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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

Funny. isn't it, how Commissioners
Roberts caught em all, with his one
fair-for- Maine idea? But it isn't nan
as amusing as the spectacle OF the
,,eusraners of Lewiston. Bangor ana
yvaterville favoring the plan and then
setting forth the reasons why the nome
eitv of each should be the permanent
home of the one great Annual state
rs.4r If Maine. Each claims to be the
center of gravity; each has all the at
fractions. and each is ready to promise
acres of exhibition buildings, etc. IL Is
amusing because so many of the claims
are specious but unfounded.
Now. that so much has been said, let
nc suggest a solution. Obviously, 1t
would be unfair to Lewiston and wa
terville to turn the fair over to the
border CITY of Bangor. 1t would also
be unjust to Bangor and Lewiston the
old and long patronized fair cities TO
give Waterville the annual two weeks
state SHOW. And it would be just as
wrong to Bangor and Waterville II the
melon should be dropped so remotely
from the agricultural center of Maine
as is Lewiston Portland, Calais, Fort
Kent and Heleb are out of the ques-
ton because of their unfortunate To-
cations in distant corners of he State
But there is one city-a city into
which more than score of passenger
trains daily pour in and bear away the
travelling public a city where electric
cars sweep in from across the best and
most progressive farm lands of New
England: a city with more intimate
connections in the affairs of the State
than all the other cities combined; a
city enjoying daily steamer service
in season, with Boston; city that has
a splendid race track and grounds
ideally adapted to exhibition and tent
ing purposes, and so near the business
section of the city itself. and to all
sorts of transportation facilities, as to
put all other Big Fair claimants in the
shade-and this is the modest little old
city of Augusta. the home of Names
splendid and increasingly efficient Agri-
cultural Department, which should
have immediate supervision of the
show.
If Maine is to do justice to the vari-
Gus aspirants which have held fairs,
and to the population OF. Maine which
produces the goods and whom the State
wishes to encourage, then Augusta is
the logical, the only city to name for
the permanent home of great annual
two weeks exhibition and advancement
carnival. That there may be no hard
feelings between the three contestants,
n motion that all three withdraw in
favor of Augusta will now be enter
tanned. Such a motion would show a
proper spirit of fairness on the part Of
interested parties and would be the
sensible and equitable manner of set
Ting the dispute. 1t is not a case to be
referred to The Hague tribunal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
COLD STORAGE IN A MINE.
Makes Ice in Summer-Warm Storage
Has Opposite Effect.

Encouraged by rumors of silver de-
posts, two prospectors who were
working near Sweden valley. uncovered
thin layers of ice at the foot of steep
hill. Here they sunk shaft to the
depth of IL feet and found a peculiar
rock, which they believed contained
silver. Some of this was assayed and
found valueless. But near the bottom
of the shaft they found an aperture
from which came a cold draft. The
following spring someone found a
quantity of ice in the mine. but sup
posed it had gathered during the WIN
ter and had not yet melted. However,
as the warm weather advanced the Ice
actually increased. and by the middle
of July the walls of the shaft were
coated with ice a foot thick. AS winter
came on the ice began to disappear,
until the pit was free from the sum-
mer product. This phenomenon is re-
peated each year.
The shaft is about eight feet in di-
ameter by 10 feet deep, and is situated
at tho foot of a steep hill. In the Win
ter it is comparatively dry and free
from ice The temperature inside is the
same as that of the outside air. In the
spring the water from melting snow
that trickles down the sides of the pit
is frozen in the form of small icicles.
This freezing process continues until
by July the sides of the shaft are COW
cred with ice foot or more in thick
ness. In the early fall the process
stops, and the ice gradually melts The
sides of the mine are of loose shale, in
which there are numerous crevices that
extend back and up into the hill; the
rcck strata are rather sharply inclin-
ed. A draft of cold air, at some places
strong enough to extinguish candle,
issues from these assures in the sum-
mer time The temperature of the pit
curing the last summer varied between
25 and So degrees Fahrenheit.
1t is evident that in the winter the
column of air over the pit is cooler ana
heavier than that in the rock passages.
Therefore ii forces its way down into
the shaft and up through the rock
strata: it chills the rocks to great
depth and stores up vast amount OF
cold" AS the warm weather comes on
the air over the mine becomes heated
and rises, and the cold. heavy air flows
out of the passages to replace 1t. This
cold current freezes any surface water
that flows over the edges, and main
tains a freezing temperature as long
as the supply of frost in the hill lasts.
After that the circulation of air ceases
and the ice melts-Popular Science
Monthly.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Stevens Mills Grange.

Stevens Mills Grange held its annu-
al business meeting and election of off,
GERS last night. After the business
meeting musical and character
sketch was enjoyed
Plans are under way for the celebra-
ton of gentlemens night December
IS
The following list of officers was
elected for the coming year: Master,
George Parsons; overseer, Harry
Jones; lecturer, Lucretia Pride; stew
ard, Lester Humphrey; assistant stew
ard. George O. Huard; chaplain. Mrs.
E. w. Macomber; treasurer, f. w. Ma
comber; gate keeper, Lester Foss;
Ceres, Stella Peacock; Pomona, Eliza
beth Reed Flora, Beatrice James; lady
assistant. Mrs. George o. Huard; Choir
lister, Lester Mckinney; pianist. Flora
Humphrey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
MT. VERNON.

Rev. C. L. Wheaton, pastor of the
First Baptist church of this village.
was married to Miss Mabel Olivia Wei
den. at A. NJ, Thursday. Dec. 4, at
the home of the brides parents in Ev-
erett. Mass. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev A. Judson Hughes of
the First Baptist church of Everett.
Rev. and Mrs Wheaton will occupy the
Baptist parsonage on Church street,
upon their return
Mrs. Lydia Robinson celebrated her
goth birthday anniversary, Monday,
Dec. /. Aunt Lydia" as she Is Ia
miliarly and lovingly called, was born,
the daughter of John and Polly Quimoy
Bean, and has always lived in town.
Mrs. Robinson is the wife of the late
Joseph Robinson, who was one OF our
most highly respected citizens, Aunt
Lydia has two children, Edgar ana
Mrs. Fremont Davis, the son ana iafn-
ily living on the home place and caring
for her. This year, as usual. Aunt Lyu-
ia spent her natal day with her daugh-
Tor and 1t was a delightful one, too
beside the Thanksgiving dinner, the
dav being filed with pleasant things
telepnOtie Hieoo'SSS, i
cry. three birthday cakes and numer-
GUS other gifts making 1t one long TO
be remembered.
A special communication of Vernon
Valley Lodge, No SO, F. and A. NJ, was
held. Dec. .. Work was conferred III
the Master Mason degree, followed by
refreshments.
A roll call of Amity Rebekah Lodge
was held at the regular meeting, Wed
nesday evening, Dec. 8, with good
nunaher in attendance. This was very
nIaasant occasion, many responses be-
ing very interesting and amusing. The
degrees will be conferred AT the next
regular meeting.
Mrs. Jennie Mansur is signify I'M
proyed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
West Paris Granue

AT the last meeting of West Paris
Grange the program presented was so
original and consisted of SO much nat
ural talent that it seems worthy of
especial mention. The program which
was presented by Mrs. d. A. Ball on
her side of the contest was as follows:
Roll call. quotations from Longfellow
members OF Mrs Balls side. hymn or
response, words and music composed
by Mrs. Dana Grover and sung bv
mixed quartet-Hear Us, o Father:
original paper, Changes" Mrs. Carrie
Dudley; original paper, Monroe Doc
trine f. l., Wyman. Mr. Wyman an
pied his subject to the present trouble
with Mexico and said in conclusion
that he thought President Wilson was
treating the matter in a very efficient
manner; solo, Help One Another, words
and music were composed and sung by
Clayton Churchill; defamation. "Only
pin" A. e. Marshall; graphophone
selection, Beautiful Isle of Some
where" Mrs. F. Lang, AN Autumn
Idyl,' original poem; piano solo, Mary
Stearns: reading. The Arabs farewell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Maine Gossip
The Home M aker.

kiss my hand to the morning star
And call "Arise!" to the sun,
off on my orbit I've swung atar
Fer he has his course begun.
Through opened windows the breeze new
born
Comes rollicking, fragrant, free,
And all the glores of early morn
Are glowing for mine and me-
In cheerful kitchen the kettle sings,
There's sizzle, there's sav'ry smell,
And all of the little honey Things
Are doing their duties we'll
Under the magic of my hands, too,
The wheat flour turns to bread,
The brown beans change to a nectar
brew,
And so are my loved ones fed.
A kiss for my good man at the gate
That never his love flame cool;
a swift caress for each curly pate
To shorten the road TO school,
And then while my broom and needle fly,
And my washtub sparkles foam,
l sing, "Oh, blessed of women, l.
For / am the Heart of Homen
Lillian Dynever Rice, in New York
Times
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
COOKING Under Difficulty.

One of the ways in which men of sci
ence have got information about the
way that people lived in England
thousands of years ago, is by finding
and examining their camping places
Sometimes they find these places ac-
cidentally, but often a low mound by
a spring. or a discolored patch In
plowed field, will catch the eye of the
experienced relic hunter.
If he digs down a few inches or feet
Re will uncover a circle or layer or
stones that show the marks of fire; u.s.
ually there will be bits of charcoal
among them, fer charcoal is one of the
most indestructible of substances.
Here was the cooking place, the
home hearth OF a family of small, dark
skinned wild men and women, who liv-
ed there thousands of years ago. long
before the Phenicians visited Britain
to gather grains of tin from the river
beds of Cornwall. They had no tools
or weapons of metal, for they did not
knw how to snelt ores of iron or cop
per, much less how to forge these met
also into spades or knives or spears.
They made their implements and
tools of wood or stone, bone or shell;
they caught their game and fish in pit
falls or by nets and traps. and they de-
Tended themselves with flint-pointed
spears. They lived in caves or under
the shelter of lodges of rock, or they
built brush huts beside the streams and
springs on whose banks we find these
rude hearths today.
How, then, did they cook without
pots and kettles. or even dishes and
crooks that would stand fire?-for they
made no pottery. We can guess by
what we know of the almost equally
primitive folk who live in wild parts
CT the world today, or of whom early
explorers have told us. Probably they
roasted or broiled chunks of meat ana
large fishes over a bed of Goals.
Some Australian blacks cook meat by
laying it on hot stones or on a rough
grill of green sticks laid across the
glowing embers. Woodsmen have learn
ed from the savages to cover bird or
fish with wet clay and bury it under a
fire. After time they dig it out and
when they pull off the half-burned
clay the feathers or scales and the skin
come away with it and leave a clean
and well-cooked meal.
AS for the difficulty of boiling with
out pots, a good many tribes. among
them our own Assiniboins, boil their
food by putting red-hot stones in
pots" made of rawhide or of bark.
The Indians of the Pacific Coast use
their water-tight baskets for this pur-
rose and have long handled spoon-like
implements for lifting the heated
boulders out of the fire.
In the Tropics. where the bamboos
grow, the natives take hollow section
of bamboo, put it in water and the
food to be cooked, plug up the ends OF
the tube, and set it near the fire until
the water gets steaming hot. We may
suppose our forefathers of the stone
age cooked their meat and roots in
such ways as thse, as they gathered
hungrily round these rude fireplaces in
the evenings so long ago; and we feel
the more sure Of it, because beside
some hearths we have found the re-
mains of wooden troughs. in which
they may have boiled water with the
and of heated stones.-Youth's Com
panion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Minot Center Grange

At the meeting, Wednesday, of Minot
Center Grange the following officers
were elected Master, Benjamin Davis;
overseer. Moses Hodge; lecturer, Ber-
tina Hodge; chaplain, Gladys Wilbur;
assistant steward, Raymond Clifford;
secretary, Ralph Giddinge: steward,
Henry jackson: gate keeper, Harold
Wilbur; treasurer, Charles Washburn;
Ceres, Carrie Verrill; Pomona, Jennie
Davis; Flora, Myrtle Washburn; lady
assistant steward Stella Davis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
500 Reward. 500.

The readers or this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science mas peeh
ahIe To cure In all it's stages, and that Is
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure now known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being constitu,
tional disease requires constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation OF the
disease. and giving the patient strength
by building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing its work The
proprietors have SO much faith In Its
curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that 1t
fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials. Address F. ]. CHENEY & CO.
Toledo. Ohio. Sold by al druggists. zoe.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
observation-disclosures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
SOlON

The Scion Creamery Co has gained
SO new patrons, the past year, ana
the company expects to build new
creamery, in the spring. at Harmony.
Dan Maynard and Tim Clark have
returned from several weeks hunting
in northern Maine. They brought
home quite a lot of pelts besides a
live bob cat and wildcat.
William Soper has returned from
Roxbury, Mass, where ne was caiieo
on account of his fathers illness.
Miss Claire McIntire is visiting
friends in Gardiner and Waterville.
P. S. Longley and Joseph Merrill
have returned from Lewiston, where
they attended the meeting OF the
State Dairy Association.
Marcellus Irvine is now able to at
tend regularly to his duties as super
intendent of the pulp mill.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

had turned her talents toward eggs and
other cold storage necessities instead OF
booze, the face and stomach of this
nation had been changed,
But the picture of the warehousemen
potnting their fingers at the farmers
wives and crying: It's her! she 1t!
is excruciating.
Sophronia and Delphina will please
collect the eggs this minute!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Tonshan GRANGE.

Topsham Grange of Topsham, Sat
urday evening, elected the following
officers: Master, Edwin c. Patten;
overseer, Harold Hildreth; lecturer,
Miss Ethel Cushman; steward, Ralph
Mallett; assistant steward, E. R. Hill
dreth; chaplain, Fred A. Rackley;
treasurer, \. E. Tedford; secretary,
Mrs. Martha Carr; gate keeper, Ever
EFT Mallett; Ceres. Mrs. Milward Pat
ten; Flora, Miss Bernice Barker; Po-
mona, Miss Florence Dunklee; lady
assistant, Mrs. Edith Hildreth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
LiTcHFiELD.

PLAINS-Mystic Chapter, o. E. s.
No. So, elected. Thursday. the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year:
Worthy matron, Alice Buker; worthy
patron, Frank Lane; associate matron,
Pearle Higgins; secretary, Angie Rob-
erts; treasurer. Gardiner Roberts; con-
ductress, Nettie Allard; associate con-
ductress, Mary Perry.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Chase went Fri
day, to Monmouth, where they were
the guests of Mrs. VIII Lord.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

The London Chronicles noted lin
guistic antiquarian observes that a
game of football was played at Derby
in the third century in commemora-
ton of a victory over the Roman le-
gion at Chester Today, with the huge
structures in which football is played,
the game seems rather Roman than
English; in fact, the most convincing
impression that the reflective Ameri-
can can obtain of the similarity Of
American life to that of the Roman
empire is to be derived from the sight
of a football throng Of today in the
Harvard stadium.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

to his horse" solo. The Prince with
the Golden Hair" Clayton Churchill;
graphophone selection, He Arose,
Mrs #. Lang Before this interesting
program was presented the third and
fourth degrees were conferred on one
candidate.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Count Berchtold, Austrian foreign

Count Berchtold, Austrian foreign
minister comes of an uncommonly
mixed ancestry. He has in his veins,
according to a biographer of a gene
illogical turn of mind, strains of Ger
man, Hungarian. Bohemian. Italian.
Polish, Ruthenian and southern Slay
blood. AS regards social standing. too,
the counts relationships are of COM
posite nature. While connected
through one of his ancestors with
Francis Joseph in his ninth cousin.
the car of Russia and the German
emperor are his eighth cousins and
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is his fifth
cousin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Canaan Grange.

Canaan Grange held its annual cleo
ton of officers, Thursday evening,
Dec 4. An oyster supper was served
to IT'S patrons Thursday evening,
Dec. II, the LIST and End degrees Will
be given a class of &c. A special meet
ing will be held, Dec. so, to confer the
3rd and 4th degrees.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
CANAAN.

Canaan Band will have a dance at
Town hall, Christmas eve.
There will be Christmas tree ana
entertainment at Grange hall.
Mrs. Eunice Church has gone to Old
Town to pass the winter with rela-
tives.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
ESTABLISHED 1879.

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held response
he for tho preservation or return OF
rejected communications.
Address all communications relauhs
to subscriptions and advertisements
TO Kennebec Journal Co, PUBLISH
ers. Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
Tuesday, December 9, 1913

We are haunted by an ideal
life and it is because we nave
within us the beginning ana
the possibility of it.-Philiips
Brooks.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

Paper made from seaweed has been
invented by an English chemist. 1t
is said to be fireproof, waterproof and
odorless.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

cUsHNoc CHAPTER, r. A. NJ, NO.
43. Special convocation at Masonic Tenn
pie, Thursday evening, Dec. IL. Work
in NJ. NJ NJ. degree. All sojourning
companions are cordially invited to at
tend.
G. MARSHALL, H. P.
CHARLES r. CHASE. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
CAPITAL GRANGE, NO. a4s, p. OF

II. Meetings I'd and 4th Saturday even
ings of each month at G.. A. R. hall.
THOMAS NJ. ENRIGHT, w. NJ.
MRS. G. E. TOOTHAKER. Sec.
aug22, tu-th. sat, Tyr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
.NNEBEC LODGE, NO.

N. e. o. p, KENNEBEc LODGE, NO.
Isl, meets in G. A. r. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings of each month,
at 100 o'clock
WALLACE D. SLIPP, Warden.
EMMA F. HOWE, Rec. Sec.
B. L. NICHOLS, Fin. Sec
fiy-t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09
ODD FELLOWS HALL
cALANTHE LODGE. NO. So, x. p.

Regular convention every Wednesday
evening. Meetings commence at 7.30.
CHAS. e. PEASE, c. c.
GEO. e. FRYE, X. of r. and s.
m -tu-wed IF
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

If as has been suspected, FernaId
Eldridge is guilty of the murder of his
father and mother at West Gardiner, 1t
is another triumph for the liquor in
terests and the Maine faction support
ing them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-09

A headline in a morning paper says:
Lady Holder in Portland" Is it Dea-
con Bigelow or Oscar Wish?-Kennebec
Journal.
Well you know how busy morning
newspaper men are.-Portland Press.
Sure. but are you busier'n you ought
to be?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-27
Simple Frauds for Simple Folk.

FROM the New York Herald.
OF wandering rascals there seems to be
never ending supply. They assert rela-
tionship to prominent men or profess to
be engaged in fool enterprises at the be-
hest of newspapers, and do hundred
tricks which net them profit or enable
them to bask In what they consider to
be reflected glory. The successful &C.
complishment of this oldest of frauds
does not seem to call for any unusual
intelligence. and. as a matter OF fact. the
operators generally are of % mental
caliber. But what must be the under
standing of the gulls who buy them
drinks and lend them money and give
them adulation! Over the broad expanse
of these United States there moves q
steady procession of shoe worn sharpers
who profess to be engaged in transconti-
mental pedestrian tours for the Herald. 1t
does not seem to occur to those upon
whom they thrust themselves that a
newspaper has other business than the
engagement Of tramps. Grave mayors,
doubtless wearing spectacles and whis-
kers, solemnly certify in dog-eared pat
ent medicine diaries that ~. Clarence
Hobo passed through this town on his
walking tour for the New York Herald"
knowing these things. retailers of gold
bricks and wireless wire tappers cheer
up Immensely.