AND MAINE SPORTSMAN

VOL. XXXII. NO. 32—PRICE 4 CENTS. PHILLIPS, MAINE, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION— 12 PAGES,

In the W oods. L. C. SMITH GUNS, By Ajddie Greenleaf Vaughan. For from the noisy homes of men We made our camping g-round; The clear blue sky above us bent, The great woods hedged us ’round. AS FITAS The far away encircling hills DON’T BUY A GUN Shut out the world of care, The music of the dreamy woods until you have seen our New Double Seemed like a tender prayer. A FIDDLE Barrel Models fitted with Stevens Com­ pressed Forged Steel Barrels— The red and gold of falling leaves To of October days; And goldenrod and aster bloom DEMI-BLOC SYSTEM Thronged all the woodland ways. The mode of constructing these From lowdand pastures out of sight superb Trap and Field Guns is fully We heard a tinkling bell set forth in our New Shotgun Cata­ And the bleating of the w andering sheep log. Send for it, it’s free. Across the stillness fell. IS The branches of he tall ■ Im trees Ask your Dealer Waved gently to and fro UTOLOADING SHOTGUN As night her star-gemmed curtain drew % for Stevens THE 2 0 You see him along the barrel ofa 'V /O U don’t have to bother to Demi-Bloc Guns. O’er the sleeping world below'. load a Remington Autoloading We gathered stregnth for days to come GUAGE Gun. The recoil does all the work Insist on our There, close to the fragrant sod, WINCHESTER o f ejecting the empty shell and make. Alone in the depths of the quiet wood 22 AUTOMATIC RIFLE throwing a loaded one into place. With nature, and nature’s God. Y o u pull and release the trigger for J. STEVENS ARMS HE'S YOURS! each of the five shots. More Deer Than Ever Before. & TOOL CO. Pleasant to shoot because of Stratton, Me., Feb. 28, 1910. ICSWIIM slight kick. Absolutely safe because P. 0 . Box 5002 This handy little ten- of the Remington Solid Breech Chicopee Falls, Mass. To the Editor of Maine Woods and THE HUNTER ARMS CO. Hammerless feature. Easy to Maine Sportsman. FULTON, shot rifle repeats itself, handle and quick to point. I see quite a lot about the decrease N . Y Try one on ducks or geese. You the recoil being utilized will agree with the sportsman who of doer in Maine; it makes me tired wrote “ I wouldn’t take a $1000 for Best Spring Fishing Smith guns are made from $20.00 to do the reloading. my Remington Autoloader if I tc read them. In most cases it is to $1500; 10, 12, 16 and 20 gauges; couldn't get another." Anyone can in M a in e from men who come into our state Hunter One-Trigger is perfect. Send The novelty of its oper­ afford one, the price ¡9 so moderate. about once a year, stay about a week for Art Catalogue in colors. IFyoar dealer can't show yoa in the worst hunting, get out a mile ation affords possibili­ one, write ns for catalogue Address B illy Soule, Oquossoc, and literature. Maine. He owns P leasant I sland or so from the village where all of “MONMOUTH MOCCASINS.” ties for practice and the small boys have been educating THE REMINGTON C a m p s .* They are made for pleasure which no other ARMS COMPANY, the deer and come hack and ask Sportsmen, Guides, Lumbermen. Ilion, N. Y. where all the deer are. “twenty-two” does. Look Known the world over for excel­ Agency, 31S Broadway, 8NOWSHOES FOR SPORTSMEN. New York City I have guided around here for quite lence. Illustrated catalogue free. one over. & & & Always first-class. No cheap work. $3.50 a number of falls and have failed to apiece. Ellswortn Beach, Grand Lake S o l o b y D e a l e r s Ev e r y w h e r e , ¡Stream Maine. find the deer on the decrease. 1 M. L. GETCHELL CO., saw more deer in the fall of 1909 Monmouth, Me. than ever before. Now, in regard to the game lav/s, {why not let -a good .th:rg aJouc? Ü- LSTcst cf. the rang _T_’:r-vo guided are $ Boating,. FishingS 3 perfectly' sat' ¿red and ' x thunk iota of the kick cv iics from men who ' f M a i n e f B o o k l e t ^ ♦> ~n A u to in g , Driving, Golf would naturally1 be called poacher’s or game hogs. 4 Now any one who wants to find FREE out about the amount of deer in the ï state of Maine can come here and 4 take a snowshoe trip, or come next 4Y fall and take a guide and outfit and ^ ILLUSTRATED WITH HUNTING AND 4 l get. back in the woods and stay long FISHING SGENES enough to get the city smell off their î feet, and I will guarantee they will Ì see deer enough. Don't bring any „> HuurcòàAddress i.F. n.N. dl BEAL,.hu, u,G. r,P. a A,,,, rnmips,Phillips, mameMaine whiskey, for guides make poor hunt­ ers when they have too much of it. Cliff Taylor.

Has Fine Fox Scent. “ In The Maine Woods” Canatunk, Me., March 1, 1910. Sportsmen’s Guide Book To the Editor of Maine Woods and llth Annual Edition Maine Sportsman: Published by the I see in your paper that Mr. W. P. Willand wants to get some fox scent that will draw a fox to the BANGOR & AROOSTOOK R* R< The Rangeley Lake House trap. Now on receipt of $5.00 I will Mailed anywhere for 15 cents in stamps. furnish any man a receipt for malt­ RODS AND SNOWSHOES. One of New England« most famous inland resort Hotels and the largest and Address Geo. M. Houghton, ing scent that will drawl a fox half Passenger Traffic Manager. * ’ I make Rangeley wood and split bamboo rods most finely equipped in the entire Rangeley Region, location unequalled in Maine. a mile, and guarantee it or money for fly fishing and trolling. Rods to let. Snow- F or May, June and early July, Trout and Salmon Fishing. Guides, Rowboats, Bangor, Maine. shoes to order. Canoes, Launches furnished at short notice. Elevation 2u00 feet. Our 190 9 refunded. E. T. HOAR, Rangeley, Maine, Booklet gives full information. T. M. Meservey. Kennebago LaKe Via Stratton “TIM POND CAMPS” Can’t Get Along Without It. House and Camps RANGELEY LAKES HOTEL CO., Tim, Me. Newton, N. J., Feb. 25, 1910. The Fly Fishing at Kennebago Lake has no RANGELEY ======, M AINE equal. Excellent table and service. Log cabins To the Editor of Maine Woods and and open fireplaces. Hunting, bathing, boating, Maine Sportsman. canoeing. Our buckboards leave Rangeley Lake House every morning at 8 o’clock. Arrangements That three months’ subscription to for special trips can be made with us or with Ira D. Hoar at Rangeley, Maine. ♦ +*****< Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman Write for illustrated booklet. \ FAMOUS did at; I can't possibly get along KENNEBAGO ^HOTEL COMPANY, FISHING PARTIES NEXT I without it. Must have it, so I am Kennebago Lake, Maine. I BACKWOODS We invite correspondence from parties who want to go fishing % enclosing one plunk to renew my where trout rise to the fly every day in the season. Write for subscription and thus take 52 more illustrated booklet to X interesting trips tack in the Maine , Round Mountain Lake Camps / FAIRY TALES. ED G R A N T (St SONS, - Hennebago, Maine j* woods. Anyone anticipating a trip Located on. one of the most beau­ to the Maine woods should have it. tiful lakes in the world, writh every comfort that can be asked for. Three Wan. J. Morris. ponds and fifteen miles of streams assure good trout fly fishing every Ed Grant, Beaver Pond Camps, Deer Not Decreasing in Maine. day. Plenty of good trails and eight Author. HOUGH’S CAMPS, Redington, Me. mountains to climb. Daily mail and Sheffield, Penn., March 1, 1910. telephone. Elevation 2,800 feet. Write "PLY FISHING every day in open season. Brook fishing: as well as pond fishing. New reading matter. Interesting. -*■ Good Spring1 water. Open fires. Individual camps with private baths. Two mails To the Editor of Maine Woods and for particulars. daily. Telegraph and Telephones. Frfriend, sportsmen to go to Maine if they H. W. Briggs. w'ant to have sport. All the hunting news of Maine in J. W. BRACKETT CO., N. J. Palmer. JOSEPH H WHITE, Proprietor, Eustis, Maine. Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman, Phillips, Maine. 2 MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION— 12 PAGES,

great scavengers and do lot® of good in every boating community. Special That Kingfield is a law abiding Target Practice at Home by cleaning up old putrid material wholesale price is given on the first town, seems to be generally known, — in the attic or cellar, or right in your apartment if room arrange­ laying around. Hawks are despised engine sold in each locality. as late Thursday afternoon a fawn ment permits— is entirely practical with a home-made bullet catcher because they are said to »teal poul- j deer appeared in the village, appar­ and the new try, but study them and see for your-1 Sandy River & Rangeiey Lakes R. R. ently having been driven from its self how few of them touch poultry ! yard by dogs. Kind hearted citizens at all. Give credit to whom credit The annual report of the state housed it and will seek permission is due only. Only one or two spe­ board of railroad commissioners, just from Com. Carle ton to keep it in cie® ever touch or eat poultry; the issued, has the following to say re­ captivity at least for a time.—Ex­ others kill mice, insects, etc., and garding the Sandy River & Rangeiey change. do much good, but all are classed by Lakes railroad: the ignorant as hen hawks, irrespec­ Rangeiey Division—During the past Read Maine Woods and Maine tive of the good they do. The au­ year there has been a large outlay in Sportsman. M o d e l 2 5 7 7 2 a r/ / / i R ep ea ter thor of the article ought to be asham­ reducing the curvature and grades on .22 Caliber—.22 Short or C. B. Caps. ed of himself to write such things this division. The wooden structures have been well looked after and This is a perfect Marlin repeating rifle that shoots 15 .22 short or 18 C. B. caps at one about these birds but you never can MACHINERY loading. Its take-down construction and trombone action are popular and desirable fea­ account for people’s tastes. much new timber added. Two and tures; the side ejection favors rapid, accurate firing; the removable side plate makes it H. W. Jewell. one-half miles north of Phillips, 1000 of every description furnished esp^ially easy to keep clean and serviceable. feet of track was lifted about two new or repaired by experts. Read Maine Woods and Maine feet and 550 yards of riprap used to Steam fitting and plumbing. The C. B. cap* are entirely accurate and With .22 short cartridges it is very satisfactory in this short range w ort, yet , , , . , ,, „ Sportsman. protect it from the water. Twenty’ Write us. Telephone 151-3. they are the cheapest form of reliable accnrate and P ^ e rfu l enough for all small ammunition made. game shooting up to 50 yards. Greenwood & Russell The price of this excellent new model is surprisingly low—send postal today for circular C om pany, with large illustration and’full description. Complete catalog for three stamps postage. FARMINGTON, ME. TJbe 7/Zcrr/in firea rm s Co. 83 W illow Street, NEW HAVEN, CONN. TAXIDERMISTS. The S. L-. Crosby Co. A Wanderer Among the Silences. grain. This its a fabrication to gain Leading Taxidermists of America. B y Kiotoer,t P age L incoln. enemies against the bird. It is said Lulled toy the murmurs of the wind Our Deer, Moose and Caribou heads At twilight when the shadows dark­ that the bird is a fighter. Who are the standard of the world. Our official shipping tags free to all en into ndgfot, would not stand up for himself? The T here ’neafch a fragran t scented pine, Express offices. Agencies at im­ In sweet repose I await the coming bird does not go out of his way to portant game centers. 186 Exchange light. fight other birds; it lives with mar­ St., Bangor, Me. Enchanted voices linger o’er the point­ tins in their house® and a bird man ed pines Par, far away amid the cool and si­ told me he had rather have the Eng­ lent wilderness, lish sparrow than the martins, as Head and Bird Beneath the boughs I listen long and the martins wiere bullies and drove w on der other birds away. It does not at­ Mounting. At the songlilte notes arising from A YOUTHFUL, ANGLER. the silences. tack other birds like the robin. I have seen the robin drive the Eng­ j The same taste and artistic work The stalWant pines around me stand— lish sparrow away from where he carried out in Heads and birds as Giant sentinels, immovable and dark— d o u b le o u t p u t o f e n g in es and one-half miles north of Phillips, is shown in my ARTISTIC FISH was eating peaceably. I,t is con­ Rising high and majestically over all, on Redington straight, the track was WORK. tended that the sparrow eats cher­ To mock the first bright messenger lifted two feet, and 600 yards of rip­ Express station, Oquossoc, Me. o f dawn. ries, grapes, pears and peaches. So Announcement of Detroit Engine Which comes to drive the night shadows rap used as a protection from the does the robin, blue jay and cherry Works Indicates Demand for HERBERT L. WELCH, aw a y river. At Eustis Junction, the grade bird. There is no foe to fruit like And brighten the forest carpet with its Coming Season. the blue jay and robin. Doves eat was lowered five feet. The Fair­ Haines Landing, Maine. gleam , banks trestle has been thoroughly As here and there its flickering ray peas so much that some people have Spreads out o’er all and makes it given up growing them. The blue That its output of marine engines repaired and a new deck placed upon NASH OF MAINE, brighter seem. for 1910 wlili double the number of the Sandy river bridge at Phillips. jay picks great holes in apples, pears Licensed Taxidermist, - Norway, Me. Then the world seems to awake from any previous year, is the announce­ Several culverts have been filled. and other fruits. What is found in Maine’s Leading Fish Taxidermist. slum ber a bird’s stomach at one lime does ment of the Detroit Engine Works, The Phillips and Rangeiey section of And many voices from the silences in this division is being gradually not constitute the bill of fare for a Detroit, Miich. This announcement G. W. PIC K E L, Taxiderm ist. chorus meet, brought up to the high standard And the wanderer pauses to listen o whole day by any means. The stom­ is one of the many indications that Dealer in Sporting Goods, Fishing adopted by this company. each number ach would have to be examined every the new year is to witness a re­ Tackle, Moccasins, Baskets and Sou­ Of silen&a-kor'g and echoes soft and hour of the day to get a satisfactory markable spread of motor boating. It Franklin & Megantic Division—The venirs. Open all the year. sw eet. is especially interesting, coming from roadbed and track on this division Aii, me! The song motes from the &i- result, so on examining over five Rangeiey, Maine. - erices, hundred stomachs of these sparrows, this company with its preeminence are in good condition. During the Tire enchanting voices from the wild, what was found in the stomach at in the field of marin engine manu- year there has beer. pD^ed under the N0RCR0SS & TAMES, loes fail arou j the wander the time would not indieute what track i500 carload.-’ o_ ballast. Or. lakes bim again nauP'g's child. the bird lived on for the whole day. Members of the company say in the Kingfield section about two miles SCIENTIFIC of new steel has been laid and We­ THE ENGLISH SPARROW. The song of the English sparrow is explanation of the 100 per cent in­ not a harsh note. I like to hear crease in output, that the demand ber joints used. The trestles at Taxidermists An insectivorous Bird That One of it. It ns the first bird note heard for engines has persisted at a high Hammond Field water-tank and at Camp No. 1, two miles below Car- Its Friends Says Should be Protected. in the morning. They are the ear­ figure through the winter, and is in­ Winthrop, - Maine. liest of bird risers. They are the creasing daily, as enthusiasts' turn rabasset station, have been filled. Farmington, Me., March. 2, 1910. last bird to see at might. The atti­ their eyes toward the opening of the The Packard trestle has ¡been thor­ c u r a t o r s To M a in e „St a t e oughly repaired. The trestle over To 'the Editor of Maine Woods and tude of the English sparrow toward season. Motor boatmen will find as Dyer brook, 300 feet long and 25 M u se u m . B u y e r s O f R a w F u r . Maine Sportsman: the killing of the browmtail moth much pleasure in this announce­ feet maximum height, has been fil­ Telephone Connection. One cold and frosty morning during the invasion of them in our ment as the manufacturers, for it To my door a sparrow came; 1 cities and towns ought to endear mean® a desirable growth of the led and a large stone culvert built to How could I be so cruel i them to people throughout all gener­ fraternity, and a consequent in­ take care of the drainage. Send Your Trophies To drive him away again? ations. No other bird has manifest­ crease of the pleasure. to the Twin Cities’ only Lincensed No. God forbid, I dove him; ed any disposition to kill and eat Stevens’ New Representative. Taxidermist and get them mounted And while I have food to spare,, Numerous asi motorenaft is at pres­ Standard. 1’” share what I have With him, (up these pests like the English spar­ ent on the oceans, rivers and lakes, The J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co. EDMOND J. BOUCHER, That he may not peris'll there. row. I have seen quarts of wings it i.s a curious fact that many ideal ha® engaged the services of Mr. T. Lincensed Taxidermist (Tanner) under the electric arc lights, where 186 Main St. A uburn. M aine bodies of water are seldom if ever L. Hopkins, who is to be its travel­ Send for price list and Red Shipping Tag This in a feeble way is an answer the bodies of these moths were eaten Automatic Telephone, 2414. traversed by a launch. Just what ling representative in the Atlantic to the article in Maine Sportsman by the sparrows. No other birds has been lacking to attract more peo­ coast states and the eastern prov­ CATCHES more fish yet saves small ones for of Feb. 24, 1910, No doubt all the even looked at the moths. I saw reproduction — T H E W I L ­ readers of your paper have read the ple to motor is a question to which inces of Canada. LIAMS BARBLESS HOOK a male English .sparrow who had a several different answers are given. English needle point, no mech­ article which I wrote some time ago ne&£ imi]er, a hood over an arclight, anism. highest quality flies, There is no doubt however that the in defense of .this bird without a on onie ^he wires in the even- J1.60 per doz. snelled bait $1. LTsed by world’s demonstration by the Detroit Engine best anglers Write us. friend or a country. I am sorry that, |ng aiwj s,n,ap hi® bill at the moths as La.ey Y, Williams, 118 Ohio Building, [Toledo, O. anyone should arise in this enlight-1 they flew by Every &nap of his Works, that an engine satisfying the experts, and exemplifying the new­ ened age and tell how a bird should souni(j e(j the death knell of a brown- GUIDES’ ADDRESSES. be exterminated. est improvements can be built for tail moth. It iis surprising what an an extremely low price is largely The first charge against the bird This column Is for sale to guides who antipathy has arisen against these responsible for the popularizing of want their addresses to appear in Maino is that he (is hot any good whatever I birds. There ils no creature made Woods each week in alphabetical order the sport. For price, address, Maine Woods, Phil­ and that be is not an insect eater. J but subserve® and carries out the lips, Maine. This d® not so. The English spar- j work for which it was created. Torn As the largest builders of marine row is the most insect eating of all | from its home many years ago, it engines in the world, the owners of G eorge C. Bean,, F o x cro ft, Me. the Detroit Works are especially Thomas H. Church, Millinocket, Me. the sparrows. I have seen them! was introduced here against its will, John H. Church, Shirley, Me. qualified to do this. The immense j James E. Durrell, Box 193, Rangeiey, alight in a yard full of grasshop- but being of a strong and sturdy na- Me. pers and soon clean them all out. ture it soon made a way for itself. output makes the business profitable ' Arthur L. Dudley, Stacyville, Me. at the smallest profit between the Clyde H. Ellis, Rangeiey, Me. They are always looking in every This alone makes some mad, be­ John F. Haynes, Great Bond, Me. factory and the buyer. Joseph J. H ill, The F orks, Ale. nook and cranny for spiders and cause one is able to stand up for Sam McKinney. Sebec Lake. Msine. * ~ other insects. I have seen them himself. They have stood the rigors Detroit Engines for 1910 run from Frank S. Merrill, East Auburn, Me. Domnlek Richard, North East Carry, under the eaves of barns, getting of our cold northern winters when 2 to 8 H. P. in single cylinder; 8 to Me. 50 H. P. in four cylinders. A lfred L. Stevens, R. F. D. 34, O ak­ spiders, and a man here in the vil­ all other bird Idffe had disappeared. land, Me. lage told me that they kept the spi- I am ashamed of some people whose The Detroit Engine starts without ders cleared away from his premises, ] only thought is to kill, kill, kill. Kill cranking, runs in either direction, even coming into the bam and getting; everything they can see everywhere, and reverses while in motion. It them. He is a bird man of repute | not willing that any wild thing might has only three moving parts. The and knows what he is talking about, i live and enjoy their freedom. I be- absence of canes, gears, springs, etc., MR. T. L. HOPKINS. A pair of birds have had a nest back j lieve the English sparrow is so good is one reason for its remarkable free­ of a pair of blinds to one of the an insect eater that he should be dom from trouble. The cylinders Mr. Hopkins has been identified barn window® for years and the man j protected by law7. I hope to live to are of French Gray Iron and the was glad to have them there, they' ,see the day when he ’willl. Why not with the sporting goods business for crank shaft of vanadium steel. The a score of years, being first connect­ did so much good. Outside of the j protect him as well as the skunk, on bearings are of plastic wihiitte bronze., ed with the Simmons Hardware Co., THE SURE DEATH TRAP. cities and town® you don’t find any j whom I see a law of protection as extra long. The engines are per­ St. Louis, Mo. He was for fourteen When set it is invisible to man or sparrows anywhere. They confine: soon to be made, making at a fine fectly counterbalanced and freedom animal. It catches them by the neck themselves to these place® only, so of from five dollars to five hundred years with the Simmons Hardware Instead of he feet, killing them instantly from vibration is a noticeable fea­ Co., and more recently with their without injury to the pelt—a humane fea^ how can they damage wheat and dollars for killing them. They are ture, although the engines have a ture that is certainly commendable, be­ Minneapolis branch; for four years sides it saves every fur to the trap­ per. ispeed range of 100 to 1200 revolutions in charge of the cutlery and sporting a minute. It has positive lubrication ?6.00 per dozen, sample postpaid, 50 Engine only, with, goods department. Mr. Hopkins was cents. Three cents brings you our illus­ $ 2 9 5 2 trated Trappers’ Guide; it explains every­ out Electrical or to all parts and a water proof igni­ thing. Boat Equipment also for some years associated with tion system. DAVENPORT TRAP CO., Other nizes at p roportion ate prices in forged steel. Bearing surfaces ground. Adjust­ the Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co., stock ready to ship. Single able steel connecting rod. Waterproof ignition The Dertoiit Engine Works makes Box W., Davenport, Iowa, cylinder engines, 2 to 8 h. p . ; system. For your launch, sailboat, rowboat , St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Hopkins has a double cylinders, 8 to 20 h .p .; four stern wheel boat or railroad track car. 20,000 engines for the launch, stern wheel cylinder, 50 h.p. Engines start with satisfied users. Free catalog and testimonials. wide acquaintance in the lines with out cranking. No cams, no sprocket: D em onstrating A grouts w anted in boat, sailboat, rowboat, canoe, auto only three moving parts, All engines every boating community. Special which he has so long been identi­ We mall out circulars of various he counterbalanced. No vibration. Special wholesale price on first outfit sold. [31] buggy, railroad track car, pumping fuel injector burns gasoline, kerosene, fied, and is personally very popular. tels, cajmps and transportation com­ alcohol, naphtha distillate. Plastic DETROIT ENGINE WORKS outfit or any constant power purpose. bearings (no cheap babbitt used). 1?30 Jefferson Are., Detroit, Mich., U.S.A. panies every day. It’s free. Maine In­ Demontrastor Agents are wanted Advertise in Maine Woods. formation Bureau. LOCAL EDITION—12 PAGES. MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910.

studies and in their personal life. Her home was open to them and there THE BEST IN THE COUNTRY IS she entertained often, delighting to make happy the young people with whom she was associated. P e r fe c t B e v e l C r im p Mrs. Turner will be ‘especially re­ PETERS membered as one of the most faith­ PETERS T op W a d s ------ful members of the Bates street Bap­ AMMUNITION tist church, where she was a teach­ M ost uniform, er in the Sunday school in the happy PETERS SHOT days of Supt. Gernish. She had a best finished s'hof m ade. large class of girls there whom she It is always reliable, leading dealers sell it; mothered as if they had been her own kin. In other phases of church Pure elastic fe lt wads, i || write us if yours doesn’t. life she was also an active worker. PETERS Then, too, it will be recalled that made in the F a c to r y . she was a charter member of the PETERS yj| UNITED STATES CARTRIDGE CO. Klavier Club and an enthusiastic be­ liever in the benefit and pleasure to PETERS Grease proof wad protects- Lowell, Mass. be derived from such a musical or­ ganization. Mrs. Turner played the powder from grease or dampness. piano herself and was accomplished OBITUARY. esteem of all who knew him. He cul­ in this line. In fact she taught the All standard smokeless powders, tivated an optimitsic spirit and with piano more or less all her life. both hulk and dense. Ansel Dill. his years of ill health and severe af­ The last few years of her life in While Mr. Dill had (been in poor flictions was looking for the good Maine ¡were spent in Auburn, where PETERS Ornamented Brass Baser health, for years and not able to. do and lovable in life, and maintained she taught school until failing health hard work, he had attended to the a cheerful rather than despondent at­ made a western trip seem advisable. PETERS Sure fire Primer. light work around the home and had titude. The only regret that Mr. Dill Seeking a more favorable climate, done the bam chores until last fall. expressed in changing the seen and Mrs. Turner went to Indiana, where YOUR DEALER HANDLES A few weeks ago he was obliged to temporal life for the unseen and eter­ she spent about two years in the give up work entirely and keep very nal life was in leaving his wife to state college at Valparaiso. She then PETERS SHELLS quiet on account of the- weak condi­ what seems a peculiarly sad and went to Indian Territory and later OR WILL GET THEM FOR YOU. DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING tion of his heart, but was up and lonely life. to Sallisaw, Oklahoma, where she 'Gu s t a s g o o d ” f o r t h e r e is n o t h in g a s g o o d . dressed up to the hour of his death. The funeral was held Sunday after­ was successful as a teacher and a He was resting in his chair and talk­ noon at the residence and a goodly business woman until her health fin­ ing cheerfully, when wirEh a sudden number of relatives and friends at­ ally failed her. She came of a fine exclamation of pain, he threw his tended. Rev. W. E. Miliett of the family, her ancestors going back to TEMPLE. Russell, Ernest Cony; road commis­ hand over his heart, and life seemed Methodist church officiated and read Pilgrims who came to this country March 7, 1910. sioner, Forest Hobart. to pass out with that breath at about and spoke words of comfort. Miss in the Mayflower. Her literary and Miss Lizzie Hackett is spending eleven o’clock a. m., Feb. 25. Grace Timberlake sweetly sang social gifts and her many fine traits PHILLIPS AND VICINITY. some time with Mrs. Jennie Sampson. Mr. Dill was born in Berlin, now “Abide With Me” and “ In The Home­ of character won her staunch friends, The K. of P.’s wig1 have a special a part of Phillips, Me., July 6, 1828, land.” Mr. William Brooks and his life-long friend®, who now most sin­ Mrs. Mabel Mannock of Hartland, train from KingfieV through to the son of James and Mary Goff Dill, cerely mourn her death. whc was called home by the death of daughter, Mrs. Maude Brooks and Mr. Rangeley to attend the school of in­ and was married to Lucy D. French and Mrs. Henry Brown and little son, It is understood that the body is her father, H. L. Sampson, will re­ struction there Monday evening, Mar. Jan. 23, 1853. Mrs. Dill died in Sep­ to be brought back to her old home main with her mother for a time.. Caxton, drove out from Rangeley Sun­ 14. tember, 1859, leaving one daughter day morning to attend the ¿funeral. for burial.—Lewiston Journal. Mrs. Lizzie Dunsmore of Rangeley, four years old, who married William The other granddaughter, Mrs. Darah, who was called home by the death Mrs. H. H. Berry and children left Lamb of Rangeley in 1878. Mr®. was unable to come at this time. Many old friends of Mrs. Turner of her mother, Mrs. Willard Hawes, for Yarmouth last Saturday. Mr. Lamb died in 1895 leaving two daugh­ Mr. Ansel Dill was the last of a were saddened by the news of her is still with her father. Berry had been there most of the ters, Mrs. Nellie Darah of Richmond, family of 16 children, the late Sew­ death, as she was bom in Phillips Mrs. Etta We#ton, another daugh­ time for several weeks. Much regret Me., and Mrs. Lubelle Brown, Range- ard and Orrisen Dill being the older and lived with her sisters, Mrs. Ray­ ter of Mrs. Hawes, has returned to is felt by their removal from town. ley, Me. members of the family. mond Toothaker and Mrs. William her home in Madison. Mrs. Berry was an active member Howland, until a young lady, and was of both the Social Union and King’s Mr. Dill was again married in Sep­ Dea. and Mrs. Gooch of Farmington There is no such thing as death, always held in the highest esteem. Daughters, and will be. much missed, tember, 1861, to Mias Louisa F. Pray were in town Sunday to call on Mr. In nature nothing dies; She taught school in Phillips and vi­ in those societies. of Effingham, N. H., and to them Greenwood. > They remained to the From each sad remnant of decay cinity, teaching her first school at L. A. Worthley and Ralph Hen­ were born a son and daughter. The evening service. Some forms of life arise. the age of thirteen. After attending nings drove Mr. Worthley’s Reo tonr­ daughter, Miss Rhoda, died after a The special ¡meetings are very well the Normal school at Farmington, she ing car to Waterville last Saturday 'brief illness in 1879, at the ’age of The little leaf that falls . attended. Mr. Greenwood is an ear­ taught with great success in other aud returned as far as Farmington fourteen years. The son, James Bur­ Ail brown and sere to earth, nest, enthusiastic speaker. The meet­ places, being at Harper’s Ftjry one the next day. The w '~Yn liOffiL-Q-nd- ley, died in April, 1894, at the age ’Ere long will mingle with the buds ings for the week will be evy j ev­ year. - • soft travelling prevented them from of 31. Be lived, ac home and his ening at 7.30, subjects as follows: That give the flower its birth. The remains were brought to Phil­ continuing to Phillips. death was a severe blow to his par­ Monday, Prayer; Tuesday, Excuses; lips on the noon train Tuesday and ents in their approach to old age. Mrs. Margaret C. Turner. Wednesday, Deity of Christ; Thurs­ placed in the family lot. Mrs. Tooth­ DEAD RIVER. Nine years ago in February last A telegram was received Friday by day, Prepare to meet thy God; Fri­ aker and daughter, Mrs. H. W. Oakes Mr. Ray Viles ha® a large crew Mrs. Dill had the misfortune to be Henry W. Oakes, esq., of Auburn, an­ day, How John Cameron won the Vic­ of Auburn, accompanied the remains. working in logging operations at thrown from a sleigh striking on the nouncing the death of Mrs. Margaret toria Cross; Saturday, meeting at the Prayers were held at (the grave by West Carry Pond. Mr. and Mrs. ice and breaking the hip bone, and C. Turner at Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Baptist church, subject, Sin, What it Rev. M. S. Hutchins. The bearers John Safford of Lexington are doing has not been able to walk without March 4th. Mrs. Turner had been is, and What it does; Sunday, a were oTd friends of tbe deceased: the cooking. crutches since. Mr. Dill has assist­ in the west for the last six or seven great day, another big rally day, Mr. Hon. N. P. Noble, Mr. G. A. French, Mr. Mont Spaulding has finished ed her in the housework and has year®, in search of health, but wlas Greenwood’s last day with us«, ad­ Mr. J. H. Byron and Rev. M. S. hauling logs for R. Viles and return­ been almost a constant companion a resident of ¡Maine the most of her dress in the morning, Good Cheer, Hutchins. ed to hlis home in Emhden. during her years of suffering and life, meeting in the evening. Everybody • Mrs. Forrest Durrell, one of Dead privation; and the sympathy of a She was born in Phillips 'July 16, come and bring the children. STRONG. River’s most noted lady guides, who large circle of friends goes out to 1850, the daughter of William and Temple Town Meeting. has been sick since last October with her in this great bereavement in a Margaret Clark Church. One sister, March 9, 1910. typhoid fever, is able to he about special manner, because of her lame­ Mrs. William C. Howland, still lives The town meeting of Monday Following are the tow a officers ness and lonesomeness in being con­ in Phillips. The other sister i® Mrs. brought out a large representation elected March 7: Moderator, Ernest the house. Mr. Leon Wing is hauling logs at fined to one place and not able td Raymond Toothaker of Auburn, these of citizens, both from the village and Cony; clerk, A. I. Sargent; first se­ Carrabasset. mingle at all in the social life of two being the only surviving mem­ from the rural districts. Commend­ lectman, J. V. Hodgkins; second se­ Mr. Harold Lincoln is hauling ■the village. bers of the family. able interest was shown in the work lectman, J. Colby; third selectman, Mr. Orrin Pray, Mrs. DHLs brother, Mrs. Turner lived for many years of the day and the spirit generally Charles Farmer; treasurer, Clarence squares from Carrabasset to Flag­ has been with them all winter and in Lewiston, coming here after she expressed seemed that of progress. Hodgkins; school committee, C. E. staff. made Mr. Dill’s last weeks and had admirably equipped herself as Town Clerk Richardson wras re-el­ months much more comfortable, and a teacher at the Farmington Normal ected for the twenty-first time and is nowi giving such service as a bro­ ■school. She taught both in Lewiston he took occasion to state that for ther can to lighten the care and to and Auburn many years and there nineteen years, during the record of make life under this last great be­ are hundreds of people w“ho recall vital statistic®, one-half the popula­ reavement more undurable for his with pleasure her gracious presence tion of the town had died, to wit, 311 Sister. in the school room. She was thor­ deaths to 270 births, out of 207 mar­ Mr. Dili was a man thoroughly up­ oughly In sympathy witlfyoung peo­ riages. INVITE right and honest in his business re­ ple; she understood and loved them. The town wisely endorsed the rec­ lations and an excellent neighbor and Their memory of her is of one who ommendation of tbe school board WSCorrespondence ; friend, and enjoyed the respect and inspired in them the best, in their that Strong join with other towns of North Franklin in forming a district or union in the employment of a ? 1 general superintendent who shall give his time to supervising the school ? How About Loads for Your 1 (interests of the union. from those who want to X The Knights of Pythias of Strong ' advertise in a way to get in SPRING DUCK SHOOTING? have succeeded admirably in their T efforts to organize a Temple of Py­ f thian Sisters. A large number of ? WHEN ORDERING i touch with people who * wives, sisters and daughters of Py­ REMEMBER thian® have signed the roll and soon ? the temple will be organized and want to know about Maine ? THAT TO GET THE naturally will prove a benefit and stimulus to the brother Knights. ? “ Regular and Reliable” Brands •t Complying with an invitation from Resorts. the Rev. Mr. Clifford, it is expected ? YOU MUST SPECIFY that O. M. Moore will address the 1* citizens of Strong one week from ? next Monday evening, March 21, at I the Methodist church, on the subject ♦ of Personal Observations of the Far J.W. BRACKETT CO. j ± West. f Smokeless Powders Robins have appeared here during f the past week. Publishers Maine * POWDERS THAT WIN AT THE TRAPS South Strong. ? t and Maine Spòrtsman, \ t ARE POWDERS TO USE IN THE FIELD Tbe maple sugar season appears f to have butted in on us about two f weeks earlier than usual and several I E. I. DUPONT DE NEMOURS POWDER COMPANY tapping trees, finding tbe flow of sap i Phillips, Maine. ? Established 1802. Wilmington, Delaware. excellent. O. M. M. I Advertise in Maine Woods 4 MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, P H ! LL IPS, MAI NE, MARCH 10, 1910. 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MAINE WOODS. early years of the operation of the the average camper disgruntled and : dently it had been an interested SANDY RIVER. out of patience; but nothing disturb­ AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, law, however, cultivated a strong sen­ j spectator to my bewilderment. RANGELEY LAKES Phillips, Maine. timent for more and better road im­ ed the senator. It was a simple matter following : this one, as its prodigious jumps RAILROAD provement and during the last two “ Both salmon and trout are apt to The Sportsman’s and Tourist’s Line years the state appropriations have make a long run when fifst hooked, I showed plainly, and it kept straight to the Rangeley lakes and Dead ftjver J. MV. Brackett Company, Publishers, Region Maine. been double what they were before and sometimes the thumb gets cut on. It went clear out of the tangle J. W. BRACKETT, Tim e-Table in Effect Dec. 20, 1909. Editor and Manager. and for the present year the state of tracks before it stopped running. badly by the line whirring out of the PM AM AM iv ar PM PM AM HERBERT TV. ROWE, Bangor, appropriation is more than double reel if care is not exercised. Often Finally it got over its scare and set­ 9 00 E. D. E. D. 3 30 9 05 Associate Editor for Eastern Maine. that of any proceeding year, being after that the fish works towards tled down into a walk. I followed Boston S 15 W. D. W. D. 3 15 9 25 $321,000.00. If all cities and towns the bottom and employs sulking like patiently after, many times creeping AM PM ISSUED WEEKLY. make appropriation and apply for aid tactics. All depends on how the fish on my hands and knees up to my el­ ______8 40 1 50 iv Portland ar 10 10 5 30 Outing Edition, 8 pages, $1.00 a year- „ this year it will require $228,000.00, is feeling. Sometimes he will stay bow© in snow, passing under low 12 00 5 15 iv Farmington ar 7 02 2 20 Bocal Edition ten and twelve pages, to meet the payment of state aid. down five minutes, and, for fear of ’ hanging branches and through ever- PM $1.60 a year. , . 12 32 5 47 ar Strong Iv 6 31 1 47 Canadian subscriptions, 60 cents extra. Under an amendment passed by the breaking the line, it is not safe to ! greens, where it seemed impossible 5 50 lv Strong ar 1 35 | that anything half as large as a 6 16 lv Salem lv 1 10 last, legislature the balance of the try to raise him. Oftentimes the 6 35 ar Entered as second-class matter, Jan. lv 12 50 appropriation remaining after the fish will try to throw out the hook, deer could have gone. The branches Kingfield PM 21, 1909, at the p ostoffice at Phillips, ar 11 50 Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. payment of aid may be applied to and it is necessary to keep a tight | were all covered with snow, and as Carrabasset lv *1 11 23 the construction of trunk lines and line to prevent him from doing this. • I disturbed them jn my progress, it Bigelow lv 11 00 Maine Woods has absorbed the sub­ PM scription lists of Maine Woodsman and highways. We should have at least “ Mr. Frye always preferred trout | came tumbling down upon my head, 12 32 5 47 lv Strong lv 6 31 1 47 Maine Sportsman, and thoroughly covers $93,000.00 of the 1910 appropriation fishing to any other sport. The trout filling my neck and ears, and at time 12 55 6 10 ar Phillips lv 0 10 1 25 the entire state of Maine as to hunting, 2 00 6 15 lv Phillips ar 12 30 fishing and outings, and the whole of available for this purpose. There is gives great ©port when hooked, they almost choking me. 2 17 6 32 lv Madrid lv 12 U Franklin county locally. 3 02 7 17 lv Red in g ton lv 11 28 Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman also about $17,000.00 whilcii has ac­ rise quickly to the fly, though they I have no doubt I jumped that deer 3 45 S 00 ar Rangeley lv 10 45 solicits communications and fish and crued from the appropriations of 190S will take a spoon book or minnow. a dozen times during the next four AM PM PM AM AM PM game photographs from its readers. and 1909 which are available and wall It takes patience, when a big fish When ordering the address of your hours and each time I got but a Time not guaranteed. Subject to change with­ paper changed please give the old as be added to this trunk line fund. is hooked, and it is useless to try fleeting glimpse of it and never a out notice. Stage connections at Carrabasset well as new address. and Bigelow for Ledge House, Flagstaff, Stratton The citizens of Rockland and Rock- and hurry him. Keep a moderately | chance to shoot. Still I followed on and Eustis. Two Editions. port and the two munilcipalities have tight line and let the fish wear him­ 1 mile after mile, determined to get Train leaving Phillips for Rangeley at 2.00 p m will not. run Saturday. Train leaving Phillips fo r We publish two editions weekly of subscribed and appropriated $20,000.- self out. When lias struggles are it if I could, until finally, coming in- Rangeley at 0.15 p. m. will run Satuiday ONLY. Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman. The outing edition is eight pages and 00 and placed it in the hands of the over you can reel Man within reach : to a more open growth, I felt sure F ’ A. Lawton. Supt. F. N Beal, G. P. A. the subscription price is ?1.0Q a year. highway commissioner for expend! of the guide who will net. him.” I must be close upon him again. So The local edition is 10 and 12 pages— subscription price $1.50 a year. J. W. Brackett Co., Phillips, Me. M. C. R. R. Schedtfle of Trains in effect Maine Sportsman List. Maine Sportsman, a monthly Outing October 4th, 1909. magazine published at Bangor, has been merged with Maine Woods and all who TO TH E WOODS. had paid for Maine Sportsman in ad­ vance will receive Maine Woods and RANGELEY AND DEAD RIVER Mi^ine Sportsm an w eekly for an equal REGIONS length of time. Ail subscribers to Maine Sportsman who order it, will receiv Leave P.M A.M Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman Boston, via ) W. Div., 8 45 (Outing edition) at $1.00 a year. B. & M„ 5 E. Div., »55 9 00 J. W. Brackett Co. A.M. P.M. Portland ...... 8 40 1 50 Lewiston ...... 9 57 3 14 Thursday, March 10, 1910. A.M Calais---- ...... 7 00 P.M. Mr, Guernsey’s Forest Conservation Bangor ...... 7 00 12 25 Waterville...... 00 2 17 Bill. Farmington...... ar 11 50 5 05 Kingfield ...... ar 6 35 On Feb. 22, Mr. Guernsey, of Maine Phillips ...... ar 12 55 6 15 introduced in the House of Represen­ Carrabasset...... ar 7 00 Bigelow...... ar 7 28 tatives a hill for promoting national Rangeley ...... ar 3 45 8 00 forest reserves that was drawn along FROM THE WOODS the lines of progressive and advanced Leave A.M. A.M. thought regarding forest preservation Rangeley ...... 10 45 Bigelow 11 00 and which includes a Mount Katah- Carrabasset ...... It 23 P.M. din Forest Reserve. Phillips ...... 6 10 1 25 Kingfield ...... 12 50 Its title explains its purport and Farmington ...... '. 7 05 2 25 aim as ¡follows: Waterville ...... ar 9 50 8 10 “For the purpose of acquiring na­ Bangor ...... ar 11 35 P.M. tional forest reserves in the Appala­ Calais'...... ar 8 20 AFTER A SUCCESSFUL DAY. chian mountains, White mountains, A.M. Mount Kajgjbdm regions, and head­ Lew iston...... ar 8 57 4 17 Portland ...... ar 10 10 5 30 waters'ci " 0.1T.¡T=FTt’mi£Tterfre--"known tuiiijfupon five miles c f the trunk Boston via / W. D...... 3 15 9 25 LOST IN' A SV^MP. holding toy very breath watching B. & M. j E. D...... 3 30 9 05 as the Appalachian forest reserve, line leading from Rockland to Ban­ every step, carefully avoiding the pos­ P.M. the White Mountain forest reserve, gor. This amount will be supple­ m o r r is McDo n a l d , (By Flart L. Woodcock.) sibility of snapping a twig, I crept Vice President & General Manager, and Mount Katahdin forest reserve, mented by a portion of the state's on in silence. This certainly seem­ F. E. BOOTHBY, For the past week a little &nov; J General Passenger Agent. and to enable the states and the trunk line funds available this year ed the best chance yet and I deter­ had fallen each morning, just enough ! Portland, Maine. United States to co-operate in the and ilt is planned to reconstruct this mined to make the most of it. conservation of the forests, the wa- to cover the old tracks hut not j whole section of road. About nine By now it was well after noon and t,er supply, and in the control of wa­ enough to prevent the deer from j While creeping around an ever­ miles of the road leading from Ports­ green bush I was startled half out it came on dark at four o’clock. A ter powers.” hearing you rods away a© you j mouth, N. FI., to Portland, Maine, of my senses. A deer whistled with­ perfect panic seized me. My impulse Some of the reservations to the have already been surveyed and map­ crunched through the thin crust. But | this night there had been a steady j in ten feet of me. Cocking my rifle was to take my rifle and run. With states contained in this (bill are of ped and more of this read wlil be I sprang upright. all my will power I pulled myself to­ especial interest to the state of surveyed as soon as the snow is off downfall of damp snow with the wind i Where under the sun was it? The gether and sat down upon the log Maine, for instance, Sec. 13 provides the ground. The department hopes blowing strongly from the east. sound seemed to come from all again and with my face in my hands that “the states shall have the right to he able to build ten or twelve Five or six inches had fallen and | around. I froze into absolute silence tried to reason the matter out. It to create fish and game preserves miles of this thoroughfare the com­ the condition© for hunting were now j and waited. It was net in sight. I was fully ten minutes before I could within the national forest lands lo­ ing season. simply perfect in every particular. was sure of that. A few seconds make myself do it and the result cated within their borders and enact Now was my time for a deer, I passed. They seemed hours, when, was this: When it came to a knowl­ all necessary legislation therefor.” thought, and as I hurried out of the ; AN OLD TIME ANGLER. with a quick stamp of the hoof and edge of direction that compass knew | cabin on my way to the dining camp j The rights of any state to enter another sharp whistle the deer start­ more than I, and it was right—right any forest-reserve land located within ¡for breakfast, I met Groves and Chad-1 Special to Maine Woods and Maine ed from behind the very bunch of every time, I must remember that. its domain for the purpose of creat­ ! bourne, the guide, starting out to- Sportsman.) bushes beside which I was standing. Moral: Get up, get up now, go west, ing water storage and the develop­ | gether. For several rods it was concealed and keep on going west, regardless ment of water power subject to the tumford Falls, Me., March 3, 1910. “Hurry up,” they cried. “ We are by underbrush, but it finally came of what I myself thought. 1 did so. approval of the secretary of the in­ Famed are the Maine woods as I going in on the Flale pond road. We flying into sight and crossed an open I couldn’t make things look natural terior is also a condition and care­ lie most charming fishing and hunt- I sure ought to get a counter this or the way right, hut I kept on never­ fully guarded and such water storage Qg regions in the world, and the dis- „ space way out ahead. I let fly twice, | morning. but missed both times. Shots taken theless. I soon found it a simple and water power which may he so inguished sportsman cf this unpar- | It wasn’t thirty minutes later when matter to keep to a westerly course, created and developed shall be ad­ lleled outdoor paradise is William at a jumping deer are at best chance- ! I met them digging cut a fine doe. work, and it was gone unharmed. So as the wind had plastered the snow ministered under such regulations as > Frye, oldest of the United States ; They took her track where she had onto the east side of each tree trunk, the legislature of the state shall enators. It wa.s he whose influence far as I could see not a drop of blood i crossed the road beyond the swamp was to be seen on the -snow. so the forest -to the west was white deem its for the benefit of its citi­ ;as obtained protection for the mar- j bridge and inside of a hundred yards and all I had to do was to travel Certainly this was tough luck, I zens. ellous trout and salmon fishing. ' had met her head on, looking at then straight into the white woods. thought, as I stood my rifle against This measure is by far the most, It was near this camp that Frye 1 and iwdfh hut one shot through the a birch,. wiped my streaming face on It was growing later all the time. important one for Maine and all of ook his famous trout, which was the neck they had killed her. I was faint with hunger. It was New England, upon this subject, that argest square-tailed trout ever taken my handkerchief and looked about This was great luck. Could I hope me. As I did so a sickening feeling killing work for a tenderfoot walking has ever been presented to Congress. in a fly in the world. for anything half as good? of dread came over me. I had never through the deep snow, climbing over Some one has wisely said that to windfalls, plunging through tangled Progress of State Road B u ild in g in I “ Follow in to where we dressed been in that place before. Nothing lioroughly know a man one must and at times almost impenetrable bits Maine. her and you will find no end of about looked natural. Where under amp with him. This trite saying has frfesh tracks. The swamp is full of the sun was I and which way was of swamp, but mile after mile I -roved true in the experiences of Our readers, some of whom tour ’em this merning,” said Chad, as I home? struggled on. It wias the only thing Maine by automobile, are all, doubt­ tmos Ellis, who has guided Senator to do. West must take me into the came up to them. So immediately I I had started east after the deer. less, interested in the highway map ¡'rye for more than twenty years. trudged on, following h's advice. buckboard road leading from the ,lr. Ellis is a man of the woods. I was sure of that, and I thought I Chadbourne home ranch to the Chase published last week. Sure enough there were plenty of Maine has had a state road law had been traveling east most of the Pond camps, where I was stopping, “ I was guiding Senator Kellogg at tracks, so, selecting the largest, I time since. Still at times I must since 1901. Up to the first of Jan­ or else into the Flale pond tote road. he Indian Rock Club House,” tells started off into the swamp to the have circled about more or less. It uary, 1908', the administration of the /Tr. Ellis,” and he asked me to go Either would lead to home. So I lav/ was in the hands of the county eastward. was still snowing: A swamp is blind continued west. iver and guide Frye for a few days, There is such a thing as finding commissioners of the several coun­ enough in clear weather, but in a As it began growing dusk and I guided him all that week and when more good things than you wish, and snow storm it is simply bewildering. ties. Since that date the administra­ was well-nigh discouraged, to my de­ te went away he said he would want I certainly did that tM© morning, for Well, no use to get rattled, I thought, tion of the law has been in the light, I came out most unexpectedly ne when he came back in tihe fall, inside of thirty rods other tracks hands of the highway department. the compass will ©tragihten things into some logging works. The yard told him I couldn’t guide him. came in, crossing and recrossing till During the nine years of the opera­ out all right. So, brushing the snow “He was surprised and asked if he (Continued on page 5.) tion of the law there have been 2,408 it was almost impossible to follow from a fallen tree, well away from lad. not used me well. I replied ‘yes,’ individual piece® of state road built, the original ones. Finally I came the rifle, which might influence it, I )ut that I couldn’t pull a raft or a representing a total mileage of 528.59 into a perfect stamping ground. In took out my compass and opened it. steamboat. The senator smiled. He The total cost of this work has been place© the bucks had pawed the North! Great Scott, that can’t be ALLEGASH CANOE TRIP FOR lad one of those large, wide salt $1,169,036.53. The state has paid as snow away c ear to the leaves. All •north. Something must be wrong. If vater boats and was familiar with BOYS. aid on account of this work $495,- about the snow was packed and melt­ I knew anything about the direction, ts tediou© navigation himself. ‘That ed where deer had beenHying down. the needle was pointing south. I 087.81. s easily arranged,’ said he; ‘go to During the earlier years no great The tracks circled and mixed togeth­ locked about me in utter helpless­ Two hundred miles through Maine rtangeley and get such a boat as you uniformity existed in the construc­ er in a most bewildering manner, so ness. Where under the canopy was forests. Real camping. Lake and lesire and send the hill to me.’ tion of these roads, as the county that I completely lost the ones I had I and could I get home? stream fishing. Tutoring optional. commissioners had no general speci­ “ There was no stiffness, no harsh been following. Were you ever in the big woods Physician in party. Send for booklet. fication for doing the work and in mles around camp. With a good While hunting about trying to and realized you were- lost? It is fact they merely inspected completed 30ok and a cigar the senator was straighten out this tangle I heard a an awful feeling, especially in win­ work and if it looked all right ap­ content. At times of had weather, deer whistle near by and go crash­ ter and knowing you are miles from M. B. M errill, A. B., proved the same for state aid. The nsects and other annoyances make ing off through the underbrush. Evi- camp. Mars Hill, - . . Maine. MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION—12 PAGES.

if the man will talk, That is—or- TRAPPING NOTES. be caught in a snare by making a Lolo forest, where a new forest- dinarily. sort of bush fence across one of planting nursery was begun last year. /T, . your suowshoe trails that they fol- This proved to be the grandest ex­ (By H. E. Ford.) , T . .. The objects of the Guelph plant­ perience of my life. Years later I low. Leave an opening over the ing are, according to local accounts, I will try OMd write a few words trail arici put a snare there to catch credited it to the fact that I was to protect the town’s water source on trapping. I see in Maine Moods ]y,nx when he comes along. The young—hafdly 20 years old—at the by a forest cover over its springs and Maine Sportsman that Mr. W. IJ. | snare is like a common rabbit snare, time I couldn't understand the rea­ in' the hills, to make a beautiful Willand says he has bought fox scent but ^ oi cours6j larger, son. Today I think the man was woods for a public park, and to pro­ and got stung, and would like to Martin are pretty easy to catch. vide for a future timber supply as a thoroughly tired and in the midst of know of a fox scent that will attract his fatiguing work the suggestion of ■Where there tis any one way is to municipal asset. In foreign countries, a fox. I will asy to Mr. Willand, the happy fishing and camping days cut a small tree off about three forest tracts are often owned end try some of the scents I have already feet above the snow or ground._ Split managed by towns and cities as a brought relief to his tired brain. given in this paper. I know No. 188 the top of the stump. Drive the butt paying investment and to insure a He bad insisted that I couldn’t is good and lots of trappers in have an interview. Now, without a of the part you cut, off into this split, permanent supply of wood for local Maine use this scent. No. 1 scent word, he swung away from liis desk, letting the end stick out about three consumption, hut in America planting bait is good, or get some fox ma­ Ferro Motors and Mullins Pressed Stee littered with papers, and fumbling feet from one side of the stump. by municipalities other than for trix from N. C. Burbank, New Port­ Motor Boats. Send for catalogue and des with the little charm on his watch Drive it down until the top is ten parks and for watershed protection cription. Let me sell you your motor land, Bit., or get some of Bentley’s boat supplies. Try a set of the Nile Dry chain told me a story such as I had or twelve inches below' the top of has scarcely been thought of. The Batteries, 34 ampires. 'E. L. Haley, fox root; it must be good, as it gives the stump. Of course, the top of trees to he grown in the Guelph park Rangeley, Maine. never heard before. I couldn’t thank Bentley a claim to the champion­ the tree is laying on the ground,' butt have already been decided upon by him, couldn’t speak. I just sat there ship in trapping in the New Eng­ for two hours and took his dictation. end of the part of the tree above the Ontario Agricultural college. The land states. MY INTERVIEW WITH He never made a comment. Story where you out it off is in the split, proposed reforestation promises to U. S. SENATOR FRYE. followed story in rapid succession— I think, as I stated before, that, the butt three feet through. Then be of so great economic and sanitary stories of men whose names have from all reports I have heard on put your bait on end out from the value that the estimated cost of $8 stump. Set the trap, Nos. 0, 1 or IV2 per acre for importing and planting (By a Young Reporter.) been on the lips of every person in the subject, deer are decreasing in the world. This was an experience numbers in Maine, not fast, but slow­ on the part driven an the split. Set the seedlings and carling for the Seldom is it that Hon. Wm. P. I shall never forget. Out of the in the split, which is held apart by growing trees ¡is regarded as well Frye, for so many years United ly and surely, and I think it should many I have selected this one and driving, the tree in at. Then, lay two worth while. States senator, who was vice-presi­ be checked as much as possible. I can see the tender look in his small ‘stacks from the butt end of dent after McKinley’s assassination., eye as Mr. Frye said: I don’t know whether Mr. Brack- the part you cut off to the top of LOST IN A SWAMP. and who has probably made more “When we selected seats in the «tt or Mr. Carleton will get the the stump. Then lay some evergreen public speeches-than any man in the (Continued from page 4.) House of Representatives that day, chairmanship of the fish and game •hough® on these to protect the trap country, talks of his private life to was piled with logs, but as it was so many years ago, I was unfortunate, commission. One thing I hope is from snow and the bait from birds, an interviewer. Realizing this fact snowing, not a man was working in securing a seat far hack. I felt that the man who will make the best etc. Use No. 5 scent bait. The tree I began my story from the outside. keenly the inconvenience it would chairman will get the job. The kind should be about five inches in dia­ there. The place was all new to First I went to Mooselookmeguntic me. I had never seen that yard be­ mean for me, but said nothing. The of man needed on this job is one meter. Bark may be used instead of lake and interviewed the man who fore. The only lumbering crew work­ next day I found one of the repre­ who knows how and will do the right the sticks and houghs. It is pretty guided Frye 20 years. ing about Chase pond was Lock­ sentatives had taken my things from thing at the right time, who will hard to write out just what I mean, There were many little stories wood’s, and I (bought I knew all the desk and placed them in a front treat everybody alike and do the hut if any one wants to try this and here, one of which was the famous hi® workings. seat. I asked him what he meant square thing by all, keep the game doesn’t understand it, just drop a A road ran off to the south, sholwv by so doing and he sadi: ‘You will laws enforced, protect the game as line to the editor. ing fresh tracks of both horses and ! need recognition from the speaker much as lays in his power to do, After trying out several ways I man. I followed it and soon came in­ | many times. I will not. You need and a man, who has no special friend have found out that the proper way to another yard, which I recognized. jthe good seat; this one will do for to put in office who know nothing to place a steel trap is so the ani­ The one I came into first bad been ¡me. That representatives was—Wm. about filling the office. We of the mal wrill come into the trap over one made since I was there. Now, for i McKinley. people of Maine want a business end of the jaw® and not across them. the first time, things began to look man who knows how and ils not Next: time I may give some otter natural. I was getting straightened Stevens Telescopes Win a W orld’s afraid to do his duty as chairman methods or mink, or both, and an­ out. The lumbering camps were but Record. of the commission. Either of the other fox set or two. I ¡will give a a short distance away and I lost no men who can fulfil the most of the fox scent that I know will attract a A world’s record was made in the time in getting to them. above and fulfil them in the best male fox in the mating season: One- American 100-shot Record Match by My! But that dipper of strong hot way for the gocd of all concerned half pint of fish oil (trout best, eels the use of 4 power Stevens Tele­ tea, sweetened with molasses, did go is the man who should be appointed next best); musks from ten musk­ scopes. to the spot, especially when backed chairman. rats; one ounce of extract of fox At the annual American 100-Shot up by a big tin. plate filled with matrix, from female during heat. Mr. •steaming baked beans, to say nothing Record Match, held February 22, 1910 I have not noticed any ad from Willand, I know this will attract a a*- Greenville, N. J., Dr. W. G. Hud­ of the many other good things Mrs. ¡Mr. Bentley in the issue of Feb. 24 male fox in the mating season and Lockwood piled up before me. son scored in 100 shots, at 200 yards of Maine Woods and Maine Sports­ will attract male fox, dogs, etc., at distance, 916 points (the most ever man. I hope Mr. Bentley has not m' " t "an'y Ume7“ T ry’it After doing the ample justice of made in this match). Dr. Hudson a hungry man to the feast, and rest­ quit. Waterproof for matches: Dip the shot one string of 10 shots, scoring ing a while, I started out into the heads in two parts glycerine and one the marvellous figures of 99 out of storm. _ I hope the many people who have hundred parts collodion. a possible 100. This is the highest I knew my way now all right and written to me lutout scent and trap­ Waterproof for tents: One gallon score ever made. was soon in my snug cabin getting SENATOR WM. P. FRYE, ping have good si'ccess with the me­ raw linseed oil; twelve ounces com­ into dry clothing and thanking the Dr. Hudson says in regard to the thods I have given them, and here­ mon resin; boil, stirring well; ap­ good Lord that I was safely in and wonderful efficiency of Stevens Tele­ after I wash they would write their ply to both sides of canvass (from rice story, which has been printed scopes: “ The 4 power Stevens Tele­ questions to Maine Woods and Maine U. S. Government Monthly Magazine) not obliged to spend the night in in almost every publication in the scope ¡made good scoring possible in Sportsman, and by so doing I might Write up, trappers; also Mr. Bent­ the swamp. world, hut Frye was the same kindly conditions which -were so foggy and be able to answer several persons ley. hut serious man. He never brought dark it would have been impossible with one letter and this would save New Builder at Rangeley. politics into camp. Mark Hanna to stay on the target with ordinary me writing so many letters. If you Borrowing Forest Trees. Mr. G. E. Russell, brother of John had been to “ Saint’s Rest,’’ the lit­ sights.” do write me direct, please sign your The enterprise of German foresters A. Russell of Rangeley, formerly of tle log cabin at the junction of this Stevens Rifles and Stevens Tele­ name and give your address plainly, and the importance of tree planting Everett, Mass., has located at Range- lake and the Cupsuptic waters, but scopes hold more records for accur­ write a short letter to the point, and for forest purposes are strikingly ley permanently. ¡Mr. Russell i© a no one had heard Frye talk of pub­ acy than all other makes combined. Inclose a two-cent stamp, as it costs shown by two items of news which builder of experience, who, knowing lic life. come, the one from Montana, the of the rapid growth of the Rangeley With a good book and an unlight­ other from Ontario. It is reported Lakes and vicinity, has decided to ed cigar he was satisfied to sit and l that a demand has developed for locate there. Mr. Russell will take rest by the hour. Each night and Montana larch seeds to be used by up all kinds of builder’s work that morning he went fishing and his German nurserymen, ¡while white is common in this vicinity. His ad­ guide told me how the senator se­ pine seedlings are to be imported vertisement appears in another col­ cured the largest square-tailed trout from Germany by the town of Guelph, umn. ever taken cn a fly in the world. Out., for planting a 168-acre tract of Still the story was far from com­ land belonging to the municipality. For information about the routes to plete. The Germans recognize that the take to Maine resorts and about the ~ Meanwhile I had carried on a cor­ introduction into their forests of val­ Maine resorts themselves, address respondence with Senator Frye and uable trees native to other countries Maine Information Bureau, Phillips, he had declared his prviate affair® may be decidedly to their advantage. Maine. had no interest and that he did not Although as a rule the forest. tree© wish them exploited. However he best adapted to each region are promised an interview on other top­ those which naturally grow in it, CHARMING WATCH CHARMS. ics. Then I sealed the mattre wdth : ' ■ * there are many exception®. Norway Beautiful trout fly made into an haste and asked his earliest conven­ spruce and Austrian and Scotch pine ience for an interview. Back came : U i » V . have been carried from their native ornament for the watch chain. Very his answer, written in his character­ attractive to the anglers in particular !,; t ' *'• - _ y*' "• Y y- ; '-v'1, !•' ■ ..¿¿«»A. AA g f-i¡ ■ * -, Y ' ' ; e V .. ,'U. h * home to other parts of Europe and istic style, naming the following day. to America' and have been found well but admired by all. Will be sent Again all my hopes were quenched, MAINE FISH AND TIIEIR WEIGHTS. worth the attention of the grower postpaid for 50 cents, stamps or sil­ just as an*air castle shatter®. Frye of timber. Several of our own spe­ was in the midst of unusual and per­ cies have met with favor in Europe ver, or will b'.u given for two sub­ plexing work. Ordinarily I couldn’t and are famous as being the “ Bull’s me quite a hit for stamps. I hope and flourished there, such as the scriptions for one year, one or both have selected a more inappropriate Eye Kind.” the person or person® who have tried Douglas fir, black walnut and others. of them to be new. Suitable for a time. “ I must have misunderstood The latest Stevens Fire Arm and or who may try the several methods, The Australian eucalyptus is proving birthday or Christmas gift. your short note of yesterday,” he Telescope ca’ alogues, recently issued, scents, etc., that I have given and a great find for America and South said, looking up from Ms ¡pile of pa­ will be sent to any applicant. •will give, will report success through Africa. Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman, pers. “ I thought you wished to see Maine Woods and ¡Maine Sportsman. Our own white pine long ago cross­ Phillips, Maine. me on personal business. I am too Fox may be taken by preparing CIRCULARS THAT WE PRINT. ed the Atlantic in response to the thoroughly tired to talk.” Naturally trap as before stated. Find a sheep needs of Europeans, whose forests I was disappointed, hut not surpris­ ------' or other path, or an old unused road, are comparatively poor in tree spe­ ed; at was what I bad expected. Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman where they travel. Then go along cies, and is now grown commercially For information about the The senator turned back to hi© pa­ until you find where the fox steps is printing some of the finest hotel, on such a scale that when it is want­ pers. over a stone or root, and set your ed for planting in its own native ha­ routes to take to Maine re­ I had passed Mr. Frye a slip of j camP and summer resort booklets1 |rap Avhere his^ footprints are, bitat the German nurseryman i© often paper with half a dozen suggestion« ! that have ever been published in ‘¡by digging out a place for the trap, ready to deliver young plants here sorts and about the Maine of those things of his Maine and Maine. so the trap when set iwiiili he about for a lower price than our own nur­ a quarter inch below the rest of the camp life, hut I dared not even think We have a first-class outfit and the serymen will quote. Now the Ger­ resorts themselves, address, he would talk of private matters. path. Then put some soft non-smell­ mans are going to try the Western ■work compares with the epuipment. Suddenly the senator picked up the ing stuff under the pan. and cover larch also. The request from the little slip of paper and smiled as he , A1 circulars that are printed at this trap, chain, and pronged iron drag. German nurserymen instruct® the col- said: “ What! I to talk on all these 1 office are printed ir full or in part Cover-everything up good and don’t ^ lectors to gather the choicest seedis questions; you would have the ma'I in Maine Woods and Maine Sports- leave an>' more slg,rus of yourself than j wiien ripe this fall. One nursery MAINE tenia! for a book.” He threw the pa­ ; man tree of charge, and the cute are ! can beIp ^ ° f „fi* " °n Flath'ai laka has o« * ™ 3 3° per in the waste basket. i j and 5 011 may thiow a piece of bait j exchange larch seeds for seeds of INFORMATION Then he talked. j also inserted once, free. ; to one side-of the path. You can : desiraWe German shrubs, which he The man who has been in the ! Address. use the hole set (see Fob. 24 issue) intends to cultivate and sell in Arner- newspaper game hardens himself J. W. Brackett, Co., and instead of leaving the dirt as jca_ jn the same region, four or five BUREAU against sorrow or happiness. He is Phillips Maine before, you can carry the dirt away months ago, foresters of our own de- not surprised if a man refuses to ______’ on the pièce of canvas and setj^he partment of Agriculture gathered talk or see him, nor is he surprised Advertise in (Maine Woods. !trap as in tIr'Sl path set- Lynx can seed for use in the neighboring PHILLIPS MAINE 6 MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION— 12 PAGES.

MAINE WOODS. WH Mrs. W inslow’s Soothing Syrup FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADEL- AND MAINE SPORTSMAN. las been us.-(l for over S I X T Y -F I V K V . AKS by M IL PHIA, .lO.VS of MOTHERS for taerr CliiLUKLA Vi till.; „ A ssets D ec. 31, 1909. Phillips, Maine. Oddities and Latest News. . L E T H i.N G , with P E R F E C T .sU C c i-sS i SO O T H E ; Heal E state, $ 304,025.00 the C H IL D , SO FTEN S the G U M S , A L L A Y S all PA1.N , M ortgage L oans, 2,066,904.99 LURES WIND COLIC, and is the best remedy for D1AR- C ollateral L oans 148,216.45 J , W. Brackett Company, publishers. RiJCEA. Sold by Druggists in every part o f the world S tock s and Bauds, 4,862,602.50 Be sure and ask for “ Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup.” J. W. BRACKETT, C os’- in O ffice an d B ank, 402,500.46 PHILLIPS AND VICINITY. and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Guar­ A g en ts’ Balances,, 687,647.83 Editor and Manager. Kingfield and Hopkins of Phillips as­ anteed under the Food and Drugs A ct, June 30th, 190£ S-risl Number 1098. A N O L D A N D W E L L , T R IE D R E M E D Y Interest and R ents, 82,398.30 HERBERT W. ROWE, Bangor, sisted by a trained nurse, performed A ll other A ssets. 4,085.72 Miss Lena Foster, who has been an operation for appendicitis, on Cecil Associate Editor for Eastern Maine. Gross Assets, 3,558,281.25 the guest of Mrs. P. O. Hopkins this the little four year old son of Mr. and Avon Town Meeting. Deduct items not admitted, 28,536.92 ISSUED WEEKLY. week, starts for Bermuda next Thurs­ Mrs. Norman Calden. It was' a very Mod., E, C. Landers; clerk, H. W. A dm itted A ssets, $8,529,744.33 day, March 15. serious case but we are glad to learn Worfhley; selectmen, G. F. Beal, J. L iabilities D ec. 31, 1909 O uting E dition, 8 pages, $1.00 a year. N et U npaid Losses, $ 322,875.26 Bocal Edition, .ten and twelve pages, Miss Bertha, Beede goes to Port­ that the little fellowi is comfortable A. Norton, N. E. Vining; treasurer, U nearned Prem ium s, 5,103,866.94 $1.50 a year. A ll oth er L iabilities, 32,585.00 Canadian subscriptions, 50 cents extra. land Friday to enter the millinery at this writing, and all hop© for a H. W. Worthley; road commissioner, C ash Capital, 750,000.00 department of Eastman Bi-os. & Ban­ speedy recovery. H. E. V'Lniing; school board, W. H. Surplus over all Liabilities, 2,320,417.13 Entered as second slass matter, Jan. croft. BnbSer; constable and collector, B. F. T ota l L iabilities and Surplus $8,259,744.33 21, 1909, a t h e p o sto ffice at Phillips, NEW VINEYARD. Maine, under the Act of March 3, 1879. iMrs. J. C. Tirrell has purchased Savage; field drivers, G. B. Wilbur, UNITED STATES BRANCH, SUN the millinery stock of Mrs. G. V. March 9, 1910. E. M. Sampson; scaler of weight® INSURANCE OFFICE Maine Woods has absorbed the sub­ scription lists of Maine Woodsman and Smith and will open the store to Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Smith start ¡and measures, N. E. Vining; super­ London, Eng. Maine Sportsman, and thoroughly covers the public March 21. Mrs. Tirrell intendent of schools, H. W. Worth- R eal E state, $ 290, 637.79 the entire state of Maine as to hunting, next vjeek Tuesday for a trip to Ber­ Mortgage Loans, 25, 000.00 ley; scalers of lumber and wood, S tocks an d B on d s, 3,124, 682.14 fishing and outings, and the whole of also plans to carry a first-class line muda. Case in. Office and Bank, 299, Franklin county locally. 846.21 of shirt waists, muslin underwear, Geo. Hamlin, Fred Raymond. Appro­ Agents’ Balances, 433, 749.00 Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman Interest and Rents, 40, 633.70 solicits communications and fish and etc. WEST NEW VINEYARD. priations: Common schools, $425; AU other Assets, 50, 563.16 game photographs from its readers. high (School, $16; repair of school When ordering the address of your Dr. Woodman of Portland, accom­ March 8, 1910. Grose A ssets, $4,265,112.00 paper changed please give the old as panied by the two children, visited houses, $30; text books, $50; snow D educt item s not ad m itted, 28,312.94 well as new address. Mrs. Nellie Webster has made 351 his' wife in Phillips this week. pounds of butter from her two cows bills, $500; roads and bridge®, $1,000; A dm itted A ssets, $4,236,799.06 support of poor, $350; interest on Liabilities D ec. 31, 1909. Two Editions. Mrs. Morey of Gray is visiting her from October first to March first, N et Unpaid L osses. $ 244,069.00 We publish two editions weekly of bonds and orders, $250; town debt, U nearned Prem ium s, 2/665,967.52 Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman. son, Ralph Morey. (besides supplying cream -and milk for AH other Liabilities, 71,542.82 The outing edition is eight pages and a family of three. Who can do bet­ $500; officers’ bills, $325; abatement Surplus over all L iabilities, 1,255,219.72 th e subscription p rice is $1.00 a year. Mrs. E. B. Whorff fell on the ice of taxes, $50; tax collector, $100; The local edition is 10 and 12 pages— last Tuesday and hurt her spine quite ter? T otal Liabilities and Surplus $4,236,799.06 subscription price $1.50 a year. Eugene Weymouth and iittl-e daugh­ Memorial day $10; town way (land J. W. Brackett Oo., Phillips, Me. severely. damages), $15; state road, $100. THE TRAVELERS’ INSURANCE A. regular meeting of North Frank­ter, Emma, spent several day® with COMPANY- his daughter, Mabel Savage. Maine Sportsman List. lin Pomona Grange, No. 22, P. of Read Maine Woods and Maine Hartford, Conn. Maine Sportsman, a monthly Outing Judging by the crows that are seen A ssets Dec. 31, 1909. magazine published at Bangor, has been H., will be held with Oquossoc grange Sportsman for the latest hunting and R eal E state, $ 1,175,025.00 merged with. Maine Woods and all who flying by, winter has broken. fishing news of their respective' sea­ M ortgage L oans, 18,704,424.40 of Rangeley on Thursday, March 17, C ollateral Loans, 558,476 53 had paid for Maine Sportsman in ad­ at 10 o’clock, a. m. A special train sons. Interesting articles on hunting Loans on this Company’s vance will receive Maine Woods and New Vineyard Town Meeting. and fishing topics ail the year. P olicies, 6,602,977.90 Maine Sportsman weekly for an equal will leave Strong- at" eight o’clock and Stocks and B onds, 39,338,782 00 length of time. All subscribers to Maine Mod., A. W. Hackett; clerk, Arthur Cash in O ffice an d Bank, 1,380,999.41 Sportsman who order it, will receive Phillips at 8.30 o’clock, a. m. for A gen ts’ B alan ces, 26,880.01 Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman Rangeley, returning from Rangeley at Smith; selectmen, Frank Morton, i Bills Receivable, 26,299 58 (ou tin g edition) a t $1.00 a year. Interest and R ents, 810,890’.74 J. W. Brackett Oo. four o’clock p. m. The usual excur­ Chas. Carsley, Leon Fish; treasurer, Deferred and Outstanding sion rates will be charged and can Fred O. Smith; sahoolboard, Chas. Prem ium s,, 1,680,568.53 ¡be procured at the stations or of the Cars'l-ey, Arthur Smith, E. H. Brack­ G ross A ssets, $70,305,324 10 Thursday,. March 10, 1910. D educt item s not adm itted, 53,179.59 conductor on the train. ett; road agent, Frank Orcutt. O. S. IOC CIGAR Turner, -Who has served as town clerk A Gentleman’s Smoke. Now out­ Admitted Assets, $70,252,144.51 Ralph Hennings is attending the Liabilities Dec. 31, 1909. PHILLIPS AND VICINITY. Auto Show in Boston this week. On for over 40 years, resigned this spring sells all its competitors. Factory, Net Unpaid Losses, ? 259,089.96 Manchester, N. H. Unearned Premiums and his return- he will go to Waterville, on account of his advanced age. Val­ Life Reserve, 59,004,645.52 The ladies who raised the neces­ uation of the town of New Vineyard, Premiums and Interest in sary money with which to purchase where he will be employed during A d van ce, 261,181.38 his vacation by the Waterville Mo­ April 1st, 1909: Total valuation, All other Liabilities, 1,127.574.76 new song book® for the Sunday ev­ Wilton, riaine. Cash Capital, 2, 000, 000.00 tor Co. $183,732.00; total real estate, $137,- Surplus over all Liabilities, 7,599,752.89 ening services at the Union, church 715.00; resident personal estate, $46,- Farm of 120 acres of land, iy 2 m ile« unite with the pastor in making a Cards are out announcing the mar­ to village and schools,- 2y2 m iles to Total Liabilities and Sur­ riage of Ruth May Aldrich of Han­ 017.00; assessed, $5,437.76; rate of railroad. 36 acres tillage, cuts 25 tons plus, $70,252,144.51 request from all interested that the assessments, .027; number of poll®, o f hay. 100 apple trees, 2 cherry, 3 pear musical part of these services he re­ cock, Mass., to Warren Elmer Brack- and 10 plum trees, grapes and currents, UNITED STATES CASUALTY COM­ ley of Freeman Center, Me, The 158. The scheolboard report great Pasture well fenced; quite an amount of PANY, newed and strengthened. Good mu­ good lumber, and sap orchard; 7-room marriage will take place at the home improvement in- the schools through­ house in good condition; lame ham, and 141 Broadway, New York City, N. Y. sic plays a very great part in the silo. A ssets D ec. 31, 1909. of Mr. and Mrs. Victor N. Noyes, out the town. Real Estate, success of any religious meeting; P r ic e ...... ■...... only $2,200 5,000.00 March 12, at eight o’clock. A public Mortgage Loans, 294,000.00 with its aid the meeting is uplifted Stocks and Bonds, 2,020,717.00 reception will follow. R. M. BROWN’S Cash in Office and Bank, 69,105.25 an-* carried forward to a successful How often do you Interest and Pleats, 14,081.53 end; without it no pastor can have The ladies’ whist club met with Real Estate Agency, All other Assets, 156,634.39 Mrs. H. B. Austin Wednesday after­ eat this food? a meeting which is more than an Wilton, - - Maine Gross Assets. $2,559,538.17 Less Agents Credits, 123.18 empty farce. Will all who are wtill- noon. Refreshments of coffee, sand­ A short time ago there appeared in wiches, olives' and nabiscoes were the columns of one of the prominent 2,559,414.99 'T o h blTT'lhiflW' Tin,it part of the magazines an artic’c-on building brain D edueet item s not admitted, served. * Reserve for reinsurance in services a success, kindly remain at and muscle by the proper selection of t Miss Eima Byron goes to the Maine A « companies not admitted in the close of the evening meeting next the foods you eat. f § N ew Y ork, 12,867.22 General hospital at Portland next # DEPOSITS * Sunday, that plans may b© under­ A good many people were surprised week to have aneoids removed. ❖ 1 A d m itted A ssets, $2,546,547.22 taken for the accomplishment of this to find oatmeal placed at the top of the ITH US secured by # Liabilities Dec. 31, IE)9. The Lewiston Journal of yesterday list of foods recommended; but if the # Net. U npaid L osses, $ 276,342.43 most desirable purpose. the resources of an f Additional Special Reserve for reports Mr. H. N. Dorman of Bates article had appeared in an English or W * C laim s, 100,000.00 Mrs. Fred Ellsworth ha® been ill Scotch paper every reader would have old, well-established ♦ U nearned Prem ium s, 748,771.99 as seriously ill and confined to his expected to see first place given to Bank, amounting to more f A ll oth er Liabilities, 121,432.80 recently, but is now much better. room; report came to Phillips a few ♦ Cash C apital, 500,000.00 good oatmeal. ❖ than $1,000,000.00. ❖ Surplus ov er all Liabilities, 800,000.00 Frank Haley has purchased Mrs. days ago that he was ill with the As a matter of fact Great Britian I Total Liabilities and Surplus $2,546,547.22 Sarah Graffam’s house and will move mumps. and Europe come to us for tremendous Wilton Branch there after he makes quite exten­ quantities of Quaker Oats because it # HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, sive repairs on the same. DISTRICT NO. 2, PHILLIPS. represents to them perfect food, being § Livermore Falls N e w Y o rk . t A ssets D ec. 31, 1909. March 9, 1910. the richest in flavor and best in clean­ R eal E state, $ 1,543,892.06 The fallowitng ladies were appoint­ liness and purity, of all oatmeals. Trust and Banking Co. M ortg a g e Loans. 69,800.00 ed to have charge of children’s day Miss Li'la Flagg is the guest of her 1 Stocks and B onds, 22,877,088.33 Convenience and economy are served YVVVV Cash in O ffice and B ank, 1,552,444.43 a+ the grange: Mrs. Eva Toothaker, sister Mrs. Ernest Doyen this week. by the way it is packed—regular size A g e n ts’ B alan ces, 1,210,587.30 Mrs. Fred Morton, Mrs. Frank Sav­ Mr. and !M,r. Albert Sodgeley were 10c packages and large size family Bills R eceiva ble, . 53,860.16 WHY NOT READ age, Mrs.’ A. J. Toothaker a n d ¡Mrs. recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank j packages,*25c. 55 G ross A ssets, $27,307 ,672.28 A d m itted A ssets, $27,307 672.28 Proctor Smith. The date has not Harnden. L iabilities D ec. 31, 1909. The Sportsman's Guide of Net Unpaid Losses, $ 958.,639.76 yet been decided upon. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Russell visited Unearned P rem ium s, 10,244,,415.00 The company who are giving en­ Mrs. Russell’s- parents, Mr. and Mrs. TRY North America | Reserve as a Conflagration Surplus, 1,200, 000.00 tertainments at the Grange hall this Chas. Lufkin, over Sunday. All other Liabilities, 721,,780.56 With Hunting, Trapping and Fishing Cash Capital, 3,000, 000.00 week are boarding with Mrs. Chas. Mrs. Bion Wing was called to Bos­ Surplus over all L iabilities, 11,182,836.96 French. ton last Tuesday, owing to the s-eriou Roller Skating Stories from all parts of the United States and Canada ? Total Liabilities and Sur­ The basket ball boys from Bates illness of her son Dana Keene. AT plus, $27,307,672.28 *11 stopped at Fred Morton’s while in Miss Sarah Calden who has been PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY L L O Y D ’S P LA TE GLASS INSUR- town. • stopi-ng with her niece Mrs. Ada Halej PAVILION THE WEBB-SMITH PRINTING CO., ANCE COMPANY, We are very glad to report Mrs. for several weeks is now hoarding j N e w Y o rk . with Mrs. Simon Booker. Open every evening and Saturday CORNISH, MAINE. A ssets D ec. 31, 1909. Ida Butterfield as getting along fine­ Real Estate, $265,000.00 ly at Dr. Bell’s hospital in Strong. Cards have been received announc­ afternoons. Admission free. Use of 50 cents per year". Single copy 5 cents. Stocks and Bonds, 556,550.38 Cash in Office and Bank, 43,140.85 Mr. O. H. Hersey has leased the ing the birth of an eight pound son, skates, 15 cents in the evening and Agents’ Balances, 101,444.01 10 cents in the afternoon. Closes at Interest and Rents, 5,289.80 residence of H. H. Berry and plans (George Henry) Feb. 15, to Mr. and All other Assets, 7,561.43 to occupy the same in May. Mrs.Coney Smith of Grand Junction, .( p, m. ave You Gross Assets, $97S,9S6.47 Hon. and Mrs. H. A. Furbish of Colo. Their many friends here ex­ Private parties can secure the rink Deduct items not admitted, 20,481.59 : rom 10 to 12. ¡Rangeley were"“on the evening train tend congratulations. A dm itted Assets. $958,504.88 Saturday from their month’s trip to Sunday, March 6, Drs. Pennell of Ever Thought Liabilities Dec. 31, 1909. let U npaid Dosses, $ 14,710.95 Florida. Of Living in California some day? nearned Prem ium s, 271,075.52 11 other Liabilities, 42,080.46 The Ladies’ Social Union- will meet BIRTHS. Smoked Glasses? Or of Owning Land there as an in­ ash Capital, 250,000.00 vestment? urpius over all L iabilities, 380,637.95 With Mrs. E. V. ‘Holt next Tuesday Farmington, Feb. 28, to Mr. and Yes I have them; and they When the PANAMA CANAL is op­ Tota1 Liabilities and Surplus, $958,504.88 afternoon. ¡March 15, 1910. IMrs. Arthur Locke, a son. The fonr-year-old son of Mr. and are sure to be wonv this ened the rush to SAN DIEGO w ill be FIREMEN'S INSURANCE COM-. Farmington, March 3, to Mr. and PANY, Mrs. Norman Calden. was operated spring. so great that LAND VALUES will go Mrs. Henry E. Frank, a son. N e w a r k , N . J. upon last Sunday for abscess of the up with a rush, to hundreds and thou Kingfield, March 7, to Mr. and Mrs. A ssets D ec. 31, 1909. appendix by Drs. P. O. Hopkins and sands olf dollars above w hat they are Real! E state, 212,245.90 O. P. Nichols', a daughter. Silver Polish? Mortgage Loans, 4SI,325.00 E. L. Pennell. The little fellow is now. I have no property to sell; am Stocks and Bonds, ,524,618.00 Cash in Office and Bank, 201,491.52 reported as doing well. Yes I have a new brand not a dealer, but act as agent in se­ A gents ’ Bai an c e s. 257,345.75 MARRIAGES. Interest and Rents, 33,053.88 A stated meeting of Sherburne that is just a little ahead of lecting or buying for others. All other Assets, 5,007.74 chapter, O. E. S., will he held Wed­ Los Angeles, Cal., March 1, Fred­ Address with stamps and I will send anv other. G ross A ssets, $5,715,087.79 nesday evening, March 16. The la­ erick A. Leavitt and Mrs. Annie Lou­ you all the information it will pay A d m itted A ssets, $5,715,087.79 L iabilities D ec. 31, 1909. dies are requested to bring a plate ise Fitts. EMERY S. BUBIER, for in postage. N et U npaid L osses. $ 196,232.18 of homemade candy. It is earnestly Carthage, March 6, by Rev. Steven A V E R Y B. DODGE, U nearned Prem ium s, 1,755,910.95 Phillips, - - Maine. A ll oth er L iabilities, 23,162.93 hoped that there will be a good at­ Taylor, Mr.- George Brown of Dixfield San Diego, - - California. C ash Capital, 1,000,000.00 tendance of the brothers, as1 there and Miss Marguerite Staples of Car­ Surplus over all Liabilities, 2,739,781.73 will he something of ©special inter­ thage. CONANT’S DRY CLEAN­ BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE Total Liabilities and Surplus $5,715,087.79 New Sharon, March 3, By Rev. C. COMPANY, est to them. Here then is a “ different ” magazine of O. Perry, John S. Dyer, M. D., of IN G H O U S E T o ro n to . A ssets Dec. 31, 1909. OUTDOOR INSPIRATION CARD OF THANKS, New Sharon and Miss Edith Forbush Clothing of all kinds, whatever the S tock s and B onds, $1,312,216.70 Cash in Office and Bank, ' 106,180.39 and a little monthly visitor of outdoor interest in of Brighton. material, thoroughly cleansed by the A g e n ts’ B alances, 119,752.90 New Hampshire—the Picturesque: We all wish to thank our many Interest an d Rents, 20,131.65 friends who so kindly assisted us in Parisian method, without shrinkage A ll oth er assets, 7,456.68 DEATHS. The Sketch Book our late bereavement of wife and or the slightest injury to the most Gross A ssets, $1,565,738.32 Wilton, March 2, Miss Lizzie Pick­ delicate fabric®. D educt item s not adm itted, 1,540.70 of Nature and Outdoor Life. sister. Redolent of field and sky, hearing its message of Mr. Merle H. Bean ens, aged 50 years. Grease and Stains of all kinds per­ A dm itted A ssets, $1,564,197.62 the open air—of green fields, fern-filled wood­ manently removed. Liabilities Dec. 31, 1909. lands and silent hills, stately trees and wayside Mrs. Cordelia S. Wilbur Wilton, March 2, Philander Noyes, N et U npaid Dosses, $ 89,259.68 flowers, sketched in prose, poetry and illustration. Mr. Geo. B. Wilbur aged 74 year®. Unearned P rem ium s, 804,892.33 A quarter brings it to you for three months’ 258 St. John St., Portland, Me. All oth er L iabilities, 15,839.19 trial ; try it. you will become interested. Mr. Alfred M. Wilbur New Sharon, March 1, Mrs. Mary Cash Capital, 210,000,00 Get this monthly chart of the heartbeats of na­ Blaisdell, aged 85 yrs. 8 mos. Surplus ov e r all L iabilities, 444,206.42 ture There is ozone in every rage, and it nicely Mr. Clarence Wilbur H. W . TRUE. Agent, fits the pocket. It is finely printed and contains Miss Lizzie M. Wilbur Buffalo, N. Y., Feb. 28, D. Gale T otal liabilities and surplus, $1,564,197.62 original drawings. Address. ARTHUR E. VO­ PHILLIPS, MAINE. MR. L. VOTER, Agent, GEL. Publisher, THE SKETCH BOOK, Man­ Miss Daisy B. Wilbur French, aged 64 yrs. 4 mos. 11 days. Farmington, Maine. chester, N. H. LOCAL EDìTION—12 PAGES, MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PH ILL IPS, M Al N E, MARCH 10, 1910. 7 X

among relatives in Massachusetts. predated. Airs. S. Getchell is post The Ladies’ Aid wiill meet with mistress. C. E. RUSSELL Mrs. Com Haley Friday afternoon. 'Contractor and Builder Love is Life Mrs. Eugene Soule entertainde the ’The Rangeley corporation meeting W ithout love this world would be a good following guests Saturday evening in was held Alonday morning. The fol­ Plans and Estimates Furnished. place to emigrate from. W ithout it the hu­ honor of her friend, Miss Hattie lowing officers were elected: A. L. RANGELEY, MAINE. man race would die-—and be glad of it. Love Hamilton of Portland: Mr. and Mrs. Cakes, first assessor; Alexis Blod­ is but the light in the east that leads to mater­ A. G. Cookson, Miss Mildred J. Jor­ gett, second assessor; Eben Rowe, CARTHAGE. dan, Mrs. Freeman Tibbettsi, Mrs. third assessor; E. I. Herrick, clerk nity. Love of husband is the stepping-stone to March S, 1910. love of child. Phineas Richardson, Miss Prudence and treasurer; Charles Barrett, chief Richardson, W. H. Martin, Dr. Chas. engineer. Appropriations: For hy­ Airs. Wdnnefred Staples Smith who There are thousands of women who live well Stuart. A musical program consist­ drants, $1,225; lighting streets, $900; has been spending a few days in into middle-life without knowing the bliss of ing of piano solos by Miss Jordan fire warden service, $100; corpora­ Rumford Falls, returned home Satur­ a first-born’s caress, but who are happy day. mothers to-day and heap blessings on Dr. and Miss Hamilton, piano duets by tion charges, $125; fire department, Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Miss Jordan and Airs. Tibbetts and $ 100. Mr. Charles Smyth made a business a vocal solo by Miss Richardson was trip to Dixfield last week. Many thousands of women have testified to the merits of this enjoyed. The rest of the evening Rangeley Town Meeting. Aliases Gladys and Sadie Brown marvelous remedy. The “ Favorite Prescription” quickens the have been visiting friends in town was spent in playing whilst. Refresh­ lAlod., H. A. Furbish; clerk, E. H. life-giving organism of women. It makes a woman strong and thils week. ments of lady fingers and ice cream Whitney; treasurer, E. I. Herrick; healthy where she most needs vigor and vitality. It cures all Miss Ida Snowman visited Airs. with walnut sauce wrere served. selectmen, A. E. Blodgett, Sylvader weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organs. It elimi­ Flora Brown last week. George Russell was in Phillips a Hinkley, L. D. Haley; road commis­ nates the discomforts on the way to maternity and makes baby’s Airs. Martin Aloy is visiting her few days last week. sioner, Charles Huntoon; school com­ coming easy and nearly painless. Found at all medicine stores. parents, Mr. and Airs. Ernest L. Holt. Wilford Hoar, little son of Fred mittee, F. B. Colby, three years, It’s an insult to your intelligence when a druggist urges upon you Alls® Lorrain Coburn entertained Hoar, is ill with pneumonia. Charles Harnden, one year in place a SECRET nostrum as a substitute for this proven remedy OF KNOWN Miss Ida E. Snowman last Thursday of G. M. Carlton, resigned; consta­ COMPOSITION simply that he may make a little larger profit. Phy­ Henry Badger has finished work­ afternoon. bles, G. M. Esyt, Herbert Welch, sicians prescribe “ Favorite Prescription” because it’s every ingredi­ ing for A. M. Hoar & Son and Aus­ Mrs. Frank Brown visited Airs. Eu­ Wm. Tomlinson; truant officer, E. L. ent is printed upon its outside wrapper making it an' ethical rem­ tin Huntoon is taking his place. Air. gene Staples recently. Toothaker; sealer cf weights and edy for them to prescribe. There’s no secrecy, no deception— it’ s Badger and Aliss Ila Oakes are vis­ Aliss Ida Snowman entertained Miss measures, J. A. Russell; surveyors' a good, honest, square-deal medicine, made of native medicinal iting in Phillips. Lorrain. Coburn, also Miss Pearl of wood and lumber, L. J. Kempton, roots without alcohol or habit-forming drugs in its make up. Ask Airs. Ohm Rowe is ill with tonsill­ White last week. G. L. Kempton, Jas. Alathieson, E. Your Neighbors. itis. Mrs. Sara Holt visited Airs. Clara B. Herrick, A. L. Oakes. Appropria­ Dr. Pierce’ s Pleasant Pellets regulate and strengthen Stomach, Holt last Alonday. Dr. A. M. Ross and wife and Mr. tions: Common schools, $1,200; free Liver and Bowels. One to three tiny sugar-coated “ Pellets” for Mr. Burton Alurdock of Dixfield and Mrs. G. A. Proctor drove to Strata high school, $900; text books, $350; a dose. Easy to take as candy. called on friends here last Sunday. ton Friday to attend the diance. repair of schoolhouses, $450;" support W orld’ s Dispensary Medical Association, R. V. Pierce, M . D ., Mr. Charles Smyth has returned to Air. and Airs. Ralph Morton have of poor, $300; repair of highways, President, Buffalo, N. Y . work for E. L. Holt. taken rent in the house formerly oc­ $2,250; repair of bridges, $300; other cupied by Anson Oakes. repairs, $450; breaking winter roads, The school of instruction will meet $500; interest on town bonds, $600; THE PEOPLE’S ADVERTISEMENTS. with the K. of P.’s on Monday night. repair of sidewalks, $1,000; Memorial One cent a word in advance. No head­ ; Locals From Outing Regions j: Supper will be served by the Py- day, $25; library association, $400; line or other display. Subjects in a, h, tbian Sisters. discount and interest on taxes, $420; 3 order. Mrs. Will Skolfield and daughter, insurance, $215; water company, RANGELEY. , The ladies’ whist club was enter­ Wilhelmime, of Phillips are visiting amount of Water Co. tax and $23 FOR SALE. March 8, 1910. tained by Mrs. Harry Look Wednes­ relatives in town. additional; town charges, $1,000. It . FOURTEEN TONS of pressed hay for sale. Fred Toothaker, Phillips. Mr. and Mrs. Almon Wilbur, who day evening of last week. Airs. Ruel Wilcox has been very was voted to have a selectmen’s of­ have been spending the winter in Miss Georgia Bigelow, who has ill and we understand will soon go fice, to raise $40 to grade the west BUILDING LOTS (very large) for sale been stopping with her daughter, end of the schoolhouse lot, to raise in Phillips and A von. P rice, $1.50 per New York, returned home last. week. to Lewiston for an operation. front foot and up. J. W. Brackett. Mrs. Anna Lamb, since Christmas, $150 for apparatus for schools, to Mrs. Alvord Dunsmoor was called T. Freeman Tibbetts made a busi­ went to Phillips Saturday to visit her ness trip to Phillips Saturday. raise $300 to take care of the over­ WE have a lot of sheathing paper on to Temple last week by the death daughter, Mrs. Dr. Currier. flow from cesspool at the village hand that we will sell at 2 cents a of her mother, Mrs. Willard Hawes. The following pupils were not ab­ pound. J. W. Brackett Co. Mr. Hodgkins from Bates supplied sent a single day during'the term of schoolhouse, to instruct the select­ John Oakes and grandchildren Rena DON’T SELL your white ash trees, the pulpit Sunday, using as- his text ten weeks in the White school: Stel­ men to have town lines run and to and Thelma Quimby, drove to Phil­ logs, bolts or shovel handles until words found in Matt. 10: 42. la Haley, Ila Hoar, Willis Hinkley, raise $150 to pay for the same. lips Sunday for a few days’ visit with you see D. G. Bean, Bingham Ale., At the meeting of Summit Rebekah Lewis Nile, Beulah Pillsbury, Clyde relatives. and you will get the highest prices. lodge Friday evening the degree was Pillslmry, Howard Ross, Alerle Tootlh- KINGFIELD. North Franklin Pomona will meet conferred on one candidate. About aker. Number of pupils, 17; aver­ j- Alarch 7, 1910.y FOR SALE—Hay and straw, with Oquossoc grange, March 17. The fifty members were present. A treat age, 15. Mildred Dyer, teacher. The prohibitionists of Kingfie*3 j Evelyn Howland, Avon. Farmer»’ Tel- following have been appointed to of popcorn balls and peanuts was Airs. Ebeu Harnden has been on I met at the Evangelical church Moiif ! ephonie. sreve on the dinner committee for passed around. the sick list. day night and elected the following that day: Bertie Ellis, Anna BlodL The schools in town with the ex­ Air. and Airs. J. E. Haley return­ town committee: Chairman, James BEAGLE HOUND, one year old in June. gett and Mary Gibbs; table commit­ ception of the high school closed last Tall, handsomely marked; black, white ed home Thursday. L. Howe; secretary, G. A. AVoodcock; and brown.. Address Lock Box 230, Old tee, Helen Raymond, Onie Gile, Ethel w eek. The date of the entertainment to Rev. J. E. Taylor, D. E. Plaiisted, G. Town, Maine. Pratt; reception committee, Ralph Mr. and Mrs1. Frank H. Kempton be given by the Bates quartet was W. Gray, H. Woodcock. Delegates Morton, Emma Russell and Sylvader [ and daughter Irene returned home CAMP LOCATION for sale. A party can necessarily postponed again to Friday elected to county convention at Farm­ purchase a location for camps "where Hinkley. Saturday, after a seven weeks’ visit there are plenty of logs for building evening of this week. ington April 6, were Rev. J. E. Tay­ new camps. Maine Information Bureau, Airs. Charles Hingley, who. has lor, H. AVoodcock, F. E. Durrell, F. Phillips, Maine. been vilisting her sister in Massa­ B. Hutchins, D. E. Plaiisted, G. A. MAPS of Maine, any county or town­ No. 39. chusetts, has returned home. AVoodcock; alternate, G. W. Gray. ship. F rom 25c. to $1.00 each. (Stam ps Geo. Russell went to Everett, Alass taken). Maine Woods and Maine Sports Over 30 cottage lots on the shore of a beautiful 7 mile lake, After a two months’ illness War­ man Phillips, Maine. Tuesday. ren Vose of Kingfield is again able well stocked and fine fishing, and one of Maine’s most favored Charles Hamblin has bought J. L. to he on the street. PALMER GASOLINE ENGINES. A few Brackett’s bouse on Oquossoc ave­ big bargains left in 1909 samples. Send summer resorts, and close to some of its most historic mountains. The first of the week Air. and Mrs. nue. for free catalogue. Palmer Bros., 41 This is high up among the mountains where the air is clear and Alton Churchill of Lexington were Portland Pier, Portland, Me. Air. and Airs. H. A. Furbish return­ guests in the family of Frank Hutch­ bracing, and with the btoad sandy beach along the shore of the ed home from Florida Saturday night. ins, TWO t h r e e -y e a r -o ld COLTS. lake it is one of the most picturesque summer resorts in Maine. Susie Tibbetts has been very ill Fred Raymond, Avon. Price $125 to $150 per lot. Don’t lose your opportunity! Write with grip. Aliss Ada Lander of Portland Is spending several days with her par­ MILK AND CREAM—Best. Special or­ today. There was a thunder shower here ders solicited. Telephone 30-5. Charles Aim day morning. ents, Air. and Airs. A, W. Lander, at F» Ross. Elmwood Farm, West Kingfield. R. M. BROWN’S Real Estate-Agency, Airs. Ives Hinkley and children are RHODE ISLAND RED Cockerels, for Alyron J. Stevens of Stratton vis­ visiting relatives in Bowdoinbam. sale or exchange, at “ Maplewood Wilton, - - - - - Maine ited his brother, B. P. Stevens, and Farm,” South Strong, P. O. Address, Percy, the little son of Air. and family this week. ‘'Farmington. Route 4.” Airs. Gust Johnson, was operat­ Harry Hilton of North Anson is ❖ ❖ ed on at Dr. Ross’s home in this spending several days wiht the fam­ McCLURE’S MAGAZINE wants a re­ sponsible and energetic man or woman town, Feb. 21, for appendicitis and ily of O. M. Vose. His span of ponies in Phillips and vicinity to attend to Its obstruction of the bowels. Fourteen subscription interests. Experience un­ F IN N A N HADDIE hitched into a small white sleigh let­ necessary. There is liberal guaranteed inches of intestines was removed. tered in gold attracts much attention. compensation. A profitable, permanent Did you ever think when ordering He is on the gain, so (his mother has business without capital can be estab­ Charles Bradbury and Master Alvin lished among friends and acquaintances. gone home. Airs. F. Lancaster, a Finnan Haddie that there was ®o of Lexington were recent visitors of Whole or spare time. This is the best trained nurse from Portland, is tak­ time to start. Complete outfit and in­ much difference? Boston Haddie are AV. B. Bradbury. structions free. Write now. McClure’s ing care of him. Drs. Rosis of Range- Magazine, 46 East 23d Street, New York Crows are now in evidence and thin and dark colored and made from ley and Bell of Strong' performed the City. their loud caw is a welcome sign operation. Haddock too old to sell fresh, so of spring. FOR SALE—Baldwin and Tolman They will finish hauling birch at Sweet apples, 75 cent® a barrel, $1.25 are made into Haddie. JONES’ CEL­ the enamel mill this week. Kingfield Town Meeting. delivered in barrels. Georgine V. Wil­ EBRATED HADDIE are made from Mr. William Thomas of Dallas has bur. been hauling wood to the village this tAJod., H. S. Wing; clerk, R. L. strictly fresh haddock that are caught winter. Kimball; selectmen, W. B. Small, I. off our Maine coast and are in the Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rowe have re­ L. Eildridge, F. E. Boynton; collector Photograph Post Cards and Views and constable, G. A. Simmons; trea­ of Fishing and Hunting Resorts of Upper Ken­ smoke house before they are twen­ turned to their home in Rumford. nebec, Moosehead Lake, and Somerset Railway. piptDJÔNESÎ Master Merle Johnson, who is only surer, G. H. Winter; school commit­ Cards 5c, Views 25c. Hand colored views a ty-four hours old. tee, O. C. Dolbier; agent, Horatio specialty. SONS' fifteen years old, has worked at the L. R. HUSSEY, Woodcock. You are not getting JONES’ CELE­ enamel mill every day but one since Bingham, - - - Maine. February 1st. BRATED HADDIE unless you filnd a EUSTIS. Mr. Minot Flagg is at work for T O L E T . tag attached to the nape of the fish S. Getchell at the enamel mill. v Alarch 7, 1910. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Beedy are at We have had spring Kike weather as shown in the cut. their home in Madrid for a few days. since Alarch came in. The crows RANGELEY LAKES. Every Haddie that leaves our store TO LET—Two splendid, fully furnished They have established a postoffice have come and there are all sign® private camps in best section Apply to Maine Woods and Maine Sportsman. is Tagged. at the enamel mill which will be ap- of spring. Airs. George Douglas has returned Call for JONES’ CELEBRATED i home. WANTED. HADDIE and insist on having them. Air. Percy Taylor, wife and chiilld 4-1 ---- o'-'vv* ¿ijlcvu xJ.ll VYUV ' of Flagstaff visited at Harry Syl­ rn/outh lathe. M an preferred w)ho car For sale by all first-classi markets take carejr, of lathe. Address A. J TRUES vester’s Alarch 6. Ames, East Waterford, Me and grocers at retail. Miisis Leah Miles of Flagsaff i© go­ ing to teach school at Thomas Bate­ BEARS wanted by Richard E. Follett, ELIXIR man’s, just for their scholars. It is Vice President and General Alanager jEstablished iS51 to commence Monday, Alarch 7. Alfred Jones’ Sons Jest what everybody needs of Internationa] Forest. Fish and ft? —some time or other—to re- ^ Alark Daggett is driving the stage Game Exhibition, First National Bank Wholesale Fish Dealers M lieve constipation, headache, crom here to Bigelow. Building, Chicago, 111. Will pay $50 M biliousness, nervousness and wfc And Curers of Finnan Haddie, Bloaters and Boneless Codfish Hj loss of appetite. Best remedy a pair for them. Write quickly. & to expel intestinal worms. M We mail out circulars of various he g? Good for children or adults. || :els, camps and transportation com­ A1AN AND WIFE "with child 5 years 140-142 BROAD ST„ BANGOF, MAINE. gR “ Keeps you and your children well.'* N SocgSOc; St,OO. panies every day. It’s free. Maine old wranit work in camp. H. L. Gil In- information Bureau, Phillips, Me. wood, Farmington, Ale, 8 MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION— 12 PAGES.

“Fjshin’ Time is Cornin’. ’ Soon be time to go a fishin’,—snowls have melted, streams a rushin’ Like a mill race through the woodlands, where the leaves are turnin’ green; Chasin’, churnin’, through the meadow®, past the grass-grown banks in eddys, Where the placid lake lies, idly shimmering with a silver sheen. Aroostook County. Rangeley Lakes. State Capital. Camp Bemis, The Birches, The Barker. Birds are twitterin’ in the branches, May bugs dronin’, bullfrogs croakin’, Write for free circular. Capt. F. C. Augusta House, Augusta Lewiston, Me, Barker, liemis, Me. Maine, Headquarters for state Turnin’ up their violin cellos to the song old Nature sings; officials and legislators. New Grawdads wakenin’ from their slumber crawlin’ sideways without number DeWitt House. Leading Hotel. Unex­ celled in Maine. Booklet free. George Rangeley, Me. throughout. 75 of 150 rooms And the old blue-bottles flit about on gauzy, glinting wings. R. Patte, Proprietor, Lewiston, Me. Oakes’ Camps. Hunting, fishing and with private baths; popular with boating! Camps on shore of Rangeley traveling public and situated Sunlight floodin’ all the meadows, playin’ hide-an’-seek with shadows Lake, three miles from - railroad. New T . • - on popular automobile thorough- fare Augusta otel Co.. (Inc.) C. S. Hitchborn. In the dark old woods where fallen leaves have covered up tire ground. Cumberland County. camps, excellent table, spring; water. For particulars address K. Whit Oakes, Prop. Pres. W. T. Emerson, House Mgr. Now green blades have come a puslhin’, peepin’ through this sodden cushion South Harpswell, Me. An’ the crocus bulbs are burs tin’ through each moist disheveled mound. On Rangeley Lake. Oxford County. The Morse House. Beautifully situ­ Oceola Farmhouse. Summer boarders Soon be time to go a ftollin’ an’ you catch yourself a wishim’ ated near the ocean. Fine shade trees wanted. Near Rangeley Two story Via Rumford Falls. That the shadows would sink deeper, an’ the days would longer grow; and good lawn.. View of ocean from all buildings with modern improvements rooms. Accommodates DO. Address Mrs. Milk and cream, vegetables and berries, Best Salmon and Trout Fishing In Bays of gleamy, dreamy •weather, as with joy of fin and feather H. W. Morse. shade trees—pleasant walks and drives Maine. Fly fishing begins about June You cast your line so lazily, where bubblin’ waters flow. and pure spring water. Melvin Nile, 1. Send for circular. House always Rangeley, Me. open. John Chadwick & Co., Upper Dam Soon be time,—I’m tired a waitin’ in the trees the birds are matin’ Franklin County. Maine. Id'll In the pool ole brer bass am layin’ mighty low; Rangeley, Lakes. Dead River Region. Piscataquis County. I’m goiLn’ to be the first, I reckon, for wlben the winds an’ waters beckon, Bald Mountain Camps are situated at It’s “sharpen up them hooks’’ for mine, am’ to the crick I go. Greene’s Farm. After October teams the foot of Bald Mountain in a g-ood Brie, Kan. Dick Wiltse. will meet all parties at Dead River sta­ fishing section. Steamboat accommoda­ Moosehead Lake. tion by notifying proprietor of Greene’s tions O. K. Telephone at camps. Two Mt. Klneo House—the great Inland sea Farm in advance. After October 1st all mails daily. Write for free circulars to o f Maine, Moosehead Lake, affords at­ parties must wire or write for teams. Amos Èllis, Prop’r., Bald Mountain, Me. tractions that can not be found else­ We will run the House and Cottages where, and they are very popular fo r for Fall shooting and guarantee the best Via Rangeley. summer visitors. Here is a 40 mile lake deer shooting in the Dead River region. York’s Camps, Loon Lake, No better with hundreds of islands ami beautiful place in the Maine woods to spend a va­ I guarantee sportsmen a shot at deer. cation. Trout and salmon fishing the green shores all around it. It Is one Albion F. Savage, Stratton, Maine. best. Write for illustrated booklet. of the few beautiful places In Maine York’s Camps, Loon Lake, J. Lewis York, that furnish unequaled attractions fo r Rangeley, Maine. Farmington, Me. the summer visitors and at the same Hotel W illow s. One of the finest and best equip­ Eustis, Dead River Region. time has good fishing during the ho t ped country hotels in Maine. Rooms with bath, barge, shady grounds, good fishing. Open May 1, The Sargent. Distributing point for out­ days of summer. Send for circular. ML lying camps. Deer seen often opposite Kineo House, C. A. Judkins, Mgr., 1910. Write for booklet. Livery and garage. the hotel. Cuisine up to date. Satisfac­ J, Willis Jordan, proprietor. tion given. Get terms and particulars Kineo, Moosehead Lake, Maine. by writing A B. Sargent, Prop’r., Eustis, M aine. Garry Pond Camps ST& ffSSliS: Somerset County. Best Trout Fishing in Maine, ot its distance from On Sandy River & Rangeley Road. the main road. Write for circular, to Hough’s Camps. Trout abound in the neighboring waters within easy reach. Via Canadian Pacific R» R. HENRY J; LANE, Carry Pond, Maine. Write for spring rates and illustrated Spencer Lake Camps. Great fishing. circulars. Hunter’s license. J. F. Square tail, lake trout and salmon. C ir­ Plough, Redington, Me., P. O.’ Rangeley, culars. Telephone connections. Pat­ On Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Maine. terson & Tibbets, Jackman, Me. Railroad. Stratton, Me. Washington County. Hotel Blanchard. A great hunting cen­ ter. Deer and bird shooting in easy CARRABASSET SPRING FARM. reach of the village. Electric lights, com­ Grand Lake Stream, Me. fortable beds and rooms. Excellent liv­ Situated in the Carrabasset valley at the gate­ ery. Write for terms. E. H. Grose, Ouananiche L odge and Cottages, Grand Lake ONE SEASON’S CAT OH OF FUR. way to the famous Dead River hunting resort, Prop’r., Stratton, Maine. Stream Village. Sunset Camps. Dyer Cove. where deer can be found readily any day in sum­ Grand Lake. N orw ay Pines House and Camps, mer or fall and where no sportsman need fail to Dobsis Lake. Best all around location in the get a shot at a buck deer. The Carrabasset House Rangeley Lakes. Me. United States for a fishing, loafing or hunting is near enough to the railroad (just across the riv­ Mooselookmeguntie House and Log Cab­ trip. Look us up. Circulars at all the MIGHTY HUNTERS j their declining days here; .but cer- er) so that hard buckboard rides are avoided and ins at Haines Landing, Me., afford the leading railroad offices and at sporting outfitters’ still you are in the woods. We have attractive or address W. G. Rose, manager and treasurer ! tain it is that the village had three grounds, good table, comfortable beds, long dis­ best of trout and landlocked salmon Grand Lake Stream, Washington County, Maine. Who Did Graet Things to the Bears tance telephone. Separate cottages guarantee pri­ fishing, also are within a mile of the April to November, or 108 Washington Street. residents—all mighty bear hunters1— vacy to parties. Mail delivered daily. Terms Boston, Mass., telephone, Main 6600 all the year. in the Good Old Days. quoted on application. famous Kennebago river 'where you can from the same enchanted Swift River get the best of fly fishing. This river Frank J. McMurrer, Kingfield, Me. The Ledger does not know what! re&lorL' has just been opened to the angler and The first to take up residence here great fishing is expected. Many ponds YOU WILL BE SATISFIED there is in Mechanic Falls so entic­ near-by where good fly fishing is to was the late Mr. Silas Locke, the ing to the wearied nerves of hear be had. If You Place an Order for hear hunter of Roxbury. He "was fol­ The camps are all modern and supplied hunters that they wish to spend lowed by the late Mr. Sam. Noble, with bath rooms; same service as hotel. Brook or Rainbow Trout better known as Buckskin Sam, who Good roads for automobiles and Garage. WITH THE All supplies on hand. For booklet ad­ PLYMOUTH ROCK TROUT CO., held a record of killing five hears dress PLYMOUTH, MASS. Colburn C. Wood, Supt. iry three minutes. The latest comer F. B. BURNS, Haines Landing, Me. h f Mr. Addison S.h Young, who has On Rangeley Lake. DETROIT ^ G E A ^ rS notches on his gun stock, each S tarts’— Reverses—Stops Mingo Spring Hotel and Camps The ■ne representing a hear killed. most attractive place at the Hangeleys. This place is famous for the Early INSTANTANEOUSLY Rangeley Tavern Advance booking advised. Address A. All working , j The Simplest, Most Reliable, Most Compact Mr. Young came to this village One Minute from Station. S. Perham. Rangeley, Me. /Trout Fishing and Excellent Guides. pffrts sub­ merged in '4| a and th 3 Smallest Perfect Marine Reverse Gear Open All the Year oil hath at offered. No outside moving parts to three years ago from Byron—'that every revohfe O throw the oil or grease, tear the A New Hotel built to meet the wants of the in­ Kennebec County. tlon. skirts, bruise the hands or land which overllows .with good creasing travel to the Rangeley Region. Most de­ I N .THE catch waste. No noise. lightfully situated. With broad piazzas, large, Manufactured in sizes things—gold, spruce gum and hears. Belgrade Lakes, Me. for from 2 to 80 H. P. We pleasant rooms, electric lights, steam heat, suites, The Belgrade. Best Sportsmen’s Hotel carry all sizes in stock for For more than GO yekrs he lived on baths, open fires, spacious office, parlor and dining in New England. Best black bass fish­ immediate shipment. Guar­ room. Conducted as a first-class summer and win­ ing in. the world, best trout fishing in anteed for one year. Write for a farm there and lived the life of ter resort. For rates address A. G. COOKSON’ Maine. Chas. A. Hill & Son, Managers. special prices and free catalog. Valuable information from Woods of Maine. Proprietor, Ragneley, Maine, our Consultation Department FREE to motor boatmen. (-13) the inhabitants there. This consisted Belgrade Lakes. Me. Detroit Engine Works, 12Beaufait Avenue, Detroit, Mich, of part farming, part lumbering, part Hillside Camps, Belgrade Lakes, Me. King and Bartlett Camps, 2,000 feet hunting and trapping. Some more Pine location. Write for booklet. J. to hunt, bu.t an easy one to trap. H. Littlefield, Mercer, Me. above sea level, unexcelled for trout than 30 years ago a new industry Meat or fish is sometime© bung fishing or an outing. Individual cab- was started there, the gathering of from the limb of a tree and the trap damage. By and by the bear began ins, open wood fires, exclelent cuisine, spruce gum. A Mr. Reed was the set directly beneath and in getting at to retreat and get behind fallen logs, fine natural lithia spring water, mag­ pioneer in this industry, and so suc­ the meat he generally gets into the and in doing this he presented a fav­ nificent scenery. Renew your health cessful was he that he became known trap. Sometimes a bear’s path is orable opportunity for Mr. Young to in the balsam-laden air of Maine’s as Gum Reed, and the place where discovered or h s drinking place, finish him with an ax. He wegihed | ideal resort. Address he lived as Gum Corner. Mr. Young when a trap is set without any bait. 350 pounds and netted tbe two $40.— has assisted in this work. Some Sometimes a little log hut is built Mechanic Falls'Hedger. HARRY M. PIERCE, more than 20 years ago, it was dis­ with bait placed on the inside and covered that the sands of Swift river a trap placed at the entrance. Bears Deer Invades Auburn. King and Bartlett Camps, held gold in dust and nuggets and are lovers of mutton. One (Will kill A deer invaded the quietude of Lake Parlin House and Camps. Mr. Young, like the rest of his neigh- a sheep and eat what he wants of Eustis, - - . Maine. Are delightfully situated on shore of Lake Par- I k o r s hunted for gold. Indeed, Mr. Auburn Heights Wednesday after­ lin on direct line from Quebec to Rangeley Lnkt s i ’ the carcass, then return for a later noon of last week, capering through Address, Farm ington, Me., until the popular thoroughfare for automobiles, being a j Young’s 1 Bifid, lies liext to the lam- feast, and a trap set near the re­ the dooryards and finally disappear­ season opens. distance of 122 miles each way. ous Whitney farm, from which $12,- Lake Parlin and the 12 out ponds in the radius mains of the dead animal will gen­ ing in the growth beyond the reser­ of four miles furnish the best of fl> fishing the 000 worth of the precious metal has whole season. The house and camps are new and erally catch the bear. The traps are voir. It has been many a year since have all modern conveniences, such as bath=, gas been taken. not fastened so as to keep the bear lights, open rock fireplaces, etc The cuisine is a deer has been seen in that vicin­ unexcelled. Mr. Young took to hunting and in tbe place captured, because be ity say those living on the hill. Canoeing, boating, bathing, tennis, mountain would sacrifice a foot to get clear climbing, automobiling, etc. trapping as a duck to water. He While at work in her kitchen, Mrs. Highest Grade Write for free booklet began as a boy to shoot partridge of the trap, but each is furnished Harry Whiting of Joaslyn street look­ H. P. McKENNEY. Proprietor, Jackman, Me and trap mink and otter. Then he with a clog to impede tiavel and ed out of her window and saw the tried his hand on foxes, fallowed by leave a trail, by which he is follow­ deer by tbe fence. It caught its feet Job Printing deer, and ■ then bears. He shot his ed and shot. in the fence, but scon freed them first hear when 18 yeras of age. As is well known, bears go into and ran about the yard. It ran t The hear may be considered the winter quarters quite early in tbe the outside cellar door and then it king of animals in Maine, hut he season, when it is hard to get at started for the six-fQOt fence, which M a i n e W o o d s and M a i n e S p o r t s ­ never is hunted systematically, as is them. If a hear den is known, the / \z vaulted wiith ease. The last seen m a n , with new type and borders the deer. He is almost always an occupants are driven out and killed. the animal, it was making toward pedally adapted to Booklets, Cir­ incidental quarry. While he is dread­ One day in March, several years the reservoir. It came by way of culars, Programmes, etc., and a new ed he dis not nearly as dangerous as ago, Mr. Young and a friend were Granite street, passing through G. R. a bull moc.se. As a general thing, out hunting. They did not expect to Cbadbourne’s yard. Typesetting Machine, can and d o e s ¡a hear does not show fight, and is find any bears, but bad their only Mrs, Whiting’s father, B. H. Jos- equal the work of the best city of dangerous chiefly at close range by gun loaded with shot for fishers. siyn, who has lived in the neighbor­ fices, in quality of workm anship, They had a dog with them, and he reason of his desire to hug. An ex­ hood 80 years, says this is the first style and adaptability, at a much ception, to the above may he taken discovered a bear in a hole under a deer he has seen thereabout. A ioc. Don't wait lower price. til your old bottle in. regard to a female hear with cubs. ! tree. Tbe dog worried the bear so hunter who ©aw the deer stated that some other make is used up, but throw that away and , She W ill tackle any th.ng in S ig h t, that be came out. The gun, as has at was a doe, ’ ess than a year old. buya bottle of n u u know. I Mr. Young has both hunted and i just been said, was loaded with shot, WM. F. NYE, New Bedford, Mass. | , _ TT . , . , All kinds of printing, from the 1 trapped bears. He ns a hard animal which could not be expected to do Hugh J. Chisholm of New York, much harm to a bear, but the friend who is deeply interested in the pro­ most intricate booklet to the simplest suggested putting in a button in lieu posed Business Men’s Club in Rum- card or flyer promptly executed, at of a bullet, which he did, and fired ford, has offered to donate tbe sum moderate prices. at his head. The bear went down of $500 on tbe yearly rental of club Samples and prices cheerfully The Sixteenth Annual wounded, but put up a savage fight rooms in Strathglass building, and with the dog. The friend took tlie has also announced his intention of given upon application. ax which they had with them and giving the club a $100 check each tried to finish him with that, but year. He will also become a mem­ National Sportsman’s Show could not get near him. Mr. Young ber of the club. loaded and fired two or three times, MAINE WOODS and At Madison Square Garden, New York City but .the shot did not inflict great Advertise in Maine Woods. MAINE SPORTSMAN PHILLIPS, MAINE. O O MARCH 2 to MARCH 11,1910 TO WASHINGTON COUNTY FOR THE FISHING ! Guides, Rail Roads, Camps, Hunting and Fishing sections will find it BALL’S CAMPS ^ Photographs Wanted. Vrofitable to be represented. For terms and conditions which are Whv go to the same old place for your fishing, and get none ? — Come here and you’ll W e want to borrow some photo­ catch fish —Landlocked Salmon, Lake Trout and Speckled Trout in lake and stream. graphs of fishing and camping scenes ¿ery liberal address J. A. H. Dressel, 138 West 42nd St., N. Y. City Write for booklet. FRANK H. BALL, - Grand Lake Stream, Maine in Maine immediately. Every photo­ O o graph will be returned if requested. LOCAL EDITION—12 PAGES. MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910.

Poultry Producers’ Association for Good to Hear from Old Friends. Extract from the Boston “ Post,” January 13, 1910. Maine. Monrovia, Gal., Feb. 24, 1910. For many years the poultry busi­ To the Editor of Maine Woods and THE U. S. GOVERNMENT those who are willing to begin at Commission that those who pass will ness in Maine has been a growing Maine Sportsman. this salary will have opportunities have a good chance for appointment. one. Many of the leading poultry Enclosed please find $1.50 to pay NEEDS TYPISTS for advancement. producers have felt that the state for another year. It is good to hear ------Stenographers are needed not only should give to it a larger share of from the dear old home friends every Uncle Sam must seek the wage Washington, D. €., January 12:— in Washington hut in various places co-operative assistance. Consulta­ week. The Government is in great need of throughout the country. To meet the earner instead of having applications tions have been held recently be­ Kindest regards from all for you male stenographers and typewriters, demand the Civil Service Commis- f0r high salaried positions always on tween those interested in the produc­ and yours. and while the compensation in most sion will hold a competitive exarnin- tion of poultry and eggs, and the Mrs. J. B. Noble. cases is a little less than $1,000, ation in every state and territory in ii,e‘ T o MEET THIS LARGE AND conclusion has been reached that the the inducement is held out that the Union, and it is stated by the INCREASING DEMAND greatest benefit can be rendered to EAST MADRID. the business at the present time by March 7, 1910. the organization of local Poultry Pro­ ducers’ Associations. They feel that Silas Wing of Phillips called re­ The International Correspondence the time has come when the utility cently at Ralph McLaughlin’s. men, those interested in the produc­ Chester Keene is working for Rus­ tion of better market poultry and sell King. Schools, of Scranton, Pa. eggs in the state of Maine, should The youngest daughter of Mr. and get together and form associations. Mrs. George Gould, little Florence, have arranged to loan free of charge, to a’limited number of students in this vicinity, WHO ENROLL The purpose of the association has been quite AH. NOW for our new Shorthand and Typewriting, or Complete Commercial Courses, a high grade Victor would be two-fold: First, educational We were sorry to hear of the ac­ Typewriter, for personal use at home. Enrollment may be made either for cash or on easy payment in that the producer would learn cident that befell Dana Keene, who plan. Expense is Small. more of the requirements- of the great is living near Forest Hills, Mass. His markets of the country; .second, fi­ Get the Necessary Education for one of the High Class Positions Waiting for Those Competent condition was quite serious, as his nancial in that he would be better mother, Mrs. Bion Wing, was called to Fill them. able to produce, grade and pack his ■+o Massachusetts last Tuesday. pr.-ducts in accordance with these For particulars in regard to securing this education, drop a card to Loren Welts has been rather poor­ requirements and as a result net ly of late, hut is better at this writ­ International Correspondence Schools, District Office, Baxter Building, Portland, Me., greater returns. ing. Organization and co-operation have and information will be sent you free of charge, and does not obligate you in any way to take the been the key note of success in other Willie Harniden of North Phillips instruction. WRITE TODAY. countries. The co-operative socle has finished doing carpenter work ties of Denmark, Sweden and Ireland, for Solon Mecham. the egg circles of Australia and the A pleasant evening 'that will long Heat very slowly to the boiling point Poultry Producers’ union of Eastern USEFUL HOUSEHOLD HINTS. BASKETBALL GAMES, 2Xr be remembered by the whist club, without stirring. Boil about sax min­ Canada have demonstrated this. utes, Gut marshmallow's in pieces. was passed on March 5th, at the Receipts That Have Been Tried and Another Game for Phillips. In the past the poultrymen of home of Edgar L. Welts, Mr. Rdy Melt in double boiler. Add hot wa­ Maine have had no organization to Found Good. Friday night, March 4, the Phillips Welts acting as host. Whist was ter. Cook until mixture is smooth. assist the producer to grow a better Athletic Association played the Bates followed by music and story telling Then add the hot syrup gradually, article, to assist him to co-operate college senior team in a clean game and refreshments were not forgotten. Marshmallow Cream. stirring constantly. Beat until cool with his neighbor, and to help both from beginning to end. The Bates Mr. Ray made a very attentive host. One pinit of cream whipiped to a enough to spread. Then add vanilla. to fluid t^e best market. For the team played a good game but were They will meet on March 12, with stiff froth. Two tablespoonfuls of present it is not intended that the out-classed iby the Phillips team in Mr. and Mrs. Russell King, having powdered soigar. One cup of milk. Raisin Pie. association will act as a middleman every point of the game. as host Mr. Ezra Wheeler. All are One-half pound of chopped English One and one-half cups of raisins. and buy and sell. Its work will be welcome. walnuts, or mixed nuts if desired. Let b§il from fifteen to twenty min­ Mr. Dorman, who coached the Phil­ largeîy educational. utes. Take raisins out and meas­ lips team the first of the season, One-half pound of marshmallows cut It would be well at first to estab­ REED’S MILL, MADRID. in half. Mix thoroughly. Let stand ure two cups of water raisins were played center on the Bates team, and lish several local branches or co­ March 6, 1910. in a cool place for a couple of Lours. boiled in. Add one and one-half cups is undoubtedly the best man on their operative circles in sections of the The quantity As enough for ten per­ of sugar. Two cups of bread crumbs. team. country where poultry keeping is a /Miss Ella Hathaway was home sons. Serve in punch cups. Juice and grated rind of one lemon. The game wias witnessed by the prominent feature and later estab­ from Strong over Sunday. Deborah. largest crowd that has ever been to lish a state association. The ex­ Madams Mary Thompson and Mima Marshmallow Frosting. a basket ball game An this town. pense of membership would he small McLaughlin attended the supper on North Franklin Grange. Three-fourths of a cup of sugar. This was the last game that the and the member® of the small asso­ Wednesday night and visited friends One-fourth of a pound of marshmal­ •North Franklin grange held an all P. A. A. has scheduled for this year. ciation© would belong to the state in the place the next day. low's. One-fourth of a cup of milk. day’s session on Saturday, March 5. They have played a total of seven association. The pie supper Wednesday night Two tablespoonfuls of hot water. The meeting was called to order by j games and lost only one. The association would at. present at L. C. Reed’s was a great success One-half teaspoonful of valoilla. Put' Worthy Master Leighton, and as ¿t Following is the score and lineup: endeavor to keep the buyers in touch both financially and socially. There sugar ami milk in a double boiler. was ladies’ day he then called sis­ F. A. A. Bates TO with the members and establish uni­ were between 75 and 80 present and ter Effie Graffam to the chair, who Chandler, rf., lb., Moulton, form standards of dressed poultry all seemed to enjoy themselves very MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST. did the work in a very pleasing man­ lb., Ramsdell and eggs. In the future immense pos­ much. There were recitations by ner. Gapt. Carlton, If., rb., Jack sibilities lie open, the establishment Floyd Reed, Clifford Wing and little An Awful Toll Collected by Consump­ The officers' for the day were: Trecartin, c., c., Capt. Dorman of central killing stations and pack­ Abbie Calden and a reading by Mrs. tion. Many Unnecessary Deaths Overseer, Berta Holt; lecturer, Jose­ c., Williams ing houses, the establishment of egg F. H. Hathaway. Clifford Wing sang phine Larrabee; steward, Bertha circles and the possible building up a song which was much enjoyed. From This Disease. Brackett, rb., If., Ramsdell Chandler; assistant steward, Dallas If., Bolster of large cold storage houses, the erec­ There was also a solo by Miss Nel­ If people could only understand Voter; chaplain, Mary Dunham; sec­ Voter, lb., rf., Bolster tion of central hatching stations, lie Reed. Several fine selections on that systematic catarrh is an internal retary, Clam French; G. K., Christie rf., Williams where mammoth incubators would do the graphophone by Mr. Ed. Kennis- disease that external applications Aldrich; ceres, Lucy Brackett; po- rf., Dorman the hatching of the neighborhood, ton added much to the enjoyment cannot cure, they would not need to mona, Louise Berry; flora, Ida Moo Score: P. A. A. 55, Bates TO 27. the cooperative buying of feed, etc. of the evening. The pies sold wel-l, ton: L. A. S., Myrtle Staples. They When >*hall this association be and fish were at a premium, the be w'arned so often about this malady Goals from floor; Trecartin 13, Carl­ al1 did good work. The third and formed? If you are interested An hav­ “ pond” being fished dry before the which, when neglected, paves the ton 2, Chandler 6, Voter 2, Bolster fourth degree© were conferred. ing one in your community write to eve Fling passed. The amount realiz­ way oftentimes for consumption, at 3, Dorman 2, Williams, Ramsdell. Then all marched to the dining­ Leon S. Merrill, Augusta, Maine, or ed from the supper and “ fish pond” the cost of millions of lives every Goals from fouls; Dorman 13, Brack­ room above, -where one of the best of Prof. W. A. Brown, Orono, Maine, was $11.10. year Yet catarrh may he cured, if ett* 6, Chandler 3. Referee Preble. dinners was served, the brother® re­ stating thiat fact and giving your March has certainly come in like the right treatment is employed. Umpire Hoyt. Timer Stuart. Time ceiving first honors. At about two name and address so that at the a lamb this spring. We hope the Catarrh is caused by a general dis­ 20-minute periods. Scorer Noble. eased state of the system which leads o ’clock the gavel again sounded and protper time a notice of the call of lion will not be in evidence at the commonly to annoying and perhaps Bro. James Morrison presented the Between halve© a game was play­ -the meetings may be sent you. close of the month. serious local conditions, which may chairs and table to the grange, which ed between the Strong high school W. I. Sargent is getting out lum­ For information about the routes prove a fertile breeding ground for through the kindness of Sister Rose and the P. A. A. second team. The ber for shoe blocks. to take to Maine resorts and about germs of consumption. External rem­ Toothaker we were able to have. A Strong team As improving right along, the Maine resorts themselves, addres edies give hut temporary ease. vote of thanks was extended for the hut were not a match for the Phil­ same. Maine Information Bureau, Phillips, The only way to successfuplly treat lips team with such players as Noble Maine. catarrh is by employing a medicine A committee of five was appoint­ and Toothaker. which is absorbed and carried by ed to have children’s day in charge, | Following is the score and lineup: which will be held some time during j h i g h l a n d . The Cold of Today •the blood to all parts of the system, P. A. A., 2nd the week of March 20. The special j " S. H. S. 1st March 1, 1910. so that the mucous membrane or in­ Noble, rf., The last report from the New Castle committee reported good returns from; lb., Rounds ternal lining of the body is' toned Toothaker, If., rb., True was that they were doing fine work at the entertain,r%ent held on Feb. 22 Sandy stream and if the weather per­ May be something more serious up and made capable of resisting the Hackett, c., 1 ,. , ntllOT, and all knowi the grange was well fa- c., Norton mits they will get all the lumber ¡they by tomorrow. An ounce of pre­ infection of consumption and other , , ,, Morton, rb., have contracted for. ! vored at then* Fourth of March ball, If., W. Sample vention is worth a pound of cure. Atwood, lb., rf., D, Sample Mr. Clement Getcheil has finished cut­ ting birch for J, R. Howard and re­ d w T ia v e a remedy jeepered from «® tbere ™ 1ItUe ” !wlded Score: P. A. A. 57, S. H. S. 6. too prescription- of a physician who*»®« treasury. turned to Ihiiis borne in North Anson. studied and made! Th® M owing program was made Goals from floor; Toothaker 16, No- Mi1. A. J Dumpily has finished hauling for thirty years shovel blocks for Warren Jones. PREBLE’S public : Instrumental~ 1 musnc, . LettreT , 'ble 7, Hackett 4, D. Sample„ T. 2. Goals0 catarrh a specialty, and whose ree from fouls; Noble 3, D. Sample 2. Mr. Ohas. Pimkham is at work ■ for ord was a patient restored to health, hiits on the members by all; John Ford, hauling birch to the Jenkins Referee Preble. Umpire Richardson. in every case where his treatment j reading, Dallas Voter; selection on and Bogart mill. , ,. .. 1 Timer Stuart. Time 20-mimute pe- Mr. Albert Parker iiis at wlork for F. was followed as prescribed That the Phonograph; reading, Christie Al- ( Scorer Barker. M. Churchill. White Pine and Tar remedy is Rexall Mucu-Tone, W e; ; monologue, Louise Berry; fie-1 d e a d r i v e r . are so positive that it will positively, lections' on the phonograph; song i REAL ESTATE THANSFERS. White Pine Euca- overcome catarrh in all its variou s j Nettie Gates; reading, Caltstiia Shep- 1 M arch 1, 1910. forms, whether acute or chronic, that ard; duet, Lucille French and Chris­ Farmington—Henry J. William? to Mr. Ohas. S. Nutting, one of Dead tie Aldrich. Frank Adams, land and building®, $1 River’s most noted guides, is spending we promise to return every penny the winter with his family at home. lyptol and Honey A generous treat of mixed candies J val. con, (war.); Susie V. Brown et als. paid us for the medicine in every to L evi G. B row n, land, $1 val. coin, The Farmers’ telephones have been case where it fails of for any reason was then passed (quit); Lorenzo D. Gilman to Luella E. placed in many houses here In town. Visitors were present from -Sandyj Oirmsby, land, $1 val. con. (war.); John Dean Wing lias finished hauling logs Cough Syrup does not“ satisfy the user. for the Great Northern and returned to We want you to try Rexall Mucu- River and Aurora granges. The at-. Whitten to Laura A. Lowell, land , , , . l and buildings, $1 val. con. (wtar.); Wil- his home in Flagstaff. Tone on our recommendation and t e n dance was very good and a day«son p Hataes to Farmington Fuel & Mr. Ray Viles of Flagstaff has a large guarantee. We are right here where long t o he remembered was passed. ; ice Co., land and buildings, $1 val. con. crew at work on the shores of the West Will nip that cold right in the Carry. you live, and you do not contract any Correspondent. j (w ar.); Chester Greenwood to Farm ling - bud if you take it in time. ______ton Storage Oo., land and buildings, $1 Logging teams are coming and going obligation or risk when you try Subscribe far Maine Woods and i val. con. (war.) in all directions. Rexall Mucu-Tone on

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the uncertainty and cbangeab 1 eness fulness. It is the living Christ who AMONG THE CHURCHES. WANTED of earthly possessions. The fame of What Man Do walks with us in the sorrows- of life, the Arctic explorer is an example. and stands beside us when we com­ FOR GOVERNMENT POSITIONS. Union Church, Phillips. He who was first received witlh honor mit those we love to the dust; He it ¡Melvin Sherburne Hutchins, Pastor. and applause now finds the props You Strangle? is who gives us strength when we Calendar for week ending March 19. If you hold a Government position you are of his insincerity .taken away, and ar-e weak, and light when the dark­ located for life and at a good salary; 36,000 po­ Sunday, March 13; 10.30, morning his name the most wretched of ness closes about us. If one doubts sitions are to be filled this year, examinations for worship, sermon “ The Volunteer Un­ wretched names. Even the brave the existence of the law of gravitar different positions will be held soon; I can fit you dertakers;” 11.45 Sabbath school; and honest victor over the terrors tion, he may throw himself from a to pass the examinations for any of the following 7.30 people’s service, address height; if he doubt the reality -of positions; will furnish all text books free. I f in­ of the north sees in the senate terested write me at once regarding any civil ser­ “ Strength for Daily Needs.” of the United States an effort to the moral law«, he has but to violate vice position. Be sure and enclose address. De­ Thursday, March 17, 7.30 P. m., wrest from him the fame of his it and the invisible penalty is in­ partmental Branch, Railway Mail Clerk (male). union prayer meeting. struggle and victory. Fame and the stantly. imposed on him, not from R ailw ay Mail W eigher (male). R ailw ay Mail All are invited to these services. without, hut from within; if he doubt Porter (male). Custom House Branch: Samp­ swiftness with which it deserts even ler (male). Assistant Weigher (male), Messenger, those who seem secure in its posses­ whether there is a livdtag Christ, he (male). Post Office Branch: Clerk (male or fe­ At the Union church Sunday morn­ sion aptly typifies the uncertainty has but to trust Him in some trial, male), clerk carrier (male). Full particulars ing, Rev. Mr. Hutchins spoke upon pertaining to things of this life alone. to rest on His promise of help in regarding the above or any otherlCivil Service po­ the subject “ Treasures' in Heaven.” Today men strive for power, to­ some great sorrow, to call upon Him sition will be sent free on request. Address The text 'was Matt. 6: 19, 20, 21; es­ morrow they lie prostrate in the in some temptation. He lives, not B. 404 BAXTER BLOCK, pecially the clause “ La'y up for your­ dust; iodaj- men seek for fame, to­ only in the hearts of those who love selves treasures in heaven.” morrow it can no longer comfort Him, but in their daily needs and Portland, - - Maine Sometimes the very familiarity of them; today men deny themselves cares as their strength, their peace, a text prevents us from perceiving their infallible guide.” Make friends and break the m .ral law in their LEXINGTON. its real meaning. We are apt to take greed for gain, for affluence, for then' with the living Christ. the meaning which is at first most March 1, 1910. wealth, tomorrow they are left poor­ Selfishness is all about us. We The Jenkins and Bogan' mill will start apparent and allow frequent repeti­ er than before; today men chase the need make but little distinction be­ M arch 7. tions to fix the idea first given. phantom pleasures, tomorrow it turns tween selfishness and the sin spoken Mr. J. Maurice Lane and wife, who Such seems« to be true of this text. to ashes in their withered hands. of by theologians. We whom the cooked ard guided at Jac Henry’s The treasures1 possessed in this world Lay not up for yourself wasting Some statistician figures that $250,- Father loves, who might be fellow camp at Dead River, are spending the we contrast with those of the heav­ 000,000 every year is being diverted winter with Mr. Lane’s parent, Mrs. treasures. We might present a long workers with God, through selfish­ M ary Lane. enly world. The Greek word used from the local merchants of this coun­ list of treasures that will endure, ness become dwarfed and inefficient, Mr. Elmer Morton is hauling wood in this passage far earth means, yet they will be largely included in try to the mail order concerns in the and we hurt where we ought to help. to the Lexington mill, when used in contrast with the fu­ three that I will name, wisdom, char­ great cities. In Williamsburg, Mass., on May Mr. James Perkins of Madison, man­ ture not things earthly and material acter and friendship. I had thought How much of that MONUMENTAL 16, 1874, a man rode through the ager of Great Northern Paper Co., pass­ simply, but there is attached to it streets calling “To the hills for, your ed through town recently, on. his way to of service as somehting to be in­ MOUND OF MONEY goes out of this Dead River. the meaning of mutability, frailness, lives; the flood is behind.” Because cluded in this list; but service is community? Mr. F. M. Churchill has some inten­ imperfection. Jesus counselled that of the bursting of the dam he w’as the building up of character, guided Every dollar so spent helps to tions of building a saw mill In town. •wie make our supreme effort, not for putting his life in peril that others by wisdom, impelled by friendship. SWELL THE HEAP in the city that Mr. Joe Norton has finished hauling that which is mutable, frail and im­ might reach the safety of the hills. logs for Henry Soucie and returned to Knowledge, just simply knowledge, is has no use for us except to get our perfect, but for that which iis per­ In these better things the getting his home in North Anson. good and wo often say it is riches GOOD MONEY. fect and enduring. He is not speak­ that cannot be taken away; but wis­ of wisdom, the gaining of character Mr. Eugene Young was in town, look­ ing against attention to the interests Every dollar mailed away helps to ing up business for the North Amson dom is more than knowledge. Wis­ let us leave the valley and let us Lumber company. connected with life in this world. dom is knowledge plus the ability to STRANGLE ENTERPRISE AND mount to the privilege of friendship This is often necessary, but these use that knowledge in the very best SCUTTLE PROSPERITY right here with Him who loved us, who died for should not have our deepest thought, wiay. Wisdom din the Old,Testament at home. us, and wtho lives for us. nor supreme endeavor. Do not give NOTICE. means knowledge of God and serving When you strangle your neighbor to these fleeting interests the effort An Awful Eruption him. Wisdom in science deduces you strangle yourself. RS. J. C. TIRRELL has that belongs to enduring things. of. a volcano excites brief interest, and truth from observations and acquired purchased the Millinery Let fame, for which some men your interest in skin eruptions will be M knowledge. Wisdom in society plus as s«hort, if you use B u ck len ’s ©Arnica business of Mrs. Gertrude V. greatly strive, stand for a type of and thread be tried to close the rent. the strong desire of heart and soul Salve, their quickest cure. Even the Smith. The store will be open to help the world will bring men and When he gave it to you you found worst boils, ulcers, or fever sores are that he in his work had closed the soon ¡healed by it. Best for BUrns, Outs, for business, Monday, March 21 HANDIEST FDR women to higher and better ways Bruises, Sore Lips, Chapped Hands. sleeve and you could not put on the CjMlblaJins a n d , Piles. It gives instant of living. Wisdom in religion plus relief. 25c at W. A. D. Oragin’s, Phil­ and will carry a fine line of P erfect Broiling. garment. You threw it from you, but lips; Cbas. E Dyer’s, Strong; L. L. •the purpose to know God and do his Mitchell’s, Kingfield; E. H. Whitney’s, will, will bring one near to what God Horace carried it to ibis mother. She R angeley. MILLBftSERY. desires for everyone. looked at the sewing. She sawi the Also SHIRT WAISTS, MUSLIN UNDER­ stitches so badly placed. She saw WEAR, HOSIERY, Etc., for Ladies and Character, the most important of Children. our enduring treasures, grows in a the thread drawing the garment from slow way. Character has its root in its former shape, and she saw the “A spirit of loving helpfulness in the Poor' what we say. The finest characters Going Out Stove is eyes of her boy, and she said “ My NOTICE not grow from cautious speech, in that Cheap which seeks not to tear down, but son, you have done well.” In your at A ny work as a minister of tlie gospel you WILLOWS HOTEL TEAM n-'ice'> •to build up. Beneath our words are Our Lift Top Plate not only saves time and H our thoughts, and the foundation of will make mistakes and sometimes of Business meets all trains, running to and from fuel, because it permits an even fire feeding, ■ it will look like failure, but if the but you can here see how admirable it becomes Jw what one thinks is primarily in the House. Large, comfortable rooms, elec­ for broiling. It does not swing out into space, H purpose of life. If there be a right Heavenly Father reads in your heart Closing out my stock at tric lights, livery stable, bath,¡telephone but is lifted by one hand and held by an auto- H the right purpose he will say “ My lines. Also u barber. Gideon Smith, matic catch, while the other hand holds the H purpose the thoughts, the words, the prices you cannot afford to broiler. This is only one of twenty exclusive H son. you have done wrell.” where you can get a first-class shave at features incorporated in the deeds will continually make a char­ m iss. any time. acter growing in beauty and com­ Character then has its final rest­ S t e r u n <> Rang e pleteness. We may not be able to ing place and final riches in the pur­ All persons indebted to GEO. L. LAKIN, accomplish that which Wie attempt, pose in life. which makes it impossible for any other range me, please call and settle. to equal it. Any' broiler can be used, but our nevertheless the right purpose wall Were I going alone to some strange PHILLIPS, MAINE New Patented Broiler, which is sold by our dealer separately, holds your steak level, and not fail to beautify and strengthen city iiu search of employment, my opens in front, not backwards. We repeat, the character. courage would he greatly increased the unsurpassed cooking qualities of the C. E. GOULD, Rareties at STERLING come from numerous patented Last summer Ellsworth Crockett did I know 'that there I should find features which cannot be used in any' other range, and it is also to your interest to know was ordained to the ministry and some friend who would direct and that solid cast iron radiates more heat than Ms father gave to him the charge guide me, and who would interest AT ETHER SMITH STORE steel or sheet iron ever can. We have the detailed scientific investigation of Cornell in the ordination service. I never himself dm my behalf. It is the priv­ Leavitt & Jacobs’ University on this vital subject to hand you, heard more touching words from pul­ ilege of each one of us to have as well as our booklet telling why it is only SPINACH possible for the STERLING to “ bake a barrel pit or platform. After speaking of wherever we journey God for our BOSTON CELERY of flour with a hod of coal.” Accept our LETTUCE dealer’s invitation to inspect the range itself, the work of the ministry, he said to friend. He is yearning with the and you’ll become positively RADISHES convinced of its vast super­ his son something like this: When great desire that he always has for Fresh Flowers CUCUMBERS iority. you were a little hoy, Ellsworth, your the good of each one of the children mother was once very sick. One day of men to make himself known to us. Philip & Canaud Sardines yofi gnieved because the frock that An editorial in a recent issue of the at Short Notice and other good brands, Un­ you wanted to wear was not ready Out1 ook speaks of the Living Christ. for wearing, and your mother told Let me quote a few of its sentences: derwood Deviled Ham, Pine Write to you she was sorry that she had not “ It is the living Christ who moves for Funerals. been able to get it ready. Yonr old­ the hearts of men today to care for Apple and Edam Cheese, BRADFORD,. CONANT & CO., er brother Horace said: “ I’ll mend the children, the weak, the disinher­ Canned Mushrooms. We’ll 199-203 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. I it for Ellsworth. He shall have it ited, the sorrowful; to establish jus­ order anything you want. We sell Sterling Ranges. |to wear.” Very earnestly did he set tice in the earth, to hate gre d and C. F. CHANDLER , about the mending, and with needle avarice, and love generosity and help- BATES BLOCK, PHILLIPS, ME. Furniture Dealer and Funeral Director, Midwinter . Mrs. Maria Beedy PHILLIPS, - - MAINE. Clearance Sale Says the suit of Men’s Clothes Silver and Yellow is entirely satisfactory. From Birch, Beech and HEATING Rock Maple LOGS, STOVES 12, 16, 18 ft. lengths. $4.50 PHILLIPS HARDWARE COMPANY per cord on cars at any point Talbot Co. within 12 miles of Phillips. PHILLIPS, - - MAINE. $5.00 per cord delivered on our yard. Lumber cut into 4-ft. lengths, COAL Monument Square, Portland, 25 cts. less on tbe cord. Wholesale and Retail. Don’t waste your lumber Leave your orders early for cutting it into 4-foot wood. next winter’s supply. For prices Percy* Farnum, Manager. Giv­ apply to See iks or call us up for any further information. BEAL & McLEARY, en her by the Maine Woods and — Office at Phillips JStation. ; CUSTER MANUFACTURING CO., AGENTS: I Phillies, Maine. G. B. Richardson, Strong. Maine Sportsman. L. L. Mitchell, Kingfield.

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F. E. MoLeary went to Boston Sat­ STRONG. PROBATE NOTICES. urday afternoon. (March 8, 1910. NOTICE. Miss Gladys Mattbieu, who has Mr. O. M. Moore is engaged to WLD0UGLAS The subscriber hereby gives notice that he has been ill with pneumonia, is gaining been duly appointed Administrator of the es­ give a ’ eeture on hiisT experiences in tate of quite nicely. Ihe west. The lecture will probably S3.S35P8S4.SH0ES Richard H. McKenney late of Phillips, be given next week for the Eipworth in the County of Franklin, deceased, and given Charles Hobbs and Bert Pratt went BOYS’ bonds as the law directs. All persons having de­ to Boston Saturday morning to at­ League. mands against the estate of said deceased, are de­ $2.oo sired to present the same for settlement, and all tend the automobile show. Only five weeks to the Methodist indebted thereto are requested to make nayment $259 immediately. ^ Miss Dorothea May Carville is vis­ Conference, which meets in Portland James Morrison. iting friends in Fairbanks. April i3. Next Sunday there will be Feb. 15.1910. Louie Baker and son have been another class meeting at the church NOTICE. Purest Flour drilling holes for extra bolts to hold at 10 a. m. Come in good season. The subscriber hereby gives notice that he has the bars in the jail windows of the Rev. H. A. Clifford preached in King- been duly appointed Administrator of the estate “ Of the various qualities of flour ob­ of tained from the same wheat, the lower new extension. There are eighteen fie'd Tuesday evening by invitation of Henry H. Dudley late of Kingfield, grades are those most contaminated with grease, dirt, and objectionable prisoners now in the jail. Rev. L. A. White. in the County of Franklin, deceased, and given bacteria; the freedom of flour from The Ladies’ Union met with Mrs. bonds as the law directs. All persons having de­ these, increases with its purity.” Mr. Dennis Clark and son, Briano, mands against the estate of said deceased are de­ J. C. Holman Tuesday afternoon. The sired to present the same for settlement, and all P r o f . W m . J a g o . arrived home on Saturday from San­ indebted thereto are requested to make payment the well-knuwn English cheuUsi. ladies did some sewing. ford. Mrs. Dodge and Miss Maude immediately. The purity of William Tell flour is The Mission Study class met with E, E. Jenkins. due to the costly equipment and ex­ Wit her ell are with them. Feb. 15, 1910. Rev. R. H. Clapp Tuesday evening. ceptional care to keep the grain and John Norton is ill ¡with grippe. For Estate of W. Frank Jacobs. clean. The F. H. S. basketball team® THE LARGEST MAKER AND RETAILER flour many months he has been watchman FRANKLIN, SS. At a Court of Probate holden The wheat is stored in hermetically played the Wilton Academy teams OF MEN'S FINE SHOES IN THE WORLD. at the toothpick factory every night. at Farmington, within and for the County of sealed tanks at the big mills of Ansted Friday evening at Wilton. The first “SUPERIOR TO OTHER MAKES.” Franklin, on the third Tuesday of February A. & Burk Co. "I have worn W. L. Douglas shoes for the D. 1910, team of F. H. S. won 34 to 9, and Mrs. Ella Dow was welcomed by past six years, and always find they are far Whei eas a petition has been duly filed praying Before grinding, it is cleaned six her friends over Sunday. superior to all other high grade shoes in style, that administration of the estate of W. Frank times. the sceond team also won by a large comfort and durability.” W. G. JONES, Jacobs, late of Rangeley, in said County of Neither grain nor flour ever touches score. A number of young lady stu­ Miss Vivian Bates, a student ita. 119 Howard Ave., Utica, N, Y. Franklin, deceased, may be granted to J. Blaine anything but the bright, clean sur­ If I could take you into my large fac­ Morrison or some other suitable person, dents drove over with the players. the Blis® business college, is at home tories at Brockton, Mass., and show you Ordered, that said petitioner give notice to faces of dust-proof machinery. Even all persons interested, by causing this order to he Mr. Henry Conant, who resides f( t a vacation. how carefully W . L. Douglas shoes are the flour bags are sewed up by published three weeks successively in the M a i n e machinery. with his daughter and family, Mr. Mrs. J. C. Torrell, formerly of made, you would realize why they hold W o o d s and M a i n e S p o r t s m a n , published at their shape, fit better, wear longer, and Phillips, that they may appear at a Probate William Tell comes to you from and Mrs. W. W. Small, is quite ill. Strong, has purchased the millinery Court to be held at Farmington, in said County, the mills with all the brilliant bloom are of greater value than any other make. on the third Tuesday of March next, at ten of business of Mrs. Smith in Phillips. O A U T lO S i-S ee that W. L. Douglas name and price the clock in the forenoon, and show cause, if any that only Ohio wheat can make. Farmington Town Meeting. is stamped on the bottom. T a k e K o Substitute. they have, why the same should not be allowed. If your dealer cannot lit you with W.L.Douglas shoes, Ask your dealer, and insist on Miss Maude Ranger was a guest write for Mail Order Catalog. W.L.Douglas, Brockton, J. H. Thompson, Judge. having— Mod., Hon. Jo®. C. Holman; clerk, of friends in Farmington over Sun­ Wla8s> ------FOR SALE BY------Attest, A. L. Fenderson. Register. E. Herbert Dingley; treasurer, A. L. day. Walcott; selectmen, C. T. Gay, C. A. SEDGELEY, HOYT & CO. Estate of Samuel H. Beedy. C. V. Starbard and family are ex­ FRANKLIN, SS. At a Court of Probate holden ’ Pinkham,/ Whiting L. Butler; collec­ pected home this week. at Farmington, within and for the County of William Tell tor, Cbas. H. Pierce. Appropriations: Franklin, on the third Tuesday of February, A. C. H. MCKENZIE TRADING CO. All members of the Methodist Sun­ the com, even if he doesn’t look D. 1910. Support of common school®, $1,000; it. A certain instrument purporting to be the last » Phillips, Maine. day echoo1 are urged to come next will and testament of Samuel H. Beedy, late o f contingent school fund, $800; free Sunday. Phillips, in said County, deceased, testate, to­ high school, $2,000; h%h school Dennis Clark, whose wife died two gether with a petition for the probate thereof and for letters testamentary as therein provided, hav­ FARMINGTON. maintenance fund, $1,100; text books, Strong Town Meeting. weeks since, wras called back to Ban- ing been duly presented, ford last week by the death of hiis Ordered, That said petitioner give notice to all March 6, 1910. $700; repairs, insurance and supplies Mondy morning there was a thun­ persons interested, by causing a copy of this for school buildings, $1,000; support granddaughter at the home of a son, order to be published three weeks successively in H. A. Morton with bis men worked der shower and snow storm, but M a i n e W o o d s M a i n e S p o r t s m a n , where Mrs. Clark was visiting when the and pub­ till late Thursday might to get the of poor, $2,000; town charges, $2,000; there was not much lightning in town lished at Phillips, that they may appear at a Pro­ repairs of roads and small bridges, she died.. bate Court to be held at Farmington, in said trunks of the normal students to the meeting. All was serene. The fol­ County, on the third Tuesday of March next at $6,000; repair of large bridgesi, $500; ten of the clock in the forenoon, and show cause station. lowing officers were elected: Select­ if any they have, why the same should ijot be permanent road®, $700; Memorial day The Sage *of Maplewood had hi® allowed. Rev. E. R. Smith called on some men, F. H. McCIeary, P. D. Stubbs, J. H. Thompson, Judge. $100; collection : f taxes, $400; abate­ H. w. Allen; clerk, ,C. B. Richard­ first toboggan slide for many yaers of hi® former parishioners here while last wleek, whom he slid off the roof Attest, A. L. Fenderson, Register. ment of taxes, $250; electric lights, son; treasurer, C. E. Dyer; road com­ in town to attend the funeral of Mrs. of a shed into a snowbank, hammer $400; free public library, $800; care missioner, Lewis L. Partridge; school Estate of Elmer Will. Sarah C. Boardman Ramsdell. of common, $50; sidewalks, $500; fire in one band and a box of nails on committee, J. E. Winslow, P. D. FRANKLIN. SS. At a Court of Probate holden Arthur T. Moor has been quite ill hose for the suburban water district, top. However, he finished the job. at Farmington, within and for the County of with a throat trouble, but is now Stubbs, F. W. Look; tax collector, Franklin, on the third Tuesday of February A. $300; outstanding indebtedness, $500; James Lambert. The appropriations The same party had a job on his D. 1910. convalescing. interest on outstanding indebtedness, hands during a recent severe gale Geo. A. French, administrator of ihe estate of wree: Common schools, $500; high Elmer Will, late of Phillips, in said County Augustus B. Stewart has been clerk« or blizzard. A heavy double door of deceased, having presented his first account of $600. school, $400; I'oads and bridges, ing in the W. W. Small Co. store. the big barn blew down, measuring administration of the estai e of said deceased for $1,800; hydrants, $600; state road, allowance:' W. M. Pratt’s delivery wagon ap­ FAIRBANKS. seven by twelve feet and weighing Ordered, That said Administrator give notice to ?175; support of poor, $50; school a 1 persons interested, by causing this order to be peared on wheels last Friday. March 7, 1910. in the neighborhood fo 300 pounds. published three weeks successively in the Ma ‘NE books and repairs, $300. It was vot­ o o d s a i n e p o r t s m a n The Laurel is to be dedicated to Mr. and Mrs. K. Whit Oakes of While; trying to replace the doer the W and M S , published ¡Jpt’hil- ed to leave the union 1 of this town lips, that they may appear at a Probate Court to Dr. W. E. D. Downes, 'principal of Raupv.ley went home last, week, a.f wind turned it end for end and up-- be hold Farming ton 7—Iu . v; *■*•*?< . a the with others ti^mwploy i^^iperintend- third Tuesday of March next, at ten Nof the the high school this year. ter visiting her parents', Mr. and Mrs. side down. However, the heavy door clock in the forenoon, and show cause, if any they ent of schools^BJcharge of the school A number of interesting exchanges J. 1. Norton. was placed in position “all by his have, why the same should not be allowed. committee. J. H. Thompson, Judge, have been received for the reading Mr. and Mrs. L. M. King have re­ lonesome.” How did he do it?. Attest, A. L. Fenderson. Register. table of the high school. turned home, after their usual win­ TAYLOR HILL, STRONG. Dennis Clark and his recently The Fourth of March white ball ter sojourn in New York. Estate of Arthur Harmon. March 7, 1910. was held in Music hall Friday even­ My A. D. Norton held a meeting broken family returned home from Mrs. W. K. Howes, who under­ FRANKLIN. SS. At a Court of Probate holden ing. in the chapel Sunday evening and Sanford on Saturday noon’s train. M Hogs and Sheep need a regulator more The big barn; was also rebuilt and now than at any other time. The enlarged by Mr. Blethen, who did not New Dress Goods long enjoy his efforts, because of ill­ ness which ha® disabled him and ne­ Scientific Compound cessitated Ms moving to the village, In all the latest shades. where he now lives. prepared by Drs. Hess and Clark of Ash­ It is no secret that Mr, Blethhn land, 0., supplies the life and vigor that Prunellas, Serges, Poplins, etc., from 25c to $1.00 laid out more money in the improve­ hay and grain will not supply. Every ments made by him than lie receiv­ ounce will return double value. per yard. ed for the entire farm when he sold. New Spring Ginghams, Percales and all the latest Sold in 50c. packages ; 25-lb. pails, $1.00 ; 100-lb. sacks, $5.00. Last Monday was Farmer Moore’s F abrics. sixtieth brithday and 36th wedding anniversary. He says “old man” Chas. E,. Dyer seems more applicable and not so STRONG, ME. A R B O C . N O R T O N , good as it once did. But be will 14=10 B ro a d w a y = - F a rm in g to n have to stand it and acknowledge 12 MAINE WOODS AND MAINE SPORTSMAN, PHILLIPS, MAINE, MARCH 10, 1910. LOCAL EDITION—12 PAGES.

MEN’S FURNISHINGS. PHILLIPS AND VICINITY.

WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE The Lewiston Sun of last Satur­ day reports Mr. L. V. Wimship of OF THAT CLASS OF DEPOSITORS Auburn as being able to be out of : G. H. MCKENZIE TRADING CO., ; doors, and although still very weak, The High Quality WHO CONSIDER ABSOLUTE SAFE- he is gaining strength daily; also that Mrs. Edgar M. Berry of Morton PHILLIPS, - MAINE. TY FIRST. OUR CAPITAL AND street, Lewiston, who has bene ser­ of the iously ill with pneumonia, is now SURPLUS OF $110,000.00 G UAR AN­ able ito silt up. A fe w m ore T he fam ou s TEES THAT SAFETY, AND OUR Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Lawton went to Boston Saturday to visit their son. INTEREST RATE IS THE HIGHEST (Mrs. Elbridge Dill, who was so ill Black Sateen Stetson Hat v. ith pneumonia at the home of her RATE CONSISTENT WITH SUCH son-;, Messrs. Joe and Will Dill, was Urban is included in our line able to return td her home in the Petticoats SAFETY. of headgear. vi .'age last (week. She has gained for 79c to 98c. in strength rather slowly. Mrs. Elbert Matthews is visiting Shoe PHILLIPS NATIONAL her mother, Mrs. John Turner, in Lewiston this week. Corset Covers Footwear. * BANK, Mrs. C. E. Parker entertained the ladies’ whist club last Friday after­ 19c. and 39c. A full line of For Men, at noon. Refreshments of sattines, Phillips, - - Maine c,h> ese, coffee and cake were served. Elite Shoes Mrs. Silas Bartlett of Lewiston, nee Worsted Lucy Page, formerly of this town, for Gents guaranteed PHILLIPS AND VICINITY. wivi leave for a trip to Bermuda Fri­ $4.00 day with a party of friends. Her Dress Goods to w ear. Mr. and Mrs. Dana Aldrich, Alfred sister Fannie, Mrs. F. L. Gardiner, Weston, and Mrs. G. L. Dakin were of Auburn is also planning a Europ­ in Serge, Panama, Mo­ the candidate® initiated at the meet­ ean trip on July 2nd, to include a Is still maintained. ing of Hope Rebekah lodge last Fri­ hair and Batiste, 50c. to A new shoe just ad­ two months’ stay in Scotland, Ire­ day evening. Refreshments of cake ded to our stock for land, France, and Germany, and the You will be pleas­ $1.25. and coffee were served. Mrs.. A. S. party will see the Passion Play at Children and Misses. Reedy, Mrs. Carrie: Adams, Mrs. E. Ommeramagua. T he . B. Whorff and Mrs. Clara French Mrs. Will True went last Saturday ed when you see the wtere the committee on refreshments. Bat es& Renfrew to visit her daughter, Miss Edna Mr. and Mrs. Fred Morton left True, in Waterville for a tveek. “Educator” ¡Monday morning for a visit with new Spring styles. Miss Hazel Beedy, who is attend­ Ginghams friends in Kennebunk, who will join ing business college at 'Waterville, “ Lets the child’s foot them for a trip to Boston. They You will be bet­ 12 l-2 c . has been at home for a week. grow as it should.” expect to return home Saturday • night. Mrs. Mary Field is stopping with ter pleased when Mrs. Chas. Steward was ill a few Mrs. Ansel Dill for the present. B ra d ford & Manchester’s days last week. Miss Bessie Webster was the guest you wear a pair. A choice line of Miiisises Gladys Dutton and Edith of Mrs. Chas. Cunningham and Miss Morton are home from the Farming- Ella Beal the latter pant of last week. Percales Groceries, ton normal school for a two weeks’ There was quite a heavy thunder All styles. All vacation. shower Monday morning. 10c. and 13c. Meat, Flour, Mrs. L. W. Goodwin and Miss Mr. E. E. Morse of Lincoln spent leathers. Edith W. Goodwin of Farmington Sunday in town with his wife and spent Sunday with H. L. Goddwin children, who are stopping with the New Spring Grain and Feed and family. latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray­ Oxfords will be Miss Maizie Butterfield of Farm­ mond Ross, for the present. constantly on hand, ington has been a guest of Miss Fern The grangers will give a progres­ worn more than Shirt Waists Worthley this week. sive whist party at the Grange hall Miss Mabel Austin of Farmington Friday evening, March 18, admission ever this season. The famous “ Crown” Hex tip Das purchased a four cyiidner Mar 10 cents. A prize will be given to brand in Lawn and Mus­ A ful dine o.ne mon automobile. the one getting the highest score. Mrs. Mary Worthley is houselceep Homemade candy and popcorn will Urban Oxfords lin from $1.50 to $4.00. Bradley’s er for Mrs. J. W. Brackett. ’ be on sale. in Russet, Patent Phosphate villini Spring Suits Leather, Gun Met­ just received. Get our fo r M en. al, Velour, Box prices before buying. CLEANING OUT Calf, etc., etc., but­ Stubborn as Wlules Dr. B. S. E lliott , 1 are • liver and bowels sometimes; seem ton and lace. to balk w>itihjO|U/t cause. Then there’s DENTIST, trouble—Loss of Appetite—Indigestion, Nervousness, Despondency, Headache. Successor to Dr. Holt. But such troubles fly before Dr. King’s Higher cuts in New- Life Pills, the world’s best Stom­ ach and Liver remedy, Sio easy, 25c at Hour® 8 to 12; 1 to 5. Eventing® by W. A. D. Oragin’s, Phillips, Chas. E. Dyer’s, Strong, D L Mitchell’s, King- Remnants of the Blucher styles appointment. field; E. H. Whitney’s Itangoley. in Patent Leather, N EW P O O L R O O M PEELED PULPW00D. Just opened in the store form­ 3,000 cords, Fir, Spruce and Poplar Box Calf, Gun Met­ wanted on line of Sandy River & Range- Wall Paper erly occupied by Wilbur & Co., ley Lakes Railroad. Highest prices for al, etc., etc. under Wilbur Hall. Give us a call. 1909. Write, telephone or call on To Make Ready for Spring Goods. J. R. DOUGLASS. A . W . M c L e a r y , P hillips. Our line of Ur­ No. 932—8 double rolls Paper, no border, 15c. | Q o m e in and look over my new line of Pipe® and Smokers’ Articles, double roll, Lot for 88c. bans is more exten­ including some very nice Calabashes. No. 934—3 double rolls Paper, no border, 15c. sive than ever be­ W. HENRY TRUE, No. 2 Beal Block, Phillips, Maine. double roll. Lot for 31c. fore.. No. 940—7 double rolls Paper, 45c. double j — V _ BUSINESS COLLEGER roll, 14 yards Border 18 in. wide. Lot for $1.04 | yA s'/ equipped school of business training in the siat< / / J /./ f / o f M aine. To all gradu ates o f thè com binec’ C A A / co u rse w e g u a ran tee a p o sitio n or r e f u n d No. 945—4 double rolls Ceiling, 20c. double | 'V y /W / j o n e -h a lf o f th e tu ition m o n e y . F in d employ roll. Lot for 62c. ^ ment by which students can pay board^while at y / ------tending school. Send for illustrated catalogue At the á ’ Address, BLISS BUSINESS GO* LEGE Lew'stor No. 947—4 double rolls Paper, no border, 20c. COSTS IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS. double roll. Lot for 63c. J County of Franklin. SEVERAL OTHER LOTS TO GO AT A | Treasurer’s Office, Farmington, Me., Feb. 19, 1910. Clothing Store. The following costs in Criminal Prosecutions were allowed hy the Supreme B A R G A IN . | Ju dicial C ourt at (the F ebru ary term , 1910: Cose Originated Before Gosts A llow ed State vis. Herbert Jewell, Supreme Judicial Court, $ 4.80 LOOK ON THE BARGAIN COUNTER. Alfred Snow, Supreme .Judicial Court, 4.73 Marshall Preston, Supreme Judicial Court, 6.96 Inrtox. Liquors, R. H. Thompson, Trial Justice, 7.06 Pasquale Nemo, It, H. Thompson, Trial Justice, 20.43 Vesta Plaisted, D. R. Ross, Trial Justice, 7.66 Herbert Jewell, Supreme Judicial Court, 4.69 D. F. HOYT, Charles E. Moore, N. R. Knowlton, Trial Justice, 77.82 W. A. D. eRAGIN Ralph Hines, Supreme Judicial Court, 7.18 Adolph Beaulieu, Supreme Judicial Court, 96.87 Norman Hewey, D. R. Ross, Trial Justice, 64.14 No, 5 Beal Block, Calvin Greenleaf, Supreme Judicial Court, 37.51 “The Rexall Store” Adolph Beaulieu, N, R. Knowlton, Trial Justice, 99.78 Marshall Preston, Supreme Judicial Court, 3.69 Phillips, Maine. Harold E. Hodgkins, Supreme Judicial Court, 38.69 Miai E, Lamb, Supreme Judicial Court, 100.00 No. 1 Beal Block, Frindel & Colburn, Supreme Judicial Court, 17.77 Thomas Welch, Supreme Judicial Court, 15.60 Millard F. Wilder, Supreme Judicial Court, 11.40 Main St., Phillips, Me. Agency for the Universal Eddie Lagree, Supreme Judicial Court, 122.89 Eddie Lagree, O. C. Dolbier, Trial Justice, 18.78 General Bill, 139.69 Steam Laundry. J. P. Flint County Treasurer.