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The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
SEARSMONT.

The annual Christmas sale and supper given
by the Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church was
held in the vestry Thursday evening. Dec. 9th,
with large attendance. The booths were very
attractive with their Christmas decorations Of
red and green. A fine supper was served from
to z o'clock. The sale began at 6 o'clock.
Those in charge of the booths were: Apron
booth, Mrs. Anna Palmer, Mrs. Ephraim Wiley
and Mrs. Mary Bryant; fancy articles. Helen
Cobb. Mrs. Alice Hunt, Mrs. Flora Dunton,
Mrs Bertha Cushman;parcel post. Mrs. Charles
Cushman, Caroline Packard, Mrs. Fannie Cobb;
candy booth, Mary Cobb, Angie Paine. Eliza
beth Hills and Thelma Wentworth; table COM
mittee, Mrs. Frances Fowler, Susie Hanson,
Della Lassell, Fannie Hanson and Milbury
Hunt; supper committee, Mrs. Lucretia Ripley,
Mrs. Matilda Reynolds, Mrs. Sara Morrison,
Mrs. Eta Fowler. and Mrs. Victoria Poland.
The sale was very successful, the proceeds be-
ing between $50 and $50. The ladies Of the
society wish to express their thanks to all who
contributed SO generously. 81
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
TURNING THE POTATO LOSS TO
PROFIT.

Ignorance and defective marketing
are the obstacles to success in all kinds
Of farming and ignorance of production
and possible Industrial uses is what is
wrong with the potato industry to-
cay, and is responsible for the lower
prlces received by the farmers for their
products, said DR.. E. K. Horton, Ag-
ueulEural Commissioner, American Steel
anu Wire Co, at the recent Conference
Of Marketing and Farm Credits in Chi
sago. DR.. Horizons subject was Turn
ing the Potato Loss into Profit
We know how to increase production
and improve quality in our crops, but we
laye not given proper attention to the
5yelopment of the industrial uses of DO
;atoes and other farm products. The in.
teIIgent use of fertilizer and plant Sc
lection take care of quantity and quail
i,y. How to convert the excess produc-
1on OF a year into nonperishable form
qroltably Is the problem that requires
study, said DR.. Horton. "In Germany
The potato furnishes Is percent of the
necessary food of the German Empire.
The German worklngmen and their fam
lies are dependent upon the potato for
percent of their food supply. Potato
-four, potato fakes, and other non-per-
s0able forms have been used for years.
Inited States is just starting to make
4 tie same uses OF this particular CROP"
In the present war, dried potatoes
Z, tlr1ish great part of the German SOL
g ier's rations. They keep almost indefi-
Il Htely and are easily transported and
4 lsndled. Importation of potato flour to
y ne United States had reached 16 million
pounds in 1913. DR.. Horton urged the
q eegates to the conference to start a
a ampaign of education throughout the
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
NORTH WALDO POMONA GRANGE

The regular meeting Of North Waldo Po-
mona Grange was held with Morning Light
Grange, Monroe, Dec. 9Th, with large attend
ance. The meeting was duly opened with
Worthy Master A. T. Nickerson in the chair
and music by the choir. Upon the roll-call of
officers, five were found absent and temporary
appointments were made as follows: Secretary,
C, C. Clements; chaplain, Lydia Woodman;
Ceres, Eda Clements. and Flora. Mrs. Peavey
Six Oranges were represented and reported as
doing average work. There were two appli.
cations for membership. Mary Grant and Belle
Webb, who were introduced and received the
instruction of the degree of Pomona. re-
cess was then declared for dinner and all as
sembled in the dining hall to partake of the
bountiful dinner served by the ladies of the
host Grange.
The Grange reconvened in the fifth degree
and the choir rendered selection. The mem
bers voted to suspend work during the pro-
gram, one Of the features of which was an
address by Prof. Ralph P. Mitchell Of the U. of
to invite R. D. Robinson. Superintendent of
Schools, Principal Wheelan of Monroe High
school, and the students, to be present Annie
Clements. Master of Morning Light Grange,
greeted the visiting patrons and other guests
in her usual pleasing manner, and Alfred Ed
monds of Northern Light Grange responded
A most excellent paper entitled, 1.-THE Pleas
ures of the Farmers Life" was read by Helen
Cooper of the host Grange, after which the
lecturer presented a question box. which was
of interest to all. AT this time Professor
Mitchell as introduced and held the close at
tention of his audience on the above mention
ed subject. Mr.. Robinson, superintendent of
schools. was called upon and responded with
brief remarks, followed by Principal Wheelan
and former superintendent, F. M. Nickerson.
After the visitors retired the Grange in
| executive session voted that q committee of
five be appointed from the floor. said COM
mitree to become part of the extension ser
vice to promote the work of Boys and Girls
Agricultural Clubs. The following members
were appointed c. C. Clements, A. T. Nick
erson, F. M. Nickerson, j. H. Mckinley and
| Abbie Jewett After the customary acknowl-
edgement of courtesies. the meeting was
closed with the usual ceremonies.
| The next meeting will be with Comet
Grange. Swanvile, Jan. IL, 1916, with an adj
dress of welcome by Alice Nickerson and re-
Spouse by Eda Clements. This will be the
annual meeting for election and installation of
officers. The program will be furnished by
Comet Grange and includes paper Teaching
Children to Respect the Property Rights of
Others" by Alberta Nlckerson.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
MORRILL,.

Mrs. Lottie Murch returned from Augusta
last week.
Mrs. Daniel Dickey has been quite poorly
the past three weeks.
Mrs. Webb of Stonington is visiting her
stepdaugher, Mrs. R. G. Blood.
Mr.. William Blodgett has made quite extern
sive additions to his farm buildings.
Delbert Paul went to Portland last week to
serve as juror in the Federal District Court.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Woods will attend the
State Grange in Portland as delegates from
Riverside Grange, Belfast.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irving Sheldon have closed
their home for the winter and gone to New
Hampshire, where they find employment.
Ernest Higgins teaches the High school. Mrs.
Ruth Dow the primary and Miss Wiley of
Cherryfeld No. g.
Mr.. l. P. Griffiths and his Empire Comedy
company from Freedom presented, my Aunt
Betsey" at Honesty Grange hall Saturday
evening, Dec. 18th. to q full house.
The meeting of Waldo County Pomona
Grange with Honesty Grange December 7th
was very successful one. The travelling
was bad, yet there was q large attendance.
Twelve oranges were represented. About $50
were at dinner and there was an instructive
and entertaining program.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
CENTER MONTVILLE.

Miss Ethel Thompson is at home from Wa
terville.
Wesley Tibbets spent the weekend with his
teacher. Miss Paul in Morrill,.
Mrs. Donald Foss of Palermo is cooking at
the C. L. Abbott lumber camp.
Misses Clara Bean and Mary Wentworth are
at home from Pittsfeld for the holidays.
Mrs. Chester B. Cushman and little daugh-
ter arrived home from Bethel Friday.
John Taylor and his sons, Llewellyn and Bur-
bank, were guests of P. W. Jaquith Sunday
]. L. Bean and Leon Perry saw two moose, a
bull and a cow on Hogback Mour tain Dec
10th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Leighton of Burket-
vile were recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Lewis Bachelor.
F B. Luce and family of Belfast and C. H.
Luce of Liberty were Sunday guests of Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Luce.
Union Harvest Grange will have a Christmas
tree Saturday night, Dec. 18th, for the patrons
and their families. The young people will
furnish the program.
Loren P. Stewart. c. E., went TO PhiladeI-
phia last week. He has position with the
Pennsylvania railroad. He graduated from
the U. of M, class of 1915, and is a young
man of promise
Mrs C. Berry has returned from Waldoboro,
where she met with an accident while taking
care of an elderly couple. At present she is
staying with her daughter, Mrs. John Tibbets.
where she will probably spend the rest of the
winter.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
THE WISE FARMER.


There was man in our town,
And he was wondrous wife.
he knew that if he wanted crops
He'd have to fertihze.
Its nitrogen that makes things green"
Said this man of active brain;
And potash makes the good strong straw,
And phosphate plumps the grain.
But it's clearly wrong to waste plant food
On wet and soggy field;
I'll surely have to put in drains
If I'd increase the yield
And after have drained the land,
must pillow it deep all over;
And even then I'll not succeed
Unless it will grow clover.
Now acid soils will not produce
clover sod that's prime;
So If have sour soil,
I'll have to put on lime.
And after doing all these things,
10 make success more sure,
I'll try my very best to keep
From wasting the manure.
So I'll drain and lime and cultivate.
With all that that implies;
And when I've done that thoroughly
I'll manure and fertilize.
Dean Alfred Vivian, College Of Agriculture
Ohio State University.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
Apple Sass.

What is so good as apple Sass?
don't mean sauce.
mean the kind ma used to pass.
No other dish was in it's class;
1t was the boss.
We seldom see it now, alas,
To our great loss.
A juicy, PUPPY, toothsome mass,
What was SO good as apple Sass?
don't mean sauce.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
TROY.

The annual meeting of the Troy Corner
Reading Club was held at ]. W. Pierce's
Tuesday evening, Dec. 7th. The following
offers were elected: B. L. Myrick. president;
]. E. Pierce, vice president; Fred Bagley, secre-
tary; A, L. Estes, treasurer. Next meeting to
be some time in January at Fred Corners.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

farming regions of the United States for
the development in the United States of
the same industrial uses of farm crops
to insure profitable returns, regardless
of the years production,
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
Sick Animals

The treatment of diseases of Horses,
Cattle, Sheep, Dogs and Fowls, is given in
DR.. Humphreys Veterinary Manual, mailed
free. Humphreys Veterinary Remedies.
1856 William St.. New York.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
NATIONAL BANK,
SEARSPCRT. MAINE.

The annual meeting of the Stockholders of
the Searsport National Bank will be held at
their banking rooms in Searsport, on Tuesday,
January 16. 1916, at o'clock p. M, for the
election of Directors for the ensuing year.
and for the transaction of such other business
as may legally come before the meeting.
5w50 A. H NICHOLS, Cashier.
Searsport, Maine, December ID, 1915.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

Attorney General Gregory has render
ed an opinion that the organization of
the Federal Reserve Bank districts is
not renewable. The law says it is not
renewable Except by the reeerve
board" Which is to govern? The law
or Mr.. Gregory's opinion?
The financial sharps of the Treasury
Department believe that their proposed
tax on gasolene will produce S27, OOO. 900
a year. This may be so. And every
time a motorist has his gasolene tank
filled he will register anew his VOW to
vote against the party that put the tax
on.
Champ Clark declares himself in favor
OF reasonable" preparedness. This
convenient term is proving itself a most
elastic ambush for statesmen who want
to be 'on the winning side. The Su-
preme Court once said something about
the rule of reason" as applied in trust
litigation. Maybe we can get judicial
Interpretation of what constitutes
reasonable" preparedness.
President Wilson's failure to make
any kind of comment upon the death of
Booker Washington has not been over.
looked. There are many letters, state.
ments, etc, in existence wherein the
President has expressed his sympathy
for the loss of others who had contribut.
ed no more to the national life thar
Booker Washington did; and the om,s.
sion in this case is the more marked be.
cause Wilson, like Washington, was ar
educator
All the evidence brought to Washing.
ton by members of Congress points tc
the general dissatisfaction of the coun.
| try with the policies and the personnel
of the administration. Republicans.
naturally, proclaim the fact; and Demo
Gratis, privately, admit it. Republican
difficulties in the next campaign can
come only from within the party. Wise
action in Congress, judicious selection
of the ticket, satisfactory declaration
of principles in the platform-t these will
make assurance doubl y sure. There is
no doubt that the R publican party will
respond to these needs, as it always has,
satisfactorily to the country.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

II Is SAID that the Federal Trade Com
mission will have no legislative recon-
mend atoms for Congress at this session
But it will put up loud demand for amin.
creased appropriation just the s. me.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23
Political Points.

Congressman Chandler Of New York
and Congressman Copley of Illinois. Pro-
greeslves, announce their adherence
henceforward to the regular Republican
party. Next!
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

Andrew Carnegie has reduced his for
tune to about $40. 600. 900. He had about
twenty-five times that sum to start with.
query: II Carnegie used McAdoo's sys-
tenn OF bookkeeping how large would his
fortune appear to be?
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

The Administration twas at the high
tide OF popularity" six months ago:
since then there has been a steady
ebb," says the New York "Globe:"
Ihere may be some disagreement over
the date, but there is none as to the
facts.
The Republican journal., 1915-12-23

LlVEN UP YOUR TORPID LIVER.
To keep your liver active use DR.. Kings
new Life Pills. They insure good digestion,
relieve constipation, and tone up the whole
system-keep your eye clear and your skin
fresh and healthy looking. Only 25c, at your
Druggists.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
KNOW VALUE OF FRESH AIR
People Realize It's Importance. and
Also the Necessity for Cultivation
of Proper Breathing.

The open air theory for the benefit
OF tuberculosis is a comparatively re-
cent thought. The story is that Doc
tor Trudeau recognized that he had
this dread and common disease, and
grasped at the open air life as his last
and only hope. When he sought the
mountains near Saranac, determined
to live in the open air. his course was
viewed as suicidal. Fellow physicians
thought that excessive fear of death
had robbed him OF his medical judg-
ment. All his friends looked for an
early end
Doctor Trudeau not only regained
his health. but he gained a better
measure of health than he had ever
enjoyed before. Then he began to
send back to the cities for working
men and working women, and cottages
were built out of the trees of the hills,
and an open air colony started. This
was the first in this country. and the
date was 1884. Ten years later he es-
tablished the first American laboratory
for the study of consumption. In re-
markable propaganda against the
white plague undertaken in Detroit it
is written: $50 great a change has
come over the country in 80 years
that fresh air is on the verge of be-
coming popular. One of the most
noted of modern medical men. open
ing his comprehensive treatise on the
preservation OF human efficiency and
health, begins with fresh air.
Nov, the common form of tubercu-
losis is the pulmonary form-the form
which attacks the lungs. Lungs pre-
suppose breathing, and breathing pre-
supposes air. tuberculosis belongs to
the class of impure air diseases. It's
commonest method Of infection is
through the breathing, it's commoEest
point of attack the organ used in
breathing. We don't breathe with the
nose; we breathe through it. We
breathe with the lungs. The quality
of our breathing-that is, the depth
and strength and fullness Of it's
quite as important factor in the his
tory of health or of tuberculosis as
the quality of the air which we
breathe"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRD.

This is the time of year to build an
icehouse. A happy. goodhearted
neighbor admitted in his comical way
that he had always wanted an ice
house-in summer-but there was no
ice at that time to fill it. In winter
it was cold enough without it.
Every farm should have an ice
house, and every farm should have a
dairy house. There is economy in
combining the two. The illustrations
show the perspective and floor plan of
a combination farm icehouse and
dairy, large enough to handle the milk
from a good-sized herd of mixers.
The icehouse is large enough to hold a
cube of ice 16 feet in diameter. To
keep well there should be considerable
bulk of ice together in one block.
In this design the dairy wing is
built to the south, which helps to
protect the south side of the icehouse
from the hot summer sun. Also, a
dairy room needs considerable sun
shine, so it works right both ways.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03

sill almost to the peak, making one
continuous opening, so that the ice
can be put in at any level, as the
house is being filed.
A handy way to lift the cakes of ice
is with a hayferk toggle and pair
of heavy ice tongs. A single rope is
attached to the tongs and passed over
the hosting pulley in the track car
riage at the top and run through sin
gle sheave at the bottom, so that a
horse can quickly lift cake of ice
to any height necessary.
The cakes of ice are built into a
solid mass in the center of the house,
usually by breaking joints the same as
in brickwork, leaving space of IL
inches all around the outside. 1t is
much better to pack the ice in the
coolest weather, to use hose or
throw pals of water over each layer
to freeze the cakes of ice together
into a solid body as near as possible:
Sawdust enough is needed to pack all
around the ice and for a layer IS
inches or two feet deep over the top.
Where sawdust cannot be obtained,
clean straw or hay that has been run
through the cutting box will answer
the purpose, and if carefully handled
will keep the ice in very satisfac-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
FAKER KNEW HUMAN NATURE
Story That Shows the Old Law of
Psychology Is Still in Full
Operation.

Legend tells of Hindu faker who
seemed to have working knowledge
of practical psychology and made him.
self rich selling plain wicker baskets
in the streets OF Calcutta.
The peculiar virtue of the baskets.
he explained to the buyers. lay IN the
fact that, if one filed his basket with
ordinary pebbles, placed himself in Q
receptive attitude of mind, and stirred
them with a stick for an hour. each
and every pebble would be transmitted
into a nugget of gold-provided the
stirrer did not think of a hippopota-
mus while stirring.
The baskets were sold. but the idea
of a hippopotamus was SO firmly fixed
in the minds of all the purchasers that
not one OF them ever had legitimate
grounds on which to demand nus
money back.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
Powerful Gevser.

The Waimangu geyser near Rotorua,
in New Zealand, the largest geyser on
the island, which in its period of erup-
ton threw huge columns of water,
black mud, rocks and stones to a
height of fifteen hundred feet and
more, but which for the past eleven
years has remained quiet, has again
become active. It recently blew out a
new crater, 80 yards long by IS yards
wide, and about 20 feet deep. In that
first explosion, during which it hurled
mud and stones more than a thousand
feet into the air, it formed twenty mud
boilers that threw mud thirty feet
high, and opened seven broad steam
holes, from which steam escaped un-
der great pressure. Some of the sand
and mud that it sent up was, it is said,
carried as far as Lake Rotomahana,
three and half miles away. AT last
accounts jets of steam were issuing
from the many assures in the crater
wall. Youths Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
Candle Extinnuiaher.

It has been found that candles can
be fitted with attachments to extin-
guish the light at set time. To de-
termine the length of time it is neces-
sary to mark candle of the size used
and time how long a certain length OF
it will burn.
Then it is sufficient to suspend q
small metal dome or cap, to which q
string is attached, directly over the
flame. and run the opposite end OF the
string over nails or through screw
eyes, so that it can be tied around the
candle such distance from the flame
end that the part between the fame
and the string will be consumed IN
the time desired for the light to burn.
When this point is reached the string
slips of the candle and the cap drops
on the flame.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
Knew He'd Seen Her Before.

Three women met in New York
elevated station. We'll, l declare,
they all chorused. The last arrival
was asked if she, too. was bound for
the shopping district. the destination
of the other women. mo. indeed"
she quickly replied. I'm going to my
husbands Office. He just telephoned
me he had left an important letter at
home, and asked me to bring it to
him. He's the most absent-minded
man ever met" He isn't any worse
than my husband" chimed in one OF
the other women. Doctor is SO for
getful at times that he frequently goes
off without his medicine folio" Well,
spoke up the third woman. my hus.
band beats that. John, as you know,
is a travelling man. He has been away
a month this time. He came nome the
other day and patted me on the cheek
and said, i believe l have seen you
before, little girl, at some place, at
some time. What is your name?"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03

The close connection which exists
between the heart and the kidneys is
well known nowadays. AS soon as
kidneys are diseased, arterial tension
is increased and the heart functions
are attacked. When the kidneys no
longer pour forth waste. uremic poi
soning occurs, and the person dies and
the cause is often given as heart dis
ease, or disease of brain or lungs.
1t is a good insurance against such a
risk to send 10 cents for large trial
package of "Anuric' latest dis
covery or DIR. Pierce. Also send a
sample of your water. This will be
examined without charge by expert
chemists at DR.. Pierce's Invalids' Ho-
tel, Buffalo, N. Y. When you suffer
from backache, frequent or scanty
urine, rheumatic pains here or there,
or that constant tired, WORKOUT feel
ing, it's time to write DR.. Pierce, de-
scribe your symptoms ana get his
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03

The foundation Of both the icehouse
and dairy is of concrete made into one
solid wall extending all the way
around. Above the wall both houses
are built of wood, using studding,
matched boards and drop siding. Next
to the studding is one thickness of
building paper, then matched ceiling
boards are blind-nailed on the inside
and drop-siding is used for the out
side boarding, leaving a hollow dead
air space between. 1t is mistake to
pack this space with sawdust, be-
cause the sawdust rots down at the
bottom and settles in spots, leaving
holes.
To preserve the ice from melting,
the first attention should be given to
drainage. 1t is absolutely necessary
that the water should get away from
the bottom. If ice stands in water it
melts away rapidly.
The section drawing shows the man.
ner in which the house is constructed
in regard to drainage. The space
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-12-03
Riddle Of Nature.

Because l have stirred few grains
of sand ON the shore. am in posi-
ton to know the depths OF the ocean!
Life has unfathomable secrets. HUI
man knowledge will be erased from
the archives of the world before we
nossess the last word that the gnat
has to say to US. Scientifically. ma
ture is a riddle without q definite So
linton to satisfy mans curiosity.
Hvnothesis follows hypothesis; the
theoretical rubbish heap accumulates
and truth ever eludes us. To know
how not to know might well be the
last word Of wisdom Fabre.