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The First Maine Cavalry A Regiment With a Fighting Record The annual reunion of Co D First Maine Cavalry Veteran Association was overlooked at the time it was held in Ellsworth but it is worth recalling now in connection with the history of this famous regiment The only representa tive present for Waldo county was Abner K Gray of Prospect The meeting was held in Grand Army hail which was dec orated for the occasion with flags and cards bearing the names of 108 battles and engagements which Co D had the proud distinction of being in The First Maine Cavalry saw more fighting than any other cavalry regiment in the service The regiment was organized in the fall of 1861 It was a State regiment the com panies being appointed among the differ ent counties the larger counties being al lowed a company each while of the smaller counties two were allowed a com pany Company D was raised in Wash ington and Hancock counties The reg iment went into camp at Augusta where it spent the long severe winter of 18612 living in Sibley tents banked with snow and heated only by a little stove hung on a
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The Western News AND LIBBY TIMES mg a ifa _ A news item that appeared in the Sunday SpokesmanReview should be an object lesson to the people of this district The item told of the liquidation of the two sawmills of the Panhandl e 1 u mber Company at lone Wash and Spirit Lake Ida a S7000 000 t 1 11 1 The Spint Lake mill Was established in 1906 and the lone mill in 1908 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT LIBBY MONTANA BY THE WESTERN MONTANA PUBLISHING COMPANY INCORPORATED CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager HAROLD HALL Associate Editor Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Montana as second class matter I MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Subscription rates One year 200 SLx months 125 Single Copy 5c THE OFFICIAL PAPER FOR LINCOLN COUNTY One More Object Lesson For This District would buy the mills and operate them as timber holdings in the vi cinity of the plants were not large enough to warrant the venture It is said that closing of the mills will make virtual ghost towns of lone and Spirit Lake lone has approximately 500 residents while Spirit Lake has about 2000 T This is the very
THE WESTERN NEWS Published Every Thursday by the Western Montana Publishing Company Incorporated CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Montana as secondclass matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES 6 mouths 125 Single Copy 6 c i year 200 Member NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and MONTANA STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION iîM by Arthur Brisbane Adopt Adapt Improve Lindbergh Hat a Statue Wall Street Parchesi IFire Minutes From a Doctor Adopt adapt Improve Those three words recommended by the prince of Wales to his fellow coon trymen might well be adopted adapt ed and improved In this country The young prince one of the most nssful hardworking citizens of Great Brltaln said to British Industrtallata We British think we are vary effi cient and we are at the head of the world in lots of things but to keep In tbe van we must be conscious of that very valuable thingthe knowledge that we leam something new every day To put it In three words We must leam to adopt to adapt gnd to Improve We Americans think we are very efficient In fact we are absolutely sure of It But we do not always adopt adapt Improve For
The Western News Published Every Thursday by the Western Montana Publishing Company Incorporated CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Montana as secohdclass matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES 6 months 125 Single Copy 5c 1 year 200 Member NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and MONTANA STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION GOOD WORK BY PUBLir OFFICIALS 1 to call the pul f tho HT HEU K is probably no nee lies attention to tlit fact that one most persistent demands heard these days is to tax reduction y On even hand there is a cry IVo eoniplain about how they paid in taxes and Now look against th mounting cost of government pie eontiuuallt so much five years ag at what I am paying Frequently they forget to take into consideration that the growing de mauds of their community for better schools for sewer systems for eletrie lights in every corner of the city for better sidewalks for oiled streets for modern and gravelled highways are hound to run up these expenses None of them would want to get along without any ofthese conven iences yet they object topaying for them That is one angle of the situation Then 1
THE WESTERN NEWS Published Every Thursday by the Western Montana Publishing Company Incorporated CHAS D ROWE Editor and Manager single Copy 5t Entered at the postoffice at Libby Lincoln County Mon tana as secondclass matter SUBSCRIPTION RATES 6 months 125 1 year 200 Member NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and MONTANA STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION F COURSE there is onlv one thing for LIBBY CITIZENS WILL FAVOR THE PROPOSAL O the taxpayer of Libby to do in re sponse to the city councils announcement of its intention to create ah improvement district for street lighting purposes That is to okeli the proposal The law states the city can levy only 15 mills for general purposes That will not raise enough money to pay for street light ing and meet other absolutely necessary expenses The only solutionunder the lawis the creation of an improvement district for the raising of the needed money for street lighting City officials have given the matter long and serious study and state there is no other way It means practically no increase in tax expense on the whole Under this plan some will probably pay less others will pay more We are confident our city officials know what they
___ SB BELFAST IN 1904 THE JOURNALS ANNUAL REVIEW OE LOCAL EVENTS LOCAL INDUSTRIES Tlie Duplex Roller Bushing Co great ly enlarged its plant and facilities the past year The company bought the Dana building on Front street opposite their machine shop and moved much of the machinery there The wood de partment is on the ground floor on Front street and the machine shop in the basement The foundry is continued in its former location with the added rooms vacated by the machine depart ment A forge shop 45 by 65 feet has been built on the Dana property near the railroad track Tlie office was mov ed from the F A Knowlton store on Main street to the office room in the Dana building The company also bought the D Lane wharf which af fords a good water front privilege The business of the company is steadily in creasing and it is now a rival of the shoe factory as the leading industry of the city Leonard Barrows had an excellent years business at their shoe factory A full crew was given steady employment so much so that even for the necessary shut downs for stock taking the
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The distance and cost of grading is tabulated at the lower right of the map. The area covered is along Mill Creek and from the Lancaster Pike to Schuylkill River.
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Outline map of the southern states showing the railroad network.
Company organizational diagrammatic map drawn in the form of a branching tree that identifies in its branches all of the functional offices of the railroad by name. Shows railroad trackage branches as straight lines radiating from the central office of the "Gen'l Sup't". The branches extend from New York (State) westward thru northern New Jersey and northern Pennsylvania to Lake Erie. "Published by permission." LC copy imperfect: Use-worn, brittle, fold-lined, torn, missing sections along the margins. LC copy annotated in ink handwriting in lower margin: 18[4?]. Deposited in Clerk's Office So. Dist. N.Y. May 30,1856. Includes text, note, legend of symbols, and statistical table of "Number of offices and employés classed". Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.