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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
THE CONDITIONS IN AROOSTOOk
COUNTY.

[B. Walker McKeen in N Y. Tribune Farmer
Just now there is a certain class of
people in Maine that are most decidedly
OUT OF employment. 1t is composed OF
those who have been so very busv shed
ding crocodile tears over the ssterrible',
conditions in Aroostook county and in mis-
quoting and maligning those who believ-
ed that Arloostook methods are correct
and have had the courage to saw so. even
when two unfavorable seasons had
wrought their havoc in the farm in.
comes, and at a time when potatoes
were drug in the market at 60 cents a
bushel. But under conditions prevailing
now, when the SHOWS begin to drift over
the fields so rich in their products and
the last harvest for the year has been
gathered, there is not farmer in Aroos-
took who will realize that hard times
have ever existed, and the agriculture of
the county will be further advanced than
ever before. This condition has been
brought about, not by changing plans.
but by keeping consistently at swork
along the same line and by ''watching
their one basket" l talked with one
farmer who is digging august 1Oth) DO
tatoes on l00acre plot, with rows run
ming as straight as an Indians arrow for
one mile, who said he was getting at the
rate of ninety barrels an acre, and thew
were worth So. so barrel at the nearby
-tation. This brings his per acre yield
up to 1925: Think of this, O We advo-
cate of diversified" farming. Another
farmer said, laughingly: n am rich.
This 'wad' has $500 in it, and l have
taken it all for potatoes grown on my
farm this year, and l have hardly scar
red my area" Not since the building
of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad
have potatoes been shipped out of the
county in July until this year, and read
ers must remember that this is in North
ern Maine, where frosts often linger till
into June and often arrive late in Au-
gust! Does this not tell of the wonder
full fertility of this soil and of the adj
vanced methods of culture in common
practice?
But it is not all potatoes. AS the party
spun across the country from Easton to
Pressure Isle in an automobile owned by
a farmer one could see in operation in
the fields grain binders, threshers and
potato diggers, and on every hand teams
returning from the stations or fastening
to the barns with heavy loads of grain,
both oats and wheat. One man, an old
friend, whose farm and operations
hope to illustrate in the Tribune Farmer,
put in one hundred tons Of hay without
drop of water striking it. He started his
moving machines and run them and the
tedders, rakes and force of men for
three days before he drew any into the
barn; then the drawing was taken up
and finished Systematically and cheaply.
Aroostook farms are different from most
others in Maine in that they are nothing
but farms: there is no timber and some
times little wood. There are no side is
sues or by-products.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
THE REUNION OF THE goth MAINE

ToGUs, Me-, August 20. When Ellis
Spear of Washington raped the annual
reunion to order today Just So survivors
of the goth Maine regiment responded.
The reunion was held in the old canteen
building. The Goth Maine is one of the
few remaining regiments of which the
old colonies are still living. Gen. Adel-
bert Ames of Lowell was the first colonel,
ex-Gov. Joshua Chamberlain the second
and President Spear the third.
Among the women guests present
were Mrs. E. A. Leighton, Mrs. Eben
Leighton, Mrs. C. E. Richie, Mrs. Ros-
well Cole, Mrs. A. P. Sherman, Mrs.
Emma Turck and Miss Elizabeth Fer
maid. Letters were read from B. R.
Baker, Albert G. Rice, Lorenzo Redman,
Theodore Gerrish and Merritt Simpson.
The following officers were elected:
President, Cen Ellis Spear of Wash
ington, D. c.; vice president, Lieut..
Joseph Fuller, Brunswick; secretary,
Sergt. O. P. Martin, Foxcroft. Honor
airy members elected were: Gilbert Pat
rick Brown of Boston, son of Timothy F.
Brown; Miss Elizabeth Fernald, daugh-
ter of the late Capt. A. E. Fernald.
Governor Richards of the Home was
present and made some very interesting
remarks, which brought forth three
cheers and tiger. Rev. H. S. Burrage,
the Home chaplain, also made remarks
which held the closest attention. He
also spoke of some incidents relative to
the trip to the front Of his regiment, the
36th Massachusetts, and the goth Maine
Infantry going on the steamer Merrimac.
Lewiston and Portland bid for the next
reunion, and Gov. Richards told the
''boys" that whenever they were in
doubt to come to Togus and they would
be made welcome. 1t was finally decid-
ed to leave the decision to the executive
committee.
The party arrived early in the morning
and visited all interesting parts of the
Home and at noon had dinner at the
hotel. The party posed for picture on
the hotel lawn.
This was one eff the last Maine regi-
ments recruited following the summons
of 1862 1t lost 40 per cent of its men at
Gettysburg and 298 in the Wilderness.
President Spear is native of Warren in
Knox county, and lst Lieut.. Rand is the
only officer of his original company
living.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
THE MYSTERY OF A LOST SHIP.

The big frelghter Naronic was one oil
these boats whose fate the insolence Of
the Atlantic keeps secret. The Naronie
on the day of her launching was the
largest and strongest ship OF her class
IN all the merchant navies. Twin screws,
then an innovation in freighters, gave
her tremendous power. Eight bulkheads
were counted as perfect protection for
her hull. The biggest, safest, swiftest
sea-carrier was what shipping men call
ed her. The Naronic made six round
trips from Liverpool to New York. justi-
tying the boasts of her owners on each
trip. Then one day in February she
nosed out of her berth on the Mersey,
full laden and fully manned, bound for
New York. Captain William Roberts
was her commanding officer; crew of
sixty worked her, and fourteen cattlemen
were booked as passengers. The 5, $780,
ton ship was weeks overdue when the
first whisper of disaster came sitting in
from the Atlantic. The British steamer
Coventry put into Bremen, out of Fer
nandina, with word that when about five
hundr ID miles southeast of St. JOINS,
Newfoundland, it had one morning pass
ed a life-boat, riding bottom up on the
long swell The name on the stern of
the capsized boat was hidden by the
water. Later on the same day the Cow
entry passed second life-boat, floating
upright but almost awash A sea anchor,
made Of oars and spar, was dragging
astern at the end of painter: On the
stern, just above the wash of the waves,
were the black letters "Naronic." The
water-logged life-boat was unoccupied.
Nn nf hoy - 4 L.
until five months later, when another Of
her life-boats was picked up off the
Azores. This, too, was empty.
Steamship men tried to reconstruct the
moment of disaster that had blotted
from sight the biggest and safest boat
OF her class. The place where the Gov
entry had sighted the drifting ife-boats
was approximately 1900 miles northeast
of New York and twenty-five miles south
OF the east-bound winter track across the
Atlantic. There could not have been a
collision, because no other boat plying in
that vicinity had been missed, not even
Banks fisher. Icebergs had not been
sighted on the winter track, consequent
ly it was not probable that the Inflated
steamer had rammed one in a fog or
snow squat. The sea-anchor on that
second lfe-Doat sighted by the coventry
gave the only faint support to specula-
ton.
These oars and that bit of spar shipped
over the stern, mute testimony to some
despairing effort of men in peril, meant
only one thing-a storm, or rather, the
spending of a storm, for no life-boat
could keep upright in winter storm on
the Atlantic. A storm, then, it had
been, said the men who tried to read the
rebus of the sea; such storm as raises
the waves of mid-Atlantic to a height of
fifty, sixty, even seventy feet from crest
to trough. The Naronic had been over
whelmed by one OF these waves and,
stanch as she was, had wallowed for a
while, then dropped like plummet. -
Robert Welles Richie, in Harper's for
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
CORINTH'S CENTENNIAL.

The Tooth anniversary of the incorpor-
alton of the town of Corinth was celebrat-
ed Aug. Both with an elaborate program.
Corinth is one of the rich farming towns
in the Kenduskeag valley, 10 miles north
of Bangor and on the Charleston division
of the Bangor trolley system. The town.
ship was granted by Massachusetts to
John Peck in 1894, and the first settler 8
came soon after. 1t was organized as a
plantation under the name of Ohio. 1t
was incorporated June Fl, 1911, under
its present name, and is sister town of
it's neighbors, Charleston, Exeter and
Garland, which were incorporated in the
same year. Corinth and East Corinth
are the principal villages. The town
furnished 70 volunteers in the Civil War,
of whom Is did not return. The popula-
ton is about 1900.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
PROBATE NOTICES

At Probate Court held at Belfast, within and
Tor the County of Waldo, on the Sth day of
August, A. ID. 1911.
CARAH X. GARDNER and Esther G.. Davis.
y having presented petition representing that
they and Others are the heirs living in different
States. of William Gardner. late of Belfast i'm
said County OF Waldo, deceased, PRAYING that
Melville e. Hill or some other suitable person be
authorized to sell and convey cert ain real estate
belonging to the estate of said deceased. de-
scribed in said petition, at public or private sale
and distribute the proceeds, after paying eXpen-
ses among the owners according to their re-
spective rights therein.
Ordered, That the said petitioner give notice to
all persons interested by causing a copy of this
order to be published three weeks SUCCESSFULLY
in The Republican journal, newspaper publish
ed at Belfast that they appear at a Probate
Court, to be held at Belfast within and for said
Comfy, on the 10th day of October, A. d. 1911
at ten of the clock before noon, anC show cause,
If any they have, why the prayer of said petition
er should not be granted.
GEO. f. JOHNSON, Judge.
true copy. Attest:
CHAs. P. HAZELTINE, Register.
3w35
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
HENS, EGGS AND BOOSTERS.

A lover of larks may protest that a
hen is not, in the finest sense of the
word, bird at all. Anything is bird
that has wings and feathers and can fly.
That definition l insist on. There are,
of course, people who like hens. Yet
hens are awkward; their beauty is not
even wing-deep; they have dreadful
voices; they are utterly without re-
ticence; and their personal habits are
those of the traditional Stun. | am quite
sure that most people who defend them
merely do so to try to pay debt OF
gratitude. No one could be fonder OF
eggs than l. | am willing to give any
price that is asked for them, even IN
midwinter. | am not sure that, if hard
pushed, | would not barter first edition
for really perfect egg. But l cannot
believe that it is my duty to associate
with the hen that laid it. Heaven often
chooses strange misisters. 1t may even
be lone recalls the threat of Kim's lama,
attacked on the high Himalayan spur
that hen is eXpiating in this vile lncar
nation her previous existence as daugh-
ter of the Borgias. am not tltted TO
discuss these spiritual economics. but
whatever past misdemeanors the men
may be eXpiating, it is certain that tne
rooster is even now committing his sins.
/ have not seen M. Rostand's Chantecler.
l share Charlotte Bronte's hatred OF the
base cour, and my most pedanticc triend
would not expect me even to read IT.; IL
is bad enough to see women one likes
wearing hats shaped, and wells woven,
after the likeness of the hero. SAD, /
think, that birds were not amlss IN ale
gories. But in real life, lusty COCK
positively lessons ones respect Tor the
sun. Katharine F. Gerould, in the sep
TENDER Atlantic.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
Tip to Would-Be Farmers.

. !. would be to the advantage of all
mink that farming can be taken up
.s any special training to read what
agphon has to say on the subject.
y s1tf1lfure,' says he, lis an art that
t1Sla lose who understand it rich;
raves those who do not understand
rsoWeyer much they may labor in it,
4 I've In poverty The term goods,
i, 'sli i; US, may be defined as some
i that is serviceable to the owner.
~ same things, therefore, are goods
j, ppI who knows how to make use of
~ nut not goods to him who does not
s.,. Land certainly cannot be called
S SssI. OF mans goods if, instead of
rrgSSrting him, it brings him nothing
N.Y. lunger.' 1t may be doubted if the
n.y.. MT We're ever more truthfully pre-
g a. David Buffum, in the Septem-
h"illlt.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
Gone to Join Mother.

Sad indeed is the case of the college
graduate down in Maine who was so
grief stricken by the death of his beloved
wife that he killed his son and daughters
with poison and found grave for him
self in the sea, leaving behind note
which contained these words:
my darling children have gone to Join
their mother, as l am going to join them
all and to face my God, who hope will
forgive me if have done wrong
An Oxford university education is of
scant use in this world without the cour-
age to meet its disappointments and sor-
rows unf1inchingly. Boston Globe.
Dyspepsia is Amer ica's curse. Burdock
Blood Bitters conquers dyspepsia every time.
1t drives out impurities, tones the stomach, re-
stores perfect digestion, normal weight, and
good health.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07

At a Probate Court held at Belfast within and
for the County of Waldo, on the 9Th day of
August A. ID. 1911.
VOLNEY THOMPSON, administrator of the
estate of Deborah Thompson. late of Morrill,,
in said County of Waldo, deceased having pre-
sented petition praying for license to sell at
public or private sale and convey certain real es-
tate of said deceased, described in said petition.
Ordered, That tic said petitioner give notice to
order to be published three weeks Successively
in The Republican Journal, anewspaper publish
Court, to be held at Belfast, within and for said
County on the 18th day OF september. a d. 1911,
at ten of the clock before noon, and show cause
II any they have, why tle prayer of said petit
toner should not be granted.
GEO. E. JOHNSON, Judge.
A true copy. Attest:
STA CHAs. P. HAZELTINE Register
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07

hams Vegetable Compound was rec
commended, and after taking three bot
ties she has regained her health, thanks
to your medicine. can recommend il
for all female troubles. Mrs. L. A.
CoRKRAN, 1103 Rutland Street, Balti-
more, Md.
Hundreds of such letters from moth.
ers expressing their gratitude for what
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has accomplished for them have
been received by the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Company, Lynn, Mass.
Young Girls, Heed This Advice,
Girls who are troubled with painful
or irregular periods, backache, he&d-
ache, dragging-down SENSATIONS, faint
ing spells or Indigestion, should take
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health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. Thousands have been
restored to health by it's use.
Write to Mrs. Pinkham. LYNN.
Mass, for advice, free.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
A Dreadful Sight

to H. J.. Barnum of Freeville, N. Y, was the
fever-sore that had plagued his life for years
in spite of many remedies he tried. At last
he used Bucklen's Arnica Salve and wrote:
at has entirely healed with scarcely a scar
left" Heals Burns, Boils, Eczema, Cuts,
Bruises, Swellings. Corns and Piles like magic.
Only Csc. at all Druggists.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07

The famous old battleship Oregon mas
been placed lin commission as part OF
the Pacific reserve fleet at the fuget
Sound navy yard after five years iule-
ness, during which time approxilnateIy
81, 900, 900 was spent in modernlzing 1he
vessel.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07
MY
DAUGHTER
WASCIJRED
By Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Baltimore, Md send you here
with the picture of my fifteen wear old

uaugnGer Alice, who
was restored to
health by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound. She
was pale, with dark
circles under her
eyes, weak and irri-
table. Two different
doctors treated her
and called it Green
Sickness, but she
grew worse all the
time. Lydia Il. Pink
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1911-09-07

A DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE. The sub
~ scriber hereby gives notice that he has
been duly appointed administrator of the es-
tate of
MARY P. FRENCH. late of Stockton Springs
in the County of Waldo, deceased. and given
bonds as the law directs. Ali persons having
demands against the estate of sad deceased are
desired to present the same for settlement, and
all indebted thereto are requested to make pay
ment Immediately.
FRED l.. LANCHARD.
Stockton Springs, August g. l911.-3w34
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. The subscriber here
IL by gives notice that he has been duly APP
pointed executor of the last will and testament
of
ANDREW j. STEVENS, late of Belfast,
in the County of Waldo, deceased. All persons
having demands against the estate of said de-
ceased are desired to present the same for set
tlement, and all indebted thereto are requested
to make payment Immediately to John W Nash
of Belfast, Me-, my authorized agent.
ALBERT W. STEVENS.
Pioneerville, Idaho, July IL, 19l1.-3w34
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
Methodist Church Easter servieed

Morning worship at IL O'Clock.
theme. THE Deserted Crave" All
the church are requested to attend
and all friends are cordially invited
to he present
Evening services Will be given over
to the Sunday school when a beauti-
full program VIII be rendered by the
school assisted by the chorus choir
OF twenty voices. Services at p. IN.
You are invited.
Some Of the classes in the Sunday
school are making remarkable
growth. The class Of Rev. vernil-
lion viii meet on the parsonage
lawn, all pupils should be present.
Bros. Hem and Bryant have secured
space for n tennis court for the use
OF their two classes. This is CON-
mendable in the teachers and classes.
II. q. Vermillion. Pastor.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
Pure Ice Cream at
DUNBAR'S.

Isham Stephens as having "a large
addition built to his home on Onarga
avenue.
Emmett Lee returned home wednes-
day evening from his business trip to
Denver.
W. F. Conine went to Grand juno
ton Tuesday to spend several days
transacIing business.
Mr.. Forbes, district wire chief for
the Colorado Telephone company
was up from Montrose yesterday.
The dance for the benefit of the
baseball team will be given at Odd
Fellows hall Wednesday, the 26th.
For Rent-Four room house. lights
and water. Inquire at first door
south of Christian church. 1t
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
Woman . CLERK for so Years.

The death OF Miss Martha Mitchell
Of Alfred. Me. at tne age of 70 years.
..yses in all probability the most re-
markabie business career OF any WON.
an In the state.
Miss Mitchell was born IN Alfred.
educated in the schools of the town.
and lived in the old house until she
died. She entered the office OF the
register of deeds as clerk abont the
year 1s4e or 1850. and she has worked
there or in the office Of the register of
probate ever since. Miss Mitchell did
not leave her position at the desk un-
I'll two weeks before she died.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14

I Z = = = = = = > = = = = = =
= LOCAL HAPPENINGS. =
+ + + + + + + = + + + + + + + :
What Time will the Clock Stop?
Charles Cowan, Sr. spent last FRI
day in Delta.
Fresh Candies at Dunbars. S.
W. G. McCollum OF Denver was in
town the first OF the week.
.NelO Magazines at WIelbOrn's.
Leave your orders for coal with
E. p. Balch.
Vim Mathews made a trip to Grand
Junction last Sunday morning.
Coal orders will have prompt at
tention.-E. p. Balch.
Bees are reaping harvest from
the apricot blooms. e
Lawyer C. NJ. Stone went to Delta
last Sunday morning.
Let Shanton hang your wall paper.
First class work. Coop 6N 32tf
Matt Burtard returned home from
Denver Wednesday evening.
Ny prices are always right on Hay
and Grain. Parker Balch.
W. T. Morgan returned from Ce-
daredge Wednesday evening.
VIII stand Hot Wdter. China
mel at UELBOR.N'S.
A. G. Rose and j. NJ. Haley came
home from Hotchkiss Friday evening.
Dry Batteries, direct from factory
George Shaul & Co.
L. G. Bird returned home Wednes-
day evening from Denver after a
couple OF weeks business trip.
Miss Zana Cogdill visited a couple
of days this week with Clarence Ed
wards and family at Somerset.
Garden seed In bulk from the very
best seed house In America Sold by
Parker Balch.
Mrs. Clyde Burkart came home
Monday night from Crawford. after
week visit with relatives in Craw-
ford.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
Notice of Administrator Sale of Real
Estate
c. NJ. STONE

NOTICE is hereby given, That pursuant to
a Decree of the County Court of Delta County,
Colorado, duly made and entered on the 9th
day OF April A. ID. 1911, l, the undersigned
Administrator of the Estate of Jane Power.
deceased, will. ON the 9th day of May A. D..
1911, at the hour of 10 O'Clock in the fore
noon at the office of Baxter & Stone. in Pa
onia, Colorado, offer at private sale, and
sell certain real estate belonging to said es-
tate described as follows, to wit:
The Northwest quarter of the Southeast
quarter OF Section Nine (9) in Township
Fourteen G4,) South of Range Ninety-one
t91) West of the Sixth Principal Meridian
except about Four a. acres thereof sold and
conveyed by deceased to K. j. Decker the
conveyance of which is recorded in Book Il
at page 362, records of Delta County, Colo
rado.
Said real estate will mot be sold for less
than 100000 the appraised value thereof
Terms of sale: Cash In hand at time of sale.
Dated at Paonia. Colorado, this 11th day
of April A. ID. 1911.
WELDON HAMMOND
Administrator OF the Estate Of
Jane Power, Deceased.
Baxter 4 Stone. Attorneys.
First publication April n, 1911,
Last publication May >, 1911
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
Choice seed potatoes. Paonia
Feed and Supply. c. c. Owen.

Miss Rya Murray, Johnnie Bunk
er's faithful assistant at the postof-
flee, was n passenger on Mondays
train for Evanston. Illinois for a six
weeks visit with her parents and
many friends.
Zenoleun destroys lice and mites,
IN the chicken house. Get It from
the Paonia Feed & Supply Store.
c. c. Owen.
Mrs. John II. Moore was n passen
ger on Monday mornings train for
Nevada, Missouri, where she will
visit a few weeks with her sister
Miss Merrie Mathews who is attend
ing Cottey college.
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
CranIaf Enhancement.

MY boy Josh asked me to stop an
get him a straw hat" said Farmer
Corntossel as he stepped into the
shop.
You are just in time" replied the
salesman AL our straw hats have
1ust been reduced"
I'm afraid they won't do for JOSH.
Not since he's been to the city. He'll
->nt something that's been ex-
The Paonia newspaper., 1911-04-14
For early broilers Use Owens
special developing chick feed.
they grow fast. Paonia Feed
and Supply Store. &C. Owen.
Big Bazaar Day Before Easter

The ladies' OF the Christian church
will hold Bazaar and Bakery Goods
Sale on the Saturday preceding
Easter Sunday at Dunbar's drug
store. They have the time, the place
and the goods, you bring the price.
Saturday, April 18th at Dunbar's.