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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

-l'pnents of potatoes from Aroostook
-u " to July 10th aggregated 1854, 100
., W about 81 per cent of the entire po-
...v Of Maine. Penobscot, Piscataquis
.e5 tut their aggregate yield was less than
.-i ,5nt of the entire crop, This year if
st rs are favorable these figures will be
-a1at changed, as in all the counties there
a.e- 2 largely increased acreage. 1t is
-,.a5 nat in Aroostook county enough
tas .anted to raise 100000 bushels of
.-.a- uut the early spring rains ruined
he seed potatoes, and after the early
,u. we're fairly started continued wet
cr.r -etarded their growth and interfered
alton. Potato bugs We're plen-
ne early potatoes, calling for con-
-sying but the later maturing tubers
H.- ueen so badly affected. Continued
.her will seriously shorten this crop,
..eb our Maine farmers realized last
-.s aen 100000 and $10,000,000. The
unercial we'll says:
p ne experiment station, through its
he method of growing the potato
work of Director Woods for the
.. OF a dozen years, has taught the
a Maine more than they could ever
=d Of themselves, about the potato,
and how to prevent the disease of
and rot from demolishing the crop.
a Jation has taught the farmers of
.-, county alone about spraying the
event blight, has saved the farmers
.. -e county more than ten times what
.. has spent for the administration of
>-a university at Orono, ever since its
ent.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29
Concerning Crops.

~. tas been delayed this year by the
nd heavy showers and the Catchy
lut farmers have been no losers
s the grass, scanty on old fields, has
b keued thereby. Indeed, last week,
H fl July, the country was looking as
i Ereen as in June. Although the re-
-erally have indicated a short hay crop
nave said only half a crop-the opti-
ntend that we shall have at least an
rop. A recent visitor to Belfast who
ross the State by train from Portland
IL. the best looking grass fields he had
in Waldo county, and in the vicinity
Here and there in the country may
.ean-shaven fields, but the percentage
. rho finished haying before the middle
Is small.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

anberry season practically closed last
las been an exceptionally favorable
lovers. The retail price started at
.- soon dropped to two boxes for 25
j price was steadily maintained
-4rday, when Is cents was asked.
N-'~Ies for preserving were sold at 10
roN When local dealers were buy
at 10 cents, growers realized 13
rom shipments. A. B. Stantial of
gu 6ed 1900 boxes from two acres.
ro have made this 10000 boxes and
done so but for the poor yield from
-eties. He will try for 10000 boxes
a- but doubts if we shall have such
hons as attended this years crop
tart. In setting, the plants took
aere were no gaps in the rows. When
a'- we're we'll started drouth caused
ll. out fruit buds in place of foliage
Editions were just right at the period
aarun When the crop was coming to
ire frequent showers were just what
-.rH. Last year drouth when the ber-
rs ripening materially shortened the
Nr Ntantial uses one ton of commercial
.r l8 the acre in addition to farm dress
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

Capt. r. B. Cummings. retired ship master.
died at his home in Prospect, July Goth, aged 81
years. He is survived by widow and by two
brothers, Capt. George NJ. Cummings of Bangor
and Capt: William Cummings of Snug Harbor,
Staten Island, n. Y, and by many friends, who
extend sympathy to the bereaved.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

Bs--@ =. Hillman of Troy, says in The
a9e'igr Cultivator of July Oath:
aa.'- Is now well under way. On some
2a iaIms the crop has been harvested. The
@9f ~ he lighter than usual, but what has
+fr a-r to the barns was got in good con-
@co9 ham is needed to help the growing
'ops 4l again start the feed in the pastures.
K aas teeH estimated that three times as many
FaJo5- IS ever before, and twice as many
r. vi grain and other crops, have been plant
y al winch are now growing well and look
~ lna5. Apples set well. and the present
-q aaao> are that there will be an average
S;oP |ts majority of the farmers started in
sprrg 10 do much more in the poultry
.snesa than ever before, but nearly every
.q Ia. had rather poor luck. For some reason
aas' .=su hard for the little chicks to get out
s,ae shalls, and many died while in the shells,
,'le others were weak and died while small
81 ~. general thing, those which manage to live
ae ape of three weeks thrive well and seem
be .~ong and healthy. More geese and
,[hey' also are being raised than for many
S'N Wages are good, ranging from $l,25 to
( yer ia according to the kind of work to
lone
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29
rE9>rtCr FERRY.


8. a +.Ee ,umber of people from this place
tl- ne funeral of Mrs. M f. C. Libby
ola4ay, Mrs Libby had host of friends
'rnity, and the family have the SYM
~ 4 Them all in their great loss. ... Albert
7} AID wife of Bangor visited Mr. and Mrs.
h. 5-rg last Saturday and Sunday. -. Per-
''- Harilng Of Worcester, Mass, arrived on
day boat to visit his wife and little
'a-gh,er, Elinor Mrs. W. C. Harding
-F5 III for several days last week At
n wiring she is much better. She is attend
lr Walton of Frankfort -. Frank Hard
g, several days last week. Capt w.
%hlle his vessel sch. Jacob M. Haskell,
ga,,a aarglng coal at Portsmouth, N H..
S'ef Harold Grant is visiting his grand
|S Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Hartman. -.
ana Mrs. j. G. James of Bangor visited
Ssss 9s Hannah and Ellen Heagan and Mrs. M.
Enit Vgheld several days last week. Miss
enEy Wilson returned to her home in New
srt' ston Conn, on last Saturdays boat. Geo.
y! ol Boston spent Saturday and Sunday
S.55 'ohysde with his wife,. The Misses
ls,t3{ and Dorothy Darkham and Arthur
N Nila'a Nu'a and Miss Clark of Winterport called
D,f fnS. Jessie Harding last Sunday Henry
Lynn, Mass, is visiting Alvah Berry.
sSTear sUscar Thomas of Lynn, Mass, is visiting
lbianr yslde for two weeks. -. Mr.. and Mrs.
" IN r, ,Hoodhue, who have been stopping at
J5' harriman's while Mr. G. was doing the
nrnno5' hg on P. M. Ginn's new house, have ret
Gs,5yu 70 their home in Stockton. :. .Albers
ff5;aaef and sister Flora of Stockton and Miss
asrr4;se scott Of Kingman, Me-, called at w. D
'''ishs last Sunday.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

DR.. Robert B. Patterson, who died in East
port July 10Th, after nearly so years in the
practice of dentistry in that city, at the age of
SO years, was one of family of 10 children,
born to MIR. and Mrs. James Patterson of Bucks
port, who owned and occupied the homestead
and farm now occupied by Frank c. Perkins,
one and one-half miles out on the shore road
leading to Bangor. DR. Patterson is survived
by his widow, Mrs. Jennie S. Patterson, ,and one
sister, Julia E. Patterson of Boston.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29

FRENCH PIERCE. Mrs. Leola Augusta Peirce,
nee West of Boston, formerly of Belfast, was
married recently in Boston to William Carleton
French, master of schools in Pawtucket, R. 1.
The wedding was very quiet affair and pri-
vate. They will live in Pawtucket. Mrs. French
is very well remembered here where her girl
hood was spent and where her mother, Mrs.
Ella West and sister Miss Edith West now live.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-07-29


in Nassau, N. P, and on leaving there enjoyed
four weeks yachting cruise with friends in
Cuban waters, calling at various ports and
visiting the interior. On the way home he
spent week in New York and two weeks in
Boston. He has now opened his studio in this
city.
Mrs. Ira M. Cobe of Chicago and Mr.. and
Mrs. Austin w. Keating of Belfast, who are
spending the summer at Bohemia on the
South Shore, Northport left on last Thurs
days boat for Boston en- route to New
York city. They will go up the Hudson river
to Albany, where they will be joined by Mr..
Cobe and will re turn to Maine in their touring
car via the White Mountains.
The relatives of Capt. George W. Chase, who
died recently in Callao, Peru, have been advis-
ed that his death was due to heart failure. He
had been in his usual health, but in the night
complained of a severe pain in his side and a
physician was summoned, but he was beyond
medical aid and death soon followed Mrs.
Chase and her daughter and husband are ex-
pected to arrive here about the Goth of August
Ernest S. Webber, son of Mr. and Mrs
C. S. Webber of Bell street, has just received
notification from the Maine State Board OF
Dentistry that he successfully passed the ex-
aminations and is now a full fedged dentist
DIR. Webber was graduated from the Belfast
High school in the class of '05, and was a most
popular member. He then went to the Phila-
delphia college for a year and for the past two
years has attended the Harvard Dental college
in Boston, completing his course in June. Fol-
the present he will be with DR.. William C.
Libby, Howes block, Main street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
GOVERNMENT STOVE
EXPLODES IN P. 0.
Fate Makes no Distinction
in Personages Whom
It Visits.
ACCIDENT At EAST CHICAGO
SCOT and Dirt Cover Floor, Desk
Tables and MaiEDavis Has
Narrow Escape.
Especial TO THE T1MEs.)

East Chicago. Ind, March 27.-That
even government officials can some
times be visited by the petty domestic
Affections which the unappointed are
compelled to bear. was demonstrated
yesterday at the postoffce. The stove
pipe and chimney, not having as strong
a pull as Nose Specter enjoyed last
winter, refused to do duty altogether.
with the result that the stove became
filed with coal gas and blew up.
The jar OF the explosion so shocked
the stovepipe that it dropped from its
exalted station just missing Deputy
Postmaster Thomas Davis by an eye
lash. It was the same eyelash that
would droop last winter when any
one asked him who he thought would
be the next assistant postmaster. Aft
er the excitement had somewhat sub
sided and the young lady clerks had
sent home for dust rags to wear over
their heads and aprons 20 protect their
dresses the work of cleaning OF the
mail began. While the girls were at
this work a number of male recruits
were hastily summoned and under the
critical supervising eye of Postmaster
Nose Specter. the task of rehabilttat-
ing the stove and stovepipe was be-
gun.
BY noon everything had been put tc
rights again and things at the post
office went along just as smoothly as
though there had never been clos
put in one of the wheels Of the gov
ernmental machinery
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
REMODEL GARY BUILDING
Proprietors Desire to Give
Tenants a Broadway
Entrance.

The contract has been let by the own
ers Of the Gary building, corner of
Fifth avenue and Broadway, for an
alteration TO be made in the structure
which will be a great improvement over
the present arrangement. The change
Will be in putting in Broadway en-
trance to the second floor OF the build
ing.
The Gary building was one of the
largest IN the city. but it has not been
as popular as other office buildings for
the reason that the only access to the
building was from Fifth avenue. This
seriously inconvenienced the tenants OF
the building.
The work on the alteration will be.
gin the first of April and the work
will be done by Schillinger Brothers
Construction company. The entrance
will be put in through the store room
of the II. H. Highlands Plumbing com.
pany. The stairway will occupy but
small part Of the store-room how
ever. and Mr.. Highlands space will
be materially reduced. The altering Of
the building will be completed in {
few days.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
GRANTED
TO INDIANIANS

Washington. March 26. Patents
have been issued to Indianians as fol-
lows: A. Buscher, Munoie, combination
stakeholder: A. Altstsfer. Huntington,
escape; J. B. Dunkae, Veedersburg.
refrigerator; ]. NJ Fellows, Burlington,
tire bolt; B. P. Gilmour and T. r.
Passolt. West Terre Haute. railway
frog; G. F. Hartley. Muncie, wood
steaming apparatus; o. l. Kesley, Cen
ter Point. trip device for clover seed
punches; w. K. Koontz. Bloomington,
detachable calk: C. NJ. Maddux, Muncie,
gauger for the spacing apart of con-
crete building blocks; o. N Moore,
indianapolis. daylight holding envelope
for Photographic plates; II. w. Neal,
indianapolis safe; S. Richardson. Hoov-
er. road scraper or grader; P. E. Kicker,
Alexandria. dumping wagon bed; J. B.
Schuman, Indianapolis, shock handling
attachment for crop treating machines;
R. and F. B. Shaw. Warsaw. track
aHgning apparatus; D. H. Talbert, In
diana polls, game apparatus; Nj. s
Woelfel, South Bend, composition of
matter and tempering same.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
LACE CURTAINS
STRICTLY HAND WORK
& REASONABLE PRICES
c. 0. D. Laundry
261 Sibley ST., Phone 81
Hammond
3 READ Is
II E a IT H Y

That is, good bread is a
healthy diet and it is the
very best food for every
member of the family. It is
cheaper than meat and it is
safer. But this is not the
case with poor bread, which
your physician will tell you,
is a dangerous food for the
stomach. However, we have
good bread in Hammond
and among the reliable bak-
cries is that Of F. 9. Diet
rich, whose bakery is To-
Gated at 268 East State
street and where may be
found at all times a particu-
larly fine line of bakery
goods. Phone 1921.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
COLLINS RUNS AMUCK
IN A SALOON
Telephone Employe Uses Pliers as
Instrument of Warfare and Plays
Heck With French Bevel Plate
Glass-Is Afterwards Taken to
Crown Point Jail.
Especial to THE T1Mns)

East Chicago, March 27.-Mayor De-
Braie yesterday assessed the heaviest
fine that he has ever levied since he
has been in office. The fine amounted
to $40 and this, with the costs tackled
onfi swelled the sum total to $3.50.
The victim OF the fine was one John
Collins. of $500 State street, Chicago.
who has been employed as an cleo
trician by the telephone company IN
Gary. The victim of Collins was Phil
Commodore, who runs saloon In For
syth avenue.
A Male Carrie Nation.
Collins appears to be a He-Carrie
Nation. At least his idiosyncrasy like
hers is to smash saloons. The only
difference is in the motive Carrie
smashed EN- because she didn't want
liquor sold, while Collins smashes only
these which decline to serve him with
drinks.
Collins had drawn his pay and had
inbibed generously of hot rebellious
liquor before he landed somewhat I'M
steadily before the Commodore bar.
Nick Commodore, a brother of the
proprietor, was in charge, and MOTTO
lAS his OuSNOlnCA COAAOlNAOAS SaS CSNCO
that Collins be on his way. Collins
left the place without ado. but subse-
quently returned after brooding some
what over the insult that he had been
offered his capacity.
Wrecks the Establishment.
So when the bartender again refused
to serve him, his withdrawal was char
acterized by doins which resulted in
] IEeI
ment No sooner had Collins gotter
outside the partition, which separates
the bar from the vestibule, than he
produced a pair of pliers with which
he began to do business.
The glass in the partition was the
first to claim his attention. After hi
had broken two panes in this, he at
tackled a 5x1O plate glass window ant
smashed it to smithereens. Next II
order was the plate glass door. The
frame of this supported a Ski lighf
of beveled French plate, until Collin:
got busy with his pliers. Since ther
1t has had some difficulty in support
ing itself. and there is not a vestig,
of glass left in it.
4 Gathers Him In.
Collins then betook himself to tn,
saloon of Sam Cohen across the street
While here Of11cer John Thompson, whC
in the meantime had been notified o
Collins beligerent qualities and alsC
of his whereabouts, by Nick Comma
dore, swooped down upon him ant
gathered him in. Mayor DeBFaie die
the rest. AS Collins could not paI
the fine he will have ample time t.
consider the wisdom of a future quie
life, behind the bars at Crown Point.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
LAUNCH
FIGHT IN MARION COUNTY

trict superintendent. of the league. says
ne will not even sign one of the petit
tions for an election, but that he will
do all he can to make It win since the
prohibitfonists have started the thing.
Means Life or Death to Brewers.
Marion county is believed to be not
ready for such an election. If the To-
cal option movement goes ahead the
brewers viii make their greatest hght
in this county, for # means life or
death to TAO saloons and possibly to two
or three breweries in which hundreds
of thousands of dollars are invested. It
Will mean a bitter campaign in every
sense of the word, and 1t is feared by
the Anti League and others that the
prohibitionists will not be able to carry
the campaign TO a successful end That
is why failure is predicted.
The main thing that has caused the
Anti Saloon League to worry over the
situation is the fact that If the pro-
hibitionists are able to bring on the
election and the county should vote
itself wet no other local option cleo
ton could be held in Marion county
for period of two years. This would
mean another two years OF saloons. The
officers of the league feel that II the
election in this county could be de-
layed for another year 1t would stand
much better chance of being carried
by the drys than If it is held within
the next two months.
At the End of .'avery'' string.
But the fact is that the local option
forces are about to the end OF their
easy" string OF counties. and from
now on they will have to fight for the
counties that they carry. A map of the
wet and dry counties in the state shows
that there are still thirty wet coun-
ties in the state, but it also shows
that most OF them are counties in
which the result of an election is a
doubtful matter For instance, we ind
In the list Lake, Laporte. St Joseph
Allen, Cass, Tippecanoe, vigo, Marion
Delaware, Madison, Knox, Wander
burgh, Dubois Perry. Harrison, Floyd
| Clark, Jennings and Jefferson. These
are counties in which it is doubtful II
the drys can win at a local option
election. OF course, there is no telling
what the result may be in some OF
them, for elections are already In
/ sight in some of these counties, and
arrangements are being made to force
the issue in others. Word comes from
Fort Wayne that the Anti-Saloor
League has even decided to bring ar
election in Allen county, where it IL
| said that the drys have very small
chance to win. An election is to be
held in Knox county, in which Vim
cennes is situated, and this will b'
probably one of the bitterest fights o
the entire series of elections, for Vim
cennes is q beer-ridden, brewery con
trolled city, and the liquor INTEREST,"
will certainly put up the best fgh
possible.
Most Of the wet counties are in tn
extreme southern part of the state
OF the thirteen counties that border Of
the Ohio river, only three, Ohio, Swift
erland and Crawford. are dry. All tn
rest are wet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
TIMES BUREAU
at THE STRIFE CAPITAL
Especial to TEE TIsGEs.l


AT THE SrATE CAPITAL
Especial to THE TIsEEs~)
Indianapolis. Ind, March 2g-Looal
option has at hast run up against what
looks like a certain fzzle. It has
tackled Marion county with q divided
force, when the enemy is IN nne trim
and this does not augur wen for the
attacking party.
Yesterday the pronFbittonists OF this
county, the largest county In the state
in point OF population, and the last
one that was to have been attacked by
the local option forces, started out to
get signers to a petition for a local
option election in this county. Although
the prohibftfonists have always op
posed the plans OF the Antf-Saloon
League and, although they worked
against the enactment of the county
local option bill into law and although
they denounced it as a compromise with
the liquor traffic. which they do not
approve Of the prohibittonists have
at last come to a point where they
will seek to make use of the law in an
effort to drive saloons out of Marion
county.
hOA0 temperance greetings
The prohibitionists have been hold
ing series of temperance meetings
in this county. Michael J. flaming of
Pennsylvania, a noted temperance lect-
urer and orator. has been m TINS coun.t
for more than a week, holding meet
ings in various parts of the city. Along
with him is Sumner w. Haynes of
Portland, who was the prohibitionist
candidate for governor last fall, and
the two of them have been making
so much progress with their campaign
that on Thursday night when they
spoke in Haughville, a suburb they
| aroused the enthusiasm of their au-
dience to such pitch that 1t was de-
cided to start at once a movement for
an election that would decide wheth-
er or not saloons shall stay or go.
The result was that, yesterday morn
| ing, petitions were prepared and work
ers started out to get signatures. The
prohibitionists say they will push the
campaign with great vigor and that
they expect to have the necessary a.
| 600 names to the petition within sixty
days That is the number that it will
take to make the county commission
ers call the election.
League Not Much I'm Sympathy.
The Anti-Saloon League was not con-
suited by the prohibitionists on the
subject of circulating the petitions. L
Is purely prohibitionist movement i
it succeeds the prohibitionists will ge
all of the credit. If It fails they mus
take the blame. But, since the petit
lions have been started, the Anti-Sa
loon forces say they will lend their ait
to 1t and make the effort a success /
possible. They believe the time is no
ripe for such an election in this coun
ty, and they have said so all along
Their position is that Marion is on
of the last counties that they ought tt
tackle, but the enthusiasm of the pro
hibitionists has taken the Anti-6alool
League off its feet and 1t will nov
make the best of 1t. q. M. Barney. dis
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
LAKE SUPERIOR COURT

554S. John Stoik VS.. Gary and Inter
urban Railway company. Appeal.
5549. George Christie VS.. Alexander
George Appeal.
$3.50. E. Hoffman company VS.. John
Doe Sax ct al. Appeal.
1851. Charles Dennehy & Co. VS.. Jas
Rogers. Appeal.
$3.50. Daniel f. Fitzgerald VS.. New
Amsterdam Casualty Co. Appeal.
1888. T. Edwin Bell VS.. Samuel A
Bell. Suit on note.
1854, Joseph Hartley ct al. VS.. James
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
HALF A TOWN IN QUARANTINE
All of Wabash, Ind, south of River,
Isolated Because of Scarlet
Fever.

Wabash, Ind. March 26.-Dr N H
Thompson, city health officer. today
quarantined all of the city lying south
of the Wabash river, closing the south
side school building. which is attended
by 500 children. and forbidding religt-
Gus services. This is because of
rapid spread of the scarlet fever. There
has been one death. North of the
river there is no scarlet fever.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-27
BIEKER BROTHERS

Coal, Wood, Flour. Feed, Hay
Grain, Salt and Poultry Feed
246-4S SibIey ST. 703 N. Holman St.
Phone So. Phone 1902.
HAMMOND. INDIANA