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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Steamer Islander

Leave Augusta every day at 7.05 A. NJ.
Hallowell Con signaD, 7.13: Gardiner. 7.4o;
South Gardiner Con signaD. $50; Cedar
Grove. sos: Richmond, $40; Bath. $40.
Arrives Boothbay Harbor about l.S0.
Return, leaves Boothbay Harbor every
day at 100 P. NJ; Bath 315. Stops at
Richmond, Cedar Grove and South Gardi-
ner on signal; Gardiner; Hallowell on
signal. Arrives at Augusta about
6 o'clock P. NJ. Walter NJ. Sanborn. Au-
gusta, Llewellyn Burbank. Hallowell. w.
l.. Tozier, Gardiner. Agents.
mayl6dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Goethals and Dennan

Inc most significant thing in Gen.
Goethals tart memorandum IN Chat
man Denman was not in the comnact
statement that Eustic and Clark had
been fred because they were dislova,
and untruthful. II was in tho STAT
ment that contracts were DELAYED nm
I'll after the hearing by a Congress
sional committee in order that
Coethais. as instigated by Denm.,
might truthfully tell the committee
that the government had not been OBJ
lisated beyond the amount of the
original appropriation. Having given
this testimony--strictly within the line
Of vsracity-the shipping corporation
proceeded Immediately to obligate the
government in a sum about twenty
I'VE millions In excess Of the appro-
priation.
Here was a palpable scheme to de-
ceive the committee Of Congress-
scheme evidently framed and foisted
upon Gen. Cocktails. the honest-minded
soldier and builder OF the Panama
Canal. We can well imagine Cocktails
repugnance to being a party to this
subterfuge and we can we'll imagine his
subsequent and justinable irritation
when he found that other men. whom
Denman has thrust upon him stimuli
tansously with his testimony. were
trying to all the public mind with I'M
truths because their own schemes
were not being carried out.
But. the blunt, and honest. soldier.
whose training - an engineer has
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Texas newspapers are announcing that
the Texas cavalry wants Is men who
know how to cuss mules" Nearly every
one who has had experience with mules
has acquired at least some knowledge of
the art, but we never heard that it made
any difference with the mue.-Philadel-
phia Press.
We don't know Of any of the I'd
Maine boys who care to leave the regi-
ment for the sake of going to Texas,
but several Of them are eminently
qualified to fill the above requirements.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

The rains fell and the foods fell on New
Hampshire's north country-no question
about that. However, Mt Washington
should serve as a convenient Ararat in
case Of serious Observation-Disclosures
Union.
But have you an Ark ready for that
emergency? The Ararat of the Noachian
food would not have been available with
out Noah's foresight. for he began work
on the historic craft long before it began
to rain in earnest.-Biddeford Journal.
Do you remember, Deak, if Uncle
Noah was the first advocate of pre-
paredness?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Maine Gossip
QuthalIinQ He'll.

Up from home few Satan on quest
And stood in France, whence Teutons
Leaving in malice red protesting scars.
And as he eazed, eyes Of the Lord Of He'll
Grew wet and as he wiped them with his
Fear whitened all the crimson Of his face
And set his limbs to trembling under him.
Fear that in time mightier than he.
BY death set free to storm the gate OF
hell
Should jar him from his throne.
Woes mel! he cried:
10, these four years have I been slum-
bering,
And now the Monarch Of the Submarine
Disputes dominion with me! Mightter
Than mine have here dealt suffering and
The peaks of charnelled Kultur rise far
higher
Than any in my shamed and marked
down realm;
Behold, Beelzebub, long thought supreme,
Has work to do"' And with a sulphurous
groan
He fed below.
And there with singing lash
He f1ays his toiling fends through sizz-
ling days,
With extra shifts throughout the brim-
stone nights,
Lifting Gehenna closer to the stars
That beam in skies of kultur-
Raising hell =
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Me Und Gott
(Pittsbureh Post,

t1lttspQESH FOSI.J
Colt, Colt, dear Colt, attention, blease
your partner wilhelm's here
And has a word or two to say into your
private ear:
So turn all oders under now, and listen
veil to me,
For vat ! says concerns me much, mein.
self and Chermany.
You know. dear Gott I vas your frient
and from mine hour Of birth,
I let you rule der heffen. vile rules o'er
Und ven tells mine soldiers Of bysone
battle days,
always splits der glory und gives you
half der praise.
In eftery way try to prove mine heart
to you vas true.
Und only claim mine honest share in
great deeds vat we do,
You could not had a better frient in sky
on land or sea
AS Wilhelm Kaiser Number g. der lord Of
Chermany.
So vat ask, dear Colt, is dis: dat VI
should be good frients,
Cnd you should help me send mine fces
to meet der bitter ends.
It you, dear Gott. win dis me do. I'll nod.
Unit me unit You viii partners be. forever
unit amen.
out ueten, Sotts IL must Dc quick. to me
your help you send,
Or else ! hat to stop attack und only play
defend.
So four and twenty hours I gif to make
der allies run,
Unit put EN- safe. into mine blaze, der
middle Of der sun.
But II YOU don't. den must think. yours
is hostile act.
IND den, you bet. I'll have revenge, I'll
tell the world der fact,
Den var at once will declare, und In
mine anger rise,
Und send mine zeppelins to wage a t,sht
UP in der skies.
Dis ultimatum. now, dear Colt. is Won Of
many more:
MY mind 10 settled up to clean der whole
world OF der floor.
Because you vas mine partner, van extra
chance 10 giften,
So help at vonce. or else I'll ba da.. I'm.
peror Of Hef3en.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
! Through its
! Advertising
! A Store
i! " Speak"

The spirit, the character, the poll.
$eies and practices Of the store as ~
service institution show, and area
1ilIunnired, through it's advertising.
To many this voice" is a familiar
ZONE, carrying the now message OF
IAN old friend. To others-alwsys toe
some who read this newspaper-'tA
Tie a new voice, making its impress.
4sion upon them for the frs, time.
q Il wins either immediate eooh.$
Idence, or immediate dislike. When>
you hear a voice for the first time,
4either over the phone or In rors~
Animate conversation, you form az
lasting impression OF the ter,pera-
Yment, character and personality Of
>the taIksr. In some such measured
lyou also form an impression Of a
business through reading its ad.
>vertisins. II the "voiee" 10 boast
$fuI, vague, arrogant, the Impressions
will last Ione-and to the disad.
Vantage Of the merchant. ~ II In.
tspires confidence, II IL has the rins>
Aof senuineness, Of friendIiness. Il 10,
indeed, "the voice that wins"
= Merchants should try to get the<
Adetaohed view Of their advertisine-A
tho view Of the reader Of il. They
YshouId try to make II TRUTH.~
>FuLLY REFLECT THE sPIRIT~
OF THE STORE.
I The most successful Advertisers
do this. The advertising, always,
epictures tho store-carres some of~
Athe spirit sf the store management
to, every reader-impresses tho
?store's policies and practices of
tSER"IcE and of DEPENDABLE
ltTX. .
! See that "the voice" Of your store
rings true
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Light and Airy
A Little Mistake,

Since Gladys took to gardening
And yields the rake and hoe,
She wears a pair Of overalls
Just like her brother Joe,
And with her rakish panama,
She is a picture that
Whenever I behold her makes
Ny heart go pit-a-pat.
Last night beneath the silver moon
stole upon her where
She weeded the potato patch
With slow and patient care.
I clasped her in my arms and took
A kiss and then another.
Before I saw that it was not
My Gladys. but her brother.
-Minna Irving, in New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Commenting on the report that the
Montreal milk dealers have lowered
the price paid the farmers to % cents
per gallon and at the same time raised
the price to the consumers to II cents
per quart, the New York World re-
marks that they have little if anything
to learn from the New York milk deal
ers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Editors Letter Box
Dollars from a Farmer.

Editor Kennebec Journal
Is any effort being made to reach those
people out in the country who do not
wish to be denied the privilege of giving
to the Red Cross fund? Not that there
are many spare dollars floating around
among the farmers, as one way and an
other. they are about as hard hit and as
little protected as any class at the pres
ent-time, yet there are good and gener-
GUS hearts among the men and women
on the land, even although the generosi-
ty Of those hearts may be cramped and
almost sti1ed by the hardships Of their
calling. 1t should be the easiest thing in
the world for wealthy person to be gen.
erous. but a mighty hard proposition for
the poor to give much, no matter how
they might wish to do so, and a dollar
given by some may mean much more true
generosity and self-denial than a thous-
and by others; this Of course we al!
know, and It is the mites Of the masses
that help Could not the Kennebec Jour
nal offer to receive and send on any sums
that persons living in the country might
wish to give? I enclose herewith $780,
which I am going to ask you to hand to
a member of the committee, anonymously
o. course. 1t is perhaps but as a grain
OF sand on the seashore-but when 1 tell
you that half of it is the gift of little
country children, taken from their money
boxes and given. after explanation, freely
and gladly by them from a little store
that combined amounts to less than the
numbers Of fingers OF one child's hands,
ir dollars, and got together only in sew
eral years. you will realize is is not 50
trivial after all, looking at 1t in its true
l1ght-the other dollar is also given glad
ly. with regrets that it is not more, and
although but an atom-were the Difficult
ties and responsibilities Of the giver TAX
en- into consideration, might compare
quite favorably with the hundreds given
by some.
These same little motherless country
children have already provided on two
occasions from their small savings a SIM
pie Christmas dinner with fire to a
mother and family Of fatherless children
in one Of the stricken countries and who
but for that would probably have gone
cold and hungry, on those days when
practically every child in America has
warmth and enough to eat. P. r. o.
1.-THE suggestion Of our friend is a good
one and we act accordingly. The Journal
will accept any funds sent for the Red
Cross and see that such sums are turned
over to the proper officers Of that organi-
cation and entered for the good Of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

The Bridgton summer colony already
has Maude Adams, the famous actress,
as guest and Madame Olive Fremstad
and her husband, Harry Brainerd, will
soon be occupying their splendid sum-
mer home on Long lake shore. Dustin
Farnum has also arrived at his sum-
mer home in Bucksport. And others
are on the way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

We found not a beetle on our potatoes
yesterday, but we are not optimistic
about 1t. They may be modifying for a
grand forward movement.-Pats and
knocks. Portland Press.
Ye better look on the under side of
the leaves and see if you don't find
some millions Of little yaller bombs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Information received on Wednesday
at the Office of the Bangor & Aroostook
Railroad at Bangor said that potatoes
on Tuesday were selling for SIS per bar
rel in Caribou.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Maine Teachers Meetings

Judge Of the damage and loss to crops
by the fact that a Meddyb=mps farmer
reports the total loss Of the seed pota-
toes planted early on a 1o-acre lot!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

One Of the Berlin papers declares that
the kaiser and the German people are
one. The kaiser practically claims the
same thing for me und Got. ALBANY
y. T., Argus.
Divorce proceedings in each case are
row on.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Augusta Lodge Directory
TRINITY CoMMANDERY No. 2. X.

Special conclavo Monday. June 18th. 1917.
at $50 A. NJ, for the purpose of celebrat-
ing St. Johns Day. Electric cars will
leave the asylum at s.45 for Tallwood Inn,
Lake Maranacook where the day will be
enjoyed. Civilians clothes. Sojourning
fraters invited to participate
EN-. GEO. e. DIXON. E. G.
Sir GEO. H. BANGS, Rec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
DO YOU KNOW THAT

Civilian health IL the rock upon
which military efficiency rests?
The little house dy is a danger
GUS thing,
The time to swat 'em" is in
spring?
The ingestion Of wood alcohol
may produce blindness?
Swimming is a healthful exer-
else?
Human beings are the great
agencies in the spread Of human
diseases?
No community can be really sue,
cAssSul without safe waste dis.
posal?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Railroads and Steamboats,
Maine CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect October I, 1916.
Corrected to May II, 1917.
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA:

GOING WESTON A. NJ,
except Monday, Portland
Name and Boston; 6.3S A. NJ,
AlillA7 Lewiston, Pennington,
Ik03sI1:JN Rockland, Portland. Bos-
J1ffS1E ton. Montreal and Que
aa1s.e1 bee; 1856 A. NJ, Bruins
wick, Bath, Lewiston, Portland, boston'
Gardiner; sos P. NJ. local; 4.o7 p; NJ
(exnressl Brunswick, Rockland, Port
and Boston: SIS P. NJ. Hallowell, Gardi-
ner and So. Gardiner; 6.l2 r. N, !oea! 70
Portland, connects there for New YORK;
10. 40 p. NJ, Lewiston, Bath. Portiand' 6os 30
Ton SUNDAYS 3A and 10.15 A. NJ, 1888
New York; and 1910 p. M. Portland anu
GOING castillo A. NJ. Bangor. St.
John, Halifax, Aroostook Co. Sunday
morning at lis A. M, does Rot connect
boz; 3.15 A. NJ. for Watervills.. Ban
COR. Bar Harbor, Calais; 633 A: NJ,
local to Moosehead Lake (via Oakland),
Belfast, Foxcroft and Bangor; 9.l7 A. M,
local to Belfast, Bangor and Skowhegan;
1906 noon, Waterville, Bangor. B. & A: +.
r., Bar Harbor, Calais, St. John and Hall
fax; 237 P. NJ, express to Watervllle,
thence local to Bangor and Mattawam-
keag; $50 P. NJ, Waterville and Skowhe-
and Bangor Sundays $50 A. M. 253 r.
NJ. for Waterville, Skowhegan and Ban
gor.
Trains leave Augusta for Halloweil.
Gardiner and South Gardiner at SIS. s.36
A. NJ, 12.4s, 3O5, Is, 6.12, 1910. Hallowell
and Gardiner only 4.07 P. NJ. Gardiner
only 304 A. NJ. except Mondays.
NJ L. HARRIS, Gen'l Passenger Agt.
D. c. Douglass. GenI Mgr. Portland. Me-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
A Stores
Individuality

l 1.-THE voice" Of the store 10 hsard>
in its advertising.
The advertisement carries more
4shan msssaoes-mors than news 81 =
4spseiaI offerings, Of. sales, OF nsw>
commodities, Of sters.sntsrpriss In
1sseurina desirable stocks Of ooods
Hundsr favorable conditions. 4
4 Il carries "the voice." the PER.>
soNALITY, Of the store. !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Members of the Suffrage Referen-
dunn League are to have entire charge
of the issue of June IS of the Portland
Argus.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Rev. w. H. Jackson, pastor of the
Congregational church at Union for
the past four years, has accepted call
to the Federated Congregational and
Baptist church in Wilmot, N H., and
will enter upon his new duties at once.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
COMING EVENTS

June 23-N-American Association of
Workers for the Blind. annual conven-
ton. Portland.
June 24-Annual pilgrimage OF knights
Templar Communicates.
June 25-Meeting of Governor and Coun-
Gil at 10. Augusta.
June 25-Opening of Government school
of navigation, Boothbay Harbor.
June 2S-Opening of annual summer ses-
sion of University of Maine, Orono.
June 25-Summer passenger train service
in effect on Maine Central railroad.
June 25-26-Annual meeting of Farmers
Union of Maine, Waterville.
June 30-July 1-Spirtualist Campmeet-
Ing, Etna.
July 9-IS-Annual conferences of Super
intendents of schools and Secondary
school principals. Castine.
July l6-August Estate Summer schools
for Teachers, Castine, Pennington and
Machias.
June l7-Reunion of 4th Me. Regi-
ment al Oakland park, Rockland
June 11-20--Commencement at Hebron
Academy, Hebron.
Maine Teachers Meetings
sept. g. and I, Waldo county. Belfast.
Sept. II. Washington county, Eastport.
June 23-N-Convention of the National
Organization of American Workers for
the Blind, Portland.
Oct. 4-s-Four County Fair at Union
Park, Pittsheld.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
TruNfuI.

TrustfuI.
Peneley-I've written a new novel.
Come up to my apartment and I'll
show you the proofs.
Friend-Proofs? Why, old chap,
don't doubt your word in the least
Boston Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Beauty Adorned.

you can't paint the lily"
mo? Then I'm subject to hallucin
ations as I pass along our public thor
Louisville Courier-Jour
raj
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Son HomerBack from college and
once more in my quondam habitat.
Old Ma Tungtwist-Even if you don't
think this place Is good enough for
YOU you shouldn't use such profane
language about II.
The young lady across the way says
$15 month certainly seems like miser-
ably small pay for our brave soldiers
and for her part she thinks they ought
to be cashiered much more literally
Cartoons Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

A correspondent of the New York
Sun makes the following suggestion
regarding the Liberty bonds:
The bonds are to be beautifully en-
graved. Upon the maturity of each of
these bonds. when the last interest cou-
pom has been redeemed and the bond it.
self has been surrendered for payment,
why should not the Congress, by enact
ment meanwhile, authorize and empower
the Treasury Department to mark the
original bond 'cancelled' and return it,
If requested, to the holder as a keepsake?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Do Xory Know Him?

% You Know Him?
Give me a cigarette, Bill"
only got one"
"Oh. that's all right. TIL get the
rest some other time.'-From Froth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

1.-THE suggestion Of our friend is good
one and we act accordingly. The Journal
will accept any funds sent for the Red
Cross and see that such sums are turned
over to the proper officers Of that organi-
cation and entered for the good Of the
service.-Ed1
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

BETHLEHEM LODGE. No. IS, F.&A. M
Special communication Sunday, June "a.
ing Divine service at the Universalist
church. All sojourning brothers are COR
daily invited to attend.
CLAUDE c. COLE. W. M.
PEARLE e. FULLER, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

and Clarence H. Coughlan of Portland,
were ordained to the priesthood by
Bishop Walsh in the cathedral at Port
land. The former celebrated his first
mass Friday morning and the latter
will on Sunday morning, FIR. Coughlan
in the cathedral and FIR. Holohan IN
Brookline. Mgr. McDonough of Lew
iston was archdeacon at the exercises
and FIR. Clary and FIR. Houlihan were
assistants.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

CUSHNOC CHAPTER. NO. 80. r. A. M
Special convocation at Masonic Temple
Monday evening, June Is, at 7.30 o'clock.
Work in Royal Arch. Refreshments. So
jcurning companions are cordially invited
tc attend.
LOUvILLE W. WRITTEN, H. P.
CHARLES r CHASE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

Rocklands new city directory Is out
and as usual the Smiths lead in the num-
Der represented, 63 Of them being found.
The next in number is the Halls, 40 in
number, followed by the As Perrys; the 40
Clarks: IS Simmons 80 Spears; 81 Thomas.
and 30 Davis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

GOING WEST-3.04 A. NJ,
except Monday, Portland
and Boston; 6.3S A. NJ,
Lewiston, Pennington,
Rockland, Portland. Bos-
ton, Montreal and Que
har. o. as A M RfunS-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
AUCUSTALODCE No. 141.F. & A

Special communication Sunday, June "a
at 10.15 A. NJ. for the purpose Of attend
ing Divine service at the Universalis
church. All sojourning brothers are cor
daily invited to attend.
ALFRED C. TURNER, W. NJ.
ALBERT NJ PINGREE. See
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23
Odd Fellows Hall

ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening at 8 P. NJ. Fri
day, June % work in Second degree.
H. H. AUSTIN, n. G.
p. F. WESTON, Rec Sec,
r. NJ BURNS Fin Sec
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-06-23

With $3.50 in the class treasury to be
spent on graduation, the senior class Of
Pressure Isle High school voted to use
lit for Liberty Loan Bonds and Red
Cross work and the graduation Thurs
day night was on very simple lines,
with no expense whatever. The musi-
cal numbers were by the class musi-
clans. Parts were taken by Nora c.
Pettingill, Max Libby. Helen Wessen-
ger Laura B. Mallett. Eta Silberg. c.
ella McGlauflin and Ivan Craig. Lowell
Hoyt wrote the class ode.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-15
ISLAND HOUSE BURNED.
Well Known Hotel of c. H. Merrill at
Stoddard Mill Village Destroyed

KEENE, n. H., March 15.-The Is
land house at Stoddard, located be-
tween Island and Long Ponds at what
is called Mill Village and owned by
Charles II. Merrill, was burned to the
ground, with tho out buildings, early
yesterday morning. The fire was no.
ticed about clock and Mr.. and Mrs.
Merrill, Miss knowlton. their assistant,
ana two men who lived in the hotel,
had q narrow escape and got out in
their night clothes, il is understood.
The hotel had been we'll known
throughout this section of the state for
Years There were many parties who
iournevcd there for horn pout dinners
and later for chicken dinners and many
made the place their headquarters when
in Stoddard to fish. Mr.. Merrill ran
the hotel in connection with his leg
cabin camps up Long Pond and the
steamer which carried parties there.
1t was a sizeablc hotel and there
were some other buildings connected
with it nearby. The barns, however,
were on the other side Of the road.