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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
EulI'S Cove.

Miss Laura Leland who was
home for her sisters wedding, has
returned to Massachusetts.
Mrs. John Davis of Bar Harbor
spent Tuesday with Mrs. Edward
Hopkins.
Miss Lucy Ham0r of New York is
spending a vacation with relatives
here.
Miss Marie Pierce is visiting in
Dexter
Capt. e. Il. Salisbury suffered a
severe i'll turn Thursday All are
glad to hear he is slightly improved.
Friends of Mrs. John Stanley re-
gret to hear of her painful injuries
received in an automobile accident
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse A Richardson
of North Monmouth are receiving
congratulations on the birth of a
dau htor, Geraldine Evelyn Mrs
Richardson was formerly Miss Eve
lyn Jordan of this place.
Oct. E3. H.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

but to be operated upon, and of course
that would cost us great deal. My hus-
band heard about Lydia E. Pinkham s
Vegetable Compound at the factory and
one night he stopped at the drug store
and bought me bottle of it. | had be-
gun to think there was no help for me,
but took three bottles of it and now
I feel like myself once more. The price
for three bottles wasn't so much as the
doctor had charged. | cannot praise
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound enough. Mrs. DORA OSBORNE,
430 Sherman Avenue, South Bend, Ind.
Women troubled with female weak
ness should give Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound a fair trial-now.
For sale by druggists everywhere.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
Eden.


Mr.. and Mrs. q. S Higgins and
daughters, Louie and Dorothy. of
Brewer, were guests Of Capt and
Mrs. II. w. Jellison recently
Mrs. Fannie Young and Norman
Young and Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Watts, of Otis, were recent visitors
in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Manley Perkins of
Brewer We're in town last week
Mrs. Charles Christy has returned
to Portland, after a week with her
grandparents, 0. b. Leland and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Young of
Hall Quarry were weekend guests of
II. c. Smith and wife
Mr.. and Mrs. o. F. Leland and
son Frederic and Mr. and Mrs
Waldo Jordan and son William Wis
tied their parents. o. b Leland and
wife Sunday.
Miss Rose Norton Is visiting at
Eslesford
Oct 10. V.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15

N5ss Eleanor Joy, who is attend
ing high school at Southwest Har-
Dor, spent the weekend at home.
She had as her guest Miss Agnes
Gray.
Frank Wedge and family have
gone to Chelsea, Mass, for the win
ter
Miss Campbell spent the weekend
at her home in Seal Harhor.
Ralph Bulger left this week to
find employment in Portland or
Boston,
Carl Schriftguisser came from
Boston to attend the funeral of Mrs,
Sarah Bulger, and spent a week here,
returning to his home Monday.
Charles Bulger has been visiting
his father the past week
George Stanley is with Willard
Squirting and wife for an indefinite
time
Mrs. Sarah Bulger died very sud
Geuly on Monday, Oct. s, of heart
trouble. She had been in poor health
for some time Mrs. Bulger and her
SON Ralph lived alone, and when
Ralph went home Monday night he
found his mother dead in bed. Mrs.
Bulgar was seventy-three years old
and is the last of family of eight
children She leaves a son and two
nieces here. The funeral was held
at the church, Mr. Blake of South
west Harbor officiating. Two Sc
lecttons were suns by Mrs, Richard
| Stanley There were beautiful
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15

The high school is distinctly an
American institution. The English
high school of Boston, founded in 1921,
was the first of its kind and grad
ually, as free elementary schools were
established throughout the country,
the high schools followed.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15

Mr. and Mrs Hardy, Mrs. Flora
Thompson, Mr.. and Mrs Mansur,
Ralph Hooper and Mrs. Louise
johnson, all of Bangor, were Sun
day visitors at c. A. Thompson's.
Linwood Young and wife of Bos-
ton are visiting his brother, c. b.
Young.
Mrs. Lydia Springer and daughter,
Mrs. Charles Saunders, are visiting
at Bar IIarbOr.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
His Was the Last Word.

Candid Friend-'You told me you
always had the last word with your
wife, and all the time I've been here
she's been ordering YOU about" Much
Married-"Well do have the last
word. Didn't you hear me say All
right?'"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15

back and bearing
down pains. l was
so sore | could hardly
drag myself around
and was not able to
do a bit of house
work. My husband
worked all day in the
shop, and then came
home and helped me
at night. The doc
tors said l had fe-
male weakness, and
there was no help
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
In These Days.

On every hand are dozens Of
chances for a man to make a fool
of himself. And many men are TAX
ing advantage of those chances.-At-
Gibson Globe
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
Worthy Belief.

I believe in the perpetual reSenera
ton of society and in the immortal
ity of democracy and in growth ever
lasting.-Walter Hines Page.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
Art Worth Cuit.vatinu.

Cultivate the great art of leaving
people alone, eYeu tAose you think YOU
have right to direct in the minutest
particular.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
Their Musical
Romance
BY JANE OSBORN
Copyright }

associate editor and the Important
title she bore did good deal to make
up for the fact that her salary, to begin
with amounted TO but fifteen dollars u
week. She had s6rimped and scraoed
for four years to get her college degree
and ii did seem a bit Of hardship thar
now she should have TO take less for
her services than most girls did just
after leaving high school. Still, she
was doing the sort Of work she wanted
TO do and she was an associate edi-
tor"
"Of course, you won't expect to live
on what you make for several years +"
said the editor in chief when she
talked the situation over with Juana.
but what you make may ut least pay
| your lunches and taxi fares"
"And one of the things that goes
with your job" continued the e,li.nr.
rs to write the musical reviews My
secretary will give you the tickets to
concerts THAT come, and from them and
the music magazines you can get 10
g3ther your revieN. Look up the sort
of thing we run in the files"
But Tu net uJs cal" said JuHna.
ram anat,,., .,,,.,,,,t ,r,,, gl'( ~.
too nnn,n.,.
can th,, I.-t-,,,., ;. ..,., a.. ,.,,tt,, ,,-4-v,
q, air ~ hasi,., ,,...,,,f,..a,l rhn ,,'.,.,..,.
IF YOU We're musical you might tx So
write biuh-brn,. re,ia,vs An u.a ,,.,,-
is tbp smart s,uattar, sog, or ts,
worm sno IN tl,o. Gl,.. ;,
..rut ,,.,a,. wont 70 ~ ,.o,,c,r, ia,
NV Hra-n
"If's nort of vonr io5 i. saij tbe e,,i-
tor Ana rb,+ voc tb,..n,r.,f tr,. ~.
epssion
Juano was hewjldered arul disrou,-
qoed ot the FIRST svmphcnv cor..arf
<ne attended She studied the pro.
gram carefully to see whether il woud
OFFER any explanation of Tie periar.-.
anca She turned around to regard the
expressions of the audience. Thor
faces were practically cNpressionless-
Toy all loEcd about as 'inatod rs
ialents waiting in e.ss's o#tee
Perhaps, Thought Ju2na .h4 '97fer"
patience, that tnE frrst whiting ro
some h!a2 10 ho a.a=ea tGaj EMta b.
diaea25. Eu pfh8s- ala I&ore1--
nothing t', give "1a2a inspiration.
She o~t'"aj DNseyt,. th@; f'r
young lHG /, 81, her uccasiHa ~ r.
ted sometaH- down On % small Il. lo-
book. H. was listening iuen.ly Ar
parently thought Juunu, he WAS oI
who understood, She wished that -
might see what he wrote down, hu"
that would be like cheating at eNua'
nations.
Two days later Juana went TO aF-
other concert, occupying the same seat
in the same auditorium and to her
distinct satisfaction found the same
Young man sitting besiGe her $50
felt that if She could only get a.
quaintcd Wi,h him he might be abb: to
hclp her to understand the music
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-10-15
HAD To LET
H0USEWORK GO
So iii Husband had to do the Work.
Completely Restored to Health by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound

South Bend, Indiana. q was all run
down, tired out, and had pains in my
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
WOULD ABANDON
STATE CONTROL
OF TELEPHONES
Paris Chamber of Commerce
Asks Transfer of ALI Lines
To Private Concerns.

The Paris Chamber of Commerce
recently passed a resolution urging
the French Government to submit
to Parliament a bill for the transfer
of the government-owned telephone
service Of France to private COM
panies. This resolution was adopted.
says the Electrical Review of London,
las a result of the many complaints
received from commercial
and industrial concerns in the PariA
district with regard to the poor tele-
phone service"
After full discussion Of the sub.
ject. the Paris Chamber of Commerce
advanced two main reasons for urging
the government to abandon public
ownership of the telephone sys EN-:
First. that the French telephone
service contrasts extremely badly with
those of other countries, the inf orior-
ity being due as much to the defective
character of the material and TIE in
sufficient number of circuits as to the
general poor organization of the serv-
ice; Second, that the state has failed
to take the necessary steps to facili-
tate and extend the use of the tele.
rhone, and the fact that the telephone
srvice results in an annual charge
n the French budget is proof that
ne state is not qualified to carry on
the service on a commercial basis"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
RATS AND MICE
DEADLY FOES OF
THE TELEPHONE
PLAYFUL PUPPIES AND MOUSE
TIVE BABIES ARE ALSO FIRE.
QUENr CAUSES OF TROUBLE

For mice and rats telephone re
Not only are they the cause of a
large proportion of the cases requir
ing expert attention, but they are APT
20 be the most difficult for the "trou-
ble-shooters" to handle.
Usually the work Of the rodents is
hidden behind layer of plaster or is
covered with heavy tile, with the re.
suit that it is difficult to trace. They
have even been known to gnaw
through the lead sheath Of the CABLE
which passes through perforations III
solid BRICK walls. In so doing the
battery line would be momentarily
grounded-just long enough to blow
out fuse.
creatures who play havoc with tele-
phone wire insulation. For example,
there is mans best friend, the dog.
Playful puppies are sometimes detri-
mental to telephone service, pulling
telephones off tables and playing with
hem. In such cases the receiver usu-
ally falls from the hook and the line
S then out of commission for the time
being. Babies also are often the in
nocent cause of telephone trouble
when they play with the cords and put
them in their mouths.
Often times a small fire can cripple
telephone service for as many as
:hree or four hundred subscribers by
destroying the circuits which pass
through one cable.
II there is anyone who is looking
for trouble, it's the telephone repair.
man, and If there's anyone who finds
what he's after, it's the repairman
also. The sooner he finds trouble, the
better he Is satisfied.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
USES TELEPHONE
IN DESPATCHING:
SPEEDS SERVICE
SAN ANTONIO TROLLEYS RUN 10
PER CENT. FASTER, DECLARES
LINES SUPERINTENDENT.

The telephone, which is gradually
superseding the telegraph as means
of train despatching on the steam rail.
roads, is also giving good service in
similar work on some of the progress.
sive street-car systems.
In recent issue of the Electric
Railway Journal, William w. Holden,
Superintendent of Transportation of
the San Antonio Public Service Com
pany, tells of the successful use of
the telephone despatching system
which has been in operation on this
company's lines since 1914.
Telephones are installed at the ter.
minals of all lines and at other i'm.
pUrtant points along the way, making
it an easy matter for the dispatcher
at the home Office to keep in touch
with car movements all over the sys-
tenn, and to take care of any emer.
gency that may arise. Traffic delays,
minor accidents and the need of re-
pairs to track or equipment are
promptly reported. The dispatcher
is then in. a position to send help at
once, either from the central car
house or from points along the line,
at which inspectors or other street
car employees can be reached by tele.
phone.
Mr.. Holden estimates that telephone
despatching has made it possible to
schedule cars at rate Of speed prob,
ably as much as 800 faster than
would have been practicable without it.
He declares that "the telephone des.
patching system has proved itself so
effective and economical that it is con-
sidered absolutely essential to opera.
ton"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
AMPLIFIERS CARRY
KINGS VOICE TO
100000 SUBJECTS

With fanfare of trumpets and all the
medieval pomp and circumstance with
which Merry England is wont to greet
its royal family on state occasions,
the British Empire Exhibition was re,
Gently opened at Wembley, England,
by the king.
An unusual touch of modernity was
added to this occasion by the scien-
tific achievement of present-day teie-
phone engineers. His majesty's utter
ances were heard by a vast audience
of more than 100000 loyal subjects
gathered in and about the great con-
crete stadium by means of the public
address system, developed by the en-
gineers of the Bell System, and in
stalled by the Western Electric Com
pany.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19

qEx&Ssae.
cinatingly Oriental than the unique
Chinese telephone exchange in our
own country which provides telephone
service for the Chinatown district of
San Francisco
In outward appearance this tele
phone building is as typically Chinese
as zone bamboo" tile. Pagoda-like,
it lifts it's tower, studded with protrud-
ing beak-shaped balconies-a fitting
monument it would seem, to some
City.
But there is nothing dead inside the
exchange, where Chinese girl oper-
ators are kept busy handling the
traffic, under the general supervision
of Mr.. Loo Ku Shoe, the manager,
who is graduate of the University of
California. These operators are re-
quired to be proficient not only in
English, but in several different
Chinese dialects. for many diverse
tongues are spoken among the four
hundred million Inhabitants of that
vast country which stretches from 81
IBERIA to India. and from the mountains
of Turkestan to the shores Of the
Yellow Sea.
The Chinese, moreover, are pro-
verbally secretive and have no use
for party line telephones, so every
subscriber served by San Francisco's
pagoda telephone exchange has his
own individual line. There are about
$500 of these lines in service, and
the calls average 1000 daily.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
PROBABLY HIS PARTY.LINE
TELEPHONE NUMBER WAS k-9

Major F. w. Childs, of Brattle.
boro, VT, has a dog, a Scotch Collie
by the name of Laddie that not
only is an expert mail carrier, but
also answers the telephone.
During the summer" says the
Major, 1T is a frequent occurrence
for me to call my home on the tele'
phone from my Brattleboro office,
asking to have the receiver put to
Ladies' ear and order the dog to
come to me at once. No sooner
would the dog hear the voice than
he would streak from the house
through the fields and across coun
try seven miles to Brattleboro, and
in a miraculously short time, a
scratching at my Office door would
announce his arrival"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
FRENCH TELEPHONES

A poster has made its appearance
on the billboards Of Paris, represent
ing a man trying to use a telephone.
He is green with vexation and exer.
ton; great drops of Precipitation roll
down his face. Beneath the picture
is French inscription which reads:
"You will telephone by the sweat OF
your brow as long as the telephones
are operated by the government"
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19

There Is enough telephone wire in
the United States to string an astro.
nomical necklace of 5000 beads with
svsry bead planet the size of the
earth, and still leave u miles of wire
exposed between each pair of planets.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1924-07-19
NO PARTY LINES
IN CHINATOWN'S
CENTRAL OFFICE
San Francisco's Pagoda.like Exchange
Looks Like Tiles From
Nah Jongg Set.

The popularity of Nah Jongg has
done much to stimulate American in
terest in all things Chinese. There
are few objects. however. even in the
Celestial Republic itself, more fas'
Evening star., 1924-12-24
SPORTSWOMAN STRICKEN
BY TYPHOID INJECTIONS
Peggy Thayer Ill in Egyptian
Hospital-Was Going
for Big Game.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 24.-Miss
Margaret Thayer. better known In
society and sports as Peggy Thayer.
is seriously Ill of typhoid fever in
the nglo-American Hospital at
Cairo, Egypt, according to reports
reaching here. Inocula tions taken
in preparation for her intended lion
hunting trip in British East Africa
ar, said to have caused her Illness.
Miss Thayer sailed from New York.
November. L. accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. John B. Thayer of
Philadelphia, and Thomas Evans, a
we'll known sportsman. From Paris
they went to Rome, where q third
typhoid innoculation was admins
tered, and then sailed for Alexandria
Miss Thayer was i'll during the voy-
age, but 1t was supposed she was
suffering from seasickness.
When her Illness became serious at
Cairo, she was removed to the hos
pital. She will be removed to Upper
Egypt as soon as her condition per-
mits, 1t was announced.
She was to have gone inland from
Nairobi to hunt wild game, keeping
both a written and motion picture
record Of the expedition.
Evening star., 1924-12-24
FEAR OF SOVIET FLEET
STIRS BLACK SEA PORTS
Rumania and Turkey Apprehensive
at Prospect of France Yield
ing Vessels to Russia.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
SOFIA, December 24.-While allied
commissions reside in Constantinople
for the purpose OF determining the
future status OF the Dardanelles, both
the Turkish and Rumanian naval
STATS are becoming disturbed at the
prospect of the apparition of Rus
sian Black Sea fleet.
Since the war Russia has possessed
no important naval forces. The re-
cent decision of the French govern
ment to hand over the Soviet feet
which Gen. Wrangel formerly pos
sessed opens up an entirely new
vista. This fleet, which is lying at
Bizerta, is out OF date compared with
modern American warships, but is in
comparably superior both in size and
speed to any other eastern European
navy. Its battleships and destroyers
would completely dominate the Black
sea, and Rumanian and Bulgarian
ports, as well as Constantinople,
would be insecure in event relations
with Russia became strained.
In Turkey it is believed Great Bri-
tain pointed out to France the diff
cuIties and danger which a return of
the fleet to the Soviets would create.
The transfer, therefore, may be de-
layed, but 1t seems doubtful that the
plan ultimately can be prevented.
Copyright, 1924. by Chicago Daily News Coz
Evening star., 1924-12-24
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE. Nd. December "a
tSpeciaD Several hundred children,
representing all sections OF the
County, were guests last evening OF
the Knights of Columbus and the
Catholic Daughters Of America at the
second annual Christmas tree party
Of the organizations, held in the audi
tor1um of the new st. Martins school
building at Gaithersburg. 1t was the
first time the fine large hall had been
used and it proved d real house
warming. Rev. J. S. Cuddy pastor
Of st. Martins Church. Gaithersburg,
and lecturer of Montgomery Council
was in charge: Santa. Claus was i'm
personated by Mr.. Thomas Burke Of
Washington; huge tree, beautifully
decorated, was in evidence and motion
pictures formed a part Of the pro-
gram, which seemed to delight the
Riddles TO the utmost. The program
also included music, q talk by Father
tHddy and other features. and each
child present was given q. we'll filled
stocking and u toy. The hall was
eIaboratsly decorated and brilliantly
lighted. Father Cuddy, Mrs. Edward p.
Schwartz, president of Court Arch
bishop Curley, and G. X. Meem, grand
Knight of Montgomery Council, were
in. charge of the arrangements.
Aubrey y. Daifan, q, of Fredericks-
burg. Va, and Miss Evelyn V. Hester
II. of Louisa, Va, were married in
Rockville Monday evening by Rev
Nolan i. Harmon, jr.. pastor of the
Methodist Church. the ceremony TAX
ing place at the home of the minister
William Frank Barnard. 34 and
Mrs. Louise c. Hull, 81, both OF Nor
folk, Va, We're married in Rockville
yesterday by Rev. L. Rowland Wag-
uer, pastor of the Baptist Church, at
the home of the minister. Both had
been previously married and divorced
The funeral Of Mrs. Frances E. Fer
ry, formerly of Washington, who died
on Sunday at her home, at Kensing-
ton, took place yesterday from ST.
Johns Catholic Church, Forest Glen.
The services were conducted by the
pastor, Rev. Charles o. Rosensteel,
and burial was in Mount Olivet ceme-
terry, Washington. Mrs. Ferry had
been i'll long time of an affection Of
the kidneys and complications. She
is survived by her husband and three
children.
The public lschools Of Montgomery
County closed at noon yesterday for
the Christmas holidays and will re-
open on Monday, January 5. In most
of the schools appropriate exercises
were held yesterday morning and
candy and other gifts were distribut-
o. The pupils of the Rockville High
6chool made their annual donations
Go the Montgomery County Social
Service League They included cash,
clothing, canned goods, preserves,
etc.
Evening star., 1924-12-24
ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE
PACT SCARES EDITOR
Expresses Fear Industry Beyond
Rhine Has Choice Between
France and Britain.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS. December 24-The suEges-
ton that the commercial negotiations
between France and Germany are
dragging because the German and
English manufacturers have already
concluded an alliance Is put forward
by Lucien Chassaigne, chief editor
of lie Journal.
He points that the Anglo German
commercial agreement was signed in
three days, practically without dis
cussion, while the Franco-German
negotist tions have made little head
way after weeks. and now the Ger
man delegates announce they are 60
ing back to Berlin, not to return un-
til January s.
"For my part" writes NJ. Chassaigne,
II see only one explanation. the
gravity of which I realize, but which
logic forces upon me. For the last
two years the German Industrial in
terests have made known to US that
they did not intend to remain isolated
and that they must contract a close
agreement with France or with Eng
land. Have they made their choice::'