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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26

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At \. Z u. NJ. & w. Co.
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The aggregate of live stock at Brish-
Cr, Watertc~n ana the local slaughter
horses.
This vceh: Cattle 1900, sheep 1872
Last we(,. G~ttIe 233>i, Sheep 3c4s
rayes &c. hogs 2G,l35.
MAINE STOCK AT MARKET.
Cattle 81, sheep Sc, calves 431, hogs 2l2
THE TONI. OF THE MARKET.
Beef cattle were in very heavy sup
ply at the yards and while the demand
held steady it was inadequate to the
supply, and the market was weak ana
lower on all grades. Some very choice
cattle were brought in, but the mar
let was unsatisfactory and cents
vas the top. the range being from F2
&c, For good quality steers and oxen
the market was from 7M7i@c. The best
cows sold at 5%.M6Lc with fair to good
.aG5S.c: poor to ordinary ga M4%c.
and bolognas and Gamers 3@3Ac.
Bulls we're in quite good supply at 40
Vic,
Veal calves held about steady with
offerings about as usual. The general
anse Of good quality was from 712W
VIC, with choice heavy veal 91a@1Olec.
Coarse calves sold at SIC and small
calves S3ds5 each./
IA c.
Aveweisht. with few extras a frac-
ton higher, and 9A@9Ac, dressed
weight Receipts at the packing houses
were heavy and there was a somewhat
aFser supply at the yards.
Sheep and lambs showed no change.
Sheep sold at 9lsG6c, and lambs at 5A
3s'$c A few dollhouse lambs were re-
NiVed at the slaughter houses.
Mich cow trade continued poor,
with a fairly large supply. Good aver
sss COWS sold at s5oms75: choice $3.50
w. and poor s35Is5O.
me live poultry was strong at a
SUBSTANTIAL advance. Fowl 17@1S;
@'ckens l6Gl7c; BOOSTERS 11G12c.
SALES AT THE YARDS
seer Cattle--F. w. Wormell & Son
~o fancy steers, 1850 lbs, and fancy
seers' $3.50 lbs, at Sc. w. H. Neal sold
steers, al &c, 6 steers at 6 1-2c. and
Steers. at &C. C. A Eastman sold 2
wen at l2c. 5 cows, at 1-2c. and
'~s' at 434c. Minis & Holbrook sold
= steers, 1900 lbs, at Lee, COW. $40
'~' al &c, COW, $50 lbs, at SAC. H.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26
Boston Livestock Market

Specially Reported for the Kennebet
Journal.)
Stock Yards, Jan. %.
At Brighton Abattoir.
MAINE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26

cry home has one or more sick ones in
it.
Mrs. Bessie J. Grindle Of Waterville
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. p.
Howes, for a few days.
Ex-Governor B. NJ. Fernald Of West
Poland was in town Friday calling on
friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26
The Grocer and the
Home.

The small grocer controls
seventy per cent. OF the food
product trade Of the country.
The goods move directly
over his counter to the family
!droer. He is a neighborhood
institution. He comes in close
contact with his customers at
all times and intimately
Knows their likes and dis
likes.
II would be strange if the
grocery man were not quick
70 sense the influence OF
newspaper advertising. He
Knows customers begin call.
ing for certain brands by
name when these brands are
newspaper advertised. What
10 more natural than that he
should push these particular
articles?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26

JOURNAL WANT ADS.
BRING RESULTS
TRY ONE AND SEE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-26

The first steamer Of the French
Canadian Line left the Mystic dock
Boston. Sunday morning. She was the
American. steamer Virginian, and her
destination is st. Nazaire. France She
will carry the largest shipment OF
army horses yet shipped from Boston
there being loaded 1925 horses for the
French army.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
WELCOMING THE wEEvIL.

From the Albany Herald.
This is what one farmer in the vicinity
said: "Mr. Boil Weevil will be welcome
to anything he can find to eat on my
place next year. He can eat pork and beef.
have corn leaf salad, pea porridge and veg
etable dinners sweet potatoes three times a
day, oats and rye for lunch and peavine hay
as often as he feels like gorging himself.
But if he wants cotton he will have to visit
one of the adjoining farms. | won't have
any for him"
This farmer does not propose to go out
of the cotton business. He expects to plant
cotton in years to come, but he is planning
to cut it out in 1917 for two reasons. In
the first place he wants to study the boil
weevil He wants to note how other farm
ers deal with the pest, what methods prove
most effective, what varieties give best re-
suits, ETC. While noting these things he
feels that he would like to be free from
worries of his own, and therefore he is go
ing to plant no cotton
The other reason is the farmers desire
to demonstrate the possibilities of other
money crops than cotton and he feels that
the most satisfactory demonstration can be
made by eliminating the staple crop alto
gether. He proposes to make his farm self
sustaining, and will plan to have surplus
of every crop he plants to sell.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
Age of Preventive'lM medicine.

DR.. Simon Flexner, head of the Rookie
Teller institute for medical research, work
ing in conjunction with a number of other
eminent physicians, surgeons and scientists,
is on the trail of the infantile paralysis
germ. In all probability this means that
sooner or later the criminal crocus will
throw up its hands and surrender, for it is
not often that medical science acknowl-
edges defeat
This is the age of preventive medicine, OF
serum therapy in particular. Disease has
been robbed of its terrors to an encourag-
ing extent Typhoid fever is conspicuous
example. Until few years ago deadly
scourge, with a truly appalling mortality
percentage, it has been tanned until to-day
it yields obediently to medical treatment
Repeated tests, especially among soldiers OF
the United States army, have shown thai
three hypodermic injections confer for two
or three years an immunization from ty
plus almost absolute. Gone forever, too
is the once fearful dread of smallpox, with
all its loathsomeness, and that scourge
diphtheria, has also lost its terrOrs.
And what is true of these examples is
true also of hundreds of diseases which usec
to grip patient and physician alike in awe
some panic. Blood poisoning and pneu
monia having yielded to the attacks made
by the doctors in mass formation it is rea
sonable to hope that tuberculosis, infantilt
paralysis and other. diseases as serious vii
not be able always to Withstand the steady
advance of the scientists.
The world knows that it owes much to it,
faithful practitioners of medicine for theil
tireless labors in behalf of prevention, ant
it is realizing it more each passing day.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
China's Sorrow.

China is a vast empire It's population
is the largest of any of the nations. 1t is
far. far away-so remote in its connections
with the interests of the United States that
it has been easy to forget its vicissitudinous
existence.
But China seems to have more than its
share of sorrows.
At intervals the news dispatches carry
fresh recitals of it's woes The papers are
telling now of one of those periodic vista
tons. Almost one million of her people are
shelterless, and, because the autumnal
crops have been wiped out by the waters,
they are on the point of actual starvation.
In one province an area of 1000 square
miles is inundated.
The American Red Cross is laboring with
its customary indefatigability to lessen the
force of the blow, and has already ex-
pended more than 100000 in relief work.
The disaster comes at an hour when the
best displomatic thought of the unfortunate
Mongolans is being centered on an effort
to meet critical situation evolved through
the demands of Japan. China does not
want hostilities. She cannot afford them.
giant in comparative numerical strength
of her people, she is nevertheless weak
ling when confronted with the alternative
of armed conflict. The question of whether
Japan is right or wrong has but little to do
with it, for, right or wrong, China must
agree.
China has her political and territorial
crisis, her floods, her plaques, her crop fail
ures, her internal dissensons and revolu-
tions-China is pitiable. She may have
sinned more than once. Her escutcheon
may not be immaculate, and her character
may not approach the cold wilderness of the
driven snow, but she has suffered much, and
in the hour of her latest fateful grief she
arouses a world pity and hope for swift
rehabilitation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
Good for Uncle Nat.

Governor Harris very promptly and en-
phatically repudiated a story published IN
the Macon Telegraph which purported to
quote him as saying that he proposed to
ego into every county which Dorsey carried
and show up Dorsey and his gang"
1t is inconceivable that Governor Harris
ever entertained such an idea, much less
an intention of putting it into execution.
1t would have been the mistake of his life
and a great disappointment to his real
friends and admirers, among whom is The
News. and his denial of the statement &C
credited to him is nothing more than was
expected.
Not only is the governor not going to sat
isfv the spleen of few enemies of the gov
ernor-elect by Showing up him and his
gang" but as a democrat he is giving him
unqualified support. eff his election were
put in jeopardy" says Governor Harris, Il
would feel it my duty to take the stump for
him as nominee of the party. That is the
kind of democrat am. If speak in behalf
of Mr.. Wilson anywhere in Georgia l shall
certainly not fail to commend to the suf-
frage of the people the nominee OF the
party for governor of Georgia equally with
the president"
That is spoken like the man and the good
democrat Governor Harris is, and is
splendid example for the naggers at the
next governor.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
A Noble Work.

The religious denominations are now
pushing the collections for their orphan
ages. Gwen as ye have ministered unto
one of these little Ones" said the Master,
$50 have We ministered unto me-" Do your
duty, do what you can. A child left in this
world without father or mother, especially
mother, surely challenges the sympathy and
helpful efforts of all right thinking men
and women, without regard to creed or pol
tiles or worldly station-save that for those
who are most able to do the responsibility
is greater
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
What a Horse
Strike Would Mean

! Carl N. Kennedy of the Oregon Agricul-
tural College presents this interesting SUD
iect in the Breeders Gazette, Chicago, as
follows:
The railroad difficulty now confronting
the nation leads one to think of the erect
that a strike would have upon the wheels
of commerce. We might make similar
comparison of the result if the horse could
use horse sense and start a strike because
of its wrongs and poor feed
There are more than 24,00O,OOO horses
in the United States, of which 100000
are used in cities. Associated with these
8 100000 city horses are about 1900, 700
teamsters and freight movers who would be
made idle by the strike of the horses. The
business of the stockyards, the transfer
companies railroads and the steamboats,,
with all manner of construction work would
be thrown into chaos. 1t is estimated by
automobile men that from two to three per
cent of the work is now being done by
trucks Therefore at least 95 per cent of
the hauling would not be taken care OF and
/ 900, 900 men would be put out of employ
ment either directly or indirectly by the
absence of the horses.
On the farms the condition would be
even worse. Of the 21,00O,00O horses on
farms probably SO per cent are used for
work and the other so per cent are idle or
growing horses. What would be the result
if the 10000, 900 or more horses which are
working in the United States would stop
work in the middle of our harvest? The
wheat market would be affected to great
er extent than by the European war. Ii
the animals which are at work with the hay
or other crops would quit millions of farm
ers would be thrown temporarily out of
work The result would be tremendous
even as compared to what probable rail
road strike might mean. The horse strike
would stop the productive end of the work
and also the larger part of the movement
of freight.
In addition to the horses there are
100000 mules in the United States. 1t
can be imagined that these would strike IN
sympathy with the horses, as they are half
horse. Then again our army in Mexico
might have some trouble
Where would the strike lead the horses
and their sympathizers? Nowhere in par
ticular except to make the people of the
United States realize that they are still de-
pendent upon the horse and that horses are
doing most of the work. 1t might also put
under the sod some of the prophets who are
predicting day when there will be no
horses; the people would know that at least
their idea was dead.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
An OId-FaShiOned Virtue.
From the Youths Companion.

One of the richest and most influential
corporations in the United States has an IN
teresting rule On entering its employ
ment every clerk must agree to keep all in
formation and all orders he receives to him
self He is not to discuss any directions or
any business in his hands with any other
clerk or employee, inside or outside of the
building In short, he is to keep absolute
silence about all details of the business on
penalty of prompt dismissal. A large share
of the prosperity of the corporation is due
to the strict enforcement of this rule.
In private life as we'll as in business
there is an admirable opportunity to apply
such rule. The girl or woman whose
swiftly flowing conversation is filled with
personalities and gossip about the affairs of
other people may succeed in finding ready
listeners but she does not hold the respect
even of those who lend their ears to her
stories and to a person of discernment she
cannot fail to give the impression of inettl-
cheney and lightness of character. There
is a certain dignity to be gained from not
telling all you know.
Some sensitive persons feel that they are
untruthful unless they confess all their
faults to a chosen friend; but it is not a
wise view to take. Your dearest friend
will not thank you for revealing weakness
that you have successfully overcome. To
| keep silence is part of the penalty; part,
too, of what you owe to the good order and
comfort of society.
If you would learn the old-fashioned vir-
tue of reticence begin to talk about things,
not persons. Whether you live in town or
country, in crowds or quiet places, you can
| find MANY things worth talking about. Once
the new habit is formed there will come an
enlarged outlook on the world and life will
take on fuller and richer meaning.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
Consider the Birds.
From the Tifton Gazette.

The statement in our news columns the
other day that pheasants have been found
by experiment to be of great value in clear
ing fields of the boil weevil, one pheasant
keeping an acre free of the pest, bears out
statement published for the first time IN
the Gazette two years ago that turkeys
were the finest pickers of boil weevils on
earth. This was told US by gentleman
from Texas, who said his turkeys kept a
twelve-acre patch of cotton clear of weevils
for him. Turkeys, cartridges and pheasants
all are of the same family. Not all South
Georgia farmers can have pheasants next
year, but all can have a flock of turkeys and
all can keep the hunters from killing the
cartridges on their farms this winter. Bros
of all kinds eat boil weevils; those that stay
on the ground eat most. The partridge is
that kind. Stop the slaughter of the birds
for one year at least now that the weevil is
here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
Peanuts VS.. Cotton.

The peanut continues to be lauded as a
great aid to the Southern farmer and one of
his main factors in combating the boil
weevil.
The Hurtsboro (Ala) Tribune reports an
incident where farmer had only one hun
bred acres of peanuts in the field to show
his banker, to whom he owed $1,000. The
banker did not think it was so bad. He
said, according to the Huntsville paper, that
he would cancel the farmers note and give
him $4,000 to boot for the produce just as
it stood
The banker is harvesting $4,000 on the
peanuts, and will have about $500 worth
of hay in addition.
Good night, cotton!
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

The circuses are now making their an
nual visits to Georgia. All! the circus! In
what other shape and for so little money is
delight for humanity-especially for the
kids, but no less for grown folks? The
good Lord knew what he was doing when
he inspired the heart and mind of men to
devise, develop and perfect the circus
from one ring up to three. Welcome the
circus, innocent and instructive pleasure,
the amusement of all the people. When
the circus loses its hold on humanlty-well
we wont be here then, and no need to think
about such time,
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18
The JapS in Mexico.
Harry J. Dunn in Carter's Magazine.

A Japanese it was who fired the first shot
at party of American marines from the
Annapolis at Mazatlan three Japanese
have been killed in raiding parties in Texas,
one died with the Carranza troopers under
Felix Gomez at Carrizal and sixty of the
little brown men are officers in the Car
rama army under Gen. Alvardo in Yucca
tan. In Mexico to-day are more than
10, 600 Japanese, about 1000 of them in
so-called fishing camps and on little farms
on the west coast. Neither camps nor
farms produce sufficiently for the support
of 1000 of even these economical people.
Down the backbone of the continent,
from Juarez to Santa Lucrecia, are 1000
more, many of them living idly in the
larger cities, producing nothing, apparently
doing nothing. yet always well-dressed,
well-fed, plentifully supplied with money
and unchanged by revolution-for the
Japanese are the only people who have
been neither killed nor robbed by any fac
ton of Mexicans in the past six years of
war.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Almost universal regret has been eX-
pressed that Hon. o. H. B. Bloodworth, who
outran a dozen or more competitors and
came within but few votes of receiving
the required majority, was not nominated
for one of the three places on the appellate
court bench. Mr.. Bloodworth is an able
lawyer, heightened man, and The News
predicts that should he again offer for one
of the higher courts he will be easily
elected.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Out in the state of Washington woman
has been nominated by the democrats for
congress-, and in Illinois woman has been
selected by the democrats as one OF the
presidential electors. The dmocratic and
republican nominees for president are both
avowed advocates of woman suffrage. 1t
would seem that woman is in a fair way to
become force in the political life of the
country.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

In order to let consumers down gently in
the increased cost of cheese some method
might be devised of enlarging the air cells.
Air is cheap and is the very best part of
some cheese.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Seventeen cents a pound for cotton has
been paid in Dawson. And the tendency is
upward, for we all realize that the crop is
short Come to Dawson to do your fall
shopping.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

The balance of trade with Europe is all on
our side, but the South Americans are TAX
ing it away from u.s. We sold the South
Americans last year goods to the amount OF
SITS. 900, 600 and they sold US $40O,OOO,OOO
worth. Both export and import figures
broke the record last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

One Professor Martins asserts that if the
earth stopped moving the European war
ring nations would be wiped off the map.
Judging by what is going on in those coun-
tries we are inclined to believe that the
earth is very near that point
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

The government has completed surveys
of Alaska, and finds a farming land area as
large as Massachusetts, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Delaware, New Jersey, Connec-
ticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Plo-
neers for $4O0 can acquire $40 acres OF this
land, which is reported to be, suitable for
tilling and, grazing. But why leave Amer
lea?
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Another popular fallacy is exploded by the
"Ouestions and Answers" column of the In
dianapolis News. Replying to an inquirer
who asked on what occasion Horace Greedy
used the famous expression $50 West,
young man, go West" the information is
that Horace Greedy never said it. The ex-
preston was used, instead by John b.
Soule. editor of the Terre Haute Express.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Anyone who doubts that aeroplaning has
It's thrills can receive some enlightening
viewpoints by interviewing the French air
man who fell 10000 feet and escaped alive
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

When women aid in the destruction Of
two draw loads of liquor, as was done in an
other state, it is the retaliation of fate at
work. Liquor has destroyed many a
woman's happiness and peace of mind.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Judge Hughes was right when he said
''the American people will never give up
government by law and reason now at the
cost of continuous fighting" But he is I'M
duly pessimistic. We still have govern
ment of law and "rule of reason" and are
better prepared to fight than we ever were
before.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Now watch the bears pussy-foot and try
to depress the price of cotton. But be
cheerful and come to Dawson to buy your
goods
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

It is said that Hon. John N. Holder, who
was speaker of the house of representatives
some years ago, will aasire to that position
again. Many of our contemporaries have
endorsed his candidacy There are few
more astute politicians and cleverer men
than John N, and if he goes after that
speakership it had just as we'll surrender.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

The farm loan board has ended its long
journey of exploration, but great many
aspiring cities, including a half dozen or so
in Georgia, are still on the anxious seat.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

every Soul Hath It's Song is the name
of new book by Fannie Hurst. Must have
a lot of ragtime souls in this country, then
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Macon is going to have a great state falr
this wear. We are sure of that. The
Macon fair is of and for Georgia 1t is
our fair. for all sections of the state share
the benefits. 1t is an education to spend
few days at this fair, and we counsel every
man and woman who can attend to do so.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

There is another entrant to spend your
cash for now. The gay and festiveS oyster
has made his little bow.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Fifty-fve dollars a ton for cotton seet
sounds good-a prospect of higher price
sounds even better.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Hope is that pleasure of the mind which
everyone finds himself in upon the thought
of probable future enjoyment of thing
which is apt to discourage him.-Locke.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

An air raid that costs the raiders two ma
chimes valued att around $6,OOO,OOO look
like mighty expensive proposition.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

Louis Swift says Get in debt to sue
coed" Most people succeed in getting in
debt.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

With flour headed for the aviation squad
it is time to look up that old recipe for corn
hoecake.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-10-18

who used to shine his shoes with stove pol
ish?