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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01
: CONSIDER PROPOSITION.

Ellsworth Business Men Show In
terest In Industrial Project.
Ellsworth business men gave evidence
Of their lively interest in any new indus
trial project for Ellsworth by turning out
in force at the meeting Monday after
noon, when proposition for the estab-
lishment here Of q new industry was laid
before them.
I. L. Halman, of Boston and Ellsworth,
who is interested in the establishment OF
the plant and would like to see it located
in Ellsworth, and Mr.. Wildes, who is
financially interested in the project, ap-
peared before the Ellsworth men.
The industry in question is WOOL
securing plant, operated on new and inn
proved methods. Briefly, the proposition
as laid before the men of Ellsworth by
Mr.. Halman, is for the establishment to
locate here provided the business men OF
Ellsworth will furnish building for as
long time as the company continues to
operate the plant, to furnish free water
and exempt the company from all except
. nominal tax for term Of ten years, and
secure electric power at . nominal rate.
The building which Mr.. Hslman had in
mind was the former shoe factory or
knitting mill At the corner Of School and
Church streets. which he thoukht could
rS4Aly be adapted to the business. II
xQnid be necessary to extend the lower
f1116 however, and il, as understood hers,
tl1DaOwer floor must be $50 feet long, this
wound be impracticable, - the lot on
which the building is located is only 175
feet long.
The plant would employ ct the outset
about thirty FIVE hands, with the possi-
bility OF early increase to seventy five.
Mr.. Halman felt sure that such plant as
this would result in bringing several other
allied industries to Ellsworth.
In the absence of details as to the re-
quirements for alterations on the build
ing, the amount of water which would be
used, and the approximate cost to Els
worth, no definite answer could be given
to the proposition at the meeting Monday.
A committee was appointed to secure
these details and report at another meet
ing OF the business men to be held Mon
day, Sept. 13. The committee appointed
is composed OF Howard B. Moor. Fulton
J. Redman, Harry e vose, B. T. Sowle and
Charles H. Leland.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01

Mrs. Everard L. Moore is visiting in
Madison.
Charles L. Mitchell is ill OF lead poison
ing from paint.
Miss Helen E. Perry, OF Newton Mass,
is visiting at the franklin house.
Regular services will be resumed at the
Congregational church next sunday.
Rev. R. B. Mathews, wife and daughter
Lonise sre in Damariscotta for q short
visit.
Miss Louise Seeds leaves to-day for
Auburn to work in the Ault- Williamson
shoe factory.
Mrs. e. NJ. Gordon of Melross, Mass, is
visiting Mrs. II. II. Emerson and other
friends in Ellsworth.
Harold e. Woodward, who has spent the
summer in Ellsworth, leaves to-day for
his home in Bogota, M.
Edwin NJ. Moore, jr., returned home SAT-
urday, after spending . few weeks with
his brother at Colts Island.
Mrs. Howard Hooper entertained .
party of fifteen friends ut . clam bake ct
Lamoine Beach last Sunday.
L. e. Kimball has returned to his home
in Boston after . visit Of month with
his cousin, Wellington Haslam.
Clarence B. Day, with his wife and little
son Robert, has been spending . vacation
Of two weeks camping at Beech Hill pond.
The regular meetings Of Irene chapter,
o. E. g., which have been suspended dur
ing the summer months, will be resumed
next Friday evening.
Libeous d. Patten and Mrs. Agnes e.
Staples, both of this city, were married
last Monday evening by Rev. P. A. A.
Killam, at the Baptist parsonage.
Mrs. Harriet Z. Davis, who has spent
the last year in California, sailed last
Wednesday from San Francisco on the
stea mship Finland, for New York, by the
Panama canal route.
Alonzo Traftcn, who has been the guest
Of Miss Agnes Marshall, Of this city, left
Saturday for Bar Harbor, where he will
spend few days before returning to his
home in Atlantic, Mass.
There will be regular meeting Of the
woman's relief corps Thursday afternoon
at 2.3O o'clock. As this is the first meet
ing since the vacation, it is hoped that all
members will be present.
1t is expected that Rev. Mr.. Garland, Of
Portland, will preach in the Methodist
church next Sunday ct 1880. At 7.S0,
asrv~a =
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01
Nicolin Grange Fair.

Nicolin Grange Fair.
Nicolin grange will hold its fifth annual
bazaar, fair, shooting match and dance
Tuesday, Oct. II, at the grange hall at
North Ellsworth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01
CONDENSED TIME TABLE.

Trains arrive at Ellsworth from the west at
SIS, 7lS, Ills and 11.56 D. m, al and 6.1s p. m
Trains leave Ellsworth for the west 1t 7.87 ..
M, 1923, 4.l1, 5-95, 1911 and l0s7 p. m.
SUNDAYS.
Arrive from west ut 6.66. 71s, oil and l1.16 ..
M. SO p. m. Leave for the west at $50 .. m,
All, 5.35, 1921 and lo.S7 p. m.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


Strand Theatre.
Bankrupts petition for discharge Latty
Bros Granite Co.
Admr notice -George M Roberts.
DR. LAd1n-Dentist.
National grange tour 10 California.
Clark-U -Urbar Show.
Ellsworth Loan 3 Bldg Ass'n--statement.
In bsnkruptcy-Christ b, Brinton.
Q Rockwell's Sunny South Co.-6how.
BAR HAHBoR, NE:
For sale-Jiggers.
BATH, NE:
Machinists-Wanted.
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WEATHER IN ELLsw ORTIZ.

For Week Ending ct Midnight Tuesday.
Aug. 81, 1915.
From observations taken ut the power
station of the Bar Harbor q Union River
Power Co., In Ellsworth. Precipitation is
given In inches for the twenty-four hours
ending at midnight.
Weather Precip-
Temperature conditions itation
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01


flowers. All enjoyed picnic dinner ct .
O'Clock. No business meeting was held,
owing to the absence Of the secretary and
| treasurer.
Mrs. Cordelia Lowell, Of East Boston,
u the guest Of Mrs. LACordis Lord. Mxy.
Lowell IL former resident Of Ellsworth,
1 but this is her first visit here in twenty
eight years.
Mrs. 3. e. Springer, Who accompanied
her daughter, Mrs. Paine, to Wisconsin
| several weeks ago, arrived home Monday.
She visited in New York, Connecticut and
Massachusetts on. her way home.
Bills are out in Ellsworth for The Maine
music festival to be held at Bangor Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, Oct. z, 8 and 8.
Ellsworth will be represented in the
chorus BY twenty to twenty-five voices.
Miss Mamie Gray is spending few
weeks with e. NJ. Moore and wife on
Pine street. Miss Gray is taking = course
in the training school for nurses Of the
Protestant Episcopal hospital in Phila-
delphia.
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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1915-09-01

Big. Juicy luscious eating peaches At Alleys
market, cheap.-Advt.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
INDIAN LAND SALES ILLEGAL
Master in chancery Decides Case in
Favor of Government-White
Settlers Affected.

st. Paul.-In a decision just fled
George r. O'Reilly, master in chan
Gerry named by the federal district
court to try and determine suits
brought by the government involving
title to more than 100000 acres OF
land on Chippewa Indian reservations
in Minnesota, decided the first case
In favor of the government.
Mr. OReilly holds that, under the
provisions of the Clapp act, passed in
1906, and authorizing Indians of
mixed blood to transfer their lands.
O-mo-de-ay-quay, an Indian woman,
had no authority to transfer her land,
that all the conveyances of her land
are illegal and that title to the land
still rests with the government with
the Indian woman holding a trust
patent Mr.. O'Reilly holds that the
government has proven that the In
dian woman is fullblood and as such
had no right to transfer her land.
The decision is of great importance
to the Indians of the White Earth
reservation, for it means that unless it
is reversed on appeal, hundreds OF
land transactions made by fullblood
Indians will be invalidated. Many
of these lands have been transferred
and retransferred and many white
settlers and white business men in
the vicinity of the reservation will
be affected by the decision.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
OPTION PETITION is FILED
koochiching County to Vote on Liquor
Question August 2-35 Per Cent
Voters Sion.

International Falls.-The county op-
ton petition for Koochiching county
has been filed with SIS names, or 35
per cent of the voters, and the election
will be held August 2.
People living in the southern part Of
the state, where petitions have been
circulated through the banks or by
automobile, have no conception of the
work involved in obtaining a petition
of this size in a timbered country,
where most of the communications
must be on foot over different trails
Volunteer workers tramped day after
day ankle-deep and often knee-deep
in mud and water. One notary, a SUM-
day school missionary, finding the
roads along the Black river impossible,
borrowed a canoe and padded 100
miles down the stream. Taking to the
road again, he made the approach to
a bridge while up to his waist in wa
ter The approach on the other side
was lower and he went in up to his
arm pits. But he turned up smiling
at headquarters on schedule time with
q list of q names.
Some of the precincts have sent in
petitions containing the name of every
settler who has vote, others with all
but one or two.
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its own fireplace. The floor is of sand
fresh from the seashore and covered
with grass mats, and the only furni-
ture consists of deliberately carved
wooden pillows, most uncomfortable.
as one would think, for sleeping pur-
poses. Dangling from the roof. and
much blackened by smoke, are human
skulls and bones, formerly belonging
to defunct relatives, the bones being
sometimes contained in woven grass
bags
The price of a wife among these
primitive people may be anything
from a yard of calico to an ak head,
according to the physical attractions
and domestic accomplishments of the
woman.
The savage warriors of New Guinea
adorn themselves with crowns of par
adise feathers, which are held in place
| by a band of plated grass encircling
| the head Sometimes they wear
sort of halo, the rays of which are
| many pieces of cane plated into the
| hair and standing out at right angles
to the scalp. Such headdress, which
| is not disturbed or remade for months.
must be rather uncomfortable to sleep
| in.
To lend fierce expression to the
| face the beak of the hornbill split in
two is worn through hole in the
septum of the nose, in such way
that the two thin white blades, each
five or six inches long, curve up at the
ends like Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache.
In Perpetual Strife.
| Captain Rawling, in his book, THE
Land of the New Guinea Pygmies,"
says that the natives are engaged in
perpetual strife and drunken brawls-
their favorite intoxicant being fer
mented liquor obtained from the sugar
palm. Just outside each family door
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
Motion Pictures in Color.

A serious effort is being made to
reproduce motion pictures in color, bu:
as yet little success has been obtained,
and the pictures in color which have
been show in recent years have been
painted Attempts to adapt three
color photography, by using simultane-
.ously three films, each with a sort of
light of appropriate color, and combin-
ing the three images on the screen,
have to overcome great difficulties in
regard to maintenance of register, be-
cause very minute errors of adjustment
between the pictures on the films are
magnified to an intolerable extent by
projection In a process devised by
G. A. Smith, the results of which were
exhibited at the Society of Arts OF
London, in December, 1908, the mum.
Der of colors recorded was reduced to
two.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
COUNTRY LITERALLY TORN UP
Belgian Towns Burned or Shot to
Pieces, Writes Soldier to Broth
err in Minnesota.

Fergus Falls, Minn--Alphonse
De Lagoon has received another
letter from his brother, Franz
De Lagoon, who is with King Albert's
army in Belgium. The letter does not
indicate from what city or village it
comes and apparently the men are
not allowed to give their locations.
The young man writes:
Il would have written you sooner,
but could not get writing paper. !
am still in good health, but am getting
very tired of staying in one place. 1t
is awful to be in town where all the
houses are either burned or shot to
pieces. 1t is very difficult to get over
the ground where the shlls have
struck, as they have made great holes.
These holes are very deep and the
country Is literally torn up with them.
Outside the line Of fire, farmers are
working in their fields yet They seem
to have gotten used to war and they
even whistle and sing yet, some
times"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
THOUSANDS HONOR
SWEO|SACOMPOSER
GREAT CROWDS ESTIMATED At
$4,000 ATTEND UNWILLING
OF MONUMENT.
MEMORIAL TO WENNERBERG
Statue Presented by Swedish Consu'
Is Accepted in Behalf of City BY
Mayor Nye-Address Made
by Governor.

Minneapolis, Mimi. = Minneapolis
park was the scene at the unwilling
of the Wennerburg memorial monu-
ment, of one of the greatest Swedish
gatherings ever held in America.
twenty-five thousand persons. 1t was
estimated, assembled to honor the
memory of Gunnar Wennerburg, SWed-
ems foremost composer, poet, educator
and statesman, and it was declared
doubtful if ceremonies of greater mag
nitude or more genuine sincerity were
ever held to the memory of the man.
The gathering was representative OF
the Swedish citizenship OF both the
United States and Canada. Among
those who attended were representa-
tives of Swedish organizations Of Mas,
sachusetts, New Hampshire and other
New England states. Societies OF Cal'
ifornia and Washington also were rep
resented and there were number OF
delegates from four Canadian province
es. Minneapolis, for the day. was the
center of Swedish activities OF Amer'
lea, upholding the programs title fol
the city, THE Swedish capital OF the
United States"
Mayor Nye Accepts Gift
To Miss Minnie Johnson was accord
ed the honor of unveiling the statue
which was presented to the city by G.
E. WATERSHED, Swedish consul, and
the acceptance of the gift in behalf OF
the city was made by Mayor Nye and
P. C. Deming, president of the park
boSrd. Addresses also were given by
Governor Hammond and Carl Hanson
delivered a speech in which he eX
pressed the esteem in which he said
the memory of Wennerberg was hello
by Norwegians. Mr.. Hanson is proml
nently associated with the Norwegian
singing societies of Minneapolis. A,
the close of his talk he placed laufe
wreath upon the statue as token Of
the Norwegian singers.
A crowd which packed the ground:
on all sides of the monument within
a radius of more than a block assem-
bled an hour before the opening mum
Der of the afternoons exercises, sons
by a chorus of the combined Swedish
singing societies of the Twin Cities
under the direction of Hjalmer Nils
son. Swedish and American flag
yelled the statue and the colors o
both nations were in evidence every
where in the park.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02

From the foothills of the huge noun
tain range, running through its entire
length from east to west, extend to
north and south vast swampy plains
covered with dense forests, intersected
by innumerable streams, and haunted
by the deadlieA of fevers.
Thus it comes about that German
New Guinea is practically an unknown
land, except for a narrow strip along
the coast, while the portion hitherto
held by Great Britain has been ex-
plored only in part, and what is known
of the Dutch half of the island was
ascertained mainly by an English ex-
petition undertaken in 1910.
This expedition, headed by Capt. Ce-
Gil G. Rawling, which penetrated some
distance into the interior and made
considerable surveys, came across
tribes of hitherto unknown pygmies,
the men barely reaching feet inches
in height. 1t is presumed that the
women are proportionately smaller,
but no brides or other persuasions
could induce these little folk to pro-
duce any of their females for inspec-
ton.
The savages along the coast, on the
other hand, are good-sized people, re-
markably muscular and with a great
development of chest. The men are
sooty black, the women being slightly
fairer Among them are occasional
albinos, with dirty reddish hair, their
pink skins blotched unpleasantly with
darker color. Both sexes go nearly
naked. the women wearing either 9
short grass petticoat or strip of
bark cloth passed between the legs
and held in place by string tied
around the waist For the man a
gourd similarly attached in front often
serves the purpose of raiment.
Native Village One Long Room.
native village is one long room
which may extend to any length, the
newest member of such a community
building his hut on the end of the
row, without any partition. Thus
there is no attempt at privacy, though
each family has it's own doorway and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
WOCOUNT|ES DRY;
TWO REMAIN WET
COUNTY OPTION FORCES WIN
OUT IN GRANT AND
MOWER.
WILKlN AND CROW WING VOTE
Unofficial Figures Indicate Wilkin is
Carried by Vets by 50 Votes
Crow Wing Majority Esti-
mated at 200.

Breckenridge, Minnesota. - With
every precinct heard from the vets
carried Wilkin county by 81 votes.
The total vote was 2,110. These fig-
ures were given out at midnight by
the taxpayers committee. The figures
are unofficial, but regarded as correct.
Breckenridge city gave the vets 366,
drys, 1873.
In Wilkin county most determined
fight had been made. The vets have
lost one shipping point after another
along the North Dakota border and
their battle in Wilkin has been to re-
tain Breckenridge as shipping point.
Crow Wing Likely Wet by 200.
Brainerd, Minnesota. - Brainerd,
which voted dry at the local option
election, experienced a change of SEN
timent and went wet in the latest
election by 1877. Unofficial figures:
wet, 8S5; dry, 698.
It is predicted that Crow Wing coun'
ty is wet at this county option cleo,
ton, probably by 200.
Unofficial returns: Ironton, II wet;
As dry; Guyana, 81 wet, % dry; eros,
by, 107 wet, 203 dry; Klondike town
ship, including Iverton and Crosby
Beach, 80 wet, 60 dry; Oaklawn coun
ty precinct, believed to be safely in
the dry column, voted wet 46, dry %;
Deerwood village, 81 wet, "a dry;
Deerwood township always dry), "a
wet, "a dry; Barrows, SO wet, 81 dry;
Mckay Lake township, wet by Z votes;
Long Lake, 60 dry, AZ wet.
Grant County Goes Dry.
Elbow Lake, Minnesota. - The
county option forces won out in Grant
county Eighteen precincts out of q
had reported at midnight. The vote
stood $50 dry, 420 wet There are only
| three saloons in the county and they
| are at Herman. Herman went wet by
| two votes.
Mower Dry by 200.
Austin, Minnesota - After one o.
the greatest political battles evel
| waged in Mower county, estimates
are that Mower county will go dry by
200. Five precincts are to be heard
from but they will all be in the dry
column The city of Austin police
1880 votes and went wet by 3S3, but
the county vote will counteract this.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-07-02
REAL HISTORY OF
AMERICAN FLAG
Emblem, 1t Is Declared by Stu
dents, May Be Traced Back
as Far as the Twelfth
Century.

7TeHE American flag is a growth,
& rather than creation. It's his
tory can be traced back to the
18th century, or nearly 600 years prior
TO the first Flag Day." June IA, 1777.
During the first crusade in 1885,
Pope Urban ii assigned to all of the
Christian nations as standards crosses
varying in color and design, emblem.
attic OF the warfare in which they
were engaged. To the Scotch troops
was assigned the white satire known
as the white cross of ST Andrew, on a
blue field. The British used yellow
cross, but century and quarter
later they adopted a red cross on a
white field, known as the red cross OF
St George.
When James vi of Scotland ascend
ed the throne of England as James /,
he combined the two flags, and issued
a proclamation requiring all ships to
carry the new flag at their main
masts At the same time the vessels
of south Britain were to carry at
their foremasts the red cross of st.
George and the ships of north Britain
to carry the white cross OF st. An
drew.
The new flag was known as Kings
Colors," the Union Colors," or the
Great Union" and later as the Union
Jack" and was the one under which
the British made all their permanent
settlements in America 1t was the
nag of Great Britain only by proclama
ton, however; not until 1907 did par.
lament pass an act definitely uniting
the two countries and their flags. In
the same year the government issued
regulations requiring the navy to use
what was known as the white ensign;
the naval reserve, the blue ensign
and the merchant marine, the red en-
sign. Owing to the fact that the Brit
fish merchant vessels were everywhere
the cOlonists in America came to look
upon this red ensign as the flag OF
Great Britain.
The people in the New England col
onies were bitterly opposed to the
cross in the flag In 1885 some of the
troops in Massachusetts declined tc
march under this flag and the military
commissioners were forced to design
other flags for their troops with the
cross left out The design they adopt
ed has not been preserved. In 1852 @
mint was established in Boston
Money coined in this mint had the
pine tree stamped on one side of it
The pine tree design was also USED
on New England flags, certainly BY
1904 and possibly as early as 1885.
At'the outbreak of the Revolution
the American colonies had no fias
common to all of them. In many case.
the merchant marine flag Of England
was used with the pine tree substi
tuted for the Union Jack Massa
chusetts adopted the green pine tree
on a white field, with the motto: "Ar
Appeal to Heaven" Some of the south
ern states had the rattlesnake flat
with the motto Don't Tread on Me
on a white or yellow field. This flai
had been used by South Carolina a,