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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
Not a Modern Gun

What were you going to do with
this revolver?" asked Walter Pritch
ard, judge of city court.
Shoot rabbits" replied Abe MeMur-
ray, colored, age seventeen, $50 Fay
cite street, who was on trial charged
with carrying concealed weapons.
The judge examined the weapon,
which was small one, and noticed
that the barrel would not revolve auto
matically. He called the defendants
attention to this fact, and was told
that it would revolve If turned by
hand.
The judge still appeared undecided,
then finally remarked: IF this was a
real gun I would fine you 500 and
costs, but since it is only about half a
gun will make the fine just half the
usual amount" Then he wrote $50
and costs across the face of the aft
davit.-Indianapolis News.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
Miss Clara Barton. Heaven

In many different ways come mes
sages and tokens of appreciation
from the soldiers 10 these Red Cross
workers of the caateen service, show
ing their gratitude for what Is being
done for them in every place and in
every possible way.
When members of the canteen serv-
ice meet a troop train many of the
boys have letters and postcards to be
mailed. One day not long ago a MEM
Der of the service IN looking over the
mail, saw one post card unstamped.
Something unusual looking about the
address attracted her attention, and
on looking closely MS is what she read,
Miss Clara Barton, Heaven" and on
the card was written You certainly
founded a wonderful institution" and
signed, "A Soldier"
That was a tribute fine and deep,
and from the heart of one who surely
had been helped by the Red Cross and
wanted to give some sign of apprecia.
ton. No costly wreath could bear a
more fragrant and exquisite message
than that one card-Southern Won.
ans Magazine.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
JUST WHAT BILLION MEANS
Probably Few People Have Right Con-
ceptlon of What an Enormous
Amount 1t Represents.

We hear of billions these days, but
1t is probable that very few persons
have any notion of what an enormous
amount of money a billion represents.
We do know, however, how rapidly
an expert counter of coins manipulates
them. You can scarcely follow the
motion of his fingers as he shifts the
coins from one pile to another and
counts them. The experts in the
treasury department will count 1000
silver dollars an hour and keep this
up all day long. but that is their
limit.
Working eight hours a day, then. an
expert counter of coin will count 3D.
600 silver dollars in a day, but how
long will it take him at that rate to
count a million dollars? Thirty one
days!
But that is only the beginning of
the measurements of great figures,
for If the same man were to continue
to count silver dollars ct the same
rate of speed for ten years he would
find that he had counted only 100
100000 of them. and that to count
1,Wn,ooo,O00 of them would require
l02 years Of steady work at the rate
Of eight hours day during every
working day of every one of the I02
years.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
FRANKLIN.
ECHO.
May 10.

Corp. A. L. Gray and wife OF Sullivan
visited his sister, Mrs. Minnie Tracy, last
week.
The boys and girls agricultural club
will hold their regular meeting at grange
hall Friday evening, May q, at $50.
Mrs. Carrie Havey left Monday for a
visit with her son Harry in somerville,
Mass. She was accompanied to Bangor
by Mrs. Martha Havey who will visit
there.
Sunday afternoon, May Is, Rev. J. T..
Blake will address members OF +. {. ID.
West post G. A. R., aud the returned
soldier boys, at the First Methodist
church. Roy {. Haines OF Ellsworth will
deliver the Memorial day address.
The reception by the Red Men to the
returned soldiers, Wednesday evening,
was pleasing event. A O'Clock ban
quet WAS served to the guests of honor
and their friends. The exercises in
Sprague's hall opened with prayer by Miss
Koch. Mrs. Homer was as usual pleasing
in her musical numbers, also the male
quartet Lloyd and Frank c. BlaisdeIl, W.
+. Bragdon and Charles Sprsgue. There
were remarks by Principal Thompson OF
the high school and Sergt. James Bunker.
Moving pictures followed.
Nav H. r.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
WEST GOULDSBORO.

Mrs. Ruth Sinclair was in Milo for tue
weekend.
Lewis X. Bunker has gone to Bar Har-
Dor to work for the NJ. &. 4. Il.
Mrs. e. X. Bunker and son Gordon
visited in West Sullivan last week.
E. w. Written of Winter Harbor is
working for Alpheus Fl. Kingsley. '
Mrs Nellie l. Wooster is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Marian Gardner, in
Calais.
Rev. 4. Mercer of Prospect Harbor will
preach at Union church next Sunday at
1880 a. N.
MFR. and Mrs. Frank l.. Gerrish are re-
ceiving congratulations on the birth OF
daughter.
Miss Pauline f. Sargent, who has spent
the winter with Miss Wallace in Concord,
Mass, is here to spend the summer with
her other, Mrs. Lula Witham.
At a meeting of the V. I. A. Thursday
evening, three vice. presidents were nomi-
mated. 1t was voted to remove the stage
and chimney TO make floor room. Later
on piece will be built on the back OF the
hall.
May 10. l..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
COUNTY NEWS.
WEST FRANKLIN.

Mrs. John Farnsworth was in Bangor
last week.
Alden Ryder is at work at Hancock for
Charles Smith.
Wesley Clark of Brewer was in town
last week.
Mrs. Norman Smith and Miss Ola
Smith we're weekend visitors at Bangor.
p. w. DeBeck has sold small lot of
land on the mill road to ii. A. Clark.
Road Commissioner Abbott is doing a
good piece of work on the Great Pond
road.
James e. Parsons and wife of Lube>
visited Mr.. Parsons sister, Mrs. Il. IL.
Williams, last week.
The teachers OF this town ana East
brook will give an exhibition OF grade
work at the grange hall June 8 at 2 p. IN.
Harry Hardison, who has been at Fort
Totten two years, has received his
honorable discharge, and is home.
cablegram was received By ID. NJ.
Harrison announcing the safe arrival of
Capt. and Mrs. Thomsssen at Cetle,
France.
Friday the teachers and pupils took
lunches and went into the woods, spend
ing profitable day gathering specimens
for their nature studies.
Miss Pybas and DIR. Taylor of New
York, Howard Butler OF Boston, Mr.. and
Mrs. Watson Springer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ireland of Dexter are at "Tugwassah
Tepee," Buffers Point, for a few days.
Sunday, May %, memorial services will
be held at the Baptist church at 1890
a. m. Miss Koch, the pastor, will give
the address. AT 2 p. m, at the Methodist
church, services will be held, conducted
by the pastor, Mr.. Blake.
Appropriate exercises will be held
Memorial day. In the morning the vet
Grams and the returned soldiers, members
OF the order OF Red Men and the school
children under the direction of Supt.
Adah Savage will march to the cemetery,
and after appropriate exercises there, will
return to the hall and disbsnd. AT 2 p. m.
an address will be delivered.
May 10. ECHO.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
KITTEN THEIR COMFORT KIT
Small Creature Murderous Huns
Must Have Overlooked Brought
Tender Thoughts to Soldiers.

At Beuvardes. between Chateau
Thierry and scissors, met about FIVE
inches of gray kitten that could tell
much If II could speak.
This kitten was the sliaison" be-
tween the Germans who fed and the
Americans who dispossessed them. 1t
was the only creature the Americans
saw alive when they marched singing
into the town after the Germans poi
soned the wells, fired their ammunition
dumps, and sullenly departed.
The kitten, when l first saw it, was
playing about in the sun at the thres-
hold of ruined hut. The body of
dead German sprawled at my feet. half
buried In splinters Of timber. Chloride
of lime lay like drifted snow on his
chest, and in the clotted whiteness
was his briarwood pipe, which twice
picked up and twice put down ere de-
Gliding not to take it. The bottom of
the door of the house showed a jagged
rent, as though rifie-butt had dashed
1t In. and it was besmeared with blood.
Inside the door was mass Of
tousled straw where Boches had sta
bled. The house was dismantled. The
clothing of women lay torn and scat
tered.
The kitten crawled between the top
of my gas mask Chung In the "alerte"
position beneath my chin), and the
brim of my "steel Stetson" and purred
like a watchmans rattle. Its eyes
grew bland and yellow as lemon can
dy behind shop window.
While / made small talk to the kit
ten. our artillery planted to right and
left was roaring skyward at an angle
of 80 degrees. The conclusion of the
battery threatened to lift the miser-
able house from its underpinnings.
The window frames jumped half an
inch at every defamation. The glass
had long ago given way to burlap or
to nothing.
And still the kitten purred and pat.
ted bit of paper dangling from
string. careless as bobolink. Every
time look at the little creature" con-
fessed a stretcher bearer from the
teeming dressing station round the
corner, sit makes a lump come in my
throat"
Don't you want TO take it home
with your suggested a lieutenant.
But / hadn't the heart to deprive
those men of the solace of its pres
ence.
1t was their comfort kit.-Stars and
Stripes.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
Bow LeQs Saved Him.

Not every man is boastful or proud
OF possessing bowed legs, but when
said crescent-shaped neither limbs have
saved him from possible serious injury
or death from an attack of a vicious
butting ram, he is apt to take a diff.
ferent view of the matter during his
after life.
A resident of Br zier, N. T., started
across the Miller farm to 20 to the
cider mill on the Tannery road. When
nearly in the center of a large pas
ture an old ram started for him. The
man ran, but soon realized that he
could not make the nearest fence. AS
the next best man euver he made fol
a large bowlder a few rods away.
Just as he reached the rock the ram
overlook him and with lowered heat
butted through the fugitive's legs 81,
nit the bowlder ami crushed his skull
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
HIS QUEER CATCH
And Garbage Master Was Not
Fishing, at That.
Old Copy Reader Ransacks His Mind
for Most Unique Story He Can
Recall, and Here Is the
Result He Achieved.

The oldest copy reader on che pa
per grew reminiscent.
in all the thousands of stories for
the paper / have read, how many
unique ones have / found? Wen, l
can give you one that stands out in
my memory. sharply defined. without
flaw.
at Is about the strangest fish that
was ever caught In Sheepshead bay.
II was about the time that motor
boats were first being built. and risky
things they were. too, in those days.
Well, there was a certain young man
about Broadway whose boast was that
he would try anything once.
He had tried automobiles and had
had considerable success in finding out
what happened to them when they ran
into brick walls, telegraph poles and
other things like that. So he decided
to try motorboats, too.
HE did. and never tried anything
after that. He gathered a jolly little
party, packed a jolly little luncheon
and Off from shore they set in a cocky
little motorboat out into the middle of
Sheepshead bay. There came a heavy
squall, the boat upset and several of
the happy throng were drowned. the
gay young man included. Now, here's
the meat of the yarn:
THE prettiest girl In the party was
also the gayest. Her French heels
were the highest and her big, fiappy
hat was the biggest and the flappiest.
Well, she went down. down into
Sheepshead bay and drank more wa
ter In five minutes than she had In as
many years.
when she came up for the third
time she grabbed an empty floating
box and chung to ii until she grew too
weak. Down she went. Night fell.
Now a tug came putting and snort
Ing on her way back from the garb-
age dumping grounds-or waters
dragging half dozen empty scows. all
of which were. like all such craft,
equipped with hinged bottoms which
open outward. All the scows were open,
and aboard one, the captain or skip
per or master, or whatever he ranked,
was watching TO see that nothing
broke loose In the sQuall.
Suddenly he heard a squeak, shrill
and uncanny. He investigated. And
inside his opened-up garbage scow.
clinging desperately to the chains that
swing open and shut the container OF
garbage was what had been a glorious
creature in picture hat. French heels
and other furbelows. The garbage
master was a brave man. but this ap-
palled him. His nerve won, however.
and he hauled the miracle to what
deck there was, and she survived and
revived.
what had happened was that the
beautiful lady had been drawn down
into the water again, but had once
more come to the surface just as the
scow passed over her and she had
come up inside. She had life enough
and sense enough to grasp anything
tangible, that being In this case slip
perry chain. Then she knew enough TO
try to shrek. The squeak she emitted
saved her life"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
CRANBERRY ISLES.

Miss Gladys Squirting was home from
Bar Harbor for the week lend.
Miss Evelyn Moore of Islesford spent
the Weekend here
Mrs. Frank johnson has returned from
Boston.
Mrs. Clarence Crosby spent few DAYS
last week at Isiesford.
Fred Brlem and family have moved To
Southwest Harbor for the summer.
Miss Hilda Bulger and Mrs. Leapder
Bunker are working in Bar Harbor
Elmer Squirting and Miss Balm, who
have spent two weeks with his parents.
returned to Holbrook Saturday.
Mrs. Alice Cieaves and Miss Laura
Cleaves OF Bar Hsrbor were week end
guests of John Hamor aud family.
Fred Bracy and Victor Erickson, who
have been employed in Massachusetts,
are home,
Mrs. Bates, who has spent the winter
with her daughter, Mrs. Ella Squirting.
has returned to her home in Brooksville.
Mrs. Emma Birlem spent the week end
at Southwest Hsrbor.
May 10. ROONEY.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
WEST BROOKSvILLE.

Engineer Harry Tapley left last week
for New York, to join a yacht.
Mrs. E. E. Cummings and Miss Laura
II. Jones returned last week from Port
land.
Capt. George A. Stevens has purchased a
fourteen-foot Whitehall boat OF Harry NJ.
Tspley.
Seth and Lewis Blodgett, Harry M.
Tapley and DIR. p. J. Flagg have pur-
chased autos.
Miss Caroline NJ. Joy has returned from
Ellsworth, where she spent the winter,
and opened her cottage.
William Kane, agent for the Belfast and
Bangor boats, has had telephone in
stalled in his office, the former John C..
Smith house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney n. Halves and
daughter Shirley are at home from an
extended visit in West Somerville, Mass,
and Skow hegan-
The bodies OF Capt. Gershsm Fsrnham
and Mrs. Clara Condor, who died at
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
MARiAVlLLE.
May 10.

visited his brother Elwood Sunday. He
was accompanied by his brother Roy
All were glad to see him.
Albert and Leslie Frost found a big
bear in one OF their traps recently. He
was caught by one hind paw. The Frost
boys were accompanied by the Hodgkins
boys OF Eden, who were here on visit
The four boys soon overpowered bruin,
big chain into that, and by means OF
ropes and poles they brought him to the
settlement alike. They have not not
decided whether they will kill the bear
or sell him alive.
MAY 10. F.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
HAD BIG PART IN VICTORY
World Likely to Be Amazed When 1t
Learns What the Aircraft Really
Accomplished.

We have become so used to stories
of wonderful feats accomplished by
aircraft during the war that every
thing we hear nowadays leaves us al
most cold. The things that, before
the war, would have furnished bold
headlines In the newspapers and have
been a topic of discussion for days in
the places where people congregate
excite no more than passing notice,
1t is scarcely surprising, then, that the
story of how touch has been maintain
ed for more than two years between
the allied armies of the Near East and
the gallant remnants Of the Serbians
and Montenegrins who were hidden
among their mountain Businesses, and
Of how they were supplied with arms
and cartridges by airplane, has hardly
attracted attention. There has been
nothing but the barest mention of the
fact. We are not told how and from
where the machines carried out their
mission, of how many were engaged
In the task of supply, or of what eff
feet their wonderful performances
may have had on the situation by keep
ing up the spirits of the gallant few
who have held out against the enemy
for so many weary months. We are
simply told that the Serbian army, in
Its victorious advance, has obtained
touch with those bands, who 'since
the Austro-Bulgarian occupation have
been holding out among the noun
tains and have been continuously sup
piled with arms, food and cartridges
by airplane." Now that the episode Is
historical, concludes Flight, and the
enemy can gain no possible advantage
from knowing how 1t was done, 1t is
pity that some official commentator
with an imagination cannot tell us
the full story, which must be a real
epic OF war.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
Peeled Chicken.

Three-year-oid Ruth came from Chi
cago to visit her grandmother on a
farm in Knox county. Everything
about the farm WIS novelty to Ruth,
OF which she never tired. Another
pleasant thing about the visit was
grandmother's con rant questioning Of
"Now what shall We eat todayY' One
morning she asked the usual question
as to the Saenu. Little Ruth studied a
minute and then made answer: "Oh,
grandma, won't you please catch a
chicken and peel Z for dinnerY-In-
dianapolis News
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
Some Name!

According to the camp poster at
Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash.
camp record blanks were found INSULT
Gent to accommodate the address of
an Australian who came indirectly
assuming name Of the individual, Liam
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the coun-
ty Of Anglesey, North Wales. When
ne Joined the army he held a resi-
dence at Waenarlwgdd, Swansea road.
Goverton, South Wales.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
With Malice Aforethouoht.

Round the campfire-to put it poet
ically--a lot of soldiers were discuss
ing hairbreadth escapes and adven-
lures they had had, One after an
other they related tales, true and 9th
erwise, till it came to the turn Of a
man who'd travelled all over the world.
Every one waited breathlessly for his
yarn. but he said he'd nothing to tell.
Have you never had an accidentY'
chorused his pals.
"Accidentf Nor
Never had an accident In your
Eke7"
NO. Rather bit me once"
Don't you call that an accident r.
Thunder, mol The thing bit me on
purposeT' said the traveller.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21

The Missouri mule was in the war
long before the Missouri soldier en-
tered 1t. The declaration of war was
made for him in 1914, two years and a
haif before Pershing and the thou
SANDS Of other Missourians got their
orders to wheel into line. He had made
brilliant record there before their ap-
pearance. But, according to the Lon
don advices. he seems to have felt the
impulse of Missouri behind him at the
last, for 1t is written: THE mule
shared in the big British advances on
the western front this fall and proved
his grit and worth by keeping right up
with the rapidly advancing artillery. !"
That is a Missouri characteristic.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
GrenfeIPs Splendid Work.

Wilfred Thomson Grenfell, NJ. D.,
superintendent Of the Labrador medi.
cal mission Of Royal National Mission
of Deep Sea Fishermen, was born
February rs. 1883. He fitted out the
first hospital ship for the North sea
fisheries. and cruissd with the fisher
men from the Bay Of Biscay to Ice
land. He established homes for them
on the land and arranged mission YES
sells for them in the sea. He went to
Labrador In 1892. when he built four
hospitals, a series Of cooperative
stores and an orphanage, and estab-
hshsd numerous small Industrial
schemes.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
How Could He Known

II may be mistake for Hoover &c
60 to Europe after all.
A day or two ago Miriam, Of Jeffer
sonville. who is not yet eight, was NOT
Cleaning up her plate as well as she
should, and usually does. Moreover
she was disposed to be wasteful and
seemed to think the bars were I'D.
Mr.. Hoover will be after you IL you
waste food" said her mother.
Mr.. Hoover won't know anything
about 1t; he has gone to Europe" was
the reply.-Indianapolis News.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
SURRY.

Frances Smith is III OF pneumonia
David Reyes left Wednesday for Rock
port, to go on yacht.
Mrs. Nina Rowen OF Boston Is visiting
her parents, Owen Fowler and wife.
Chester Duham is spending a few days
with Frank Ingalls,.
May 10. l..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21

Bangor last winter, we're brought no,a
yesterday and inferred at Mount Rest.
James o'Neil OF New Haven. Conn
arrived recently from France where ha
has been for year doing Y.M.C.A
work. His wife and son have spent the
winter here with her parents, Capt. orrin
McVey and wife.
May 10. ToMsoS
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
DALI.
BAYSIDE.

Capt. Henry c. Ray started on his fret
fishing trip Friday.
Carroll Brown Of Ellsworth, who has
been working at Irving Blossoms has
gone home, and will be employed by
c. Z. Fullerton.
May 10. G. A. c.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
What Glen. neeau Said.

This is given SO as the truth Of
what Nj. Clemeneea u said when the
draft of Preside.a Wilson's original
note with the IA paints was handed to
him. He said: 70 itorze points Mails
celia eest un PEI fort--le bon Dieu
men await que dis" t"'Fourteen points
But that is LE;Ie too strong-the
good God had only ten.')
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21

II" inquiries the Dexter States
man, "her aerial chauffeur addressed
Mrs. Hohenzollern as your royal high
ness just as they were sailing through
q cloud. why rotT"-st. Louis Re
public
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21
The Work Of Time

"Ten years ago." he complained, II
was denounced as dangerous radical.
Now they are referring to me as q
reaetionary."
You ought to give up the habit of
changing your opinions"
But, confound it, haven't changed
Them"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21

Private Jones OF Hoboken-Say.
Casey, what time is 1t by the watch
on the Rhine7
Private Casey Of Brooklyn-Retirin
time, me bye, retirin time Judge.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1919-05-21

did you see how that conjuror took
the rabbit from the hatr'
Nope. ] tried hard TO catch on.
TOO. 1t would help reduce d cost Of
living. "-Louisvii Courier-JournaL