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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Another Liquor Dust Cloud.

The Waterville Sentinel of August
20 contained bitter personal attack
upon six Anti Saloon League workers
who have spoken and are to speak in
Maine during this campaign
This attack was quoted from the
National Issue, published at ST. Louis,
by L. G. Robinson.
The Sentinel said; THIS paper is
devoted to National prohibition; the
published specifications OF places and
reasons came from a widely circulated
prohibition paper of acknowledged
standing: and are not made by the
rum trust"
The Sentinel is greatly mistaken in
the above statements.
LIST. The National Issue is not dc,
voted to national prohibition" but It
bitter. vilfying attacks upon the Anti
Saloon League and its workers.
Ind. 1t is true that this paper il
| widely circulated" by "a friend wht
pays for its circulation. and there is
good reason to charge that tnis
friend" is the liquor forces, W.
have yet to find receiver who is d
subscriber.
3rd. The National tissue does have
an acknowledged standing as an
active CO. worker with the liquor forces
Who is u. G. Robinson? Mr.. Rob
! inson is an ex-Anti- Saloon League
worker who proved himself unfit 20;
League work. and who. since his re-
tirement. has published the National
Issue, a paper devoted to bitter, vio-
lent attacks upon the Anti Sal Don
League and it's workers
The July issue of this paper is Who'll.
lily filed with such attacks upon Anti
Saloon workers campaigning in Maine
men of high moral standing in then
own states, men who have prove
themselves most efficient workers
against the saloon.
The July National Issue is being
widely circulated in Maine by tn,
Rum Trust" as a cunning attemp
through an avowedly prohibition pa.
per to make Yes" votes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Rum Trust Mathematics.
(oxford Deinocrat.)

In reply to the perhaps incorporate
statement of prohibition advocate as
to the number of "blind pigs in Chicago,
telegram signed by Chicago officials
has been published with great flourish
of headlines by the license papers. This
telegram states that there are no upli-
censed persons selling liquor" in that
city In opposition to that we ave the
facts as stated in recent issue. of the
Champion of Fair Play Ia liquor trade
journaD, that the city of Chicago has
licensed Si35 saloons. and the United
States government has collected tax
from over l20o0 persons who have sworn
that they are engaged in the sale of
wines and liquors by retail, in that city.
Now there's very simple mathematical
problem.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

ing keep saloon He noticed they
were drinking something out of pail.
and they acted tipsy. The Xnnngst.r
who was behind the bar had a towel
tied around his waist, and was setting
up drinks pretty free, Smith walked
over and looked into the pail. 1t was
beer, and two of the boys We're so
drunk that they staggered. \ neigh
boris boy, couple of years older, lay
asleep behind the tree.
Hold ON. boys, YOU must not drink
that he said, as he lifted the six year
old from behind the bench
Wee playing s'loon, papa, an
was a-selliu' it just like YOU said the
little fellow. Smith poured cut tie
beer. carried the drunken boy home
and then took his own boys in and
put them To bed. When his wife came
back she found him crying Ike a child
He came back down town that night
and sold out his business. and says he
will never sell or drink another drop
Of liquor. His wife told mine about
it. and she broke down crying while
she told it
This is "A true story, but the name is
not Smith.-Selected.- Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
lpnriland Telegram.O

The people of Maine are not gong 10 De
fooled by this senseIess talk of advocates
of the open saloon about more liquor De
ing sold under prohibition than license.
The wholesale liquor dealers association
is sending out good many clippings
trying to prove that prohibition is fail
ure. If it really is failure. why do the
liquor interests fight it so hard and spehd
so much money in trying to overthrow
it? The real trouble is that prohibition
is injuring their business so badly that
they are fighting hard to stop the pro-
hbition wave that is sweeping this coun-
try. For more than so years we have
lived without the open saloon, and the
State has prospered. and the people are
better off in every conceivable way, we
are unwilling to believe that the good
people Of Maine are ready to return to
those days when the greatest enemy of
the human race and the most destructive
evil since the dawn of Christianity, was
tolerated and sanctioned by law.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Editorial Comment
Gasolene From Natural Gas.
(Bang0r tommercIaD

IBanSOI tOINTltICIdIJ
Automobiles and all persons using
gasolene engines will be interested in
the recent discovery that fine grade of
sasoene can be obtained from crude nat
ural gas. Expert chemists who have
been making experiments claim that at
a very low temperature natural gas will
Yield fine quality OF gasolene for conf
bustion purposes. The quality. in fact.
is said to be considerably superior to
that obtained from distilled oil. If flu
ture developments keep pace with pres
ent promises gasolene will not only be
abundant but viii soon be better and
cheaper
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

A lady correspondent of a New York
paper declares that Colonel Ned Green
could never be convinced that one would
marry him for himself alone unless he
disposed of his fortune. Under that con-
dilion we are seeing vast boulders of
trouble rolling themselves between the
altar and the colonel.-Houston Post
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Coronation Durbar.
Gardiner Reporter Journal

NtaTdlner Reporter JUuTHdII
owing to the plague. drought. ana
probable famine. me visit of King George
and the Queen to hold conoration Dur
bar at Delhi may be postponed. 1t would
not seem to be Just appropriate to
have such gorgeous and expensive cere-
mony while the people were starving,
even if there was no danger of spread
ing the plague by getting SO many people
together 1t would be better to call the
ceremony off, and take the money to as
sist the sufferers
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Boston Mosquitoes.
lRiddeford Journal.l

Forced to admit that the Charles River
embankment swarms with mosquitoes
some of the Boston papers are trying to
restore confidence by assuring their read
ers that these mosquitoes are of the KIND
that do not bite. Among those who dis
like a mosquitoes sing worse than they
do it's bite, however, this assurance Will
,.nnnt for little
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

There is but one issue in this campaign
and that is the saloons. When men talk
of their desire to simply repeal constitu-
tional prohibition and let statutory pro-
hibitiou remain, they mean until an extra
session of the Legislature could be called.
Portland Express
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Editor S Letter Box

The publication of a letter in
this department is not to be taken
as an endorsement of its views by
the kennebec journal. This coli
nmn is maintained for the discus
sion of matters OF general public
interest when kept within bounds
OF reason and net of a libelous or
abusive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Maine Gossip
To- days Possibilities.

1 may not. when the sun goes down
Have added to my store
OF worldly goods or gained renown
Through gallantfy or lore.
| may not. while | strive today
Move onward to the goal
The cleaning goal so far away
On which I've set my soul.
But | can show kindness to
Someone who stands without.
And / can praise some toilcr Who
Is teiling on i'll doubt.
And when the sun goes down / still
May be a better man
No matter what the fates may will
Than when the day began.
$. E. Kiser, in Pittsburgh Dispatch
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

One of the recent Developments In the
manufacture of typewriters is machine
that will copy the handwriting of the
owner, the letters of the machine being
a fac-simile of the handwriting. made
from a specimen furnished.-Bangor
Commercial.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

The 18th annual reunion of the Simp-
son Descendants Association WAS held
at West Bath Grange hall, Wednes-
day, and attended by large party of
members. A regular program of exer-
cises was carried out and officers elect
ed. The association has u member
ship of 290, and all are descendants
of William and Agnes Simpson. who
settled at Simpsons Point, across
from Mere Point. in 1875. Two new
members were added in the year just
past, Ruth Sprague simpson and Alice
Simpson. of Pittsfield. Mass. The for
mer is the youngest member aged Is
months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

The annual convention of the Maine
Baptist Association will be held at
Skowhegan from Oct to Il. While
the kennebec Baptist Association viii
be held at Norridgewock, Sept. and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

Skowhegan is to have street par
1t will be readily understood that the
sentiment of the paraders will be
Vote No
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

few years ago, u certain states
man ESQ regarded 10y his constituents
in Louisiana) WAS sent to Congress
The gentleman himself felt not SO
sure of his craftsmanship as did his
constituents, but lie determined TO
make a stir of some sort, that he
might give them Il showing for the
money invested in his career. He de-
manded Of the United States Geo
logical Survey that an Investigation
of Louisiana's mineral deposits be
made. His demand was received
somewhat coolly, and Il question as to
wat he wished them To search for,
asked. He replied that he wanted
them to search for anything and
| everything which they could find
| listed in their books, that Louisiana
was contributing as much as other
| states toward the support of that
| Bureau and he proposed TO have some
| thing to show for it. Finally, GA his
| insistent demand, delegation of ex-
| perts was sent down there to hunt
| for something. They expected to find
| mud and swamps, but a brief investi-
| CATION revealed vast possibilities.
| Now Louisiana's mineral interests and
products are a matter Of vast import
ance. Perhaps some day, Maine will
awaken to her possibilities in tue
mineral and precious metal lines.
There are other possibilities in the re-
ceptk reported discovery of crude oil
at S6uth Portland. and reviving OF
the many years old notion that coal
worth going after exists under the
| sands of the Small Point coast.
Hunks of coal are said to have been
| Washed ashore, on the beaches OF
Small Point and Popham, before the
days of coal using in this part of the
country, and such Jumps continue to
come ashore occasionally, showing
| Jagged sides as il recently broken
| from the solid wall. The pioneers
| usec to throw these Jumps of coal
upon their open wood fires, for the
| pleasure of seeing it burn. Up in
Rowland, Me, is vast pot of light
blue mineral substance, the possibli-
ties of which are almost beyond con-
ceptien in the line of pottery, choicest
building material, paint, antiphlogis-
| tine. etc. All these, outside Sof the
mines which are unearthing gems of
immense value Of every year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

cUsHNoc CHAPTER, r. A. M.
No a. Stated convocation at Masonic
Temple Thursday evening, Sept. / Ill
sojourning companions are cordially In
vited to attend.
WILLIS T. SWIFT. II. p.
THOS H.. BODICE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
Friday, September I, 1911.

Life-what is life? But the immediate
breath we draw:
Nor have we surety for a second gale.
A frail and tickle tenement it IS,
Which, ike the brittle glass which meas
ures time,
Is broke ere half its sands are run.
Boston Transcript.
Friends l have made, whom envy must
commend.
But not one foe whom / would WISH
Churchill
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at O'clock.
Work in Second and Third degrees Friday
evening, Sept. /. Refreshments:
F. G. FARRINGTON, n. d.
II IL BROWN, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01
aruA ENcAMPMENT, \

Meetings at o'clock every second and
fourth Tuesday
c. W. POOR, c. 7.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. Q p. M.
Regular meeting every third tuesday at
o'clock. ~ 60.
l.. G. Hughes, Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-01

No notice whatever will be taken Of
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
BILE for the preservation or return Of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
TO subscriptions and advertisements
to BURLEIGH & FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
DEATH LIST MUCH 'REUDCED.
The Flood Victims Now Said TO be
Over One Hundred.

4 dispatch from Austin, Pa, says
twenty-five dead, sc missing and be-
lieved to be buried beneath the debris
is the official census of Austin's loss
of life in the food Sf Saturday. 1t
is conceded, however, that several, II
rot many, visitors and strangers were
ir town that day and undoubtedly
perished. Including them and allow
ing for inevitable errors in compila-
ton, the total of dead probably will
reach $50.
Twenty-oIre of the twenty-four bod
les recovered have been identified and
of the missing hope is etertained that
some may be accounted for. The prob
lem of Austin is to recover her dead
from the thousands Of tons of debris
choking the narrow valley.
To do so, before it is necessary
to burn the ruins to save the living
from an epidemic an army of labor
mast reach the town within the next
Sc hours, officials say. Otherwise
the torch may transform the wreck
age into the pyre of most of those
who have perished.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
MAN TOOK FATAL DRUG.
Samuel Brown OF Kingstrcc Found
Dead in His Bed.

At Kingstree on Sunday night Sam
uel Brown, a young man Of about 20
years, ended his life by taking bot
tie of morphine. He was found dead
in his bed Monday morning. Sunday
he went to his room as usual, and
nothing in his conduct indicated that
hc had even considered taking of life,
but Monday morning his absence
from work excited the interest of his
friends and relatives, and on forcing
the door to his bedroom it was dis
covered that he had been dead sew
eral hours. Notes Of farewell, pre-
sumably written just before he took
the fatal drug, to his mother, Mrs.
Richard Brown, and to his brother,
John Brown who was in business at
kingstree, were found beside him.
To his mother he wrote that he was
sorry to leave her, but that she must
not worry about him, AMI to his
brother, John, he wrote that he re-
GREETED he could not stay to help
him through the busy season.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
DAMAGE BY ARMY WORM
COTTON CATERPILLER PUTS IN
DEADLY WORK.
A. F. Conradi, State Entomologist,
Thinks Late Appearance Of Worm
Will Save the Cotton Crop.

Will save tllC SOCSoA SAops
The State says many cotton fields
in the Piedmont section of the
State have been stripped of the
leaves and the tender fruit greatly
damaged by the cotton caterpillar,
commonly known as the army
worm" Owing to the late appear
ance of the caterpillar the cotton
crop will not be seriously damaged
is the opinion of A. F. Conrad, the
State entonrologist, who Is located
at the experiment station at Glenn
son College. The caterpillar has
made it's appearance in several coun-
ties and many fields have been at
tackled.
In response to telegram from
The State Mr.. Conradi made the fol-
lowing statement as to the cater
pillar:
1.-THE cotton caterpillar is rapidly
increasing in this State. This pest
has created havoc in the western and
central sections of the cotton belt.
Reports received indicate that the
caterpillar has appeared in the
northern, central and eastern Sec
tions of South Carolina. Owing to
it's late appearance no serious dam
age is expected to the cotton crop.
Cotton opening at present will SUI
fer little. Late cotton should IN
most cases be treated with Paris
green, busted at rate of two and one
half pounds per acre. It can be
mixed ten times its weight with
Stacked lime, and busted from mus
lin yoags.
~ can make no prediction as to
the effect on the cotton crop for next
year before the end of the week
A. G Smith, of the United States
office of farm management sent sew
eral of the caterpillars to Mr.. Con-
radi for examination. A complete re-
port as to how to eXterminate the
insect will be issued later.
According to reports received in
Columbia the cotton caterpillar tlrst
mace it's appearance week ago. Mr..
Smith was inspecting several farms
in Greenville county on Monday a
week ago. He found the caterpillars
on some cotton. Several days later
the field was completely stripped OF
the leaves.
Jaseph Shelor, a we'll koEwn' at
torney of Walhalla, was among the
visitors in Columbia the other day.
He said that many fields had been
damaged by the caterpillar in Oc-
once county. He said that the worm
first made it's appearance in that
county a week ago and that within
three days all the leaves had disap-
peared from several cotton fields in
his neighborhood.
A report from Charlotte Monday
night stated that strange worm
which made it's appearance few
days ago in CASTOR county, N. c.,
was working havoc in the late cot
ton fields.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
DAVIS HELD IN JAIL.
Charged With Having Dangerously
Shot Boy Named Paris.

A man named John R. Davis was
brought to Gaffney Monday night and
lodged in Jail, charged with having
shot a boy named Paris in the keg-
town section of this county Monday.
Information was received that the
trouble had occurred, and deputy
Sheriff Lockhart at once went to the
scene, returning Monday night. 1t is
stated that Paris condition is crit
ical, although it is impossible to say
vet Just how badly he is injured. The
cause of the trouble is a mystery.
Davis is prominent, owning consider
able property. He is now in jail held
without bond pending a Investigation
of Paris injuries.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
WILL HAVE TO PAY UP.
Sellers Must Pay Mrs. Farmer Five
Thousand Dollars.

The Columbia State SAYS Wade
Hampton Sellers must pay $4,000 to
Mrs. May W. Farmer for killing her
husband, James P. Farmer. This was
the verdict of the RiChland county
court and the supreme court Monday,
in a decision by Associate Justice
Woods, affirmed the verdict Of the
Richland court.
In the Richland County court of
general session Sellers was acquitted
of the murder of Mr.. Farmer, and
later the common pleas court render
eG 4 verdict directing compensation
for the homicide.
The verdict of $4,000 for the ben
eft of Mrs. Farmer and her children
was awarded against w. H. Sellers
under the allegation that the homi-
eide was committed 'unlawfully
willfully, wontonly, recklessly, and
maliciously.' The defense set up a
general denial, claiming that Sellers
shot Farmer in self-defensc and in
the protection of his dwelling, and
that Sellers had been tried for the
killing of Farmer and had been ac-
Quilted.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
POISONED BY ICE CREAM.
Two Families in Sumter County Made
Seriously Ill.

Fourteen persons in the families Of
Alva and Frank Mccoy near Oswego.
and four servants. were made seri-
ously i'll after eating ice cream last
Friday night. Two of the parties
were critically i'll for time. DR..
C. J. Lemon of Sumter, with nurses,
went Sunday to attend the sufferers.
DR.. Lemon reported Monday night
that his patients are much better, and
he has reason to believe that they
are all on the road to recovery. He
thinks they suffered with ptomaine
poisoning, and that the ice cream
caused the sickness.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
WERE KILLED IN MINES.
Mutiny in Prison Results in DEATH
of Three COnvictS.

AS a result of mutiny of pris-
oners at the Brushy Mountain mines,
a branch of the Tennessee State pen
itentiary, which began three days
ago, three negro convicts are dead.
Two were shot while in the mines.
the third, an innocent bvstander
died of wounds received during the
battle in one of the dormotories. The
mutiny which started Thursday a. m.
when the convicts refused to work,
is thought to have ended Sunday
with the promise of the prisoners to
resume their tasks as usual Monday.
Despite the promise, all extra force
of guards has been placed in the
prison.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
Wants His Name Changed.

"My mail is usually read by three
of four persons in town before 1t
reaches me, and I want my name
changed" is John Anderson's plea to
the supreme court. His home is in
jamestown, \. Y, and the population
of that place is made up largely of
Swedes and there are forty-siX John
Andersons in the city directory. His
plea will be granted by giving him
middle initial which will differentiate
him from the other forty five in the
same town.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
SOUTH CAROLINA WINS.
Takes Militia Championship in Hud-
son River Races.

A dispatch from New York says
in a choppy ebb tide and cross wind
on the Hudson river Saturday the
South Carolina crew OF ten men won
the militia championship Of the Unit
ed States. The South Carolinians
with Lieut.. NJ. S. Sullivan as cox
swain got their cutter three lengths
ahead of the New Yorks men boat
Ohio finished third. The Massachu-
setts crew was fourth and the New
Jersey crew last. The New York
crew led for three-fourths of the
two mile course, but the Southerners
hit up the pace in the final quarter
rowing "A to the minute, and won
handily.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
HYDE ASKS FOR BAPTISM.
Condemned Man Would Join Church
Before His Execution.

A dispatch from Anderson says
Samuel Hyde, the young white man
who slew his wife and her father on
July IS, and who is under sentence
to hang on October 20, has professed
conversion and has addressed a let
ter to the congregation Of the First
Baptist Church, asking that he he
baptised and received as member
OF that church. Judge Prince, who
was the presiding Judge and who
passed sentence on Hyde, is now in
Conway, Horny County, holding
Court. A letter from a committee
Of the Baptist Church has been for
warded: asking for an order allow
ing Hyde to be taken from the jail
to the church for baptism.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
Thrown from Motorcycle.

At Danville, Va, Lewis Cook. a
white rural letter carrier, married
and aged 20, died Monday from a
fracture of the skull sustained by
being thrown from his motorcycle
when he ran into a rope stretched
across a street undergoing repairs
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
Whole Family Murdered.

At Monmouth, ILL.,, William E.
Dawson, his wife and one daughter,
were found in their beds Sunday, the
skulls of each crushed in. Dawson
was the caretaker of the First Pres
byterian church, and when he failed
to open the building for services his
friends went to his house and found
the tragedy.