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The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-02-07
Mrs. MalOn Patterson OF Scion

The funeral of Mrs. Malon Patterson
was held at her home on Pleasant
street, Scion, Friday, January %,
under the direction of J. p. Murray OF
North Arson. The services were
conducted by her pastor, the Rev.
John Sherburne of the NJ L. Church
He spoke beautifully and sympathetic
cally of the tender and harmonious
relationship existing between husband
and wife in the home. during long
union of more than forty-three years;
of her devotion to the brothers and
sister. and other members of her fam
lily; of her helpful service to all her
friends, and her loyalty to the church
of her choice. He adapted most
appropriately that passage of Scrip
ture, "She has fought a good fight.
she finished her course, she has kept
the faith"
Surrounded by those who loved her
best. among the many beautiful
flowers which were the last tribute Of
affection from relatives, friends and
the various organizations of which
she was a member. she lay at rest,
with a look of such ecstatic happiness
upon her face, that it seemed, with the
last heetng breath of this life, she
must have caught a glimpse of the
joys beyond, and the faces of the loved
ones waiting to welcome her home
The pail bearers were Ernest Paul,
Mother French, Fred Magoon. and
Wright Cram. The interment was
in the village cemetery.
Emily S. Whipple was born in Scion,
Nov 5, 1916. She was educated in
the public schools of this town and
the greater part of her life was spent
here. She was married to Malon
Paterson, March %, 1879. No child
rem were born of this union, and the
mother love, instinct in every true
woman. was lavished upon her hus-
band, and the many nieces and
nephews who learned to look to her
for help in hours of difficulty or
trouble. She was a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to which
she was always most faithful. She
was member of keystone Chapter
of the Eastern Star. of Northern Light
Rebekah Lodge, and of the Abigail
Chamberlain Whipple Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
in all of which organizations she had
held the highest Offices Her death
occurred Jan. %. 1924, after a two
weeks illness of pneumonia She is
survived by her husband. Malon Pat
terson, four brothers, Charles. Ernest
and Osmer Whipple of Scion, Sum
ner Whipple of Puyallup. Washington
and a sister, Alberta Whipple, also Of
Scion. She will be mouEned by a
large circle of relatives and friends
and her loss will be deeply felt in
this community, \ devoted wife
a loving sister, loyal friend and
neighbor, no greater eulogy is needed
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-02-07
Road Conditions

Automobiling has still continued
good up until yesterday, even in the
country districts and between here
and WaterVillc. Orrin Packard driv-
er of public car, returned from
Wateryille Tuesday evening but sal >
that if he had been an hour later, he
could not have gotten through In
places the road had been badly drifted
Yesterday afternoon before we went
to press. we learned that Charles
Smith would attempt the journey,
however. Cars can get from here to
Lakewood and are still being used
around the village. While the snow
storm was not blocking one, it was
pede automobile traffic.
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Scion depot. Herbert Boardman is
cutting and hauling pine logs to Oral
Harville's mill.
Lyman Turcotte has been In Port
land this week, where he plans to
move his family In a. few days.
Mrs. Gertrude Turcotte is gaining
slowly, not being able to do any work
yet
Bernard Gardiner was calling in
town Sunday.
j Mr.. Langley who lives on the White
place was at home sick last week
from Foss' mill where he works.
Mrs. Myron Loomis is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson Holm
berg for a few weeks.
D-Dressmaking and sew
ing of all kinds. Mrs. Eva Baker
and Mrs. Maude Hodgdon. Work
done at Mrs. Bakers home.
EAST SoLON
Austin Taylor was a caller in Emb-
den Sunday.
Luther Albee and Tom Perkins
loaded car with pulp wood for Tom
Fox Saturday.
Annie Keinz and Mrs. Clare French
were visitors in Scion one day this
week
Miss Harwood. the helping teach
er, was a visitor in the Franklin
school this week. Also Mrs. Les
ter Chase was a visitor in school.
Ethel and Clayton French have re-
turnad IN school having recovered
from the pink eye.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Vannah of
Boston are visiting her mother, Mrs.
James Lobdell.
Lester Chase was a caller in Scion
Saturday.
Ruth Albee spent the week end at
home from Athens Academy.
Ralph Foss was a business caller
in Skowhegan one day this week.
Franklin school kept Saturday to
make up for Monday, the cold day.
Mrs. Lester Chase was business
caller in Skowhegan one day this
week
Will Hunnewell is hauling cord
wood to Skowhegan with four horse
team
Mont Collins was caller in East
Scion Saturday.
Wayne and Bin McCollar are leav-
where they will attend an automobile
school.
Fred Mann of Vassalboro has
been visiting his daughter, Mrs. Clar-
ence Forbus.
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The Late Miss Grace GetcheIl

Miss Grace A. Getchell. the twenty
year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Getchell of Fairfield, who has
been i'll for long time passed away
January 80 at the sanitorium. after
bearing her Illness most patiently and
heroically to the end.
Miss Getchell graduated from Wat
erville high school in the class of
1921. She was an active member of
the Getchell Street Free Baptist
Church and a devoted yorker there
until her failing health compelled her
to give up
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CORNVILLE

Ben Judkins is cutting ice at NAL
bon's Mills.
DR.. Richardson was in town Sun
day.
Otto Fleweling and wife passed the
week end in town.
Mildred Smith and Arthur Moody
students of the Skowhegan high
school, spent the week end at their
homes.
Maurice Malbon's teams are haul
ing wood from the Walton & Fall lot
Eugene Could is hauling wood for
Thomas Fox from West Athens.
Mathew Thompson lost horse re
Gently
Frank B. Hamlin is very i'll at this
writing.
Clifton Amazeen who has been
pressing hay in Clinton, is at home
for a week.
d. NJ. Bean lost COW recently
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HINCkLEY

DIR. Ethel H. Walters was an over
night guest in town Monday.
Misses Abbie and Georgia Morrow
recently presented the Good Will
schools with a set of six very fine
pictures. They are Shakespearian
scenes and therefore were placed in
the English recitation room in the
Charles +. Moody building. The gift
was much appreciated.
H. l.. Ames. foreman of the Show
hogan r. R. section. was a business
caller In town Thursday.
The Kennebecside Club was enter
tanned at Ryerson Hall, Saturday af-
ternoon, Rev. G. w. Hinckley being
the speaker. He took for his subject
How to Appreciate Pictures show
ing in illustration beautiful Oil
Dainting recently present to Good
Will Refreshments we're served and
pleasant afternoon passed.
Rev. G. W. Hinckley has returned
from New York where he went to give
an address at the annual reunion of
the Boy Conservation Bureau. The
meeting was held at the headquarters
of the Automobile Club of North
America. A. B. Leach, president of
the Bureau called the meeting to or
der and asked Edward Danielson of
Newark, n. J., former Good Will
boy, to preside. Three of the five
young men who constituted the or
chestra for the occasion were former
Good Will boys, as were also, the vo-
cal soloist, the violin soloist. The
last number on the program was
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Former Sk0Yhegan Man Baseball
Coach in Pasadena

SkoWhegan acquaintances of Wilkie
Clark will be interested to learn that
he is a baseball coach for Occidental
College in Pasadena, Cal, assuming
his duties on February 18th Mr..
Clark has coached the baseball team
at this school before in 1911 and 1912
when they won the championship
He left for California on January II
and is at present at Hollywood Mr..
Clark is a graduate of University Of
Maine and has coached baseball
teams for about twenty years.
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EAST MADISON

Saturday, February 9th, is the Attn
anniversary of East Madison Grange
and there will be an all day meeting
with an oyster stew dinner. Those
serving on the dinner committee are
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Reed, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. B. Hobart and Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Roderick.
There is to be an old fashioned
dance at the East Madison Grange
Hall, Saturday night,
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CONCORD

Mrs. Dolly Dyer of Madison is Wis
ting her parents Mr.. and Mrs. LEV
ellyn Church.
Little Amber Stewart is spending a
few days with her grandmother, Mrs.
Elfin Berry.
The farmers on the river road have
been getting their years supply OF
ice.
John Hunnewell has sold his farm
which he bought last fall, the Roman
dell Chase farm.
Llewelyn Church cut and hauled
his ice last week.
Tom Bgelow is up on Bluff haul
ing pulp wood for Frank f. Trip and
boarding with Mr., and Mrs. Joe Hag-
land.
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WATER EN-.
FORCED |DLENESS
Effect on Industries In
Kennebec Valley
Mill Operations Greatly Affected from
Madison TO Augusta Says
DIR. Smith

Another III a series Of letters writ
ten by DR.. George Otis Smith of the
L. S. Geological Survey. Washington
and Skowhegan, to Chairman Quincy
of the Public Utilities Commission of
Maine, on the water power questions
deals specifically with facts concern
ing conditions in the Kennebec Val
ley.
DR.. Smith in his message says:
Il believe | have somewhat of an
established reputation as conserva-
ZIONIST; at least in some parts of the
west I've accused, and accused in
language more vehement than polite,
of belonging to that school of thought.
But, like some other people, when
subscribe to the conservation articles
of faith l want to give my own defni-
ton of conversation Nonuse of
natural resources is not Away con
servation, and nonuse of water power
is ever conservation; on the contrary,
conservation and utilization of water
power sites go together ConserYa-
ton is not a matter of politics but
rather a matter of economies. The
question involved in the conservation
of water power is not so much who
develops the power as whether or
not it is developed at all and TO what
use it is put if developed.
Putting our Maine rivers to their
best use, then, means developing each
power site to its full capacity as soon
as the market can be found fer the
energy thus made available. There
by we will help to conserve those
sources of energy that. unlike our riY-
ers, are exhausted by use, such as
the coal mines and the oil wells.
Maine is selfshly interested in con-
serving the coal supplies OF Pennsyl-
yania and West Virginia because with
the gradual depletion of those sup
plies the price OF coal will go up. The
electricity generated last year at the
hydro-stations of the Maine public uti-
lities alone saved the burning Of a
trihe more than half a million tons
of soft coal. With all our Maine
water powers fully deVeioped-and
of course it is not practicable to de-
yelop them all today-the coal saved
would be perhaps 5la million tons a
year. This is the measure Of Maine S
wealth in white coal when il can
be put at work.
"Rut leaving this discussion of
"futnres" LOT ms come down tn Vhat
we are now losing Inv NOT making the
hest use of our rivers possibly in
an earlier letter. failed to put
enough emnbasis nm the need nj some
added storage on these rivers af tho
present time Iast Summer for ev-
annie, we needed more water Ia turn
the wheels already installed IN the
Kennebac win cortain facts of en-
forced idIeness in mind il can he
shown that - do-nothing reservoir
policv sounds more like politics than
like economics ar pood businass II
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record Of coming events called a Flu
ture Book" This IS always at the
service Of the public. II you are
planning q function in which con-
siderable number Of Skowhegan peo-
pie expect to participate, you should
consult this book It will aid you
TO find an open date. To make this
record fully useful to yourself and
others you should claim a date as far
in advance as possible and see that
the entry Is made in our Future
Book"
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The Trafton Bros. have many teams
hauling pulp to Harmony.
Alfred Washburn and Wilfred Nc
Pherson are at work for NJ. Bonneau
on the Googin lot.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. J. Whitehouse and
little Ruth of Belgrade visited his pa
rents over Sunday. returning to Bel
grade, Monday morning.
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Basket Ball Friday Night

Tomorrow evening at 730 the boys
basket ball team of s. Fl. S. will meet
the boys team of Hartland Academy
in Heselton Hall in a game to deter
mine the championship of Somerset
County. The local X. of c. team will
also play the American Legion at this
time.
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where he has been most successful
in the lumber business He is the
son of the late John and Caroline
Gray. Mr. Gray is married but has
no children.
He writes
Gardiner, Oregon,
Jan. 23rd, 1924.
Dear Cousin Webster
1t was with much pleasure that l
received your good letter, and also
TO note the fact that you were in
good health, / am enjoying very good
health, am able to get about and do
quite bit of work, but this winter
am keeping pretty near the fire. My
wife has been in rather poor health
the past year, and two months ago
she had a very i'll turn, but is better
now. Am in hopes she will continue
10 improve to warmer weather. She
is always better in the summer
months. You mention that we are
getting to be old men. | would say
we are, and it doesn't seem as though
we had been very long doing it.
will be Is my next birthday, which is
nearly ten years older than my father
was at his death In looking over
the old family record, | find that one
of the uncles in the Gray family lived
to be past 20 and your mother and
aunt Christania Daggett were the only
two that lived to eighty years of age.
You and do not belong to a long life
race, although our mothers lived TO
a good old age.
l receive letters from Lottie quite
frequently. My last one reported
them both we'll You and your both
er John must be quite lonely living
all alone, but possibly that is better
than living in dissensfon and turmoil.
We have very good woman working
for us. She is very capable and takes
full charge of the work. The good
wife has no worry or care whatever.
We are having very little winter. The
last of December we had one week of
what we call winter weather here. One
morning the mercury dropped to 20
above zero. and it showed here. about
three inches. 1t was mere slush and
melted nearly as fast as it came. 1t
is warm and foggy this morning, just
such weather as the native Oregonan
likes Remember me to John, and
write me again sometime.
J. SHERMAN GRAY
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School Songs" and these proved to
be Good Will songs sung by chorus
Of nine young men who were once
Good VIII boys.
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Observation-Disclosures $500 year.
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Former Embden Man Now In Oregon

The letter published herewith was
recently received by Webster Nutting
of the Madison road and Is from his
cousin, J. Sherman Gray of Gardiner,
Oregon. Mr. Gray was native Of
Embden and left that town twenty
five or thirty years ago for Oregon,
where he has been most successful
in the lumber business. He is the
son of the late John and Caroline
Gray. Mr.. Gray is married but has
no children.
He writes:
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OUTING TO CLOSE
ELKS CONVENTION
SheIbyviIIe Man Elected
State President.
BV Times SpecinI

81 W6d Sp6ClUt
TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Aug. 81
An all-day outing today marked tho
close of the two-day session Of In
diana Elks, in State convention here.
Business session was held on Tues
day, at which time Valparaiso was
chosen for the 1925 convention, and
Garner R Fleming of Shelhyvills
was elected president
Other officers chosen were William
E. Hendrick, Terre Haute, Dr. F. j.
McMichaol, Gary, and John C. Hamp-
ton, Muncie, vice president; Don
Altman, Noblesville, secretary;
George S Green, Mt Vernon, treas
uere; Julius Abe, Valparaiso, and
Joseph Getz, Fl. Wayne, trustees.
Appointments were made by Presi~
dent Fleming as follows: Charles P.
Nuppnau, Gary, chaplain; Charles
Breedemus, South Bend, sergeant-at-
arms, and Roy White Of Evansville,
tyler.
District presidents were chosen as
follows: ]. S. Bartholomew, Valpa-
raise; S. P. Carney, Ligonier; Rich
ard Carter of Lafayette; r. NJ. Mo-
WITT of Garrett; Frank Finey, Mar
tinsville; J. A Whalen, Crawfords-
vile; Ralph Cuisine of Washington;
Michael Thornton of New Albany;
John Michael Of Connersville; W. W.
Bray of Noblesville, and H. L.
Bayles of Vincennes.
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Lesh Supports Him

Generals Eli Stansbury in 1919 and
L. s. Lesh last March that the whole
Of both funds is available for his use
and that legislative appropriation is
superfiuOus- If Bracken asks for an
opinion from Lesh he viii probably
get the same answer. Unless he
abides by the opinion Of Lesh, Mile
probably will institute mandarin
proceedings to collect the salaries 70.
his staff
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that our anti-lobby law was finally
enacted. The Wisconsin statute re-
quires all lobbyists or representa-
tives, employed and paid for their
services. to register themselves in
the office Of the secretary of State,
specifying the character of their en-
ployment, and by whom employed.
The statute prohibits such lobby
agents or counsel from having any
private communication with mem
bers Of the Legislature upon any
subject OF legislation. The lobby is
given the widest opportunity to pre-
sent publicity to legislative commit
tees or to individual members of the
Legislature written or printed argu-
ments in favor Of or opposed to any
proposed legislation; provided. how
ever. that copies Of such written or
printed arguments shall be first filed
in the Office Of the secretary Of
State.
This law rests upon the principle
that legislation is public business
and that the public has a right to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-08-27
POLICE HOLD YOUTH
John r. Savage Charged with
Stealing New Roadster.

John r. Savage. 81, of 924 Fletcher
Ave, is held today on a charge of
stealing a new roadster from the c.
II. Wallerich Company, June 2S.
Savage is alleged to heve tried to
have tried to dispose of the car at
Greenville and left the car there
when suspicioned. Detectives Ian
ders and Rugenstein arrested Saw
age Tuesday afternoon at Tenth St.
and Capitol Ave.
Oscar williams, colored, 1915 Co
lumbia Ave. charged with robbery
of D. L. White Drug Store, 1915 T..
Sixteenth st. is held.
Frank N. Nogle, 922 E. Tenth St,
an employee Of the Fletcher Ameri-
can Bank has confessed stealing a
package containing $50 from the
emergency safe, July 81. Detectives
said.
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Here's Song of Three Fishers Who Went Sailing
Because Men Must Work and Women Must Weep

Night I Cry Myself to Sleep
Over You"
There's Yes, Yes in Your Eyes"
and THAT Lullaby Strain, -
Fox Trots.
Where the Lazy Daisies Grow"
and Don't Mind the Rain. -
Fox Trots.
Herman Ostheimer plays Prelude
&C Sharp Minor" Rachmaninoff)
and ITO Spring" on a new Green
Label Gennett record.
Attractions on view today in
theaters include: "Step-Along," at
the Broadway; Fast Steppers," at
the Capitol Dance Revelations" at
the Lyric; Elizabeth Brice at the
Palace; Secrets" at the Circle;
Monsieur Beaucaire," at the Ohio;
"a Woman Who Sinned," at the
Apollo; ION Time" at the Isis and
Flaming Passions" at Mister
Smiths.
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us where we were obliged TO take
orders in the caucus, but they cans
watch us in the election The Aus
tralian ballot will give us chance. p"
In some cases where the labor
vote was very heavy the employers
allowed La Toilette delegates to be
elected and afterward gave them
the alternative Of losing their jobs
or violating their political faith.
In Eau Claire County we met with
an example. We had. there very
strong supporter who came to us
and told Us exactly his situation.
He said he had been threatened with
loss of his job if he voted for me
in the convention, and while it would
be a'great hardship for him to lose
his position, he could not reconcile
himself to obey their orders.
We found that we could spare mis-
vote and save his job, so he voted
against Us, with our full under
standing of the reason.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc)
Continued in Our Next Issue)
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= ELODY and tragedy haunt
L- women have captured the
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Committees Control

The life of a Congressman. a Sena-
tor, is a busy one: he is worked
early and late, and in some measure
he must depend for the details Of
legislation upon the committees ~ep-
pointed for the purpose Of perfect
ing the legislation.
We spend a vast sum OF money to
print a Congressional Record in or
der that the public may be made &C
auainted with the conduct Of their
business, and then we transact the
most important of the business be-
hind the locked doors of a commit
Zee room. The public believes that
the Congressional Record tells the
complete story. when it is in reality
only the final chapter.
Our Progressive cause in Wiscon-
sin has always been supported by
what is more technically called the
labor vote.
Many years ago, in Wisconsin. II
was customary, shortly before cleo
ton, for the bosses to distribute four
or five thousand dollars among GER
a tetlil VI Lllc OIi~ilill6 ldDOI ItdNtIS,
who were expected thereafter to de
liver the labor vote to the Repub-
lican ticket.
1 have heard IT said many times
back in those years "Oh, never mind
about the labor vote; Payne will take
care of that"
When we began our fight on the
bosses they resorted to their usual
methods of influencing the labor
leaders. The railroads and the big
shippers also tried actively to vote
their employees against me, but after
we had begun to be successful, we
/ got more and more of their support.
/ This was noticeable in the cam
/ paign Of 1902. In our great crucial
campaign of 1904, this effort to in
f1uence the labor vote reached it's
height. 1t was the final struggle.
Congressman Babcock personally
called upon large employers of labor
and urged them either to prevent
their men going to the caucuses to
vote for La Toilette or else to devise
means Of controlling the caucuses.
In number of cases railroad men
were notified to be at the roundhouse
or shop at a given time when the
superintendent would arrive in a
! special car to address them.
Prepared Ballots
The talk was something like this:
1t is to our intrest and therefore
! to yours that this man La Toilette
be defeated for nomination. Your
bread and butter depends on your
standing by the railroads at the
caucuses."
And when the caucuses were held,
division superintendent and other
officials often stood at the entrance
to the voting places and handed spe-
cially prepared ballots to the rail-
road employees as they came up to
vote.
But in spite of all these efforts
[ always felt, in fact knew, that l
had the sympathy of these employees.
Several times in the campaign which
followed this desperate attempt to
control the caucuses have I had a
conductor, as he was taking my
ticket, lean down and whisper:
Its all right. Governor; they had