Church at 1870 a. m
r b Sprse Loring Thurlow Will del,
DH teois srmon and his subject will
er .1 the rall of God to the Individual;
Ins w III be a union prayer meet
Der. W.T. Thursday evening at the
,snary NJ. +. Church.
'''' BETHANY CHURCH
will be a union service OF
1h ere churches at 1890 Sunday
loe The free will offerings will
ply =, between the three churches
d ls's1l school will meet as usual
,a ON noon hour There Will be
ne NM service at 6 o'clock. The
ee NH he How Jesus Treated
Pr ~ ~ This is the regular c.
rsla9 Union prayer meeting this
' Dp,' evening at the NJ. E. Church
80 r,n,,on,or rp1cCo-
krNTfNAk1 NE ~ i
PAL CHURCH
), .nite OF the shower last Sunday
.a u NJ a goodly number were in at
s aanee mon the Epworth League
a4.aa interesting reports were
Wv NJ the recent League Conven-
y hold at Oakland, by Miss Helen
",dy and Thomas Nichols, dele
Lles TO that body.
re Annual Conference Year Book
!. 1914 has arrived and can be had
/ ,hs prayer meeting this Thursday
.uing or by calling at the par
[ssge The supply is limited and
uss who wish a copy should secure
{a once.
rse union prayer meeting this
knrsday evening will be held at
k,pnary Methodist Church at 7.30,
A as this is the last evening SER
4. before the vacation season,
[ue number should be in attend
sn.
| mr church will enter heartily into
!, vacation arrangements, meeting
[ah the Bethany Baptist Church for
\ next three Sundays for the morn
|, service. During this time all
4, Church services will be omitted,
prludng Sunday school and Epworth
,agpp. When the services are
Ma in our church, the session of
n Sunday school will be resumed.
n pastor will be in close touch with
\ parish during vacation time and
m attend to all special calls for
! services.
|Tbe Bible class taught by Mrs.
EfbOls met at the recreation rooms
|mday afternoon for a cleaning-bee.
n willing hands did a thorough
\ IN house cleaning and re-arrang-
h the rooms. At six-thirty they
! down to a delightful supper of
u meatloaf, mashed potatoes, Gu
Hrber salad, sandwiches, cake and
|m The young people are plan
EH a food sale for the near future
assist in Institute expenses.
FEDERATED CHURCH
line Federated Church will unite,
III The other Protestant churcheS
ID Sunday at the Bethany Church
lRey George Loring Thurlow will
sM the sermon at 1890.
Ne was a meeting of the finance
nttee Sunday night at the par.
n pastor, Rev. George Loring
rbw with his family, are at
hant Pond for the months of July
August Mr.. Thurlow will,
PRyer, be back and forth between
)Ehegan and Pleasant Pond and
Vae desiring to get in touch with
may do SO through T. G. Lord
By telephoning to John Comber
New England telephone at Pleas
Pond He will be glad to res
Rd to any services.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03

.auceship with the American
'ea 60. of Skowhegan. He has
IOldlhg his present position
January, 1924 His sister Miss
49,, ssaeau and Joseph Boiler, his
'a'ner have Just returned home
loar months visit with Mr..
u whose wife and two children
81 ~ WIN them for two weeks
a aOu' Mr.. Boiler will return to
a ~ with Mrs. Nedeau who is
MINI a'. Aedeau's parents, Mrs. r. j..
'n0yle on South street.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-07-03

y a. 'ne losses in farm animals
u IA No 70 earelessness and neglect
:" part Of their owners.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

net and winds up in a cold sweat.
Most anything will do to bring on an attack
of the partisan heebie-jeebies. Congress orders
income-tax lists made\ public. The Treasury
makes them public. Great Democratic newspa-
pers break down and weep, screeching that this
is bound to be some nasty partisan trick. Re
publican journals blame it all on the wicked
radicals, and the wicked radicals caper in un-
holy glee.
There has been plenty of this fever and fret
for week and there will be more Of it during
the next few days. Blood pressures are high
and pulses and respirations are higher Cam
paign strategists vary from nervous to desper-
ate. Any sudden move sends them leaping side
wise AS the game ends they are showering
forward passes across the political chalk lines
in the usual and quadrennial exhibition of those
campaign lunacies that mark the ending of every
great national contest.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31
SAVING THE HUMAN VOICE

Probably the greatest service rendered the
American people by the universal int. oduction
and use of the radio is the conservation of the
human voice.
The decline of public oratory and the tendency
to increase the nasal twang in ordinary CONVEX
sation had almost deprived Our Country of the
nobler uses of the speaking organs in public
and private life.
The universal demand for clear-voiced speak
ing into the transmtter of the ralio is restoring
the carrying efficiency of the vocal organs
The same influences are at work among sing
ers, and clear beautiful tones of the vocal or
gans are in the highest demand.
For enunciators to large crowds and for the
cheapest radio in the poorest home there is uni
Versal appreciation Of clear speaking and under
standable vocal music.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31
THE CONSTITUTION

At the 15Oth anniversary celebration OF the
meeting of the First Continental Congress, at
Valley Forge, Pa, Senator George Wharton Pep
per said
when things go wrong, in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred it is we who are at fault-not
our constitutional system. Our Job is not to
chop the Constitution to pieces to at our abnor-
malities but to make ourselves worthy to live
under our Constitution as it is.
I'VE are reminded here that when the times
were evil, Washington tasted all day and united
with his countrymen in prayer for light and
guidance It was in this spirit that they laid the
foundations of the Constitution. Some of our
modern refOrmers, on the basis Of three square
meals day and the noisy proclamation of their
own self-suficiency, want to blow the founda-
tiOns from under the Constitution. My brethren,
these things ought not so to be-"
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

laws that the taxpayers must pay for the errors
of their Legislators. At least, the controversy
as to what Congress intended has provided
good livelihood for hundreds of lawyers and cost
accountants here.
At the Federal Trade Commission consider
able ill feeling has developed Those with their
ears close to the heart of things say that the
Commissioners are at odds as to methods of
trust-busting and the publicity thereto. 1t was
only yesterday (Tuesday) that the Commission
made public a report dismissing the complaint
against lumbermen on the Pacific Coast Com
missioner Thompson refused to agree with the
majority and filed long dissenting opinion.
The Federal Trade Commission has been a
source of trouble to all Administrations because
of its methods. Recently, it was charged with
political bias in making public reports on var
ious business activities. The claim was advanc-
ed that the Commission apparently times the
publication Of studies which have been pending
for years to coincide with political questions
The Commission and Secretary Hoover have
also been at odds for years particularly because
Hoover objected to their methods. Mr. Harding
appointed a personal friend to the Commission
in an effort to reform from within but the at
tempt failed.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

LETTERS HAVE BEEN CIRCULATED in
lower Delaware especially, which have for their
object defeat of Robert P. Robinson on the Re-
publican Ticket, for the Governorship Of Della
ware. Absolute lying has been resorted to to
create false impression on the voters. Mis-
statements and twisting of facts touching the
personal interests of every home in the state
have been resorted to, with the hope that men
and women will be aroused to support the DEM
Ocratic candidate These letters charge that if
elected, Robert P. Robinson will have bonded
Indebtedness of $2O,OOO.OOO placed on Delaware
to build public schools. This statement is a
story out of the whole cloth. It was never con-
templated by either Republicans or Democrats.
1t would not be needed now or in the future
That entire question has been gone over months
ago, to rebuilding of the public schools of
Delaware. If the plans as worked out in part,
are carried into effect, by the next legislature,
be it Democratic or Republican in it's majority,
this state will have building program that will
not be burden or costly beyond the ability of
The people to carry out.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31
DEMOCRATS AND NEGRO VOTERS
(From Wilmington Evening TournaD

(trom wilmington Evening JournaD
| 1t becomes more and more clearly apparent
that the ill-starred Democratic movement to line
up the colored voters in Delaware in favor of
Davis, Bryan, Tunnel and Bancroft was merely
the local application of a plan of campaign that
was to embrace all the States north of the Mas
on and Dixon line.
1t is a notorious fact that in New York the
Democratic campaign managers even went so
far as to establish a bureau for the enrolment
of colored men and women to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket. Up there as down here, the move
ment collapsed because the rank and file of the
colored voters realized that the worst enemy
the negro race has had to contend with in Am
erica has been the Democratic party, while the
best friend it has had has been the Republican
party.
The Democrats, if they desired to line up the
colored voters for Democratic candidates, should
have established negro bureaus for the same
purpose in Virginia, North Carolina, South Car
Olina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Texas.
Surely the Democratic party is not sectional!
Surely it is not hypocriticall
Surely it does not play for negro votes in.
Delaware and New York and deny the negro
even right to vote in the entire South!
There must be some Nelson's among the col
,red folk in the States which make up the
southern tier.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

MILLIONS OF PERSONS scattered through
out the entire country will be in closer touch
with the result of the voting results next Tues
day night, than ever before in the history of the
United States Radio, with its wonderful ad-
vantages, has placed the Kentucky mountaineer
in the heart of things so far as quick informa-
tion is concerned. He will listen at his home to
the results next Tuesday night, with the same
ease and pleasure as will the prosperous dweller
in the largest city Broadcasting has been given
a great impetus by the political campaign now
drawing to a close, and Tuesday nights demon
stration of radio value will go far toward plac-
ing sets in every home in the country.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

IT is WELL for all Republicans to remember
the fact that if the Democratic nominees in Sus-
sex county for members of the Levy Court Com
mission are elected next Tuesday. that the con-
troll of Sussex county highway work, and other
business, is gone from Republican control for
the next six years. Do the individuals in the
districts composing Sussex county realize this
fact? Especially those who have been supervis-
ing the highway work as done by the Levy Court
Commissioners, do those men care more for
their individual and factional differences, than
they do for their control of this branch of the
county expenditures? With Republican Levy
Court they will have some chance for the many
places that fall to the lot of the district work.
ers; but with three Democrats in control, their
hopes are gone.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31
THE FINAL FEVER AND FRET
(From Phila. Public Ledger

The campaign is now in that weird period of
political nervousness and partisan ,hysteria that
usually grips the Nation by the hair on the eve
of national election. The strain is beginning
to snap rawed nerves. Men of ordinarily good
judgment do and say foolish things. The parti-
san gets super-heated His good sense hops out
of the window.
1t is time of moonstruck talk and campaign
lunacies. The political boomerang booms
through the clamor The poison whisper" sibil-
lates The canard wings its way abroad over
the land. The rOrrback leaps out of its lair.
Campaign managers do strange things One
party puts out an imposing list of college pres
idents in whose eyes a candidate has found ia
vOr. The other counterattacks with longer
list of these Brahmins of the campus who are
eagerly publicly to kiss a candidate. Queer lists
of the great and almost-great are compiled to
show who is for who-never mind the why.
The president of Vassar College writes three
paragraphs about "a Man or a Myth?" He is
for John w. Davis. He is not for Calvin Cool
1dge. He says he knows nothing about the
President and that secrecy surrounds him. Evi-
IDENTIFY the Vassar president is a selective read
er. He missed seeing the newspapers, presum-
ably, during the Boston police strike and doubt
less hasn't been reading the Washington news
since President Hardings death. However, his
statement fulfilled a campaign need. Without
one likes it, the final days would be somehow
incomplete.
Greenwich Village is on the firing line this
year. The Village is for La Toilette It's 14S
creative artists''-14S, count 'em-have pledged
him their loyal, royal verbal support, with every
ifpr
At considerable expense for postage and tele-
graph tolls this uprising is heralded to a pal
Ditating people.
Meanwhile the Democrats discover that Cal
yin Coolidge is said while Vice President. to
laVe charged travelling expenses and $3.50 for
making an address. Terrible! Now, Vice Pres
dent Marshall never did thing like that!
Everybody knows that Washington officials pay
heir own expenses everywhere and never take
s much as thin dime in the way of oratorical r
onorariums. Oh, no! William Jennings Bryan,
Vhen he left the State Department fiat on its
ack and wandered out over the Chautauqua
ircuit with the Swiss Bell Ringers, scorned all g
ees. But, surely?
Senator La Toilette picks up a begging let
er" for campaign funds and howls like a wolf
bout "slush funds" That must be done at least o
nee in every campaign. W
The K. K. K. in its nightshirt is dragged toe d
ancing in and out of melee by Democrats, Re U
ublicans and La Folletteistas. When every Vi
hing else fails the K K K. is the old standby il
? the bogey-hound. ii
A Democratic newspaper clamors to know IL
hat President Coolidge thinks about everything es
Id demands that he take the country into the lin
ost secret places of his heart, A Republican a
swspaper, vibrating with fear that Governor dl
ryan and his black skull cap may get into the st
'hite House, prints a fearsome Bryan Cabi- lin
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

MONEY PENALTY for driving automobiles
while under the influence of intoxicating liquor
has failed to have any terror, or restraining eff
feet upon that class of men who offend against
the laws of Delaware Placing the limit at
high figure for fines on drunken drivers brings
no relief Last Saturday two young men sup
posed to come from another town in Sussex
county, were annoying the residents of South
Walnut street. Apparently they were unable to
start their car or keep it going after getting the
motor working; but before the police could be
called to that rural suburb, the drunken driver
with his car winding it's serpentine course, de-
parted. Make the penalty more severe by adding
from ten to thirty days imprisonment in the
workhouse, for the first offense. The justices of
the peace must not permit this class of danger
GUS men, to escape by playing upon their SYM
pathy. The life of child, or any human being
is of far greater value to the State of Delaware,
than the man who disgraces himself, and at the
same time endangers the lives of other people.
1t may be your child, or your life that will fall
victim to this reckless and dangerous driver of
an automobile; who is generally dangerous as
a driver, either drunk sober. Impose prison
penalties and see if this particular offense can
not be curbed.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

ALL POLLS MUST BE OPENED and ready to
receive the ballots promptly at nine o'clock A.
NJ, on Tuesday next To do this it is the duty
of each election board to meet at not later than
eight o'clock in the morning of the day of cleo
tion, to organize, administer the oaths and pre-
pare the forms for their work. One hour is
little enough for doing all this work, even if
the Inspector, the Judges and the Clerks have
read over and learned exactly what their duties
are before they leave their homes To receive
and vote from one thousand to fifteen hundred
ballots at one election board, between the hours
of nine a. m. and six p. m.9 requires hustling.
The judges especially should be quick to find
the names of the voters in the registration books
and mark them voted. Here is a real work that
each party should look after and see that it is
performed by capable men or women, before the
polls open on Tuesday morning next.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

FOR SAFETY FOR HOMES it is necessary
that officials must enforce the laws and compel
those who would by either failure to realize the
danger that may result from their acts or prac-
tees to property or even life. The fremen of
Milford have recently been called to the fire
station by a siren used on traction engine by
a negro owner, who furnishes power and thresh-
es crops for farmers. This siren screams out
its approach on the highways, or at the homes
of farmers near to Milford in the same tones as
the fire siren on the water station in the town.
Several times members of the company have
responded to this engines signals as an alarm.
This practice is dangerous to the property own
ers as well as annoying to the fremen. It is
possible that a fire call might be ignored under
the impression that it was the traction engine
sounding This would mean great loss to either
farmer or resident of the town. If the owner of
the engine will not change the siren to blast
whistle, then those who have crops to thresh
can well afford to refuse to employ that partic-
ular engine. Safety first is what everybody
should aim at.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

THE CHRONICLE WILL follow the custom of
former years and delay printing the issue Of
next week, until Friday morning, and sending
the paper to the post Office that night, instead of
the regular mail of the paper on Thursday ev-
ening. This will enable us to print the official
returns from the election in Delaware and serve
the people with that news while it is of intense
interest. This means delay of one mail to
the readers of the Chronicle, which we believe
will be approved by the people generally. All
the news that's fit to print while it is news, is
the service slogan of the Chronicle.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

THE REPUBLICANS of Milford have arrang-
ed for two political meetings to be held in Mil
ford tomorrow afternoon and evening, at which
prominent speakers will make final address to
the people The State Armory will be the place
OF the evening meeting and the Plaza Theatre
will be the afternoon speaking place, with music
and members of the state ticket present.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE delivered only about
a half dozen speeches during the campaign,
and these could hardly be called political. Ger
tainly they were not partisan. They were states
manlike discussions of important national poll
cies, and were instructive and inspiring in their
nature. They were what the American people
expect of man qualified for the Presidency.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

OUR CALAMITY-HOWLING radical friends
have suffered real calamity-there is no cal
amity to howl about They are in bad way.
They go about the country telling the people
how badly they are oppressed whereas the
record shows that there is ten per cent more
business being done than at this time last year,
there are no bread lines anywhere, wages are
still around wartime scales, savings deposits
are at high records interest rates are low, au-
tomobile production is maximum, farm
prices are up, building is on the increase and
railroads are carrying record quantities of
freight, at less cost. Not much to howl about,
surely.
Milford chronicle., 1924-10-31

SENATOR LA TOILETTE admits he is up
against a strong opposition. All the railroad
owners are against him-and there are more
stockholders than there are employees. All the
benefciaries of a protective tariff are against
hm-and nearly all American industrial produc-
ers are benefciaries of the tariff. All the enc
mics of Socialism are against him-and the So
cialist vote in the United States has never been
great. All the believers in the right of the Su-
preme Court to pass upon the constitutionality
of an act of Congress are against him-and
there are more people who have confidence in
the court than there are who have confidence in
Congress. Didn't Mr.. La Toilette make tacti-
cal mistake in going about the country telling
how many interests are against him?