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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-14
Charles L. Seco

Charles L. Seco passed away at 7.So
Thursday morning at his home on the
Seco road from old age. He was born in
Pishon's Ferry in 1880 and had resided in
Winslow about 90 years. His first wife
was a Miss Sewell Of China and his Sec
ond wife Miss Olive Williams Of Nor
rdgewock. who died number Of years
ago. His granddaughter and her hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Haley, have re-
sided at his home and cared for him In re-
cent years. He is survived by three chill
dren, Mrs. Ella Williams of Boston,
Charles G. Seco Of Augusta and John T.
seco Of New Haven, Ct; sister at Nam
tasket, Mass, and two granddaughters,
one residing at New Haven, c., and Mrs
Haley Of this town. The funeral services
were held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock
Interment was at the Fort Hill ceme-
terry in this town.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-07-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Harmon and son
have returned from Portland. where they
have been the past week. called by the
death Of Mr.. Harmon's father.
The funeral Of John Meader the IL
year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Meader who was drowned in the Sc
basticook river Monday afternoon was
held at the home Of his parents on
Sand Hill Wednesday forenoon at 10
o'clock. Rev. G. o. Perry, pastor of the
Methodist church at Fairfield off1ciat-
ed. The interment was at South
Gardiner.
Miss Harriet Brophy Of Fairfield one
Of the teachers at the H. & W. school
in this town left Tuesday for Castine,
where she will be the guest of friends
for several days.
Mrs. Charles D. Robinson Tuesday
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
Divorce for
Mrs. Eggers

After more than a week of Bit
ter testimony, Judge Clifford to-
day granted Mrs. Mathilde Eggers
divorce providing her husband,
Theodore Eggers, would file a
cross complaint.
The court intimated that 1t did
not feel Mr.. Eggers was entirely
to blame and did not wish to
grant the decree unless both sides
wanted II.
Eggers, 1t is claimed, approach
ed his wife Friday In the court
house and attempted a reconcilia-
ton, which was rebuffed.
In granting the decree, Judge
Clifford gave all of the income
bearing property to Mrs. Eggers.
He decided that Eggers should
keep up his life insurance, with
Mrs. Eggers as the beneficiary.
Court costs will be paid by Egg
gers.
Eggers' attorneys Immediately
filed q cross-complaint.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
ONIONS
PANTS AND ALL

affected quality of being eternally
human.
1t is the quality which has won
the admiration of millions, and
success for the girl who has DEM
onstrated its value.
Poor Little Peppina' at the
Colonial all week is the story OF
a child who is kidnapped from her
wealthy parents by a revengeful
servant
Her parents are informed tina,
she is dead. She is placed in a
poor Italian home, while the kid.
napers escape to America.
At the Colonial.
Little Peppina escapes in Ben.
pos best clothes from a greasy old
slave driver to whom her guard.
ians have betrothed her, She
makes her way to America as a
stowaway.
Through a series of strange
adventures In the New York tene.
ment district she finds her par.
ents at last and Is recognized by
them through baby's prayer she
has remembered since her child.
hood.
1t is simple story, acted sim.
ply and truthfully.
The Colonial theater has don,
well to offer 1t to Tacomans with
out an increase in prices, although
1t has drawn big crowds at ad.
vanced prices everywhere.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

CANDIDATES TELL
HOW They STAND

didn't calelesy what
it intends Tacoma real public forum this
spring. city campaign
More than week sent letter each candidate for commissioner
asking his
the candidates
heaedy sincerely little of
or trimming in
than half the number to
candidate Rev. Soever gnied intention not respond
With all candidates
orally supposed replied BY tonight
hope to have the remaining letters in.
the material thus gathered will be
opportunity opinions subjects
fairly uniformly, ought to be hlpto all
selecting men for the places on the city commission
Watch for the candidates symposium in tomorrows Times
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
WILL BE LONG CHASE

Ell PASO, aMrch 20.-Indica-
lions pointed today to a long
pursuit of Villa far into the in
terror of Mexico.
The problem Of supplying the
American troops with munitions
and food, is uppermost in the Of
ficers' minds.
Some considered the withdraw
al of the exedition without cap
turing villa a likely alternative
to forcibly selling the Mexican
railroads.
Renewed reports were received
today that Villa was heading into
the mountains near Durango. Sew
eral Villista bandits are lurking
there.
Villa is now reported In the
chihuahua mountains. Dodd's
cavalary Is reported go miles be-
hind. 1t Is believed here villa
is still in the Carranza trap.
When the pursuit reaches Chi
huahua, railroads will be neces-
sary for supplying the expedition.
The pursuit now is a race be-
tween the cornfed horses of the
American and the untiring mus
tangs of the MeXicans,
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to do with church affairs.
MAKES BITTER ATTACK

The Hotel de Gink" took a
place in the background when
Rev. Trimble launched his attack
on Mills at the First Methodist
church last night charging that
gambling and disorderly houses
are running wide open in Taco
ma.
at is automatic in police admin
istration that the police force will
be just as good as the man at the
head of it and no BETTER" said
Trimble.
Competent authorities who are
qualified to make comparisons
say that there is more gambling
in Tacoma today than there has
been in years.
open games of gambling were
in operation last week. The ar
rests for gambling have been few
and far between in recent
months. In the interests of pub
lie safety why not an enforce
ment of the gambling law?
hiSC competent WlthCooco III
form me today that last night
at least five houses of ill-fame
were operating in Tacoma. These
witnesses can inform Commission
er Mills as to the place and
number. Does Commissioner
Mills know of the condition of
affairs? If not is he too tame or
innocent to head a department of
public safety?
1.-THE charge is general that
there has been an absence of the
human equation and Iamentable
lack of the reformatory in the po-
lice administration of the past
term of the commissioner of pub
lie safety. The city jail is a dis
grace to our city"
Trimble quoted an article
which appeared in The Times last
week, exposing a gambling game
in the A. e B. Smoke House, as
proof Of his charges of wide-open
gambling.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
BY Edgar G. Wheeler

A little girl, dressed in an old
black coat and baggy pair of
breaches, with odorous onion tops
sticking out of her side pockets.
trudged down the road carrying a
two-foot loaf of stale Italian
bread. Apparently unconcerned,
she walked straight into the
hearts of her dressed-up admirers.
She was Mary Pickford-"Poor
Little Peppina" for the time being
Athe little girl who earns ever so
many thousands of dollars a year,
and who is delighting the hearts
OF her Tacoma lovers at the Co
lontal this week.
How About 1t, Girls?
And the Tacoma admirers ex-
pressed their appreciation yester-
day by waiting, in a line that
crowded the curb on Broadway, to
see her.
Girls, can you beat It? Would
you5be willing to risk trying baggy
Trousers, onion tops and stale
italian bread as Leap Year bait?
Maybe the dainty white gown
In which Poor Little Peppina" at
last finds her long lost parents
(also a lover) would suit you bet
ter.
Yet Little Mary as Poor Little
Peppina." onion tops and all, drew
a crowd of admirers at advanced
prices in New York until the police
were called out to handle them.
Simplicity Wins.
Poor Little Peppina " wins. In
her shoes Mary Pickford has tri-
implied through the simple, I'M
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
RUSSIAN
HORDES
ATTACK

LONDON, March 20.--Strong
Russian attacks on the Austrian
and German fronts today shifted
interest from the waning battle
of Verdun.
Vienna admitted the retirement
of Vocieczke and Bridgehead.
Russians there made a grenade
attack.
Elsewhere, Vienna asserted, the
attacks were repulsed.
Berlin asserted the Russians
lost 10000 men in an assault on
Won Hindenburg's forces along a
60-mile front near Wilma. It was
claimed that an infantry attack,
following a heavy bombardment,
proved ineffective.
Petrograd was silent regarding
the fighting there. 1t was be-
lieved the offensive was under
taken to prevent the Germans
from being shifted to the western
front.
The belief is increasing that
the Germans are preparing to
abandon the Verdun offensive.
Aeroplanes were very active on
the western front Sunday.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
ADMITS
THERE
IS VICE

Declaring that Rev. Del
mer II. Trimble had attempt
ed to fill his church with u
sensational TRADE against the
police administration, and
that he had dealt In half
truths in practically all of his
statements, Commissioner
Mills today declared that he
would 'call' the PASTORS
"bluff."
Mills instructed Police Chief
Smith to send two detectives to
Rev. Trimble's parsonage and OBJ
tain from him the alleged proof
of the existence of wide-open vice
in Tacoma, which Rev. Trimble
declared last night he could pro-
duce.
THE minister was run out of
Portland because he made at
tacks on church of another de-
nomination" declared Mills to-
day. 81 have very good informa-
tion to the effect that he is re-
coming disliked by his Tacoma
congregation. Some of my very
best friends are members of his
church. In fact, l am also a men,
Der of the Methodist church.
Changes Mind.
81 had at first planned to at
tend the sermon. But later
came to the conclusion that Rev.
Trimble was merely making a
sensational address to fill up his
church, and l realized that l
would be something of an added
attraction, IL l went. l would be
playing into his hands.
r. II have never said that there
was no gambling nor prostitution
in Tacoma. But l have said, and
do say, that neither is being con-
Quoted openly, or ever has since
i have been head of the depart
ment. The police department is
operating under the same orders
regarding vice as It always has"
Predicts Pastoral Go.
Mills intimtaed today that the
undercurrent Of feeling in the
Methodist church which he says
!sxists against Rev. Trimble, may
Secome pronounced shortly.
II predict that the pastor won't
be in Tacoma six months from
now" said Mills, enigmatically.
A. d. whitney, trustee OF the
First church, and for years one
of the staunch workers for the
church, visited Mills today and
had a long interview with him.
Neither he or the commissioner
would admit afterwards that
their conversation had anything
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

pounds of bombs. Accompanying
the bomb throwing planes were
ID aerial battle cruisers, heavily
armored.
Every machine returned safely.
This is the first time the allies
have retaliated Immediately after
German raid on England.
Ii is reported taht Lord Derby,
minister of aviation, will pursue
this policy hereafter.
Eleven were killed and 30 IN
tured in the German raid on
Kent.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
Advices From Mexico
Indicate Carranza's
Net About Bandit Is
Broken; Hot On Trail

DOUGLAS, Ariz., March
2O.-lt is persistently ru-
mored today that villa has
escaped from the American
trap and Is safe In the Sierra
Madres east of MADEIRA.
II Is known that Gen.
Gutierrez scouts have lost
trace of him.
Meager reports here indicated
hat Pershing and Dodd have
Joined cavalry forces in the vicin.
ty of Galena.
Information received in dis.
patches yesterday indicated that
villa had been driven into a trar
by the rapid advance of the Y.
5. troops.
II is believed today that the
Carranza garrisons have failed ia
hold their end of the net.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
RUSS STEAMER sUBRED

PETROGRAD, March 2O.-The
Russian steamer Jaslabla was
torpedoed in the north Atlantic
March 8, it was reported today.
The crew is believed to have been
saved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
READY TO STRIKE

DOUGLAS. March 20.-About
900 Mexican troops are ready
TO strike in an hours notice
should the fleeing band of Willis
tas head toward Sonora.
Gen. Gales, military governor
OF Sonora, has ordered his troops
to cooperate with the Americans.
lie officially discredited the re-
ports of INSTRUMENTATION and mu-
tiny.
When asked if the capture Of
villa would mean peace in Mexi-
co, Gales replied that there had
been peace ever since the recog-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
By Sam Lloyd.

Sergeant O'Toole, now station
ed on the Mexican border and
known in his troop as the "stra-
tegist,' has figured out just how
far Villa is going to get before
Funston's boys nab him.
The sergeant ought to know
something about it for he helped
the general chase Aguinaldo into
corner.
This picture shows O'Toole's
plan of pursuit, which our anna
teur strategists will be able to
understand from the sergeant's
You see Ii Is better to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
GERMAN ATTACKS FAIL

PARIS, March 20.-German
infantry attacks against Pepper
Heights have been repulsed, to-
days Communique asserted.
Intermitten bombardment
around Vaux and sharp artillery
duels at Eparges, southeast of
Eerdun, were described.
Headquarters claimed the Pep
per Heights attack lacke dspirit,
though a long bombardment pre-
coded 1t. Severe cannonading
is reported south Of Malincourt.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
HOSPITAL SHIP
SUNK BY DIVER

BERLIN, March 20.-The Aus
trian hospital ship Elektra was
sunk Saturday in the Adriatic by
a submarine with the loss of only
one life, according to a Vienna
dispatch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
so AER0PLANES
IN Allies RAID

LONDON, March 2O.-Re-
taliating for Sundays air
raid on the Kentish coast. 80
allied aerOplanes attacked
Zeebrugge, the Teuton sub
marine base, and the mill
tary works at HOultade, in
flicting severe damage, il
was officially announced to-
day.
The fleet carried 1000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

He addressed a message to the
Washington representatives in
both houses encouraging them in
the proposition and asking them
to do everything in their power TO
bring this naval asset to Puget
Sound.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

Ell PASO, March 2O.-Mexi-
cans killed Enrico visconti, .
wealthy Italian rancher in CHI
huahua state last Tuesday. II Is
thought they killed him because
he would not pay them money.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

And now n st. Louis wom-
an has been held as insane
because she taught her par
rot to say, "Hurrah for
Taft"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

milton of Carranza.
lie said Americans had been
misinformed that Villa was the
friend of the poorer classes. He
branded him as an outlaw, a
thief, bandit and said he should
be treated as such.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

longing to his wife, reports an
interested friend.
The powder was powerful, but
astringent, and puckered his
mouth.
He asked her what sort of now
der IL was.
She looked at the can.
THAT is to put In Shoes" she
is reported to have been heard TO
have Informed her immaculate
husband.
Mrs. Ed Everest and Mrs.
Jean Helper were ON the
committee with Mrs. Doolit-
tie. The affair was a decid-
ed success.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

The Villa puzzle above, is only the first of considerab
number Some Of the later puzzles will have Tacoma settings
Lloyd solve puzzle that has solution He has
ed more puzzles than any other living man.
He originated Iow Old Is Am?' and the son of 1ov
who teased world with Pigs in Clover and "Cet Off til
Earth
Times for lot of good amusement Get bus
on the Villa chase and you be the first land
perado. Then wei come back at you with another
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

LONDON-During the first IS
days Of March, 10 vessels of the
Central powers were sunk by
entente submarines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

The women of the First Baptist
church will hold food sale next
Saturday in the Broadway mar
ket.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

Ell PASO-It IL said that villa
is gaining men to his ranks by
telling them of great victories
over the Americans, including the
capture of Texas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

THE HAGUE-A rumor was
started here today of the possi-
bility of war between Germany
and Holland as the result Of the
recent sinking of the steamer
Tubania.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

What has become of the old
fashioned idea that the South Ia
coma car line was to be re-routed
by Jefferson avenue. tho Pacific
avenue line was to be extended
and the Tacoma avenue line
hooked up with something or
other?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
FLAS H ES

ROME--A Bulgarian postal
clerk took two shots today at
Premier Radoslevoff of Bulgaria
as he rode in an open carriage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

A certain Tacoma man who
won a Dress-Up week prize, ran
out OF tooth pawder, forgot to buy
more, and started In on a can be-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

give this crazy bandit his
head.' says O'ToOle. Get on
the other side of him and let
him come TO you. His sys-
tenn is to march the same
distance every day. and his
trail is zigzag like that of a
fox"
THE dots in the diagram, rep.
resenting the hating points
show the kind of trail the beg.
gar will make across country.
Now let us say he is starting
at II. My plan is to get on the
other side of him at X, and move
in his direction at the same pace
he sets. Suppose he goes exact.
ly so miles each day; then our
boys from Y would go toward him
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

PARIS-French troops are in
possession today of a strip of
land between Greece and Serbian
Macedonia as the result of a
sharp encounter with the Bull
CARS.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

{ A bachelor maid says that
there are just three ways to a
mans heart-one through his
vanity, one through his magma
ton and one straight over his
obstinacy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

LONDON-All persons hereto.
fore exempt from military activ-
tiles in Rumania have been call
ed to the colors.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

LONDON-The Austrians have
so continued their march into
Albania that they are now taking
positions in front of the Italian
advance posts.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

Sam Lloyd most famous of puzzle Makers going give Til
a series of puzzles bearing the news of the day.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20
IT ak O. the Times :.

Greetings, are your onion
sets up yet?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-03-20

at the same speed. The letteret
dots represent the stopping places
of both parties.
Now don't forget from II and
y the two expeditions depart sim.
uitaneously, marcn the same
number of miles each day and the
dots are the stopping points
From this explanation | want to
see If you can figure out on my
chart the point WHERE WE
GRAB THE BANDIT. BY giving
the letters in the order they are
reached you can describe the two
routes and the exact point OF
meeting"
Now let our puzzlists get
busy and Run DOWN
PANCHO!
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-29
He MURDERS LITTLE
GIRL OUT OF REVENGE
Fred Bissell Tells Revolving
Story of Killing of Edna
Dinsmore.

r ANSING. Kan. April 2s.-F'red
II Bissell. Topeka baker. confessed
late today that he murdered Edna
Dinsmore. a ten-year-old girl. in To-
peka last Tuesday. Resentment caused
by the refusal of the child's mother
to marry him prompted the crime,
many of the details Of which were of
a revolving character.
The story of the murder and the
happenings that preceded it was told
to ]. X. COdding. warden of the Kan
sas state penitentiary and l.. l.. Kiene.
sheriff of Topeka, according to an
announcement made by Warden Cod
ding.
Offers to Buy Books
Bissell. according to the statement.
met the child Tuesday morning. When
Edna complained that her mother
would not buy her the school books
she wanted Bissell declared he said to
her:
"You 20 with me and will get you
all the books you need"
He led the child to a vacant house.
As they walked along Bissell said he
began to think Of how the child's
mother had repulsed his attentions
and had refused to marry him.
THAT feeling that had always
caused me to commit crime came over
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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-29
Minneapolis Symphony Or
chestra to Appear at
Convention Hall.
A NOTABLE CROWD
Clubwomen From All Over
the State to Attend;
Two Performances.

A MOTHER epochal musical event
4 a will be Tulsa's lot today for the
noted Minneapolis Symphony orches-
ira will give concerts at Convention
hall this afternoon and tonight. 1t
will mark the tenth annual spring
festival of the Hyecha club. the states
foremost musical organization. Pres
idents of the principal music clubs of
the state will be guests of the local
organization. A brilliant audience
will attend both concerts
II has been four years since Emil
Obcrhoffer and lis matchlcss COM
pany Of sixty musicians appeared in
Tulsa and they have made wonderful
improvements since then.
The advance seat sale for the con-
terts has been unusually heavy and
large audiences are expected at both
performances. Hundreds Of children
will attend the matinee. as well as
many adults There are large
number of lovers of good music who
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