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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

Bangor rumsellers. and their SUP
porters. are bowling ..Jerrardisms I'M
der the threat of death for the Ban
gor plan. Jerrard was a sheriff whe
held sway 40 years ago, and the only
man who ever made real attempt II
clean up Bangor. May The runsellers
ba riofffs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

If II weren't for remarking what IS
probably on the lips of everyone else
we'd say, There seems to be some
siss 10 Sisson." who isn't afraid 81
war with Japan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
Saturday, April 3, 1918.

The Governor cot his letters to the
sheriffs mixed. Z Bisideford .Recor !,
Thursday.
Hooray. Gus has discovered IT
and only two days late.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
Source Of sIseplessness.

The most common cause of insomnia is
disorders of the stomach. Chamberlain's
Tablets correct these disorders and en-
able you to sleep. Sold everywhere, rs
cents. All dealers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

In the action. brought by DR.. eharies
page of Boston vs William A. McFaf-
lend of winterport. to recover the sum
of $500 for professional services for the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

latter. who was i'll with typhoid fever
in Prasque Isle. the plaintiff treating
the defendant by mail from Boston,
where he was located. the jury return
ed verdict in the sum of S94.f9. The
defendant was a travelling salesman
aud being taken sick in Pressure Isle
was given up by the physicians there,
when his daughter. who was q trained
nurse. arrived and secured the services
of DIR. Page. who did all his treating by
mail and telegraph. until the patient
recovered sufficiently to be removed to
Boston. where he received additional
tratment TIE defense was general
issue and that the services had been
charged FOR far beyond thir value.
Bangor News: William simmons and
Foss Murry. both of Appleton. We're
setting. traps near Dedham a few days
ago when something happened. Sim
mons was living fiat upon rock. look
ing over its edge toward the pond
shore when his partner gave a startled
cry of warning. Jumping to his Feet.
Simmons found himself looking square
into the eyes of big Canadian lynx.
which had been sharing the rock with
him. His rifle was several feet away.
but he had presence of mind enough To
draw his revolver-a - calipfe-and
fire as the huge cat crouched Tor a
spring. The bullet struck 1t IN the
mead. but served only To make II ugly,
and a moment later the tawny body
shot straight at Simmons's shoulders.
But it never got there. Murray's rifle
rang out. and the lynx fell in sprawl
ing heap clawing and splitting blood.
"B,;t il wasn't dead" said Mr.. SIM
mons. when News reporter talked
with him in Bangor last night we
had 10 pump five more bullets into it.
and finally club it to DEATH, Simmons
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
ONE HALF
THE CRIMES
Committed in Massachusetts in ooe
Year Were
DUE TO DRINK,
THINK THIS OVER.

Wv
A Boston exchange had the follow
ing:
Peorae stared in amazemant yeste r-
dav morning al the windows of cam !.
bridges most sedate business institu-
tions and at the sides OF many Oh ies
elite residences. They had blossomeu
out with posters, fiaring like the bar.
bershop window or the farmers barn
80 familiar sight from the railroad
train.
1t was poster day" in the University
CITY. and the cause of novel CAM
naign against liquor, backed by So
ciptv women and leading physicians,
had won sites for the display OF its
educational posters that would drive
a professional billboard man green
with envy.
The windows Of all the banks about
Harvard square were full OF posters
the sides Of the Harvard Co-operauVe
Society Building were plastered WI
them. md the fence of the estates ~
The old Cambridge families aione
Rra,,ie street were a. running anti
liquor appeal.
The next tDNfi 10 ItstNG u
is Melrose, for which novel poster o.
special appeal 10 the small hoy mas
been designed 1t will read: spec .
Aim. Ambition. Make Good isti
Player. Liquor Injuries All Three
Ask the Red Sox.
And yet Boston newspapers go VI
advertising beer, ale. whiskey, wine.
and liquors, while confronted by-~ths
irrefutable record Of their accomplish
mentsAha the crimes ofstheir stage
stunsihat. has to be. atlsertised an
exploitea is not made wholly to meel
IA natulal. demand. When the run
trust tklas you that it exists wholly AZ
public benefactor you may know
that it is lying.
1t is the making of drunkards thai
paws the business. II is the Dooze
crazed man who commits the crime
II is The drinking man who has no re,
gard for the rights of others. II Ii
the personal liberty" fellow who i'll,
sterferes not only with the persona
liberty but the God-given and law
protected rights Of decent, tax-payin.
citizens.
And still rum trust law permits ia
terstate carriers to go on telling pee
pie of the beauties of booze. and IN
flaming the appetites and passions
men,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

and Murray are expert hunters, the
latter being known throughout this
part of the State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
The Great Crime Maker.

It NEST be surprising 10 those who
take stock in the assertions 9ef fhhe
Waterpille Sentinel, Portland Argus
and Biddeford Record, TO hear tha'
opposition to rum trust methods pre-
walls in the realms of local option aha
high license. Recent reports in Bos-
ton newspapers strikingly point the
falIacy of the claim that rum trust
law takes the everlasting rum lues-
ton. out of politics. 1t is good proof
that the battle with the forces of
booze never ceases on the part OF the
better element of citizens, although
they receive no assistance from the
newspapers which fatten on booze al
vertising. Here is the poster referred
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
Voices Of the Press
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

Congressman Sisson, who in his
jingo speech against Japan announced
his readiness to vote his last dollar IN
the United States Treasury for war
takes his stand beside Artemus Ward
who was willing to sacrifice all his
wifes relations on the altar Of his
country.-Boston Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

That the Newport Board of Trade Is
q live organization is shown by the
following paragraph by the Newport
correspondent of the Pittsfield AdVer-
User: Now is the time for flshermeh
to get busy and capture a salmon III
Lake Sebasticook. The Newport Boara
of Trade has offered Il reward OF 70 lof
the first one caught in the lake ana H.
F. Turner, proprietor of the Turnef
House, also offers SIS reward Tor the
first fish. There are landloeked salmon
in the lake, for several good sized ones
were captured in the river below the
upper bridge last summer and return
ed to the lake above the dam. OWING
TO the lack of fishway at the upper
dam the fish which pass under oile
gates or over thesdam are unable IL
return to the lake and the presence oil
these fish last summer between me
dam and fishway proved that salmon
did exist in the waters OF Lake Sepas-
ticook."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

Ty Cobb signs and the country is
saved. In Detroit there is once more
equanimity by day and gaiety fy
night. And the rest of the world
breathes more easily that the great
peace agreement has been coasum-
mated. Ty has long been the Kins
Nicholas of the baseball world. He
has more than once set the concert OF
baseball powers in a tremor of APP
prehension. He has detied coercion as
blithely as any old Montenegro king
Some day Ty is likely to be stepped
on hard. But that day will come af-
| ter he has ceased to be the peerless
one he now is. Baseballists are for
giving, but with n large accumulation
of things to remember there is pretty
sure to be an accounting.--Clevela
Plain Dealer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
RAILROADS & STEAMBOATS,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect, March 31st, 1918. 4
RAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA AS nc
nuvcy,

lGoING WEST-305 A. NJ.
MAINE Except Monday, Portland
and Boston; 6.3s A. M.
I1ftS11S Rockland, Portland, Bos-
Montreal and QUE
-. bee; 9.39 A. NJ, Bruins
wick; Lewiston, Pennington. Rockland.
cortland, Boston; 12.4S p. NJ, Halloween,
iG 6assi 90 and So, Gardiner, $40 r NJ.
RfIo o,lda, Portland, boston; SIS p. NJ.
eiai0weil, Gardiner and So. Gardiner;
30 T. NJ, Portland 1040 r. NJ, Lewis
oom' Bath, Portland, Boston. Sundays
g nns a; NJ. 3.42 and 1910 =. NJ. Portland.
GOING EAST-1,11 A. NJ. Skowhegan n.
Bangor. Aroostook County, ST John'
Halifax. Sunday morning does not con.
meet beyond Bangor excepting to Bar
Harbor; 1903 A. NJ, (express) Bangor.
Aroostook county, Calais and Bar liar.
DOT ~ A. NJ, local to Moosehead Lake
via Oakland. Belfast. Foxcroft and Ban
gor; vi A; NJ; local to Belfast and BAN
gor: l2l5 p. NJ. Waterville, Bangor, b.
fax; 2.S4 P. M. express to Waterviiie,
thence local to Bangor, Bar Harbor and
lMaattaawamkeag; ZIG ?. NJ. Waterville
Skowhegan and Bangor. Sundays LII a.
NJ a@ a. NJ. for Bangor; $50 A. NJ.
z.bZ II M, for Bangor and Skowhegan
TfHms leave Augusta for HallOwell,
} Gardner and South Gardiner at 63y o 40
A. NJ. 12.4S, 40. SIS. 6.25, 1910 r. M.
H. D.. WALDRoN, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
MORRIS, sMcDoNoEp. vice-president
a. GenI Mgr. Portland. Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

Denouncing free wool and a tariff on
Angora goat hair, Congressman Serene
Payne pointedly remarked that there
are 100000 goats in the United
States, of which 2,999,999 are in Texas.
The other one presumably is Con-
gresham Gamers goat, which Mr..
Payne now seems TO haye-BOstOn
! Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, r. & A.
M Stated communication, Tuesday eve
ming, May 6. All sojourning brethren are
cordially invited to attend.
VIM. #. LIsAyITT, w. NJ.
w. A, JACKSON, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

Public spirited citizens have sub
scribed literally for a town clock and
the Milo board of trade committe who
have had charge of raising the funos
reported that there had been collected
$53l % which enough TO purchase a
first-class clock. The following com
mittee was elected 10 purchase tie
clock and have it installed i'll the
steeple of the Methodist church on Park
street: DIR. Dayton f. Mccain, VIM.
field S. Lovejoy and DR.. \. II. crosby.
The town generously gave $500. and the
remainder of the fund was raised py
subscription.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

c,IsHNoc CHAPTER, r. A. NJ, NO.
a. Special convocaton at MASONIC Tenn n
pie. Tuesday evening, May o. "o oIi sn ~.
inurnine companions are cordially III
vited to attend: ror COM II p
THOS. H. BODICE, Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

CAPITAL GRANGE, NO. 24s. p. or
II. Meetings I'd and 18th Saturday even
inRs Of each month at G., A. r. hall.
THOMAS M. ENRJGHT, w. M.
MRS. G. f. TOOTHAkER. Sec.
NU012 fll = SAT 1vv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03
Maine Gossip
The Blue Flannel Shirt.

tUC DUO tdnncl Z.
am eager once more To feel easy,
I'm weary of thinking of dress.
I'm heartily sick of stiif collars,
And trousers the tailor must press.
I'm eagerly waiting the glad days
When fashion viii cease to assert
What / must put on every morning
The days of the blue flannel shirt.
| want to get out in the country
And rest by the side of the lake;
To go few days without shaving,
And give grim old custom the shake.
A weeks growth Of whiskers, I'm think.
At present my chin wouldn't hurt:
And I'm yearning to don those old
trousers
And loaf in that blue flannel shirt.
You can brag all YOU like of Your fash
ions,
The style of your cutaway coat.
You can boast of your tailor-made raj
ment.
And the collar that strangles your
throat.
But give me the old pair of trousers
That seem to improve with the dirt
And let me get back to the comfort
That's born of a blue flannel shirt.
Edgar a. Guest, in Detroit Free Press
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

c. W. Moddell, janitor of the South
Street Grammar school, at Bath, has
made up his records of snowstorms
during the past winter. There We're
81 snow and ice storms. The first snow
fell Nov. %, and the last. April 3. The
heaviest fall was Feb. o, six inches
The first sleighing was Dec. %. 1917.
There were three days sleighing in
December. days in January. % III
February and "a in March.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

That famous bridge between Baileys
and Orrs island is going to be built.
The people of Harpswell turned out in
force, Wednesday, and by vote of l1s
to 167. they went on record as being in
favor of the structure that has been
under discussion for two years or more.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

,EpHTHA ENcAMPMENT, NO. 8.
Meetings at O'Clock every second and
iouf'n i'eS'ai b. w. LovEJOY, G. P.
c. r. STEWART. Scribe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

N. e. o. p, kENNEsEc LODGE. NO.
PSI, meets In G. A. r. hall the first and
third Tuesday evenings OF each month al
7.30 o'clock.
WALLACE d. SLIPP. Warden.
y EMMA F. HOWE. Rec. Sec.
B. L. NICHOLAS, Fin. Sec.
fu-fh.saf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-03

GOING WEST-3.Os A. NJ.
Except Monday, Portland
and Boston; 6.3S A. M.
Lewiston, Pennington,
Rockland, Portland, Bos-
ton, Montreal and QUE
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
ASSISTANTS CAN NOT
HELP PULL TEETH
State Law Governing Dentistry was
Amended by the Last Legislature
inspection Due Soon.

No longer may the girl assistant in
a dental office in Iowa assist the den.
fist in pulling or polishing the tooth
of a patient unless she has passed the
state dental examination.
The state law governing dentistry
was amended by the last Legislature
and prohibits men Or women assist
ants from doing dental work unless
they have state certificate. They,
however. are perbitted to do labora.
tory work in dentist Office.
An inspection of KeokulS denta!
offices is expected to be made in the
near future, according to advices from
Des Moines, from where especially
appointed inspectors are leaving t.
make the rounds Of the state to sec
sif the dentists are living up to the
state law.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
RACE FOR HAND
OF MISS CLEVELAND
Two Princeton Students are Neck and
Neck In the Matrimonial
Derby.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service1
4 BALTIMORE, Md, July ga race
for the hand of Miss Esther Clevc,
land, the white house baby" is hold
ing the attention of all Baltimore So
cfety Herman Stump, son of Judge
and Mrs. II. Arthur Stump, and H.
Gordon Ewing, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. j. Ewing of Roland park, are
the rivals, It became known today
and the friends of each are equally
confident of success of their favorite
in the race. Young Stump and Ewing
are members of the senior class at
Princeton, where Miss Cleveland has
made her home and are close friends.
Ewing's friends today declared they
believed he had slight lead over
his rival for although both young
men have been guests at MISS Clevs.
lands home Ewing is still there
There is. no way of knowing as tc
the exact position the rivals occupy
in Miss Cleveland's affairs. Miss
Cleveland is the second daughter OF
the late President Grover Cleveland
EacH of the suitors is about 81.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
HAY FEVER SEASON
Is OPENING HERE
Island OFF the Coast Of Africa is Rec.
commended as One of the Best
Places for Sufferers.

The hay fever season in Keokuk is
opening The ragweed and the golden
rod are coming to flower Pollen of
many plants floats idly in the wind,
laden with toxin noxious to many mu-
cous membranes, as the city health
physician might say. It is season of
preparation for mountain and seaside
trips.
Keokug victims Of the Irritating
malady are making plans for the ego
5ing-away" period and the exodus is ex-
pected to soon be in full blast. Medical
books, some of them, recommend He'll
goland, off the coast of Africa, as one
of the most immune places in the
world 1t is not thought that many To-
cal victims will make that trip.
The man who eventually discovers
an authentic and lasting cure for hay
fever is sure to be hailed as one of the
greatest benefactors of the human
race.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
The Warsaw Gate CITY
Warsaw, Ill, July 20, 1913.

of modern times, Hugh L. Cooper,
that rara avis, in these days, man.
None know him but to love him,
none name him but to praise"
Warsaw was victor over Canton
Sunday in the ball game played there
the score being 4 to 0. Warsaw's
playing is at times as good as the
leagues. She is playing better bali
than she has for years.
There was large and interested
congregation at the Y. M. G. A. meet,
ing at the Presbyterian church Sun
day evening.
Mayor Lamet will umpire the base
ball game on Tuesday between the
Fats and the Leans. Invitation is ex,
tended to anyone to take part in the
game who Is fat or lean. All the bust
ness houses have signed an agreement
to close at 8 p. m. Tuesday, July 20,
on account OF the game
Mr.. Ernest Moser OF st. Louis Join.
ed his family here Saturday. They
are visiting s. P. Wallace and wife.
Dan Ernst, the harness maker is
selling out at cost for cash to close
business because of continued Ill
health.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29

Fred Fenor, the Main street shoe
dealer is visiting his old homo in Get
many which he left forty-one yeas
eeo. Two weeks ago last saturda,
he left New York City on the Ham,
burg line steamship Cincinnati, arriv-
ing In Hamburg July 81. He will
visit a sister there and brother and
other relatives In Berlin. He will be
absent about two months.
Vivian Ward Of Peoria, engineer on
the T. P. & W., Joined his wife and
young son here Saturday, In a visit
to his wife's parents Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. A. Miller.
A 12-coach excursion from Peoria
to Keokuk on the T. P. & W., to see
the great dam was one of the inter.
esting events OF Sunday. Keokuk will
be the mecca for many excursions for
years to come.
Gate City readers ana the Warsaw
public generally heartily rejoice at
the kindly and generous testimonial
given that greatest Of engineers Hugh
L. Cooper by Keokuk citizens and the
water power clerical force as related
| In Sundays issue. Warsaw endorses
every good word said and every wish
expressed for one of the greatest men
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
NOTICE OF INTENTION.

Notice of intention to pave High
street, from the west line of Fifteenth
street to the east line of Sixteenth
street
Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting Of the city council of the
city of Keokuk, held on the Oath day
of July 1913, there was introduced
the resolution hereinafter set forth,
and that by resolution of the city
council duly passed on the said date
the said resolution hereinafter set
forth, will be considered by the city
council for passage, at a meeting to
be held in the council chamber in said
city at 9 o'clock a. m. on the 18th day
of August, 1918, at which time the
owners Of property subject to assess
ment for the cost of the improyem
contemplated by the said resolution,
may appear before said council and
make objections to the contemplated
Improvement and the passage OF the
said proposed resolution, if any they
have; said resolution being as fol,
lows:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
KILLED TYPIST
WITH A HAMMER
Girl Was Found Dead In Office and
Assassin Left no
Clue.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. j
DALLAS, Texas. July 29.-That
Miss Florence Brown, typist, found
murdered in the Office of Robinson and
Styron, was killed because she at
tempted to prevent robbery Of the
firms vault is the theory today when
the police worked in an attempt to
find some clue to the murder. Officers
admit that the fiend has covered his
tracks so completely that they have
little to work on other than basin
of blood stained water where the as
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
Texas Woman Near Death

Wills Point, Tex.--In a letter from
Wills Point, Mrs. Victoria Stallings
says: Il was afflicted with womanly
troubles, had a dreadful cough. and
suffered awful pains. certainly
would have died. If had not been
relieved by taking Cardui. Now am
stronger, and in better health than |
ever was in my life. cant say half
enough for this great medicine" Do
you need relief? Try Gardui for your
womanly troubles. It's long record OF
successful use is your guarantee.
Thousands of ladies have been helped
to health and happiness by Cardui. II
viii surely help you. Try bottle to-
day.-Advertisement.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29

accordance with the law governing
the same.
Be it further resolved, that the city
council will meet at 9 o'clock a. M,
on the 18th day of August, 1913, In
the council chamber, in the city of
Keokuk, for the purpose of consider
ing objections to the passage of the
said improvement, at which hearing
the above resolution may be amended
and passed, or passed as proposed.
b it further resolved, that the city
clerk be, and he is hereby instructed
to cause notice OF tendency OF the
above resolution and the time at
which the said proposed resolution
will be considered by this council, and
objections to the passage thereof
heard, to be published as provided by
law in The Gate City, newspaper OF
general circulation, published in the
city of Keokuk.
Roll call:
Gray-Aye.
Hickey-Aye.
Mayor Elder-Absent.
THOS. P. GRAY,
Mayor Pro Tenn.
Attest:
o. w. SANDBERG, City Clerk.
In witness whereof. I have here
unto affixed my hand.
n w SANDRERc
City Clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-29
a Good Investment.

w. D. Magli, a well known mer-
chant of Whitemound. Wis, bought a
stock of Chamberlain's medicines so
as to be able to supply them to his
customers. After receiving them he
was himself taken sick and says that
one small bottle Of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
was worth more to him than the cost
Of his entire stock of these medi-
cines. For sale by all dealers.--Adv.