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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
STATE HOUSE
The First of the Three Big Meet
ings iI Maine on the Milk
Question VIII Be Held
Today, Newport
STATE HOUSE CHAT
More of the Annual Railroad Re-
ports-Price of Apples Is
Strengthened - L a tie
Corporation Matters
STATE HOUSE CHAT
Next Meeting of the Governor and
Council, 10 A. M, Thursday, Nov. 10

Commissioner of Agriculture j. A,
Roberts and Dairy Instructor f. S.
Adams will leave this morning for
Newport to attend the first of the
three dairy meetings to be held in tbs
State under the auspices of the United
States Department of Agriculture, the
State Department of Agriculture, the
Milk Producers Association the
Dairymen's Association, the agricul-
tural committee of the Boston Cham
Der Of Commerce and the State Grange
The other meetings in the State are to
be held Thursday, Nov. II at the
State House, Augusta. and Friday,
Nov. 10 at Auburn Hall, Auburn. -
The following paragraphs relating
to the purpose of the meeting were
taken from letter sent out to men,
bers of the Grange by c. S. Stetson of
Greene, Master of the State Grange:
1.-THE New England Milk Producers
Association, through its secretary
asked the Boston Chamber of Com
merce to look into the New Eng
land milk situation, with the idea of
recommending some plan for lettering
conditions.
"A meeting was held in Boston on
July l and plans were formulated by
representatives of the Department of
Agriculture and other agencies for a
survey of the transportation and dis
trbution problem of milk in New Eng
land.
at seems TO me that this is mat
ter of vital Importance to the milk
producers of Maine and I would rec
ommend that at some meeting prior
to Nov. 8, all Lecturers incorporate
in their program a discussion of the
following questions:
list. What does il cost to produce a
quart of milk?
"2d. How can it be marketed at a
profit?
Il would also recommend that a
sufficient notice of this discussion be
given, to enable the members to pre-
pare themselves with reliable figures
and data
1--WE hope that milk producers gen.
orally will attend these meetings; al
so. that each Grange. especially in the
milk producing sections, will be repre-
scented by one or more delegates, and
bring with them whatever data they
may have as to cost of production and
marketing of milk
I'VE believe this is an opportunity
of which every interested person
should avail himself. 1t is a movement
for getting better prices. for more di-
rect distribution of the product and
for lettering conditions for the pro-
/ Queer generally. These meetings are of
great Importance to the Dairy Inter-
ests of the State. Are you interested?
VIII you cooperate? Will you at
tend?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Anticipate Large Exhibit at Pomolosi-
cal Meeting.

w. Fl. Conant of Buckdeld, president
of the State Pathological Society
treasurer It. Z. Chase of Buckfield;
secretary. E. L. White of Bowdoinham
and assistant horticulturist, H. P.
Sweetser will go to Bangor Friday
for the purpose of making prepara-
tions for the display of fruit at the
annual meeting of the society to be
held at the Bangor City hall on Nov.
II, is and 10 and they will find their
task no easy one for 1t has been an
nounced that more space has been re-
Questioned for this meeting by exhibit
tors than for any like event in the his
tory of the society.
The officials of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture are expecting an
unusually large meeting. The program
of the meeting includes many lectures
on subjects genealogical interest by
experts. Products of the Maine orch
ards for the season of 1914 are to be
displayed and exploited and orchard
appliances and aids to growers will be
largely exhibited and demonstrated.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Railroad Annual Reports.


The annual report of the State
Board Of Railroad Commissioners,
which was recently filed with tho
Governor and Council, speaks as fol-
lows of the physical condition of the
Grand Trunk Railway:
only ordinary maintenance re-
pairs to the road bed, and track, roll
ing stock and equipment Were made
during the past year in Maine to keep
them in first-class operating condi-
ton.
Permanent improvements were
made as follows: Five miles new 80
pound rail were laid between Fall
mouth and North Yarmouth; at Me-
chanic Falls a coal trestle 500 feet in
length was built for the Poland Paper
Company; at Portland on Back Cove
Bridge motor equipment was in
stalled and an overhead gangway was
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Belgium Nursery Stock Plentiful This
Season.

Assistant Horticulturist H. p. Sweet
ser stated Tuesday morning that
shipments of nursery stock from Bel
GUM are coming regularly into the
State and in as large quantities tn.
season as usual. This comes as a well
come surprise to many of the florists
who had anticipated o shipments Of
foreign nursery stock this season. The
stock which comes at this season is
largely the evergreen azalia plants
which are becoming so popular at the
Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday
seasons.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Maine Academy of Science.

The second annual meeting of the
Maine Academy of Science will be
held at the State House, Augusta,
on Friday and Saturday, Dec. II and
H. The program will be issued
later. The corresponding secretary,
Thomas A. Jane, curator of the State
Museum, announces that the following
nominees for membership will be voted
upon by the association:
Resident Members-Payson Smith, State
superintendent of public schools, Angus
(continued on Page f2-CoIumn y
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Wash-Day Hint

Borax, generously combined
with good soap is natures
greatest cleanser.
Tho borax must be combined
with the soap in the proportion
of one part borax to three parts
soap. Impossible in bar soap.
The only way to put in that
much borax is in the form of
borax soap chips.
Two pounds of borax soap
chips. which cost 25c. will go as
far as soc worth of bar soap, and
soap powder.
Borax Soap Chips make the
work easier and the clothes clean
err too
100 Mule Team Borax Soap
Chips" are sold by leading groeers
here in Augusta and vicinity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Necessities
T OF Life

The right medicine at the right time,
Is as much a necessity as food, shelter
Or clothes. Perhaps more so.
In its go years of relieving stomach
troubles, remedying constipation and
biliousness. and restoring strength and
appetite, Il. F." Atwood's Medicine
has become practically necessity of
New England life.
MRS. Whitcombs letter simply con-
firms what thousands of other folks
already know;
Hampden Highlands, Me-
Have used your L. F." Atwood's
Medicine for more than 20 years. We
consider it nearly as necessary as our
food"
g. fSigned) Mrs. C. H. Whitcomb.
Get This Necessity of Healthy Life
s3ft Today.
Big Bottles Cents-Your Dealer,
FREE Sample by Mail.
Il. F. MEDICINE CO., Portland, Me.
ADV.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
Prices Of Apples Strengthened.

According to a recent statement
made by the assistant horticulturist
buyers Of apples are now beginning to
make themselves more noticeable in
the field and the prices of this fruit
are already materially strengthened.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-11
NOTICE

500 Zone hundred dollars) reward will
be paid for the arrest and conviction of
the parties guilty of breaking into Tall
wood Inn and cottages at Maranacook
on Sunday, Nov. Sth.
SAM w. PATTERSON.
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

and parts of streets SO paved, curb
ed and guttcred, in proportion to
the berefits derived by said abutting
and adjacent properties, and in &C.
cordance with the law governing the
same. The city of Leon to pay the
cost of extra grading and such 9TH
er cost of said street improvement,
if any, not included in the aforesaid
cost and expense to be assessed
against AUDITING and adjacent prop.
erty; except only, if any portion Of
the cost of said street Improvement
may not be lawfully assessed against
abutting and adjacent property and
the special assessment which may be
levied against any lot or tract Of
land, shall be Insufficient to pay the
cost of said improvement, the de-
ficiences and costs thereof, if any.
shall be paid from the city improve
ment fund. The contractor who shall
make said street improvement shall
guarantee that the same will endure
without need of repair for a period
of five years from the date of it's ac-
ceptance by the city.
Be it further resolved, that when
ever the contractor who shall make
SAID street improvement snail nave
finished and fully completed, accord
ing to contract, all of the streets
and parts of streets herein above
separately described and enumerated
in either one of said paragraphs,
numbered and designated as sections
/ and 2, and the same shall have been
accepted by the city council the city
shall proceed without unnecessary
delay, and as by law provided, to
make the levy for such streets and
parts of streets, herein separately
described, and so completed and ac-
cepted, and issue to said contractor
the assessment certificates therefor,
and shall also issue warrants upon
the city improvement fund for such
an amount, if any, as should be paid
from said improvement fund for
such street Improvement so complet-
ed and accepted.
Dated at Leon, Iowa, this 5th day
of February, 1914.
S. G.. MITCHELL,
City Clerk of Leon, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
PRELIMINARY NOTICE.
OF Consideration for Passage of Pro-
posed Resolution of Necessity
for Street improvement.

Notice is hereby given that at a
meeting Of the city council of the
city of Leon, Iowa, held on the 9Th
day of February, 1914, there was in
trOduced the Resolution of Necessity
hereinafter set forth, which said
resolution will be considered for pas
sage by the city council at meet
ing to be held in the city hall at 1880
o'clock p. M, on the Goth day of
March, 1914, at which time the own
ers of the property subject to the
assessment for the cost of the street
improvement contemplated in said
resolution may appear and make OBJ
jections, if any they have, to the
contemplated improvement and the
passage of said proposed resolution
of necessity, which resolution is as
follows, to-Wit:-
Resolution of Necessity.
Be it resolved by the city council
of the city of Leon, Iowa, on its own
motion, that it is deemed advisable
and necessary to improve by grading,
curling and paving the following
streets and parts of streets located
in the city Of Leon, Iowa, to-wit:
Section |. On Main street from
and connecting with pavement at
10th street south on Main street
and on the Leon and Davis City road,
to the north side of bridge on Pos
sum Creek.
Section 2. On Idaho street from
and connecting with pavement at 9Th
street south to and connecting with
pavement on Commercial street.
Said street improvement shall be
made and constructed of one, or
more, of the following kind or
kinds of material, to-wit:
Bitulithic laid on cement concrete
foundation; Asphaltic concrete wear
ing surface composed of select
ed hard stone and the best
grade of natural lake asphalt
2 inches in thickness laid on
Portland cement foundation;
No. 1 vitrified brick block laid on
cement concrete foundation. Curbs
to be of Portland cement concrete.
Combination curb and gutter to be
of Portland cement concrete, or gut
ter to be of Portland cement con-
crete. asphaltic concrete, bitulithic,
or No. / vitrified brick block with
concrete foundation. The city coun-
Gil to determine the kind or kinds
of pavem' 1T, curbs, curbs and gut
ters, or cutters, to be used, for each
separate section or part of the work
above enumerated.
All of which grading, curbing and
paving shall be done in accordance
with plans and specifications to be
prepared by the city engineer and
approved by the city council.
Be it further resolved, that the en-
tire cost of making said street i'm
provement, the cost of paving, curb
ing and guttering, including the
cost of all intersections of street and
alley crossings and one-half the
cost of paving, curling and gutter
ing streets and alleys intersecting but
not crossing, shall be assessed
against the property abutting on
and adjacent to the entire streets
81 q -
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
When Father Went to Church.

When a boy breaks out in protest
against going to church his elders, II
they are elderly enough, gaze on
him in astOnishment Going to
church nowadays is a different,
very different thing from going to
church when your father was a boy,
young man.
Why, son, your father doesn't re-
member when he first went to
church. His earliest recollection is
of church and wooden pew that
run half way across the building to
sort of line fence which divided the
sheep and goats according to sex;
for in those days women sat on one
side and men on the other. Some
times some city Teller who had come
out in livery rig to see some farm
er's daughter, who was going to
school in town and putting on airs,
came in and sat with his girl; but
that was unusual and he didn't know
any better anyway. There were no
cushions on that pew seat and some
times a silver worked up with the
grain of the wood and brought with
it a smothered exclamation from the
person who hitched sidewise and met
it half way. In winter two stoves,
midway of the building roared with
cord wood fire and strove, general
" without avail, to overcome the
morgue-like chill of the room which
had gathered through a week OF
zero weather. At night kerosene
lamps shot uncertain rays here and
there from their tin reflectors. They
had built the church on the high
est and most exposed place in the
country, at the cross roads. 1t was
treeless and barren of all except the
building itself, the populOus church
ward with it's chilly marbles each re-
citing names, dates, virtues and the
eternal hope that even the church
yard can not destroy. Around 1t
during church services stamped and
shivered a score of horse teams, some
of them blanketed, some covered
with buffalo robes or quilts and oc-
casionally without covering OF any
kind. Even then it was whispered
that a man who could pray While
his team shivered unsheltered might
have hard work getting by Peter to
place on the throne. Figure 1t
out. Include the trip to church
from one to five miles and then COM
pare your SNOFC VAIN uOWu W CAio
we'll warmed building you worship
inf you do worship.
The preacher was nearly always
old. There was common impress
sion among the younger people that
a preacher arrived on earth old and
stern and theologically equipped as
that NEUROLOGICAL warrior sprang
full armed and active into being.
They all believed in hell" not the
modified hell of your day but an hon
est conflagration reeking with brim-
stone where the draft was always up
and the, blowers on. He stood in his
pulpit before the sounding board like
an eagle He proclaimed his theor-
les of punishment as with trum-
pet. When he had finished with the
state of man and the prospects of
eternity and the thoughtful and i'm
questionable child Of that day took
inventory Of himself the boy could
mt see glimmer Of light or q cat
hole Of escape. You knew you de-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

served to scorch. And sometimes af-
ter a long stretch of quarterly meet
ing you went home that night and
covered up your head under the bed
clothes and wondered whether you
would die that night and wake up
where the worm dieth not and the
fire is not quenched. That was some
going to church. two solid hours OF
good old hell fire sermons, not the
thirty minutes of kindly effort of the
pulpit of the present.
You didn't duck your Sunday
school either in those days. To play
hockey from Sunday school and go
skating would have been scarcely
less disgraceful personally and to
the family than a short term in the
penitentiary. Instead you were in
your place bright and early. You
parrotted from five to fifteen "verses
of scripture" that you didn't know
anything about except by rote and
got a card, badly worn and the worse
for it's previous ownership, which on
the system now pursued in cigar
stores and premium shops might in
sufficient quantities be exchanged for
Bible or story book dealing with
the sad fate of boy and his broil-
ing future and the earthly advance
ment and the final heavenly finish of
fellow that you wouldn't take fish
ing with you here below. And young
man we got our verses. 1t was the
easiest and least painful way out OF
it. We didn't have a sweet young
thing to coax us to learn our les
son and to rule by love. Old Rector
or his like had our class. He said
get it. He called parental attention
to derelicts. The superintendent
bawled us out right by name before
every one, smiled smile that ought
to hang any man and hoped that his
little friend would do better next
time His little friend always did.
Not because of the superintendent
so much as through certain persua-
sive methods current among the par
ents of that cruel time.
Go to, my son! You make me tir-
ed. You don't know good thing
when you see it. You need little
of that sterner discipline when the
church and the family and the COM
munity joined together to discourage
that dangerous 'infidelity" that pre-
fers a book or a golf stick or a fish
ing rod or a pair of skates to a pew
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times
Republican.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
COST OF HOG CHOLERA.
Estimate of Experts on Losses In
Iowa Past Year.

Hog cholera in 1913 cost Iowa
farmers more than $33,OO0,OOO ac-
cording to statistics on the epidemic
recently gathered by the agricultural
extension department of Iowa State
College. II the animals which died
averaged $50 pounds apiece. and
would have dressed 76 per cent. they
would have provided every man, wo-
man and child $50 pounds Of pork.
Reports secured from 1920 differ
ent men, covering every community
in every county in the state, indicate
that cholera killed 2,S27,9O7 swine,
or 34.3 per cent of all the hogs in
Iowa. If these animals averaged $50
pounds each, their farm value aggre-
gated not less than 100000. But
there were two other sources of loss
to the farmers of the state. The
statistics secured show that 2,47O,-
493 head of hogs, ranging from 50
to $50 pounds in live weight, were
marketed ahead of time at a heavy
sacrifice because of the cholera
scare. Furthermore, farmers who
fed cattle were unable to get hogs
to put into the feed lots to untilize
the corn which passes through the
beef animlas, and that caused an
other loss Director w. J. Kennedy
of the agricultural extension depart
ment estimates that the loss through
these courses aggregated not less
than }33,82O,O0O. THAT is conser-
vative," he says, 'and is two and a
half times as great as in 1912"
Hog cholera was more or less pre-
valent in every county in the state
last year, although some suffered
less than S per cent loss. The ten
counties suffering most heavily were:
Sioux, 1O3,765; Plymouth, 96,12O;
Sac. 7l,811: Kossuth, 70,O24; Craw-
ford, 69,S0l; Cherokee, $3.50; Pot
tawattamie, 81 1854; Lyon, 81, 432;
Buena Vista, 60,147; Woodbury.,
59,055.
The eight counties having the
light losses, or less than per cent,
were Allamakee, Clayton, Davis, De-
catur. Henry, Jackson, Winneshiek.
Reports from all parts of the
state, Justify the faith OF those who
are engaged in the war on cholera In
serum treatment. Where good ser
UNI was properly used, good results
followed. Good serum and good virus
when properly administered IN the
Simultaneous treatment produced
good results. DR.. G. H. STANCE, d.
rector Of the state serum laboratory,
gathered statistics which show that
when healthy hogs were treated the
loss after treatment was less than
2h per cent. Much Of that was In
q very small number of herds where
other factors entered in. Where sick
herds were treated, the loss was ap-
5proximately between Is and II per-
cent. These figures are based on ex-
perience in a great many herds In
many sections of the state.
In many sections Of the state seri.
nns reaults followed the use of good
virus and poor serum; sometimes
cholera was given . foothold in that
way. The general opinion Of those
Who, have watched the years cam,
paixn against cholera 4 that pr0vis-
ion must - made for the thorcugn
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
Lamont Lets Sewer Contract.

The town council of Lamont last
week let the contract for the sewer
system they will install this year.
There were eight bidders, the low
est being Arthur A. Dobson Co., OF
Lincoln, Neb., whose bid of 1884, Ola
Al, was accepted. The highest bid
was that of the Blackhawk Construc-
ton Co., Of Waterloo, whose bid was
S31.992.19. Work is to commence
March 18th and the contract is to be
completed by August LIST.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
Feel Miserable?

Out of sorts, depressed, pain in the
back-Electric Bitters reneWs your
health and strength. A guaranteed
liver and kidney remedy. Money
back if not satisfied. 1t completely
cured Robert Madsen, of West Bur-
lington, Iowa, who suffered from vir-
ulent liver trouble for eight months.
After TOUR doctors gave him up he
took Electric Bitters and is now a
we'll man. Get bottle today; it will
do the same for you. Keep in the
house for all liver and kidney COM
plants. Perfectly safe and depend
able. It's results will surprise you.
soc and 81. HI. E. Bucklen & Co.,
Philadelphia or st. Louis.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
Local Women Agree With Stage
Beauties.

OF all women in the world, prob
ably those on the stage are most par
ticular about their personal appear
ance, and especially in the care of
their hair: and when such leading
stage beauties as Ethel Barrymore,
Elsie Ferguson, Natalie Alt, Louise
Dresser, Rose Coghlan, Laurette ray
lor and many others are 50 enthusi-
astic about Harmony Hair Beautl-
fer as to write in praise of it, that
is certainly evidence that 1t does just
what they say it does-that is, beau
titles the hair, There are many wo-
men right in this town, and men, too,
who regard it as indispensable, be-
cause it makes the hair glossler and
more silky, easier to dress and make
stay in place. Sprinkle little on
your hair each time before brushing
it. Contains no oil; will not change
color of hair, nor darken gray hair.
To keep hair and scalp dandruff-
free and clean, use Harmony Sham
poo. This pure liquid shampoo gives
an instantaneous lather that immed-
lately penetrates to every part OF
hair and scalp, incuring a quick,
thorough cleansing Washed off just
as quickly, the entire operation takes
only few moments. Contains moth
ing that can harm the hair; leaves
no harshness or sickness.
Both preparations come in odd
shaped very ornamental bottles, with
sprinkler tops. Harmony Hair Beau
tifier, 500, Harmony Shampoo. soc.
Both guaranteed to satisfy you in
every way, or your money back. Sold
only at the more than 1000 Rexall
Stores, and in this town only by us.
Bell & Robinson, Leon, Iowa.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

testing of all serum, either by feder-
al or state government, before 1t
can be Sold OF course, in addition.
they urge that there must be COM
petent set Of men to administer the
serum, for much trouble has arisen
from careless treatment of hogs, and
there must be better sanitary regu-
latiOnS
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26
The King Of All Laxatives.

For constipation, use DR.. Kings
New Life Pills. Paul Mathulka, of
Buffalo, N. Y, says they are the
king Of all laxatives. They are a
blessing to all my family and al
ways keep a box at home" Get a
box and get we'll again. Price Csc.
At all druggists or by mail. II. p.
Bucklen & Co.. Philadelphia or st.
Louis. ~
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1914-02-26

Give q blind beggar q dime and he
may invest in an eye opener.