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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18

John Stewart has rented the Abb1e
Over house, where he will live.
Mr.. and Mrs Philip Workman and
little daughter, who have been in
Canterbury, n H., for the past few
years, have arrived and are staying
with the Ira Workmans.
G. Prescott Cleaves of Bar Harbor
is visiting his father, e. w. Cleaves.
The Dorcas society was enter
tanned by Mrs A. l.. Strout Tuesday
evening.
Miss Vida Cleaves entertained a
supper party April 5, for Mrs. l.. p
Cole in honor of her birthday.
Alfred Hamilton is i'll.
WEIGH Moore died April Z, after a
short illness. The funeral was at the
home Monday afternoon, Rev. H. d.
French of Steuben officiating. Mrs
Moore is still i'll. Her son Percy of
Bluehill, who was called here, will
remain during the illness of his
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs A. L. Strout enter
tanned an invited company at their
home Saturday evening. The party
was in honor of one of the guests
whose birthday occurred on the l 5th
A most enjoyable evening was spent,
Mrs. Strout presented the guest of
honor with a birthday cake to take
home.
April &C. G.
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GOuldSbOrO.

Mrs. Harry Bishop and two chill
dren of Corea are visiting her pa
rents, George Rolfe and wife.
Cushman grange held its installa-
tion of officers Wednesday evening
April IL. Mrs. Luella Dunbar was
installing officer.
Mrs. Charlotte Young is ill.
Mrs. Blanche Rolfe and Mrs.
Cynthia Rolfe are at Winter Harbor
with their mother, Mrs. Sargent.
William Swazey is visiting his
sister, Mrs Joseph Macdonald
Charles Kief and wife of West
Gouldsboro have moved to Chicken
Mill, where he will be employed as
engineer in F. T. Woods mill
Mrs George Joy and daughter
Edna were at Stanley's Point last
week.
Postmaster C. L. Tracy is having
an addition put on his store to make
more room for the postoffice.
Merrill Rolfe of Bath visited rela-
tives here last week.
April IS. "Eittah."
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AShvilIe.

Mrs. Asa Bunker, who recently Wis
tied her niece, Mrs. Delmar Robert
son, in West Sullivan, is home.
Mrs. Peter earle and little daugh-
ter, Shirley Anna, of Princeton, are
at Mrs. Carries former home here for
a visit with her mother, Mrs. Addie
circuit.
Mrs. Sadie Tracy of Gouldsboro is
visiting at Alden Robertson's.
Mrs Reuel Johnson, who has been
visiting her son Justin in Hinckley
returned home Saturday.
Owing to the illness of the pastor,
Rev. Mr.. Knowles, Mr.. Cline, stu
dent of the Bangor seminary,
preached here Sunday.
The True Blue class was delight
fully entertained at the home of Miss
Lucy Martin Friday evening.
April 8. phoebe.
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Ellsworth, Maine.
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Bar Harbor. Maine.
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These, with nine other big COM
panies, enable me to write Auto
mobile, Fire, Theft, Collision,
Property Damage and Public Ii.
ability Insurance, as well as
Sprinkler Leakage, Tourist Bag.
gage, Workmen's Compensation,
Steam Boiler, Sickness, Accident,
Bonds, and even Rain Insurance.
In fact, every kind ofinsurance
protection in companies Of
proven worth.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18
Stomach Off. Try This.

Get a box of Mona Stomach
Tablets at Charles e. Alexander's
and stop all distress. Relieves in
digestion, or money back.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18

10 dIIlUlClOils 1 al VI
the time / was not
able to sit up as l
suffered with pains
in my back and with
weakness. / took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Veg e t a bl e Com
pound, both the liq-
uid and tablet forms,
and used Lydia E.
Pinkham's Sanative
Wash for inf1amma-
tion. Today I am
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-04-18

real well and run rooming house and
do the work. recommend your medi-
cine to every woman who complains, and
you may use my letter to help any one
else. am passing through the Change
of Life now and keep the Vegetable
Compound in the house, ready to take
when / feel the need of it. Mrs.
ALICE D. DAVIS, 2O3 w. Second St.,
jamestown, N. Y.
Often some slight arrangement may
cause a general upset condition of the
whole system, indicated by such symp--
toms as nervousness, backache, lack Of
ambition and general weakness.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound will be found splendid medicine
for such troubles. In many cases it has
removed the cause of the trouble.
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TODAY ! Am
REAL WELL
So Writes Woman After
Taking Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Jamestown N. " was nervous,
easily excited and discouraged and had
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Proof That 1t Was Living.
From a story-"The living room fair.
" leaped through the door to greet
Won "
Evening star., 1923-12-06

n Pair of Silk Hose of Sheer Loneliness
You'd make appreciated gift ones e mother
All
reinforced
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Evening star., 1923-12-06
Books for Children, 69c

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1bookfro
paint paper
Kanns
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4 Dainty Handkerchief for Euery
Miss and Her Mother
Choice. SOC

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Each SOC.
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These
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patterns Each
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09
Fayette
Report To City Plan BID.
Continued from page y

T The through traffic described and
impending brings little revenue &c
the merchants of Perth Amboy. On
he other hand, it injuries them, be
cause the resulting congestion
makes shopping in Perth Amboy a
slow and difficult proceeding. If ali
vehicles could move through the
city at a speed of fifteen miles per
hour, with fifty foot spaces be-
tween vehicles there would be LOG
cars strung along a mile of thor
oughfare or twenty-siX cars passing
a given point in a minute. With
the ferry discharging twenty-five
cars every twelve and one-half min
utes, the average number of cars
from the ferry passing a given point
would be two per minute. Hence
these considerations would indicate
u degree of use of the street for
one-way ferry traffic amounting to
two-twenty-sixths or about eight
per cent Of the time. But common
observation and further conside1a-
ton indicate a much larger per-
centage of use actually to occur
even under ordinary conditions and
at average times. AS a matter of
fact, the present principal through
traffic streets are at times almost
pre-empted by vehicles moving to or
from the ferry. Those going to the
ferry are more or less equally dis
triuted throughout and particular
hour, but in the afternoon and
evening they cause intense conges-
ton while waiting for boats, MT
merely at points close to the ferry,
but often along Market street, dill
the way back to Madison avenue.
Those coming from the ferry can
be moved through the streets only
as fast as the boats can be unload
ed. II it takes three minutes TO
unload a boat, and an unloading
occurs every twelve minutes. then
the west-bound traffic from the
boats pre-empts the street twenty
five per cent of the time.
Again, it is general experience that
500 vehicles per hour is about the
maximum number that can be hand
led along a main traffic route where
traffic control is provided at inter-
sections. The ferry discharges 125
vehicles per hour. On this basis,
then, even under conditions far bet
ter than prevail in Perth Amboy,
the street would be in full use 20 per
cent OF INC eHtlTS IluIc, SNoA LUZ
ferry traffic in one direction only.
For a portion of it's length, the
Smith St. roadway is only 81 feet
wide. 1t is nowhere wider than 38
feet. 1t contains a single track troll
ley line on which car move in both
directions so that at n point there
is a passing switch. There is a turn-
out at Water st. Smith st. is the
principal business street and the
temporary parking of local vehicles
thereon may be reasonable and nee
essary. Even in the latter part Of
November, at four o'clock on a Sat
urday afternoon, 80 per cent of the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09

The physical construction of the
street extension would be a simple
and comparatively inexpensive mat
ter. There would be no clearing or
%grubbing. The cut and fill might
amount to 2400 yards. Assuming a
38 foot roadway, there would be
$1,000 square yards of high grade
paving. The total cost of these items
would be not v g $4,000 at present
prices. Curbs, cutters and sidewalks
would cost about $4,000 more. The
total expenditure necessary would,
therefore, be $192,S00 as shown in
the preceding summary.
Some of this expenditure should
be betrayed by local assessment. This
is the fairest method. Just what pro-
portion should be locally assessed
must have careful consideration.
Certain types of improvement (local
street paving, for example) may
equitably be assessed in toto on the
abutters. In the present instance.
this would imply a local assessment,
for condemnation and street con-
struction, of $111,800, which is some-
what in excess of the total local BEN
eft heretofore discussed as measured
by increase in ratables and ratio Of
rated to actual values.
Reversing the calculation, If the
increase in local ratables is $44,511
and the corresponding increase in
actual values is $S0,929, this latter
sum might fairly be assessed locally
on properties west of the present ter
mination of Fayette street. More
over, that portion of Fayette street
now existing, which lies west of the
Central railroad, should bear by local
assessment it's share of the cost of
paving, amounting to $3S, 500. No
account has been taken in this calcu-
lation of the benefit due to curbs,
cutters and sidewalks. since the basis
of increased assessment values here
adopted has ignored those items. But
taking the conservative view that the
increased actual valuations due to
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09

when applied to the business 'front.'
age of Smith street east of the rail-
road. If relief from the impending
congestion is worth anything to the
merchants of this section, it should
be worth this amount.
"a The increases in ratables
designated as (b) and (c) in the
summary have been taken as equal
only to>the actual direct expenditure.
If actual values of property are twice
the rated values, the amount locally
assessable is $50, 500 in excess of that
herein proposed. Adoption of this
figure would result in the avoidance
of any expenditure by the city as a
whole. This course has not been
proposed, because it is believed that
some little time must elapse before
the full measure of benefit will ac-
crue; but it is believed that it will
eventually accrue and be reflected In
tax revenues.
These suggestions are in accord
ance with usual practice in connec
ton with municipal improvement
The area benefited is larger than the
area improved. Sometimes it is un-
expectedly large. There r usually
distinct zones of benefit: (a) that
nearest the improvement, which
bears proport1onately the eaV1es
share of the cost: (b) that which is
directly benefited, but proportionate-
ly in less degree; and Co the whole
city. This analysis has, except Incl
dentally and only at this point in the
discussion, disregarded item (b). 1t
is in this zone. however, rather than
in the first, that the maximum of
total benefit will be derived. The
opening of Fayette street will be adj
vantageous to the present holders OF
properties there, whether they advo-
cate it or oppose it, but the more
important benefits will accrue to the
business establishments a half-mile
away and to the working people who
will W homes or pay rent in b a
area,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09

the two items last mentioned would
not exceed their direct cost, they
would jointly yield appropriations of
S59,500 tor be added to the $80,929,
making the total amount which is
locally assessable $140,429. This
would reduce the city's share of the
total initial expenditure to $52,371.
Assuming twenty-five years life
for street construction, and thirty
FIVE years for the bridge, the recess
sary bond issue might appropriately
run thirty years. A shorter period,
say twenty-five years, would repre-
sent more conservative financing. On
this basis, amortization, maintenance
and interest charges (the latter at 5
per cent? would amount to $~5,446.5S
per year.
Offsetting this annual constant ex-
penditure, the city would derive an
increased tax revenue which would
start at $~4,545.2S per year, as shown
by the summary, and would increase
steadily for many years. So far as
can now be ~foreseen. the tax revenue
provement had been fully paid for.
But the less measurable gains, which
would begin Immediately, would, in
their total, more than offset the
$901.30 difference shown by the sum-
mary, plus any probable operating
cost like policing, not embraced by
the 3 per cent allowance for mainte-
nance, regardless of any further ap-
precautions of value in the small
area considered. For example:
(1) An increased valuation OF SO
per front foot along Fayette street
from the Central railroad to New
Brunswick avenue would reduce it
$3.50.
(2) An increased valuation of SIS
per front foot along Smith street
west of the Central railroad and ex-
tending to Convery Place would wipe
it out and leave a surplus Of $40.
CD The whole difference amounts
to less than Is cents per front foot
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-02-09

This contemplated improvement
should most directly influence local
property values over the area bound
ed approximately by the Lehigh
Valley Railroad, Convery Place, the
rear line of lots 100 feet deep 'front.'
ing on the north side of Smith street,
Goodwin street and the Lehigh Val
lev switch which crosses at the pres
emit termination of Fayette street
Even as a factory site this area needs
development by public streets or
private ways. For normal industrial
use on an average scale of magni-
Evening star., 1923-12-23
COLUMBIA GIVES UP
PART OF EMO LEGACY
Local Man to Receive $187.200 in
Settlement of Contested
Will Case.
By the Associated Press

By the AssOca led Press.
NEW YORK, December 22-Colum-
bia University, beueathed $1,000, 600.
surrendered s1,O00.00O in a settlement
with contesting relatives. it was re-
vealed in an accounting of admins
traitors made public today. The
university also renounced its interest
in trust funds for nephews and nieces
of Mr.. Emo. who provided that the
principal should go TO Columbia upon
their death. as well as its interest in
art objects and furnishings of the
Emo mansion.
Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania re-
ceived S59,000 in the settlement.
Similar amounts went to Amos Pin
chot and Antionette f. Johnson. Emo $
two brothers. William L. and Prof.
Henry l.. Emo, received S1SG200 and
s171,200 respectively
Evening star., 1923-12-23
NATIONAL N0VENA BEGINS.

honor to Blessed Taresa s0Tha TJttIe
Flower" began yesterday at the
Carmeiite Shrine Of the Little Flower,
200 T street northeast Exercises
Will be held daily at Sis in the
afternoon and 1880 in the evening.
Christmas day is one of the special
anniversaries Of Teresa, on which
great spiritual and temporal favors
ire expected by those devoted to '"The
Little Flower" in accordance with
her death-bed promise to Let fall
a. shower OF roses from heaven"
/. Written petitions, which are placed
In q box at the door of the shrine,
will be prayed for At each axeEcise
.of 1hA noGenA,
Evening star., 1923-12-23
SMOKING PRESCRIBED
FOR STOMACH TROUBLE
California Health Official Says
Pipe, Especially. Pro-
duces Rest
BY the Associated Press.


SACRAMENTO. Calf. December p.
DIR. Fred F. Gundrum, vice president
of the state board of health. an
nounced thot smoking is being pre-
scribed in some cases on stomach trou-
BILE. A pipe is preferred. although cigar
cites and cigars may be used, accord
ing to DR.. Gundrum.
1t is not for the value of the nicotine
but because smoking, especially after
meals, is likely 10 prove reStful. DR..
Gundrum said
Evening star., 1923-12-23
$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED.

Virginia E. Casey has filed suit in
the District Supreme Court to recover
$4,000 damages from the Capital
Traction Company for alleged per-
sonal injuries. She says she was
boarding a car at the Peace Monu-
ment October 90, when the car was
started suddenly throwing her to the
floor of the platform and injuring her
spine. She is represented by Attor-
ney Charles l.. Carson.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

The appointment
of Gen. Saltzman
as chief signal
officer leaves a
vacancy for the
corps area signal
officer at Cover
nors Island. n. Y,
which up to the
present time ha s
not been filled.
During the first
part of February
Maj. Walter f.
ProsSer will be
relieved from his
duties in the sup
ply division, office
Of the chief signal
Evening star., 1923-12-23

smaller organizations. Commanding
officers are working on the problem
presented by each unit. and an Off
cial of the National Reserve officers
Association estimates that there may
be 10000 of them enrolled within the
year. No active steps will be taken
within the near future by local Or
ganized Reserve units to enroll en-
listed men. However, the 343d Engi-
neers, which is not part of the S0th
Division. has taken an active move
in this direction.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

of our national
government lies
in our military
establishment, and
that one of it's
most important
branches is a well
organized, amply
equipped and ef-
ficiently disci-
plined and trained
National Guard, as
provided for in
the national de-
fense act.
The officers of
the army in gen :
eral, he says, have
been interested in
Evening star., 1923-12-23
Army yandNavyNews
BY Nj. III. MCINTYRE

Maj. Gen. Charles Mex. Saltzman,
WHo VIII succeed Maj. Gen. George o.
Squter as chief signal officer of the
Army, has arrived in Washington
ana taken up his prospective duties
Evening star., 1923-12-23

Washington for over fifty years ant
whose profession made him familial
with every phase of it's life. high
low and middlin'-classes being more
rigidly defined before family line,
were broken into by cash-sald u
another old-timer:
"Once ] was acquainted with abou
every other person i met on the
street. but yesterday i walked IRON
(naming streets and avenues to IL
lustratel and in all that dlstane'
passed only two people L knew BY
sight"
Another man. with a half-dozer
decades to his credit, is down or
the new washingtons commercializ
ing of Christmas trees:
"All alike-so many colored balls
so many yards of tinsel, so man!
electric lights-with no more per
sonality to them than the store coun'
ters they come from. The old-tim'
trees, with their candies and cookie.
and dressed dolls and knitted gifts
each given the glamor of the mother
touch-have been lost in the stand
ardized' substitutes of the now. Ant
the pity of it is that the little chill
dren will never know what joys they
are missing"
Two protests need a third to take
on the value Of argument. SO
A little lady with dimming eye!
and a step that needs a cane wa!
called on for comparisons. With {
serenity that sees good in mos
things she comedies the superiority
of the present. except that
LIT, h n 2 a
tfons. church and civic, are doing
good work that should be supported
they have undoubtedly robbed us o.
our sense of individual responsible
ity in the matter of helping others
We give a little donation and ther
consider we have done our share
when Washington lived in home:
instead Of apartments one of oul
greatest Christmastime joys was tht
adding Of comfort and pleasure Il
others.
I'VE could always find some old oil
sick or lonely soul that needed
brightness. and our alley neighbor'
ents as if they belonged to uS-ol
we belonged to them. 1t was Wortf
all the little sacrifices we made
But organizations tell US that the!
can give with more discrimina
W
so we give a little check and 81
back with folded hands. forgetting
that some day. somewhere. a Volc
may say to us:
"I was hungry and you did no
feed me-
(which seems to show that prog
ress may be something of vandaI
| It all depends on the point OF view
THERE will be no Christmas chee
in the heart of Frank Neville
unless his dog comes home.
Some one nabbed the mans pet-s
! male. part collie. a few days ago
Pat was his constant companion. da!
and night, sleeping in his masters room
back of the little store at 4o4 5th street
The little fellow was last seel
near the Gales School, and for tha
reason, Mr.. Neville made an appea
! to the principal to ask If the pupil
would help in the search. Eacl
teacher in the building gave IN
alarm that Pat was missing, am
each pupil must have taken actiN
| interest in his finding. for dozens o
dogs have been brought to the dis
consulate owner-white and blaci
and brown stray-but none OF then
the missing party.
From the outside. Pat is brown
and white with a brown and whit
spot on his forehead. What n
| would look like If the camera coul.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

on the steps of
low old fashioned
hotels and even
re co & n ition of
family vehicles. to
which add a gen.
.ral kindliness to-
ward shoeblacks,
crossing sweepers.
street tackers and
dogs that had the
run of the town.
All gone, but not
forgotten. \ 9 k
any one who be-
longs TO the old
regime.
nna cffizan for
Evening star., 1923-12-23
THE CIVILIAN ARMY
BY LIEUT.. STEPHEN F. TILLMAN.
Organized Reserves-National Guard

Maj. Gen. George c. Richards, chief
of the militia bureau. states in his
annual report that he Is still of the
opinion that the guarantee of safety
Evening star., 1923-12-23
AROUND THE CITY
BY Mamie Lancaster

| picture his love and faithful devo-
tion would make another and better
story.
Mr.. Neville is an Enelishman with
no relatives in this country He is
| O. cultured, educated man and has
| seen all OF the show places of the
World, having travelled extensively.
He is a lover of dumb animals and
Fat was his special pet. He feeds
all the stray dogs and cats that come
his way and daily places a generous
portion of grain and crumbs out for
the pigeons and sparTows-the birds
gathering daily in large numbers.
He is an enthusiastic supporter of
the movement for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals.
Have you seen Pat? If you run
across the little dog send him back
to the old man and brighten his
Christmas. 1t would chase the
glooms away and let the joys come into
mis- heart again.
x X 4 II
HERE is another Pat, for good
| measure:
A woman who has a way with
children-having taught them from
| teens to retirement-paused on the
street to have a word or two with
a. small boy who was obviously glad
to see her. When the little greeting
| was over, she asked, by way OF
neighborly interest, if mamma and
papa and little Elizabeth were we'll
I The small boy said they We're. but:
You didn't ask for the most i'm
portant one of all. Z,
This was in the nature Of a mys-
terry, seeing that she had named over
the whole family, but he made her
see her mistake.
My dog, Pat. is the best Of every
body in the house"
why. Harry-you don't mean better
than papa and mann"
Yes. sir. Pat never spanks me,
like papa does, nor scolds me when
I'm bad, like mamma. He loves me
all the time. And he never hurts
me. And ] never hurt him. Nobody
loves me like Pat does, because he
treats me just the same when I'm
bad"
To the accepted doctrine that a
mothers love for her infant is the
purest of all devotions. add for sec
ond best:
A small boys love for his dog.
Evening star., 1923-12-23

~ REATER Washington has one
drawback, anyhow. 1t lacks
the social friendliness of old
time days, when a walk in
any direction meant tipping of hats
to the LADIES', fellowship greetings
with passinty men, chummy roundups
Evening star., 1923-12-23

Capt H. H. Hough, until recently
Governor OF Virgin Islands, arrived
in Washington Thursday and immedi-
ately assumed his new duties as dt-
rector of naval intelligence, succeed
ing Capt. Luke McNamee, who is now
at sea.