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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-09
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-09

thing under Heavens they can possibly need
or expect" lie said.-Kennebec Journal
Mrs. Mary Louise Blanchard of Presque Isle
whose home is with her soo, J. Bennett Blanch-
ard. celebt ated her 91st birthday April II 1916
Her hearing is perfect, she has retentive
memory, and until within the past yea- she
had been a constant reader. A fall. some time
ago. caused her to abandon some of her pleas
ant pastimes but she listens to the latest news
and daily Bible readings with the keenest in
terest. Mrs. Blanchard was converted and
was baptized by immersion when IL years old.
She Joined the Christian church at Eastport, in
which place she was born April II, 1925. SUBJ
sequently her parents, Mary Batson and Enoch
Babcock moved to Charlotte, Me-. where Mrs.
Blanchard united by letter with the Baptist
church. Her mother was born in Plymouth, N.
h. Mrs. Blanchard was married to the late
David Blanchard. Jr.. May %. 1S45, in the town
of Pembroke. They came to Aroostook in 1871
and settled in Presque Isle. Mr.. and Mrs,
Blanchard were the parents of IL children,
four Of whom are living: Loran of Somerville,
Mass. J. Bennett, Alva and Mrs. Efie Holmes
Of Presque Isle. Two sons, William and Gill
bert. served in the Civil War. William died
in an army hospital of typhoid fever at the age
of II years. Two brothers are living. Lincoln
Babcock Of Medford, Mass, and Henry Bab-
cock of Belfast. She is very happy with her
son, and her friends hope they may have the
privilege Of celebrating her 9zd birthday.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-09

David Piper, aged rs. retired farmer and
Civil War veteran, died Nov. 9th in Rockland.
He served three years in the 17th Maine Regi-
ment. His farm of 100 acres was the largest in
the town Of Troy. He is survived by his wife
and son, Frank M. Piper
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-09

Liberty Bell and Flag Drill
Sailors Hornpipe, Dance, Doris Sweat
DEMONSTRATION, Cindere liza
Characters
Cinderella, Clara Hammons
Prince, Tom Wadsworth
Proud Sisters. Idres Rogers and Pearl Decrow
King, Kenneth Woodbury.
Queen, Doris Wilson
Soldiers. Nathan Read and Donald Horne
Herald. Chester Howard
Page, Gordon McKenney
God Mother, Helen Burgess
Coachman, Lester Knowlton
Mice. Richard Chenery and Eugene Hammons
Ball Room Guests, Evelyn Mank, Russell
Knight, Doris Sweat. verna Jellison.
Frances Bradford, Ruth Bradford. Annie
Hunter. Ella Colcord. Carl Colcord, Oscar
Gray, Madeline Chalmers
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-11-09

Capt. Addison V. Shute, master of the
steamer J. 7. Morse of the Eastern Steamship
Corporations Bar Harbor line. was found dead
in bed at Bar Harbor Nov. 5th. Death was
due to Bright's disease. Capt. Shute had re-.
tired Saturday night feeling as we'll as usual.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

VIded you save the especially
if you have kept hogs following the
cattle. Saving the manure" doesn't
mean saving merely one-third or one
fourth 1t means saving 70 per cent
or more, liquid as well as solid. The
problem of keeping livestock with
profit is largely a matter of making
use as silage, roughage or bedding of
stuff that is wasted on the average
farm. Weeds and weed seeds, usually
counted worse than nothing, may be
put on the right side of the ledger by
means of a few sheep.
Seed Selection and Wages.
Catch but one bad ear in testing
seed corn and you save a good days
wages. Find the average number of
bad ones and you save a week s
wages in a winters afternoon. Buy
ing seed is a business proposition
not an exercise of faith.
AS long as the average farmer
keeps his garden on the grocery
shelf" he sells everything wholesale
and buys everything retail. Side lines
such as canning, preserving, making
apple butter, are profitable where the
farmer is wise enough to see that the
women of his household get all nee
essary help with their work.
The price difference between ham,
lard and bacon and hog on the hoof
shows the money gain for farm
butchering and smoking.
Marketing and Cooperation.
1t is not enough to grow a good
crop, or even to grow 9. good crop at
low cost. To make a pig crop a bust
ness success it must be disposed of as
efficiently as it is grown-must be 50
graded and packed as to meet mar
ketfstandards and so marketed as to
bring the farmer the highest current
price.
The farmer who is too suspicious to
get together with his neighbors in
order to do comparatively what no
one can DO alone is sure to pay dearly
for his incapacity for team work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

Africa. At the same time Mr. Price
was similarly employed. Curiously
enough, also, the Commission for Re-
lief in Belgium occupies offices at No.
8 London Wall buildings where the
Werner-Beit Syndicate had its head
quarters when Mr.. Price was associat-
ed with it. For several years Mr.
Price has lived in Topeka, being di-
rector of mine operations for a local
organization, but he keeps up his
friendly connection with old London
and South African associates.
In his letter, Mr.. Honnold says:
Dear Price: The Belgian people.
IN token of their appreciation of our
efforts, are continually Transforming
our flour bags into various articles of
adornment co. Among a lot recently
sent over at our request for distribu-
| ton to our committees [ happened to
note one which recalled you good peo-
pie. I am posting it separately to re-
mind you of ourselves as L am also
posting the latest issue of our report
which will at least serve to indicate
that have enough work in hand prob
ably to preclude our too long deferred
return to America until after the war.
With kindest regards. Very sincerely
yours, w. L. HONNOLD."
The Commissions Report.
The report of the commissions
work until the close of the last calen-
y
SIS, 100000 worth of foodstuffs have
been received by the commission at
the port of Rotterdam for the relief
of the innocent victims of military OPP
erations in Belgium. This is exclu-
sixe of large quantities of clothing up
on which no attempt to place valua-
ton has been made. Flour wheat,
rice. beans and meat were the chief
items handled. The commission COM
menced work in November, 1914, and
as indicated by Mr.. Honnolds letter,
the end is not yet in sight.
Unfortunately, from the standpoint
of human interest, the report con-
tains nothing but columns of Figures.
But the transformed flour bag,
however, is an interesting sidelight
upon the relief work. 1t apparently
is the product of an art school for, up
on it's reverse side is a small crafts
mans device bearing the signature:
'+Eco1e PROFESSIONALS Bruxeiles.'
All the original label of the flour
sack. familiar sight in Topeka, is re-
tanned in it's pristine brightness, the
decorations of the art school being in
green and brown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

The college was hard pressed finan-
cially. Topeka proper in the south
west ended at the home of Joab Null
vane, Huntoon street and Topeka ave-
nue.. There were no sidewalks to
Washburn, no electric lights and the
scientific Instruments used by DIR.
Lovewell were few and crude.
However, the school grew, as did
it's scientific departments. Many
young men prominent in business and
professional life in Topeka and other
cities were taught by DR.. Lovewell.
Matt Weightman and Albert Wagge-
ner are old students of DR.. Lovewell.
Secretary in 1904.
In December, 1904, DR.. Lovewell
was appointed secretary of the Kan
sas Academy of Science. He has been
prominent in scientific work in Kan
sas ever since. Twenty-seven volumes
of transactions of the academy have
been published, there are 1000 vol
umes in the library and the academy
is now firmly established as a leader
in the scientific work in the state.
The offices are located in the Memo
rial building. Tenth and Jackson
streets.
Four children are living: Paul
Lovewell, formerly with the State
Journal, now editor of the Merchants
Journal; Miss Caroline Lovewell, To-
peka; Miss Margaret Lovewell, New
York, and Mrs. George L. Dickinson,
Pasadena, Cal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
HANDY JAR BLOOD
Chicago Coroner Urges Hospi-
tails Keep One on Tap.
Proves TRANSMISSION viii Save
Asphyxiated Patients.

Chicago, Jan. 22.-Confident that
blood TRANSMISSION will save the lives of
many if applied in cases of gas poison
ing, Coroner Hoffman today sent a
letter, to every hospital in Chicago
giving instructions as to the preserva-
ton of blood to be used in life saving
work.
After tho announcement that DR.. w.
H Burmeister, coroner's physician,
had resuscitated by blood TRANSMISSION
animals apparently asphyXiated by
gas, the method outlined by him was
followed with a patient at the county
hospital. Gustave Mussell, the patient,
was pronounced out of danger last
night after three days improvement.
In his letter the coroner calls at
tention to the necessity of having the
right kind of blood, untainted by any
disease. He said he would provide
blood containers for any hospitals.
The experiments OF DR.. Burmeister
indicated that the blood could be safe
" kept 80 days. A table showing that
there have been 3.423 deaths from
asphyxiation in Chicago in the last
eleven years. also was prepared by
the coroner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
ADDS ANOTHER COLLEGE
Bethel at Newton Is Included in the
Accredited List.

An outline of topics for the profess
sional county normal institutes was ar
ranged late yesterday afternoon at a
meeting of the state board of educa-
ton. These topics with many sub
heads will be sent to every county SUI
perintendent in the state and are to
be used, more especially, by the five
day institutes.
In addition the board of education
approved the course of study of Bethel
college, Newton, and it becomes one
of the accredited colleges of the state
whose graduates may obtain a state
teachers certificate, providing they
pursued the proper course of study.
Other accredited state colleges are:
Baker university, Bethany college,
College of Emporia, Cooper college,
Paramount college, Friends university,
son college. Midland college, Ottawa
Washburn college.
The main topics outlined by the
board of education are: THE Re
organization of Rural Schools in Ac-
cordance With Modern Standards Of
Efficiency THE Child and His En-
vironment." The Elements of Lit
erary Education" self Expression as
a Means Of Education" ''Prevoca-
tiona1 Training in the Rural Schools, .
The Cultivation of appreciation
Members of the state board of edu-
cation include Chancellor Frank
Strong. Lawrence; President H J
Waters, Manhattan: President Thomas
w. Butcher, Emporia; Miss Lillian
Scott, Baldwin; w. o. Steen, Abilene
H. w. Shideler. Girard, and w. d
Ross, state superintendent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

spent finally proved to the gold mad
people that there was not enough gold
in the shale along the Smoky to war
rant much expenditure of money in
exploiting the field.
A Yale Graduate.
Or. Lovewell was born in Vermont
In~1S53 he entered Yale and grad
hated there in 1857. For the ensuing
five years he was an instructor in the
Wisconsin State Normal at White
water, and for the same period was
principal and superintendent of the
schools of Madison, Wis. Then, Dr.
Lovewen went back to Yale and for
three years took postgraduate work
received degrees as Phi. D., and A. B.
After finishing his postgraduate work
DIR. Lovewell spent a year as an in
structor in the Sheffield scientific
school He spent two years at the
Pennsylvania State college as profess
sor in these sciences and came to To-
peka in 1878.
DR.. Lovewell built his home at 1901
College avenue where he lives now.
He became a member of the faculty
of Washburn college, where he filled
the chair of physics and chemistry
for twenty-one years. In those days
there were no buildings in the vicinity
of Washburn college excepting few
boarding houses for the students.
Many Topeka Students.
The late Peter MacVicar was presi-
dent of the college in those days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Topeka Flour Sack, Decorated il
Belgium.

In either upper corner appears the
word ''Merci!" expressive of the graft
tude of the persons who ate the flour
the bag once contained: while in the
lower corners the crossed flags of two
nations and the dates "1914-15" COM
memorate an occasion upon which an
international friendship was cemented
by a kindly act. A chickering's string
through it's top converts the glorified
sack into a convenient receptacle for
well, most anything.
C. ]. Price of Topeka. recently re-
ceived this memento of the American
relief work in Belgium from W. L.
Honnold, a member of the commission
for relief in Belgium, who also sent
an official report of work done and a
personal letter explaining the bag.
The report indicates the immense
scope of the relief work still under
way.
Mr.. Honnold was engaged as a min
ing engineer on The Rand in South
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

of recent years have been games and
puzzles ''Pigs in Clover" ghe Eff
teen Puzzle" and the Ferris Wheel
are three of many things of this de-
scription that made fortunes for their
inventors before their popularity died
out.
Interesting puzzles are often the re-
suit of accidents. The famous White
Chapel puzzle was due to a painter s
idle hanging of two paint bucket
hooks while waiting for a sudden
shower to pass over All at once he
found that he had fastened the hooks
in such a way that it seemed impossi-
BILE to separate them. 1t took consid-
cradle thought to get them apart, and
then he realized that he had stumbled
upon an interesting puzzle. He made
SIG, 900 from his chance discovery.
In proportion to the amount of
time and effort involved there is, they
say, more money to be made from
some ingenious little article that will
be in great demand at and 10 cents
each than in some epoch-making in
vention like the telephone or the
phongraph. Such things as the latter.
of course, give the opportunity for
innumerable new inventions which eX~
tend the usefulness of the original
idea.
Some Things to Invent.
If you have inventive ability, you
do not have to look far for favor
able opportunity for exercising it.
Here are just a few inventions which
the world really needs and for which
it will be willing to pay some man or
woman we'll:
An inexpensive attachment that will
permit of cooking over an ordinary
gas jet.
A cheap machine for washing
dishes.
An automatic furnace regulator,
which will turn on the draft at a GER
tain hour without attention.
Any Improvement in cooking uten-
sils which will make them cheaper or
better.
A cheap water fiIter-one that may
be permanently attached to the fau-
Get or kept in a handy place; for use,
A foot rest for radiators which win
support the feet in comfortable po-
sitton without burning the shoes.
A machine which will polish the
finger nails without the necessity OF
| endless buffing by hand.
A good and efficient fire escape
which could be carried in a suit case.
Means of automatically closing win
dows SO that one need not get up on
cold mornings for this purpose.
A shelf which may be quickly at
tached to a ladder to support a
bucket, brush, etc.
A really satisfactory device for
turning music on piano or music
stand so that the operator will not
| have to stop playing.
Some means for cleaning cuspidors
without touching them with the
hands.
Novelties in devices for exercising
the muscles.
A curling iron which will automati-
cally heat itself.
A match box which will deliver one
| match at a time-and do it every
time.
Some adjustable device for fasten-
ing packages to take the place of
rubber bands.
A device for pressing mems clothes
which can be carried about by the
user and in which clothes will be
| pressed in q presentable manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
Combines Single Crop Issues
Into One Volume.
SAVING SOIL IS IMPORTANT
Use of Manure as Fertilizer Is
Strongly Advocated
Live Stock Valuable if You Only
Break Even.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 22.-"To
suggest to the corn-belt farmer of the
Middle West-especially the farmer
whose soil has been run down by
continuous grain farming-some ways
of co-ordinating and 'cashing in the
scientific advice offered him in hun
dreds of invaluable bulletins on single
crops" is the purpose of Farmers
Bulletin 704, as stated by it's author.
Carl Vrooman, assistant secretary of
agriculture.
The standpoint of the bulletin
Grain Farming in the Corn Belt
With Livestock as a Side Line" is
that of the farmer who is farming
for living and emphasis throughout
is on simple ways of securing greater
cash returns without depicting the
soil. The whole farm is considered
as a unit, All grain crops suitable
for the section are dealt with in their
relation TO one another, in rotation
with various legumes, green manures
cover crops for soil maintenance and
feeding. and in connection with live
stock as a profitable side line and espe-
cially az a source of manure and fer
tility Special attention is given in the
closing pages to effective employment
of time and capital, profitable side
lines, the need for cooperation, and
/ the Importance of efficient market
ing of crops. There are also chap
/ tiers on the human crops of the farm,
/ especially the boys, girls and women
folks.
This new type of bulletin. for which
/ the author acknowledges his indebt-
edness to many authorities but as
sumes full responsibility, refers in its
/ Al pages to many department and
state college bulletins dealing in de-
tail with the growing of a single crop.
The many original recommendations
in the bulletin are designed ito sup
/ plement the other publications" but
its chief purpose is ito serve as an
introduction to them and to stimulate
a wider and more profitable study and
application of them by the average
corn-belt farmer"
Robbing or Saving the Soil.
The farmer who robs his soil is
saving off the limb upon which he is
sitting. Your deed calls for the sub
soil as we'll as the surface soil and
the subsoil is a mine of fertility and
a well of water if properly utilized
Lime is the one thing most needed
by the average rundown soil Phos-
phorus. next to lime, is the mineral
plant food probably most needed by
the average unproductive soil. Manure
as regularly as you harvest. Stable
manure is the best form of fertilizer.
Where stable manure is not available
green manure must be used.
Profit in Limestone
When you break even on Your
beeves you are ahead of the game pro-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22
iii WONA WE'LL OOlNL II
he LAYS DOWN
HIS LIFE WORK
Or. J. I. Lovewell, Long En-
gagged in Scientific Research
Will Retire From Public Serv-
ice the First of July.
HE CAME TO Topeka IN 1878
Prominently Identified With
Scientific Matters Ever Since.
Filled Chair of Physics at
Washburn 81 Years.
Will Retire From Public Serv
ice the First of July.
HE CAME TO Topeka IN 1878

One more man prominent in the
public eye will step down and out
when the resignation of DR.. Joseph
r. Lovewell, secretary of the State
Academy of Science for eleven years.
becomes effective July 1. DR.. Love-
we'll has been prominent in scientific
circles in Kansas for thirty eight
years. For twenty-one years he filled
the chair of physics and chemistry at
Washburn college while for six years
he was an analytic chemist with labor
atories at 523 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-22

and secretary OF the state Academy
OF science, whose resignation be-
comes effective July 1.
For years DIR. Lovewell was called
to all parts of Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska to make analyses of stom-
achs of victims in sensational poison
ing cases. Men are now in peniten-
tiaries in three states as the result of
the findings of DIR. Loveweu in anal
vses made of the stomachs of muir
der victims,
Doesn't Like 1t.
DR.. LoveweIl prefers not to talk
about this very unwholesome part of
hts work and absolutely refuses to di-
Vulge names of persons involved in
the cases. While his evidence has
sent some men to prison, others are
free as a result of DIR. Lovewell's
work.
One time circumstantial evidence
made a North Topeka mans guilt in
E murder case almost an established
fact in the eyes of a jury. DR.. Love
well was called in, made an analysis
of the stomach and it was proven the
supposed victim had not died from
poisoning at all. Another time a To-
peka woman was accused of poisoning
her husband Evidence produced,
largely through DIR. Lovewell's eff
forts, involved a step-son of the MUIR
dered man, later convicted the young
fellow and he is now in the state pris-
on III Lansing. Dozens OF other cases
equally as sensational were particle
pated in by DR.. LoveweH in the earlier
days.
Saved State Money.
Many Kansans are now spending
their last days in comfort instead of
poverty as a result of the work done
by DR.. Lovewell and other chemists in
proving the small amount of gold con-
tanned in shaie on the Smoky Hill
river. There was a regular gold rush
to Trego in the early days following
visit of a Prof. Fahrig of Phila-
delphia, discoverer of the "Beauxite''
process of extracting gold from shale.
Prof. Fahrig gathered considerable
shale along the Smoky Hill river and
took it back east. In a short time
word was received from him that
large quantities of gold had been
found in the shale. Land jumped sky
high and Kansas went wild. Some
Of the more conservative men called in
Dr. Lovewen and other chemists who
assayed the shale and after much ar
gument and much money had been