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The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE IS WON
BY MlSSoULA AFTER INTER.
ESTlNG CONTEST.
VISITORS FIGHT HARD
Question Of Government Ownershin
Of Telegraph Is Threshed Out Be-
fore Big Audience-homs SQUAD
Works True to Form.

In one of the most interesting scho-
lastic debates ever held in Missoula,
Clarence Streit, Carroll Baker and
Stuart McHaffe Of the local high
school were awarded the decision over
the Butte speakers, Hazel Arthur,
Mortimer Donaghue and Wallace
Wolfe, at the close of the contest at
the high school assembly last evening.
The Missoula high school team will
now be represented in the final con-
test for the state championship to be
held during interscholastic week
The local debaters upheld the mega
tive side of the question: Resolved,
That the United States government
should own the telegraph" All three
speakers displayed a thorough knowl-
edge OF the subject and made their
points with the emphasis and effec-
tiVeness of veteran debaters. The
Butte speakers, considering their lack
or experience, made a strong fight;
but their case was not strong enough
to Withstand the onslaughts of Mis-
souias arguments.
Hazel Arthur of the Butte high
school was the most effective debater
Tor the visitors. Her winning per
sonality and smooth and persuasive
style of speaking made her many
friends in the audience especially
among the high school boys AS she
Is only junior she will prove a
strong contender next year. The other
speakers did well as they have not
had any extensive experience, their
work was especially commendabe
For Missoula all three boys did
equally well. Their telling points
were greeted with marked apprecia-
ton. Each speaker showed that he
knew the main issues of the question
and that he had more to say than
ne could get in the allotted time. In
reputation the local speakers were
especially effective, and it was here
they succeeded in overthrowing most
OF the arguments for the affirmative.
AT the beginning of the program
Miss Ethel Hughes and the High
School Girls Glee club rendered some
excellent vocal selections
The Argument.
The affirmative speakers argued
That today the opponents of govern
ment of the people, by the people and
for the people" were raising ground
less objections to government owner
snip; that the present system was
pad; that government ownership of
the telegraph was a success abroad
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The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
ACCUSED LEGISLATORS
ARRA|GNED IN court

Santa Fe, n. NJ, March 20.-State
Representative Manuel Cordova, Rep
resentative Luis Montoya, Represen-
tative Julian Truiillo and J. p. Lucero,
accused of soliciting and accepting
bribes a year ago in return for their
votes for certain candidate for
United States senator, were arraigned
today
They pleaded not guilty and were
held by the district court in bonds of
81 900 each, which they furnished
The accused asked for a continu-
ance to the next term Of court, which
was granted.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21

March by one Henry Williams asked
that Becker be investigated
He is getting moro money than
former chief of police" the write
said, naming the chief This misei
was sent by Mayor Gaynor to polio
headquarters; there 1t was turned
over to Becker himself the record
showed, FOR investigation and report"
Becker's report was that he had as
signed detective to find the writer
and that the detective had failed to
do so after interviewing nine men
named Henry Williams. Becker
added that he feared the writer could
not be found and suggested that some
other man be assigned to the task,
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
Fine Billed for Berlin.

New York, March 20.-Professor
John Burchard Fine, former dean of
Princeton university, has been offered
and is expected to accept the post Of
ambassador to Germany to succeed
John G. Lcischmann of Pennsylvania,
according to the World today. This
information was obtained from "rclia-
BILE Sources it is declared.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
Get 100 Cents Value for
Every Dollar You Spend

TIA dollar worth 100 cents value in everything you buy
but do you always get 'svalue received?'
You give take from the value of dollar by the
way in which you spend it, Your pleasures in life your
standing and influence in the community depend largely up
the value place dollar you and the value
you get every dollar you spend.
Dollars spent unwisey lose their full purchasing power
and value to you; careful spending and systematic saving
will enable you to value received and future nde
pendence
You will full vae for every dollar you spend by
reading the advertisements in THE MISSOULIAN closely
and constantly every day THE MISSOULIAN'S adver-
sements will tell you of the best purchasing opportunities
and direct you to the most reliable stores in Mssoua.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD

ioes Moincs Ia, March 20.-Memor-
1al services for former Governor Will
lam Larrabee were held by the Iowa
leg 'N,Hturc tptN, Senator Wlilnm :
kenyon making the address, VIII
nam j. Bryan, secretary OF sla,e and
Frederick Lehman, former sol,r,,ur
general of the United States, at
tended both having been friends OF
Governor Iarrabee
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
RIOTS IN ZION.

Zion City, ILL.,. March 20-Two eld-
ers were severely beaten and several
other Zionites slightly injured today
when rioting broke out between the.
followers of w. G. Voliva and en-
ployes of the Cook county electrical
plant.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
CHAIRMAN RESIGNS.

Olympia, Wash, March 2O.-Georpe
a. Lee, chairman of the public scrv-
ice commission, sent his resignation
TO Governor Ernest Lister today, eff
1ectlVe April /, Governor Lister said
ne was not ready to announce Mr.
Lees successor. Mr. Ice was ap-
pointed by Governor M II. Hay to
succeed the late Harry A. Eaircbild.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
GREEK SHIPS SUNK.

Alexandria, Egypt March 20.-The
khedive's yacht, which arrived here
today with fugitives from Kavala, re-
ports having received a wireless mes
sage on March 19, saying that the
Turkish cruiser Hamidieh had sunk
two Greek gunboats.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21

half would be surprised to know of
the self-sacrifices that many of these
women make for those that are de-
pendent upon them for sustenance
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
FRATERNlTIES BARRED,

Madison. Wis, March 20.-By a vote
OF five to three, the state committee
on education reported q bill TO abol-
1sh Greek letter societies at the Uni
NcrSity of Wisconsin.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
DATE is SET.

Peking, China, March 20.-The
opening of the new Chinese national
assembly has been fixed for April s,
by President Yuan Shi Kai
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
SECOND WIFE OF DEAD AD-
MIRAL is LOCKED UP ON
CHARGE OF MURDER.
FAMILY LIFE UNHAPPY
Naval Hero and His Spouse Did Not
Agree Very WelI-Eaton Once Said
That He Married His Second Wife
When Under the Impression That
She Was a Widow.

Plymouth, Mass, March 2O.-Mrs.
Jennie Eaton was locked up in the
county Jail here late this afternoon
pending a hearing on charges that she
murdered her husband Real Admiral
Joseph G. Eaton, by poisoning him.
She was brought here from Hing
ham, where she had been arraigned
following her arrest Through coun-
sci she pleaded not guilty, waived the
reading of the complaint, and was
held without bail for examination
March 2S.
1t has not been determined whether
the inquest into the sudden death of
the admiral will be resumed 1t was
intimated tonight that Mrs. Eaton
might not be brought to trial. The
possible appointment of a commission
to pass on her sanity was suggested
When Mrs. Eaton who is a stout
woman, 45 years old, entered the Jail
here, she was dressed in the black suit
she wore at her husbands funeral A
mourning veil partially hid her face.
She had been weeping, bat generally
maintained the composure that has
characterized her bearing from the
first.
Admiral Eaton died in his bed at the
home in Norwell, where he lived with
his wife, her mother, Mrs. George Har-
rison, and his stepdaughter, Dorothy
Ainsworth. The death was unex-
pected and due the other members of
the family said, to an attack of indi-
gestion, which followed too hearty
meal of roast pork.
The Daily Missoulian., 1913-03-21
Poisoned With Arsenic.

meal of roast pork.
Poisoned With Arsenic.
Circumstances led to an investiga-
ton, and, according to a statement
by District Attorney Barker today,
evidence of arsenical poisoning was
discovered by Professor William f..
Whitney, who analyZed the contents of
the stomach.
For 10 days the authorities have
known that the admiral died of ar
senical poisoning, and their efforts
have been directed to finding where
and by whom the poison was obtained,
and to laying bare the home life of the
Eaton family.
The admiral and his wife, who is 20
years his Junior, did not always agree,
it is said, regarding those who should
be received at their home.
Both had been married before. The
admirals first wife was Mary Anne
Varnum, whom he married at Dracut
in 1871. when he was a lieutenant in
the navy. His body was buried beside
that of his first wife. From his grad
uation at Annapolis until his retire
ment with the rank of rear admiral in
1906, the life of the naval officer was
filled with honors, and he acquired a
fortune.
Soon after his retirement he met
Mrs. Jennie May Ainsworth, the
daughter of George Harrison of Alex
andria Va. Mrs. Ainsworth later di-
vorced her husband. D. II. Ainsworth,
an employe of the senate at Washing
ton and she and the admiral were
married in 1907.
Their courtship was described by the
| admiral in statement which he made
| at the time Of a brief estrangement
from his wife four years ago. He said:
Eaton Was Hoodwinked.
II met Mrs. Ainsworth in Chicago
and thought she was widow. At that
time, however, she was not actually
divorced from her husband 1t was
not until just before my marriage that
1 learned she had a husband. Then
she told me that her husband was alive
| cla ha Inc oh htoir
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Eaton Was Hoodwinked.


II met Mrs Ainsworth in Chicago
and thought she was a widow. At that
time, however, she was not actually
divorced from her husband. 1t was
not until just before my marriage that
l learned she had a husband. Then
she told me that her husband was alive
and that she had just obtained a di-
vorce, and she told a story of drunken
ness and desertion.
During the time paid attention tc
her, knowing her straitened circum
stances and thinking that her husband
was dead, I helped toward the support
of herself and children, giving hel
money, though at the time / did no
know for what purpose she was using
it. Later, after the marriage, learned
inadvertently, that I had been payins
for the divorce proceedings which sh,
had instituted against her husband.
II married her because | said
would, and was too much of gen
tleman to withdraw my promise.
She always has been a good wife.
knew that money was given to Aims
worth. but never with my consent ex.
cept once; then I paid his fare t.
Cleveland to get rid of him"
Financial Reverses.
After their marriage the Eaton
came to Brookline. Son afterward!
the admiral met with financial re
verses, and in his last days led an un
pretentious life on poultry farm II
NorWelI.
His principal income was from hi
allowance as a. retired naval officer
which amounted to $4,000 year.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11
BrYant's Pond.

Albert Mountfort, who died last month
in Poland, aged 81, was q resident of this
village for over thirty-five years.
Thomas Bradbury of Buckfield was in
town Monday to attend the collectors
land sale.
Owen Davis was operated on last week
for appendicitis, and is now gaining rap
idly from the effects.
Mr.. George W. Farrar, who was resi-
dent Of Woodstock In the '40s, is now
living with his son, Frank e. Fsrrar, In
Amherst, Mass, and recently celebrated
bis S7tb birthday. Mr.. Farrar is one of
the survivors of the Andersonville pris-
on, and enlisted for three years in the
4th Massachusetts, cavalry. Aug. II,
1854, he was captured in Gainesville and
imprisoned for two hundred and fifty
days, living on daily ration of pint of
corn meal and bit of bacon. Recover
ing from the scurvy, be was set free
April %, 1865, and reached Boston q
month later. He attends the Christian
Science church in Northampton, reads
the daily news, and takes frequent walks
to the village. He is the oldest veteran
in that section of the state.
The present winter may have it's dis.
advantages, but the one just seventy
years ago was a radical extreme the
other way, for one of the old inhabitants
has stated that the winter OF 1s43 was
one of continuous storms, and that on
April Goth of that year there was four
feet of snow on q level. The farmers
were not able to plough that spring until
the middle of NAV.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11
Locke's Mills.

Mrs. Annie Emery, who has been in
Portland for the past three months,
came home Friday.
Elliott Trip of Poland was weekend
guest at j. C. Littlefeld's.
w. B. Rand and wife we're in Norway
Tuesday.
Miss Mary Dresser returned to her
home in Waterford last Thursday.
Mrs. Moses Knight and Ira Swan are
very sick at this writing.
Mrs. Mary Bartlett and Mrs. Annie
Emery attended Pomona Grange at Bry.
ant Pond Tuesday.
Mrs. Helen Bryant was the guest of
Mrs. Daniel Foster at East Bethel Thurs
day.
James Croker, who has been quite
i'll, is gaining. His son Herbert and
wife of South Paris were in town Sum-
day.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11

Mr.. Oscar Bsrrows Of South Paris was
in town Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Stearns of Paris
were the guests OF his brother, q. K.
Stesrns, over Sunday.
The Ladies' Circle supper Tuesday
netted s23 1t was we'll attended and "a
pleasant time reported.
There was q concert in the church
Thursday evening, with large attend
ance. Mrs. Wynifrsd Staples Smith Of
Dlxfield ssgn several solos. Miss Holds
den gave reoitations, aud the school or
chestra filed in. The concert was great
ly enjoyed by all. We have not learned
the result financially.
Mr.. Malouf has been visited by . sis.
ter and her little daughter from Syria.
While here she stopped With Mrs. Gil
man.
The missionary meeting was held at
Mrs. Gilmsn's Thursday.
Mrs. Floyd Philbrick got home from
Central Maine General Hospital Thurs
day, and stood the journey we'll.
The many friends here of Professor
and Mrs. Newton are sorry to learn of
the critical illness of their little son DON
aid. Prof. Newton has been here for sew
ersl years, but left last summer to &C.
cept a position at Providence, r. /.
The brown.tail moth hunters are busy
and report big finds.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11
THE OXFORD BEARS.
THE DOINds OF THE WEEK IN ALL
SECTIONS OF THE COUNTY.
Paris RIM.

First Baptist Church. Rev. G. W. =. Hill. pas.
tor. Preaching every Sunday q l0:<S A. y.
sunday school az l2. Sabbath evening service
rsysr a Messing .ne nss Fasy before
the LIST sunday Of the month ~ . so p. y. Al
not otherwise connected are cordially invited.
Miss Ruth Ellingwood of Hebron has
been visiting relatives In town.
Mrs. William L. Gray of South Paris
was a guest at Long Look Farm few
days last week.
Albion Abbott and wife are in Port
land q few days, guests OF Mr.. and Mrs.
|C. L. Case of New York.
Miss Mary Hubbard went to Boston
Friday to visit her sister, Mrs. Hallett, =
few weeks.
The Baptist Circle will be postponed
until Tuesday evening, the 18th, when
the Grange have kindly consented to
give the farce, Popping by Proxy"
with the following cast:
Hezekiah Pumpkinblossom. George Boutele.
Peter pumpkinblossonl, the son, Almon Cairns.
Ruth Moreton, the niece, Alta Rand.
Jane Finch. neighoors' Alice s,llliins:
fE aaaa ns sonsan daughters kGa. s c1oeEsr
It is q bright little play and the parts are
well taken.
All of those that take part in the farce
"How the Story Crew." please meet at
the post office Wednesday afternoon at
2 80 o'clock.
Academy Hall was filled to its full
seating capacity Wednesday evening
when the North Buckfield Dramatic
Club presented the rural drama "Hick'ry
Farm. The play was we'll staged and
was enjoyed by all. Worthy OF special
mention was the work OF Arthur S. Hall
as the proprietor of Hick'ry Farm, a
part that Mr.. Hall took in the same play
on the same stage nineteen years ago
when it was produced by local talent
Following the drama large number
took part in the dance with music by
Holmes Orchestra, of Buckfield.
p. F. Ripley and James Oswell attend
ed the automobile show in Portland
Monday.
William Z. Atwood Of Portland was at
home over Sunday.
The belated winter arrived the past
week. Zero temperature and high winds
but very little snow as yet.
Z. B. Curtis is laid up with blood poi
soning in one of his hands. While he 10
getting along well he is obliged to give
up his meat route for few days at
least.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11
Albany.

Mrs. j. r. Guptill, Mrs. Eben Barker
and Mrs. L. j. Andrews went to Lewis.
ton last Friday shopping; came home on
the late train.
John Il. Wheeler and Florence took
dinner at Sumner G.. Beans Monday.
Arthur d. Bean spent Saturday night
and Sunday with bis sister, Mrs. Harry
T. Sawin, and family, at North Water
ford.
Miss Blanche Emery Is visiting at Mrs.
Florence Wheeler's.
George Cummings, Maud and Mrs.
Mabel Becker went to Bryant's Pond to
Pomona.
John Adams has lost nice COW.
Mrs. Sherman Cummings visited at
home from Friday till Sunday.
Just snow enough to drift in and
make hard going.
Howard Coburn and Mr.. Vail are saw.
ing Mr.. Morrill's birch; drive back and
forth.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1913-02-11
Johns Letter.

We have been tracing out TINS morn
Ing the old highway, now largely over
grown with century-old trees, once open
TO the travel of the dead aud past geuer-
atoms of men and horses, where autos
never skidded nor turned turtle. In
part il is blind trail and in part it il
easily tracesble or easily supposable
where il might, could, would OF should
have been, and could have been nowhere
else, as the land lies. We think it L.
not generally known that there ever was
such road in that part of Bucktield.
There was once, long before our re-
membrance, a bridge across the Twenty
Mile" River-sO called in our boyhOod
DAYS before we had learned our error
and better name-a bridge half mile
or more above the present one. To what
point or port the public were bound it is
hard now to tell. There are two old
cellars, presumably where once were
dwelling houses, over in the II. d. Irish
hill pasture and the superstition il that
the jewellers were on the line, such as II
was-not telephone line. Our tracing
was on the west side of the Twenty
Mile River" and the east side road or
trail must have crossed the Sawyer farm
somewhere.
There are m1ny old cellars scattered
shout in waste places all over Bucktield.
Looking upon the unpromising ind'ca-
tons of past generation Of home-build-
ers leads one to think that much nervous
energy was wasted and buried in insight
ly holes IN the ground But was II
really wasted? Sometimes things strong
and beautiful spring up from that which
is regarded as waste and only waste.
Hard beginning, where euergy is, often
makes an easy and satisfactory ending.
Nature furnishes a few desirable articles
through the agency of unsightly waste.
We were reading not long ago in some
out-of-the-state paper IN a query column,
calls of questioners for partly-remember-
ed old time literature, one of which was
a burlesque sermon, the only part of
which remembered was the text: "Apd
they shall gnsw file and flee away into
the mountains of Hepsidsm where the
lion roareth and the whangdoodle
mourne,h her first born, sh?" Ii is a
text that would be apt 10 stick in some
miuds-ours for instance. We have
preached from that text as many times
as we have fingers on both hards count
ing the thumbs as fiugers-perhaps. The
last time was fifty-three years ago in a
Negro cabin in old Kentuck. There
was a mixed audience Of nine. The
dark skinned variety were made up of
Alfred. Pomp, Ned and Jane. The
white element consisted of Caroline,
Sylyirs, Bob, Arthur and Jonas. The
night was chilly and the fire on the
hearth burned brightly. Darky melodies
filled the room and overfiowed the outer
darkness. We Clipped in TO fill the
pausss. The sermon" brought out a
display of ivory. Ever notice the white
ness OF teeth with q background of
ebony? Human nature appears to be
alike in white and black, the world over,
in Maine or Kentucky. The ridiculous
takes. Anything to tickle the funny
bone. Even the sedate Granger is not
exempt. But perhaps you know moth |
ing OF that unless you have the pass !
word. You can't get IL of us.
JOHN,
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settings are still being held herr
North StOnellam.

Beryl McKeen has finished her school
at East Stoneham and is at home.
81. NJ. Adams, who has been very sick
with muscular rheumatism, is 80 as to
60 out OF doors.
Alonzo Brown of East Stoneham is
cutting pine for n. M. Adams, and Is
boarding at Fred Warren's.
Bertha Remission of Lowell and Ina Hill
ton of North Lowell visited their sister,
Mrs. H. b. McKeen, Sunday
Mrs. N. d. Sawyer and grandson Car
roll McAllister went to. Waterford
Thursday to see Mrs. Oliver McAllister,
who is very sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. A. Andrews have
finished getting their ice and wood at
Cliffwood and gone back to their farm
In Stow.
Mrs. Ethel Files, who Is staying with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Adams,
this winter, has been quite sick.
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North Waterford.

Daniel Lebroke is failing, and is now
confined to his bed.
The w. r. G.. installation was post
poned on account of sickness until
Thursday, Feb. 6. The following off.
GERS were installed by Past President
Grace Elliott:
Pres.-Caroline Plummer.
Sen. Vice-Lilla Rice.
Chaplain-Louisa Knight
Sec.-Martha Black.
Treas.-Rosa York.
Con.-Grace Elliott.
Ass. Con.-Ella Elliott.
Guard-Jennie McAllster.
Ass. Guard-Emily Paige.
Press Cor.-Annie Hazelton.
Color bearers. Pearl Hobson, Lola McAllister
Minnie McKeen, Ethel Lovejoy.
The Jun. Vice Lucy Kilgore was not in
stalled, az she was not able to attend
The Corps presented their past presi
dent, Honor Bartlett, with corps pin,
Mr.. and Mrs. George Holt of Bryant's
Pond were guests here few days.
The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs have
dance here the 14th for the benefit Of
the Odd Fellows home that is trying tt
get started. They also have social thu
22d for the same purpose.
Mrs. Lila Hobson and her mother
Mrs. VIII tcomb, visited at George Kim
balls at Blackguard Sunday.