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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
CANAAN

John Taylor, Mrs. Archer Leon Ma
son and Miss Cleveland of Skowhegan
were recent callers at Reuben Reeds
and visitors at Henry Manson's.
Mrs. Martha Davis and Mrs. Blanch
Decker were in Fairfield shopping Sat
urday.
Freedom Mason and Mrs. Lillian Ma
son Of Waterville were in town on
business Monday and We're guests at
v. c. Holts-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
Believe TERRIFIC CANN0NADE WAS
BRITISH SUBMARINE ATTACK UPON
GERMAN SQUADRON IN BALTIC SEA

Copenhagen. Nov. II, via London.
liz p. MA cannonade Of terrific in
tensitv was heard yesterday in the
neishborhood of the Fehmarn Belt in
the Baltic sea. 1t is believed by those
who heard it to have been the result
Of a British submarine attack on a
German squadron.
The firing lasted 20 minutes and was
of such violence that doors and win
d"ws of houses on the rocky harbor
were blown open. Houses vibrated as
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

Sir BraXhon. The manager of the Bel
mont plantations horses said the substi-
tuition was due to a mistake. The blue
ribbon was awarded to Miss Clemencln
Crafts entry, The Monk.
One of the most interesting compIti-
tons at the show today is that for 70"
Jockey Clubs cup for the best mite /
States troopers mount in the show.
Fourteen tandem teams will be Judged
this afternoon and there will be a test
of polo ponies.
The Alfred u. McClay cup for Qualfiel.
hunters was awarded to Ayo. Of the
Meadow Stables. The championship cup
for horses suitable to become huntcr.
Patrick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
PRIZE WINNING HORSE
ATN.Y. SHOW PROVES TO
HAVE ASSUMED NAME

New York. Nov. 11.-Discovery that the
morse entered in the horse show as High
Ball and winner of blue ribbon in the
class for heavyweight saddle horses was
really Sir Braxhon. resulted today in the
withdrawal by the judges of the ribbon
and its award to third horse.
High Ball was one of the entries from
the Belmont plantation under which
name Edward 3. Mclean Of Washington
shows his horses. After the award of
the prize. Miss c. NJ. Allaire, who rode
one CT the contestants, told the Judges
that the winner was not High Ball but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

ern Star and inspected the degree
Refreshments were served and a
pleasant evening passed.
The citizens at special townmeet-
ing held Saturday voted to have cleo
trio lights on the streets.
Mrs. Scott Bailey of Portland has
been a guest Of her sister, Mrs. F.. b.
Hunt.
DR.. Trueworthy has been for the
past week a business visitor in Ban
gOr.
Mrs. Mary Whitney, who has for
several weeks been quite ill., is slow
ly improving.
Dr. and Mrs. I. P. fash of Fairfield
have been stopping at their cottage at
Windemere Park for a few days.
Paul Mosher and Hale Taylor start
ed Monday for Indiana, where they
will pass the winter.
f. L. Tozier. f. H. Whitehouse and
Jack Van Deck are away on weeks
hunting trip.
church fair to be held early in De-
cember.
Charlotte Seeley and Miss Hoyt Of
Presque Isle have been guests for sew
eral days at the Central house.
Mr. and Mrs. T. NJ. Fairbanks were
calling Sunday on friends in Hamp-
den.
Mrs. Titon Of Augusta was a week.
end guest of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T..
Lowell.
Collins York has rented rooms of DR..
f. M. Soule and moved his family
there. He will work during the win
ter at the Central house.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
Bangor Poultry Show on Jan. 4.

Announcement was made Wednes-
day by Pres. John p Webster Of ths
Bangor Poultry Association that the
annual exhibition of the association
will be held during the week Of Jan.
4. the Bangor city government having
generously donated City hall for the
use of the association that week.
This means much to the poultry rails
crs Of eastern Maine WHO are glad that
TIE show will not be si' en- up as a.
first feared.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

of demonstration if they can, at the
first favorable opportunity.
1t is rumored that a demand will be
made upon the management of the
companies that the operating machin-
cry be disabled
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
WATERv!!LEE:

IT. social which WAS .iN"n ~ ~"
COLI Cross in the ~ .. w A&A
IT, day evening was "nr NJ; i.'
lar attended and most -;t'"c"et"
that the organization has ca.", r1 fer
IA lol;- time. \ tine program i.ad been
pr pared and every mum - W;@
hit "ll present voting il i moot de-
liz l.tfGl ,N"nln@.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
UNITY

Mrs Belva Wardwell of Penobscot.
d. d. G.. NJ, was present Friday eve
ming at a special meeting Of the East
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

Fehmarn sound is channel less
than quarter of a mile broad sepa
rating the Russian island Of Fehmarn,
off Femern, from the main land Of
Holstein. Fehmarn island lies about 81
miles east of the entrance to Kiel har-
Dor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

though in an earthquake. The weather
was" so thick that it was impossible to
observe any of the details of the en-
gagement.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
SOC

"a in. extra quality. special
finish. newest designs. our ,spe-
vial value at. j. -. -. .... Soc
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
$3.50 Danask
SIPS

Y in, all linen, double satin
damask, extra fine quality, all
beautiful designs, special price.
-. ...... -. -. -. .....$1.25
% in. Napkins to match. -. :.
:. -. 80. :. ....... 1925 doz
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12

Brown
Company


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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
Mercerized
Danask 39c

"a in. wide. beautiful finish in
all the best patterns. our special
price. -. ..... .39c
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
Some Appealing
Values

20 in. wide. all linen, satin
finish damask. Extra fine quail
ity, beautiful finish, several
handsome designs, special
value at. -. %. .$1.UU
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-11-12
Napkins to
Match

Above - in. size at $3.25 per dog
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22

NO horsemen could enter the cOve
save by means of n low trench, cut
as by the hand Of mar in the granite
''lli' and as Indian horsemen were the
ohlv enemies to be dreaded. his watch
1uiiess need be concentrated only on
that one point. Nothing like variety"
observed Wilcox cheerfully. "This
VIII &c capital for my summer home!
IN going to live like a lOrd-while I'm
living
Inc next day he began asserting the
contents Of his granite home, moving
10 the task with conscientious slow
ness. stopping a dozen times to make
excursions into the outside world. BY
ulllScnt economy Of his working mo.
ments he succeeded in covering almost
Two weeks in the labor of putting his
mousse into order. His bedroom was
next to the barricade that separated
the long stone excavation from the bot
tomless abyss. Divided from the bed.
room by an imaginary line was the
storeroom of provisions.
IN arranging his retreat he had left
undisturbed the wagon tongue, which
was for use in making a dugout in the
cove.
10 this enterprise he was prompted
not only by a desire to vary his monot-
onous days. but to insure safety from
possible foes. Should a skulking saw
age. or. what would be worse, a stray
member Of the robber band, catch sight
OF him among the hills the spy would
spread the news among his fellows.
A relentless search would be instituted,
and. even If Willick succeeded in es-
Gaping. the band would not rest till It
had discovered his hiding place. If
they came on the dugout their search
would terminate, and his home in the
crevice would escape investigation, but
II there was no dugout to satisfy curl
osity the crevice would most probably
be explored.
Transporting the timbers across a
mile Of ridges and granite troughs was
no light work, and when his tools and
material were in the cove the digging
OF the dugout was protracted because
of the c%loseness of water to the sur
face. At last he succeeded in excavat-
ing the cellar Mt a spot within a few
yards of the mountain. He leveled
down the walls till he had a chamber
about twelve feet square. Over this
he placed the wagon tongue, converting
it into the ridgepole, which he set
upon forks cut from the nearby &C.
dars. Having trimmed branches Of the
trees In the grove, he laid them as
close together as possible, slanting
from the ridgepole to the ground, and
over these laid the cedar branches.
This substantial roof he next covered
with dirt, heaping it up till no glimpse
of wood was visible under the hard
packed dome.
OF the sideboards he fashioned a rude
frame, then a door to stand in it, fitted
into grooves that it might be pushed
and held into place without hinges.
Later he strobe forth from the only
exit Of the cave and skirted the south
ern wall Of the range, looking for game.
1t was late in the afternoon when he
returned. He descended the dirt steps
(C~ontinuod m noro A
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22
|Erskine's Puns.

A great wit Of the Scottish bar was
the Hon. Harry Erskine, who was lord
advocate. Though punning is not. as
a rule. a high form of wit, with Err.
skine 1t became a fine art. On one oc-
casion he undertook to pun on the SUBJ
ject of his friends first sentence. His
friend began, 1.-The king Harry in
tervened. 1.-THE king" he said. 'is no
subject" Again. a Mr.. Dunlop chal
!enged him to pun on his name. moth
ing easier" said Erskine. "Lop off the
last syllable and it Is done. "-London
Standard.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22
The Almanac Church.

One Of the oldest churches in Eng
land is st. Botolph's at Boston. 1t has
aptly been called the Almanac church
In the tower are 365 steps. correspond
ing to the days in the year. The church
has twelve pillars, fifty-two windows
and sever doors. representing the
months, weeks and days in the week.
In the west porch are twenty-four
steps ascending to the library, repre-
senting the hours Of the day. Again.
on each side Of the choir are sixty
steps leading to the roof, denoting on
the one side the minutes of the hour
and on the other the seconds of the
minute.-BostOn Post.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22
DIN BRECKENRIDGE ELLIS

Company.
plenty OF time. years of it, running to
waste with useless days. After eat
ing and partaking sparingly Of the
brackish water of the keg he nailed
together two long sideboards of the
dismembered wagon. and, having Sc
cured these end to end, he fastened in
parallel strips to the surface short
sticks as steps to his ladder. This
finished, he made a rope ladder. The
ladder Of boards was for use in leaving
the cave. The rope ladder. which he
meant to hide under some bowlder'
near the ~crevice, could be used in max
ing the descent.
Fastening the rope ladder about his
waist, he scaled the boards and on
reaching the top cast them down. First
he looked at all about. but no living
creature was in sight. This is just to
my hand" he said aloud. seeking a
suitable hiding place for the rope lad
der: Il always did despise company"
He stood at the center Of an enOr-
nous horseshoe formed on the south
west by the range curving farther to-
ward the south and on his left hand
by the same range sweeping in a quar-
ter circle toward the southeast. The
mouth of this granite half circle was
opened to the south, at least a quarter
mile in width, but on his left a jutting
spur almost at right angles to the main
range and some hundreds Of yards
closer to his position shot across the
space within the horseshoe bend in
such fashion that an observer standing
on the plain would have half his view
of the inner concave expanse shut off,
except that part Of the high north wall
that lowered above the spur.
Nor was this all. Behind the perpen-
dicular arm or spur that ran out into
the sea of mesquite rose a low hill that
was itself in the nature of an inner
spur, although since it failed to reach
the mountain it might be regarded as a
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22

long fiat island surrounded by the calm
green tide. This innermost arm or is
land was so near the mountain thai
the entrance to it opened into a curved
inner world of green, was narrow and
strongly protected. The cove thus
formed presented a level floor Of ten or
twelve acres. and it was directly down
into this cove that Wilcox gazed. 1t
looked 30 peaceful and secure and Its
Openness to the sunshine was so allur-
ing that Wilcox resolved to descend
the steep wall. To do so at that point
was impracticable, but the ridge was
unequal and not far to the right sank
to a low divide, while to the left a deep
gully thickly set with cedars, elms,
scrub oaks and thorn trees invited him
with its steep but not difficult channel
to the ground.
Here's a CHOICE" observed Wilcox
as he turned toward the divide. Guess
III 60 by the front and saw the back
stairs for an emergency" The gully
was his back stairs. He was begin
ming to feel himself rich in architec-
tural possibilities. When he reached
the plain he was outside Of a line OF
hummocks that e~ffectually hid the cove
from sight, more effectually because OF
a dense grove Of pecans that stood on
either side Of the grass grown dunes.
Instead Of crossing the barrier he start
ed due south for the outer prairie, n
when at last he stood midway between
the wide jaws Of the mountain horse
shoe he turned and looked intently to-
ward the o
It was invisible. and his highest
hopes realized.
Wilcox now advanced on the cove
and found himself presently in a snug
retreat that would have filed with de-
light the heart Of the most desperate
highwayman or the most timid settler:
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-10-22

The Hotel Radisson, Minneapolis
shows an interest in your welfare and
comfort that extends beyond merely
providing a place to eat and sleep
and gives you better accommodations
and service than any other hotel in
the Twin Cities. Popular prices. 21tf
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
CLARK VISITS Scene Of ONE Of
: MOST DESPERATE BATTLES Of WAR
Correspondent Describes Plain of vax Ma the Last Spot Con-
tested by the German Crown Prince His Retreat After the
First Advance on Pas-SheIT Torn and Fires Scathed VII
lagos on Every Side-Spirit of French Is Undaunted

written something of my military com
panion. His mother was an Amer
ican. He stands six feet three In his
campaign socks. He is dressed today
as always, In his horizon blue" This
color melts into the sky screen, and
as my eyes seek the captain out when
he is at distance, feel that no am
bilious artillery man can make an ade-
quate mark OF him, loomingly big
though he Is.
There are so many shell-made cav
was necessary for either French or
German to pause here to use the
spade for grave-making for their dead.
The fallen here are in great numbers.
Many Of the burials have been made
within a few days. The survivors of
the battle lay their comrades away
tenderly. At the head Of one long,
mounded trench there is an inscrip-
tion which says that within rest 67
soldiers of France. On a cross at the
head of the trench. roughly written by
some kindly hand which in the battle
time must make haste with It's task,
are the word, "Honneur aux Heros."
Supplies Constantly Arriving.
From bases which l must not name
and lying well to our rear, supplies
constantly are being brought up in
gray motors and in heavy army wag-
ons for the French armies battling
along this line from st. Mihiel to the
Argonne forest. I know that the last
French official report has reported
gains in the region of the Argonne
forest, which lies only a few miles to
my left and from which Try few
minutes ] can hear the believing of
heavy guns. 1t seems from what l
hear that the high hope of every
trooper in the forces of Generals Ian
gle de Carry and Sarrail is that the
effort and the success along this line
will be In keeping with the marked ad-
vances, which, rumor at least has it, the
French and the British armies are
making in the far northwest, where
flank on flank as we hear 1t here. they
are we'll into the first stage of the
long-heralded spring drive.
There are no motor buses left in
Paris. Today / know why. They
have been pressed into the service for
supply transport purposes all along
this part of the rear of the French
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
HAD HIS MOTHER PUZZLED
stand Son, Therefore She Dubbed
Him "Grasshopper."

Polly, the washerwoman, was deep
in a discussion of her family's short
comings.
Nah family suttinly do hab some
shawtcomin's," she declared. Fur in
stance: Nah son Jawge es jes' lax a
grasshoppah."
My goodness!" gasped the mis-
tress. How, Polly?"
Well, buhcawse only two things in
de whole worl worries him: He wor-
ries dat he has to wake up to eat, an
den he worries dat he hab to stop
eatin' to go to sleep. All suttinly doan
undahstan dat boy"
But how do you conclude that he
is like grasshopper?" queried the
q picked mistress.
Jes' buhcawse he er de most mis-
understandable creature dat All kin
think of, dat's why" she answered.
Louisville Times.
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24

natural and man-made defenses. be-
hind which he. stands still resolute
and still apparently possessed of the
high-hearted purpose, when the oppor-
'tunity offers, to go forward once more
over the ground which he gained last
summer only to lose when the leaves
turned in the fall
The sound Of the battle today is in
my ears. The distance to the line of
the fighting is nothing. but as the mil
ftary men sense II, the graphing place
is a long way of. According to the
conceptions OF men who fight under
modern conditions. the man who is
only within range of the heavy ar
tillery is not In the battle at all.
When the chance of being hit is only
one In twenty man. according to the
modern idea. is in no danger. He must
be under the hell fire of shrapnel. fac
Ing the driving rain OF small arms
bullets, or with bayoneted rife in
hand. must be guarding and thrusting
against an enemy whose breath he
can feel on his cheeks. When the
chances of the lottery are all against
him, man In these days is accounted
as being in real peril
Gigantic French Captain.
am here under the chaperonaRe.
SO to speak. OF the same army officer
with whom visited other points of
the field Of operations. and with whom
] looked on the devastation and desc.
,atfOn which rt,1o In tha .h,ut.... -
dre-scathed villages Of the Marne and
Meuse. This French officer is Capt.
Gerard de Ganay. Before this. I have
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
FOx-HUNTERS IN THE WAR
Thousands of Men Who Enjoyed That
Sport in Britain Are Now at
the Front.

Waterloo, according to the duke Of
Wellington, was won on the playing
fields of Eton. Should Britain emerge
triumphant from the present conflict
we may find someone rising to claim
that the campaign in Flanders was
won in the English shires. The shires
are the headquarters of fox-hunting.
which most humanitarians denounce.
George Bernard Shaw, for example.
has no words strong enough to con-
denim 1t with. Mr. Jorrocks, the hero
of a sporting novel, describing fox
hunting as war without its guilt and
only 25 per cent of it's danger" 1t has
to be admitted. however, that they
who follow the hounds have answered
magnificently to their country's call.
There are, it proves, $50 masters Of
hounds with the British colors, 5000
members of hunts and 1.500 hunt serv.
ants. To them must be added the Of
ficers of the regular army who are ac-
customed to ride 20 hounds, likewise
numbering some thousands. The total
is an impressive one. 1t suggests that
the real attraction of this sport may
be that it is, as Jorrocks said, - sort
of war"
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24

lines. One of these buses. whose
ordinary work is the carrying of few
native Parisians and of a great num-
ber OF American sight-seers along the
boulevards of the big city, has Just
passed me on the way to the front.
In big letters on its side appear the
words Place de la Bourse." Today
IL Is not going to the fighting line of
the financiers, but to the camp kitch.
ems of the embattled troops of
France. 1t is loaded with fresh beef.
An army must still fight on its stom.
ech. and so this rackety Paris bus ia
carrying a cargo more serviceable
than shells for the "seventy.fiyes. ~
and more useful. in way. than the ex.
plosives for the sapper and the mir,4
Industry Of French Peasants
Ever since came into this f,,ld of
operation have been struck Ly the
fine-souled way In which tn, old
French peasants. aged men WIN, can.
not go to the lighting line, and the
women and the children, have followed
the army and have fitted the blade of
the plow into the track of the ad.
vancing machine gun. The old men
the women and the children Of this
land are cultivating the fields almost
up to the points of contact OF the bat.
Ting armies. So earnest was the
peasantry In its endeayor to make
every acre of the soil yield its toll
against the day Of possible need, that
1t actually carried its tilling and plant.
ing work into the fields where the
shells still we're falling.
The military authorities finally were
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
Reminded Him.

Mr.. Highbrow, who posed as an arbi-
ter of taste, looked round the tiers of
boxes at the opera house the other
evening and said:
Il suppose, if a woman's shoulders
are very beautiful, she has right, a
moral right. to wear very decollete
gown. AT the same time"
Mr.. Highbrow chuckled and shook
his head.
AT the same time" he resumed,
"the fashionable woman of today re-
minds me of the prophet"
How so?" said his interlocutor.
How so?"
"She hasn't much on 'er in her own
country" was the smiling reply.
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
Question Of Supplies.

"Daisy," remarked her Sunday
school teacher, don't love your cat
too much. What would you do II 1t
died you wouldn't see it again?"
"Ch, yes, teacher; l should see 1t
in heaven,
NO dear, you're mistaken; animals
cannot go to heaven like people"
Daisy's eyes filled with tears, but
suddenly she exclaimed triumphantly,
Animals do go to heaven, for the bi-
BILE says the promised land is flowing
with milk and honey, and, If there are
no animals, where do they get the
milk"
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24

grip on the spear handle against all
the efforts of the French to wrest it
from them.
On the plain from which ! am look
ing at the light smoke wreathing over
the batteries there was fought one Of
the most desperate battles of the pres
ent war. This field is called the plain
of Vaux-Marie. 1t marks the last spot
contested by the crown prince in the
retreat which he was forced to make
to keep his lines in touch with the re-
treating armies on his right flank.
armies which occupied a long front ex-
tending from this place almost to the
gates of Paris.
Dotted With Graves.
This plain, with its dotting graves
of German and Frenchmen, newly dug,
and with its great gaping holes made
by the falling shells. marks the pres
ent high tide in this section of the
French advance from the Marne The
fighting, cigarette-smoking. almost
debonair soldiers of the republic on
II IS battle front are still on the Of
fensive and are throwing themselves
forward daily under the cover Of a
screen of shell fire in desperate en-
deavor to drive their enemy from the
Gilpin observer., 1915-06-24
The Fire Fiend,

Mayor Thompson of Chicago, who is
advising stricter measures to pre-
vent insurance frauds, said:
There are, you know, a great many
business men who in their ideas about
insurance are like Exc
I'm afraid. father said Exes son.
this property isn't worth repairing
any more
Very well, son. said Exc. Send
then, for Smith of the Marine and Fire
company at once. Let us always bear
in mind the old proverb: What can't
be cured must be insured"