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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21
Local Matters


me Pens NOT Mishtier Than the
Sword;"
u may not seem right to criticise
strenuous times like these
Out why should we sit and eulogize
"hen conditions do not please?
we're not surprised that submarines
Sa1I under neutral seas;
were not surprised that a peck Of
is worth hive Of bees.
For near three years the war has
Tween Germans and Allies;
For near three years we've been en-
gagged
In sending them supplies,
For near three years we've never
dared
To repulse the German she'll
For near three years We've not pre-
pared
To play this game Of He'll.
The Lusitania went out of sight
With scores of American lives
But Woodrow said we cannot fight
With cruel guns and knives.
And thereupcn he wrote a note
To his Imperial Majesty,
You horrid man, you've sunk a boat
That belonged to Uncle Sam"
The Kaiser sank another boat
And sent us word, DER here:
We're not trying to get your goat
Dear Woodrow, have no fear"
So prices went up and our boats went
down
To the bottom Of the sea-
Woodrow began to look around
For justification plea.
"One thing I've done you're thankful
And that IS plainly seen
I've kept this country out of war
In spite of the submarine.
Time flew by and election came
Giving Wilson his second term.
Then the people cried Isn't it a
The Germans we'd ought to burn
During all this time the moneyed men
Cornered our spuds and beans.
During all this time our kith and kin
were killed by submarines.
In Washington things were going on
But underneath the lid
Then Wilson said. to Baker one morn,
Something's got to be did"
We're preparing now for a dreadful
war;
| We're making shell and gun,
The submarine and motor car
Thatll put Germany on the bum.
I But alas and alack when we come
back
When this cruel war is DER,
We'll think of the time when Congress
, was slack
Wher Wilson was in power.
It might not seem RIGHT to criticisc
Or say single word
But cur President will find before de-
The pens NOT michtcr than the
sword.
RALPH w. FARMS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Hon r. ]. Noyes. who had been In
Aroostook county on businss matters.
returned Saturday to his home. and in
speaking of the spring planting said
that Aroostook potato fields would be
revelation to people who have never
seen the scale upon which the potato
business is carried on in Names most
northern county: In Fort Falrnelo
alone Mr.. Noyes said. they are plant
ing 1900 acres to potatoes. and the
same is true of the other towns Of the
county He was told that they would
plant 25 per cent. more potatoes tins
spring than ever before.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21
BOWDOINHAM

NORTH-Mrs. ROBBIE Layman and
two little daughters Of Norfolk, Va,
were guests of Mrs. Layman's aunt,
Mrs. C. F. Hill for several days the
past week.
Mrs. s. w. Swette of Somerville,
Mass, who is visiting her cousin in
Augusta, was entertained over night
Tuesday at the home of John Doeken-
dorf and sister, Flora Dockendorf. --s-
Eugene Thomas passed, Sunday and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

1t has come to the notice of the Au-
gusta Woman's Suffrage League that
some one has been tampering with
the Shafroth speeches. The copies OF
the speech came from Washington to
the League. sealed and were sent to
the voters. Apparently some voter as
a joke. sent one, with an unfortunate
comment. to a member of the League
opposed to Womans Suffrage, who re-
scented 1t. The Woman's Suffrage
League is not responsible for this and
regrets that it occurred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21
LOCAL NOTICE

Announcement-Augu Dye House
wishes to announce they have receiv-
ed a supply of dyes, green, blue and
black. and are able to do all work IN
those colors. Also prompt service and
delivery on all cleaning, pressing ana
dveing, may19d1w
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21
Monday with his brother, w. w.
Thomas.

Monday with MS protneF' w. w.
Thomas.
Mrs. W. A. Turner passed Sunday
and Monday with her daughter, MRS.
p. w. Farmer and son Arthur Turner,
IN Richmond. Captain Farmer went to
Boston Sunday night to enter govern
ment employ as lieutenant or navisa-
tor.
The latest news from c. F. Thomas
Is that he has been sent to Fort Hous-
ton, Texasi
Helen Rollins Of vassalboro is visit
ing at the homo Of her brother, Har-
old Rollins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Rollins and
Miss Rollins went to Bowdoinham VII
lage Thursday evening to the enter
tainment Snd dance.
Mrs. D. B. Grant has been confined
to the house by . severe cold.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Current Events club surgical dress
ings class will meet at 2:30 o'clock
this Monday afternoon at the parish
house. 1t is earnestly requested that
all members will be present.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Sunday was the biggest automobile
day of the season. and the real spring
weather which has at last put in an APP
pearance tempted about everyone who
owns a car to take it out for a spin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Charles Knowlton of F'lagg street.
who had been visiting his daughter.
Mrs. Shepard, at Wakefield. Mass. re-
turned Saturday evening to his home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

The Junior Militia will meet at $50
o'clock Tuesday evening at the Penney
Memorial church and good attendance
is desired.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Fifeld Bros. handle both Micheln
and Firestone tires and invite close in
spection. as they feel confident either
Of these makes will stand the hard us
age they get on Maine roads equal to
anv tires and better than moSt.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

Richard f.. Harvey Of Portland was
a business caller Saturday morning at
the probate court.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

You will appreciate CO.. and "O''
values when YOU see them.-Adv.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
United Press Leased Wire..

LONDON, Nov. 14.-Premier
Kerensky is again in control Of
Petrograd, according to the best
information received from Stock
holm here today. He entered the
city, was supported by M/ximalist
troops, and quickly gained control
of the telegraph offices and other
means of communication, the lat
est advices declared.
A bolsehviki report that the pre-
mier had been arrested after his
entrance into the city was discred-
tied in the face Of later dispatches.
Dispatches via the Finnish tele-
graph agency recounting informa-
ton brought out of Petrograd by
travellers declared the bolsheviki's
boosted red guards had been
overwhelmed by the disciplined
regular soldiers of Cossack regl-
ments under Kerensky.
The army garrison. in Petrograd
heretofore supporting Trotsky and
Lenine in, the .bolsehyiki govern
ment," were reported deserving
wholesale to the victorious pro-
visional government troops.
Yesterdays dispatches over
telegraph lines apparently under
control of the provisional govern
ment, reported the city practically
under control of the Kerensky
troops, but the Trotsky-Lenine
combination. followed these up
thru bolsheviki-controlled news
sources boasting of a victory.
The situation. remained In this
confusion until receipt of the
Finnish telegraph agency dis
patches, which were apparently Of
fetal and accurate, and which in
dicated rapid dissolution of the
bolsheviki regime.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
RULINGS
Exc MPT
No NAN

Omitted Press Leased Wire.l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov.
Little 14S questions for
the remaining 100000
draft registrants to answer
beginning Dec. is, were made
public today.
They constitute a searching
inquiry into each mans life
and fitness and determine,
thru the action of local draft
boards, the order of his call
to military service.
This QUESTIONABLE automatic
ally revokes all exemptions and
discharges under the first draft.
Failure to return his answers
in seven days after he receives the
questions makes the registrant
liable to year in prison.
Such men may be certified into
the first class called.
Mailing of the list by the local
board constitutes legal notice to
the registrant. His failure to re-
ceive it does not excuse him.
Even after answering the Ques-
tionnaire, If a mans status
changes and he does not report 1t
within five days to his board he Is
subject to "a year In prison.
Five Glasses.
The minimum number Of ques-
tions each man must answer is
about 26, the maximum about
100.
One filled out, the QUESTIONABLE
constitutes each mans complete
record with the government. All
previous records are by it auto
matically wiped out.
On the basis of the draft mans
answers, verified by the local
boards when necessary, the men
are divided into five classes, the
fifth being exempted or dis
charged from draft.
Continued on Page o.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

GERMAN
SCHEME

(United Press Ecased Wlre.D
LONDON, Nov. 14.--"The
war cabinet In considering
all possibilities Of an inva-
sion," declared Chancellor Of
the Exchequer Bonar Law In
the house Of commons today.
His statement was In an
swer to a specific inquiry APP
parentiy induced by several
recent reports as to German
plans.
More or less circumstantial
rumors afloat during recent weeks
have carried the story that the
Germans were boring tunnel
under the Channel to attack Eng
land and had been at the work
ever since they reached the Bel
gian seacoast.
Other rumors Of the projected
invasion of England by German
troops were revived recently in
British front stories @revealino
that the German general staff had
Issued English German CONVERSE
tion books to many Of It's sol
diers.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
R. R.. STRIKE
VOTE COMING!

ATCbS 1CNsSu
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. IA. -
Railroad conductors and brake
men on all roads of the U. S.
were casting secret ballots today
on the proposition of demanding
wage increases averaging AZ per
cent.
w. G. Lee, president of the
brotherhood of Railway Train
men, admitted the vote was being
taken. This vote, it is said, is
preliminary to strike vote which
will follow II the railroads refuse
to grand the demands.
The proposed increases for the
entire country would amount to
$109,000,000.
The men involved include 3d.
900 passenger train employees, S5,-
600 brakemen and $1,000 yard
men.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Sammies Itching to
Whack Back at Fritz

ment which went into their first
job in the front line trenches. 1t
is the third American unit to un-
dergO this experience.
Aviation officers are getting
their chance. American aviators
have participated with French
flyers in night raids. bombing
artillery observation sations be-
hind the German lines.
The young American officer
who was knocked out from shell
shock on the occasion of the Ger
man raid which cost the lives OF
three American soldiers, returned
to duty with his regiment today
completely recovered
He learned that On the night
after the German raid had taken
several OF their comrades, the re-
mainder begged hard for permits
sion to make q counter raid.
The whole American entrenched
force il increasingly alert and In
creasinely fight hungry.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
NO SNOBS
w AN TIE D
AT CAMP

There are to be no snobs In the
Wild West division of the national
army.
In one short sentence, yester-
day, Maj. Gen. Henry A. Greene,
commandant of Camp Lewis, made
the unwritten caste law Of the cid
army obsolete 80 far as his diyi-
sion is concerned.
ut is an army Of democracy"
he said, land 1t must be demo-
cratic. Officers and men of my
command may meet as social
equals outside the cantonment."
By social equals Gen. Greene
means that they may sit at the
same table, talk to each other 90
equals and enjoy the company of
each other.
No Society in Camp.
Inside the camp, discipline re-
quires, according to Gen. Greene,
strict adherence to the laws of
military courtesy.
''In camp there Is no society
only work, sadi the general.
He means to practice what he
breaches"
The other day he visited in q
Tacoma home. An enlisted man.
the brother OF his hostess, entered
the room. There was moments
embarrassment, but only q mo-
ment's. Then the general ex-
pressed O desire to meet the young
man.
Snob Not Welcome.
There is a tendency on the
part of some young officers to
overestimate their Importance,
declared the general. I'm time
this wears off, and | hope that my
position on this matter of the re-
lation of the commissioned and
enlisted forces will make 1t wear
off quicker. There is no place
here for the snob."
The sharp distinction between
the enlisted man and his officer
that used to exist in the army
came to the United States from
England, where the officers were
"aristocrats" and the privates
from lower stations in life.
II shook hands with him and
we talked together" said the
general. why shouldn't wei
BY birth, breeding and education
he was my social equal. Why
should we behave other than =
two gentlemen should IN the pres
ence OF q lady7"
No longer do the officers hire
rooms in Tacoma hotels SO that
they may meet friends who carry
a rifle instead Of pistol.
Now they meet openly and they
shake hands and otherwise behoyo
as fighters IN common cause.
1T is the common sense way -
looking at II" said the general. q
don't know what other canton
ment commanders intend A. q
but SO far as my dfviGi3n q 60
cerned there viii y " 1fn1s q
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
(United Press Leaned wire.,


AMERICAN FIELD HEAD
QUARTERS, France, Nov. IL
Sammy is hungry for fight with
lies boches."
He's getting cCntemptuous OF
whistling things shooting over his
head; he is getting Injured to
wearing q gas mask when the
coche drops some smelly gas
shells over; he doesn't mind the
tattoo of machine gun bullets;
he's a pure fatalist when 1t comes
to shells banging away close by.
He's just as carefree as an
American kid-but back in his
head he's aching for q chance at
Fritz.
That is the impression one
gets today after mixing with the
latest detachment OF American In
fantrymen relieved from their
duty in front line trenches, and
after . survey OF the new detaoh-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
FAWCE:T I
ARRESTS
SUSPECT

Captured by Mayor Faw-
cett Tuesday evening when
he drove up in front of the
mayors home, 62O Fawcett
ave., and once more fright
ened Miss Margaret II. Faw-
cett, O. A. Parsons, age 80,
of the Fisher hotel, is being
held in the city Jail suspected
Of being the man who has
made repeated efforts to kid
nap the mayors daughter.
Police and federal officials are
investigating Parsons.
The prisoner is being held In an
isolated cell without access to bail.
He is a bus driver ON the army
post route, and is well known to
the police, according to Detective
Captain Kincaid, as an l. w. w.
enthusiast and agitator.
Makes Arrest Alone.
Mayor Fawcett made the CAP
ture single handed.
Miss Margaret Fawcett had
started to a corner store with a
younger brother to buy candy. As
she reached 7th and Fawcett ave.
an automobile approached the
curb near her.
With a scream of fright, the
young woman rushed back to her
home. The mayor hurried out in
time to see the automobile turn
about and stop on Baker street, q
half block away.
Fawcett started after the ma
chine, and the driver threw in his
clutch again.
stop! Come back here!"
shouted Fawcett, as he ran after
| the car. The driver stopped and
the mayor got In beside him, Or
dering him to drive back to the
Fawcett home.
Identifies Man.
Miss Fawcett positively identi-
fled Parsons, the chauffeur, as the
same man who tried to force her
into his car at the Annie Wright
seminary last week and then
chased her two blocks when she
ran away, according to the mayor.
Parsons denied any attempt to
kidnap Miss Fawcett. He said
that he had driven up Fawcett
ave. to wait for his partner, who
had gone to a st. Helens ave,
garage to see about another ma
chine.
Runs Restaurant.
Special Agent Mccormick Of the
u, s. secret service, and Assistant
District Attorney Fishburne are
investigating Parsons record. 1t
was reported that evidence against
the man on other charges might
be revealed by the government
Thursday.
Parsons and his father have con-
Quoted restaurant at 14th and
court A for some time. The place
il said to have been rendezvous
for l. w. w. leaders.
Police officers have been unable
to obtain any evidence that would
. indicate Parsons was the man who
had waited with an automobile in
the alley behind Mayor Fawcett's
home several evenings recently.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Arrested in Petrograd,
Says Another Report

Omitted Press Leased .Wire.)
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14.-Pre-
mier Kerensky has been arrested
at Petrograd, according to dis
patch from Haparanda, received
today by the Swedish telegraph
agency
The message gave no details.
It merely stated that "Kerensky
had entered. Petrograd and was ar
rested in the city,.
Whether the premier was taken
while heading a detachment Of
troops or. whether he entered
alone was not given. Previous
dispatches from Petrograd, all
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Finland Starts Out on
Self Government Program

united Press Leased Wire.D
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14.-Fin-
land has declared state of war
existing within her borders, elect
ed a diet and chosen a group Of
directors to govern the province,
according to word received here
today.
Finland has long aspired to
separate entirely from Russia and
recent dispatches indicated Petro-
grad, prior to the bolseheviki re.
volt, had agreed to autonomy for
the province.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
BY a Times Reporter

German science and efficiency always get what they go
after
Maybe that is the moral of story certain travelled Ia
woman told me today
don't know Judge for yourself.
AS she told it. she held in her hand small black object
about the size of a mans fist
1t human head
IS curiosity that size has brought to Tacoma-one
of the famous, mysterious skrnnken heads of Ecuador
Feo museums, eVen, possess specimens of this strange
art knoaem only to single, cd South american tribe byac-
tced by stealth and against the aao of the eiife man, but
apparently impossible either to stamp ont discover the
secret of.
The head is to be displayed Thursday afternoon the
Aurora club tea the Woans club house where program
bearing on South American subjects is to be given.
So far known it is the first brought to this CITY
this part of the country -
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Nine Japanese Liners
Put on Run to Sound

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. IA. =
Nine Nippon Yusen Kaisha liners
which have been running from the
Orient to Europe, have been re-
placed with smaller vessels and or
dered into the Puget Sound-Orient
run, according to word received
here today from New York. It is
a move to increase trans-Pacific
tonnage.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Tacoma Pioneer Dies

Charles ]. Kimberg, 5S, pio-
neer OF Tacoma, was rushed to
the Tacoma General hospital from
Summit station Tuesday suffering
from sudden attack Of heart fall
ure, and died an hour after reach
Ing the hospital
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
One More Peace Move

COPENHAGEN, Nov. IA
monster meeting of social-demo-
Gratis in Vienna Monday adopted
resolutions urging the central
powers Immediately to propose an
armistice to Russia and Invite all
belligerents to begin peace nego-
tiations," according to dispatches
received here today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. l a.
Eager to uphold the record of
his illustrious ancestors, Israel
Putnam 5th, direct descendant
of Israel Putnam of Revolution
airy war fame, is now an active
member of the u. 8. marines.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Girl Wife Acquitted
Of Killing Two Men

COLEVILLE, Wash, Nov. IA.
Mrs. Margaret Hanshaw, II,
wife OF Albert Hanshaw, today
stands acquitted of the charge of
killing Alex Stricken and his son,
Alex Strickler, jr. The jury was
out 20 minutes.
"Shoot, kid, shoot" young Han
shaw yelled at his child wife as
the Stricklers, waving clubs and
an AK started across the floor to-
ward her.
She fired twice. Both men died
from wounds.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Looks Like Carved Work, But Instinct
Would Testify It Once Lived

1t is that of full grown Indian man, and originally
of the average human measurements.
1t has been shrunken until it is as small as dolls
1t is perfect in every feature rather heavy in weight and
matched with extraordinary of straight silky black
hair which has been crowded together by the contraction of
the scalp so that it stands UP from the roots thick
plush The skin of the face is very little wrnked and the
flesh is as hard the rnd of gourd
AT first glance thought the thing had been carved from
strange material but there material nature like
its uncany surface; and BESIDES instinct would have told
me, if my Tacoma friend had not "This qeas once aHe
1t startling and homogeneous object, in her
pretty apartment = A SUDDEN HEART-STOPPING
GLIMPSE INTO SAVAGERY, OUT OF THE Sc
CURITY OF CIVILIZATION.
And this, nearly I remember it, is the story
she told me:
The Orente is fastness of unges and mountains be-
tween Ecuador and Brazil much of which has never yet
been explored by white men,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
CAMP LEWIS
BOYS KISSED!

FREEPORT, ILL.,, Nov. H.
You're all wrong, Sherman;
you're all wrong!!
When two eastbound troop
trains bearing national army men
from Camp Lewis, Tacoma,
WASH, stopped here, Freeport
girls walked along either side OF
the coaches and kissed hundreds
of soldiers leaning from the win
dows.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
kERENSKY'S FATE
STILL A MYSTERY

greatly delayed, had been confus-
ingly contradictory.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14
Process Remains in This Prosaic Day
An Unsolved Mystery of Savagery

One reason it has not been explored is the uro Indians
who live in the Orente and who have of beheadng
their enemies and drying and shrinking the heads by an
ancient process into tiny hdeou trophies with the
features and proportions undisturbed.
No one has any idea how the thing is done.
Travellers and etnoogsts have talked earnedy of dry
ing with hot pebbles, of chemical processes and of treatment
with strange South American herbs but their stories are
all guesses
Tradition in Ecuador hints at heather rites and nspeak-
able orgies.
lis genuine mystery ersug in the days of aeroplnnes,
scireless biography asd modern chemical research
Nobody has soaed i;-that u.s. nobody but German
scientist
They still tell about him in Quito
He there few years ago. study the quaint Gus
toms and history of the people He very serious very
thoro, very efficient, very scientific very German
He had heard of the shrnken heads of Ecuador" and
wished to learn the process. He proposed to visit the
Jihufos and see it for himself.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

''It was a meatless Tuesday al
my favorite restaurant" postcards
J. M. "All we had was fried
chicken and roast turkey"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

Apparently the Italians are
looking for a wider and deeper
river.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

ssMore ladies wanted for
decorating pillows at home,"
says an advertisement in the
Omaha bee. experience usl-
necessary" Sure ius unneces-
easy. Comes natural.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-11-14

Lo, the poor Indian sumo
mer!