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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

Cooper's Mills, are visiting her parents,
James Swan and wife.
DR.. s. S. DeBeck is improving, after
weeks OF confinement to his home by a
strain caused while extricating his team
from a snow-drift.
Rev. c. w. Lowell and wife came from
conference Wednesday. The pastor, who
was III OF grip on his return, was able to
fill the Sunday appointments.
Eight young ladies are rehearsing for a
one act farce, "How the Story Grew"
They will hold an old fashioned sing also,
making an interesting program, to be
presented soon.
Misses Lola Dyer and Marcia Flagg,
who arranged for the delicious supper at
the Methodist vestry Saturday for the
benefit of the ladies aid society, were sue
cessful in their venture, gathering in s17.
Mrs. Judson Gordon aud daughter, Mrs.
A. L. Gray of Sullivan, were guests
of Mrs. d. L. Tracy Wednesday.
Mrs, Gray leaves soon for Aver, Mass,
where her husband is cauteen cashier at
lamp DeNeHs'
There will be patriotic service at the
Baptist church Sunday evening, May 5.
The music will be a special feature. A
selection that was written BY member
of the famous 103d will be rendered.
Miss Margaret Koch, the pastor, Will
speak on the subject, "When VIII the
War End?' 1t is expected that some of
the veterans, to whom special honor will
be shown, will attend.
Mrs. Galen Young of Hancock. was 3
visitor in town Friday, speaking in the
interest OF the boys and girls agri-
cultural club. Mrs. Young gave an
interesting talk to the grammar school
pupils in district 2, telling them how
they could lido their bit" these war times.
There were several volunteers. In the
afternoon she visited the East Franklin
school, addressing the parents in the
evening. Mrs. Ora Williams of West
Franklin is the efficient leader here.
April %. B.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
HOW BORDEAUX MIXTURE WAS
DISCOVERED.

Bordeaux mixture, the standard
fungicide spray for potato blights, was
discovered back in 1887, by a French
man named Millardet.
Professor MIllardet had a vineyard
at Bordeaux, France. He also had
neighbors, and these neighbors had
boys. There is but one sequel to con.
ditions such as these and the sorrowful
fact must be admitted that the boys
raided the vineyard, and that the pro-
fessor was robbed Of the fruits of his
labors.
To prevent the robbery, Professor
Millardet sprayed his grapes with
mixture Of copper sulphate (bluestone
or blue vitroD and lime, the latter ma
terial being used TO make the copper
stick. and the copper sulphate put in to
make the unwary boy who ate of the
sprayed grapes repent of his sins.
History does not tell us how success
full this thief preventing and thief de-
tecting device may have been, but it
does relate how the professor noticed
that the vines sprayed with this mate
rial very soon became thriftier than
the others, and were much less injured
by fungus diseases. Later on he tried
the spray on potatoes, and found 1t
wonderfully effective-so much that In
all great potato sections 1t has become
customary to spray with either COM
mercial bordeaux or prepare the same
at home, for the prevention of both the
early blight and the late blight or rot.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

Think of the days of toll and labor
spent In euitivating low-producing
fields! In these days of war and La
Dor shortage might it not be better to
reduce acreage and grow more pota-
toes per acre7
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
COUNTY NEWS
WEST EDEN,

Aaron Banker was business visitor.in
Bangor recently.
Miss Vida Lurvey has gone TO Sornes-
vile for the summer.
Capt. W. W. Lunt has had a telephone
installed in his house.
]. Howes of Stockton Springs is spend
ing the week here on business.
Mrs. j. Lee Fogg has been in Bangor
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Irving Phillips.
A boys and girls club has been or
gsnized. One little girl, Doris Powers,
put up over 800 pints OF canned goods lsst
season.
Mrs. NJ. w. Lurvey and son Lloyd have
gone to Salisbury Cove to spend the sum
mer with her parents, MIR. and Mrs. Adel-
bert Gray.
Mountain View grange gave an enter
tsinment last Tuesday evening, consist
ing Of a farce, "Held for Postage" fol-
lowed by dance. Net proceeds, $50,
were given TO the Red Cross. Next Friday
evening they expect to give the play at
Northeast HArbor.
During the thunder shower last Mon
day, lightning struck near the house OF
Capt. w. w. Lunt, throwing one of his
little boys, who had just started for
school, to the ground. The boy was not
seriously hurt, but received quite shock
and was much frightened. Another boy,
who was pumping water, also received q
shock. The electric lights were put out Of
commission.
April %. NJ.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

Did YOU know that person with GOOD stomach rarely take
sicka 1t true it's fact that by careful eating al
bowels naturally every day. badly dsordered stomach
NAV be gotten into condition The old original F At
wood Medicine is stomach and bowel specific You should W
at once following all carefully That grinding in
DIGESTION with belehng heart PRESSURE acdy bad BREATH
stupor headache backaehe and constipation will diminish
Appetite energy cheeuness viii return Begin the treat
ent TO-DAY your dealer the 81 F. made by the
L. F. Medicine Co.. Portland, Me.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
Mt raIs OUTFITS WORTH MONEY

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this slip, en-
close with sc and mail it to Foley 81 Co,
2sSs Sheffield Ave, Chicago, H., writing
your name and address clearly. You will
receive in return trial package containing
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for
for pain in sides and back, rheumatism
backache, kidney and bladder ailments;
and Foley Cathartic Tablets. a wholesome
and thoroughly cleansing eathartic for con-
stipation, biliousness, headache and slug
gish bowels.-Moore's Drug Store.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
It1srtis fmfuts.
stomach

18th a GOOD stomach rarely takes cold or gets
a fact that by careful eating and keeping the
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

Those who object to liquid medi-
eines can procure Peruna Tablets.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

Aaron Bunker was business visitor.in
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
FRANKLIN.
SPEC.

Edward A. johnson of Lawrence, Mass,
a native of Maine and we'll known here.
has an only son, Lieut.. Edward A. John
son, jr., who is with the American forces
in France. In a recent letter he says.
''We are facing the enemy, and have been
for some time. have been under fire and
came through o. K. They play kind Of
rough over here, believe me. am the
officer in charge of the pioneer section,
and am really.the regiment engineer officer
and one of the colonel's staff. The colonel
is fine man, and seems pleased with the
way am working. 1 am working hard,
and il live and should want to go
into the regular army, be is the one who
can put me there"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

When baby suffers with eczema or some
itching skin trouble. use Doan's Ointment. A
little OF 1t goes a long way and II is safe for
children. soc box at all stores.-Adut.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

For everyday when the tops of POI
tatoes could grow but do not. the grow
er loses seven bushels Of potatoes per
acre.
Whenever the growing season is less
ened by even two weeks through at
lacks of potato beetles and flea beetles,
the acre loss is very nearly one hun
dred bushels-potatoes which the grow
er might have had had he protected his
investment in the growing OF potatoes.
For every week that Is lost during
the growing season. because the tops
are killed by early blight, or by tip
burn, or by the late blight. which Is
followed by rot. the loss to the grow
er is nearly 80 bushels per acre This
Is generally more rather than less, for
often the entire crop rots. Then the
grower loses not only what he might
have had, but some Of the potatoes
which he actually did have.
The figures are taken from results
secured at two widely separated agri.
cultural experiment stations. At one
Of these stations, In Minnesota, they
commenced digging the crop the very
last of July, and measured the acre
yield, by weeks, until the last OF Au-
gust. The last harvest was 215 bush.
els greater than the first harvest. The
crop gained at the rate OF slightly over
seven bushels per acre per day. an In.
crease which Is absolutely lost when
the vines die early.
At the Rhode Island experiment sta.
ton similar experiment was tried
with results In very close agreement
The first harvest was July IL, when
the yield was at the rate of 162 bush.
els per acre. The last Of the potatoes
were dug 50 days later, when the tops
were entirely dead. and the yield at
that time was found TO be 1893 bushels
per acre--a gain OF over seven bushels
per acre per day.
Spraying Prevents the Loss.
Spraying the potato vines against
bugs. beetles and blights prevents this
great loss. II kills the beetles and
keeps the blights from even getting
started. 1t makes larger yields by pro.
longing the growing season.
Fertilizers have much the same af.
feet. A poorly nourished plant can no
more resist disease than can a poorly
nourished man. Spraying protects the
potato growers investment In fertili.
ger, and thus gives what is really dou-
BILE protection.
AS long as potato vines stay green
the yield continues to increase, even IL
most of the leaves are dead. 1t is i'm.
portant to know this. for in spraying
potatoes the temptation is always TO
omit the last spraying. The vines are
often lodged between the rows, and IL
seems as though more damage would
be done by the sprayer In passing
through the rows than would be done
by neglecting to spray. Yet If the last
spraying simply wards off the blight
and keeps the vines healthy until com.
plete maturity, few days at best, II
pays enormous returns on the spraying
investment.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

The high school graduating class will
present play at Sprague's theatre We'd
nesday evening.
Mrs. Galen Havey and children OF North
Sullivan are visiting her mother, Mrs.
Effie Macomber.
Mrs. Henry Noyes and children, of
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
HOW Do YOUR YIELDS COMPARE
WITH THESE?

Inc ten-year average acre yield Of
potatoes, as reported by the United
States department of agriculture, for
some OF our larger potato-growing
states Is as follows:
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01
Our Potato
Column

Article No. 5.
LOSE SEVEN BUSHELS OF PoTA.
TOES EVERY DAY.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1918-05-01

What Happens When the Tops of Pc,
tstoes Are Killed Prematurely.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-11
Columbia Sextette, AI|-American Ladies, to Demon
strate That an Orchestra Can Sing as Well as Play

From the double-cOlumn cut which
we are pleased to present herewith
one might think that this organization
is quite a staid and sedate company
on the platform, but a glance at the
smallel cut will doubtlessly remove
any such impression from the mind.
There will be plenty Of action and no
end of spirit in the programs which
they will present at the Chautauqua
this summer.
Mr.. Mason, the manager, who is
really whole show in himself, does
not believe in permitting any time to
go to waste while the program is in
progress. They have the reputation of
putting on one of the snappiest Chau-
tauQua programs to be heard any,
where and the Bureau reports that
they drew about the largest receipts
of any attraction on any Of their cir
cults last year. Although from mu-
steal standpoint they are perfectly
competent to put on a strictly classical
concert program, they will give their
undivided attention to the singing of
the genuine old jubilee numbers in the
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Gust Thelander left
for Little Falls on Tuesday to visit
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Sundburg, jr., and
Axel Sundburg motored to Minneap-
oils on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Brown and family
of Kansas are visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. DeHart.
Mrs. H. G. Kath left for her home
at Missoula, Mont, on Monday. Her
niece, Miss Ella Kruger, accompanied
her as far as St. Cloud.
Miss Della CULLEN arrived here from
Rainey on Monday and will be en-
ployed by Miss Eunice Deans for the
present.
Mrs. J. A. Lynch and children re-
turned from Sioux Falls on Monday
evening.
John Lindman Of Minneapolis is
visiting his son-in-law and daughter,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Norgreen.
Mrs. F. Barber LETT for Minneapolis
on Tuesday to visit relatives and
friends.
Sarah Konorvich of Foley spent
Tuesday here visiting Miss Eunice
{ Deans.
Miss Ethel Carlson departed for
Hudson, Wis, on Saturday, and ex-
poets to be gone a week visiting rela-
tives.
Mrs. Stanley Konorvich of Foley
called on few of her friends in this
village Saturday.
liver johnson is spending a week
visiting friends at Ogilvie.
Miss Olive Johnson returned here
from Minneapolis on Friday evening.
Miss Florence Kalgren Of Ogilvie is
the guest Of Miss Lillian Lindstrom.
Miss Katie Nelson spent Sunday at
Hinckley.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. T. p. Neumann and
family motored to Princeton on Sun
day.
Clarence Grubba left for his home
at Duluth on Sunday, after spending
the Fourth here with friends.
Miss Kate Mallery left for Mile
Laos lake on Saturday to spend Sun
day with her sister, Susan, who is at
the lake with Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred
Olson of Milaca.
Joe Yerken was at Foley on Thurs
day last.
Miss Sadie Mallery, who is attending
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-11
Foreston Department
Items Gathered by Our Wide-awake Correspondent

summer school at st. Cloud, spent the
Fourth here with home folk.
E. Metcaf left for Minneapolis on
Thursday.
Wilson Hart spent Friday with his
parents at Ronneby.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Nelson Of Page
transacted business here on Tuesday.
Mrs. Nelson is sister Of 4. III. Onstad
Of this village.
Deter Matson, the barber, was at
Milaca on Friday. &
Mrs. George Herbert Of Oak Park
spent the Fourth with relatives at
Granite Ledge.
Miss Irene Smith had some dental
work done at Milaca on Friday Of
last week.
William Speeder returned here from
Minneapolis on Saturday, after visiting
his mother and other relatives few
days.
f. T. p. Neumann transacted bust
ness at Milaca on Saturday.
Fred Mclaughlin and son and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank. Hemphill. motored
here from Staples on Sunday to visit
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Hill.
Mrs. L. M. Grandy was at Foley one
day last week.
At st. Cloud on Wednesday, July 8,
occurred the marriage Of Miss Emily
Bratt and Anthony Atkinson, both
well-known and popular young people
of this place. The wedding came as
a complete surprise to their many
friends. The well wishes Of this COM
munity are extended to them on their
journey through life.
Many of the young people from
here took in the big doings at st.
Cloud and Sank Rapids on the Fourth.
The benefit dance for the Milo band
boys, given in the Nels Sederquist
barn on the evening of the Fourth,
was we'll attended. About $500 was
realized.
Sunday, July z, sixteen children re-
ceived their first holy communion at
the St. Louis Catholic church. The
church was filled with relatives and
friends and the occasion was nota-
BILE one. The vocal and instrumental
music was, as usual, grand, being rem
dered by the church choir, with a
special violin solo by j. A. Strom-
wall. The affairs were decorated with
profusion of flowers donated by the
ladies Of the parish.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-11

way they have been sung by members
cry, with all the abandon and enthu-
siasm with which these great planta-
ton songs were sung in the early days.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-07-11
Rooseyelt's Patriotic Generosity.

Roosevelt's Patriotic Generosity.
Theodore Roosevelt's Nobel peace
prize Of $4,000 is to go back to him
to be expended for war charities for
the benefit Of widows and children Of
soldiers. The senate has agreed to
the resolution already adopted by the
house request from Colonel Roose-
velt- that the money he declined to
accept for himself be used to help the
families Of American soldiers fighting
in the war.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
ALL GERMAN
ALIENS MUST
REGISTER NOW

All German aliens over IA years OF
age i'm the city of WatertOwn mus:
register will, the chief of police at the
city hall between February 4, 1918
and up to and including February 8.
1918. The office will be open between
the hours of a. IN. and p. m. each
day.
Failure to register will mean ar
rest and possible confinement during
the war, and i'm severe cases, depOrta.
ton from the country after the war.
And it is made the duty of every
American citizen to notify the chief
Of police of any alien that he knows
so that proper registration can be
made.
Any person born i'm Germany who
has not taken out his full second pa
pers is an alien enemy.
Notice to the above effect has been
received from the United States mar
shaPs office at Madison by me.
CHARLES PIERITZ,
Chief of Police.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
Kitchen Soldiers.

Kitchen soldiers are the latest eX-
pertinent in practical patriotism. Good
housekeeping, in cooperation with the
United States food administration, is
conducting the enlistment In the
magazine appears this pledge, which
women are urged to sign:
II, the member of the household in
trusted with the handling of food, do
hereby enlist as kitchen soldier for
home service and pledge myself to
waste no food and to use wisely all
food purchased for this household.
knowing that by so doing 1 can help
conserve the foods that must be
shipped to our soldiers and our al
hes"
This is a movement for the woman
who Is actually dealing in the food of
American homes. Employers and en-
ployees are urged to join the forces.
A soldier may be one who fights just
with her brain or one who fights by
doing with her hands the work of
women in this crisis. She may be
one whose ancestors have lived here
for generations or she may be one
whose parents have seen wars hor-
rors pass their very door abroad,
whose brothers bear the arms of Eng
land, or France, or Italy, or Russia, or
any other allied country. Once you
have enlisted as kitchen soldier, your
kitchen is your battlefield.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
BIG CORN CROP
IS NOW MOVING
More Than 5000 Million Bushels
Raised in 1917-GiveS
Big Surplus.
SAVES WORLD FOOD SITUATION
America Beginning Greatest Corn Con-
sumption in History, Using Cereal
in Many Delicious Dishes

Corn, Americas greatest cereal crop,
is now moving rapidly to market.
More than 5000 million bushels
30 bushels for every man, woman and
child in America-were raised in 1917
1t was mighty crop. The actual in
crease is about 500 million bushels.
And this extra store of grain is COM
ing on to the market in the nick of
time, since the American wheat sur
plus has been sent to help feed famine
threatened Europe.
just as it happened in the Colonial
days, the War of the Revolution, and
the Civil War, corn has actually be-
come the nations mainstay.
In the entire list of Americas food
commodities there is no item that is
better than corn. In buildings, bread,
corn pone, and as hominy combined
with meat or eggs, corn is without a
peer Housewives are fast learning
the large number of delicious dishes
that may be made with corn and their
families are benetiting by an increas-
ed use of the cereal. Corn, more than
any other cereal, contains all Of the
elements essential to maintaining life
and health.
In order that the fighting men
abroad and in the army camps at home
may be fed, and in order that actual
famine may be kept from the nations
associated with America in the war,
the citizens Of America are finding
corn products delicious and palatable
on 'wheatless days" and glory in the
fact that "wheatless days" here mean
nations in Europe.
England, France and Italy must be
fed from Americas great storehouse.
They will get some corn-especielIy
Italy-but most of their grain ship
ruents must be wheat. Their ability
to use corn is small compared to the
facilities they have for using wheat
And it is the opinion of officials in
Washington that the present is no time
to try and change the eating habits of
Europe.
Americas greatest use of corn will
be in the form of corn bread and corn
meal, mixed with wheat In the making
Of leavened bread.
Mixed with 80 per cent. wheat flour,
corn meal can be used in bread MAX
ing, producing a loaf more nutritious
than bread baked with wheat alone.
1t is a fact corn millers will verify
that dozens of the large American bak-
ers have been successfully using corn
flour in bread making for several
years.
Hominy grits, served at breakfast
with a poached egg, or eaten at any
other meal with meats or gravy, Is an
other use of corn that will become I'M
usually popular during the war.
Corn syrup to sweeten corn cakes.
and corn oil for use in all kinds Of
cooking, are two more products that
are already welcomed in thousands Of
American homes.
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
PRICES DURING CIVIL WAR
rel, Tobacco, Tea and Coffee Much
Higher Than Now.

High as prices are, it may be some
consolation to know that they are still
below the Civil war records: Sugar
then sold for $58 a barrel, rice at
S31.3S a barrel, tobacco at more than
double the present price, and tea at
over 500 for a 25-pound chest as
compared with the present price of
about $40. Coffee was then four times
as high as it is at present, says Les
lies.
If the difficulty in getting hold of
sugar makes the American people real
ize we are at war, and inspires in
them a willingness to follow Mr. Hoov-
er's suggestions as to economizing in
the use of certain foods, it will have
accomplished some good.
While complaining of food scarcity,
it is well for our people to know how
The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-01-30
FINDS BULLETS IN THE BODY
madam Hospitals Along the Lines
of Battle

A sound Every much like the whistle
of steamboat" in a stethOscope placed
On the patients skin is the manner in
which an electro magnet tells the posi-
ton of bullet in wounded soldiers
body, according to Surgeon General
Fotheringham of the Canadian army
medical service.
The new magnet has been found to
be Of great value in a large number
Of the Canadian hospitals in the battle
zones, as with it the exact location of
any electro magnetic substance, in
Guiding the German bullet, can be de-
termined. An easily discernible vibra-
tion is set up by the magnet when the
bullet is not deep-seated.
In cases of deeply imbedded bullets
the electro magnet is placed on one
side of the patients body and a stetho-
scope Is moved about on the side oppo-
site the magnet. The nearest point to
the foreign body is indicated by the
steamboat whistle" and the skin is
marked at that point. The operation
for extracting the bullet follows.