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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Portland Election.
Harrington Chronicle.)

tFarmington Chronicle.)
The city election in Portland, Mon
day, resulted in the apparent re-elec-
ton CT Mayor Curtis by plurality of
Q votes. Last year his plurality was
1,463 The city government is Republi-
can on joint ballot by four votes. This
is a turnover in government and is a
big dampener on the gubernatcrial as
pirations of the mayor. The Progress
sves put up no ticket.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
A Helpful Man.

What are you painting on the roof
of your house?"
THE latitude and longitude of our
city in large characters. l have enough
public spirit TO make me wish to as
sist any aviators. who may be flying
over our town."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Editorial Comment
Pleasing to Friends.

belfast Republican, Journal)
His many friends in Maine will be
glad to learn that Hen. E. c. Burleigh
has recovered from a long and serious
illness and is now in Washington,
where he has so long and so faithfully
served his native State. On his appear
ance in the Senate chamber many SEN
aiors crowded around him and he was
given an ovation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

The United Press correspondent in
Mexico City discovered several days ago
what other news agencies are just get
ting wise to that Gen Huerta's acts are
for the most part those OF an irresponsl-
bic drunkard. -Blddeford Record.
Yes; prohibitionists probably TO
blame for it, He can't secure any
good mescal now. and the concen-
trated kind they send in pitfalls is
poison" Huerta pity!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Editors Letter Box.

The publication of letter in this
department is not to be taken as
an endorsement of its view by the
Kennebec journal. This column
is maintained for the discussion of
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of rea-
son and not of a libelous or abu-
SiNa nature
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
A Friendly Pat.
CBiddeford Journal.)

0DIuUSIUIU JUUi IIttI,J
Our Augusta journalistic contempo-
rary, the .Kennebec Journal, with its
new press, its new stereotyping outfit
end its new size, has worked u trans
formation which puts an entirely new
face on the matter. On top of all this
other promised improvements justify
the belief that the Journal will con-
tinue to maintain its place as one of
the best newspapers in the State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Maine Gossip
A Correction.

:. crwas the night before Christmas
when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even
Mouse "a ~.
the Mouse: .,,, .,,aa.
a mistake, r., ,,i4o
For really, on Christmas eve I'm wiae
And I'm always astir, for on that night,
you see, .,. -
Old santa is sure to have something for
me! -.
So with all due respect to the Ola
Christmas rhyme,
That reference to Mice has been WRONG
all the time.
George 0. Butler, in St Nicholas
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

If the poet had said:
'e!p OF lsIIeIom onsnI 9ul uoesl OIL
sMsIls GUS punoIe IKEA AIoq 6ueW puv
10
'aIp OF lsUBIom olsnI 9ql qog5l lgqL
sMsIls aus punoIB slxel floq 6ugm puV
the grammatical form would have been
correct.-New Bedford Mercury
But the Makeup Man Would Have
Been Called Down.-Boston Globe.
Perhaps he intercepted some of ex-
ira dry capsules intended for Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
A Needless Husband.

They say that marriage is a COM
munity of interests, but my husband
has no consideration for me. Yester-
day, he lugged a total stranger home
for dinner. Not word of warning
Is that any way to treat wife,
oh that wasn't so reprehensi5le.
You could easily rustic up something
for dinner"
But there wasn't a thing in the
house. | had lost the market money
at bridge
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

BY judicious grating on trees CT
Chinese origin Spanish fruit growers
have been able to produce trees tina,
bear oranges of better quality and
which are productive for three hun
bred years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Now We're happyi

new press and a new stereotype out
fit make a great improvement in the ap-
pearance Of the Kennebee Journal-Bid-
deford Record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Savino Money.

Ma gets tired out at bargain sale;
They are SO rough when they grap.
Che saves nine cents on remnant ven
And spends two plunks for cap.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

Tho lobster wardens have started on
a new tack in their campaign of eX-
terminating the short lobster trade
and they say that now they have mat
tiers so that they are in fair way
to corner this illegal traffic. In the past,
they have not been empowered TO
search express cars for short Holsters,
but recently, this power was granted
them, and now they plan TO use TINS
privilege often. They say that it is the
enc sure method of effecting cure.
According to Mr.. Henderson, who has
heen in the employ of the state of
Maine for the last % years as lobster
warden, the lobster fishing industry on
the coast, especially down in the
washington county district, never was
as prosperous before as IT Is now.
When | started in the service of the
state, in 1885," he told the reporter,
there were only two or three lobster
fishermen in the town of Cutler my
home. II is true they caught an inn
mense number of Holsters, in comparl-
son with the individual catch made
nowadays. But what difference in
the price. Then, lobstermen got N.2o
for 100 pounds. or one cent and quart
or pound. During the past few weeks
lobstermen have been paying 10 and IL
cents a pound for their Holsters, which
average two pounds each. 1t is much
different from the old days. l know two
brothers who have been making s12
cay each during the past month or SO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

The number Of articles handled by
the Egyptian postoffice department
during 1919 is estimated at s1.619,593.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

No notice whatever will be taken OF
unsigned communications.
The Journal cannot be held RESPONSE
HE for the preservation or return of
rejected communications.
Address all communications relating
To subscriptions and advertisements
to Kennebec journal Co, Publish
ers, Augusta, Maine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05

The Hon. John A. Roberts, commits
sjcner of agriculture for the State OF
Maine, is proving a credit to his State
and staunch brace for the agricul-
tTral interests leaning more heavily
and confidently upon him every day.
He seized the situation with firm
grasp, upon taking this office and, from
tina first satisfaction of the farmers,
has gained steadily in their estimation.
He was a speaker at the Dalrymen
and Seed Improvement association
meeting held at Lewiston, this week.
His thanks to the city for its hospitality
was very pleasing to the men respon-
sible and his outline of the work and
progress of these two important organ
izations was concise, yet complete and
instructive But II was his definition
of the true relationship between the
city and rural sections that is most
worthy of consideration. He said: The
relationship of city to country is one
of peculiar significance in these days
1t is safe to say that our interests are
mutual and not antagonistic, as. some
men seem to think. One cannot exist
nor prosper without the other. The
country feeds the city: the city sup
Plies the country with many of its ne
cessities. They have a common inter-
est in schools, in roads, in methods of
taxation, in financial matters. The wat
CT that turns the wheels of your indus
try also falls upon our fields, giving
life and conveying sustenance TO plant
and animal.
Not only do we feed you, but you
come out and take from us many of
our young men and women and set
they 1T work upon your industries. Our
surplus savings are left with your
banks to invest. Our homes upon a
thousand hills are opened to You as cur
guests. There never was a time when
we were so linked together as now.
Ard he who advocates one line of leg
islation for the city and another line
fer the country fails in interpreting
the signs of the times.
ut is right for you to ask of us bet
ter food products and to grade and
pack them better than we have been
doing. 1t is right for us to patronize
your stores and your factories. It is
also right for you to buy your food
products of us rather than go out of
the State. 1t is right that your banks
afford us the same opportunities you
enjoy. In all things our interests are
mutural. Our future prosperity will
depend greatly upon our recognition OF
this fact"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
Friday, December S, 1918.

We cannot serve God and
mammon, but we can serve
God with mammon.-Speer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-05
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY
ODD FELLOWS HALL

ASYLUM LODGE, Nc 20, REGULAR
meeting at 7.30 Friday evening. Friday
evening. Dec. IL, work in the First de-
I0I1N q II0WES N c.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

Henry Wier, of Wichita is in
Meade today.
Earl Brooks departed for his
home in Texas last Monday.
The City Meat Market will
have fresh oysters Saturday
Mrs. D. M. Mackey is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. John Sweet.
A Slight frost has been report
ed in several parts of the county.
FOR SALE Roll top Office
desk: Good as new. Can be
seen at this Office.
Miss Marjorie Bodle arrived
from Chicago Wednesday and
will remain for some time.
F. w. Rooster, Secretary of
the State Board of Barber exam
iners, was in Meade last Friday.
VIM Kobs and wife are here
from Concordla, Missouri, for a
short stay with their son, E. A.
Kobs and family.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

GU folks IN and around this
town should read the ADVERTISE
ments in your home papers. Do
you want the stores to shut up
shop and quit business2 Do you
want this community to lose half
its population? No. Well, then,
do not buy goods out of town by
mail. Boost for your home town.
Some of you pore over the adj
vertisements of foreign concerns
and then send a lot of money to
out of town merchants. You
are lead to do this very largely
by the clever advertising of
these merchants who employ ex-
perts to attract your attention.
Give your home stores a show
"a plain square deal. Give them
a bearing by reading what they
have to offer in their advertise
ments, We all admit that the
old-fashioned advertising is
mighty poor reading, and 1 am
trying to bring the merchants in
the smaller towns all over the
country to realize this. am
trying to bring all of them to see
the value of using the pages of
their home paper to tell you folks
what they have to sell and the
prices they are asking.
When you read in the weekly
paper that So-and-So's store is
headquarters for dry goods, you
have not been much enlightened
about the business. You have
known this store for long time,
and every time yon observe their
advertisement they are claiming
to be headquarters but never tell
you any good reason for the as
sertion. l am hoping this mer-
chant will wake up and tell you
what he is doing. Watch the pa
per for he may tell you about |
those attractive new waists he |
has just received. Ten chances
to one they are better waists |
than you can buy out of town for |
the same money. If you will |
make the comparison you are
very apt to find that they are
better bargains than those offer
ed by Cashin-Advance & No Re-
turn of Goods & Company.
Read the advertisements in
your home paper. Keep in
touch with the people who pay
taxes in this town and are a part
Of your com munity, and who are
ioing what they can to help give
service.
Why will some of you people
believe everything you read in
he catalogue and doubt the
statement of your home mer-
liant? Well you knew, proph-
t is not without honor save in
lis own country, and Barnum
'ald that the American liked to
BE humbugged There is a
arge gram of truth in both
hese assertions.
Nels Darling. ]
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16
WANTED: Cattle or horses
to pasture. Have plenty of
water and grass. Write to
Frank LeCrone,
Forgan, Oklahoma.


We still have few subscrib-
ers on our list who have not yet
made settlement. If you are
one of these, please call before
Septembea 80, You will do us a
favor and save us further ex-
pense and trouble Of sending
statements.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

The Baptist Aid Society will
have their annual bizaar and
food sale in the Cones building
on November 9Th. They will
have for sale a nice assortment
of comforts, aprons, fancy work
ETC., also everything good to eat.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

]. w. Russell and wife passed
through Meade Wednesday Cd
their way home to Plains, from
a three weeks stay in Holden
Missouri.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

FOR SALE: Toulouse geese
$500 per pair. These birds
took first prize at the Meade
County Fair. Mrs. VIM Colgan,
Phone 1406, Meade, Kansas.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

FURNISHED room for rent.
See Mrs. w. S. Martin, Meade.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1913-10-16

October and Novem Der is the
time for fall breeding; brings
fall colts and escapes hot wealth
err and flies.
4 You will find this Jack at Was
sons barn, Meade, Kansas, and
at Ford Bros. farm Irish flats,
10 miles south of Meade.
HENRY FORD, Owner.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
TAXING COLLEGE
 TO THE FARMERS
Instructors From the College of Ag- riculture of the University Held Session at Newark With
 Large Attendance.

Newark, Dec. 1.-The College of Agriculture of the university is holding a one weeks session for farmers here this week. The ses- sion opened at o'clock Monday morning. The registration for the first day was more than l55, of whom more than 100 were mature farmers. The fact that much in terest has developed was indicated by the large number of questions asked.
 The College of Agriculture has a corps of men on the ground who readily answer questions in regard to all common farm practices. Prof. Martin Nelson, dean of the College of Agriculture, and director of the experiment station, heads the force of six instructors, each of whom is a specialist in his particular line. The specialties represented are: Soils, general farm crops, cotton, horticultural crops. live stock, live stock diseases and field and orchard insects.
 A special feature of this farm school is the course given in cot ton grading. County Demonstra- ton Agent George w. Allen, who is cooperating with the college, has secured the official grades prepared by the United States Department of A Aorio,,If,,pa foUatbar with o nm, Der of samples from local cotton buyers. It is not expected that the farmers can be taught to grade cot ton in such a short time, but it is hoped that this introduction to the work will be sufficient to teach them to recognize those agencies which lower the grade and encour- age them to attempt to prevent the production of low grade cotton.
 Prof. J. c. Futrell, acting presi- dent of the university, will be present "Wednesday for an address. c. w. Watson, state agent in farm demonstration work, will join the school Friday and Saturday. John H. Page, state commissioner of az riculture. and c. 0. Carpenter of the Iron Mountain railway will be present Saturday.
 The citizens of Independence county are congratulating them selves for their good fortune in hav- ing secured two of these schools this year. Three hundred and three farmers attended the school held at Batesville in August. These have been secured through the activi- ties of County Demonstration Agent George w. Allen, who, recognizing the value of such schools to the counties in which they are held, made application for them very early in the year The attendance here the first day indicates that the Newark school will exceed any school ever given in the state in point of numbers of farmers at tending.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
RATING ESTABLISHED.
Department of Education Sending
 Out Diplomas to 5000.

Little Rock, Dec. lS.-(Special.) The Department of Education IS engaged in sending out for the first time in the history of the state dl- plomas to about three thousand schools located in the fifteen coun- ties that have superintendents, as a result of the Inter-County Rural School Contest. The schools are graded into three classes, A, B and c, based upon physical and mental and other requirements. for the period ending December |. Glass A is for schools that grade from 20 to 100 per cent, Class B D to 90 per cent, and Class c from 60 to D per cent. The school shall retain the rank to which it is now as signed for one year, when new rating and scoring will be made by the county superintendent and an- other diploma ,.:Jrd. The work IS under the direction of J. L. Bond, supervisor of rural schools.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
Poor Blood
 Is Responsible

for much sickness and suffer- ing because its quality deter mines our resistive power. With poor blood we are lan- guid, susceptible to colds, lack natural energy and ambition, and the gradual d de cline of strength makes prompt and careful treatment necessary. Drugs or alcohol cannot make blood and must be avoided.
 ScoTT's EMULSION is natures grandest blood-maker because of its wholesome medical nourishment. so carefully predigested that it assimi- late s without taxing digestion and quickly increases the red corpuscles of the blood, strengthens the organs and tissues and upbuilds the whole system.
 Absolutely nothing compares with ScoTT's EMULSION to purify and en- rich the blood to overcome or avoid It is totally free from al eohol or opiates and your health de- mands the purity of Scorr's.
 Scot & Bowne. Bloomfield, N, ! i5-ss
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
WIFE
 DIES IN TULSA
Woman Who Married Convicted Lawyer and Spent S50,000 to Aid in His Release, Succumbs
 to Cancer.

Tulsa, Ok, Dec. l9.-Mrs. Albert T. Patrick, wife of the man who served twelve years in Sing Sing after being convicted of the murder of William Marsh Rice, the Hous- ton millionaire, which it developed later he did not commit, died of cancer in a Tulsa hospital at 8:t0 o'clock this morning. She had been at the point of death for several weeks, and her husband and chil- dren were at the bedside.
 Mrs. Patrick had been in Tulsa for six weeks. She was brought here to die after seeking health in every portion of the United States.
 When Albert T. Patrick was con- Victed in New York of the murder of Rice, whose will made him the chief beneficiary, one of the few people who believed in his inno- cence was Mrs. Addie M Francis, his fiancee. She demonstrated her affection and confidence by marry ing him in the very shadow of the grave, and for the next twelve years devoted her every effort to securing his freedom. She spent a fortune of S50,000 in his behalf and finally procured his release. Five years of the twelve Patrick served in Sing Sing were spent in the death cell.
 Patrick now makes Tulsa his home, He is engaged in the busi- ness of oil production.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
Hitchcock Substitute Was Defeated by Close Vote of
 Ii to 4l.
6 REPUBLICANS AIDED
Secretary McAdOO Announces That Millions of the Treasury Will Be Available to Adjust
 Conditions.
Special to The Star.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 20.-The Owen currency bill passed the Sen ate last night by vote of 54 to 30.
 The last effort toward it's defeat was made by the introduction of the Hitchcock substitute measure, and this was defeated by a vote of 44 to H. Senator Hitchcock, who had led the opposition to the ad- ministraton measure, then returned to the Democratic ranks.
 Senator Weeks, one of the lead CTS of the Republican side, with five other Republicans, and Senator Poindexter, Progressive voted for the passage.
 Most of the differences between the Senate and House have been eliminated already, and there is lit tie doubt but the bill will be passed in the lower branch with little op- position and waste of time.
 It Is expected to reach the presi- dent for signature by Tuesday.
 After the president signs the cur rency bill, it is said, he will take vacation and rest at least three weeks, probably going to some point on the Gulf coast. He has suffered severely with the grip for the past three weeks, and his physician urges a halt in his labOrs.
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
SWEEPING REFORMS TO FOLLOW
1t Is Anticipated That Money Pan
 ics Will Be No More.

Washington, Dec. 19.-A complete eeform of the vast and complicated machinery of finance, banking and currency will be accomplished by She administration currency bill. Its fundamentals provide:
 Issue of currency, guaranteed by 4he government based upon notes and bills representing commercial lransactions and backed by gold reserve The law is expected to contract and expand to meet the varied demands of trade.
 Concentration of the bank reserve of the country in regional institu- lions capitalized by the banks of she country and controlled by di- rectors elected by the banks.
 Creation of a market for negotia- Dle paper which forms the bulk of the assets of the banks, where, in simes of stress, those assets may be easily and without loss transferred mtO cash.
 Establishment of from eight to twelve regional banks throughout she country, which will issue cur Eency, rediscount paper and cen sralize and mobilize the reserve of BOcal banks.
 Creation of a federal reserve Board of seven members appointed by the president with final powers of control and supervision over the entire system.
 Tn the foregoing general princi- ples the bill is practically the same shat passed the House. But in phraseOlogy and more or less inn portant details, hundreds of changes have been made by the Senate.
 The Senate has retained, after a contest, the House plan to have each regional bank a bank of banks with the directorate controlled by the member banks and the capital furnished by enforced subscription
The Mena weekly star., 1913-12-25
WANTS TO FINISH
 HIS LEES WORK
Prof. John R. StOckWell Proved Dr, Cook Did Not Reach North Pole. and Would Prove New
 Theory of Ocean Tides.

Cleveland, O.. Dec. 20-Prof John R. Stockwell, of Case School of Applied Science, the first man to prove by scientific calculations that Dr. Frederick Cook had failed to reach the North Pole, and whose scientific works, written for the Smithsonian Institute, are world fa- mons, at the age of S2 is racing with death.
 For six years this aged student, whose rise from country boy with practically no education, to a pin nacle in the world of mathematics and astronomy reads like fiction, has worked increasingly on his last great problem-a new theory of the tides. And now he is afraid the grim reaper may win. Prof. Stockwell claims that in solving this problem he will show the real cause for the wonderfully regulated movement of the vast waters.
 My calculations have proved to me that the present system of com putting the tides from the action of the moon is wrong" said Prof. Stockwell. But I must prove it to the world. It's slow task, though. But can't fail in my last big effort, for I've always believed no man should leave behind an uncompleted work. I only want to finish my work, to solve my last problem and round out my life-then I'll die happy"