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The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22
BUSY SESSION OF
BOROUGH COUNCIL
Police Force Reduced to Regular Winter
Number and Capt. Lake Trans
ferred to Night Duty.

Borough Council met Monday eve
ming, Mayor Adams presiding, Coun-
cilmen Ryon, Leeds, McAnney. Thomp-
son and Ware and Clerk Andrews be-
ing present.
The Clerk reported that he had re-
ceived notice from the Secretary of
State advising that the fee for a certi-
fed copy of the Pleasantville Water
Company's charter is So. He was in
structed to proceed to secure same.
Mr.. Ryon stated that there are one
hundred tons of broken stone in the
borough which can be purchased at
81 per ton, and the matter was left
with the Street Committee with pow
er to act.
Maps submitted of the Lewis H.
Lake tract, between Adams and Pleas
ant avenues, were upon motion ap-
proved
Mr.. McAnney called attention to the
fact that the Solicitor had failed to
give an opinion as to how to proceed
to collect on the damaged curbs on
Shore Road, and also that he had
failed to take action to secure safety
gates at the railroad crossings, but
no action was taken.
Upon motion, the extra police off
GER put on duty six months ago was
laid off, on account of shortage of
funds, Capt. Lake to be transferred
to night work. This is effective at
once.
Mr.. Thompson complained of the
quality of gas furnished the people
by the gas company, but no action
was taken.
The Collector made report of COL
lections which was ordered to be filed.
The Collector reported the balances
remaining in the various accounts.
A resolution was passed transfer
ring S196.50 from the license account
to the water account.
The following bills were ordered
paid:
ght-Pleasantville H. L. & Power
Co., for September, $487.98.
Borough. B. Martin, team hire,
So; M. A. Fritsch, Jr., naint, ETC.,
1878; Mark Fritsch, months salary
as ianitor, S75; Chas. H. Vincent,
work in fire house, So; P H. Rainear.
carpenter work, s7.38; Pleasantville
Ice Co., $1.23; Charles NJ. Peck, six
chickens destroyed by unknown dogs,
Sc.
Board of Health-Thomas F. Craw-
ford, anti-toxin, ETC., $75.S5.
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22
WALTER CLARK TAKES A BRIDE.
Walter w. Clark, who as stated in

Walter w. Clark, who as stated in
the last issue of The Pleasantville
Press, will soon open a lumber and
coal yard in Pleasantville, took unto
himself a bride in the person of Miss
Emily Evans, one of Atlantic City's
popular ladies. Following the cere-
mony, which was performed in New
York City, on October 10th, the hap
,py couple left for Toronto, Canada,
where their honeymoon was spent
They are now "at home" at 80 E.
Verona avenue, Pleasantville.
Let The Pleasantville Press follow
you wherever you go.
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22

: The Pleasantville Press from now
until Jan. 1, 1915, to any address in
the United States for only 81.
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22

The Peoples Theatre has chosen
Monday Wednesday and Friday nights
for their special Feature Nights.
Great pictures are exhibited on these
nights. Take advantage and see them
for Be
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22
NEW MANAGER AT HUBIN'S.

M. ]. Sugar, lessee of Hubin's The
atre, has disposed of the lease to AL
bert J. Seigler, of Philadelphia, who
has assumed the management and
promises the patrons the same high
class performance that has charac-
terized this house in the past.
Mr.. Sugar will continue in the same
line of business in Philadelphia.
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22

The Atlantic Coast B. & L. Associa-
tion makes 10 per cent. profit. What
better would you ask for a conserva-
tive investment? Shares SOC each,
maturity 500 in less than eleven
years. No limit to number of shares
you can take. Marine Trust Building,
Atlantic Citv. adv
The Pleasantville press., 1913-10-22
The Pleasantville Bargain House

Was the successful bidder $1,50O.00 worth of
MERCHANDISE from the U. S. Posohice Dept, of Wash
ngon D. c. The Dead Letter sale of Merchandise consists
of the
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watervilIe to Reduce Taxes?

We are informed that Mayor Pat
rangaii of waterville. is telling his
voters that he is. to be elected once
more as city executive: that the city
is in fine financial trim; that the tax
rate can be reduced an entire mill;
that they have a new school house,
at last-that the city is being run just
as ii should be-according to APP
proved methods of outside interests
and that, last but most important Of
all. they just can't 10 without their
own little Patt.
We are not ready to take up all
these allegations for discussion, chief
~ because il is unnecessary, but il
may open the eyes of the people of
Waterville and the rest of the county
10 know that Watervilles 1912 county
tax has not been paid.
If the finances of Waterville are in
gilt-edge condition why is not S.
202.94 turned over to the county? 1t
is long over due and the county treas
urer would like to have it.
Y, Waterville's county tax for 1912 was
s10.70294. One-haif that sum was
due Sept. /. 1912. The other half was
due Jan. /, 1913, on Dec. 81. 1912 the
sum Of $4,000 was paid. That was less
than half the amount due four months
before. The sum of y2s51.47 more has
been due since Sept. l, 1912. The ad-
ditional sum of s535l.47 has been due
since Jan. /, 1913
Before the Intelligent voters of tbs
Plains and elsewhere vote to accept
Pattangallism on the promise of tax
reduction and open saloons, they will
do well to inquire why the county tax
is not paid.
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Our Suggestions Wrong.

Kept standing in brackets at the
top of the editorial page of the Los
Angeles Times, under the date of
foundation and the names of the pub
fishers, is this peculiar and mystify-
ing condemnation of type:
Loce Ahng- hayl-ais)
Our first surmise was that the line
had missed the hell box and
bounced into the form by mistake or
that the proofreader was an Eskimo,
related to Etuck-a- Shue.
Then il came over US that possibly
ii was the combination of the counting
room safe.
Both suppositions were wrong,
however. because we have since
learned that the letters spell out the
local pronunciation of the name of
the city in which the Times is issued
daily and Sunday.
Loce Ahng- hayl-ais, they say. is
the proper way TO utter what is
written Los Angeles.
But we are still somewhat in the
dark
Is the f in Loee silent as in fish?
Is the A in Ahng pronounced as in
Boston Boston Globe.
No. by eraeky. No one. in any 9TH
er climb, fmeaning some of those lad
der streets) can pronounce A or any
other letter as they do in Boston. So
your suppostions ARE wrong-as
sometimes happens.
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may ,be liberaliZed or otherwise by flu
ture course of decision, or by legisla-
tive enactment Gas in many states) we
cannot now anticipate"
That is all the argument | have to
make upon the matter MIR. Speaker,
and / merely wish to submit again
that the seal at the present time has
become a useless formality. IT is pos
sible, perhaps, that it may give Law
yers a chance to do a little more
scratching than they would be able 90
do without il; but / don't think it is
the business of this State To keep up
any formaiitics. the effect of which is
merely to give lawyers little more
business.
Mr.. DURGIN of Milo: Mr. Speaker. |
don't know that have any intention of
delaying the action of the House upon
this question for any length of time.
merely wish to say word As the
gentleman from Lisbon, Mr.. Plummer
has stated, the use of seals upon Ger
tain Instruments has come down To us
from antiquity, and IL seems To me
that the mere placing of a seal upon
some written instrument is no partic-
Hlai' hardship: that ii gives to certain
instruments. such as instruments con
veying property. certain tone. and
besides that il is notice to people that
these instruments of conveyance have
certain character. 1t seems To me il
gives notice to people that that instru
ment is OF more significance from the
fact that there is attached To 1t seal
Nov, the courts have relaxed and
parties have relaxed in their strict
ness as to what seal should be. 1t
used To be n waXen seal, and now they
have decided that any impression on
paper may be seal which win give
it validity and il seems to me that
now. IN view Of the fact that coming
down through the ages we have at
Continued on Page Seven.)
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once a mans signature is established
to an instrument that instrument
should stand for whatever it may be
worth, regardless of whether it has
piece of paper of that kind stuck aft
er the name of the person or not.
submit, Mr.. Speaker, that perhaps
to many of us--laymen, as we may be
termed-this distinction is unknown;
and | will say that so far as | am con-
eerned, up to the time | made any in
vestigation of this matter, | should
have supposed that my signature at
tested whatever statements were made
previous to the making of that sigma
ture. and that any piece of paper stuck
on after my name would carry no ad-
ditional evidence of consideration.
! will now read, along the same line
as the extract which | read from the
Encyclopedias of Law and Practice,
from Volume No. 66 of the Maine Re
ports in the case of Mclaughlin VS..
Randall. the decision having been rem
dered, Jan. 80, 1877. by that learned
justice of the court. Judge Peters
The Old common law seal, in the
time of I.erd Coke was wax, with an
impression thereon. but the StfieteSl
requirement became relaxed by de-
partures from it from time TO time,
|until it was long ago held, that seal
by a wafer or other tenacious sub
stance capable of being impressed,
whether in fact impressed or not, was
a sufficient seal. The annexing of II
piece of paper by wafer or wax, or
gum. or any adhesive substance. is
now everywhere regarded as equiva-
lent to the impression formerly re-
quired, and makes valid seal But in
late decisions in Massachusetts and
Maine, there has been a relaxation of
the requirement beyond that" Further
along in the same opinion ! read as
follows, How far the law requiring i
seal upon deeds and other Instruments.
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| highways with the labor of publ,
charges
The first question that arises is:
rs the plan feasible ?" Another:
Have other states tried it. and il
so, what have they got out of il?
If numerous reports in the newspa-
pers and magazines, from the South,
the West, and Pacific Coast are TO be
believed. the plan is practicable beyond
expectation. Other states have tried
it, and it worked. They have built
good roads at the same time they were
strengthening the character and the
bodies of their prisoners.
Several states have laws authorizing
county officials to employ Jail inmates
upon the public roads. OF course the
law requires. in every case, the pro-
lection of the public. A large proper
ton of these prisoners serve time for
intoxicating or minor offenses; they
rarely attempt escape; they become
better prisoners and better men.
Among the states that are employ
ing Jail ana convict labor in road
building are Washington, Nevada.
Utah, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, Colo
RADIO, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and
New Mexico. In most of these states
a certain number of days communication
is allowed for every 80 days work. In
some, we believe, a per diem allow
ance is made the prisoner, according
To his earning apacity.
And, that which is more important,
the number of "repeaters" under the
outdoor work system is marked over
the close confinement plan
If Maine is to embark upon a good
roads building era. might it not be
well to use all its available sinews.
because we have the bad roads and
we have the men who need to be bet
ter
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Friday, February IA, 1918.
Financial Chart for the Legislature.

Repeatedly. in the campaign last
year. the Kennebec Journal made PLAIN
the sophistry of the Democratic cam
paien claims. showed the people the
approximate income and expenditures
of the State and how the income was
realized. how and when the II mills
state FAY for the wears 1910 and 1911
became available for the beneht OF the
Democrats administration in 1911 ana
1912. and how the four mills fixed by
the 18th Legislature for the year 1s12,
would become available in 1913. For
these repeated statements we were de-
nounced and hooted at by Democratic
press and speakers. Even the mighty
Pattaneall in his address at City Hall,
Augusta attacked the editor of this pa
PEI because of the aforementioned
statements of facts
Now il is somewhat gratifying TO the
journal to have its statements verihed
and us claims corroborated, after care
ful investigation, by the committee on
concentrations and financial affairs, in
q statement Of The financial outlook OF
The State. Assisted by State Auditor
Callahan, Chairman Emery and Secre=
tary Marston of this committee, give
the total expenditures of the last ad-
miuistratien, an analysis of conditions
At Tie present time, and a chart OF the
financial rocks for this Legislature to
avoid.
In March. 1912. the Kennebec Journal
told the people Of Maine that the d.
rect state tax for the years 1911 and
1912 amounted TO $4,521, 1858; that the
direct State tax for the years 1863 ana
1910 amounted TO ss,429, sos.02, differ
enee of sl,0sl, 9l5.51. Ii pointed out at
tha came time that in addition to this
direct tax on the people an increase
had been made i'll other taxes, sueh as
rai,road taxes. tax on express compa :
MES, tax on automobiles. etc, amount
ing in all for the two years TO more
than s50a00o.
Day after day we made these facts
main TO our readers and they were
copied by the daily and weekly papers
OF Maine. We gave itemized statements
Of where the money went under Gov
ernor Fernald's administration and
where il had gone under Plaisted
rroyinr that while the assessments FOL
1908 and 1910 amounted to eight mills
and for 1911 and 1912 only ten mills
that in reality only six mills wer'
available under Fernald and clever
mills under Plaisted.
The truth of our claims has been pro.
claimed officially, after careful exami-
nation of the records. Nov the finance
committee and State Auditor are able
TO present Just as complete and relia'
BILE A chart for the next two years. The
Legislature has before it table of dis
tances for appropriations and a seized
ule of tile mill tax. II it plunges tht
State craft into financial rips. that Il
its fault for it has been given fair ant
respectful warning.
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Other States Are Do:.n IT.

Maine has the need of road building.
Maine has county prisoners that
would be better, morally and physi-
caliy, for being engaged in out door
work.
Now. II seems to us, is the time for
Maine TO investigate and at least ex-
pertinent with The building of public
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Editor S Letter Box

The publication of letter in this
department is not to be taken as an
endorsement of its views by the
Kennebec journal. This column is
maintained for the discussion of
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of reason
and not of a libelous or abusive
nature.
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Maine Gossip
A kidhood Dream.

He slept and dreamt that the kangaroo
Had given fancy ball;
The elephant came with the festive gnu,
The mouse with the ostrich tall,
A funny giraffe that did nothing but
laugh
Dropped in with centipede;
And cricket and flea that had Just been
to tea
Waltzed round with remarkable speed.
wasp and humble bee had long chat
Jus over his little nose
boa constructor lay stretched on the
mat,
Dressed up in his Sunday clothes:
crow and a coon in a big balloon
Passed over his bed to sing;
And neat armadillo crept up on his
pillow
To dance there the Highland Fling.
Then all, ere they left, made most
graceful bow
And out in the moonlight they sped;
Except remarkable saffron-hued cow
Which stopped to stand on his head
The little boy woke and grinned at the
joke
Sprang out of bed with a Tilt;
/ can dream ii all over" said he, while
they cover
Me up with a crazy quilt
q X
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Charles d. Preble, who observed his
18th birthday at his home in Ports
mouth. n. H., Friday. was the first
man to enlist from York, this State,
he having been born there, Feb Z, 1885,
the son of Francis and Deborah Preble.
When he was Is years old he went to
sea. With the call for troops for the
civil War he enlisted on April "a, 1861
in Co. A, LIST Maine Volunteers, which
was recruited from residents of Kit
terry and York and was commanded by
Capt. MarR Wentworth, afterwards
colonel of the eth Maine Volunteers
The company in which Mr.. Preble en-
listed was detached from the regiment
and sent To Fort McClary TO guard the
approach of Portsmouth Harbor and
the Navy Yard. His term of enlistment
| had just expired when his father died
ana instead of re- enlisting he as oblig-
| ed to resume the farm duties left be-
| mind by his father, which occupation
| he followed for several years. In 1851
he again went TO sea for 10 years. From
| 1882 TO 1889 he conducted the Garrison
House at Long Beach. York. being one
of the pioneer hotel men at this place
His wife died several years ago, anc
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his family consists Of a son, and five
a

daughters.
| One of the largest towboats on the
Atlantic coast is to be constructed by
| The Portland Co, according to an an
nounccment made. Tuesday The craft
is to be built for the Commercial Tow
boat Co, of Boston. and her contract
price, equipped. IS to be about S95, 600
The new boat is TO be 1929 feet long.
26.6 feet beam, will have a depth of
1911 feet and draft of 1916 feet. In
model she Will be a duplicate of the
Charles w. Parker. built two years
ago, only much larger. Work is to be-
gin Immediately on the craft and the
contract calls for her completion in IL
months. She will be fitted with steam
steering gear, electric lights and ev-
erything known to the modern towboat
The hull is to be built by the Cobb,
Butler Co. of Rockland, and she will
then be taken to Portland for her boil
ers and equipment.
William Bisbee, one of Warren's
prominent citizens. died recently at the
old homestead in East Warren, where
he was born June 9. 1888. although his
home was in Rockland the greater part
OF his married life. He is survived by
his wife, seven children, 20 grandchil-
dren and four great grandchildren. Hr.
Bisbee commenced cutting ship tim
Der in Virginia before his marriage,
and continuing that business until re-
Gently, when falling health prevented.
Mrs. Bisbee and family have spent
yxrinf n VI a
cut timber for vessels built in Camden.
Rockport. Rockland, Waldoboro, Bath
and Mystic Conn. He cut the frame of
the Gov. Ames, the first FIVE master:
also for the George w. Wells, he first
six-master. Among the vessel builders
he was we'll known. and all who dealt
with him once were ready to engage his
service when needed.
Isaac Ilsley of Portland, q great
great grandson of Daniel Ilsley, the
first man in Maine to receive the Ma
sonic degrees, was recently made
Mason in the same lodge which con-
ferred the honor on his ancestor. The
work was in charge of Frederick Ilsley,
father of the candidate, and great
grandson of Daniel. The event was
made one of unusual prominence be-
cause of its associations
William Remick, the oldest resident
of the town of Eliot, died, Tuesday
right He was born in Eliot. June 8,
1919, the son of William and Doreas
(Kennard) Remick. When young man
he went to sea and later found employ
ment at the Kittery navy yard. He
married Miss Elizabeth Brooks, who
died several years ago. Six children
survive
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On motion by Mr.. Plummer of Lis
bon, the report of the committee on
judiciary. reporting ought not to
pass" on bill. An Act relating to the
use of seals. was taken from the table.
The pending question being the ac-
ceptance of the report of the commit
tee,
Mr.. .Plummer moved that the bill
House Document No. l.. be substituted
me report of the committee.
MIR. PLUMBER: Mr. Speaker, as
ar. members who are interested in
this matter will see. this bill tends
toS do away with the use of seals on
legal documents, that is, to do away
with the necessity for any seal. 1t
provides that all instruments of con-
veyance shall be equally valid in any
court in this State, whether such in
struments have attached thereto
seal or not. The tendency of many of
the states of this Union is to do away
with the seal. which has to a large
extent, if not wholly. become a use
less Formally. The history of the use
of seals, of course, goes back a great
er distance than | am able To state;
and | wish to read from Volume 90
of the Encyclopedias of Law and Prac-
tise, page 116S, under the article of
Seals" subheading, Necessity use
and effect:
Seals are of great antiquity. their
use beginning at a time when writing
was not common, but when every in
dividual possessed a coat of arms, and
in early times much Importance at
tended their employment as means
of distinguishing the person. How
ever, with the growth of education the
signature to an instrument is more
important than the seal, and in some
jurisdictions seals have been entirely
abolished by statute. while in others
the decided tendency of modern deci
sions is To minimize. if not entirely do
away with the old distinctions between
sealed and unsealed instruments
The import of the seal. as | under
stand it, at the present time, is 10
! carry prima facia evidence of a con-
| sideration. That is To say, a given in
| strument which has merely the sigma
| ture of an Individual uponSit~is of less
| Importance, or at least. it requires
| less proof To show that q proper con-
| sideration was not passed than would
| be required in the case of what is
known legally as sealed instrument;
and in order for it to be a sealed in
strument. if | understand correctly il
| is only necessary to stick little piece
| of red paper upon the instrument aft
er the name of the party signing Z.
| Now. it seems to me that that prop
| osition is altogether an absnrdity and
| should no longer have standing in the
| courts of law in this State. We should
| abandon the employment of ali use :
less forms, so far as possible. and when
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Contractors began, Tuesday. says the
Orono correspondent OF the Bangor
Daily News, to remove the old wooden
bridge across the Saltwater river pre-
paratory to erecting the new steel one
The crews of the contractors who have
the contract for building the new steel
highway trolley bridge at the foot of
Ferry Hill by which teams and trolley
cars of the b. r. Z. & &C., viii cross
| the saltwater river in the future, have
arrived and begun on Tuesday the task
of tearing away the old wooden struc-
ture which has for so many years, al
| forded crossing for all who wished to
get between Orono proper at that part
of Marsh island on which stands the
Webster section of the town and the
University of Maine.
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AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER, Nc

13, o. f. S. Stated meetings the first
Wednesday evening of each month at
730 All members sojourning In the city
are invited to attend.
FRANCESE NJ, HAZLEWOOD. w. NJ
ELIZABETH A. THOMPSON, Sec.
aug2S m-W-f,tf