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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1918-03-07
The Third Maine Regiment.

The next examinations in the number
OF enrolled men for the Third Maine Regi-
ment in the Belfast Company will take
place at the City Building this, Thursday,
evening, and there is good list yet to
be examined, including Donald R. Brown
ell, Lincolnville; Raymond W. Blazo,
Erwin F. Wade, William F. Pendleton,
Thomas E. Mank, Sidney E. Knowlton,
Lewis C. Bumps, William H. Fletcher,
Clarence Goodrich, Earle F. Hammons,
Stacey J. Moves, ClaNpce E. Nickerson,
Oscar H. Stiles, Arthur S. Robinson,
Leaman W. Robinson, Rendell Howard,
Clyde N. Shorey, George E. Sanborn.
The examinations will be conducted by
Lieut. Carl H. Stevens assisted by Re-
cruiting Officer Orrin J. Dickey.
Major E. Good win of the quartermas-
ter'S department in Augusta was in this
city several days last week assisting in
the organization of the local company
and a number of men were sworn In by
him. The first drill under the instruction
of Major Goodwin took place on Friday
evening of last week at the Red Mems
hall with some fifty men in line. The in
terest was very good and at the close of
the drill, Major Goodwin paid some very
fine compliments to the men for the ex-
cellence of their work.
Regular Friday evening drills at the
Belfast Opera House at seven-thirty in
the evening will begin this week, and
until the Company is formed and the
State takes over the hall as an armory
the City of Belfast will assume the rental
Of the building. Major Goodwin will be
in the city again on Friday evening Tor
the purpose of giving the second night
of instruction.
Some sixty men have already been
sworn into the service and there are
good percentage of others who have
passed the examination and will be sworn
in on Friday evening, while still others
have been re- called for denomination
by reason of slight changes in the rules.
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kilograms were received last Friday by
Belfast friends announcing the death of
Annie s., wife of Rev. Arthur A. Blair
of Livermore Falls. She was SO years
old and had been in ill health for some
time with Bright's disease. She was a
native of Manchester, N. H. The funeral
was held at her late home Sunday at p.
M The Belfast Universalist church and
a number of personal friends sent flow
ers but none of her friends here were able
to attend the services on account of poor
train connection. Her remains were
taken to Manchester, where services were
held at her home church Tuesday after
noon. Her lifelong friend, Miss Mary
Walker of Manchester, was at the Blair
home for several weeks and with MIR.
Blair accompanied the remains to her
home city. During her married life with
Mr.. Blair she had lived in Beverly, Mass,
in Madison, Old Town and Caribou,
Maine, before coming to Belfast, where
they had lived for six years. In June,
1917, they went to Livermore Falls. Mrs.
Blair was interested in the work of the
Universalist church in all of its branches.
She taught in the Sunday school, was
member of the Ladies Circle and the So
cial Aid She left many friends here who
were grieved to learn of her death.
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DIED

BROWN. In Belfast, Feb. %, Mrs.
Cordelia S. Brown, formerly of Warren,
aged 76 years and months.
CONANT. In Camden, Feb. q, Sumner
T. Conant, aged IS years
CASEY In Bangor, March 3, Mrs,
Mary Casey, aged sc years.
JONES. In Bangor, March z, Alfred
Jones, aged so years.
MERRILL. In Searsport, March z,
George L. Merrill aged II years, 2
months and 10 days.
MOODY. In Appleton, Feb. "a, Joseph
P. Moody, aged 10 years, D months and
Is days.
ROBBINS. In Belfast, Feb. u, Mrs.
Lucy Ames Robbins, formerly of Hope,
aged 90 years.
SHAW. In Belfast, March I, Florence
Winslow Shaw, aged q years, 3 months
SWAZEY. In Bucksport, Feb, 49, Martha
Elizabeth, widow of Capt. Joseph Swazey,
aged 70 years.
WATKINS. In Northport, March /,
Henry A. Watkins, formerly of Franklin,
Mass, aged 76 years.
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BORN

CONNER. In Castine, Feb. 4. to Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Conner, daughter.
CUNNINGHAM In Bucksport, Feb. II,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert L. Cunningham,
a daughter, Marjorie Beatrice.
GRAY. p Castine, Feb. 7, to MIR. and
Mrs William Gray, a daughter.
JACOBS. In East Belfast, March 1, to
Mr.. and Mrs. William Jacobs, son, Oscar
Richard.
PEAsE In Hope, Feb. %, to Mr.. and
Mrs Jethro D. Pease, a son.
SAWYER, In Castine, Feb. II, to Mr..
and Mrs Charles L. Sawyer, son.
WATERMAN In Belfast, March 5, to
Mr.. and Mrs. .Charles H. Waterman, a
SON
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MARRIED

Dow CONNER In North Bronksville,
Feb. 20, by Rev. John Carson, Harold II.
Dow and Miss Inez Conner, both of North
Brooksvile.
MARTIN-LARRABEE In Knox, Feb. %,
Edwin Clarence Martin of Liberty and
Miss Emma Florence Larrabee of Knox,
MOORE BATCHELDER. In Stockton
Springs, Feb. 81, by Rev. Harry Hulley,
BENJAMIN E. Moore of Ellsworth Falls
and Miss Ada Batchelder of Stockton
Springs
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Fee Bill of Waldo County Bar Association

No division of collection fees to be
made except with regular members of the
Bar.
If the plaintiff sees fit to collect the
demand, claim or execution himself after
the same has been left for collection with
an attorney, he shall be charged and re-
ouired to pay the Same fee or commission
as though the attorney had made the col
lection.
FOR SERVICES IN COURT.
IN JUSTICES COURT.
Where an action is settled before
entry, writ and consultation fee.
not less than Z.5o
Replevin Writ and Bond, not less
than. $50
Trial, in proportion to services, not
less than 800
Appearance for Defendant or Trus-
fee not less than 800
Settlement fee in Appeal Cases be-
fore entry, not less than 3,OU
MUNICIPAL COURT.
For services in Municipal Court
where the claim is less than
Twenty Dollars, the same as be-
fore Trial Justice. If over TWEEN
ty Dollars the same as in S. j.
Court.
Removal of action TO S. j. Court 500
IN POOR DEBTORS DISCLOSURE.
For drawing Citations or Apphca-
lions not less than zoo
Services as Counsel in proportion
to labor and time expended but
in no case less than :, w
IN PROBATE COURT.
For preparing and filing any petit
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For preparing Bond, not less than. ZOO
For preparing, filing and proving
any account not less than 500
No charge for any services in Pro-
bate Court to be less than 900
For hearing before Commission
erS OF Insolvency, not less IMAM. 0.Uu
IN BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS.
For consultation and preparing petit
ton and conducting the case in
voluntary proceedings, when not
contested, to be in all cases, ex-
elusive of disbursements, not less
than 5000
For attendance at any Disclosure
or examination under the Bank
rupt Laws, before the Referee,
not less than 1000
For drafting Proof of Claim in
Bankruptcy, not less than LOO
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Hindenburg said he would be in Paris
April first He has now only three weeks
and half in which to make the journey
and the travelling is not good for Ger
mans, except as prisoners of war.
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man McGilvery Post and keenly inter
ested in all G. A. R. activities. In his
sudden passing the town has lost valued
and respected citizen. He is survived by
his wife, brother, Frank Merrill of Cah.
fornia and sister, Mrs. Rufus Fowler OF
New York, Eugenia and Lesnore hldder,
children of his adopted daughter.
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Belfast Savings B9nk

Notice is hereby given that Savings Bank
Book No. 13, COG. issued by this bank, has
been lost and application has been made for
a duplicate book according to laws resulat-
ing issuing new books.
WILMER J. DORMAN, Treasurer.
Belfast, March a, 1918-3w1O
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For drafting Power of Attorney not
For drawing and filing Objection
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tnan ST.
For taking Appeal to any other
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For drafting Creditor Petition and
prosecuting same, exclusive of
disbursements, not less than ~
IN SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT
For drawing a Bill in Equity, not
For drawing an Answer, not less
IMAM ID
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than
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ment or Notion to Dismiss, rpt
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For drafting petition for Partition,
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able in advance, not less than %
For subsequent services in Prose
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pense, not less than. -0
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not less than h.
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preme Judicial Court to be less
than
All moneys paid out by Counsel
will be charged in addition to the
above fees.
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WANTED

ATTENDANTS INSANE DEPT, STATE
FARM, MASS.
On account of the war demands for young
and middle aged men, the management
have raised the maximum age limit to SIS,
perhaps 2 or 3 years more. S35 per month
first months, then $40, including board,
room, washing and mending; 60 hours
weekly. Confer by letter with undersigned,
who will arrange for personal conference.
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ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE. The sub
scriber hereby gives notice that she has been
duly appointed ADMINISTRATIVE of the estate of
GEORGE W. De SILVER. late of Prospect,
in the county of Waldo. deceased. and given
bonds as the law directs. All persons having
demands against the estate of said deceased
are desired to present the same for settle
ment, and all indebted thereto are requested
to make payment Immediately.
ADDIE E De SILVER.
Prospect. Me-, Feb. IL. 1870
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Mrs. George A. GiIchrest of Knox was
the guest the past week of her niece,
Miss Gladys Marshall.
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japan asks to be allowed a free
hand' in Russia. We hope she Will use
bothnhands without gloves.
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A black and lUhite Sheppard
Dog, curly hair, named Jack,
Gunner. J. ". Chase, Waldo.
Tel. 1882. 1w10p
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These rules are intended to establish h
lowest compensation and not to res Ga
gentlemen of the Bar from recel'IH
larger fees in case of difficulty or ma-n
tude.
No member of this Bar shall upon az
terms or under any circumstances, ass -a
the care of that side of an action con
menced or previously answered to by
person not regularly admitted to prac..
at this or some other Bar in this STATE
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05
PREFACE.

There is a common idea that the age
of miracles is past. Perhaps it is, but
If so, the change must have come about
within the past few weeks-after 1 es-
capped into Holland. For If anything is
certain in this life it is this: this book
never would have been written but for
the succession of miracles set forth in
these pages.
Miracles, luck, coincidence, Provi-
dence-it doesn't matter much what
you call it-certainly played an impor-
tant part in the series Of hair-breadth
escapes in which / figured during my
short but eventful appearance In the
great drama now being enacted across
the seas. Without 1t. all my efforts and
sufferings would have been quite I'M
availing.
No n realizes this better than l do
and I want to repeat it right here be-
cause elsewhere in these pages / may
appear occasionally to overlook or
minimize it without the help of Provi-
dence 1 would not be here today.
But this same Providence which
brought me home safely, despite all
the dangers which beset me, may work
similar miracles for others, and 1t is In
the hope of encouraging other poor
devils who may find themselves In stu
atoms as hopeless apparently as mine
oftentimes were that this book is writ
ten.
When this cruel warts oYer-which
/ trust may be sooner than l expect it
to bel hope l shall have an oppor-
tunity to revisit the scenes of my adj
ventures and to thank in person in an
adequate manner every n who ex-
tended a helping hand to me when 1
was a wretched fugitive. All of them
took great risks In befriending an es-
capped prisoner and they did 1t without
the slightest hope Of reward. At the
same time l hope l shall have a chance
to pay my compliments to those who
endeavored to take advantage of my
distress.
\ In the meanwhile, however, l cal
Snly express my thanks in this insffe-
N&tie SIMMER, trusting that in some
mysterious way a copy of this book
may fall into the hands of every one
who b%efriended me. 1 hope particular
ly that every good Hollander who
played the part of the Good Samari-
tan to me so bountifully afteremy es-
a p from Belgium will see these pages
and feel that 1 am absolutely sincere
when 1 say that words cannot begin to
express my sense of gratitude to the
Dutch people.
1t is needless for me to say how
deeply I feel for my fellow.prisoners
in Germany who were less fortunate
than 1. Poor, poor fellows-they are
the real victims of the war. I hope that
every one Of them may 10 be re-
stored to that freedom whose value l
never fully realized until after I had
had to fight so hard to regain it.
PAT O'BRIEN.
Momence, Ill, January IA, 1918.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05

rades, for not one of them was downed,
I am sure, without u%pholding the best
traditions of the r. f. G. Unfortunate
ly, however, Of the eighteen who
sailed on the .Meganic last May, j
happened to be the first to fall into
the hands of the Huns, and what befell
my comrades after that, with one ex-
ception, I know only second hand.
The exception was the case of poor,
brave Paul Raney-my closest chum-
whose last battle I witnessed from my
German prison-but that is a story I
shall tell in its proper place.
In one way, however, I think the
story Of my own "big adventure" and
my miraculous escape may, perhaps,
serve q purpose as useful as tina OF
the heroic fate of my less fortunate
comrades. Their story, it is true, might
inspire others to deeds Of heroism,
but mine; 1 hope, will convey the
equally valuable lesson of the folly
of despair.
Many were the times in the course
of my struggles when it seemed abso-
lutely useless to continue. In a hostile
country, where discovery meant death,
wounded, sick, famished, friendless,
hundreds of miles from the nearest
neutral territory the frontier Of which
was so closely guarded hat even If
got there 1t seemed too much to hope
that 1 could ever get through, what
was the use of enduring further
agony?
And yet here I am, in the land OF
liberty-although in a somewhat OBJ
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05
TT.
Captured by the Huns.


I shall not easily forget the 18th OF
August, 1917. 1 killed two Huns in
the double-seated machine in the
morning, another in the evening, and
then ] was captured myself. I may
have spent more eventful days in my
life, but l can't recall any just now.
That morning, In crossing the line
on early morning patrol, l noticed
two German balloons. l decided that
as soon as my patrol was over y
would go off on my own hook and see
what a German balloon looked like
at close quarters.
These observation balloons are used
by both sides In conjunction with the
artillery. A man sits up in the bal-
loon with a wireless apparatus and di-
reefs the firing of the guns. From his
point of vantage he can follow the
work of his own artillery with a re-
markable degree of accuracy and at
the same time he can observe the enc
my's movements and report them.
The Germans are very good at this
work, and they Use a great number OF
these balloons. 1t was considered a
very important part of our work to
keep them out Of the sky.
There are two ways of going after a
balloon in a machine. One Of them is
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05

causing the machine to break apart.
Although spins are made with the
motor on, you are dropping like a ball
being dropped out of the sky and the
velocity increases with the power Of
the motor.
This spinning nose dive has been
frequently used in "stunt" flying in
recent years, but is 10Y put to prac-
teal use by pilots in getting away
from hostile machines, for when a
man is spinning it is almost impos-
sible to hit him, and the man making
the attack invariably thinks his en-
envy is going down to certain death
In the spin.
This is all right when a mad is
over his own territory, because he
can right his machine and come out
of it; but If 1t happens owe German
territory, the Huns would only follow
him down, and when he came out Of
the spin they would be above him,
having all the advantage, and would
shoot him down with ase 1t is a
good way of getting down into a
cloud, and Is used very often by both
sides, but it requires skill and our
age by the pilot making it If he ever
expects to come out alive. A spin
being made by a pilot Intentionally
looks exactly like a spin that is made
by a machine actually being shot
down, so one never knows whether it
is forced or intentional until the pilot
either rights his machine and comes
out Of it, or crashes to the ground.
Another dive similar to this one is
known as just the plain dive. AS
sumo, for instance, that a pilot flying
at a height of several thousand feet
is shot, loses control of his machine,
and the nose Of the plane starts down
with the motor full on. He is going
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05
andine Beside the First Machine in Which He Saw Active Service.

at a tremendous speed and in many
instances is going so straight and
swiftly that the speed is too great for
the machine, because it was never
constructed to withstand the enor-
nous pressure forced against the
wings, and they consequently crumple
up.
If, too, in an attempt to straighten
the machine, the elevators should be-
come affected, as often happens IN
trying to bring a machine out of a
dive, the strain is again too great on
the wings, and there is the same dis
astrous result. Oftentimes, when the
patrol tank is punctured by a tracer
bullet from another machine in the
air, the plane that is hit catches on
fire and either gets into a spin or a
straight dive and heads for the earth,
hundreds of miles an hour, a mass of
flame, looking like a brilliant comet
in the sky.
The spinning nose dive is used to
greater advantage by the Germans
than by our own pilots for the reason
that when a fight gets too hot for the
German, he will put his machine in
a spin, and as the chances are nine
out of ten that we are fighting owe
German territory, he simply spins
down out of u range, straightens
out before he reaches the ground, and
gets ON home to his airdrome. 1t is
useless to follow him down inside the
German lines, for you would in all
probability be shot down before you
can attain sufficient altitude to cross
the line again.
1t often happens that a pilot will
be chasing another machine when
suddenly he sees it start to spin. Per
haps they are fifteen or eighteen thou
sand feet in the air, and the hostile
machine spins down for thousands of
feet. He thinks he has hit the other
machine and goes home happy that
he has brought down another Hun.
He reports the occurrence to the
squadron, telling how he shot down
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-07-05
Lieut.. Pat o'BrIen in the Uniform OF
the Royal Flying Corps.

scure corner of 1.-THE little town of
Momence, ILL.,, where 1 was born-not
very much the worse for veal after all
I've been through, and, as I write these
words not eight months have passed
since my seventeen comrades and l
sailed from Canada on the Meganfc.
Can it be possible that I was spared
to convey a message Of hope to others
who are destined for similar trials? l
am afraid there will be many of them.
Years ago I heard of the epitaph
which is said to have been found on a
child's grave:
EFF I was so soon to be done for
What, o Lord, was I ever begun for?'
The way it has come to me since l
returned from Europe is:
"If, o Lord, 1 was to be done for.
What were my sufferings e'er begun
for?"
Perhaps the answer lies in the sug-
gestion I have made.
At any rate, if this record of my ad-
ventures should prove instrumental in
sustaining others who need encourage
ment, 1 shall feel that my sufferings
were not in vain.
1t is hardly likely that anyone will
quite duplicate my experiences, but l
haven't the slightest doubt that many
will have to go through trials equally
nerve-racking and suffer disappoint-
ments just as disheartening.
1t would be very far from the mark
to imagine that the optimism which l
am preaching now Sc glibiy sustained
me through all my troubles. On the
contrary, / am free~to confess that
frequently gave way to despair and
often, for hours at a time, felt so de-
jected and discouraged that l really
didn't care what happened to me. In
deed, I rather hoped that something
would happen to put an end to my
misery.
But despite all my dependency and
hopelessness, the worst never hap
pened, and 1 can't help thinking that