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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
PACKING HOUSES
 GROWING IN SOUTH
In Most Points in South, However, Plants So Far Deal Chiefly
 in Hogs

Packing houses built during the past few years in various sections of the southeast are doing immense business. One at Moultrie, Ga, was the first, and notwithstanding the fact that the size of this plant has been increased to five times it's original capacity, it has, during the past few weeks, been forced to send many cars of hogs to. some other packing plants. This is done for the simple reason that the plant was "swamped" with hogs. This. happened in early December, which is early in the season for hogs to be going to market.
 It is true that conditions have changed since many of these plants were built, but the change is for the better. The Age-Herald has hereto fore pointed out that Alabama is des- tined to be one of the best live stock states in the south. These packing plants in the south will, of course, deal almost entirely with hogs, for the pres- cut. at least.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21

Mobile. January 2O-(special)-With the country crying car shortage and railroad congestion, river steamboat men Of Alabama face an unusual situation.
 There are four large river packets in Mobile. Two of these packets are lying idle in Mobile Officials of companies operating them say that this idleness is enforced because there is not sufficient business offered to warrant their opera ton. It is probable that if conditions do not improve soon operation Of the two packets now in the service will cease
 The idle boats--the John Quill and the M. A. Burke-aggregate the carrying ca pacity of about 1900 tons. and as the average freight car will handle about 20
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
NEW CONCERNS
 IN SHEFFIELD

Sheffield, January 21.-(SpeciaL) More than a score of new business con- cerns have opened in this city during the past few weeks. Many visitors are here arranging to engage in business. Among the more prominent concerns to become established recently are the following:
 Sterling Amusement company, Tri- Cities Grocery company. Richardson & Robertson, Haynes Lumber company, J. O. Harris company, Pride & Morrison. Tr-City Paint and Paper companys Spitz Tailoring company. Rust & Jun german bakery. the Quality laundry and the Green Stores company. aa l
 Besides these concerns men of the professions, physicians, consulting en- gineers, lawyers manufacturers's agents, realty dealers and various other rep resentatives have located here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
Southern Pine Meeting

New Orleans, January 20.-(Speciafr The annual meeting of the Southern Pine association will be held at the Grunewabi hotel. New Orleans, Tuesday and Wednesday, February 19 and 20. This years gathering is expected to bring to- gether men prominent in the industry from all parts of the United States. Plans for further cooperation with the. government in it's prosecution of the war. in which the lumber interests have taken a prominent part during the last year. will be among the many important sub- jects discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
THE HUM OF INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH
Riuer .Steanboats Idle Al Mobile
 Because No Business Is Offered

tons, these boats represent approxi- mately 50 cars at a standtill.
 Not a town on aither She Alabama or the Tombigbee rivers need suffer be- cause of delayed shipments, river men say, when they have the facilities here for all carrier needs. Just why the once busy trade on the Alabama and Tombig- bee rivers no longer exists, packetmen offer no explanation. eve are blaming no one,' they say. "All we know is that the business is gone"
 According to Capt. John Quill, one of the oldest river men in the state not more than 15O0 bales of cotton were brought here from the Tombigbee river during the past season. The Burke Packet company, which operates the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
Increased Ore Mining

Raleigh, N. C., special to the Manufac- turers Record says the war has vastly increased the output of the noted Fran berry iron mine in Mitchell county and is causing the opening of a number of other iron properties in the state, notably one in Cherokee county. near the Georgia line. and one in Madison county, not far from the Tennessee line. The ore at both of these is hematite.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
Work in Moving Battelle Furnace

comotive works of Birmingham recently announced the dismantling of the old Battelle furnace in Alabama, completely removed and delivered at a southern port for shipment to the Tata Iron and Steel company of Bombay, India. the fur mace to be re-erected in India. Ninety per cent of the fire brick of the fur mace was saved Two hundred and fifty railroad cars were required in hauling the old furnace and appurtenances from Bat telle to the southern port. Two hundred and fifty men were kept at work on an average in dismantling the furnace. and 60 working days were necessary in ac- complishing the job.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21

steamer Peerless on the Alabama river, says that during the present season about 7500 bales of cotton were brought down.
 It is understood that the Alabama Navigation association, new organiza- tion, which has as it's purpose the utili- zation and development of river traffic in this state, will meet next week. Among other things the conditions con- fronting river packet men, it is believed, will be discussed, and a way, if possible, will be found to provide sufficent freight to keep every idle bottom on Alabama rivers filled. If this Is done, towns and cities of Alabama, where water trans portation is possible, will get a great measure of relief from car congestion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
Exuerimenting With Housing Problem

To meet the present and future demand for housing facilities at Tulsa, Okla, the Chamber of Commerce of that city has taken definite steps for the erection of 600 or more houses each year for as long as may be necessary, says the Manufac- tuTers' Record. It is proposed to incor- porate a company which will build at- tractive houses in various parts of the city, for salaried people of moderate
 means, to be sold on monthly payments at a moderate rate of interest. The pri- mary purpose is to relieve the congested conditions. and make it possible for peo- pie of small means to own their homes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
ONLY EXCEEDED BY WATER

If this estimate be substantially ac- curate then the petroleum produced in 1911 in the United States will furnish l5o0,o00,000 gallons of lubricating oil Probably no ether liquid excepting water is to be found in this amount. Yet when 1t is considered that the freight cars of tho United States alone employ consider ably in excess of 900 bearings and journals-to say nothing of machinery which are fabricated with oil, then 1t is more easily understood why so stupen- dous an amount as 1,500. 900 900 gallons of lubricating oil is now used in the United Sta tes.
 The industry is to be maintained at top speed at least as long as the war con- tinues, for the producers are ready to take great risks in exploiting oil fields since the prices now obtained for fuel oil are so high as to justify the taking of a risk of this kind. One of the great oil operators of the country said this morn ing that the production of new oil is after all great gamble. Those who are disappointed lose much money; those whose shafts reach rich-bearing proper ties gain great profits and will continue to do that while the war lasts. nor is there any doubt that after the war the demand for petroleum will be as great as has been the case in the past year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
NEW MUNICIPAL WHARF

The city will very soon have an up- to- date municipal wharf on the banks of the Warrior river, with ample ware house space and adequate loading fa- cilities. Bonds for the proposed ter- minals to the amount of $50,000 were voted last March and the city com missioners are now at work on the plans.
 When the termianls are completed Tuscaloosa will be in a position to fill the requirements of Mobile for all necessary building material for the new shipbuilding plants being erect ed there, which will take the surplus lumber which is now being held here because the railroads are unable to handle it and wifi add thousands of dollars to the incomes of lumber men of the district.
 An increase of several hundred per cent in river traffic is contemplated upon the completion of the docks and warehouses. Raw materials will be shipped to Tuscaloosa manufacturing plants more cheaply and in larger quantities by water and quick distri- button of finished products will be assured all manufacturers, which is impossible under existing traffic con- ditionS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
DEMAND AND ORIGIN

Of course, this increase in the produc- ton of petroleum is partly explained by the demands which have been occasioned by the European war. Not wholly, how ever, on that account is the increased production to be explained. The uses to which petroleum in it's various refined forms have been put have greatly in- creased; as, for instance, the farmers of the west are using each year more and more tractors which are operated by the internal combustion of gasoline, and the presumption is strong that there Is to be speedily a great increase in the use of these tractors. For it has been deter- mined that tractor which costs about 5000 and which can be easily operated by a lad or young man, will do the work of four horses and at much less cost of gas oline than would be entailed by feeding the horses.
 As recently as 1903 there was sent to England much the largest consignment of gasoline that had ever been exported from the United States. The estimate was that this gasoline would be suffi- cient to meet nine months demand in ELg gland. Today is would be sufficient to meet nine hours demand Another greatly extended utilization of petroleum, one of which the public has little or no appreciation is it's distillation into oil which furnishes highly satisfactory lu- bricant. Expert authority estimates that approximately one-tenth of the petroleum pl oduced in the United States is now con- verted byAdistillation into lubricating oil.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-21
PETROLEUM SUPPLY
 IN UNITED STATES
By HOLLAND

By HOLLAND
 New York. January 2O.-(Special)-1f it were not an official announcement or the geological survey at Washington which tells of the amount of petroleum pro- duced and marketed in the United States in 1917, the figures would probably be re- garded as an unreasonable eXaggeratloh' But the officers of the survey state that the aggregate amount of petroleum pro- duced and marketed in the United States last year was 341, 000 barrels. These figures fairly well supplement other re- ports which tell of the stupendous pro- duction of copper in the United States in 1917, also of steel and of pig iron as well as of coal. They are figures which almost stagger the imagination
 Expert authorities have estimated that at the present rate of production nearly r years will pass before the exhaus- tion of our petroleum supplies. However, this is a matter of pure conjecture. The great authorities in the oil industry frankly say that no one knows how long the petroleum supply of the United states or of the world will last. It may be ex- hausted within a quarter of century, or. through the discovery or operation or rev oil fields and highly perfected meth ods of treating the oil and transporting it, the supply may last many years long CT than a quarter of a century. The leaders in the oil industry are going on as though they had a right to expect that there would be abundant supplies of oil much longer than IS years hence
 How wonderfully our production and marketing of petroleum have increased in 20 years is shown by figures which re- port the production and marketing in 1897. In that year 60.5o0,O00 barrels, ap- proximately, of petroleum were produced and marketed in the United States. Each barrel contained 42 gallons Therefore, 20 years after the inauguration of Will liam Mckinley as President of the United States, the production and sales of petroleum were five and one-half times greater than the production of petroleum in the United States, stated in barrels of 42 gallons, amounted to little under 900, 900 GOO. Therefore, there was an in- crease in 1917 of nearly 43,00o,000 barrels. MT,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
SOUTH PENOBSCOT.

Horace F. Wescott of Ellsworth was in
town Sunday.
Mrs. Cecil Osgood OF Brookline, Mass,
is spending her vacation with her parents,
Mr., and Mrs. E. j. SNOW.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleveland Gray have gone
to North Sedgwick where Mr.. Gray has
employment with g. NJ. Allen & Son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Wescott of Ban
gor we're in town Sunday, being called
here by the death OF their uncle, Clifton
Wescott.
This community was saddened by the
death of Clifton Wescott, aged fitty-nine
years, which occurred at his home on FRI
day evening. Death came very suddenly,
following an operation for peritonitis.
He was an upright citizen, and one whose
loss will be felt most in the home. He
leaves, besides his wife, three daughters
Mrs. Harry Wescott OF Millinocket, Mrs.
Stanley Randlette OF Islesboro and Mrs.
Arthur Littlefield OF Penobscot; two
sisters, Mrs. Scion Peterson of Portland
and Mrs. Augusta Grindle OF this town,
and two brothers, George and Allie, both
Of this place. The deepest sympathy is
extended to the bereaved family. Funeral
afternoon, Rev. John Carson OF North
Brooksville officiating.
Aug. u. l..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
COUNTY NEWS
PROSPECT HARBoR.

Miss Helen Cole of Waterville is spend
ing her vacation here with relatives.
Miss Ruth Edgecomb OF Bangor is a
guest of Mrs. Justus Ray at j. W.
Noonan's.
Miss Frances Wood, Mrs. John Locke
and Mrs. Chelsea Bailey nd.daughter are
guests of their aunt, Mrs. George W.
Allen.
Miss WiIhelmins Stewart, Il who has
spent several weeks with her sister, Mrs.
Saturday.
Mrs. George Bunker OF franklin and
Miss Addie Bunker OF Cambridge, Mass,
are guests OF their daughter and sister,
Mrs. c. {. LARA bee.
Union church was opened Sunday morn
ing. Rev. Thomas Van Ness of Boston
spoke on "The Real Cause OF the War; to
good sized congregation.
W. F. Bruce and party joined the f. F.
Hills Thursday on party to Jenesport,
where the Irving Rays guided them to
Iddian River stream where they hshed
and had picnic dinner.
Some OF our boys overseas write Of their
pleasure in getting THE AMERICAN, which
seems like an old friend. Jesse Noonan,
with the 10th engineers, and Calvin Stin-
son, with the 5lst artillery, are sub
scribers.
The Woman's War Relief society here
has accomplished a good years work, with
a otal of 1900 finished articles, most OF
the things being garments for boys and
girls, convalescent robes, surgical shirts,
hospital vests, ETC., for the wounded, be-
sides 7 and knee bandages and knitted
| articles.
Aug. II. C.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
COUNTY NEWS
BLUEHfLL

Harvard Clark has employment on a
dairy farm in Brewer.
samuel Gardner Of New York arrived
last week for a short visit.
Mrs. Welsh and daughter Jennie, OF
Bath. are visiting Mrs. W. H. osgood.
E. E. Myrick, ~ho Is employed In q
shtpysrd in Thomaston, was home for the
week -snd.
turned TO Dover, n H., last week, from a
visit 10 Mrs. Nellie Sweet.
The many friends OF Lieut.. X. V. ".
Blrss will be pleased TO learn OF his pro-
motion. July 81, to the raas OF captain.
Lieut.. Donald Maeksy cables from
France that be has been wounded in the
leg, and is enjoying the rest immensely"
Cecil osgood was home last week on a
vas accompanied from Boston by Mrs.
O.good.
A lawn party is to be given on Friday,
Aug. 30, on the grounds OF Mrs. George A.
uough, for the benefit OF the ladies' sew
ing circle OF the Congregational church.
Ah entertainment will be provided, and
reireshments served. Fancy articles will
be sold
DR.. j. J. Martin will speak at the Con-
gregAtionsi church next Sunday on 1.-THE
Nobler Patriotism An anthem has
been composed for the occasion by II. E.
Krehoel of New York. The services viii
be Of special interest to all those who
have relatives or friends With the colors.
Aug Il 8
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
WEST RROnKSYILLE-

Gersham Farpham has returned from a
visit to his sons in Bangor.
Cecil II. Fsrnham is attending the.navi-
CATION school at Rockland.
Mrs. e. E. Cummings and daug liter
Aileen are visiting in Surry.
Miss Grace Lord of Bangor has been the
guest OF her cousin, Will Smith, at the
Smith cottrge.
Miss s. E. Ellison and Miss Sadie Eli
son OF Bangor have opened their cottage
for an extended visit.
Mrs. John Noble, daughter Isabel and
granddaughter of Cambridge, Mass, are
at the Joy cottage for August.
Walter E. Cummings and Bert Gardner
one OF the builders OF the Stockton
Springs shipbuilding plant, were recent
guests of Z. f. Cummings and wife.
Aug. II. ToMsoN.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOT THE ONLY One
There are Other Ellsworth
People Similarly Situated.

Can there be any stronger proof offered
than the evidence OF Ellsworth residentsf
After you have read the following, quietly
answer the question.
a NJ. Franks, carpenter, 81 High ST.,
says: "Ienoticed my back was growing
lame and ached severely. Finally, II got
50 Dad, was compelled to lay on from
work and was down and out for several
Gays. was in this condition until got
loans Kidney Pills. They helped me
from the frst and when I had taken q
eoupie OF boxes, l was relieved. i have
since had cold, which settled on my
nnloneys, causing another attack, but
loans kidney Pills, procured at E. a..
stoore's Drug Store, very soon removed
sne acning from my back and haven't
oeen annoyed aimee with tae trouble"
statement given February 7, 1867
STILL PRAISES DOAN'S.
:. On December 4, 1918, Mr.. Franks said:
! shall never forget the benefit / derived
through the use OF Doan's Kidney Pills at
S Sne time ! recommended them before.
hInee then, they have always proven very
psnencial when have had need to use 9
oc, at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co.,
afgrs., Buffalo, NJ. Y. y
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
Subconscious Mind.

Where there is any tendency toward
wakefulness immediate care should be
taken to check any contributing cause
The mind should be relaxed, all trou-
blesome thoughts banished, and when
our last conscious memory is OF pleas
ant things we have aided the subcon'
scious mind In Its effort to get In tune
with the infinite harmony Of life.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
SOUTH HANCOCK.

{, L. Smith has had his house painted.
Mrs. y. L. McCrillis is visiting in
Norway and vicinity.
Miss Gabrielle Wooster is home from
Bangor, for two weeks.
Miss Florence Ashmore, OF Lamoine
Point, Is working at c. ). Colwells.
L. A. Penney of Bangor has joined his
family at K. III. Youngs for a week.
Frank Kelley of Bangor, with two
daughters, Margaret and Annie, has
spent the week at William Bishops.
Miss Pauline Bunker OF Somerville
Mass, and two friends, Miss Mon,
OF Melrose and Miss Linnell OF Somer-
vile, are occupying "Hillcrest."
Aug y. w.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
ALIFETIME OF
SUFFERING
Prevented by "Fruit-a-tives
The Wonderful Fruit Medicine
So MA1sosNKuvE ST., HuLL.

90 MAisoNNEUyE ST., HULL.
"In my opinion, no other medicine
Is so good as 'Fruit-a-tives' for
Indigestion and Constipation.
For years, suffered with these
dreaded diseases, trying all kinds Of
treatments until / was told l was
incurable.
One day friend told me to try
sFruit-a-tives' Tor Fruit Li0er
Tablets. To my surprise, / found
this medicine gave immediate relief,
and in a short time / was all right
again. DoNAF LALONDE
zoe box, 6 for s. so, trial size CSC.
At dealers or from FRUIT.A-TIVES
Limited, oGDENsBURG. N. Y.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14

Q. 3 FOOu ADMINISTRATOR.
or Squire 'Tater low he Goin' to
be mighty nigh king er de roos'
'mong garden sass folks. We alls
kin eat him as later boiled, baked.
fried. stewed, cooked wild cheese en-
dey gettin'. so dey make i'm inter
-four; SOS we kin substitute" him
TO wheat -four. He's lie "suhstitu-
tenest" of all de vittles, he seq.
De udder garden sass folks lax
inguns, tomatues. cabbage en- turnips
en- squash don't need to git peeved,
cause dey's goin' TO be room in de
pot TO- de whole tribe. Ev'y las
one on 'em can hep save wheat en-
meat fer de boys OATS dom de fight
in over yander.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14

seawsed for Sound PROBING.
A new material used for sound proof
Ing the walls Of q music school build
Ing consists Of seaweed chemically
treated, nreproofed and made int
pads.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14
YOUR SONS LIFE
OR A new SUIT
What II Means It i05,000,OO0
People Refuse to Economic
on Clothing
NATION HURT IN MANY WAYS

One Of Numerous casss In Point Vivid
~ illustrates the Vital Necessity
Of "Ssvlns to Save the
Country" In War Time.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-08-14

For any itehiness Of the skin, for skin
'ashes, chap, pimples, etc. try Deans oiat-
meHi. COO at all drug stores.-Advi.
Graham guardian., 1918-10-04

Turkey is starving, Germany
pinched and Austria rioting for
food sTheaAllies are well fed
and. full of fight, thanks to Uncle
Sam, &hS invited them to sit
down. to his table year ago--he
has beehF* *assing around the vic.
tuals ever since.
The sacrifice of the American
home, added to the efforts of the
American. Farmer, have removed
fear from the minds of our Allies,
for thisnvsssp at least.
Ruy.W.r Savings Stsmps,
Graham guardian., 1918-10-04

pluJIGS rni AaI ;-f!M
80.
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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-13
PRAISES HIS TROOPS

General Pershing has sent back to
this country highly commendable
statement regarding the men under
his command in France. He must
have a high estimate of them in his
mind. else such a statement could not
be made by a man in such high mill
tary rank Men in positions like that
held by General Pershing seldom say
much to people outside the army rank
about the men upon whom they de-
pend.
They often say much to the men
about their bravery and their good
fighting qualities. but they say little
TO others. General Pershing's state
ment about his own men given here
with was made for the American peo-
pie to read:
There has never been a similar
body OF mel to lead as clean lives
as our American soldiers in France.
They have entered this war with the
highest devotion to duty and with no
other idea than 10 perform these du-
ties in the most efficient manner pos
sible They fully realize their obi.
CATION To their own people, their
friends. and the country. A rigid pro
gram OF instruction is carried out dai'
Nv with traditional enthusiasm En-
gagged in healthy. interesting ever
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