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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
WOOD PRICES.
Chairman of Fuel Wood Committee
Says They Are Too High.

Oh utl w OOu
Says They Are Too High.
Charles ID. Woods, chairman OF the State
Fuel Wood committee, says prices being
charged for wood in Maine are too high.
"only a very few years ago." he says,
''weli located stumpage of excelie MT hard
wood was worth about a dollar a cord.
1t cost dollar a cord to chop, split and
pile. Such wood sold in Maine villages
for about s. cord. Soft maple, grey
birch and similar fuel woods sold for a
were using only spruce and poplar, and
were paying moderate prices.
"With the increased demand OF paper
and its marked advance in price the pulp
manufacturers are accepting limited
mixtures of other varieties and have
more than doubled the price paid for
pulp stock. The increase in wage has
more than doubled and in some instances
more than trebled the chopping cost.
The increase in cost for labor and teams
has nearly doubled the carriage cost,
And all Of this has reacted on tumpage
so that standing heavy hard wood within
two turns a day o; town is held at
about g cord.
''With e stumpsge, s6 a day team and
driver cost, and $3.50 to $3.50 cost for
ehopping and splitting, green wood that
sold for s5 will now cost in the village or
on the cars from $3.50 to $50 cord. One
can not hope to get high grade fuel wood
in villages for much less than IS cord.
Nor should the price be much above ss.
Where shipments by rail are involved the
cost will be increased by % or q cord.
The less desirable soft maple and grey
birch should be had for 81 or " cord less.
Their stumpage has less value and they
are prepared for market with less labor.
'Cut-s-cord. A cord Of wood is the
fuel equivalent of "a ton Of coal. Its use
leaves for war essentials the labor OF min
ing and transporting the coal, and keeps
within the State the money the coal would
cost"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

ment commissions were sent out to so,,,
America to study the needs Of the Ia,,a
Americans and to court their good viii
Trade and business organizations iollowss
with experts ard specialists who s,pa,.s
the markets in detail and sent back !,
ports which the German goyernms.,
printed and circulated at home.
German banks were established at -.
South American ports, and commerce.,
schools in Germany established spsc;.,
courses in Spanish and Portuguese, Latin
American business methods and sva.
etiquette. Colonies Of German emiprs,,.
were set up as nuclei Of trade. Co All,
shipping lines were esta blished and !.
subsidized by the German governms,,
lat it was possible for the German .,
porter to ship German-m made goods from
Hamburg to Valparaiso at cheaper rs,a,
than to cities within the Fstherland i,ssl,
It was this elaborate machinery, rival.
ing in effectiveness any trade venture m.
world had ever seen, that the Germ,,
militarist, preaching the doctrine OF forca
found too slow and inglorious.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
Kepublican State committee.

AT nesting of the Republican State
committee last Wednesday at Augusta,
it was decided that the republican State
convention shall be held in the Bangor
city hall on March Is. Cong. Wallace
q. White, jr., OF Lewiston, was selected
as temporary chairman ofthe convention.
The oasis of representation is to be
one delegate for every city, town and
plantation in the State and an additional
delegate for every seventy-five votes and
fraction thereof cast for the republican
candidate for governor in 1916
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
u. 5. PEACE TERMS.
Definite Statement of Terms on
Which Peace Will he Discussed.

Which Peace Will he Discussed.
Americas program of war and peace,
with definite terms upon which the ma
against German world domination are
ready to lay down their arms was given
to the world by President Wilson yester-
day through an address to Congress in
joint session.
For this program, paseu upon the right
ing of wrongs and the safety of peace
loving people, desiring to live their own
lives, the President committed the United
States to fight and continue to fight until
it is achieved. Thus he pledged the
country to the allied policy of no separate
peace. 1--WE cannot be separated in in
terest or divided in purpose" he said.
1--WE stand together to the end"
The speech, heard by Congress at an
hours notice and accepted with a wave
of approval that brought together yir-
tually every element of both houses, was
delivered as direct response to the Ger
man challenge in the negotiations with
the Russians at Brest -Litovsk. 1t fol-
lowed closely and approved the address
OF the British premier, but was far more
specific in statement of terms, robbing
OF force in advance any German peace
drive designed to confuse the entente and
American governments and their people,
while at the same time presenting the
foundation for genuine negotiations,
whenever the central powers are ready
to talk OF q just peace.
Fourteen concrete proposals laid down by
the President began with the declaration
that the days OF private international I'M
derstandings are gone and that covenants
OF peace must be reached in the open.
Briefly summarized the other points were:
Absolute freedom of the seas in peace
or war except as they may be closed by
international action; removal Of economic
barriers among nations assoeiating them
selves to maintain peace; guarantees of
the reduction of ornaments to the lowest
point consistent with domestic safety;
impartial adjustment of colonial claims,
based on the principle that the peoples
concerned have equal rights with the gov
ernments; evacuation OF all Russian ter
ritory and opportunity for Russia's po-
liticai development; evacuation Of Bel
GUM; evacuation of Frsnch territory and
righting of the Alsace- Lorraine wrong;
REIMBURSEMENT of Itaiy's frontiers along
recognizable lines of nationality; free OPP
portunity for autonomous development of
the peoples of Austria Hungary; evaeua-
ton of Roumania, Serbia and Montenegro
and guarantees for all the Balkan states;
sovereignty for Turkeys portion of the
ottouian empire and autonomy for other
nationslities; an independent Poland with
access to the sea; and general association
Of nations for mutual guarantees OF in
dependence, and territorial integrity to
large and small states alike.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
The ReoImen.ai poo.

The regimental dog has always been
q favored animal In the United States
armies, whether regular or volunteer.
Champ Clark, 1t win be recalled. by re-
viving a southwestern folk song. re-
lating to the unwisdom and bad taste
of -kicking' my houn' dog aroun',"
aroused new interest In that particu-
lar animal, and the Second regiment
Of Missouri adopted one as its mas
cot" Since then the organization has
been known as the "Houn' Dog Regi.
ment-" Recently q wealthy lady pre-
sented the men with fine specimen Of
the species, Great Dane. Maltese
blue in color and weighing 210 pounds
1t Ii unnecessary to say that few lib
critics will be taken with this 'shoun'."
Christian Science Monitor.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Pure, rich, red blood is a necessity in the
production Of animal heat. It keeps our
bodies warm. We all know very well that
when the arteries that carry 1t to a limb are
bound or tied. the temperature Of the limb is
Immediately Ie-ered.
There is q suggestion in this that, at this
time Of year especially, we should take
Hoods Sarsaparilla, IL our blood is impure
impoverished or pale. Hoods Sarsaparills
makes the blood good in quality and quantity
It has an unequaled record for radically and
permanently removing blood diseases. scrof
ula, rheumatism and catarrh, and givi q
strength and tone to the whole system. 1t i,
scientific combination Of roots, barks, herb
and other medicinal substances that hsv'
long been used by successful physicians. &c
! it to-day .--Advt.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
Many Army Nurses Needed.

According to estimates based on an
army of so, 900 men, 81 500 nurses will be
needed. The present strength Of the
army nurse corps of the medical depart
ment is about $500. To increase this
number by nearly 1000 per cent in q year
is the task faced by the corps.
Hospitals at army camps and canton
ments still need nurses to bring tine quota
for each up to the minimum OF sixty i've,
considered necessary, although since the
urgent need for nurses was made public
in December, nearly 2,0oo requests for APP
piication blanks have been received.
In order to get the enroilments up to
the needed number some OF the require
ments heretofore imposed have beer
waived. According to estimates there arr
between 5000 and q, 700 registered nurses
| in the country and about 100000 othel
graduate and practical nurses.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
HOLLAND WON FROM THE SEA
First Sight Of Great bikes Amazing,
Even to One Who Has Read All
About the System.

Everyone who visits Holland, OF
course. goes there knowing full well
that this is land won from the sea,
that the Dutch have built them coun-
try by raising bikes and pumping the
water out of the inclosed lowlands !;
but the first actual sight of the dixie
system and Of what 1t actually means
to win country from the sea comes
with as fresh an effect of surprise and
amazement as though one had never
heard the tale before.
Holland today is quiet little
checkerboard of fiat country, fertile.
quiet and prosperous, dotted with
thriving cities, gridironed with roads
and canals. Old Holland, If we can
believe what the historians tell us,
was one of the worst wildernesses In
the world--a country of huge and an
CRY lakes, of endless dismal swamps.
of league on league of dense, impene-
trable forest. Here and there bit of
that old forest has been preserved, as
at The Hague, and the public look on
II as an historical relic. Even in the
time OF King Philip II the country was
such that that pious monarch called 1t
the nearest thing to hell that was to
be found on earth. Today 1t is pre-
eminent for fertility, prosperity and
peace. The change was wrought hS
one thing-dikes.
In the old school readers there was
a standard tale of noble little Dutch
boy who saved his province from dis
aster. He observed tiny leak In one
Of the bikes and. thrusting his finger
into 1t, he sat down and kept 1t plug
ged until help arrived, in spite Of con-
siderable discomfort from a cramp in
the arm. This is pretty tale, but one
which first-hand observation of the
bikes leads the visitor to regard with
some skepticism. 1t reminds one Of
a small boy who would prop up the
Washington monument If 1t began to
fall. The enormous mass of the dikes
Is something hard to realize. There
is one nine miles long that reaches
down with solid granite 200 feet below
the surface of the sea. In another
province the bikes run for 800 miles.
There Is a single dixie which was In
stalled at such expense that 1t is said
the great mass of stone could be du-
plicated In solid copper for the money
1t took to erect 1t. Holland is like a
fortress eternally beleaguered by the
sea and the price of her safety is
eternal vigilance.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

The peace negotiations between
the Russian Bolsneyiki and Germany
seem to have come to sudden and
unexpected halt. Everybody ex-
pected some form of peace agreement
to be reached between Germany and
her German agents in Petrograd, at
present in the ascendency. But it
looks now as if Lenine and Trotsky
were little fearful of their own
leadership. They may have builded
better than they knew. They have
played the anti German game so long
that their own followers have been
converted. Now they must temporize
for while to save their own necks.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
SUGAR SUBSTITUTES.
IaIatabie Dishes Made With Honey,
Sirups, uolasses, Etc.

Sirups, uolasses, Etc.
There are many sweets to be used
instead OF sugar honey, strip, corn
strip, sorghum strip, maple sirup
molasses, fruit sirups, and sweet dried
fruits. Cereals need sweeteDing for
most of us, but we need not use sugar,
All OF the sirups are good on them, and
only a little is needed to give the favor.
They can all be used in cooking and
delicious desserts made with them.
puddings can easily be made without
any sugar. Brown Betty is good with
sny of the sirups. Put layer OF bread,
then layer of apples, moisten with
sirup or honey, and repeat until the
dish is full.
Oatmeal Betty is an unusual use for
left over oatmeal that is very good.
OATMEAL BETTY.-Two cups cooked
oatmeal, Y cup raisins, 4 apples cut in small
pieces, y cup honey or strip. Mix and
bake for one half hour. Serve hot or cold.
INDIAN PUDDING.-Indianp pudding needs
no sugar. IT is a very nutritious dessert
and can be used as the main part OF
meal. Four cups milk, u cup corn meal,
hcup moIasses, u teaspoon salt, 1 tea
spoon ginger.
Cook milk and meal in q double boiler
for twenty minutes; add molasses, salt
and ginger. Pour into buttered baking
dish and bake two hours in a slow oven or
use a fireiess cooker.
Rice pudding is good with y cup Of
strip to cups cooked rice. Raisins may
be added. Bake for half an hour.
Honey and maple custards have very
delicate favor. Corn sirup or fruit sirup
may be used. too.
BOILED HONEY CUsrARp - Two cups
milk, egg yoiks, Y cup honey, Y tea
spoon salt. Mix the honey, eggs and salt.
Scald the milk and pour it over the eggs.
Cook in doub BILE boiler until the mixture
thickens.
HONEY DROP CAKES. These cakes are
delicious. Try them instead of cakes
made with sugar: q cup hone.s, u cup
butter, Y teaspoon cinnamon, V teaspoon
cloves, egg, TX to cups -four, Y tea
spoon soda, tablespoons water, l cup
raisins, cut in small pieces.
Heat the honey and butter until the
butter melts. While the mixture is warm
add the spices. When it is cold add part
of the -four, the egg well beaten, the soda
dissolved in the water, and the raisins.
Add enough more -four to make dough
that will hold its shape. Drop by spoon
fuIs on a buttered tin and bake in mod
crate oven.
SOFT HONEY CAKE - One-half cup
butter, cup honey, egg, Y cup sour
milk, teaspoon soda, Y teaspoon CHINA
mon, y teaspoon ginger, 4 cups -four.
Rub the butter and honey together; add
the egg we'll beaten, then the sour milk
and the -four sifted with the soda and
spice. Bake in a shallow pan.
SUGARLEss GINGERBREAD. - Use gin
gerbread instead OF the richer cakes.
1t requires no sugar and everybody
likes il. Two cups -four, TX tea
spoons soda, teaspoon ginger, u tea
spoon salt, l cup molasses, l cup thick
sour milk, egg. Mix and sift the dry
ingredients; add molasses, milk and egg,
and beat we'll; pour into a creased pan
and bake in a moderate oven % minutes.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
Hancock county has gone lover the

Hancock county has gone lover the
top" in the Red Cross membership
drive. This can be stated positively,
though the detailed figures from all
the towns are not yet in the hands of
Secretary Whitcomb of the county
chapter. Hancock county was asked
to bring its total membership up to
1900. Already there are over 1900
on the rolls, with complete figures
from several towns still lacking. The
membership for the county is ex
pected to approximate 300.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

The Deer Isle Messenger thinks that
town enrolled the oldest as well as the
Youngest Red Cross members in the
county in the recent drive. The Mes
senger may be half right Mrs.
Hannah Lufkin, aged ninety-two, may be
the oldest member in the county, but
Howard Haskell, aged seventeen days
when enrolled, is by no means the young
est. The little daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
William Faulkner OF Crsnberr Isles was
only two hours old when the right to
wear the Red Cross button was conferred
upou her.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

The Times understands that Mrs.
Louise Drexei Morrell, widow OF Gen. Ed
ward Morrell, has informally offered, as
memorial to her late husband, to give
Morrell park, including about twenty
acres of land, to trustees for the perpetual
use of the town. Mrs. Morrelps benefac-
tions, especially to the Church OF the Holy
Redeemer and institutions connected
with it, have already been most liberal.
The proposed gift of Morrell park would
be very appropriate memorial to Gen.
Morrell who ever took SO deep an interest
in the town, and who enjoyed in so large
a degree the confidence and esteem of the
people. Bar Hdrbor Times.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Every contention raised against
the selective draft act has been
swept aside by the United States
supreme court in unanimous
opinion delivered Monday uphoIding
the law as constitutional. Authority
to enact the statute and to send
forces to fight the enemy wherever
he may be found, the court holds,
lies in the clauses Of the constitution
giving Congress the power to declare
war and to raise and support armies.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
New Years.

Life is q book Each New Years night
know another chapter done;
Written in ink that viii not fade,
Traced with the tale my life hath made,
The conflicts have lost or won.
Some years are fair and some are sad,
And some are filled with noble deeds.
My friend, you only see line,
page, of this full year Of mine
The chapter only Heaven reads.
And so turn the leaf tonight.
The New Year stretchesclean and fair.
These months to come my soul will write
Things glad or gloomy, dark or bright
Maybe, perchance, life's fms there.
e. F. NJ.
Bueksport, Me-, jan z, 1918.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion OF the ear There I,
only one way to cure catarrhal deAtaess
aud that IL by constitutional renedy
Catarrhal deafness fs caused BY al inaamei
condition Of the mucous lining Of the
Eustaehiau Tube. when this tube is ia
famed you have a rumbliug sound OF in.
Inflammation can be reduced aud this tub
restored to its normal condition, hearing
will be destroyed forever Many cases q
deafness are caused By catarrh. which is az
Unframed condition of the mucous surfaces
Halls Cstarrh Medicine acts thru the
blood on the mucous surfaces of the system.
We will give One Hundred Dollars Tor any
case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be
cured by Halls Cstafrh Medicine. Circulars
free. All Druggists, Toe.
F.J, CHENEY & co. Toledo. 0.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
BLUEHILL FALLS.

The bay is frozen over to East Biuehill.
Roy Hail arrived home from Baneo,
hospital Tuesday. All hope to see him
out soon.
Stewart, son OF Mr. and Mrs. A. R
Consry, who has been Ill a long time il.
now very low.
Mrs. Maud Consry and son Raymond
were SUNDAY guests of Mrs. Eugene Can.
dage at South Bluebill.
Jan. Z. CRUNss
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Don't hit Hoover. He is doing
the best he can. The vice president
of large sugar refinery is quoted this
week as saying: eff Herbert Hoover
had not taken charge of the sugar
situation when he did, sugar would
now be so cents pound"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

The following were the prize winner
from Hancock county in the State con,
test for boys and girls sgricuItu-,
clubs held recently at Orono.
Melissa Fl. Jones, Ellsworth, first pri,,
in cooking and housekeeping; Ad,
winslow, Prospect Harbor, ninth p,,.
in canning; Julia Treworgy, suny
sixth prize in small garden; Doro,b,
Cook, Hancock, fourth prize in lara,
garden; Annie Smith, Franklin, seventh
prize in pig club; Dana Hodgkins, Han.
cock, third prize in potatoes; Richmond
shaektord, Ellsworth, sixth prize ia
poultry.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Congressional investigation has
shown the ineficiency of Baker as
head of the war department. Public
&c nand for his retirement is growing
daily more insistent. Bakers bread
is dough.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
SpsfiaI Motifs.
~>>~-~~--~-< .<~~~>4- ~-~~I>--NS'-'--'' = -
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING.

~SN~N~-~~~-r~.~ @~N~a- --~~rS-NS>-~-> . SN>N~
SHAREHOLDERS MEETING.
THE annual meeting Of the Ellsworth Lesa
l. q Building Association will be held og
January Il. 1918, at $50 p. M, at the once q
the association in Tapley block, Bhs~os'n'
Maine, for the following purposes;
l. For the election Of . board OF seven IL
rectors-
2. For the election OF an auditor.
3. For the transaction a. any Other ol al;
ness that may properly eome before ''''
o. w. TArxRY, Seeretsr!'
Ellsworth. Maine. JAnaArrl 1913.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
lsaaI Notices.


In the District Court of the Unite& States 0i
the Hancock Distries OF Maine.
NoRrHKRs DIVISION
In the matter OF In. p..k-,Apty.
HAROLD p. CARTER, " 20 ~ D.
Bankrupt,
20 the creditors Of Harold p. Cart91 =.
Ellsworth, in the county Of
cock and district Aforesaid. y bankruR'
NOTICE II hereby given that on the a.. y.
An day Of January. .. d. 1914 the s&ia n
old p Carter, was duly Adiudicated ban
and that the first meeting % "
creditors will be held at my othce. Eiiswort
Maine, January n, a. q. iSi1
O'Clock In the afternoon, st which time ~
said creditors may attend. prove their cisimt
appoint . trustee. examine the bankrupt ~
transact such other business rs may proper
come before said meeting.
WILLIAn 3. WHITING,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Ellsworth, Me-, Jan. .. 1913.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

The United States supreme court
has knocked another prop from be-
meath the Stacker in declaring the
draft law constitutional
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Americans in Italy have met severe
reverse. The Italian customs au-
thorities have placed ban On the i'm
portation of base balls and bats as
"useless toys"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09

Corporal Guy v. Written of Prospect
Harbor is one OF the eleven Maine men at
Camp Devens designated last week by
Brigadier- General Weigel to attend the
officers training school at Camp Devens
January to April S.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
BUCKsPoRT.

Mrs. George Emerton died at her home
here Sunday. Jan. 8, at the age OF hfty-four
years, after an illness OF several months.
Besides her husband, she leaves two
daug hters aud one son.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
How Il Happened.

How did this china cup get brok-
emp asked Mr.. Flubdub.
by coming in contact with the iron
sink" answered Mrs. F1ubdub.
And, as she volunteered no further
details, he asked for no more.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1918.

Government operation of coal, iron
and copper mines will be the next
step.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
alflp caantso.

II" MEN wanted Immediately. Eity
1OO Motormen and Conductors Tor
Street II. X. in and around Boston; inexpen'
enced men will be taken; also nfty men 10;
Bristol, Conn, factory work, hne wages aud
place. New hands taken. soc to SOC per ho1r'
Apply at once; enclose stamp for reply l. r.
CHURCH, 30 Main ST.. Bangor, Me-
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
COUNTY GOSSIP.

Mrs. Pearl Leach of Penobscot on De-
cember Is gave birth to her sixteenth
child, ana all are living-eight boys and
eight girls.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-01-09
CAUTION NoMCE.

"HEREAs my wife, Eaie 81. Howard as,
w left my bed and board witso1t 50
cause, this Is to warn ali psrsens against D..
boring or trusting her at my efpsnse 'i'''
Ellsworth. Me-, Dec. 10. 1917.