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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
PITTSFIElD.
Local Grange Holds In
teresting Meeting.
The Deaih,. Early Saturday, Of
Julius Vurknysee.
Other Matters OF a News Nature
About The Town.

Rehearsals are. well under way for
the presentation of the Greek play
.Pygmalion Galatea," which will bo
given on the evening of Feb. -, in
Union hall, by members of the Senior
class At Maine Central Institute. The
cast: William Ireland, Anna Dodd
Dorothy Drake. James Dissell. Olive
Gray. Una Cornforth, Norris Friend
Boyd Harrington and owen Gould
The death of julius NurknNsee. q
native of France. occurred. early sat
urday morning, st the home OF Mi
chael Sullivan, where he had made his
home FOR the past two years, having
been employed as weaver at the
Pioneer mill. The cause of death was
tuberculosis. \ brother, living il
North Nassllboro, and a nephew OF
Hartland. survive. The remains We're
placed in the receiving tomb Tor the
disposition of his, relatives.
Daniel Livingston. who is employed
1T the Eastern Grain Co.'S. mill, left
Meaday, Ter Bangor, where he will
undergo an operation for appended
tbs.
At a meeting of Pitts6eld Grange
held, Saturday evening, the Third and
Fourth degrees We're conferred on IL
candidates Mrs. Kate Ellis of FAIR
field. county deputy, paid an Official
visit. Following the work, Harvest
supper was served. In accordance
with new amendment which las
been adopted by the Grange, in future
all meetings during the month viii be
held on Saturday evening, with the
exception of the last Saturday in the
month, when an all-day session will
be held.
The members of Waverley Rebekah
Lodge have completed arrangements
for their sale of aprons and food. and
dancing party, to be given in Union
hall, Wednesday afternoon. and eve
ming, OF Feb. II. Music viii be furnish
ed by Pullen's Orchestra of Bangor.
The local Cfiice of the American IX-
press. which has been located on Main
street has been moved to the M. c..
+. r. station, where new quarters
have been lifted up for the company.
The efioers-elect of Meridian Lodge.
F. and \. NJ. and of Ira Berry Chap
ter viii be installed at joint install
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
MARK TWAIN. MINER.
Albert Beeiow Depicts Mark Twain's
Entrance Into Journalism.

1T was the afternoon of hot. dus-
ty August day in 1862 when worn,
travel-stained pilgrim drifted tagging
~ into the office OF the Territorial
Enterprise, then in its new building
ON street. and loosening a heavy roll
OF blankets from his shoulders,
dropped YEARLY into 9 chair. He
wo1ie A rusty SLOUGH hat, no coat q
faded blue flannel shirt, and a navy
revolver. His trousers were hanging
on his boot-tops A tangle of reddish
brown hair fell on his shoulders, and
mass of tawny beard, dingy with
alkaH d@st, dropped halfway to his
waist.
Aurora lay $50 miles from Virginia
City-hard. billy miles. He had
walked that distance. carrying his
heavy load Editor Goodman was ab-
sent at the moment. but the other pro-
prietor. Dennis +. Mccarthy. sigHitied
that the caller might state his GRAND.
The wanderer regarded him with a
far-awav leok, and said, absentiy and
with leisure1y reflection:
. Ny starboard leg seems TO ba I'M
shipped I'd like about a hundred
yards of line; ! think 1 am falling to
pieces Then he added. i want to see
Mr.. Barstow or Mr. Goldman. Ny
name is Clemens. and I've come te
write for the paper.
1T was the master of the world S
widest estate, come to claim his king
dom Harper Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
LINCOLN DAY.
Observance by William r.
Smith School.

The pupils of the William r. Smith
school observed Lincoln day, Monday
afternoon, with appropriate exercises III
the assembly hall. About - visitors
were present and all were well pleased
with the program and the address by
Rev Charles G.. Mosher Miss Emily
Burbank played the accompaniment for
the musical numbers in "a very accept
able manner. James White. patriotoc in
structor of the G. y. r., was present
and spoke along the lines of his work in
a manner very pleasing to the pupils.
Following is the program:
Opening Chorus-"Lincoln Day School
Recitation-'1sincoln. Quenten Coons
Quotations from Lincoln. Grade VI
What Others Have Said of Lincoln, :.
Grade V
Chorus-"When Lincoln Came
Grade NII-NIlI Girls
Recitation-"A Flag on Every school,
house., Carroll HutchlllS
Chorus-'Pretty Bright Flags
Grade ri
Exercise with Flags, Grade
Recitation, Four girls from Grade IN
Northumberland My Captain,
Sumner Buckley
Address. Rev Mr.. Mosher
Flag Salute. Grades J. II, III
Flag Salute. Grades ". V, VI, VII, VIII
america -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
WINTHROP CENTER.

The Mission Study class will meet
Wednesday afternoon, Feb. IA, at the
vestry. Roll call will be answered by
quotations from Abraham Lincoln A
paper by Mrs. Bessie l.. Briggs, why
Are the judgements of Christian Con-
verts in Asia, AS To the Relation of
Christianity to the NonChristian Re-
ligious, of Special Value?''; Mrs. Mary
Gordon, What Is Their View of the
Right OF the Non-Christian Religion to
be Called Religious?'; Miss Alice
Clopgh, is Humanity, Two or One?";
Miss Ida Knight Are the East and
West Incapable Of Mutual Under
standing?"; Mrs. Mabel G. Bailey, "A
Talk on the Birds in Our Town
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
MT. VERNON.

EAST-S l.. Turner of Belgrade was
the guest of his parents. Mr., and Mrs.
+. II. Turner, Monday.
Mr. ana Mrs. 9. f. Dudley of Lynn.
Mass. are the guests of Mr.. Dudley. S
sister. Mrs. Estelle Dudley.
Isaac Wadleigh Of Readfield Depot
as calling on friends in this place, Fri
day. IN the interest of Rogers Bros.
II Is hoped there will be a large gath
erins of maskers" at the masquerade
ball 10 he held at Turner's hall, Tues
day evening. Feb. 20. Good music will
be furnished and an oyster supper
served. IN case Of a storm a postpone
ment to the first fair night will be
made.
H. !. Tucker. assisted by c. T. Pink
ham. has loaded a car Of wood. the
past week, to be shipped to Lewiston
DarfieS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

Co NJ, I'd Regt. n. 8. $. NJ held it's
regular drill, Monday evening. at City
hall The drill was well attended. anu
several new recruits were present and
took part in the drill for the first time.
Affer the drill the boys were served
with . luncheon prepared by the com
pans cook. Stephen Robinson. Former
Captain j. f. Bilodeau WAS present
and enjoyed the luncheon with the
boys The company at this time needs
but 10 men To make the required num-
Der and il now looks as if the company
will he recruited to fun strength by
the end Of the month. The personnel
Of tire company was never better
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

distorted yuccas, savage leaves like long
daggers and weird twisted shapes, half
human looking. 1t is real desert, almost
the very air and dry dust and heat; and
the simiIitude is heightened when. now
and then, a lizard darts out on rock in
the hot sunshine.
These gardens cover n space of about
six acres. In addition to the plants men,
toned. there are many rare ones which
the owner brought from Japan, some Of
which are seldom duplicated in this coun-
Try. In this semi-tropical climate of Cali
fornia they thrive out-of-doors the year
round.-Suburban Life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
HOW A SIMPLE PASTE
WILL REMOVE HAIRS


Many beauty specialists now employ
a simple powder known as deatone for
the removal of supertiuous hairs and
whitening the skin.
Persons wishing to remove fuzz or
hairy srowths from the skin without
employing the painful and costly cleo
trio needle should buy an original
package of delatone from the druggist
and with a little mix enough water to
form a thick paste. Spread this on
the skins surface and after two or
three minutes rub OFF and wash. You
will find the hairs are gone while the
skin is left white and smooth.
While deiatone costs y dollar
package. il is really the cheapest and
most satisfactory thing one can use
as Il Is urlfailun
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
WELL KNOWN IN BOSTON.
A. w. Shaw Has Hany Acquaintance
In Shoe and leather District.

Boston, Feb IA w. Shaw of Free
port. Me-, whose defaleation and dsap-
pearance was announced, today, was
well known in the shoe and leather dis
trict of the city, the A. w. Shaw CO.
having offices at 2S Lincoln street. The
corporation has a capital of $S00,ooo Mr.
Shaw was q frequent visitor to Boston
and dealt with many of the leading
merchants. The company sold line of
shoes which it made under the name ot
the Cumberland Shoe Co.
The only transatlantic steamer HAVING
passenger accommodations that left this
port within the last five days was the
Cestran, which sailed on Saturday for
Liverpool. The Cestrian has few cabins
but carries mostly cattle and grain
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

Nine hundred persons, the entire
population of United, a mining settle,
ment near Greensburg. Pa, have been
vaccinated and are nursing sore arms.
While the mines are operating the
miners are able to do little work. The
wholesale vaccination was ordered by
tn state health authorities because of
tie discovery OF smallpox and tho
quarantining of 20 persons who had
been exposed tn the contagion. One
death has thus far been reported.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

remember that the rays of light from
which he has found out all this left
those bodies 100 years ago. or %
years before the Revolutionary war,
the results seem more wonderful still.
The Pathfinder
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
MANCHEST

Cards are out announcing the mar
rage of Miss Mary F.. WEIGH of this
town ard Frank f. Harris of Chelsea
to take place at an early date.
Stanley. the little son of MIR. and
Mrs Scott Burnham. Jr., who was SO
seriously burned a few days ago is re-
ported to be as comfortable as can
be expected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

lotion. Friday evening. Refreshments
VII be served under the direction Of
Bethlehem Chapters T.. s.
The members of the Junior class of
N. G. /, will tender a reception to
members If the Senior class. in Powers
hall. Wednesday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

Thee annual meeting of the Augusta
Hotel Co. was held Monday afternoon.
at me office of G. L. Andrews. The
old boaid of officers We're reelected, as
follows: President, Charles $. HIGH
born; treasurer, A. w. Brooks: clerk.
c. l.. Andrews. No change was made
in the directors
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
AUGUSTA LOCALS.

p. E. Joyce left, Monday, for Hart.
ford, CT, where he will open a branct
office for a Boston optical concern.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

The Ladies' Aid of the Winthrop
Street Baptist church wifi meet, Tues
day afternoon, with Mrs Philbrook, 81
Grove street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

was consistent with the prosperity thai
he was enjoying as the member of a
prosperous shoe manufacturing concern.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13

A meeting will be held. Tuesday eve
ming, a the Spaulding schoolhouse
Pleasant hill. The meeting will be I'M
der the auspices of the young mems
class of the Penney Memorial church.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-13
Don't Roast the Cook

She may like it and you won't like her after she is
Winter morning generally cold Kitchen slow
fast children late school Kitchen worries and cooking
lens vanish from the home where
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27
A ROTATION FOR PEANUT
LANDS.

my mothers land, in the coast
Of North Carolina, has been work
ed each alternate year in corn and
peanuts, | suppose, since the Revo-
luton. Everyone in that section
says that this land cannot be work
ed every year, but | claim it can,
and will get better if some con-
slderatlon is shown the soil"
You are right. Your neighbors
have the old notion Of what ti,ev
call resting" the land by letting it
grow up in weeds and grass each
alternate year. OF course, even
this is better than working it in
corn or cotton or peanuts every
year, but it is far from being the
best thing for the soil. The alter
nate qlan does get some organic
matter into the soil, but it will
never bring the soil up to its high
est state Of production. We do
not practice a rotation Of crops for
the purpose Of resting land. The
soil does not get tired; it simply
gets robbed of fertility, and we use
a rotation to keep it hard at work
all the time growing something be
tween sale crops that will feed
stock and through them feed the
land too. A rotation is designed
to get more and more from the
land by increasing its fertility
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27
Prof. Massey's Views.

of lime and 200 pounds of bone
meal an acre on the wheat. | want
to SOW it in wheat again and the
land seems dead. What shall |
use Sowing wheat or any other
crop with mere dribble Of fertilizer,
year after year, is good way to get
the land dead" Then you mixed
lime with bone meal and destroyed
a good part Of the ammonia the
meal would have given you, and |
have never found that an applica-
ton Of lime directly to the wheat
crop is advisable. There is no
profit in making wheat at the rate
Of Is bushels an acre, and what you
should do is TO make 4 rotation III
which the wheat will not come on
the land more frequently than once
IN three or four years. In the
meantime, build up the land with
peas and clover, and make forage
and feed II TO stock TO get manure
for the land. and have a clover
sod to turn under for corn on which
all the manure has been spread
during the winter, and have peas
among the corn and disk these
down after cutting the corn, and
drill wheat after the corn, and
will soon be making more than Il
bushels an acre. / have in mind
a farm that used to make IL to Is
bushels Of wheat and Is bushels Of
corn an acre, that last year made
08H bushels of corn an acre., with
only a clover sod and a little lime,
and no fertilizer, and made wheat
at the rate of AZ bushels an acre.
That has been accomplished by
good farming in a short rotation.
Good farming is what your dead
land needs rather than fertilizer
and wheat year after year. It is
dead because the life-giving bac-
terra have been soured out and the
soil is starved.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27
A NEW OPPORTUNITY.
CONTINUED from Page One

Of dressed beef. It takes less time
to make a market steer than it did
a very few years ago. Corn has
been high for several years. Feed
ing steers on S5-cent corn has been
too costly. There is a shortage Of
steers as a natural result. The
number of steers available for
slaughter in the country is e per
cent less than at this time last year.
The average increase in the
price OF dressed beef during this
time IS rather less than 30 per cent.
his does not vary very far from
the proportional difference in avail
able supply.
Here IS the logical deduction
from these actual facts. Thi, IS
the new opportunity for the South.
Let Us see. I1igh-priced beef IS
due to shortness of steers. Short
ness OF steers results from high
price Of corn as feed. The South
can make cheaper corn than any
other part Of the country. The
~ditference in the value of land in the
South and in the West will alone
prove this statement. We make
Il bushels on land costing $500;
Illinois makes 80 bushels on land
costing $4,000.
Another point is equally i'm
portant. 1t takes only half as
nnuch corn to finish a steer in Geor-
gla as IN Iowa. Difference in cli-
mate IS the reason. giving longer
pasturage, shorter ~fattening period
and less waste in maintaining ami
NAL heat.
I. This IS no theory. but business
tact. We have done it. Many
others have done it.
lime and opportunity are here.
get rid Of ticks and make high.
priced beef"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

have an open we'll which l wish
to curb with 24-inch terra Gotta
pipe, and cement the joints and
cover the top with cement. NV
neighbors say that the pump will
pull the water from the bottom Of
the we'll and the top will
become stagnant, and that the
water needs the sunshine. What
do YOU say Your plan will be a
good n to prevent contamination
OF the water, and it would be still
better to drive a pipe we'll down.
That is what | have, though l use
regularly the city water. The pipe
we'll gives me cool water when the
city pipe water is warm. Do not
pay any attention to the predictions
Of your neighbors. More malaria
comes from open wells than from
almost any other cause, and the
tighter you close the we'll the bet
ter.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

feed YOU can get from the peaau,
tops. and the soil will be gaiuir =
humus, and the Thomas phosphate
will furnish YOU 20 pounds OF .5ac
iheach 100 pounds that Will to tat
extent tend 10 keen the soil sweet
',hile the application of potash a.l
prevent pops. Md vou viii
that all the crops grown Vii hoIn-
creasing in amount while the la~d
is kept constantly at work.
Now, if | were planning for cot
ton | would use peas and clover
every time instead Of rye. and
wouldvalways have peas among the
am getting daily postal cards
on which the writer's crowd all the
words they d possibly squeeze
IN, with a pale pencil, and expect 4
personal reply. | have ore such
card before me now. In which the
writer says that he has SEN ME
some plants to identify for him.
which have not yet arrived. Now,
the information will be of no gen
eral value to anyone else if the re-
ply is in the paper, and the writer
would be taking up space of no
use to anyone else. Now it does
seem to me that if a man needs any
>ertain information that would be
Of value to him, he can afford to
write a letter with ink on white
paper, and enclose a stamped enye-
lope for a reply. and | want to say
once for all that I will not write
letters IN reply to those postal
cards, though where the matters
can be of help to all | may reply in
the paper. Mr.. f. G. May writes
a letter asking for information that
will be of use to him only. and fails
to tell me where he lives. | will
reply as soon as he sends his adj
dress.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

"How shall keep my early Irish
potatoes over w%inter?" You can
not keep them. In a dark and cool
cellar you might possibly keep
them till Christmas. The way to
have winter potatoes is to plant a
late crop in July. Mine are just up
the first of August and will grow
till frost cuts the tops, and then
they are easy to keep if kept in a
dark place, just above the freezing
point.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

Il have a piece Of red land that
has been in wheat two years, and
last year l made IS bushels of
wheat an acre. | used 200 pounds
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

that will get us the nitrogen that
costs so much when bought III a
fertilizer mixture and through
them also increasing the hunus or
organic decay in the soil, which,
through the retention of moisture,
will make the fertilizer we use
more effective by dissolving them.
What the rotation should be, will
depend on what is the main money
crop, for in any rotation we should
have in view the maintenance and
increase in production of the money
crop Of the section. If peanuts are
the chief money crop, the rotation
should be planned to give the pea
nut crop the best possible chance.
If cotton is the money crop, then
cotton should have the most favor
able place IN the rotation. In any
rotation we should endeavOr to
produce the best and most Of good
forage for the feeding Of stock, for
stock feeding in some sort lies at
the very foundation Of all rational
soil Improvement.
Some peanut growers, like some
tobacco growers, are prejudiced
against the legume crops, and seem
to desire to depend year after year
on fertilizers for their crop instead
of using peas and clover to increase
the hu1nus IN the soil and through
their feeding to increase the ma
nure and the organic matter it fur
nishes to the soil in addition to
plant food. It is not always we'll
to follow two legume crops one
after the other Immediately. and as
PEANUTS and peas are both legumes,
it may not be well to follow peas
Immediately with peanuts unless a
liberal amount of lime is applied.
But in the old plan of letting the
land lie vacant in each alternate
years, you are losing what you
might gain by having something
better than weeds and grass on the
land.
You can grow peanuts with in
creasing crops by practicing a ro-
tation in which peas and clover
come in often on the land. IN
stead of letting the land lie out in
weeds, break it we'll and SOW peas
IN June, and when the pods are
fairly matured NOV them for hav
and cure IN the way | have often
advised. Then disk the stubble
lightly and apply some Thomas
phosphate and potash, and SOW
crimson clover in late August or
September. All the YOU
can make should go on this clover
during the winter, and all be turn
ed under for corn in the spring
when the clover blossoms. Guilt
vate this corn rapidly and level and
shallow. and cut it and cure in
shocks when we'll glazed, and disk
the land we'll and SOW to rye. Turn
this rye under when knee-high in
spring and prepare the land for
peanuts. using 400 pounds OF
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

When and how shall | SOW
spinach and what variety?" Make
the first sowing any time in August,
and another sowing about the mid
gle Of September for winter and
spring use. This sowing | find is
better made broadcast and the seed
eown quite thickly and on heavily
fortified soil, as it winters better
when thus crowded. The Norfolk
Savoy-Leafed is the best.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

will oats that were grown
where the Hessian fly attacked the
crop be safe to use for seed?' Yes,
the insects are not carried BY the
seed, and in my experience | have
never had the hy attack oats, while
they are pretty sure to find wheat,
If soWn too early.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

What will stop the caterpillar:
Spraying the cotton, the grass and
weeds with lead a%rsenate, one
pound to 80 gallons of water.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

Many complain of the red spider
or mite in cotton. This is one OF
the troubles Of a drouth. If heavy
rains come, they will not spread.
Spraying with strong soapsuds is
as good as anything but rather
costly. A good rain will do as
much good as anything.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-08-27

What is the best time to turn
under cowpeas so as to get the full
nitogen hxation that they will
make" Just as the leaves fall.
The crop is then fully matcure and
has done all that it IAN in the way
OF getting nitrogen.