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The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
REV. JOHN \. MARK Al
ROTARY CLUB

Local Rotarians were given one OF
their finest meetings last Tuesday
noon and real Thanksgiving dinner
of chicken, and the fixings. A large
number of members and several
guests were present The program
was opened by two delightful negro
songs. explained and sung by Walter
+. Cleveland of Coventry. Vt. who is
coaching "The Rose Girl" production.
He was followed by Rev. John Nichol
Mark of Fall River, Mass, the Unit
arian Laymen's League Mission
preacher, who is conducting services
at the Unitarian Church in Water
willie. Mr. Mark brought a breeze
OF wholesome humOr to the club by
his very interesting stories. dealing
particularly with Scotch characters,
OF which country. he Is evidently
native His main address on Hearth
stone Ethics" was scholarly appeal
dealing with home problems. He
quoted freely from President Coolidge
in saying that back of all reverence
for law and honor lies the American
hearthstone. Very strongly Mr.. Mark
advocated the return to old fashioned
ideas as to the saving of humanity,
saying that lives in large cities were
becoming too much apartmentized
and delicatessened. He impressed
upon his bearers that the influence of
a good home was never lost and urged
that children be trained by example,
trained TO be courteous, taught to be
unselfsh and, to realize the great
ideals of Rotary Service Above
Self With, regard to religious
training, MIR. Mark said that this train
ing was as necessary to children as
water to flowers and he declared that
civilization cannot exist with charac-
ter The delightful meeting was
closed with two songs, "Sittin' Think
in and ,"'D4na" sung by Louis
Schalk of Boston, who has had charge
of the singing at, the Waterville meet
ings and who is a song leader at the
voice was much appreciated. Mrs.
Marion T. Oddly played the accompani-
mehts. nag 10 ~
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
STATE OF MAINE
PUBLIC NOTICE

BY virtue of the authority conferred
upon me by the provisions of Seetion
As, Chapter 219, p. l.. 1917, as amend
ed. and having received written COM
plant from the owners of the land
that beaver are doing actual sub
stantial damage to their property, i
hereby declare an open season on
beaver from the 22nd day of Novem-
ber, A. D., 1924. to the 28th day of
February, A. D.. 1925, both days in
elusive. on the following territory:
on land of Mellen q. whitney. Dor
dering on the Kennebec River in the
town of Madison, in the county of Som
erset;
ALSO ON land of H. w Starbird in
Lot No ii, y D.. known as, the Stephen
Merrill Lot bounded on the north by
land of Greenleaf Brown, east by VIM.
Merrill: south by Solon and Athens
road: west by r. -. Corson; In the town
OF Solon, in the, county, OF Somerset
ALSO ON land Of said L, w. Starbird.
in Lot No. II, =. H., known as the
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
scarce indeed.

scarce indeed.
Carbon copies are incidentally re-
ferred to earlier in this article. Their
advantage should be further dweit
upon They are not ordinarily tax
en- when yon write with a pen or
pencil. although it is possible to make
one carbon that way. With a type
writer. from one to seven copies can
be made. You would always want
one copy to preserve in your MES.
Many times you will want several
more to send to as many different ad-
dresses. The carbon copy possibi-
lities of typewriter work are great
argument in favor of the use of the
writing machine.
So remember our custom steno-
graphy. You can make use of 1t TO
your advantage very many times.
INDEPENDENT-R co.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
The annual Thanksgiving union ser

The annual Thanksgiving union ser
vice will be held with Centenary
Church, Wednesday evening, Nov &c.
Addresses will be given by the pas
tors of the uniting churches.
Next Sunday morning the pastor
will preach on Touching the Hem OF
His Garment" Music by the chorus
choir under the direction OF Mrs. Rose
Burrill with Mrs. Lila Friend organ
ist. Rble school will meet at noon :;
The Epworth League service at 6
O'Clock will be led by Kenneth Cole.
the story of The Quenchless Light
will be resumed by Mrs Nichols at
the 7 O'Clock service. Music will be
furnished by the Junior Choir.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20

ographic service. We established 1t
two or three years ago as there was
nothing of the kind then available in
Skowhegan or elsewhere in Somerset
County. This is in accordance with
our policy of trying to provide, or
getting someone else to, any service
which this section. of Maine could
reasonably expect to have. Custom
stenography and typewriting fit in
first rate with our other activities.
We require three or four stenograph-
ers for our own work anyway. This
enables US to do that kind of busi-
ness for others and ofteptimes it can
be accomplished in quiet periods when
our own work is not at the maximum.
So we advertise TO do stenography,
typewriting and general office work
and are prepared to supply that ser
vice, either in our own office or else
where as desired This has its high
est use where brief and occasional
demand exists. 1t would not be eco
nomical if you have four or six hours
of work a day, for you to depend
upon u.s. Our charge is necessarily
too nigh for that sort of thing. Ii
you have an occasional letter to write
or now and then job of from one to
fifteen sheets of manuscript, we can
do the work far cheaper than you
could do it by putting a stenographer
permanently on your payroll for that
small amount of business 1t is very
handy, or ought TO be, for you to turn
to your telephone. call $50. and have
a competent typist or stenographer
come to take your letters or do some
similar work for an. hour a half a
day or any other necessary period.
II will help you out in an emergency
when your own employee wants Il day
off or is planning vacation or at
other times when an accumulation OF
work is more than she can take care
OF
Custom stenography ought to APP
peal to a good many people who Gus
tomarily do their business w&th pen
written letters. II you are ordering
goods you may with impunity indite
your message upon any old sheet or
paper with a pen or pencil. The
man is anxious TO sell and he'll pick
out wnat you want him to under
stand even if your page Is pretty i'm
perfect; but If it is business deal
where you've got to make the argu-
ment it will never do to send pen
written letter They're passe. They
stamp your establishment as being be-
hind the times. Perhaps you can
get along with patrons who have be-
come accustomed to your ways thru
years of service which is otherwise
satisfactory, but you will certainly
want now and then to send letter in
firm which will leave nothing to
be criticised.
We could not possibly enumerate
all the situations in which a type
written letter would do the trick.
where a pen written communication
would be doomed to failure. There
are very many we know where just
this difference between an up-to-date
message and the antiquated form
would be decisive for success or di-
sasler. This is particularly true
where the writer is seeking employ
ment. IL you are looking for job,
YOU must not ordinarily expect the
man YOU write to to bother with PEN
written manuscripts. In the rare
possibility that you are able to write
beautiful hand, it might be even
more eftective thantypewriting, but the
reople who~ean do that are very
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
PROBATE NOTICES
To All Persons Interested in Either OF
The Estates Hereinafter NHmedi

At II Probate Court held at Skowhe-
gan, in and for tho County of Somer-
set on the 18th day of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four and by ad-
journment from day to day from the
second Tuesday of said November. The
following matters having been pre-
sented for the action thereupon here
matter indicated, 1t is hereby Ordered :
persons Interested, by causing copy
of this order to be published three
weeks successfully in the Independents
Skowhegan, In said County. that they
may appear at Probate Court. to be
held at Skowhegan on the second
Tuesday of December \. ID. 1924, at
nine of the clock in the forenoon, and
be heard thereon If they see cause.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
Are Your Letters EfiectiVe2
, BY r. r. Patten ]


Much business, important and tri'
wal. is transacted by letter; more oI
it ought 10 be. Doubtless person
al interview is sometimes imperative
When the subject calls for many
questions. the answers to which can
not be delayed. a face to face confer
ence and heart to heart talk must be
had In a large majority OF cases
however. witten communication is
far superior. 1t has the decided ad-
vantage of leaving no uncertainty as
to what statements are made. our
correspondent files your letter and
YOU file the carbon copy You both
know precisely what has been said
He replies. keeping q carbon copy
and that advances the situation one
step further still with precision. You
both know the next day. the next
week, or year thereafter. exactly
what representations We're made
There's world OF advantage to this
Men with the best of intentions will
sometimes fall out through a faulty
recollection of what WAS supposed 10
have passed between them.
In big establishments you will some
times see placards as follows Verbal
messages will not 90. Write what
YOU have to say Thus the manage
ment indicates its desire that conyer-
sation. even on seemingly trivial mat
ters, shall be replaced by written
record. Working under this rule
yazA will sometimes see q man seated
at one desk debating a long letter to
his neighbor five feet away. Under
such circumstances, the man. ultim-
ately to receive the message cannot
very well avoid hearing it during the
dietation. Communicating from
desk to desk and from department
to department in this way, is becom-
ing almost a universal custom. 1t Is
perhaps more expensive at the start
than conversation but its ultimate re-
suit is maximum efficiency.
There's another advantage which
we do not often think Of. You may
make verbal statement which you
would hardly intend and which you
would greatly desire to recall.
There's no help for it; once said 1t
has registered its impression for
good or ILL., Ii you're debating
you're at liberty to change your mind
before the notes are transcribed, and
in considering letter after il is
written If you note an error OF much
importance. of course YOU would have
the work done over again, omitting
what you had no occasion TO express
Still, another advantage. often over
looked as to the written communica-
tion. is that your correspondent can
give it full consideration before max
ing his reply. Sometimes, in the
keen comparison of minds, this is
just what you don't want; but II
you're doing business on the level, in
the large majority of cases, its tc
your advantage as well as his fol-
him to think the thing clear out be-
fore making answer.
And 50 it is that correspondence is
an important work iii all business
establishments. There are Offices il
the large centers where five or si>
hundred stenographers and typist'
are busily engaged through the entire
day OF course by far the larger
number of concerns get along Will
one stenographer.
All this is written because we wisl
to aequaint you with our public stem
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
Pardon Hearing tile 25th

Manford Galway of Skowhegan.
serving sentence in States Prison for
arson. escape from Jail and assault on
officer is seeking pardon and hearing
is set for Nov. %.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
LIBEL FOH DIN ORtE
TO the Hon. Justice of the sup
Judicial Court next Ia bc ne
SkoNhegan. In the County OF 70
set and state of Maine.

Laura May Hicks of Cambridge
the County of Somerset and say
Maine, respectfully represents ina
the 18th day of December 1913 al
mington, state Of Vermont, she .,
lawfully married to Leslie ~
formerly of said Wilmington,
whose residence is unknown 70
libc1ant. that the said llhciaa'
libeiec cohabited In tins Hian \
their said marriage; that the sdn \
ant resided in this state Nhtn,
cause of divorce accrued a. nTl
after set forth. and had rcslael
i'm good faith ono year prior 10 the
hereof: that the libclant has tto
faithful TO her marriae" abilsa1
but that the said libelee h4s ntt'
mindful of the same; that me- "a,
guilty Of cruel and abusive l5eS1 tsr
and extreme cruelty towaIhS ~,
That no child has been born u
during their said marriaEr I'd
Wherefore she nfHys thai a n,J
from the bonds OF matriu0le
herself and said libclee h'as -
cred; also that reasonable nm
decreed to her out OF hl& 1T
lieu thereof that d speelii' Su"
to her by him. .,l.ess
And the lihelaHt furi nfr ,,iiY ~,
the present residence OF Sala tn n
unknown to her and can
tained by reasonable dig cn,Ifgicrj
10 'i'N I.ibesaI
Somerset. ~. Cambridge
1924. The said libelant ma4' ua
the above allegation as To tue
Of the lihelee is true,
Before me. ,,.tttTXgt
Rotary "a
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20

DAD has always wanted an open
IL car. He likes freedom. He
wants speed - and hexibility. He
loves to open 'er up on smooth
country road and feel the wind whiz
past his face.
But Mother d. :. she wants COM
fort and protection - she's thinking
of that rainy day when the young
sters have to go to school.
And here at last is new-type
car to meet this old-tirne family
problem.
It's a glorious-joyous--free, airy
open car when you wantIf
Then when it storms it may be
changed to a comfortable, weather
tight enclosed car with complete
protection from wind and rain.
Thirty seconds is all it takes -
simply lower the roller side en-
closures, without even leaving your
seat. You've never seen anything
like it before.
The Duplex body is framed and
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
This new-type car solves an
old-time family problem

shaped in steel. Upper and lower
sections are integral. Thus its con-
struction is substantial and its
beauty lasting.
1t banishes once and for all the
trouble of attaching the old-type
curtains-makeshift at best.
No more hurried efforts hunting
for the right curtain while the storm
beats in.
No more exposure, through holes
torn in them, while trying to obtain,
for the emergency, the protection
given by a closed car.
To the man unwilling to sacrifice
the thrill of open car motoring--to
the woman who wants closed car
protection right at her finger tips
this car offers a wonderful new ad-
venture--it marks new era in fine
car possession.
In justice to yourself - see the
new Duplex now. Only Studebaker
makes it.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
The Complexion
of Cirlhood!

That's what every woman longs for.
Some have it. Many lose it by careless
eating, by constipation or other prevent
able causes. But there's a remedy, and
it's not too late to get back your COM
plexion. Don't be too eager to try some
thing new, but turn back to those days
of long-ago when our mothers and
gran4mothers. knew how to safeguard
the health oftheir children.
II vas then that the good "L.F. " ATWOOD
Medicine was treasure in the home 1t never
failed to overcome indigestion, constipation,
biliousness 1t viii not fail you now.
50 cents for big bottle and you'll find
it most useful corrective FOR the ills of
your family At all dealers. Guaran.
teed by the L. F. Medicine Co. Follow
directions
Only I cent a dose
|. F. Medicine Co., Portland, Me.
The independent-reporter., 1924-11-20
STATE OF MAINE


Supreme Judicial Court III = 4
Skowhegan. Novemhet u = an
Upon the annexed libel Tssti,
by me, the undersi gnea' d,,'cn d
said Court, that notice De E,ostsd
libelee by publishing an a,lgsth ,tt M
of the same. or an ahsl rarn rr'reon
together with this order t9GGt9@r 9lSdeper
weeks successfully in the !n%J'i .a% In s
Reporter, a newspaper pr lil,eI l.,le,Ierset
hogan, in the county oil 9U.. ia,
iass publication to be thlrtS trtS OF of
least before the next t'' ckowh
court. to be holden nutT ~ Of
foarth w,irl' tuesday Ta M of January y.gs aeHl- II
he may then and there apPehb he $ 5,
court and answer thereInu, n .BROl
WARREN c. ri HIdidl1ieial Hil1eiil
Justice Supreme JuGd d ord
4 true copy of libel anu
Court thereon.
Attest: o,,,,,-tNs Cl,
SWAT w, I. SEbNi-'
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Somerset, IS. Clefh
Jud. Court t..,. al
Reeeived and filed lith nay II
Vemher. A. u. 1924.
Attest; ..,.,-,>c I'D
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CATHOLIC CHURCH

There will be the usual masses next
Sunday forenoon at g and 10 o'clock.
Rev. J. L. A. Rcnaud will return this
week and resume his activities in the
parish
Evening star., 1924-12-05
RED LEADER DENIES
BREAK WITH BRITAIN
Refusal Of Baldwin to Accept Pact
Will Not Cause Rift,
Rykoff Asserts.

MOSCOW. December 5.--Alexis T.
RykofT, president of the Council of
Commissars, today told a gathering
or engineers that the failure to OBJ
tain capital abroad compelled Rus
sia to rely on her own resources, but
that Great Britains refusal to accept
the Anglo-Russian treaty and COM
mercial agreement did not necessarily
mean an entire break with the Brit
ism government. He added that the
Sovfet never would agree to de-
nationalize property as the price for
american recognition.
according to Secretary of State
Hughes" he said, America is will
Ing to recognize US only on condition
that the holy right of private prop
erty shall be restored. This means
that we would need to re-establish
a bourgeoisie regime. To this we
Will never consent.
consider that Soviet regime will
greatly outlast the pre- ;ent regime
in the United States. and we have
therefore only to rely on our own
aims"
resources to realize all our economic
Evening star., 1924-12-05
TEMPS SEES NO CHANGE
IN U. S. FOREIGN POLICY
Declares Coolidge Message Holds
Out No Hope of America
Entering League.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS Decayphar

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, December 5.-The Temps,
commenting on President Coolidge's
message to Congress, declares that
the recent American elections did not
change the foreign policy OF the
Washington Government toward the
settlement OF the European peace
problems
President Coolidge affirmed once
more his resolution not to enter the
League of Nations and the opposition
of the Washington Government to the
league remains entirely unchanged"
the newspaper states. I'VE must re-
gret II from a general point OF view,
because the absence of the great
American Republic will always be a
source of weakness to an organism,
Of this sort. There seems to be little
hope that the United States will ac-
cept the Geneva protocol. President
Coolidge favors organizing for peace
as well as Geneva, but in a different
manner"
Evening star., 1924-12-05
JOINT-EASE For
Stiff, Swollen Joints
Rheumatic or Otherwise
Says: when Joint Gets In
Joint Agony Gets Out"

1t was a high-class pharmacist
who saw prescription after pre-
scription fail to help hundreds of
matte swel1ings and stiff infiamed
joints.
And it was this same man who
asserted that a remedy could and
would be compounded that would
make creaky, swollen. tormented
joints work with Just as much
smoothness as they ever did.
Now this prescription. rightly
named Joint Ease, after being
tested successfully on many obsti-
nate cases, Is offered through pro-
gressive pharmacists to the mill
lions of people who suffer from
ailing Joints that need timber
ing up.
tormented joints are usually caused by
rheuma tism. but whatever the cause Joint
Ease snaks right in through skin and flesh
and gets right to and corrects the trouble
at It's source.
Remember Jeint-Eas is for ailments of
the joints. whether in ankle, knee, hip.
elbow, shoulder, spine finger. and when
you rub ii on, you may expect speedy and
gratifying results.
1t is now on sale at Peoples Drug Stores
and druggists everywhere for 30 cents q
tube.
Always remember. when Joint-Ease gets
in joint agony gets out-quick.
Every rheumatic sufferer ought to send
today for free book, The Inner Mysteries
P. Clearwater, box 800, Hallowell, Maine.
Advertisement.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
MODERN OLIVER TWIST
STEPS INTO LIMELlGHT
Orphan Boy in New York, Like
Fictional Counterpart, Unwilling
Slave of Fagin.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 5.-An
Oliver Twist stepped from the pages
of Dickens and walked into West Side
police station. The reincarnation was
in the person of William Peters, 10
years old, an orphan, who. according to
his story, has spent practically all of his
life in public institutions, and, like his
fctional counterpart, was the unwill-
ing accomplice of a modern Fagin.
The boy, clad in the uniform OF
juvenile asylum, and near collapse
from exposure, was picked up by a
patroiman. A collection was taken
up for him among the men on duty
and he was given a hot meal, topped
off with two slices of pie, which he
said was the first he had ever eaten.
He is being held for the Children's
Society.
The youth had walked to New
York and, attracted by the lights of
Broadway, was wandering about
when found. He said that in 1923 a
man TOOK him from a local orphan
age on the strength of fictitious ref
erences.
This man took him to Long Island,
he said; where he and four other boys
were maltreated and compelled to
pick pockets and burglarize homes.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
RUM DEATHS TRIPLED.
Native Americans Hardest Hit,
Chicago Report Shows.

CHICAGO, December 5. Deaths
due to alcohol and deaths in which
alcohol played a part have increased
200 per cent in Cook County (Chi-
cagol in the last three years, accord
ing to DR.. w. d. McNally, coroners s
chemist and member of the Rush
Medical College faculty. Prior TO
1928 most alcoholic deaths were
among the foreign born, but since
then the native born Americans have
been hardest hit, he said.
In 1921 his report showed there
Evening star., 1924-12-05
REFORM GROUP MEETS.

The opening of the meet etings held
annually by the International Re-
form Federation will start here Tues
day. at o'clock, at the headquar-
ters. 206 Pennsylvania avenue south
east. On Wednesday a conference of
officers, trustees and field workers
will be held at the offices.
On the evening of the opening day
a banquet and fellowship hour at
7:45 will be held, with mass meet
ing after the banquet. in the audi
torium. lengthy program has been
arranged.
Evening star., 1924-12-05

needed by the university were
created in four-story buildings.
these buildings would cover the IL
acres. The saving. in land by the
high construction amounts to about
$2,O0O,000. The cost of operating
elevators is largely offset by the
savings in heat, upkeep and janitor
service"
Evening star., 1924-12-05
REDS AWARD CONTRACT.
German Workers to Use Interna-
tional Harvester Plant.

MOSCOW, December 5.-The su-
preme council has concluded an
agreement with a group of German
workers for the manufacture OF
blades and other accessories for
moving machines at a plant of the
International Harvester Co. on the
outskirts of Moscow.
The American plant is one OF the
finest in Russia but has been closed
for the last four years.
Evening star., 1924-12-05
STlTT TO KEEP POST.

President Coolidge today reappoint-
ed Medical Director Edward r. Stttt.
surgeon general and chief of the
Breau of Medicine and Surgery of
the Navy Department.
The President also sent to the Sem
ate by letter the nomination of Col.
Meriwether l. Walker. Corps of Engi-
neers, L. S. A, to be Governor of the
Panama Canal, the latter serving
in the capacity by reason of recess
reappointment made by the President
more than month ago when Gen.
J. j. Morrow resigned as governor.
Before You buy securities from nny
one he sure they are as good as your
Dollars,
Evening star., 1924-12-05

were 168 deaths attributable to alco-
hol: 214 in 1922, and 247 in 1929, COM
pared with Sc in 1918; 81 in 1919, and
20 in 1920. A new alcoholic psyche
Evening star., 1924-12-05

sis has supplanted the old deIirium
tremens due to use of unfermented
liquor with an increase of fusel oil,
he said.
Evening star., 1924-12-05

easy he is until some salesman of
worthless stock or bonds has his
money.