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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
SPAULDINC'S
Red Cross Pharmacy, The Peoples Store.
HALLOWELL, Me.

ton to be loaded this week with pota,
toes at 80 cents per bushel.
Bernese and Bernard Holt of SkoW
hogan visited last week at NJ. d. Holt S
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Blackwell visit.
ed Sunday at VIII Totmans.
Mrs Pearley Gerald has been enter
tanning visitors the past week from
Canaan.
Mrs George Gaylord. who has beer
confined TO her bed the past week. is
some better.
Several from this place attended
Friday the all-day meeting ut Victor
Grange.
George Tibbetts Saturday evening
canned party of Good Win young
people on a straw ride.
1t is reported that we will have a
term of school in this place commence
ing Tuesday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03


A twelve year-old coiored girl and
twelye-year- old Polish hoy are the
winning spoilers in the schools of their
respective townships in Indiana. In
our disappointment and grief over such
presumption, we are driven to suggest
that some form of protection is ur
gently needed for what is evidently
still an infant industry among our ma
tive white population Endangered
American children should. until die
words less by one syllable than those
10 per cent. fewer words and none but
given out to the pauper spoilers. who
are successfully competing in our rich
est literary field. 1t has been believed
hitherto that the practical compulsion
which we put upon the foreigner TO
learn our language, il he is to have a
real part in affairs. was a disguised
blessing, being one of the surest guar
antees of national solidarity. But if
the handicap which it imposes is TO be
overcome in such a way as is shown by
the disquietine news from Indiana. we
have no recourse but some device
which will preserve our cultural SUI
periority.-New York Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
Union Week of Prayer Service.

Vt The union Week of Prayer service
A"ia Monday night. Rev. r. F. Tur-
nef al ,he.First Partsi church wa4
re reearher. - gre a very interest
ia t--mi'mtc 'aK FROM In" tcxt:
lord taaei, rs ia nraX.' rms vas roi-
lowed by q general prayer and testi-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
NEW YORK FOG BOUND.
Traffic on Land Blocked and Obstruct
ed on the Sea.

New York, Jan. A heavy fog
hung over the city and the harbor all
today, blocking rattle on land and al
most suspending it on the water. One
ferry line to Jersey City quit and all
others ran an abbreviated schedule. Ele-
waited trains We're all behind time.
Ten Incoming steamships We're fog
bound and both the CLYDE Line and
the Savannah Line for the South post
poned their sailings until better wealth
~.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
KENNEBEC.
MON MOUTH.

NORTH-The Union Sunday school
chose officers last Sunday for the year
ensuing as follows: Supt.. Mrs. Sum
ner Seabury; Asst. Supt., Charles G.
Clark: Sec. Mrs. +. A. richardson;
Asst. Sec. Miss Ruby Moody; Treas.
Miss Edith Richardson; orSanist. Miss
Linda Williams: Asst. organist, Miss
Viola Richardson; librarian, Mrs. Net
tie Leslie.
Per,ey Peaslee of Providence. +. T..
is with his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Pcasiee for week or two.
Miss Ada Jeffrey returned Saturday
to Norridgewock. where she is teach
ing school.
Glendon G.. Moody. who has been
very sick with pneumonia is fast i'm
proving. His nurse has gone home to
Lewiston.
Miss Emma Cccmbs of Castine was n
guest last week o. mir. and Mrs. L. c.
Berry. Miss Coombs taught the Gram
mar school here for a number of terms
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

The slippery condition of the streets.
Monday morning. caused many people
to take falls with morn or less serious
results. y number are reported as
having sustained mirror injuries and
wrenches lnrough falling. one man Is
said tC have gone down To work on Il
frame sled v hile it is reported that a
Young lacy consumed an hour and "A
half getting down to work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

John Grant. Harvey Trask and Roland
True took an automobile trip over east
the other day and brought back So picker
el of various sizes, but good enough. ac-
cording to Grant, to beat the record made
by Howard Groves few days ago. Grant
saws that while he was lone during the
time the others were eating dinner that
he pulled in over q fish. and that he was
going some to do 1t.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
Advertised Letters.

fhe following rather unusually long
Ia e unealled for letters remain at
IT, poSto:fiee Ter the week endins
Jan. >: Women. Miss Bert PERRY, Miss
,ery'" Brown. Miss Doris Bpker,
Al}s, .. Leafy, Miss Alice Lessard.
Aiiss Eath Munford Mrs. Winnie
iiarec Miss Lena Turner Men. West
o.t cunning l.conce Dosti,. " F.
NfcIN4rIiu
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

The death of Katherine H.. the IL
~ onths old daughter OF Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur +. Osborne of Pope street. &C.
CURED Sunday night. The cause Of
death was meningitis. She was tho
only child The funeral arrangement ;
will ba announced Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

No meeting Of the W. {. r L. Tenn
porary Home Corporation was held Mon
dav as there was no quorum present.
The meeting was adjourned to Friday at
ternoon at the same time and place, and
it is hoped that the corporators will make
q special effort and attend.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

The daughters OF st. Margaret OF the
Guuert sational church will meet Tues
d.l% al, ArnDon with Mrs Frank Smith.
Church street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss NAY Atkins returned u kenne-
bunApcrt Monday after a weeks visit
III this ci.y With her brother. Juas"
W. {. Atkins.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Friends here of +. b. Littleiield. for
mer resident of this city and a graduate
Of the L. of NJ. Law school Will be in
terestcd To learn that he recently en-
tered the law office of Hon. Burton Smith
in Atlanta, Ga.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss Helen Blanchard returned To
Camden, where she is Il teacher, Mon.
l.y, after spending the Christmas va
eaton Nth relatives IN this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

j. s. Nancy, president of the Gardl-
ner Savings Institution, with Il. l..
Russell and II. :. Webster, two OF the
directors, attended a meeting OF tn"
Savings Bank Association in Portland
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

.. j. Smith, who las been passing a
short vacation at mis- homo in this city,
Let Monday Tor Rochester, y. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

HE funeral of the late Mrs. Caroline
NJ. Stoddard viii take place from he!
lete residence, - Water street. at :
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Rev. Nal
colin Dana officiating.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss Bertha ClaSon left Monday for
Camden to resume her duties as teacher
In the schools there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss Helen L. IjaincS, itt,is enjoying
the Chr.stTaa~ at h"r homo i" this cltN.
h94 r"tara'd IA Richmond - resume
her dut1cS n teacher in iac publ,
srtluulS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

I'he Canton cab Will hold another OF
its inVIratinnal canoes Tuesday eVnn-
iu~ in L .. O + hall.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss I.aila Brigham, principal OF the
Randolph Grammar school. returned
Monday from Bridgton. where she pass
ed the. Christmas vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

!. $. bdrstoW left Monday for Boston
after spending 'hc holidays 1T his
hplDc IN this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Theodore Emery and Benjamin Par
4 Dig returned Monday IL their stu
die 1T Bowdoin College.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Everett Ever returned Monday to Do
Yer, \. II. after q visit here with his
father I. d. Ever.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

IN" pn'lic schools viii open Tues
day noi ming after the vac"tinn of two
weeks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Miss Caroline Bonney. who has been the
guest of Mrs. s \. cobb of Farming
dale. LETT Monday for Orono.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

w. T.. Seekns, principal of the Rich
mond Grammar school. was Il visitor in
Gardiner Monday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

| Most Of the local students at Bates Col
| LeEe returned to Lewiston Monday. after
passing the vacation at their homes here.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Mrs. G. II. Douglass went To Boston.
Il MONDAY. for Il short trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Mrs. :. Il. clay. who has been the
guest Of Mrs =. II. Gray. returned 10
fr hrme in Boston MONDAY
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

M"ssrs. Carl and Waldo Skillin and
Herbert NJ. SI.ea. students At EoWdofn,
VITO have been at their respective
I1nm"g for the Christmas holidays. haze
retMrloA TO tH.- cnllngt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

i Pittsfi,rd; lass. u a. x Late FridaF
| the body o. one IF the Il victims OF
Thursdays explosion at tie plant OF the
| Morewood Lake lee Co, which had been
unidentified. was found to be that OF
! Avelino Gomiz, d Spaniard. The identif-
cation was made by fellow countrymen
" anstso found among the bodies of tbs
diversity othrse. oth7v sraria~dS tpe NJ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03
GARDINER.

Captain Robert Wcstman was in
Portland Monday on Il business trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

this afternoon with Mrs. Holt, 10 Spring
street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Tha Ladies rirrle al tin First Zap
fist church VIII meet TINS afternoon Il
e'ei6ek 1T ne homo a. Yrs. Sa Il
Faller, Academy street
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Spauldings Pharmacy for loss than
The wholesale prices ard '1rrN one
iGst from the factory. IN otcr supply
the cause.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

r Z. Blake is in Bostan on u bus
ilIess tliu.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Harry Fuller, having passed Ii.
Christmas at home. has returned to re
SINE his studies at colby.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Ml.s Etilel snlardon. Who has bccn
the guest oi Miss Evelyn Dili. re-
,,rnGd Monday To her home III Port
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

Monthly meeting % tie cigN govern
},nt at 30 this evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

University othrses pthev srania"dS 'pe
ing the vacation atAtheir homes.
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
Lightning Protection
For Farm Buildings.

The season for electrical storms
will soon be upon us and with it
comes the question of proper protec-
ton against lightning.
So much fun has been made of
the farmer and the lightning rod
agent that farmers have come to the
conclusion that lightning rods are
fake, but this is far from the
truth.
A good lightning rod is the best
protection against damage from
lightning. 1t is a well-known fact
that lightning will take the easiest
path to the ground. This may be a
high tree, a church spire, Chin
ney, or telephone wire. 1t is
reasonable to assume if a lightning
rod is a good conductor of electric
ity and makes a good contact with
the ground, that it will protect prop
erty.
A good lightning rod should be
made of copper or iron. of ample
cross-secticn, with a point projec-
ton above the roof of the building
ar the lower end well grounded. A
e. oil rod for this purpose, if of cop
per, should weigh six or eight
ounces a foot; if iron. it should
weigh about two pounds foot.
The lightning rod should be well
separated from the building by por-
c2lain or glass insulators. To ground
the rod it should be riveted and
soldered to a large copper plate
three feet by three feet, so as to
make good contact, the plate buried
in charcoal in a damp place.
If an old rod is already in placc
go over it carefully to see that it
is not broken, as a broken rod is
worse than none, because lightning
will start down the rod and leave
it and enter the building where the
rod is defective.
Do not stand under trees, near
wire fences. in doorways. or near
cattle, chimneys, or fire places and
never use the telephone during
electrical storms.
Lightning strike is not. as rule,
fatal. If a person is struck by light
ming. do not give up hope, but slim
ulate respiration and circulation,
keep the body warm, rub the limbs
rapidly. give water. wine. or hot
coffee. and send for a physician.
F. A. DELAY,
Colorado Agricultural College. Fort
Collins
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28

the soil and as consequence the
ground water reservoir is usually
well below the surface previous
20 the irrigation of a valley.
1t has been demonstrated that
a rainfall of eighteen inches pro-
perly distributed will produce
crops. The plant. of course, re-
ceives only a part of this amount.
Much is lost by evaporation and
, some by percolation. When irriga-
/ tion is practiced, however, from
two to twenty times this amount of
water is supplied. The plant un-
doubtedly uses more than before,
much is lost by evaporation, but
by far the largest part of the ex-
| cess percolates downward through
the soil and eventually finds its
way to the ground water reservoir,
the level of which is thus raised,
year by year, until finally it reaches
the surface when water-logging and
the attendant alkali troubles result.
The bogs usually appear in the low
est part of the valley first. while
the alkali shows up on slight ele-
vations.
Having once begun, the spread
of the seepage is rapid ond the
infection makes its way up the
slopes until eventually even the
| highest parts are injured. The
| appearance of the bogs is viewed
with alarm and their spread with
CONSERVATION by the farmers who
are steadily driven back. abandon
ing their farms and taking up high
er lands from which in turn they
are often driven until whole valleys
are in danger of abandonment. But
notwithstanding the intensity of
the alarm, it never occurs to these
same farmers to reduce the supply
of water that is doing the damage
in fact, they often use more water
in the vain hope of washing the
alkali away. 1t cannot be truth
fully said, however, that these man
made swamps could have been pre-
vented altogether by sane use
of water. but the evil day would
have been postponed to a consider
able extent. Nor will regulation
of the supply prove a complete
cure fer the difficulty.
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
The Water-Logging Of the West.


The necessity of draining irri-
gated lands has become apparent.
not only in every section of our own
arid west but in every country where
irrigation is practiced. India and
Eeypt and Spain have their problem
and their characteristics are much
the same as our own. A conserva-
tive estimate shows that nearly a
million acres of land in the west
are in need of drainage. The water
logging of the irrigated lands is
no. confined to particular sections
II makes its appearance in the river
bottoms and in low lying swales and
expressions, as would be expected.
out 1t does not stop there. The
gentle slopes. the hillsides, yes, even
the bench lands are attacked.
once saw tule swamp on
hillside that had a slope of twenty
degrees and one of the wettest
propositions I ever encountered was
on the very brow of high gravel
oehch, 800 feet higher than its
u!nhage basin. Nor is .water-log-
ging confined to any particular soil
type-clay. silt, sand and gravelly
'""us are all susceptible to its
ravages. Many men have declared
that their land will never need
drainage. because they have a
gravel sub-soil.' have found how
ever. that a gravel sub-soil is often
source of drainage. Everyone
realizes the need of drainage of
humid lands, but few understand
the necessity or even the possibili-
" or draining irrigated lands.
AS a matter of fact. its necessi-
ty is even more imperative than in
humid sections for the reason that
water-logging In the west is al
ways accompanied by a concentra-
tion of alkali salts on and near the
surface. Certain OF these salts are
necessary to plant growth but GER
tain others are exceedingly injuri-
GUS. Water-logging is the natural
result OF over-irrigation and is
made natural by the absence of
natural drainage outlets. The soil
filling of valley consists of de-
rock and is often very
deep. The rainfall of the arid re-
gions is very light and the evapo-
ration factor high so that little
water percolates downward through
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
For Sale

Six acres on Garnet mesa. 5-room
house. barn and other outbuildiugs.
About two acres OF fruit: cherries.
peaches and apples. Po. box 400.
Colo. phone Garnet. 1AS3.
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
PICKED PARAGRAPHS.

After Diaz. what? A reasonable
vigilance by Uncle Sam, at all
events
Uncle Sans intentions toward
Mexico evidently relate to ending
ar conditions. not to stirring them
UP.
Thcre are several things indicat-
ing tnat, no matter what Diaz may
have been in war in other days, he
needs now to put on red necktie.
Five hundred Missouri mules are
to be rushed to the Mexican border
This is the most warlike indication
in all OF the mobilization program.
Uncle Sans mosquito fleet sail
ed from San Diego on Wednesday
under sealed orders. If it wants to
fight real mosquitoes it ought to
go to Tampico or Vera Cruz
Missouri new automobile law
fixes the speed limit on country
roads at twenty-five miles an hour,
but makes it penitentiaryi offen Sc
for a chauffeur or owner to run
away after a collision without aid
/ ing a victim or reporting to the
/ police. Imprisonment is also provid-
ed for chauffeurs under the influ-
ence of liquor while on duty. The
l4,0O0 auto owners in the state
will find the responsibilities much
increased.
Kansas promises wheat crop of
60.000.0O0 bushels. This is the kind
of politics to oppose to hysterical
tendencies.
Good hits at a range of five miles
would show Uncle Sans sailors to
be second to nobody in the whole
shooting match.
The Black-Hand Society followed
an Italian grape-grower from Ar
kansas to Chicago and attacked him
there. The Black Hand is being
over-played in this country and
must soon call out hands filled with
clubs and-spades
China has yielded everything to
the demand of Russia, which is not
an argument for peace through dis
armament unless We have faith
greater than mustard seed in the
beatitude which says that ultimately
the meek shall possess the earth"
Sunday sessions and tinkered
clocks at the end of legislature
are in themselves the proofs of in
competency and wasted time.
Perhaps the recruiting of troops
would be faster could it be known
that the boys are to fight. and what
they are to fight about.
A Legislative session devoted to
an effort to repair the fortunes of a
decadent party builds on a cracked
foundation, and is sure TO be
failure.
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
Waste Water Power Loses
Stat, $50, ,OOO, 900 A Year.


There is over a million unde-
veloped horse power that could be
harnessed from the rivers of Colo
RADIO and utilized, and the saving
from this in coal alone would be
worth s6O.00O.0O0 annually to the
state"
This statement was made last
week by w. B. Freeman. district
engineer of the United States geo.
logical survey, in an address before
the engineering students of the
State University at Boulder.
AT present" continued Mr.. Free
man. about fifty plants in the
state have utilized 70.000-horse
power from our streams. None of
the water that has been used to
supply power interferes in any way
with irrigation. or the vast amount
of undeveloped power SO per cent
is in the Grand. Gunnison and Do
lores rivers.
The reason so many power COM
panies prove failures is because of
the greed of the promoter and fnan-
cier who desires to get rich quick.
desire to say that only from 40
to 60 per cent of the investors
money ever goes into water
power plant"
The Delta independent., 1911-04-28
HOW'S THIS?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Halls Ca
tarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY 4 CO.,
Toledo. Ohio.
We. the undersigned. have known
F. j. Cheney for the last is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and
financially able to carry out any
obligations made by his firm. wald
ing. kinnan 4 Marvin. Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
obligations made by his firm. wald-
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. Testimonials sent free.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-03
STORMS HOLD BACK LINERS
Wireless Messages Tell of Rough
Weather at Sea. Q

Wireless reports received yesterday
from the weekend feet Of westbound
liners told of exceptionally heavy wealth
er on the Atlantic Westerly and north
westerly gales and head seas have held
back the steamers. and all will arrive
late.
The Cunarder Lusitan!a. which has
frequently been able to land her pas
sergers on Thursday night, Will hardly
come abeam the Ambrose Channel hght-
shin before o'clock this morning the
American liner 81. Paul, which shouid
have docked on Wednesday, was three
hundred miles east of Sandy Hook at II
a IN. Yesterday. She reported having
encountered unusually rough weather
throughout the run. she is expected 70
dock this forenoon. The Ryndam, Whlch
was three hundred and tWenty-three
miles east Of the Hook at II a. m., VIII
arrive this morning. three days late.
The Cincinnati. from Naples La Iour-
aino. from Havre. and the kaiserin Au-
guste Victoria, from Hamburg are not
expected to dock before Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-03
BULLET WOUNDS TWO BOYS
Lad Hits Self and Playmate with
One Shot, and Dies.

While PLAYING with revolver "hlch
bo <ound Thomas Kennedy, seven years
old Of Steuben street Brooklyn. snot
himself and his playmate, Joseph
pr,ttain. FIVE years old, of No. l33 Steu-
hon street. yesterday. Young Kennedy
diad IN the Cumberland Street Hospital
and Joseph is in a dangerous condition
With his sister. Josephine Kennedy
and Marion Liddle, Of the same address
Thomas and his playmate romped into
an open lot at Willoughby avenue ana
C,euhen street after school yesterday
From a pile of rubbish Thomas picKeu
,,r q revolver which. the police think,
oras thrown away during a fight among
,o,.ara1 mon there earlier in the day.
while examining the weapon he pulled
tho trigger. and sent a bullet into the
1of, side of his neck. II passed through
bic Nesh and struck Joseph Britain In
the left temple.
Norton Richardson. Of No. 1S3 Emer-
son place. ran over in time TO prevent
tho bov with the revolver from falling
90 tho ground. His companion ran near
II, half a block before he fell. Patrolman
ooears applied first aid measures until
DIR. Searle. OF the Cumberland Street
tIosn,tal arrived and took both boys