Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-23
Forrest HarviIIe

Forrest Harville died at his home on
East Leavitt street Wednesday morn
ing after an illness lasting for sew
craI months with form of locomotor
ataxa. He was 40 years of age. Mr..
Harville was born in Madison but has
been resident Of Skowhegan about
20 years. Until his health failed he
was an employee at the electric light
station. He married Miss Bina To-
zier, who survives and also daugh-
ter Miss Pearl Harvillc. He leaves one
brother, Fred Harville of Skowhegan.
The funeral will take place Friday
with Rev. +. G. Rogers of the Meth
odist church officiating.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Henry X. Manson of
Clinton were in town Wednesday Wis
iting at the home of Mr. and Mrs Del
mont Mason.
]. Howard Haley, Esq, of Hartland
was in town Wednesday on legal bus
| mess.
| Over 100 club women of the town
attended the federated meeting of
Sorosis in the Congregational parlors
Tuesday evening, the members of the
Woman's Club and the Town Improve
ment Society being guests. In the re-
ceiving line were Mrs. Martha Crit
fin. Mrs. Alice Wadsworth. Mrs. Lois
w. Patten and Miss Mabelle Rose.
| Following several piano duets by the
Misses Dorothy Day and Arlene
Burnor. Lois Patten and Virginia
Ames, and Beatrice Weston and Lois
Hubbard, Miss Clara B. Varnye. presi-
dent of Sorosis. gave a cordial well
come to the guests and introduced DR..
George Otis Smith, director of the
United States Geological Survey, who
addressed the ladies on "Your Share
in the Nations Wealth." In opening,
DR.. Smith mentioned his visit to the
Museum of Sweden several years ago
where there was a great store Of gold,
this being buried treasure taken from
the island of Cortland, where 1t had
been collected by the Goths and Van
dals and of the privilege of Mrs. Smith
of lifting one of the 17-pound bars OF
gold, the treasure chests not having
been opened before that since the
visit of Emperor Wilhelm of Germany.
He contrasted with this stolen treas
ure the gold bars at the Selby Smelt
ers in the United States which rep
resented gold won from rock and ore
all over the West and refined. He
quoted the statement of Prof. Stein
er to the effect that America will
stand out through the ages as the first
State to grow not by conquest of ma
tons but of nature. Your share in the
nations wealth. said DR.. Smith, was
won from Mother Nature. We must
face the future. American women are
properly concerned with the America
Of tomorrow and what our children
and children's children will inherit.
To indicate your share in the nations
wealth, we take a broad outlook. The
foundations of power are first in the
mineral resources of the country. the
different ages have been named, stone,
copper, bronze, iron, coal. Our nation
leads the world in the production of
these. 1t is producing more and we
have a large reserve of this mineral
wealth on which to base future pros
perity. In normal years like 1913 and
IA, the United States produced 40 per
cent. of the coal of the world, two
thirds of the petroleum, 40 per cent. of
the iron, 60 per cent. of the copper
and one third of the lead and zinc
that the world uses is produced here
in normal years. In 1908 under Presi-
dent Roosevelt, a map of the coal re-
sources was made. This year the map
was revised giving 440 billion tons
more than figured before-S00 times
what they are mining in year. Much
more copper is now known than 100
years ago. 1t is known we are not the
most saving of people and we do not
give heed to the warning on wasteful-
ness. One-fifth of the edible portions
of food products do not find their way
to the table. OF the forest products,
65 per cent. of a tree does not reach