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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

James Webster, CASTINGS oldest cit
izen, died, Wednesday, Dec. Is, in the
92nd year of his age. He was ma
tive of Belfast, moving TO Castine
with his parents when years of age.
He was a shipbuilder by trade, hav-
ing built over 20 vessels which sailed
out of Castine harbor. After the ship
building work ceased. he had a shop
connected with his home i'm Perkins
street where he built many boats and
did jobbing of various kinds. He made,
during the latter part of his life. Is
violins. one of which is made out of
225 pieces and weighs 10 ounces Five
children survive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

w. L. HAYDEN, C. P.
G. e. STEWART, Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

Lewiston Journal: Perley p. Crafts,
a former Auburn boy, has just been
made assistant to the chairman of the
executive committee of the interests
which control the electric railway.
electric light, and gas systems of a
considerable number of cities in Iowa,
Illinois, Michigan, Indiana and Ten
nessee. With headquarters at Daven-
port Iowa, he will visit the different
properties, having a general super
vision of the managers. Mr.. Crafts for
about eight years has been general
manager of the Iowa and Illinois In
terurban, an electric railway system
between Clinton and Davenport, Iowa,
and Rock Island. Ill. He assisted in
the building of this line. and has di-
rected It's development and helped
make it a very successful property,
giving high speed passenger service
between the cities named, in success
full competition with the steam roads.
Mr.. Crafts began his electrical work in
the old power station on the Little An
droscoggin river in Auburn, going
from there to Boston. and later to
Ann Harbor. Mich, and Mexico City,
Mexico.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

The Sanford correspondent of the
Biddeford Record says that Miss Ruby
Cramn, the 16-year-old daughter of
Belle Cramm of Robert street, has
gained an enviable reputation as a
hog raiser. Last May, at the firemens
fair at Alfred, she drew four-weeks
old pig on $40 ticket. She took the
pig to the stable of Nathan Davis,
where it grew to be a very tame pet.
Ruby received many offers for her
pig, which she called Dorothy Dix,
but she refused and at last decided
to keep it, and with her own labor
and efforts she has been rewarded.
Dorothy was vaccinated in the throat,
Tuesday, by Jack Nealer, a Sanford
hog butcher, and when dressed she
tipped the scales at 305 pounds. Ruby
has invited a number of her young
friends to partake of dinner of roast
pork and apple sauce. on New Years
day. t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO 2.
deetings at 7.3o o'clock every second and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

Search for the bodies of Mrs. Austin
Elwell and two children. which has
been prosecuted with few Interrupt
tons since three weeks ago, Monday
night, when she jumped with them into
the deep water of the abandoned Per-
ry quarry, was necessarily abandoned.
Ice has formed to such thickness that
it is no longer feasible to drag. Rel
atives of the missing woman UNDER
took 90 raise money by popular sub
scription to have the quarry pumped,
but this project was abandoned be-
cause of the extreme expense. 1t is es-
timated it would take two and posi-
bly, three months to pump the Perry
quarry.
Frank Austin of Athens has put his
motor cycle into practical work and
is now saving up his winters wood
with it. He set the machine on a
| frame and fastened a belt pulley onto
the hub of the rear wheel and he is
able to saw out good lot of wood
each day and if he wishes to move
| his arrangement to some other place
| it can easily be done as the machine
may be detached and the saw is ar
| ranged with wheels on ii so that one
man may haul it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. NJ.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

THE REGULAR MEETING or SETH
Williams Relief Corps. No. g. second
and fourth Friday evenings at s.se at @.
A. r. hall
CLARE Fl. HARVEY, President
CARRIE ALLRN. Corps Sscrseary.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL

meeting Friday evening at TO o'clock.
Friday evening, Dec q, nomination and
election of officers Work in First degree
o. e. FARNHAM, NJ. u.
K. L. WESTON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

w. B. GETCHELL. Capt
L. C. HUGHES. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

G. A. r. THE REGULAR MEETING
OF Seth Williams Post No. Il, second ana
fourth Thursdays of each month.
N w. WHITE, Commander.
VIM. McDavid, Adjutant
D. p. HANSON. Guarterrnastee.
tu-th-sat.u
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Early, Alleged Leper,
Cannot Come to Capital

Tn view of the advices from Tacoma,
Wash. Of the confinement On an acre
lot near that city OF John R. Early. who
for nearly 4 year was held as lepeT
in little house on the Eastern branch,
no further fear of Early's return to
Washington is felt by the Health De-
partment.
Health officer woodward. on Drcem-
Der 13 received from Early's brother. II.
i3. Fairly. of Snonomish, Wash. a letter
ASKING if the alleged leper would be
permitted to return to this city without
again being placed in quarantine. In
reply DR.. Woodward wrote that Early
would be arrested as soon as he set
fcut in the District. DR. Woodward also
communicated with Eugene +. Kelley.
commissioner of health of the State of
Washington. requesting that steps be
taken to prevent early departure from
the State. A reply was received from
Commissioner Kelley stating lie had
notified the railroad companies not to
accept Early for transportation.
Early's confinement near Tacoma was
decided on by the Pierce county COM
mIssDnGrs following an investigation by
the county physician. His wife and
children are with him.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
STRUGGLE ON ARMY
. BILL TO START IN
HOUSE TOMORROW
Republicans Will Stoutly Re-
sist Democratic Plan of
Reorganization.

The real fight over the army appro-
priaton bill in the House comes tomor-
row, when the legislative sections of
the bill are reached. Republican MEM
bers are strongly opposing the Hay plan
OF reorganlzing the army, contending
that important legislation OF this char
acter. should not be contained in an
appropriation measure.
Points of order will be made against
the various legislative sections to carry
out the Hay plan, but the Democrats
will maintain that these provisions come
under the Holman rule, and are ger
name to the bill. The Holman rule.
which has been revived by the Demo.
cratic House after being sldetracked
Tor twenty years or so, declares that
ieslsIauon In an appropriation bill is
IN order provided 1t reduces expenses.
The reorganization proposed bv Chair.
man Hay, of the Military Affairs Com
mittee, provides for the creation of n
supply corps in the army and also for
nVe-year term of enlistment The OBJ
Ject or the supply corps is to replace
ABOUT 4,OOO civilian employees of the army
WIN enlisted men. Another provisicn
mat is meeting with stubborn Rcpuh-
lican opposition is the abolition If I.e
tropics.
, The army bill Is now being read under
the nVe-minute rule for amendment
and flood of Republican amendments s
VIII go to the clerks desk tomorrow
when the legislative sections are
reached. The army bill gave way to-
day.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
PROLONGED THAW
ONLY REAL HOPE
OF OPENING BAY
Captain Commandant Ber-
tholf Reports Shipping
Conditions Worse.

"Warmer weather with a prolonged
thaw is the only real hope for i'm
proving navigation conditions in
Chesapeake Bay" said Capt. Com
mandant Il. p. Bertholf of the Rev
enue Gutter Service, who returned to-
day from Norfolk.
THE Baltimore ice breakers have
done valiant work and the revenue
cutters have aided in rescuing ice
bound boats, but there Is no way OF
effecting anything permanent by hu-
man agencies. The prolonged freez-
ing weather has made conditions
menacing in the extreme, but there
seems no help for it,"
Captain Bertholf saw one Of the
steamers of the Washington and Nor
folk line make port five hours late at
Norfolk yesterday. The vessel was un-
damaged, although It had broken its
way through miles of ice in the Poto-
mac, and paint scratched off its prov
was the only inconvenience.
Sailing vessels have been frozen up
for more than a month and &nnot
get out of harborage unless a pro-
longed thaw comes. One or two days OF
warm weather will not suffice. Every
shipping point between Baltimore ard
this city sends stories of bad ice con-
ditions.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
WORRY ONLY CAUSE
KNOWN FOR SUICIDE
OF MRS. J.T. GRAHAM
Husbands Sickness Believ-
ed to Have Prompted TAX
ing Gas to Die.

Arrangements are being completed to-
dav for the funeral o! Mrs. Cecilia Il.
Graham, wife of John 7. Graham a
former Washington newspaper man,
now i'll in Providence Hospital, who
ended her life by inhalinG illuminating
gas In her room at 127 Maryland ave-
nuc northeast.
Mrs. Graham was found shortly be-
fore 10 O'Clock last night bv her four
teen-year-old daughter, Eunice. when
she returned homo with her grandmUth-
or from church. Detecting the odor of
gus. the child went tC the third floor,
and. locking over the transon. saw her
mother lying en- the bed with q rubber
tube connected with a gas jet. hanging
near her head.
An entrance was forced into the room
and Mrs. Graham was taken to Casu-
atty Hospital, where the physicians pro-
nounced life extinct.
John Graham. the husband. has been
IN Providence Hospital for some time,
and worry over her husbands condition
Us believed 10 have prompted Mrs.
Graham to erd her life.
Mrs. Graham was thirty-sevcn years
old and had been r1arried fifteen years
She is survived only by her husband
and daughter.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

known. "'' Se'
AZ the same time the cutter Gresham,
which yesterday towed in ivo boinins,'
schooners to Provincetowp, Mass
found that the unknown vessel, said 10
be In distress Off Sciasconsett. Nan.
tuckot, was riding out a storm and able
10 take care OF itself. although officers
and sailors had been fightihg high winds
and heavy seas for two days.
Saved By Gresham.
The schooners saved by the Gresham
Sunday were the Anne r. Lewis and
the Rhoda Holmes. They had been
iced up." and part of their sails were
lost in fighting a northwest gale that
drove them ashore on Pollock Rip
Shoals, near Nantucket.
The Apache has been to Smith Point
lighthouse at the mouth of the Poto.
mac, and found that beacon intact.
Rumor that II had been moved down
by Ice foes circulated in Washington
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Flees to Capital
To Marry Marine

Mary ]. Bartlett, the daughter of s.
A. Bartlett, who formerly was a men,
Der of the Koreshan Unity in Washing
ton and who lived at 1913 Pennsylvania
avenue until he moved to Rock Island,
ILL.,, six months ago, arrived in Wash
ington yesterday afternoon-having ran
away from homeland Immediately upon
her arrival here was married to Alfred
+. Pickard, a private stationed at the
Marine Barracks.
The bride is twenty-three years old
and is said to have been taken West
with view of separating her and Pick
ard, with whom she was in love when
she lived in Washington.
She was assisted in escaping the vigil
arCe of her father in Rock Island by a
brother and an aunt who provided her
with funds with which to come to
Washington to marry.
Pickard took out the license Satur-
day afternoon after regular hours in
the license bureau, and the wedding
ceremony was performed upon the ar
rival of the girl from the West.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Clara Barton Wins
Place on Honor Roll

ClalA Barton. founder of the Red
Cross. who lives ut Red Cross" near
Glen Echo, and has Just passed her
ninctieth birthday, is included in the
list of the twenty greatest women in
the worlds history by Mrs. Enoch
lSauh, student Of history and sociology,
and one Of Philadulphias philanthropic
workers.
Mrs. Raub's roll of honor follows:
Elizabeth, Mme. de Stael. Harriet B.
stowe, George sand. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. Florence Nightingale, George
Eliot, Frances Willard. Clara Barton,
Jenny Lind, Queen Victoria, Susan B..
Anthony, Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy,
Sarah 3ernharlt, Jane AddaTs. Ellen
Key. Niue. Chaudnadc, and Rosa Bon
heur.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
DISABLED SCHOONER.
COLLISION VICTIM,
RESCUED BY CUTTER
Onondaga Tows Prescott
Palmer to Norfolk-Other
Vessels Saved.

Rescue was effected at dawn this
morning of the five-masted schooner
Prescott Palmer, of Bath, by the rev.
enue cutter Onondaga. The Prescott
Palmer lay helpless all night of Hog s
island, which lies in the Atlantic off
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 1t had
been rendered helpless by collision with
an unknown four-masted bark.
Its headgear all gone, the bow smash
ed In, the foremast over the side, and
bad leak sprung. the Prescott Palmer
was unable to do anything but toss and
roll when the Cnondaga picked her up
not long after the collision. The reve-
nue. cutter was forced to stand by all
night, for the, wind was too high to get
a hawser across. When light came at
early dawn the Onondaga got a boat
ana line over to the Prescott Palmer,
and then began tow to Norfolk.
No details OF the collision have been
reported here, though revenue cutter
service officials infer that the unknown
tour-masted bark which smashed into
the Prescott Palmer made off after the
collision. The telegram which, brought
first word OF the rescue was received by
the navy yard wireless offloe at $40
o'clock this morning.
Cutters Kept Busy.
Work Of rescue by the Revenue Cutter
Service has been prosecuted in the last
twenty-four hours all the way from
Nantucket to Florida. The cutter
Gresham reported this morning that it
had foated the British steamer Ariel,
which had been aground on Sombrero
reef. The Ariel Is reported undamaged.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Your hair appears soft, lus-
trous, fluffy and abundant af-
ter using a little Danderine.

What causes Dandruff, itchy scalp
and falling hair? Who cares-so long
as Danderine overcomes this-and it
does, and quickly too-it does more, it
grows hair and we can prove 1t.
Try as you will, after an application
of Danderine. you cannot find a single
trace Of dandruff or loose or falling
hair and your scalp will not Itch, but
what will please you most, will be after
few weeks use, when you will ac-
tually see new hair, fine and downy at
tirst-yes-but really new hair sprout-
ing all over the scalp.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Sued Wife Charges
Husband Abused Her

Claiming she did 1.-TWO wCmcn's work.
while living with her husband, Mrs.
Florence Johnson today filed an answer
in tho District supreme Court to Brad
ley T. Johnson's petition for an alb
snlute divorce.
Mrs. Johnson charges that her hus-
band ABUSED her, peat her. choked
her, tore her clothing" and threatened
to get rid Of her even If he had to Kill
her. She adds that her. economic meas
ures ana her ability to perform the
work IF two women made it possible
FOR her husband to buy ;ho home from
which he drove her with his cruel
treatment" Attorney William Ellison
reDTCSents Mrs. Johnson.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
TAFT GOES. NORTH i
ON HURRIED TRIP
Will Visit New Jersey and New
York, Returning Here
Tomorrow.

President Taft left Washington this
morning for hurried trip to New
Jersey and New York. He expects to
make three stops. hve speeches. and be
back in the Capital tomorrow morning
for breakfast. The Lincoln Day dinner
speech before the Republican Club will
be the most important address of tho
five. .dt
The President will lunch with former
Governor Murphy at Newark this af-
ternoon. motor to Orange and place a
wreath on LincoIn's statute before go
ing to New York. "a.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
STOPS YOUR HAIR FALLING OUT =,
AND DISSOLvES DANDRUFF AT ONCE

A little Danderinc now will immed-
lately double the beauty of your hair.
No difference how duh, faded, brittle
and scraggy, just moisten u cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw II
strand at time. The effect is immed-
late and amazinR-your hair will be
light. fluffy and wavy and have an APP
pearance of abundance; an incompHI.-
able lustre, softness and luxuriance,
the beauty and simmer OF true hair
health -
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderino from any drug store or toilet
counter, and prove to yourself tonight
-now-that your hair is as pretty and
soft as any-that it has been neglected
or injured by careless treatment-that's s
all-you surely can have beautiful hair
and lots of 1t IL you will just try q
little Danderine.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

o'Malley. fifty years old, are dead from
eating arsenic or cyanide of potassium
in sweets placed at the door of the
O'Malley home last night. Louis Spen-
Ger, who also ate OF the candy, is to-
day at deaths door al the city hospital
while Miss Clara Crates, twenty-four
years old, another who partook of the
candy, Is unharIped.
The murder of the little child and the
man took place while Mrs. Mary Reedy,
mother of the small victim was down
town buying her a pair Of shoes. Re-
turning with the shoes, which the baby
daughter had asked for, she learned
that the child was dead.
Miss Crates is unable to form a salts
factory theory why she had not been
taken sick also, her only explanation
that she must have eaten some candy
that did not contain any poison.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
GIRL CLERK MAY
GIVE MURDER CLUE
Minneapolis Poison Candy Mystery Deepens, and Hope
of Police Rests on Ability of Saeswoman to
Identify Purchaser ... ~. s...

MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12.-On the
memory of Miss Francis Swanson. clerk
In Vocgeli's drug store, Hennepen and
Washington avenues, who is believed TO
be the only person IN Minneapolis who
sold candy of the brand that was used
In the murder, depends the chance of
the police to capture the poisoners i'm
plicated in n poisoned candy plot.
Miss Swanson will this afternoon con-
front persons whom the police show her
and will try TO pick out, If possible, the
one to whom she sold the candy.
Developments were rapid after the
death of two victims, but the clues only
serve to deepen the mystery.
Victims of a poisoned candy plat,
three-year-old Bonnie Reedy and Simon
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Arion Verein Meets.

The directors of the Arion Gesang
Vercin have admitted twenty-four new
members into the organization. Favor
able action on these applications was
taken at the regular meeting of the
board last night i'm the krion clubhouse.
1OO6' II street northwest. 'rhe officers
reported that the vcrein is having a
successful season and is in prosperous
condition.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Civil Service Bodies
To Meet in Spokane

The fifth convention of the National
Assembly OF Civil Service Commissions
will be held in Spokane June p and %,
Invitations to attend the meeting have
been sent to the various civil service
commissioners and boards throughout
the country
At the convention problems connected
with the administration of civil service
will be discussed by experienced men
Madison Wis.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Requiem Mass for
Guida Ehrmannpraut

Requiem mass for Guida Ehrmann-
praut. forty-four years old. who died
in Georgetown Hospital as the result of
n fractured skull received from a fall
upon the icy pavement, was sung in
Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown this
morning at o'clock. Interment was in
Holy Rood Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Ban on Cupid.

POUGHKEEPSIE, n. Y, Feb. r.
Miss Laura LorenZ. siXty-five, says her
brothers locked her up in an attic 10
keep her from meeting Abraham Tillett,
sixty, her girlhood sweetheart, whom
she had jOkingly threatened 10 marry.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Gen. Homer Lea Grows
Suddenly Worse

NANkING, Feb. 12.-Thc condition oi
Gen. Homer Lea, the American officer
who came here with DR.. Sun Y8t Ser
to act as a military adviser for the re-
publicans, and who was stricken with a
serious illness a few days ago, caused
considerable alarm today. General Lea
spent restless night, and his physi-
clans said ho was in a critical condi.
ton,
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
ANACOST|A OWNERS
PLAN BUSY SEASON
IN NEW BUILDINGS
Six Brick Houses Under
Way First of Many I'M
provementS Planned.
WASHINGTON TIMES BUREAU,
ANACOSTIA, ID. c., FEB, IL

busy building season is in pros
pect for Anacostia and adjacent
| towns. Already six brick structures
are under way, four being erected for
George j. Z. Maier. in Minnesota
avenue near the Naylor road, to cost
approximately $1,000. In the same
section, at 2311 and 2313 Minnesota
avenue, John Herath is having two
brick houses erected. They will have
all modern facilities and will cost
about $4,000.
James w. Bartley plans two frame
dwellings In u street near Fifteenth
street. They will be built in double
style and will cost about $4,000.
Several business places in Nichols
avenue have planned extensive alter
ations.
As soon as tho ice moves out of the
river dredging operations will be re-
sumed in the Eastern Branch by tho
big dredge Dewey, a contract having
been awarded for another portion Of
the Eastern Branch Improvement. The
contract calls for the dredging and
pumping on the Anacostia fats of about
10000 cubic yards.
In the program for the Men and Re-
ligion Forward Movement in Anacostla,
the meetings will be held in the hall
of the Anacostla Methodist Episcopal
Church, Fourteenth street near U
street. Lyman i. Pierce will make the
address tomorrow night on Missions"
Robert NJ. Hopkins will speak on
Wednesday on bible Study" A. M.
Chesley on The Boy" Thursday, and
on Friday Arthur j. Smith will discuss
Evangelism" On Saturday night
union services with Calvary Baptist
Church will be held.
The Young Mems Catholic Club, of St
Teresa's Church. will give its last 6ance
before Lent season Thursday night at
st. Teresas Parochial school.
DR.. James A. Watson has been chosen
to deliver the address at the Wash
ingtons Birthday exercises in the Van
BLTen School. The Rev. George NJ
Cummings will be the speaker in the
ketcham School.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. A. b. Suit, 1917 Val
ley place.
Anacostia Chapter. No. II. Royal Arch
MasCns. will hold it's annual election of
officers tonight in the Masonic Hall.
There will be a meeting Of the Ana
The Washington times., 1912-02-12
Small Fire Loss.

Spontaneous combustion caused a
small fire which did IS damage this
morning to the rear OF the house at 2I4
D street northwest. The blaze had
been eXtinguished before firemen ar
rived.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

There will be a meeting OF the Ana
costa Citizens Association Wednesday
night. The Congress Heights Citizens
Association will meet tomorrow evening.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

Anacostia Chapter, No. IL, Royal Arch
MasCns. will hold its annual election OF
officers tonight in the Masonic Hall.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

The Women's Christian Temperance
Union will meet Thursday afternoon at
the home of Mrs. A. b. Suit, 1917 VAL
ley place.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

DR.. James A. Watson has been chosen
to deliver the address at the Wash.
ington's Birthday exercises in the Van
Buren, School. The Rev George M.
Cummings will be the speaker in the
ketcham School.
The Washington times., 1912-02-12

The Young Mems Catholic Club, of st
Teresa's Church. will give its last 0ance
before Lent season Thursday night al
st. Teresa's Parochial School.