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The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-06-21
4 SAFE TEST.


For those who are in need Of
a remedy for kidney troubles
and backache, it is a good plan
to try Doan's Kidney Pills
They are strongly recommen ded
by Lexington People.
Mrs. A. Ashford, Fifth St.
Lexington, says: From my ex
perience with Doan's kidney
Pills / can recommend them +
others. had rheumatic pain 5 j
my body and arms. My kidney
acted too frequently and ! begal
to wear out physically. ! go
Doan's Kidney Pills at Crens4 nav
& Young's Drug Store ant
found great relief. ! shall keel
Doan's on hand hereafter b
case of need"
6Oc, at all dealers. Foster-Ml
burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. J
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DOVER ITEMS.

Geo. Zeysing had business in
Lexington Monday evening.
w. W. Cole and James Gather
were in Lexington Monday
night.
j. @. Plattenburg and John
Webb of Lexington were here
Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Vail
were in HigginsviIle Sunday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs, John Sheehan
and three children Of Hardin,
were here last week visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. oliver Martin.
Mrs. James Dinwiddie spent
several days last week in Mar
shall with her mother, Mrs.
Chrismsn.
Mrs. Laura Mitchell Of Boon
vile was here last week visiting
with her niece, Mrs. w. G. Paul.
ing, and Mr.. Pauling.
! Mrs. 0. G.. Congdon and small
! daughter, Vera, of Bushone
! Kansas, came Saturday nigh.
t for a visit with Mrs. H. F. Red,
: and Mr., Redd.
e Mrs. Dora Meng returne
y Tuesday to her home in Mendor
b after a few days visit here wit
I relatives.
e r. E. Dysart who had his al
kle broken at Camp Mills a fe'
d weeks ago is able to use a wheI
Vi chair and getting along nicely.
r Friends here received care
e announcing the marriage lai
l. Saturday, June 18th, Of Mix
It Florence Belle Beattie to M
ic Carl Gaines Harwood. at hon
/ in Oklahoma City.
& Mrs. John Davis spent i
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L0ST.A pocket book contain
ing $35 in currency, four PEN
MES, two keys and the No. 1000
Kansas City Mo- on
the west bound passenger train
saturday morning, G. M. Wood,
Conf derate Home. Finder please
leave same at this Office and re-
ceive a liberal reward.
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inc what a good thing the stock
holders we're getting out Of It.
The managers is some cases
did a little quiet thinking and ar
ranged for a change Of employ
ment, before they we're thrown
ont by the directors for being in
competent because they could
not nav dividends with service
at a popular if not a profitable
price. Others, feeling q moral
obligation, stayed in the game
and conscientiously tried to fit
the coat to the doth with more
or less success. Others took the
public into the secret by inform
ing them Of an increase in rates
made obligatory by the changed.
conditions with the result that
the last vestage Of the public
benefactor business faded into
the distance and bothered the
mind Of the manager no more.
In taking Just those actions
81 .|H
! which would stamp him as a man
of worth and ability-a man to
be depended upon to handle their
money safely; to demand safe.
: ty for investments intrusted tc
? his operation-he missed his
2 mark became, so public said
robber, a spendthrift, an incom'
I petent, a public menace, an up.
e setter Of traditions and a mai
( unfit for the sacred Office which
he held in the community.
: Time passed and SO did TIL
! Glamour, until finally the maj
2 who had the courage to rails.
his rates was JUSTIFIED in the pub
; lie eye. as he always is in tn.
end. His subscribers who desert
ed him, came back when the
thought he had been sufficient.
: punished for his action; som
= came back in a day or SO an
others held him in suspense 70
a week or more while they wall
I ed or drove a four hundred do
Il lar team for hours at a time 0
= errands which the telephor
y would have enabled them to a
y complish for a few cents. Sti
ie others stayed out for longer p
n RODS and some passed hence
their rewards without giving
iis to a grasping monopoly.
or course their widows had the t,
as- ephone installed promptly aft
'o' the funeral but that is best
IS the point.
The telephone company W
punished for its temerity in tr
ing to change public conceptio
to fit its actual requirements
a financial way. Some times t
community won ION paper) a
some time the telephone comp
ny won all it asked for, viii
was only a part Of what it re
ly needed.
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Letter From Menefee Redd

80 t
May 21, 1918.
My Darling Mother:
Here it is the latter part Of
May and still not one bit Of
mail. Everyone is anxiously
waiting for that day to come
when again they can hear from
home. We have been having fine
weather ever since we have been
here, but not quite like old Mis-
souri,. Today is exceptionally
warm and I am sure thankful
h am not drilling, although Iasna
not idle.
You have heard the old say
ing France for pretty girls,
We'll, | have my first French
beauty to see. All / have seen
ere as ugly as home made sin. !
had a card from Mrs. McGrew
and She said, ''beware of the
pretty French girls but ! don't
think / have much to beware of.
. III think the girls in the good old
=
u. S. A. viii be pretty enough
for me.
Although we all work, we are
having a great time looking over
: the country. 1t is very beautiful
/ did not know l was such a low
/, er Of nature, it seemed to come
, to me all at once. One of oul
! chief sights is a Chateau. 1t is
! near where we are stationed
Am going to try to go through
it soon. The houses are rather
queer, all one story owing to thu
lack Of lumber. / like the slat,
or tile roofs with thatches her
and there.
= have not seen any of the boy
for about two weeks, suppos
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week end in Lexington with rel
atives.
James salyers and family Of
Waverly, were here Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. ]. L. Owens Of
Wellington, were entertained
Sunday at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Loren Nelson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Welsh Of
independence, announce the
birth Of a son on Thursday,
June 18th. Mrs. Welsh is a grand
daughter of Mrs. Mamie Little
John and was formerly Miss
Alice Miller Littlejohn.
Mrs. Mildren Redd, Mrs. May
me Ragland and small daughter.
Mildred, Mr.. and Mrs. J. M
Redd and two children, Miss
/ jamie and Robert, were guest:
last Sunday at the seth birth.
day anniversary Of their uncle
Thomas B. Campbell.
Everett and Herman NelsoI
came this morning for a fur
Tough with their parents, MI
and Mrs. L. Nelson.
Tommie Bertrand spent sever
al days last week in Centralia
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Sunshine And Shadows Along
The Telephone Trail.

L
The soft wind stirred the ripening
corn;
Somewhere in Missouri.
They HE'D them to a wild duck pass
They hid them in the weeds and grass;
Somewhere in Missouri.
Equipped they were for all their
needs;
They crouched down in the grass
and weeds;
And got stung with burrs and noxl-
GUS seeds;
Somewhere in Missouri.
A lone wild duck few across the SKY
A mile a minute and n mile high;
They quickly aimed and then let ny;
But the shot fell thickly by and by;
Somewhere in Missouri.
Which shows that is is possible
for n to miss his aim in one
field Of endeavor as well as an
other, as many telephone men
are well able to testify.
Many of us in the telephone
business have started out with
the firm intention Of furnishing
our community with telephone
service Of such a nature that we
would be classed as public bene
factors and become solid men Of
affairs in the community on the
strength Of our telephone foun-
dation.
This was to be accomplished
for that magic price Of one dol
lar per month, we to furnish
everything from central ex-
change to wiring houses. Years
passed and nothing was reduc-
ed in price except the cost pei
call to the subscribers, while ev.
erything else went up which the
Company had to furnish. Il
place of posing as a public bene
factor, the telephone man foun'
that he was merely a public ser
want who had to take order
from practically every body j
town and he was 50 busy tryini
to make things go to fit hi
conditions that he had no tim
to work at any self-admiratio.
stuff.
The public which was to be HI
nurse and support in return fc
telephone service, suddenly a
sumed the attitude Of dictate
and taskmaster with a great di
inclination to pay for the duti'
it imposed in anything like
adequate manner 1t held ov'
his head the ever ominous thre'
Of taking out their telephones
in case they could not have twi'
the service for half its worth.
Some managers fell for t
bluff for many years and toil'
painfully on their thorn b
strewn pathway working +
linemen's wages and often DOH
lineman's work in addition
their own, in order that tn
might continue to be thought
good fellow, or, as was true
some cases, that they might pl
tect the investments which tn
friends had made at their
quest or on their advice.
Years passed and commissiC
came with their how requi
ments, which added another b
den onto the time as well as
expense account Of the mi
tried manager. Then the Int
state Commerce Commiss
was also given dictatorial p
ers over his time and actions
many clerks in Washing
spent their time devising
and unique questions for
manager to answer, that
might be kept amused and b
and She aforesaid clerks re
larly employed gathering sta
ties which were to never be
until some one could be 70
who could devise a way to
out something from them
would be Of any profit to the
Die at large. The added exp
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Baby cbix feed, men feed. corn
,hOps. Warder & Conner, p hone
1853.
Misses Jean and Esther Wiley
went to Kansas City this nom
ing for a visit.
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Important Notice.

Any violations of the law Gov
cring ~cut-outs and glazing head
lights on automobiles will be- rig
idly enforced on and after June
Is, 1918.
j. c. TALBOT, Sheriff
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Joe Ewing returned F riday
from a few days visit in Mar
shall.
Miss Mary Claudia W ilsOn
went to Wellington Wedn- esday
for a few days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. j. Shirley left
Wednesday for Denver, Colcra.
do, to spend the summer
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Parties knitting Red Cross
sweaters please call for new d.
rections at w. M. McCall's Music
Store, Franklin Ave.
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SHOWS SPIRIT OF ALLIES
Letter From French Girl to Red Cross,
Worker Gives Vision VI the
War. ,.

Chicago!-A letter frem sixteen
year-old French girl to DIR. John Fin
ley ef this city, who is active in Red
Cross work, contains u vision of the
meaning of the great war. In part. she
says:
1T was almost u river, almost a
brook. called the User, and the birds
could fly over 1t with one sweep of
sheir wings. And on the two banks
there were millions of men, eye to eye.
but the distance which separated them
was greater than tn stars in the sky !;
it was the distance which separates
from right and Justice.
'The ocean Is SO vast that the sea
gulls do not dare to cross 1t. Daring
seven days and seven nights the great
steamships of America, going at full
speed, drive through the deep waters
before the lighthouses of France come
into view; hut from enc side to the
other hearts are touching
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STONINGTON.

DIR. Tewsbury, dentist, is spending few
days at his home in Camden.
An enrolling station for those who de-
sire to enter the merchant marine has been
opened here. Philip w. Small of Small's
pharmacy is recruiting officer; Raymond
Clarke, Nj. D., examiner.
The three masted schooner VIM. Bisbee,
which has been ice bound for weeks at the
wharf of the Rodgers Granite Co. was
lowed out to sea yesterday, loaded with
cut stone for Annapolis.
The steamer vinal Haven OF the ViDai
Haven g. Rockland Steamboat Co. locked
at the Eastern Steamship Co.'S. wharf Mon
day, the first time for weeks. All hope
that the ice has cleared and will drift to
sea, for Stonington has been without reg
ular boat service for long time.
The quarry OF the Rodgers Granite Co.
has been shut down for three weeks on
account Of shortage of coal, but Superin-
tendent Mcclure reports that the COM
pany has barge load at Rockiand, and
that work will be resumed within few
days.
! AT a well-atsended Republican ca.hus
J Tuesday evening IN the office OF r. I.
clarke, Fred A, Torrey and Chen W.
Eaton were elected delegates, Charles Z.
Thurlow and Vernon l.. Small alternates
to attend the republican State convention
at Portland, March Is. The following
town committee was named: Fred A. Tor
rey Chairman; Vernon l.. Small, secretary
Eben w. Eaton, c. G. Thurlow, Reuoei
W. Cousins, Charles w. Webb, Frank N
Trundy, James w. Clarke, T. +. Barbour
]. A. Colt, J. Il. sy5weetser, and P. I
/. Clarke.
Mars. Mill.
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4ml l!qttres.
NOTICE or ronrcLosuRE

NOTICE OF FORECLOSURES.
Nv HkREAs, Curtis Hodg kins, OF the town
uft o. Hancock, county OF Hancock and
, Shsate OF Malice. by his mortgage deed dased
soe tnifd day ot November. 1850, and recorded
the Hancock County, Maine. registry OF
Sseeus book ie3, page $50, conveyed to Stephe n
snAiildge, late Of Mount Desert, In said
Soehtl OF Hancock, deceased, the following
described real estate:
NJ "A certain lot or parcel of land situated in
nancoek aforesaid and bounded and de-
sSroed As follows, TO wit:
p1sglbning on the highway road on John
nsiy 9 line; thence following the road east
sny thirty and one-han rods: thence at right
ahgie southerly eight rods to stake ano
.ne; thence at right angle westerly nine-
s 80 RODS to stake and stone; thence nj
h.ght angle southerly TO line OF land owned
John Kelly aforesaid; thence on said
Aehys line westerly eleven and one-haif
.oaA; thence northeriy to the road aforesaid.
less.
And whereas the condition of said mort
ssge has been broken, now. therefore. I, Au-
sssta A. Smith. administratrix of the estate
n sAid Stephen Smaiiidge, late OF said Mount
tpLssert deceased, by reason of the breach of
sas condition thereof, claim g foreclosure Of
s nne mortgage and give this notice for that
AUGUSTA A. SMITH.
Administrative Of the estate
Of Stephen Smallidge, deceased.
DATED at sat Desert. Me-, February is. 1918.
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Mill.
NORTH FRANKLIN.

Willie Springer was weekend guest
of his cousin, Stanley Cousins.
J, Z. Clark received word last week OF
the death OF his brother at hospital in
Bangor.
Mrs. Jennie Piper and two children have
returned from East brook, where they vls-
tied her mother, Mrs Cora Kingmari'
Miss Letitia Williams has returned from
Winter Harbor, " here she has been with
her brother Chester, who is i'll of humps.
Arthur Tracey, who was here from
Waterville few days last week, returned
Saturday. His father accompanied him
for visit.
Misses Marie and Ruby Cousins, who
have spent their vacation with their
parents, have returned to Ellis worth,
| where they are employed.
| Mar. IL. T..
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ErgaI Nuitefs.
STATE OF MAINE.


HANCOCK SIS PRoRArE Coo 1T.
NorIcz oP APPOINTMENTS OF EXECUTORS, 40
NtsIsrRAroRs, GUARDIANS OF ADULTS AND
CoNsERyAToRs.
lNsrR-Such notices in estates on
h M1ess ss s the Ban sarbof E.ss: in
estates in Deer Isle and Stonington,
in the Deer Isle Messenger; in all other
estates in The ELLSWORTH AMERICANA
DUBLIC notice Is hereby given under tie
L provisions OF chapter 1873 of the public laws
Of the state OF Maine OF 1917. that the following
named persons have been appointed sxece,
tors, administrators, guardians OF adults and
eonservaters, respectively, In the hereinafter
named estates.
Harriet E. Morton, late OF Bluehill. in said
county, deceased. Ernest NJ, himoaii' OF
Chicago, Illinois, appointed executor OF the
last will and testament and codicii OF said de-
ceased; date OF qualification February u, a. d.
1918. Not being q resident OF tpe Ssa.e Q.
Bluehill, In the county OF Hancock and state
OF Maine, ss his agent in said State OF Maine.
IS the law directs.
stephen r. Crosby. late OF BucEspoIt, IN
said county, deceased. Ralph L.. crosby OF
Boston, commonwealth OF MASSACHUSETTS,:
appointed administrator of the estate OF SAID
deceased; date Of qualification teoruassy =,
9. d. 1918. Not being q resident OF the state
of Maine, he has appointed o: +. Fellows OF
Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and state
OF Maine, as his agent In said state OF msine'
as the law directs.
John w. Kane, late OF Bluehill. in said
county, deceased. Edith ID. Kane OF said
Bluehill, appointed administrators OF the es-
tate of said deceased; date OF qualification
February ., 1918.
Ira Shaw, late OF Goaldsboro, in said
county, deceased. Ella X. Nyman OF said
Gouldsboro, appointed misunderstanding OF the
estate Of said deceased; date Of qualification
February 10. 1913
Joseph w. woodland, . person Of unsound
mind OF Penobscot, In said county. Albert
p. Leach OF said Penobscot. appointed guar
dian OF said Joseph w. Woodland; date OF
qualification February 70. 1918.
Dated at Ellsworth, in said county, this
twenty seventh day OF February, q. d. 1915
CLARA e. MULLAs. Acting Register OF Probate.
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COUNTY NEWS
PROSPECT HARBoR.

Mics Isabel Wakefield came homo from
Winter Harbcr for the weekend.
Robert Corbett and wife have been Wis
iting in Winter Harbor recently.
Dewitte Iathrop and wife are visiting
in Connecticut.
Capt. George Allen, who is in West
Gouldsboro for two weeks vacation, was
IN town the last of the week.
Miss Vida K. Cieaves has been guest
of Mrs. James A. Hill in West Gouldsb boz o
the past week.
Byron Moore, Arthur Strout, Rupert
Blance, Irving Moore and others went to
Bar Harder Saturday with Capt. AL WEIGH
In the Edward T. Russell.
Charles ColwelI, with his wife and three
children Of Hancock, spent the weekend
with his parents, Capt. G. w. ColweIl and
wife.
Hslcyon assembly OF Pythisn Sisters
gave party Friday night to the young
people. There were games and music and
Hooverixed refreshments.
Seven women met for the war relief
work Thursday afternoon, in spite OF the
snow storm. Now that the supply from
headquarters has been cut short, they
have to depend upon their own resources.
They are making handkerchief, spreads,
etc. One which the ladies of Birch Har-
Dor made for the society here is q wool
crazy patchwork, and each square held
Rice and Crane were names so often used
that one lady remarked that before it
reached France "the Cranes would have
devoured all the Rice" The quilt was so
nicely made and the idea so novel, that
1t deserves imitation.
March IL. G.
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SOUND.

School closed Friday, after successful
term taught by Mrs. G. A. Wiggin.
Reuben Brown cut his foot quite badly
one day last week, while chopping wood.
Miss Eunice HI. Tinker of the Sound and
Merle w. Brown of Dixmont were married
at Plymouth, March 2. Their friends sx-
tend best wishes.
Miss Myrtle Tinker, Alice Tinker. and
Harvard Tinker returned Monday from
North Hancock, where they visited. theis
sister, Mrs. Natalie Fleming.
Mar. IL. q
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number of germs. But we're all alive.
and that was two months ago.
But enough of this gassing. / re-
solved to be brief in my letters, and
here I've briEmed over onto the third
pnge. II has been cold where / am.
but the last few days have been like
springtime. Where l was last was up
in the snow belt, where 1t gets on the
ground and stays there, the only hope
full word the natives can give being
that lit goes off the ground In April"
Without going into details, though, /
learned one hopeful thing. While away
/ had an opportunity of talking with
lot of Americans who have been In
the trenches. They were from diff
ferent groups of troops and had been
.in' at different times. And they all
were confident that the Americans can
whip the Germans at every stage Of the
game. This Isn't the boast of few,
but the consensus of the calm opinion
of about 40. guess, that / talked to-.
1t was very encouraging. coming from
men who have had mouthful of the
front. Most of the fellows were from
the old American regular army--from
the units over here, which are the only
ones still intact. believe. They are
being trained to the highest point of
military efficiency possible. and, they
say, are to be used as the crack units
Of the United States forces, correspond
ing with the famous "shock" units Of
the German and other armies. guess
the same is true Of the Rainbow divi-
sion of the National Guard, which got
such send-off In the States.
Regulars Fare Worse.
The old regular army fellows
seemed to have Jared worse than the
rest of us. They came over early In
the game, most of them straight from
the border with only few days In
the East, and went into training i'm
mediately. They were quartered up
where the war has left an obvious
mark and taken most of the superb
cialties. They've been going hard ever
since learning everything of the latest
weapons, maneuvers, signals and mill
tary science that the French, British
and Americans had to teach them.
They're probably the soundest bunch
of men. physically. In the world. And
yet they're greatly neglected. This Is
because they come from the United
States In general and no place In par
ticular. Most Of the regiments here
come from distant locality, and the
! folks back home organize welfare So
cieties and send 'em tobacco and
sweaters, but the regulars don't get in
| on this,
had a few letters from the coast
and probably will get more when the
Christmas mail, which is still coming
in, catches up.
Till la Guerre Is FINS,
ROSS.
P. S.-The army censor who O-K't
the above letter added In his owl
handwriting the following wall:
up. S.-Above statements regarding
the regular forces being more or les
forgotten are true, too true. !, toe
am from the regular service and
happen to know we were overlooke
only too weIl.S
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MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS.

Whereas, The hand of the Supreme
Creator has been laid upon Scboodic lodge,
knights of Pythias, and taken from our
midst an esteemed menber, Brother
George Hickman, therefore be ii
Resolred, That in the death OF our
brother, Schoodic lodge has lost valued
member, but Gods ways are not our ways,
and we bow humbly to His will, knowing
that our brother has only crossed the
river q little while before us. Ere long
we too shall be called to join the innumer-
able host.
:, Resolred, That we extend our heartfelt
sympathy to the bereaved family.
Resotred, That our charter be draped
in mourning thirty days, copy Of thess
resolutions be spread upon our records, q
copy sent to the members of the family
and copy sent to THE ELLSWORTH
AMERICAN for publication.
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oREA.

A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph
Stewart March Q.
Schools will open again Monday, after
being closed two weeks on account OF hack
OF fuel.
Miss Anna Paul, who has been EN-
ployed at the East Maine general hospital
at Bangor, is visiting her brother Will
lam.
March IL. s.
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AGRANDMA" GETS REPLY
TO NOTE IN SWEATER

Lonaasning, Md.-Among the
sweaters sent recently by Iona
coming wsmen to the Red Cross
for shipment to the expedition
airy army was one knitted by
Grandma" Bradley. nlnety-two,
In which she inserted a note in
one of the sleeves asking the SOL
der who received 1t to write her
a letter. She has just received
a reply from France. The sweat.
er was received by a Homecoming
boy, lad whom she had known
when he was a child.