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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11
BIuellnI.

Miss Abby Partridge is home
from Cleveland.
Mrs. Carl Weren and son of New
York are visiting Mrs. Weren's
mother, Mrs. E. M. Chase.
The academy team was beaten
by Penobscot high at Penobscot,
Saturday; score. to 4.
The Bluehill Scrubs played their
first game this season at Sargent
Vile, Saturday, winning, 3 to 2, in
a well-played game.
A. c.. Hinckley, F. B. Snow, l.
E. Stanley and William Snow at
tended the grand lodge of the Ma
sonic bodies held at Portland last
week. Judge Snow was chosen
grand sword-bearer of the grand
commandery, X. T.
1t looks as if the village streets
would be dusty this year. The
money appropriated by the town for
laying the dust is not available I'M
less oil is used. and that has been
found to beimpractible. The v.
1. society has voted not to assume
the responsibility, but will give
the sum of $3.50, and the free use
of the sprinkler. pump, ETC., to any
carry on the work.
There was a large attendance at
the entertainment given by the
Academy A. A. at the town hall
Thursday evening. Poth the must
cal burlesque, 1.-The Sweet Family"
which was presented by an all-star
cast of ladies, and the laughable
farce, cat the Junction" by the
students, were received with UNI
qualified approval by the audience
The athletic meet at Mountain
park May 20 promises to be big
success. Six high schools have al
ready indicated their intention of
entering teams. 1t is planned to
make the meet an annual affair,
and a cup has been offered to the
school that can win twice. In adj
dition to the medals for first and
second places in each event, a
championship cup will be given to
the competitor who wins the most
points for his school this year, and
prizes will be given the tug-ofwal
and relay teams.
The celebration of the anniversa-
ries of the X. of P. and Sisterhood
lodges, May 3, was, as usual, a
highly enjoyable time. Supper was
served at $50, followed by an in
teresting program. Some of the
features were tableaux, a jazz band
suitcase drill, vocal and instru-
mental numbers and a drill by the
Keewayden guards. A social and
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East Sullivan.

Mr.. and Mrs. Chester CHM have
been visiting in town. Mr. CHM
has returned to Cumberland Mills.
where he has employment. Mrs.
CHM will visit her parents in Corea
before joining him.
Mrs. Belle Wooster Higgins is ON
her annual visit to New York.
Misses Sybil Bean and Rena
Urann have been home from Keene,
N. H., for the spring vacation.
Fred A Moves is in Bangor, re-
turning with his son, E. D. Moves,
who was at home for the weekend,
April %. He is doing contract
work
Dunbar's mill is saving slaves
and shingles.
Mr.. and Mrs Clifford Richardson
arrived at E. w. Hills Thursday,
coming by auto from Waltham,
Mass. They report the roads very
heavy between Brunswick and Ban
gor. The Richardson's will remain
during the summer, Mr.. Richardson
having employment at Sorrento.
Mrs Helen Bunker Ramsdell, liv-
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Sunset.

Greeley F. Small, who has been
in poor health for year, died at his
home in Sunset April 90, aged
seventy-six years. He was the son
of the late Thomas and Eliza eli
field Small. Mr.. Small married
Sarah Shute of Searsport. who died
several years ago. The surviving
children are Charles N. Small Of
Northeast Harbor, Mrs. Mamie Stin-
son of Hampden, BERTHE Greeley
and Herbert, of Camden, Louise
Bryant of South Deer Isle and Lena
Lufkin and Lewis of this place.
The funeral was held Tuesday, Rev.
Mr.. Jennings officiating.
Mrs Ida Stinson of South Deer
Isle visited her mother, Mrs. A. T.
Small, last week.
Mrs. Mary Olmsted widow of
Prof F. Olmsted, the great land
scape gardener, died recently, aged
ninety-one years. Their summer
home here has been occupied the
past two summers by the Mulhol-
lands. .Ais>
E. S. Small is quite iii,
.. John F. Robbins from Sailors
Snug Harbor, Quincy, Mass, writes
that in that institution is the man
that invented the hole in the dough,
nut. Says he first cut them with a,
cake cutter, then cut the hole with,
pepper box cover. That was;
sixty-three years ago. ,
May l. "Sadie." +
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Sedgwick.


Frank c. Allen, who has been
spending the winter in Lowell,
Mass, with his daughter, Miss
Bertha Allen, returned home
Thursday last. His many friends
are glad to see him so much i'm
proved in health.
Miss Barbara Lymburner, who
was called to Islesboro by the seri-
Gus illness of her grandfather, re-
turned home Thursday last.
The many friends of Mrs. Lucius
Bridges, who is at the Memorial
hospital at Bluehill are glad to
learn of her improved condition.
Percy Martin is home for short
time. Since coming home he has
been quite i'll.
Mrs. Henry Morgan of Deer Isle
was in town last week.
Mrs. Harris Haskell of Deer Isle
visited friends in town last week.
Our people were saddened by the
death on Monday evening last of
Alfred F. Robbins, lifelong resi-
! dent of this village. Mr. Robbins
was the youngest son of the late
William and Mary Robbins, and had
host of friends. He was a men,
Der OF EgSemOggln lOdge, f.. and
A. NJ, also of Columbia chapter, O..
E. Sand had held the office of senti-
! mel in that order for several years.
Much sympathy is felt for his wife,
on whom the blow falls heavily, as
/ she has no children, and although
she has many dear friends, still her
loss is great. Mr.. Robbins also
leaves two brothers and one sis
ter, also two half-sisterS. The
sympathy of a host of friends is
theirs.
May 7. "Eloc."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11

Wednesday, a sloop named
Bertha, went ashore on the
north side of the island. The life
saving crew from Cranberry Island
was called. The engine was saved,
but the boat was abandoned.
Miss Elizabeth Peterson took the
Sunday school children to North
east Harbor Sunday to attend the
confirmation services at Saint
Mary's- By-the-Sea. A few athers
were invited-Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Babbidge, Miss Olive Austin. Ber-
lin Colt of this place, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Harding of fremont
Mrs. Curtis Hodgkins of Attic
boro, Mass, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. Maggie Trask.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Harding,
and Mr.. and Mrs. William Harding
visited relatives at Atlantic, Sun
day.
Leslie Morrill,, who has been en-
ployed in Bangor, visited relatives
on the island this week.
Mrs Maggie Trask visited her
Mrs. Frank Manchester
over Sunday.
May 8. Mrs. Chips, il"
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North Sullivan.

Mrs Emeline Havey of East
Sullivan is visiting her son, j. B.
Havey.
Mrs. Georgia Robertson of East
Sullivan recently visited her niece,
Mrs. Wesley Robertson.
Mrs. Edward Webb was called to
Carmel Wednesday by the death of
her uncle.
Mrs. John Bagley and baby
Muriel went to Brewer Wednes-
day, where they will live. Mr..
Bagley has employment in Bangor
knowlton Hodgkins and wife of
Bar Harbor, and Bernard Hodg-
kins and wife of Hampden were
called here last week by the death
OF their sister, Mrs. Herbert Grin
die.
Mrs. Lissie Robertson and Oak
man Bunker are slowly gaining.
Mrs. Grace Havey is still very i'll.
Friends of Mr.. and Mrs. Ever
EFT Jellison and Mr.. and Mrs. Sid
ney Havey sympathize with them in
the recent loss of their mother, Mrs.
Elmira Jellson, of Eastbrook
The many friends here of Miss
Elsie Jellison of Eastbrook regret
to learn of her serious illness.
The new pastor, Rev. Mr.
Knowles, preached an interesting
sermon in the church Sunday eve
ming.
Mrs. Lettie Grindle died Wednes-
day morning at the home of hel
| mother, Mrs. Annie Hodgkins, after
more than year Of patient suffer.
ing. She was kindly cared for by
her mother, husband and daugh.
tiers, they doing everything posi-
BILE for her comfort. Services
were held Friday afternoon, Rev
Mr.. Kinney of Bar Harbor officiat
ing. The floral tributes were many
and beautiful. Much sympathy i.
| felt for the bereaved family.
May g. H.
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has been undergoing extensive re-

has been undergoing extensive re-
pairs.
Mothers day was appropriately
observed in the churches here
At the Congregational church, a
pretty service of admission to mem
bership of thirteen-ten on confess
sion of faith and three by letter by
the pastor, Rev. o. l.. Olsen, was
witnessed by large congregation !;
also the christening of the little son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Thurston,
Eugene, jr. Special music added
to the interest of the occasion.
Beautiful carnations decorated the
church and were worn by the
mothers.
Miss Gladys Trundy went to Bar
Harbor recently for surgical treat
ment. Her friends are glad to
learn that she is doing we'll. Miss
Kathleen Gray also went to the
same hospital last week for treat
ment for throat trouble. Miss
Dunton of the intermediate grade
also spent last week there, but will
return to her school duties this
week. Miss Carmelita Freeman,
the hospital superintendent, spent
a few hours recently with her
mother, who is still an invalid.
May 8. Spray"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11
Prospect HarbOr,
MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS

MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS.
The supreme Ruler has called from
Schoodic lodge, Knights of Pythias.
our worthy brother, Frank S. Libby.
In the death of Brother Libby. we
lose one of our charter members, and
one who will be greatly missed. We.
can i'll afford to lose such a brother.
but it is Gods will.
Resolved; That we extend our
sympathy to his family, and trust
they will be reconciled in the belief
that they will meet again in the great
beyond.
Resolved; That our charter be
draped in mourning for thirty days. a
copy of these resolutions spread on
our records, copy sent to his family.
and one to The Ellsworth American
for publication.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11

continued using it until I had taken
eight bottles. Now am very well and
can do my own housework. can gladly
recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's medicine
to suffering women" - Mrs. BERTHA
LIERING, R. F. D., Ravenswood, w. Va.
The ordinary day of most housewives
is a ceaseless treadmill of washing,
cooking, cleaning, mending, sweeping,
busting and caring for little ones. How
much harder the tasks when some de-
rangement of the system causes head
aches, backaches, oearing-down pains
and nervousness. Every such woman
should profit by Mrs. Liering's expert
ence. Remember this, for over forty
years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been restoring health,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11

ing in San Francisco, Cal, having
recently received The American as a
birthday gift, writes that it takes
her back in memory to her native
State, which she still dearly loves
but not enough. to leave California,
where she has lived more than half
of her life
Nav g h.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11
THE u. S. ROYAL CORD

A famous tire-and a famous tread.
Acknowledged among motorists and
dealers alike as the worlds foremost
example Of Cord tire building. AL
ways delivering the same repeated
economy, tire after tire, and season
after season..
The stripe around the sidewall is
registered as a trademark in the u. s.
Patent Office.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11

death of Dexter SwaZey Of West
Eden, although not entirely uhex-
pected as he had been i'll for sew
eral years and had been confined to
his bed for about three years. He
was a young man of sterling char
acter and was loved and respected
by all who knew him. Heartfelt
sympathy is extended to the be-
reaved family.
May 8. Bubbles"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1921-05-11
SUFFERED SEVEN
LONG YEARS
Finally Relieved by taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Ravenswood, VIVA. For seven long
years suffered from a female trouble

anu INFLAMMATION SO
that Twas not able
to do my homework.
/ consulted several
doc tors but non e
seemed to give me
relief. l read in a
paper about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. so
II decided to try it,
and before the first
bottle was gone l
found great relief so
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Educate Your Dollars.
Placard In rural store: Trade
Here and Teach Your Dollars to Havo
More Cents. boston Transcript
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-06-23
Where the Railway Left Off

The Uintah Railway terminates
at Watson, Utah. Between
Watson and Vernal stretches 90
miles Of arid desert.
And yet the public suffers no in
convcniencein travelingbetwee
these two towns, because the
Uintah Railway maintains an
unfailing passenger service with
two Buick cars.
"The 90 mile road between
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-06-23
BUY YOU A HOME!
THE B. & L. Will DO THIS FOR YOU

The next series Of the Richmond County Building &
Loan Association will open July l We want to sell 5000
shares and this ought to be matter: The B.
l. way safe and You let your rent money pay for
your home Why keeping your the grind, and for
be rent payer? Make start to owning your
home Ask us about 10 we will be glad explain the system
to YOU
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-06-23

Watson and Vernai is entirely
unpaved, across an arid desert,
with no habitation save three
freight huts," writes Vice Presi-
dent Robinson of the railway.
sin summer the Temperature
ranges as high as ll0'; in winter
as low as zero, with the road
often covered with l2sinches of
snow. The two Bucks have
never been off this route are
operating there today"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-06-23

Model 22-44 Three Passenger Roadster
Model 22-45 Five Passenger Touring
Model 22-4o Three Passenger Coupe Y
Model 22-47 Five Passenger Sedan u
Model 22-4S -Four Passenger Coupe
Model 22-49 Seven Passenger Touring
Model 22-50 Seven Passenger Sedan ]
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
MORE GOOD. THINGS TO
COME TO MUSIC LOVERS
Elizabeth City Choral Society Plans
Oratorio, Cantata in Costume and
Comic Opera.

The Elizabeth City Choral Society,
recently re-organized and incorporated,
is planning big work for another year.
The society plans to stage three big
events within the next twelve months:
an oratorio, a sacred cantata in costume
and a comic opera in costume.
The membership of the Choral Soci-
ETY. has grown from 95 to 23O members
in recent weeks and citizens generally
are taking an interest in it to the ex-
tent of putting the society on a sound
financial basis.
A considerable sum is required to
provide the society with a much needed
grand piano and music incidental to its
work Money is being raised largely
thru popular subscriptions and sub
scriptions are easily obtained when it is
explained that every ten dollar contrib
utor becomes a member of the society
and is entitled to two tickets to each
of it's public performances.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
BIG BLACK MAN UNDER
MRS, COMSTOCK'S BED
But He Got Away: Because She Was
To Excit0d 70 Use Her Gun
IN Time.

Shortly after retiring Wednesday
night Mrs. Will Comstock heard the
deep breathing of q man under her bed
in her home ON Cherry st. in this city.
She jumped. out of bed, turned On q
light and caught up a .eun. The man
rolled from under the bed, took one look
at the pistol in her hand and fed. She
recovered her nerve only after the eui-
prit had fed the house and fred three
shots at him as he ran thru her back
yard. - -
The man answered to the description
of a big, black Negro recently dis
charged from the County Chain Gang
and the police are looking for him.
Mrs. Comstock was alone in the house
at the time. Her husband is night
watchman at the Savings Bank & Trust
Co. Mrs. Comstock runs a little store
and it is believed the Negro knew that
she carried money from the store to
her home at night and his object was
robbery. Several cases of thsi sort
have been reported to the police lately
and uneasiness is spreading. Only a
few weeks ago a Negro was detected in
the home of Miss Sallie Perry on Fear
ing st. He made his escape.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
FOUR MAST
SCHOONER LOST
Went Ashore in Currituck Sound
Tuesday Night-Crew
Saved.

A four mast schooner representing a
small fortune is a total loss on a sand
bar in Currituck Sound, mile north of
Bodie Island Station, having gone
ashore in a gale Tuesday night The
schooner is the Laura A. Barnes, of
Marblehead, Mass She is 179 feet long
and her gross tonnage is $50. She was
built in 1918.
Only meagre details of the wreck are
available. The crew of Bodie Island
Coast Guard Station found the schoon-
er in distress and the seas running high.
The crew of eight men were taken
ashore in the breeches buoy. At last
reports the vessel was lying on her
side. her masts in the water.
Whittier the Laura A. Barnes was
bound or whence she sailed are details
not yet reported to the Coast Guard
Office in this city. It is said her cargo
consisted of sugar. The captain and
crew are on Roanoke Island waiting for
TRANSPORTATION back to their homes.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
WOULD DRAIN 100000
ACRES DISMAL SWAMP
Barton Myers of Norfolk Would Put
10000 Farmers on Present
Cancer Spot.

Barton Myers, one of the oldest and
most enterprising real estate men in
tidewater Virginia is advocating a gi-
gantic engineering scheme by which the
entire Dismal Swamp lying between
Elizabeth City and Norfolk would be
reclaimed for agricultural purposes. Mr..
Myers scheme contemplates the use of
the Lake Drummond Canal as the main
drainage channel, this canal to be read
lily available for such a project should
the government refuse to purchase it
as a part of the intra coastal waterway
system.
Mr.. Myers launched his big drainage
proposition at a Chamber of Commerce
dinner in Norfolk the other night and
invited Norfolk capitalists to give it
out that there are 100000 acres of the
most fertile land in America within the
confines of the great swamp, an area
sufficient to make 10000 farms of fifty
acres each. What the development of
this vast area would mean to Norfolk
on the west and Elizabeth City on the
east must be computed in millions
The Dismal Swamp Canal is about
twenty-five miles in length, with an ell
ovation of about thirteen feet between
the locks for approximately twenty
miles of this length. 1t would furnish
the main drainage canal, if it were ex-
cavated, to sea level, and the entire sys-
tenn of lateral drainage developed. 1t
would be necessary to excavate the can
al to sea level to make it practicable
for drainage and the cost would run
into hundreds of thousands of dollars
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
ISAAC MEEKINS
WOULD BE JUDGE
Aspires to Supreme Court
g. Beach In District Of --
.z' CoTuEnbi&.'

The following item of peculiar inter
est to Elizabeth City folk is sponsored
BY Edward E. Britton, Washington cor
'sTo higher heights would Col.
'Ike" Meekins, of Elizabeth City, be
elevated, if the reports that have had
a start here are to be relied upon.
Now holding the position of general
counsel for the Alien Property Gus
todian, his position such that$in the
absence of Alien Property Custodian
Miller he becomes the acting custo-
dian, the Pasquotank man is said to
shave his eyes upon the. bench. In
short, it is said that Col Meekins has
let friends know that he desires to be
the successor to the late Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia, Ashley NJ.
Gould While the position he holds
now is a good one, with nifty salary,
Col. Meekins regards a life tenure of
a judgeship as a far better PROPOSE
ton, and he is, therefore, not alone
having his eyes upon the position, buS
his hands are reaching out after it.
And as Col. "Ike" is a hustler, we may
expect him to get very busy in his
pursuit of the judgeship.
with Col. Meekins in the race,
North Carolina has two entries, the
first entry heretofore announced be-
ing J. J. Britt, of Asheville, one-time
Congressman and one-time Third As
sistant Postmaster. General, who was
also an entry in the race to succeed
to the position vacated by the death
of Judge Pritchard. Whether either
of the North CaroIinians will have a
look in depends upon whether Presi-
dent Harding will go out of the Dis
trict of Columbia to pick man.
Great pressure is being made upon
him to name a Washington man, for
the lat eJustice Gould was Wash
ington citizen when he was named for
the position, and if he does, then its
'blooey' for outside candidates"
The information is not news to those
close to Col Meekins in his home town
He has had that jAdgeship bee in his
bonnet for a good many years.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
SENATOR CALDER
TO SPEAK HERE

Senator VIM. NJ. Calder, of New York,
and Hon. Stacey w. Wade, Insurance
Commissioner of North Carolina, will be
the more notable speakers at the an
nual convention of the North Carolina
League of Building & Loan Associations
which meets in this city on June IA.
Preparations for the entertainment of
the convention are being carried out by
the Chamber of Commerce, the Mer-
chants Association and the Albemarle
Building & Loan Association of this
city. Scores of prominent business men
from every section of the state will at
tend this convention.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
ALDERMEN WILL UPSET
SCHOOL BOARD. NEXT
Then Plan To Trick Citizens Into Purchase Of
Lights, Water and Sewerage at High Fig
-Weatherly Smoked Owt. .=

dermen themselves will name three citi-
zens. The nine citizens so appointed
will select three others, making twelve
IN all, and the twelve will constitute an
advisory board of citizens to confer with
the Aldermen and recommend to them
what to do.
The arrangement looks so nice and
democratic to any one who isn't acquain-
ted with the peculiar practices of the
superior business minds who are dom
mating the new Board. But here. is how
it will work. E.. F. eAydlett,, M. N.
Sawyer and P. II. Williams will care
fully pick the three citizens for the AL
dermen; Mack Sawyer's sons and sons
in-law will as carefully pick the repre-
sentatives Of the Merchants NAssocia-
ton. They will not have to pick a
committee from the Chamber of Com
merce, as they will have six of the nine
citizens picked and this majority of the
nine will pick three others who can be
controlled. And when the citizens ad-
visory board of twelve is finally organ
lied and begins to function it will be
found to be a. carefully selected organi-
zation of able confederates and small
minds that will make any recommenda-
ton that pleases the Sawyer-Aydlett-
Williams combination. It will not be a
citizens committee at all, but the citi-
zens will be held responsible for it and
if We are made to pay a fabulous price
for the electric light, water and sewer
age properties, the Aldermen will pious-
ly disclaim responsibility. and tell US
that we citizens did it. This town has
got something coming to it under the
new administration. But whatever hap
pens, the townspeople have no one but
themselves to blame. A people will not
elect officers better than n7themselves. We
are going to get exactly what we de-
serKd.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-06-03
MORE TEACHERS AVAILABLE.

School teachers will be more plentiful
this year than in the years just past.
The war time demand for Office and
clerical help attracted thousands of
young men and women from the school
rooms, almost any vocation offering
more attractive salaries than the teach
ing profession. Many rural schools
were closed for want of teachers. But
the slump in business has released
thousands who will gladly turn back to
teaching because they are not finding
other work to do. The Board of Edu-
cation of Cartret County recently ad-
vertised a vacancy in the Office of Su-
perintendent. There were 13S male and
three female applicants for the post on
the first Monday in April.