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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
All Ready for a Grand
Celebration on July d.
Two Real Estate Deals Recent
Iy Closed In Town.
Items OF a Personal Nature OF In
tsrsst to Many People.

Mr.. and Mrs. B. s. Mathews, their son
Harris Mathews. and Miss Salina Patten
occupied the Mathews cottage at Camp
Benson over Sunday.
Mrs. Prudence Bean and daughter, Mrs
Lottie Woodward. and Master Clyde Wood
ward are visiting relatives in waltham,
Mass.
Captain Stephen B. Larrabee throught
the B. s. Mathews Real Estate Agency, has
purchased of Bernard Robertson his farm
on the Detroit road to be used as in
vestment Mr.. and Mrs. Robertson are
located at Hebron, where Mr.. Robertson.
who is a graduate of the Agricultural de-
partmcnt of the IT, of NJ, has charge of
the farm that raises the produce for the
Hebron Sanatorium.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. B. McGiivery and
guest. Miss Alice Murphy of Old Town.
and DR.. II. E. Marston of this place passed
Sunday at Pleasant pond.
Mrs. W. E speas aud sister, Miss Eliza
beth Walker, have been guests for few
days of Mrs. R. NJ Goodwin in Newport.
The Pittsteld National Bank Saturday
sold tine keene house on Maine street TO
William IL. Mathews. who has resided on
a farm in the south part of the town for
number of years. Mr. Mathews will
take immediate possession of his new
home.
The pupils of Mrs. Florice Marden gave
a violin and piano recital Saturday after
noon at the home of Mrs Marden. Re
freshments were served.
Rev. +. S. Walker delivered fine SER
mon Sunday forenoon at the UniycrSalist
church to the members of Co A. n. G. S.
M who attended in body numbering So.
The funeral of the late Shepard Spearcin
was held at the house Sunday afternoon.
Rev. +. X Jordan officiating. The inter
ment was made at the Village cemetery.
The merchants ana citizens of the town
III general are busy doing The final work
of preparing for the celebration of July
aud it is predicted it will be one OF the
biggest events that has occurred in the
town Tor years. Longedon and Walker.
vaudeville artists and Prof. F. II, Flowers,
the bailoonist, arrived In town Saturday.
Many of the horsemen have arrived and
have been working out on Union trotting
park fer two days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03

tradition and accompanied the oficer with
out objection He admits the shooting,
bur says that it was accidental. Officer
Hogan says that Marshall was shot on
Sept. 3 and died Sept 10. Before he died
Marshall said that Ross shot him. but
that it was accidental. Hogan says that
Ross belongs TO respectable eolored fam
lily In Annapolis.
The Legislative act merging she
Somerset Railway CO., the Wash
ing County Railway Co. and the
SebasticoOk and Moosehead Railroa d
Co., with the Maine Central was accept
ed Saturday at Portland at special meet
ings of the stockholders of the respective
comranies There was not a dissenting
vote The merger took effect July 1 or
all the lines The outstanding stock of all
the companies was largely represented. At
the Maine Central stockholders meeting
4O24e out of 49,769 shares were repre-
scented. The Portland Union Railway Sta
ton Co. stockholders voted to accept the
Legislative act amending its charter and
enlarging its powers under the name of
the Portland Terminal Co. The Maine
Central stockholders will hold another Spe-
cial meeting July 3, to authorize bond
issue to refund all existing Indebtedness
of the company. including that Of the
merged companies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
WHERE WE GET OUR COFFEE.

The pure food act combined with the
statistics of the department OF com
merce and labor. gives us pretty con-
elusive information as to the sources
of the coffee supply for this country.
II has recently been intimated in these
columns that the genuine brands
known as Java and Mocha. If not
negligible quantities in the grand total
were yet comparatively very small. The
Western Hemisphere supplies practi-
cally all its inhabitants with their cof-
fee and has still plenty to spare for
the European trade. Undoubtedly we
do get several hundred thousand
pounds annually of what Is called Mo-
cha. That town made the berry grown
there SO famous that all coffee grown
in Arabia is now called Mocha. though
1t is stated on expert authority that
none grows nearer the place than
hundred miles. 1t is trademark
rather than a guarantee of immediate
origin. 1t is as if the state of Louisi-
ana should apply to all the tobacco
grown within its Borders the name of
a choice and unique rarity whose pro-
duction is confjned to a small district
The Java product that reaches this
country is considerably larger but
| both Arabia and the East Indies might
be sunk in the sea without materially
efecting this country's source of sup
| ply or the prices paid for it. The i'm
port figures are very illumining On this
point. In 1910 the total direct impor-
tations of Java coffee into the United
States amounted to 100000 pounds
though probably through indirect
channels this was increased to some
| extent. From Turkey in Asia we re-
ceived about 100000 pounds. and
from all Asia, including the Java and
kindred products. nearly $1,000, 900
pounds. But from South America the
importation reached the enormous fig
ures of 796,321,170 pounds. while even
North America contributed nearly four
| times as much as the whole of Asia.
| The value of the coffee brought here
| from Asia last year was less than 81
| 900. 900. The value of the product from
sources in North and South America
was nearly s67,000.000, or more than 30
times that from all other world sour
ces. The quantity consumed in the
| United States averages about nine
pounds year, per capita, and the
comparatively small amount of Java
received, though of varying grades, is
said to be of a quality superior to that
sent to Europe. 1t is still doubtful
whether we get any Mocha coffee
grown in the Mocha district these days
and the Java would not supply half a
| million of our people for a year, yet
as any people in the. world.-Boston
Transcript
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
BELFAST.
Two Torpedo Boat Destroy
ers Arrive Saturday.
Plans Tor Rousing Celebration
On July Fourth.
Plenty Of Attractions to Make The
Day a Grand One.

Belfast, Me-. July 2.-(SpeciaD -
son and Preston, arrived in the harbor
Saturday afternoon and were met by a
committee of Belfast men, including
Mayor Hanson, Alderman Jellison, Vice
President of the Board of Trade S. A.
Parker and Secretary w. l.. West. The
committee were taken to the ships on
the auxiliary Mallard. Capt. Coombs.
|who kindly rendered the boat for the
purpose. On Sunday the officers from
the two ships were an automobile ride
to Camden and on Monday dinner
will be given for them at Hotel Wind
scr by the committee.
Plans for the celebration of the
Fourth are materializing well and will
include many interesting features. The
parade will start at 10 O'Clock and will
include a long list of participants.
|among which will be the officers from
the ships in carriages and company
of marines escorted by the Belfast
Troupe Boy Scouts of America At the
conclusion of the parade will come the
exhibition by the fire department at
the school common. An alarm will be
rung in from Box 25 and the company
with its apparatus will start from
headquarters over High and up Main
to the common. The apparatus will
be placed on the school houses and
water turned on as in case of fire. This
feature was much enjoyed last July.
At l o'clock will come one of the
novelties of the program, the CONSOLE
dated band concert by Belfast. Camden
and Searsport bands. comprising some
60 pieces. This will take place in Gus
tom House square.
This will be followed by a tug OF
war between marines from the de-
Istroyers Lamson and Preston, the
prize contested for being silver cup
presented by the committee.
y Marathon race will also take place
at this time, the start being made al
the Customs building down Main to
High street, around the foot of the
square and up Church to the Customs
House square. Prizes IS. SO and 81.
Make entries to George Darby.
AT f.30 the races in several classes
will take place at the fair grounds
with the Camden Band in attendance
Al $3.50 ball game will take place on
the Congress street grounds. at which
the Searsport Band will play at inter-
walls.
band concert viii be given at I
O'Clock on the band stand in the School
common, by the Belfast Band. assist
ed by Charles Hammond. vocal soloist
who will render Silver Threads
Among the Gold" with band accom-
paniment. The Star theatre and Opera
house will run matinees and evening
performances and there viii be dance
in Seaside Grange hall. Everything
promises big day for Belfast and a
large crowd of visitors is expected.
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Trying to Settle
Seamen'S Strike.

London, July 2.-Shipping men are
awaiting anxiously the outcome of to-
morrow's conference at Hull between
the seamen, the shipowners and the rep
resentative of the Board of Trade. AL
though the tension is still strained and
the strike is now extended to Queens
town. there is a genera. tendency to
regard compromise as probable. All
parties apparently desire to end the dis
pute, the ramifcations Of which are af-
fecting the entire country.
Some of the owners still resist the
mems demands, but the majority of
them have made concessions.
AT Liverpool, New Castle, Hill and
other ports the price of provisions de-
pendent upon imports have risen sharp
ly. causing great distress among the poor
people.
At New Castle, the lockers have de-
cided to continue work on the regular
trading ships. but decline to work on
vessels which have been diverted from
other ports and are manned by strike
breakers.
At Queenstown 60 passengers have been
held up awaiting the sailing of the Ara
bic, and 100 passengers who are booked
on the Carmania.
At battalion of infantry at Lichfield
has been ordered To hold itself in readi-
ness to proceed to Hull and Liverpool
If required.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
THREE DAYS MORE
Before Relief Will Come, Say the
Weather Bureau at Washington.

Washington, July with downtown
thermometers registering 107 degrees. a
local weather record for the season was
made here today. The official tempera-
ture was 9S and the suffering was in
creased by the humidity. No immediate
relief is in sight.
The weather bureau says that high
temperature will continue for the first
few days of the week in the Northern
and Middle states, east of the MISSISSIPPI
pi, but promises some relief by lower
temperature in these districts about
Wednesday. A depression that now COW
ers the Rocky mountain region, accord
ing to the bureau will drift slowly east
ward preceded and attended by local
showers and thunder storms. and will
cross the Mississippi valley Tuesday or
Wednesday and the Atlantic states
Thursday or Friday. 1t will be followed
by cooler weather over the Plains states.
the Mississippi valley and the region
east thereof.
Az Rock Clinc. Ont. the THERMOMETERS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
MANTLE OF HEAT
Settles Down on Boston--Hottest July
for 80 Years.

Boston. July "A mantle of heat set
tied down on the city today causing
thousands to swelter in its sultry fold
as the mercury climbed up to the record
temperature of the year. II was the hot
test July 2 in SO years in Boston The
highest point was reached at P M,
when the official figures showed SO de-
grees. In the city streets the 100 mark
was easily passed and little relief came
with the falling of the sum- the official
figures at 10 7. M. being 80 degrees
A 4-mile-an-hour breeze afforded little
comfort to the thousands who sought the
beach and country resorts. The bathing
resorts We're crowded to their capacity
and the result was an unusual number of
drownings reported from all quarters.
The number of prostratons reported in
the city were remarkably few.
The weather bureau announced a con-
tinuance of the hot wave. which extends
as far West the Rockies and is slowly
moving eastward.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
The Cause Of Colds and a Safe Cure.

A common cause of many colds is
the sudden checking of the unconscious
Precipitation by exposure to a change Of
temperature. Colds, whether taking the
form Of Coryza with sneezing, running
nose. and perhaps sore throat, OF with
chilly and feverish symptoms, should
hever be neglected in the earliest
stages, serious illness often results
from such neglect.
It is well to get early to bed, to get
the body well warmed, and most i'm,
oortant to have the bowels move freely.
There is no safer or better remedy to
use at the beginning of cold than
IL. p Atwood's medicine. Two to
four teaspoonfuls will quickly relieve
songested conditions, drive out impuri,
ties from the system and ward off fur
her trouble. Always keep a bottle in
tho house. Any dealer will supply you
for thirty.fye cents. If yol have
aeyer used them, write today for q free
sample to the L. F. Medicine Co., Port
land. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

Slow matches or 'Iucifers" in the hands
OF small boys are not more effective than
the suns rays for setting off Fourth of
Julr fireworks ahead of time, as was shown
Saturday by fire in the display window
OF F.. G iIaggett's store al casee street
Portland. A quantity of fireworks ev!-
deufly was ignited by the rays of the sun
relseted through q cracked window. The
FIRE was quickly gotten under control and
the damage limited TO the fireworks and
firearms displayed in the window.
John Ross, the colored man, who was
arrested at York beach Saturday. charged
with the fatal shooting of Samuel Mar
shall. also eolored, in an ARRAY at Balti-
more last September. started for Baltimore
Sunday from Alfred in the custody OF
Special Ofcer Thomas Hogan of that city
who came here for him. Ross waived ex-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
WINTHROP CENTER.

DR.. g. w Bailey and family are com
fortsbly settled for the summer In their
cottage on Belle Isle. His many friends
will be pleased TO know of an improve
ment in his health since since coming to
Maine.
Mrs. H b. Farr and daughter. Miss
Edith of Philadelphia. are the guests of
Mrs. H. j. Bailey.
Mr. G. W. Burrill Is passing few days
with friends.
Edward l.. Farr and family will pass
the summer at the Goodwin cottage on
Lake Cobbossee.
Wallace Wing Of Wathnm Mass, Is
passing his vacation in town.
DR.. C. B. Fsrr and family of Philadelphia
are at their camp ON Belle Isle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
Women HuTtin
Crash al kittery Point,
Summer Residents Shaken and
Bruised In Car Collision.
Claimed That Block Signal Was
unheeded..Traffic Blocked.

Kittery, Me. July "A head-on col
lision on the York Beach branch of the
Atlantic Shore Street Railroad took
place at Ferry Lane, Kittery Point
Saturday afternoon, three persons be-
ing injured and score more badly
shaken up and bruised.
The car which left Badgers island
ferry at o'clock in charge of Motor
man Quimby and Conductor Walker, it
is claimed. did not heed the block
sbignal at Emery's siding. near Ferry
lane, and was trying to make the
Champernowne siding to pass the up
car,
The car had hardly left Emery's sid
ing when the up car, in charge of Mo-
terman Kimball and Conductor Hobbs.
came around the curve and down the
steep grade Both motormen stuck to
their posts and tried to avert COLI
sion, but the two cars came together
with considerable force and all of the
passengers received severe shaking
up and many were thrown against the
seats and bruised.
On the up car were between 25 and 20
passengers, mostly women and children.
Mrs Frank Getchell of Kittery Point
who was standing up at the time, was
thrown off the car and sustained frac-
ture of her right ankle and an injury to
her back.
John Hazelton of Contocook, who was
on his way to York Beach, had his face
badly cut and bruised. young boy,
whose name could not be learned, was
thrown against the back of seat with
such force as to fracture his nose. The
young son of Oscar T. Clark of kittery
Point sustained a bruise on his forehead.
Mrs Harry Foote of Portsmouth, who
was a passenger on the down car. was
considerably shaken. Quite number oil
the passengers were people who were
summering at York Harbor and other
places in this vicinity.
The force of the collision threw one
of the cars off the rails and blocked traf-
nc. The Atlantic Shore system has been
particularly unfortunate of late, having
had several accidents within short
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COMFORTS IN A NEST.

There's a thing | wish you'd tell
me-" said an Ekfrid. Canada, old
timer. DO English sparrows make
winter nests for themselves in the old
country? | am inclined to think 1t Is
a way they have got into since coming
10 Canada. Though l remember the
little pests since they first came TO the
country. | don't remember seeing their
nests until couple of years ago.
The little critters gather a pile of
dry grass into fork of tree and
weave it so that the strongest wind
will not stir straw of it. They
make 1t with a tunnel in from the
side and in the center is little
chamber that they line with feathers
and bits of wool till it is just about as
snug a place as you would want TO
see. When it is finished the nest Is
about the size of an eight-quart pail
Would you like to see one?'
AS 1t was night the question was
about to be brushed aside as imprac-
tcable when the old timer protested.
This is just the very time to get at
them, for we will have a chance TO
find Mr.. Sparrow at home" he said.
Lighting a lantern and leading the
way to an old pear tree. he lifted the
| light so that a bundle of grass could
| be seen in a branch about ten feet
| from the ground. He placed ladder
against the tree and started to climb.
but before he could put his hand on
| the nest there was a quick hutter or
wings and the tenant was gone.
The walls OF the little grass house
were from four to six inches thick.
| and while the grass could not exactly
be said to be woven. 1t was compact
| ed together into a sort of thateh that
must have been both wind and rain
proof. In the chamber was a good
handful of small chicken feathers that
were not arranged as lining. as is
usual when feathers are used i'm
nest. but were loose. as if the sparrow
were in the habit of burying himself
in them when he retired for the night.
do you know, I've struck quite a
lot of odd nests this winter. When
hauled home the stack of clover hay
from the field l found the coolest rab-
bits nest ever saw. The rabbit had
worked his way under the stack and
then started to eat the sweet clover.
when | came to the nest he had
eaten space that was fully two feet
In diameter and went up into the
stack about two feet. He didn't have
to do any scurrying for food and
lodgings. When ne wanted to make
his house little bigger he Just ate A
little out of the side or roof guess
if I hadn't disturbed him he would
have eaten that stack to a SHE'LL"
Detroit Free Press.
MISC -
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IRoNQUlLL" DEAD.
Eugene Ware, Kansas Poet, Passes
Away Cascade, Colo.

Colorado Springs. Col, July 2.-Eu,
gene f. Ware, "Ironquill" the Kansas
poet, died last night at Cascade, Col.
of heart disease. He wes formerly
United States pension commissioner,
He served through the Civil War with
Iowa cavalry companies.
Mr.. Ware wac born in Hartford.
ct, in 1871 and removed to Iowa when
boy He was married to Jeanette p.
Huntington of Rochester, n. Y, in
1874. He was a member of the Loyal
Legion and of the the Society of May
flower descendants.
Among his writings are several
works on American frontier history
and translations from French and Lat
ing writer's in addition to his poems
Rhymes of Ironquil."
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Change in U. S. Polo Team.

New York. July 2.-It is likely that
the personnel of the polo team that Won
the International polo cup in England
in 1909 and defended it this season will
be materially changed next year when the
English players come over to attempt tbs
lifting of the trophy.
From a reliable source it Is learned
that two men who have been playing pole
with great success all season. Foxhall
Keene and Malcolm Stevenson, are slated
to take part in the next games provided
their play in the practice matches next
spring warrants their selection.
The near defeat of the big four
teaIn--Lawrence waterbury, J. M. Water
bury. Jr, H. p. whitney and Devereux
Milburn by ,he English players brought
about the contemplated change In next
years team.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03

registered 10S degrees. The hottest place
in the United States was Detroit, Mich,
ITO. with Marquette, Mich, 104, whlle 81.
Joseph and Kansas City, Mo, Des
Moines. La, Omaha, Charles City, Iowa,
reported 102 degrees; Fort Smith, Ark,
Louisville, Keokuk Iowa, Alpha, Mich,
and Sioux City, La. 100; Chicago, 81.
Louis Harrisburg and Toledo IS.
Six big cities reported IS degrees OF
temperature, while New York and Phil-
adelphia sweltered under temperature
two degrees lower.
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BASEBALL NOTES.

Improvement was noted Sunday at
Chicago in the condition of Manager
Frank Chance of the Chicago National
League Baseball Club, who collapsed
Saturday in Cincinnati before the game.
Although suffering severely from head
aches. Chance said he would accompany
the team east on Tuesday but would not
play.
Second Baseman Collins of the Phil
adelphia American League team, who
was injured in the game at Washington
Saturday. had his arm examined under
an X-ray Sunday at Philadelphia and
found that no bones were broken. Col
Inns will probably be able to play in
about seven days.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Charles Bennett. secretary of the
United states Senate and Frank Har-
per, secretary to Theodore Roosevelt.
went aloft Sunday with Thomas Sop
with. the English aviator. in his aero
plane at the Garden City Aviation
grounds, New York. Each was In the
air IL minutes. Mrs. Timothy l.. Wood
ruff also sailed with Sopwith over Min
cola and Westbury at a height of 1900
feet.
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SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.

The body of hather was found on the
Ogunquit beach shore late Saturday one
mile above the bathing pavilion. An ex-
animation of the lighthouses disclosed the
mans clothes and his identity as Will
liam II. Fields of go Broadway, New
York. representative of an elevator
company. The man was about 80 years
of age, weighed 220 pounds and was light
complexioned. 1t could not be learned
where the man had been stopping at the
beach. Death had been caused by
drowning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03

William G. Marshall. aged so. Junior
& Son. wholesale dealers in hay and
grain. with offices In the Board of Trade
building. Montreal, was drowned Satur-
day noon while bathing in the SURF at
Old Orchard, between the pier ana GOO
gins rocks. Nathaniel Hillary OF Iofon-
to. assistant general manager OF the
Traders bank Of Canada, had narrow
escape from death in the surf.
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Killed by the Heat.

Lexington. Mass. July 2-oyercome
by heat Henry C. Gay. aged Sc years
dropped dead on the piazza of his home
on Bedford street here upon returning
from church today. A daughter sur
wives. Mrs. William C. Sickles, with
whom ne lived.
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Humidity Made 1t Very Oppressive.

Portland. Me, July 2.-Western
Maine sweltered today in what was
the most uncomfortable day of the
was only IS, no higher than it was
Saturday, but high percentage of
humidity made the heat much more
OpDrpSSiVe