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GENTLEMEN'S NIGHT
PhiIathea Ladies' Entertain ut Banquet
With Address by Portland Pastor

Gentlemens Night was most apprG-
priately observed by the members of
the Ella f. Mitchell Philathea Class
in the chapel of the Bethany church
edifee last Monday evening One
hundred and seventy persons partook
of delicious banquet served under
the direction of Mrs Della a. Sanford
and aides, which included cold meat,
fruit salad. scalloped potatoes. hot
yeast rolls, tea biscuits, pickles, cream
cakes, assorted cakes. ice cream and
coffee. The decorations for the ben
quet room and tables were arranged
by Miss Dorothy Day and Miss
Dorothy Nye. Jonquils were used on
the tables with one flower at each
plate. Baskets of flowers were used
about the room and music was fur
nshed by the Bethany orchestra. The
services of a number of young ladies
in serving was much appreciated. AT
the conclusion Of the banquet an en-
pertaining program was presented
with a welcome address by Mrs. Do
ra T. Nye, the class president. The
usual Philathea platform was given
Rev George Merriam Offering pray
er. The philathea song was sung ex-
ceptionally well and Rev. George Mer-
riam delivered brief but interesting
address. Miss Dorothy NJ. Nye play
ed Concert Mazurka by Pessard and
an encore of. her own composition
Mrs Don Burrill sang two songs and
the Misses Nye. Leighton and Stinch-
field gave piano trio entitled Med
ley March" by Shubert. Charles Tur-
ner sang two songs after which J
Harrison Thompson, pastor of the Isl
Baptist Church in Portland, deliver
ed splendid lecture. His discourse
treated mainly on the reflection OF
the life of Christ in our own lives
and was artistieally illustrated. He
told in a very entertaining manner
of the boyhood life and sacrifice oil
the Savior Charles Turner sang
,, THE Forge and after singing the
doxology, benediction was pronounc-
ed by Rev. George Merriam. The ac-
companists were Miss Airline F. Bur
nor. Mrs. Ethel Whittier Ames and
Mrs. Dora T. Nye.
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Somerset Academy Too Much for No.
New Portland High

Saturday afternoon a game OF base
ball between North New Portland High
resulted in score of los in favor OF
Somerset Academy. Thu game was
close all thru altho rather loose. Tay-
lor, Somerset's star pitcher was not
in his usual condition He succeed
ed nevertheless in striking out fair
number of the North New Portlands
who returned the compliment in a
hearty manner The line up is as fol
lows: Somerset Academy, Gaylord, G;
i. Dysart 1b, Merriman H. Taylor p.
y. Dysart 3b, Huff 2h, Tufts SIS, French
RI, Collar CT; No. New Portland, Me
Kenny 2ba. Marshall p, Millay c, Hap
py lib. Morgan SIS Mclaughlin 3b,
Luce If. Hutchens Ct. Halhrook RI
Umpires Brown and hatcher. Score;
Somerset Acad. O 3 > ! DO
y. y. Portland 0 0 . o >
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
May l2-Solon at Scion, May IL
Athens at North New Portland; May
20LAthens at Norrdyewock: May %
Athens at Bingham; May 27-Solon
at Athens; MAY 3l-Norridgewock at
Athens; June 3--Hartland at Athens
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Real Estate Transfers

The following were among the real
estate transfers recorded at the Court
House during the past week:
Skowhegan-Jo Joseph A. Eha1ot to
Donat Gallant, land with buildings;
Ethel NJ Hight to Eugene {. TarboX.
land on the north side OF the kennebec
River on Norridgewock avenue; Ar
chic d. Cote to Elmer E. Harris, land;
Susie NJ. l2lms, formerly Susie NJ. OS-
borne. to Harlan +. Manchester, land
with buildings on the Back Road about
three miles below Skowhegan village;
Isabelle L. Donaldson to Harry s.
Hubbard and F. Omar Furber, land
with buildings on the south side OF
the Kennebec River.
Pittsield- Georgia A. Parks of
Portland to Emma Il. Written, land
with buildings on the northerly side
Of Stinson avenue; laforest j. Hum
phrcy to Alfred Daggett, land with
buildings; Vera e. Nutter to John F..
Trickey land with buildings; Thomas
G. Laneey to Frank Weeks, land.
Madison Edith Frederic Matson Of
Maiden. Mass, to Hattie F. Johnson,
land with buildings situated at Lake
wood Andrew j. Williams to Claudia
NJ Blanchard, land with buildings on
the westerly side of Madison street;
Roovar II. Hagopian to Sarkis Cara
bedian. land on the northwest cor
ner Of Perkins and Wood street, so
called.
ardeld-Maude NJ. Merrick of Wa
terville to clyde NJ. Savage. land with
buildings: John Grenier to Alphonse
I4aFlamme, land.
Arson The Massachusetts National
Bank of Oakland to OdelOn Nadeau,
land with buildings.
st. Adams Frank l.. IIollister to
Thomas f. Randlett. land with build
ings; Amorette E. Porter to Nellie
Day Russell, land.
Norridgewock- Ray +. Mitchell to
Central Maine Power Co, floWage
rights, Oscar Lockwood to Harry d.
Burgess, land with buildings on the
south side of Main street; John Tram
ley Of Skowhcgan to John a. Pyne.
! land with buildings; Miles Is. Dicken-
son to Central Maine Power Company,
fleWape right ON the property on the
, south side of the Kennebec River
Canaan Myrtle l.. Howe to Henry
| e. Fernald land with buildings; Per
ley 4 Emery to Eva Emery, land;
Isadore Barrett to Walter \. Small,
| land
lockwood Frederick Smart of
III e. DO Mrs. Bertha NJ Smart of
kHs land with buildings on the
- -t.#IH portion of the strip known
Is lockwood.
SkaNhegan* Frank T. Pencil to
Ledger Cloutier. land Walter 7. Cros-
by to George n. Rowe, land contain
ing about $50 acres; Skowhegan Saw
| ings Bank to Napoleon BergerOn, land
on the west side of Center street in
Skowhegan. number so on the plan
of house lots of w. II. Pearson and
surveyed by Turner Buzzell; Daniel
T. McAllister to Harriet T.. MeAllis-
Ter. land on the north side of the road
leading from the DR.. Mann farm to
MalDOns Mills.
New .Portland-Seth IT. Hadley to
5. Morgan OF Millinocket. land with
! buildings.
Athens clyde II. Smith to E. A.
Strout Farm Agency land near IVES
serunsett stream.
Bernard w. Sawyer TO
Iohn p Pooler, land; Fred Stevens
10 Bernard Sawyer, land Emma Saw
yer to John p. Pooler, land.
Madison Nathan A. Weston to Free
man Corson. land on the westerly
idle of Western avenue.
Mercer Justin T. McCleary to Ira
4. Comstock land with buildings.
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NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
OF NORTG AGt.

WHEREAS. Pat Perreault, then Of
Fort Kent in the County Of Aroostook
and state of Maiue. row Of %orridEe-
Wock in the County Of Somerset and
said state, by his mortgage deed dated
the first day of November. A. i. 1917.
and recorded n the Somerset County
Registry of Deeds Book 34l, Page ~,
conveyed to me, the Undersigned
certain parcel Of real estate, with the
buildings thereon, situated in Norridge-
wock in said County Of Somerset
bounded and described "a follows. viz:
bounded on thu north by land occupied
by Silas robeH; on the east by land
formerly owned by Charles II Spauld-
ing, now owned ~ said Silas Tobey:
on the south BY the Kennebec River:
and on The west by land formerly owned
by Ed l.. Page and the Daniel Rogers
farm, subject to certain reservations
contained in a deed from me 10 said
Perreault. being tie same premises
conveyed by me TO said pcrreault on
the same date: and whereas the con-
ditions of said mortgage have been
broken:
Now THEREFORE,. by Faaxon of the
breach Of the conditions hereof
claim a foreclosure of said mortgage
SkoWhegan, Maine. April a. 1922.
SAM B0I-LIJ3R
BY Fred r. ia wrenee.
His attorney fhereunto
duty autherized
3w17.
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and me being around with her while
she felt so upset, l mean. 1t seems
well, 1t does seem all kind O. funny to
me-"
"Why does it?' Fred inquired pre-
serving his gravity. why should 1t
seem funny to you?"
Il don't mean funny like something's
funny you laugh at" Ramsey explained
laboriously. 81 mean funny like some
thing that's out of the way, and you
wonder how 1t ever happened to hap
pen. / mean 1t seems funny I'd ever
be slttln there on bench with that
ole girl never spoke to In my life or
had anything TO do with, and talkin'
about the United States goin to war.
What we were talkin' about, why, that
seems Just as funny as the rest of 1t.
Lookin' back to our class picnic, FIR
instance second year of high school,
that day ! jumped in the creek after
Well, you know, it was when l started
maxim n fool Of myself over girl.
Thank goodness, l got that out O my
system: II makes me just sick to look
back on those days and think of the
fool things / did, and all thought
about that girl Why, She Well, I've
got old enough to see now she was
lust about as ordinary a girl as there
ever was, and If / saw her now l
wouldn't even think she WAS pretty
I'd probly think she was sort of loud
lonkin'. Wen, what's passed is past,
and it isn't either here nor there.
What | started to say was this: that
the way 1t begins to look to me, 1t
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Richardson School Notes

These getting one hundred per cent
in smelling for two weeks beginning
April "a. are Ruth Davis, Annie Hay
den. Albert Radtka and Clifford Davis,
while those missing only one word are
Gustav Radtka and Mary Wheeler.
Those not being absent one half
dav for the same two weeks are Ber-
rice and Doris Richardson. Mary and
Carroll Wheelocz. Martin Radtka, Cliff
ford Davis, Herbert and Ivan iehard-
son.
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ard of Thanks

We wish To extend thanks to the
neighbors. friends and relatives for
their acts of kindness during the i'll
ness and death of husband and bro
Their. The same gratitude must also
he extended to Rev. Mr.. Thurlow. for
his kind sympathetic words The
Sunshine society, Messrs. Chapman
and Spofford the business men of
the town. those who so kindly loan
ed automobiles and all those who
mt beautiful flowers.
Mrs. l.. e. lewett
Andrew Vigue
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace Jewett
skowhegan, May II, 1922.
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NOTICE OF FoREe'I0Suni1

WHEREAS. Harry y BDeker of
Fairfield in the county of Soxperket and
State Of Maine hy his ntoFtfAk< deed
dated the 18TH dav Of November A u.
192e and recorded in the Spfn&rExt Re-
gistry of Deeds Book 362 ISk< ESQ,
conveyed TO ne. the und&Fn3E1fd
certain lot or parcel of iatt4 nI6 lat ed
in said Fairfield and bounded and des
cribed a. follows. to wifi; H<nttning
at Il point in Tine road Leading rom
WaterVille To SfoWheEan, Two ~ rods
northerly alouE sid road from the
high water mark ef Martin Stream. so
called; thence casferlN and parallel
TO the hiEn water mark of said stream
twelve n2) rods 10 a point; thence
southerly TO the center Of said stream;
thdute easttrlY and northerly along the
center of said stream to the southerly
line of l.tnd conveyed by the Skowhe-
gan Savings Bank 20. EtwarpfsFs Bigs-
low: thence westerly in :he aouther-
ly line of said BiEeloW.s land to the
aforesaid road. thcng" southerly along
the eaSterlY line Of said road to the
point OF heEunur and
WHEREAS, The condition of said
mortgage has ben hroNen. HOW there
fore by reason of ihr breach Of the
condition thereof / claim foreclosure
of said mortgage.
Dated At said Fairfield Maine. this
22nd day Of April \. l. l92a
ANGLER - JOHNSON.
3wI7
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CHAPTER X.

lnsey kept very few things from
Mitchell, and usually his conf
es were immediate upon the occa-
Of them; but allowed several
fs to el9pSe before sketching for
DOMINATE the outlines Of this adj
ure.
Pne thing that was kind o. funny
it, Fred" he said, 81 didn't
\ what to call her"
r Mitchell, stretched upon the
pow seat in their Study" and lock-
out over the town street below
lhe campus beyond the street, had
Ply thought it tactful to ambush
profound amusement by turning
his Side, SO that his face was
pro the window and away from his
Fanlon. what did you want to
Aer| he inquired in a serious
+. "Names?p
r. You know what l mean. /
had TO keep calling her you ;
u''t gets kind Of freaky when
'a'Slh to anybody n good while
Aa'' When she'd be lookin' away
me- for instance. or down at the
or somewhere, and I'd want to
Sayln something to her. you
r. why, | wouldn't know how to
Started exactly, without calm her
'D'hs. A person doesn't want TO
'"ays startln' off with See here
knlnss like that"
uont see why you let 1t trouble
sad Fred. From how you've
E's talked about her. You had a
,uy mandy way to start off with
ms you wanted to say to her"
That wlthr
|sbo,,o al d you just say, oh, you
ieI' That would
= ~ OUT What I mean IS. she
|, "e hamsey' without any both.
'sellls iunny got stumped every
started to say Dora Some way
bn u, iand 1t, and 1t certainly
= "a sounded crazy to cali her
.v.ulh after sittin' In the same
,' S'ln her every day from the
| hloh 's clear on up through the end
On, school. That would "a made
la sI'' did You call her~ Fred
som" u,iiih at all. I started 10 call
Ia lining or other a hundred
an sues SUES and then I'd balk. I'd
and kind of make a sort
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l. III
was almost sure to come sometime.
She said our kilograms and all the talk
and so much feeling and everything
showed her that the war thought that
was always in people somewhere had
been stirred up so it would go on and
on. She said she knew from the way
she felt herself about the Lusitania
that n feeling like that in her would
never be absolutely wiped out as long
as she lived But she said her other
feeling about the horribleness of war
taught her to keep the first feeling
from breaking out, but with other peo-
pie 1t wouldn't: and even II war didn't
break out right then, 1t would always
be ready to, all over the country, and
sometime 1t would. though she was
goin' TO do her share to fight it, her
self. as long rs she could stand. She
asked me wouldn't be one of the ones
to help her"
He paused. and after a moment
Fred asked, well? What did you say
to thatY
"Nothin'. I started to, but"
Again Fred thought 1t tactful to
turn and look out the window, While
the agitation of his shoulders be-
trayed him.
go on and Taught Well, so we
stayed there quite n while, but before
we left she got kind of more like every
day, you know, the way people do. 1t
was half-past nine when we walked
back to town, and l was commencin'
to feel kind of hungry, so I asked her
If she wasn't, and she sort of laughed
and seemed to be ashamed of it, as II
1t was disgrace or something, but
she said she guessed she was; so l
left her by that hedge of lilacs near
the observatory and went on over to
the Terra and the fruit store, and got
some stuffed eggs and olives and half
a-dozen peanut butter sandwiches and
a box o strawberrles-kind of girl
food, you know-and went on back
there, and we ate the stuff up. so
then she said she was afraid she'd
taken me away from my dinner and
made me lot of trouble, and so on,
and she was sorry, and she told me
goodnight"
"What did you say thenY
Moth Oh, shut up SO then she
skipped out to her Dorm, and l came
on home"
"When did you see her next, Ram
sey?"
II haven't seen her next" said Ram
sey. ~ haven't seen her at all--not to
speak to. | saw her on Main street
twice since then, but both times she
was with some other girls, and they
were across the street, and / couldn't
tell If she was lookin' at mel Kind of
thought not I thought 1t might look
sort O. nutty to bow to her if she
wasn't, so | didn't"
"And YOU didn't tell her You wouldn't
be one of the ones to help her with her
pacifsm and anti-war stuff and all
that"
mo. l started to, but Shut up"
Fred sat up. gigglins. $50 she thinks
you will help her. You didn't say any
thing at all, and she must think that
means she converted you. Why didn't
you speak upT
well, 1 wouldn't argue with her"
said Ramsey. Then, after silence, he
seemed to be in need Of sympathetic
comprehension. at was kind O funny
though, wasn't it?" he said, appealing.
ly.
what wasp
1.-The whole business"
"What whole bus"
"Oh get out Her stoppln' me, and
me goin' pokin' along with her, and
her-well, her crying and everything,
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Ramsey Chased Him All the Way to
the "Frat House."
ITO be contfnued)

Your Neighbor is going to vote for
NJ. st. Ledger for High Sheriff and
YOU should 4wl9
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Vote For NJ st. Ledger for High
Sheriff He will give you a good clean
administration. 4Wl9
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Your Neighbor is going to vote for
you should. Avis
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BERT c. TAYLOR,
Tv BUTLER & RETLER,
His attorneys hereunto
duly authorized.
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"What wasp
1.-THE whole business"
what whole bus"
"Oh, get out! Her stoppin' me, and
me goin' pokin' along with her, and
her-well, her crying and everything,
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3yy17
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-24

y INTERESTING hu"f on diet j.
~ "What to Eat and How to- Prepare
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-10-24
NAPOLEONIC NOVELS
Second of Nine. Aminof s Vivid
Cycle Is Entitled Love"

Lconie Aminof calls the second ot
her "Torrhlight Series of Nnr"l"onic
Romances" by another symbolic title,
which again summarizes and character
ICES definite period in BOnapartc :
progress from a subaltern artillery Of
ficer to imperial honOrs.
"Love" (E. Il. Dut,on & co.. deals
with Napolcon's woonc ana winning OF
the piuuant, charming and cver.loveII
Josephine dc BeauharnHiS-and pretty
pace she led the man Of destiny. But
the one time Mile. dc l'agcri", nov tn"
widow of Vicomtc AlcXnndrc dc Beau
barnais, while she tcHScd aud tor
mcnted her impcrunious lover with h'r
nonchalanccs. her pert p"tulHn""S' h"r
cytravaganCcs in money aiialrS, always
had the pcusivc feeling that h" Wns IN
truth the man of destiny. Had he not
crowned their crowded romano" with Il
wedding ring with the date lI"G and
the device "nu dcstin.
'"ro destiny :" lioti Il haul and Il
challenge Napoleon knew it. Jo>"ph-
ine felt it,
Nine. Aminoff has written this novel
in the same graphic. active, r"I"rtu
way that sh" did "RcyUlutl"r, whch
opened her NarolcunIc cycle. In "l,"r"
the Terror hn> PASSED into annals.
Robcspierrc has been dead two years. II
fserms ancient history nov. Paris
has become more tranQuilih"d. Frame"
is calm again after the $r"thlnE pas e
u return to sanity. marks III" r"Gim"
sions of the past decade. Mu."rIti"n.
In which the Agacious and ry"u.t"m- =
IIn
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lrNtNd hy W. IT. Mont
gnm"ry. and published
by the lIUughton Mifflin
Company. It deals with
the waggish conduct uf
Robin Hood in mixing
a.. a., ,,,.,pty u.liplr
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It. George II. Doran Company. +.
which Elizabeth A.
Monaghan has written
Scientific in order to make bet
Diet ter known the best
way to secure Il bal
anccd diet containing
the necessary chemicals for supporting
life. She lays down what she regards
as certain fundamental principles and
then she gives lot of recipes for cook
ing various vegetables along with lot
of menus for meals which she says con-
tain the proper proportion of the SUBJ
stances which the body will need. She
uses almost no meat. Whether one Is
vegetarian or not the book will be
helpful when one is wondering what
next to give to the family and how to
prepare IL.
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neexs and C0nstrMcto
industries In numerous Stone Webster have
cooperated with the clients engineers in designing the plants
combining their experience plant planning and
ructon with the clients specific experience in his
processes.
NJ ON.industria buildings include the work of leading
architects and comprise office buildings educational
institutions hospitals hotels and whole
For the largest bank in New England and for the oldest
fire insurance company in North America Stone Webster
building home Office buildings
IL power.
In addition to buying the large amount of equipment
and materials for general purposes here
outlined Stone Webster purchasing AGENTS for fifty.
six public utility companies
The knowledge of markets which comes from placing
this volume of business combined with the ability to set
the materials the job when needed the clients of
Stone & Webster millions of dollars.
DAPID construction is characteristic of much of Stone
IL & Webser's work.
The main power supply of city of 800 600 was cut off
by destruction of the central power station general
system of generation and distribution worked out
the detail engineering designs made and the system
installed tested and put in operation in eight months
from the date of original disaster.
During the War when speed the first requirement
in construction the following Washington press despatch
appeared September 13, 1917:
"Quarermaster Generals office Washington has pro.
duced keen rivalry among the building tho
sixteen National Army Cantonmens by posting periodical
bulletins showing relative accomplishment The final bulletin
has just been posted, and Stone Webster stand at tho
head of the list with SO 7lO per work done"
TINE Stone Webster organization was largely used by
l. the United States Government for work. They
built three arsenals home, the main ordnance base in
France the main aviation school for the army second
ton school, the National Army above referred
to, National Guard camp, a balloon school and the Hok
Island Shpyard
1t necessary furnish the organizations for all
these jobs at the time Probably such demand
made company firm, but each undertaking
became achievement either for speed low both.
The Hog Island Shipyard is best known. 1t is tho
largest project by the Government
ing the Panama Canal and occupies first place in the pride
of this organization example of great piece of
construction work rapidly and we'll done.
- ELIABE engineering reports and good designing and
N construction both based on the close cooperation
and work of specialists of long standing and sound
judgment
Sixteen years is the average time that the thirty prin.
cpa officers and executives of Stone ester have worked
together This for the speed accuracy economy
and thorouehness of the work habitualy turned out
)RATED
81 ||I|||jI -. .... ... ........
EHZ YORK 10 B,,.dvsv
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has again edited "'Ihr
Boy Scouts car
Book" -. Appleton
& co.,. As usual this
J., n treasure trovn Of
scouting and scouts.
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AT THE FREE LIBRARY

Books added to the FREQ Library, Thir
t"enth and Locust streets during the week
ending October 10:
O'Ncll. E,igC ne---"IIairy Ape, Anna Chris.
tie. First Man"
Fnrnol. "PerCgrinc's progrcss.'
Fletcher. J. S.---"Middlr Of Things"
George, W. LETTER tnwelCUm" Illus
band"
Hail IIulworthy--"R Rope"
licrveshemcr, Joseph Bright shawl
Lincoln, J. C.--''Fair Hurhor.'
Vaughan. W S.---'Oo u cain 10 screen
Nicholas. MerCdith--''Brokcn Barriers.'
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II tteOrge
Scientific
Diet
ReprInt Of The Wealth Of Nations

\ new reprint of the standard text
VI Adam Smiths "'rh" Wealth of Ma
tons in the BONN Standard Library
has lust been issued by llarcourt, Brace
& %