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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-26
Penohscot County.

John e. Glidden VS.. Bangor Railway
46s Electric Company. Rescript. Spear, j.
1t would serve no useful purpose to
quote from the evidence in this case.
The jury passed upon it and found
in favor of the plaintiff. 1t is unnec-
essary to determine whether the plain
tiff was negligent or not. as it is per-
fectly apparent that the jury had a
right to infer from the testimony that
the defendant was negligent after the
motorman saw the plaintiffs team
across the track, or by the exercise
of due care in watching the streets
ahead of him, ought TO have seen it.
The plaintiffs team was squarely
across the track without anything to
obscure its discovery by the motor
man for hundreds of feet. The mo-
torrnan, however. undertakes to ex-
cuse his collision with the team, at
such a speed as to go fifty feet after
the impact, by claiming that an arc
light obscured his view within the zone
Of it's rays. If this was so, then he
should have slowed down and had his
car under control, until he had passed
the area Of obscurity and danger. Be-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-26

/ Washington, Nov 25.-Many lovers
! of flowers who have not the time to
bother with an indoor window-box, en-
joy keeping number of ported plants
in the living room during the winter.
Some, in fact, have turned bay wins
| dow into small conservatory or win
ter garden merely by an attractive ar
| rangement of plants in separate pots.
| When a window-box is filled, the
plants must be of the same general
character to be successful, but if ones
| winter garden is made up of plants
in separate pots greater variety may
be kept, as each plant may receive
different treatment in the matter of
light, watering, soil, etc, and palms,
rubber plants and cacti, which call
for special handling, may be added.
Begonias, ivy, smilax, and aspidistra,
all good plants for indoor culture, de-
mand more or less the same treatment,
as was explained in previous article
sent out by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, describing the indoor win
dow-box.
Those who do not have gardens
would do better to get potting soil of
the nearest florist for their ported
HidHlS. SfOOu pOltliiS sui iFly pc pre-
pared at home but it usually takes
considerable care and forethought.
Those willing to take the trouble may
prepare 1t by using one part compost,
one part good loan and one part sand.
The compost should be COW manure
and good turf rotted together for a
year and turned two or three times in
the interim. Well decomposed leaf
mould would answer as a partial sub
stitute for the compost. One-twentieth
part bone meal is good addition to
the mixture. If the loan is very heavy
containing much clay, its proportion
should be somewhat diminished. If the
loam is light and sandy, reduce the
amount of sand, or in some localities
omit it altogether.
Potted plants should be examined
occasionally to see whether or not the
plant requires reporting. This is done
by holding the hands over the top of
the pot, inverting plant and all, tap
ping the edge of the pot SO as to loosen
1t, then lifting the pot off. This cannot
be done unless the soil is moderately
moist. If the ball of earth is complete
ly covered with roots, the plant should
be put in a slightly larger pot with
new potting soil 'firmed" about the old
ball of earth by "firming' with the
fingers. Then wet thoroughly.
A housewife who desires few pot
ted plants but does not possess the
regulation flower pots, may prepare
tin cans that will be quite satisfactory
A small hole should be made in the
bottom of the can and a piece of brok-
en- crockery or a few stones put in the
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NO. S7-CHASE
NO. SPARK


cause travellers have a right If a prop
er use of the highway permits it to
pass over and upon the car tracks;
and it is admitted by the defendant
that: ION account of the length Of
his rig and the obstruction in the
westerly side of Centre Street below
Willow, it was not possible for him
to turn down Centre street without
driving across the tracks," But the
fact that the plaintiff had a long rig
did lot inhibit him from using the
streets of Bangor. He was according
ly, lawfully on the track. Whether he
remained on the track so long that
his delay became an act of negligence,
1t is unnecessary to determine, as the
jury were warranted upon the evil
dence in finding the defendant negli-
gent under the last chance doctrine.
Motion overruled
Received Nov. %, 1914.
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Effect of Spraying Iron
Sulphate on Potato Tops
At AroostOOk Farm

Orono, Me-, Nov. 25.--The following
has been made public by Charles D.
Woods, director of the Maine Agri-
cultural Experiment station:
For a number of years the Maine
Agricultural Experiment Station expe-
rimented with copper sulphate and
iron sulphate as a means of eradicat-
ing wild mustard from oats. AS it was
found that wild mustard could be sue
cessfully controlled in this way, num-
erous inquiries were received relative
to the possibility of exterminating wild
mustard in potatoes. While it was ex-
pected that the application of the iron
sulphate would materially injure the
potato vines there was no experiment
al evidence as to what the effect would
be on the resulting crop.
In 1918 an experiment of this kind
was conducted at Highmoor Farm in
which, strange to say, there seemed TO
be an increased yield where the iron
sulphate was used The results were
published in Bulletin 224 1t was stated
as a conclusion: "The experience indi-
Gates that with a field of potatoes bad
ly infested with mustard spraying with
sulphate of iron solution may be re-
sorted to with a reasonable expecta-
ton that the yield of tubers will not be
diminished. At present such a treat
ment can only be recommended as a
rather extreme measure"
This experiment, on which the above
was based, was conducted in the GEN.
trail western part of the State on High
moor Farm and in a year in which
there was a particularly long growing
season. A similar experiment was
made on Aroostook Farm the present
season with Green Mountain potatoes.
There were five plots, three of which
were untreated, one of which was
sprayed once with sulphate of iron,
and another which was sprayed twice
with sulphate of iron. The tops that
were sprayed once quite quickly rail-
lied, and those that were sprayed
twice were much more checked. The
yield per acre on the unsprayed plot
was at the rate of 1873 barrels per acre.
The plot sprayed once yielded at the
rate of Ill barrels per acre, and that
which was sprayed twice at the rate of
100 barrels per acre.
The results obtained in 1914 were
what would naturally be expected and
were quite different from those OBJ
tanned at Highmoor Farm in 1913. This
would seem to indicate that sulphate
Of iron applied to potato vines is suf-
ficiently injurious to the vines to rem
der it an impracticable method of
fighting wild mustard
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THANKSGIVING
RECESS AT THE
UNI. OF MAINE

Orono, Me, Nov. 25-(SpeciaD-T
noon, and will remain closed for the
Thanksgiving recess until next Tues
day morning. The majority of the
students who live in Maine, Massachu-
sets and nearby states will spend the
holidays at their homes.
The Varsity cross-country team was
entertained at tea this week by Pres.
and Mrs. r. ]. Alley. A business meet
ing was held Immediately afterwards,
Mass, was chosen captain of the 1915
team
From one third to one fourth of the
students at the University of Maine
are dependent solely on their own ef-
forts for the money necessary to cover
their college expenses. a University
bulletin announces. The returns from
questions sent to 179 men of the three
upper classes in the departments of
chemical, mechanical and electrical en-
gineering show that 80 per cent of
greater part of this money is earned
outside of college during the vacations.
although there are two or three in
stances where men are earning their
entire expenses as they go along. Sta
tistics show that 80 per cent Of the
students earn money during vacations
and school year.
The University faculty has main
tanned an employment. committee Of it's
members who are always ready to help
needy students in their search for
work.
Among the occupations piled by the
students are waiting on table and
washing dishes in the dormitories, do
ing janitor work about the university
buildings and churches in and about
Orono and Old Town, pressing and
cleaning suits, reporting for. news-pa-
pers, cleaning rifles in the military de-
partment, selling college emblems,
| banners. seals. jewelry. etc. and doing
agency work for clothing concerns.
One student is paying more than half
his expenses by selling hot frankfurt
ers to other students during the
study hour each evening.
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Penobseot County.

Edward D. Megquier VS.. George A
Batchelder. Rescript, Spear, ].
This is an action brought under
Section of Chapter rs of the Revised
Statutes to recover the value of one
half OF a partition fence between the
plaintiff and defendant and the fees
of the fence viewers in making the
division. No legal division had been
made of the fence between the plain
tiff and defendant by any of the meth
DDS known to the law. But the plain
tiff built the whole fence upon the
disputed line, the defendants as well
as his own, and then invoked the au-
thority of Section both for a divi-
sion of the fence and right of ac-
ton for building the defendants half.
1t may here be observed that the
plaintiffs remedy is purely statutory.
An adjoining owner could not be COM
PEELED by common law to build any
part Of division fence. He had, how
ever, to keep his cattle upon his own
land at his peril. Accordingly an ad-
joining owner could not build the en-
tire fence and make the other pay for
one-half or any part of it. But this
condition of neutrality was not sat
isfactory and the statute was enacted
to relieve 1t, so that, if one owner re-
fused or neglected to build his share
of the fence, he could be made to do
so or have it built for him. But the
procedure by which this could be done
was prescribed wholly by the statute.
The scheme of the statute was to
give a tribunal, called fence viewers,
.s4.ls .ffr icta of
of adjoining owners, to the extent of
compelling the delinquent owner either
to build his part of the fence or pay
his neighbor for building it for him.
But this jurisdiction is made to de-
pend upon certain preliminary re-
ouirements, among which is proof of
a division of the fence in controversy
"a by an assignment made by the
fence viewers, (2) by agreement Of the
parties, or 90 by prescription based
upon the presumption of division
the evidence of which is lost.
Every person who may by law be
required to build part of division
fence should first be given an oppor-
tunity to build it himself; and such
opportunity cannot be given until by
some division he is informed of what
his part is. No such division appears
In this case, accordingly the fence
viewers had no jurisdiction. The fact
that the fence viewers had once been
called upon to make division of the
fence between these parties, and made
division which was void in law,
is immaterial here. The present pro-
ceedings are independent of any pre-
yious division.
Judgment for defendant.
Received Nov. %, 1914.
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BANGOR and AROOSTOOK
MEETINGS, BANGOR

Meetings of the directors of the
Bangor & Aroostook r. R. Co., and
subsidiary corporations were held
Tuesday morning at the offices of the
company in the Graham building,
Bangor.
DIR. T. u. Coe rendered his resigna-
ton as director of the Northern Tel
egraph Co., and 1t was accepted, the
vacancy being filled by the selection of
A. w. Spaulding of Caribou as his
successor. Walter A. Danforth re-
signed as clerk Of the corporation and
Wingate F. Cram was chosen to sue
coed him.
At 10 o'clock the Bangor & Aroos-
took r. r. Co. directors held their
regular monthly session. The direc-
tors in attendance were Mr.. Todd,
John Watson Of Houlton. w. c.
Spaulding of Caribou, Walter A. Dan
forth of Bangor, H. P. Binney of Bos-
ton, Charles A. Milliken of Augusta,
Dr. 7. u. Coe and Charles E. Oak of
Bangor
The annual meeting Of the Bangor
Investment Co. was held at 11.30
o'clock. H. p. Binney Of Boston was
elected to the directorate, succeeding
James Brown of New York, resigned.
Charles H. Wood and Percy r. Todd
of Bangor were reelected to the
board. The election of officers result
ed in the choice of Percy r. Todd as
president; Wingate F. Cram, clerk;
w. A. Danforth, treasurer; j. w.
Crowell general auditor. Mr.. Dam
forth resigned as clerk and was sue
ceeded by Mr.. Cram, the former re-
tanning the office of treasurer which
he has held in connection with that of
clerk.
The meeting Of the Northern Maine
Seaport, r. r. Co. was held at IL
o'clock, the directors present being
Mr.. Todd, Mr.. Danforth. DR.. Coe and
Mr.. Binney.
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END OFTERM
BANQUET HELD
AT OAK GROVE,

Vassalboro, Me-, Nov. 25.-(SpeciaD
The Thanksgiving or END of the
Term" banquet was held by the Oak
Grove Seminary students and faculty
Tuesday evening and the occasion was
voted one of the most delightful held
at the institution for many months.
The spacious dining room was hand
somely decorated in colors. The table
was set in the form of Greek cross.
with DR.. Louis p. Jones' principal of
the school, at the head and his wife.
Mrs. Viola Fl. Jones, opposite. Former
Principal Edward Cook and Annie M
Priest, secretary of the board of
trustees, were seated at the other ends.
whole roast pig, with everything
In the eatable line that goes with his
pigship when served on such an &C.
casion adorned the table for a while.
but speedily disappeared under the
strict attention to business Of the hun
cry crowd. Place cards of appropriate
design were at each place.
The postprandial exercises were of
unusual interest, the following toasts
being responded to:
me Beginning of the End" Philip
Brown; Oak Grove Spirit" Mary
Jones; Oak Groves new song, Harold
k1mban; Pigs Is Pigs" Elmer H.
Hussey; 1.-TWO Years More" Doris
Williams; ''The Soul of Music,s Carrie
M. Bradford: Male and Shemale," Ed
ward Cove: ITO My First Love-" Edna
G. Haviland; MY First Two Weeks -
Raymond Walsh; 1.-THE Past and Flu
ture of Oak Grove" Edward Cook.
The company at the conclusion of
the above program adjourned to the
music room, where a time was most
enJoyably passed with singing Oak
Grove songs and in social intercourse,
all voting it one of the finest of the
many first-class End of the Term
banquets.
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catarrh Cannot Be Cured.

with LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as the
cannot reach the seat of the disease. Ca
tarrh is a blood or constitutional disease
and in order to cure 1t you must take In
ternal remedies, Halls Catarrh Cure
taken internally, and acts directly upo
the blood and mucous surfaces Hall
Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine.
was prescribed by one of the best physi
clans in this country for years and Is
the best blood purifier, acting directl
on the mucous surfaces The perfec
combination Of the two ingredients
what produces such wonderful results /
curing catarrh. Send for testimonial
free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props. Toledo.
Sold by druggists. price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa
tion.-Ady
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We are of the opinion that the
plaintiff made out a prima facie case
before the jury.
This brings us to the exceptions. The
allegation was that the maple growth
on said land above described was in
jured and destroyed by fire., etc. The
presiding justice was requested to in
struct the jury: The plaintiff is only
entitled to recover for the maple wood
under his declaration" We think the
request was properly refused.
Motion and exceptions overruled.
Received Nov. %, 1914.
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VASSALBORO

Herman Richardson and &c
Burgess returned Saturday, Nov.
from a hunting trip. each bringin
two deer.
F. A. Wing has been in this part {
the town buying apples, paying ST.:
per barrel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Thornhill hay
moved from John Hurd's farm
North Vassalboro.
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At 1890 o'clock the directors Of tn,
Van Buren, Bridge CO. held their meet
ing, Mr.. Todd, Mr.. Binney, A. w
Spaulding and w. F. Cram being pres.
ent.
The business transacted at all the
meetings, with the exception of the
changes in the executive officers, was
of routine nature, and there wa:
nothing of public interest.
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LAW COURT DE-
CISIONS IN PENOB-
SCOT co. CASES

Clerk of Courts Charles W. Jones has
received the following rescripts from
the law court in Penobscot county
cases:
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-26
HARRY FLEMING, SOUTH PARIS,
WOUNDED, AT HOME FROM WAR

Back with his family in South Paris
after few weeks in service in the
European war. Harry G. Fleming is
now finally discharged from the Brit
ish army for disability, and will re-
main here, having fulfilled his duty
as a soldier of his country.
There was some thing doing during
the few weeks referred to, and it was
by no means a period of ''watchful
waiting" In the meantime between
the goth of September and the 18th
of November he went from South
Paris to the front in Belgium, where
he participated in hand-to-hand fight
ing and bayonet charges, was wounded,
spent time in the hospital and on fur
Tough, was discharged and made the
journey home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-26

Tough, was discharged and made the
journey home.
Called to the front by his duty as a
reservist, he sailed from Quebec on
Sept. %, arrived at Dunkirk. France,
on Oct. IA, was on the front in close
contact with the Germans on Oct Is,
16 and II, was wounded in the leg by
shrapnel shot on the 18th, while in a
charge driving back German advance,
was sent back to London to the Mill
bank hospital, and tonight returns
from this city, to his home, less than
two months after he left it, medically
unfit for further service but carrying
an honorable discharge. When in less
than three years he takes out his final
papers as an American citizen it will
be with the knowledge that he has
done his full duty by his native land.
In the three days that he was at the
front Sergeant Fleming saw some of
the hottest fighting of the war, and he
told an interesting story of his expert
ences to an Express-Advertiser re-
porter at the Grand Trunk depot We'd
nerday noon while waiting for the 1.30
train for South Paris. During the
three days he took part in number
Of hand to hand encounters, with bay
onets and it was while making a bayo-
net charge that two shots from a
shrapnel struck him in the leg and
dropped him, where he lay between
the British and German trenches, with
artillery fire going on over his head.
for eight hours before he was dis
covered and rescued by an Irish priest
attached to the troops.
Germans Trapped.
This charge was made from the
trenches, to drive back a German adj
vance, but Sergeant Fleming was also
participant in some heavy fighting in
the town of Dixmude, for possession
of which the two armies have been
fighting for weeks. The army of the
allies set trap for the Germans. lead
ing them to believe that the artillery
fire had made the town too hot for
them, and that they had evacuated. A
troop of German cavalry accommodated
the town and found 1t seemingly de-
serted. Then in marched a dense col
umn Of German infantry, with bands
playing and banners flying. The trap
was sprung. From windows and roof
tops OF the buildings British troops
and French marines opened fire with
Maxim rapid fire guns and rifles, and
II was matter of moments only be-
fore the column of proud Teutons was
literally wiped off the face Of the
earth. 1t was estimated that nearly
1000 of the Kaisers finest troops made
their last march when they went into
Dixmude that day. Sergeant Fleming
was one of the British soldiers sta
toned in the Dixmude houses and did
his share of the fighting.
Most of the fighting, however, Sergeant
Fleming says, is in trenches, where the
men are we'll protected from the enemy's
cannon but suffer from exposure to in
clement weather. Water stands in the
trenches, sometimes to the depth of
many inches, and in this the soldiers
move about and even sleep. The supply
OF drinking water is poor and disorders
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WAGES AND THE
-
HOURS OF LABOR
In the Cotton, Wooden and Silk
Industries During the Years
1907-1913-T he Full-Time
Weekly Wage Earnings in
Some of Principal Occupa-
tons.

Washington, Nov. 25.-The Bureay
of Labor Statistics of the United
States Department Of Labor has jusl
published as Bulletin No. $50 a report
on wages and hours of labor in the
cotton, wooden and worsted. and sill
industries. This report presents
data from employers pay rolls for the
years 1907 to 1913 and covers thy
principal productive occupations IL
each of the industries named. TIL,
importance of these industries is
shown by the fact that at the census
of 1910 the manufacture of cotton
wooden and worsted, and silk goods
employed. respectively. 371,000, 1853, 00t
and $4,000 persons. During the perioc
from 1910 to 1913 there was a Sigh
reduction in the full -time hours pei
week and an increase in the rates O.
wages per hour and the average full
time weekly earnings in each of these
industries.
Comparing the figures for 1918 will
each of the three preceding years, tn,
average full time weekly earnings %
employees engaged in cotton good;
manufacturing (not including finish
ing) in 1913 were Ia per cent. highei
than in 1912, lat per cent. higheI
than in 1911, and 1853 per cent. highei
than in 1910. The full time hours o.
labor per week in this industr,
showed no appreciable difference be
tween 1912 and 1913. They were
however. 1T per cent. lower in 1911
than in 1910 and 1911, the averag-
hours being the same in those tw'
years. Rates of wages per hour ii
1913 were OF per cent. higher than ii
1912, 1917 per cent higher than II
1911, and lila per cent. higher than i,
1910.
In wooden and worsted goods manu-
featuring the average full-time week
ly earnings of employees in 1913 werI
30 per cent, lower than in 1912, a.
per cent. higher than in 1911, and s..
per cent. higher than in 1910. TIL
full-time hours of labor per week y
1913 were OF per cent. lower than II
1912, 1.8 per cent. lower than in 1911
and lie per cent. lower than In 1910
Rates of wages per hour in 1918 wer,
81 per cent. lower than In 1912, g.,
per cent higher than In 1911, and g.,
per cent. higher than In 1910.
In the silk goods manufacturing I'M
dustry the average fuil-time week.
earnings of employees in 1913 wer,
sc per cent. higher than in 1912. s.,
per cent. higher than in 1911, ans
101 per cent. higher than in 1910
The full-time hours of labor per weeI
were gradully reduced each year. from
1910 to 1913, the hours per week u
1918 being 0.4 per cent. lower than Il
1912, 1.3 per cent. lower than in 1911
and Ia per cent. lower than in 1910
The rates of wages per hour were 5.
per cent. higher in 1913 than in 1871
10I per cent. higher than in 1s1
and Ill per cent. higher than in 1910
The average full-time weekly earn
ings in 1918 in a few of the prtncipal
occupations were as follows:
COTTON GOODS