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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19
MAIBON'S MILLS

Mrs. eta Lacasce from town spent
a few days with her daughter Mrs.
Eva Walker at this place recently and
is leaving this week for Sebago Lake
to spend the summer with her son,
Professor Elroy Lacasce who has
charge of a summer camp for boys.
Miss Vonetta Grace Weeks, a ma
tive of this place, who now has en-
ployment in town, was recently call
ing on old friends at Malbons Mills.
Miss Elizabeth Earle, who has had
employment at the Seth Studio, Is fat
home on vacation.
Robert Earle and Joe Plourde are
working at the Page farm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles futile attend
ed services at the church in COrnyille
Sunday afternoon.
Miss Muriel Walker who has at
tended school in town. entertained
several of her schoolmates. the Misses
Pearle and Jean Flemming and Edith
Bishop of Bloomfield street from Fri
day until Sunday.
Miss Margery Salisbury. who gradu-
ated from S. H. S. last week has en-
ployment at the Huff studio in town.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Walker and
children and Mrs Eta Lacasce had
"A pleasant ride to Scion on Sunday
and calling on friends there
Master Norman Walker is anticipa-
ting much pleasure attending Sun
day School kindergarten picnic at
Lakewood soon to be given the chill
dren of the Federated church.
Roger Kilkenney who lives with his
grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Peter
Merry, has one better than a bicycle
to ride. It's real live pony which
he enjoys very much.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19
BTNKER HILL-ATHENS

Mrs. Gala Adams is working for
Manley Campbell.
DR.. Richardson of Skowhegan was
in town recently called here to see
Mrs. Flora Davis who has been sick
for some time.
Alva Campbell was in Cornville one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield Hussey were
recent visitors in Parkman, making
the trip in their new Ford car.
Roy Davis is home for his summer
vacation from Bates College, Lewis
ton.
Leland Keaton who has been work
ing in Dexter in the machine shop, is
at home for a short vacation.
Warnie Hilton of Kingsbury was in
town one day last week.
DR.. Harris of Brighton was i'll town
Sunday.
ID Davis and daughter Erma and
Mrs. Beulah Small were i'll Sko"he-
gan one day last week.
Harry Farrin of Brighton was IN
town Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Goodrich and
little son Dana, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy SIN
clair and little Vernal of Wellington
and Milton Thompson of Skowhegan
we're recent guests at the home OF
David Thompson.
Nelson whitman of Brighton was
in town one day last week.
Elmer and Manley Campbell ana
their mother Mrs. Hannah Buzzeli
were in Skowhegan one day last week
The people around here are very
much pleased over the fact that we
now have a nice road We think II
as good as any road in town.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19
WEST C0RNNILI.F

Mr. and Mrs james Pueh and son
and Miss Mar Ambrose were visit
ing friends in Madison Sunday.
MI and Mrs Fred McCollar and
Mr. and Mrs. James Pugh were in
bingham Tuesday where they attend
ed the funeral services of John Me
Collar.
Miss Mae Ambrose who is employ
ed at Rue Reeds in Madison, spent
the week end with his sister. Mrs.
James Pugh and family.
Charles Bowden of Sidney is Wis
iting his daughter. Mrs. Forest Ros
worth and calling on old friends and
neighbors Mr. Bowden was Il resi-
dent OF South Scion for number Of
years.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19
WEST BRIGHTON

Several from West Brighton attend
ed the play and ball given by the l.
o. o. +. and Rebekah Lodge at Athens
Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Durgin Of
Brighton were callers at Herbert Cor
sons one evening recently.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Whitman and
Ivan Raymond motored to Athens
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs Charlie Moody were
calling on friends sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Corson went
to Scion Saturday on pleasure trip
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19
STRATTON

Charles Watson spent Saturday and
Sunday at Strong, going by auto.
Kenneth Masterman of Strong is
visiting his father, Fred Masterman.
Ed Cushman, wife and daughter of
Lewiston were the guests of relatives
here over Sunday.
Esther Savage has got through at
the Masterman boarding house.
o. A. Knapp of Carrabassett was
in town over the week end.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-06-19

Rangeley Saturday This place at
the mill was taken by Milford Seayey
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
SAYS REPUBLICANS
 FEAR UNDERWOOD
Dr. CrOmptOn Flays Bryan For Hostility To Alabama Senator

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan Is Declaring that the Republicans Es.aaGz- ing that Oscar W. Underwood IS rAse Democratic candidate mest 1e he EezrS@ in the presidential election have fsss- tered the OpOsItion 10 Senator GndeT- wood in his own state IS rr%TenT hmm from getting the Democratic nenE2A- tion. Dr. W. E. Crumyslen Vress3tmE Rf Anti-Saloen league cf Alabama and a life long prohihitionisJ- la ] Slztslasmz tonight expressed his confidence nm Senator Cnderwood's position Su the eighteenth amendment
 He declares that William Jennings Bryan wants Senator | nder7Ss.ssA 0az of the way as q candidate and Ss seek ing his defeat in Alabama. 1ecRAr1aSS that whether MT. Bryans aggsa<sa61A lis in collision with the RsgsESllc1us or not. the scheme is she same SE asdh parties"
 Dr. CrumpJons statement IS Sa zn- swer to d resolution recently adopted by a commission of the An15-Sa1saa league which endorsed tbe candidacy of l.. B. Mus<rove. opponent of S%n- ator Underwood in the Alasama yEsE- erential primary. Dr- CrUmEGNa snFs- ported Richmond Pearson Haasssen against Senator Underwood fpr sAe United States Senate and sEFgsNgaR.A Mir. Musgrove in his race against Sen ator | UndreWood for the pressas EeEuR-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
COLD WAVE AND
 SNOW EXPECTED
Norwester Spreads Zero Read ings Broadcast Expected To
 Last For Next Two DaDys

CHICAGO, Jan.i 16.-A sound wind has brought in the heaviest snowstorm of the winter in many sections, an other cold wave swept down out of the northwest, spreading zero readings broadcast and is expected within the next 24 hours to cover entire north central section of the country.
 : A drizzling rain starting last night turned into a snow which by this morning spread blanket of snow everywhere, blinded travellers and crip- pied transportation and cOmmunica- tiOn in many sections.
 The cold weather which reached the Dakotas and Minnesota as early as yesterday morning had sent the ther. mometer in those sections to as low as 30 below zero at Duluth. and zero weather was expected as far east as Indiana tonight. More snow was scheduled for tonight with fair and colder weather tomorrow.
 The front of the cold wave reached central Iowa today and the tempera. ture is below zero further northward. Winds of gale force occurred today on the eastern side of a storm of wide- spread character that was central over northern Indiana.
 Present indications, weather observ- CTS say, are that the cold will continue over most portions of the district for the next two days at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
BOTTLE BRINGS SAD MESSAGE
 OF SEA WRECK

MIAMI, Fla, Jan. 16.-The sea which battled down the tanker City of Everett and sent it to the bottom October II, 1923, 11O miles east of Tortugas with all on board, recently tossed up a message from the trag- edy..s It was found in . bottle at El- iotta Key, 25 miles south of Miami. Capt. A. l.. Baker of the launch Gladys picked up the bottle. Monday from drift wood. The tightly corked bottle contained a note scrawled on soiled piece of paper. It read: IS. S. City of Everett"
 This is the last of us. Any one finding please send notice to Divine 33O South Hicks street and 6S3 North Forty-seventh street, Phila- lelphia."
 On the reverse side of the. paper, a piece of ordinary folder letter paper, were the words:
 ITO the Dear Friend who finds this"
 !. In his sprawling letters apparently the last thing written was. Good bye. goodbye forever and ever."
 The note was written in pencil. Oddly it bore no name, as if the im- pending tragedy had swept this de- tail from the thoughts of the per- sons who scribbled the death mes- sage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
SEE WIFESBODY, Q)SHMANS PLEA.
Sheriff Will Grant SlsydIs Re quest If Members Of Fanily
 Do Not Object.

'I am ready to die The enlr shIng I ask is one last lock at my peer wife before she is buried
 J. C. Cushman. Pratt City miner made this statement in 5ail Wca.es- day when he awoke and WAS resd Shzt while drunk Tuesday nssht he had killed his wife and prchakly fatally wounded his sister-in-law, Mrs Jehn Benson
 Cushman is being held wfrheur bend His wild rampage was stepped Tuesday night by Miss Ellen Lairmege- who rolled him in ditch and toek his pastel after he had fired six shots at her-
 Witnesses tola Coroner T. D- Russ man that Cushman was drunk am &ar Tuesday, He put his pistol in acsRsn shortly after dark
 "I can't believe I sh~t her CG<h- man cried when jailers ted him ef hEs rampage However, he pcnnr3 this note to Sheriff Thomas l. ShirSey-
 Dear Sheriff. I have crzpe ss my self and realize what an awfnl thing has happened if reports gre rr1ezDa they must be However, | cza h1rIlr believe it.
 The object of this letter Is ts Ee- quest that you take me 10 see my Fesr unfortunate wifi. just once sefsre she is buried.
 '>Of course, I shah expect yen te take all and every prccauT5on- I dNnr mind if I'm put m x cage Se re- eur since awakening. I am distracted and through love for katheleen- wh0m thtr say I have murdered whlle drunk \ want to see her once more
 Please have mercy and Be1 me see her once more Respec1fnaly-
 -J- C CTSHMAN-
 The sheriff said he probably wNRs9 grant Cushman's request re sse hRs wife's body -proyided the @ oe- msza- bers of the family request 61-
 He said he would personally esc@sr Cushman and would mel T&ace hand cuffs on him.
 Cushman awoke "Wednesday 5faRc sleeping soundly for eight heurs after the shooting All day "Wednesday he was nursing a hangover acce-'aF-c to Coroner Rlssum- who was uRaAae to complete his investigation ~f 1be case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17

no time to consider. If they regard that as a mere matter of detail and they know as little about as the matters that come within their jurisdiction they ought never to have been entrusted within our first line of defense.
 Il introduced a resolution to cancel those leases. It met with objection by the senator from Utah MT. Smoot) and 1 am conscious it has gone to its sleep. But I want to say there is a public conscience in America, mistake it though some people may.
 Neither Mir. Palmer nor Mir. Lam- bert, nor any other lawyer he (Fall) may hire can ever add to or take from the positive declaration that I got the cash from Hon. Edward B. Mclean of Washington, and I took it with me-
 Mclean says: "E never let him have a dollar,' although prior to that he had authorized Mir. Palmer to say to this committee, hoping that that would quiet them. that in 1921. and l am reading now from McLean's state ment, the first one. in 1921 I loaned Fall $100,OO0 on his promisory note.
 He did not do it. He knew he did not. Fall never got $1O0,00O from him and he knew he did not, and therefore I want to suggest this, that men of great positions as those of these gen. tlemen. as both of these gentlemen are men of great intelligence, as both of these gentlemen are do not make state ments tat are not true unless there is some reason for it. Honorable men I dare say, never do, unless the emer. seney is exceedingly great.
 Asks Reason For "FalsehOod"
 If there was nothing wrong with the source from which Mir. Fall got his money why did he not tell the source in the first place? Why did he tell 6 wilful and deliberate falsehood as ht did to the committee?
 ssThen why did Mclean from his sicl bed in Florida wire lawyer here over night in Washington, to say to the com mittee: Yes, l let him have thai money and then Mclean under oati said I did not let him have a dollar did write two or three checks, ant gave them to him.
 -I know that there is something wrong with it, and I know that every reading man and woman in Americs will know that Albert B. Fall solt every gallon of the American reserve fuel oil to speculators, one of whom baasted that he was going to mak, $1OO, 900, ,OO0 out of his share of tn, loot.
 '-Of course I rather imagine that i it were not for my distinguished friend the present Attorney General, all O these men would be indicted, but I an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
FEDERALS DEFEAT
 REBELS IN BATTLE
FightF At Tepeaca Results In
 Decisive Victory, Report Says

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.-Mexican federal forces have defeated the revo- lutionists in a hard battle at Tepeaca, which has resulted in reducing a strong element of the rebel army to impotence" the Mexican embassy said in a statement tonight based on off cial advices from Mexico City.
 Rebels under Generals Maycotte and Villareal have been decisively de feated after hard battle at Tepeaca, the statement said. After being driven from Tehuacan by federal troops under Gen. EugeniO Martinez. the enemy took up positi,n at Tepeaca, on the railroad between Te- huacan and Puebla.
 General Urbalejo attacked them here and completely broke up the cmo- mand, which was made up of several of the strongest units at the disposal of the Vera Cruz rebels. The action has reduced strong element of the rebel army to impotence.
 ''On the JaliscO front the federals continue the advance on the rebels who still are falling back and refusing to give battle. There are numerous skirmishes, but formal battle has not yet taken place. The retreat cannot continue much further, however. be fore the rebels will be forced to dis perse or take a positio, and fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
$25O,OOO GIVEN TO
 CUT COMPETITION
Witness Says Klan And Erlanger
 Received Sum From Trust

NEW YORK. Jan. 16.-The B. F. Keith Vaudeville Exchange, The Orpheum Circuit and other defendants in the $5,25O,O00 damage suit filed by Max Hart, booking agent, paid $250,- 900 to theatrical producers, Klaw, Erlanger X Shubert, to refrain from vaudeville activity for 10 years, Fed eral Judge Augustus Hand was told today by Mare Klaw. Hart contends that his business was ruined by the combine"
 Klaw an dhis associates, it was tes- tified, were forced to become respon- sible under an agreement signed in November, 1907, for contracts out standing with vaudeville performers totaling $1,500,0OO.
 What did the defendants accom- plish through those agreements?" Mir. klaw was asked.
 Nothing but the control of vaude- vile by the removal and stifling of competitions" replied MT. Klaw.
 He added that Klaw, Erlanger & Shubert were not forced into the mak ing of the contract, but accepted it be- cause they had consideredits terms satisfactory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD. THURSDAY. JANUARY l7,
JAP QUAKE WAS
 PREDICTED BY ITALIAN SAVANT

ROME Jan 16-The Japanese earthquake of Tuesday was pre- S5rsed almost te the hour by Profes- snr Raffaele Bendandi- of Faenza, wha IS about to give the world the secret sf his discovery of laws gov ernins earthquakes
 tCnited Press dispatches from Rsuze Saturday night carried the Italian zesmelegixtz prediction).
 Italian scientific circles are tre- measBuQxly excited at the accurate sucreue of Professor Bendandi's fareeaSr-
 The distinguished seismologist kaa successfully predicted every inn percant quake since that at Avez- zaua January 13, 1915.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
MORE DISCUSSION l
 PITTSBURG PLUS.
Chamber Of Commerce Calls For Roundtable Conferences
 On Steel Rates.

The subject of Pittsburg plus, re- gently revived by a national associa- tion which is fighting the case before the federal trade commission, will be taken up by the purchasing agents division of the Chamber of Commerce at an early meeting, it was announced at the first 1924 session of the divi- sion, Wednesday at noon at the Tut wiler.
 R. N. McGill, newly elected presi- dent of the purchasing agents, occu- pied the chair for the first time at Wednesdays meeting, and he outlined a program for the year by means of which the members may discuss and thoroughly thresh out all matters of general interest to them and to the companies they represent. sPurchasing agents of all the leading companies in the Birmingham district are included in the membership.
 One member of the organization will be assigned at each monthly meeting to speak on one topic of interest, gen. eral discussion by the members fol- lowing. Pittsburg plus will not be the first subject to be taken up, since the program for the February meeting field, on When Does a Carriers Lia- bility Commence and When Does It Ceasey' in transportation of carload an dless than carload lots of freight. The round-table discussion of Pittsburg plus, to be held at an early meeting, calls for discussion, led by J. w. Stan will be for the purpose of determining whether the present price passing meth cd on steel is favorable or unfavorable to Birmingham and Alabama.
 President McGill appointed commit tees as follows: Membership, s. B. Slater, chairman; NJ. W. Hutchings and c. B. .Beasley. Entertainment, H. V. Dimick, chairman; B. H. Harts- field and C.. E. Woodrow. Round table. Leroy Holt, B. F. Tyler and c. P. Shook.
 Dr. Julian Pennington, head of the vocational physiological clinic estab- lished in Birmingham under the joint auspices of the various clubs, spoke of this work before the purchasing agents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
IS
 IN NEW HOME
(Continued From Page One. )

veyors to the mail and distribution rooms. Adjacent to the big press is a Goss octuple which will be used for printing The Age-Herald's comic section and other sections of the pa per, where colored inks are used. This press room in full operation will be for the general reader one of the most interesting features of the whole Age Herald building.
 In The Age-Herald building annex, which adj0ins the main structure, IS the storage room for white paper. Into this basement the huge rolls of white paper are delivered from trucks down specially constructed roller chutes. As needed for the presses the rolls slide down another special chute into the main press room.
 Distribution Of Papers.
 Adjoining the press room on the basement level is the circulation de pertinent. Here is located the large staff which attends to getting The Age-Harald to its readers, both by mail and by carrier. When the stream of papers comes from the press room they are automatically counted into bundles of 50 papers each. A corps of distributing clerks addresses, wraps and assemblies the papers for mail sacks, carriers, street cars, trains, au- tomobiles and other means of getting the paper delivered and from the tables they slide to a special electric elevator which hoists them quickly to the street level on the Twenty-first street side of the building. Here the auto trucks take them to strategic points in the city for distribution.
 This in the main is the journey an item of news takes from reporter or correspondent to the reader. But there are many kindred facilities pro -vided in the new Age-Herald building for giving its readers the features, il- lustratiOns and typography which make this newspaper distinctive. Spe- cial quarters are provided for the cartoOnist and art departments. A complete engraving department is ar ranged for the making of cuts to il- lustrate news stories. Special files are provided for thousands of photo graphs and cuts of well-known men and women for use when emergency arises.
 Not the least consideration in ar engagement of the new structure has Deen lne provision TOT easy anu cOn- veniept access by the public to all de partments. And at an early date The Age-Herald expects to have a house warming which will continue indefi- nitely, for this newspaper wants its readers to feel and know that it is their newspaper and they are always welcome. The Age-Herald, when com pletely settled in its new home, will be one of the show places of Birmingham and it hopes that the people of Bir- mingham and of Alabama may feel free to bring visitors who may thus be given a still more favorable inn pression of Birmingham through an inspection of The Age-Herald building and plant.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17

conscious that as long as he sits at the helm of the department of justice they may sell the White House and be absolutely immune from any prose- cution in the federal courts.
 Therefore, we are faced with this humiliating situation, for the first time in the history of America, so far as I know-and I hope it will be the last time-a cabinet officer, betrayed the high trust imposed in him and for a corrupt consideration sold the very means by which our national existence is to be protected and he himself pro- tected, he will never hear any more of the resolution seeking to cancel the leases on the Teapot Dome and the other oil reserves."-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-17
STEEL RETAINS
 ITS SUPREMACY
With Increasing Optinisn In Oil Industry It Still Dozni-
 mates Domestic Trading
By WILL. JOHNSON Leased MTrn TA AsnHsHz&

NEW YORK, Jan 16-kin< S1seA was presented with q neatly ElR<1ea throne in the late dealings in the stock market Wednesday, His estate wzs EN- ported in a condition of fertility and there was no question ef Erecesence-
 The third week of the new year said the Iron Age, -'continDes the scase of activities in orders and steel Ensla operations 10 which the industry step ned up after the holidays- Already caU- struction work appears as ahe aamzzAmt factor, with indications that The FRce set in structural steel ia 1SZS wsaa Rse maintained for months ze come
 Naturally. with increasing optimism in the oil industry the days FrRce movements on the stock exchange fur nished further convincing proof ct the dominating influence Of Ihe @SdBeSzSc trade situation
 There is little worry locally <zer what happens abroad
 The stock market was irregular ln spots. but the un0ert0De was good Ga the whole the list gave a good zccesznS of itself Market observers fSzDS 1Az1 stocks now are in the hands sd interests that can afford 10 await the aS1s Ese- sition until the expected bul market blossoms forth
 Francs Stronger
 French francs turned mp better Wed nesday morning and acted %el IhrWzEsh- out the day Conseqpen1ly- there E4s better buying of French yorermmezu and municipal bonds Considerable lA- terest was taken in the Paris 1SS7nEches showing that the French SezeEnmenF Rs sincere in remedyinS the internal fR- nances. Sterling was irregular nNSS Ss the day. reflecfIns Ihe uncertainty re- garding the British political saznaaSeR Locahy 1t was felt that even wlzh a labor government Britain ENS1sa still strike the conservative ne1e- NSGhla- very drastic Is anticipated aS regards capital levies-
 American oil men. II waS ShSwn Wednesday. were a bit csalservarTvs when they predicted that c0RslmE'1lNz of oil-the baser products and the re- fined quantities 0e1 SEeEsSks production until midsummer Even now it appears that supply and demand are working closer together and aES not anything near the 7s0QQta0 R4arTei day spread which existed la recsmE months and resulted in crude el SzSacikS increasing as much as 10l00l@0@ Anr' rels monthly in May. June, July, Sep l tember and October
 Consequently oil shares came S~ tha front in Wednesdays markets Thers was active buying of oil shares e@ ths stock exchange with the ekceT16Na d the Pan-Americans. which are nd versely affected hy Mexican csnalr5ea.: I and in the curb market the wAsEAs Standard Oil group leaPea feEWarA
 Offering of new S4oluisa0s0 AESsR tine bond issue will he made TAar<sEay by a group of prominent bankers Inn Is only one of the bi= iSsDes 1hnS pare tend unusual activity in Ihe bend uEAr ket this year.