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Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31

Leamon Jordan, wife and son
spent Sunday with her mother at
Franklin.
Elliot, Minnie and Vara Jordan are
spending their Easter vacation with
their parents.
Vernon Haslam, wife and son Wis
tied his parents recently.
Marie Rankin is on the sick list.
Walter Colby was the weekend
guest of his parents.
Charles Martin, an aged and
much-respected citizen, died March
"a after a short illness of pneu-
monia. He was a Mason and For
ester-janitor and orator of Court
Snyctic, and the brothers feel the
great loss of so valued a member.
Mr.. Martin leaves a widow and two
brothers, George and Orlando of
Massachusetts. The many friends of
the bereaved widow extend their
sympathy in her great loss. The
home March 26, Rev. r. B. Mathews
officiating. The floral offerings were
profuse and beautiful, showing the
high esteem in which he was held.
Among out-of-town friends present
were l.. F, Giles of Ellsworth, Mr..
and Mrs. Wilson A. Googins of La
moine, Erland Haslam and Leon
Googins of Bangor.
Edmond H. Jordan, formerly of
this place, died very suddenly of heart
failure at Bangor March 25. Mr..
Jordan had been suffering from heart
trouble for the last six years. He
was man of genial disposition. al
ways ready to lend a helping hand to
his fellowmen. He went as usual
to his work Thursday morning at
the riding school headquarters on
Birch street., where he was about his
work when stricken. He was forty
four years of age. He leaves to
mourn his loss a widow, two chill
dren by a former marriage-Lura
Magoon and Lillian Mace of Aurora,
four grandchildren, two brothers,
Oscar Jordan of Waltham and Lyn-
wood Jordan of Brewer, four sisters,
Mrs. Elwood Archer of Brewer,
Mrs. Percy Davis of Waltham, Mrs.
Herbert Phillips of Ellsworth, Mrs.
Oliver Bragdon of Egypt, besides his
heavily as it is the first break in a
of Waltham on whom the blow falls
heavy as it is the first break in
family of seven children. Funeral
services were held at his residence,
3 Adam street. Bangor, at $50 Sun
day. Rev. J. C. Mcdonald of Brewer
officiating. His two children and
one sister We're unable to attend on
account of illness. The bearers were
Oscar Jordan, Lynwood Jordan, Ell
wood Archer and Herbert Phillips.
The body was placed in the vault at
Mt. Hope and win be brought to Wal
than, his boyhood home, later in
the spring for burial.
March %. B.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
ARE RETURNING TO FARMS
Not Many of Uncle Sans FIGHTERS
Have Succumbed to the Lure
of the City.

OF Americas mighty war forces Of
more than 100000 men, 100000, it
is estimated. came from farms. Rec
0rds in the bureau of war-risk insur-
ance In Washington indicate that these
farm-bred or farm-raised boys carried
government life insurance amounting
to over S10.O00,00O,000
During the earlier demobilization it
was so difficult to keep track of the
discharged service men that it seemed
as though very large proportion of
them did not return to their former
addresses or homes. So many of the
service men who had come from the
farms seemed to be listening to the
call of the city that it was feared more
than one-half of them were not going
back to the farms. Later the tide of
migration set in toward the country,
and now it is believed that the loss in
man power to the farms, as the result
of former service men settling else
where, may not be more than 100000.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31

Three skeletons, believed to be those
Of early American settlers were un-
earthed at Kennebunkport, Me-, by
workmen leveling some land near an
old fort erected during the war of
1912. Two apparently We're victims of
Indian massacres or wars. Embedded
In the skull of one OF the skeletons
was an Indian arrow. The tip of the
skull of the second was Clipped off
cleanly, as If done by a tomahawk
held in well-trained hand. The third
skeleton was that of a man seven feet
tall. 1t is believed that the bodies
were buried in an old cemetery on this
spot, and that the graves were COW
cred over by earth thrown up when
the fort excavations were being made.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Airship Construction.

Some interesting facts regarding
the work required In building a large
modern airship are given in a recent
issue of the Engineer, which states
that the general problems of design
are closely allied to those of naval
architecture, although the airship de-
signer must be highly skilled me-
chanical engineer and also must have
a knowledge of textile technology.
For the work on construction, owing
to the multiplicity of parts required,
a very efficient shop organization is
necessary. In a rigid airship struc-
ture. excluding the machinery, there
are 10000 different parts, total
length of structural material of
20 miles, 60 miles of wire and more
than 100000 rivets.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Salmon Saved Queen.

The salmon with a ring in its mouth,
that figures in the arms of the city of
Glasgow. Scotland which are also
those of the ancient see, is said to
record a miracle of st. Kentigern. the
founder of the see. and the fourth
bishop of Glasgow. A certain queen
gave a soldier. with whom she had
fallen in love. ring that had been
presented to her by her consort; but
the king discovered the intrigue, and.
having obtained the ring. threw 1t into
the Clyde, and then demanded it Of
his disloyal lady.
In her alarm she sought help from
St Kentigern. and he, proceeding to
the river. forthwith caught a salmon,
which, on being opened. was found to
have swallowed the all-important
jewel The queen regained the good
graces Of the king, and lived a better
life afterward.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
North Rrnnklin.

Dorothy Cole is teaching at the
Ezra Reed of West fremont WIS.,
Aed friends here Wednesday.
school Is again in session. taught
Oy Ethel Lord of Surry.
Dr. and Mrs Raymond Clarke of
Deer Isle visited Mrs. Clarke's
week.
Mark L. DODGE and Fred l.. Cole,
Uuf republican delegates TO the Ban
sor convention last week, had a
rather strenuous time getting
nome. No conveyance being OBJ
vaihable, they were obliged to walk
home. 0''' VI '''
oh account of the disastrous
ssasoh for the independent weirmen
i@sl .1s Year, and also because they con-
ss'uered !. that the sardine packers put
/" over pretty hard on them last
Jason Jason very few If any, of them will
Instruct M herring weirs this year.
t sne necessarily late opening of the
Sm;.es Ssamu.orles and the almost impossi-
omy oal'y OF now getting weir materials
vo Uul OF the woods, all tend to make
way s ulscouraging prospect for the
r;nlueh, and they are now begin
mug to look for other, and perhaps
ATle m lucrative employment.
4aich w. "Xenophon.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
LOOKED AS IF He KNEW
Good Reason Why Soldiers Urged
Lieutenant to Take Military Po-
liceman's Word for 1t.

A colored detachment under a white
lieutenant was making its way through
the shattered territory near Dun-sur-
Meuse during the thick of the Argonne
drive. AT crossroads it encountered
a trafic-drecting NJ. P who halted
the column.
Sorry, sir" he said to the officer in
charge. You are not allowed up that
road. We have information that It is
about to he shelled by the enemy"
The officer carefully examined his
orders. MY instructions read differ
emily" he declared. 81 cannot be-
lieve that this is the road to be
shelled. Have you any verificatton?"
AT this moment a shell burst within
hundred yards, tearing up the earth
and sending debris flying in every di-
rection. The entire landscape was OBJ
liberated, and dead silence, broken
only by the crash of falling stones, en-
sued. Then, out Of a cloud of set
Ting dust, arose one faint, terrified
voice:
"Fo' Gawd's sake, lootenant, please
take de gemmun's word fo' it!'-The
Home Sector.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
GEORGE HAD ANOTHER GUESS
Old Gentleman Had Also Been Doinu
Some Thinking About the High
Cost Of Living.

4 congressman who is investigating
the high cast of living said to a Wash
ington correspondent:
The b. c. |. Is responsible for many
yagaries and queer complications.
IA young chap who had got en-
gagged to a girl was talking over the
future with her.
"'With prices what they are said
the girl we must be content. George,
dear. with small fiat and one or, at
the most, two servants
George coughed.
Its my idea he said. to live with
your old man the first couple of
years
"But, George
"'That's my idea,' he interrupted.
Think of the money we can save. No
rent, no light, no grub bills. no coal.'
"But-'
AZ insist on this thing George in
terrupted again. 4 tell you. l.
"Then the door opened softly and
the girls father entered the room.
Children he said tenderly, I have
decided that when you get married
I'll come and live with you for the
rest of my life"
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Ruskin,s Birthplace for Sale.

No. 54 Hunter street, Brunswick
square, London, the birthplace of John
Ruskin, is for sale by private treaty.
In the early days of the nineteenth
century, says the London Telegraph,
John James Ruskin came to London
from Edinburgh to enter the wine
trade. In 1918 he married his cousin,
Margaret Cox, and February 8. 1919,
the author of Sesame and Lilies" was
born. The house in Hunter street,
which is now distinguished by COM
memorative tablet, is of the substan-
tial Georgian type so well known in
Bloomsbury and was erected at a
time when that district was particular
ly in favor among city merchants.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
MUCH LIKE WESTERN CITY
Tifis, Cap tai of New Georgian Re-
public by Mo Means Typical
of the East

Mr.. Melville Chatter, recording i'm
pressions In the National Geographic
Magazine. admits that he was sur
prised when he arrived In Tiflis. cap
ital of the new Georgian republic He
had expected city more suggestive
of the East, as the Western mind pic
lures It; but the Goloyinsky prospekt,
the main thoroughfare through the
heart of the city, stretched before him,
"as handsome a bit of modern metro
politanism as can be found anywhere"
and its restaurants, shops, opera, and
what used to be the viceregal palace
but which now flies the standard of
the new nation, suggested at once the
French adjective "chic." More than
that. this new capital was brilliant
with uniforms. Russian, Georgian, Ar
menian. British, and most picturesque
of ALL the Caucasian costume, with its
broad-shouldered, wash-waisted coat.
high. heelless boots, and astrakhan
cap. One marveled at the load of
weapons that completed it; sword
rattling and clanking with the wear
er's martial stride, a brace of pistols.
a pair of daggers, and a collection of
what looked like enormous fountain
pens hung across the Caucasian
bosom, but which turned out to be
hollow tubes intended to be loaded
with powder and shot. One must add
stiff mustaches and a close-shaven
skull to picture this Georgian in all
his glory on the GolovInsky prospett
Of his national capital. Clothing for
civilians is scarce and expensive in
Tiflis, but the cast-off uniforms of
military officers are for sale, and many
citizen in need of new suit had
bought himself an old uniform.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31

In these days, when Jack Frost is
busy drawing pictures on the windows,
many beautiful works appear over
night, but when he completely covers
the glass, he is not so welcome. The
Russians have very effective way of
preventing the obscuring of the win
dows by frost. In Russia the walls of
the buildings are very thick, and
double windows are fitted to the
houses, set about 13 inches apart. The
window sill between the outer and in
ner windows is decorated with bright
green moss, and hidden there is a dish
filled with calcium chloride, which alb
serbs all the moisture and thus effec-
tually prevents the formation of ice
during the long, cold winter.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Business Welcomes Radio Circuits.

With the new radio circuits in op-
GRAFTON between America and the far
East, it is comforting to know, even
if one has infrequent occasion to COM
municate with Japan, Hawaii and the
Philippines, that the new service is
considered quite reasonably inexpen-
sive, One may communicate with Ma
Mia from the California stations for
6 cents word, and with Hawaii for 8.
Even If the rates were higher, how
ever, the new circuits would be well
coined by American business interests,
for the development of trade, as well
as the transmission of news, has been
seriously handicapped by lack of facili-
ties for communication. The United
States will get better news service
in consequence. do more business, and
may feel also, according to naval of
ficers, that the national defense sys-
TEN has been strengthened at weak
polnt.-Christian Science Monitor.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
TERRIBLE CASE
Of ECZEMA
Prominent Veterinaryo Dover
Suffered Tortures for
Twelve Years
sFptUT-A-TIvES"and' SCOTIA Saliva"
Finally Brought Relief

~ Dover, N. II.
"Tu 1906, I began to be troubled
with Eczema. 1t started on my face
and gradually spread. The second
summer, I was so badly afflicted I
had to lay Off work. l would keep
nv hands tied up at night to prevent
digging into my flesh while asleep.
1spent hundreds of dollars in seeking
relief. / would go for several months
without trouble and then the Eczema
would break out again and / would
he in for siege of suffering. My
hands, especially across the knuckles,
would be so puGied and swollen I
could not do any obstetrical work
or operations.
1t was about three months ago 1
CHANGED to read an ad. of Fruit
a.tiyes' about a person being cured
Of Weeping Eczema by using this
remedy and SCOTIA Saliva. | bought
both and in about a week, noticed an
Improvement. ] have now used two
boxes Of 'Fruit-a-tives' and one of
SCOTIA Saliva and am entirely free
Of Eczema. My flesh is clear and
smooth and l am that gratifed with
the result thas cannot proclaim too
loudly the merits of these remedies.
I. y. OLZENDASI, DIV NJ.
Both remedies are sold at 50e.
boz, C for $3.50. At all dealers or
sent postpaid by FRUITeA-TIVEs
Limited, OGDENSBURG, NJ.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31

hams Vegetable Compound had done
for other women and decided to try it
1t surely did wonders for me. / have
no pains now and / can do my house
work without any trouble at all.
will always praise your medicine as I
do not believe there is doctor that can
do as much good in female weakness,
and you may use these facts as testi-
nonial. Mrs. LESTER E. WARNER.
r. !, Box So, Onalaska. Wis.
The reason women write such letters
to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
and tell their friends how they are
helped is that Lydia E. Pinkham's S
vegetable Compound hasbrought health
and happiness into their lives. Freed
from their illness they want to pass the
good news along to other suffering
women that they also may be relieved.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
GO NO FARTHER
The Evidence Is at Your Door.

Ellsworth proof is what you want
and the statement of this highly re-
spected resident will Danish all
doubt:
John w. Campbell, lumberman,
Liberty St, Ellsworth, says; II can
say Doan's Kidney Pills have done
me world of good At my work,
loading logs, 1 am exposed to all
kinds of weather and this sometimes
brings on attacks of backache. My
kidneys have been irregular in action
and the secretions have passed too
freely at times, then again they
would be scanty in passage I was
advised to get Doan's Kidney Pills
and got some from Chas E. Alex
ander's Drug Store. After using
them awhile the trouble disappeared,
my back became strong and my kim
neys became normal. l haven't been
bothered with my kidneys for quite
a long time, Doan's seemed to have
ended the trouble entirely"
soc, at all dealers. Foster
Milburn Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
I)edhan1.
II. l.. Black is ill.

II. l.. Black is ILL.,
G. A. Gray is saving wood in Or
rington.
L. r. Black of Fairfield spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Black.
Mrs. Bert Nenadestine is spending
few days IN Waterville where her
husband is employed.
w. G. Stone is home from Bangor
Theological seminary for few days.
\ special town meeting was held
March 26 to make arrangements for
consolidation of schools
New Century met March 81 after a
lapse of several weeks without meet
ings because of heavy storms and
drifted roads. Matters of business
We're disposed of and the following
program presented Song by grange
reading, Laura Cook; story, Clifford
Burrill; readings, Marion Burrill,
Gerald Thompson, Mary Burrill; the
topic, Feeding and care of the work
horse. idle horse and colt" was
opened by Gerald Thompson, fol-
lowed by E. w. Burrill Elmer Gray.
Clifford Burrill, Richard Emery and
others. G. w. Brewster and C. l..
Burrill, who attended the republi-
can convention in Bangor, were
asked to report the meeting and gave
an interesting account. Topic for
next meeting, I'm what ways do
our State excel all others?"
March 20. B.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Dead Towns Awaken.

Dead towns of the West are coming
to life as a result of the silver boom.
There were towns In Colorado and Ne
vada and Arizona, which, under the in
fluence of silver in those days after
the Civil war, burst into wild, rich life
that has no parallel in history.
Clouds of dust are rising along the
trails that lead across sagebrush
plains. The mining engineer, present
day successor of the prospector and
his burro, is astir in the silver coun-
try.
They are going back to the old
shafts that yielded wealth when silver
was above dollar. With the advance
in mining processes in the last four
decades the chances of profits are
many times multiplied.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Girl studies to Ra Blacksmith

A girl Junior at the University of
Washington is learning the blacx-
smiths trade. Jazz is no lure to her,
for the anvil chorus fills her ear and
she looks forward to owning and oper-
ating forge and a farm of her own.
The desire to master blacksmithing
arose from her resolve to be a farmer,
and as such to know something of ma
chinery. SO she studies the fashion
ing of bolts and bars and the pointing
of plowshares.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Farming Fish.

The international Association of
Game. Fish and Conservationist Gem
missioners, at their recent convention
in Louisville, pledged themselves to
use every influence possible toward
stimulation of a nationwide move
ment looking to the construction of
fish ponds upon farms in which desir-
able species of game and food fishes,
especially the basses and the sun
fishes, can be propagated for recrea-
ton and for food, at comparatively
small expense when contrasted with
therefrom.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Elfty.Nlne peorees Below zsro.

Fifty-nine degrees below zero was
registered in some parts of the Adlron-
dacks last winter around the first of
the year, according TO weather bureau
statistics. Better Cor worse) than that
was done by Jack Frost in Sweden
where the temperature registered 706
below zero, And in some parts of
ALASKA thermometers are absolutely
useless, the best OF them freezing up
and refusing to tell how cold it is. In
the dead of winter, in the interior Of
Alaska, pure alcohol freezes into solid
blocks of ice, as does kerosene.-Ex-
change,
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
PADEREWsKI AT THE PIANO
Description of Great Masters Playing
Well Called a Gem of Humor-
GUS Composition.

The death recently of Ed Fl. Smith
recalled the humorous editorials which
made his little newspaper, the Chula
News, noted. The one which first
drew attention to it follows:
I'VE heard the Polander. Paderew-
ski, play the piano in Kansas City last
night. The fellow is deceitful. He
makes you think all the time that he
Is going to play tune, but he never
does. He fiirts all around a tune, but
never touches 1t. His hair looks like
a wig, but 1t isn't. He deceives you
in a hundred ways. He makes the
sweetest sounds ySn ever heard that
were not tune. He has his piano
so trained that the doggone thing will
keep right on playing when he is not
touching 1t. He reaches out slowly
and strokes 1t. drawing back his ell
bows like man brushing girls hair.
You see the moonlight and you're
there with your girl. but somehow she
don't love you. We know the sorrow
of that, and that's why we don't like
Paderewski. There are troubles
enough In the world without hearing
Paderewslli. A man don't want to
feel like he had thrown the mutilated
remains of his grandmother in the
sewer, If this is paderewski's last
visit to America we're glad of it. But
we wouldn't take 500 for what we
heard"
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
Mckinley.

Mrs Blanch Rich was recent
visitor in town.
William II Thurston made busi-
ness trip To Boston and Gloucester
last week Mrs. Thurston was in
the bank during his absence.
Allen Black is confined to his
bed by a severe burn on his leg,
caused by sealding water. His suf-
feripE has been intense.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Closson. jr.,
have moved into rooms in theMullin
house
girl baby was born to Mr.. and
Ars, Edwin Webster last week
Evelyn Maude).
Miss June Dolllyer is reported as
improving.
Mrs Margaret Trask who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. jeanette
Manchester, has returned to her
home on Colts Island.
A girl baby, Margaret, was born
10 DR.. and Mrs. Oscar Lott of Mil
waukee Wis, on March 13. Mrs.
Lott was formerly Miss Gertrude
kaowton OF this place
Miss Grace Norwood left Saturday
for Port Clyde to resume teaching.
She has been visiting her sister,
Mrs Frederick Black.
Several parties went from here to
southwest Harbor to the high school
n'nst'els which was an excellent
performance and enjoyed by all who
attended
Miss Letitia Latty spent her vaca-
'Ne. returning to Bar Har-
65r Tuesday
March 20. T
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
SIDEWALK IS THEIR MARKET
"here All Sorts Of Goods Are Dis
posed Of by New York's
Down and outs,n

AT the Bowery approach to the Will
l'amsburg bridge may be witnessed an
interesting sight at any hour of the
day. says the New York Times. This
IS the gathering of near down-and-outs
dlsposing of what is left of their
wararobes and who, being poor sales
men, usually take what is offered and
not what they expected to get.
Inc other morning there were four
on hand. One had three frayed silk
shirts. two pairs of more or less worn
trousers and three sets of silk under
wear. He asked 80 cents each for the
shirts and took 81 for the three The
trousers brought 75 cents the pair
while he had much trouble in dispos-
ing Of the silk underclothing at 25
cents a garment.
Another had fur-lined coat which
wasn't so very awful looking. He
tried his best to get S5 for 1t and hello
on for nearly an hour. Finally mo-
torman came along and. after digging
IN every crevice of his pockets, pro
duced S4.7s. This won the coat.
A ragged fellow had three razors.
for which he asked 81 each. A big fell
low with wiry whfskers wanted
razor but wasn't willing to pay the
price. He offered As cents then so. He
bought for GO.
This market" is held In the open,
on the sidewalk. and the police do not
appear to care, for there is never any
Interference.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
About the Dead Sea,

Swimming In the Dead sea is re-
freshing sport. but swimmers have to
be careful not to get water into their
eyes. In ton of water from the Cas-
plan sea there are II pounds Of salt.
in a ton from the Atlantic ocean there
are 81 pounds, from the Mediterranean,
IS pounds; but in ton of the Dead
sea there are 1877 pounds. Contrary
to a prevailing belief, there are plains
on the shores of the Dead sea that are
so fertile and well watered that as
soon as one crop is harvested another
can be planted: but as whole, the
basin is a dreary region.-youth's
Companion.
Ellsworth American., 1920-03-31
The Timid Child.

The timid child is recognized at a
glance. He is lacking in self-confi-
dence and initiative What he needs
most is TO lose himself in the games
and recitations. This is the pupil who
is not able to recite-seldom responds
for fear of criticism. Such children
as these must gradually he brought to
the foreground by the ndicious teach
er.-Montreal Herald.