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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
The Fight for Decency.


All decent citizens with children OF
their own, will sympathize with the
brave Slatonians who are endeavorlnS
to prevent the establishment of sa-
loon in the neighborhood of the Garfield
school They urge that there are all
ready eight in the vicinity and that 1t is
hard work to bring up chlidreh prop
erly in surroundings where human
degradation is always before their eyes.
sfheir plea for clearly living does them
honor and the county commissioners
should give heed TO it.
1t Is deplorable that such struggles to
preserve the responsibility of neishoor-
hoods are everywhere becoming lnpera-
tive. 1t is even more discouraglng that
such efforts are often made IN VAN.
Saloons have no right to exist IN resi-
denee neighborhoods, especially IN those
where children have no other playground
than the street They should be confined
to business streets where people merely
come and go instead of being nelghpors
to the homes of working people IL Is
pitiful to read of manufacturers entreat-
ing land entreating in vain) that Wretch-
ed places which are frequently dens OF
infamy should not be opened at the
very doors of their factories. 1t Is hard
to understand how the issuing OF such
licenses can ever be justihed. Such
drinking places tempt their victims at
the very time when their powers of re-
sistance are at their lowest ebb, when
they are utterly weary and the earnings
they have just received are ready to be
spent. Many a starving wife and child
waits longingly for the money thai
| would have bought bread If strong DRINK
| had not claimed it when human nature
was at it's weakest.
!, The law prohibits the establishment Of
| saloons within certain distance o.
schools and libraries. The provision
| should also be extended to factories
/ and in the case of new saloons the dis
| lance might be largely increased witt
| advantage. 1t would, of course, pc uh
| just to destroy existing businesses whlci
are conducted with due regard to law
| but no quarter should be given to thos'
which set it at defiance and are a de
grading influence all along the line.
reform in the license laws and stric
observance of them after they ar
amended should be insisted upon by al
! who are interested in the improvement
of neighborhoods.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

When the big steam lighter Atlas
left Portland, Tuesday morning for
the Kennebeo river, she took machin-
cry and tools to be used in blasting
away an uncharted ledge in that river
This is located off Abagadasett point
in Merrymeeting bay. Last spring,
barge ran aground on the rock. Up
to that time, it had not been Thought
a ledge existed there. survey was
at once made by the United States en-
sineer's office and Che work now TO be
started resulted from the investigation
made. The Atlas will be assisted by
r.. f. Chase, submarine diver Just
how big the job will be cannot be told.
but at tie engineers office Tuesday, 1t
was said it probably would not be
very hard task,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Up and Down.
k a little gravel

They took little gravel
And they took a little tar,
With various ingredients
Imported from affair;
They hammered it and rolled it
And when they went away
They said they had d pavement
That would last for many a day,
But they came with picks and smote 1t
To lay water main,
And then they called the workmen
To put it back again.
To run ano cable
They took ii up once more.
And then they put it back again
Just where it was before
They took it up for conduit
TO run the telephone:
And then they put it back again
As hard as any stone.
They took it up for wires
To feed the 'lectric light
And then they put it back again,
Which was no more than right.
Oh. the pavement's full of furrows-
There are patches everywhere;
You'd like to ride upon it,
But it's selaom that YOU dare:
Twould he a handsome pavement
A credit to the town,
If 'Twere not always coming up,
Or always going down.
Newton Newkirk in Boston Post.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

If any of you are here to
seek pleasure, You are seeking
it in the wrong place. There
is pleasure in abundance to be
found here, sbut you viii not
find it by seeking for it. You #
can spendia' great deallef labor s
over it and get nothing. i
know no occupations lin life q
more BARREN iof4 results than
the permanent seeking a,of
pleasure. Pleasurems IA by
product of life. 1t is a by
product of doing something
that is worth doing. There
fore, do not seek pleasure as
such. Pleasure comes of
seeking something else. and
comes by the way. The whole
point of enjoying recreation is
that it is not your permanent
occupation. The man who is
seeking pleasure as his main
occupation in life never has
any recreation. because he
never can turn to anything
se."-President Lowell of
Harvard University.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

Live as righteously as you may, and
as earnestly as you can; advocate
everything good. and fight conscien-
tiously all that is evil-do all these,
and you viii still be criticized, OPP
posed, and judged as hypocrite by
men Just as honest, just as righteous
and just as purposeful. That is a
part Of the great scheme of opposition
that makes human progress possible.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

Pennsylvania Boy Scouts found keg
of gold coin totalling s10S5 in deserted
farm house This will no doubt give the
Boy Scout movement considerable mn
petus.-New York Telegram.
How shall we keep pistols away from
those despicable creatures usually or
unbalanced mind, who bring us into dis
grace before the world?-Boston Herald.
A vote of 100000 is expected in No
vember. With protection as the para
mount issue the Republican majority
ought to mount higher than in 1901 or
1gOS.-St Louis Globe-Demoerat.
In Boston, Ca, they are to decide py
popular vote whether cows shah be al
lowed to roam at will about the streets
and sidewalks. 1t appears that there
have been some warm political disputes
over this gentle creature and her desire
for unrestrained liberty and free access
to all public thoFoughfares BOSTON,
Mass, once had the same problem ana
before il was settled the cows had done
the work of the civil engineers in the
matter of city planning.-Boston GLOBE.
Now that the corrupt practices act
is dead, (and it was never intended
to be much alive), the road is cleared
for the next legislature, Republican,
to give us a genuine bill that VIII
really stop bribery. 1t can be DONE
but not by a Legislature looking for
a way how not to do it.-0ssipee val
ley Herald
Unreasonable violence of the mob
or of the fanatic must be deplored by
all instincts that stand for civilization
Such violence as the attempt 10 muir
der col. Roosevelt shows the POSSIBLE
tiles for wrong of a dlsordered or de-
PRAYED mind. The people of this coun-
try will be thankful that Col. Roose-
Welt escaped so fortunately.-Br Bruins
wick Record.
Price of wheat SCARED in the Chicago
market ON Monday on account OF the
European war scare. The consumer
is bound to get it going or coming
Bridgeport Telegram.
Before it is too late let us record
the interesting fact that the Hon Eu-
gene Debs, the Socialist candidate for
president. is the only nominee Tor that
office who has worn creased trousers
in New Bedford Mass, this year. me
esteemed Standard of that city
certifies to this Mr.. Taft and Mr.
Roosevelt have both spoken there
during the present campaign'-Hatt-
ford Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Harness Science and Practice.

There's a lesson worth taking to
heart in the following excerpt from an
editorial in the current Farm and
Fireside:
Sometimes the best educated college
graduate. finds that he has overshot
the mark in his researches and inves-
tigations. He finds that, while he
knows lot which the old eodgers
about him do not. they have him beat
en- in the most important agricultural
matters. | knew a young man VINO
lived in a city until he had graduated
from an agricultural college he
worked on farms in vacations, and ne
did everything that. city man can
do TO learn farming practically as well
as Theoretically. But he had not had
the advantage the farm boy possesses
of driving a team year after year ana
listening to the discussion Of farm
problems about the hearth in farm
home While a child. He went on
large farm as tenant Three hundred
acres of land to be plowed, put into
crops. tended and harvested. | visited
him about the first of July of his first
summer. Things looked badly. He
had made a lot of mistakes that an old
farmer would never have made me
college course did not tell him that II
he plowed around an eighty-aere field
and had any bad luck with the piow-
ing it would bother in the cultivation
of the whole field. while if he took 1t
in small lands" whatever was wrong
was 1ocaiized in land He had a
strip of poor blowing twenty rods wide
all around the field which made bad
corn blowing all thei time, A lot OF
other bFunuefs efiithe same sort ne nag
made.si4l1F cdr nj hon; sfads .fs grf
II thought said he when / talked
to him OF the situation that knew
a great deal more about farming tllan
the fieighbors about here, but I'm
making up my mind that | would be
hundreds of dollars better off this year
if knew as much as the fifteen-year-
old boys of the neighborhood. tn take
me years to learn the things that are
second nature to them!
Did he fail? BY no means. He stuck
to the farm, and is now successful lie
caught up in his inack of doing things.
Gradually he pulled ahead OF ms
neighbors. After While the ART OF
doing things began to cooperate with
the scientific truths he had mastered,
and money begun to come into his till
and recognition from his neighbors as
the best farmer of them all was nc
small part of his reward.
The teaching is that if the scientific
college boys would accept the ADVICE
of the practice-wise old farmers, ant
the latter would look carefully Int
the "book notions" of the young scien
tifc farmers, the concessions woulC
mean mutual progress. But the great
est trig in the way Of progress is in
tolefance--we fight obstinately agains
accepting views contrary to our own
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Democratic Paper Challenges Wilson,

Democratic Paper SndhehSes Wi'so"'
Governor Wilson needn't be so eager
to declare he is not free-trader. He
is ready 10 cut out of the tariff the
special privileges it gives; but what
does that leave? 1t doesn't leave pro-
lection
The pitiful thing in the Democratic
leaders declaration of faith is that
same protest that they are not free
traders.
II would be far more creditable TO
Governor Wilson if he had declared
promptly in favor of the Underwood
program of tariff revision. OR II he
had offered program of his own
The tariff is the paramount issue
Governor Wilson has said some excel,
,ent things against protective tariii Il
general. he has rot been satisfactor,
n naming distinctly specific tarin tax
IS that he would wipe out or reduce
Lewiston sun.
our Democratic neighbor seems d's'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

Just at present the city of Rockland
appears to be infested with thieves OF
various grades, from sneaks 10
burglars, and several breaks nave
been recently reported. Speaking Oh
this subject, the Courier Gazette says
ga burglar entered Leon Whlte ,
house on State street one night iast
week. entering the second story oy
means of ladder which Mr.. Whlle
had neglected to remove after .ah-
ing SCREENS off the windows. Inc
bold, bad burglar ransackeo the
bureau drawers until he disturpe..
Icons slumbers THAT you father'
said Mr.. White drowsily, thlnNihs
his father had come into the room
after some medicine. The intruder
made a dash through the WINDOW
followed by a streak of white Whlci,
nroyed TO be Leon. in hot pursuit anu
| a nightshirt Leon is some sprih.er'
hui the burglar had too much Oh
start and was quickly lost IN inc
| darkness. The affair made sensa-
| tion on State street, where the
1 windows and doors are now ngntS
fastened when the shades oil hish
begin to fall."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

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 e. 4FLYNT, Publish
ers, Augusta. Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

ASYLUM LODGE NO. 70 REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at $50 o'clock.
Work in First degree, Friday Nov. l.
O. r. FARNHAM, N.
Z. r WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

An interesting exhibit of public
spirit was made by the citizens of
South Bristol last week. For a long
period Of time the road by the front
of the cemetery at the village has
been an eyesore and a great incon-
venience to all the passersby. Every
rain left the road mud-bed and in
the springtime months it was an ex-
ceedingly difficult portion of road to
pass without becoming mired ankle
deep. The selectmen of the town
have year by year left the place un
mended and expostulations as well as
requests have been unheeded. Last
week the citizens of this part of the
place took the matter into their own
hands and under the leadership of
Nelson Carnage, raised money and
contributed labor and fixed the place
so that for some years it will remain
in good condition and cease to be an
offence to eye and foot. A drain along
the side of the road and culvert
across the road have been built, the
road in front of the cemetery has been
graded and smoothed. Some seventy
loads of stones and gravel have been
placed upon the locality.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

From the earliest days of this coun-
try the ingenuity of Yankees has been
proverbial, and that it is still cropping
out was shown, few days ago, in the
case of Rockland ice cream dealer
There is big demand for the delicious
ice cream he makes, and to facilitate
it's manufacturer. he uses an electric
motor to turn the freezer during the
process of freezing. On Saturday the
motor was useless because of the cleo
tric current of the village being cut
off. but he was equal to the occasion.
He lacked up real wheel of his
automobile and placed the freezer SO
that it's pully was in contact with the
free wheel of the auto. The engine OF
the car was then started, the power
was transmitted through the rear
wheel to the pulley, the freezer was
made to revolve and the process OF
freezing was carried out otherwise as
usual Four large cans of ice cream
were frozen by the auto device with
complete success.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Coming Events

Nov. 12-14-Maine Pathological Annual
Meeting at Portland.
Maine Fair Dates.
Nov 12-14-State Pathological, Port
land
Nov. 20-24-N. e. Corn Exposition,
Boston.
Dec 4-6-Bangor Poultry Association,
Bangor.
Dec. 1o-14-Main State Poultry As
ISOLATION, Portland.
Dec. lS-90-Freeport Poultry Assn.
Freeport
Show, Norway.
]. p. Morgan now owns the copy
of "F'ox's Book of Martyrs" once own
ed 10y John Bunyan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

The old two masted schooner Smith
futile, Capt ]. E. Wallace, with a
cargo of $4,000 feet of long lumber
bound from South Gardiner for Boston,
went ashore. Tuesday morning at sew
en- O'Clock on the Jacks at the mouth
of the Kennebec river While attempt
ing to sail out of the river. The wind
was n. n. W. and light and there was
q. smooth sea. Capt. Berry and crew
of the Hunnewell Beach life saving
station went to her assistance and the
craft was fioated. apparently not DAM
aged and proceeded. She lost her port
anchor. The futile is one of the old
est schooners engaged in the lumber
carrying trade. She was built in 1850
in East Haddam, Conn, and halls
from Boothbay.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

Thursday, October 81, 1912.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

DR., George S. Bliss, superintendent
of the Maine State School for the
Feeble Minded at Pownal, since its es-
adjustment several years ago, has re-
signed to accept a similar position
with the Indiana School for the Feeble
Minded at Fort Wayne. The resigna-
ton will take effect, Now Is, and as
yet his successor has not been chosen.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. D
Meetings at 100 O'Clock every second and
fourth Tuesday.
w. L. HAYDEN, C. =.
G.. E. STEWART. Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Maine Gossip
The Hats.

See the latest style in hats,
Awful hats!
Every freakish brand of bonnet
That was ever made to sell.
Each with something spikey on it,
That will make you when you don il
Fit to I'LL a padded cell.
Twisted up and dented down,
Shrunken brim and swollen crown
Made of felt and silk and velvet and the
fur of dogs and cats,
Oh, the hats, hats, hats. hats,
Oh the kinky little, dinky little hats
Watch the passing show of hats,
Brazen hats,
Every one enough to stagger
Even Hottentots or Turks
Aiming to be smart and swagger,
With a hatpn like a dagger,
And lot of quilts like dirks.
Color crazy. red and blue
Yellow, green and purple, too,
Combinations and creations that would
clear a house of rats,
Oh. the hats, hats, hats, hats,
oh, the mad, chaotic, idiotic hats.
-Minna Irving, in New York sun
Mrs. Mary Grant. the oldest person
in Freeport, died, Friday, Oct. %, at
the age of 90 years, months Mrs,
Grant had for some years lived with
the FAMILY of Henry Hodsdon. Mrs.
Grant was born in Germany her
maiden name being Sydler. She came
to this country when young and work
ed in many fine homes in and around
Boston. She with her husband, the
late Samuel Grant. came to Freeport
about 30 years ago. They had two
children, a son and a daughter AS far
as known no relatives survive.
Probably not before in the history
Of the port of Portland, has so large
a cargo of cypress lumber been re-
ceived as arrived Monday on the
three-masted schooner Frederick w.
Day. She had 100000 feet of the lum-
Der for the Wilson Lumber co. Not
only was it the largest of the kind
ever brought into that port but it was
said 10 be one of the finest. The Day
sailed from Palatka, Fla, two weeks
ago. Capt. Oran, reported head
winds nearly all the way, but aside.
from that there was little interest on
the run to the coast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 8, p. N.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday ~

w. b. GETCHELI, Capt
L. c. HUGHES. Clerk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

Price of wheat SCARED in the Chicago
market ON Monday on account of the
European war scare. The consumer
is bound to get it going or coming
Bridgeport Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

A vote of 100000 is expected in No.
vember. With protection as the para
mount issue the Republican majority
ought to mount higher than in 1871 or
leOs.-St. Louis GIobe-Democrat
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

How shall we keep pistols away from
those despicable creatures usually oil
mind. who bring us into dis
grace before the world?-Boston Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

THE REGULAR MEETING or sETH
Williams Relief Corps, No. g, second
ana fourth riday evenings at 80 III "
A. X. hall.
cr.AOr' n HARVEY Pres. Gent
CARRIE ALLEN. Corps Secretary
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31
Voices oil The Press.

Pennsylvania Boy Scouts found keg
of gold coin totalling sloSo III desetteu
farm house. This will no doubt give the
Boy Scout movement considerable mn
petus.-New York Telegram.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-31

There's a lesson worth taking to
heart in the following excerpt from an
editorial in the current Farm and
Iriracido.S
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-12

FOR RENT-Furnished all modern light
housekeeping rooms. Inquire at SAB
Seventeenth street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-12
Argus Branch Offices

Fer the HcrummodariOn OF It's patrons
IN various uasts OF the city. T'hs Argus
has established system OF branch Of
nces. where subscriptions and want ad-
vertising may be received and any In
formation lefr that may pertain to any
department. Of the paper. news or busi-
ness l. Is also planned to nave At each
OF these branch Offices every evening a
supply OF copies OF The Argus OF the
day. Sc that any subscriber who may
have failed under any circumstances to
receive his paper will be supplied free
Of charge
The Argus chain OF branch offices
incluucs the following:
J. J Kipp's notion store. 45Os Fifth
avenue
II L. Eowe'= pharmacy ais Four
teenth avenue
Riess' dug store Twenty-seventh
street Seventh avenue
Ullemsyer's drug store Eleventh ave-
nue.. Fifteenth street.
George ". Millhouse. confectionery.
SOC Fourth avenue.
Mrs. London's notion store. Seventh
ntreet, Fourteenth avenue.
Heimbeck's pharmacy. S22 Third ave-
nue.
sengers grocery. s2s Eleventh
street
Robert drug store. Thirtieth street
and Fifth avenue
College pharmacy. Seventh avenue
and Thirty eighth street.
Olson grocery, Thirteenth avenue and
Thirtieth street
Steiner drug store. corner Fifth ave-
nue. and Twentv-third street
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-12
Money In the Laundry.

Three little heaps of silver and cop
per coin lay on the laundryman's coun-
ter
THAT is money that 1 have Just
sound tied in the corners of custom
srs' handkerchiefs,' he said. at is
strange that with all the purses and
hand bags manufactured for the ac-
commodation of women so many of
them will still tie their money up in a
handkerchief. Sending it to the laun-
dry is funnier still. Every day We
dig ont a little pile OF unsupported
wealth, and many a careless customer
gets her laundry back with nearly
enough money In the package to pay
the bill."-New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-12-12
Publication Notice.

State of Illinois. Rock Island Coun-
ty-ss:
In the Circuit Court of Rock Island
County. nL-January Term, 1913. In
Attachment Demand. S1.6612O.
Smith Bros. & Burdick Company VS..
Fred W. Larson. ct al.
Notice is hereby given to you, the said
Fred W. Larson. that a writ of attach
ment has been sued out OF the Office of
the clerk OF the circuit court of said
county Of Rock Island. at the suit of
the said Smith Bros &Burdick company,
and against the estate of you. the said
Fred W. Larson. for sixteen hundred and
sixty-one dollars and twenty cents. be
sides interest directed to the sheriff of
said county TO execute.
Now. unless you, the said Fred ". Lar
son. shall personally be and appear be-
fore the circuit court OF said county. on
the frst day of the next term thereof
TO be holden a. Rock Island. in said
county. on the first Monday in the month
of January next. give special bail and
plead to said action, judgment will be
entered against you in favor of the said
plaintiff. and the property attached sold
10 satisfy the same. with costs.
GEORGE W. GAMBLE. Clerk
Rock Island. I'll. Nov. 80. 1919
ALDER: Huber. plaintiffs attorney.