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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Raymond Robins Question.

"Comprehending our national
necessities how can a Progressive
hesitate long to choose between
the part Of nationalism and the
party Of sectionalism? Should
not wise and sincere Progressives
80 en- masse into the Republican
primaries. and fighting shoulder
to shoulder with Progressive Re-
publicans help and be helped in
our common struggle for social
and industrial justice in city,
state and nation? The present
leader Of the Republican party is
the most conspicuous example in
our history Of the possibilities
that American politics may hold
Tor success in able and unselfish
public service. For myself, I
gladly enlist with the great ma
Jority Of the Progressives of the
nation under the leadership Of
Charles Evans Hughes"
That is the utterance Of Raymon
Robins. chairman of the Progressiv
convention. His words ar
by the stand-pat words 9
President Wilson mailing his local
sef-govemnment flag to the part
mast IN answer to the suffragist;
Personal liberty, local option, state
rights-all are typical of Democrat
craftsmanship. How can a Progress
sive hesitate?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

"watchful waiting which has resulted
so balefully In our Mexican relations
has been allowed to govern also our
relations with Great Britain and to the
various unsettled disputes which have
wearied the national spirit must now
be added another.
The fruits OF "watchful waiting" are
abundant and widely diffused.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Letters You Never Wrote

Letters You Never Wrote
(From Lffe)
Nv Dear Wife: Since you've been
away I have been having the time of
my life; in fact, 1 haven't known what
1t was to live before since we were
married. I fired all the servants the
morning after you left, so I could be
free. get my meals anywhere. The
house looks as If tornado had struck
It. but oh; what lovely time I'm
having! Don't come home until l send
for you.
Cordially.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Maine GOSSIP


The Eavssdropper.
Sudden down the dusky vale
thrush broke into song,
And DER the evening ways I heard
The notes trip blithe along.
Then up the path, hand close in hand,
lad and laSsie came,
And in my dreaming mind thought
Was kindled into fame.
Down in the vale a lad had asked
A lassie for her love,
And thicket-hid, the thrush-shy elf
Had listened from above.
And when the lassie answered low.
Asserting tenderly,
The thrush had phrased the laddie's JOY
In lyric ecstacy!
Arthur Wallace Peach.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

Commenting on our magnanimous vow
not to modest any more trout this season
unless attacked by them while in swim
ming, the wicked and unregenerate Chad,
Of the Kennebec Journal, remarked that
he didn't know that New Hampshire
trout ever went in swimming" To which
we would reply, with the soft answer that
turneth away wrath, that what Chad
doesn't know about trout would MI
great. large book.-Manchester Union.
Beats all how cocky some men can
get on a two-weeks vacation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
What Hamlet Escaped.

At q certain foreign university the stu
dents, who had been studying SHAKE
spere in their native tongue, were re-
ouested by an examiner to translate into
English the opening lines of Hamiets
soliloouy. "To be, or not to be-" The
following was the result.
The first Frenchman detained, TO
was, or not to am" the second rendered
It. ITO were or is to not" while the
third gave a still more liberal reading
$50 should, or not to will.
Sunday Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
sliuht Misunderstanding

How did the tulip bulbs l sent you
turn out =" inquired the congressman,
with an ingratiating smile.
Tulip bulbs? We did get mess OF
onions from you, and they were
fastelees lot"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Light and Airy
At the Pyramids

"Four hundred years look down
Upon you," said the guide,
With a dramatic frown
And ill.dissembled pride.
The tourists seemed to be
So awed they fairly shook.
And one girl murmured, Gee.
I wonder how l look"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Used for Ornaments

"FIow's work among the savages?"
"All right. But in sending us food
supplies 1 wish you wouldn't send any
more sausages in strings.
"Why not?"
"They won't eat anything they can
wear around their necks."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
harking Back

"Lemuel Wombat has bought fine
buggy"
Must be going to court an old-fash-
toned girl"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
In 1850.

IN 1850.
whats the excitement"
ooh. nothing. A straphanger just got
tired. Couldn't hold on any lonee., I
s'pose. Anyhow he dropped off an air.
ship"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Double Trouble

Busy days for my WIFE,"
How SOP"
HAS to keep her white shoes pow
dered az we'll as her face"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
And How Cheap.

How fine your fiat seems after you
have been looking out for another.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
MOTHER OF
four CHILDREN
How Lydia E. Pinkham'sVeg
etable Compound Kept
Her Well and Strong.

Lincoln, Illinois. have used Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Railroads and Steamboats,
Trains Leave Aug usta as Follows
In Effect June rs, 1916.

GOING WEST-2.1S A. NJ,
daily. and 800 A. NJ, lex
cept Monday, Portland
and Boston; 6.26 A. NJ,
Lewiston, Pennington.
kockland, Portland. Bos-
ton, Montreal and Quebec;
q 9c NJ pr,fncu oh
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Augusta Lodge Directo.,,
cUsHNoc CHAPTER M -.

stated convocation at Maso,;,
Thursday evening, August a, Iemph
Sojourning companions are go "a. oclou
vited to attend. Cordially i.
ALBERT NJ. PINGREE u,
CHARLES r. CHASE n. !.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Getting Shorter, Too
(Brooklyn Eagle)

(Brook1yn Eagle)
We formerly avoided any seeming Of
rudeness by modestly dropping our
glance. but now we don't know where
to look.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Restricted.

TITS moved into a restricted neighbor-
hood we have
zone Of those 1eighborhoods where We
have to build a $4,000 house,"
mot 80 fine as that. But We had 70
get rid Of the goat"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
Odd Fellows Han

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 10 Rsc,n
meeting Friday evenings at 4 otA
I. e: HUGHES, \. q.
p: +. WESTON, Rec.
GUY c. LONGFEII0W
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

1erHTHA ENCAMpMtNT. M
Msstings at $50 O'Clock every second
!. B. PACKARD n
=. E. STEWARIr =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

LODGE NO. es4, spo !.
regular meetings in the Elks How. ~ ~, s.
throp street. the second and fonr Uhe, WIN
days OF each month at o clock 1aa1'
WAITER 6; THOMAS r .
july10, whit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09
War News.

''The Kurde seems to have lost their IN
alive"
WHO captured that?"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

A Motoring FixzIe.
His journey through the park
Was no romantic whirl.
The motor wouldn't spark,
And neither would the girl.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

Another peculiar notice in the posting
line quickly follows the retraetion notice
mentioned yesterday in this column. com
ing from a Camden woman, who an
nounces that, having left her husband
his bed and board, for good and sum
cient reasons, II shall contract no bills
for him to pay, nor have any claim or
him whatever after this date" Some
pep and business to that, Ell?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO.
R ec9acr meeting every third Tus,d,, !. !.
a.. LEVI N. POOR. Ca.
otI RAY NJ BURNS IcSN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

The Orpheon Club OF Lewiston, COM
prising 40 men of that city Of French
descent, whose annual concert at City
hall has for several years been one Of
the musical events Of the year in that
city. had their annual outing last week
on much more elaborate scale than
ever before. The entire expenses Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-09

Aroostook has such a tremendous
hay crop this year that the barns are
full to overlooking and the farmers
are at loss to know what to do with
their grain.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
Record Auto Company
63l Massachusetts Avenue.
LAMPS AND RADIATORS.

MOORE & CO.
Auto Lamp and Radiator Doctors
All work guaranteed
SOC John Marshall Place.
Phone NJ 1G4S
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
DELIVERY PRESENTS
GREATEST PROBLEM

Today the problem is not the selling of
goods but the delivering of them to the
customer. Motor transportation has with
but very few exceptions proven far more
s&dsnactory and much more economical
than the old horse method. Not every
man IN business can AFFORD a large out
lay for truck that will do his work
Many Of them have used the Ford cars
with q great deal OF success but found
that they have outgrown them and are
yet not Of sufficient size to warrant pur-
chasing q truck
With The view OF caring for the wants
Of this class the Record Auto Company,
distributors for the Smith Form-A-Truck,
are conducting an active selling campaign
on this simple attachment for a Ford
which converts It into a one-ton truck.
By the use OF 1t there Is no need dis
carding the car now used. All that is
necessary Is TO change the rear end and
put on g. larger body and the merchant
has 9 machine that will fill his every
need At the same time II will do his
hauling At a most economical figure.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01

in. States and cities refused to allow the
use Of the 'disbolicaI noise maker"
Undismayed Lowell set out to prove the
truth Of his theories-thAt the very un-
pleasantness Of the Klaxon was the thing
that made IL so effective as a warning
and so necessary as a safety device.
BY advertising and publicity campaigns,
demonstrations before automobile associ-
ations and boards OF aldermen. he gradu-
ally battered down the antagonism OF the
public and OF legislators.
The laws that prohibited the KlaXon
we're gradually changed TO require a sig
nal loud and abrupt enough to warn. And
Lowell came out with colors nying-and
a wonderfully successful business.
Today a large percentage OF automo-
biles are equipped with KlaXons and the
Klaxon note has come to be the voice OF
the auto, just as he predicted that IL
would be when the inventor was peddling
takers.
With LoveIrs retirement the name Of
the Lowell Mcconnell Manufacturing Com
pany, will be changed to the KlaXon
Company. d. A. Mcconnell, who since
the concern was organized has been vice
president, will become president: Otis G..
Friend will be the new vice president;
Walter P. COughlan, who has been eecre-
tary, will become secretary and treas
urer.
Lowell will remain as a director, but
his time will be chiefly devoted to the
other manufacturing concerns in which
he is interested. among them F H Lowell
Co, Of Arlington. n. J., makers OF
marine and railways supplies, of which
he is president and principal owner.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
RACING GAME RAPED
BY MOTOR OFFICIAL
Pathfinder Company Vice President
Takes Shot at Sport.

American motor car manufacturers
as rule do not believe In the race
game" said W. z. Stalnsker vice
president and director Of sales OF the
Pathfinder company You will notice
that nearly all that have been in the
game at some time have dropped out.
1t is still a favorite stunt OF the new.
company in the laudable attempt to
put its car over with a rush.
But there are so many details 10
care for in this game and q consider
able expense such as building an en-
tirely different car from the regular
model that the majority Of the facto-
ries In this country do not believe the
game is worth the candle
There is a generous amount OF
prestige handed 20 foreign-built cars
which is not deserving Right here
in this country there are better built
and more advanced automobiles turned
out OF the factories every day than
the expensive foreign cars. The new
series Pathfinder Twin Six is sounder
mechanically and has more long last
ing qualities than any one OF the best
cars with a foreign accent
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01

white is a pretty screen for a woman s
face.
A circular veil par excellence flows
from a wide band, which encIrcles the
crown OF a hat, or the brim of a turban.
The band is four inches wide. OF a rich
metallized composition, the same shade
of a heavy mesh silk veil with scroll
design.
An out-of- he-ordinary veil Is also on
a band but this time Persian one con-
tanning gold, green and blue colors has
a narrow Persian band around the edge
matching the band.
Recently l have seen a generous use of
heavy silk wells in Ramage design, worn
not only for motoring. but other occa-
sions.
The vogue for wells as an integral part
of the hat continues. The most sought
for colors in wells are brown, tan, gray,
mahogany black, navy and African
brown The square mesh wells with incn
wide checker borders reach to the shout
ders and are sometimes wound twice
around the neck. Inconsistent is the
plain mesh veil worn upside down. The
border is arranged over the hattie
plain part covering the face.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
HOW TO BUY AN AUTO
DISCUSSED BY DEALER
Richard Selby. Paige Distributor, Of
fers Sound Advice.

How to buy a motor car has fire.
quently been the theme Of articles de-
signed to help the man who wants to
purchase an automobile, but has no spe-
cial knowledge on the subject to guide
him." says Richard Selby, president of
the Selby Company, Paige distributors
In the main the advice has been sound
and the information given has been help
full.
Recently, however there have been
some new tendencies developed in the in
dustry which may confuse the avera ge
buyer unless certain facts are clear 10
him. One of the most important trends,
especially noticeable in advertising, in
wolves the status OF the stock car. Every
automobile owner, every buyer of a mo-
tor car, present or prospective, should
know what Is really meant by a stock
car, or what the salesman should mean
when he talks OF stock model
"A stock car Is what the manufacturer
makes to sell and the public buys to use
for daily service. 1t is not a freak car or
a stripped chassis; 1t has no specially
made ptstons or cylinders or freak gear
ratio; 1t is not tuned up to do stunts
1t is, or should be, the same motor car
in every particular that any man can
buy, that any man can drive, that any
man can use any time, anywhere,
whether in city trafHc, on sandy roads,
or on steep hills
Stock models will not climb telegraph
poles or burn up the track at time
destroying speed.
Mr.. Average Buyer should be far more
impressed by the fact that the car offered
him can throttle down to less than two
miles an hour than in the assertion that
car bearing the same name once broke
all speed records. Moreover, he is
vitality interested in gasoline and oil
consumption.
The safest way Is to get a complete
demonstration OF the car you are think
ing OF buying. II you are interested in
high speed, make the demonstrator step
on her accelerator and open her up over
fair straight away; II you would like
to know how she would handle In traffic,
make him try out her fexibility under
just such conditions as you expect to
find when you drive your car in daily
service. Being a stock car, It will do Just
what you can do with 1t and that Is what
you ought to know.
'One other point is of special interest
to the motor car buyer and that is the
condition of the market in relation to
price. The coast OF materials, as every
one knows, is very high and continues to
soar. Labor costs also are still on the
upgrade.
ITO maintain the standard Of value will
mean an increase in price, and that ad-
vance will come before the end OF the
year. Therefore, the man who puts of
buying his car Is taking chances with
his pocketbook."
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
VEILINGS.

Every woman feels the need of a veil
for her neR fall hat. The fad for elab-
crate bordered novelties, especially in
hand run patterns with the border worn
over the hat. still continues The bor-
dered nose veil is still considered excel
lent, and the already wide selection has
been increased by many new designs.
There are dainty woven patterns with
motifs Of chenille and velvet and a wide
selection from the plain mesh in hexagon
hair line and filet to the most intricate
border and all-over pattern. A gray flet
mesh yelling with all-over pattern in
darker gray and blue dots outlined in
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
MUSEUM GETS FORTUNE,
$500, 900. Left to UnIversity of Penn
sylEania by f. B. Coke, Jr.

Philadelphia, Sept. 3O.-Educational and
charitable institutions in this city and
up the State are given SSSOOOO under the
will Of the late Eckley 3. Coke, jr., ac-
cording to the announcement made yes
terday by Charles Sinkler and John Cad
walader, jr., the executors
The University Of Pennsylvania heads
the list Of benefiCiaries. the greatest be-
quest being s5OO,OOO the income only to
be applied exclusively for the university
museum and so far as may be needed
exclusively for the Egyptian section and
to aid In explorations and in paying fol
the collections and defraying the expenses
of publications of the museum
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
CHEVROLET MAN TALKS
ON SERVICE STATIONS
Manager of Local Office Explains
This Feature of Industry.
By HARRY MUNDY,


Manager Chevrolet Motor Company.
Perhaps there is no line Of business
where the idea OF service has been de-
veloped to such high state OF efficiency
as in the motor car industry. In the be-
ginning it was necessary because tie 9u-
tomobile was something absolutely new,
a complicated Piece Of machinery which
only ran satisfactorily in the hands Of an
expert. Every agency ia those days main
tanned a corps of men who, to use the
expression then so common, did nothing
but get oJt and get under" Motors in
the early days were swung amIdship or
under the irame, to be exact.
As cars improved the idea Of service
improved until today 1t is the basic prin-
cIple OF all factories. More important
than a showroom is an adequate service
station. This is the idea of the ChevrU-
let Motor Company. They understand
that service and sales go hand in hand.
In the first place if an owner Is in trou-
bic he naturally wants to get out and be
on his way in the shortest possible time.
The company that can do this for Kim is
the one that he will stick by. Not only
Will he himself continue to be a user of
their cars but he will induce his friends
TO buy them. One such owner can do
more to make sales for you than half a
dozen Of the most versatile salesmen.
The prospective buyer knows the man he
Is talking to. He realizes that he e not
talking from a selfish motive, If II can
be called such. the hope of selling ma
chine. His only object is to narrate
good turn and pass the word along.
My idea of service is not some
thing for nothing" That Is not serv-
ice. I term that pure and simple
graft Our company IS ready at any
and all times to do anything within
our power to make the car right If
ii should be that the trouble can in
any manner be traced TO the fault of
the machine We will go to any ex-
tremes to correct such faults and do
it cheerfulIy. Our mechanics who
are all factory experts have instruc-
tions to this effect, and carry them
out to the letter and sometimes a
little further But when the trouble
is directly traceable to the fault OF
the operator OF the machine we do
not feel that we should have to stand
for his mistakes. We will gladly
help him out and do the work as
promptly as possible, but we natur-
ally expect to be paid for the labor
and materials expended. On this point
we do not take a stand different
from any other OF the large motor
car companies.
We only ask that our customers CO.
operate with US as the factory is
willing to cooperate with them. BY
so doing the customer will himself be
better satisfied and we on our part
will be able to turn out better and
faster work from our service station,
which is equipped to handle all man
ner Of Chevrolet work. in the most
expeditions manner.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
LOWELL RETIRES FROM
KLAXON HORN COMP ANY
Pioneer in Production of Noise-Mak-
ing Continuance.

F. Hallett Lowell, jr., for many years
president and principal owner of the
Manufacturing Com
pany, of Newark, n. Y, makers of the
Klaxon horn, has sold his interest In the
company to the United Motors Company,
and will retire from all active connec-
tion with the company.
By LoveIrs retirement the automobile
industry loses one of its most important
men. He first conceived the idea Of a
jobber's association among automobile
accessory houses and the present n. A.
A. A. J., of which he is a director. is the
direct result of his efforts. At the time
of his retirement he was president Of the
Motor and Accessories Manufacturers, In
which he has been active for many years
His influence has been felt also in many
ways throughout the trade and industry
as a champion OF price maintenance, fair
legislation and many other constructive
measures
Nine years ago when Lowell was a
manufacturer of electrical and other sup
plies for naval and railroad purposes, an
inventor came TO him with a primitive
noise-making device as the novely warn
ing signal for automobiles. 1t operated
from the flywheel Of the engine and
produced screech that fairly lifted a
man out of his shoes.
Lowell at once saw in this crude device
the possibility not OF a novelty. but Of
a universal signal for automobiles The
very warning quality Of the noise that so
Instantly got attention, that eaId so dis
tinctly, look out" that so successfully
cut through all other noises, appealed at
once as the logical voice Of the auto
and the successor to the feeble and awk-
ward bulb horn.
Against the advice OF his friends he
took over the crude device, changed its
motive power to electricity and started
In to make and market It, 1t proved
hard going When the sales had reached
a few thousand, adverse legislation set
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
PURSUIT WINS HIM BRIDE.
Man Followed Widow to War Zone
and COurted Her Six Months,

Depere, Wis. Sept. Ga swain's pur-
suit Of rich widow to Europe and back
to the United States after a trip to the
war zone preceded the wedding here of
Mrs. Pauline A. Cawkcr. of Milwaukee,
and Henry Klein, of that city Mrs.
Klein is the sister-in-law OF Miss Leo
more Cawker. the Milwaukee dog catcher.
who spends 5000 year chasing homeless
dogs.
Mrs. Cawker al first refused to smile on
Klein's suit and went abroad For a
time she was French war nurse Klein
followed her and after six months of
courtship won her heart.
The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
$36,1o2 THEFT CHARGED.
Newark Man Under Fifteen Indtct-
ments-PIeads Not Guilty.

New York, Sept. 3O.-George Brown. jr..
arresTd here three weeks ago on a
charge Of having missppropriated build
Ing and loan funds aggregating $36,1n2,
was held in $500 tentative bail on fif-
teen indictments Yesterday by Judge
William P. Martin, OF the Court Of Quar-
ter Sessions, Newark. Eight indictments
charging false pretense, forgery and mis-
demeanOr were for alleged peculations Of
HS,SO2 from the funds Of the Hawthorne
Building and Loan Association.
Brown entered a plea OF not guilty in
each indictment.