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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

OAKLAND, Cal.-After an ex-
citing days sport at the Oakland
aviation field yesterday, the bird
men are resting up for the next
events, which are scheduled for
Washington's birthday. Friday
will be benefit day for Mrs. Eu-
gene Ely, widow of the dead avia-
tor. The meet will continue until
Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

Relief committee OF New York.
About 100000 people are prac-
tically destitute In Central and
South Central China on account of
heavy floods which last year de-
stroyed crops In $4,000 square
miles of territory.
MEXICO CITY-The efforts Of
President Madero to muzzle the
press are declared a failure today.
permanent committee In congress
turned down the appeal of Madero
and his cabinet to suspend the
article of the constitution provid-
ing for free press. Madero be-
lieyes that the instructions
against the government are large
ly a result OF the publication of
sensational news.
PARIS-Presiden Taft's scheme
to arbitrate questions Involving
national honor is believed here to
be as dead as the proverbial door
nail. Slowly the eyes of the
statesmen are opening to the fact
that the recent quarrel with Italy
clearly demonstrated its utter i'm
practicability. For should gov
ernments agree to arbitrate such
cases public opinion would force
action of an entirely different
sort.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

SAN DIEGO, Cal.--Solution of
the free speech problem which
has been harrassing San Diego for
several weeks appears today to be
near solution as a result of the
agitation for public forum or
a free speaking place to be leased
by the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

Los ANGELES, Cal.-'.Help,
you fellows, I've opened up a lin
burger mine," cried Mike Healey,
laborer in a trench. The gasping
Healy was pulled to the surface.
He had punctured one of the sui
phur pockets with which Los An
geles Is underlaid.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Y. Otsu,
a japanese, shot his wife, whom
he tried to sell into slavery, the
bullet hitting her in the arm. She
picked up a revolver and fired
three bullets into his head, killing
him instantly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

Arrangements have been made
for a teachers institute here Fri
day with an interesting program.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicara-
gua--Executed by order of Presi-
dent Xelaya in 1909 after they
had been captured with the revo-
lutionary army the bodies of Lee
roy Cannon of Harrisburg, Pa,
and Leonard G. Grace, of Calves
ton, Texas, 1t was announced to-
day, would be exhumed and sent
to the United States March s..
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-02-19

WASHINGTON - Clifford Pin
chot has deserted the standard of
LaFOllette and joined the Roose-
welt forces, announcing that he
has sent LaFollette a letter to the
effect that he believes the pro-
gressive cause demands centering
on the Oyster Bay statesman.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
THE WEATHER IN BALTIMORE
June 25 Is a Favorable Time for a
 Convention

Democrats couldn't have chosen a week during which the chances for good weather are better than those of the week beginning June 25, during which week the convention will be held The weather man, MT. Alexan- der, has been working over figures and he finds that probabilities are in favor of clear skies for most of the week and comfortable nights, during which the temperature will be low enough to promise good sleeping.
 Some benign fate" said MT Alex ander today, must have dictated the choice of place and date for the hold ing of the convention. Every fact that I have been able to gather points to the probability of good, clear weather for the week, with just enough rain to cool the dust and lay the atmosphere
 'I find, for instance, that the rec Ords of this bureau show that the average temperature for the week of June 25 is 76.4 degrees, just a pleas
 ing temperature for deliberation and publication. The chances are 20 to that the thermometer won't get up 
 ture shown during June on our rec ords is 99 degrees, on June 30, 1901 The lowest temperature shown in 55 degrees.
 For the twelve hours between o'clock in the evening and o'clock in the morning, the average tenn perature is 6S.4 degrees, according tC the bureaus records In case any of the delegates should desire to SC to bed by any chance, could they ask for any better temperature?' In the matter of rainfall, the DOT tents are all again favorable. Three times in forty-one years through the records of which MT. Alexander searched. there was no rain at all.
 But that wouldn't be desirable said he, flor a week of rain at that l time of year would mean a hot and dusty spell. You can see that we are likely to strike the golden mean when I tell you that there has beer no time when it rained every day during the week of June 25. It has actually rained 105 times during the forty-one years, or an average Of two and one-half times a week. The Wettest week during the whole pc riod was in 1885, when 4.53 inches ot rain fell But that wasn't as bad as it sounds, for 4.47 inches of that fell on one day.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
SILKS.

Last meeting night the Local order Elks discussed the plans of a state sanitarium to be conducted by the Elks of Arizona. The plans have been for warded 70 the Grand Lodge. Mir. Moore, the secretary of this local seems to think that there will be no question about the adopting of these plans by the grand lodge. These plans out line a work that is much needed in Arizona and if adopted will be the result of the building of one of the most beautiful sanitariums in the southwest.
 Next Monday evening will be Elk s night at the Empress Theater
 Arizona delegates to the grand lodge, to be held in Portland, Oregon, will leave here on the night of July 3rd, arriving in Los Angeles for the Fourth of July, from there to San Francisco for the Fifth, thence to Portland.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
MOOSE

Programs for the celebration to be given the Fourth of July by the Loyal Order of Moose vii soon be finished. They give long, well ar ranged list of entertainments.
 Seldom have the people of Phoe- nix taken so keen an interest in any prospective celebration, and from the city hall plaza to the court house. where this affair is to be held, will be the scene of monster activities.
 The Moose have carefully selected their committees with a view to their adaptability to the parts assigned them. The participants have attend ed carefully and conscientiously to the most minute details of their de- partment.
 This celebration has been indorsed by the business men of Phoenix, who have contributed liberally to it's suc- cess. It is stated that the merchants have subscribed four hundred dollars toward making this celebration the most brilliant of any for years. Harry Young. secretary, states that there is an aviator and inventor at Hayden who has just perfected a new flying machine and has offered to fly from Hayden to Phoenix on the fourth for a small purse.
 The matter has not yet been acted on by the lodge, so it is not cer- tain that a flying machine will be added to the list of attractions The Moose last Friday evening in itiated Wiley Jones, for the Stafford local.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23

Jupite~ Pluvius, according to MT AleXanders records, has been on the job most frequently on June 25, the opening day of the convention, and on June 29, when things will be at their height. In the fOrty-one years through whose records he searched it has rained eighteen times on the first named date, and seventeen times on the second. Rain is less likely on June 28 than on any other day during the convention week.
 The week is a particularly dry one, the rainfalFs average being some where in the neighbOrhoOd of .93 inches. General humidity. too, is not particularly noticeable. Dr. Oliver Fassig's figures for the week promise an average 'stickiness" of 67 per cent.
 There is only one other feature to consider said MT. Alexander in clos ing, and that is the wind. Here,
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
Knights of Pythias.

Last Friday evening the Knights of Pythias initiated a class of twelve in the rank of Page. A ninety day exten- tion of the special dispensation has been asked for and will no doubt be granted
 The order is thriving and if the pres ent flow of applications continues throughout the time of the present dis pensatiOn, the order win likely become the largest fraternal organization in the city. The order is planning some feature of entertainment such as Keep Cool" sOcials, watermelon sup pers for each meeting night during the hot summer months.
 Pythian services will be held this evening in the K. of P. hall A thor oughly interesting program has been prepared and members of the order to- gether with their friends are invited.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
M odern Woodmen.

F. L. Roberts and D. T. Williams completed the second degree last We'd nesday evening. J F. Powell also took the first and second degree.
 There was large number had their policies changed to the new rate. This is something that each member of the order should attend to at once. The camp clerk will furnish blanks for those wishing them.
 Clerk Powell reports A D. Leyhe. B. E. Marks, A. l.. Moore and Dick Erd- man on the sick list for this week. A committee has been appointed to look after them.
 After q short business session the members adjourned to Donofrio- -Bury's s Confectionery Palace and were served with refreshments.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23

too, the records are all favorable. They show that the generally pre- vailing breeze will be a light south erly zephyr, averaging about six miles an hour. Very high winds are par ticularly lacking. Most of those that do come are as the accompaniment of thunder showers, and the records show an average of about five thun der showers for the whole month of June. There will be in all proba bility one of these humidity dissipa- tors during the convention.
 We are at present under high pressure area, with no low nearer than the plateau on the other side of the Mississippi That low ought to arrive about June 13, and remain over us until June 16, when it will be succeeded by another high. The next low will come about June 20, and pass over the ocean about June 24 4-RaltimOre News
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
kniohts of Columbus,

The Knights of Columbus held a monster state meeting at Bisbee the Fifteenth of June Several delegates were sent from Phoenix The next state meeting will be held in Phoenix in 1913
 Tue order mOurns the loss of brother J. P. Raverty, who died at his home last Tuesday evening. Brother Raverty leaves a mother and sister who attend ed him drring his illness. MT. Raverty came to the valley about two years ago from Sleep Eye, Minn. The funeral was
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
SOME BRITISH ExTRAvAGANcES

The British nation is generally considered to be amongst the thrift jest in the world, but we are not without our little extravagances.
 Every year, for instance, we spend, on an average, 35 million dollars on football. A million more than that is spent on hunting. Our tobacco bill amounts to no less a sum than 1S0 million dollars, while 125 million dollars is spent on jewelry. Gam bling represents an outlay of 70 million dollars and intoxicating bev- erages call for ITS millions of our money.
 On the other hand, our charitable nation gives millions a year for va rious missionary societies; hospitals. homes, etc. Last year, alone, 10 mil lion dollars were spent on foreign missions S-London Answers.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
(By Georg Eliot Miller, FraternaI Brotherhood.

The plans for the Fourth of July celebration which will be held at East Lake park by the members of the Fra ternal Brotherhood are about cOmplet- ed.
 H. c. Robertson, who is the enthu- siastic chairman of the general com mittee states that every member of the committee have been very success ful in securing matrial to make their department complete in every little detail. Never before has there been such enthusiastic body of young people together to work for the success Ct a celebration.
 The general committee consists of the following: H. c. Robertson, chair man: J. H. Kinney, J. D. McNealey, Mrs. Rinehart, Mrs. Chas. White, Lee Dom, w. O. Moore and J. F. Langston.
 J. H. Kinney, chairman of the execu- tive committee is assisted by Mrs. Rinehart and Mrs. Chas White.
 Those appointed on the committee on music are: J. D. MCNea1ey, Miss Stevens and MT. Chas R. White.
 Mir Boring, chairman of the com mittee on amusement and assisted by W. O. Moore and Hayes Burch have se- cured everything in the form of amuse- ment that is available.
 Mrs. Chas. White, chairman of the advertising committe is assisted by Miss dita Hickey and E. F. Marks.
 Mrs. Emma Bailey the popular and capable chairman of the committee in charge of the sandwich booth has on her committee: Hayes Burch, Mrs. Lee Earl Gilmore, Mrs. Way, Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Robertson.
 The dance floor booth Is in charge of Mir. Arendall assisted by Mrs. Arendall and Miss Keller
 Miss Ecrtense POrterie, who is serv- ing as chairman of the boat house committee, is very enthusiastic in neI plans and win be assisted by a person al which speaks for itsei: they are Clara Anderson Will Johnson. Sigrit Anderson, Ralph Young. Maria Gal agher, Otto Thalheimer, E,1'th Hickey Clemet Belcher, Donna Temple,on, Guy Chism. Emerald Porterie, Miss Aren- daI. Albert Issac, Geo. Kan0%f anC Miss Opal Rinehart.
 The Dall ground booth will be 1T charge Of Will Moore assisted by Chas Shue, captain of the escort team . MT. Boring, who has charge of the Merry go-round, will be assisted by MT. Kinkade and MT. Manchester.
 All boats will be in charge of MT LangstOn and Walter Milligan
 At two-thirty in the aftern lon thu Tempe +eam will cross bats with th' Fraternals. Both teams have beer practicing for several weeks and a good
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
LOCAL LODGE LORE

game is expected.
 Hayes Burch has al!ed a Burro race and aboy's pony relay race to the long list of sports
 Mrs. Dom, who has been i'll at the hospital has been removed to her home and is improving nicely
 The young son of MT. and Mrs. Chas. Higgins, is also better
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23
ODD FELLOWS

The Odd Fellows have voted a pub lie installation of officers on Wednes- day evening, June 3rd. w A. MOeur, who has recently been appointed dis trict deputy grand master, will install the officers elect
 Invitations have been issued to the
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23

Daughters of Rebekah and their friends. A small musical program will be rendered. The affair prom ises to be a most enjoyable one.
 The lodge has announced their in tention to take part in the Moose fes- tivities on July Fourth.
Arizona republican., 1912-06-23

held from his home on North Third St Friday.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
BASS HARBOR.

Mrs. Willis Watson visited relatives in
Gouldsboro last week.
DIR. Watson has torn down his barn and
is having garage built.
Berniee Dix has gone to Jordan's pond,
where she has employment.
Violet Gott and Frances Murphy are
home from the summer school at Castine.
The sloop Bonita, Capt. John Closson,
brought in forty barrels OF shad Saturday.
Mrs. F. p. Pray is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Frank Hanscom, at Providence,
RI
L. j. Norwood has caught quite a
quantity Of small mackerel in his weir the
past week.
Mrs. Susie Turner, OF Richmond, is vis-
iting old friends and neighbors here,
after an absence OF fourteen years.
July 2s. KY.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
SEAL HARBOR.

Miss Laura Mccarthy, of Portland, is
visiting at B. w. Candage's.
Arthur Worth and wife, OF Hartland,
are visiting their uncle, s. II. Pinkham.
The schooner Ida b. Gibson, Bangor,
has arrived with coal for B. w. Candage &
Sons.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton, N.
j., preached at the Congregational church
sunday.
c. E. Lindall, Of Bar Harbor, has erected
stent in Z. E. Martins field, and will
have moving pictures there one week.
The helpers of st. Jude's church held
their annual sale OF ce-cream, cake and
fancy articles Thursday. Proceeds, s210.
Miss Eftie Coston, who has been visiting
at David Marshall, jr.'s, the past month,
returned Monday to her home in Hart
land.
July 30. SPEC.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
DoLLARDTOwN.

Mildred Mead is visiting Adelia Barron
at Lakewood.
Charles Kemp, of Somerville, Mass, is
visiting his brother, W. L. Kemp.
Mrs. Emery Bonsey is visiting her
father at her former home in New Hamp-
shire.
Mrs. Effie Tourtelotte and children are
at Happytown for a months visit with
relatives.
w l.. Kemp, jr., with wife and two
children, are spending few days with his
parents, w. L. Kemp and wife.
Jerome and Burnham Floyd, who have
been at work at G. B. Floyd's, have re-
turned to their home in Jonesport.
Ella NJ. Smith, of this place, died at the
home OF Mrs. Eugene Brann in Ellsworth
Wednesday, July "a. Miss Smith was the
youngest daughter of Asa and Mary Ann
Smith. Her mother died when she was a
few days old. Her aunt, Mrs. Joannah
Barron, took her home and brought her
up as her own. She was always called
Ella Barron. She leaves one sister-Mrs.
Susan Giles, of Ellsworth. Funeral
services were held at the home Of Mrs.
Brann Friday afternoon, Rev. P. A. A.
Killiam officiating. Interment was in the
family lot at Juniper cemetery.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
Seals, Stamps and Counts Letters.

A new electrical machine has been in
vented which will take the place OF several
office boys. This machine will seal, stamp
and count letters as fast as they can be
placed in it.
The letters, in punches, are held against
an automatic feed, which permits only
one envelope at a time to pass its flap over
a metal disk which revolves in water. As
the envelope advances the stamps are fed
forward, cut off, moistened and rolled upon
the passing letter. After the envelope flap
is moistened and the stamp simultaneously
attached the letter passes between series
of rolls under pressure and emerges and is
automatically stacked.
A counter records each stamp as it passes
upon the envelope and thus furnishes q
check upon the amount spent for postage.
Moreover, the stamps cannot be removed
from the machine except by the clerk to
whom the key is intrusted.
The machine being run by an electric
motor, no labor is needed other than
someone to feed the letters.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
WEST EDEN.

Miss Muriel Tripp is i'll Of rheumatic
fever.
Miss Louise Carter, OF somesville, spent
last week with her cousin, Mrs. L. Mayo.
Miss Eleanor Kittredge has gone to the
Kimball house, Northeast Harbor, for the
summer.
Miss Mildred Mayo spent Sunday with
her parents, returning to Northeast Har-
Dor Monday.
Janet Tripp, who has spent the past
year with her uncle, Judge Knowles, at
Northeast Harbor, Is at home.
Miss Margaret Koch has gone to North
east Harbor to spend the week with
d. @. Hall and wife. Miss Koch will
speak at Mt. Desert Ferry next Sunday
and then go to Charleston to the Christian
Endeavo- summer school.
Samuel Leighton last Tuesday was
thrown from his cart, and the horses
started to run. Mr.. Leighton was cut
badly about the head and neck. He is now
doing nicely. 1t was narrow escape. His
neighbors held q moving bee and got in
his hay last week.
July %,
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
COUNTY NEWS.
MT. DESERT.

Mrs. Ida Leland, who has been i'll the
mast week, is better.
Mrs. George Knox has been ill Of indi-
gestion the past week.
Mrs. B. X. Smith visited Mrs. Olivia
parker in Bar Harbor last week.
Mrs. NJ. Branscomb, who has been visit
INC her sons in Northeast Harbor, is home.
Misses Carolyne and Gladys shute, Of
srde Park, Mass, are at the Brown cot
tage.
Misses Mildred and Bertha Mcfarland,
=, Trenton, were here Sunday, visiting
their sister, Mrs. Fred Smith.
Rev. J. Colman Adams, ID. D., OF Hart
tord. Conn, preached an interesting SER
mon At the church here Sunday.
The ladies OF the church aid society will
.o,d their sale OF fancy articles and ice
cream at the library building August is.
MANY OF the summer people on the
;sland are taking advantage of the moon
light nights for trips on the sound to this
v,llsre. for one OF the famous chicken and
lobster suppers at the Somes house.
Albert Little and wife, of New YORK,
will arrive this week at the Somes house.
Among recent arrivals are Rev. j. Colman
Adams and wife, OF Hartford, Conn.,; d. l..
lanes and wife, and ID. L. James, jr., of
Kansas City, Mo-; Mrs. F. Gordon Brown
and F. Gordon Brown, jr., of Flushing, n.
"; George b. Hartwell and James d.
Chapman, Jamaica Plain, Mass; Miss j..
E. Davis, Hampton, Va; Miss Ethel
Craighesd. Spokane, Wash.
july %. IL.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
TWINS EIoHTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.


Leonard j. Maddocks and wife, with
their daughter, Miss Mabel, entertained a
q small party Of relatives and friends at
their home Saturday afternoon, in honor
Of Mr.. Maddocks' eighty-fifth birthday,
also OF his twin sister, Mrs. Mary Dunham,
who was present. Refreshments were
served. The chief attraction was large
birthday cake, prettily decorated with the
years 1927 and 1912. The afternoon was
enjoyed by all present. Frank, Mr.. Mad
docks only brother, with his wife, was
also present.
Are there any smarter twins in Maine
than Mr.. Maddocks and Mrs. Dunham?
Mr.. Maddocks has worked in his hay
fields with the men from the beginning of
the haying, moved and raked and climbed
high ladders to the upper mows and
helped pitch the hay back. He wears
no glasses except when reading, carries
himself erect and uses no walking-sticx
He walks to the city two miles distance
whenever he wants to, and walks around
his premises every day, rain or shine. He
is veteran of the Civil war.
Mrs. Dunham, his twin sister, has Just
returned from Bangor and Brewer, where
she has visited her children and grand
children. She has pleasant home of her
own, where she does her own work. She
frequently walks to see her brother, q
mile or more distant, and carries herself
as erect as ever, and without lame step.
Ellsworth American., 1912-07-31
NICOLIN

Earl Dewitt is visiting relatives in Han
cock.
Hiram Danico and wife spent Sunday in
Bar Harbor.
Hazel McGown spent few days last
week with friends in Ellsworth.
Mrs. Emma Mcfarland, of Exeter,
N. H., has been visiting relatives here.
The union sewing circle will meet with
its president, Mrs. Lyman Dewitt, We'd
nesday, July 81.
Mrs. Lettie Prior and children, Of Mus
congus island, spent few days last week
with Sidney Moore and wife.
Robert Sweeney, of Brockton, Mass, is
visiting relatives here, coming in his au-
tomobile. He was accompanied by his
daughter, Mrs. Kate Allcock, and her
husband.