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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
WAR THREATENS
TO BECOME STRUG-
Gle between BOYS

ASSOCIATED Press Correspondent
London, Oct. 28-The war threatens
soon to become a struggle between
mere boys. The pace is said to be
entirely too fast for the older men long
to endure.
1t is declared here that next year the
Entente Allies will be facing boys Of
II in the German army
General Sir Douglas Haig, command
ing the British expeditionary forces. is
said to have objected to the sending
out of men of middle age He wants
young men Of from 10 to %. After
the latter year it is said the fighting
value Of the human unit shows rapid
and steady decline.
The good soldier Of today 1t seems
must be of the age which eXcels in
the more strenuous athletic games
the football player type. The older
men have their place. but generally
speaking it is said now to be in the
army behind the army"the men back
of the line. in the supply and transport
divisions where the strain is not so
great. These older men are too sus-
ceptible to trench diseases to be of
great use on the firing line.
England already is registering boys
born in 1899 preparatory to calling
them up when they attain their eigh-
teenth year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
The Joy Of Being
Cured of Asthma

If all people who have used Oxidaze
and have been benefited by it would
write of their experience Just as this lady
has done. much good would result
Waterbury. Conn, 3SS Willow street,
have been a victim Of asthma and was
told by my doctor that in two years
would be a total wreck If did not
change my locality. 1 sat up for three
years and most of the time with my
arms raised, SO l could breathe. had
bronchial asthma in its worst form, with
a cough that was simply awful have
been so distressed for breath that I have
crawled up stairs. l could not walk.
l began to use oxidaZe year ago and
did not use any other treatment and am
entirely cured. Why, l surprise myself,
the way / can hustle and i can do more
work than two women now. l have abso-
lutely no sign of asthma or catarrh now,
and II take cold just use Oxidaze and
am over 1t in no time. think Oxidaze
ought to be doomed to the highest degree.
l cannot say enough for it. The first tab
let relieved my breathing and from that
time l felt cure was in store for me
through faithful use and a little patience,
and 1t has come with all.
Mrs. Fred Itschner.
3SS Willow Street,
Waterbury. Conn.
Note-Oxidaze tablets for asthma. ca
tarrh, coughs. colds, bronchial affections
and similar complaints is now one OF the
standard preparations dispensed and rec
commended by Bowditch & webster and
other good druggists everywnsre.-Aov.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
Real Estate Transfers

Following are the recent real estate
transfers as recorded at the Somerset
Registry of Deeds:
Standardization Land Co. to Hen
~ A. F1eury. land and buildings on
Main street; Albert Poulin to Lottie
M. Pouiin. land and buildings on Main
street: Shawmut Manufacturing Co. to
Cora NJ. Hutchins; Lucy ]. Skillin to
Sarah Moore, the Lebni Mason farm
of 80 acres.
Bingham-Naomi w. Jackson to
Nathaniel w. Williams.
Madison-Forest Hill Cemetery Co.
to Abbie NJ. Collins.
Moscow-Laura e. Andrews ct q to
Mrs. Fred mclaughlin, lot in River
road cemetery.
ST. Albans-Mabel A. Larrabee to
Vida A. Smith, the Dennis Deveraux
homestead farm on the Town farm
road.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
Nle xa!g e se1 9G 70
CALIFORNIA, CHICAGO,
OR THE WEST =?

DON'T FORGET-The MCKEE Plate Road
offers you lowest one-way rates to all
points West. Round trip tourist fares
daily to California and Pacific Coast.
Excellent Service. Through electric light
ed standard and tourist Pullman sieepers'
Boston to Chicago. Inviting Dining Car
Service. Direct connections at chicago
with choice of routes West thereof.
Before arranging your Western Trip.
save money BY writing me for rates and
information.
L. P. BURGESS. New Eng Pass. Agent.
3l2 Old South Bldg, Boston. Mass
now thurs,7t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
Surprising SagacIty Of Maine Dee

The deer season Is on now in seven
more Maine counties. How much do
the Maine deer know about the county
boundaries ?-Boston Globe.
They seem to know everything about
the boundaries and the public laws
Of Maine. Before the season opens, you
can't go out to pick up the kindlings
without humping into deer. After the
season opens, you simply hear them
whistling in the thicket, the old sweet
song of "In the Sweet Bye and Bye"
The other day we ran across a buck
deer on the highway in Turner, An
droscoggin county. He was sitting on
a stone wall, reading the P. NJ. edi-
ton of the Lewiston Journal. and his
doe was looking over an old copy Of
the funny" (?) page Of the Boston
Globe. You never saw such wise deer
as we have in Maine. One Of them
broke into the public library in Greene
the other night and carried away with
him Vol. Nv. Of the Encyclopedia Bril-
tanica. (bound in limp the same be-
ing the Vol. "De-Fo" 1t is assumed
that he wanted to read the genealogyi
Of the Deer family. Deer are nothing
as to moose. A moose walked into
Bangor the other day and tried to get
put up at the Penobscot Exchange. Be-
ing refused. he went to the Bangor
Commercial and Bangor News Offices
and advertised for furnished rooms. In
the woods last week at Spencer Bay
we saw more moose in two weeks than
we have seen before in years. The
moose were SO much in the way that
they fairly shouted" their kpoxu1od1o
OF close time on moose" A big bull,
zoe and calf stood around one day
until they got obnoxious. Talk to US
that deer and moose in Maine don't
know boundaries! Why, they know
enough to vote! And to vote right.
too.-Lewiston Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
CANAAN
Oiekey-Webb

The home Of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.
Dickey in Canaan was the scene Mon
day. Nov. 10, of quiet but pretty mar
riage. the contracting parties being
their son, Everett o. Dickey Of Fair
field, and Miss Beatrix A. Webb of
Hainesville. N. B. Rev. c. w. Lowell,
pastor Brown Memorial Methodist
Episcopal church Of Clinton. perform
ed the ceremony, using the single ring
service. The room was prettily decor
ated for the occasion. They were at
tended by the bridegroom's brother and
sister. They will reside in Fairfield.
They have best wishes of many friends
for a long and happy married life.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

Pittsfield-F1ora e. Jones to Four
County Fair Association. land on north
of Four County Fair Association land.
Concord-Nellie I. NJ. Paul ct ais to
william H. Kast, Buffalo, N. Y.
Mayfeld-George e. Flanders to
Leon Gould, cottage on Kingsbury
road.
carbohydrates Small to w. J.
Foss, the Badger place: w. j. Foss to
George F. Corson, the Badger place OF
60 acres.
Palmyra-Edward c. Hunter to Fred
M. Peasley. 125 acres OF land with
buildings, parts of lots and 3 IN
Range 8. ..-..--
Rockwood-Sylvere Gaudet to Will
liam r. McPheters. strip Of land on
Kineo- Pittston road.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
A Head Full
of Ache

There are many forms of headache,
but the sick headache is about the
worst ever. When it once fastens on
you, it lasts a good while, unless you
know how to get rid of it. Sick head
ache usually comes from the stomach
or liver, and you must help these or
gans before the head can be relieved.
A few doses of Il. F." Atwood's Med
icine will put your stomach to rights,
regulate the bile, and act on the bow
els. AS soon as good order is Sc
cured, the dizzy feeling and nagging
pain will leave your head, and soon
you will be as we'll as ever. No medi-
cine is better for sick headache or
biliousness.
Duy SIC bsssls at your nearest seees.
q write to-day for free sample.
l. r" Medicine Co, Portland Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

to take part in the achievement of an
honorable peace is, at all times, alive.
1.-THE very increased number of our
enemies forms an incentive to our eff
forts squirting on to unsurpassed
achievements.
"Our finances do not shake under the
vast amounts which so far have been
subscribed for. which will experience
further Strengthening by the additional
billions to be placed at the disposal Mt
the Empire"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
DIED..
CUMBERLAND.

CUMBERLAND. -.. r
Portland-Nov. IA, Mrs. Helen NJ. Wish,
aged 40 years: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Penneil:
aged 70 years; Elvira Bray, aged IS
years: Margaret E. La Rose.
West Pownal-Nov. 4, Dallas Munro
aged q years.
HANCOCK
Sedgwick-Nov. 8. Jonathan Bridges
aged 70 years.
Stonington-Nov. Z. Mrs. Sarah ]. FL
field, aged 80 years. =,
Dedham-Nov. IA, Adrian R. Phillips,
aged 6S years.
Union-Nov s. Clarence A. Packard
aged rs years.
PENOBSCOT.
Hampden-Nov. 1, Mrs Ellen r. Emery.
aged Is years.
Bradford-Nov. 9, Fred s. Scribner. aged
70 years. ---l-.
East Corinth-Nov. ID, Abijah Farrow.
aged 81 years.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Brookline, Mass, Nov II, Arthur W.
Bowker. aged 50 years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
OPIUM RAIDS IN
PORTLAND CAUSE
TWO ARRESTS

Portland, Me-. Nov. 1.-two opium
raids were made here Monday. Willie
Chin Moon, who resides at ISL Washing
ton avenue, and Sam Wah. proprietor of
a laundry at IA Congress street, were ar
rested,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

were hard and red and were
in blotches and itched SO
that l had to scratch my face
and more pimples broke out.
I lost my rest at night
because Of the itching.
Il had the trouble for
about two years. A friend
told me to get Cuticura Soap
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

and knives that make corns bleed and
sore, harnesses and bandages that fill up
your shoe. press on the corn and make
your foot feel like paving block. What's
the use? Why not do what millions are
doing take seconds off and apply
"GETS-1T." 1t dries. you put your stock
ing on right away, and wear your regular
shoes. Your corn loosens from the toe.
1t lifts right off. It's painless. It's the
common-sense way, the simplest. easiest.
most effective way in the world. It's the
national corn-cure. Never fails.
"GETS-IT' is sold and recommended
sent on receipt of price. by E. Lawrence
& Co.. Chicago. Ill.
Sold In Augusta and recommended as
the worlds best corn remedy by Arthur
Tetreault, John Coughlin, Bowditch &;
Webster. sept5-21- oct12-31 -nov16-dec5
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

The northeaster started the wild geese
flying and it is nearing the end Of wood
cock, as these delicate game birds leave
when the cold weather comes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
BORN
KENNEREC

u,. KENNEBEC.
~. winthrop Center-Oct. is. to the wife of
eharles Floyd Smith. a daughter.
=, AIEmsta-Nov. 8. to the wife Of William
wifa nTnson' son: Nov. Is, to the
"F Fsv ot hairy Hanson. son.
ter n aWe,,ov. II, to the wife Of Ches-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

James Whitcomb Riley Subject of Entertaining
Program of Sorosis on Tuesday Even1ng-llst
of Births Recorded Wednesday at the Town
Clerks Ofice-Calendar for Coming Years
Program of Clementine Weston w. c. I. IT,
O.ES. to Meet-Many Personals
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

area OF Italy is 10000 square
1sa 90. while the area Of California is
$4,000 square miles. - -
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
C0rnS Loosen,
Lift Right Off

Nothing But "GETS-IT" Will Do
This to Corns and CalIuses.
II you've ever had corns, you've tried
lots Of things to get rid Of themselves
that eat your toe and leave the corn re-
manning, cotton rings that make your
corns bulge out like pop-eyes. scissors
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
ITCHING pIlNpLES
D|SF|GURED FACE
Red and In BIotches. Scratched
and More Pimples Broke Out.
Lost Rest At Night.
HEALED BY CUTlCURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

"Pimples broke out on my face three
years ago and had very much trouble with
them as they disf1gured my face. They
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
Portland Me.

factory output now upwards Of eleven
hundred thousand weekly. Largest sell
hg brand Of loo Cigars In the world. Fac
Dry, Manchester, N. II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16

ffee sample. found great relief so bought
more and in a short time was completely
healed" (Signed) Robert Cooper Naval
Training Station, Newport. R. l.. July %,
1915
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-16
Sample Each Free by Mail

With 32-p. Skin Book on the treatment
Of the skin and scalp. Address postcard
''Cuticura. Dept. r. Boston, Sold by
druggists and dealers throughout the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

of August the great French invasion, rest
ing one flank upon this hill, the other upon
the distant Vosges, had stepped over the
frontier. One could trace its route to the
distant hills among which it had found
disaster In those hills the Germans had
hidden their heavy guns, and the French,
coming under their fire without warning,
unsupported by heavy artillery, which was
lacking to them, had broken. Then the
German invasion had rolled back. You
could follow the route. In the foreground
the little SeiIle River could be discerned;
it marked the old frontier. Across this
had come the defeated troops. They had
swarmed down the low, bare hills; they
had crossed and vanished in the woods just
at my feet; these woods were the Forest
of Champenoux. Into this forest the Ger
mans had followed by the thousands; they
were astride the main road to Nancy,
which rolled white and straight at my
feet. But in the woods the French rallied.
For days there was fought in this stretch
of trees one Of the most terrible Of battles.
AS stood on the Grand Mont ! faced
almost due east. In front Of me and to the
south extended the fores,. Exactly at
my feet the forest reached up the hill and
there was a little cluster Of buildings about
q fountain. All was in ruins, and here
exactly here, was the high water mark OF
the German advance. They had occupied
the ruins for few moments and then had
been driven out. Elsewhere they had never
emerged from the woods; they had ap-
preached the western shore, but tae
French had met them with machine guns
and "seventy-fves" The brown woods az
my feet were nothing but vast cemetery;
thousands Of French and German soldiers
slept there.
In their turn the Germans had gone
back. Now. in the same woods, trencn
battery was Smelling the Germans on the
other side of the Seile. Under the glass
| studied the little villages unfolding as
on a map; they were all destroyed, but II
was impossible to recognize this. Some
were French, some German; you could toi-
low the line, but there were no trenches;
behind them French shells were bursting
occasionally and black smoke rose Just
above the ground. Thousands OF men raced
each other less than four miles from where
| stood hut all that there was to be de-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

fire Here and there a whole house was
gone; next door the house was undisturbed
and the women and children looked out Of
the doors The village was Ste. Genevieye,
and we were at the extreme front of the
French in August, and against this hill
burst the food of German invasion. Leav-
ing the car, We walked out of the village,
and at the end Of the street a sign warned
the wayfarer not to enter the fields for
which we were bound "War-do not tres
pass" This was the burden of the warn
ing.
Once beyond this sign we came out sud
denly upon an open plateau, upon trenches.
Northward the slope descended TO valley
at our feet. 1t was cut and scanned By
trenches, and beyond the trenches stood
the posts that carried the barbed wire en-
tanglements. Here and there, amidst the
trenches, there were graves. went down
to the barbed wire entanglements and OK
amined them curiously. They at least were
real. Once thousands of men had come
up out of the little woods a quarter Of a
mile below; they had come on in that u
nous massed attack, they had come on IN
the face of machine guns and seventy
fves." They had just reached the wires,
which marked high water. In the woods
below, the BoisdeFacq, in the fields by
the river, 1000 Germans had been buried
Forest Of the Advance Guard.
Looking out from the trenches. the
whole country unfolded. Northward the
little village of Alton slept under the steep
slope Of Cote-de- Mousson, round pinnacle
crowned with an ancient chateau. From
the hill the German artillery had swept
the ground where ! stood Below the hill
10 the west was Pont-a- Mousson, the city
IF $50 bombardments which the Germans
took when they came south and lost later
Above it was the Bois-le- Pretre, in which
guns were now booming occasionally. Far
70 the north was another hill, just visible
and its slope toward US was cut and
scanned. with yellow slashes: those were
the French trenches. then of the second or
third line; beyond there was still another
hill. il was slightly blurred in the haze
but il was not over five miles away, and
il was occupied by the Germans. From.
the slope above me on clear day it Is
nossible to see Metz, so near are French
and German lines TO the old frontier.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

Straight across the river to the west OF
US was another wood, with glorious
name. the Forest of the Advance Guard.
II swept to the south of us. In that wood
the Germans had also planted their guns
on the day of battle They had swept the
trenches where | stood from three sides.
Plainly il had been a warm corner. But
the French had held on. Their commander
had received a verbal order to retreat. lie
insisted that it should be put in writing,
and this took time The order came. Ii
had to be obeyed. but he obeyed slowly
Reluctantly the men left the trenches they
had held so long. They slipped southwark
along the road by which we had just come.
But suddenly their rear guards discovered
the Germans were also retreating. So the
French came back. and the line Of ste.
Genevieve was held, the northern door TO
Nancy was not forced.
Looking down again. IT was not difficult
to reconstitute that German assault, maze
at night. The thing was so simple the
civilian could grasp it. A road ran through
the valley, and along it the Germans had
formed; the slope they had to advance up
was gentle, far more gradual than that OF
San Juan. They had been picked troops
selected for a forlorn hope, and they had
come back four times. The next morning
the whole forest had been filed with dead
and diving. Not less than divlsion-2O,-
900 men-had made the terrible venture.
Now there was strange sense OF empl-
ness in the country; war had come and
gone. left its graves. its trenches, its
barbed wire entanglements; but these
were all disappearing already. On this
beautiful spring morning It was impossl-
bic to feel the reality of what had happened
here. what was happening now, in some
measure. five miles or more to the north.
Nature is certainly the greatest of all pac-
ifist.; she will not permit the signs Of
war to endure nor the mind to believe that
war itself has existed and exists.
The Promised Land.
From Ste. Genevieve we went to the
Grand Mont d'Amance. the most famous
point in all the Lorraine front, the south
east corner of the Grand Couronne, as Ste.
Genevieve is the northern Here, from a
hill some / 800 feet high, one looks east
ward into the Promised Land of France
into German Lorraine. In the early days
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14

tccted were the shell-bursts; otherwise one
saw pleasant country, rolling hills, most
ly without woods, bare in the spring, which
had not yet come to turn them green. In
the foreground ran that arbitrary line
Bismarck had drawn between Frenchmen
forty-six years before-the frontier-but
Of natural separation there was none. lie
had cut off part of France, that was all
and one looked upon what had been and
was still bleeding wound.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14
THE PROMISED LAND-I ORRAINES FORGOTTEN BATTLE
Where the Kaiser Waited for Tri.
umphal Entrance-An nd the
French Wait for Metz and
StraSSburg
Copyright l9l6-The Tribune Assn
S tr a S S burg

chateau, the blocks in the village. all in
ashes. Save for Sermsize, Gerbeviller is
the most completely wrecked town in
France
You enter the village over a little bridge
across the tiny Mortagne Here some
French soldiers made stand and held on
the German advance for some hours
There was no other battle at Gerbeviler,
but for tSis defence the town died. Never
was death so complete. Incendiary mate
rial was placed in every house, and all that
thoroughness could do TO make the de-
struction complete was done Gerbe-
viler is dead; few women and children
live amidst its ashes; there is a wooden
barrack by the bridge, with postofRc.
and the inevitable postcards, but only on
postcards, picture postcards. does the town
live. 1t will be place Of pilgrimage when
peace comes.
From Gerbeviller We went by Bayou to
the Plateau Of Saffais, the ridge between
the Meurthe and the Moselle where the
defeated army Of Castelnau made It's last
and successful stand. The French line
came south from Ste. Geneyieve, where we
had been in the morning, through the
Grand Mont, across the plain by Harau-
court and Courbessaux, then crossed the
Meurthe by Dombasle and stood on the
heights from Rossieres south. Having
taken Luneville, the Germans attempted
to cross the Meurthe coming out Of the
Forest Of Nitrlmont
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14
The Most Wrecked Town of France

Later we drove south, passing within
the lines the Germans had held in their
great advance; we travelled through Lune-
vile, which they had taken and left I'M
harmed, save as shell fire had wrecked an
eastern suburb. We visited Gerbeviller,
where in an excess of rage the Germans
had burned every structure in the town.
| have never seen such a headquarters Of
desoaton. Everything that had a shape,
that had semblance of beauty or Of use,
lies in complete ruin-detsched houses, q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-14
A City Waiting.

Out Of all the region of war. Of war
to-day and war yesterday. one goes back
10 Nancy, TO its busy streets, its crowds
of people returning from their days work.
War is less than fifteen miles away, but
Nancy is as calm as London is nervous.
Its bakers still make macaroons; even
Taube raids do not excuse the children
from punctual attendance at school. Nancy
is calm with the calmness Of all France,
but with just touch of something more
than calmness. which forty-six years OF
living by an open frontier brings. Twenty
one months ago il was the gage Of battle,
and half a million men fought for it; "a
new German drive may approach It at any
time. Out toward the old frontier there
is still German gun, hidden in the For
est of Bezange, which has turned one
block to ashes and may fire again at any
hour. Zeppelins have come and gone, leav-
ing dead women and children behind them,
but Nancy goes on with to-day.
And tomorrow? In the hearts Of all
the people of this beautiful city there Is \
single and a simple faith. Nancy turns
her face toward the ancient frontier; she
looks hopefully out upon the shell swept
Grand Couronne and beyond 20 the Prom
ised Land. And the people say to you,
if YOU ask them about war and about
peace. as one Of them said to me: Peace
will come, but not until we have our an
cient frontier. not until We have Metz and
Strassburg We have waited = long time,
is it not so?"