Houlton Times, September 19, 1923
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TODD it cannot he better, but some tilings flu* working quarters of the Houlton LIBERALS^ MEETING barrel with fairly heavy offerings. cavemen in prehistoric days might are very satisfactory to say tin* least. Savings Bank was commenced Tues The Produce News says: have battled on the edge of a cliff-' Such is the ease of the pistol team day morning. Trading towards the close last and Firpo lost. Action Taken on Proposed from the local battery returning from The principal part of the work and Interesting Session Sunday at week was slow, the market did not But he lost like a man—fighting to the state shoot in Auburn with three the most important is the building of e-line in price, tin; market did not. the last agonizing gasp—more glor Railroad Merger cups to their credit. a new vault, which will he on the out Unitarian Church clean up, and another decline was re ious in defeat than ever he had been _____ The tram which lcprmenicd Ihe side of the north wall of tin* present corded on Monday. The withdrawal of the Jewish buyers, on account of in victory. And unlike the former A special meeting of the Houlton Houlton battery at tie* meet was com huildinu. This will he of reinforce! Tiie third semi-annual session of the holiday, also has something to do champion Willard, whom a few raon- chambei. of commercewas hold at post'd of Walter Cowan, Win. Jenkins, concrete according to plans prepared tin* Aroostook County Association of with the slowness of trade. The arri ths ago he had pounded limp, he Watson Hall on Wednesday evening Clement. Carroll. Herschel IVabody, by tlti* best experts in the line of vault Religious Liberals, was held Sunday vals of Maine potatoes showed some not through. last, for the purpose of considering Guy Smith, Ray Wood, Millard Earley building 11 feet wide and 15 feet long September 16, at (he First. Unitarian increase this week. Knocked out in three minutes and the report of the Storrow Com m ittee and Frank Li/.otti*. and to say that one story high and when (lie vault is Church of Houlton. This Association While the quality of the stock of 67 seconds of the most furious fight on the consolidation of railroads. they made a good showing is ratlmr a completed it will open into tin* pres of Religions Liberals was organized fered was of high standard, they were ing ever recorded in ring history, a Percy It Todd president of the Ban mild statement. ent banking rooms. The work will In* at Caribou in September 1922. Its too green to ship and had to be used round and a fraction, in which he was gor and Aroostook railroad was pres The Major Dingwall Cup for the done under the suyervision of B. W. constituency is made tip of the Uni immediately, as the skin was not yet floored seven times but managed to ent and gave some very valuable in highest team in the lf>2nd Field Artil Clark. tarians. Cniversalists and other relig firmly set. Some sales were reported send the champion crashing dean formation regarding the originating o! lery was won by the Houlton team. Eater on the i nt maor of I ho si r* et ious liberals. The following churches at $4.50 per ISO lbs in bulk, while a through the ropes after battering to : the i(lea an(l Ul0 causes leading up to Tin* Major Elliott Trophy for the in floor will bo improved and flu1 work are in the association: Tin* Unitarian few jobbing lots went out higher. his knees, the sturdy son of the Ar it and then discussed the two differ dividual high score was won by Wal ing quarters of the banking rooms churches of Fort. Fairfield, Houlton Most of the business reported was in gentine still gazes with determined ent plans of the consolidation which ter S. Cowan, and that was indeed a will be on the north side instead of mi and Rresque Isle and the Universalist the range of $4.40<fT4.45. while some eyes of the Crown which Dempsey has been proposed under the ruling fine piece of work limiting him high the smith side as at present and with churches of Caribou and Oakfield. lots in 150 lb hags worked out at $4 barely saved that night with a right of the Federal government. He show mini for the whole meet in which the removal of the present vault, will Tim program Sunday for the Con in a wholesale way. uppercut which stretched Firpo on his ed very conclusively that the consoli teams from till tin* National Guard or give very much needed room for the ference consisted of a service of Long Island potatoes were in quite back. dation of the New England roads ganizations in the state* competed. foiu e doing the work-. The front will Divine worship in the First JUnituviun free supply, and had a monopoly of Approximately 85,000 fans paid more would be very much more beneficial The third cup brought home by the also he changed over later on to make Church of Houlton held at ll o’clock. the market, as those coming from Jer than $1,200,000 to see the fight ac to his section than for the Maine hoys was won by Guy Smith and was it more modern and in keeping with Tin preacher at this service was the sey and a few lots coming from State cording to the estimates of Promoter roads to be linked up with the New for second place in a rifle match in the interior arrangement and fittings. Re\. Clysses Sumner Milburn, pastor and Pennsylvania are not factors to Tex Rickard. Fully 25,000 more were York c’entral. which till ihrcc branches, tin* Coast Tie* Houlton Savings Battle, the old of the First. Universalist, church, be considered. On finest Long Islands massed around the Polo Grounds un- The meetillK was opened for discus- Artillery, tin* Infantry and tic* Field est hank' in Aroostook county has Everett, .Mass., and was largely at in 180 It) bags, the wholesale market able to gain admittance. sioll by Fred W. Mann win presided Art illery compel ed. made an euivahle reputation with tended from ail over the County. was about sustained $4.10(qi4.25. while The battle in point of both attend- aad a number of those present took The hoys were fortunate in bring deposits of over a million and a hah' The substance of Mr. Milburn's ser ing home three cups but they evident bag stock was generally $4.35^4.40 ance, ranks second only to Dempsey-, part in disc.us.sing ti,0 question after il has paid out in dividends to its de mon was that apart from their differ As the week advanced, a little bet Carpentier spectacle two years ago which a committee was appointed to ly ('arm’d them. For instance, how positors a million and a quarter dol- ent ancestries Unitarians and Univer ter tone existed, and while the market at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, Jersey City, draw up resolutions in favor of the many of our local sportsmen or big lars since it was established in 1872, salist s were essentially one. was steadier, there was little recov where 93,000 paid $1,600,000 to see the New England plan as recommended hear hunt el's coil!Id equal Me per- and has been conducted in a conserva- lie urged tin1 congregation which ery in prices. Jersey long kinds were champion conquer his French rival. by the Governors committee and Hon. form;'nice of Guy Smith Will) will) live ami substantial manner, standing fill'd Hu* church to overflowing to rec type of mostly afflicted with scab and were The champion's share, .‘>7Vs per cent Aaron A. Putnam was appointed to at a str;illge ride pm tWo mar the top with other hank.-', of like ognize this fact and in perfect cooper sold $1.75Y(2 bag, weighing 150 tbs. of the gross receipts approximated tend a meeting of the Interstate Com live slints into a moving t a ix a ( a re in the -Mate. ation to try and spread the principals The Jersey round kinds were rarely $460,000 while Firpo, whose share was merce Commission in Boston on Sept. size* of a man at six hiimirei lift v of t he liberal fait h. yards, over a t bird of a mih Mid Mrs. Barker Burleigh, the closely enough graded to exceed $:* 12% per cent, will receive about $160,- 24 and present said resolutions at The beautiful cllUt'cil edifice, the ex Adjutant General J. W 11; HI: m w Dorothy am! Helen Burleigh per 150 lb bag. although some lots 000, twice as much as he got for any that time.