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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

The Seth Williams independent Re-
lief Corps will picnic with Mr.. and
Mrs. \. ] Jones, Riverside avenue.
Gardiner, Wednesday, June go. Take 10
O'Clock car. All members requested TO
be preSent
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Miss Gertrude White left on the
Monday night Pullman for Boston,
from which city she will start this
afternoon with a large party, COM
posed mostly Of teachers for trip to
the Pacific coast. going by the way
of Niagara Falls, Colorado Springs
Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles and
San Francisco, and from there up to
Seattle. then up into British Columbia
and the Canadian Rockies and back
across the continent. They expect to
return to New England some time in
August.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29
Mrs. David kino of VassaIboro

Mrs. Nellie. wife of David King,
passed away Monday noon at their
home in Vassalboro, after a long ill
ness, aged "a years. The husband, three
sons and two daughters survive. F'u-
neral services will be held at 9 o'clock
Wednesday morning at the church in
North Vassalboro.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

DIR. Stanley NJ. Cover returned TO
Skowhegan Monday. after passing
Sunday as the guest of his mother
Mrs. John 3. Cover, 13 Green street.
Mrs. Stanley NJ. Cover with her chill
dren. Mu~:el and Merrill. are remain
jrse ,oncer in this city with the Doctors
mother
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Or. a. G. Young. secretary Of the
Sta,e Board of Health. left on the
Monday afternoon express for Ports
mouth. ~ H.. where re was called, on
meters of business connected with the
board.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Postmaster and Mrs. F. w. Plaisted
returned Monday from an auto trip to
Great pond, Belgrade, where they had
been the over-Sunday guests of Unit
ed States Senator and Mrs. Charles
F. Johnson Of Waterville at the sena-
tors cottage.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

James Morrow and l.. Simmons
Ernst Of Harvard Law school, are in
town for several weeks. and are stay
ing at the home Of Geo. b. keene,
Western avenue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Mrs. F. s. Morgan, who passed the
winter in Boston and New York ana
the past few weeks in Bangor, has re-
TUNED to her home on the Bangor
road, Augusta, for the summer
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Adit. Gen. Albert Greenlaw. who at
tended the officers school at the State
campground, has returned to- East
port He drove here in his automobile
ana returned home in the same man
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Mr.. and Mrs Harold Packard left
Mondar on an automobile trip up
through northern Maine and plan to
arrive at Rangeley lakes, where they
viii pass the Fourth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Miss Carrie NJ. Bradford has closed
her studio for the summer and will re-
sumo her studies with John Ortiz at
his summer home at Ash Point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Nr. and Mrs. Ernest Hilton and son.
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Orrln
McAllister and two daughters, lett
Saturday for a 10-days outing at Mes
sa lOnSkee lake
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

City Clerk Burleigh Martin, who has
been confined to his home for the past
week. is reported to be canvalescing
and it is thought possible that he may
be able to come down town today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

The Amos H. Higgins agency has
sold the Mary r. King farm in vas
salboro to Annie C. Tibbetts Of Waldo
bOro.-AdVt.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Carey are the
happy parents Of a son, who was born
to them Saturday at their home on
Cony street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

The marriage intentions of Samuel
f. Taylor of Gardiner and Flora Belle
Eldridse of Augusta have been re-
corded at the office of the city clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Charles kennison of Woodforis was
a visitor in Augusta Monday and call
ed on old friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

Miss Frances Colgan Of Spruce
street left Saturday for Old Orchard.
where she will pass the summer
months.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL
Telephone 1875

Cards Of thanks. obituary notices, res
olutions of respect etc, will De
charged at the rate Of ten cents per
line. No charge less than Is cents.
Subscribers who fail to receive tbs
Journal promptly will confer favor
by notifying the Office Immediately.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29

evening visitors recently Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Garfield Ingraham.
Masters Kenneth and Arthur Austin
oi Waterville are in town for an ex.
.enoed visit with their grandparents
MT. and Mrs. D. b. Marden. at Maple
Hill farm.
James Weeks Of winslows was q
caller in the place recently while en-
route to visit friends in Bridgton Ma
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29
Tuesday, June %, 1915.
LOCAL BRIEFS

Miss Caroline Kelley will return to-
day from a visit at Small Point.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-06-29
A Grand Old Time
Celebration
WILL BE GIVEN At
COOper'S Mills

BY the Cooper's Mills GRANGE on
July 4th, 1915.
HorribIes, Ball Game, Athletic
Events, Dancing, Good Music, Dinner
and Supper will be served by tbs
Grange. Grafton by the Hon. WA.
Thompson. "Bibber's" famous N Ii.
tary Band will fRrnish music throS r.
out the day. ~
Spend happy day in the country.
when Nature 10 at her best, and where
you will be cordially received and en-.
tertained.
june29dSt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
Modern Surgery

With their characteristic thorough ness the Germans have set themselves to the task of saving every wounded soldier sent back from the front who is not beyond their aid. They are ac- compishing wonderful results and thousands of disabled soldiers are soon restored to health and sent back to the firing line, who might have perished miserably, were it not for the scientific management of German hospital work.
 There is no neglect of the wounded. From the time man is hurt on the battlefield until he is installed in a hospital, perhaps far away from the scene of his injury, all that could possibly be done for him before he reaches the hospital has been accom- plished by skilled hands and when he reaches his destination competent surgeons, who specialize in the kind of wound he has received, begin the final work of healing. Instead of being the most common operation in war surgery, amputation is not practiced now, except as the last resort. Anti septic treatment has so minimized the danger of infection that the most des- perately wounded soldiers are saved and dismissed from the hospitals with their full complement of limbs.
 Not only are German surgeons do- ing splendid work, but American, French, English and Austrian sur geons are every day performing re- markable operations. Recently an op- eration was performed by Prof. Albert Tietze on a soldier who had serious wound in his head. After large frag- ment of shell had been removed the X-rays showed that small piece of shell remained. Professor Tietze said this particle could not safely be left in the skull because it might become dislodged in future years and cause instant death.
 It was suggested that a magnet be used to draw out the splinter. There was no instrument of the sort availa-  ble, but engineers of the telegraphic division soon made an electromagnet. A motor, formerly used for running . threshing machine, and a dynamo were requisitioned. The physician took an iron wand, highly polished, and connected it with a coil. The wand was inserted in the soldiers skull and the fragment of shell was easily withdrawn as it clung to the end of the iron.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
SEATS FOR EVERYBODY

2o-inch allowance, but long, thin man on the same staff pointed out that this would reduce the seating capacity of the new subways about half. Then d stenog-| rapher started to settle the dispute, bull thought better. of 1t and it is now on al reducing diet.' The trouble spread until the commission forces threatened to be divided between the lean and the fas. Some feared the commission itself might get mixed up and Commissioner Woods have quarrel with Chairman Mccall
 Joseph Johnson. head of the transit| bureau, settled the question Soo ways. He eliminated the personal element byI taking it into account wholesale. He ladI 800 measurements made. No, they were| not measurements of car seats When| he had the 500 measurements he added| them up and struck an average.
 The average gave us IFS inches" said| MT. Johnson yesterday.
 So that's settled But what is go;nyI to happen now? Are the turn-sti.es at| some of the stations to be made a cer-| tain width? Are the guards and ,on-| ductors to carry measuring tapes. Isl there to be court of arbitration, and ifI so, who will have the appointing nower:| And what will happen if there are onlyI two standard seats left in a car and two| stout persons get on at the same time?
 Then there is the question of fare. Isl the thin man to ride for 3 cents, or isl the stout man to pay &? Is the man who| gets thin worrying over the trains he isl going to miss at the Grand Central to| be entitled to a rebate?
 Anyway, there ought to be a great dc- mand from intending passengers for ruers| with the inches divided into hurdrcdths.
 Doubtless some persons will ask the| commission whether tape measure isn't| really better than one of the woodcn| kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
Sign. of Coming Activity

"rhe indication now is that the build ing trade Is taking on new activity Ill Birmingham" remarked Zac Smith, Jr' of the Zac Smith Stationery company
 While am not directly in touch with the building situation here, l have means of judging whether or not many plans are under consideration num- Der of prominent architects purchase their tools and supplies from my con cern, and when making ready to dra" up extensive plans or specifications there Is always a rush to lay In large quantities of these goods. Within the past few weeks have noted that the leading architects of the city have been especially liberal in their outlay for the purchase of special blue print linen and high qualities of detail paper The greater part of the supplies of this nature, by the way, are manufactured in Austria or Germany; but with the eX ception of one or two grades of pen cils, there has as yet been no advance in prices here. This I believe is ac- counted for by the fact that before the beginning of the war large quantities of this material had been accumulated in American warehouses, and 1t will probably be sometime before 1t is ex hausted
 "To get back to the subject, there are other signs without number of renewed interest in development work in the Birmingham district. Dealers in build ing materials report greatly improved business, and new structures may be seen in course of construction in all parts of the community. Engineers are also beginning to buy needed supplies from our establishment. All of this preparation can only mean that people with capital expect soon to let their proposed undertakings take on con crete, f0rn'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
Fashion in Farming

"Back to the land" no longer means back to the simple life.
 Time was when the farmer went about his daily toll clad in blue jeans and hickory shirt. His wife was com fortable in a calico Mother Hubbard, while the youngsters went barefoot from May until October.
 Old Brindle and Bell, out in the pasture lot, dreamed away the sum- mer hours, contentedly chewing their cuds, as they rested in the shade of the old elm tree.
 Now metamorphosis has taken place in farm life. The change has swept across the entire country, and "model farms" are no longer located exclusively sl the old farming dis tricts of the east.
 Recently press wires carried a news item from Douglas, Ariz., de- scribing new county dairy farm. The item read as follows:
 "The cows will be mixed in a ceiled room, floored with concrete and lined with fly traps. The cows will be cov- cred with white canvas at milking time, so only the udders will be ex- pc&ad The cows tail will be tied down
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
Increasing Interest in Education

lHCTcdSiNk lHtCiCSt HI hINoN~'O.s
 The commencement season for the schools and colleges of Alabama IS fast drawing to a close. Exceptional interest has centered in the instltu- tions of learning this year and the commencement exercises have ln- cluded baccalaureate sermons and alumni orations, many of which were not only brilliant intellectual efforts, but singularly gripping.
 With scarcely an exception the col leges and universities of the south have made steady progress during the past five years, and in no southern state has there been more marked eX- pansion in technical education than in Alabama. Many handsome buildings have been erected, faculties have been enlarged and otherwise strengthened, and the student bodies have greatly increased numerically. As a rule the individual student has manifested even a keener desire for knowledge than ever before.
 Commencement day scenes last week and the week before were full of inspiration. So it is at the Uni versity of Alabama this week, and so it will be at the Polytechnic institute at Auburn next week.
 While Alabama has occupied high place in the world of culture such as comes from the college classroom and college atmosphere, it is as a whole one of the most illiterate of states. The large percentage of men and women in Alabama who cannot read l is, indeed, appalling. But this dis dressing condition will not be toler- ated longer. The educational forces of Alabama are now thoroughly aroused to the importance of remov- ing illiteracy. The state superlnten- deneof education is doing telling work, the Alabama Educational association is cooperating effectively and the newly created illiteracy commission, headed by Ex-Gov. William D. Jelks, is already making itself felt.
 Next Monday, June ', is to be illiteracy day in Alabama by proclaim ation of Governor Henderson. There should be general school rallies in every county, and the college gradu- ate, full of enthusiasm, could not oc- cupy his time better than by taking part actively in the illiteracy day exercises.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
Silence Reigns

Silence is golden in Bayonne, N. J.
 There has, at least, been a golden silence about daybreak since silencer has been invented and applied to the 'roosters that formerly crew in the morn.
 Frank Greene, poultryman of Bay onne, according to newspaper reports, is the inventor of device which in- sures peaceful morning slumbers for bis neighbors. There has been con- siderable complaint about the morn- ing vocal exercise in MT. Greene's poultry houses, and the versatile poul- tryman set his wits to work. He evolved little chamois skin cap which he fastens over the beak of the roos- ter.
 The first silencer was tried out on lusty-voiced Plymouth Rock. The next morning the rooster was not to be found, and indeed it did not show up at feeding time. Finally in humiliated silence the bird crept out of it's hiding place and permitted the poultryman to remove the silencer.
 Satified with the success of his de- vice, Mr. Greene now adorns all the roosters of his flock with the device. The hens, however, are exempt from the rule of silence, as it is feared any curtailment of their vocal activities would have a bad effect upon their more sensitive dispositions, and they might lose interest in their work of egg laying.
 A neighbor of Mir. Greene's is au- thority for the statement that so ac- customed have the roosters become to the silencers that every evening at sundown they approach the back door of the Greene hoiue, carrying their silencers in their beaks!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
As Queed Saw It

The stirring description of the Confed- crate Veterans parade in Richmond at the reuinon of 1907, found in Harrison's s widely read novel. 'Queed, was true to life, said member of Birmingham Vir- ginia colony. who attended the reunion of that year.
 I can see that splendid column of vet erans now, about 25.0Oo strong, moving up Franklin street The novelist viewed II from Franklin, between Eighth and Ninth streets, or rather, he describes it 20. The large old brick boarding house where so many belles crowded the front porch was that kept by Mrs. Rawley Coleston, known and beloved by everybody in Richmond
 The same moving scene will te repro duced in Richmond this week, and the tottering veterans will be few in namper as compared with those on parade eight years ago. These reunions have more and more their sad side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Some girls seem to imagine that Il stylish dresser is one who never wears the same complexion twice.
 We may be ornery, but we wonder where Ma Sunday was when Billy Sunday discovered that the girls are not wearing petticoats any more.
 Fair warning: If. when the women do get a vote, they vote to take our nose paint away from us. maybe we can dig up enough votes to take their nose powder away from them.
 Somehow or other the old-fashiored baby who never saw bottle until he was IS months old grew up to be as big boozer as the modern infant who begins drinking out of a bottle when he is IS minutes old
 When he Is years old it takes him eight seconds to tie girls shoe lace When he is IS years old it takes hin, about eight minutes to tie girls shoe lace.
 Men pretend that they are not vain But if a letter came to the postofflcc addressed to the handsomest man in town every man in town knows that tho postmaster would send 1t to him
 A manicure girl can put a fence un- Ger her table to protect her knees and still get a few customers. But 1T she wears rubber, gloves Wnen sne is " "oih- ing she is liable to starve to death.
 A man doesn't mind being ra!del when he is attending prize fight. But he certainly would hate to be caugh; attending a prohibition rally.
 The reason why a girl will save III Tor three months to get silk com lination is because she would have a fit if she thought you knew she was wearing it.
 When a thin man who is about one foot wide gets up in crowded street car and gives his seat to corn fed .rl with four-foot beam, the two nrn who are sitting on either side of :he one-foot space left by the man who got up never seem very anxious to shove over and make more room and they never complain about the girl being heaSV.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01

Great quantities of paper bullets" come a shortage of fuel The Swiss are feeling the effects of the war in Eu- rope as much, perhaps. as any other neutral nation. Last autumn when the price of fuel rose. a citizen of Geneva invented paper bullets" which are cheap, throw off surprising amount of heat and burn for long time. This novel fuel Is easily made. Paper of or dinary quality is soaked in water un- pressed and shaped by hand into balls, which are dried in the sun or merely in the open air. After having found that the discovery was practical local committees were formed to manufac- ture paper bullets on large scale. A garage was turned over to the work CTS by one man. Another offered q workshop while tubs, baskets, chairs and drying apparatus were freely off, fered by families. A huge army of volunteers donated their services. Large quanties of paper are received daily, but expensive thick or glazed pa per cannot be used as the balls are not a success unless first reduced to paste. As many as 800 paper bullets have been made in one shop in day. Local committees sell this fuel to needy families at a low price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times
 TN many public schools houses of the
 city recently it looked as if the rain
 of the week had turned into snow
 and fallen inside. There was a little row
 dering of white all over the floors of the
 classrooms. The air was pervaded with sweet odor, however, that made the visitors sniff critically. They decided im- mediately that it was an odor most prev
 alent in the bathroom. They were right, for it came from tooth powder. The So0000 big and little children of the city were celebrating Tooth Brush Day, and some had more of the refine ments of home than the board of educa- ton had planned. The dentifrice com panies had seen to that. All the teachers had been asked the number of children in their charge, and giant boves of tooth powder were sent to them. Each child who took part in the tooth brush drill had a tooth brush, water in a cup ana tooth powder enough to take package home.
 The children would like to have drill every day. It is better than gymnastics or folk dances, for every one could do it, even the babies in the kindergarten and the little cripplded children. In Public School 27, 2l3 West Forty-first street. l which Is one of the model schools of the city. 4S classes took part in the tooth brush drill There were about equal numbers of boys and girls and three classes of
 small cripples.
 | All the week the teachers had told the | children to be sure to bring new brushes and cups, and about seven-eighths of the 1 had to sit in their seats as if they were suggested, but they were harder to get than cup from mothers closet and there
 were all kinds of these-big coffee cups, l little coffee cups. and cups with mot
 toes on the outside. Some of the small
 boys thought 1t more manly to bring steins.
 l The children who didn't bring brushes | had osit ntheir seats as if they were being punished while the others drilled
 Some of the little girls got down on the i floor and made believe they were put | ting their desks in order, so that the
 visitors would not see them. One boy in l the drill was also troubled at first. 4 1 teacher noticed that he looked very much ashamed and was trying to hide his toott brush.
 What is the matter with the brush"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01
TOOTH BRUSH DRILL

asked the teacher, and when Jonrnie Smith held it up shamefully everyonG could see that it was not new but very much worn.
 Why, that is very nice, Johnnie" said the teacher, "1t shows that you have i,een brushing your teeth before. Children. why is Johnnnie's brush better tan thd others?'
 Because it has been used" answered the children in unison. and Johnnnid Smith was the proudest boy in the room.
 Did you buy new brush?" asked d visitor of one of the little girls
 "No'm,n answered the little girl. "Thid is my sister's.''
 Used brushes may not have the hy1 gienic significance that the board of ed ! ucation desires, but by the second annual tooth brush day it is expected .sat all the hygienic truths will have been learned. There was a prescribed drill, the toach he'd beginning with Ready" At the begin l ming of a count the children fell to. rhd count, was one to sixteen. then Dip. A count was given for each part of fhd | brushing. Prizes for the best tooth brush drillers will be given in the park today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-01

cerned. does not take into considera- tion acreage reduction which, he claims, will be at least 12 per cent. For the time being therefore the mar ket will probably continue to be traders affair with moderate swings back and forth. There seems little question. however, that prospective supply and demand conditions would suggest purchases on the declines which may occur due to influences oth- CT than growing conditions"