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, 1915-03-25
Telephone Manners.

No n invention SO intimately
connects itself with every day life
In the twentieth century as does
the telephone. Its wires are the
network that which unite both
the business and social worlds of
today, and its constant use has
evoked certain rules of etiquet
which cannot be overlooked.
1t is we'll to remember, for in
stance, that because your friends
have a telephone is no reason why
you should take up half their time
talking with them over it. Moth
ing is more tormenting to a busy
person than to be continually call.
ed to the phone to hear a round of
inanities which have no connec-
ton with the affairs of the day.
Don't think because your friend
pays for her telephone by the year
that you can save up all your calls
and deliver them over her wire.
You would have to be pretty hun
cry to ask her to give you some
thing from her larder, so remem-
Der that the telephone bill is quite
as much a part of the household
expense as is the grocer's bill. If
you haven't a phone Of your own,
try to make your calls over a pub
lie wire.
When you take off your receiver
remember that there is a human
being who answers the call of
Central" and she lever fails to
respond more quickly to a please"
She also learns to know your voice
is you have a private phone, and
an occasional "Good morning" is
appreciated in her routine work
more than you can imagine.
On the other hand do not try to
burden this same Central" with
too many of your personal secrets.
No matter how busy she may be
there is always a chance of her
catching some of your converse
and if you value your intimate
affair you will reserve them for
the mail or face to face confab.
Having obtained the party called
make sure to whom you are speak
ing. Never trust your ears when
it comes to to sounds over the
phone. In nine cases out of ten
you can be mistaken in voices
which vibrate over a long or short
distance wire, sc it will pay you to
always repeat the number asked
for when you hear the answering
"Hello."
If you have ever been called un-
expectedly or by some party who
Was farthest from your thoughts,
you will know how perfectly at sea
a person feels at such a time.
Hence it is manifestly unfair to
announce who you are and then
expect the person at the other end
of the wire to carry ON the con-
versation.
, 1915-03-25
Council Proceedings.

Iouueu EfoCeeoinkSs
Saratoga, Wyo., March 9th, 1915.
Regular meeting Of the town council
called to order by Mayor Schilt.
Councilmen Maghee, McAnulty and
Broadhurst present.
Councilman NUM-. absent.
Minutes of previous meeting read and
approved.
Marshal's report for February read
and accepted.
Clerks report for January read and
accepted.
Treasurer's report from October 3lst
to February % inclusive, read and ac-
copied.
The following bill we're read:
E. L. Gould, Marshal's salary for
February ...... ............ s'o.oo
Joseph NUM-, Clerks salary for
February lVsHO
Foster Lumber %. lumber for re-
pairing sidewalks ............ 40
Saratoga L. Fl. & p. Co., lights for
February iol'|o
Hunter & Laughlin. stove and re-
pairing door 1910
Moved and seconded to allow the bills
as read,
Motion carried.
There being no further business,
moved and seconded to adjourn.
Motion carried.
Attest: Joseph NUM-. Clerk.
, 1915-03-25

just received, the most up-to date
line OF Wall paper and samples.
Prices to suit the pocket book.
William Torbett.
, 1915-03-25
For Sale.

Thoroughbred Buff orphington
Cockerels, and Imperial Pekin. Ducks.
Isaac Flood.
, 1915-03-25
Saratoga Chips

Mr.. and Mrs. hoy ". IecA "eie III
..rn from the ranch Tuesday.
CLARK and Lee Wilcox were in town
..s,srday from the upper country.
NJ, and Mrs. Floyd Wiley were in
..m the Lemoine ranch Tuesday.
Raw Riggs aud his mother are in
lam this week from the Ranger sta
ton.
Twin girls we're born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Mckinney Saturday
evening.
Arthur Broadhurst returned this
...L from a visit to his people in
Laramie.
MIRA James W. Heather arrived
Sunday from Denver, where she has
been for treatment.
ANDY Dahl returned Sunday from
N, east where he has been with
sbsep for the market.
Mira Jenkins and son Charles went
4, Encampment Sunday, where they
uil remain the rest of the spring.
/ D. Paulson was this week ap-
pointed deputy game warden for this
district. by State Game Warden Will
son.
Miss Burnett has completed re-
modelling the interior OF her store and
now has a very pleasant, nice little
place.
william Bullock, cousin of Mrs. s..
q. Hunter, arrived here Sunday from
Illinois, and will probably remain for
the summer.
C. ]. Hennessy left Sunday for
Calgary, Canada, where he went with
car of horses and machinery, for
John Brewer.
Fl. Rasmussen and two sons, Of
Rswlins, were over from there in their
car Friday, looking for horses for use
in their sheep camps.
Milton Ames and his wife are in
town this week visiting MI. and Mrs
Human. Mr.. Ames is attending to
some matters Of cattle grazing while
here.
Ezra Cluff, son of Mrs. John Cluff,
who has been absent for several years
returned here Tuesday for a visit to
his mother and brother, @. l.. Cluf
on Spring creek.
A good many people are sick in
town at this time from the grippe
which has taken a "fall' out of from
one to ten in every family in town
the past two weeks.
George Arnold was in town this
week and took a crew of men up the
country to fix creeks and the river
for the tie drive of the Carbon Timber
Co., which will start some time in
May.
The business men of the city are
requested to be present at the next
regular meeting of the town council,
April 3D.. Special matters Of interest
will be brought before the meeting
In which much interest should be
taken.
Miss. Regina Jensen gave a surprise
party to her mother, Mrs. Gus. Jen-
sen, Friday evening. A number of
friends were invited to spend the
evening, and all had the usual good
time. The occasion was Mrs. Jen-
sens birthday.
WI. Hays is renewing his fixtures,
and at this time has in a new floor
which will be covered with a cork
carpet, and the fixtures will be here
in a few days, and he will have n
oil the finest little stores in the state
when completed.
L'G Sterrett left for Denver yester-
Jay morning, where he goes to have
bis hand treated. Some time ago
Mr. Sterrett had a cat bite him on
The thumb and the thumb and hand
have swellod to large proportions,
and there seems to be danger of blood
poison.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Walker came
aown from Brush creek Saturday and
,ett Tuesday morning for Los Ange-
les and San Diego. Calf. where they
, 1915-03-25

The most up-to date stock OF Wall
Paper on hand. See our samples.
VIM. Torbett.
, 1915-03-25
Notice Of Teachers Examinations

Notice is hereby given that the reg
ular teachers examination will be
held at Rawlins Hanna, Saratoga
and Baggs, March 18th and 9th,
1915 Dated this 18th day of March,
A. D. 1915.
Mamie E Doherty.
County Superintendent.
, 1915-03-25

K H and L W TYLER
a 4 Cattle branded on left hip, also crop
right ear. Horses branded on left
shoulder. Range Bear creek, p Elk
Mountain, Wyo.
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MARKS IN WOOD
ARE SAID TO RECORD
HEAVY WIND STORMS

Washington, Feb. Little diagonal
streal-s or wrinkles across the gram of
piece Of timber not only hetray weak
ness, but sometimes indicate periods OF
stress through which the wood passed
when il was growing. They may even
be taken as sort Of Check on the off,
cial record of wilma storms, as in the
case OF some lumber tested at the forest
service laboratory at Madison. Wis.
The marks are caused by what are
called compression failures, which oc-
cur when the tibers bend or buckle under
too heavy strain. In cutting up logs
collected for experiments at The labor
atory, il was noticed that these compress
sion failures appeared on the north side
Of a number of trees which came from
the same locality in Florida. BY count
ing the annual rings of the wood and
from the knowledge of the time when
il was cut IN the. forest it WAS decided
that the compression failures must have
been caused by a severe wind from the
south about the year 1895 Inquiries
were made in Florida and il was found
that q hurricane had in fact swept vor
the region at the time indicated.
The experiments have determined tina,
the strength Of q piece of wood may be
seriously impaired by slight compression
failures due TO rough handling. Drop
ping a beam across skid may cause a
compression failure at the point at which
the beam strikes the skid and It will be
at this point that the beam gives way
when il breaks under strain TOO severe
for the weakened fbers to with stand.
Hitherto unaccountable breallage in
hickory wagon spokes and other pre-
sunably strong material are now attrib-
uted to compression failures caused by
wind storms in the period Of growth or
by hard usage in numbering and manu-
featuring processes
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gold scroll commemorative the ooc.
sion
After the exercises have heen con-
Guided, President Moore will cau pras
loent Wilson in Washington on a long
INSTANCE telephone line previously set
up a noon Pacific coast time, to no
III! MN that the exposition awaits
ms touch to be opened. The President
wiz touch a button, a wireless spark
VIII fash through the air across the
continent, and on its receipt the ma
uonal colors will be raised. salutes will
De hred. the Fountain Of Energy will
reap upward, all the whistles in the
city and harbor will below, and the
main door Of the Palace of Machinery
VIII swing open, disclosing the exhibits
IN motion.
AS all this activity springs into life,
PRESIDENT Moore will tell President
wilson that the exposition is open
president Wilson ir return will send
ms spoken greetings. A chorus of 300
voices, accompanied by the exposition
band, will break into song. and an
aeroplane. circlins the Tower Of Jew
els, viii release doves of peace.
At night there will be Examinations
from batteries of searchlights, thrown
through color screens, upon the So
900 pendants of the Tower of Jewels,
while from the heads of the colossal
figures surrounding the Court of the
Universe will blaze electric stars. The
entire lighting system Of the eXposi-
tion IS indirect. Nowhere is there the
binding glare Of an arc lamp. All the
glow viii be reflected from the wide
spaces Of the tinted walls or diffused
softly through translucent screens.
On the first working day of the fol-
lowing week, Feb. %. will be held the
Vanderbilt cup race for automobiles,
and five days later the Grand Prize.
The course lies through the grounds,
over asphalt roads. except for the
stretch including the elliptical dirt
speedway, and measures SO miles. Two
unbanked, ri-hlangle turns and vary
ing widths Of roadway will make the
races as much q test Of skill and dar-
ing as OF speed. Drivers who have
tried out the course IN practice estl-
mate that it will not be possible to
take the right angles at more than 80
miles so that on the tangents the
cars will be pushed for all they can
deliver
After the first blush Of local enthu-
siasm has dice down, the exposition
will begin more and more to take on
its national aspect. Nearly all the
scientific, educational, fralernal, and
benevolent societies, orders and or
gani2ations of the country meet this
year in san Francisco. The exposition
has on it's calendar more than 400
national and in1errationa conver tons
and on some days six Of them will be
III session at once. Yachting, polo,
field and track. baseball and football
corpotirIons round out the lone list
or special events.
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NORTH CLINTON

NORTH-Roland Thurston of Clinton
Gore is driving team for Geo Hazeltine
and q young Finn is cutting wood for
him.
James NJ futile OF Winslow came up
Tuesday and passed few hours with his
mother, Mrs. Sewel Craig of plymouth
who is i'll at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs NJ. L. Adams.
Mrs Walter Gowen and Mrs. Wallace
Jones were in Clinton village Tuesday
afternoon and exchanged the books for
the branch library here.
Miss Jennie Webb of Jackson. who has
been visiting her brother. Bert Webb,
and family of New Gloucester. made her
friend, Mrs Walter Gowen. a short visit
Thursday on her way to jackson. Her
rother accompanied her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owen visiter her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. L. II. Pratt, re-
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs Joseph Jones OF Burnham
visited their son Evellen Sunday.
Master Lloyd Jones is confined TO the
house by illness.
Mrs Hattie Boothhy was in Fairfield
and waterville recently. While there she
and cousin, Mrs. Minnie Coleman.
E. A. Gerald is hauling up the year,
supply of wood TO the Dixon's Corner
schoolhouse.
Onald Salisbury of Canaan is hauling
boards TO Burnham for A. A. Flynt of
Thyngsboro, Mass. Mr.. Flynt was bus
mess caller here the first of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Steen. now of Pitts
field but who have lived here, are being
congratulated on the recent birth Of
child to them.
Miss Beulah Cox is at work in Pitts
field.
Rev A NJ Cox contemplates starting
his mill next week.
Mrs. Willard Eastman was at Clinton
village Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. VIII Eastman attended
the funeral of the late Augusta Spear
ing Of Fairfield Thursday.
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PALERMO

NORTH-Ar and Mrs. Elmer
rhurstan attended dinner party
Given Wednesday by Belle and susie
Harding in albion.
Mrs. DAISY and Josie Tnurston We're
callers IN Albion Thursday
= ". Brown of Augusta was
business caller iii the place Wednes-
d. and stayed over night at Ira
ElacEs.
MIS-. Ira Black, who has beel
SPENDING a few weeks with her
daughter in Freedom returned satur-
day to her home here.
Ezra Fibbard was a Sunday caller
at w. + Osgood' 8.
Mrs. Eliza Nelson is visiting her
daughter. Mrs. Hattie Chadwick.
MIR. and Mrs. James Mclaughlin Of
Weeks Mills and Mrs. Alice Mason Of
China were Sunday guests at Ira
Blacks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Nelson visited
Sunday az Everett Haskells in China
TIE Cars Corner Sewing Circle
ladies passed q pleasant afternoon
Thursday with Mrs, Oldaker- They
meet Feb. - with Mrs. Mary Wilton
Charlie Perkins fell on an axe while
working in the woods Saturday, cut
ting his hand quite badly SO that sew
eral stitches had to be taken.
Charles Osgood is on the sick list
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marden and fam
liz of Fairfield Sunday visited her
mother, Mrs Amos Drawn.
Mrs. James and Mrs. Charlie Black
were callers Tuesday at Maria Mar
denis.
Mrs Ethel Bradstreet Of Albion
visited Sunday her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. H. Nelson.
Mrs. Julia Nelson recently sold a
COW and calf to f ". Worthing Of
Branch Mills.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-02-20

State Bryan with the following letter:
Dear Mr.. Secretary:
II have the honor to send you by re-
turn mail pair of old leggins and to
request of you that our present ad-
ministration may preserve the same
as a souvenir Of the just, upright and
impartial manner in which our gov
eminent and especially the Once Of
Foreign Affairs, over which you pre-
side. has defined the laws Of neutral
ity and international law as promul-
gated by our Government and its
people.
/ sent these leggins together with
other articles, pipes, tobacco, and SO
forth, for German soldiers fighting in
France, but the customs officials re-
turned them as being not admissible,
as being contraband Of war. / am
only a poor priest, without experience
in the intricacies OF high diplomacy,
but I as well as my friends have come
to the supposition that we have two
forms of neutrality in this country.
A neutrality that on the one hand will
forbid the sending Of pair Of old leg
gins that may be OF some service for
the CD1illOCI Oh All CHIEFLY "a AhD ~AAAoo
but on the other a neutrality that
does not forbid the sending OF cannon.
ammunition and SO on.
1t may be possible that this pair OF
leggins will make history. IS have
done matters of much less importance
to create great reforms.
That is the reason why I presume
that this pair of leggins Will have
some interest for you.
At the same time Mr.. Secretary ]
wish TO notify you, that this occur
renee will be given the widest public
ity, that the ordinary citizen Of our
Republic who has good common sense
and a right to vote, but is unaware
Of the secret dealings OF our Govern
ment as it is at present conducted.
may be cautioned to make a distinc-
ton between an old shabby pair OF
leggins and new prettily shining can
non, ammunition or hydroplanes."
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Sk0WHECAN
The Grange viii Discuss Local
Affairs and Townmeeting
Warrant at the Next
Meeting
VITAL STATISTICS PER-
SONALS AND LOCALS

Let US concern ourselves about our
DUTY to our town and our people" is
the motto of Skowhegan Grange for its
next meeting, TO be held Wednesday
evening. Lecturer Mrs. Ella H. Crow
ell mas arranged the following pro-
gram which is sure to draw out in
teresting discussions of vital matters:
Music, choir; Reading, Mrs. Mary G.
Stlnchfeld; topic, "A Discussion of tho
different articles which are to como
before the annual town meeting
opened by r. F. Parker; vocal solo,
Adolph Boulier; reading. "A Memorial
to Abraham Lincoln" Mrs. Evelyn W.
Pratt; music, Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Mantor; quotations from poets born
in the month Of February, Grange Of
ficers: music arranged by the choris~
ter, r. F. Parker
Harold c. Merrill, formerly clerk
IN the Sowhegan Savings Bank, but
during the winter IA patient at He
bron Sanitarium has been discharge1
as cured 1t is understood he is plan
ing to go into the northern Maine
woods for a time.
The Philathea Glass of the First
Baptist church will hold a food sale
Saturday in the Judkins store
The Skowhegan postoffice will he
closed Monday Feb. %, Washington's
birthday, from 8 to 10.45 A. NJ, - To
+. M. 2.15 to AS and alta 6 P NJ
at night. One delivery and one COL
lection will be made by the city car
riers. but no delivery by rural car
riers
Miss Blanche NJ. Emory and Miss
Marjorie Loring entertained the S. H
Z. Thursday evening at the home of
Mrs. Olive S. Dealey..s
DR.. Arthur s. Phelps of Waterville
VIII lecture upon "A Modern Wanderer
in Classic Greece" before the Town
Improvement Society next Wednesday
evening This Will be Gentlemen's
evening and will be held in the Beth
any Baptist church at O'Clock. The
music is to be directed by Mrs Abba
(. Lambert and the general arrange
ments will be in charge of Mrs Ella
7. Mooers, who will be assisted in re-
celvlng by Mrs. Elizabeth P. Merrill,
Mrs Adelaide Ordway and Mrs. Ina
Hill. The following ladies have been
appointed to serve on the refreshment
I committee: Mrs. Matte Fairgrieve,
Mrs Kate Turner. Mrs. Nellie Savage.
and Mrs. Irene \. Turner
Golden Rod Branch. l. 5. S. will
I meet Thursday afternoon at the Mu-
nicipal building.
Inc remains Of the late Charles Cleve-
land We're brought here Friday noon
from Phillips and funeral services will
( We hold Saturday at P. NJ AT the home
q MS son c. l.. Cleveland nthe Frank
sEstes house on Madison avenue. Rev.
II G McTIapflin Of the Methodist church
viii be the officiating clergyman and the
knights Of f'ythias Will perform the
. rites Of their order and bearers will be
from the ordec. The body will be placed
in the tomb. Mr. Cleveland was formerly
4 resident of SHOW hogan. being for some
time proprietor Of the South Side Board
ing house. JIe WIS ahou; 70 years of
age
Mrs. T. Z. Anderson returned TO her
home in Portland Oh the noon train
Friday. after visiting for several days
with her mother, Mrs Sophia Perkins,
Maple street.
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Arlington Grange.

Arlington Grange held its regular meet
ing Tuesday evening, Feb. 16. After a
short business meeting the following
progru1n was presented: Illustrated
songs, grand choir; conundrums, read
ings. recitations. stories, the evening
news, composed and read by the wor-
thy master: instrumental music, by the
Home" Band: clog dancing, tableaux
and minstrel show.
This was the Brothers night. The
regular meeting previous TO which the
Sisters furnished the program consist
ing of songs. Rotations, stories, read
inss tableaux, music. conunorums' anu
evenings news, composed and read by
the lady assistant steward.
The defeated side was to furnish an
excellent supper or treat The judges
were disinterested parties and each one
used his best Judgment in regard to the
counts. 1t all proved very satisfactory
inaeed to both sides. The Brothers won,
of course. It seems almost a wicked
s,ene" for them to remain on a farm
y.hen they are SO talented for stage
work.
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LEGGINS' NEUTRALITY
Rev. Father PETER Of st. Helen's
Church Has Peculiar Expert
ence About the Neutrality
observation-disclosures Deficit
Was Sent to Bryan.
louisville Argus)

That a pair Of old shabby leggins
should be the cause Of shedding glar-
ing light upon the manner in which
the Federal government is defining
the laws of neutrality, would scarcely
be believed. However such is the case.
and the Rev. Father John B. PETER,
a well known priest of this city, is the
innocent victim.
The facts are as follows:
A relative of Father PETER, a Ger
man soldier now serving duty on
French soil. requested Father PETER
to send him a pair Of leggins. Com
plying with the request Of his relative,
Father PETER prepared a package in
which he put tobacco. cigars. choco-
late, scapulars, several small articles,
and pair Of leggins that Father Pei
fer had already used for several
years. According to the regulations
in such cases the package was proper
" addressed, its contents made known
and forwarded. Imagine his surprise
and amazement when, several days
later, the package was returned to
him, marked "Contraband Of War"
not admissible. Further comment is
unnecessary. Thereupon Father Pei
fer sent the leggins to SecretaI OF