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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16

Skowhegan, Me, Dec. Is (SpeciaD--
The Skowhegan High school has or
ganized an orchestra. 1t is made up of
Arthur Springer, End cornet; Clyde
Badger. End cornet; Francis Croteau,
1st eornet; Mahlon Gerrish, pianist
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16
NOTICE.

l hereby give notice to all persons that
they are forbidden to extend credit to
my wife. Mary ]. Taylor, as shall pay
no bills of her contracting after this
date
Signed IRA C. TAYLOR
Sidney, Dec. Is, 1914.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16


George y. Western 213.2 los. COW 5,
heifers; George Jones 1873 lbs, 8
cows, heifers: Lucy Bigelow, 210.6
lbs, cows, / heifer; DR.. E. H.
Stevens 2e1.7 lbs.'5 cows, heifers;
l.. G. Trafton. 342.7 lbs, 10 cows 9
heifers; A. Z. Storer, l52.2 lbs; e. p.
Rogers 1892 lbs, Z cows; Eta Fred
ericls 1861 lbs, cows, heifer; E. E.
Williamson 1923 lbs, cows, heif-
ers; Eugene Watson 1919 lbs, 6 cows;
D. III. Towne. 1864 lbs. 51@cows, 21a
heifers; Ray Moody, 201.6 lbs. COWS:
c. ]. Wood, 1908 lbs. G cows. heif-
ers: H. Hall 169 lbs, 8 cows; George
E. Foster, 279.7 lbs, 10 cows, heif
ers: Clifton Jewell, 154.7 lbs s cows;
E. N Merrill 1913 lbs, S cows; r. T.
Patten 1871 lbs, Il cows; Turner
Boswell 301.3 lbs, cows. heifers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16

and leader; Leo Porter, traps; David
Lyon and Bruce White, violinists.
With one or two exceptions the boys
are but fourteen years old and Arthur
Springer is the youngest in the orches-
ira with Leo Porter about the same
age. This orchestra is one of the lead
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-12-16

The annual entertainment of the past
noble grapds of Priscilla Rebekah Lodge,
I. o. O. F., was held Tuesday evening.
The play 1.-THE Suffragettes' Convention"
was presented with the following cast of
characters: Mrs. John Yates. presiding
officer Mrs. Alice Baker, Mrs. Silas Cur
tbs. suffragette speaker, Mrs. Mipna Saw
age; Mrs Eben Gilman, suffragette
speaker, Mrs. Mary Bailey Mrs Eldon
Keener. anti-suffragette speaker, Mrs.
Cora Hurley: Mrs. Oscar Dayton, anti
suffragette speaker, Mrs. Isadore Spear;
Mrs. Jonas Harding, anti-suffragette
speaker, Mrs Ellen Brown; Miss Rosa
bella Hyacinth, engaged. Mrs. Violet
Fogg; Miss Priscilla Prudence. would
like to be engaged. Mrs. Mabel Bragg;
Mrs. Anna Helder, great on style, Mrs.
Grace Oliver; Mrs. Charles Bates, anti
suffragette speaker, Mrs. Minnie Burns;
Mrs. Russell Sager. suffragette. Mrs.
Pamela Lawiey Mrs. Frances Wood,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
War News Fifty Years Ago
tFrom the Daily Dispatch. Oct. 10, 1ss4)

Morgan. the Yankee hunter In a AT of jubi-
lation, telcgraphed that he had cornered For
rest and was sure of capturing him. But It
now turns out that when he came where For
rest was to be caught the nest was warm, but
the bird had flown.
News from Hood Is still cheering although
the New York Herald OF the 10th states that
Sherman has doubtless gotten Hood Just in the
position In which he wants him.
The great military drama In three acts en-
titled The French Spy is I, be presented at
the Richmond Theatre. Sc tn and Broad
streets. tonight In the cast al the Pnrtngton
and Messrs. Charles. Wells. Brown, Alien
Banker and r. r. Dalton.
There was trial OF artillery yesterday on
the part OF the enemy in front of Petersburg.
but we did not learn the result.
Since our last issue nincty-odd Yankee
prisoners have arrived at Libby. These pris-
oners were all captured at Saltvillc.
Upwards of zoo Yankee desertcrs, who were
sent to Salisbury. n c. from Castle Thunder.
committed to that institution yesterday
William +. Hevin. member of Company d.
Ninth Georgia Battalion has been committed
TO Castle Thunder on the charges OF forgery
and attempting to desert.
Wanted. at the Confederate States I,abora-
tory, 300 females Pay. S. to 81 day. In
addition to these wages certain quantities of
wood bacon, -four and cloth will be sold to
each female employee during intervals, at the
cost price. All applicants apply to w. N Smith,
Superintendent of the Laboratory.
Yesterday morning Mrs. White was pass
Ing through the Second Market her dress
caught in the butt end of pistol worn in the
belt OF a youth. and 1t jerked loose, when II
fell to the pavement, causing an explosion and
sending the ball between tho solo of the lady's
SHOE near the heel and the ground The ball
grnzed tho sole and Clipped piece from the
heel.
With the exception of good butter, which is
very scarce and high, the markets present a
lively and we'll stocked appearance Sweet
potatoes and cahbages are in profusion, the
former going off at reasonable figures, the
latter unreasonably high.
Peter 'Epps. of Petersburg, was brought to
thisr city yesterday and carried before Con-
the charge of trading for pair of shoes with
r. W. Weldon. member of Alabama reg-
ment The statement made by Weldon, who VI as
the only witness summoned in the ase, proved
conclusivcly that there ground for the
accusation. and the commissioner, therefore,
very promptly discharged the prisoner
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
CHALONs, AN ECHO Of THE PAST

PARIS. October An more ways
than one has history repeated itself In
the European war. Time and again.
since August /. has there been notable
and that OF 1870, the Franco Pruss!an
conflict. But in some instances. even
more ancient wars are brought to mind
by the terrific struggle now being
waRed In Northern and Eastern France.
In the centre OF the Allies line be-
tween Meaux and Verdun is the town
of the Chalons-sur-M Marine.
Chalons! 1t is name of good augury
For there Attila the Hun received the
check from, which he never wholly re-
covered, and which compelled him to
Once more the Hun is on the broad
plain of Chalons after fourteen cen
turtles and half have passed. Let
us hope that the Catalaunian fields
from which Chalons derives It's name,
may witness an even greater rout Of
German hosts which have fully. estab-
lished their title to be the "Scourge
of God" may go down in red and ire
trievable ruin.
The battle of Chalons, fought in 451,
has always been considered the blood
lest battle ever fought on the :oil or
Europe. Savage. tangled. widespread.
uOgEed, SuCn were the ad1ect1VeS ap-
piled to 1t by the Gothic chrcnicler who
wrote the story of the fight, The low
est estimate of the killed was put at
$4,000. the highest ran up to 800 o00
The carnage was terrific and 1t was all
over in day. The new battle of
Chalons may last a weok ere the last
shot Is fred.
Let US briefly recall the ancient
struggle Attila, the King of the
Huns, who had established his sway
over all the vast regions lying to tho
north both of the Western and Eastern
Empires of Rome and Byzantium, had
decided TO strike first at the west.
He invaded Gaul, crossing the Rhine at
what is now Coblenz with n mighty
host. Arrayed against him was an
alliance OF n weak Roman army under
Aetius and q powerful army Of visi-
goths under their King. Theodore.
Tho rival armies met on the plain
of Chalons, south OF Marine. Attila
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
On the Right Side of the Ledger

D ICHMOND was one of the few cities in
the United States in which building
construction for the month of September
showed increase as compared with the
same month last year. In most American
municipalities the depressing effects of the
European war are revealed strikingly in the
reduced number and lower cost of buildings
in course of erection.
Figures compiled by the Construction News
show that for the whole country there is a
decrease of 80 per cent. Last month per-
mts were taken out for the construction Of
1901 buildings, involving total expendi-
ture of $43,377, SAT, as against 21,543 build
ings, involving S66.726.944, in September,
1913, decrease Of 4,242 buildings and $23,-
249,097 There were gains in nineteen cities
and decreases in ffty-nine cities. Richmond
last month granted permits for 100 buildings,
to cost $136,799, as against ITO buildings,
costing $122,361 in September Of last year,
the ratio of gain being II per cent
Richmond will feel satisfaction that 1t
keeps its place on the right side Of the ledger.
Its citizens, at any rate are not respondent.
They look to the future, with courage and
the fixed assurance Of returning and lasting
prosperity
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13

of education. fifty years OF scientific advance
ment fifty years in which mercy and charity
and kindness, forbearance and brotherly love,
have had opportunity as never before to grow
into the highest expression OF humanity. In
these fifty years the world has agreed on
paper, treaties looking to peace have been
signed, there have been intermarriages to
cement bonds Of interest," our commerce has
been curled up with the commerce of the
world the European countries now at war
have through their signatories and in other
ways even discussed disarmament for the
sake of peace. Never have there been fifty
years in which humanity had so much chance
to grow, and at the end of this educational
half century we have reports of barbarities
that would make Nero shudder.
That's it--thats the point! We haven't
progressed, We have wasted our oppor-
tunty. We have come to the place Of agree
ment and have turned our plowshares into
swords. To compare to-day with half cen
fury ago is beside the question. If not peace,
certainly common humanity should have
come out of these fifty years Of education and
advancement. And If, after all this. we are
to have atrocities that make the blood run
cold in how many generations can we recover
the lost ground and start over again?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
Children and Other Animals

HAT the humanitarian impulses of this
i country are being devoted much more
largely to the care of animals than to the
care Of children appears to have been de-
veloped quite clearly at the recent meeting
of the American Humane Association, at At
lantic City Societies for the protection of
children had decreased in the last year from
313 to 307, while societies devoted to ami
mails increased in the same period from $50
to 191.
There was slight increase in the number
of children cared for, from 177,747 to 1871
964, but the number of animals that received
attention jumped from 2,539,1S6 to g.
345,707.
However valuable may be the organized
efforts to prevent cruelty to animals, the
prevention of cruelty and the extension Of
opportunity to children offer much wider
and more useful field. In this country many
thousands Of children are deprived of most
az youths glorious heritage. Few commune
ties are guiltless OF this crime. If choice
must be made, it might be better to let some
of the animals 60
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
Times Have CHANGED

THE expected has happened. Veterans Of
L the War Between the States are writing
TO various newspapers throughout the coun-
try, advising that we who were so cruel in
our own family affair should not throw stones
at the barbarities Of the European struggle
They point to the destructive raid of Sheri-
to the Imprisonment of captives on the line
of fire and to the scarcity OF food furnished
them they quote the general who said that
after he finished his march through the South
crow flying overhead would have to carry
his own rations to keep from starving
There will always be difference of testi-
mony as TO crueties in the COS, and as to
the necessity OF strenuous steps taken on both
sides. But certainly there is no allegation
SO far that in the war between the North
and South any one with a sword cut off the
hands of nurses. or gouged out the eyes of
wounded, or impaled infants on picket
fences. or broke the legs of old men in the
wheels Of gun carriages, or ruthessly
poisoned wells. These stories OF the. Euro
pean atrocities may be wholly or essentially
false, but we have them, and with them must
make comparisons until the evidence is all
in on the other side. If we would make COM
PARSONS at all
But that is not the point SlIpposinp
utmost cruelties were practiced in 1861
For the sake OF argument, supposing we saw
the world has never seen such cruelties as
those pracUced on Sherman's march to the
sea. The fact is that fifty years have passed
since then, and there have been fifty years
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13

and his Huns charged tho centre of
the allies, pierced 1t, and then turned
herceiy against the Visigoths, whose
King was killed by javelIn. But
Inc Visisoths ralliedr~ and eventually
drove Attila back on to his camp
There he built that night great pyre
OF the wooden saddles of his cavalry.
determined that IL his intrenchments
were forced, he would set flames to
the pyre and perish upon it rather
IMAM let his enemies boast that they
mad siam Attila or taken him captive
But the attack did not come. The
allies had suffered so severely that they
nelther renewed the combat nor block
aded Attlla's camp, but suffered him
to withdraw his shattered hosts back
TO the Rhine. They were satisfied to
have repealed the hitherto ever
IN Gaul, turned with fury upon italy.
III the advance of tho modern Huns
is checked at Chalons-and the latest
news Is highly encouraging In that
respect-they will certainly be al
lowed no unimpeded retreat, as were
their prototypes
The Gothic chonicler, Jorandes, put
into the mouth of Attila before the
battle fiery harangue. from which
few sentences may be, quoted;
You are warriors or nothing, and
what to such is more satisfying than
TO carve out vengeance by the sword?
An, revenge, natures first gift. and
sweetest soother of the Soul!
Sunder the sinew and the limbs coll
lapse; hack the bones and the body
falls.
Huns of mine, rouse your rage and
let your fury swell as of old Crafty
now and by the sword stroke then!
These herded outcasts dare not con-
front the Hunt That this shall be NV
new field Of victory, the long tale Of
my FORMER fields assures me. Yea, and
nrst am whose shaft shall be spedI
And doomed is he who fights not when
Attila leads the fight"
Change Huns" to Germans" and
the Kaiser himself might DO address-
Ing his Brandenburgers and Men Of.
the Marx; And 1t is worth recalling
that Attila, barbarian and paran as
he was, officially styled himself "tire
Dread OF the World--by the Grace Of
God" G q -
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
II Belgium Becomes a Republic

N I'D you notice that significant "if'' in the
- news Of the other day, when Belgian
Deputy Terwagne said: eff Belgium becomes
q republic, King Albert will be elected the
first president?
If Belgium becomes republic-who sug-
gested it? Nobody. 1t came from Belgium.
many-if England--if Russia-if Austria!
If Europe becomes series of republics! 1t
isn't such great, such an impossible Of"
The Imagination has stretched farther on less
solid ground.
The world knows by this time that the
European war was not an affair of the popu-
lace. 1t was started either by single ruler
or by his military clique Chambers and
lawmaking bodies have been dragged into IT.
the Initiative, the one step irreclaimable, was
made by very few. Had war to be declared
by the representatives of the people, how
many believe for instance, that the popu-
lists in the Reichstag would have plunged
their country into such ruinous conflict?
If Europe goes republican in government
is not such bad guess. Modern cvliza-
ton has made leaps and bounds toward popu-
lar decision in affairs of great moment.
Popular education has given men and women
of this day farther view than militarism
and clique rule.
OF course, it may not happen-yet But
that this disastrous war is step toward pop
ular government in all parts of the world is
just as certain as that the sun, rising in the
east and setting in the west, cannot be greatly
detected from it's chosen course by individual
grandeurs.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
Stree. Boxes for Waste Paper.

To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir.-Would not the installation Of waste paper
boxes or barrels the streets lessen the work
or the street Cleaning Department and tend
toward making the city much more attractive
to the eye OFFS visitor? The absence of such
receptacles and the consequent litter of papers
and trash in the streets have several times
been remarked on by visitors in my presence
and in each case surprise has been expressed
that Richmond has not followed the example set
by other cities
Most of the cities and towns of the East are
provided with these boxes, and the public has
been educated into throwing the waste material
into them. The boxes generally made of
metal and are durable to degree. BY their
use the streets are kept In fairly clean con-
dition, and are much more pleasing to the eve
than arc those Uttered with discarded news
papers, wrapping paper and cardboard boxes
such as we are used TO. Should you think the
idea practical, l should appreciate you advo-
eating 1t to the City Council through the columns
or your paper IT. v. W.
Richmond October II. 1914.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
ruEspAY, OCTOBER Is. 1914.
THE TIMEs-DIsPATCH and breakfast
arc served together with unfaliing regu-
iarity in the Best Homes of Richmond.
Is your morning program completef
For Needy Confederate Women
TOMORROW, everywhere in Richn

TOMORROW, everywhere in Richmond,
! opportunity will be given every one to
contribute to the support of the Home for
Needy Confederate Women. Because of the
very small appropriations made by the city
and State to this worthy cause, it must needs
rely the public. Tomorrow 1t makes its
annual appeal.
In the War Between the States, Southern
women suffered greatly and bore their
losses as uncomplainngly Southern men.
That war left countless women, including
many who had lived lives of ease and luxury,
bereft and desolate, and it is from this large
number that the inmates of the home are
chosen. Demands for admittance are numer-
Gus and insistent. The need is very great,
and certainly 1t would be unlike Richmond
to fail in generosity or refuse to heed the cry
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13

to test Its merits. Not every one can buy
bale OF cotton Even those who AFFORD 1t
acquisition. but our people drink moro coffee
than almost any other. and II they CON get
satisfactory article In this dependency why not
give her tho benefit OF American custom7 That
would be partial solatium for the removal
OF the tariff on sugar, which. 1t is feared will
seriously impair that Industry, IL It has not
already dono 80. In n sense, Porto Rico lis a
part OF our own household, and we should not
incur tho reproach OF heathenishi by Withholding
consideration from her.-Boston Transcript.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
West Broad Street in bad shape.
, Editor of Tho Timcs-Dispatch:

To the Editor Of The Timcs-Dispatch:
* Sir.-While Richmond is spending large sums
on its streets, cannot something be done for
West Broad Street near the baseball park? The
present granite paving ends at Allison Street.
In the next block are the large manufacturing
plants of the Hermitage Press and the Stephen
Putney Shoe Company, and Just beyond the
ball grounds. which are visited by thousands
The street is slough OF mud and the situation
has become almost unbearnble for West End
residents since the 'near-stop" ordinance took
effect. 1t will be long time before this part
of Broad Street comes in for smooth paving
Couldn't some of the old spalls removed from
other parts of Broad Street be used to fiji the
muuhoies meanwhile? WEST END
Richmond, Va. October 10, 1914
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
SONGS AND SAWS
Mr.. Banker Man.

Welcome. Mr.. Banker man.
Ard Mrs. Banker. too;
The city's gates, the city's heart.
Are open wide to you.
We want you to enjoy yourself.
The while you lingcr hero,
So that you can't resist our plea
To come another year.
1t isn't often that we have
So many Of your clan,
But, Mr.. Banker, you arc just
The Richmond type OF man.
We like you and we need you much.
We want to call you friend
So that we all can make n touch
When you have funds to lend.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-13
Beer in Water Wagons"

M INEQUALITIES nowadays are wont to
lf1 carry to considerable lengths the doc
trine Of municipal hepfulness to the private
citizen or col poration. All of them perform
services that century or even a generation
ago were left to tho individual. His chill
dren are instructed, his garbage is collected
and destroyed, he is provided with entertain
ment and amusement, and, If he requires 1t,
with medical and surgical attention, all at the
public expense.
Kansas City, however, is carrying the
banner Of progress in this direction some dis
lance beyond the point it had previously at
tanned. The park board, moved thereto by
a spirit Of benevolence and good will, has
permitted the local breweries to use its tank
wagons to convey beer in bulk from one part
of the city to another. Beer in Water
Wagons" is the way the Kansas City Star
heads its .irreverent account of the incident
AS was to have been expected, the park
boards charitable act was not permitted to
go unchallenged One indignant critic, after
describing, in a letter to the board, the man
ner in which the tank wagons had conveyed
their unaccustomed load through the streets,
indulged in this further comment:
If the aforesaid tank wagons have
been sold by the city to the brewery
company. the lettering on said wagons
should be removed to save reiec-
ton of so close alliance between the city
park board and tho brewery If the
wagons the property Of the city. i,
citizen and taxpayer wish to enter
protest against any such uso of the city
property.
The board admits that 1t is discouraged,
now that it's patriotic impulses have been re-
ceived with this SO black ingratitude Here
after, it is likely, the breweries will have
either to transport beer in the old fashioned
kegs or build themselves few tank wagons
or underground pipe lines of their own