Aroostook Times Sbire Town of TJATTT TfllVT TTM FC Apr. 13, I860 Aroostook County n U U L l U I N 1 I M L o Dec. 27, 1 9 1 6 V o l . 5 7 Houlton, Maine, Wednesday, April 25, 1917 No. 17 c ,r r Libr*ry Patriotism to be H j a patriotic day anu governor’s day over. These books were used as h< ys have been added from time to a month in advance < tlx- Chautan- tempts the appetite and pays divi­ I combined. Governor Shallenberger textbooks in the schools for business time. The oldest of his hoys has qua, and every one is urged to get dends in better health and spirits. Theme at the Chau* J will be the principal speaker. The training in France before the open never been more than twenty years. their tickets early and give the af- In these days of h gh costs it counts tanqua j Chautauqua management an- ing of the war and are now used in T ie Mendelssohn Sextette is one fair the big boost it deserves. also in the family budget. ! nounces that the veterans of the the larger schools of business in this of the famous Louis Runner’s com­ i Waste in preparation. Care­ Strong Features Coming ! civil and Spanish-American wars country. Canada. Japan and other panies which have haul a decided less paring of potatoes, careless The Chautauqua committee re" i will be admitted, in uniform, free countries. The business men will success over manv of the Chau­ Millions in Garbage preparation of fresh vegetables for forts that arranicements have been | Df charge. This same courtesy also lie asked by the local Chautauqua tauqua circuits. It is a singing! -------------- the table involve losses of food value toade for an unusually strong pro*| jB extended to the boy scouts in uni- committee to make Knox's day an orchestra. beautifully costumed,! Several hundred million dollars, and add to the grocery bills. fram of lectures, musical concerts j form, providing they are in com- important event on the business and their music is of a wide variety, j declared the secretary of agricul- 5 OvergenerouB serving of food. and entertainments in this town, niand of a scoutmaster. In towns calendar, inviting business men here The Tschaikowsky quartet have i tun*, is wasted annually in food in Idled up plates may betoken a August 6 to 10 Almost every hour adjacent to the Canadian border the from nearby towns and making it an had awondertul success as a C hau-‘ the homes of America---$7 for each liberal host. Also it may mean im­ •f the entire five days will be full. Community Chautauquas are also occasion for the discussion of pro­ tauqua company, playing mu sic'man. woman and child in the paired digestion, reduced efficiency The forenoons will be taken up in extending this recognition to the blems pertaining to the community’s that appeals not only to the music j Country, roughly speaking. What and wastage of f o o d products. large part by the Junior Chautau­ men who have fought in the wars in welfare with a man who has done lovers and the musical critics, b u t, is worse, most of tins vast waste is Enough to eat is enough. Too much qua, which promises to be a rollick­ which Canada has participated, in­ much toward building up hundreds music of a semi-popular character i preventable. It represents value is likely7 to he too much. ing feature for the boys and girls. cluding the present war in Europe. of communities throughout the that will appeal to every one who J thrown awav through carelessness These are commonplaces to most The afternoons and evenings will be A special section of seat6 will be country. cares anything about music, and or ignorance. households. Vet if sufficient heed given to the sessions of the regular reserved for these guests. This Other Big Features everybody does. Mr. Weltman, the And here is how this annual food were paid to the department’s sug­ Chautauqua program in the large patriotic program will be held at Music will play a prominent part director, has appeared in concert in wastage is itemized by the experts gestions, some hundreds of millions auditorium waterproof tent, and night, as the governor will speak at in this five days’ program. S >me the larger musical c enters in in the agricultural department : of dollars would be added annually these programs are of such merit that time. So.no prominent local people say they don’t care for lec­ Europe, and the company is made 1 Edihh* food thrown into th e! to the Country’s wealth that they will oommaud the atten­ man will be asked to preside at this tures. Tlie Chautauqua committee up entirely’ of artists. garbage pail or the kitchen sink. It tion of the entire community while session. believes they will have a decided in­ Josephine Chilton, reader, will ap­ has often been declared that, toe gar­ Raise Wheat the Chantanqua is holding forth. Governor Shallenberger is said to terest in the lectures on this five pear in an afternoon of southern bage can is the most richly’ en­ The opening feature will be the be an orator of tremendous power days’ program, but the musical fea­ readings. dowed institution in America. Vast For a number of years the Times Junior Chautauqua the night pre­ and is much sought after as a Chau- tures comprise almost a complete Mr. Bangs On “Salubrities” amounts of nourishing material are has advocated the raising of wheat ceding the regular five d a y s’ p ro ­ taqua lecturer. He has appeared thrown out from homes which won­ by’ the farmers of Aroostook County Chautauqua in themselves. The Mr. Bangs is so well known to gram, when a community play fes­ at nearly 1,000 Chautauquas in the der at the high cost of setting the and those who did raise a little last headline attraction is, of course the every reader of American literature tival will be held. These plans will ten years he has been booked over table. The utilization of leftovers yrear made a good trade by so doing. band. This organization is one of that he will be among friends in ad­ he under the direction of a play­ the country as a speaker b e f o r e is a science whose acquaintance With Flour at $13.60 per barrel the most spectacular bands known to! dressing a Chautauqua audience in ground expert from Columbia uni­ Chautauqua audiences, and his every housewife may well cultivate. extra acre of ground used paid prel­ the Chautauquas. The Royal Blue j this city. His “ Houseboat on the versity in New York city and will popularity lias grown each year. im Spoilage of food due to careless \ ty good returns, but no more so than Hussars are directed by a young Styx” has a permanent place in include many novel and interesting His subject is “ Political Patrio­ handling and storing in tiie home. | the present season, when on account musical prodigy who has had a American literature, and others of features in which boys and girls of tism.” In this he will discuss as a Souring of milk, decaying of fruit of conditions and the short crop of meteoric rise in the band world. his short stories will he read for the entire community will partici­ great statesman, in a nonpartisan and vegetables, destruction of food winter wheat, it looks as though They wear the royal blue hussar many’ years to come. He has been pate. way, some of the world problems flour would not be much lower. uniform, with plumed hats, shoul­ the editor of some of the leading by’ insects or rodents—-the ex- The features of the big Chautauqua that are facing us as a nation. per ion ee is laminarfmnilisir and its cost At any event a farmer can play der capes and leather boots. humorous magazines, including are important and numerous. They It was ten years or more ago that ! mounts high. Tli timing of sur­ safe by planting at least one acre of Other notable features in music Life, and was edit->r of Harper’s Will include such notables as ex- Theodore Roosevelt made the state­ plus stock saves many a dollar. wheat and with an ordinary crop are the Kaffir Singing Boys, the Weekly and the Metropolitan Maga- Governor A. C- Shallenberger of ment at Chautauqua that the Chau- .5 Food spoiled by careh-ss cook- will have from six to eight barrels of Mendelssohn Sextette, the Boston ; zine . Hissu hi'*0 t w ill ho “ Salubri- : Nebraska, a m em ber of the military tauqua was “ tho most American Newly weds an* nor (lit* only flour. Musical Entertainers and the ities. H'g. affairs com m ittee in congress ; John thing in Am erica,” and this state­ v i c t iins of this expensive foil y. Try if this year and plant at least Ts c h a i k o w s k y Q u a r t e t. A not lx*;* ft*at ure is Dr. E. I.. Wil - i Kendrick Bangs, the noted literary ment perhaps has a more direct ap­ 1 . 1 f> IIOI daintily prepared and served one acre of wheat. The KafSir Singing Boys , llRll s, kmuvi i tIn cn mi try i>ver as , man ; the Royal Blue Hussars Band, plication this year than ever he ; “ Gh icage’s I*ig! i ti ng Parson.' ’ Dr.