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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-05-29
The Interesting News Of
Somerset's Busy Towns
WEST aT. ALkANa

Mr.. and Mrs. WilkHr Weeks were
sallsra at Fred Brswn1, Menaay
night. Mrs. Weeks remained for
few days ewing to the illness Of Mr..
Brown.
Mrs Frank Lssy. and daughter
Irene naetersa 10 rittsflsld, Tuesday
night to carry the Misses Frances
Bains and Agnes wssa te that place
where they were te meat Mrs. ARA
Mixtsr and 60 on to Orono where they
gave denomination In drafting pat
terms at bankers meeting These
two girls are real members OF tho
boys and girls club. 49,
Schools in this section were well
represented at the field day held at
Hartland, Friday.
Mrs. Alton Morrow and Miss Irene
Libby attended birthday party at
Mrs. Ella Getchell's in Hartland, Wed
nesday night. Supt. II. B. Clifford
was the guest of honor.
MISC Julia Libby of Waterville was
visitor over the week end at her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Libby.
A. Fl. Prescott and family OF Dexter
and G. A. Libby and family were
Sunday visitors at Frank Libbys.
Bob Buker has a new Ford sedan.
POND SCHOOL
Pond School, Irene Libby teacher,
reports the following for the week
ending May %. Pupils having per-
feet spelling for the week are Ernest
Wood, Althea Morrow and Margaret
Buker.
This week closed the last spelling
contest of the year, the score being
1888 In Captain Myrtle Lewis favor
Pupils having good lessons for the
week were Myron Wood. Clarence
Morrow, Margaret Buker, Myrtle
Lewis, John Braley, Althea Morrow,
Walter Wood, Florabelle Braley. Nor
man Linnell and Marion HOLSTER.
Friday afternoon we enjoyed our
last birthday party and Mr.. Clifford
and his family were present also
making the afternoon doubly enjoy
able. Games were enjoyed and then
because of the rain we were obliged
to hang Mr.. Clifford's Maybasket to
him in the house. However, Mar
garet and Beatrice gave him a merry
chase around the two lines OF chill
dren. In the Maybasket which was
made by Mrs. Frank Braley was a
book and a nice Eversharp pencil be-
sides variety of eatables. Next in
order came the birthday cake which
was decorated with candles, this be-
ing made by Miss Pearle McPheters
also a cake given by Mrs. 2. E. Wood
A treat of popcorn, peanuts and can
dy was enjoyed along with the cakes
Several children spoke pieces and
Mr.. Clifford sang for the children
which was enjoyed by all Visitors
present for the week are Mr. and Mrs
Clifford and two children. Mrs. War
rem Frost, Mrs Lester Jepson, Mrs
Frank Hollisten and two children and
Miss Pearle McPhetsrst' t.,.4
We are very proud Of the fact that
Clarence Morrow yw6h first prize in
the speaking cdnteats Saturday night
held at St.sAIbans, l.si II - a'iAg
/. 4 10
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-05-29
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MI. AID Mrs. Morton Hutchlngs
and Mf.s audsrMrs.s Ernest Strout Of
Pert and were Sunday visitors at w
E.. Leayitts.
4. Mrs. Minnie Hanson is on the sick
list. " &ssa,
Mr.. and Mrs, Roy Dutton are re-
joicins over the birth Of a son Robert
Cornelius. Mother and son are be-
Ing cared for by Mrs. Abbie Weeks.
Mrs Frank 'Randlett and sons Earl
and Merle are visiting In Aroostook.
Mrs. Carrie Weeks has been in
Hartland the past week called there
by the illness of her father Fred
Brown.
Miss Genivleve weeks of Pittstield
entertained a party Of her friends at
the Frost cottage, Palmyra, over the
week end.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-05-29

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Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
FITTING BANKERS
FOR THEIR WORK

Financial conditions are rapidly I'm
creasing the demand for trained men
and women. This demand is met by
the American Institute Of Banking.
the educational section Of the Amer.
lean Bankers Association. organized
in 1900, 1t was originally an assocta
tion OF clerks, but since 1908 its mem.
bership has included bank directors.
officers and clerks. From a few hun
dred the institutes membership has
grown steadily 10 a figure in excess of
fifty-two thousand. II is not conduct
ed for profit 1t has chapters in more
than one hundred and fifty of tho
country's largest cities. Its class en-
rollment of nearly thirty thousand is
greater than the combined registra-
ton OF Harvard. Yale. Princeton.
Cornell. the University OF Chicago and
the naval and military academies at
Annapolis and West Point. II offers
instruction in banking practice. eco
nomics, commercial law. negotiable
instruments, credits. accounting.
bonds and investments. public speak
ing. and kindred subjects designed to
ct the banker for bis work and enable
him to fill well bis place In his COM
munity Clarence n. CLANCY. Prest-
dent American Institute of Banking
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
STRAIGHT TALKS
WITH AUNT EMMY
On Getting Good investment
Advice.


1T seems to me that your mother is
making a grave mistake In giving
$4,000 to set young Lang up in bust
ness" remarked Aunt Emmy. when
Helen finished telling her OF the won
derful plan Clarence Lang had for
starting in business himself "He is a
hkeable chap" Aunt Emmy continued,
"and very pleasant at parties and
such. but II he really we're a good
business man he wouldn't need his
relatives or friends to set him up in
business"
Why not Aunt Emmyf" Queried
Helen. at doesn't take so much
money. really. and he can get ahead
so much faster. What's the use OF
being Just a clerk II he has real abil-
Tyr g.
That be has so much ability re-
mains to be demonstrated" said Aunt
Emmy. eff he were as competent as
he has led you people to believe he Is
he would have no trouble getting him
self financed by men who know the
business he desires TO venture into.
There ere any number OF clever NEE
who are xilling % back ability and
who will stand behind a mans achieve
ments. financially. and take their share
of the profit for doing II. Before your
mother goes ahead she should consult
her bazx about making such a move"
Il 3ol't see why. Aunty. The money
ia hers"
"Yea, but she did not earn Il. She
Inherited it and doubt II she has any
real sense Of its value. Her bankers
know her financial situation and they
car advise her
We'll. I'll tell mother, but I don't
think she will like IT," said Helen.
The next day Helen's mother came
to see Aunt Emmy.
Il took your advice. Emmy" she
said. "and called on Mr.. Allen at tho
bank and told him about what | want.
ed to do for Clarence. Mr.. iAien made
q lot OF things clear TO T :. First Of
all be showed me that am not rich
enough to take unnec sssary chances.
He said practically what you told
Helen-that an able n IN can get busi-
ness backing Ia q strictly business way
and he pointed out that my first duty
vas 70 my own home. aad that l must
consider those girls o. mine before
anyone else. or course. that Clarence
might not succeed never entered my
head But Mr. Allen pointed out that
possibility. There are so many angles
To a new business that I really didL't
know about Mr.. Allen was so nice
about IL. He asked me TO come Ia
again whenever l was puzzled about
money affairs"
"weIl, don't forget that naxt time
you want 20 use any o. your capital
II more people would 90 to their banks
for advice there would be far less
money troubles N the world" advised
Aunt Emmy.-AFEE B. AYhEs.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
Old HeIicopfer Model

model Of heicOpter from plans
drawn so years ago by Sir George
Cayley was constructed recently by
Paul Gerber. custodian Of alrpane
models in the National museum at
Washington The design, although
conceived years before an airpIane
few, is strikingy similar TO those Of
recent hellc0pters. and aerOnautical
engineers assert that with few rnodI-
flcatiOns based on modern aircraft
principles a large machine construct
ed on the original plans undoubtedly
would fy.-Popular Science Monthly.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
DAY OF NARROW ROAD HAS
NOW GONE BY
Importance of Ample Right of Way
For Widening

Don't build the road narrow. But
however it is built, have a right of
way ample enough to provide for
widening in the future. On these
two hang al the law and the profits
of modern road building
An expensive fault of the narrow
road is the concentration of traffic
Wheels moving constantly over the
same places produce parallel lines of
excessive wear. To prevent rapid
disintegration of single track road
a heavier foundation and surface is
needed than is required for a wider
road.
Substantial shoulders at the sides
on which the passing traffic may
turn out are also necessary, as
otherwise the wheels of vehicles
turning out to pass will quickly wear
ruts at the edges. In these water
collects, to penetrate beneath the
foundation, with disastrous results.
A narrow road with soft earth
shoulders is dangerous to motor
traffic in slippery weather.
To build the heavier foundation
and surface needed to bear the con-
centration of traffic on a narrow
road, and the substantial shoulders at
the sides, requires as much money as
to build a wider road On a wide
road, traffic is scattered, and wear is
distributed. With a paved surface
sufficiently wide for two lines of
rapidly moving vehicles to pass in
safety, the necessity for artificial
shoulders is eliminated. To build a
narrow road, thin and without
shoulders, means loss of the entire
investment in a comparatively short
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

A narrow right of way requires
drainage bitches close to the travel.
With no shoulder between paved
surface and ditch the chances of
serious accident are largely increas-
ed. All drainage bitches tend to
become deeper, so that the danger to
traffic becomes constantly greater.
Before any program for beautifica-
ton of highways is undertaken, some
assurance that the rights of way are
wide enough to accommodate future
traffic should be mad.
Motor vehicle traffic will increase
as the mileage of hard roads in
crease. A general extension in the
width of wearing surfaces will call
for wider rights of way. To obtain
wider rights of way now means an
ultimate saving of large sum of
money and viii prevent many
future difficulties.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
ADVERTISING SIGNS TO co
FROM ROADS
Automobile Clubs and Advertiser
Cooperate.

That the advertising sign at the
side Of the road may prove a
jetriment to the thing advertised in
stead of promoting sales, is being
more and more recognized by large
users Of billboard space. 1t is be-
ag brought home to advertisers that
road users holly resent the blatant
sign Governing up a beautiful vista or
mofaning lovely landscape.
Cooperation in sign removal has
had unexpected impetus from the
Standard Oil Co, on the Pacific
Coast, which has decided to eliminate
certain Objectionable signs from the
highways
Convinced that highway advertis-
Il Ing signs detraet from the natural
beauty of the great routes of travel
81 Of the Pacific Coast" says an official
Of Standard Oil, this company has
decided that is will erect no more
such signs and that it will i'm
nediately remove all of its signs of
this nature now standing. Hereafter
he company will confine the use of
sgns to commercial locations. This
company was among the first of the
l concerns to engage in this form
y Advertising and is now glad to be
he first to discontinue it,"
Nearly 1900 large, round perma-
ent signs in California, Oregon,
Washington, Nevada, and Arizona
&c consigned to the ak by a general
rder.
Ute Pass near Colorado Springs,
s for long been defaced with a
slge number of signs. Recently
! he Colorado Automobile Club, which
deeply interested in the work of
autfying highways, removed more
an one thousand signs from the
=. At the same time the club
Gcefed ten thousand trees to be
anled In nurseries and later used
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

A business man entertained a house
party the other week. AS he came
from his dressing room one night dur
Ing the party he overheard his butler
saying In a fierce whisper down the
dumbwalter:
For de lands sake, cook hurry W
de soup. De ladies' Is all stripped for
nner."-Pcston Globe
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

Our grandparents, who used to try
to die in peace, are probably shocked
to see the present generation rushing
frantically across railroad crossings
trying to die in pieces.
So many men are impatient with
others because of their inability to
make them understand what they
themselves do not comprehend.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

James Richardson, 1882 Freeman
Ave, Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: 81
suffered with my kidneys and blad-
der and was to go to the hospital to
be operated upon. / decided to
try FOLEY PILLS, diuretic
stimulant for the kidneys, and after
three doses l found relief" Try
them today!
Sold Everywhere.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
on, Of the Question.

The three children came end stood
In row in front Of their mother
Mamma they asked. what would
you Ike for your birthdays"
Ny dears, mamma wants nothing
for her birthday but three good chill
dren. She would like that"
"But then. mamma" cried the eldest,
''we'd be six"
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

to embelish the roads leading to
Colorado Springs
Among the many large billboard
users in the East who have declared
their intention to aid in the beautify-
ing of highways by the elimination
of signs, are such well-known. persons
as Kelly Springfield Tire Co., Pills
bury Flour Mills Co., Washburn-
Crosby Co., Champion Spark Plug
Co., B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Sun
OilCo., Hood Rubber Co., Ajax
Rubber Co., Ward Baking Co., Dodge
Brothers, Gulf Refining Co., Texas
Co., and the Fleischmann Co.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

Government positions are called
political berths,' daubtless because
the occupants so aften lie down in
them
It's all right 10 remember the
wife's birthday, but never bother
about which one il is.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
Disturbance In A Local Theatre.

Disturbance In A Local Theatre.
The patrons of local show house
were very much disturbed by the
continuous coughing of person in
the audience. Don't be a nuisance
because you hove a cough or cold. A
few doses of FOLEY'S HONEY AND
TAR COMPOUND will bring speedy
relief from coughs and colds.
Sold Everywhere.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

Another thing we need in these
times is more girls trying for the
baking and sewing clubs and fewer
entrants in the beauty contests.
The annual argument about day
light saving" is coming on again.
The best way to save it is to go to
bad with the chickens and get up
with the birds.
People who ride into eternity via
the railroad crossing may find
detour sign facing them.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

There is an old proverb that when
God closes a door, he always opens a
window, and people should always re-
member this and not have the win
dows too securely locked.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

Cut This Quit Is Worth Money.
Send this ad and ten cents to
Foley & CO., 1886 Sheffield Ave,
Chicago, H., writing your name
and address clearly. You will
receive ten cent bottle of FOLEY'S
HONEY AND TAR COMPOUND
for Coughs and Colds, and free
sample package of FOLEY PILLS
and FOLEY CATHARTIC TAB
LET'S. Try these wonderful remedies.
Sold Everywhere.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19
w HY B A NIX S.?
REVIEW
BY }. II. PuELIcHER. Chairman

BY J. X. PuELicHER. Chairman
committee on Public Education American
Those whs have been reading have found banks
corporations chartered regulated examined
State or Nation but owned by private sockholders.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

We found that banks /. Receive deposits
2. Make loans
We found deposits to 1. Savings Deposits
be OF two kinds 2 Commercial Deposits.
We found that interest is paid on Savings Deposits;
that the peoples savings loaned by banks to
farmers merchants, manufacturers, produce
wages and profits, which make more savings
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-04-19

We found that it for the savings OF
-, past there could not be capital with which to
oud schools railroads. ships telephone
Voes and the many thiTgs which of civilization
we found that the banker
use OF his savings and that he loans these
business more interest than he the
pay his overhead absorb occasional pay
dends. - -
We found that bank stock sold in order provide
establishing OF the bank that stakeholder
PEELED to in the bank should fail
enough to depositors, Of
stock; that who is able willing the
risk purchase bank when
banks of America many women scattered
throughout the country, who have purchased
We found that banks render in these services
their
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Storeroom Treasures.

THE mysterious dungeons at the
1 Thomas H. Ince studios known
as property rooms" to which only
property men are admitted, prob
ably contain the widest range of sub
jects known to man.
At a moments notice a director
ed needle to water-pipe for the pool
in a sultans harem. 1t must be pro-
duced without delay.
The property men assigned to idle
Tongues" Thomas H. -Ince's new pic
ture for First National, had their
troubles.
They were called upon in rapid
succession to furnish a complete out
fit for isolating germs in well water,
a. framed copy of the Declaration of
independence, crucifix, some tad
poles, lots of cobwebs, parlor
melodeon, an ornamental ship in full
sail, StutZ automobile that could be
wrecked and bottle of smelling
salts. The company was waiting and
delay meant money. Needless to say
they all were yielded by that mysteri-
Gus dungeon, the property room.
And there was something else be-
sides. In the old fashioned bedroom
in the picture are two pillowslips,
one embroidered with the words:
sweet Lilies Close Their Leaves at
Night" and the other: "And Open
With the Morning Light"
1t is still a mystery where the
property men dug up these amusin 8
curiositics.
Evening star., 1924-09-21

spring the DeMille picture, the fact
remains that CruZe and CruZe alone
is responsible for the vision that
made THE Covered Wagon" a screen
epic of the days of 40.
In the beginning, the story had
been purchase from Emerson Hough
wn.h the idea of turning it into a
good. salable picture that would
please the folks and run about an
hour and ten minutes. 1t was Cruze,
however, who saw the tremendous
historical and human interest value
of the manuscript and who never
ceased arguing for his idea until he
received permission to go ahead and
do his best.
Once finished, it was seen to be a
picture that far Transcribed the
sphere of the mere cinema program
and it was Immediately launched on
road tour at 81 prices that result
ed in d run OF 60 weeks in New York
%. weeks in Chicago. - weeks in
Boston, 81 weeks in Hollywood, four
weeks in Cleveland, four weeks in
Washington, eight weeks in Brook
lyn, So weeks in London. 15 weeks in
Paris and proportionately long runs
in other large centers of population.
| Its re-appearance in Washington this
week is at the popular-price scale.
Evening star., 1924-09-21

novels whose best selling days are in
the past, but whose moving picture
possibilities have never been utilized
like George Barr McCutcheon's The
Husbands of Edith" which will be
called for picture purposes The
Lightning Lover: Jazz Parents,
which Richard Washburn Child wrote
as Here's How; Fanny Hurst S
Oats for the Woman: A. NJ. Sinclair
Willis Head Winds" and Moonlight
Kisses" which in its literary form
was The Best in Life" by Muriel
Hine.
Three original stories include Mar
ried Hypocrites," by Sada Cowan and
Howard Higgins; The Price Of Pleas
ure," by Marian Orth and Elizabeth
Saxony Holding, and California
Straight Ahead" by Byron Morgan.
Virginia Valli and Norman Kerry
will appear in THE Price of Pleas
ure"; Reginald Denny in The Light
ming Lover" oh, Doctor" and Cali
fornia Straight Ahead; James Kirk
wood and Madge Bellamy in THE
Nightcap':; Mary Philbin and Norman
Kerry in Moonlight Kisses" and
"Ann's an Idiot: Pauline Frederick
and Laura La Plante in Married
Hypocrites''; May McAvoy in Jazz
Parents" and House Peters in Head
Winds
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Minnie In the Movies.

THE oldest vaudeville star in. the
= world is going into moving pic
lures.
Minnie" has played the Big Time
as well as circuses, the New York
Hippodrome and other world famous
stages for a. matter of Is or 20 years.
She numbers among her friends all
big vaudeville headliners-James J..
Morton, Cressy and Dayne, Marjorie
Rambeau, Walter J. Kelley, Billy
Gould. Eva Tanguay, Eddie Leonard,
James J. Corbett. And although
Minnie isn't overweight, she scales
around two tons.
Minnie is an elephant, formerly the
central figure in the famous Max
Gruber animal act. She has been pur-
chased as a permanent fixture in Uni
versafs Zoo, and her first starring
venture will be in q circus serial
which is being planned at Universal
City
Among her friends in vaudeville
were many famous personages, for
the big elephant is as harmless as
kitten and very affectionate.
When Sarah Bernhardt played the
Orpheum circuit shortly before her
death. she used to be carried to Min
MES place on the stage to bestow
candy on the big pachyderm.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Fine Character Study.

MOTION pictures have a penchant
A'A for the fambuoyant and the
spectacular that frequently robs the m
of the power of conviction.
Occasionally, however, there comes
to the screen a character study or a
slice of life so realistic as to COM
mand respect and interest
bill" the FIVE reels of reality
adapted from Anatole Frances The
Majesty of Justice" and given its
American treatment by DR.. Hugo
Riesenfeld, managing director of the
Rivoli, Riaito and Criterion Theaters
in New York, is said to be such a
subject.
There is nothing about 'tBilr' to at
tract the attention of theatergo ers
Injured to the American starring sys-
tenn. No sex appeal asserts itself to
lend a doubtful benefit to the stark
study of life as it is lived. The di-
rector's name is not known to Ameri-
can audiences. Yet Bill" is declared
one of the most remarkable releases
of the season in its sheer realism and
Staunch adherence to the finest ira
ditions of the theater.
"BilP' unfolds character study
that has never had a counterpart on
our native screen. The title role is
played by Maurice De Feraudy, of th Q
Comedie Francais, Paris, a character
actor of great continental reputation,
who is said to give to the role of the
aged pushcart vendor an authen-
ticity, humanness and an inde-
finable, sympathetic quality that
make it stand out as bit of genuine
cinema art.
Evening star., 1924-09-21
Obedience In Art.

PABY MARYS tears just refused TO
~ come. And the director was fran
tic. The cameraman stood around
pulling his hair. The assistant di
rector prayed heavenly that the ac
tion would start.
And a S-year-old child was the
cause of it all.
Cry, dear. cry" pleaded Mil1ard
Webb. director of t"Her Maria Sc
vow," the screen version OF the stage
play by Owen Davis.
"Oh, honey, cry. Come on-real
tears
But the tears didn't come, and the
scene had been taken some eight
times already.
Finally Assistant Director Villa m
McGann blew his whistle. The crew
stopped working. The lights went
of, the cameraman, David Abel,
stopped grinding.
Webb addressed his young star.
Honey, if you don't cry I'm going
to send you home. Now tell me what
the matter fs.''
Mama told me this morning that
if I cried today she would spank me
good and hard came the prompt re-
ply and the cause of the suppressed
emotion.