Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-10

Sir Jonn HornerS mansion at Mellss
Park. near London. which has heer
partly destroyed by fire was the "nIurrr
which gave rise originally to the IA.
miliar rhyme about Little Jack Horn.
| eT The poem was written as a nisce
of political dOggerel. At the time NJ
! the Dissolution, a certain John Horne.
was steward of the great Abbey II
glastonbury. and with the dissolution
! of the monasteries he secured he
plum the Manor of Melles. Since that
time the eldest son of the Horner
family has always been named John.
| Chang Chen-fang. a cousin Of tho
late Yuan Shih-kai and a multi.mjl.
l!onalre. was sentenced by the supreme
court of China to life term in prison
FOR participation in the effort Of Cheng
Hsun to restore the Manchu boy En-.
peror to the throne. Chang Chen-fapg
held many offices under Yuan Shih-ks,
He was acting military governor q
Chill and Honan Provinces. In add.
ton TO his life sentence he was also
fined $500 for smoking opium
! The dyes for the horizon blue uni.
! forms of the French army substituted
for the old dark blue and red since tar
war began. have been furnished By A
, German firm, according to the Paris
Oeuvre Franchise. The madder With
which the material for the famous red
trousers of the French infantry were
dyed had long before the war been
replaced by German anilne dyes but
ut was not suspected until lately that
the Germans could be interested in the
horizon blue dye that has been fur.
nished by house in Basel. Switzerland,
with a name that was partly Of French
ana partly of German consonance. The
Oeuvre Franchise now declares that all
the rights and patents of that firm have
been owned for long time by firm
in Berlin
me Japanese government has de.
clded 10 station q permanent financial
commissioner at New York City and
has appointed Sho Den to the position.
Similar posts Will be created in other
leading world centres.
1t is announced in London that the
health and sanitary conditions of the
, Entente forces in SaIoniki are better
IMAM ever before. There is no cpl
demlc, no plague, and no typhoid, In
, the suppression of typhoid. use has
been made of new serum based on
! oil. which has given very satisfactory
results. A French army report est.
mates that for the whole French army
| thc average number of typhoid cases
mas been reduced to less than thirty
me record in escapes from war CAP.
'iNltE would seem to be held by a
! RUSSIAN prlsOner-Of-war who haf
crossed the frontier near Winsterswyh
Netherlands. This was his twelfth A.
tempt at escape. Three times he feel
IN the direction of Luxembourg. twice
ne made for Switzerland. on several
occasions ne took the road TO Poland
ana again to Denmark. but in every
! ceFe without success This was ths
| hrst time he had tried his luck in TIE
direction of the Netherlands frontisr.
and after being two months and TWEEN
~ days on the read success croNn'I
. ms perseverance.
Work mas begun on the constructor
OF large naval drydock at the con
! nuence OF the Wye and the Severn a.
beachieY short distance from Ca r.
oln' Wales. All the residents of The
village OF Reachley have been ordered
, 10 Nacate their homes immediately.
Ihe marriage intentions Of Robe
Lewis Watson of Carmel aud Miss
Dorothea Ella Miller Of Lewiston have
been recorded by City Clerk Landrg
MISS Miller is a member of the Lewis
Ton Journal force and has a very wide
circle OF friends who. although eX-
tending warm CONGRATULATIONS upon her
approaching marriage. will much re-
gret that she is to leave the city Mr.
" atson is one Of Carmeis best kuown
young business men. Miss Miller IS
me only daughter of M. and Mrs. 7.
winston Miller Of Lewiston.-Lewis.
ton Journal.
Kew. John S. Zelie OF Plainsfield. y
j., formerly Of Bangor, has resigned
ms pastorate in Plainfield. much to The
regret OF his parishioners, who IMAM
mousiy adopted q resolve requesting
MN 10 remain. Rev Mr. Zelie has
been in Plainfield for many wears
passing his summers al his bungaloV
on an island near Cherryield the
former home OF Mrs. Zelie. He ha'
preached in Bangor at least once eacf
summer. occupying the pulpit Of A.
Souls church In August last.
OPERATED by electricity obtained frop
a lighting circuit, a new machine weu.
sweeps, scrubs and dries floor ove'
which 1t is propelled by human power