elation Shire T o w n of Aroostook 1 860 — Aroostook County Houl- HOULTON TIMES ■dll be ___f the iven- Cary Library Houlton, Maine, Wednesday, January 24. 1917 N o A V o l. 5 7 _______re- Bad Roads Don’t Fret and Your Town Newspaper j Merchants wen* quick to see the Waste Millions Be Healthy j point. Fvery drag driven to tovv n i By William Shaw j j would do that much toward im- j proving the dirt mads over which I What is your icwspapd’ doing for j it passed. Tin* services of the far­ Buy Your Candy Thu men who laid out with pains­ U. S. Health Bulletin Compares your town ? Is it cooperating with | mers were worth a great deal more taking care the route ef the Lincoln Worry to Auto Standing Still you as it -lioiild ? Do you go to the! Highway across the Continent and than the prizes tin* merchants offer­ With Engine Running editor when you*' club, or your j at Millar’s who announced it to the* public and diurvh. or y-ui. yourself, want some- i ed, hut the fanners jumped at the who asked for a nation- w ide co-oper­ chance to win tin attractive awards. i u i ug a c ‘on i p| is! i ei 1 in your com - | ation in accomplishing its improve­ Consider the automobile. When Each man with a drag had a chance Owing to the great demand for our home-made can­ munity V ment, possessed no authority other the car is going to stand still for Take the matter of that park to win more than fifty dollars' worth of goods if luck was on Ids dies we found it impossible to keep up with our sales, than the wisdom of the plan. With more t hail a few m '.notes t he driver handstand. It hasn’t been built or, side, and the res dt was that scores \ th e universal co-operation of the pa- stops the engine. By dniug thi- he if it has been built, it needs paint­ both wholesale and retail. We find the people want the triotic press, the Lincoln Highway saves vaseline, oil, and, above all, ing or new lights, and there's no of farmers drove to town on Road- % Drag D;„v. best candy obtainable for the little ones and big ones also. has for three years held the atten­ useless wear and tear on the machin­ money availab'e. You vaguely feel tion of the public and received a vol­ ery. Tf he lets the engine '“run that something ought to be done. It’s easy to talk about the tangi­ To supply the great demand we have just hired a ume of support which has equalled, idle" he has wasted a lot of valu­ The next time you pass the public ble commercial results of this kind if it has not surpassed, the anticipa­ of cooperation between editor and first-class candy man who has worked for some of the best able material, shortened the life of square and are reminded of that tion of those who inaugurated the bf:s engine, and in the meantime file bandstand, drop into a store, pick citizens, but there are other, better ! results, much less tangible but a confectionery trade in Portland and other cities. idea. automobile hasn't budged an inch. up someone who has five minutes to It is now three years since the Lin­ The birds build nests for the pro­ spare, and go see the editor. Talk great deal more valuable to a com­ We expect to give the people the best candy that has coln Highway was announced to the tection of their young against the over t' e Matter while it's fresh in munity’. Thus an editor in a Min­ public. Each .year has seen an in­ nesota town tnadr* much of a “ Your- been sold in Houlton for some time, and at very reasonable weather ; foxes dig holes for se- your mind, arrange a scheme for creasing a m o u n t of constructive ^gainst foes ; the squirrels raising the mone.v. write a short Day-to-Gain’’ movement, adertis- \ prices. Spend your candy money at M ILLA R’S, this work accomplished. In the aggre­ *'110tores of nuts against the ing February twenty-ninth as an “story" lor the editor, and two- gate, the amount of work which has extra d ay in tin* year and, conse­ year, for we have loads of the finest candy that has ever coming of winter, and dogs bury thirds of the task is completed. % been accomplished on the Lincoln bones against the day when bones One plan, used recently in a Mis­ quently, a day that ought to he been shown in this town. turned to acconne by everyone. Highway passes the bounds of exact will be scarce. There are the mani­ souri town with full success, was statement. Carefully compiled fig­ (,’hurches. women's clubs, civic festations of a normal protective in­ built up round what was christened ures indicate that the expenditure in organizations and q college were stinct arising from an experience ot Bandstatd Day’. The town's mer­ 1916 on the route will be over $ , ,- among those taking up the move- Drop into Millar’s Big 8 000 many, many’ generations. So far us chants agreed to give a five per cent me d. Although the editor made •XX). it is known though, no bird ever discount on some goods and ten per much from the extra space he sold The road is continually being made tiled to build more nests than his cent on others, provided the buyer more efficient. Detours are being to merchants advertising special Store Every Day in the Week neighbor ; no fox ever fretted be­ presented a discount slip that had bargains for the day’, he declares he eliminated, curves cut down, and cause he only had one hole in which been printed in the latest issue of hard-surface construction is con­ madQ much more in the goodwill he to hide ; no squirrel ever died of tin- paper. The merchants gave to create,! for himself by devoting a stantly going on, with the result that anxiety lesr. he should not lay by the bandstand fund the difference it lias become entirely possible and enough nubs for two winters instead between the regular price and the great deal of space to to civic-ad­ vancement pleas. The Mill Tax For Good Exercises For Winter practicable to start out from New of fov one, and no dog ever lost any sales price. Thus the buyer got. a York and to drive to San Francisco. sleep over the fact that he didn’t dollar’s worth of goods for ninety The gain for tin- editor was not the Roads In fair weather the trip may be made only profit. The whole town was Two months ago the public health have enough bones In id aside to pro­ cents, tor instance, and tin1 mer­ in less than a month.. benefited by a heightened sense of service began one of its health news vide for his declining yeais. chant gav * a dime to the handstand Prof. George Files of Bowdoin eol- What this means may be appreci­ civic responsibility that the adver­ letters with this illustration : “Dog This protective instinct is also fund. lefe, president of the Maine Auto­ ated b.v considering the fact that in tising and the movement created. fanciers have long noted that when present in the human mind, and The reason for this scheme may mobile Aseooiation told those p re­ 1912 a transcontinental automobile It’s easier nowr to start things in a house dog begins to get fat ami when properly directed is a great not be apparent at first glance, but s e n t s the Community Conference four was an unpleasant and hazard­ that town than it used to lie. wheezy it is apt to be attacked by a source of prosperity both to the in­ it is easily understood when it is ex­ in Aagusta that from the standpoint ous undertaking for the most intrep­ A newspaper, the commercial stubborn skin disease. In such a dividual and the nation, says a bul­ plained. Everyone likes to get a of eoonomic value, the market roads id. Tt is doubtful if 12 complete club and tin* merchants of a North case they cut down the diet and in­ letin of the I'niled States Public bargain. love of home town is not are of primary importance to our transcontinental trips have b e e n Dakota town Worked together suc­ crease the open-air exercise, thus Health Service. In order for man n airly so strong a sentiment m the State. “Without developing these made under the car’s own power cessfully not long ago in a move­ relieving the overburdened body of to store up and lay by, to gain ad­ hearts of a great many’. Thus a per­ very important highways in our previous to that year. So much for ment that enlisted tin* interest of poisonous substances. There are vancement either in honor or ma­ son who might mu patv a dollar for agricultural districts,'’ he continued, what has been accomplished on the farmers for miles round and result­ nicer comparisons, bur none more terial things, it is necessary that he an article, even if In* knew a dime of ed in profit for everyone. the edit- 1 **we cannot expect to promote the Lincoln Highway.