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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
RICHMOND FAIR,
Annual Exhibition of Farm Product:
Is Unusually Fine Display.

Richmond, Me, Sept. 30.-(Special)-
Richmond: fair opened Wednesday
morning and there was a large atten-
dance. The exhibits were unusually good
and embracNl great variety of articles.
Among the interesting exhibits seen
were:
A sofa pillow made of cigar ribbons by
Mrs William AIard. age II. years, was
greatly admired.
Mrs. r. w. Tibbetts. age II years. ex-
hibited , embroidered centerpieces.
Mrs. Hannah Patterson. the oldest ex-
hibitor, So years old. had some fine SAM
pies of knit lace and 8 pr of double nit
tens. The fancy work was looked after
by big rag doll who became a favorite
with the children.
|. Teddy Roosevelt the 5-months-old cold
owned by Joseph Galusha, attracted much
attention; also the Toothaker Bros. year
old colt. Harry Wilkes. N. H. Shelton
and son had two colts on exhibition.
There was a good exhibit of cattle, a s.
months-old Holstein calf belonging to
Violet Weber, which she drives har-
messed in small cart.
hail. %,a" by c conSs a n5 f Breyv
RICHMOND FAIR OFFICERS.
George NJ. Curtis, president; F. J. Lib
by Edwin Totman, vice presidents: j. c.
Shepard, f. a. Shepard, s. B. Hathorne,
D. A. Pinkham, A. J. Niles, directors.
PREMIUMS.
FULL BLOOD CATTLE
Geo. M. Curtis-1st on yr. old Jersey
Bull; 1st. End and Bird on Jersey cows: 1st
md and Bird on yr old heifers.
CATTLE
Miss Violet Vebber-1st on months old
S. b. Hathofhe-1st on pair working
oxen; 1st on pair pet oxen.
George Curtis-1st on Dairy herd, 9 head
GRADE COWS.
Wallace Nchols-1st on grade HoIstein
COW; LIST on grade Guernsey COW: 1st on I
yr. old Holsten heifer.
" PIGS.
Herbert f. Thompson-1st on sow with
pigs.
POULTRY.
Mrs. Eva Hathorne-1st on pair single
comb Rhode Island Red chicks
Leon Shepard-lst on pair Muscovy
ducks: 1st on pair white Pekin ducks; LIZ
on pair bantamS. -
Mrs. c. Fl. Reed-1st on pair fowl 81.
DRAFT HORSES. ST
w. F. Douglass-1st and md on pair
draft horses.
HORSES AND COLTS FOR DRAFT ON
FARM USE.
I N. II. Shelton & Son-1st on yr old
colt; LIST on VI. old colt.
j. G. Galusha-1st on brood mare: N. H
Dodge. End.
j. G. Galusha-1st on colt five months
old; N. II. Dodge, Ind.
H. +. Smith-1st on yr old stallion.
TROTTING STOCK.
N. III. Skelton-1st on 4 months old colt;
LIST on mare with colt
Toothaker BroS-1st on mare with colt
w. e. Donglass-1st on 8 yr old colt.
H. +. Smith-1st on yr. old stallion.
( FIELD CROPS
A. B. Reed-1st on lot sweet corn: LIST on
2 traces pop corn.
+ N. H. Shelton & Son-1st on barley; LIST
on buckwheat.
Thomas Merriman-1st on oats; ~ H
Shelton & Son, End on oats.
N. II. Shelton & Son-1st on peas; Rob-
ert Pesok, End on peas; U. G. Patten, Bird
on peas.
Thomas Merriman-1st on cream beans
Robert Pesok-1st on yellow-eyed beans;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
KENNEBEC
EAST PITTSTON.

Rev. and Mrs. f.. S. Gahan Of Lubec
left here Wednesday after a short visit
with former Pensioners. The friends
of Mr.. and Mrs. Gahan will be graft
fed to know that they are pleasantly
situated in their new field of labor at
Lubec and that Mrs. Gahan is much
improved in health.
Mrs. Joseph Jones of Sheepscot is
passing a short time at w. S. Cleaves.
L. A. Hanley of Boston is at his
summer home in this village.
Rev. D. 3. Phelan of Ash Point was
expected to hold business meeting at
the church on Tuesday evening, but on
account Of the severe storm the SER
vice was postponed until next week.
The many friends of Mrs. w. s.
Cleaves who sustained a fractured hip
several weeks ago will be pleased to
know that she is doing much better
-han was expected at first and hopes
are now entertained of her recovery.
MT. VERNON.
SOUTI1-Mr. and Mrs. NJ. B. Richard-
son OF Brookline, Mass. and Mr.. and
Mrs. e. B. Alexander and son Lewis Of
Portland who have been guests at Lou
is L.. Johnson's have returned home.
o. l.. Dunn is justly proud of his flock
Of SeuthdowI sheep which have won
him several first primiums at the
fairs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
SAGADAHOC
RICH MON DE-
Anlen-Hutchins.

At eight o'clock Wednesday evening
Sept. 80, the wedding of Miss Florence
Mae Hutchins of Richmond anG
Charles Burtae Allen of Washington
D. c. forme1& of East Pttston. Me-
took place ut the home of Mr.. and Mrs
John T. Sturtevant,. the bride being 3
niece of Mrs. Sturtevant's.
The ceremony was witnessed by only
the immediate relatives Of the con-
tracing parties. Rev. 81 Evans o;
the Free Baptist church officiated using
the single ring service.
The couple We're remembered with
many beautiful gifts.
MIR. and Mrs. Allen left immediately
after the ceremony for the National
Capital where they will reside. The
best wishes of many friends go with
them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
Automobile Registration
For Month Of September.
Total Receip pts in Fees to
Date Is $22,5O6.
Letter from Prof. Hitchings fol
New England Fruit Show.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 10 A. M.

From information given out at the
office of the secretary of State it is
learned that the total number of au-
tomobiles registered during the month
k6f September was so, that the total
humber of licenses issued to operators
was f0S, that the total number OF
motor cycles registered was one, and
that the number OF licenses issued to
dealers was one. The total amount
received in fees for the month was
$40, divided as follows: From regis
tration of automobiles, $3.50; from Ii
censes issued to operators, $216; from
registration of motor cycles, So: from
licenses issued to dealers. $40.
The number of automobiles (which
have been registered during the past
nine months of the year was 1910, the
number of licenses issued to. opera
tors 1873, the number of motor cycles
registered 129 and the nulnber of IL
cenees issued to dealers "a. The total
receipts in fees for the past nine
months was 1924, divided as follows
From registration of automobiles,
5000; from licenses issued to operators,
$3256; from registration of motor cy-
cieS, $Z3H, ana from licenses issued TO
dealers. $340.
From an examination of the records
of the office since the law went into
effect in 1905 it is ascertained that the
total number III automobiles which
have been registered during that time
is 4742, the nhmber of licenses issued
to operators 546S, the number of motor
cycles registered 4GS and the number
of licenses issued to dealers ia. The
total receipts in fees since the law
went into effect is $22. 800, divided as
follows., From registration of automo-
biles,s s$94S4; from licenses issued to
operators, s10,936; from registration of
motor cycles, 1896, and from licenses
issued to dealers $3.50
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01

1t is learned at the office of the
Commission of Inland Fisheries and
Game that there is every Indication
that the hunting season for big game
which opens today on deer and Oct.
Is on nluose, will be one of the largest
on record. The number of nonresident
hunting licenses which have been sold
add Sent out to agents to sell rs 1900,
which is an unusually large number
for so early in the season. The appli-
cations are still coming in in large
numbers and an estimate Of the total
cannot be made for some time yet.
The following CORPORATIONS have filed
their certificates Of organization at
the office of the secretary of State:
Harmony Club of America. organized
at Augusta, for the purpose of con-
Quoting a general publishing and lit
erary business. with $1,000 capital
stock. of which nothing is paid in.
Officers: President and treasurer, E.
NJ. Leavitt OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
fled Sept. 49, 1909. ~,
The Gold Crest Mining and Milling
Co, organized at Portland. for the
purpose of conducting a mining bust
ness with $2,ooO,0Oo capital 6ck, of
which $10G is paid in. 9ffhcers:
President, Daniel C. I.inscoS Jr., of
Winchester, Mass: Treasurer, .Frank
X. Linscott of Quincy, Mass. Certif-
cate filed Sept. 30, 1909. q
Guantanamo e. Western RAILROAD
Co. organized at Portland, fotx the
purpose of contracting, operating and
maintaining railroad knCWnssas- the
Cuba Eastern Railroad, with $3.50, 600
capital stock, of which $500 is paid in.
Officers; President, A. f. ,punham of
Portland; Treasurer, w. g Wells of
! 1 Portland Certificate fileds' Sept 80,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
W " Liquor. Cases
Afe',Now on Trial.
A Sealed Verdict Ordered in
Darviau Nusanee Charge. J
BoIduc Trial Now Ia Progress
Kings Heavy Sehtepte.

Two cases were opened to the jury
at Thursdays session of the kennebec
superior court, those against George
A. Darviau, Il Waterville druggist,
and William Bolduc, the proprietor OF
the Exchange hotel at Waterville. AT
6 O'Clock Thursday night the jury in
the Darviau case was ordered to re-
turn sealed verdict at the opening of
court at $50 o'clock Friday morning.
while in the Bolduc case most of the
testimony on the part of the State
had been presented when court adj
journed
In the Kennebec Superior court
Thursday morning Joseph King %
Watervlle filed demurrers to indict-
ments for maintaining a liquor nlh-
sance and single sale and an appealed
illegal keeping case from the Water
vile municipal court. Fred w. Clair
of Watervllc appeared as counsel for
the respondent.
Attorney Clair. asked for leniency
EJor the respondent, stating that it was
his first offence and that he would be
willing to give a bond to keep out of
the liquor business.
County Attorney Hildreth asked for
a stiff, sentence, stating that the liquors
seized bv the officers We're found in
hide apd that the respondent was one
of th&aworst pocket peddlers in Water
ville.2sS
On the liquor nuisance Indictment
King was sentenced to pay a fine of
$500 and costs and to serve so days at
loh in, sol in 1nf11llt nf
payment to serve four months addi-
tional in Jail and on the single sale
case the sentence was a fine of $50 and
costs and in default of payment to
serve 60 days at hard labor in Jail.
The Illegal possession case@Was placed
on file. Exceptions were filed and the
cases will go to the law court, the
sureties being Edward Butler and John
Trial n
The first case to be opened to the
jury Thursday was that of State
versus George A. DaEfau of Water
vile, an Indictment for, maintaining a
liquor nuisance in his. drug store at
Waterville, County Attorney Hildfeth
appearing for the State and Fred w.
Clair of Waterville for the re-
spondent.
The case was heard before a drawn
jury. George w. Dinsmore of Halio-
we'll was challenged by the State and
Arthur B. Penney Of Waterville by the
defence.
The first witness called by the State
was Deputy Sheriff John A. Dawson
of Waterville He testified to searell-
ing the respondents drug store on
July. Both. in company with Deputy
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01

The Pinnacle OF
Perfection
has been reached in
the manufacture ofLa
France Shoes
La France Shoes are
looked up to as the
standard, and are pre-
.terred by all smartly-
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DURABILITY
I La France Shoes mear
as nell as they look -
and that means THEY
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design for each and every
OCCASION, both indoors
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Please consider THIS a per-
SOnaL recommendation ana
a cordial inyitdtion TO yoI
to coll IN and Examine TIN
Fail and Winter Styles
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-01
xx,yysl7air'
HeesaIfh

Never Fails TO Restore Gray
Hair to fits Natural Color and
Beauty.
No matter how long it has been gray
or faded. Stops its falling out, and
positively removes Dandru1f.
Refuse all substitutes. Is not q dye.
81 and Soc. bottles. at druggists. OF by
mail. Send &c for free book 1.-The Care of the
Hair" Philo Hay Spec. Co., Newark, NJ.
MURPHY; BOWDiTCH, WEBSTER
G. CO.; COUGHLlN; KINNEY.
GARDINER: B "A N ELS DR. U
STORE; WARD.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOMt
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con-
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

+
The nomination OF Elliott Northcott
II West Virginia to be minister to Co
iombia has been confirmed by the
senate.
The controller Of the currency has
issued call for statement of the
condition of all national banks at the
close of business on Wednesday,
April %.
Two new faces have made their APP
pearance in the national legislature,
Mr.. Fletcher of Florida taking the
oath of Office in the senate, and Mr..
Cassidy of Ohio being sworn in as a
member of the house.
Instruction and practice Of militia
batteries and target practice will be
held at an encampment Of regulars
ut Sparta, Wis, in July and August,
In which batteries of state troops will
be drilled by army officers.
II a bill introduced in congress be-
comes law, the United States will
own complete railway train, consist
Ing of baggage car, sleeping car and
private car for the exclusive use Of
the president of the United States.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
TWO lose lives
WHEN HOME BURNS
Children Are Cremated While
Rest of Family Are at
Work in Field.
ASSISTANCE COMES TOO LATE

Stureis, S. D., April 3O.-The house
of William Reihman, two miles south
of Sturgis, caught fire yesterday and
burned to the ground burning to-
death a boy, two years DID, and a girl,
four years old. The father and moth
err and two other children were out in
the field planting potatoes when the
fire was discovered and could not get
to the house in time to save their
children from cremation, as the build
ing was burned and the fire was be-
yond control on their arrival
The father made several vain at
tempts to save the children, and in
doing SO was burned about the head
and face. The charred remains of the
victims were recovered after the fire
was low enough for neighbors to
reach them.
The children were at home alone
when the fire broke out, and it is not
known how the fire started. A large
number Of people from Sturgis went
to the place to render the unfortunate
parents all assistance possible. The
building and contents were valued at
$4,000, with no insurance.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
VICTIMS OF BLACK HAND FIRE
Panic in Tenement Occupied by Twenty
Families-Many of the Tenants
Leap to Safety.

New York. May mime persons,
six of them children, were burned to
death, and fourteen others were in
jured, some of them fatally, in an in
cendiary fire in a five-story tenement
house, occupied by twenty Italian
families, early yesterday.
The blaze followed a demand by a
so-called Black Hand society for the
payment of $1,000 blackmail 1t
spread through the building with star
Ting rapidly, as the Railways were
soaked with kerosene by the black
mailers
III the panic which followed the
alarm the tenants fought their way
down the fire escapes or jumped from
the windows, while babies were
thrown from windows into the arms
of patrolmen on the sidewalk.
Several of the injured, six of whom
are children, are not expected to re-
cover
Gets Black Hand Letter.
Jacob Burck, the proprietor of the
grocery store on the main floor of the
building, received on April IS letter
reading:
We demand $1,000 or death. Bring
1t in Mott street. Petrosino is dead,
but the Black Hand lives.
-"Black. Hand Society,""
On Monday last Burck received an
other letter written in similar
strain. He turned both letters over
to the police.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
IN MEMORY OF WASHINGTON.
Anniversary of First Inauguration
Celebrated by Masons.

anniversary OF FIRST Inauguration
Celebrated by Masons.
Alexandria, Va, May 2.-President
Taft attended yesterday in this city a
celebration of the 120th anniversary
of the first Inauguration of George
Washington. and the laying of a cor.
ner-stone in dedication of park to
the memory of the first president.
Vice President Sherman, Speaker
Cannon, Gov. Swanson of Virginia,
commissioners of the District of Co.
lumbia, a large congressional party
from Washington and distinguished
guests from a number of states sat
in the stand by the president as the
parade passed in review. Every
branch of the United States service
and some Of the most famous military
organizations of the Old Dominion
| were represented
President Tat was not inc, .led
among the days speakers, but he ex.
pressed in a few words at the park
exercises his appreciation of Vir
ginia's hospitality. Gov. Swanson was
the orator of the dedicatory ceremo.
MES. The cornerstone was laid with
full Masonic ceremonies by Alexan.
dria lodge, A. F. and A. NJ. of which
George Washington was first master.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Grandma Lucinda Grinnel died at
her home in Morrentown, w. Va,
aged LOG years
Charles Warren stoddard, one of
the best known American authors,
died at his home at Monterey, Cal.
Robert Watchhorn, commissioner of
immigration at New York. has tender
81 his resignation. which has been
accepted.
Aunt Mary Lee, 1875 years old, Is
lead In Washington. She was a col
bred woman and born slave in 1892
in Virginia.
Mrs. Caroline Boeiter, Toledo's old
est woman, is dead at the age Of LOT
years. She was born in 1902 in Wen
nakova, near Tuchel. West Prussia.
Joseph FL. ADes Rossiers, for more
thant thirty years chief of the detec-
tive force of the Michigan Central
railroad, died at his home in Detroit.
Lieut.. Alan Urquhart Campbell, son
81 Mrs, Patrick Campbell, the English
actress, was married in Quincy, H.,
TO Miss Helen Bull, daughter Of Will
liam B. Bull of Chicago.
Mrs. Andrew Hawl1yard, eighty-one
years old, died at Kenney, Ill. 1t was
her lifelong boast that she never:
drank any water partaking exclusive
y of home-brewed beer from child
hood.
Mrs. Lydia Coon Brown, aged sixty.
nine, first wife Of the late United
States Senator Brown Of Utah, died
at Columbus. Ohio, from paralysis.
She was a pioneer in Ohio in kinder
garten teaching.
Nathan Pratt Towne, former chief
engineer of the Cramp Shipbuilding
company, and formerly an engineer Of
the United States navy, is dead at his
home in Philadelphia. He served with
distinction in the Civil war.
The central figure / in the famous
crusade against the sale of cigarettes
In Indiana is dead at Plymouth. He
was John w. Parks, former member
Of the state senate, and he framed the
anti-cigarette bill that became a law
In the Legislature of 1905 and was re-
pealed by the legislature Of this
year. XII Il .,.s. tas
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
CRIMES.

Pacy Hill was electrocuted at Au-
burn. N Y, for the murder of his
cousin, Chloe Hancock.
The National bank of Arrowsmith,
ILL.,, was robbed by safeblowers, who
obtained $4,000 and escaped.
In fight caused by an election day
arrest at Tallequah, Okla, John Tay-
lor was shot and killed by Peter
Smith, special election policeman.
Armed with two shotguns, neither
Of them loaded H. M. Tollinger, man
niger of the Edwards & Bradford lum-
Der yards at Sioux City, captured two
burglars.
After he had fired on E. Miller, the
bullet passing through the mans coat,
but inficting no injury, G. Graham,
seventy-eight years old. shot and kill
ed himself at Bentonville. Ark.
Mrs. Amy Wilkie, thirty years old
whose husband died last November,
was found dead. lying on her hus-
bands grave at Detroit, Mich. A
carbolic acid bottle lay near the
body.
An extensively operated moonshine
whisky still was discovered by United
States revenue officers on George w.
Vanderbilt's estate, within three
miles Of Biltmore house, his residence
at Asheville, N. C.
Henry w. Gazell, formerly secrer
tary and treasurer of the Farmers
and Merchants Banking company,
which failed in Cleveland last July
at a loss of s15O00O to 5000 deposit
tors, was found guilty of larceny.
Jack Cronin, in Jail at Meadville,
Pa. awaiting. trial for the murder of
Henry Winters last Christmas eve, is
dead from the effects Of thrusting
half a dozen needles into his abdo-
men and chest several weeks ago
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
LETTER FROM "BLACk HAND"
Two Prisoners Are Charged With At
tempt to Effort $4,000.

Boston, April 3O.--Charged with at
tempting to extort $4,000 from James
Whitla of Sharon, Pa, under the
threat that they would again kidnap
his son, Willie Whitla, two men were
brought to police headquarters yester-
day for an examination The men
gave their names as John w. Wright
and Ernest H. Martin.
The police claim that on April 23
Wright and Martin wrote to Mr. Whit
la. demanding that he send them $1O,-
600 under penalty of having Willie
kidnapped. The letter stated that the
writer's had no regard for the life of
the child
The police said that a search of
Martins pockets resulted in finding
red ink pad, similar to the ink used
in the letter to Mr.. Whitla.
The letter was printed in red ink,
apparently with rubber type, on white
paper, and was mailed from the Dor
chester central postoffice.
Confirmed by Whitla.
Sharon, Pa, April 3O.-Word of the
arrest of John W. Wright and Ernest
H. Martin in Boston, who are alleged
to have attempted to extort $4,000
from Attorney James P. Whitla of this
city under threat to again kidnap Bill.
ly Whitla, his son, was received here
late yesterday. Mr. Whitla said that
on the morning of April 90 he receiv
ed letter through the mail, which
was signed THE Black Hand" direct
ing him to send at once a package
containing $4,000 by mail to an adj
dress at the Boston general delivery
under penalty of having his boy stolen
a second time.
The letter concluded by stating that
the BLACK Hand 'on receiving the
money would not bother him again.
The letter was shown to Chief of Po
lice Martin Grain, who directed MI.
Whitla to mail decoy package. Ac,
cordingly package was sent. Mr..
Whitla is undecided what to do about
the prosecution of the men, but the
Boston police have been requested to
use every effort to secure a convic.
ton
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-05-06
ACCIDENTAL HAPPENINGS.

Two little children are dead from
the effects Of :nhaling coal gas in a
tenement house in New York.
Fire, which for time threatened a
whole block in the business district
of New Orleans, caused damage
amounting to $50, 900.
One Of the large mills of the Hidal-
go Mining and Milling company at
Presena, Mex, has been destroyed by
fire. The loss is s25O.ooo.
4 While trying to board moving
train on the Rock Island, Herman
i Myers Of Remsen, Iowa, fell under the
wheels and lost his left leg just below
the knee.
Lester Mcintyre. Fred Rooms,
James Murgatory and James Maxwell.
boys ranging in age from twelve to
fifteen years. were fatally burned at
GAINESVILLE In an attempt to blow an
oil well while playing.
woman known as Katie Kouch,
q who Is said to be Mrs Katie Linton
of Holidays Cove, w. Va, and a min
& er, Peter Auman Of Pittsburg, drown
ed at Mound sville. w. Va. The wom-
B an jumped aboard a small skiff ard it
upset Auman tried to rescue the
1 woman, but she threw her arms
around him and both went down.
Mrs Susan Kane was instantly kill
ed and Robert Kane was fatally in.
\ 1ilred at Washington. Pa. when a car.
riage in which they were riding was
4 struck by street car, Motorman
Adam AIS Ell. II IS feared, win be.
come insane because Of the accident
Fire At pes Dimes destroyed the
Body bloch. the Meek block and the
Martindale fats, IN the heart Of the
business district entailing a loss 81
100. The fire was caused by
4 spontaneous combustion OF 4 paint
stock n the Body building. Mann
& people narrowly ESCAPED.