davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

The current numheT of the World S
Work starts an editHiRl review of the
new tariff law withE3fe assertion that
this is the first attef4pt that has been
made to keep an honest tariff. ~ In an
other editorial in thessame issue. appears
the statement that the Worlds Work is
under definite contract to Its readers,
to publish the truth a&nnearly, as It can
ascertain the truth, w]6eh is b splendid
ambition for any peri5dtcal. We should
have more respect for bQtH these aaSser-
tons if, after having declared 'tNxt Mr.
Underwood's tariff bill is the first honest
effort the writer had not gone on TO say,
'In the past, Mr.. Dingley, WOODEN
manufacturer, was the leader of the
House of Representatives, that raised the
as near the truth as the Worlds Work
can ascertain the truth, it needs on it's
staff some new and brighter investiga-
tors As TO where ii got the idea that
Nelson Dingley was wooden maufac-
turer, we can make no intelligent guess.
He was great editor. an able and con-
scientious statesman. against whom be-
fore, no charge of sefishness in his pub
lie career was ever aised.-Portland Ex-
press.
Maybe they got it from reference to
the Libby Dingley mill at Lewiston, of
which Congressman Dingleys son was
one OF the proprietors Some might
take exceptions to Worlds Work on
the ground that this first honest bill
is obviously dishonest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

complished vastly better enforcement
of the laws and UNNECESSARILY better
living conditions.
The way TO continue and to improve
this is to encourage our public officials
in their duties-to stand by and with
them and let them know it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

Our down river contemporary declares
that the Waterville Sentinel should be
suppressed Nevertheless, this news
paper will not suspend publication. And
we shall expect, in the future as in the
past. to find enjoyment In those effusions
which the editors of the Kennebec Jour
nal, quite unconsciously. succeed in MAX
ing tit material for a daily laugh
Wateryille Sentinel.
That highly cultivated sense of hui
NOR Of yours must be life saver But
that laugh to close observers. looks
like sickly bluff.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
Easier to Enforce the Law.

A veteran Maine official tells the edi-
much easier to enforce the law than it
used to be. He finds a different senti- |
ment this year than ever before He
says people are no longer afraid or |
ashamed to be known as standing with |
the officers on the side of law and or |
der. They are more readyyto furnish
information and to give any assistance |
in their power. They are learning of |
the trickery and deceit of those who |
subsist On evil business. They have !
good words for officers who have ac- |
compIished something. They have no !
the public and pretends all the while
that laws are not made TO be enforced
And above all things. this officer
says, do those engaged in illicit bust
ness hate the prompt and frank publi-
city which the Kennebec Journal and
some other publications are giving to
the names and performances of those
who are trying to beat the law.
We are glad to know these things.
The officers words confirm our faith
and oft-repeated predictions. We have
banked on the real sentiment of the
great mass of Maine people. We be-
lieved that it was ever for better Gus
toms and conditions. We believed that
open opposition, frank defiance and
wide publicity would down the pretense
that the law cannot be enforced. We
believed that the half hearted opposi-
ton TO the father of all evil, the booze
traffic. by the Maine press in recent
years had been to blame for the sue
cess of the traffic In 1910
We found the cause in insidious I'M
dermining of faith in the law constant
assaults on the law by the rum press,
and the amount of money put in the
hands of characterless politicians by
the beer and whiskey trusts.
We believed that only the courage
Of our convictions could win and save
the Maine law and the State from dis
grace in the eyes of the world, also a
terrific blow to the temperance and
moral forces of this country and the
world. We believed that we saw our
duty. We knew that such stand and
such fight would make many and
strong enemies. We foresaw the jibes
of newspaper opponents, and the jeal-
Gus sneers Of those pretended friends
of law who had not the courage t.
stand forth on the firing ling.
AL these things have been met an,
fully realized, up to the gratifying dec
l3ration of this man of the law VIII
has seen service in other years. Nov
We believe that the Kennebec Journa
can honestly claim credit for some o
the work of reforming Names char
acter and sentiment. And that salts
faction is our reward.
We believe we have been in the RICH
ana we nave taken our medicine,
from those who bitterly opposed us
confident Of the future. We have ha
Astounding faith in the people of GU
State and they have justified it.
Let no man say that the law can
not be enforced. let none say tina
moral conditions are not infinitely BET
ter In Maine today than they were
year ago today. And now let us &
on In the right direction. We have ae
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
Monday, May 26, 1918.

pur usually veracious contemporary,
The Rjddefnrd Record reports that den
of black snakes has been discovered in a
house In Biddeferd. The report is clear
Iy an error. Have we not been told by
the prohibition brethren that under the
new order of things in this State nobody
has seen any snakes.-Waterville SEN
tinel
Quite significant that the last report
ed case should be from the booze sup
porting camp. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

A traveller from Port tau Spain re-
ports that there is in that city a
Venezuelan revolutionary junta,
whose members go about with big re-
volvers in their belts. If one looks
far enough he can find comic opera
scenes in real life that throw the in
ventions of the stage into the re-
mote shade.-Springfield Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
THE EARTHQUAKE PERIL.

Prof. Chadwick of ST. Lawrence univer-
sity, who was chided few days ago by
biologists in other parts of the country
for predicting that the earthquake shock
experienced in northern New York on
April Is was the warning gun, 50 to
speak. and would be followed at no great
length of time by others of much greater
severity. does not retreat from his po-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

The little town of Chester, about So
miles northeast of Bangor opposite
Lincoln on the Canadian Pacific rail-
road has a distinction. Undoubtedly
it has several as have most COM
munities but the one that has been
attracting attention since the annual
town meeting in March is the youth
of its board of selectmen. While
there may be other towns in the
country having selectmen of the age
of u years it is doubtful if there are
any having selectmen whose average
age is under "a years, this being the
average age of the three young men
chosen by the voters to take care or
the towns business for the ensuing
years. The youngest of the three is
Andrew C. Fleming. whose 21st birth
day was last March 7 and at the an
nual meeting ten days later ne was
chosen third selectman. He is the
son of Samuel G. Fleming and has al
ways lived in Chester. He graduated
from the high school in the town
three or four years ago and has since
| been associated with his brother in
| the lumber woods and also in the
pressed hay and straw business. The
| next youngest official is Pearl A.
Scott, who is % years of age. He
| graduated from the high school in the
same class as Mr.. Fleming and is now
/ manager ON the farm Of his uncle, F.
w. Scott. This is his second year as
| seIectman.s The thirdsand first Sc
lectman is Pearl A. Libby. who is %
years of age and has been in Office
| continuously since he attained his
majority. His father was a select
man of the town for a number OF
years. Mr.. Libby also attended
Chester high school.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
Editor S Letter Box

The publication of letter In this
department Is not to be taken as
an endorsement of its views by the
kennebec Journal. This column
is maintained for the discussion OF
matters of general public interest
when kept within bounds of rea-
son and not of a libelous or abu-
Sive nature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
Maine Gossip

1.-The kennebec journal has a COL
lection of old poems, many of which
are frequently requested by subscrib-
ers. These will be published from
day to day at the head of this column.
Ed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

A vessel was recently launched in
the Puget sound with steam up, ready
to proceed on her way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

one week ago by L. E. L. of Water
x,itIo.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
AUGUSTA LODGE DIRECTORY

cUSHNoc CHAPTER, r. A, NJ, NO.
AZ. Special convocation at MASONIC Tenn
pie, Thursday evening, May Y. Work IN
Roval Arch Degree Refreshments. All
sojourping companions are cordially in
vited to attend.
ALBERT E. FOLSOM, II. p.
THOS. II. BODICE, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

AUGUSTA LODGE, NO. 141, r. G. A.
NJ. Special communication. Tuesday eve
ming, May 81. Work in NJ. NJ. degree.
Inspection by ID. ID. G. NJ. Getchell.
All sojourning brethren are cordially in
yited to attend.
VIM F. LEAVITT, w. NJ.
W. A. JACKSON. Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26
ODD FELLOWS HALL.

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. ., p. NJ.
Regular meeting every third Tuesdsy ss
O'Clock.
q. 3. PEASLEE. Capt
RAY NJ BURNS, Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

aas ora \. VAT
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-26

Gus" our forsher citysseditor and
assistant night edi tor'S appblishes a
long stery-,,ina,-his} nt}Isl Record"
anent a house In Biddeford where
snakes have szbeen seers Snakes
alive" says~Gus in amazeiment. We
knew he couldn't be sticking to the
wagon and writing such stuff as has
in his, columns lately.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Cannery for Central Point.

Herald: r. X. Hoke, who has one
of the most prosperous ranches in
the valley and who has had consid- !
cradle experience in the canning bus
mess in other states, announces the
intention of engaging in that busi-
ness here this season and will begin
operations with a plant capable of
an output of 1000 cans per day.
Mr.. Hoke already has a suitable
building on his ranch some four
miles north of the city which will be
utilized as a cannery and the neces-
sary machinery will be installed
within a short time and everything
put in readiness to handle this sea-
sons crop. For the present toma-
toes will be the main product canned
but it is the intention of Mr.. Hoke
to enlarge his plant for another sea-
son and handle all classes of small
fruit and vegetables that ranchers
care to grow.
Mr.. Hoke was engaged in the can
ming business in Florida for some
time and is experienced in the busi-
ness. He has for some time been
working quietly on this plan for the
business here and now has it where
a start is assured. Once started and
with a man of Mr.. Hoke's experience
and progressiveness behind it there
is little doubt but that it will grow
The proposition should receive
the heartiest encouragement and CO
operation of all business men ant
ranchers of this section as a guaran
teed market for the produce that car
be raised in this section will go ;
long way in the encouragement o
settlers locating on small tracts anC
assuring a more thickly settled ant
heavier producing territory.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
HOPE TO CAN CHERRIES.
BagIey Canning Company Will If 1t
Can Get Them.

The Bagley Canning Company is
running this week processing car
load of prunes which will be shipped
out at once. They are about ready
for the seasons canning operation,
though some minor work remains to
be done. The men are wiring for the
electric motor which will be used to
supplement the steam power. The
motor will run the sanitary canning
machines, all the available steam be-
ing necessary to do the cooking when
running full blast.
DR.. Bagley states that they will
can cherries if they can get enough
to warrant starting up. He states
that he has not had a single response
to the requests made both through
the public press and through other
channels for information as to the
amount of fruit which will be avail
able to the cannery this year.
DR.. Bagley, as well as Ashland
Gamers and others, states that it is
! impossible to successfully run a can
merry without knowing crop condi-
tions so that the manager can know
what to prepare for. Gamers unite
in stating that it is unfair on the
part of ranchers and fruit growers
to expect to have their fruit handled
by the cannery at the last moment if
they do not let the proprietors know
before hand what they expect to
have. The canneries do not expect
to get all the top notch fruit of the
valley, but they have got to have
some kind of line on what they
will have. A cannery, in order tC
successfully handle their output
must, after building a reputation OF
some product, be able to get reas
enable amount of it each year to sup
ply their customers or they canno
hold their trade, and then when frui
is plenty and market hard to get the.
: are left with their stock on thei
: hands because their customers hav
= gone to those who have been able t.
!. supply them regularly.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
TALENT NEWS ITEMS.

w. A. Patrick of Ashland was a
Talent visitor Wednesday.
The California-Oregon Power Com
pany is putting in three-phase cir
cult from Ashland to Medford to en-
able it to accommodate its power GUS
toners on the route.
c. A. Malone Ashland manager for
the California-Oregon Power Com
pany, was in Medford on business
Wednesday forenoon.
A. Afford sports a new Ford auto,
purchased of F. L. Camps of Ashland.
p C. Jordan and NJ. NJ. Brewer
came down from Ashland Wednes-
day morning to wire the Bagley can
merry for an electric motor.
Mrs. Belle Townsend of Ashland
was down Tuesday looking after her
property interests on Wagner creek
w. F. Dunn has a concrete reser-
voir for storage of water for irriga.
ton of his orchard tract south ot
Talent, and the Talent Hardware
Company onnected up his pumI
Wednesday.
Ray Guyer came up from MedforC
Monday night and remained with hi
brother, F. T. Guyer, until Tuesda!
evening, when he left for his oil
home at Delta, Colo.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
TALENT NEWS ITEMS.

The Talent Mercantile Company is
somewhat crippled on the help prop
osition this week. Miss Lima Hans
com, their efficient and accommodate
ing lady clerk, has been laid up near
ly a week with blood poisoning on
one foot Monday morning a neck
yoke gave way while Harry Mason,
their driver, was out with load de-
livering. The tongue dropped down
and he was thrown out on a pile of
rocks, injuring his back and hip Sc
verely. He is again able to be about,
but is not yet able to resume his du-
ties. The team ran about half a
mile, but beyond breaking the wagon
tongue no damage was done to the
rig.
The Talent Commercial Club will
meet next Tuesday evening. There
are a number of important matters to
come before the meeting, including
preparations for the Farmers Insti.
tute to be held Friday, June 20. II
is earnestly requested that all mem
bers of the club be present.
The Talent baseball team has prac
tically disbanded. Though the boy
we're winning games right along, the!
got tired of putting every Sunday il
on the diamond as it left those VIII,
work every day no leisure even to g,
to see their girls.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Roads and the cost of Living.


The inefficiency arising from bad
roads makes it cost something like
800 million dollars year merely
to cart our cotton crop from the
fields to the railway station.
think few people realize the immense
tax put on us all by bad roads and
inefficient handling.
| have said that if our farmers
once realized the awful tax that bad
roads impose upon them public opin-
ion would sternly demand the max
ing and maintaining of good roads
everywhere. 1t now costs the farm
er twelve, yes, twenty or more, times
as much per ton mile to move his
goods to the railway station as it
does to move them on the railway
after they leave the station. The
farmer, indeed, in bad cases and at
certain seasons may have to pay as
much as 81 a ton mile, while the
railroad carries the freight, when 1t
once gets it, at an average of three
quarters of a cent per ton mile.
A thorough system of good roads
would strike an immense blow at the
high cost of living, and this, OF
course, would be added to whatever
motors can be substituted for horse
flesh.-William c. Redfield, Secre
| tary of Commerce.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Teachers Examinations.

Notice is hereby given that 1 will
hold the regular semi-annual exam
nations for teachers certificates at
Jacksonville, Ore, commencing We'd
nesday June IS, 1913, at o'clock
a. m. and continuing four days. The
program of the examination follows:
Wednesday forenoon.
Writing, U. S. History, Physiol-
ogy.
Wednesday Afternoon.
Methods in Arithmetic.
Physical Geography, Reading,
Composition, Methods in Reading,
Thursday Forenoon.
Arithmetic, History of Education,
Psychology, Methods in Geography.
Thursday Afternoon.
Grammar, Geography, American
Literature, Physics, Methods in Ian
guage, Thesis for Primary Certifi-
cate.
Friday Forenoon.
Theory and Practice of Teaching,
Orthography, English Literature
Chemistry.
Friday Afternoon.
Oregon School Law, Botany, AL
zebra, Civil Government.
Saturday Forenoon.
Geometry, Geology.
Saturday Afternoon.
General History, Bookkeeping.
Thesis for primary certificate shall
be written on any one of the follow
ing subjects:
What Should be Taught in Pri
mary Grades, Not Taught in Books?
Home Geography in Primary
Grades.
The Use of Phonics in the FRS
Grade.
Primary Reading.
Nature Study.
Busy Work.
The Montessori System of Educa
tion.
Teachers who intend to write
upon this examination will please no
tify me to that effect.
Yours truly,
]. PERCY WELLS,
2-4t County School Supt.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
WOULD CURB PROFITS.
Governor O'Hara Proposes This For
Employers.

Chicago, June 10.-Enactment of
maximum profit law, to curb employ
ers who have threatened to throw
the additional burden upon the con-
sumer if minimum wage legislation is
passed, is the proposal of Lieutenant
Governor OHara, which has grown
out of the vice and starvation wages
probe here.
O'Hara proposes that such a law
would limit the legal profits of any
business to a certain percentage on
the actual investment.
John Mitchell, president of the IL
linois Trust & Savings Bank, who
testified late yesterday, was the first
to mention the maximum profit plan.
He said:
81 would not be surprised if max
imum profit legislation should be the
outcome of this inquiry. l rather
think it might be more beneficial
than minimum wage legislation"
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago:
famous superintendent of schools
was also a witness along this line
She said low wages were largely re
sponsible for the weakened mora
and mental fibre of many young
girls. She declared that factories
which pay girls s. week are {
public menace which should be up
rooted like weeds in a garden. Ant
the proprietors of such places should
| be sent to school,"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Speaking From Experience.

"a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country" said the
man who complains.
WELL" replied Farmer Corntos-
sci, that's one way O. sayin' it. You
might also mention that it's easier
fur a man to sell gold brick in a
town where they don't know him" -
Washington Star.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Human Nature.

"Why station a policeman beside
this park bench?"
'It is newly painted.
HE can't keep people from test,
ing fresh paint"
mo; but he can keep 'em in line. y
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.

Every family without exception
should keep this preparation at
hand during the hot weather of the
summer months. Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem
edy is worth many times it's cost
when needed and is almost certain
to be needed before the summer is
over. 1t has no superior for the
purposes for which it is intended.
Buy it now. For sale by all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Shake OFF Your Rheumatism.

Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. Try a twenty-five cent
bottle of Chamberlain Liniment and
see how quickly your rheumatic
pains will disappear. Sold by all
dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Can't Keep 1t Secret.

The splendid work of Chamber
lain's Tablets is daily becoming more
widely known. No such grand rem
edy for stomach and liver troubles
has ever been known. For sail by
all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
This Could Happen Only in Boston.

Eager young man who has called
on adored one: 81 can't wait any
longer, dear. l really had to phone.
Will you marry me?"
Gentle voice, in reply: "Why,
yes, of course l will. But haven't
you got the wrong NUMBER"
And he had.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
Roth Are Right.

"There are times in every mans
life when he wants to kick himself.
"Quite so. And at the same time
he is secretly glad that the facilities
are so inadequate. birmingham
Age-Herald.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-06-12
The Next Best.

Master-Well, Effie, what are you
going to do when you are grown up?
Effie-If | was boy I'd be presi-
dent; but seeing I'm girl, | guess
being a rich widow is as good as
anything.