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and two young ladies engaged in
fishing and otherwise enjoying the
charm of life by stream and lake.
At the rear of the float, tent
stood amid the green pines, Boy
Scouts before it cooking their dinner
in approved camp style, the kettle
on forked sticks playing prominent
part. Several attractive little girls
were seen at play. The sides of this
floats and it's very appropriate set
ting represented beautiful and
realistic field of white daisies and
"black-eyed Susans," the green OF
the grass effectively arranged with
spills of pine, typical June scene.
At the center, on each side, was the
handsome seal of State, in colors,
and it's motto, "Dirigo,' signifying
81 lead"
The float was driven by James F.
Hancock, representing a Maine
guide, It was designed by Mrs.
Bertha Whittier, wife of the presi-
dent of the Maine society, and made
under her supervision, with the able
assistance of score or more OF
Maine men and women.
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GOuldSbOrO.

Mrs. Raymond circuit and son, of
Sullivan, spent several days last week
with Mrs. Jason w. Tracy.
Daniel Whitaker, Theodore and
Edna Young, who were home for the
Easter vacation, have returned to
their school at Bucksport.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stillman Coffin were
in Cherryfield on Thursday, called
there by the death of Mrs. Coflin's
brother, Henry Torrey.
The Baptist sewing circle was
pleasantly entertained at the home OF
Mrs. Frank Young Wednesday. Re
freshments were served.
The officers Of Cushman grange
were installed Wednesday evening,
by District Deputy C. c. Gambler Of
Ellsworth, assisted by Mrs. Mar
guerite Stanley and John Whitaker
Mrs. Edith Tracy and children
have returned home, after week S
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Nash, at Sorrento.
Postmaster c. l.. Tracy has had a
radio installed in his home.
Gilbert Moore sprained his ankle
badly while working at Chicken Mill
last week.
Harold Handy. a former Goulds-
boro boy, now of Bangor, with a
friend. Edward Dysart, have started
a iitney route from Bangor to Goulds-
boro. They also handle freight.
AnriI G A.
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North BIuehill.
Halcyon

Several members of Halcyon
grange attended Highland grange at
North Penobscot Friday evening.
Miss Eunice H. Dunbar has been
spending her spring vacation with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Dun
bar.
George Grindle of Surry is visiting
his sister, Mrs. Herman Gray.
A large cow moose was seen in
Lewis ellis orchard Monday.
Guy Billings had 374 chickens
Matched March 25.
Miss Lura Emerton of Westerly,
R. l., was called home last week by
the serious illness of her father, d.
L. Emerton
Fred S. Hinckley and Mrs. Emma
Dahluuist each had the misfortune
to lose a COW recently.
A. H. Johnson of Boston is at II.
S. Dunbar's for a few weeks.
March 80. u.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08
TOWN MEETINGS.
Officers Elected and Appropriations
Voted i'm Hancock County Towns.

Otis-Moderator Russell Lyman;
clerk, Daniel Young; selectmen, as
SCISSORS, Daniel Young, Roland SAILS
bury, G. w. Garland; treasurer and
collector, Frank Watts; road commits
sioner, Adelbert Seavey.
Amherst - Moderator, W. D.
Archer; clerk, C. w Crosby: select
men, assessors, Forrest o. Silsby, AL
yah N. Jewett, w. D. Archer treas
urer, c. w. Crosby; street commits
sioner P. A. Wiley Total appropri-
atiOnS, $2,105.
Osborn-Moderato William E.
Richie; clerk, Watson L. Mace; Sc
lectmen, assessors, Anton r. Jordan,
William E. Richie, Fred E. Mace;
treasurer and collector, Watson l..
Mace; street commissioner, Urban S.
Craney Total appropriations. $3.50.
Plantation No 33-Moderator
Harvey Williams; clerk, Margaret E.
Emery; assessors, Harvey Williams,
Harold Archer, John Archer: treas
urer, Florence Laughlin; collector,
Alta Haynes; road commissioner,
Wallace Lord. Total appropriations,
$94S34
Aurora-Mod H. T. Silsby;
clerk, H. A. Rowe; selectmen. asses
sors, A. r. Mace, e. A. Richardson,
o. S. Palmer: treasurer and COL
lector, H. T. Silsby; street commits
sioner, O. S. Palmer. Total appropri-
ations, $2,159.
observation-disclosures George F..
Parsons; clerk, E. w Brann: select
men, assessors, E. w Brann, S. o.
Frost, F. L. Dority; treasurer and
collector; Mahlon Salisbury. street
commissioner Harley W. Black
Total appropriations, $4,000.
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ErpnchbOrO.

Alex Davis has been appointed
mail carrier for four years, beginning
in July.
Mrs. Jessie Perkins, who spent the
winter in Bernard, is home.
Alice Ross has gone to Atlantic
to reopen her school, after two weeks
vacation.
Thomas Lunt is building his
third punt this spring, He built one
for Whitefield Lunt of this place, one
for Clarence Howard of Eagle island.
and this one is for Don Field of Nc
Kinley.
The fishing boats have commenced
their work for the season Hollis
Dalzell is high liner, having stocked
$2S hand-lining.
Thomas Lunt and Granville Dali
zell, who have been i'll, are much i'm
proved.
April g G.
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Discovered.

A young man whose gallantry was
in excess of his pecuniary means
sought to remedy the defect and
to save the money required for the
purpose of expensive flowers by ar
ranging with gardner to let him
have a bouquet from time to time in
return for his cast-Off clothes
One day he received a bunch of
roses which he at once dispatched to
his lady love
In sure anticipation of a friendly
welcome, he called at the girls
house the same evening and was not
A little surprised at a frosty recep-
ton.
After a pause the girl remarked
frigidly; You sent me a note to-
day.
"A note, - To be sure. I sent you
flowers bat
And this note was with the bou-
quat. DO you mean 20 deny ito"
And the young man coad:
Don't forget the old trousers YOU
promised me the other dav
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Little Deer Isle,

Guy Haskell, Harold Black and
Benjamin Haskell left last week for
their yachting jobs.
v George Sewall left last Tuesday to
take his position on the Boston and
Bangor boat. His brother Alden has
gone to New York to take his yacht
ing job
Charles Weed has gone to New
York for the summer
Capt Walter Hutchinson is home
for a few days.
Harlan Billings spent the weekend
in Stonington.
Misses Gertrude Eaton and Thelma
Billings of Rockland visited hela-
tives here recently.
Mace Eaton went to Castine Mon
day to work for Ed. Griffin.
March 80. E.
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St. Petersburg, Fla,
March %, 1925.
To the Editor of The American:

To the Editor of The American:
The idea of boosting" Maine
seems to be growing. Your paper is
evidently trying to do its part, and
every man and woman in Maine
should be loyal enough to her inter-
ests to want to see her grow and de-
velop.
Maine has a state society here in
St. Petersburg, of about 500 mem
bers, aud had you been present at its
last meeting, you would have been
grSified at the enthusiasm shown
when the matter of advertising Maine
in Florida was brought up. Sub
scriptions were made to the Maine
Publicity Bureau so that the advan-
tages of Maine as summer resort
may be shown to the people of
Florida in as attractive manner as
they. in turn, advertise their cities for
winter resorts.
During the past week, the annual
"Festival of States" has been held
here. the main feature OF which was
the two-hour parade of gorgeous,
colorful floats representing the differ
ent states of the Union. They were
indeed works of art and presented
a grand spectacle to the thousands
of people who lined The streets.
1t was with thrill of pride that
we "Maineites' witnessed our own
beautiful float, moving with grace
and dignity down the wide, level
avenue. We got another thrill when,
at night, as the newsboys were cry
ing the evening Independent, we
caught a glimpse of the big head
lines:
"MAINE SOCIETY FLOAT WINS
HONORS!"
am enclosing the clipping Which
describes the float, and If you have
room for it in your next issue it may
prove of interest to some of your
readers.
PINE TREE STATE.
Maine, the "Pine Tree State con-
tributed a float, whose purpose was
to set forth the charms of that rugged
and rock-bound State as the supreme
playground of the nation. The sign
Summer in Name" first caught the
eye Upon the float were represented
the various pastimes that may be en-
joyed in that summer land of invig,
Grating air and wondrous scenery
In two green and white canoes in
front sat two young men padding
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08
WAY DOWN EAST.
Creates Photoplays of Rural Life
fouina to Ellsworth

Sreatc>7 fhotoplayS of Rural Life
Coming to Ellsworth
d. W. Griftith's wonder spectacle,
Way Down East" which comes to
the Dirigo theatre for two days,
Wednesday and Thursday of next
week, is assured wonderful recep-
ton. from the hearty response that
Manager Williams has received from
Dirieo patrons.
Way Down East" is a play by
Lottie Blair Parker which Joseph r.
Grismer helped adapt to the stage
and enjoyed unusual popularity for
over a decade upon the regular stage
D. w Griffith has taken this basic
story, and by his new art has pro-
duced a classic. 1t pictures New
England rural life with a fidelity
and charm which cannot be ap-
preached under any other circum-
stances.
To this absorbing tale of love and
lovers, Mr.. Griffith has given those
touches which make his work some
thing apart from all other forms of
dramatic and pictorial entertainment.
Its great punch comes after the for
mer story would ordinarily terminate,
and is the greatest scene ever con-
ceived in the theatre.-Advt.
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OceanViIIp.

Mrs. Elizabeth Joyce has returned,
| after spending the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. Grace Herrick, at
BroOklin.
Miss Isabelle Bridges of Isle au
Haul was the weekend guest of Miss
Edith Macdonald.
Peter Haskell has returned from
Little Deer Isle.
Mrs Marion Macdonald of Sun
shine is working in the clam factory
and staying at Mrs. Alva Gross
The dance at Union hall Saturday
night was greatly enjoyed.
v Miss Edith Macdonald has re-
turned to Stonington TO school. after
spending the Easter recess with her
mother.
April 4 MAY"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08

Harry dear" exclaimed little
Mrs. Simpson to her husband. II
have b-been d-dreadfully insulted, -
"Insulted, BY whom?
"B-by your m-mother," answered
the young wife. bursting into tears.
My mother, Flora? Nonsense
She's miles away"
Flora dried her tears. III tell
you all about it, she said. A let
ter came for you this morning, ad-
dressed in your mothers writing,
so II opened it"
"Of course" said Harry.
Tit was written to you all
through. Do you understand -
Il understand. But where did the
insult come I'M"
IN the p-p-postscrip," cried the
wife, bursting into fresh floods of
tears. 1T s-said, 'D-dear Flora,
d-don't fail to give this I-letter to
Harry. l w-want him to have it.
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OTIS.

The annual dinner was served
town meeting day at Mrs. James Jor-
dams. by the circle, for the benefit of
the new church.
Mrs. Lettie Armstrong and Russell
Lyman are working for Charles
Watts, getting the camps ready for
the opening of the season on April 6.
Miss Gladys Dunbar of Mariaville
is working for Mrs. Roland Salisbury.
Schools repoened April 6.
Mr.. Sleeves has gone to Old Town
for a few weeks.
Vera Bell is spending few days
with her aunt, Mrs. Harold Sails
bury.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bunker spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs. j. l..
Salisbury.
April g. y.
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much Sugar on snow is great
treat with the children. Vermont
maple sugar is sent to all parts Of
the country Mr.. Wheeler said some
of the sugar this year was going to
Maine, some to California. 1t costs
twelve cents pound to send sugar
to California The sugar retails at
the farm at 1925 a gallon as syrup,
$3.50 for a ten-pound pail; thirty
five-pound tubs at 23 cents a pound; .
cakes. 40 cents pound.
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Sunset.

Miss Lillian Greenlaw, who has
been attending school at Pennington,
is home.
Gladys Haskell has employment
at P. j. Eaton's.
Mrs. Fannie Cole, who has been
i'll, is improving.
Mrs. Rose Packard of Massachu-
sets is with her sister, Mrs. Sellars.
Mr.. and Mrs George w. Davis
have gone to Surry to visit their
daughter, Mrs. Ellis Saunders.
Miss Maude Small spent the week
end at home.
Thomas Powers was a visitor at
Little Deer Isle recently.
April d. ID.
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South Bluehill.

Leona and Alvin Howard and Ron
aid Gray, after spending their vaca-
ton at home, have returned to
Brooklin, where they are attending
high school
Mrs. w. J. Johnson is at home
from Earl Hanscom's, North Sedg-
wick, where she has been employed.
Bert Bartlett of Center is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. w. j. Johnson.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08

Here's a new one, almost good
enough for a movie plot. A Bangor
man was to meet his wife at
designated place. She took fright at
seeing man approach and ran into
a nearby house. The police were
notified and upon experimenting the
man, the wife found it was her hus-
band
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08

You handle large sums of money
in this playa million or more in
every act
Il see," said the actor.
And you must handle it as if you
were used to it.
Gould you let me have ten dollars
to rehearse WITH"
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MAINE WINS IN FLORIDA.
Pine Tree Float Captures First Prize
At St. Petersburg.

(By Mrs. Florence J. Merrill of Blue
hill)
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BRIDGE DECIDING FACTOR.
Says Charles a. Mann, Regarding
Sorrento Development.


Sorrento Development.
In The American of March 25y in
an editorial on the Hancock-Sullivan
bridge, the statement was made that
| the development of the Sorrento sum
mer resort property was direct re
suit of the building of the bridge.
In the issue of April l this statement
was challenged as unwarranted by
correspondent favoring making the
bridge a toll bridge. The following
letter from Charles A. Mann, of the
Charles A. Mann Realty Corporation
of New York, shows just how unwar
ranted our statement of March 25
was:
New York. April 4. 1925.
Editor American, Ellsworth Maine.
Dear Sir-On my return from Maine,
| | found awaiting me your favor of
March % with editorial entitled THE
Hancock Sullivan Bridge" clipped from
The Ellsworth American of March 25
1925
1t is il fact that the Hancock-Sulli-
van bridge under construction was
Tie IdCtOF Tic I1dtttF Vi
our purchase at Sorrento.
We naturally prefer free bridge,
but have felt from the first quite will
ing to abide by the judgment and senti-
ment of the majority Of the people
there. Our long experience with real
estate subdivisions in this great and
rapidly growing city, where we have
more school children than the entire
population of the State of Maine,
has demonstrated to us the fact that
accessibility of a section by quick, easy
and cheap transportation is the most
important factor of rapid growth and
| quickly increasing property values.
While we had not intended to form
ally open Sorrento properties for this
season, there has already been from our
! friends and connections quite some de-
mand for property there and so we
| have decided to supply natural demand
in this respect.
| Our plans concerning Sorrento are
still i'm the process of development.
and from time to time, consumated,
Will be given out.
Yours very truly,
Charles A. Mann Realty Corporation.
BY c. a. Mann President,
by G. A. Mann, President
In an attractive broadside adver-
Using the Sorrento property, the COM
pany says:
A concrete bridge to cost 100000 is
now well along under construction
over the Sullivan river at Waukeag
and West sullivan, to accommodate
the constantly increasing tourist and
rgular travel to Sorrento and other
eastern Maine coast points. While Sor-
rento IS about six miles across the bay
to Bar larbor and Lafayette National
Park via Maine Central railroad ferry
steamers, this bridge viii afford
twenty five mile automobile trip over
the best of roads and through scenic
wonders between Bar iarbor, sorrento
and eastern points. The bridge will
greatly facilitate an motor travel, and
fine automobile roads lead from Sor-
rento to all sections Of the country
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to do this, aside from the trouble of
wrapping and mailing. After April Is
next when the new postal rates go into
effect, it will cost you 2 cents for each
COPY so sent---$ .O4 year.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1925-04-08
copy so sent---$1.04 a year.
Why Not Add 81 to that

and let us send it for you, saving you the
trouble and inconvenience, and letting that
absent one have the paper promptly and
regularly?
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
EI
/rl.N& :
Viqoroua Easter Dance

There are many old-time English
country dances more weird and won
derful than the jazz.
The coconut dancers Of R~ossendale,
in Lancashire, celebrate the anniver-
sary according to ancient custom by
q dance the like of which is to be
seen nowhere else Son earth.
They caper, they pranee, they twist.
round and round like whirling der
wishes, and perform many other star
Ting eyolutIons. Their costumes, too,
are unique. They wear floral turbans,
embroidered kits, white stockings, and
fancy clogs. And attached to various
parts of their clothing are lockwood
cymbals made to resemble coconuts,
which striking together cause a din
that would make the most exacting Of
jazz band conductors envious
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
English University Spirit.

Until the middle Of the nineteenth
century England had only three ani-
versities-Oxford. Cambridge and Dur
ham-but the time M soon ceming
when every large city on John Bulls
island will want a university Of its
own. London already has one, and so
has Birmingham, to say nothing OF
those of Manchester and Liverpool,
Leeds has Joined the dance, and lat
est OF all, comes Shef1eld, which
opened its university recently. Tie
new buildings have cost $1,000.O 600.
And so things change, even n Eng
land, and these rapid transformations
are bound to alter the aristocrati3 char
acter Of the English universities. In.
fact, those institutions seem bound to
assmue a most democratic air, No.
longer is university education tc be put
on a high shelf where only q few rich
young gentlemen at Oxford and Cam
bridge can reach it. but, precisely as in
America, 1t win soon be accessible to
the sons of the middle classes and the
poor, who can still live at home while
taking their lectures at the university.
-Boston Transcript.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
No pIscoursesy Intended.

Al young sport with loud hose and .
Panama hat, a cigarette and a pearl
handled "parasor" got off the east
bound train Wednesday. He walked
over town and dropped into a restaur-
ant on Main street and ordered a veal
outlet. The waiter soon brought in
the order and placed it before his
Nibs the Sport. "Do you call that a
veal cutlet7 Why. that's an insult
to a calf to call that a veal outlet,
said the sissy boy. Il didn't mean
70 insult you. sir" said the waiter
Supulpa, |. T., Light.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
scoldlna SCI to Music.

In one Of the beer gardens a brass
band was playing what %purported to
be a Wagnerian selection with posi-
lively deafening effect. The good
natured people around the tables Mad
wisely abandoned all effort at CONVEX
Bation. Not so with one woman, a
shrewish-looking person, who was
leaning over a table shaking her fin
ger at her husband and doing her
best to make him hear the abuse that
she was evidently hurting at him.
Suddenly, with one grand blare, the
music stopped and the woman's voice,
pitched in a yeritable scream, was
heard:
"You bald-headed, s%our-faced idiot.
I'LL"
Checked by her own strident tones,
she looked about her in CONSERVATION.
Not so the husband. He was ~calloused
TO abuse. Picking up his stein, he
looked at his wife and growled:
"Shut up till the band starts again"
New York Times.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19

Hare-Pie FestiDaI

Every Easter sees a strange custom
enacted at. HalIaton, in Leicestershdre,
England, a custom which has con-
tinued for long decades. This is what
is known as 'the Hare-Pie Festival"
There is a procession formed which,
led BY a brass band, marches through
the chief streets OF the village to the
church. Here, after a short service,
the rector, assisted by two or three
chosen officials, cuts up a large hare
pie which has been specially made for
the occasion. The pieces Of pie are
scrambled for down a steep bank in
the village known as Hare Bank, and
1t is considered a noteworthy feat to
secure the largest possible portion.
Later on there is feasting in the VIII
lage, and a stated quantity Of ale has
to be given to the villagers in accord
ance with the traditions Of the hare
pie.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19


At this time countless millions bend
the knee In reverence and worship Of
Him whom Christians hail as their
Master. This is the date they assign
to His resurrection, with its promise
to mortals of salvation and life v
lasting.
The priest at the altar delivers the
message of promise and now Games
Nature, a supporting witness, revived
with the forces of spring, bursting with
the pressure of bud and leaf and bios
som, ~greening and rising from a win
try death that proves to have been
only a sleep, to bear witness to tina
continuance of life.
This is the time of mystic renewal of
life, which comes to tighten the burr
dens of man, to brighten his road and
restore his hope and faith. The hope
of Immortality is an indestructible
part of the human soul. It would live
Ii the world were clad in perpetual
ice. But Natures resurrection is a
welcome reinforcement OF mans hope,
and in itself it gives him new eour-
age.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
Mere Opinion.

There will be no escaping on tech
nicalities at the last judgment
The wilderness of a golf ball wears
IF almost as rapidly as the novelty
Of being a father.
Two swelled heads not not better
Than one.
When charity was invented the re-
turning of conscience nancy was made
easy.
It appears to be impossible for a
woman to know how to make baby
clothes and have a working knowledge
Of the rules of bridge.
investigation will show that the men
who awoke to find themselves famous
did a lot of hard work before going to
bed.
Some women viii find heaven a very
dismal place if it has no shop win
dows.
A girl seldom marries her ideal,
which is one reason why there is SO
much happiness in the world.-Chi-
a G Record-Herald.
The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-03-19
How She Won out.

She was busy holding n end Of the
sofa down and he the other, and for
seventeen consecutive seconds silence
had reigned supreme. Their he said
Il wonder If any girl ever really did.
propose during leap year,"
Il don't know" replied his fair
companion, "but I'm sure no girl
would do such a thing unless she was
obliged to-"
Several more silent sec9,his passed
"Um-yes," he said. II hadn
thought Of it in that light"
And I'm sure" she confined, as
she moved over and laid her hand
softly on his arm. you would never.
permit a girl to humiliate herself in
that manner, would your"
"Why-er-I-that is. OF course
not" he stammered.
The ice having been broken, the
rest was easy. and five minutes later
they were engaged in looking up the
advertisements Of firms that sell fur
niture on the installment plan.