Issued Tuesday Tuesday Thursday Issue Saturday he ourier zet T By Th* Caurler-Guatt*.,C 4(J Mai* St. -GA Established January, 1846. THREE CENTS A COPY Eat*r*tf a* Second Claes Mail Matter. Rockland, Maine, Tuesday, March 10, 1925. Volume 80................Number 30. ' terior Noble, and Justice Brown of The Courier-Gazette MEMORIES OF AN ACTIVE LIFE i ihe Supreme Court. I remarked to ROCKLAND MAN KILLED I Mr. E. S. Converse that the guano THREE-TIMES-A-WEEK shipped from the Chincha Islands ALL THE HOME NEWS ‘Men and Ships and Sealing Wax”—The Story of a J had sold for $600,000,000. Whereupon Maynard Sprowi, Chauffeur For Mrs. J. M. Baldrige, Meets Senator William M. Evarts, at the DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT Thomaston Boy Who Made Good. other end of the table, attracted gen- Subscription >3.00 per year payable ln ad- , Death In Taunton, Mas*., Auto Accident. vance; single copies three cents. ' oral attention by asking in a loud Advertising rates based upon circulation and very reasonable. voice: “Mr. Flint, do I understand NEWSPAPER HISTORY (By Charles R. Flint) i you correctly, that the guano ship­ Maynard Sprowi of this city, who the operator of the car, who was TUESDAY, MARCH 10 The Rockland Gazette was established in ped from the Chincha Islands sold 1848. In 1874 the'Courier was established [Continued—Begun Feb. 26) never to permit any product that he ! had been making his home with his pinned behind the steering wheel, for six hundred million of dollars?" and consolidated with the Gazette In 1882. expects to sell overseas at a higher was dead. His head was resting on The Free Press was established ln 1855, and Chapter V—Being Introduced to “Yes,” I replied. mother. In Boston, this winter, was AT TEMPLE rlALL price than the foreign product to fall the button whieh is used to sound ln 1891 changed Its name to the Tribune. Latin America “The deposits of seals nnd birds,” killed In an automobile accident in These papers consolidated March 17, 1897. short in ingenuity. The European the horn, and he was wfdged in such said Evarts, “what a commentary on The business of W. R. Grace & makers, for instance, were gradually ' Taunton, Mass., Sunday. a position that the horn continued to Benefit R. & R. RELIEF ASSOCIATION Co. became varied in its character, human effort !" Taunton correspondence of tho blow until the pressure was removed. M compelled to adopt our progressive Into this situation came Meiggs ••• ln addition to engaging freight and designs in sugar machinery. They Sprowi was bleeding from wounds of the Rockland-Rockport Lime Corp. with his wonderful presence and Boston Globe thus told the story of — Thc«readicst and surest way lo get — loading vessels, we also acted as could not get the husiness otherwise. about the face and body caused by equally wonderful political gifts. He the tragedy: I ••• rid of censure Is to correct ourselves. ••• commission agents, buying for mer­ Ill 1874 I received a hurry call to broken glass from the windshield, saw that the immense revenue • • • • —(Demosthenes. ••• chants, various estates, and com­ go to South America, and took the but his death was caused by the : : The Entertainers : : i *•• ••• from the guano deposits might bet­ .s. ••■ ‘ig panies in South America. 1 found Pacific Mail steamer for Panama. Maynard Sprowi, aged 24, of 112 pressure and blow which he received ter be used to promote accord than no difficulty, in the engaging of On board the steamer, instructed by Jersey street Boston, was killed in­ from the large steering post. He sus­ revolution, and that it ought to be freight and the loading of vessels, that grand old sailor Captain Griffin. stantly and Carl Harrington, 913 tained internal injuries. His eye­ THE HARVESTER LOST the developing power of the coun- JOHN DAN SHEPHERD and bis Troupe because of my previous experience in I enjoyed taking the latitude and Boylston street Boston, a student at glasses, unbroken were on his nose. 1 try. Peru then had insignificant shipping; but I had never done much longitnde. I read Maury on Air Cur- I the New England Conservatory of Harrington, who was bundled in a railways. Don Enrique planned rail- Former Vinalhaven Schooner important buying, and when an rents, and it w,a« particularly in­ Music, was knocked unconscious heavy fur coat, was pinned beneath roads for all important points. The CARLETON PORTER order came from Francisco Bryce for teresting literature during the hur­ i when a 1925 model sport touring the wreckage of the car at the right­ Peruvian coast is a strip walled by Driven Ashore At Bahama a sugar plant for his great estate, ricane season on hoard what today car tipped over on a curve at Rich­ hand front seat. He was uncon­ , the Andes, and every railway to the “ba Estrella” near Lima, I realized would lie called a small steamer. mond and South Main streets ln scious apparently from a blow on Islands. interior must be built practically to MISS GLADYS JONES tlie importance of the commission. oil my arrival at Panama I called Raynham Center, shortly after 6 the head. He was pulled out and the clouds and at enormous expense, Schooner Harvester, a familiar Although we were an American on James Boyd, the proprietor and Bunday morning. taken to the home of Cole, where ho Meiggs planned those railways. I craft in coastwise trade for years, is firm. It was our duty to buy sugar editor of the Panama Star & Herald ! The car is owned by Mrs. J. M. was given first aid and within a few THREE FIRST LINE ATTRACTIONS He went further than this—he j n total wreck on the sands of the machinery in the best market; in­ which circulated on the west coast Baldrige of 127 Beacon street, Boston minutes regained consciousness. i planned to give iall the potential I Bahama Islands, according to infor- deed it was the (Ary fact that we from Mexico to Patagonia, realizing and was operated by Sprowi. who hud He could give no clear explanation revolutionists Jobs, even revolution­ | mation received by Caipt. Elisha S. had facilities for investigating the that my business status on the west I been employed as a chauffeur for ists afloat. He sent one of them to of tlie accident. He said he was MARSTON’S ORCHESTRA Roberts of Vinalhaven, for whom the markets of the world which enabled coast could be established by this Mrs. Baldrige for several years. us and we purchased a fine sailing making the trip from Boston to New schooner was built at Jonesport, and us to get the order. Just as soon as newspaper. I had filled Boyd's There were no witnesses to the ac­ ship for him, which was appropri­ Bedford and it is apparent that at ENTERTAINMENT 7:30. CARS AFTER THE DANCE who commanded her 31 years. one gets into international merchan­ orders for wooden legs for several cident but the wheel marks in the ately named the Don Enrique. It was Bridgewa|er they must have taken So terrific was the storm which dising one must take the world as years; ond I had wondered why highway showed that the heavy au­ a Peruvian custom that when a man the wrong road. TICKETS - - - - SO CENTS sent her to her doom that only a shell his market, for discrimination in he ordered so many, until I dined tomobile attempted to take a sharp Medical Examiner Charles A. At­ came into power he and his friends / 29-30 remains of the once handsome schoon­ favor of the home product will soon with him. righthand turn in the highway on the were the sole 'beneficiaries of the wood was called and the body of er, but the crew,' so it is reported, wreck business. One can, however, In his newspaper Boyd described main road between Bridgewater and aprowl was taken ,0 a Taunton un- state funds. Meiggs, with the larger escaped without injury and were ta­ sell a domestic article if it is as good me as one of the important mer­ Taunton. left the hard macadam sur- de,taklng establishment. vision, seeing that there was plenty ken to Nassau. and costs no more than a foreign chants of the United State, amply aide face, dropped several inches into the . of money to go around, gave every­ Death was due, it was stated, to — The Harvester was built In 1884 product, or if it is better than the to grant credits for the extension of roadbed of the Eastern Massachu- body something to do and some mon- internal hemorrhage. Harrington a and Capt. Roberts was one of the foreign product—even at a higher trade, and I found it very difficult toj setts Street Railway Company, [ few hous after the accident was tak- I ey for doing It. with the result that owners. She was used in carrying cost. play the part. swerved in the soft dirt and than en to n,)Ston ln another automobile, the country under Balta enjoyed an X freight between Boston and Vinal­ This was my first big venture in turned over about 30 feet from the The wrecked car was taken to a buying machinery. I got designs unprecedented prosperity. In thia haven, and in 1916 she was sold to At Guayaquil tljc steamer remained faRhion did Meiggs destroy revoiu- corner garage and later towed to Boston. John Duke of Deer Isle. and prices from Belgium. Because John Procniak, a farmer, who lives 1 The principal damage to the auto- they had low labor costs they made over night, and L.