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EAST oRLAND.

W. w. Blnisdell is i'll OF pneumonia.
T. r. Mason left day for Franklin on
business.
Mrs. Frank Brainerd, with friend from
Portland, Conn, is at her cottage.
A party of young men from Boston came
recently to spend their vacation at the
Wentworth cottage.
Bert Ray and wife, OF Ashland, Mass,
arrived in their automobile Saturday to
spend several days here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Averill and daughter, OF
Buffalo, N. Y, and Mr.. and Mrs johnson,
OF New York, are boarding at Z. c.
Mason's.
Miss Charlotte Blanchard left by train
Saturday for her home in Bangor, having
been the guest OF Miss Bernice Mason for
several days.
William Pierce and wife, OF Boston, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Kerwin and daughter Helen
of Waitham, Mass, are at the Blaisde.l
cottage for few weeks.
Aug. g. NJ
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ISLE AU HAUT.

Summer guests are still coming, and the
hotels and cottages are abont full.
Mark E. Baldwin and wife, OF Spring.
field, VT, visited friends here last week.
There was a social dance at Revere hall
Friday evening. The Maddocks trio
furnished music.
Vets Cain, with his family, arrived
fro Sedgwick Monday for few weeks
outing on Burnt island.
Plans have arrived from New York for
new schoolhouse for the village school,
which will be built as soon as the plans
are adopted.
Capt. George Gilbert and Capt. Fred
Partridge, who lay in the harbor in their
lobster smacks Friday night, report lob
sters scare all along the shore.
Aug. 9. c.
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COUNTY NEWS.
BLUEHILL.
THE COMING coNcERr.

r,,
- -
the Town nsh " the cns-ai seeiesy P1"n
Uses 10 De OF an exceptionaliy ni9n oroef.
Mr.. Bostiefnann has been interchangeable in
his efforts with the chorus, and its menu
bers have nobly responded: they have
heev, fa,tbful at rehearsals and have en-
tsr.s int, he .n;r;t ~ ,ha occs.;on IN f,,e
-,
-"PS 49, ~ say s~"
me array OF soioists VIII assist tne
chorus, and the program, printed in full
below, presents q musical treat rarely Of
fered to the public outside the larger
cities.
The soloists are: Mrs. Ida Walsh, So
prano; Norman Mayo, baritone; Samuel
Gardner and Sascha Jacobsen. violinists;
Miss Elenore Altman, pianiste; Benja-
min Curtis, accompanist; Elias Breeskin,
violin, Peter Quinn, cello. Following is
the program:
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CENTER.

Mrs. Ansel harper, who has been quite
i'll, is improving.
William johnson and wife, Of Sedgwick,
visited at Mrs. Ida Bartlett's last week.
George Pervear, OF North Brooklin,
spent a few days here with his son
Charles, last week.
While employed at the home OF J. II.
Turner Saturday morning, Mrs. A. 7.
Ober was badly burned about the chest,
face and arms, from the flames OF burn
ing alcohol. Through the prompt action
of Mr.. and Mrs. Turner, the flames were
quickly extinguished. Although Mrs.
Ober <s suffering greatly, no serious in
juries are reported. Mrs. ODER has the
sympathy Of everyone, and all hope for
her speedy recovery.
Aug g. s.
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NORTH BLuEHILL.

Frank Csndange returned to Seal Har-
Dor Saturday.
William Grindle, OF Sailors Snug Har-
Dor, visited friends here last week.
Frank Lowrie and wife, OF East brook,
are visiting at A. p. Soper's.
Mr.. Chatto and granddaughte OF
RockiAnd, are visiting at Maggie Hale's.
b. +. Slower, wife and son Frank, OF
Hopedsle, are visiting at p. J. Grindle's.
Karl Kittredge and son, Of westboro,
were weekend guests OF William wescott
and wife.
John McIntost returned to his bone in
Providence, X. l., Friday, after two
weeks visit with relatives here.
Harvey Cunningham returned Monday
from the East Maine general hospital
where he has been the past week for
treatment.
Aug. s. ID.
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SUNSET.

Mrs. f. s. Small is quite i'll.
T. Powers has bought a new horse.
Maud, the colored cook at the FRS, is
seriously i'll.
from Castine.
Miss Flora Stinson, who has been visit
ing at Sunshine, is home.
Edwin Smith and wife, OF Bangor, were
guests Of P. w. Knowiton last week.
Mrs. w. A. johnson returned to her
home in Cliftondale, Mass, Saturday.
Charles Saunders and wife, Of whitins-
Vile, Mass, are at Capt. George Sylves-
ter's for few weeks.
Walter Small and L. b. Cole are build
ing verands OF stone and cement for the
Southworths at Mill island.
Fred Small, who has been on a visit to
his old neighbor, Mrs. Naomi Eaton, and
son Win, at South Thomaston, came home
Saturday, accompanied by Mrs. Eaton.
The NJ. w. b. society, OF Sunset, will
hold its annual spinning bee and fair in
its building on Thursday, Aug. II,
opening at 10 a. m. They will have on
sale aprons, candies, ice-eream and the
usual display OF fancy articles. A New
England dinner will be served at 1870.
A merry party went to Steeple island
Thursday, and after call at the clam fats,
an improvised fireplace provided the
means OF cooking q delicious clam
chowder and coffee. In the meantime the
haymakers had been busy, and when the
dinner call was given, there was hearty
response. The table was decorated with
wild roses, lilies and ferns, and loaded
with good things to eat when the hay
had been raked and loaded. An
exciting time ensued ON the way to the
beach, but the expert driver, though be
had no reins, brought all safely home.
Aug. s. SADIE.
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COUNTY NEWS
LAMoINE.

LAMOINE.
Miss Vera Berry is spending few days
with friends at East LAmoine.
Wednesday morning all the men who
can are to meet and work on the cemetery.
Mrs. Mile RouiIiard, of Boston, 10 the
guest OF Capt. Charles Hodgkins and wife.
The Davis homestead is occupied by
william Hewitt and wife, OF Saugus,
Mass.
Grafton Convey returned to Cambridge,
Mass, Tuesday, after q week with his
parents.
DR.. Harry Reynolds returned to New
Haven Sunday, after two weeks with his
mother, Mrs. Addie Reynolds.
John Coolidge, wife and son Fairfield, Of
waltham. Mass, arrived Friday for two
weeks stay at their summer home.
Elwood Allen, who for the past month
has been The guest OF Joseph Hodgkins,
returned TO his home in Melrose, Mass,
Monday.
DR.. John Chamberlain and wife, Of Bos-
ton, arrived Sunday to spend few weeks
with Mrs. Chamberlain's parents, W. X.
King and wife.
The yacht Alice, Capt. Ansel Rey-
nolds, made trip to Bar Harbor Saturday,
TO meet Albert Whitaker and wife, who
will spend their vacation at the Perkins
house.
Mrs. lionel Hodgkins and son Merle
are occupying their summer home at the
Corner. They have as their guests Mrs.
Betsey Young, Mrs. Walter Stanley and
son Norman, OF Islesford, and Mrs. Frances
Gibson, Of Corinth.
A jolly crowd OF young people spent the
past week at Eben Googins' bungalow ut
Berry's cove, chapcroned by Mrs. Sumner
Foster, OF Cambridge, Mass. Boating,
bathing. fishing and general merry max
ing were enjoyed. "Wednesday the party
took . trip In the launch Evelyn, landing
on Burnt Porcupine island for dinner,
thence to Bar Harbor for the afternoon.
During the week about twenty five guests
were entertained, which added much to
the enjoyment OF all. Those in the party
for the week were: Eunice Coggins,
Clara Hodgkins, Joseph Hodgkins and
Lester Young, OF LAmoinc; Anna Young
and Irving Rouillsrd, OF Boston; May
Macullar, OF Medford, Mass; Louise
Reynold, Mrs. James X. Tweedie, Mrs.
Sumner Foste. and Grafton Convey, of
Cambridge, Mass; Arthur Coggins. OF
igerna, CAL; Francis Holt, of Webster
City, Ia; Harold Hodgkins and Herbert
Hodgkins, jr., OF wstcrville, and Eiwood
Allen, OF Melrose, Mass.
Aug g. u.
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MT. DESERT FERRY.

Z. s. JelIison spent Monday at Manset
Miss Madge Moon, who has employ
ment in Bar Harbor, is at home.
J. A. Blatchford and wife, of Dorchester,
Mass, are visiting at Il. s. Jellison's.
Miss Lizzie Jellison went to Charleston
Monday, to attend the summer school.
made q short visit with his brother
W. W. Jellison, last week.
Mrs. Peter Jordan, OF Bangor, and
daughter, Mrs. Flood, OF Ellsworth, re-
Gently visited at Lewis Jordan's.
Aug. s. c.
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BACK TO
THE FARM"
HI.-How the r. F. D.. Tele-
phone. Trolley and Good
Roads Are Moderniz-
ing the Farm,
BY c. ". GREGORY. :.

tCopyright. 1870 by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
- HE farm is no longer the iso-
lated, lonely place that 1t used
to be or that many people
seem to think 1t is yet. Farm
ing under modern conditions is bust
ness and in most cases is coming to
be run in business way. The first
step In the undermining Of the farm
came with the introduction of the ru-
raj free delivery in 1897. Put in at first
as sort of experiment, concession
to the insistent demands Of the ma
tional grange and other farmers or
CARNATIONS. 1t spread rapidly and soon
became Indispensable. 1t was potent
factor in waking up the farmers. One
of the first and greatest results was
that the daily paper for the farm was
made possibility.
Before the advent of the rural free
delivery the farmer who kept within
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relatives here the past week, returned to
Bar Harbor Sunday.
H. H. Hopkins and family left Sunday
morning for Penobscot, going ~ far as
Ellsworth with bis team. There they took
an automobile, went to Pcnobscot and
attended the frneral OF Mr.. Staples, were
back in Ellsworth at 40 and home at g. a
distance Of seventy miles.
DR.. Luther Bunker and wife, OF Water
willie, came Sunday TO visit his sister, Miss
Belle Bunker, at the old homestead. They
have been calling on friends and relatives
in town. All we're glad to greet him once
more. He came in his fine automobile,
and viii return home Tuesday.
AugS s.
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FRANKLIN.

Miss Ethel Milton, OF Bangor, is visit
ing her aunt, Mrs. Grace Mcneil.
Miss Muriel DeBeck is visiting her
cousin, Miss Iva DeBeck, OF Hancock.
Mrs. Locke, OF Kittery Point, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Josiah Bunker.
Superintendent Foss plans to open the
fall term OF high school Monday, Sept. IL.
Charles W. Carroll and wife, OF Green
bush, are spending a short time with rela-
tives here.
Mrs. Lena Giiley, of Bar Harbor, who
attended the Blaisdell reunion last week,
returned home Monday.
The Franklins went to Hancock Satur-
day and played the Hancock Point team.
Score 7--0.in favor OF Franklin.
Mrs. Harry Springer and children, OF
Foxcroft, arrived Saturday for visit with
her parents, J. q. Bunker aud wife.
Carroll Dunn was up from West Goulds-
boro, Sunday, and Mrs. Dunn and young
daughter Pauline returned home with
him.
Ned Spaulding, wife and daughter Ma
bel, Of Worcester, Mass, who are visiting
relatives here, leave for Bucksport Wednes-
day.
Rev. o. G. barnard, OF Ellsworth, who
preached in exchange with Pastor Provan
Sunday, was pleasantly entertained by
Eben Smith and wife.
Miss Della Grant. of Kingman, who has
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LONELINESS.
a week Of the markets was doing well.
As a result he usually managed to
strike all the slumps In the market
when be had stock or grain to sell.
With market paper delivered at his
gate each morning he could follow
prices of farm produce closely and
take advantage of rising market.
This one factor alone has paid the cost
Of the rural free delivery many times
over
The market reports were not the
only part of the paper that benefited
the farmer. He no longer got his news
week old. but had it served up al
most as hot as If he had lived in town.
This daily contact with the things that
were happening in the world bright
ened him up. rubbed off the dust and
gave him new interest in life.
The shiftless farmer who went to
town two or three times week on the
pretense of getting the mail" only 10
waste half day or so each time and
maybe come home 'boozed up" in the
bargain. was deprived Of his excuse
and fell into the habit Of spending his
extra time fixing up about the place.
The farmer who had been enterpris-
ing before became more enterprising
and had more time to put his ideas
into practice.
Along with the r. F. D. came better
roads. and when the farmer did go to
town he could make the trip in much
less time than he did before. His dali
ly papers and magazines made him as
well informed as any Of the business
men of the town. The days of the
'hayseed" were numbered
Along with the Il. f. D. came
great increase in the circulation of
the agricultural papers. The old type
Of papers edited by men who had seen
little of farming except from car
window came to an end about this
time, and their places were taken by
papers edited by men who had grown
up on the soil and who had never got
very far away from it. These pa
pers taught the farmers the value OF
better methods. They taught what
these methods were and how they
could be applied. Above all. they in
spired the farmers to do the best they
knew how, 10 respect their calling and
to put it on business basis.
Along with the R. r. d. came the
telephone. Some Of the first lines were
little more than cheap instruments
connected to barbed wire fence. but
they served the purpose. Then follow
ed lines put up on willow poles and
finally modern lines as substantially
built and as efficient as money could
buy. An automatic device TO prevent
any one listening except the parties
talking Is in use In some localities.
Most communities prefer the party
line. however, because Of its social
features Often after supper on a
stormy winter evening some one will
put In general call and furnish some
instrumental music for the benefit Of
every one on the line Then some one
else will sing song. some one will
run of few musical records on a
photograph. and an otherwise lonely
evening will be passed pleasantly
Immediately after dinner is generally
conceded to be the women folks
hour at the phone. They will stand
and visit. often dozen Of them at a
time, until the proverbial loneliness of
farm life is entirely forgotten.
The principal use Of the telephone Is
for business. The modern farmer re-
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SOUTH PENoBsoor.

George J. Babson, Of Foxcroit, was in
town over Sunday.
Norman Staples and family spent Sun
day at his fathers here.
Miss Belle Wight has returned from
Waltham for the summer.
Union services were held in the Metbo-
dist church Sunday evening.
Angus Peterson and family are visiting
bis mother, Mrs. Scion Peterson.
Hugh Smith, OF waterville, has joined
his family here for two weeks vacation.
Mrs. Herbert Gray, of Bangor, has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. f. Besi, for a
week.
Guy Roberts and family have returned
to their home in Pawtucket, X. l., after
spending two weeks at MIR. Roberts old
home here.
Aug. s. q.
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NORTH FRANKLIN.

Mrs. Lizzie Williams is with her sister,
Mrs. Carrie Bunker, who is i'll.
DIR. Hooper and son Taylor, with Mr..
Kendric, OF Fairfield. are at their camp.
Francis Wilbur and wife came home
from Bangor Saturday returning Sunday.
Miss Mary Dyer, OF Eastbrook, is with
her grandparents, Curtis Hooper and wife.
Ietha, Hazel and Rowena woodworih
are visiting their aunt, Mrs. Annie Rice,
at Gouldsboro point.
Mrs. Bertha LAwrie. with daughter
verna and son Stanley, went TO Northeast
Harbor Sunday TO visit Miss Sadie Lawris,
who Is employed there.
Ang. s. l.
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SOUTH HANCOCK.

L. A. Penney, of Bangor, is spending two
weeks here.
Mrs. Lizzie Whitehouse, OF Bath, is WIS.,
iting Mrs. w. Grant.
Alvah Hodgkins, of Canton, o., re-
Gently called on old friends here.
+. NJ. Watson, OF Brooklyn, n. Y, joined
his family here Saturday evening, for q
months vacation.
Q. F. Dadmun and wife, Of Dorchester,
Mass, are expected to-day. They will be
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SEAL COVE.

Miss Charlotte Kelley, OF Bernard, WIS.,
tied friends here Sunday.
+. L. Mclean and wife have returned TO
Augusta, after spending a month in town.
Prof. Hitchings, of the University OF
Maine, is the guest OF Mrs. Hannah
Heath.
Mrs. Winnie Branscomb, OF New YORK,
is visiting her cousin, Mrs. l.. r. Hodg-
don, and other relatives.
Aug. 8. \.
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WEST TRENTON.

Mrs. Ira Reynolds, who was very i'll Sum
day, is better.
Harry ODER has gone to Bar Harbor,
where he has employment.
The farmers are nearly through having,
with double the amount they got last year.
Master Chessley Stevenson, of Brewer,
is visiting his cousins, Howe and Harold
Hopkins.
Mrs. Addie Copp, who has been visiting
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GoULDsBoRo.

The postoffice has been greatly inn
proved both in looks and convenience by
an addition and an extra window.
Charles Whitney is building mill just
above the carding mill on the site OF
Sowle's mill, which was taken down sever
al years ago.
Mrs. A. E. Guptill is visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. J. 8. Bragg, in Harmony. All
are glad to learn that Maurice, Mrs.
Bragg's little sen, who has been very ill, is
greatly improved.
Aug. 9. JEN.
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vent Of the r. F. D. While country
roads in many places are far from be-
ing ideal as yet. still the length OF
time when they are not fairly passable
has been reduced to minimum. Most
Of the main roads are well graded. and
nearly every farmer has a road drag
with which to keep the road along his
farm smooth. Graveled roads are be-
coming common. and macadamized
and oiled roads are being extended
into the country
All these modern improvements have
added much to the profits of farming.
They have added more to its pleasures.
They have given to the farmer the ad-
vantares n the city without taking
away am u rhe advantages of the
farm. They have made the farm the
ideal place "a live.
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Stomach trouble Relieved.


guests of their daughter, Mrs. c. R, Bum
ker.
Ethel. daughter Of Leslie Bunker, Of
Sutton's Island, who has been visiting at
c. Y. wooster's, returned home Sunday.
c. X. Wooster, Of Everett, Mass, who
has visited his mother, Mrs. A. f. Wooster,
the past week, returned home last evening.
Misses Georgia and Gertrude Coggins,
OF Massachusetts,, are spending the month
with their parents, w. T. Coggins and
wife.
AuRS w.
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JEN.
SEAL HARBOR.

Mrs. Nell Jordan is about again.
Mrs. Mary Jordan, who has been
seriously i'll, is gaining.
Irving Gray visited relatives in Ellis.
worth and Mt. Desert Ferry Saturday
night and Sunday.
Aug. 8. MELvINA.
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wALTHAM.
MELvINA.

The ladies Of companion court, !. o. F.,
will give play Wednesday evening,
Aug. II.
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Rev. J. g. Dukes, Pastor OF the rul.
tartan Church OF Pinetown, y.
writes:
"My wife has been in very bad stats
OF health for several years, and nothing
seemed TO do her any good until shs
began TO use peruna one month arc.
Since then the color has returned 10 her
face, and she is gaining in flesh ever
day, and believe she Is a well womaa
to-day.
AMY little boy, ten years old, was pal,
and had but little life. lie began to
use Peruna the day his mother began.
To-day his face IL rosy, and he Is out In
the yard running and jumping with the
rcst Of the Children
Stomach Trouble Relieved.
Mrs. T. J. Ballard, Pryor Creek,
Indian Territory, writes: 81 ara happy
to tell you that keep free from my old
stomach trouble; feel no catarrhal
symptoms as all. I am able to do nv
work, eat and drink what | want, and
rejoice that found sure cure In your
valuable medicines, which | failed 10
find in the best OF home physlcians.p
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-15
OPPOSE INIoUITY, BUT BEWARE!

There is one thing which was said
by Elder Rulon s. Wells in his tabcr-
naclc sermon of Sunday that we deem
to deserve hricf notice Our report
says of him that "Ic referred specially
to the work of the ward teachers, say
| ing il was their duty to sec that there
was no inlquity in the church. y
That was a good thought. properly
and plainly expressed, But Mr.. Wells
spoiled 1t in the very next breath, for
he further said that Every one should
be concerned in his own ministry and
should not be criticising the ministry
of some one else; they should look to
their own spiritual development. y
it was the same old story. but some
what differently told. In effect 1t was
''Seo that there is no iniquity prac'
ticed in the church. but be sure and
mind your own business by leaving 1T
alone Elder Wells is Il man of suf-
ficient intelligence to discern the i'm
potencc of this manner of qualified
teaching But it has been this sort OF
admonition that has practically tied
the hands of honest block teachers who
in reality sought to do their legitimate
duty As an illustration, let us say
that no member of the church, even up
TO the supreme head. can, under church
rule. count himself free from or supe'
rior to reception of visits from the
block teachers. 1t is their duty TO visit
all and TO make such inquiry as shall
satisfy them that they can truthfully
report that every member in their dis
trict is living his religion, or to specify
IN such cases as may impress or con.
vince them to the contrary, Suppose,
though, that the block teachers who
visit Joseph +, Smith should make
such legitimate inquiry as would JUS
tIfy them in reporting that he was prac-
ticiug iniQuity. in that he was living
in open defiance of the laws of God and
man. Immediately they would he
charged with having criticised the
ministry of some other individual
than themselves, and would be therefore
liable to condemnation under the
Wells rule. That the block teachers
well understand the intimation repeat
ed by Mr.. Wells on Sunday is evidenced
in the fact that no complaint has ever
been made by them against Joseph +,
Smith, although every rule of dccency,
together with the pretended beliefs Of
Smith and his church, practically de-
mand that such complaint should be
made and proper investigation of the
Smith conduct should be had there
under. Mr. Wells might Just as we'll
have said, 'Seek out iniquity among
the saints, but take no notice of it,
1t is the same old mind-your-own
business admonition, put in differ
pDf form