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THE CALL OF THE SEA Capt John Hill a Native of Maine After 25 Years of Ranch Life Returns to Salt Water Spokane Wash November 27 After a quarter century of struggle against the never ceasing call of the sea during which he was a rancher at Wardnerin the heart of the Coeur d Alene mining district in northern Idaho east of Spo kane Capt John Hill 76 years of age has decided to pass the evening of his life on salt water He is going to Puget Sound thence down the coast to southern California back to San Francisco sail ing thence around the Horn to the north Atlantic coast where he put out of Port land harbor for the gold camps on the Pacific 57 years ago Captain Hill sailed on foreign waters and on the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans 36 years before coming to the Spokane country and he knows every rock and inlet reef and shoal between Halifax N S and the northern straits of Alaska and now that he has plenty of money as the result of a satisfactory settlement out of court with a mining companyafter seven years litigationfor damages to his ranch
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glanalbsonbilk Didf Three Dollars a Year Republican Central Executive Oommitte4 State of Louisaiapa S B PACKARD President JAMES LEWIS Vice President CHARLES HILL Secretary L LAMANIERE Assistant Seey J R G PITKIN Correspdg Sey B F JOUBEKT Treasurer susaxacUtrsV cOmmITra 8 B Packard Chairman exofficio B F Flanders James F Casecy 1B F Joubert C W Lowell Michael Hahn James Longetreet James Lewis C C Antoine John 8 Harris T T Allain R A Bray F Riard FINANCE COMEITTBB O C Blandin Chairman B F Joubert P B S Pinchback C F Ladd T B Stamps Levi Darrall John Gelr William F Loan J L Herwig Thomas A Cage L E Bentley ADDIrIONAL 3x3sER E W Dewees George Y Kelso Raford Blunt Allen Greene J Ed Burton D C P Hill Louis J Souer Communications should be addressed to the president Hon S B Packard New Or leans La Republican Parish Executive Committee Parish of Ascension PIERRE LANDRY President L E BENTLEY Secretary P A JONES Assistant Secretary G H HILL Treasurer Louis Butler George Diggs Owen White Carpenter Jenkins Willis Johnson George Woodaide Manuel Johnson Edward Cantey N M Conway Louis Lefort Robert Noel Nathan Hays Joseph Reyuaud Frederick
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rr i The Suffrage Resolve Passed by the Maine House 113 to 35 Augusta Me Feb 211917 Suffrage for the women of Maine on equal terms with men won the greatest victory in the history of the movement today when the House of Representatives of the 78th Maine Legislature voted 113 to 35 with only three members absent to submit the question to the people The vote m the House followed a lively debate which involved an exchange of personalities between Representative Bussabarger of Lubec a Democrat and leader of the Democratic faction in favor of the resolve and Representative Mur ray of Bangor Democratic floor leader and leader of the faction of the Demo cratic party opposed to the passage of 4he resolve Others who took part in the debate were Representative Percival P Baxter of Portland Republican Free man D Dearth of Dexier Republican Charles E Gurney of Portland Repub lican Seth L Snow of Mars Hill Re publican Theodore W Longley of Sidney Republican and Ralph 0 Brewster of Portland Republican in favor of the resolve and Representative Sherman L Berry of Waterville Democrat Edward W Larrabee of BathDemocrat John L Meserve of Naples Democratand Edgar E
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Back Numbers Two recent deaths in one family ir Machias recall boyhood memories of thal historic town Few towns in New Eng land of its size couldcompare with it ir the intelligence culture and sterling qualities of its people The old families included the Longfellows from the same stock as thepoet the Porters to one of this family Machia3 is indebt ed for her public library the OBriens of Revolutionary fame the Crockers the Hills Sargents and others all more or less distinguishedand all worthy law abiding Godfearing citizens Two mem bers of the Holway family and I think the last of their generation died withir one week Miss Eilen C Holway daughter of the late John and Leonici Crocker Holway died March 3 1912 aged 8 years As I recall her she was something of an invalid and it seems surprising that she should have attainec so great an age She was fond of flow ers and in the season there was a wealtl of bloom around the hospitable Holwaj home on what was known as the Dublir side of the Machias river I recall he as working about her flowers out oi doors or seated in a low
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WEDDING BELLS ClementChilds In the presence of immediate relatives Mary Adeline only daughter of Mrs Hiram Veazey Childs of East Hampdeu was mar ried to Irving Owen Clement of Seal Harbor Ale at the home of the bride on Bevin Hill at 6 p m Aov 14th Rev Hugh E Brown pastor of the Congre gational church of which the bride is a member performed the ceremony the Episcopal service being used the bride being given in marriage by her mother The v marriage took piace beneath a bower of hemlock smilax and yellow chrysanthemums in the drawing room to which the bridal party proceeded from the rooms above coming down through the hall which together with the other rooms below was prettily decorated with laurel ferns aud chrys anthemums the color scheme being yellow and green Professor aud Mrs R R Cone played the weddiug march from Lohengrin as the bridal party moved forward also playing during the evening The order was as follows Rev Hugh E Brown the groom ac companied by the best man his cousin John C Clement of Belfast Me ma tron of honor Mrs Edward C Childs of Manset Me sisterinlaw of the bride