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Middletown transcript., 1922-12-02
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BRING CITY MONEY TO FARMS
Along Every Important Improved Road
In the Country Arc Signs
Offering Produce.
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Mothers pin money" the odd dimes
and quarters that the farm wife
Cleaned from precarious market In
the old days, has blossomed into a
fund to send the boys and girls away
to agricultural college or put a new
mower on that south forty.
No longer need the Saturday trip
to town be marred by last minute ef-
forts to tuck In the last dozen eggs
or the butter crock. The era of spring
wagon pilgrimages to trade in the sur
plus product of the hen-house and the
milking sled, has vanished. The David
Harum OF today operates in his own
front yard'-and ut Il greater profit.
Good roads have linked the city con-
snmer to the farm. Along every i'm
p)rtant hard. surfaced highway in the
country are signs offering everything
from ice cold buttermill< to pork or
the hoof. Where the housewife used
to bargain for hours with the cross
roads storekeeper for a return of per-
hapS Is cents dozen on her eggs,
she now delivers them to q passing
mOtorist for double that amount.
A week of churning to buy the prom
ised silk dress" las given way to a
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ABSORBER FOR AUTO
MADE FROM OLD TUBE
Will Improve Riding Qualities Of
a Light Car.
Rubber Is Cut Into Two Long Ribbons
and Wound Around Each End of
Rear Axle-Mount While
Machine Is Loaded.

An effective shock absorber for a
light automobile was made from an
old inner tube. The tube was first
Strengthened out, cut through. and
split twice lengthwise, thus forming it
into two long ribbons of rubber, one
for each end Of the rear axle. These
were wound around the axle, and
around hanger which was made
from some scraps of metal and bolts,
as illustrated. The two ends of each
ribbon We're clamped by the use of
simple metal clips, to keep them from
slipping around. For the best effect,
such a shock absorber should be
mounted while the car is loaded with
normal weight Of passengers, or an
equivalent weight This is in order
that in operation the rubber will be-
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Lacked Cow Touch.

A Brown county woman, who could
hardly be classed as a connoisSctlr, or
even n dilettante, was looking ut one
of Will Nawter's hills . Brown land
scapes one day and focused scorn-
ful orb on a COW in the painting She
said it didn't look like Il COW, and
then, to cap the climax, she ran her
hand over the rough surface of the
artists work and said: "Now, see
there, that don't feel like COW at
all l!"-lndianapoiis News.
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FEED DRY cow ON ROUGHAGE
Daily Allowance of Bran or Oats ls
Favored-Cabbage and Pumpkins
Are Very Good.

During the eight or ten weeks that
cows go dry, their food should be
chiefly roughage. A daily allowance
Of two pounds of bran or oats, or a
mixture of two parts each of bran
and oats and one part of linseed meal
or corn-ol meal makes a proper feed
for a cow near calving. Some roots,
cabbage, pumpkins, or squashes are
also very good. Highly carbonaceous
roughage, such as straw and corn
stalks, is not good at this particular
time. Such feeds, with cold water,
cold drafts, or lying out at night on
damp or frozen ground, are the chief
causes of caked udder or garget.
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BEST EFFICIENCY OF ENGINE
Greatest Amount of Energy Is Secured
While Cooling Water Has Tenn
perature of 170.

The greatest amount of efficiency
from an engine while in operation is
obtained when the cooling water has
a temperature of from 10 to $50 de-
grees. If lower temperature the gas
oline vapor has tendency to con-
dense and causes poor engine oper-
alton and carbon deposit. If of
higher temperature the water will
evaporate quickly and boil.
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PLAN FOR BETTER HIGHWAYS
Ninety-Two Per Cent of Roads Are
Dirt-Why Not Improve and
Save transportation?

Although good road building is max
Ing progress in every state in the
Union at the end of another five-year
period not more than per cent of
the roads of the country will be sur
faced. Ninety-two per cent of the
roads over which the products of the
farms must be hauled will be dirt
roads. That being the case, why not
have good dirt roads and save trans
portution costs?
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Cleanliness In Everything.

Milk pals and other utensils should
be free so far as is possible from
crevices where dirt may lodge and be
hard to remove. Cream separators and
other dairy utensils should always be
cleaned properly Immediately after
use. This practice not only improves
the quality of the milk and cream but
makes the work easier and the uten-
sils last longer.
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French Serve Canned Food.

When most foreigners 90 to FraEeEe
they stop only at the big hotels astS
are served with salmon and sartfnso
fresh from the can that was packed $50
Portland. Ore, or somewhere in " s4sa'
way, milk from II can packed in tAss
United States, meat imported fSeEsfs
Chicngo's big four packers, bread thsye.s
days old, vegetables which are brOEIEs1E
to town every day by the same coun.yg
lnnkeepers, being part of their unlR.s,D
stock of yesterday The French hOfsiis
seem to think that travellers pres*>g
canned foods.
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Common Sense Counts

Success in the dairy business
or in keeping even small herd
of dairy cows depends (like most
things do) in Il great measure
upon the use of good common
sense. Cows produce the most
milk usually in the latter part
of May and June. Therefore.
what does the wise dairy farmer
do? He maintains as nearly as
possible the year round, the CON
ditions of those months when
production Is the highest.
Palatable food, a succulent
ration, and balanced ration,
together with a moderate tenn
perature and comfortable sur
roundings, will bring as near the
ideal producing conditions as is
possible, and an effort to keep
conditions SO will pay big re-
turns.
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any one who is younger and as 1 am
farmers wife have plenty to do for l
cultivate my own garden, raise many
chickens and do my own housework.
You may publish this letter as I am
ready to do anything to help other
women as have been SO well and happy
since my troubles are past. Mrs. EFT.
GALLOWAY, Carter's Creek, Tenn.
Most women find plenty to do. If
they are upset with some female ailment
and troubled with such symptoms as
Mrs. Galloway had, the smallest duty
seems mountain.
If you find it hard to keep up, if you
are nervous and irritable, without ambi-
ton and out of sorts generally, give the
Vegetable Compound fair trial. We
believe it will help you greatly, for it
has helped others.
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gin to stretch, just as soon as the
frame begins its travel above It's nor
NAL position. That is, the rubber
should exert no force while the
springs are being depressed or while
they are returning to normal, but the
action should begin Immediately when
the car begins to he thrown upward
by the rebound of the spring.-Charles
Waite, Louisville, KY, in Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
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First British Cotton Mill.

The first cotton mill wherein rasa-
chinery was used was built nj Stis-
mingham, England, in 1874, power bs1Ds
transmitted by two mules walking
around an axis
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Clean Utensils.

All utensils which come in contact
with milk and cream should be kept
clean at all times. 1t Is well to use
pals with partly covered top be-
cause this keeps out so per cent of
the dirt and other impurities which
would otherwise get into the milk.
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COATING COMPOUND,

A satisfactory compound for coating
both the inside and outside of tires
is made by stirring five pounds of
whiting into quart of gasoline and
after thorough mixture has been OBJ
tanned adding quart of rubber ce-
ment.
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Clean Litter Essential.

The most common need in the aver
age poultry house just now is clean
litter Nearly all material that can be
used for this purpose is high-priced,
and the general practice is to leave it
ON the floor entirely too long.
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In most localities the poultry house
should face the south, as this insures
the greatest amount Of sunlight during
the winter. Proper ventilation and
sunlight mean dry house and healthy
birds
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You Have to Be an optimist.

You Have TO Be an OptImISt.
The amateur gardener was digging
away at the weeds in his potato patch
Makes it harder with the weeds
80 thick, doesn't it?" said friend who
was looking on.
mo, it's easier" retoTted the enthu
siast. "You don't have to walk so
far to the next weed. ."-Wheeler's
Magazine.
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Give Pics Separate Yard.

Pigs that have to- fight with older
hogs for their feed never thrive as
well as those that have a separate
feed yard all to themselves.
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Usinu Brakes,

Experience has taught many drivers
that slow, intermittent application of
brakes will give the best results in
stopping the car on slippery pave
ments.
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Concrete Roads Unite the Farm Pro
ducer and the City Consumer.

good days craftsmanship at the road
side market.
Many young boys and girls are pay
ing their way through college with
funds raised during the summer and
fall in this manner. The photograph
illustrating this article shows Cook
county, Illinois, farmer disposing of a
robust turk to a city housewife.
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Safeuuards in Calf Eeedjno

Critical in a calf's life is when his
feed is changed from whole milk to
skim milk. To avoid scours make the
change very gradually, adding a little
skim milk to the whole milk each day.
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Plan National HiqhWays.

The Associated Highways of Amer
lea are planning Il system of national
trunk highways throughout the Uni
ted States.
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Cost Of Canadian Roads,

Fifty million dollars will have been
spent on improving Canada's highways
when the five-year period terminates
in the fall of 1923.
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Benefits of Paint

Paint not only improves the looks of
the fence or the barn; 1t also makes
them last longer.
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half of my time in
bed, being afflicted
with a trouble which
women of a certain
age are apt to have.
|I took Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Tablets
and used Lydia E.
|Pinkham's Sanative
Wash. / am a well
woman now and have
been for two years.
II can work as we'll a9
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Iona Words.

In respect to legitimate words most
authorities agree that first in rank
comes "antidisestablshm
t2S) letters, followed by "honorifi-
cabilitudinity' co. letters).
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CLEAN AIR ADDS
TO MOTORS LIFE
Device Has Been Invented Which
Keeps Dust and Other Mat
ter From Carburetor.
PARTICLES ARE THROWN OUT
Bound to Be of Great Benefit to Mo-
torist in Operation of Engine
and Reducing Wear-Will
Throw Out Grasshoppers.

Automobile engineers have long
sought means of taking air into the
carburetor of a gas engine without
allowing dust and other foreign ma.
terial to be drawn in at the same
time. 1t has long been realized that
dust drawn into an engine in this
manner has tendency to form an
abrasive substance causing excessive
wear on the mechanism when circu-
lated with the oil.
A device, recently invented, is said
to practically solve this problem.
Known as Air Cleaner.
The new device, which is known as
the air-cleaner or dust separator, is
set close beside the carburetor on the
air-ntake pipe. 1t operates on the
principle OF centrifugal motion, much
after the manner of a cream separator
When the engine is started the one
rotating part of the separator" sets
up whirling action which separates
all dirt particles and other foreign ma
terial from the air which Is drawn into
1t. These dirt particles are thrown
out into a separate passage and car
ried away.
Bound to Aid Motorist.
Engineers are authority for the
statement that under some conditions
Of running as much as teaspoonful of
grit enters the average engine through
the carburetor. 1t will be realized.
therefore, that device which runs
with almost 100 per cent thoroughness
in the cleansing of air is bound to be
Of great benefit to the motorist both
in the operation of his motor and in re-
ducing the wear which eventually re-
suits in a repair bill.
This air-cleaning device is automatic
in action, self-cleanlng and requires
absolutely no attention. 1t operates so
efficiently that it will throw out dirt,
stone, gravel and even grasshoppers
when they are fed into it.
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Americas early settlers are those
who pay up promptly at the first of
the month.
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Marriage ties are love knots-some-
times
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Spent HALFHER
Time IN BED
Farmers Wife Tells How Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Made Her a Well Woman

Carter Creek, Tenn. Three years
ago ! was almost an invalid. / snent
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Don't be In hurry to see life if you
would live long.
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It's easier fer a woman TO cuuS O
man than drive nail
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Individual Hog Houses.

individual hog houses are especially
good for the renter to build, as they
are easily moved.
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More Miles for Tires.
ocation ~ PouItrv House

Good roads mean more miles for
car and tires
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A TRUE RAT STORY

btearns E1ectric Paste Co.,
Dear Sirs. Mr.. Robert T. Donnell Of
Auburntown. Tenn, came in our store
the other day and wanted something to
kill rats. SO I sold HIM box Stearns
six biscuits that mig hit and the next morn
ing he found fifty -four big rats. And the
second night he put out four more bis
cults with paste on them. and the second
morning he found seventeen more rats,
making a total of seventy-one rats in
two nights and there were lots more
that he did not find.
This is some big rat tale but, never
theless, 1t Is SO. Just thought would
write to let you know that your rat paste
ie good
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Buy a 35c Box Today
Enough to XIII SO to 100 Rats or Mice
Don't waste time trying to kill these pests
with powders. s.iiQuidsand ndotherexperimental
preparations. Ready for Use-Better Than
Traps. Drug and General Stores sell
STEARNS' ELECTRIC PASTE
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aish BY an orchestra directed by Mrs
Marion Drake Flanders Announce
ment Nas made by Prof. Leighton OF
the results of the ticket selling con-
test in which Miss Birdena Valliere
sold fakets amounting TO S133,10 and
Won the first prize. silk umbrella
Miss Sadie Martin received a vanity
ease az second prize. her aggregate
sales being $3.50. The third prize
was won by Miss Isabelle Dionne. her
total sales amounting to S15.95. She
received pal of silk stockings.
After the curtain went down on the
final act Miss Peck. who by the way
is a charming young woman, received
bouquet of flowers and a box OF
candy from the members Of the cast
The evening was concluded with a
dancing party in Grange Hall With
music by Foley's orchestra.
The presentation Of Miss Bob White
was given under the auspices OF the
Woman's Club and Skowhegan High
School Mrs Roy l. Maraton is de-
serving of much credit for her eff
cient services rs aeeompanist during
the almost nightly rehearsals.
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Save labor next year by pulling or
moving all weeds before they go to
eed.
Sunnowers in the proper place are
an attraction. Sometimes a few rows
made good border for the garden.
The ripe seed makes good chicken
feed.
Now is the time to make cider and
become popular. To provide good
litter in the chickens scratch shed.
70 top-dress the apple orchard; wood
ashes areehelpful. To provide warm
quarters for the stock. To put up the
biggest hen or turkey to fatten for
Thanksgiving. To think, as you go
to the movies, of the old fashioned
corn huskinga so popular this month
in bygone days. To provide a big
supply of winter wood. 1t is far more
pleasant to do it now than next Jan
uary, beside making better fuel.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST MANY YEARS
AGO

January 2, Wednesday after
noon A. D. Brown of Browns Cor
ner, was driving his colt In the village
when snow ball from a passing
horse hit and frightened the animal
causing him to run and upset Mr..
Brown, injuring him considerably
about the head and face. Fearing
worse treatment he loosed his hold of
the lines and the colt continued his
mad flight until he brot up against the
SIDE of II. Johnson's house with such
force as to.smash UP Mr.. Browns new
sleigh considerably and crack a pane
OF glass in a window of the house
Mrs. Brown accompanied her husband
to the village but fortunately had just
got out few moments previous
Mr.. George E. Clough of Madison
was hauling a load Of logs to Weston s
mill on Saturday last. and as he
reached the entrance Of the first
bridge his load took a slew towards
Burrills mill striking the new COM
ner store in Robinston Brothers build
ing completely demolisting the glass.
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Tubercular Patients Given Concert

Tlnfty-tWo musicians who compose
the st. Cecilia and ST. Agnes Orch
estras from the Catholic parish gave
a concert lasting from 3.15 to 5 o'clock
last Sunday afternoon at the Central
Maine Sanatorium in Fairfield. A
large number OF Skowhegan Citizens
OF this town accompanied the must
clans and the following assisted by
furnishing automobiles and in other
ways contributed to the success of
the occasion: l.. E. Jacobs, DR.. o. J .
Caza, j. 7. Thibodeau, r. 7. Patten
Fred Fellows, Joseph Pooler, ID. A.
Porter, Arthur Boulette. Ernest Gro
der. Samuel Roderick and Cyrus For
tier. Ralph Jewell of Fairfield, chair
man of the Board OF Trustees of the
Sanatorium. and likewise of the
Pressure Isle and Hebron Sanatorium,
was in attendance and expressed his
great appreciation, for the musicians
and their entertainment and also felt
that it was an appreciation on their
part of the work being done for the
alienation of the great white plague
in this section. 1t Is interesting to
note that the present sanatorium was
originally started as a tent colony for
the treatment of tubereular people by
the citizens of Fairfield and Water
Vile. There are now 1876 patients at
the institution which is beautifully
located on a high elevation, 50 of the
patients being children under ten
years of age. On the occasion Of the
concert last Sunday patients who we're
able 10 be about congregated in the
room where the concert WAS gyen
while others who were not able to be
about were moved on beds to the To-
cations near the windows in order that
they might also enjoy the program
The two organizations gave one of
their splendid concerts and Skowhe-
gan citizens might well be proud of
Father j. l.. A. Renauds efforts in
so successfully creating such an ag-
gregation of players.
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Z. A. Strout FERN Agency in Gorham
He is now AS years old and recent,
informed us that he had read the Re
porter every week since he was
school boy.
b. A. Hight of Gorham who
represents the E. A. Strout Farm
Agency was in town this week
and sold two more farms here.
His many friends are congratu-
lating him on his success in sell
ing more farms during the last
month than anp other Strout
salesman in the New England
Division of which there are over
seventy-fiye
Mr. Hight stood at the head of
this Division and is wearing a gold
mounted diamond set lapel button
which was the first prize in this
contest When asked how he ac-
complished this wonderful record,
Mr.. Hight replied, by conscien-
tious hard work based upon strict
~ honest principals in doing
business with both buyer and sell
err -
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MERCER

Mr. and Afs Albert Snow and MIR
Edwin Gurrisr Of Dover, New Hamp-
shire called on friends in town last
week
Mrs. Lizzie Watson Of Skowbegan Is
visiting relatives and friends in town
this Week.
Herbert Holmes WIS Il business
caller a Sl5e8hegan Monday
Mrs My Tracy Is occupying her
cottage n North Pond.
Mrs Robert Bunker vas operated
on Nay lftA L hospital Tor appen-
dieitis. Her condition VAS critical
from the aest and size passed away
Sunday. thu list She ~ twenty
five years of az. tn daf ID al Mr.
and Mrs. Harris stevens. is
survived by her husaaa - mas
been n very poor headh Tor long
time, and t@o little children, boy
and girl. tie boy has ben quite III
during the past week. Mrs. Bunker
was one o. large family and her
many friends sincerely regret her
early death. Mich sympathy Is ex-
pressed for the entire family in Their
sorrow.
Mrs. z. ]. Walton Is very u with
pneumonia. Al this writing the fever
has turned hut She is very weak, still
hopes are entertained OF her recovery
Everett, the eldest son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Chamberlain, fell while at
play, Thursday of last week, break
ing his right arm Just above the ell
bow. DR. Smith vas called and set
the arm. II Vas d. bad break and
Saturday they hid an A-ray picture
taken which showed that the bones
were in correct position and the arm
is getting along splendidly
Mrs. Myrtelle Clement al Birch
Point camps held family gathering
Sunday, numbering seventeen people
Her son Donald and Mr. Condor OF
Augusta were among the number and
a fine tine was enjoyed By all
a birthday party was given last
Saturday in North Arson for one OF
our oldest ladies in town. Mrs. Ellen
Brown. David Tracy and family and
Clarence Brown and family attended
making the dag very enjoyable one
for their mother.
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ACT QUICKLY
Do the right thing a, ths

Do the right thing at Ii,
time.
Act quickly In time OF dangs'
In time of kidney danger, D
Kidney Pills are most eneetlW
your neighbori
Plenty OF Skowhegan eyidenc
their worth.
Mrs. Bert Jonea IS Cout
Skowhegan, says: Just after D
oovery from the fu my kidneh|
came diBordered and my bladder
badly innamed. The pains y
my back almost put me wild 4
was laid up for three weeks, "
to do my work. The flesh unds1
eyes was oil puffy and ! felt q.
abio. l doctored, but got no "
whatever, until I was told 70
Doan's Kidney Pills. This md
reached my case at once and
boxer 1xped me. I couldn't n
mend . better semedy than Dd
kidney Pills"
rrics 60c, at all dealem .
simplv ask for a kidney remedy
Dcaa's Kidney Pills-the same
Mr., Bee. Jones had. Foster.El'
Co.. Mrs. Dufaso.s N. Y.
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NOTICE OF FoREeLosrp.

Whereas NJ, W. Vance of y,.y
wock in the county of Soms,s..
State of Maine. by his mor,S ,'@'
dated the third day of Becembe,
recorded in the Somerset Regs,l
Deeds, Book $50, Page 1879 eom
To me, the undersigned, a eeyt,ll
or parcel of land with the bni,d
thereon situated in said Norrids.,
and bounded and described AS M
to wit:
Beginning on the bank OF IN.
nebee River at the Southeast Il
of land of Charles Fuller thence y
erly on the line of said Fu9eya
to land of Rebecca and Sarah n
thence easterly and northerly nv |
of said clarks; thence northerlj
land formerly of Mrs. Winthrop n
thence easterly on Lille of lanl
Charles Il. Warren to land formed
IL. p. Page: thence southerly o.|
of land of said Page and land 4
Knowlan and land formerly Of c1
Whiting, now of Elmer Whiting N
river aforesaid thence westerll
said river to point begun at s1
ing one acre claimed By one nd
and also excepting the rights ID
public in the highway through
farm, containing one hundred ssy1
five 175) acres. more or less.
And whereas the conditions oil
mortgage have been broken, now 4
fore. by reason of the breach d
conditions thereof | claim a forced
of said mortgage.
Dated at Norridgewoek, Maine
90, 1922.
LILLIAN ". HHTt
By l.. r. Fold
3w21 Her Atty. duly authl