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Newark post., 1915-11-24
Three Thousand DOL
lar Bull Loaned

Anton's May King, the younger
of the two herd bulls, used in the
Delaware College herd of Guern-
seys, has been loaned for a few
months to Mr.. S. M. Shoemaker, of
Eccleston, Md, one of the foremost
Guernsey breeders in the United
States. To guard against loss at
time of shipment, Mr.. Shoemaker
insured the two year old bull for
$4,000. Anton's May King is son
Beda's May King. the aged bull
which has been in use in the Col
lege herd since 1910. The College
owns Is of the old bulls daugh-
ter's, all of which are expected to
make very creditable records. Sew
eral have already made records
with their first calves, and others
are now on test in the herd. His
first daughter to freshen made as
a two year old, over II, 900 lbs. of
milk and 568 lbs. of butterfat. She
is now on test and promises to
make over 700 lbs. of butterfat, as
mature COW. The second daugh-
ter made with her first calf, over
1000 lbs. of milk and 345 lbs. of
fat, and with her third calf over
$4,000 lbs. of milk and 7O1 lbs. of
butter fat. Three other daughters
have recently finished their years.
test after their first calves, with
records of 500, 518 and 465 lbs. of
butter fat respectively.
Newark post., 1915-11-24
Sugar Beet Grow
ing At Delaware

On Friday evening, November IL
Professor A. E. Grantham, agrono-
mist of the Delaware College Ex-
pertinent Station, met with num-
ber of business men and farmers
of Laurel to discuss the possibili-
ties of growing sugar beets in that
section. It was proposed by the
men of Laurel that preliminary
paintings of beets be made under
Newark post., 1915-11-24
Seats On Sale Friday

What promises to be one of the
most popular plays given in New
ark for several years is the three
act comedy, Looking for Mary
Jane," which will be given in the
Newark Opera House Friday even
ing, December 3rd, under the di-
rection of Mrs. Herman R. Tyson.
The splendid success of "The
Jonah"and other plays staged by
Mrs. Tyson is we'll known. 1t is
said that Looking for Mary
Jane" will be even better than any
Newark post., 1915-11-24

devious. He will try to befog the
issue and confuse your mind. Pay
no attention to stories these poll
ticians are afraid to come out in
the open with. Keep your mind
upon that one big fact, that wide
open gambling has disgraced the
city, and vote next Tuesday to pro-
tect your own, by voting to sup
press this evil. If you oppose gam
bling and want to suppress it, vote
for Mr.. Church for mayor"
Gambling places had been al
lowed to flourish under the ad-
ministration then in power. The
mayor had refused to suppress it;
he had refused to even talk about
the matter. The "Enterprise," a
daily paper, had exposed the whole
system but the evil increased. Then
the newspaper appealed to the
mothers. Had a Delaware publ
cation done that it would have
been laughed at but in the wild
and wooly west the mothers do not
have to sit around and wait for the
man to reform matters; they vote.
They went to the polls three days
after this daily paper published
that appeal and put that mayor
and his gambling ring out of busi-
ness. The women carried the cleo
tion by big majority and made
the town safer for their husbands,
sons and brothers. Yet the anti
suffragist talks of keeping the wo-
men from. the ballot box where
they can protect the homes; and
they do it under the pretense that
voting "breaks up the home" The
truth is the votes of women break
up the saloon, the gambling house
and the sweat-shop where children
are employed.
0. R. w.
Newark post., 1915-11-24
FRUIT GROWERS, NOTICE

For this Fall or for next Spring plant
ing we offer fine lot of peach and apple
trees
PEACHEs-Connett, Champion, Car
man, Belle, Ray, EIberta, Nixon, Frances,
Illiey, Crawford, Fox, Walkers Varie-
gated, Thnrbcr and many others.
APPLES Transparent, Williams Red,
Early Ripe, Fourth July, Gravestein.
Grimes, Jonathan, Rome Beauty, Opal
G2Scennt, Nero, Mammoth BIacktwig, King
David, Delicious, Stayman and a nun,
her Of other sorts.
We have plum, pear and cherry trees.
English Walnut, Black Walnut, Norway
and Sugar Maple Shade trees, California
PriTet Hedge plants and Grape Vines.
This stock is true to name, clean and
healthy.
Catalogue free.
THE DELAWARE NURSERIES,,
D. 5. Collins, Manager
Milford, Delaware
Newark post., 1915-11-24

A forward movement was re-
corded in the annals of the New
Castle County Workhouse last
week when the trustees of that in
stitution purchased three farms,
of more than three hundred acres,
which will be cultivated by the
prisoners and developed into model
farms. The trustees of the Work
house will cooperate with Della
ware College in developing the
farms and the prisoners will be
given instruction in trucking and
farming that will fit them for work
on farms throughout the State. By
this method the Workhouse trus-
tees not only hope to promote the
health of the prisoners, but also to
supply most of the food used in the
institution land thus further assist
in making the prison self-support-
ing. The farms were purchased
under authority of an act of the
last legislature.
Prisoners at the Workhouse
have for years been employed in
making clothing, in the quarries,
and at times have been used in
building or repairing public roads.
The trustees have several times
offered to use prisoners in building
roads, at fixed sum per day, but
the Levy Court has not looked with
favor upon the proposition.
Regarding the purchase of farms
and the plans connected Herewith,
the trustees of the Workhouse on
Thursday issued the following
statement:
"The Trustees of the New Cas-
tie County Workhouse have rea-
lized, since the building of the in
stitution at Greenbank, that one of
the best methods of employing
prisoners is to use their labor upon
the farms.
"This arrangement not only pro-
vides healthful occupation, but as
sists also in making a penal insti-
tuition self-supporting, thus reduc-
ing the burdens of the taxpayers.
Newark post., 1915-11-24
QUAINT OLD
NEW ORLEANS
And The Wonderful South
West

Interesting letters have been re-
ceived from Mrs. A. M. Pollard,
who with her husband is visiting
the Panama Exposition, and travel
ing through the West. The first
letter mailed November fourteenth
describes the trip, by the southern
route, West. Extracts follow:
81 was unable on account of
train sickness, to see either At
lanta or Montgomery. Quaint old
New Orleans, with it's mystical
French and Spanish quarters, was
the first southern city which l
had a chance to inspect closely.
Many, very many of the old Creole
houses are still in existence. 1t
does not require a very great
stretch of the imagination to fill
those balconies (of which every
representative Creole house is pos
sessed) with dark skinned Creole
ladies'. Retirement and privacy
are still evidently strong Creole
characteristics for every shutter
was tightly drawn and not sign
of life visible. New Orleans joins
the two A m eri cas-. Latin and
the Anglo-Saxon. 1t combines the
gaiety and love Of beautiful sur
roundings of the one with the ener-
gy and activity of the other.
Canal street, once the fosse or
canal of the sugar plantations, is
the great business thoroughfare,
dividing the old city from the new.
We motored down to the levees,
where were piled the countless
bales of cotton, the sugar barrels
and bags of rice sent in from the
surrounding country, New Orleans
being the outlet of the greatest
agricultural region of the world,
the Mississippi Valley. Never have
l seen in the North, such immense
piles of lumber as we passed, 60
ing through the Carolinas, Geor-
gia and Mississippi. Miles and
miles and then more miles of cot
ton growing in Alabama! 1t made
one feel rather foolish, upon dis
covering after gazing for for half
a day, upon what without a doubt,
thick green growth, was rice in its
wet bed. And oh! those sugar
plantations! Growing close down
TO the roadside, field after field of
the tall, glossly cane! Set back
perhaps two hundred feet from the
road and behind the cane, sur
rounded on all sides by thick
clumps of trees, stood the planter's
home and on all sides, throughout
the fields, were the tiny negro cab,
ins. At Jeanerette, in the "Seche'
district, we passed the old Crib
henberg plantation. Further on
the plantation of Grossard. You
see this is the Sugar Bowl" OF
Louisiana. At Crowley "the rice
city" the center Of the rice indus
try of the South, the mills turn out
over half a million bags of rice
each year. In this vicinity is the
rice experiment station.
"About twelve miles from New
Newark post., 1915-11-24

the direction of the station next
season. The Department of Ar
riculture will undertake this work
with the view of determining the
tonnage per acre that can be pro-
duced as we'll as the sugar con-
tent of the beets,-facts which de-
termine the profitableness of the
crop.
Newark post., 1915-11-24

of these other plays. Who Mary
Jane is, how she was lost and how
she was found is a deeply interest
ing story and at the same time a
very humorous one. Reserved seat
tickets on sale at Rhodes drug
store after November 25.
ADV.
Newark post., 1915-11-24

at the present time, on account OF
her record, would be worth consid-
erably more. This cow is a Della
ware bred individual, having been
produced in the herd of Cook and
Brady of Middletown, Delaware,
and purchased from them by Della
ware College about two years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
FIRST PARADE BY
BRITISH WOMEN IN
ENGLAND since WAR

London, July Ill P. M-The first
womans street parade since the out
break of the war will be held on the
afternoon of July II under the direc-
ton of the Women's Social and Polit-
zeal Union. of which Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst is the leader. This parade
will be in celebration of the promise
of David Lloyd George, the minister
OF munitions. to receive a delegation
of women anxious to serve the coun-
try as shell makers and in other ca
pacitieS.
Mrs. Pankhurst explained at mass
meeting today that the parade was
planned to impress the government
and the nation with the desire of
women to be of service, and she urged
all women, Suffragettes or not. mar
tlcularly the leisure and non-produc-
ing classes. to participate.
We want the vote first" cried GOV.
eral women in the back of the hall in
the course of Mrs. Pankhurst's speech
to which she replied:
Il am glad that those ladies' are in
the very small minority.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02


receipts for the year s335,s2S377, were
only about S27.G00,00O in excess of last
years One fact is that whiskey is not
paying the revenue it used to produce
by somewhere between s16,000,000 and
S24000,000 a year.
Another thing pointed out tonight
by treasury officials was that the
postoffice department. usually self
sustaining, has run behind thJS year
and has received advances frem the
treasury amounting to more than g.
100000. If this were to be paid back,
the deficit would be that much de-
creased. On the other hand the treas
ury has paid out on account of the
Panama canal during the year more
than s29,o00,o00, which is reimbursable
though not likely to be reimbursed un-
less through a bond issue. for many
years to come. r.
Including the Panama canal ex-
penditures but deducting the amount
advanced the postoffice. THE account
shows net excess Of all disburse-
ments for the year over all receipts
of about s57,5O0,000.
Total expenditures for the year were
31,5o7,572 compared with $70O,559,-
PAS last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
BENNY KAUF SAYS
HE'S ALL DONE WITH
The FEDERAL LEAGUE

New York, July benny kauff,
the crack outfielder of the Brooklyn
Federals, who refused to play in to-
days double header with Kansas City
because of disagreement regarding
his salary, declared tonight he is
through with the Federal League and
that he intends to lump to the New
York Nationals. Kauff said that he
will report to the New York Club to-
morrow.
kauff, who caused a sensation early
in the season by jumping to the New
York Giants, is suing that club for
his salary claiming that when he
signed with it he was prepared to play
and that it was through no fault of
his that he was not permitted to do
so.
Manager McGraw of the Giants
said tonight that he would be glad
to see Kauff reinstated by the COM
mission because he would like to have
him on his team.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
THE ARMY UNDER
GEN. ZAPATA AND
GEN. CARA HAVE
THE ADVANTAGE

Mexico City, June 27.-By wireless
telegraphy via steamship City Of Mex
leo to New Orleans. La. July RE
peated attempts made by the Carranza
army, directed by Gen. Pablo Gonzales,
to capture Mexico City have failed SO
far, and the forces under Gen. Zapata
and Gen. Gonzales Cara claim to have
had the advantage in the fighting.
The Carranza army penetrated to the
city, but was driven back and the Ia
pata forces say that the Constitution
alists have received a definite check.
Looting is feared by the merchants
should the Constitutionalists capture
the city. All business establishments
have barTicaded.
The members Of the diplomatic corps
are meeting daily in an endeayor to
protect the lives Of foreigners.
The shortage Of food is becoming Sc
rious. Forty thousand poor were in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02

, that reverence for the laws Of the land
that is certainly found in the peoples
of some other countries. Every
school ought to be a center where the
respect for law and the obedience to
law are inculcated. The school can
not accomplish all that should be done
unless it has the assistance of the
community. Obedience and reverence
within the school room for a few hours
Of the day are easily offset by a
spirit Of lawlessness that may pervade
the community itself. There is great
need, therefore, for cooperation be-
tween citizens and school if the COM
ing generation is to have a wholesome
respect for law. A proper respect for
law will make the problems Of govern
ment much easier and simpler than
they now are. The school can do much
in this field by teaching that obedi-
ence to the laws of the country is a
duty which the individual owes to his
country for the protection and bene-
fits which the country bestows on
him. The relation Of one to his city,
to his state, and to his nation is not
unlike that of child to parent The
'
es an opportunity for lessons of duty.
Proper teaching ought to make Oh
legations so clear that respect for law
will tend to become a fixed virtue.
Education is a subject in which the
average man feels that he is a quail
fed expert. That he is not is eviden-
ced by his extravagant demands and
baseless criticisms. The public needs
more knowledge about educational
aims and methods. This knowledge
must necessarily be given toithe pub
lie by teachers themselves.
Let US dedicate ourselves anew to
the service Of our country. Let us re-
new our faith in her fundamental laws,
her institutions, and the eternal prin-
ciples Of liberty for which she stands
Let us cultivate and teach a belief in
our people and in the possibilities Of
their brain and Drawn. Let us help
to make sure a common reliance in
the honesty and dependabilitY of our
citizens. Our past is secure in history.
Let lis consider it only as it will help US
to understand and appreciate the pres.
ent. The present is ours, full of duties
and loaded with responsibilities. May it
be for us an opportunity and productive
full Of hope. If we the teachers of this
land, do our whole duty profit will
come from the lessons Of the past, the
duties of the present will be perform
ed with joy, and the hope of the fu-
ture will ultimately be realized. De-
mocracy will be sincere in the hearts
Of an intelligent and patriotic citizen
ship which our labors will make and
perpetuate Democracy and education,
loyal allies, each dependent upon the
other, will stand as the sure sign that
government by the people shall never
perish from the EARTH
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
REPORT EVELYN NESBIT THAW Will
SUBMIT TO The ORDEAL OF GIVING
TESTIMONY AT new YORK TRIAL

New York, July 1-Although word was
received today from Malon, n. Y, that
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw had announced she
would decline to obey the subpoena sum-
moning her to New York to testify as q
state witness at the trial to test the SAN
ity of her husband. Harry K. Thaw, in
formation considered authentic reached
the deputy attorney generals Office to-
night that she had reluctantly decided
to submit to the ordeal. Accordingly
plans which had been made to compel
her attendance through the issuance of a
writ of attachment were abandoned. She
is expected to arrive in New York In
time to take the stand on Tuesday.
Mrs. Thaw, who is camping at Chateau
Gay lake. near Malone, is said to be in
poor health and her reluctance to testify
was based on the fear, 1t was reported,
that she might be unable to withstand
the strain of cross-examinaton from
Thaw's attorneys.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
STMR. ARMENIAN
CONTINUED from Page One.)
to state his purpose when, directing
merchantmen to halt.
T.. uAI..:..i&.. R,,e;nassc

to state his purpose when directing a
merchantmen to halt.
In "AdmiraIty Business
The only fact Of importance receiv-
ed officially by the state department
came in a report from Ambassador
Page. who said the British admiralty
had informed him the Armenian was
engaged in admiralty business"
Officials at the department declared
the question of whether ship so en-
gagged should be treated by hostile ves-
sells as a public ship Of war or a de-
fenceless merchantmen was "a close
(question of international law" and an
opinion could not be given until the
extent of the belligerent governments
control over the ship and crew was
definitely known.
Provisions for Chartering
When it was suggested to officials that
II the Armenian were a public ship of
United States without violating neutrali-
ty. it was pointed out that there had
been cases before the federal courts in
which this point arose and it had been
ruled that the chartering of a vessel by
a foreign consul for his government to
transport munitions of war or supplies
did not constitute a violation of federal
statutes.
I'm the case of vessels which are load
ed to supply a belligerent fleet at sea,
however, the American government has
ruled that such ships must be treated as
ships of war.
The question of charter and beligerent
control was overshadowed in official
quarters by the press dispatches telling
of the desperate attempts of the Arme-
MAN to escape and if official reports
should bear out the account the inciden,
will have little connection with the Amer.
lean governments s, negotiations with Ger.
many over submarine warfare.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
GERMANS SINK THE
BRITISH STEAMSHIP
TOMAS With CARGO

London. July 1.-10.05 P. M-The
British steamship Tomas, bound from
Argentine for Belfast with a cargo of
corn, was sunk by a German subma-
rine Wednesday afternoon, 60 miles
west of the Scilly islands. The subma-
rine first fired two shots, presume bly,
as a summons to haul-to, but the sec
ond shell struck the steamer, killing
the second officer. The crew took to
the boats and were picked up by
Belgian trawler and landed at Mil
fordhaven.
The submarine sent the Tomas to
the bottom by a torpedo and shell
fire.
The Tomas was of 3O4S tons gross.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02

Today's session OF the trial was occu-
pied entirely with the reading of docu-
mentary evidence. This consisted of tes-
timony bearing on Thaw's sanity given
at previous proceedings. Part of it in
cluded evidence put forward in Thaw's
behalf at his second trial when he was
acquitted Of the murder of Stanford
White on the grounds of insanity.
While the reading of this testimony
was not completed when the trial ad-
journed today, the states ATTORNEYS
thought this would be accomplished in
time to call their first witness some
time tomorrow.
Former Governor John NJ. Slaton of
Georgia occupied a seat on the bench
beside Justice Hendrick when the trial
was resumed today. He listened with
attention to further reading of the tes-
timony given by Thaw's mother at the
second murder trial. This was followed
by more of the records of Thaw's life at
the Matteawan asylum.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
THE BIRTH RATE IN
FRANCE SHOWS RAPID
DECLINE SINCE war

Paris, July $50 A. Mine de-
cline in the birth rate of France mas
been particularly noticeable since the
war began. The rate in 1914 averaged
a thousand births daily, but at the
beginning of 1915 the figures dropped
to $50, and there has been a RAPID
decline since then. In the week OF
June to June Il, which was the last
recorded, there were only 1856 births
in the entire country.
A tax on bachelors and the pro-
longing of their military service while
decreas sing that of the fathers Of fam
lilies. and dimunition in the taxes
on the heads of amlies are among
the measures being urged to help solve
the question.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
WILL SOON TAKE
over WIRELESS
STATION ON |. |,

Washington. July 1.-Indications to-
night were that the United States
would sooq take over the big wireless
station at Sayville, L. l.. because of
alleged viola lions of neutrality. Con-
ferences among the heads of the state
navy and commerce departments con-
tinued. but there was every evidence
that the government in the near fu-
ture willaassume complete control
over this plant -one of the two high
power wireless stations maintaining
direct communication between Amer
lea and Germany. Secretary Daniels,
who has conferred with Secretary
Lansing and Secretary Redf1eld re-
garding the contemplated action, was
asked today abPut the governments
plans, but he smilingly declined to
talk -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-02
EDITOR OTIS DEAD
icontinued From Page one)

nut aside his editorial pen and ren,.
quietly in his own home confident Of N
early recuperation. His condition ~,
first diagnosed as jaundice and his syn,
toms seemed to occasion no especial e..
Germ. Tuesday afternoon 1t was realbs
that he was making no gain and in nj
debilitated condition an immediate NJ
ploratory operation was necessary. mi
was performed at the Knox hosu,s
Wednesday morning. revealing conditin
that showed the hopelessness Of ZEN
ery. Death came suddenly at $50 THIN
day morning and was directly due to +,
sufficient vitality to Withstand the sho,
of operation.
AS editor and publisher Of the Opiri,
Mr.. Otis long ago established repus
ton for keen writing. but this was mon
or less confined to the second congrs
sional district. In 1906 he became knos
to the entire State. That year. folio,
ing the death Of Thomas Murphy VII
had been editor Of the Waterville Dali
Sentinel from its establishment by Hor
CYRUS w. Davis in March, 1904, he vi.
to Waterville and handled the Sentp
editorial page during the gubernatot
campaign OF that year. All who rec,
that campaign remember the style Of a
tack which Mr.. Otis made and the a
tention which his writings attrac.s
Whether the people believed with hi
or not, they were forced to admire d
forceful manner in which he set for
his beliefs. At that time Mr.. Davis a
sired Mr.. Otis to remain in Watervil
but he liked the weekly newspaper b.
ter. Above all he liked Rockland and
the close of the campaign returned
this city and to the Opinion, which "
his life's work.
As a member of the Legislature in l
he was very active, supporting measul
for ballot and taxation reforms In Mai
He was a firm believer in the effica
of the single tax plan and did not he
tate to voice his convictions.
Personally, Mr.. Otis was lovable.
man could know him without having
highest regard for his honesty of p
pose. He never permitted political
ferences to interfere with personal friel
ship. Some Of his strongest friends w
men whom he had combated the hard
in politics. His death will be dee
regretted by all of Rockland and ev,
citizen will feel a distinct personal
in his going.