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The Republican journal., 1916-06-08

The tax rate was fixed at q per cent
The ordinance for street regulations was
given second and third reading and finally
passed in concurrence.
The following order was read and passed in
concurrence: That the city treasurer is here
by authorized to borrow $1,000 on three
months time and issue note or notes of the
city for the same, said note or notes to be
countersigned by the Mayor and finance COM
mittee and payable from the taxes of 1916.
In Common Council.
Ordered that the highway commissioner be
and hereby is instructed to visit each ward in
the city where there is a crew at work on the
highway and inspect the work at least once in
each week.
In Board of Municipal Officers.
The petition of A. R. Robbins and others for
the 9-hour day was referred to the committee
on accounts and claims.
The petition of the N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co. for
permission to move the poles on Miller street
lS feet in an easterly direction, those on Con-
gress street 10 feet in southerly direction
and those on Court street Ia feet in wester-
ly direction, was referred to the committee on
highways with power to act.
The petition of E. B. Gilchrest and others
for permission to move the grand stand on the
Congress street ball grounds to the back of
the field and make other improvements was
referred to the committee on city property
with power to act
Petition from the L. & B. A A in remon.
STRANGE, as the proposed, changes would inter.
fere with their schedule, was read and placed
on file.
The matter of back taxes was referred tc
the finance committee with instructions tc
notify all collectors to make settlement on OF
before August l, 1916
Several matters of sewer assessments were
lett with the committee on sewers.
The salary of street commissioner George
Weymouth was fixed at 500 per month for {
months and 500 for auto.
Adjourned.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08
City Government.

The regular meeting of the City Govern
ment was. held Monday evening. June 9th,
Mayor William K. Keene presiding.
IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
The roll of accounts was approved and Or
dered paid as follows:
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08

The Bayside post Office, as the Northport
Campgro und Office is known. was officially
opened for the season June 1st, Earle Dickey
postmaster. The office is in the Dickey & Co.
which W as also opened.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08

George w. Frisbee, city marshal. reported
number of arrests for intoxication 5; furnished
nights lodgings 4
s. S. L. Shute chief of the fire department,
reported as follows: whole number of calls, ID;
general alarms, 10; telephone calls, 4. May
4th telephone call chimney fire in Commercial
House. no damage. May 9Th, l p. m. fire in
Knowlton building, Phoenix Row, no damage
May 18th. fire In A. J. Morrison house. Court
street, house valued at $4,000, loss, $l,50O; in
sured for ST 600. Contents valued at 81 COO;
loss $475; insured for $500. May 18th, house
of Harry B. Toothaker, total loss value 81 500
insured 81 ,000 conte valued 5000, insured
for 500. May 18th, brush fire near Toothaker
place, no damage. May 18th, curtain caught
fire in residence of DIR o S. Vickery. Dam
age slight. May 17th, Charles Pickard's house
Total loss; value, S275; insured for 5000 May
goth. Commercial House stable. Value, So, 900,
damage. $50. May 25th, telephone call to Mel
vim Clark house, back Searsport road Value
$1,000, insured for 81 900; total loss. Value of
contents, S70O, insured for 5000. May 30th,
telephone call for Chimney fire in E. B. Gill
chrest house on Congress street. No dam
age.
Edward Sibley, tax collector for 1915, re-
ported collection of taxes beginning July /,
1915, to and including June 3, 1916, as follows:
Total Commitment $98, BIT 90
Interest on Deposits. .............. 1s 60
Disposed OF as follows:
Paid City Treasurer r...............,..$9 800 1852 49
Discount on Taxes.............. ........ 2,024 95
Abatement of Taxes. ............... 3,417 90
Belfast Water Co., Bill l................. 1850 90
Tax Observation-Disclosures. sos 90
s9s.502 "A
Cash on hand ............ Is 92
Balance uncollected ........ .....,......- 3lS 22
sos, ,S36 So
Report of Tax Collector commencing April
20. 1916, to and including June 8. 1916. as fol-
lows:
Total Commitm ent..................,....$4 4512 90
Disposed of as follows:
Paid City Treasurer .............S 2225 90
Cash on hand 72 22
Asp OO
EDWARD SIBLEY,
Collector of Taxes for 1916.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08


The foregoing reports were accepted in con-
currence.
Appropriations were made for the municipal
year as follows:
Resolved that the sum of S59.1s5 be raised
upon the polls and estates of the resident in
habitants of the city of Belfast. and upon the
estates of non-residents of said city for the
Municipal year A. D.. 1916, and that the sum
aforesaid shall be raised. and is hereby appro-
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08


Diego, Calf. Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph M. johnson
of New York and Mr.. Alfred Johnson Of Bos-
ton are coming later.
Mrs. Emma Sawyer went to Bangor last
Thursday to meet her daughter. Miss Myra
Sawyer of St. John. N. B., and they went to
Milbridge, where Miss Sawyer will spend a
months vacation from her duties supern-
tendent of the st. John telephone exchange.
and Mrs. Sawyer will remain during the sum-
mer, returning here in the fall
Mrs. William B. Woodbury. and son Freder-
lex, who have been in South Paris for several
weeks for the health of the latter. arrived
Saturday night and were guests over Sunday
of Mrs. Colby A. Racklitfe Monday. accom-
panied by MIR. Woodbury.. they went to Swan
Lake, where the family will spend the sum-
mer in one of the Stinson cottages in Carter's
Grove.
Ray Lindgren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alex
ander Lindgren of Manchester, N H. arrived
| Tuesday to spend a few days at the home OF
M. L. Mitchell. He will attend commence
m ent at the University of Maine. from which
he graduated several years ago. He recently
graduated from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and has position drafts
man with the American Bridge Co.
Invitations have been issued by Mr.. and
Mrs E. B. Maddocks of Hampden Highlands
for their 5Oth anniversary June 23d. when
they will receive their friends in honor of
their golden wedding day, from to IL in the
| evening. Mr.. Maddocks was a member of Co
| c., 26th Maine regiment, and though but l9 at
the time of his enlistment had studied medi-
cine with the late DR.. Abbott of Winterport
i and served in field hospitals.
The Republican journal., 1916-06-08


L. Cooper. Maurice w. Lord and A. P. Good.
hue were appointed to confer with Postmaster
Austin W. Keating in regard to several
changes. c. w. Wescott was appointed to
confer with the Penobscot Bay Electric Co. in
regard to electric power and lights for the C.
G. Rain Coat Co. Various matters relating to
an observance of Old Home week and a street
carnival the coming summer were discussed
and M. w. Slugg, M. r. Knowlton and Ralph
D. Southworth were made committee to re-
port at the meeting tomorrow. Friday, even
ing. Orrin J. Dickey, M. W. Lord and William
II. Quimby were appointed to confer with
John Cochran Chapter, d. A. R.. in regard to
eral historical places about the city, beginning
with the first home of John ochran on North
port avenue. Ralph L. Cooper. FIR ank L. L.Whitten
and Clement W. Wescott were made commit
tee to confer with George A. Gilchrest in re-
gard to keeping his contracts tor shipbuilding
in Belfast l. T. Dinsmore and H. H. Coombs
were made committee to secure help for the
c. c. Rain Coat Co. 1t was reported that
Carl Dreyfus of the Jacob Dreyfus & Sons,
shirt manufacturers of Boston, accompanied
by his manufacturing foreman, was in Belfast
Friday to look over the city with view to To-
eating factory here and with the committee
on new industries of the Board of Trade had
looked over the C. E. Knowton building op-
posite the railway station, and the Duplex
building and approved of the first floor and
basement of the latter building. and would To-
cate here if they could be definitely assured of
sufficient help. No definite proposition was
made. as the matter of help must be settled
Trade.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
THE SPECTATOR
HE REVIEWS MADISON'S INEFFI-
GENT FIRE DEPARTMENT.

To the Editor: After s%lumbering
deeply for fifteen hours in order to
repair the ravages of a weeks dissi-
patton along M~adison's great white
way. | arose on Sunday morning,
dressed. and leisurely %meandered to-
ward the %postoffice.
Soon a great clamor of ringing
bells rem the air. announcing that a
fire alarm had been turned in, so /
swerved in my curse and ran post
haste toward the city fire station
the n on Fifth street.
Now the department, as We all
know. is made up entirely of automo-
bile equipment; that is. the first au-
tomobiles TO respond 20 an alarm are
given the privilege of hauling the
hose carts and the book and ladder.
When | arrived at the station all was
excitement and confusion. The bells
We're still ringing and several men
were shouting, but no one seemed to
know where the fire was supposed
TO be.
After a time, during which half Of
the town might have been destroyed,
the little pieces OF apparatus we're
brought out and started. One piece
went south on Egan avenue toward
the postoffice. the others went in the
opposite direction.
Soon, amid the strangling cough
ing of Ford engines. the little de-
partment returned. not having found
anything to play their hoses upon, |
believe.
1t is with pride that we state that
our municipality has little or no
bonded Indebtedness. That is. in
deed a fact worthy of mention. But
when we consider that we are so in
adequately equipped with fire appa-
ratus and that the departmental or
ganization seems so pitifully ineffi-
cient, Is it not time that we turn
from the pleasing appearance of u
municipal ledger pages and consider
other matters?
Some day a disastrous fire will all
too plainly show us the inefficiency
of our fire department. Some day a
real conflagration will turn what is
now a matter of joking into a serious
realization. Let us, then, demand a
o adequate and efficient system
OF fire protection in our municipality.
The Spectator.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
WOMAN, 03, TRAVELS ALONE


Sioux City. Sept. 1S.-Unable to
speak the English language or to UNI
~derstand it, carrying a slip of paper
indicating her destination to be Ia
Dor, S. d., a woman SO years old was
cared for yesterday afternoon by
Miss Clara Black, travellers aid dea-
coness at the Northwestern station.
Miss Black first noticed the wom-
an as she entered the station with
the conductor upon whose train she
had come to Sioux City. He was
en~deavoring to obtain the paper with
her destination on it, but she appear
ed afraid and refused to show it to
him.
Between Miss Black, William
Smith. the station master and the
conductor the paper finally was
found. Miss Black then took charge
of the traveller.
BY counting on her fingers. the
aged woman was able to tell Miss
Black that she was SO years old.
She conveyed the information by pa
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
ILLEGAL O~VERCHARGES
MANY IRREGULARITIES DIS
CLOSED BY STATE EXAMINA-
TION OF COUNTY OFFICES.

Hot Springs, Sept. 18.-The state
accountants office Saturday finished
examining the county offices and
filed with the states attorney the re-
port of l.. S. Shuttleworth, who has
been examining the books.
After a minute and searching audit
of the books of various county Of
ficials of Fall River county, this re-
port shows shortages of nearly $16,-
600 by various county officials and
their immediate predecessors.
This report will be used as the
basis for action against them to re-
cover such overeharges.
Alleged illegal overcharges vary
from one of 1927 by the Ardmore
American, official county paper, to
one of $3,651.20, against George
Hummel, present clerk of courts.
The report shows ~overcharges by
every official paper within the coun-
ty. with the exception of the Hot
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
BAPTISTS TO MEET
STATE CONVENTION WAS or
CANNED At LAKE MADISON
THIRTA-tINE YEARS AGO.

Several Madison Baptists, includ-
ing Rev. X. l.. Palmerton, pastor OF
the First Baptist church, will attend
the South Dakota Baptists' Thirty
fifth annual convention. which will
be held in Mitchell October IL to Is.
1t is expected that approximately 900
Baptists will attend the five days
session.
Among the prominent speakers on
the program will be DR.. Ernest De-
Witt Burton, of Chicago, director of
Harper Memorial library and head of
the department OF New Testament,
University Of Chicago; DR.. l.. G.
Barnes, Of New York, field secretary
of the American Baptist Home Mis-
sionary society; DR.. NJ. p. Boyton,
the Chicago pastor, defeated last
week by James X. Mann in his race
for congress in the Second Illinois
district; DR.. w. b. Hinson, pastor of
the White Temple, Portland, Ore;
Rev. Clifton ID. Grady, of Chicago,
editor of THE Standard" DR.. Frank
Peterson. Minneapolis: Mrs. Smith
Thomas Ford, Chicago, president of
the WOmen's American Baptist Home
Mission society: DR.. Bruce Kinney, Of
Topeka, Kan; Miss Eleanor Mare.
home administration secretary of the
Women's American Baptist Foreign
Missionary society, Chicago, and DR..
t. l.. ketman, of the same city.
The convention was organized
thirty-five years ago in a meeting of
Raptists representing several
churches then located in Dakota ter
ritory. held upon the shores of Lake
Madison. A stone with a bronze tab
let commemorative hat event was
dedicated five years ago, when the
convention met here in 1911.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18

justice, il was discovered that the al
legged offense had been committed in
Bon Homme county. SO the prisoner
was taken to Tyndall. where he will
be held for trial.
Washington Springs-While Nick
Kieffer and Miss Winnie Moulton. of
this city. were enjoying a spin in an
automobile on a country road near
town they suddenly discovered that
the ear was on fire. The first they
knew of the fire was when the
flames leaped through the footboards
near their feet. They made their es-
cape from the burning car. which was
completely destroyed. A loose con
nection in the wiring is believed to
have been responsible for the fire.
The car was the property of Or. Jen-
kinson, of this city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
BAN ON DONKEY
Animal Declared n Public Nuisance
mt Eermillion.

Vermililon, Sept. 18.-An appar-
emily inoffensive donkey has, during
the past few days, been the source
of considerable friction in this city,
and rs a last resort the city council
held a meeting and took action. The
braying of the donkey kept many
people awake at night, and after they
had lost so much sleep that they lost
their tempers, those affected by the
night s%erenades of the animal sent a
petition to the city council asking
that the donkey be eliminated. The
city council deliberated over the mat
ter for some time, and then took a
vote, which proved that the council
was evenly divided on the question as
TO whether the donkey was a nui-
sance or not. Mayor Lyons. to break
the deadlock. cast the deciding bal
lot, which declared the donkey a pub
lie nuisance, and the council now
has demanded of the owner, G.. r..
Grange. that the offending donkey
be exiled from Vermillion and not
permitted to step foot within the city
limits.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
TWENTY YEARS
AGO TODAY
Items Taken from the Daily
Leader Files

Mrs. VIM. Rowland and children
returned from Minneapolis on the
evening train.
Miss Vandergrift, of Egan, who
came up yesterday to visit Mrs. Lou
White, returned home today.
Nine men with three t~hreshing
outfits recently arrived here from
Indiana. They have completed the
threshing eason in Indiana and say
that every farmer nearly in hat state
will vote for Bryan.
Weather for the fair opened up
rather inauspiciously this morning,
but the people kept coming in Just
the same. and the crowd on the
ground this afternoon was as large
as on any former day of county fairs.
Tho exhibits were scarcely all in
place this afternoon and the judges
will not pass upon them until to-
morrow. but the ten 12x14 tents, i'm
which the displays are made are
quite fully occupied.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
FROST RECORD
SHORTEST CROP SEASON IN
SOUTH DAKOTA OFFICIAL
RECORDS.

Pierre. Sept. 1S.-The shortest
crop season ever known in this vi
entity in twenty-six years is the rec
ord shown here at the government
weather station. The season with
out killing frost this year was from
May IA TO September Is. or 124 days.
The average season for the past
t~wenty-siX years has been 1856 days.
The shortest season previous TO this
year was recorded in 1895, which
furnished only 126 days without
frost. The longest period was in
1908. when the season had 1S9 days
without frost.
The bureau reports that in the
past twenty-siX years the earliest
frost occurred on September IL,
1902, but the average date for kill
ing frost in this community is Oc-
tober 6.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
ALL INVITED
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPER
ANCE UNION INTERDENOMI-
NATIONAI-MUCH OF IN
TEREST PROMISED.

Madison women generally are
urged to attend the meetings of the
state convention of the Women's
Christian Temperance union, which
will be held here next Thursday. Fri
day. Saturday and Sunday. Officers
of the society explain that the union
does not belong to any sect. The
evening meetings are open 10 gen
tlemen.
A special feature of Thursday aft
ernoon. of interest 10 u ladies is
the address of Miss Winters, Red
Cross nurse. Miss Winters will also
lecture on Friday evening.
To those unfamiliar with the work
of the national organization. there is
much that is intensely interesting
and educative in the discussions of
the work done in various depart
ments, such as work among soldiers
and miners. at fairs and open air
meetings, among railroad men, along
the line of purity and rescue, and,
besides this type of work, the efforts
inaugurated by the organization
along such large lines as peace and
d|IDitldtloh anu 0HIlslidH CltiAeHSHlp
A daily program in the press will
keep YOU informed of the hour at
which you may hear any or all of
these subjects discussed.
On Sunday evening Hon. Daniel A.
Polling. of Boston, secretary of the
International Christian Endeavor as
sociation, and a member of the Fly
ing Squadron of temperance, will adj
dress a union meeting.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
MISS THE GIRLS
THE GREATEST DEPRIVATION
OF CAMP LIFE ON THE
BORDER.

Ell Paso letter TO the Boston Globe:
If the girls back home" could know
how much the soldier boys from Mas
sachusetts now on the border yearn
for female society, they would. or
should feel both sorry and glad
sorry that they cannot be here to
cheer their young men friends with
a smile and a word. and glad that
their sex is receiving the compliment
il is from the boys in khaki.
If anyone wishes to know the
greatest deprivation of camp life far
from home. tell him it is Just this:
The loss of women's society.
To every man in the $4,000 or
more citizen soldiers nov c%oncentrat-
ed at this place women have had a
part in his home life. If he is not
married, he has perhaps a girl i'm
whom he is interested, and if not
that, he has had at least the benefit
of meeting women in his everyday
life of store. workshop. office.
His evening stroll usually has been
frightened at least by a "how-de-do''
from some girl of his acquaintance.
How much this meant to him
Johnny Doughboy did not understand
until he reached the border. On the
way down at towns through the mid
die west, he was feted by motherly
women and eheered by girls who
gave him their addresses and gazed
at his uniform and accouterments as
at the trappings of a knight.
Being a hero, he made %acquaint-
ance among the fair sex without try
ing. They anne TO him and. casting
aside maidenly reserve, asked his
name, and gave their own.
Here, in the lonesomeness Of camp,
amidst heat and dust and an eternal
sunshine that blazes at him all the
time from morning to night, the sol
der boy finds himself deprived of
even a single word with a oma
No woman visitors come to his
camp. 1t is a working camp, visitors
are not welcomed. The only woman
seen in it for days on end is a prim
old lady who teaches Spanish, ac-
companied by her daughter, a pretty
girl of IT, who walks with her eyes
on the ground.
1t is good to look at this fresh and
modest girl. but ii only serves TO ac-
centuate the heart hunger Of the boys
who gaze at her. oh" say they, 'if
a fellow could only speak to her!
Just to hear her say il was a fine day
would be a relief"
This may seem odd to folks at
home who have never experienced
the great loss of being excommuni-
Gated from the society of the gentler
sex, but the feeling | describe is TX
actly the feeling of ninety in every
100 men who see an occasional wom-
an in camp.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18
STATE NEWS.

Yankton - Miss Edith Gamble.
niece of ex-senator II. j. Gamble, has
been appointed deputy county uper-
intendent of schools here to fill a
vacancy.
Fort Dodge, Ia.-Vernon Bailey,
aged IA, of Parker. S. d.. has been
arrested here in a half starved con
dition and will be returned to his
home. The authorities announced
that Bailey confessed that he ran
away to escape hazing at the Parker
high school.
Miller-While in attendance at the
state fair. Clarence Miller, living
southwest of here, lost eighty acres
of barley in stack by fire. 1t was
valued at $4,000. 1t is believed to
have been caused by hunters.
Lead-When James Ellison return
ed here yesterday after an absence
of several weeks he was arrested on
an old warrant charging him with
having obtained goods from the home
of a Lead woman under false pre-
lenses. 1t is alleged that ne secured
possession of the goods by represent
ing himself as a relative Of a local
expressman.
Parker-Charged with selling a
quantity Of liquor in this city, which
Is a dry town, a stranger giving his
name as Dick Hale and his home at
Peoria, H., was arrested by local of
ficers. When taken into a local
court he waived his preliminary
hearing and asked time to secure a
lawyer. This was granted. Later
he appeared in court and entered a
plea of guilty and paid a fine and
costs.
Sioux Falls-Whether or not the
express companies doing business in
South Dakota will obey the federal
or state order regarding express
rates has not yet been definitely de-
termined. Local attorneys for the
companies say that nothing as to this
will be known until instructions are
received from headquarters in New
York city, such instructions not yet
having been received.
Observation-Disclosures of the opera
ton of gunner among the harvest
hands returning from the north was
furnished by the arrest of a traveller
by the name of Earl Ancell, who is
charged with holding up Fenton p.
Whalen, another migratory worker,
and a number of his companions. In
q preliminary hearing before a local
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-09-18

Springs Star, in addition to over
charges and Interpretations by
every county official, with the excep-
ton of Andrew Bell. register of
deeds, and Mrs. Helen Brelsford.
county superintendent of schools.
Proceedings. both criminal and
civil, will be instituted by the states
attorney at once, it is said.
Several of the officials who are
particularly scored by this report are
candidates for reelection this fall.
Publication of the report wrought
CONSERVATION among them.