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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
CITIZENS WANT PAVING

Gadsden, August IT, = (Special.)- At the meeting of the city council last night petitions were presented by property owners on Cherry, liar ralson, Seventh avenue and South Twelfth streets, asking that the council order curbing. guttering and paved streets alongside their prop erty. In addition to this paving peti- tions had already been presented from Randall and South Eleventh streets. This will make some fifteen streets to be paved during the re- mainder of the summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
MAJOR EssLINGER BETTER

Gadsden, August IT. - (Special)- The many friends of Major Esslinger will be glad to know that he is inn proving nicely. following the stroke of paralysis suffered at Camp Mc- Clellan last week. He has practically regained control of his voice and a steady improvement is expected in his condition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
TO Build New Filling station

It was announced yesterday that M H. McDowell and associates will cause to be constructed a filling sta tions on the corner of Avenue E anu Twenty seventh street, nearly naif way to Fairfield. The station Will De advantageously located, and will rep resent the investment of very sup stantial sum of money
 construction will start in the ne,;t few days, and it is understood that 1t will be rushed to completion. This is the second filling station % be started in Ensley during the past few weeks, the first being by the Murray Tire company, on Avenue I and Nine | teenth street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
S300,O00 IN NEW HOMESAT FAIRFIELD
Ensley District EnIivened By Reopening of Mines at
 Wylam

The Aze-Herald maintains a special bureau in Ensley for handling corre- spondence and advertising, Avenue E. and Seventeenth street; Clyde W. En- his, representative, phone Ensley 626. For subscriptions, call Circulation de- partment. Main 490o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18

After being down for some weeks the Wylam coal mines of the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and Railroad company have resumed operations for four days per week on an indefinite pro gramrne The resumption or the Wylam division has created feeiins of the utmost optimism in surrouhu- inc husiness circles and the next pay dav twill witness very marked change in retail business The ,ndi- cations are that other mines that have been operating at very re- duced schedule will feel the effects CT the need for mole coal {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
Tr.x.ler. to FIorida

Lee Disheroon. J. R. Stammer ana Roy Flemming left yesterday in i.n
 automobile for Florida, where they will spend two weeks visiting all the principal points of interest in thai
 section. In addition. Edward War
 nick and Shorty Millarsleft over the Illinois Central for Jacksonville where they will join the other mem bers of the party for the tour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18

M. H. McDowell left yesterday Tor
 Tennessee to visit his father for a
 few days. He is expected home Sum day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18

| Miss Cadel Propst of Ensley Is in
 Mobile, where she is the guest of friends and relatives, and where she has been the recipient of many social
 courtesfes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18
Fishermen to Visit Pat Oliver

Pat Oliver had better get ready for some tall yarns at his picnic SatGr day to the fishermen of this district for members of the Ensley Fisher mems club are to meet tonight at the Elks' hall and rehearse the wondrors tales of game catches to relate al the picnic to be given by MT. Oliver
 It is stated that one story 10 ne told by an Ensley fisherman Will pc based upon facts narrated by the late Colonel Roosevelt in his story of the journey down the River ol Doubt wherein the fish or that riVst will not tolerate man Tn the water
 Dozens of the members of the local club plan to make merry with MT Oliver Saturday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-18

Homes representing a total invest ment of over s300,ooo are being con structed in the territory west Of Fairview to Fairfield, according to an estimate given yesterday by J. F. Lindsay of the Lindsay Long Lumber company.
 MT. Lindsay explained that this did not include the construction on me Kess building in Ensley now nearing completion, by Ramsay & McCor- mack. and other business houses.
 There are now under construction over 75 houses between Fairview and Fairfield" said MT. Lindsay. "The average value is just about s4,o09, which would indicate that over $300,- 900 is being placed into homes in the Ensley district. This sum is from individual home e-owners and indicates very substantial financial condition in this district. The construction of business houses in the Ensley district would run this sum beyond the above estimate by very substantial amount.
 ''The months of February and March of this year were the best building months Birmingham has ever known. The highest point was | reached at that time. Now business | in the building line shows a loss of about 35 per cent below that point. Inasmuch as the above months were very much above normal, we are safe in concluding that the present vol | ume is above the normal that we knew in the years 1913 to 1917. That | is to say business now with its re- duction of 35 per cent is very much
 better than it was during the years | above noted. There is no question but what the l lumber prices have been liquidated and that advances are due. We mo-
 tice at this time a slight advance in | prices while not amounting to a l great deal yet point unerringly to
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
P|TTSF|ELD MAN DIES
OF INJURIES
Walter VI. Wingate Lives For Few
Hours After Tragic Automobile
Accident

Pittsfeld, August Walter NJ
Wingate, who has driven public cal
at Pittsfeld this season, died Sunday
afternoon at about 430 as result oil
injuries received in an automobile
accident on the State highway neal
the residence of Mr.. Jones, about one
tie was ~etuEning - 5Bangor, where
he had taken party.
Mr. Wingate in trying to pass a cal
got into the loose gravel by the edge
of the highway and sweryed into one
of the piles of gravel which are plac-
ed at intervals along the road APP
parently he tried to get back into the
road but hit telegraph pole which
was cut completely off and discon-
nected from the w,res and fell on
car and driver. The machine went
about $50 feet after hitting the pole
Mr.. Jones, who was working nearby
arrived immedia tely at the wreck and
eXtricated Mr. Wingate, who was UNI
conscious. He was taken to his house
and doctors from Newport and Pitts
field and Mrs Wingate were sum-
moned. His leg was mangled and his
skull was injured and he was thought
by the physicians to be in such crit
cal condition that it would be useless
to take him to the hospital. About
o'clock it was decided to move him
to his home in Pittsfield and this
was done in Whitten's ambulance Mr.
Wingate was unable to rally and never
regained consciousness and ed al
40 Sunday afternoon. The car,
seven passenger machine, was badly
wrecked and was brought in by a
wrecking crew from Littlefeld's ga
rage.
Mr.. Wingate is survived by wife
Florence Littleiield Wingate; by an
aged mother. Mrs. Mary b. Wingate
by a half-brother. Herbert WinGate OF
Mercer, and by half sister Mrs. Dora
Clement Of Massachusetts. He resid-
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04

Mr.. John Hamilton. 50. Miss Mau1
Powers, 80; Mr.. Fred bennett, 81.
We received very pretty quilt top
from Mrs Annie Charles
From our annual sale and supper
WAS realized S146.36; from penny col
lections 1853.
We have tackled six comfortables
and have received 81 for each
From tho town meeting dinner wa
received $522l
On April Ia Forget Branch
and Rainbow Branch attended the r.
h. church in a body. We have been
very pleasantly entertained by Rain
bow Branch We held one social. on
April list We have enterta ned Cold
en- Glow Branch and Rainbow Branch
Number OF members. 100: cash ~
treasury. about Sl17.oo.
Our work for the past year has been
about the same as in years past
We gave SlG 10 sick widow; $40 tc
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
What the SunshincrS Are Doing

ANNUAL REPORT, RAINBOW BR
Arson Rainbow Branch, Arson. has
had % regular meetings since July
1920 with good attendance.
The first few months were busy
ones. As our work committee always
had work prepared a great amount
If sewing has been accomplished, such
rs patchwork, lacking comforters
max ny sheets and holders, from
which quite sum has been realized
\ good deal OF time was spent i'll pre-
naring the box which was sent TO the
Blind Babies Home,
Next came the preparations for the
ale and supper on December ;. from
which We realized $l93.
At Christmas time $40 was used te
Give Christmas cheer TO shut-ins aud
~ were remembered with fruit. can
jy. nuts and also post cards.
Since January we have sent. bed
pread To the On ldrens Mission
school: $10 10 Good viii Home as an
Easter Offering 3 to Chldren's
Home. Augusta: s. to Childrens
lone Portland; SO TO loan closet OF
he Arson Madison Red Cross.
Dues have been sent to the State
President and TO Mrs. Alden, our Inter-
national President; also silver collec-
lions for Birthday offering. Fifty boxes
If fruit and - post cards have been
emf and cheer of all kinds suea as
lowers. potted plants and dainlies
from the home -Four quilt tops have
1ccn given To the Branch, also money
r,21,1 fff.1r44
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04

a family where the mother and child
dren were very sick; $40 TO the Hoover
rnnd Slo to a man who had been bad
" hurt in the pulp mill; $40 to fam
ily where the father Was ILL., so to a
widow $40 10 buy clothing for family
of children SO To widow who was
sick. 5lo GO the Children Home IN
Nu@psta. -'r' l"f af taVs n pla,-
~. - .t.. ri "a nc III been in
the Children's Hospital in Portland
We save sent number of post card
showers and at Christmas time sent
70 post cards to the aged and shut
ms
We have sent 56 boxes of fruit be-
sides grape juice and flowers to the
SICK We have purchased another
wheel chair which gives US three ana
thew ere 4 constant use.
1t gives us pleasure to minister to
the needs of those around us and none
viii be turned away.
ADplE +. FREDERIC, Sec.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
NEWS FROM SOMERSET
LAKES AND CAMPS
PLEASANT POND

Dow Richard n Dam mud f..4tI,. -
wasthnry Long island ,aotaraa ,i' - -
bore on Friday enendino tho ai.i,
Win Nre Wiliism Cn.,,l[s M D. 49,
viii snand rho moth ~ ,,,o,,5, -,
toan I.ake ''''
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Mrs uoI,he snant lac, ,,.a, Nv il'2'''e'
ntrs /, .r.'., ,''''' W, - 49,.
Columbus Coar,,i.' "''" -, ,,','t' - u
pnet and can,an'fa, -, ,l Ia
camn ~, Won, ,,',,i ~ 20 a.,
iI, IN A,5,,.s, jim M '''''
mr. Re-, T.. -, ,.t. ...... -
etanIa, bf,,..,1. 80 , Iaa'p NJ -.
rorticnt sta,". VI i ht lulu, VI. On
Inc, ,,a.4. = - MS lamp '''''
Peco,,t -. ne ' u'- r,., .. ~
and NJ = - =. ".i 'l'I :" n,.5...1a,
pbia; Mr. and Mrs Could porter no
bert Porter Miss Mary potter Mr.
and Mrs II II Narston aud Edward
Marston of North Arson. Mr. and
Mrs II = BURGESS and ~ Il Rnr-
CESS of Fairfield. Dr and Mrs p 6
Merrill. Mr. and Mrs Carmichael and
Ellis parmenfer of Waterville Mr.
and Mrs Herbert hurley. E1mira. \.
" Mr. aud Mrs Ruth of Atlantic
CITY: 4. =. and \. l.. steward of
Newton Mass. steven Frederick.
Neriden r.. II NorreIl Roston
Mass. 4 I Downs New Haven Ct:
r. r Patten and Lois and Eunice
Patton of Skowbooan. Stanley X Dim
.ock of Hartford conn
Mr. and Mrs Hosea Wh;nple of
Bingham were mn for the week end.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
Begin To Get Ready Now

AS the years have been rolling bv
ana new industries and improvements
nave come to Skowhegan, the Somer-
SET central Agricultural Society has
kept apace building its magnificent
ne" exhibition building, keeping Its
property in good condition and now
lncreasn g its park area by adding
eleVen acres to the rear, while mod
ern new sheds which will be built be-
Iore 1air time will greatly accommodate
lhe pubic in observing the livestock
exhibition. Our fairs are always
well attended and we have a staff of
the most efficient officers in Maine
Dut there has been oftent mes in the
past lack of cooperation from one
source-the agrieulturists of the coun-
w. who really should be the back
bone of the whole enterprise. This
Is one method of advertising which
the farmerN too often overlooks in his
business. We see our other business
firms represented and why not the
farmers, whose products so often need
all the advertising facilities possible.
Leaving the matter of premium money
""t' "hlOH by the way is lhpeTdl, II
you show your goods or livestock at
the fair you are creating interest in
your farming activities which may be
of untold benefit to you in years to
come. Cooperate with the other
business people and begin now to get
ready for the big eXh bit on Septem-
Der p, % and 30. If you have been
handicapped by the dry weather, re-
member your neighbor has been the
same. Let's all do our part and
make every department of the 1921
fair bigger than ever before, with
quantity and quality written all over
the show
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
Are You Officially Dead

Ira Won officially dead?
T nh fair question for every wo-
wbo works. And these days the
nv of business women is constantly
Screasng.
VARIABILITY statistics are impartial
| 4 no. respecter of persons and these
.,istics as compiled by one of the
rser life insurance companies show
average lives Of their woman pol
l bolders in office work to be just
yoars She loses just half her
while the average housekeeper
I,ss 10 be SO years old.
In lfe after IS years of age APP
ais TO YOU. Miss Business Woman
mia better be above the average.
| Do YOU sleep in the open air? Have
n and the sleeping porch gotten ac-
Dsinted?
IDO you know the pleasure of hike
3,plarly after work?
Have you an interest in little
,rpr garden in the back yard?
IN YOU know how to swim?
DO YOU keep your windows in the
hit of staying open at night?
For indoor workers good health at
Iuom is just a question of proper
h sufficient exercise, and you don't
70 TO be an athlete to get it. Fresh
and exercise make strong consti-
HONS and a. strong constitution
/ ughs at disease. Learn to take an
terest in sports and you will find
I me kind that will fit your inclina-
bn and the limits of your time and
rise.
Better start out now as the summer
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04

ed for many years in pittsfield and
had many friends who are shocked at
his sudden death He was a gradu-
ate of Maine Central Institute in the
class of 1904 His age was about 81
years. He was member of Meridian
Lodge No. 125 F. and A. M; Ira Ber-
ry Chapter No. 81, r. A. NJ. and OF
st. Omar Commandery X. T., of Wat
erville. He was a member of Bethle-
hem Chapter No. 36, o. f. S.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced and will be under the aus
pieces of the Masons. The family
have the deepest sympathy of the en-
tire community in their bereavement
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04
LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. A. a. Towne has gone to Ne"
Work FOR a two weeks f'sit.
dis. a. Il. Bisson and Sebastian
Pisson are away for a week or ten
days at their Old Orchard cottage.
Mrs. Wifred Light and daughter
Eva have returned to their home in
Huntington, Mass following a visit
with Mrs. Frank Hebert.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank a. Vosmus
went to Auburn Tuesday to visit their
son and from there were going &c
Poland Springs and then TO West
Pownal to visit Mr. Nosmus' brother
DR.. S. A. Vosmus.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04

Ben. B. Fogler of Cleveland. Ohio,
is visiting his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
John W Fogler His little daughter
Margaret has been here for some time
visiting at the Fogler home and with
her aunt Mrs. F. G.. Nye.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1921-08-04

season sends its invitation to the great
outdoors and get the habit.
II you don't you may not have the
chance some day.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-27
AS FAMILY MEMBERSHIPS
 IN COUNTY FARM BUREAU

Seven members of the executive com mfttee of the New London county farm and home bureau met at the farm bureau office in this city this week. The follow ing business was taken up:
 The resignation of Harry Rhodes Palm CT of Stonington as director was read and accepted It was left to the secre- tary to get in touch with the farm bureau members in that town and ask them to niatc nominations for someone 10 fill the vacancy. The resignation of Mrs. Weaver of Franklin was read and accepted. as Mrs Weaver is moving out of town. Mrs. Maude F. Bliss was elected as the director to fill her place.
 A report of the membership campaign was given by George A. Kahn. Thus far AS members have been signed up on the family membership plan. This means that there are practically 900 men and women members of the farm bureau in New Lon- don county at the present time. It was voted that the work of finishing the membership campaign in the various towrss be left under the direction of MT | Kahn. There are quite number of places 1 in the county where it has been impossible l 10 put in any work as yet on the cam i paign, The executive committee expects i that there will be better than 800 family memberships in the farm bureau befort | the campaign is completed.
 There was considerable discussion 1T regard to organizing q Campaign fo women members for the farm bureau l Under the S10 membership plan the wive 1 of all the men who signed up automat ically become members of the county farn and home bureau There are. however
 a considerable number of women in tn county not directly connected with farm ing who are interested in the work of tn home bureau and who wish to hecom members. It is these women that will D
 approached in the matter of joining th
 farm bureau in this campaign, It wa
 felt that a g individual membership wa
 enough to ask such people The can naiGn for additional women members wi
 Elisha Waterman of Lebanon was chose
 by the executive committee to have charg
 of the campaign. The women director
 Of each town will be asked to name ] committee and report to the farm burea
 office within a short time. This commi
 tee will have charge in each town of st
 Hcitng the women who are not covere
 in the S10 campaign.
 Il was voted that the county agent ar
 home demonstration agent should conf . with the various farm bureau directo T and arrange for suitable dates and oc | tions in which 10 hold a series of far s bureau field days. If the tentative pla1 r. which have been made are carried O Q, there will be four or five field days he - in different .narts of New London coun It during the month of August.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-27
SIXTY-EIGHT PETITIONS FOR
 PARDON BOARD TO HEAR

Sixtey-eight petitions led for hearing by the board of pardons at it's sessi-n on Jure 1S include one from Bessie !. Wakefield who petitions for the third time after serving eight years of a life sen tenco Mrs. Wakefield and James Flew were both sentenced to be hanged for the murder, of the womans husband, Flew was executed but the sentence in the Womans case was comhuted to life i'm prisonment. Testimony in the case was that Wakefield had been lured from his heme in Bristol to some woods in Chesh- ire where he was both stabbed and shot PIew lived in 1Iiddlehury and only a few days before the murder he and Mrs. Wakefield were seen. a Lake Quassapaug. Middlebury riding on the merry-go-round. The theory in the case as advanced by the prosecution was that Plew and Mrs. Wakefield wanted to get the latter's hus- band out of the way so that they might live together The trial of Mrs Wake
 field with the verdict of guilty in the first degree and sentence of hanging at tracted attention all over the country
 Frank C. Stoddard of Simshury. who was sentenced to state prison September 9, 1920, from one to three years for the | crime of perjury and last month appeared
 as a, witness for the state in the prosecu- 1 ton of Lawyer Samuel A. Herman for l perjury. will appear before the board of nardons June 12 asking to he relea sed. l Michael Farral of Bristol. sentenced | in September, 1917, from 12 to 20 years l for rapi, says he was convicted on un- | corrohoratcd testimony of 2 young boy.
 AnieIlo CriscuoIo Of Derby. serving 1r i to 15 years for manslaughter, says he f: not guilty
 Saul Joseph, serving three to fly,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-27

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Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-27
MAJOR JOHN LEAYENWoRTH
 LOSES LEG AT COLO


 Word has been received that Major John T. Leavenworth, of the Coast Ar tinery Corps at Fort Randolph, near Colon. Panama Canal Zone, Central America, former resident of Norwich and a graduate of the Norwich Free Aca- mery lost hls leg in an accident on the railroad near Fort Randolph during the latter part of April. Major Leavenworth is q native of New London county, a grandson of Jonathan Satterlee of Led yard. His father, J. LeavenwoI.I, was, up until about seven years ago, super ntendent of the public schools in Jewett City and made his home in Norwich. Major Leavenworth has many friends and relatives in Gales Ferry, Norwich, New London and Groton. It is. under stood that his father mysteriously dis appeared some time ago and that his mother has made her home with her son n Central America
 The report of the accident said. The conductor of the night train fou Ma jor Leavenworth lying on the u un- conscious at l o'clock. Sunday hing just after the late train had backed out of Fort Randolph preparatory to return ing to Colon. He was bleeding profuse ly and his left leg which lay across tho track, was almost severed. First aiC was administered and Major Leaven worth rushed 10 the Colon hospital where he was operated on by Dr. O. Leary superintendent of the hospital.
 Major LeavenwQrth is q single maj and lived at. Fort Randolph with hi mother, who received severe shocl when she learned of the accident. l appears that he had just got out of hi automobile and was walking across tn track. In the darkness, it appears, h did not see nor hear the approachin train which backed on to him.
 Tt was at first feared that throug the shock and loss of blood he would nc recover, but with the care admnig<'re 70 him at the Colon hospital physician declare that his recovery is assured.
 Major Leavenworth is only 33 year Of age and has been acting commando of the fort at Randolph for some tim He is not only popular with the con mand and in the service generally bl l is esteemed by the numerous person who know him. Dr. Leavenworth, U. i N., at Coco Solo, Is his brother"
Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-27
Mvstic Property in T1orIdn wm

Theda E. Mercer of Orange City, Fla, is made the sole heir of the estate of her husband, Frederick T. Mercer. who was a brother of Frying ?. Mercer Of Mystic. in his will filed for probate in the surrogate's court in New York. She is also named executrix without bonds In two paragraphs of his will he adds
 At present am the holdersof a S1,000 note made by my mother. Sarah C. Mer- cer of Mystic. Conn, secured by a second mortgage upon r-perty at Mystic, Conn. and it is my will and request that no pro- ceedinG at law CT in equity shall he talk en by anyone to enforce the payment of said note, or to foreclose the said mort gage during the lifetime of my said mother, Sarah C. Mercer.
 My wife is fully acquainted with my views. wishes and desires regarding the ! members of my family at Mystic. C-nn. and 1 request her to carry out those i ideas as fully as she may be able to do ir view of my desires heretofore expressed 1 to her