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Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
How's Your Hair?
oowditch, Webster G. Co. Announce
That They Have at Last Secured
Cure for Hair Troubles.

We beg to announce to the people of
Augusta that we have secured the
agency for one of the greatest discov-
cries of recent years. We refer TO the
PRESCRIPTION of Sir Erasmus Wilson. NJ.
D., England's most successful special
ist In diseases of the scalp, who was
knighted for his many successes in the
treatment of skin and scalp. Upon the
death of DR.. Wilson this prescription
was secured by American chemists and
Is now offered to the public under the
name Of DR. Wilson'S English Life to
the Hair. This preparation will grow
hair on bald heads even after all else
fails. Unlike other hair preparations
1t is not sticky or greasy, but gives a
live and glossy appearance to the hair.
Miss Cornelia Stevens, 6 Smith Ave,
Boston, Mass, says: "Dr. Wilson's
English Life to the Hair grew a mag
nificent head of hair for me after I
was told that / was becoming hopeless
ly bald. My hair now reaches nearly
to my waist and is heavy and glossy.
I cannot too highly recommend it," If
you are CROWN. bald, troubled with
eruptions, dandruff, scales or any scalp
troubles try DR.. Wilson's Life to the
Hair. Albert Chemical Co, Boston,
Mass, proprietors. Sold by Bowditch,
Webster & Co., Augusta, Me. Price
80 cents.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
KENhEBEC.
BENTON FALLS.

An interesting session of Sunday-school
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WorhtIs 'ili oth'lS WIS hciu' frloay'
April 16. nj Benton Falls, under the di-
rccticn of the county Officers. assisted by
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Lucy Stock elementary worker whose
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work. and wpo will conduct this depart
mrnt throuchout Maine Srnday-schooIs
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'iiu i'u 'ho 'i'c'i'' "e'h i"iiii'is' 'u'
house would nave been hilCd to overflow
ing. An accident on the cIectrics caused
a susrension! for u fow d3vs IIoueyer y
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19

decay in the soil. | believe it is the
lack of this material more than the
lack Of plant food that reduces my
yields"
When a plant decays in the soil it
returns to the soil practically all that
WAS taken from ii, except the nitrogen.
But there are additional benefits. In
the decay of the plant certain acids
are formed that help to dissolve and
make available"-that is, palatabe-
some of the plant food in the soil that
is in a form unpalatable to the plant
This is Il very important office and
one that is not yet well understood
even by experts in soil investigation.
Moreover. If the plants grown for
making into hunuS belong to the class
called "lcgumcs," they may quite ma
teIially enrich the soil in the plant
food nitrogen.
There arc other scarcely loss i'm
p"rtant means Of improving the tex
ture of a soil and hence increasing it's
productive powers. These can be
merely mentioned here. Application
of farm manurcS of various kinds are
the very best treatment that can be
S'N'ii' are uSudIly NaluaDle
fully as much for the humus they con-
tain and for their beneficial effect on
the texture of the soil as for the
actual plant food that the chemist
finds in them. Every practical farmer
knows that there is no quicker and
better way Of getting hard" piece of
land in good heart than by dressing it
literally with manure. But most
1arms do not make enough manure to
cover the land. Then green manur-
ing can take its place.
thorough tillage improves the tex
ture of soils by breaking up the Jumps.
common mistake in farming is lacK
OF thoroughness in the preparation of
the soil for planting. Three more
harrowings might increase the crop as
much as several bags of fertilizer.
Under drainage improves the tex
ture of soils. If they are too wet in
wet times and baked in dry times.
they need drainage. Some soils do not
respond to fertilizers and weld IN
satisfactorily because their texture is
bad from poor drainage. Again. lime
land plaster and other amendments
may sometimes be employed to adyan-
tase for improving soil texture.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19

and plants corn. For few years. per-
haps for many years, the crops are
large; but after while they begin to
dwindle
The farmer then seeks to maintain
his yields by applications of fer
tilizcrs. These help some, but do not
s. en- to restore the land to its carly
productive power. The farmer is Il
thoughtful man; he begins to wonder
where the trouble lies. How can his
piSmy crops Of grain exhaust the soil
more than tho great forest crop of ma
ture's farming? Surely these few
bushels Of corn that he raises on an
acre Cach year can not take out of the
soil a fifticth part Of the plant food
that was needed by the lofty trees the
Clalnhering vines ana carpcting herb
hg" of natures crop. This puzzles the
farmer He takes a sample of his soil
TO be analyZcd The chemists report
IS astonishing. He tells the farmer
that tho soil contains enough of all the
necessary plant foods to grow
scventy-five bushels of corn an acre
for more than hundred years. Yet
The yield has fallen from sixty to forty
''''ii'''7 VI wi IL aIl acre, ana aDpIlcd-
tons of fertilizers, though they in
crease the yield considerably, do not
secure the results Of fifty years ago
the chemist says, moreover, that most
OF the so-callcd worn OUT soils are
rich. actually rich, in liant food and
ought to. produce good crops. WHY is
this?
The farmer if he studies and in
VestlSates, comes to this conclusion:
1t is decaying vegetation that my soil
needs. My farm has been cropped
with corn, oats and potatoes for fifty
years. No vegetation has been re-
turned to it except the stubble and
roots OF the grain, the tops and roots
OF the potatoes and a few weeds. For
HIty years my father and have been
eXhauslng the soil of its vegetable
matter. No wonder the soil gets
cloddier and harder to work every
year. II needs more of this decaying
matter 10 separate the particles and
make 1t looser and more fibrous.
KNOW why it suffers worse from
uiought than it used tot has not
enough of the spongy material in it to
hoid the moisture. I am going to try
ASo"lhg sorDe crop to ploW under and
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
For Practical Farmers

soil contains, but it does mean the
facility with which the water is pre-
scented to the crop. In other words,
good texture means that the maChin-
cry of the soil is well oiled and in run
ming order; not that there is plenty Of
raw material-plant foOd-in it, out of
which a profitable crop can be manu-
facturcd There is no better way of
expressing it than in the language of
the farm: The texture of the soil is the
way it works up" Everybody who
has handled soil at all knows exactly
what is meant by that.
There are several ways of putting in
good texture a soil that has become
cloddy, stiff, and in bad heart" Tho
most practicable way, usually, is Ma
lures way--to keep it filled with hui
mus.
"Humus" is another word that is
fast becoming established in the
vocabulary and in the practice Of the
successful farmer of today. "Humus."
"green manurs," and "good texture"
express trinity of agricultural ideas
that are improving our farming more
than anything else except, possibly,
plant breeding. No one who grows
crops can afford to be ignorant of their
significance.
Although the term humus is now in
common use. there is much haziness
about the conception that underlies it,
The best illustration Of the use of hu-
mus is found in Natures farming.
Here is piece of virgin soil. For
centuries it has nurtured herbs, grass
es. vines. shrubs. trees. In numberless
cycles plants have been born upon it.
have grown to maturity, reproduced
their kind. died. decayed and have re-
turned to the soil. From their sub
stance have sprung other plants
Each year the soil becomes richer
from the return of its children and is
able to nourish lustier offspring. 1t
may thus come to haye upon it great
trees, standing so high and so thick
that we wonder how such a thin
rocky soil can support them.
Then a farmer clears the land, up-
roots tte stumrs, subdues the. herbacc
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
LINCOLN.
NORTH WALDOBORO.

George Oliver went to Waldoboro
Saturday.
David Williams and Ralph Stahi
went to Warren Monday.
Alden Winchonback went to Mank
Town Sunday to work for John Elan
ders.
Mrs. Fannie Euslcy is in very poor
is with her.
Bert Bornhcimer, Ellsworth Mank
ard Harold Schuman went to Waldo
bcro Monday.
Master William Mank. who has been
visiting relatives here, returned TO his
home in West Waldoboro Monday.
Miss Agnes Phillips Of Waldoboro is
teaching the school here and is board
ing with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank L..
league.
Mrs. Raymond Mcintyre who has
been passing three weeks with rela-
tIvcs and friends in Bridsewa1cr, Mass,
has returned home.
Miss Ida Welt who has been spend
ing a few days with Mrs. L. c. league,
has returned to ner home in Waldobo-
70.
Moron and Foster Mank. Nina and
Francis Miller and Louie league at
tended Grange meeting at Waldoboro
Friday evening.
Mrs. Winnie Mathews and children
who have been passing Il few weeks
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. T. Fl.
Mank, have returned to their home in
the village.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
NORTH BOWDOIN.

Frank NoycS of Lewiston is visiting
IT the home of Mrs. Stephen Small
Mr.. and Mrs. Linwood Card recently
passed a day with friends in Lewis
ton.
Danforth g. Narncy lost good COW
Monday after an illness Of a few hours
William f. Small bought six head of
cattle Friday from Sylvester Stewart
w. S. Small of Lisbon Falls visited
relatives i'll town a few days last
week.
Joseph Tarr. one of our most respect
ed citizens, died Saturday, after Il long
decline, aged 70 years.
Because of the inclcmcncy of the
weather Sunday. services 1T III" church
in this district were suspended.
Schools in town will comm encc April
%. The Jacques schoo! opened Mon
lay under the instruction of Miss Amy
Taylor of Litchfield.
The last traces of snow have diSap-
ptarcd under the late rain, and the
reads were never in worse condition.
Very little travelling is done, except
for the most urgent errands.
DR.. sleeper was in this place Thurs
day, called for consultation in the case
Of Mrs. Alexander Ridley, who is
critically i'll. Her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth
Thomas of Bath is the attending
nurse.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
TO IMPROVE TEXTURE OF SOIL
Value Of Green Manures.

There has recently come into our
vocabulary a significant phrase, Good
texture Of the soil" concerning which
the older farmers heard little or moth
ing. Because they heard nothing of
the phrase, however, does not argue
that they knew nothing concerning its
practical aspect. Indeed, they did,
but, in recent years. with science turn
ing it's attention more closely to agri-
culture, there is likely to be more
than one new word or new group of
words coined to convey the sense of
that which the older farmer knew
without the necessity of turning an ex-
preston to convey it.
Like many aonther new idea in agri-
culture-the present nitroculture craze.
for example-goOd texture has been
talked about ana exploited to degree
that is not perhaps commensurate with
its real importance in the successful
tilling of the soil. Good texture, like
the lining of soils, is but one of many
important factors that enter into that
most complex problem of modern agri-
culture-how to keep up the fertility of
the soil. However. it Is subject
that is not generally understood by
those who till the soil. and one that
can not be overlooked or disregarded
without loss. There are thousands
Oh acres of land that produce indiffer-
eht or Improbable crops for no other
reason than that the soil is poor in
! texture.
-ano is In good heart or good tex
'ure when it is in the right physical
condition FOR growing crops. This
means that it possesses the qualities
expressed by such common farm words
! as mellow loose. friable, porous. easy
10 work: and is not hard. cloddv
iuinpy. ieachy. 1t is not concerned
Win the mere richness of the Soil in
pant food, but it is concerned with
the way in which that plant food is
served to the growing crops. It docs
NOT mean the amo,at of water that a
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
SOMERSET.
HARMONY.

The lawsuit, Dore VS.. Town Of Har-
mony was decided ut the court last
week in favor of the plaintiff to the
amount of $425.
The creamery building caught fire
last week on the roof by the chimney
burning out ana cindcrs falling on the
shingles. 1t was readily cXtinguiShed
by the hand grcnadcS.
Mertic Willis and Iona Willis, two
good schooltcachcrs, have tax n schools
III Hartland.
Amaziah Marble and son Arthur. are
erecting 4 building on the Spaulding
lot where i store was carried out by a
freShet years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
LIBERTY.

Rev. T.. c. Morse, who is supplying the
Morrill, church. preached an interesting
Easter sermon here at the Baptist
church, Sunday morning. The church
was beautifully decorated with pottcd
plants, evergreen and cut flowers by Mr..
Grifffar The choir composed Of Dr. and
Mrs. Cargill, Mr.. and Mrs. John Sanford,
Mrs G. II. CarEill, Mrs. Blanche Cram,
with Mrs. Carrie Aver as orGanist, fur
nished music appropriate to the day.
Owing to the severe storm the audience
was small. II is expected Mr.. Morse will
supply the pulpit during the summer
mouths.
Mr. L.vermorc and Mr.. Gillette Of Eos
ton. were in town Friday, guests Of }. }.
Walker.
". W. Hurd loft Thursday for Skowhc-
gan for Il short stay.
Mrs Albert Young, who has been
SpendinC the winter in Boston with her
brotG"r, returned Saturday and is staying
with her brother. ". G. Knowlton
John Sanford, Marlton kn"wlton and
Thomas +. Mathews have just built IL
new boathousc.
]. G. Walker left Monday for a short
business trip to Boston.
Tho concert which was to have been
given at the church Sunday evening WAS
postponed to Monday evening on account
of the storm.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
Newsy Happenings From Busy Maine Towns
SAGADAHOC
BOWDOIN.

If is reported that Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Small are going to move to
Lisbon Falls i'm the near future.
Ernest, the son of Mr.. ana Mrs. S. A.
Bickford. fell and broke his arm one
day last week.
Charles Card has sold his farm.
Charles Hamilton, who has been i'll,
was taken to the hospital in Lewis
ton last week for treatment.
Miss Agnes Benson is OH the sick
list.
Albra Small. who has been at To-
Gus through the winter, has returned
home.
Mrs. Elisha Doyle has been employed
N the home of Mr. Daniel Coombs.
Miss Clarbel Buker is stopping with
Mrs. Frank Adams for a few weeks
Mrs. Helen Small and daughter. Cora
was called to Bath by the sickness OF
Mrs. Smalrs mother, Mrs. Hannah
RrOWn.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
Maine Farming Notes.

Raymond Haslem of Waltham has
COW which in the past four weeks
has made As pounds of butter, besides
furnishing milk for a family of five.
What is undoubtedly one of the
heaviest fOur-ye5r- old heifers in that
part of Maine is the property of l.. O.
Demeritt of Sangerville. The animal
was weighed recently and tipped the
scales at just 1850 pounds The ami
NAL is perfectly proportional and Is
still growing.
Edward f. Waterman of South WAL
doboro is one of the largest and most
successful poultry raisers in that sec
ton. He has been in the business 20
years and now keeps from 500 to 900
hens, consisting of a cross between
Rhode Island Reds and Barred Ply
mouth Rocks. During the year 1905
MS receipts from eggs alona we're
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
LINCOLN.
WALDOBORO.

NJ. NJ. Richards was in Cooper's MINIS
Thursday
Guy Waltz who has been visiting his
i.arents. returned to Franklin FAILS ~
H., Saturday. Mr.. Waltz. VINO Is
gospel singer. has an engagement l"
assist the Free Baptists of that place
il. special services.
Al schools in Waldoboro opened
Monday. Following is the hSt :"
teachers: School No. !, Herman WIN
cnenbaugh; No. >, Agnes Creauier' ~
!. Annie q. Welt: No. 8. High sci'ooi'
Ezra Aaxfcld. assistant, JENNIE oocii-
ranc: grammar. Grace Chapihan'
Centre primary. Annie Hradio ord'
North primary, Ida Welt; East pTIih-
ary. Carrie Stahl: No. I. Bessie fcylef'
M . Laura Walton; No. IL, FRANCES
Actorn. No. II. Agnes Phillips; No. IL,
E,annie. kcene: No. l.. unassigned; No.
ii. Jennie Comcry; No. Is. Marion
y,nnah; No. ~, Fredonia Porter; No.
70 RcrIlah NNinchenbGch; No. -, Min
uin Winchenbach: No. %. Marion Win
cbenbach: No -. Addie Geelc; No. >,
Edna Morton: No. %. Sadie l.. Kuhn;
No. Fl. Ada Wmchenbaugh.
Miss Fannie Cleveland Of Portland is
i'll town.
Hon. f. O. Clark was in Bath Wed
nesday.
on account Of the storm Sunday the
Easter concert at the NJ. l.. church
was postponed.
Special services will he continued
throughout the week at the North
church. under the direction of Rev. Mr..
Cochrane Of Watcrville. \ chorus
choir has been formed, led by Rev. MIR.
lark of NaSSalDoro.
Rev. Mr.. Clark returned to his hom"
in NasealDurn Thursday. He will re
et.lna his work hCre this week as gospel
si..%cr 1T the cvangclistic meetings.
The heavy rain Easter prevented
large congregation at the Union scr
yict. 1t the Conversational church. Rev.
Mr. Cochran preached and the special
music arranged by the choir was well
r..III,.rD1
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
ss7 WATER STREET. AUGUSTA

s1425.19. Mr.. Waterman devotcs his
entire time to the business.
The extent to which the Aroostook
potato industry has been expanded
ana the wholesale manner in which
Aroostook farmers do business, is
illustrated in the case of Leslie J.
Bean of Presque Isle. Mr.. Bean will
plant the coming season, a tract of
100 acres to potatoes, and viii use on
this tract 100 tons Of phosphate rep
resenting an investment in this item
alone of between three and four thou
sand dollars. Mr.. Beams experience
last year fully convinced him that it
IS profitable TO use a high grade fer
uhzer at the rate Of a ton per acre.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
WALDO.
NORTH PALE RMC.

s +, Bowler. supervisor OF schools,
was in this vicinity last week on bus
mess pertaining to the schools.
Earl Nelson who has just finished
school in Windsor. is now teaching the
Grammar and evening schools in
North Vassalboro.
Mr. and Mls. VIII Jackson of Weeks
Mills passed Saturday and Sunday at
John Blacks.
L. c. Rowe met with a very painful
accident last week. He jammed three
Of his fingers while helping saw wood
with the gasoline engine anl will be
unable To work for some time.
Several young ladies from here at
tended the teachers examination at
Grulcy's Corner, April Il.
W 4. Nelson has fine brood SOW
with 10 pigs Il days old. The one he
weighed tipped the scale at 1213
pounds.
lIorotip Nelson has been hauling hay
from the Whittier barn the past week
which he bought of Gcorg" Reynolds.
Sallie Simpson and Mildred Parmcn-
ter went to Watcrvillc Saturday to
t'lAt'It tIl'' i<stHlti F9'l l''S-
john Rowe Of China has been stop
ling with his sister. Mrs Charles Ar
nolds, for some time.
Frank Marden has been away from
home the past week.
John Dyer ami Wesley Norton are
cutting up a woodpil" for Wm. Osgood.
PALERMO CENTER.
DEPUTY Sheriff Silas +. Bowler went
to Belfast to attcnd court Monday.
Miss Lottie Tobey visited at j. w.
NOrthruE'S a few days last week.
j. w. Turner went to North Vassal-
boro on business Thursday.
s. i. Bowler, superintendent Of
schools. gave Il teachers examination
at the Greeley Corner schoolhouse Sat
urd;.N.
James McDougall is at his home in
New Hampshire for Il few days.
SOUTH LIBERTY.
Mrs Timer liannan passed away
Sunday morning after some week, of
severe suffering with cancer. She was
about 40 years old She WAS a true wife
ana good mother ana Will be missed by
many friends. \ husband ana five chill
drcn survive.
". W. Lcnfcst recently purchased
Valuable lumber lot of |. e. Powell
known as the Cox lot situated on the
west SIDE Of Black mountain in LIB
crty.
= r. Overlook has his new gasoline
engine running and is engaged in saw
ing wood.
Tie rain storm was very severe here
and the mill men wear a pleased smile
as they see the large streams of wat
er filing their ponds.
Miss Carrie Hannah is at homo from
Lewiston called here by her mothers
! death.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19

by his Will. pauper who recently died
az the Westbury workhouse. in England.
iett his cat to the King OF Spain as .
wedding present.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
KNOX.
UNION.

Mrs. Ada NJ UaUes has, Been appoint
ed supervisor of schools far the ensuing
year and has secured the following teach-
ers for the spring term which will begin
April 20: Common. Miss Grace Howes;
South Union. Miss Cien,nie Robbins;
East Union Miss LILLIAN Cole; Nye, Mrs.
Lenora Fish; Round Pond, MISS Eiiza-
beth Harding; Shepard Hill, Miss Grace
Jameson; Clarry Hill, Miss flarrlett WI
liams; Stone. Miss Bcrnice Burkett; Ind
bard, Miss Grace Dorman; QulSgle' MISS
LcOla Miller.
Mrs. Lizzie Hit left Tuesday for visit
in Howard X. l., where her husband mas
employment. Mrs. Elizabeth Iiibbard IL
caring for her children in her absence
Harry Gordon has gone to Chelsea,
where he has employment.
George G. Clouse, WHO has been trap
ping quite extensively this spring, has
caught strange assortment of game In
cluding large owl. a wild duck and has
shot two geese.
Miss Florence Wentworth is expected
home in u few days for 4 visit with her
mother, Mrs. +. Il. Smith.
Leroy Burns has purchased the farm
Sunny Side Of Mrs Mial Mossman.
DR. and Mrs. |. e luce are among tho
delegates to attend the Methodist confer
cncc at Vinalhavcn.
MIR. and Mrs r. J. Butler have moved
into Fred Lucas tenement on the South
Union road.
Mrs. Roscoe Robbins is visiting friends
in New York
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
DRESDEN.

Miss R,hcrca Prescott di"l April ..
Bcniamin DinSinore is at his faith
crs', ]. Dins'norc. sick with measles.
H. is attended hy Dr. Peabody Of
Richmond.
NJ. Page nf Richmond was IN town
Saturday liking for Il horse.
Leonard Eickford who has been
in RunG"ley for til" Last giN months
came home last week.
Mr. Green and Frank Robinson OF
Sc,nervill", Mass.. arrived At their
summer horne here last week.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
WASHINGTON.

I. G. Powell who has been i'll trade
at South Liberty for three years, has
pur chased tn" FTed Howard place at
North Washington of John Turner.
large work horses with Fillnder Tur-
nor for Il colt Il
Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-19
JOICE.

George Lewis. who will be SO years
old next September, had slight
shock last Friday afternoon. on ac-
count Of his advanced age, his physi-
clan thinks his recovery quite doubt
full.
Mrs. Lizzie Dunton, with her little
daughter, Grace. is visiting her par
tnts, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Knight.
School in this district will commence
April %, with Miss Mabel 1anley as
teacher.