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S T E V E N S l BOSTON-RANGELEY Repeating Shotgun No. 520 Í?“LEADER” SIX LIGHTNING SHOTS Atwood Would Bring His Fishing SOLID BREECH Tackle Along On Biplane. Loaded Y ou can’t buy a safer, faster, harder, a more HAMMERLESS even shooting or a better keeping load- The fastest and than Winchester “Leader” shells. For field, easiest operating WILL START WHEN ICE GOES. fowl, or trap shooting, they are in a class by pump gun on the themselves, and give entire satisfaction in any market. “ The last make of shotgun. The results they give are düe to word in Repeating May Go Via Portland, Farmington their patented construction and the careful and exact manner in which they are loaded. The patent Corru Shotguns. ” and Phillips to Rangeley. gated Head used on Winchester shells is an invaluable NON-BALKABLE. feature. It absorbs the shock of the powder explosion and takes the strain from the paper tube instead of P e r fe c tly bal Harry Atwood, the celebrated avia- localizing it, as the old English method of metal lining anced. tor, who made the famous flight does. That’s why “ Leader” shells are stronger and from St. Louis to New’ York, may less apt to cut off at the mouth of the shells than List Price, 125. fly to Rangeley ait tb ' Jpg of the shells made according to English ideas of long ago. For sale by all fishing season, ^g with him If you want the most satisfactory shells made, ask for W inchester Factory#Loaded “ Leader” shells. progressive m e r - fishing aquii . l, if plans already chants. INSIST ON on foot are successful. Th'' Shell with the Patented Corrugated Head It is understood that Mr. Atwood STEVENS. Is very anxious to make the trip, for he is not only an enthusiastic Latest Catalog air man but a good fisherman as For Your Fishing Trip Try and “ How to Shoot well. Well” mailed for the He will be kept advised by wire asking. regarding the probability of the ice BALL’S GAMPS. leaving the Rangeley Lakes at a No place like it for salmon, also trout and laketrout. J. STEVENS ARMS Ô. certain time. Just before that happy Send for book B. Grand Lake Stream, Maine. event occurs he will tune up his T O O L G O . latest flying machine and whirl away P. O. Box 50 what is perhaps the most famous fishing water in the world. CHICOPEE FALL, MASS. There has been considerable inter- j SPRING FISHING i est displayed in the probable route1 Advertising Pays You that Mr. Atwood would select for SEASON OF 1912 such a trip. It is believed by some THE SANDY RIVER AND RANGELEY LAKES RAILROAD ! that he would take Itdie ocean course 1 j from Boston to Portland and then PubI isbes a beautiful little Booklet in colors, j fly northward through the towns on ! Mountain View House | the line of the Maine Central rail- i entitled “FISHING”. It tells all about where to go, Mountain View* Maine j road, via Farmington and Phillips to in the Rangeley and Dead River Regions of Maine, Rangeley. For further particulars write or address and contains an accurate Map of this Territory. Or he may decide that a shorter i Address with stamp, L. E. B0W LEY, and better course would be via Mountain View, » * * Maine. Portland and Rumford Falls to Oano- F. N. BEAL, G. P. A., Phillips, Maine. ssoc and thence to Rangeley. Maine Woods has already wired Mr. Atwood for information’ concern-, ing his proposed flight. It is be- j TH IN K OF lieved that such an attempt would PieKFORD’S CAMPS result in a large amount of interest ; Most modern and up-to-da£e camps in the state of Maine. All camps GRANT’S CAMPS, KENNEBAGO, MAINE, being shown by the residents along have bath rooms. Book early. When Packing up for that Fishing Trip. Fly Fishing de luxe the line of flight. H. E. PICKFORD, Rangeley, Maine. U. S. A. ED GRANT <& SONS, Kennebago, Maine »#>»•••••••••••••— W —— — — — — FIRST SALMON OF H. Taylor was elected secretary, and PROHIBITION Horatio Woodcock, treasurer. Brown’s Camps, Lake Kezar. SEASON AT SEBAGO The following were elected as dele- For your Spring Fishing Trip why not come where the salmon are large CAUCUS ! gates to the state onvention, and enough to interest you. The average weight of salmon here for the past The first salmon of the season was also to serve as delegates to the five seasons has been seven pounds. We also offer you private cabins Congressional District Convention with opeu fire, bath, twin beds, etc Bass fishing is unsurpassed. Write caught ait 10 o ’clock Friday morning us for booklet, rates and detailed information. Address on Songo b&r at Sebago lake, by Kingfield, Me., Apr. 23.—The pro James L. Howe, F. B. Hutchins and * B. E. BROWN, Center Lovell, Maine. Robert Martin, one of the members hibition caucus was held at the Evan Lynne Durrell. The delegates to the at the Big Four camp. In the party gelial church tonight, being called j county convention wrere then elected were S. Wilder Bartlett, James F. to order by the chairman. of the as follows: James L. Howe, F. B. Bell, Thomas H. Thompson, of town committee, James L. Howe. Hutchins, Horatio Woodcock, G. H. Cambridge, Mass., H. E. Morse, S. After prayer had been offered the Taylor, Jerome Simmons. A motion W. Bartlett of Boston. The salmon following business was transacted. that the delegates should be un- TIM POND CAMPS weighed 5 V2 pounds and made a James L. Howe w’as re-eleted as instructed was carried, after which Open when the ice leaves the lake. We guarantee both bait and fly gamy fight for some 30 minutes. chairman of the town committee: G. the caucus was adjourned. fishing and catch trout. Telephone, daily mail. Write for 1912 booklet. JULIAN K. VILES & SON, F™ win c°- Tim’ Maine- LAKEW00D CAMPS J)0N«/\KE M /W 0iy) ' FblVÍME FlSHlNG-LEf /AEfilRHlSHyoU REf- 'ERERCES.lNfilVlJML CRBINS.OPEN 0 RE S, WllWWlfHOÜÍJWÍiS LOON-LAKE J.LEWiS Y ork «— raN&eiev m .
FORMERLY KNOWN AS ANGLERS’ RETREAT GO TO JOE’S O' JOE WHITE RUNS BLAKESLEE LAKE GAMPS in the Has a greater variety of fishing grounds than any one place in the Rangeley Lakes. Fifteen miles of Dead River Region, where you can catch trout e v day in Lake trolling and Five miles of Stream Fly Fishing and several Ponds well stocked with Trout and Salmon. the season. That’ the point and that's the fact. Write, to Table first-class. A No. 1 beds. Camps have from one to seven rooms and open brick fireplace and pure JOE WHITE, Eustls, Me., For Booklet and Particulars. running SPRING WATER in each camp. For rates and booklet address L Gapt. E. F. Goburn, Middledam, Rangeley Lakes, Maine Advertise in Maine Woods MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912.
Miss Gladys Bates, Miss Ella Beal, Section 4—These regulations shall the boys and some of the grown men Miss Elizabeth Toothaker, Miss Cath take effect on May 1. A. D., 1912, and would buy, if the former rifles could TAXIDERMISTS erine Noble, Miss Horten.se Butler, shall remain in force for a period of be sold cheap enough. Having no Mrs. C. Nell Parker and Miss Ina tour years. great amount of ready money, Mr. G. W . PICKEL, Badger. The following regulations have been Turner induced a leading citizen of TAXIDERMIST applied upon Twitchell pond, Green Boston to sign his bond; and from Miss Wheeler is an especially ex Dealer in Sporting Goods, Fishing wood: then on he ceased to be an adver pert rider, haying been in the saddle Tackle, Indian Moccasins, Basket* Section 1—It shall be unlawful for tising agent and began to attend the 1 more or less from childhood. She and Souvenirs. any person to take, catch, or kill in any public auction sales of out-of-date has the faculty of training horses to. Rangeley, - - Maine. one day more than eight black bass in government fire-arms. saddle gaits. One of her latest ac Twitchell pond, so called, in the town Of course, there were other federal complishments in this line has been of Greenwood, in the county of Oxford. weapons disposed of at those sales— NASH OF MAINE. the education of a horse owned by It shall also be unlawful for any person Licensed Taxidermist, Norway, Me* , ancient Merrill carbines, early Rem a well known Phillips liveryman. to have in possession in any one day Maine’s Leading Fish Taxidermist. Under her tutelage the horse has more than eight black bass taken from ington rifles, cumbersome Winches The safety, comfort and conveni ters, which fired 16 shots without ence of the Zftarlin solid top, closed- improved wonderfully as a saddler. said Twitchell pond. reloading, and so on down the lis t- in breech and side ejection features Many favorable comments have Section 2—These regulations shall EDMOND J. BOUCHER. are combined with the quick, easy including some breech loaders whose been heard regarding the young take effect on April 29, A. D., 1912, Licensed Scientific, Taxidermist. manipulation of the popular sliding very names are now forgotten. But| fore-end or “ pump” action in the new woman riding astride instead of side and shall remain in force for a period (Tanner) Will give you Standard and i Mr. Turner knowing exactly what M odel 20 ZSSzn&* ride. saddle, as has been the custom in of four years. Moth proof work in all branches of he wanted, confined himself exclusive In rapid firing—the real test of a re this part of the country in years Taxidermy and Tanning. Price list peater—the ffla r /i/t solid top is always a ly to the ancient Springfield muzzle- protection and prevents smoke and gases past. Horsemen say that ¡this method with useful instructions -FREE. blowing back; the ejected shell is never loaders, many of which our boys In thrown into your fece or eyes, and never of riding is much safer, for FAVORS BOUNTY N. E. Tel. 572-52. interferes with the aim ; the fat forearm fits there is less danger of being thrown blue had carried for months and per 186 Main St., Auburn, Me. your hand and helps quick operation. haps years, and loaded from prepared than when perched on a horse in ON HOUSE CATS It handles the short, long and long-rifle cartridges, holding powder, rifle cartridges without change in adjustment, the side saddle position. and the deep Ballard rifling guarantees the bullet and two buckshot—the same accuracy, making it the finest little rifle in There has been some agitation over T. A. JAMES the world for target shooting and for all F. L. ButLer a reader of Maine kind of cartridges the old and young small game up to 150 or 200 yards. the formation of a riding club, but Will continue to do business in Win woods, who lives in another state, soldiers in action used to bite as yet no definite action has been throp and make a specialty of Muse writes an interesting letter anent apart with their teeth when in the For full description of taken in regard to the matter. um work and mounting and painting» all 7 7 2 cir/ in Repeaters, the bob cat question, Mr. Butler says melee of a fight. of fish in oil and water color. just get our 136-page A number of young men in Phillips in part: Mr. Turner bought in his Spring- catalog. 'Mailed free Winthrop, - - - Maine. for 3 stamps postage.
77¿é> 7 /Iar/in firearm s Gx, “MONMOUTH MOCCASINS.” 33 Willow Street. NEW HAVEN, CONN. . iMB3SK3Hhi u+wam They are made for BETS ARE MADE Sportsmen, Guides, Lumbermen. Known the world over for excel ON GOING OF ICE lence. Illustrated catalogue free. M. L. GETCHELL CO.f
Experts at Mt. View Favor May 15 Monmouth, - - Maine. For Ice to Leave* RODS AND SNOWSHOES. (Special to Main© Woods.) I make Rangeley wood and split Mountain View, April 23.—On© of bamboo rods for fly fishing and the surest signs of spring is the trolling. Rods to let. Snowshoe» betting that is going forward on the to order. time that the ice will probably leave E. T. HOAR, Rangeley, Me. the lakes. May 15 is the favorite date, but others earlier in the sea son have been mentioned. Signs of spring are everywhere. The roads are very muddy and GUIDES ADDRESSES sleighs have been stoned away. Wag ons are now in use, the first one This column is for sale to guides from Rangeley arrived driven by who want their addresses to appear Charles Hun toon, who was accom in Maine Woods each week in al* panied by that famous Rangeley A BIT OF CANADIAN SCENERY. phbetical order. For price, address, guide, A1 Sprague. By the courtesy of the Canadian Pacific R. li. Maine Woods, Phillips, Maine. There is a narrow strip of open water on the lake shone. The lake are also fond of horse back riding, j “ Maine Woods asks us, should w e1 field rifle for an average rate of 12 James E. Durrell, Rangeley, Me. Joseph J. Hill, The Forks, Mains. is rising every day. This with the but do not seem to take the same j put a bounty on bob cats? That is, cents each by the hundred or some James Briggs, Howe Brook, Maine. continued warm weather speaks loud constant interest that is shown by should the state of Maine place a $10 7 to 8 cents each by the 1,000; and | N. B. Nile, Rangeley Maine. er than words of the coming of the i the young women mentioned. bounty on bob carts? I am an out* kept buying—all he could secure; an ; fishing season. —------— sider and don’t know as I have a while he was making his purchases, The carpenters are here finishing right to butt in on state questions, he was contracting with gun-makers the piazza begun last fall. The long MANY PETITIONS but to say what I think means, put to have his Springfied rifles bored j 1804 HEBRON ACADEMY 1911 steps have been done away with, a bounty of $10 on bob cats and out into serviceable shot-guns for Prepares thoroughly for all lattice work taking their place, mak TO CLOSE STREAMS then $25 on domestic cats, as they about 16 to 20 cents each; so in the college and scientific schools. ing a marked improvement on the are as bad in some -ways as bob end he could advertise “ Shot-Guns i College, Classical appearance of the house from the Commissioners Are Kept Busy cats and no earthly use to any one. For Boys at $1.50 Each.’' He had ! and water front. A new bath room has “ There should also be a bounty on branch houses iu Boston, Pittsburg with Hearings about the State* English Courses. been added to the second cottage, such pests as skunks, minks, weasels and St. Louis; and at. the close o f 1 Location ideal for high mountain air so that all the cottages now have and ground hogs. Also on all kinds of his first year he was doing a pure water and quiet environment. Among the recent petitions received hot and cold water and baths. of hawks, owls, blue jays and En land-office business all over the ] A teacher for every 20 pupils. by the commissioners of Inland Fisher The river drivers are beginning to glish sparrows, crows and sparrows. country, and making much money as ies and Game, is that of F. W. Knowl- W inter term opens Tuesday, January arrive for the different drives. The “ The trap and trapper have as a salesman of fire arms. ton and 58 others of Oldtown, Bangor 2, 1912. Spring term opens Wednes* Cupsuptic River drive starts this j good a right in the field as the dog and vicinity, who believe that there “ The business of Mr. Turner stop- ! day, April 3, 1912. | and gun. I own a fine dog, but week. There are 6,000,000 feet of should be additional close time on Suk- ped when the supply of Springfields | Catalog on request. Write Principal, am not afraid to hunt him anywhere, timber to come down this little river haze stream and its tributaries. This gave out, and not until then. W. E. SARGENT, Litt. D. this spring. From 80 to 100 men will stream rises in Township 32 and emp ro matter how many traps are set The only reminder that eastern1 Hebron, - - - Maine. be employed on the drive. ties into the Penobscot river at Milford. | in, on or under any old place. Maine now has of these tough and It is understood that deer have George W. Staples and nine others of “ I hope some of the trappers will hard-shooting Springfields comes wintered well, for the snow came ; Temple have asked that all fishing be get busy and write you ideas con- when a leading dry goods store on late. For this reason the deer did ! prohibited in Staples pond and its tribu I cerning the steel trap and its uses Main street, Bangor, fills its show ENJOYS RAMBLING not have to yard unto.1 late. taries for a term of three or four years. | and abuses. wtodows with army, navy and cavalr There was a hearing on the matter “ Mr. Ashby, I like to hear you revolvers and unbored out Spring- IN MAINE WOODS i of the Sukhaze stream fishing, at the ! make a noise with your pen.” fields, which are strictly true to | municipal court room, Oldtown, at 3 45 name and it© nature, but which are East Hampton, Conn., Apr. 9, 1912. PHILLIPS GIRLS p. m., April 23. A hearing was also rapidly becoming antiquated and out To the Editor of Maine Woods: assigned for 7. 45 p. m., the same of date, though all of them are OLD-TIME RIFLES I gladly send you my two dollars date, at the Lincoln House, Lincoln, to more than worth the prices for RIDE GRACEFULLY for the joy of reading about your | act upon matters brought to the atten BROUGHT FORTUNE which they are advertised and sold. Maine woods for the next two years. tion of the commissioners by residents Wars and rumors of wars have I should like to receive your paper But Do Not Favor the Side Saddle* j of Springfield, Carroll ai d Lakeville nearly ceased to agitate the minds of ! plantation. Turner Bought Antiquated Guns by each Saturday evening, as I live far Use Divided Skirt Instead. the civilized world. More as curiosi from town and could enjoy my even.* The following regulations have been ties of the past, than as service ! adopted relative to fishing in Jimmy Thousand and Had ' Them ing’s ramble in your Maine Woods able weapons of today, these ancient weekly until all wild life has dis There are a number of young | Pond in Litchfield: Re-bored* weapons now adorn offices, armories appeared and there is not enough left women in Phillips who are expert Section 1—It shall be unlawful for and hall-racks, as samples of what1 to spot a well defined trail upon. equestriennes, riding with much grace any per?on to fish for, take, catch or How George W. Turner of Dorches were fashionable in the past, and There seems a little uncertainty through the streets of the village. kill, any kind of fioh at any time in Jim ter, Mass, made a fortune out of might be in vogue today, had not. ' about the just owners of our timber Almost to a woman they favor my pond, so-called, in the town of servicable but out °f date firearms the gain in civilized notions placed land and wild life that ought to riding astride, using for this pur Litchfield, county of Kennebec, or in is told by a Bangor writer in an fighting with fists, clubs or firearms tranquillize soon. Buit with your de pose flowing divided skirts instead any of the tributaries to said pond or in interesting manner. Says this so very much under a perpetual nuded rocky lakes, mountains and of the tight riding “ breeches” favor the outlet stream of said pond down as authority: taboo. streams, with much of the wild ed by Miss Eieanora Sears, the ex far as Buker pond, so-called. Section 2—It shall also be unlawful “ Mr. Turner was a young adver life gone, your Switzerland of Am. pert and much talked about Boston 1 for any person to fish for, take, catch tising agent in Boston ait the close A NEW MAGAZINE. erica will be about as attractive to horsewoman. or kill any kind of fish on or through of the Civil war. When the volunteer campers, hunters and guides as the The afternoon is the time favored the ice in said Buker pond, so-called, or federal army was disbanded more Maine Woods has received the isand of Juan Fernandes was to by the young women in .question for in Sand pond, so-called, or in Long or than a million of the old Spring- initial number of “ The New England Robinson Cruso. their rides. They make a striking Purgatory pond, so-called, or in Little field, muzzle-loading rifles were put Resorter,” a monthly magazine, pub 1 don’t know as much about Mr. and cavalcade as they dash about town, Purgatory pond, so-called, which wat up for sale at public auction, where lished at Manohester-By-The-Sea, Mrs. Bob Cat as I do about Mr. and riding as a rule with easy grace. The ers are Bituated wholly or partly in said upon a Bright Idea came to young Mass. The magazine is very attrae*1 Mrs. Bob White. Probably one most of the young women prefer the town of Litchfield. ______Mr. Turner. He would bid in every tive typographically and pictorially. pair of bob cats woud be enough American style of riding to the En Section 3—It shall also be unlawful Springfield musket he could buy, The first issue is devoted to spring to stock 50 square miles and make glish saddle and shortened stirrups. for any person to have in possession have them bored out and converted fishing. James Sweinhart is the wild life quite interesting in their Among those who are seen in the any kind of fish taken in violation of into shot-guns, and then advertise editor and J. Alex. Lodge the busi direction, to primitive Americans. saddle are Miss Florian Wheeler, any'provision of these regulations. them for sale, believing that many of ness manager. Frank J. Watrous. M AINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912
Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad. insisted that a just and conscientious sportsman should and could not even Tima-Tabl« ln Effect D«c. 3 d, 1 9 1 1 . then forget that his friend, no mat INDOOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD ter how upright and honest in every-1 P.M. AM P.M. A.M. Won by MR. F. B. STEPHENSON, of the Crescent Athletic Club, scoring Iv 10 50 New York. (Gr. Cen, Sta.) ar *5 35 day life, had sneaked out at night A.M. lv t9 00 Boston, (via Portsmouth) ar t3 05 A 11 12 Iv t3 00 lv 8 55 Boston, (via Dover) ar 3 30 ar 9 05 to shoot ducks or hired some miser lv 8 80 lv 1 55 Portland ar 10 10 ar 5 35 able creature to set night lines for 99 out o f 100 HND USING A.M. A.M. fish. Iv 12 01 lv 6 15 lv til 00 Farming: ton. ar 6 57 ar t9 35 ar 2 15 12 32 5 47 12 05 Strong:. lv 1 42 On more than one fishing trip he
A.M. and the old hunter discussed ways lv 5 50 Strong, ar 1 30 and means of game preservation. P e t e r s Shells 6 16 Salem, 1 05 lv 12 45 Again and again, Mr. Cleveland told Iv t8 00 6 35 Kingfield. ar 11 50 The Second Annual Indoor Trap Shooting Contest took place at the Madison Square him that the need was not so much Garden. New York. March 1-9, and resulted in practically a clean-up for PETERS 8 25 Carrafcasset, 11 23 for new laws or more laws, but for i i A (J TORY LOADS. The scores tell the story (all with PETERS regular factory loads) ar 8 55 Bigelow lv 11 00 the enforcement of existing laws b y , QUALIFYING SCORE FOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP -50 TARGETS A.M. P.M. 1st. F. B. Stephenson, - - 50 Strong. 6 26 8 45 1 42 sportsmen themselves—by the ostra ar 6 10 lv 1 20 INTERNATIONAL INDOOR AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP-100 TARGETS Iv 7 40 ar 12 55 lv 6 15 ar 12 30 Phillips, lv 16 05 lv Î7 30 ar 12 25 ar t3 00 cism of those so-called sportsmen who Winner—F. B. Stephenson, - • 99 violated them, or who shot or fished j 9 15 7 17 Redington, 11 26 12 00 £9 40 Eustis Junction, just to make a record bag, regardless 7 Out of 8 Daily Amateur High Score Medals f7 43 Dead River, £10 52 ar 10 15 ar 8 00 Rangeley, lv tlO 45 lvtll 00 of whether the game were needed for1 W o n With PETERS Shells. A.M. P.M. P.M P.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. food. Mar. 1, Wm. Hassinger, - 48 ex 50 Mar. 7, C. de Quillfeldt, - 48 ex 50 See Note See Note ,, 4, F. B. Stephenson. * 48 ex 50 „ 8. H. W. Kahler, - 49 ex 50 It was one early morning when; ,, 6, W. Simonson, - 48 ex 50 „ 9. J. H. Hendrickson, - 49 ex 50 f, Train stops on signal or notice to conductor, ,, 6, F. B. Stephenson. - 60 ex 50 t Daily except Sunday. President Cleyeland had left rod and * Daily except Monday. tackle behind and was tramping alon The above scores prove that real marksmanship and PETERS PERFECT AMMUNI A. Change of cars at South Lawrence. TION make an UN BEATABLE COMBINATION. Note. Trains Nos. 7 and 12 are subject to cancellation any day without previous notice. with his servicable 12-gauge shot-j m o r r i s McDo n a l d . f . n . b e a l . gun that he expounded bis theory on Use “ Steel where Steel belongs” Shells. President & General Manager General Passenger Ag rabbits—together with a word of re proval for unsportsmanlike hunters. THE PETERS CARTRIDGE COMPANY, CINCINNATI, OHIO The rabbit, he told his guide, may NEW YOttK: 98 Chambers St.. T. H. Keller. Manager CLEVELAND’S GUIDE. furnish excellent and exhil ©rating sport for all it is commonly looked down upon, if, however, the pursuit of it is properly conducted. and I will continue to wear them be Start a rabbit going at full speed, ELEAN0RA BOUND cause they are comfortable. Because Addison B. Heath, Famous Berkshire he declared, and it is a skillful mark my attire happens to look masculine man indeed who can bring it down TO WEAR PANTS in character is no fault of mine. with any certainty. Bu/t, and he did Free movement of the limbs in ex Hunter, Had Well-known Patrons. not fail to castigate the unsports ercise demands certain concessions manlike bunter, too many (hunters Former Boston Girl Defies “Busy- in attire. Right here at Burlingame ease their conscience by calling the you find such correct women as Mrs. bodies” and Says She Is common cotton tall rabbit a bare, and Eugene Murphy, Mrs. Oscar Cooper Shoots with Great Skill Although 86 Years then consider it good sport to shoot Comfortable and Miss Jennie Crocker modeling the little animals while sitting at rest their athletic dresses after mine. Old, Making Bullseyes at 260 Yards. or within too easy a range. The reason is simple. My clothes He endured the rigors of bunting The “ mothers” of Burlingame, al are made for convenience. I defy any and fishing in the rough region of ways supposed in the Bast to be one women to dress in the thoroughly which Tyringham is a part, because, of the “ sportiest” country club sec conventional dress and exercise pro mer as the author’s guest, and be In order that he might begin his as he aways declared, a hunter is tions on the Pacific Coast, have perly. came so enchanted with the sec 86th year of life on the hunting bora, not made. Only an ineradicabl given the world another surprise of “ One doesn't ride horseback in an lusion and wildness of the locality path, Addison B. Heath of Tyringham sesmic porportions by objecting to evening dress. Isn't it just as ridicul and the hunting and fishing pos- love of the sport could reconcile the tramped 10 miles over the roads hunter to discomforts and empty the “ riding pants” worn by that ad ous to appear in a skirt that hampers sibiities that he at one time con of the Berkshires to take out his game bags. mirable type of American young your freedom of movement? The templated buying a place there as hunting license for 1912. Since his hunting days began he womanhood, Miss Eleanora Sears. times I have appeared on the street he later did in New Hampshire. He celebrated bis birthday recent has killed no less than 74 wildcats, The fact that Miss Sears comes from of Burlingame in breeches were oc ly by going with gun and rod over Mr. Heath’s great renown as a countless foxes, many coons, and Boston, the land of the prude and the casions when I had just returned hunter, and his lesser fame as a the paths where in years gone by, quantities of the smaller game that; Puritan, and that California, famous from riding and had gone to the he piloted Grover Cleveland, Richard disciple of Izaak Walton, then and still abounds in the almost unexplor as the birthplace of the pioneers, now post-office. Of course, riding attire now was spread broadcast through Watson Gilder and other national ed fastnesses of a part of the Berk- j famous in finance and society, whose is not walking attire, so I fail to see characters whom he came to know as Berkshire county. To him, therefore, shires. wives and daughters were of the where the busybodies ’ scored a guide and friend in the intimacy that the distinguished summer visitor To the credit of the infallibility of hardiest types, who bathed uncon point. ’ ■ came most naturally to be piloted is born when two men are thrown his aim, his cool nerve and the ac- 1 ventionally in the surf and rode as “As for having a bad effect on the through the section which today is together in the wild places, says the curacy of a little 22-calibre rifle, is cowgirls only ride on the plains, i s ' sensibilities of boys and girls, I will almost as wild and uncharted as it Boston Post. the skin of the only panther, as far a cause for rumination upon “ the say that riding togs will do the was in Colonial times. Unimpaired in faculties, despite as is known ever killed in the state. , swinging of the pendulum,” and re children good. Outdoor exercise wounds received in the Civil war, In his company Mr. Gilder whipped The Peabody Museum in Cambridge calls the adage of “ three generations makes life worth while. It means still able to get 17 bullseyes out the trout streams that foam down has on exhibition the rude tree from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves,” better men and women. I hope the of 20 at 260 yards, familiar with from the hills and received inspira trunk burned out by Indians, it is or, paraphrase in this case, “from | time will come when every lad and every foot of the Berkshire hills, Mr. tion for poems that added to his estimated, 300 or more years ago, to pants to pants.’’ The Burlingame j lassie in the land will be the Heath is confident that he is today fame. His phraseology made a pro make a canoe, and this was found mothers, presumably, are in the i proud possessor of a riding pony. found and polished diction and throes of the second chrysalis state as competent a hunter and guide as by Mr. Heath wh n he roamed “The same busybodies who criti lasting impression on the old hunt of shirt (is it proper to mention the he ever was in the days spent with through the Berkshire thickets 67 cise me should themselves take er, one that he still retains. article?) sleeves and have not yet the ex-President and the poet. years ago. Abandoned, no one proper exercise now and then. ‘ It President Cleveland, however, he returned to the primitive conditions Every year since the law required knows when nor where, the canoe, as would do them good. found the more communicative of smooth and round inside from red- which Miss Sears has idealized by a license for hunting, Mr. Heath has “As for the resolutions, they will the two, and the one-time chief ex hot stones as it was rough outside, wearing neat-fitting riding breeches. carried his license pinned in his in have no effect upon me. I will con ecutive of the nation was openly had at last become imbedded in As to the implied immodesty of ner vest pocket, and his “season” tinue to exercise and live in my own pleased when he discovered that his four feet of soil. From one of the Miss Sears, we would ask whether has annually begun on April 4, the way, with the prime policy of being anniversary of his birth. Each year, rigid idea of sportsmanship were knots a young tree had sprouted many the Burlingame “ mothers” object to their own daughters parading on comfortable. prior to getting the permit, he has shared by Mr. Heath. years before and had grown to full the beach in “ bathing costumes?” Is put himself to a severe test—20 shots The abundance of trout in the size when Mr. Heath, on chopping it region largely determined the nat down, found the novel boat when he there any more shock received by at a tiny target 260 yards away—to Fifteen elk, said by W. L. ure of the excursions, and the two tried to extricate the roots of the observing a young woman’s beautiful make sure that his aim was still Finley, state game warden of Ore the President and the guide, some offshoot. legs in a pair of tight-fitting silk accurate. gon, to be the best specimens yet times with the poeit as a third in “ I learned to shoot as soon as I stockings than in a loose fitting A s time has successively taken the taken out of Jackson Hole coun the party, plunged Into the woods was big enough to carry or hold a pair of whipcord breeches and leather great men for whom he has acted try, were sent from St. Anthony to with their rods bound for a trout gun,” Mr. Heath told a reporter at boots? On the beach, too, the vision as guide, he has grieved over their the Wallowa forest, in Oregon, re stream five times for every once his isolated home in Tyringham is not always confined to the lower death, always and still hoping that cently, where they have a pasture that they set out with their guns. limbs, especially when the “ costume” others of renown may come to the township. Mr. Heath still remembers the “ Any boy who is old enough and gets wet and a rude wave smacks of 2,500 acres. The expense of fastness of the Berkshires and that strenuousness of the trips with Mr. the lady hard under the belt. The transporting the animals from Idaho he may know them as he knew the strong enough to carry a gun is old Cleveland, for though the latter was mothers^ resolution of reproach is as to Oregon was borne by the Elks’ others. enough to be taught how to use it then past the 76 mark, he did not properly, and it wasn’t long before I follows: lodges of the last named state, which Mr. Heath’s opportunity to act as plan to restock the forest. The elk know the meaning of fatigue or could shoot pretty well. Whereas, It has been brought to guide to President Cleveland, Mr. were brought over the Teton pass hunger when the sporft was good and “ (When the Civil War broke out I the attention of the Burlingame Mot Gilder and others whom he has know on sleds. Storms encountered In the trout were rising. enlisted in Company F. of Forty-ndnt hers’ Club that Miss Eleanor Sears began more than 10 years ago, when the mountains were so severe that No path was too rough, no hill Massachusetts. We were detailed has been parading through the street Mr. Gilder was living at “Riverside,” four days were required iin making too steep, no section too wild for Mr. to stay in New York during the of our city in the unconventional a summer home in Tyringham town the first 28 miles. Three of the 25 Cleveland. His enthusiasm over the draft riots, and I was hit on the head trousers and clothes of the mas ship and close to the famous Berk elk with which the party started sport, whether finny, feathered or by a brick. I went to a hospital culine sex, contrary to the hard and shire trout stream. were lost when a sled, caught in a four-footed, invariably exceeded that Instead of the front, had three square fast custom of our ancestors; and There Mr. Cleveland spent a sum- slide turned turftle. From these of his guide. inches of silver trepanning in my •Whereas, Such a manner of dress Mr. Cleveland was wont to dis skull, and continued to the South as 22 and five more which had been ing is, in our opinion, immodest and brought out on a previous trip the course on the conceptions of the a nurse Insitiead of a sharpshooter. wholly unbecoming a woman, having Safa Treatment tor heaeaci^ sportsman in the true sense of the “ I didn’t escape my share of in Oregon game warden was allowed to The rational treatment for headac'.: a bad effect on the sensibilities of pick 15 of the strongest animals. is to get at tho cause, if possible, ani word. In word and deed Mr. juries, though, for one bullet caught our boys and girls; now, therefore, remove it. Headache is only a symp Heath found him as he himself is, me in the calf of the left leg, and! be it tom of trouble somewhere in the sys never willing to take an unfair ad another in the search of my right tem, and dosing with tablets or powders Resolved, That we hereby put vantage of his game, never using foot. But. neither lias been able to containing acetani.id or other coal-tar ourselves on record as strongly KENNEBAG0 HOTEL COMPANY'S dorivatives which stop the pain tempo any method of capture that did not stop me from walking as far and as opposed to the unsightly mannish rarily but weaken the heart, is at once put a premium on extreme skill, a hard as I want to. Altogether I saw IMPROVEMENTS. garb adopted by Miss Sears, and re unsafo and unwise. The headache may consistent and bitter enemy of the the battles of Johnsonville, Port cerne from your eyes, then a good ocu quest that she restrict herself in the man who killed or captured out of Hudson and Plain Stores. list can help you at once with proper future to the usual feminine attire. The Kennebago Hotel Company is eyeglasses; but if it comes with furred season. “ When I finally came back from (Signed) Mrs. O. S. Harns, presi making preparations for a big season's tongue, loss of appetite, nausea, and No deoent sportman, President the war I developed into the plain business. Three new camps are nearly constipation, it is usually the result dent; Mrs. S. Turner, secretary. of disordered digestion, or torpid liver, Cleveland told Mr. Heath on one of farmer I have always been, with a completed and 12 new bath rooms are and one or two doses of L. F. Atwood’s their excursions, would ever disobey lot of hunting thrown in to furnish What Miss Sears had to say to the well under way and will be finished in Medicine will speedily help you by the game laws, or countenance dis exc item ent.” “ Amerian-Examiner,” of San Fran time for the early guests. carrying off impurities and restoring obedience on the part of anyone cisco, is not only instructive, but the clogged digestive organs to their edifying; it follows; normal activity. In using this old re else. Whale’s Great Speed. liable remedy, you take no chances of “ The busybodies who hav-e refer He delared himself to be un The finback whale is called th« IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN MAINE weakening the heart’s action. alterably opposed to the notion thatj “greyhound of the sea.’’ Its speed red to my riding breeches as trousers it has a record of sixty years as a the sins of the camp should be for through the water equals that of th« are thoroughly misleading. I don’t WOODS. LOW ADVERTIS sa'e headache remedy. The “ L. F.” fastest steamship. Medicine Co.. Portland. Maine. gotten in the whirl of city life. He wear trousers, but I do wear breech© ING RATES. MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912
Charles Hammons has a violin that LOCAL NOTES. MAI NE WOODS he made himself some years ago that Down in South Strong O. M. ISSUED WEEKLY. ! is .quite a curiosity in a way. It is in Moore has been busy this spring mak J. W . B rackett C o. the natural finish, the front being ing maple syrup. That his product THE MAN ON THE JOB ! made of spruce over 100 years old is delicious was demonstrated one Phillips, Maine______while the back is a beautiful piece day last week when a generous of “ birdseye” maple. The violin has sample reached this offic There L. B. BRACKETT, a strong and musical tone and has are many fine maple trees on the Business Manager been very favorably commented on Moore farm although the run of sap ROY ATKINSON. It seems to the Map. on the Job besides a few of our best known by various musical experts. It went Editor and Assistant Manager that Charles Chandler has lost his young men, is Mrs. Charles Miner, this year has been rather smaller chance to exercise mornings now who at last reports had 300, and Con through the .Phillips hotel fire, but than last year. Mr. Moore says that OUTING EDITION. that all the snow and ice has gone Hoyt, with a flock of 260. Miss became unglued at the time. Since he has made 75 gallons of syrup ■ M fl«*...... $1.00 per year from the front of his house. First Blanche Kenniston also has quite a then Mr. Hammons has re-glued it, during the present season. LOCAL EDITION. of all Mr. Chandler took snow shovel number of these downy little birds. and it is now as good as ever. Little bonfires lighted the way to M and 16 p a g e s ...... $1.50 per year in hand mornings, each day causing information that the annual yard Farmington is beoming a great Oamadlaia, M exican. OiUbain and Pana a diminution in the size of the Saddleback was white with sno cleaning about town has commenced. ma aufoeonptLans, 50 cents extra. For center for the automobile trade. Ever great drift. Then, when he got as Saturday morning. George E. Bearoe was in Phillips eign eubeortptlons, 76 cents extra. day, rain or shine, demonstrating fax as the ice, he attacked that Wednesday. The driver» of the various R. F. cars are to be seen on. the streets. vigorously with an axe. Saturday Entered as second class matter, January 21, D. routes centering in Phillips are Th lines carried by the various BIRTHS. 1909, at the postoffice at Phillips. Maine, under saw the Waterloo of that great pile m e A ct of March 3,1879, authority for the statement that dealers offer a wide range of selec of ice and snow. Mr. Chandler says country roads are as unsettled at tion. One of the most recent “ learn Stratton, Apr. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. that he got a lot of good, early morn T(he Maine Wood» thoroughly covers present as popular brands of politics. ers” is Dr. George L. Pratt, who has John Moody, a daughter. the entire state of Maine as to Hunt ing exercise out. of that snow bank, ing, Fishing, Trapping, Camping and These men of the gray uniforms say a new Ford runabout. The doctor ■Kingfield, Apr. 20, to Mr. and Mrs. besides performing a useful service Outing news and the whole Franklin that there are places where the has already acquired considerable Herbert Witham, a son. county locally. to the community by causing its re Maine Woods solicits communications wheels cut into snow on one side skill in the use o* the car. Rangel,ey, Apr. 11, to Mr. and Mrs. and fish and game photographs from its moval. readers. and mud on the other. But the mail Ernest Peary, a daughter, When ordering the address of your Elbert L. Matthews of Phillips has paper changed, please give the old as Many people have gazed with must go so the carriers get through Farmington, Apr. 19, to Mr. and w«l] as new address. as best they can. jurt invented a pump for a gasoline Mrs. .William R. Flood, a daughter. wonder at the enormous horse used engine that is attracting considerable by Lucien Warren in his trucking The Editions of the Maine Woods There are those who say that Ed attention. It «o arranged that MARRIAGES. business. /This horse is well known this week are 6,500 copies. Grose of the Hotel Blanchard of there is less than half a pint of as “ Hasty.” He is believed by his Farmington, April 8, by N. R. Stratton had' a lively time the other gasoline in the engine at any time, owner and others to be the largest Thursday, April 25, 1912 night when he superintended the for the pump keeps this product of Knowlton, E&q., Herbert Clinton equine in Franklin county and one of transportation of 80 river drivers John D. flowing contimouaiy. Danico and Miss Mamie Louise the largest in the state. Hasty is Girnard, both of Stratton. The report that Harry Atwoood, into the Dead River country. It re Mechanical experts who have examin very intelligent, knows the rounds Farmington, Apr. 17, by N. R. the aviator, may fly to the Rangeley quired 26 teams to carry the men, ed the pump say that It is a very he is expected to make and has. yet Knowlton, esq., Leslie E. Buker and Lakes from Poston at the opening which was said to be a very modérât clever device. of the fishing season, now near at to be hitched, to a load he is unable number considering the “ loads” some Miss Lizzie V. Tobin, both of Wilton. to haul. Despite his great size Hasty There is .one 'Toung man ir Phillips hand, is not so far fetched as some of the worthies of pike pole and cork Chestervdile, Apr. 19, by W. G„ has a moderate appetite. He weighs who tells me that he felt like a fire people may suppose. Mr. Atwood is ed shoe carried. When the pro Adams, Elmer Collins of Mercer and over 1600 pounds. horse who hears the fire tapper but a daring aviator. He has made cession was formed, after the arrival Mrs. Lydia Clement of Chesterville. many longer flights that the pro of the train, the men broke into song. can’t go to the fire when he read Strong, Apr. 20, by Rev. W. P. Some day the vaudeville stage may of the rjiagedy of the Titanic. He posed one and has given this mat It is said that some of them were Holman, Carroll L. Knapp of Phil be visited by “ The Steward Boys’ said that he felt a sort of thrill, ter serious attention. So watch out a trifle off key, but they made up in lips and Miss Ediith M. Harris of Sextette.” For right here in Phil as though he would like to get into Salem. for the bird man with fish rod in .quantity for what they lacked in lips there is a family of boys so the game once more, and be after Farmington, Apr. 21, by Rev. Wal hand! quality, however. Mr. Grose acted as musically inclined that something of the big news. And as the days ter Canham, Carrol Curtis Noyes of the sort is not far fetched or im manager of the party, personally con There are a number of people in went on and he read the names of Farmington and Miss Flossie Mae probable. The boys are, commenc ducted the bunch to the nights des Phillips, ajnd they are certainly en his friends in the dispatches, some of Taylor of Stratton. ing with the oldest, Nathaniel, tination. There were no fatalities titled to their opinion, who say them on ocean going tugs, others in Farmington, Apr. 20, by N. R. Prince, Joseph, Daniel, Franklin and and so far as is known every man that a church should not step out Halifax and New York and at vari Knowlton esq., Merwyn L. Butter Milton. In the hrass arrangement jack arrived safely. of the beaten path and use such ous points, where the news might field of Chesterville and Miss Effie Joseph plays the solo cornet, Nathan things as illustrated lectures and con “ break” he ouldn’t help feeling for G. Day of Farmington. Falls. iel, baritone; Milton, alto; Daniel, One day Jast week a man was certs to draw attendants. Yet there just one moment that it would seem slide trombone and Frank a tuba. found wandering about Farmington are others who feel that something good to be working on the biggest DEATHS. The orchestra is comps, ed of who said that the top of his head of this kind is a step forward, and story of years.. Prince, solo violin; Joseph, comet; was gone and that the wind, blow Avon, Apr. 13, Fred Raymond, that while the sanctity of the church Nathaniel, first violin; Daniel, bas i ing through his missing “ upper aged 39 years. should be most completely respected, viol; Milton, melephone and Franklin story” made him feel cold. It is be Down in Strong a number of the Livermore, Apr. 14, William Foye, there is no harm in relaxing in a aged 84 vears. piano. The boy® also have a vocal lieved that this man, who was sent business and professional men are certain degree from Puritanical to the Augusta insane hospital, is gathering together the sinews of war New Vineyard, Apr. 8, John Henry rigidity. quartette, which up to the time of this item, has not appeared before the same person who annoyed women for a board of trade. Some of the Day of Eustis, aged 72 years. the public. and girls in Phillips recently. Before citizens of that town feel that such Farmington, Apr. 21, Miss Lottie When you know that you are no he was placed under arrest in Farm an organization can be of benefit in V. Taylor of Coplin, aged 24 years, actor man, and you know that every Chickens are hopping from the ington he wandered about the streets, many ways. A few of those who 2 months and 17 days. body else knows it, and you know shells right merrily those days in Jtraing pedestrians in the face, have been approached argue that the Livermore Falls, Apr. 21, James C. that you will forget your cues when and about Phillips. Many of them without making any remarks. Later town is not large enough, but Dr. C. Brackett, a native of Chesterville, you get in front of the foot lights, have an incubator mother, but they lie explained that he had lost his W. Bell and others stoutly declare aged about 53 years. and feel like a man who finds him come into the world with the same power of speech. that such is not the case. It would Winchester, N. H., Apr. 14. Han self at a swell ball clad only and cheery, “ peep-peep” that they have seem that an organization of this nibal A. Berry, formerly of Farming- soley in his pajamas, can you be when the old setting hen hatches kind, even if it failed from the stand ton and New Sharon, aged 62 years. blamed for refusing to bathe in the them out. Among those who are Signs of spring: Mud, Mayflowers, point of bringing more business to spot lights? interested in chickens this spring, matrimony ! the town, would prove valuable as a social center. HILD EBRANDT
The recent meeting of the young j SPINNERS men of Strong in the interests of a base ball nine and the interest dis ^ .. € ^ > i played by Fanningtonians in this Just to start the season right i sport indicate that there will be good I fun to be enjoyed on Saturday after-1 i noons about the country the com X l - $ S ** U (^ /j ~ / ~o I ing summer. Franklin county has w \ - i Advertise in the m had and still has some good ball I 1 V - 1players. Old timers remember the V V . I pitching of Dr. George Pratt when j I ! E % Á mhe was a college boy; Ben Jones of ! L I Strong and T. R. Wing of Phillips. s > I $ And there were others, especially in $\ Weld, which has been famous for “ THEY SPIN SO EASY” * MAINE WOODS w years as a base ball town. SPIN LIKE A TOP Made in four finishes and three styles. For I bass, rocs bass, trout, pike, picker«], musk I 1 Because some small boys drank ( allunge. salmon, or any game fish. We also li “ Whit” Toothaker’s and “ Han” Vln- I handle a high-giade line of Rods, Reels, I Lines, etc, i ing’s sap, replacing the contents of i I the sap buckets with water. Messrs, j SEND FOR CATALOGUE I One of the best advertising mediums Toothaker and Vinimg both express: the opinion that this has been a ' The John J. Hildebrandt Co. mighty unsatisfactory syrup season. Dept. 28. LOGANSPORT, IND. With visions of gallons of golden in New England. syrup the men tapped their maples and waited patiently for a run of sap. It came as they supposed, and when they gathered the well filled buckets their eyes glistened in anticipation J. W. BRHSKETT 60., of the treat in store. Then came the boiling process. High rose the flames about the pans and kettles, Phillips, * * Maine. but still higher rose the indignation of Messrs. Toothaker and Vining be cause the “ sap” refused to turn in “In The Maine Wood? to syrup. The liquid in the pans 3$ & Sportsmen's Guide Book I g ...... gave fourth a vast amount of steam, U Advertising Rates $ but that was all there was doing. 11th Annual Edition Outing Edition, $1.00 Published hy the |1 I Finally, both men gave up in dis I p: Sent on Request. gust what seemed to be a hopeless I Local Edition, $1.50 BANGOR & AROOSTOOK R. R task. The next day Whit said to Han. “ Did you get any syrup out of the Mallfd snyaherr ft t IS «»lit* >r stan 1t sap you boiled down yesterday?” £»«- W FtpfrlUi. “ No,” replied Han, “ this has been Passenger Traffic Manager a mighty poor sap year.” Bangor. Maine MAINEJVOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912. B
ATTENTION—Snowshoe makers and a good man for the position. house last week by a severe cold CLASSIFIED wearers, arn about an improvement PHILLIPS HIGH Dalton Haley has moved his family -jaAais joj pasop s-bav doqs siq pui? which doubles the effectiveness and into Harry l-Iuntoon’s house a t, the al days. One cent a word In advance. No head durability shoe. Write for corner of School and Allen Streets. Miss Grace Graves is boarding at line or other dlaplay. Subjects In a. b. SCHOOL NOTES o. order. booklet. A. J. Pease, Phillips Me. J-. Sherman Hoar made a business Eben Rowe’s. trip to Lewiston Thursday. A little daughter has recently ar FOR SALE The Junior class gave an entertain WANTED—to buy 3000 cords of four Ray Hamden came home from rived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. foot white birch slabs and edgings. ment and sociable in the Grange hal^ Brown Chtoa goose eggs, 20 cents Hebron Academy Thursday wiith a Ernest Peary. Four foot peeled hemlock slabs and last Friday evening for the purpose of each,. Mrs. R. E. McLaughlin, Phil very sore ithroat which he feared I. B. Toothaker went to Lewiston peeled hemlock edgings from off the raising funds with which to give a re. lips, Me. might be tonsilitis. Saturday . ception to the graduating class in June. line of the Rangeley Lakes Although the day set for Pomona E. I. Herrick has been on the sick FOR SALE—Five tons of hay. Joel & Sandy River R. R. For particulars The feature of the entertainment was a Wilbur, Phillips, Maine. was rainy, over forty patrons from list. write W. G. Jenness, W. Somerville, two-act farce, in which the parts were FOR SALE—38 caliber Winchester Phillips and adjoining towns came Mr. and Mrs. Olto Rowe are in Mass. very well taken by members of the repeating rifle, as good as new. school. The class cleared $15. by special train ito Rangeley. The Portland this week. Inquire of R. H. Preble, Phillips, Me. FOR SALE—Eggs for hatching. Bar There was a good deal of discussion fifth degree was conferred on a large Dr. F. B. Colby accompanied Mrs. FOR SALE,—at Lake Onawa Camps red and. White Plymouth Rocks. Pure among the boys of the High school ov class after which a bountiful dinner Myra Ross to Lewiston Friday where and cottages, prices $1500 to $10,000. bred stock. Farmers’ prices. Far er the question of what branch of ath was served in the dining hall to 100 she underwent a serious operation. Camp lots, $200 per acre. Onawa is mer’s ’phone 5-12. Harry E. Dun letics to take part in this spring. They or more. In the afternoon at the Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hennings of called the Switzerland of America. ham. were about equally .divided between business session Mrs. Bertie ElUs Phillips are at the Rangeley Tavern Address E. F. Drew, Onawa, Me. base ball and track. But, as the ma was installed a- Chaplain of Pomona where Mr. Hennings has employment. WANTED—a dog that will tree part jority thought that the outlook was not Grange. The meeting was made IFOR SALE—Two good fox hounds, The average attendance at the S. ridges. Must be first class. Address very bright fora good base ball team public during the literary program three years old. One coon hound, S. for the past year has been the vith particulars and price. C. W. this year and that an inferior team will which was as follows :■ one pup seven months old. Will ■Vhitney, Troy, N. H. largest ever recorded, 128. The men’s not pay, it was finally decided to have a Music, Orchestra. sell cheap. Vel Bailey, st. Francis- class under the direction of the pastor track team. Now that it is settled Address of Welcome William Tomlin ville, Mo. Rev. L. A. White is especially in WANTED—American lady for house h ose who desired base ball will enter son, Past Master. FO SALE—Place for summer or teresting. keeper for small family. Address Box nto the track work with the same spir Response Arthur Graffam, Master of year round home, high elevation, 7, Route 2, Phillips, Maine. it as they would into base ball and, as Pomona. Principal John E. Peakes was in near pond», village and station, the material for track is very good this Solo Marcia Mitchell Lewiston last "Veek. modern house, fruit and berries. For year, P. H. S. should be represented by Reading Prudence Richardson ! At the K. P. meeting Monday night particulars addre Lakeview Cottage GOOP BANQUET a track team which should carry off Vocal Duet Susie Tibbetts, Muriel there was work on two candidates. A Route 1, Oxford Me. first honors in the meet this spring. Hoar. 1 fine lunch was served. The manager and captain of the team AT CHAPTER Music, Orchestra Monday there was a brisk south FOR SALE—90 acres land with set have not yet been elected. Dialogue, Bertha Russell, Helen Ray- j wind a com panted by sleet all through of buildings situated in Phillips The senior class parts have been an mond and Lila Hoar. the day. In the evening it began Will sell buildings and what land After the business wes transacted at nounced. The first two are decided by to rain hard and it rained all night anyone wants. 30 acres timberland; ithe meeting of Sherburne Chapter, Or rank, the ethers chosen by the class. Solo, Eugenie Eseley fine view; excellent water; good E- s - last evening refreshments were They are as follows: Valedictory, Nel Reading, Jane Edwards and is still raining this (Tuesday) •rchard; situated between two rivers served in an unique form, or rather the lie Reed; salutatory, Lew M. Noble; Music, Orchestra morning. This weather must weaken which come together in this place; manner of eating the same, class history, Hollis V. Holt; class pro The members continent today, having a record of THE RIFLE TOURNAMENT. “The board of directors includes GOOD SHOOTING Henry D. Forbes, a prominent busi the killing of 34 bull moose. He also SPORTING ness man of this city; James J. holds the distinction of being the White, Jr., president of the Northern first man to introduce the taking NOTES AT MANCHESTER The Matches Shot Wednesday After Waste Company; Edmund F. Hutch of moving pictures of moose and noon and Evening, inson, superintendent of the school fed other big game in the heart of the SOME “STEVENS” NOTES. Manchester, N. H., April 19.—To crippled and deformed children; Wil Maine and Canadian wilderness. Hie William G. Hill of Portland belongs liam J. Anderson, a retired Boston preserves in Maine have been the The Springfield, Mass. Technical ! the distinction of making the high Wednesday afternoon and evening business man; William M.J. Flynn, A. scene of many prominent shooting High, school rifle team has just won I professional score among a speedy were busy times at the Auditorium, M. McCormack, a well known athlete parties. the 1912 Massachusetts High School' ^ q{. rofessiona]s at Amos- Portland, when 'the following matches 0f Boston, and Andrew R. Kelley, “Vice-President Robinson has also Champ ionsMp Team Championship with Stevens keag___^ Gun___ club Atrap___i ____ heremu Thursday., . ,i — were shot off at the State of Maine j another prominent newspaper ~~—man established a record in the sporting No. 414 Armory Model Rifles. rifle tournament: “ Boosters” match' 0f this city. world. He organized and was man Shooting at 120 birds, under the i , „ ...... i for school boys, Silas B. Adams “The new organization has secured |age- for 10 years of the Cayen- Mr. Fred M. Fay of the J. «even s ™ * c o u p o n s Hiu smash- matc]i (w. sohool Edwarda & club headquarters in 'the Boston ; nes, the first baseball club in the town Chicopee ed 106 them. He was only three Arms & Tool Company, Walker Go. match for school boys. Arena building on St. Botolph street, of Dorchester. Together with Royal birds behind the high gun of the day, Falls, Mass., is making a short Adjutant General’s match for Na- Mayor Reed of Manchester, who to be used until the new building Whiton he held the rowing champion- trip through New Engand and was tional Guard, Naval Reservesand, planned by the association is ready ship of Dorchester bay for three broke 109 in the amateur ranks. heartily welcomed by the Worcester Regular Army, Major Elliott match j for occupancy. ' j miles and a turn, and was also well Gun Club, on April 18th where he The shoot took pace on Fast day and was the second annual event as checkerboard match open to all, “in securing Dr. Heber Bishop for known as one of the best wrestlers tied for second place at the Worces and Lieut. Col. Dooley match, bulls - of the kind. It brought together a president, the incorporators of th e! and boxers of his weight up to a few ter Gun Club shoot with his Stevens eye match open to all. very classy bunch of gun artists, Pilgrim Athletic Association believe years ago. He is a lover of fishing repeater. No official figures have been given and hunting, and in 1892 he and his from amateur and professional ranks. they selected th,e best passible man out as yet nor will be given out brother brought to Boston the largest WASHINGTON SPORTING NOTES. Particularly notable was the gatherin for the office. He is known through until all matches have been shot off. string of deer ever brought here, five of professionals, for there were seven out the United States and Canada as Nevertheless it is quite clear that Rod and Gun club, Colville, Wash., on hand to do the shooting. the best type of all who stand for bucks and a doe. some nice scares have been made. ■was organized recently with these All the men who took part shot clean and wholesome sport and he “ Mr. Robinson’s father, David Rob executive officers: President, Dr. at 120 birds, but very few made has been given the well-earned title inson was the founder of Odd Fel W. F. Diffenbacher; vice-president, good scores. A bad wind and a of “The King of American Sports lowship in Maine.” Dr. L. B. Harvey; secretary, L. C. HANDICAP SHOOT heavy rain combined to make the men.” Keller; treasurer, C. L. Barber; cap bird® flighty and so those men who “ His record as a sportsman is long FLOWERS THAT tain, Dr. L. H. Kerr; assistant cap usually have big totals found them At the morning shoot of the Port and covers a wide range. He was tain, W. B. Dingle. The club will selves down near the foot. Even Jack land Gun club Friday, the partici the founder and one of the encorpora BLOOM IN SPRING cooperate with the commissioners of Fanning, former champion of the pants will be handicapped according tors of the Megantlc Fish and Game Stevens county in securing stock for world, could do nothing with the to distance rather than on birds. Club, which has a world-wide reputa Farmington Naturalist Writes of Its streams in the county, and con birds. t The following is the handicap dis tion as a leading organization of signments of trout will be placed in Early Floral Display about Among both professional and ama tances as they have been arranged: sportsmen, in 1887, and served as the Haller creek and Mill creek as teur shooters were men who have Those men who have been shoot - its secretary, vice-president and Town, soon as they come from the hatchery The club plan® to own ground® for By Herbert W. Jewell trap shooting. The spring chorus of frogs has Louis H. Starnes, representative of been heard several nights lately in Spokane of the American Timber the creek near the old pumping Holding association, received con station at Farmington. All of the gratulations all around at the Inland early birds are back. I saw two club a few days ago on the success Sheldrake ducks fly up the rivera of his hunting trip in the Coeur f iw days ago and fly back a day or d’Alene district of northern Idaho. two later. One of the engineers -who With the aid of an acquaintance who runs the morning passenger train told owns a claim in the district he rout me he had seen a pair of these spe ed a big cinnamon hear, and as cies of ducks in an open place in bruin was attempting a get-away, the river at Liveremore Falls most brought the bear down with a single every day during the winter. Warm shot. Starnes will have the skin waves bring the birds nearer day by mounted. day and several species of butterflies have been seen. These insects are Dog Races in Alaska. called flying flowers by the Chinese. The bi,g sporting event of Alaska The grass on the lawns is once is the dog team race held each year. more putting on its mantle of green. The course is from Nome to Candle RACING A MOOSE IN CANADIAN WATERS. The catkins on the poplar and wil and return, distance 412 miles, and low are swelling and will soon burst Courtesy of Rod and Gun in Canada. the standard purse $5,000. The record into bloom. The willow is monoeci for the course is 74 hours, 14 min ous, that is the pistils and stamens utes and 14 seconds. Last year’s shot frequently on the grounds o f ; ing for 75 per cent, or under this president. . After 10 years he re- are borne on separate trees and are race was won by A. A. (Scotty) Portland gun club. The scores made year will take their stand at 16 signed the presidency and was vot- fertilized by bees and the wind. The Allen in 81 hours, 40 minutes. There were: yards from the traps; the 80 per ed an honorary life membership in catkins of the alder have been shad are four teams taking part ¡this year. PROFESSIONALS. cent, men at 17 yards, 85 per cent J the club. ing their pollen to the wind for A team owned by Mrs. C. E. Darling, W. G. Hill ...... 106 men at 18 yards; 90 per cent, men “ He is a director and was one some time, some of (the catkins Berkley, Cal., driven by Allen; Fox Arthur Sibley ...... 101 at 19 yards and 95 per cent, men at of the original 20 incorporators of measure three inches in length. Ramsey’s team, driven by Chas. John F. M. Fay ...... 100 20 yards. At the latter distance will the New England Sportsmen Associa Today, April 19, I got some yel son; John Johnson’s team, driven by George Chapin ...... 95 be Ernest Randall, Clifford Randall, tion, founded in 1897, which con low violets In bloom, also the buds Alex Holmsen, and A. G. Oliver’s Gil Wheeler ...... 80’ Ernest Randall, Silas B. Adams and ducts the sportsmen’s show in this j of some Hepáticas, team, driven by Blatchford. In the Harold A. Keller ...... 70 a few others, it is thought. city every year; a vice-president of While on a walk tlw* other day I first 85 miles Scotty Allan drove his Jack Fanning ...... 69 The day’s program will be for four the New hork Sportsmen Association, found some blood-roots budded. I team to a new record of nine hours AMATEURS. events of 25 birds each. The high and was assistant manager of their carried them home and they are now for the distance. Mayor Reed ...... 109 gun of the day will be awarded a show one year; a vice-president for jn bloom and as I write their pure Allan won the sweepstakes, finish Dr. W. F. Clark 106 prize. From present indications there the last 20 years of the Massachus- white flowers are very beautiful al- ing at 1:32 a. m., Monday last, his Carl LagerquiiSt 92 will be a big field in, though just ©tfcs Fish and Game Protective Asso though they have no fragrance, time for the 472 miles being 87 hours, Winthrop Parker ...... 82 how many cannot now be told. ciation, chairman of the North Am- this is only one instance of the same 32 minultes, being 5 hours 52 min S. W. patten, Sr...... 80 erican Fish and Game Protective thing occurring in many of our spring utes more than his time last year. Charles Smith ...... 86 Association, the parent body in ‘this flowers. The elm always blooms be Holmsen was second, one hour Porter Osborne ...... 91 BISHOP NEW HUB country; member of the International fore the leaves appear as does the behind Allan, and Fox Ramsey’s team E. Reed ...... 90 Forest Fish and Game Association of willow. driven by Chas. Johnson, came in Charles Derrah ...... 64 Chicago, and a member of a number In some plants this is the reverse, third, a half hour after Holmsen. Charles French ...... 63 CLUB PRESIDENT of local social clubs. as, for instance, in the wild leek, the Charles Valentine ...... 85 “Dr. Bishop’s forte i® moose hunt- leaves appear first in May and die KING OF ALL MAINE HONEY PRO W. E. Patenaudt ...... 71 New Club Organized to Foster ins' .aJld 116 is Probal>1y the great- down and wither away long before DUCERS. D. Campbell ...... 50 est amateur moose hunter on this the flowers appear in July. C. F. Isola ...... 92 General Athletics ot Clean, C. H. Greeley of Clinton can just W. H. Johnson ...... 75 Wholesome Nature ly claim the title of the “ Honey King Tom Vanick ...... 60 of Maine.” W P Ware ...... 70 _ ’ * .. t j r Dr. Heber Bishop, widely known Mr. Greeley has been making a S. W. Patten, Jr...... * ...... 45 epeeial-ty of bee-keeping and honey C h a r i Bailev .. 761 throughout New England as a sports- production for more than a quarter F Conner * 81 man, has ^ust beeIL ©looted president °.a er ...... - of the new Pilgrim Athletic Assooia- •5- of a century. For some years past tion, the very latest addition to Bos The time is near for the be has produced from three to five J W. Gerry ...... 76 ton clubdom. tons of honey annually at his api Edward Durgin ...... 65 The Boston Herald of reoent Issue Fishing Season of 1912 aries, while from one to two tons Robert Edgar ...... 72 has the following to say about the a year is understood to be the limit of production of other extensive bee Walter M. Hardy of Brewer was new club and its president: “ Dr. Heber Bishop, New England keepers in the state, and buit a few following a fox which carried a dead manager of the Aetna Life Insur are getting more than a ton. Had rabbit in its mouth. As the shy ani SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ance Company, and known as “ The it not been for an unusual streak of mal was passing a big tree Mr. Hard King of American Sportsmen,’’ has V bad luck, a heavy loss of bees in noticed that it took a peek beneath the cellar, and later the destruction the trunk and he concluded that tber been elected president of the new by fire of one of his houses, con was the nest. Investigation revealed association. The name of Dr. Bishop, taining some 30 colonies, Mr. Gree a nest of five young foxes, which who has been a leader in the develop ley is confident that he would have had evidently been driven from their meat of all that is best in the beaten his own record last season, hole and had not had opportunity to spouting world, testifies to the char l MAINE WOODS F and brought the amount up to an return. Mr. Hardy adopted the little acter of the new club and to the high even six tons or more, reynards right away and (took them plane upon which it will seek to where he sometimes makes sales of tn Brewer, hut one was a weakling carry out event® in all branches of athletic endeavor. The bulk of Mr. Greeley's honey, and died. The other four took the AncTget all the fishing news from the which has a high reputation, is place of four kittens which a cat “ Albert W. Robinson, of Dorches marketed through the trade in the had bust just lost and she mothers ter, a retired business man and Rangeley Lakes and Dead River*Region nearby cities and towns. He sup the little foxes as if they were her known as a member of the old plies regularly some 30 stores at own. The barrel containing the school of sportsmen in Boston, has and all sections of Maine. Waterville, Augusta, Oakland, Fair- mother cat and her one remaining been elected vice-president. William field and Skowhegan. He also* ex kitten, with the four little foxes M. J. Flynn of Winthrop and a * well known Boston newspaper man hibits annually at the Lewiston fair, living (together in harmony, is the u nearly or quite a ton of honey. center of attraction for visitors. has been chosen secretary-treasurer. * ■ * il * ■ * n V M AINE W OOD?, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912. is a good pier and small island near stead of lean, he declared. They ed enough stone off Maine farms WINTER FISHING the Thorofare. This island in high soon lost their fat because of the in the last century to hide the pyra water is not wholly submereged. difficulty they had in obtaining food mids under billions of tons of glacial TRIP DESCRIBED There is a sheltered hay back of the early in the spring, Mr. Kimball ad drift. FAMOUS pier betwen the islands used for a mitted, but, on their premier appear “ The climate of Maine is dry by a BACKWOODS Maine Editor Goes to Moosehead harbor for the summer fleet of boats. ance they were in practically the very small majority, and is automati same condition as when they retired cally refrigerated throughout the and Writes His Experiences For the first ten days of March FAIRY TALES the thermometer registered from the preceeding autumn. greater part of the year. It gets for Readers. zero to 20 degrees below each morn “All this sounds very well,’ said | through snowing in Maine in the ing. The snow was more than a foot Mr. Turner Wednesday, “ but it isn't I spring just in time to cloud up and We left Norway for the Mg lake, deep on the roof of the camp and in accordance with the facts, as most prepare for the first fall flurry. The Ed Grant, Beavar Pond Camps. Friday, the first day of March, writes came up to the window sills on the every man who knows anything at all population of the state is about 750, Now reading matter, Interesting. 000 people, most of whom are hud The first eodtion was exhausted much the editor of the Oxford County Ad walls. Little wind could enter our about bears can tell Mr. Kimball. I •oouxer than we expected and the popu vertiser. An over night stop was dled together in the extreme south lar demand was so great for a second abode but a generous amount of fire don’t believe he ever saw one which edition that wei published an enlarged made In Lewiston in company with wood was necessary to keep the had just come put of its den. He ern setr-'n for warmth’s sake. Owing and Improved edition to be sold by to the climate, it is hard to raise mail (postpaid)at the low price named. Hugh Pendexter, the author. Dinner camp warm. Indian Newell cut this certainly doesn’t talk as though he Twelve cents, postpaid. Stamps ac much of anything in Maine except cep ted . tire next day was taken at the and delivered it to our door on a had. J. W. BRACKETT CO., Shaw House, Newport, where we fell moose sled and piled high the wood “ A hear is fairly fat when he goes hotel prices. The seacoast; of Maine Phillips, Maine. in with Peter Mclntire, who is l box every night. Fire in the stove to sleep in the autumn, but he resembles a piece of Battenberg lace and is profusely speckled with wintering at that hotel. At Dover we did not cease to burn while the cold draws upon this reserve during the summer hotels. In the spring the called on Hon. J. F. Sprague and I spell lasted even if the poor Indian long winter months when he lies Maine hotel keeper takes a room, MAPS OF MAINE Liston P. Evans of ~he Observer, and worked over time. dormant and eats no feed whatever. which would rent for $1.25 a month in i-lia.'ge of Frank A. Hagar, guide, It stands to reason that the animal A flock of 72 hens and several during the winter, and by judiciously RESORTS AND ROADS le* on the evening train for Green must obtain sustenance from some S roosters, “ Henrietta," the dog and mixing it with climate, manages to ville. The train was two and a half where and this fat is the store which hours late, caused by too much snow I “ Toni,” ¡the cat, Newell, the Indian, raise the price to $7 a day by July. and Mr. and Mrs. Heald constituted nature has provided for him. Be on the track and too little steam in “ Besides hotel prices, Maine Maine Woods has frequent Lnqurie* the family with “Hoge” Harrington, lieve me, it is pretty well used up for maps of the fishing regions of thi the engine, but at 10:05 p. m. we raises hay, potatoes, pine trees and state, etc. We can furnish the following ; guest, on our arrival. when spring comes. Maine maps; reached the Moosehead Inn. The fol statesmen. The entire north end of Kangeiey and. Megantie districts .. 26c “ Bears emerge from their dens far lowing day a pair of horses and a The hens were of the Orpington the state is shaggy growth of Kangeley and Megamtic dlstriata, from the rotund condition which Mr. very large ...... 26c long sled with plenty of spreads to strain and were exceptionally good timber. This section, however, is be Moosehead and Aroostook dis Kimball has described. They are lean tricts ...... 60« keep us warm took us up the Lily one«. There was another strain of ing rapidly barbered by the lumber Ftranklfn County ...... 60< and lank and look half starved. I Bay stage road to where the Thoro- hens called the Khaki which stood interests. Maine statesmen are of Somerset County ...... 60< know, because I have seen several of Oxford County ...... 6 ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY. (Special to Maine Woods.) HOWES’ DEBSCONEAG CAMPS, j Farmington Falls, April 17.—Nat GOOBJAY LEWISTON, MAINE. Are situated on First Debsconeag Lake, l-4mile from West Branch Penobscot; Reached haniel Whittier of this place shot a DeWitt House. Leading- Hotel. Unex from Norcross by steamer and canoe in 3 hours. Individual log cabins and tent roofed log camps; Canada wild goose recently that weigh? celled in Maine. Booklet free. George To Act As Salesmen own garden, and hennery; daily mail; best .New York, Philadelphia and Boston references. ed 10 pounds and measured five feet j S. Patte, Proprietor, Lewiston, Me. The demand for our goods is increas For MOOSE and DEER five inches from tip to tip of wings i ing. The interest in New England AROOSTOOK COUNTY. and three feet two inches from tip ; 1MT. KATAHDIX at our doorway offers best mountain climbing in Mew England; side trips from fruits and farming is growing. WINTERVILLE, MAINE. these camps to Soardnahnnk. Raiabow, Nahmikanta Lakes. A specialty made of outfitting and of beak to tip of tail. planning trips down the West Branch from N. E. Carry. We haven’ t men enough to cover half Bed River Camps, Beauitful place for • Best Family Cooking in Maine. It is very rare that a goose of this the towns in the state of Maine. vacations. Best of fishing. T. H size and kind is shot, for they fly I DEER AN’ D MOOSE hunting in season, in as good territory as there is in Maine- Rates S2.00 Inexperienced men are making over Tweedie. and $2.50 per day. Open entire year. Snowshoeing, skiing, Tobogganing, visits to lumber camps very high and live, as a rule, far to during winter months. Booklet for the asking. $20 week, while our experienced the north. CUMBERLAND COUNTY. men go as high as $40 HERBERT M. HOWES, The goose shot by Mr. Whittier, j Our line is the most complete, our Millinocket Me.,Dec. 1 to May 1; May 1 to Dec. 1, Debsconeag, Me. which was brought down with a well g >ods the highest quality, and our treat W E S T END directed rifle shot, was placed on ex ment of customers and salesmen the hibition in the store of Wilfred Me* most liberal. HOTEL Leary at Farmington, where it has \ Let us wr te von about it at once. r attracted a great deal of attention. H. M. CASTNER, Prop’r. OLLEGE preparatory. Business It is black and grayish white in i W . F. COBB & CO., A c color. courses. Gymnasium. Athletic Derymen and Seedmen Portland, Maine field. Manual training. The only School DISTRICT NO, 2 FRANKLIN, MASS. Thoroughly first class. The hotel for school in Maine inviting comparison Maine vacationists, tourists and sport for boys in chool, athletic and home equip April 15. i men. All farm, dairy products, pork Clark McKeen was in this district1 and poultry from our own farm, enabl ment with high grade priv last week. ing U3 to serve only fresh vegetables, ate schools. Snowshoeing, Mrs. Buzzell Gallant and little daugh- H. W. HOLMES meats, butter, cream, eggs, etc. BBOTT t jrs, Clara and Christine, who spent the American plan. Send for circular. . tobogganing, skiing, horse- winter in Canada with relatives, have < HZXZZIZH3 A back riding, maple-sugar returned home. OPTOMETRIST South Casco, Maine Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Mitchell were ‘ Dingley Cottage” Opens May 1st Famous M a in e making, fishing, and hunting. recent callers at Levi Field’s. Specialist in Eye Glass Sebago Lake Fishing. Ideal place for vacations. 8 Autoists en route to Rangeley are invited to in- Chester Wing was an “ early morning Automobiling. Harry P. Dingley. Fitting. Tenth Year pect our complete plant. Tuition $700. caller at Morrell’s, Saturday,” getting Accommodations for two more boys.” there in time for breakfast. His little f r a n k l i n c o u n t y . opened ADDRESS daughter Irene, who has been the guest BES^^PHERICAL GEORGE D. CHURCH, of her grandparents for some time, re Saddleback Lake Camps TORIC LENSES, $2.50 September 27 H ead m aster turned home with him; also his sister, DALLAS. MAINE, New and3up-to-date camps. Miss Rose M. Wing. Rangeley, Maine built this season. Open fireplaces. Fishing, both JK______J lake and stream, and hunting in season. Write EUSTIS for illustrated jbooklet to Hemon S. Blackwell, i Dallas, Maine. RANGELEY LAKES. Bald Mountain Camps are situated at GOME TO OTTER POND GAMPS The stage went on wheels for the Commonwealth Hotel the foot of Bald Mountain in a good first time last Monday. j , This Spring and catch Trout weighing from three to five pounds any day. Big Salmon jg fishing section. Steamboat accommoda gT too. Besides you get good Boats, a good Table and a good Time. For particulars address. X; Miss Nellie Knapp is working for . c In^ rpoiate^ tions O. K. Telephone at camps. Two Mrs. Hartley Ranger for a few weeks, j Opposite Mate House, Boston, Mass mails daily. Write for free circulars to i| GEORGE McKENNEY, Garatunk, Maine. j:j: AMOS E L L IS , Proper Mrs. Warren Dyer is visiting her1 e*st Bald Mountain, Maine parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ricker i of Flagstaff. Hotel Blanchard will be George Day was out from King and Bartlett camps a few days the past opened to the public April 30 MOOSELOOKMEGO.NTIC HOUSE and LOG CAMPS BATHS $ week, called here by the death of his H mi3 of the big brook trout and landlocked salmon. Centrally located near the mouth ® brother, John Day, who died Monday, j E. H. GROSE, Stratton, Me. of the famousKennebago Stream and Rangeley Outlet. Fine Fly fishing in ponds nearby. 5 9 April 8, at his daughter’s, Mrs. Wm. Good auto roads. Garage supplies. Tennis. Booklet. Long Distance Phone. Telegraph. Rice’s. The remains were brought here RANGELEY, MAINE. FRED B. BURNS, Proprietor • Scotts Camps, Quimby Pond, famous for burial. He leaves a wife, and P. 0 . Haines Landing, Maine. R. R. Station, Oquossoc, Maine. • daughter, Mrs. Will Rice, and a son. ! for fly fishing, five miles from Range- Percy, and other relatives at St. John, ley, two miles from Oquossoc, good N. B., to mourn his loss. The family road direct to camps. Transient parties have the sympathy of the community. Offers rooms with hot find cold water accommodated, best of meals served The interment was in the Pine Grove for $1.00 a day and up; which includes Telephone connection by which, boats cemetery. Mrs. Rice is going to re free use of public shower baths. NO and accommodations can be secured. J. turn to her home Tuesday, April 16. THING TO EQUAL THIS IN NEW E. Scott, Box 268, Rangeley, Maine. UPTON, MAINE. JACKMAN, MAINE. Mrs. Mark Daggett and children have ENGLAND. Rooms wtih private bath Durkee’s Camp. On Lake Umbagog an Lake Park. Beauüfully situated on the gone on the Rki^^to stay atT'her^fath- f°r$1.50 per day and up; suits of two Round Mountain. Maine Cambridge River. Best of Deer and shore of Lake Wood. Autoing, Motor- er’s while Mr. Daggett is working at rooms and bath f FARMINGTON THE EFFECTIVE LAXATIVE. BOARD OF TRADE STRATTON. NEW LINE OF April 22 Tastes Like and is Eaten Like Candy SAYS “ CLEAN UP” The stage from Eustis to Bigelow W ALL PAPER made its first trip to Bigelow with a April 21, 1912. In our experience in the handling of ------wagon April 15. Mrs. Whitmore has returned to J. drugs and medicines, we believe we . , r . , . i_. .j m u i The snow is fast disappearing and the New Rugs and Art Squares J. Hunt’s. have never had experience with any Asks Citizens of Kingtieid 10 Help streams are high. All the drives have Remedy that gave such great satisfac Will Ranger has been working for scarted. There was a special train to Fresh from Market. tion to our customers as do Rexall Or Berutify Streets By Removing Bigelow Thursday night which brought E. T. Hodgkins of Temple. derlies. This remedy is not like any J. J. Hunt lost a valuable work other laxative or cathartic. . It contains Rubbish At Once about 70 drivers for the Great North horse which weighed 1500 lbs. all the good features of other laxatives, ern Paper company. Center Tables in Latest but none of their faults. Miss Flossie Taylor is the guest of He was sick six weeks and every- Kingfield, April 23, 1912. Our own faith in Rexall Orderlies is friends in Farmington. Patterns. thing was done for him that could be so strong that we offer them to you (Special to Maine Woods.) Chester Brewer has purchased two with our own positive personal guaran Miss Daisy Fotter is working in the tee, that if they do not thoroughly sat Mrs. Emma Hodgman caught the Central Telephone office. cows. first trout of the season below’ the isfy you, you only need to tell us and Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Burrell were C. F. CHANDLER & SON A number of men have been in We~ will hand back to you every penny dam, Monday. It was a fíne twelve in Farmington a few days the last of this neighborhood looking for farms, you paid us for them, iherefore, in inch fish. hard drying them upon our recommendation the week, PHILLIPS, MAINE. The traveling has been * “ you take no risk whatever. The Kingfield postoffice has been Tha new engine for Russell Brothers that our grooe~ man and baker did Rexall Orderlies taste like and are designated a postal savings deposi & Estes Company’s birch mill arrived not make their usual trips last week. eaten like candy. They do not gripe, tory, rule to take effect on May 1. last week and has been set up. Fred Lunt ' cause nausea, excessive looseness, or Dr. Cushman, Mrs any other annoyance. They act so eas C. R. Vose owns a Holstein heifer, L. T. Hinds made a business trip to Deacon Fred Fuller and Clinton ily that they may be taken at any time, 20 months and 10 days old that Farmington recently. COAL Parker attended the Sabbath school day or night. They are particularly weighs 880 pounds and girts 5 feet, Harry Hinds, with a crew of men, conference at Livermore Falls as good for children, aged or uelicate per- has gone to Kingfield to work on the Wholesale and Retail. sons. They are put up in convenient 7 inches. She wTas regarded by the delegates from the Free Baptist tabiets in three sizes of packages, selectmen as the best one in town. drive for the Great Northern Paper Leave your orders early fos church. The Sabbath School is Prices, 10 c., 25 c., and 50 c. He bought her of E. L. Page. company. next winter’s supply. For prices Remember, Rexall Remedies can be steadily increasing; last Sunday the A ten pound hoy arrived at the Mr, and Mrs. Harry Lisherness have apply to obtained in this community only at our returned to their home in Strong, after attendance numbered 64. store—The Rexall Store. R. H. Preble, home of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert With- John Yeaton had an operation Phillips, Maine, am, Saturday, April 20. spending the winter with the former’s BEAL & McLEARY, week before last for hemorrhoides. Elkanah Brackett has been moved grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Blanchard. Office at Phillips Station, Mrs. Jeannette C. Danico started Archie Bubier had the misfortune to Mrs. Carrie Gates, where his w’ife AGENTS: to cut one of Ms feet while cutting and mother are caring for him. He this Monday morning for the Children’s EAST NEW PORTLAND hospital, Boston, with Ellwin, the in C. B. Richardson, Strong. some trees. is getting along well fant son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Rand L. L. Mitchell Kingfield. Charles Dudley has been ill at his Odell Lander was drawn traverse She has taken him there for treatment. home from an attack of pleurisy. Miss Madeline Emery has been juryman Tuesday, April 16, to serve News was received in this village of The 78th birthday of Mrs. Matilda engaged to teach the school at the at the May term of the S. J. court the death of Miss Lottie Taylor in Far PEELED PULPW00D. Gardner was observed at her home at Farmington. East. mington, April 21. Miss Taylor was -L; |c.£*; *Kg9| Tuesday, p. m., April 9, by a party | Mr. Melvin is working in the mill Everett Lander is clerking in the the daughter of the late J. S. and Mrs. 3,000 cords, Fir, Spruce and Poplaj given by her granddaughter Mrs. for W. Burns. store of Jenkins & Bogert Company Fiavilla Stevens Taylor, formerly of wanted on line of Sandy River & Rango« Matilda Welch. Neighbors and friends Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clark of N. N. Will Ames, of Livermore Falls is ley Lakes Railroad. Highest prices lot Coplin. She leaves a mother, five 1009. Write, telephone or call on were present. Refreshments were Portland were callers in town Sat visiting his brother, B. E. Ames, and brothers and two sisters, besides a served and a good time enjoyed. urday. may remain for the summer. large circle of relatives and friends to A . W . M c L e a r y , Phillips Ralph Ellsworth has been making Mrs. Eliza Holbrook is visiting Dr. E. S. Pennell, S. J. Wyman, mourn her loss. some maple syrup which is fine, we her son, Charles Holbrook. Ray Huse and Frank Stanley wore Mrs. Scott Jones and little son who are able to testify as we were Miss Hattie Emery was called to in Auburn the last of the week. The have been stopping in New Portland The Syracuse Reversible generously remembered. Lewiston recently by illness in the Masonic lodge of that city conferred this winter, are visiting her husband’s Sulky Plow. Mr. Erskiae went to Lewiston for family of her brother, W. H. Emery. upon them the degree of Scottish parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar S. Jones an operation for appendicitis re J. P. Butts passed through town Rite. for a time. Clark’s Cutaway Harrow» cently. His wife accompanied him. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Bean intend to move The Original Kind. Mrs. Emily Fales, who was sick Mr. Donahue of Dead River is to Rumford Falls this week. Their MILE SQUARE Automobiles are seen and heard working for Wm. Parsons. son, Jasper, has already returned to Paints for Exterior and in plenty. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Adams intend his school at Mt. Hermon, Mass. Mr. C. E. Gould was over the hill Interior Work. last winter is Quite well at this to go to Skowhegan soon where Mr. W. «D. Page wras in Lewiston, Sat last week with his gasolene engine writing, we are glad to say. Adams will have treatment for his urday, Sunday and Monday. sawing wood. • LADIES ATTENTION!! trouble from the effects of a shock Lorenzo «Wyman is clerking at the Quite a number of our young ladies Mr. Carl White, wife and child of Jap-A-Lac makes your old are engaged in the Chronicle voting last fall. hotel for a few days. Phillips visited at O. Marden’s last contest hoping to get the piano. The roads *are quite bad in town Henry Lufkin has brought (the week. furniture new. Mrs. S. H. Staples from Wilton was now, the frost just coming out. Alice Vose house of I. L. Eldridge. School began Monday with Miss Ask for color card. in Farmington last week on busi Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Hutchins Geo. W. Staples of Temple was in Ada Smith of Phillips as teacher; ness. opened their home to friends on Sat town the last of the week. she boards with her sister, Mrs. S. Md§s Mabel Young has returned urday p. m. April 20, the occasion J. H. Adams and family wiill move H. Beal. Phillips Hardware Co. home from Massachusetts and is being Mr. Hutchins 84th birthday. into the house vacated by Mr. E. A. Peary attended Pomona employed by Mrs. Harry Brown in Sunshine members and friends to Bean, the first of next month. grange in Rangeley last week. FULL LINE OF her millinery store. the number of 35 gathered to extend Jacob Thompson and family have Judge Morrison of Phillips visited Nellie Farmer visited in Nomidge birthday greetings and to wish them moved to their farm on Millay Hill, his* sister, Mrs. H. W. Worthley woek last week. both good luck and many years of New Portland. over Sunday. Grass and Garden Henry Lowell has sold and shipped happiness together. A short meeting Mrs. Marcia A. Watson, of Nor- Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Worthley visit 40,300 barrels of apples during the of the Sunshine society was held of ridgewock, w’ho has spent the winter ed 1 r father, W. C. Beal, Sunday. Seeds. past season making 270 carloads. which both Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins are with her son, W. P. Watson, was L. B. Kinney, who is working in Mrs. Phillips will visit her brother, members, followed by refreshments surprised upon her seventy-eighth No. 6, visited his family Sunday. Early Peas Merton Swain, soon. of ice cream and cake. A beautiful birthday by the presentation of two The road over the hill have been Mrs. Betsy Gordon is failing very birthday cake with 84 prettily decor birthday cakes, pink layer cake, shoveled out so that if is now pass Both Garden and Field. fast and is a great sufferer. She ated candles on the top -was pre surrounded by cut flowers from able for wagons. has our sincere sympathy. sented. Useful gifts and many Mrs. Philander Butts, and a fruit Miss Izora Lawrence is boarding Anything and Everything The maple syrup season was short beautiful post cards were sent with cake surmounted with seventy-eight j at Orlando Marden’s and attending but a good run was had. all good wishes. Mr. Hutchins has candles from her daughter-in-law school. You Need in This Line. been very feeble for a year past and She also received birthday cards and Miss Nellie Farmer of the West; Messrs. Clarence and Alfred Wil-j his many friends, who were present, gifts from many friends. village was with friends in Nor- bur, who have been working in Mass. | only hope the Sunshine shed on his Mrs. A. W. Lander, who has been ridgewock the past week. have returned home. LEAVITT & JACOBS 84tih birthday may send a bright ray quite ill for everal weeks is gain The thunder storm of two weeks through the years to come for ing. Her daughter, Miss Ada Lander, DON’T FORGET. PHILLIPS, MAINE* ago was indication of a cold spring, both Mr. and Mrs. Hutchins. of Rockland was with her from but the past two weeks show that Thursday to Monday. that i.s only “An old woman’s whim.’’ Whenever you write to one of our The total valuation of Kingfield is advertisers, don’t forget to mention Henry W. Lowell of West Farm EAST MADRID. rate per cent. .028. Main© Woods. It is important to NOTICE ington, one of our large dealers in Tb Board of Trade has issued a you to do so; important to us and fruit, and Miss' Florence P. Robin circular asking all property owners the advertiser naturally wants to WILLOWS HOTEL son, class of 1902, F. S. N. S., and April 22. and renters of real estate to assist know where you found his name. STABLE WITH HOUSE. a successful teacher and soloist, Mr. and Mrs. Solon Mecham attended in cleaning up the streets before Tell him, and thus do a good turn here, were married'April 16, by Rev. the funeral of Mr. Mecham’s father, May 1. The Board will furnish a for all concerned. Large comfortable rooms. Just tbe R. H. Clapp, pastor of the Old Mr. Leonard Mecham of Phillips, last free team to haul rubbish to the place to spend a few weeks in the sum South church. i Thursday. dump after it is collected in piles. mer for happiness and pleasure. Good Miss Eva O. Park is visiting her Albert Coffren has finished work for Mrs. J-ohn Nutting returned Ito her GOOD WORK. fishing near by. Rates reasonable. sister, Mrs. B. O. Mclntire, in Solon Mecham.. home in Lexington Thursday, she Both telephones. Bath room,. Miss Mamie Webber of Madrid is our Carlisle, Penn., after passing the having been for sometime in King- Don© Daily in Phillips. Many Citizens teacher, school commencing last Mon winter with Mrs. H. E. Keyes in field caring for her daughter, Mrs. Tell of It. GEO. L. LAKIN, day. Miss Webber boards with Mrs. town. Frank Tufts, who is. recovering from Cora Wheeler. Nearly every readey has heard of Proprietor typhoid fever. Doan’s Kidney Pills. Their good work Joseph Paul was on the new railroad Phillips, - Maine survey a few days last week. He Mrs. Edward Parker of Skowhegan in Phillips still continues, and our citizens are constantly adding en ALMOST A MIRACLE. boarded at Mrs. Cora Wheeler’s. is the guest of her parents, Mr. dorsement by public testimony. No and Mrs. A. W. Landers. better proof of merit can be had Mrs. R. Frank Cook remains in than the experience of friends and neighbors. Read this case: D. R. ROSS One of the most startling changes eve REED’S MILL poor health. John W. Kennedy, Phillips, Me., seen in any man, according; to W. B. Clarence Dutton witoh the Gaiety says: “ The benefit I received from Attorney and Counsellor at Law Holsclaw, Clarendon, Tex., was effected Co., of Bingham gave an entertain Doan’s Kidney Pills three years ago Office at No. 2 Bates Block April 22, 1912. has been permanent, and I willingly years aim !n his broiner. “He hat ment of moving pictures Thursday confirm my former endorsement of PHILLIPS, - - - - MAINE such a dreadful cough,” he writes, “ that Miss Arline Dunham has returned and Friday evenings, followed by a this remedy. For years I was afflict all our family thought he was going from a visit at Kingfield. social dance. ed with kidney trouble and rheumatic into consumption, hut he began to use Miss Maude Cross is boarding with pains and was often unable to get Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Safford return about. I passed many sleepless J. BLAINE MORRISON Dr. King’s New Discovery, and was Mrs. Vesta Sargent. ed to their home in Dead River, nights, and was also bothered by Attorney - at - Law completely cured by ten bottles. Now Miss Mamie Webber is teaching tbe kidney secretions. Dotors failed Monday. Beal Block. Phillips Fire and Life Insurance he is sound and well and weighs 218 the East Madrid school. to help me and I finally got Doan’s Miss Maude Cress is at home from pounds. For many years our family Mr. and Mrs. Bonney Webber also Kidney Pills at Cragin's Drug Store, Farmington Normal school. now Preble’s Drug Store. has used this wonderful remedy for Mrs. Sarah Voter and Mrs. Cora John Martin is sick and typhoid They helped me at once, restoring Coughs and Colds with excellent results. Stinehfield attended Pomona at my kidneys to a normal condition It’s quick, safe, reliable and guaranteed. Rangeley the 18th. A very good time fever is feared. and disposing of my pains and Dr. B. S. Elliott, aches.” P rice 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottle is reported. Herschel Holt of Dixfied was in For sale by all dealers. Price 50 DENTIST free at R. H. Preble’s, Phillips; Rid Lester Rowe was in Phillips a few town the last of the week. cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, dle’s Pharmacy of Rangeley; Chas. E. days last week. M. D. P Thompson has purchased New York, sole agents for the Unit Successor to Dr. Holt Dyer of Strong; L. L. Mitchell of King- Mr. and Mrs. Elwin McLaughlin the T. Horn house and is repairing ed States. field. Remember the name—Doan’s—and Hours 8 to 12; 1 to 5. Evenings by visited in Auburn last week. ! it. take no other. appointment. MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912 11 of Phillips and Miss Edith M. Harris very comfortable but unable to use at Mr. and Mrs. Evans Merchant’s. STATE OF MAINE. STRONG NOW HAS of Salem. Mr. Knapp is a popular his foot much. Miss Leona Prince, who is work book-keeper of Phillips and after a Mrs. Chas. Norton has been quite ing at Guy Smith’s, spent Saturday County of Franklin, ss____ A BASE BALL CLUB brief wedding trip they will make ill the past few weeks. She is gain with her old school mate and friend, To the Honorable Justice of the Su their home there. The happy young ing slowly. Fannie Holley. preme Judicial Court next to be holden J-. C. Leadbetter has been having at Farmington within and for the Coun There Are 17 Men to Try for Team. couple have the best wishes of their Mrs. Elisha Landers of Phillips re ty of Franklin, on the third Tuesday of many friends. turned home Saturday night after very good success in sheep raising May, A. D. 1912. Old Folks' Ball Successful- The subject of the pastor’s ser a few days’ visit with her daughter, this spring as usual. He has 27 Dora B. Sargent of Madrid in the mon for last Sunday was, The Vict Mrs. Bradford Beal. large handsome sheep. Fourteen, of County of Franklin, wife of George E. (Special to M^ine Woods.) Sargent, respectfully represents that ory of Faith, text, 1st John 5:4. “ And Wm. Goldsmith has bought .Frank these bore twins and the rest one her maiden name was Dora B. Welts, Strong, April 24.— E. B. Johnson this is the victory that hath over Gray’s place below M. A. Wills’ and lamb each, making in all a flock of that she was lawfully married to the of Livermore .Falls was in town come the world, even our faith.’ It will move his family there soon. He 58 sheep and lainbs. He also said George E. Sargent at Strong, in Saturday. He played in the orches said county, on the nineteenth day of was listened to by a large audience. intends to use the part there now has a fine herd of cows. He is an tra for the Old Folks Ball. September, A. D. 1887, by a Mr. Pratt, At the close of the sermon a for an ell and build a main house up-to-date farmer. a minister of the gospel, duly author Schools in town were closed pat quartette composed of Mr. and Mrs. a little later. ized to perform marriage ceremonies; that they lived together at Madrid riot’s, Day. C. V. Starbird, Mrs. Roy Lewis and Several from town attended Chap A. H. Bradford, who has spent the aforesaid from the date of their said M. A. Will sang “Jesus Lover of man’s concert Tuesday evening. It RAILROAD MEN SEE marriage until the sixth day of June A. winter in Florida visited his son, my Soul” in a very impressive man was a grand opportunity to all music D. 1911; that your libelant has conduct Waiter Bradford, last week. He was ner. lovers and it was greatly enjoyed. ed herself toward her said husband as a accompanied home by Mrs. Bradford. 42 DEER IN ONE DAY faithful, true and affectionate wife; Mrs. Benj. McKeen has moved to David .Richardson is making ex that your libelee has been guilty of ex Miss Nina Stevens visited friends Farmington where she will make he tensive repairs on his new home treme cruelty, gross and confirmed hab In Wilton and Farmington Friday home with her son, W. B. McKeen formerly the Stephen Morrell house its of intoxication from the use of in toxicating liquors, and cruel and abus and Saturday. and family. on upper Main street. Each room Were Near the “Iron Bridge" on Several in town saw' a flock of ive treatment toward your said libelant; Rev. W. P. Holman has been invit in the house has been very prettily that said libelee departed from the said fiity-five wild geese flying north the Kingfield Branch of the ed to deliver the baccalaureate ser papered, painted, etc., which makes libelant on the sixth day of June, A. D. 1911, since which time the whereabouts one day recently. mon before the graduating class of it very attractive. S. R. & R. L. R. R. Mrs. P. W. Mason went to Port of the said libelee have been to your li Berwick Academy this J-une. He was Mrs. H. N. Luce was in Farmingto belant wholly unknown and cannot be land Friday to visit friends. She re ascertained by reasonable diligence; pastor there five years before coming Monday. (S pecialtoMaine Woods.) turned Monday. to Strong. Miss Pushes of Farmington was that there is no collusion between your Strong, April 16—Amos Phillips and libelant and the said libelee to obtain a The Midnight club was very in town Tuesday on business. Miss Freda Mitchell and friend Wiseman McKenney, sectionmen on divorce; that your libelant believes it pleasantly entertained Friday even Miss Gladys Bubier has been quite reasonable and proper, conducive for do Miss Vera Hinkley of the Farming- the Kingfield branch of the S. R. & R. ing by Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Partridge ton Normal school spent Sunday ill the past few days. mestic harmony, and consistent with at their pretty home on Depot street. L. R. R., recently saw 42 deer in one the peace and morality of society that with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S day. the bonds of matrimony between her Flinch was enjoyed during the even and her said husband should be dis Mitchell. EAST WELD There were 32 deer in one herd and ing. Refreshments of ice cream, ange Ralph Worthley has bought Bern solved by divorce. Wherefore she cake, chocolate cake and assorted 10 in another. The deer were all in the prays that such divorce may be decreed ard Vining’s farm where he will mov vicinity of the Iron bridge and seemed and that she may be decreed the custo crackers were served. A delightful Apri* 21, 1912. his family in the near future. well fed and contented. dy of her minor child aged five years time was enjoyed by all. Last Monday evening a meeting Mrs. Hiram Vining, who has been and named Alice B. Sargent. The many friends of Wm. Blethen There have been rumors in circula Dora B. Sargent. was held in Batee’ Hall to organize ill is improving. tion that the number of deer in this wall be pleased to know he is able Subscribed and sworn to before me a, base ball team. Twenty-nine at Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Washburn hav section is decreasing, but this seems to this twenty-sixth day of December, A. to walk out nearly every day. He tended and they formed an associa hired out to work for Fred Blanch be a refutation of the statement. D.t 1911. reports feeling better than for tion electing Manley Whiting presi ard and will go there soon. D. R. Ross, Justice of the Peace. STATE OF MAINE. several years past. All hope he dent; John Norton, secretary; Lionel Several of the Wilton Academy may continue to gain. students from Weld were home last Esitate of Maxine I. Nile, (Seal.) Allen, treasurer and Arthur Eustis, Franklin ss: Hon. P. H. Stubbs has been .quite Friday and Saturday. FRANKLIN, ss: At a Court of Probate holden at manager; Harry G. Allen, Harold A Farmington, within and for the County of Franklin, Supreme Judicial Court in Vacation, poorly the past week. Will Parlin has had the six calves on the third Tuesday of April, A. D -1912. Welch and Linwood Foster are on Guida F. Nile, Guardian of Maxine 1. Nile and March 30, A. D., 1912. Miss Harriette Titcomb spent Fri the social oommditfcee. Following are dropped by a cow that was owned by Theron H. Nile, minor children and heirs of Mil- Upon the foregoing libel, Ordered; day and Saturday with her parents Thomas Williams mounted. Your ton C. Nile, late of Rangeley, in said County, de That the libelant give notice to the res some of the members of the associa ceased, having presented her Petition for License pondent therein named, to appear be in Farmington. correspondent has seen them, and to sell and convey certain Real Estate of said min< tion: H. G. Allen, H. A. Welch, E. or. as described in said Petition. fore the Justices of our said Court, to Mrs. R. W. Knowlton whose seri they are a sight worth going a good It was ordered, that the said Guardian give no be holden at Farmington, within and L. Kingsley, Lewis Milton, Linwood tice to all persons interested,^by causing notice to be ous illness was noted last week Foster, Manley Whiting, Lionel way to see. They are at Mr. Parlin’s published three weeks successively in the Maine for the County of Franklin, on the third is much improved. Woods, published at Phillips, that they may appear Tuesday of May, A. D., 1912, by pub Allen, Carroll Rounds, James M home at Weld village. at a Probate Court to be held at said Farmington, fishing an attested copy of said libel, Dr. C. W. Bell returned from New Lawrence and McLaughlin are now on the third Tuesday of May next, at ten of the clock Sample, Neil Luce, Arthur D. Eus- in the forenoon, and show cause, if any they have, and this order thereon, three weeks York city Tuesday where he has tis, William Sample, Leon Smith driving the pulpwood on the Hough why the same should not be granted. successively in the Maine Woods, a seen several very serious surgical ton Brook. They have another small J. H. THOMPSON, Judge, newspaper printed in Phillips, in said Roscoe F. Whiting, Harold Smith Attest, A. L. Fenderson, Register. j County of Franklin, the last publica- operations performed. Dr. Bell is Carroll Ladd, William Nixon, Merton drive on the East Brook that they I tion to be fourteen days at least, be- one of the most skilled and success Lambert, Raymond Starbird, Chas will look after as soon as this one COMMISSIONERS' NOTICE. ; fore the sitting of said Court, that he ful surgeons in the sitafce. He im_ is finished. may then and there, in our said Court E. Dyer, J-. H. Norton, William O. appear, and show cause, if any he have, proves every opportunity to further Stewert, Myron L. Witherell, F. H. why the prayer of said libelant should F r a n k l i n , ss. April 16, A. D., 1912 perfect his skill. Leathers and C. B. Richardson. not be granted. The new telephone central is RUSSELL'S MILLS We, the undersigned, having been du George F. Haley, Justice of the Su A dance was given for the benefit ly appointed by the Honorable J. H. preme Judicial Court. completed in the house of Alphonso of the Strong base-ball association Thompson, Judge of Probate, within A true copy of the Libel and Order of Luce, and is operated by Miss Laura Saturday evening in Luce’s Hall, they April 22, 1912. and for said County, Commissioners to Court thereon. Luce. cleared $12.00 making a total of Gu> Smith called on his relatives receive and decide upon the claims of Attest, B. M. Small, clerk in Russell’s Mills recently. the creditors of Elmer Will, late oie Mrs. W. O. Stewart and two child $76.00 raised for the team. Music Phillips, in said County, deceased, ren were callers in town Saturday. was furnished for the dance by the Leeman Brooks of Kingfield visit whose estate has been represented in Miss Alice Vaughan was in Farm Old Folks orchestra. ed at J-. C. Leadbetter’s last week. solvent, hereby give public notice COMING EVENTS ington Saturday on business. Miss Martha Marden is . teach-in agreeably to the order of the said Judge There are 17 men to try for the of Probate, that six months from and Much trouble has been caused the team as soon as the diamond is in the school at Temple Center. She after April sixteenth last have been al began her work Monday. lowed to said creditors to present and past week by leaks in the main gas condition. June 5, 6—Maine Divisions, Sons David T. Corbett is cutting wood prove their claims, and that we will at pipes. Many places were without Donald Luce has been having a for Marshall Stever . tend to the duty assigned us at the of of Veterans, Bangor. lights Friday evening. very serious trouble -with one hand. fice of D R. Ross in Phillips, Maine, on Miss Evangeline Woodman of the June 12—Patriarchs Militant, I. O. The Ladies’ Aid met Wednesday It began to swell Friday and con the first day of June next, and the first D class in the Farmington State day of July, next, and the first day of O. F., Brunswick. with Mrs. Ellen Richards. tinued to grow sore and Monday on Normal school was a week-end guest August, next, at ten of the clock in the June 17—Primary elections in Manned at the Methodist parson account of Dr. Bell’s absence he forenoon of each of said days. Maine. age Saturday April 20th, by Rev. was taken (to Dr. Pratt of Farming- Charles F. Chandler, J Weston P. Holman, Carroll L. Knapp ton who found it to be a bad BALD HEADS NOT WANTED. > Commissioners June IS—National Republican Con D. R. Ross, ) vention, Chicago. palm abscess. He gave him ether Baldness is too Generally Considered HIGH PRESSURE DAYS. June 26, 28—Maine Pharmaceutical and opened it. It is being cared for a Sign of Advanced Age. Men and women alike have to work by Mass Alice Vaughan. It is Ass’n. Convention, St. Andrews, N.. incessantly with brain and hand to hold TlftftBERLAND he may have a speedy re- |B. . ; '-«T' ! ‘f| 1 their own nowadays. Never were the j hoped A bald-headed person does not have demands of business, the wants of the covery. an equal chance with one blessed with a WANTED J*u ly 26, Aug. 2—The Young Peo family, the requirements of society,, mor _ ,, _ __ healthy head of hair, because baldness ple’s Missionary Conference, Ocean numerous. The «ret effect of the! * rank’ son of Mr- and ^Irs- Jesse FRANK J. D. BARNJUM, is too generally accepted as an indica Park. praiseworthy effort to keep up with ; Phillips hpd the misfortune to cut his tion of age. Many large corporations P. O. BOX 2901. all these things is commonly seen in; foot quite badly Saturday while have established an age limit, and re BOSTON, MASS. a weakened or debilitated condition of j cutting wood. It was with difficulty fuse to take men over 35 years of age the nervous system, wthich results in as new employees. REST AND HEALTH TO MOTHER AND CHILD. dyspepsia, defective nutrition of both that the flow of blood was checked Probably 65 per cent of bald-headed M r s . W i n s l o w ’ s S o o t h i n g S y r u p has been body and brain, and in extreme cases as he severed an artery. He is people may regain a good head of used for over SIXTY YEARS by MILLIONS of in complete nervous prostration. It is For rheumatism you will find nothing MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE healthy hair if they will follow our ad TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It clearly seen that what is needed is vice and accept our offer. We have a better than Chamberlain's Liniment. SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, what will sustain the system,, give vigor PUTS END TO BAD HABIT. remedy that we positively guarantee to ALLAYS all PAIN ; CURES WIND COLIC, and Try it and see how quickly it gives re is the best remedy for DIARRHCEA. It is ab and tone to the nerves, and keep the Things never look bright to one with grow hair on any head, unless the roots solutely harmless. Be sure and ask for “ Mrs. digestive and assimilative functions “the blues.’’ Ten to one the trouble is of the hair are entirely dead, their fol lief. For sale by all dealers. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup,” and take no other healthy and active. From personal a sluggish liver, filling the system with licles closed, and the scalp has become kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. knowiedge, we can recommend Hood’s bilious poison, that Dr. King’s New glazed and shiny. We want people to Sarsaparilla for this purpose. It acts Life Pills would expel. Try them. Let try this remedy at our risk, with the on ell the vital organs, build« up the the joy of better feelings end “the distinct understanding that unless it whole system, and fits men and women blues.” Best for stomach, liver and does exactly what we claim it will, and for these high pressure days. kidneys, 25c. gives satisfaction in every respect, we shall make no charge for the remedy used during the trial. We know exactly what we are talking Brighten Your Home about, and with this offer back of our There Must Be a Reason Why I statements no one should scoff, doubt our word, or hesitate to put our reme And Make It More dy to an actual test. Have Sold More We want everyone in Phillips who is suffering from any scalp or hair troub Attractive. le, dandruff, falling hair, or baldness to try our Rexall “ 93” Hair Tonic. We want them to use it regularly—say un til three bottles have been used—and if it does not eradicate dandruff, cleanse W ALL PAPER and refresh the scalp, tighten the hair in its loots, and grow new hair, we will return eve*y cent paid us for the reme dy for the mere asking. There is no For This Purpose In formality expected, and we exact no obligation from the user whatever. % We are established right here in Great Variety At Phillips, and make this offer with a full In Franklin County than all the rest the understanding that our business suc city dealers, agents, sub-agents, etc. cess entirely depends upon the sort of combined during the past five years. treatment we accord our customers, You have to work hard for your and we would not dare make the above C. E. DYER’S money and you owe it to yourself to buy offer unless we were positively certain where you can make every’ dollar count. that we could substantiate it in every j particular. Remember, you can obtain CHAS. W. NORTON Rexall Remedies in this community only STRONG, MAINE. C hurch Street - - Farmington, Maine at our store —The Rexall Store. R. H. j Preble, Phillips, Maine. i? MAINE WOODS, PHILLIPS, MAINE, APRIL 25, 1912 IN AND ABOUT PHILLIPS It seemed that the angleworms Emery Bubier has purchased the got the tip early Tuesday morning Orrin Walker farm and will soon or late Monday night that spring move his family there. SPRING TIME had arrived. For when the early There were a few surprises await Phiillipians were on their way to work ing Carroll Knapp, who was mar they found the sidewalks fairly cover ried in Strong Saturday night, noted ed with the worms. But it was a in the Strong news, when he ar-1 Sedgeley & Go. false alarm for the angleworms, for j rived at the C. H. McKenzie store, IS the frost nipped their noses, if they I where he is employed, Monday mom- have noses, and many of them re | ing. As he opened the door1 turned to their subterranean homes. a shower of rice descended on his George Sedgeley is much improved head from a bag that had been i New Coats. in health. Everett Knapp is working carefully suspended above the cas New Suits. SUIT TIME in the store and attending school. ing. When he arrived at his desk The first balloon ascension of the he found that all the equipment was New Shoes. season is reported at the upper vil decorated in a manner to leave no lage. It appears that Master Herbert room for doubt regarding the though We have the new F. Lakin purchased a large fire bal fulness of those who did the work, j loon at the auction sale held re Even the ink well was filled to over-! suits ready for you cently. Then he gathered his friends flowring with rice and the penholders about him and sent the bag aloft. were gaily bedecked with flowing Excellent quality Al1 those who -were present voted ribbons. it a very fine sight. Those who went to Farmington on combined with the Ice cream, candy, Maybasbets, neck the special train from Phillips to the wear and bags may also be bought Chapman concert were: Ralph Tre- newest styles and at (tine food sale which will be held cartin, Mr. and Mrs. De Benia Ross, at Everett Hall, Saturday afternoon, Miss Miriam E. Brackett, Dr. B. S. high grade work this week, by the Ladies’ Social Elliott, Roy Atkinson, Reno Atwood, Union. and Misses Fern Worthley and Doris WE SOLICIT THE PATRON LET ME SOLVE THE manship, produce Haley, wrho Vent to Farmington on Frederick E. Boothby of Port AGE OF THAT CLA83 ©F DE TIME PROBLEM land, well known in Phillips, writes the afternoon train, returning on the POSITORS WHO CONSIDER I have a fine line of High Grade suits that wear and that he notes in Maine Woods that special. There was a good delega Watches and Clocks at reason a concert is to be given here May 8. tion from Strong. ABSOLUTE 8AFETY FIRST. able prices. Call and look them hold their shape, He then goes on to praise the artists, Th© Christmas present club was OUR CAPITAL AND SURPLUS over. Martha Hawes and Ernest Hill, say entertained by Mrs. J-. W. Brackett OF $110,000.00 GUARANTEES until worn out. ing, “ You certainly will have a treat, last Monday. Refreshments were one that no citizen of Phillips ought served. The club will meet in three THAT SAFETY, AND OUR IN A. G. CRONKHITE, Suits for boys, to miss. No singers in Maine stand weeks with Mrs. H. H. Field. TEREST RATE IS THE HIGH Successor to Emery S. Bubier, higher in fthe musical profession, as Mrs. E. H. Shephard returned Mon EST RATE CONSISTENT WITH PHILLIPS, MAINE. young men -nd you will soon have a chance to day from a fewr days’ visit with her prove.” daughter, Mrs. S. E. Austin, in Bath. SUCH 8AFETY. older men. Lemuel L. Baker of St. Cloud, Orris Vase arrived in Phillips Tues Florida, in renewing his subscription day night. Mr. Vase is looking up Phillips National ♦T< A And Rain Coats, to Maine Woods says in part: “I some matters connected with a very Y like the. paper, for it is newsy and T large pulp contract. ? MILLINERY tells about the people I used to Bank t NOT the clumsy Mrs. Fred Masterman has been t know. Although I haven’t lived quite ill the past wreek. 9 there for 35 years I can still see r You will find the latest ill fitting garment George Haley and Mr. and Mrs. r Phillips as it was then. I remember PHILLIPS, - MAINE f Elwin McLaughlin were in Lewiston t styles in Millinery and Sam Farmer ran the Barden House. t of a few years ago last week. t f MMIMMOMMMMMI Sam was a great fellow for fun and f flair Goods at, fast horses. Then there was Harry Mrs. Lester Sprague of Farmington I but good fitting was in town Tuesday. MRS. GEORGIA A. ADAMS. Dill. He kept the posit office. I re ±I member he asked Dr. Kimball to feel There is a new arrival at the Mrs. Georgia A. Adams was bom Mrs. Grace Mitchell's overcoats suitable t of my pulse when I got home with home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fair in Avon, near Mt. Blue November 20, my bride from Freeport, Maine. But banks. It is a bo-y, born Friday, and to wear .anywhere. 1849. She was the daughter of Mr. since then things have changed. The already amed Hayden Ealon Fair paper has changed its name, the banks. and Mrs. Hiram Kennedy. Mrs. Ad Give us a call people, or partt of them have changed Orrin Prey has been in Rangeley ams died at her home in Avon March places and today your paper has this week. 24. | J. R. DOYEN | for anything you .quite a spread all over the United At a hearing before De Berna She was married to John T. Adams Has bought out the entire States. I should be pleased to see Ross, Esq., itiwo barrels of cider of Dallas Plantation April 22, 1875. stock and trade of the Farm- ijij may need in either any one from Phillips and more brought into the case of the recent This union was blessed by seven er’s Co-Operative Trading Co. then pleased to see my old school Call and I will give you one -if: boys' for f/men’s “cider hearing” were condemned. The children. Six are now living. Three master and friend, Benjamin Butler.” case wras appealed and sureties fur hundred and thirty crackers are living at Livermore Falls, Fred wearing apparel. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cole went to nished, .by David Staples, the de for twenty five cents. |:j: Haines’ Landing Wednesday morning, fendant. erick E. Adams, Annie A. Allen and where Mr. Cole will be employed as Cards have been received in Phil Carrie M. Allen, Nellie M. White is J. R. DOYEN We’ve Got It. a porter. J lips announcing the marriage of Miss in Houlton and Charles H. Adams Mrs. Emma Shephard has just Flossie Mae Taylor to Carrol Curtis of Phillips. Frank M. Adams lives purchased a horse called “ Mace” that Noyes at Farmington April 21. Mr. Rubbers'to fit'all on the home farm in Avon. is a combination saddler and driver. Noyes was employed for a time in Mrs. Adams was very industrious shaped shoes. This horse has the distinction, per the office of Maine Woods. and faithful. She had a great love haps, of being the only animal of George L. Lakin attended the grand ALL THE UP-TO-DATE for her children and always took its kind in town trained for oross commandery of the Golden Cross last AT THE CLOTHING STORE . ■week, held in Portland. He reports pleasure in doing something for the STYLES country work. Mace, hurdles a high a very harmonious meeting. welfare of family or friends. barrier with ease. He is a dark In Spring and Summer Millin A. S. Meades of Lewiston is stop Beside her immediate family she ery, in new shapes and colors, bay, about eight years old and was ping a few days at the Hotel Wil leaves one sister and. two brothers will be found at my store. purchased from F. L. Palmer of lows. to mourn her loss. The funeral Hats made to order from braids r4'i * Saoo. The Junior Christmas present of all kinds. When in the store was held at the house March 26 and There was an enjoyable social at club met Saturday, April 20 with ask to see my one-piece spring Miss Algie Pratt. Delicious refresh was conducted by Rev. M. S. Hutch serge dresses. the Grange Hall Saturday night. On ments were served. The next meet ins of Phillips. The floral (tributes the program was a piano solo by ing will be with Mrs. F. N. Beal and were numerou, and beautiful. MRS. J. C. TIRRELL Miss Doris Haley; song, Miss Fern Miss Ella Beal on Saturday, May 4. H wwhvwhhhuhwww ? D. FI. HOYT, Worthley; recitation, Eleanor Hutch The Choral Club will meet at the ins; violin duet, Miss Mildred Smith Union church Saturday evening, April CARD OF THANKS. and Prince Stewart; piono duet, 27 at 8 o ’clock to rehearse for the Misses Hilda Goodwin and Ethelyn concert to be .given May 8. It is hoped the members will all be pre We wish to express our thanks to WANTED Beedy; song Estelle Barker; recita sent at this rehersal. our neighbors and friends for their tion, Laura Libby. After this enter No. 5 Beal Block, The Ladies’ Social Union will kindness and sympathy during our if Live Poultry tainment there was dancing and hold a food sale at Everett Hall, Sat recent sorrow. games. urday afternoon, April 27. Mrs. Fred Raymond and family, At The The remains of Rosetta L. Spra Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Raymond, Veterinarian Jones of -Rangeley was CASH GROCERY Phillips, Maine a recent business caller in Phillips. gue, a former resident of Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Raymond, were brought to Phillips Thursday fo Mr. Jones reports many good horses Mr. and Mrs. Zephyr Raymond. STORE interment. Mrs. Sprague died in Phillips, - - Maine, being owned in this section. Rocky Hill, Conn., April 16 at the George Carpenter of the S. R. & age of 77 years, four months. She R. L. R. R. has been ill for some was born in Phillips and formerly Every Lens and Frame which days with a recurrence of his old lived on the “Partridge place,” Her I prescribe is kept on time trouble. He was attacked with son, Frank L. Sprague accompanied illness while working in the car record. This enables VEGETABLES AND the body to Phillips, shop and it was found necessary to me to duplicate by Mrs. C. E. Williams and little son FLOWER SEEDS assist him to his home. mail without Agency for the Universal of Bath are. visiting her mother, Mrs, AT You will look a good while before you F. H. Toothaker. delay. find, a better medicine for coughs and Steam Laundry colds than Chamberlain’s Cough, Rem FRANK F. GRAVES, edy. It not only gives relief—it cures. Don’t be surprised if you have an TOOTHAKER’S Try it when you have a cough or cold, attack of rheumatism this spring. Just Graduate Optometrist. and you are certain to be pleased with rub the affected parts freely with New Sharon, Maine CASH STORE the prompt cure which it will effect. Chamberlain's Liniment and it will soon Farmers Phone 3-34. For sale by all dealers. disappear. Sold by all dealers.