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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06
Orlanl.

Orland again meets with a loss
that is deeply recognized, and
especially by her devoted family, in
the death of Ella F. (Hutchins)
Snowman, wife of Fred G. Snowman,
early Saturday morning, ban. 26,
at the home of their daughter, Linda,
where she and Mr.. Snowman were
visiting Mrs. Snowman had been in
ill-health for some time, but her
condition had not seemed so serious
that her death might be expected. 1t
came suddenly, after about one
hours illness. 1t is the going away
of a gentle, companionable, home
loving wife, leaving her husband in
consolable--a dear mother and
friend who ill be sadly missed.
She leaves, besides her husband, four
children-Linda (Mrs. f. Homer
Hutchings), Rose Mrs. Arthur e.
ley M. Snowman; also seven grand
children and one great-grandchild
Mrs. Snowman was born at Penob
scot, and of a large family, four
brothers and three sisters are left
Frank e. and Pearl S. Hutchins of
Penobscot, Albea e. and Fred S. of
Belfast, Mrs. F. w. Leach of Cas-
tine, Mrs. Fred Leach and Mrs.
Joseph Bray of Bucksport Rev
Walter H. Cass officiated at the
funeral held at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. F. Homer Hutchings Monday,
Jan. 2S. The bearers were her sons,
Albea and Bourghley Snowman, F.
Homer and Fred e. Hutchings. In
terment was in Oak Grove ceme-
terry.
Fred Buck has had electric lights
installed in his house and barns.
The ice harvest was good from the
cove, and fine weather and roads for
hauling made the task easy.
Riverside chapter, o. e. s., met in
public session in Masonic hall,
Thursday evening, Jan. "a, and Past
Matron Mrs. Georgia Facteaux, as
sisted by Past Matron Mrs. Carrie A.
Jordan, installed officers as follows:
Mrs. Mary c. Saunders, w. M; l. r.
Saunders, w. P; Mrs. Martha c..
Hutchins, A. NJ; Mrs. Nellie Saun-
ders, secretary; Mrs. Carrie b.
Crosby, treasurer; Mrs. Isadora A.
Gray, conductress; Mrs. Georgia
Facteaux, associate conductress;
Mrs. Gertrude M. Hutchings, chap
lain; Mrs. Marion S. Bennett, Adah;
Mrs. Eva e. Ripley, Ruth; Mrs,
Mary A. Holt, Esther; Mrs. Evelyn c..
Farmer, Martha; Mrs. Jennie F. Rip
ley, Electa; Mrs. Nettie F. Saunders,
warder; Seth r. Hutchins, sentinel;
Mrs Olive M. Peavey, organist.
! Supper was served. Guests were
| Masons and their wives and the
! families of members.
| Feb. 3. V.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06

The good people of Minturn, ap-
preciative of the public spirit and
liberality of Mrs Abbie Rich,
planned to give her a surprise party
on her eiXty-eighth birthday, Janu-
airy 26 With money raised by popu-
lar subscription, they had purchased
fine reed, upholstered rocking
chair, which they intended to pre-
sent at the birthday party. The chair
was on the Gov. BOdwell when the
steamer was lost on the Spindle reef,
and was destroyed This delayed
and somewhat upset the plans, but a
number of the citizens gathered at
the home of Mrs. Rich on Monday
evening, and provided bountiful re-
freshments. A wonderfully good
time was enjoyed. The presentation
will take place when a new chair is
secured
The Gov Bodwell is a total loss.
Nothing of the upper works is left,
and the hull is badly damaged and
has slid backward to deeper water.
Some of the furnishings and freight
have been salvaged on the shores.
The Matinicus mailboat, Calista d.
Merrill, in charge of Charles Robin
SOu anu STEWART AIleS, is l6l1lpOTdIl-
ly bringing the mail to the island I'M
til thesteamer Vinalhaven is ready to
take on the duty. Messrs Robinson
and Ames have been very cOnSIderate
in looking after the needs of the is
land.
Mrs. Lucy A. Durham is making
the rounds of Minturn, stopping
day or two with each of her numer-
Gus friends. At present she is at the
home of Mrs. Amanda Bridges.
Mrs. Frank Bridges has just held a
grand dinner party at her home at
Old Harbor.
Edward Jones, meteorological of
the Portland weather bureau, came in
the island to advance plans for storm
signal service for the island, but it
was thought best to delay the matter
in the hope of securing daily weather
forecasts all the year round
The ice in Old Harbor has broken
up and disappeared, except in the
cCves. At Mackerel cove the ice now
extends from the Redman cottage to
Frederick Head.
1t is the hope of many people that
the steamer Vinalhaven will not at
! tempt to make a round trip of the
whole route each day, but come on
one day and so the next.
Feb. 2. e.
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South Deer Isle.
Feb 4

Mr.. and Mrs c. w. Spofford are
receiving congratulations on the
birth of son, (Frederick Parker
Mrs. Ida N. Stinson has been
spending few days with her
mother Mrs A. r. Small at Sunset,
Mrs. Small recently celebrated her
ninety-second birthday.
Relatives and friends were enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. Elvira C.
Thurston one evening this week. A
delightful evening was spent, with
music. Refreshments were served.
The prayer meeting this week was
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
John e. knight. Last week it was
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Wallace E. Stinson.
Mrs. Charles A. Stanley and
daughter Gertrude are guests of Mrs.
Winfield Greenlaw at Deer Isle.
Jan. 81. R.
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SANTA BARBARA MAN.
Age is Now Set at Three Hundred
Thousand Years.

New York HeraldD
Anthropologists of the Smithsonian
institution and the National Museum
are Withholding judgment ON the
scientific value of the human skele-
ton recently discovered at Santa Bar
bara by Dr. J. p. Harrington of the
Bureau of American Ethnology
which, dispatches say, he believes
antedates the Neanderthal man.
They admit that if the first reports
prove correct, it is one of the most
important discoveries in the field of
human evolution of this generation.
DR.. j. Walter Fewkes, head of the
Bureau of Ethnology, awaits letter
from DR. Harrington giving measure
ments of the skull If reports are
true, they upset all theories of the
geographical origin and early wan
behring's of the human race. NO
Skeletal remains OF real antiquity
have been dug up on the American
continent
Dr. Harrington's discovery prom
Uses to revive conjecture on how the
American continents first were peo-
pied, and it furnishes a link between
modern man and his supposed ape
like ancestors for which scientists
have sought in Europe and Africa for
fifty years.
If the dead man who has arisen
from his grave to puzzle science
really antedates the Neanderthal
man he must be at least 100000
years old Previously the oldest
human relics found in the western
hemisphere are placed only about
10000 years back.
Students of human evolution face
an apparently unsolyable mystery
The earliest yestiges of evidence re-
garding mans habitation of this
planet. such as the skull cap of the
Java man and the jaWbones of the
Plitdown man in England, or the
Heidelburg man in Germany, date
back at least 100000 years. Then
comes a complete break of approx
mately 100000 years in which there
is not the slightest trace of human
beings. Much of this period was
during the so-called four ice ages
Discoveries hitherto in North and
South America have not been truly
prehistoric. but merely pre-Colum-
bian. Even the Central American re-
mains were of paratlvely recent
date in actual history. 1t almost has
been taken for granted that the
Americas were not inhabited in pre-
historic times, and efforts of anthro-
poiogists have been devoted largely
to conjecture on how human beings
first came to the land.
NJ. w. Stirling, Smithsonian Insti-
tuition anthropologist, said it almost
has been proven that the first men
crossed the narrow stretches of water
from island to island in the Aleutian
group to Alaska and worked their
way southwark. One argument
against DR.. Harrington pre-
Neanderthal man, DR.. Stirling says,
is that eastern Siberia, where it is OBJ
vious that the Indian race originated,
has no very early remains, Another
theory, Mr.. Stirling says, is that the
earliest inhabitants may have come
in canoes from the Pacific Islands.
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wlORAsuG- R1 8aNS0a co. INC.
ELLSWORTH. MAINE
East RIuehiIl,

Becky" six-year-old daughter of
Ralph Long and wife, gave a birth
day party Saturday afternoon TO
eighteen of her little friends. Light
refreshments were served, and a
good time is reported by all.
Mrs. Frank Weber, who was
called to Belfast a few weeks ago by
the illness of her son Clyde, will re-
turn to-day, accompanied by Clyde,
who is much improved in health
after being operated upon there at
the Bradbury memorial hospital
East Bluehill grange conferred the
first and second degrees on one can
didate Saturday night. 1t is eX-
pected there will be work for the
next three meeting nights.
The w. C. r. U. will meet with
Mrs. Ralph Long Thursday night.
Feb 1 K.
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Correct.

In public school recently the chill
dren were called upon to write an es-
say, and at the appointed time little
Hugh submitted an effusion on the
ark, in which he made the statement
that Noah fished one day for about
five minutes.
When the teacher looked over the
composition she was not little puz-
zled. She couldn't understand Why
anybody fond of piscatorial sport
should give up in so short time.
'Hugh," she remarked. looking up
from the essay, "you say that Noah
fished for only five minutes?"
Because" was the prompt explana-
ton of Hugh she didn't have but
two worms. "-Harpers
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06
Like a Mule.

Pat was standing in the road when
he noticed motor car coming up
the street. He stepped back little.
The car caught up with him and,
just as II was passing, the driver
had occasion to turn off down side
street. AS he moved the steering
wheel the car skidded, causing the
back end of it to swing around,
striking Pat and knocking him down.
Pat was seen to get up and look
after the car and say: "Now, what
do We think O. that? When ye stand
in front o thin they run over ye +;
and whin We git out O. the way to let
them pass they turn around and kick
ye."
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06
Mouth Hancock

C. f. Scribner and family are
back from Green Lake.
Friends of Carlton Stewart are
sorry to hear he is seriously i'll at
the Hurley hospital in Ellsworth.
Mrs. G. l.. Stewart, with her
daughter Virginia, went to Portland
last week to visit her sister Miss
Effie b. Mcfarland
Everyone who has a team is busy
here hauling pulp wood to the sta
ton.
Feb 4 M.
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Seal Cove

Word was received here this week
of the death in Duluth Mimi, of
Richard ODER, a former resident OF
this place Mr. ODER was son OF the
late Capt. William and Ellen ODER
and was born at Center about thirty
nine years ago. He had been in bust
ness in Duluth, as plumber for some
years, being very successful. He
leaves two sisters, Mrs Carrie Stan
ley of Southwest Harbor and Mrs.
Viola Phippen of Islesford, and a
brother, Samuel, in Kansas; also
other relatives and many friends who
regret to learn of his untimely death.
Friends of Harlan Murphy OF
Southwest Harbor regret to hear OF
his serious illness.
Jan. 81. N.
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RluphiII Falls.

B. A. Gray fell on the ice Wednes-
day and broke three ribs. His SON
and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Gray,
are with him.
Leon Sullivan has had a radio in
stalled.
Mr.. and Mrs, Colony and son
Leon, were called to Stonington, by
the death of Mrs. Ralph Eaton's in
FAINT daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Howard
spent Friday at Bluehill with Mr..
Towards parents.
George Duffy is visiting in North
Bluehill.
r. o. Chatto and Ross Colson have
their ice houses filed
Feb. 4. c.
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Dedhanl.

Mrs. J, T. Black fell down stairs
last Saturday. While no bones were
broken she is confined to her bed.
Mrs. A. r. Moore and Mrs f. w,
Burrill attended the grange lectur-
er's conference in Augusta
Miss Alice Brewster has gone to
New York to attend a private
school She was accompanied by her
father, who will remain with her and
relatives for a few days.
Feb 4 B.
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North BrOOklin,

Walter Henderson is working in
store in Landing. n j.
Mrs. Allen Cole is recovering
from a severe attack of grip.
Lack of snow here is making it
hard to do any business in the woods.
! Miss Katherine Dodge. after a few
days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mark Dodge, returned to Castine
normal school Monday.
Feb. 4 "Xenophon."
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South Hancock.

A daughter was born to B. r.
Homer and wife Saturday evening.
Capt. j. w. Stinson has had a
radio installed in his cottage.
Mrs. Marion Martin, who has
been visiting her grandmother, has
gone to Islesford, where she is en-
ployed
Feb 4 w.
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IAlnlOinc.

Leander j. Smith, who has been
working on the new Ellsworth high
school building, is at home.
Mrs. Mary Coolidge is quite i'll,
Leon Covey, who has been quite
i'll of grip, is able to be about the
house.
The Modern Woodmen held box
supper at the grange hall Saturday
evening. There were seventeen
boxes, from which $16.S5 was
cleared.
Feb A. c..
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06
This Helps Eye Strain

Simple camphor, hydrastis, witch
hazel, ETC., as mixed in Lavoptik eye
wash, strengthens eyes and helps any
case weak, strained or sore eyes.
Lavoptik acts very quick. Aluminium
eye cup free. Alexander's Pharmacy.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06
Mrs. Coolidge Finds
Tanlac Perfect Tonic

spent many sleepless nights and felt
so weak and WORKOUT | could hardly
keep going.
1T is just grand to feel as fine as
| do now Every trace of indigestion
and nervousness is gone, | enjoy my
meals TO the limit and sleep like
child. | can't help but praise Tanlac
it has been so good for me"
Tanlac is for sale by all good drug
gists Accept no substitute. over
40-million bottles sold.
Take Tanlac Vegetable Pills.
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ALGOLA PILLS

Regulate the Stomach. Liver and Bowels
Make Pure Blood For Constipation. Relieve
Try them. l0c. 25c. At druggists. Duane
Pharmacal CO., sole proprietor, P. O. Box
1908. City Hall Station, New York. See
signature each box.
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South Bluehill.
5OUtTI DIUVIiTIT.
lrs. Della Ferrin is quite low

Mrs. Della Ferrin is quite low.
Charles Henderson is very poorly.
Mrs. f. B. Simpson visited her
daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Friend, in
Ellsworth last week
Miss Frances Johnson is home
from the Memorial hospital, where
she has been for surgical treatment.
She is gaining slowly.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy
life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the
family system tonic. Price $1.25
--Advt.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-02-06

Take Tanlac Vegetable Pills,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-06
2E{ER| |E||{|

said chick, "but why are you out at
night; why didn't you come in the
daytime?'
I am an old creature" my dear"
replied Reddy Fox. Il thought you
might be ashamed of my old-fashioned
feathers, but can't you come down
one by one-and see me, and if you do
not like your old granny, | can go
away in the morning
Grandmother, said one wise chick.
1--WE have very sharp eyes and we can
see your feathers even in the dim
moonlight. Walk out from the bushes
and let us see you."
Reddy Fox picked up the feathers
and waved his head as he cautiously
crept from his hiding place.
"You walk very slowly, grand
mother" said chick. "Are you very
cld?"
OF course Reddy could not answer
with the feathers in his mouth, so he
went back under the bushes and
dropped them. "Yes, very old indeed"
he said land / want to see my grand
children before | de-
The wagon grease was beginning to
make his stomach feel very queer and
old Reddy was quite truthful when he
answered, st don't know. / feel quite
| i'll, oh, very i'll indeed
Cant you come up, grandmother?
There is a board by the side Of the
shed - said one chick
Reddy for the moment forgot his
queer feelings, thinking of all those
tender turkeys over his head. He
crept around to the board and began
to walk up when suddenly his head
felt as queer as his stomach.
He had just reached the top of the
! shed when around went his head and
down tumbed Reddy to the ground!
ooh, grandmother, grandmother /!
cried all the yoang turkeys, tapping
their wings. "Are you hurt?"
Mr.. Gobbler was awake now with
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-06
MIRRORS

NNE day the professor began TO
~ notice how many mirrors there
are in New York City, and how many
people make use of them. There was
a drug store round the corner from
the professors home where, up above
the soda water fountain, hung a wide
glass. AS young America drew In
orangeade through straw, or con-
sumed his raspberry crush, or her
chocolate fudge sundae, he might OBJ
serve the straight line of his part
she might see the most becoming angle
at which to hold her spoon.
Again, walking down the avenue
the professor noticed that not all who
gazed in the plate glass fronts were
seeing merchandise. For furtively one
stout dowager would glance at the
long lines Of her size-reducing drap-
cries. Another little, fantastic, bob
haired shop-roamer would flick out
her short skirts, peering back admir-
ingly over her shoulder at her refiec-
ton. Or mannish, superior lady
would linger until no one was in
sight. and then smile with approba-
tion at herself. The more expert, in
deed. might seem to look through
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-06
Idea for Making Use
of Wood NouU Wasted

No less than so per cent of a tree
is wasted in its conversion into lum-
Der. AT present the tWigs, branches,
bark, roots, sawdust and plank and
log trimmings are entirely lost A new
process for the utilization of these
waste products and the production OF
synthetic lumber is being tried out in
the United States. The process is a
conversion of the waste into a cell
ulose compound of a plastic nature
that can be pressed or nodded into all
conceivable shapes and bulks from
boards to rafterS.
The development of the process has
passed beyond the initial experimental
stages and has been taken in hand by
the National Lumber Manufacturers
association. If it is commercially
practicable it may be extremely valu-
able as a step to the conservation of
the world timber supplies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-06
BASKET BOARDERS
I'D ASKET boarders" are the most
- satisfactory kind anyone can

II satisfactory kind anyone can
s'take in
They are not exacting; they don't
tire of the boarder-lady's cooking. and
they don't even require dining-hall.
Travellers who go through on the train
are the principal Basket boarders" of
the woman who told me all this. She
lives in little railroad center.
"Most of the trains only stop here
q couple of minutes, and the folks
who are going through don't have time
to run across the street to the res
taurant," she explained. $50 put up
my basket lunches and hire little
boy to take them over and sell them.
1 sell several baskets of lunch that
way every day.
Say, for instance, that it is col
Iege town. The boarder-lady can cas-
lily make a profitable venture of sell
ing her baskets of food, suitable for
spreads and between-meal snacks, to
the college girls, who are VIGOROUSLY
always hungry.
Then, the girl who lives in a town
where there are numerous offices
should center her attention on the
white collar trade-the business
men who won't carry lunches from
home, but who hate to take time to
go to a restaurant.
She should, of course, vary her
lunches with the seasons. She should
try to include some food that is pip
ing hot especially in the winter time.
Twenty-Five cent lunches might con-
tain one sandwich, wrapped in waXed
paper, one piece of fried chicken. also
wrapped, and piece of fresh fruit.
Fifteen cent lunches might include
sandwiches, homemade cake and
fruit. Specialties for the picnic
lunches should be sandwiches, salads
and baked beans. The sandwiches
NAV be made of left-overs. All the
lunches should be either boxed or
wrapped in paraffin paper; and the
scrupulous woman will always enclose
paper napkins. She may serve hot
drinks, even to the railroad passen-
gers if she has the cooperation OF
the newsboy on the train. Through
him, the travellers may order their
drinks. as well as the food that is to
go in their baskets. The newsboy
may telegraph the orders from the
next station and assume the respon-
sibility for the cups. delivering them
back to the cook.
The boarder-lady's market is every
where. for folks must eat. Almost
everybody is a prospective basket
boarder"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-11-06
MAKING GOOD IN
A SMALL TOWN
Real Stories About Real Girls
By MRS. HARLAND H. ALLEN
20, 1924. Western Newspaper unionl
THE HURRY-CALL HOUSE
KEEPER

THE home-maker-by-the-d has q
big opportunity in small town.
There, the average woman cannot
afford to keep a housekeeper habitu-
ally, but emergencies do arise in which
a housekeeper who may be hastily
summoned is extremely handy. So
says one woman, a widow, who is by
no means young and who doesn't care
about permanent position; she has
hit on the emergency housekeeper'
idea and is making a great success
of it.
I'm not fancy cook, and | don't
pretend to be-" she explained, "but
do say for myself that can manage
a house tremendously and |. can cook
plain foods well. The main thing the
housekeeper-by-the-day should remem-
Der is that, inasmuch as she is US
ually summoned in case OF sickness,
accident or some other emergency, the
quality that will most endear her to
the household is an ability to keep
things running smoothly 1t is not
necessary for her to do fancy sewing
or cooking; rather, she should be
practical, and should be able to turn
her hand to whatever there is to be
DONE"
For the woman whose special forte
is managing a house, but who does
not care to have all of her time en-
gagged, this woman's experience is a
suggestion. 1t means well-paying, con-
genial work, for which she will need
no capital, no Office no equipment.
She might. make a special point of
applying to women who run boarding
houses, for the work of substituting
for them while they take summer va
cations. Women who cater to meal
ers'' do often become tired out and
need a rest, and they would welcome
the opportunity of shifting the re-
sponsibility to some capable person
for a few weeks every year. of course,
the successful substitute would keep
down grocery bills, and keep up. the
boarders' enthusiasm for the place.
Another possibility for the women
with the same natural qualifications
the apartments or houses of women
in business. Such women would pay
well for an hour or two of maid serv-
ice. If the size and character of the
town warrants it, she might even rent
an office after her business got a
little start, and hire other women 10
fill some of her appointments to "clean
up for business women.
In general, the woman who decides
to go into this field will probably have
as her duties some washing, some
ironing, some plain mending, some
cleaning, in addition to the job OF
making things as whole run smooth
ly. Common sense, a good disposition
and adaptability will be her stock-in-
trade.