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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Editorial Comment
Sheep in Maine
(Biddeford JournaD

| Can sheep be profitably raised in
Maine? AS the result of an expert
/ ment conducted at Highmoor Farm.
the experts of the Maine agricultural
experiment station say they cannot.
And they give the figures to prove 1t.
! In 1914 the farm was stocked with
flock Of ninety eight grade Hampshire
sheep at an outlay of $b06, and an
accurate record of receipts and ex-
penditures was kept. For the year
Nov. l. 1914. to Oct. 81, 1915, the
nock was kept at loss OF $375.5S.
The next year of the experiment be-
gan with a flock of one hundred and
seven sheep, valued on the books at
1859. That year, from Nov. l, 1915,
to Oct. 81, 1916. operations were con-
Quoted at loss of S207.56. In the
itemized account kept no charges are
made for losses by dogs, which mas
heretofore been popularity regarded
as one great obstacle to sheep rails
ing in Maine. On the face Of the re-
turns. therefore. the Highmoor Farm
experiment is not calculated to en-
courage Maine farmers to attempt to
revive the sheep raising industry. Go
ing behind the returns, however, the
officials Of the experiment station say:
| 1t is probably true that on most
farms a few sheep would be profit
able, because they would be cared for
/ in time that otherwise would not be
profitably employed and the sheep
would be fed more or less Of unmar-
I ketable produce and hay. A set Of
books in which everything was
charged and credited would probably
rot show the balance on the credit
side. Nevertheless, most farmers who
are equipped for them would be better
off with a few sheep. because Of the
salvage Of time and materials that
might otherwise be wasted. Thus with
case Of few swine, small flock Of
hens. a small area devoted to garden
crops etc.
Declaring that with certain we'll
known exceptions. very few of the
farm items. charging labor at what
! it costs, food at what it is worth, and
taking fixed charges into account.
would show book profit. the report of
this experiment somewhat naively con-
cludes:
! Nevertheless, on every hand there
are farmers who with incomes derived
from small fiocks, small herds, and
small areas devoted to crops. live COM
! fortably, educate their children and
accumulate some bank surplus
| In other words, farmers who do not
&C into the business too extensively.
) and who do not keep a set Of books.
may hope to make enough out Of 1t
to live comfortably, educate their
children and accumulate some bank
surplus" The average observer may
not be able to understand why large
f1ocks and a set of books should spell
disaster, and doubters are referred to
Maine Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton Bulletin 260, from which these
figures and conclusions are taken.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
WatehfuIness Is Preparedness.

Ideas, suggestions and warnings
worthy the attention of every loyal
citizen and the needing by every per-
son whom it may hit" are continued
in the following from the Philadelphia
Press under the heading THE Kaiser's
Payroll" 1t is well known that per-
sons in our very midst would come
under the classes mentioned in the
article and it is now up to every one
of the loyal kind to see that the even
in mind disloyal accomplish nothing
to the disadvantage of the boys In
khaki and our country:
With a good deal of heat. one or
ganization after another Is Denying
that it is the organization you know
Of. which Count Won Bernstorf hired
to influence Congress on former oc-
casions.' But it really makes no diff
ference which one it was. They are
all doing the same work. 1t is highly
probable that more than one OF them
did it for money, as we know from
Bernstorffs unimpeachable testimony
that one of them did. The fact that
so many of them have to deny it is
clear enough proof that whether paid
or not, the work was all the same.
IF only one organization had been
doing the kind of work that pleased
the Government we are at war with,
then the trail would point unmistak-
ably TO that organiza ton. Since 1t
points in a score of directions, 1t Is
obvious that the unpaid organizations
were doing, for sheer love of it, just
the same kind Of work that was being
done by the hired ones. The Copper
head who is Copperhead out Of mere
cantankerousness is doing his country
just as much harm as the Shiny scoun-
drel who takes the Kaiser's money to
betray his flag.
Out in Oklahoma they have found
the trail of one organization that took
the Kaiser's money One of the ar
rested men has tried to commit sui
eide, and suicide is confession. Yet
this organization. the Working Class
Union it calls itself, was certainly
not the one referred to by Bernstorff
as the organization you know Of
Whatever that organization was It
was the head devil of them ALL and
such organizations as the Working
Class Union were, and doubtless still
are. numerous. The Kaiser's money
is still abroad in the land.
The lesson of all this for men who
desire to stand by their country is
that they must beware, not of the
man who openly stands with Germany
against the United States-there are
hardly any such men-but of the man
who insidiously and adroitly breaches
distrust of our allies. the need of i'm
mediate peace, the old hatred of Eng
land, or any of the thousand and one
shlhboleths raised by German agents
with German money. The man VOL,
near may not have any German
money in his pocket, he may be mere
~ wrong-headed but every man who
actually has German money in his
pocket is talking that way: and YOU
cannot tell which is which
beware Of them all, and he susni-
clous OF them all. If You count YOUR
self an American you cannot make .
mistake by staying out of such com,
pany; and, as the panic in Congress
SHOWS, you can make a terrible mts-
take by being found in it."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

A short circuit of electric wires is
believed to be responsible for blaze
which was discovered in the John T.
Clark clothing store at Exchange and
State streets, Bangor. at 2.45 A. NJ.
Wednesday by Patrolman Dolor Veil
leux. who promptly rang in an alarm
from Box 81. AS it was, considerable
damage was done to the Clark stock of
me ciothihg and haberdashery by
smoke nre and water. The damage
WIZ amount, 1t Is believed, to several
thousand dollars, but the exact amount
cdHhot pe toid until careful tnvestr-
cation of the stock is made.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

The Bangor Historical Society holds
Field day each year and this season
the date will be Tuesday, Oct 2, In
dian Island in the Penobscot river at
Old Town being the historical locality
to be visited. About II O'Clock there
will he public exercises including an
address of welcome in the Indian
language by Lieut.. Governor Peter w.
Neptune of the Penobscot tribe. Ex-
cellent opportunity will then be Of
fered to see to advantage the uniaue
attractions of this picturesque settle
ment. At noon the party will have a
picnic dinner at Oak Hill, the most
elevated land on the island.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

An accident which by some chance
did not prove fatal to the occupants
of the automobile. took place Satur-
day, Sept. %, at midnight at the Up
per Corner Cherryfield An auto
mobile carrying dancers, who lived in
Harrington. home from dance on the
Ridge. was struck by freight trai
at the crossing on WILEY Hill The
freight train was running at low
speed and hit the rear of the machine
as it crossed the track tipping It COM
pletely over and turning II around
wreckine the automobile beyond re-
pair. The occupants were pinned un-
der the machine and miraculously es-
capped fatal injuries. being only bruised
and badly cut by glass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

were useless and only an operstion
would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham g
Vegetable Compound has proved it
otherwise. / am now perfectly well
and can do any kind of work: Mrs.
NELLIE PHELPS, care Of r. A. Rider.
RID. No. 5, Fulton, N. T..
We wish every woman who suffefD
from female troubles, nervousness,
backache or the blues could see the let
tiers written by women made wellby Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
If you have bad symptoms and do not
understand the cause, write to tho
lydia E. Pinkbam Medicine Co., Lynn,
Mass, for helpful edvice given free.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Oh. La La.

Food Controller Hoover said at a
Washington reception:
I'VE must economic our food. or
we'll get as short as some of our allies
across the water.
I'm restaurant over there a man
said. when his coffee was brought:
"'Hey, there waiter, where's my
portion of sugar?'
"'Oh, la, lap said the water. II
must be that accursed fly again, mon
sieur. Every time serve a portion OF
sugar. up he sneaks and swipes it,
Detroit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Cheated.

The energetic automobile salesman
had just delivered the fair customer
her new car and everything was love-
ly. He had scarcely entered the or
flee. however, when he received a tele-
phone call. She said:
Il thought you told me that TINS car
was a self starter
so it is" replied the salesman.
Nothing of the sort. I have to push
a button to make it go."-Financial
America
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

Hoover's first test has already come
In the price-hxin for hard coal
which has been so arranged that the
householder can get his coal for this
winter at a little higher price than he
paid last winter.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Wanted to Know.

A sergeant was drilling an awkward
squad.
Company. Attention, company
lift up your left leg and hold 1t
straight out in front of YOU"
One of the squad held up his right
leg by mistake. This brought his
right hand companions left leg and
his own right leg close together. The
officer, seeing this. exclaimed angrily:
and who is that blooming galoot
over there holding up both o.
Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

The three-masted schooner Edward r.
smith built in Phippsburg. Me-. in 1911
and owned by Rogers & Webb of Boston,
has been sold to the Cnnchfield Navi<a.
ton Company Of New York for about
s'o'W@ which is big advance over her
original cost. The vessel was built for
the Southern lumber trade Another Bos-
ton vessel which, has recently changed
hands is the three-masted schooner J.
Manchester Haynes. built at waldobpro.
Me. in 1885, The terms OF the sale are
private.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
kENNEBEC LINE
Service discontinued for the Season
BATH AND BOOTHBAY LINE

-
Service discontinued for the Season.
BATH AND BOOTHBAY LINE
Leave Bath Week Days only at glo "A,
NJ. and 800 p. NJ. for Boothhay harpoi
and intermediate landings.
Return-Leave Boothbay Harbor Weeh
DAYS only at 100 A. NJ. and IL noon' LOT
Bath and intermediate landings
BOSTON 4 PORTLAND LINE
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, Heeh
Days AT $50 =. NJ. for Boston.
Return leave Central Wharf, BOSTON,
Week Days at T. Nj.
Day trip leaves Portland Tuesdays
Thursdays and saturdays at A M.
c a. NJ. commencing Sept. 49,, due Bos-
ton F. NJ.
METROPOLITAN LINE
Direct between Boston and New York
via Cape Cod Canal.
Leave North Side India Wharf every
day at ?. M.,.Gue 7,30 p. NJ.
Same service returning from Pier 19, n.
r., New York.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Direct between Portland and New York.
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at $50 p.
NJ. Leave New York, Fier 10 \. r., ca
same days at ) P. NJ.
NJ. A. HARADEN, Supt. Bath.
II. A. CLAY, Supt, Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
A deal was consummated "wednesday

A deal was contaminated Wednesday for
the purchase Of the Granville H. Fields
estate. Auburn Heights. by Arthur H.
Nichols Of Boston. site for two SAM
tariums. The purchase consists Of the
entire estate comprising some 20 acres Of
tillage and woodland and includes the IA
nous Field spring.-Leviston Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Defined.

First Youthful Naturalist tat the
Zoo -'Snea gle.
Second Ditto-'Snotanagle, snork.
First Ditto-'Snotanork, 'snowl.
Second Ditto-'Sneither. 'snorstrich
Clippings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

1t cannot be too often reneatad ,,.+
If you think the farmer is maxine
an exorbitant profit. there is plenty of
iole land which you can put under
cultivation and share in the golden
harvest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
All O. X.

Mistress engaging new maid)-You
say the last family You worked for
were Germans.
Maid (apologetically)-Y but
they was sterilized when war broke
out.--Snap Shots.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
WOMAN COULD
HARDLY Stand
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Fulton, N. Y. - 'Why will women
pay out their money for treatment and

receive no dement,,
when 80 many have
proved that Lydia
E. Pinkham'sVeg
table Compoun d
will make them
well =? For over Q
year I suffered 90
from female weak
ness ! could hardly
stand and was
afraid to 60 on the
street alone. Doc
tors said medicines
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

II me price of milk goes up to Ia cents
q atar', are you going to buy a goat?-
Nope. By that time we won't have
enough money on hand at any one
time to buy a sheep tick.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

one OF the worst enemies Of the gov
eminent is the member of an exemn.
ton board who plays favorites, either
Tor bride Of for friendship. II
GRATED men lose confidence in the fair.
ness OF the draft they are likely to
lose their sense Of personal RESPONSE
bility.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Light and Airy

Said Miss Gladys CIarissa McTanner:
I've abandoned my player pianner.
Art is all very good.
But 1t won't supply food,
So m playing my tunes on my canneF'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

Evidently the Kaiser hasn't gotten
over the notion that all the rest Of
the world is a composite fool
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

Well, Brig. Gen. Charles n Cola
oldnt marry to escape the draft, we
guess.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
BIoodcurdIing Sound.

There's no telling what crazy no
tons poets will get
True enough"
Here's one who chirps about the
music of the dentists drill. -bir-
mingham Age Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Creating an Anxiety.

II have told you several times that
you will injure your health if you
worry"
yes. And now you've got me wor-
rfed half to death for fear I'll worry.
Washington Star.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
The World War a Year Ago
Today-Sept. %.

Germans repulsed Roumanian
attacks at Hermannstadt. Tran
sylvania.
Two Years Ago Today.
Great Britain promised armed
support to Balkan nations which
might be attacked by Bulgaria.
Three Years Ago Today.
German right flank In northern
France attacked the allies from
Arras to Roye.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

We shipped some eggs by express a
few weeks ago and packed them in a
good wooden box filled with hay and
each egg was wrapped in paper, re-
iates the Watermans Beach cor
respondent of the Courier Gazette.
The case was plainly marked Eggs
If those eggs had arrived on time they
would have been sold for 81 cents a
dozen. The car they were shipped IN
must have left the rails and rolled
down over an embankment, for Kate
said two dosen had partly run through
the box and three more dozen wers
cracked. We notified the Rockland
Office and as we have not heard from
Charlie we have come to the conclu-
sion that the express bill Of lading was
a good deal like the ones we used to
sign way back In the coasting days.
The Boston hardware dealers shipped
stoves to Rockiand in the coasters and
the captains were not fussy about re-
ceiving them as freight and the man
that receipted for them would write
across the face Of that bill Of ladins
mot accountable for rust or break
age"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Augusta Lodge Directory
CUSHNOc CHAPTER NO 40 :,

Thursday evening, Oct 4 AZ .SYnpie
Reports. and election of officers ~"
Journing companions are cordially ir,., ~,
to attend ''lted
LouNlLLE W. WRITTEN. H
CHARLES r. CHASE, Sec
ROSE OF SHARON CHAPTER NO
ID, Q. E. S. Stated meeting on 8r".
y, ecnesday of each month at Masonis
Temple. All members soiourninc az ~ c
city are invited to attend. IA ''s
ELIZABETH ]. HASKELL W :,
ELIZABETH a. THOMPSON, Sec
sept6n- w-fri,tf "ee'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

A special town meeting at Freeport
Saturday voted to exempt the newly
organized Freeport Shipbuilding Co.
from taxes for 10 years. The COM
pany was also given the use Of the
town wharf, provided It would keep it
in repair and maintain a public pas
sageway. In passing this vote Free
port becomes the first Maine town to
help financially the government ship
building plan. The Freeport Ship
building Company has acquired the
old Soule yard at South Freepo-s
which waa abandoned MANY years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

Oct. 2-Litchfield fair.
G Oct s+-kennebec County Agricultural
Society Fair. Readfeld.
Oct to 6-Four County Fair Associa.
non. Union Trotting Park, PittsfleId.
Oct. 9-ll-Topsham fair
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28
Maine Gossip
My Gentleman.

/ own a dog who is a gentleman.
By birth most surely, since the creature
Boast Of a pedigree the like Of which
Holds not a Howard or a Metternich.
BY breeding. Since the walks Of life he
:rod.
He never wagged an unkind tail abroad
He never snubbed nameless cur because
without a friend or credit-card he was
By pride. He looks you sauarely in the
face
Unshrinking and without single trace
OF difidence or arrogant
Assertion such as upstairs often haunt
BY tenderness. The littlest girl gay tear
With absolute innpunity his h.,
And pinch his silken, flowing ears the
He smiles upon her-yes. I've seen him
smile.
By LOYALTY. No truer friend than he
Has come to prove his friendships worth
to me,
He does not fear the master, knows no
fear
But loves the man who is his master here
BY countenance. II there be nobler eyes.
More full of honor and Of honesties,
In finer head, on broader houlders found
Then have never met the man or mound
Here is the motto on my llfeboat's log:
God grant l may be worthy of my dog"
Anonymous.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

A school of instruction of the Grand
Royal Arch Chapter Of Maine will be
held at 2. NJ. on Tuesday Oct. at
Caribou, to be followed by work in the
evenins<by the officers of the Garfield
Chapter. Instruction will be given by
the Grand Lecturer in the ritual work
and secret work Of the several degrees
This school OF instruction is arranged
especially for the benefit of the Chap
tiers in the northern part OF the State
who have rightly felt that the dis
lance was too. great for them to at
tend schools held in past years. The ar
rangement is made possible by the fact
that Grand Lecturer Sleeper will mold
a School Of Instruction in the Lodge
at Pressure Isle on Oct Sd. and the
two so close together in date and To-
cation should insure large attend
ance at both.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

James P. Champlin, who died Thurs
day, in Portland. was one of the typical
old time business men who grew up in
trent figure there for half a century.
He was pioneer in the packing in
drstry which originated and made it's
first rapid strides in Cumberland
county. learned the wholesale grocery
business and was successful in all his
undertakings Of large magnitude. In
his later years he shifted much of the
detail over to subordinates and asso-
ciates, spent much time in long trips
abroad, where his Unborn instincts of
culture and refinement enabled him to
dc rive much enjoyment
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

An officer in another regiment writes
to a friend this compliment for the
Second Maine:
Zone thing now. if we never mention
it again. if anything happens to me
over there I want to feel that you'll
glory in it, not regret it. Better men.
and men more needed than /, have
cheerfully gone after their medicine
and have not shrunk from the taking.
feel absolutely certain of myself and
I fairly gloated over Gerard's estimate
that Germany was far from beaten.
I'd resign my commission and enlist
as private of infantry to get across
If it were not for you folks. And you
may rest assured of one thing, if ever
get my chance you won't be ashamed
Of the way I'll grasp it. I'd almost be
ready to sign my own death warrant
at the end of the war for a chance to
lead one of those Second Maine COM
panies. They're superb! Every man
hard as knot. and fighting blood from
his hair to his toenails.'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

The Niagara Engine Company of
Brunswick, has voted to attend Brock
ton fair, and will leave Oct. A, with
the famous old tub. Tuesday evening
With 3S men on the brakes, the Mag
ara threw clear stream 200 feet
Members of the Androscoggin Engine
Company Of Topsham will accompany
the local company and will assist the
Brunswick boys on the brakes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

An elm tree near the corner of Water
street and Woodland, which was
planted by the grandfather of Mrs. An
RE w. Stanwood in 1904, was cut down
Friday, 1t being deemed unwise to al
lew the tree to stand through the con{-
ing winter The tree was nearly four
feet In diameter A section of the
trunk about 4 feet in hight was left
standing as a landmark.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-28

Colonel F. E. Boothby of waterville
writes the Journal as follows: II Gu,
this item out of recent copy of the Ma
tonal Hotel Reporter. 1t may interes,
some Of the men alive during war times
to know our friend is still in the land OF
the living" and encloses the following:
Delaney-Mr. George NJ. Delaney, a re.
tired hotel keeper we'll known in Yer
mont recently celebrated his s5th birth.
day anniversary at his home In Burling.
ton.