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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-08
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-08
FROM HALLOWELL

inspection of Ballots in Ward Is Demanded
Epworth League to Hold Prayer Meeting -
Ladies' Aid of Universalist Church Entertain
ed-Property Transfer-Local News Happen
ings and Personal Briefs
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Anniversary Of the American Savings
Banks System.

December of the present year is
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
Inauguration of savings banking in
the United States" says The World S
Work.
Ion that day of the year 1916 the
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, a
voluntary association that was char
tered by the State in 1919, began to
receive deposits Eleven days later,
on December Is, 1916, the Provident
Institution for Savings in the town
of Boston received it's charter from
Massachusetts, and opened its doors
for business. In March, 1918, the
Savings Bank Of Baltimore began
operations. And on July 3, 1919, a
fourth institution, the Bank for Saw
~ings in the City of New York, well
coined it's first depositors.'
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
RAPIERS ROUT CARDS.
Chicago Society Women Substitute
Fencing for Bridge.

The fencing foil and handball are
going to replace bridge whist and tea
dansants among the society matrons
and debutantes of the North Side.
For the women, becoming tired Of
the sedentary life of the social world,
have turned to athletics in its most
active branches.
Two hundred of them living in the
fashionable Sheridan road district
and the North Shore attended the
formal opening of the Edgewater At
lantic association which is to be
maintained exclusively for women de-
string athletic training. The club will
be conducted under the direction of
Mrs. Antoinette Voss, assisted by a
board of advisers selected from the
membership
The club will embrace all of the
features embodied in the most ex-
elusive downtown clubs, dressing,
reading and lounging rooms will &C.
cupy the lower floor and the upper
floors will be converted into modern
gymnasium where athletic instruc-
tion will be given under the direction
Of experts.-Chicago Post.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
OF FIFTY YEARS AGO.
When Caps and Aprons Were Worn
With Milady's House Dresses.

Fifty years or more ago the apron
and the breakfast cap were the pride
and Joy of every matron, for they
were her sign and symbol. The cap
of that time was as elaborate and
dainty an affair as the boudoir cap
of today; it was worn with the house
dress, and often, much trimmed,
throughout the afternoon and eve
ming. Aprons, evidently an impor-
tant feature of every woman's ward
robe in those days, were decidedly
fancy, and usefulness was not
strong point in their construction.
According to an old copy Of Co.
dey's Lady's Book, aprons were made
of such materials as black silk and
satin, and were trimmed with lace
and velvet, with graduated ruf1es of
the silk; often these ruffles were
scalloped. They were also cut in
strange shapes, and a final touch was
added. by sewing on lace pockets and
a few bows The same old-fashioned
book, in "Chitchat on the Fashions
for November" says:
Aprons, or simulated aprons, are
the folly of the day. They are likely
to have as popular reign as in the
time of Queen Charlotte, when Beau
Brummel deposed them from their
high estate by deliberately, before all
the people assembled, taking off the
apron Of a duchess and flinging it
behind one of the settees at a ball
given at the assembly rooms at Bath.
Aprons were made then, as now, of
costliest lace, and enormous sums
were spent upon this article of dress.
The latest novelty is a depth of silk
not more than IL inches, to which
is added a flounce of lace equally
wide, but narrowed at the sides. Of
course, this style will in time give
way to large aprons. What is useful
generally becomes popular and lasts
for considers Bile time" ."-Christian
Science Monitor
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
FARM OPERATED FROM PRISON
Convict Directs Vast Agricultural In
terests by Mail.

Guy E. Baker, Lone Tree livery
man, who was sent to Anamosa pris-
on for the murder of Oliver C. Driv-
er, his employe, in fit of passion, is
now a trusty in the institution, and
an effort to secure a parole may be
successful.
He is managing his big farming
business from the prison CELL He
calls it" mail order farming" and it
is proving successful. To operate a
farm of 800 acres from behind stone
walls and iron bars is big task, say
the farmers and other friends, who
are working for his release.-Iowa
City Qowa) Dispatch to Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
PERSEVERANCE.
How He Earned His Nights Lodg-
ing.

There is an article in the Decem-
ber American Magazine in which the
man who tells his personal expert
ences says:
1T struck me that right here was
chance for me to earn enough to
pay for my nights lodging. l went
up to a lady who had a large carpet
bag and, lifting my hat, asked to
carry her bag. Among other things
taught me by my German friends was
that politeness costs nothing and is
often very valuable. When l had
placed her bag on the car at the top
of the hill she gave me quarter.
Ten cents was as much as I had
hoped for. l returned to the station,
and soon after another train came in.
Two men who were together handed
me their luggage to carry, and one
of them gave me 25 cents to pay for
both. l had now more than enough
to pay for my bed and supper.
"The next morning l went back to
the station, and by evening l had
made 80 cents. The next day the
hoodlums tried to run me away from
the station, but the station police
man threatened to arrest them if
they interfered with me again. He
was much interested in my story and
in my determination to get an edu-
cation. 1t was through him that the
station agent let me sit in the wait
ing room where it was warm, a priv
ilege not granted any of the other
boys
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
WILL SOME ONE PAGE DIOGENES?
Theatrical Manager Pays Stranded
Actors Years After Failure.

After he had quit the theatrical
business and remained away from
New York nearly seven years, Henry
Jessop, formerly producing manager
of The Innocent Boy company, re-
turned to Broadway recently and
paid S1,0S0 in salaries he owed to
actors and actresses who were
stranded in Willimantic, Conn.,, in
1909.
In the fall of that year Jessop took
out company of nine players, but
business was poor and the tour came
to an abrupt end in about Is weeks.
Jessop promised to make good some
day, but actors do not attach much
importance to such promises. He
went to Salem, Mass, started in the
electrical business and has since been
very successful.
Returning to New York the first
time since his disastrous venture as
the manager of a road show, Jessop
ran into Paul Abbott, who was come
dian of THE Innocent Boy troupe.
Instead of trying to dodge, Jessop
shook hands with a sturdy grip, and
said:
Il still owe you and the others,
and if you can round them up I'll set
tie in full any minute
He took out little vest pocket &C
count book and showed Abbott that
he owed him SLIT. Going into the
Hotel Astor, Jessop drew forth
bank roll and paid the comedian, CIV
ing him an extra IS as interest with
which to purchase new derby hat.
Abbott succeeded in finding six other
members of the company, who re-
ceived payment.
Jessop told the members of the
company that if they should learn
the whereabouts of the two who are
missing out of the nine-Allen Conk-
lin and Miss Lottie Foxwell-they
should write to him at his home in
Davenport, Miss.-New York Tele-
graph
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
60, ,OO0,o0o> Bushels of Grain Seized,

London, Dec. 17:>@Adolph Won Ba-
tocki, president of the German food
regulation board, has arrived at Bud
apest to attend the Austro-Hungar-
ian food conference, says dispatch
from Copenhagen to the Exchange
Telegraph company. Herr Won Batocki
is quoted as declaring that the Aus
tro-Germans seized 60,00O,000 BUSH
els of grain and maize in Rumania,
insuring to the Central Powers suf-
ficient supplies until the next har-
vest.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
The Life of Bill Buster, Liar.

Perhaps, after all, Bill was not al
together to blame He entered life
with a certain handicap-a handicap
of inherited views, a metal outlook,
that he came by as honestly as he
did his large ears and backward
sloping chin. His mother, no doubt
a well-meaning soul, to the last
looked on being lin STYLE as of far
greater Importance than a full meal
barrel; his dad, poor fellow, never
got over his earlier impressions that
Mis- standing with the boys was the
measure of his success in life.
So this twig of the Bluster tree
was bent early in the wrong direc-
tiop, and the passing years saw it
still farther inclined. AS boy, Bill
tremendously admired the dash his
father cut; as youth, he began to
cut a few himself; as a man, his
highest ambition lay in the direction
of sporty clothes, swagger, cigar
or cigarette in his mouth, and the
aroma of booze.
Now Bills whole trouble lay in
his distorted mental viewpoint. 1t
seemed to him smart and manly to
smoke cigarette; a whiskey-drink
ing carouse to him was the acme of
all things desirable. However mar
row and painful shoe-toe might
be, it never panied him unless it
was out of style; however dirty Or
contemplate thing might be, it was
all right if the boys said so.
Bluster had such a veritable pas
sion for seeming something he was
not that early in life he actually got
to believing the lies he told him
self. Appearances, "a 'front.'" meant
everything; the sound realities of
lfe,-truth, honor, justice nothing.
His favorite boast was of his wealth;
but the court house records revealed
that long ago what little he possess
ed had, because of insistent creditors,
gone into his wife's name. Begin
ming life as liar, his whole life was
q colossal falsehood.
Chronically fated to see things in
q false light, the beauties of truth
were to him wholly unknown. BILL
will tell a lie when there is not even
an apparent necessity for it," said
an acquaintance, and the statement
was literally true. Starting on false
basis, with a false viewpoint, lying
to him was second nature. But all
his lies, all his swagger and buster,
fooled nobody. Even his associates
knew him for what he was.
Not long ago poor Bill passed on
his soul to the Giver of Truth. All
he left the world was lesson. But
can we not, this Christmas time, well
mediate on this lesson his shallow,
unreal life has given US? Can we
not, out of this human wreck, draw
the unfailing moral that Truth, truth
to ourselves and to the world, is one
of the most priceless of all gifts?
If so, then even Bill Bluster has not
lived in vain.-Progressive Farmer.
n
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21

When Mrs. Mary E. Peters, age &C.,
of Millville, N. j., became the bride
of James McNeal, age 6S, the bride
was given in marriage by her mother.
Mrs. Jane Facemire, age SO. The
maid of honor was Miss Blanche
Hughes, granddaughte of the bride,
and the brides grandson, Harvey w.
Hughes, was best man.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21
Penniless Man Now Morgan's Partner

New York, Dec. 17.-Thomas
Cochran, president of the Liberty Ma
tional Bank, of this city, who came
to New York from St. Paul virtually
penniless sixteen years ago, will be-
come a partner in the firm of J. P.
Morgan & Co., on January l, it was
announced tonight.
In search for promising young
men," Henry H. Davidson ''discov-
cred" Cochran and selected him to
aid him in a plan to reorganize the
Astor Trust company. His rise in
financial circles was rapid after that.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21

Every little while some one dishes
up an article on THE Passing of the
Rube." And the rube has been out of
date for so many years no one even
remembers what he looked like.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-12-21

There are so many Investigations
of the high price of foodstuffs it gives
the cusses an excuse to boost again.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Inter-Class Field
And Track Meet

Under the direction of Coach
Keyes of the Delaware College
Track Team, a day of field and
track contests between the Sopho-
mores and Freshmen, has been ar
ranged for October "a on Joe
Frazer Field. Great interest is al
ready being shown in the meet,
and candidates for the teams are
practicing daily. For the Sopho-
mores, Marston, Craig, M. PLAN
Marco t ii, Fitzpatrick, ano
Hearne show most promise. Nc
Donnell, Chambers, Graves, Will
Jams, and Roach are doing goot
work for the Freshmen. Melon
nell, formerly of the Wilmington
High School, has been electei
captain of the Freshman team.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
DELAWARE
DEFEATS P. M. 6.

Delaware College opened its
football season last Saturday with
a decisive victory over Pcnnsyl-
vania Military College at Chester.
The score was 81 to 0. About 100
students accompanied the team to
Chester, and marched in military
formation to the football field pre-
ceded by the college band. The
game proved that, in spite of the
absence of several veteran players
who are on the Mexican border,
Delaware has team that will be
a credit to the college. On both
offensive and defensive the best
game for Delaware was played by
Weldin, Selby, Loose, and Fidance
Clancy, a new man who comes tt
Delaware from Colby College
Maine, played remarkably goot
game at end. Now that the team
has shown it's mettle, the student
are looking forward with conn
dence to the games with Haver
ford, Western Maryland, Dickin
son, etc.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
New Train On 3. & O.

Beginning on Wednesday the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will
run a special train from Whining
ton to Newark each morning, to
accommodate students living in
Wilmington who commute. This
train will leave Delaware avenue
at 7.45 and arrive here at $40
o'clock. Such a train was prac-
tically a necessity to make the
new schedule in Delaware College
a success. First period is at BE
o'clock. To make this class stu
dents who used the B. & 0. were
required to get train at Delaware
avenue station at about 6.3(
o'clock, the next train getting herr
too late for the class. s..
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Delaware Representative
At Indianapolis

DR.. Mitchell, president OF Della
ware College, will represent GOV.
Charles R. Miller at Indianapolis,
on October IS, at the Indianapolis
Centennial Education Day.
The day program will be a re-
view of the Education Exhibits
and a massive demonstration at
the State Fair Grounds, partlcl-
pated by the schools, colleges, and
universities from all parts OF the
state, showing the years OF educa-
tional p, ogress in the state.
In the evening at 7.15 at the
Claypool Hotel will take place the
Indiana Century Educational Ban.
uuet rendered Indiana's sons ahe
daughters (writers, authors
statesmen and educators) Wh'
have brought honor and olstlhc
tion to the Hoosier state.
DR.. Mitchell will represent TN
state of Delaware and deliver a'
address at the banquet.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
COL. TOWNSEND
MAKES FIRST AD-
DRESS-URCES
STATE COOPERATION

Members of the Republican Ac-
tive Club and their guests, the
members of the Hughes First
Voters Club, were addressed at Re-
publican Headquarters in Will
mington last Friday evening by
Congressman Thomas w. Miller,
Colonel John G. Townsend, Repub-
lican nominee for governor; Geo.
M. Fisher, ominee for lieutenant
governor and David j. Reinhardt,
nominee for attorney general. The
meeting was presided over by AS
sistant City Solicitor John F
Lynn. Colonel Townsend, the first
speaker, in opening his address re-
marked that he was proud o. the
fact that he has been life mem
Der of the Republican Club, and
suggested that efforts be made te
secure more members for the cluk
from lower Delaware. Colone
Townsend made a most favorable
impression. He said in part:
IL come not only as one Of tha
plain citizenship which makes VI
Delaware, but as the nominee TO
Governor of the State. l come,
think you will agree, not as tn
choice of any one section, nor o
any one opinion; l come, ant
proud I am, as the man from tn
4 ordinary walk of our life, as you
candidate, chosen by ordinary pee
pie. so feel the appreciation an
o.. Continued on page 4)
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
WAGE WAR
AGAINST SALOON
IEpworth League Adopts Res
olution At Recent Convention

-Epworth League Adopts Res
.olution At Recent Convention
The Wilmington District Ep-
worth League convention which
was in session for two days last
week at Newport NJ. e. church,
came to close on Friday, with an
address by the Rev. Herbert F.
Randolph, D. D., pastor of Grace
Methodist Episcopal church, Will
mington.
A resolution providing for a
united effort to Danish the saloon
for the country was passed in the
afternoon. Forty-four delegates
and eighteen ministers were in at.
tendance. Professor and Mrs
Harold C .Clase gave several selec
tions.
The Junior League hour was II
charge of Miss Carrie Dempsey Of
Galena, Md. She gave some prac
tical suggestions for work tha
the juniors can do. About fit.
juniors were present.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Presentation Exer-
cises On Saturday

Flag Council, No. %, Junior
Order United American Mechan-
les of Newark, will present a flag
to Ogletown school next Saturday,
October ID. Formal exercises will
be held at three o'clock. Miss
Ethel Campbell, teacher at the
school, has arranged an interest
ing program. The presentation of
the flag on behalf of the Mechan-
les will be made by the Rev. w. j.
Rowan of Newark, after which
The Star Spangled Banner will be
sung. The speech of acceptance
on behalf of the School Board and
pupils will be made by Professor
C. A. Short, of Delaware College
Rev. E. P. Roberts also will make
an address.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Big Fire At
Dayetts Mill
OldLandmark Dcstroyed--- Work
of Rebuilding Begins At
Once

Fire of unknown origin on last
Thursday destroyed the large -four
mills of J. Irwin Dayett, at Cooch,
causing a loss of $31 900, $4,000
of which was not covered by in
surance. Following the visit of
insurance commissioners today,
the work of rebuilding will begin
at once.
Mr.. Dayett lives with his fam
lily about two hundred feet from
the mill. His daughter, who was
awakened by the barking of dog
about 2 a. M, first discovered the
blaze. The alarm was immediate
ly sounded but before help came
the file had spread over the build
ing.
Newark firemen were summoned
but were handicapped in their re-
sponse by a heavy fog. When they
arrived there was no chance what
ever of saving the main mill build
Iirg.'''''
In addition to the main mill,
known as the clover mill, two
smaller buildings adjoining were
also burned. The firemen manag-
ed to save the elevator building, a
short distance from the mill, al
: thought on fire several times.
In saving the structure it was nee
essary to pump thousands of gal
Ions of water into it from the race,
and it is feared this water totally
E destroyed the value of the 5000
! bushels of wheat stored there.
+ Mr.. Dayett's greatest personal
! loss was on the contents of the
mill. There were stored in the
buildings, $4,000 bushels of wheat,
:. and large quantities of oats, corn,
, -four, and dairy food. Practically
all Of this was destroyed.
y During the remained of the week
- thousands of bushels of wheat
smouldered within the demolished
5, walls, the pile at times cracking
}. and breaking into flames. On Tues
h day morning, famed by the higf
t, wind, the fire again became men
s, acing and Newark firemen were
r. again summoned, and steady
E. stream was thrown upon the burn
ing grain and debris from $50 un
l. til noon.
!. In the meantime Mr.. Dayet
has been busy with plans to taxi
care Of his local and foreign bus
.. mess. Ground has already beel
80 broken for a new warehouse ant
a an office opened to handle the fee'
~ business. One carload was re
N' ceived today and another will ar
rive in few days.
- Contractor Wells of Townsen
=, will arrive next week to start
- new building on the site of the ol
~ mill, which was originally built j
- 1886.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
ANTI-SUFFRAGE WORK
ERS VISIT NEWARK
Only Begun To Organize For
The Fight

Anti-suffrage arguments were
presented last evening at the New
ark High School building by Mrs.
Henry B. Thompson of Wilmington
and Miss Lucy Price, anti-suffrage
worker from Ohio.
Mrs. Thompson in few intro
ductory words declared I'VE all ad-
mire the push enterprise, and go,
Of the suffragists, and wish to say
that the criticisms which may be
expressed this evening are level
ed only at the Cause The suffra-
gists are active and enterprising,
and people say to us You are antis,
what do you do?' And if we do
do we are accused of being just
like the suffragists. But we have
decided that the people must be
educated. Many believe in suffI age
because they have been told that
suffrage will do certain things.
They are told that suffrage like a
great wave is coming, but l tell
you suffrage has been organized
sixty-five years; the antis have
only begun to organize-nationally
five years ago, and in Delaware
only three months ago, for pre-
vious to that time we were only a
committee. We are starting out
therefore, not on suffrage hike
but on an anti-suffrage automo-
bile trip. Up to this time our mer
have regarded suffrage as a joke
This year, however, both OF oul
presidential candidates have de
} clared for suffrage, and they art
} awakening to the seriousness o.
the situation. They are asking d.
, we really want to increase our vot'
by a double vote"
! The speaker took her hearer
, back to the Stone Age, referring t.
r the evolution of law, and the di
| vergent duties of man and woman
E "No two people can be head of
f family" she declared; mo com
! pany has two presidents-ther
z must be president and a vice
r president. Men are the nature
: lawmakers; they have made tn
4 laws for generations and the
make them as we'll as they can b
made. In reading history we fin
4, accounts of women at differer
s periods demanding and attainin
governmental control. You a
Continued on page 81
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Board Of Health
Asked To Resign
Action Taken By Council AT
Adjourned Meeting

Il became known this morning
that Council at an adjourned
meeting of Council held last Mon
day evening, the secretary was in
structed to ask members Of the To-
cal Board of Health, individually
to resign. The following letter
was mailed to the members:
Oct. 9, 1916
Dear Sir:
At a meeting of Council held on
Monday evening, October 9, | was
instructed to forward to you a
COPY of a resolution that was
adopted at that meeting as fol-
lows:
"At a meeting of Council held
on Monday evening, October 8, it
was on motion
Resolved that each of the mem
bers of the Board of Health be re-
uuesred to tender his resignation
to the Council of Newark, to take
effect at once.
Attest
S. B. Herdman, Secy
II has been understood thai
there has been some friction be
tween the two bodies for some
time. No explanation has beer
stated other than is contained IL
the two following letters:
Oct. 3, 1911
Newark Board of Health:
At meeting of the Council o
Newark held on Monday evening
Continued on page 81
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-10-11
Public Schools Furnish
Entertainment For Soldiers

Especial to Newark Post)
Camp Deming
Sept. 20, 1916
About thirty young ladies of the
Deming High and Ora m m r
schools entertained about SIX
hundred men of the Delaware and
Arkansas Brigade in the Camp
Deming Y. M. C. A. Building with
vocal and instrumental music,
under the direction of Miss White,
the music instructor at Demlng
High School. The program was
concluded with chorus singing OF
"America."