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Now Noodod by Nearly Every One
to Purify tho Blood and Build
Up Strength. f
Four oomo to thooo trying spring
day* without weariness. debility,
that "tired feeling" caused In large
by lmPure> de-vitallzed Mood.
Change of season often "takes
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many people say.
The tonio and blood pnrlfler
needed Is Hood's Sarsaparilla.
It
«»VjWjr dlsnels that exhausted
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druggist. "Hood's Sarsaparilla is
our most dependable restorative."
Only .the best tonic and purify
ing ingredients used,—roots, herbs,
barks and berries, sueh as physi
cians often prescribe. A record of
years successful use. It will do
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A mild laxative. Hood’s Tills.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
_' »• THE IDEAL SPRING MEDICINE.
THE 80th MAINE LEGISLATURE
Stenographic Report of the Day’s Proceed
ings in the House and Senate
SENATE
*
Thursday .April 1, 1021.
Senate called to order by Hon.
Chas. E. Gurney, President, pro tem
pore.
Prayer by Rev. J. B. Irving of |
Gardiner. .1
Journal of previous sessiqn read j
and approved. t
Papers from the House disposed of J
in concurrence.
From the House: The majority ■
report of the committee on towns on
An Act to divide the town of South
ThomaSton, and that it ought to;
pass. j
(Signed)
EATON,
SPENCER,
on the part of the Senate.
TWOMBLY,
SMITH,
JORDAN,
ClIAU HOUR NIC,
on the part of the House, j
The minority report of the same;
committee, ought not to pass,
(Signed)
GOULD, |
EMERY,
on the part of the Senate, i
SPEAR.
CHAMBERLAIN.
on the part of the House. !
Mr. SPENCER of York: Mr. j
President, I move that we concur
with the House in the adoption of
the majority report, ought not to.
pass. i
Mr. THOMPSON of Knox: Mr.
President. I move that the matter j
lie on the table.
Mr. THOMBS of Penobscot: Mr. i
President, I would like to inquire '
whether matters laid on the table
may not be definitely assigned? I
think in the next two cessions there
will be senators absent, and I
think that matters of importance
ought to be assigned definitely.
Mr. THOMPSON: Mr. President,
I have no desire for delay. If there'
is any special arrangement on tho :
part of the Senate whereby these 1
matters arc taken up for discussion,
I do not know as I have any objec
tion to that.
The PRESIDENT: The pending
question is the motion to table, and j
is not debatable.
The motion to table was put and
was declared lost.
The PRESIDENT: There two re
ports. and in order that the Senate
may have this matter before it. the
reports divide the town, and Senator
Spencer moves that the majority re
port, ought not to pass, be accepted
in concurrence with the House.
Mr. SPRAGUE of Piscataquis: I
would like to ask, Mr. President,
what that report is?
(The secretary read the report
again.)
The PRESIDENT: And the!
senator from York. Senator Spencer,!
moves that the majority report, '
ought not, lo pass, be accepted.
Mr. THOMPSON: Mr. President,!
would it be in order at this time to !
move to lay it on tho table and have (
it especially assigned for tomorrow,
morning?
The PRESIDENT: The Senate’
has voted not to lay the matter on .
the table. The Chair will entertain ’
the motion to assign for a time cer- j
tain. ’ I
Mr. THOMPSON: Mr. President,!
T move that the matter lie on the [
table until tomorrow morning.
Mr. SPENCER of York: Mr. j
President, I would like to have this |
matter considered at a time when !
there are at least half of the Senate j
here, and tomorrow morning is no j
fim to consider it.
Mr. THOMPSON: Mr. President. I
I suppose the motion to a fixed time
is debatable.
The PRESIDENT: As to the time j
but not as to the merits of the bill.
Mr. THOMPSON: Now, Mr. Presi
dent, all I have to say on fixing the
, time is this. This matter was re- :
ported out of the committee I should !
think five or six weeks ago. It has j
been in the hands of the committee
until within a few days, and it was !
reported with a change of one vote
in the report. It was then a divided |
report, it is now a divided report,
and after the lapse of all this time
I think a party should be entitled
to at least twenty-four hours in
which to think it over inasmuch as
all this delay has gone on. That is
ail I ask for.
Mr. \SPENCEU: Mr. President,
this matter has been in the hands of
the committee twice and I think that
there were two votes changed in the
committee report. It was formerly
a majority report in favor of ought
to pass. I think everybody knows
that. It is now a majority report
against ought to pass. I my self
personally have never changed my
position upon it, and I do not see
where w-o can gain anything by de
laying the matter at this time of the
session.
The PRESIDENT: The question
is upon the motion of the senator
from Knox, Senator Thompson, that
the consideration be postponed until
tomorrow’ morning.
A viva voce vote being doubted, a
rising vote was had and the motion
wras lost.
Mr. THOMPSON: Mr. president, 1
And on my desk this morning certain
tilings suggested here, and an insin
uation, partly on account of which r
asked the indulgence of the Senate
for a postponement of twenty-four
hours. I submit that withholding
this literature until this time, and
dumping it upon the desks of the
Senators at a time when there is no
opportunity to answer it unless you
answer it right off your feet, is not
a proceeding which addresses itself
to the fairness of fair-minded men.
Now' this matter has been set forth
.before the committee. It was reported
out six to four ought to pass, and
the .Senator from York, Senator Spen
cer, says he has seen no reason to
change his mind. I regret that lie
sees lit to press a discussion of the
matter at this time, being a member
himself of that committee and hav
ing a pronounced opinion, which he
is perfectly entitled to. It puts one
who wishes to consider the matter at
an unfair advantage and I ask the
indulgence of the Senate at this time
in connection with this matter, to
show the circumstances under which
i labor and the facts that are set
here whicli 1 may have to meet.
Now, Mr. President, this being a
divided report carries no presumption
one way or the other. In fact, the
fact that it is a divided report makes
it not only probable and possible and
desirable on the part of the Senate
to consider the matter in Us own be
half, independently of the committee,
but really makes it tiieir duty. So
it is in that position of mind that
1 approach a discussion of the ques
tion, braring in mind all the time
that I do it under protest, owing to
the circumstances under which this
matter has been directed or thrust
upon tiie attention of the Senate.
Now the people here seeking a di
vision are put down in this propa
ganda in this way: ‘‘The campaign
for division is being conducted hy
men who have lived in the town less
than two years and was begun about
a year ago.'’ So much for that alle
gation. Those young men have been
here at their own expense more or
less during the session, came here
once to a session of the committee,
and as a result of that hearing the
action of the committee was six to
four in favor of a division. They
went home. For some reason or
other and for some cause unknown
to me the matter was recommitted
and after a length of several weeks
it conies out from the committee
again with a report which is itself
again divided. I understand that
there has been a change of one mem
ber in the report of the committee,
that is, it was six to four tljen, and
it is five to five now—tjiat means a
change of one. Whether anything
happened during that time to change
this vote of one, I do not know. 1
do not know that it is material. It
is sufficient for me to notice, how
ever, that during the absence of this
report from the House and its pres
ence in the hands of the’'committee,
there was certainly a lobby main
tained against division in this Legis
lature. These young men who are
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in here and as they have said -who
conducted the campaign were resi
dents of the town for only two years,
and that is used as a blot against
them and as a reason why the town
should not be divided. These are
young men. Is it a crime to be a
young man? I think not. Our state
spends a good deal of money on the
education of its young men. The
strength of a community, the strength
of a nation exists, if it exists at all,
in the character and strength of its
young men.
But that fact Is not true. There
are men engaged in this division who
have been residents in this town for
thirty years—-that fact is not true,
but it is put out before this 'Legis
lature, before this Senate at the elev
enth hour as a reason why this town
should not be divided. I submit to
you, gentlemen, In all fairness and in
all candor, that that is not a sub
stantial reason. Now let me say-an
other word in behalf oi these young
men. These two young men were in
the service. They fought for their
country. One was in the army, one
was in the navy. One was a volun
teer. and the man in the navy was
in the draft. I submit, gentlemen of
the Senate, that if they come back
here they are entitled to some con
sideration, and if they happen to set
tle In the town of South Thomaston
apjl come here expressing their dis
satisfaction with' the present method
of municipal government, they are
entitled to receive consideration. I
ask you, gentlemen, in the spirit of
fairness, if this thing should be
rushed in the Senate by such litera
ture as this. Now they are poor. It
1 is no disgrace to be poor. Being poor
has its disadvantages but it is not a
: disgrace. If men who have come to
I live in a small town believe that they
are not being fairly treated, they
have a right to come to the Legis
lature and explain their views and
ask for the righting of those wrongs.
Now so much for that. I submit that
it is no disgrace, and they come here
as fair petitioners, asking for a fair
thing. Now that raises the question,
how long has a man got to live in a
j town before he has a right to a peti
jtion? 1 leave that to the Senate.
Now who has maintained this lob
by here that has changed the vote of
this one man here who is a member
; of the town and the House? The rec
j ords of the Knox County registry
I show that two of the men who are
| fighting this division have real estate
mortgages to the amount of $30,000,
j which escape taxation under our law.
| Do you wonder that these men do not
come here and plead for this, these
lobbyists? How much tax do they
pay? As I say, the records of the
county show that two of these men
who come here in the lobby and fight
against this division, have $30,000 of
mortgaged property on the records of
; Knox County. At the rate of taxa
tion of South Thomaston, 34 mills,
that would amount to $1000 a year,
lover $1000 a year. Now their answer
| to that is, I suppose, that this prop
erty is exempt by law. That is true.
They have taken advantage of the
law. But the reason why they come
here is that they can engage the at
tention of the Legislature on some
thing else, on the question division,
while they escape their taxes. On
the other hand, these young men in
| business down at Owl's Head, all the
property they have is exposed to the
sunlight and rain, to the gaze and ob
■ servation, and they pay u substantial
tax, a tax of over $200. And they
! have on their payroll, in the busy
season of the year when they re' en
gaged in the fishing business, they
have a pay roll of $1100 a week. I
, submit, gentlemen, that that entitles
; them to some consideration, and .that
is a thing that should he taken into
account in this matter. You can rea
dily see why these men who hold $30,
! 000 in nntaxed mortgages should b-t
willing for 1hc town to stand togeth
er and not be divided. That is a per
[ fectly natural proposition.
But these men say, these men who
: seek division come into the Legisla
ture and say that they live between
four and five miles from the city of
Rockland, that the roads are in bad
shape; they say they have been ne
giccien. it napponea wmie this mat
ter was in the hands of the commit
tee, about three or four weeks ago, as
I was going home one Saturday night,
two men sat behind me on the train
between Brunswick and Rockland,
and this matter of the division of the
town of South Thomaston had been
engaging' the attention of the commit- !
tee and that matter was under dis-'
cussion between the two men in the
seat beiiind me. One man said to the j
other, “Didn't you own a cottage I
down there to South Thomaston?” He
says, “Yes, I owned one but the roads
were so poor and it took so much
time to go and come that I sold it.” I
overheard that conversation, gentle
men. Now these young men have to
go over these roads, such as these
men on the train described. They
are in the fishing business. They can
not get the roads in the condition
that they want to go over there—they
have to depend upon their own re
sources largely to get their roads and j
to get to market. Personally .1 have |
been over those roads myself, and if |
they were a fair sample of the road3
in Maine, you want to be careful how
you ride over them, and as you ride
over them you can well say, “God
save my neck!” and if the roads in
the State are like what they have you
can well say “God save the State of
Maine along with it!”
Now they object further to *he
method by which municipal affialcs
are conducted. They have no repre
sentation on the board of selectmen, a
very small representation in all these
years.
They complain that business is con
ducted slackly and laxly. Why, gen
tlemen, right here in the Senate the
other day, I asked a suspension of the j
rules that a resolve to the amount of
$500 might pass this Legislature for
the benefit of the town of South
Thomaston for the high school fund.
That was owing to the business being
done In that way. Now that resolve
which I asked the Senate to pass, and
which it did pass, was for $500 for tile
amount due from the State treasury
for the school fund for the year end
ing July'l, 1919, almost two years ago.
In other words, on account of ineffi
cient, incompetent management, the
town of South Thomaston had lost
the interest -on $500 for a year and a
half, or $45—lost that much. Do you
wonder, gentlemen of the Senate, that
these people do not like that kind of
town government? And do you won
der that they want to be separated?
I think not. It is no answer to say
that that was the neglect of the su
perintendent. He was their superin
tendent, a superintendent of their
own choosing, and if they didn't get
the money in the Stdte treasury for
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STATE OF MAINE
KENNEBEC, ss.—Superior Court in
Vacation.
Augusta, March 18th, 1921.
Elizabeth E. Boucher, Lib't, vY Ed
ward G. Boucher.
Upon the annexed Writ and Libel, it
is ordered by me, the undersigned. Jus
tice of said Court, that notice thereof
lie given to the Libelee by publishing
an attested copy of the same, or an ab
stract thereof, together with this order
thereon, three weeks syccessivgly in
the Kennebec Journal, a newspaper
I minted in Augusta, in said County of
| Kepnebeo, the last publication to be
thirty days at least before the next
■ term of said Court, to be holden at
' Waterville within and for said County
of Kennebec, on the second Tuesday
of June next, that he may then anil
there appear in said Court and answer
thereto if he see fit.
Attest: FftED EMERY BEANE,
Justice Superior Court!
Copy of Libel.
The Libelant alleges that he was
married to the sail libelee at Lewiston
in the State of Maine on the 2.1th day
of February, !»li, the said libelant
and libelee cohabited in this State aft
er their said marriage; that the libelant
resided in this State when the cause
of divorce accrued as hereinafter set
forth, and lad resided here in good
faitli one year prior to the date hereof
that the libelant has ever been faith
ful to her marriage obligations; that
being of sufficient ability he lias gross
ly, wantonly and cruelly neglected and
refused to provide suitable mainte
nance for your libelant; that he has
been guilty or' cruel and abusive treat
ment and extreme cruelty towards lior,
as follows, to wit:
That three children have been born
to them during their said marriage,
now living, viz: Robert L. Boucher
4 years old; J-M.vard J. Boucher ?,
years old. Elizabeth F. Boucher-twenty
months old.
Wherefore, she prays that a divorce
from the bonds of matrimony between
herself and said libelee may be de
creed. and that the care and '•\sp\ndy
of their minor children may be given
to her; also that reasonable alimony
be decreed to her out of his estate; or
in lieu thereof that a specific sum be
paid to her by him.
And the libelant further alleges that
she has used reasonable diligence to
ascertain the present residence of said
libelee, hut >s unable to do so, and
does not know where it is.
ELIZABETH E. BOUCHER,
Libeian t. ;
Kennebec, ss., March 17. 1921.-—The]
said Libelant made oath that the above
allegation as to the residence of the
Libelee is true.
Before me,
(Sea!)
MEL\TN E. SAWTEL^E
Notary Public.
A true copy of the order of notice
and libel, *
After t: C. W. JONES, Clerk.
mari9sat3t
two years, whose fault was it but
their own? Nobody's but their own
Now I want to read from the mnt
annual report of the municipal offi
errs'of the town of South Thomas**.->n
for the year ending March 1. 1921. 0
is the superintendent of their own
choosing who makes this report. The
report is dated—I do not know as
there is any date to it but suhmxttel
for the current report. Tie endeavors
to discuss the school situation. He
says:
"The textbooks were in poor con
tiition generally and antiquated. As
far as the funds would permit, I have
inaugurated changes. The new books
have been put into those schools that
were most in need. No teacher can
produce results in the school room
without modern texts any more than
the farmer without modern tools.
The schoolhouses and toilets are in
u most unsatisfactory condition. The
grammar school building is the best
of any in town . None of the others
a:e suitable for school purposes in
their present state of repair.” In
view of all that has -passed here this
vinter in regard to these matters,
notice, these observations of their
own school superintendent: Again,
resuming at the top of page 2fi:
"None of the others are suitable
for school pui poses in their present
state of repair. The toilets are in
worse condition than the school
rooms. I havo not entered any one
of them that is in fit condition for
use. The complaint comes to me that
in some instances where an effort
has been made by the school to keep
them clean, nuisances have been com
muted when teacher and pupils'were
not there. The only cure is a suit
able building connected with the
school house so that there is no en
tianct from the outside. To spend a
few dollars each year patching these
buildings or the schoolhouses is
money wasted. The economical thing
to do is for the town to lay out a
repair and building program over a
s< ries of years.” A little further on:
"The surest way for the town to
continue to lose population is to al
low its schools and equipment to fall
bcn>nd the times. The best business
iinesunent which it can make is in
modern school plants, structures to
I which the pupils and the townspeo
j pie can point with pride and around
I which can be built a school spirit
j and a town spirit that will make
J people do things for the public good.
[ I cannot make specific recommenda
f tions in tnis report because it would
be too long.” ,
And so it goes on. I will not take
the time of the Senate, which 1 know
is very precious at this time, to read
more, lly only excuse for talking at
all is that wc might have talked this
matter over two or three weeks ago
just as weil as we can now, and I
beg of tlie Senate to be indulgent
wiili me for that reason, and I ap
p al for that reason to its spirit of
fairness.
Now again, relative to some of its
bills. Among the resources of the
town are uncollected taxes and tax
deeds as-though there were a double
resource there. 1 have taken pains
to find this out that among the un
collected taxes are the tax deeds, so
that which^appears’ to be a double re
source is only one resource in fact.
And their total liabilities alter de
ducting their resouices they figure at
$V11, so that when you count the
double resource that is in the re
sources of uncollected taxes and tax
deeds, your surplus disappears.
NoW they have in hfre something
tl at is due from the high school on
account of tlie high* school fund, due
from tiie fcstate $1000. Five hundred
dollars of tiiat lias been wiped out
y .he resolution about which 1 spoke
only a few moments ago. Now for
.Jilt: year ending July 1, 101:0 is an
other $500, and under llie suggestion
of tin. Htale superintendent I see no
method given under heaven or among
men wheieby they can get this $500,
which was due a year ago, until the
next meeting of the Legislature. Now
I submit to you, gentlemen of the
Senate, if that is not a condition of
municipal government from which
any reasonable man might justly seek
to be divorced. 1 submit to you that
it is.
j There is something else that 1 re
| call here as I have this report.
| One of the men who appeared be-^
i lore the committee, and l heard him
: testify—although 1 cannot say hon
I ustly that I heard everything lie said,
but he admitted at the hearing before
the committee that there was a differ
ence in the amount expended for
; schools as published in the report and
the amount of money spent for
schools as shown by the figures of
[ the town officers themselves. Now
| that man here is against division. Do
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you wonder at it? In the list of un
paid taxis for 1920 appears the name
of Ethan A. Rowell for *18.70. IK
you wonder that those young men
who were manly enough to go inti
the "World War, object to such a gov
ernment as that to tell them how
they shall run their business, and car
you blame them, gentlemen, for ask
ing for a division where business
can be done under statutory and busi
ness methods? Certainly, I think not
Now relative to this same Ethar
A. Rowell is an item here where they
paid him a little bill for services or
the school board, $12. In other words
| they pay him *12. and in-the same
! i< port advertise his unpaid tax foi
$18.70. In other words, instead ol
{deducting the. difference on coileet
| ing the amount of *tl.70. the amount
I which he owed the town, they pay
1 him his bill for $12 and advertise
, his tax as an unpaid tax. I submit
■ to you gentlemen, that that is not an
j entirely satisfactory way of doing
business.
Now in reports for other years,
town reports. 1 have noticed that this
same man goes on as an unpaid tax
payer in their annual reports for sev
eral years. Against such methods Of
doing business these young men raise
a protest in that they seek a divi
sion. They say it is not business to
carry on business in that way, nei
ther by a town nor by anybody else.
You have seen the condition which
the house is in relative to its school.
These young men are men with fam
ilies. They have children to educate.
And they have the only industry that
there is in the town of South Thom
aston. I received last night a local
paper in which there is an article en
i it J <1 "The? Charms of Wessakeag,"
as they call it, the Indian name, which
is in fact South Thomaston. 1 know
not who the- writer is, T think she is
a resident of South Thomaston.
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are trying to foster themselves. They
are trying to get ahead notwithstand
ing the things against them in the
shape of schools and schoolhouses,
the condition which has been detail d
to you by their own sworn officer not
withstanding the condition of the
roads, they are laboring under all
these difficulties, and the only thing
fh> y ask is a free trial and fair show
under .reasonable conditions and
among fairminded men in business
competition. The matter was further
rubbed in bv their not giving them
any representation on the board of
selectmen, except as I understand, as
they elected a woman there who is
aged about 70—a respectable woman i
guess, I know nothing against her
and I should be loath to believe it if
I did, elected her as the second se
lectman. You see how the thing i»
being rubbed into them, m cause they
started to put up this fight, if you see
fit to call it by the name of a fight
Now in these years that are past,—I
bate to take the time of the Senate,
but I feel as though X must say some
lew things here and 1 assure you,
gentlemen, that I am nearly through
—in the last 21 years they have had
only'12 men—which is the larger part
of the volution—only 12 men on the
board of selectmen from that section
of the town.
; Now there are more things that f
I might say but 1 realize that the time
; °f the Senate is precious ami l rea
lize that I have taken perhaps all
the time I should, but the fact that
i this matter lias been kept back when
, it might have been tak> n up and dis
! cussed thoroughly in all ils phases at
•an earlier time in the session, and
| Without any fault on my part, lead,
j me to the belief that I have not tres
passed too much, gentlemen, and it
is with this apology made to you that
I have taken the time that I have,
and I ask you to consider this matter
; fairly, gentlemen, and give it your
due consideration so far forth as you j
rnaj be able to do under circumstan
ces that are as pressing as there.!
I Thank you.
Mr. KATON of Oxford: Mr. Presi
dent, 1 wish to say .lust a word in
support of my position in this mat
ter and upon the report which I
signed I do not think my friend.
Senator Thompson, would have'you
think for a moment that this matter
was not given a fair and full bear
ing. The committee on towns heard
this matter on the afternoon and
evening of February 17th, the bear
ing commencing at two o'clock in
the afternoon and with about an
hour and a half for'supper we were
in session until olevfen o'clock in the
evening. So that I submit that each
side had an opportunity and did
present its case fully and complete
ly.
A majority of your committee
were not convinced that this divis
ion was for the good of the territory
in question. The town of South
Tliomaston in the past ten years lias
lost in population dll), over ono
tbird of its population, and to make
a division of a town now that has
only fMi. and that decrease in popu
lation is likely to continue—vbtt will
have two small towns that we be
lieve are not as well off, will rot be
as well off os In their present situn
'tion.
Mr. SPENOEH of York: Mr.
President and fellow senators, I have
only the greatest respect for the
senator from Knox, not only from
w-hut I have seen of him here this
sess'on, but also for bis opinions as
be has expressed them. I do not
feel, however, that the enactment of
any law should have in it the ele- |
merit of courtesy. T feel that the!
State is above everything else, and |
that when we do anything here we
do it for the interest of the State.
When we consider a proposition like
this we have to consider three par
ties. There is no other way. One j
party is the obi town itself; the other j
party is the proposed new town; and j
the third party, if you want to put i
it in that order, is the State of Maine.
Tn this matter, as Senator Eaton
has said, the committees took the
matter Under very careful advise
ment. They were aevon hours lis
Committee Hearings
• INLAND FISHERIES AN 3 GAME
The committee on Inland Fisheries
I mid Game will give a public hearing
i in its rooms qt the .Stale House, in
i Augusta, on
i TUESDAY. Al’R. 5, 1921. 2 P. M„ on
i No. 5fi. An Act to repeal Chapters!
! of the Public Laws of 1921 entitled
; "An Act to provide funds for opcrat
! ing tlie fish hatcheries ami feeding
I stations for fish.”
i No. 27. An Act to repeal Chapter
I of the Public laws 1921 entitled “An
Act to amend .Section 1 of Chapter Si
of tlie Public Laws of 1917, as amend
ed by Chapter 244 of the Public Utri
! of 1917. relating to non-resident iish
; ing license fees.”
ARTHUR A. CRAFTS. Sec.
tening to the proponents and oppon- i
ents to this bill.^md I think that
four hours out of tlie seven were j
demoted to the proponents. Now as j
Ao the character of the proponents
evidence in this matter, If it can be
called Such, what was presented to
tiie committee was not official, it was
simply the idea of each individual as
to why this thing should occur in
f (Continued on Paje 5—Col. 1)
Assist Nature. There afe times when
you should assist nature, it is new
undertaking to cleanse your system—
i| you wiil take Hood's Sarsaparilla
the undertaking w ill be sure. ssuil.
1 nis kit at medicine purifies and builds
up as nothing eise does.—Aciv.
WEST GARDINER
W iiliam If. Hopkins returned to his
home in Canaan Monday.
Mr. and .Mrs. Aubrey Snow are pass
ing a week's vacation with Mr. Snow's
parents, Mr. and .Mrs. R, J„ Snow.
Mrs. George Hamblin and little son
Edward of Winthrop are visiting Airy i
Hamblin's mother, Mrs. Atibic Morgan.
George Hamblin lias returned to
Winthrop, after passing a few days in
town.
.Miss Alice Parsons is passing the
Easter vacation at home.
Mrs. \V. A. Hopkins attended Easter
services in Gardiner Sunday.
William Emery lias accepted a po
sition in the Commonwealth shoe fac
tory in Gardiner.
-Mr. and Airs. Roy DeFratus and
daughter Aiadaline of Rath, recently
were guests of Air. DeFratus’ parents.
Air. and Mrs. A. W. DeFratus.
Another case of measles is reported
In town.
Karl Collins has eeturned to Rruns
wick. after passing several weeks with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. S. Collins.
Air. and Airs. Alonzo Spear have re
turned to their summer homo, after
passing tlie winter in Roston.
Several from this place were hap
tiz*d in Gardiner Sunday.
Raymond Gatehell or Hallowed is
stopping at his cottage at X.akc Cob
oo8*t*ecoiUee.
At a special town meeting held
«t Brunswick Thursday afternoon,
it was voted to raise $12,000 by a
temporary loan, to build a roadway
of concrete on the westerly side of
the electric car tracks on Alain
street, between PJeasant and Lin
coln streets, the work to be done
under the direction of a committee
consisting of Isiah It. Morrell, I)r.
Charles II. Cumston, Harry \V. Var
noy. Norman G. Smith and Samuel
Knight.
Killed by Fall
Samuel Hansen, aged about 40. em
ployed at the yard of the Texas
Steamship Company at Bath, was
instantly killed Wednesday after
noon when he fell from a staging u*
the top bf the hull of a steamer un
der construction. He was climbing
from the upper deck to an outside
staging, when it is supposed be
caught bis heel and fell. Hi* skull
was crushed and bis neck broken.
Hensen was a native .of Norway,
and came here from Brownfield.
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