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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
A Short Ration Endurance Test.

After a two weeks struggle with a
daily food allowance Of IS cents, Spring.
fields heroic diet squad, composed of
fourteen citizens representing practically
every walk fife, were officially "weigh-
ed out" of service. All are in good health
and in as good spirits as could be expect
ed after a fortnight's abstinence from
most of the things that mother used to
make.
Only one lost weight in the set-to with
economy. Four pounds represent the ex-
tent of his sacrifice. Some of the others
have gained weight. The average daily
bill of fare was:
Breakfast Oatmeal, griddle cakes,
syrup, coffee Cost, cents
Dinner Lamb, rice, tomatoes, bread,
oleomargarine or molasses. Cost 10 cents.
Supper-Meat, mashed potatoes, corn
bread and o[eomargarine, pudding. Cost
II cents
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
The Crops.

The food crop situation has improved
and is now satisfactory. Rains and grow
ing weather have benefited winter wheat
greatly this week, and there is general
disposition to raise estimates of what the
government report of June list will show
The greatest gain has been in Texas, Ok
lahoma and Kansas, but a great deal of
the crop outside those States that early
promised poorly now looks good. A ten
tative estimate of $50, 200, 900 Bushels,
against 800, 000,00 bushels on May |,
should be shown by the June report
Wheat cutting started at Fort Worth,
Tex, on May 23rd, but will not be general
there until June 5th. The Texas crop
is estimated as Is, 600, 900 to 5000, 600
bushels, against 10, 000,0 900 bushels year
ago, Wheat is heading and filling in
Texas, Oklhoma and southern and eastern
Kansas.
Spring-wheat seeding is finished, has
made good root, and the light weight
seed used has sprouted well, although the
weather is too cool for growth. The crop
in the Canadian northwest has also had a
good start
Flowing and planting for corn is active
IN northern regions, a record acreage
u20, 900, 900 acres is indicated, but there
is some complaint of poor termination of
seed, due to cold weather. In the south
ern districts the crop is doing well.
Oats promise II per cent gain in
area, and conditions are good.
Potato planting in the west will be of
record size. The earlypotato crop south
ernN was one-quarter larger than year
ago.
An immense yield of vegetables is look
ed for, and already the question is being
asked whether the surplus can be saved
as commercial canning will not be posi-
BILE because of production being so widely
scattered. Domestic utilization (home
canning seems the only answer to this.
Cotton crop reports are good from
Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas late
rains helping, but east Of the Mississippi
cool, dry weather is complained of, and
much replanting is reported necessary in
Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia
New York's farm acreage this year is
estimated at 8,701, 964 acres, the largest
area planted since 1910. Hay is reported
to have given way to corn and potatoes,
though Long Island growers report 3, OOC
fewer acres in the latter. Planting OF
beans is advocated
Grain Prices Sag. Cotton Up.
Grain futures are lower all around or
restriction in future trading and gooo
crop reports, following the countrywide
rain of Monday to Wednesday.
Over a million bushels of Australian
wheat is reported engaged for import a
San Francisco at So laid down. 1t is sale
that it can be put in New York at S. so
which, if true, presupposes the possibilit!
| of re-exporting it to Europe.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
DOWN WITH THE OLD GRAFT AT
WASHINGTON, IL

No one who knew Congress, who knew
the habit of long years, has expected that
patriotism would Immediately supersede
graft as the driving power at Washington.
But there are encouraging signs. Take,
for example, the one little item of clerk
hire, which was so picturesquely brought
before the House yesterday.
Eleven clerks of House committees
which are not meeting were being paid
S125 each per month, or a total of S16,-
500 year. The clerks had done no work;
they were so free that they were engaged
in other work, and their S125 from the
House was pure velvet. Representative
Park of Georgia, one of the oldtime
pork patriots, made his annual motion to
put these fake clerks on the payroll, but
this time he was turned down. Repre-
sentative Sanford of New York led the
opposition, and went so far as to declare
that of the 81, 529, 290 expended by the
House each year for janltor and clerk
hire, only S250,000 was legitimate ex-
pense.
1t is a petty style of graft-a small
salary here and a small salary there but
in the aggregate it counts high. 1t had
better be wiped out now, while the poor
of the country are counting their coppers
in a struggle to get enough to eat.
Representative Park of Georgia would
look well in tar and feathers-and tn At
members who voted with him for the
customary graft would make good COM
panions in such an adventure; and so
would the so or more others who stuck to
the graft bill until they were sure it would
be defeated.
But it doesn't do any good to hash up
pleasant dreams of chastisement. The
only service that can be offered by a
newspaper in Massachusetts is to urge
Massachusetts congressman to do their
part toward overturning the pork barrel
crookedness at WashingtQn-and to &C
cuse them of collision in the thievery. if
they fail to make themselves heard, We
don't expect much of Georgia. But we
haven't yet won what we expected OF
Massachusetts, Journal.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

Montsweag and Erastus Foote to syndi-
cate OF New York men, among them C.
W. Morse. In this yard j. Manchester
flames OF Augusta years ago built schoon-
ers, and Richard Rundlett, under the
flrm name of the Maine Navigation Co.
also constructed wooden vessels. On the
property is large boarding house, where
carpenters can be lodged.
The first Maine preacher to enter the
armed forces in the present war is Ches-
ter Paul Jameson of Rockland who, as
ensign in the Naval Coast Defence Re-
serve, is in command of one of the craft
protecting that section of the coast En-
sign Jameson was born in Cambridge,
Mass, September 3, 1888 The family
moved three years later to Rockland.
When Is years of age he shipped before
the mast. Five years later he was given
the command of schooner and sailed as
captain for several years. When the war
is over he will again take up the ministry.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Enhaut, Pa. "a
weak inwardly.

! will have to die as there is no help for
me- She got me one of your little
books and my husband said | should try
one bottle. ! stopped the doctors
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made a
change in me and now am strong and
do all my work. Mrs. AUGUSTUS
BAUGHMAN, Box SO, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three
fourths Of the joy of living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
If you would like free confidential ad-
vice address Lydia E Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Kennebec County.

Those who have been out through the
country of late say that about every field
is being plowed and that the farmers all
seem bent on doing all the planting pos
sible. Most of the farmers say that the
amount they will plant will be only linz
tied by the help that they can secure.
Most of the farmers have been able to
get seed and a part of them sufficient
fertilizer. The wheat is coming in regu-
larly, and it is believed there will be
plenty of this seed. The help problem
here, as elsewhere, is serious one, and
there will be many calls in this county
for boys from Junior Militia
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
University of Maine.

4 reglstration of approximately
gents at the University of Maine
-.. ae9Hnlng of the fall term, now
@.. ''9 remain, and half of these are
-- .'''lg ua.i Of those who have left COL
rs, s l'e widely scattered in nearly all
. .1- l-s OF The Military and Naval ser
NJ. -na .g other half, or nearly all of
- u'ents IN the College of Agricul-
~ eft to take places on farms,
ny. son work and positions hav-
FIh food production.
le.iS now at work include the
..- most of the seniors who are
IL - graduation, which comes in
.-. 5N vi June 18th, and some for the
-fg engineering field work. Track
Ter a' 'iarS are in the coast patrol
o on lonely outer islands along
s,. ea.u coast, or manning patrol
.-... enty or more have headquar-
Bar Harbor.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Two Maine Doctors Called.

BIDDEFoRD, Me-, May 26. Dr. Paul
S. Hill and Dr. D. E. Dolloff of this city,
of the Medical Officers Reserve Corps,
received orders today to proceed to Fort
Benjamin at Harrison, Ind. 1t is under
stood they will soon be ordered to France
for duty.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Bowdoin.

&. ,,,. 1o|ao'n IL students have enlisted
srg s'r l loFm of service for the war. A
a,,is. Majority of these have already left
at snr nv, others are expecting to be called
lena moment Of the 300 odd students
ss,p1 "'ng at college nearly third are
Means 'ialenslve military training, which
toyr. mat they are devoting some 81
laIf af a. week to the work, while fully
4 les, 'e remaining students are taking
4rg 1'enslve military course, by which
29c ST.. eve over 10 hours a week to drill
0f't,lIlY Of military tactics.
III ,or IS men who have actually enlisted
saters5 'orm of war service 80 have
aad arl me Naval Reserve Coast Patrol
have i wa already on duty Twenty-seven
for s 1Ohe 70 Plattsburg, Is have enrolled
about pGio oIt service in France, and
DUTY wb aii mat number are already on
ID June. WIG ioliialnoer Will sail early
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Bow Scouts Buy Liberty Bond

OLD ORCHARD, Me-, May 20. The 25
Boy Scouts of Troop /, Old Orchard, last
night voted to buy $50 Liberty Bond
Each scout will earn his part by his own
labor. He will pay in four cents June
1St, sc cents June 18th, 40 cents July
18th, 60 cents Aug, 18th, and 90 cents
Aug 30th
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
STEADY!
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.

Easy with the hectic comeback when the talking
Says trife too emphatic that he disagrees with you
Don't round melting riot chancet to nd
That who differs with
Keep string round rough reply
simply must have fighting there be plenty and by
Therel be plenty of later than will want perhaps,
So don't waste your fighting spirit preliminary
Save the assiness that's for the
When the clouds rolling
Keep stored buge day.
Then em with rifle; it's
Bill and Bob and Tom and Henry think the
But isn't past believing that their country
II they sheer at your ideas and to want
Let them talk their heads but don't
For you'll find when
AS their granddds before fighting gmy
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

LeWiston-Auburn payrols total $780,
ooo week, $500, 900 month, SO, 600, 900
a year! This includes merely the big shoe
shops, manufactures, and public service
corporations; the great number of small
manufactures and mercantile establish
ments are not figured.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

In the year 1913, when the Maine De-
partment of Agriculture started to en-
force the weights and measures law,
there were 6,659 scales tested and 437
condemned; in the year 1914, 1865
scales were tested and 525 condemned; in
the year 1918, 1908 scales were tested
and 1888 condemned; in the year 1916,
12,l71 scales were tested and 318 con-
demned, so that in four years 1913 scales
in this State were put out of use. This
will give an insight into the work which
has been done by the local sealers in the
State.
Our personal opinion was that the test
ing of scales was not worth the expense.
We have changed our mind
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

Captain Aaron Littletield who died in
Edgartown, Mass, May %, was a native
OF Prospect, Me. He was an acting com
mander during the Civil War and later a
retired senior captain in the revenue cut
er service, now the Coast Guard His
age was "a years.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

AUGUSTA, May 20 The Charles A.
Eaton Co., shoe manufacturers of this
city, today were awarded large order
tor army shoes, This order alone, which
is SAID to include 375, 900 pairs of shoes, is
sufficient to keep the factory running on
full time until December.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

Douglass copper mine in
-.,ssing rapidly. The shafts
clear of water. The lat
linery will be installed,
horse power double tube
oo0 cubic feet capacity for
drill. The Lake tlota-
.. ne employed for reclaim
This is a new invention
successfully used in the
ug house to accommodate
HE course of construction.
pped with shower baths,
aIectric lights. Work on
u.nStration building and
uperintendent and fore
soon. The motive power
viii be electricity, steam
hosting engines only.
ne about 200 tons of ore
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
NAlNE ITEMS.
Anck Work.

we'd its first war order of
- a'1lct on Saturday, May
re Massachusetts, Public
gave a contract to the
..I.-. ~ Son Co., for making 60
aarness to 90 with the
~.-- ts of New England to
rrcsts of Northern Eng
r8rt calls for the expendi-
10000 1t is to the credit of
7 that the work will be
~ e time stipulated, two
N. g4rts of the harnesses will
49, r. including reins, traces,
- aaukets, sweat pads, etc.
,.r Win he made for breakage.
was ready for shipment
.'+..r .uo weeks,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
allching at Bath.

. . May "a. The steamship
h l-est merchant ship ever
taa .. -e, was launched late to-
5-.. ..Als Steamship Company
Ss4 ned with champagne by
}ss siLlke Of New York, daugh-
wF... r laGer of the company. No
-- Ms. mf-cd to the shipbuilding
;sM .Na MEMBERS of the launching
ar TIE Maine is Ais feet overall and
8bout 5000 tons. She was
b.. DID special system of longitudinal
tn4- to lis triple expansion engines
ai --- RS.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Nam Sardine Outlook Better.

-5'lfIBl Me-, May Is. The sardine
after four weeks of inactivity,
,- I'i"re4 somewhat this week. The
o.. -' Pocologan have made catches
' '-,'.'.iac % 300 hogsheads, most of
cane TO this city. The prices are
g '-s"s Ven higher than those which
w. ll-aurt a week ago.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
>olan Name Guides TO Enlist in the
Army.

tss.., Ne, May "a. Guides and
~Hs, -t-I as sharpshooters, were
- mlu Frank H Hume of the I'd
-ms gtll17y regiment, to enlist with
laor-4lE4 on so that the government
.sG MFe the benefit of their shooting
81. tlttle front. Col. Hume in
-4l- FL 1u additional recruits said
-r -u-- no have spent many years
.-IDus climate of the Maine
-s makes them physically fit
-..soa we're particularly desired.
81 IN g"ssible," he said, 1--WE want
@ #" expert shots. The most
ne Canadian expeditionary
.r a.t neel the large body of guides
-a'r ed as sharpshooters. We
~ hides and hunters of Maine
.- r Ne.L and are just as patriotic
t3lida.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

AUGUSTA, Me, May e. Lloyd Dick
son of Is Capitol street is expecting or
ders almost any time to go to France.
He is a member of the class of 10 at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pitts
burg. He has Joined the 5th Regiment,
Engineer Reserve Corps, which has been
raised in that city,
Dickson is 10, son of Mr.. and Mrs
William Dickson He is a graduate of
Cony High School, His brother, Charles
T. Dickson, is captain of the 18th Com
pany of the Maine Coast Artillery An
other brother, Edward A. Dickson, has
been attending the University of Cincin-
natl and is now connected with the Red
Cross Base Hospital in that city.
A sister, Mrs. Cecilia Hersey of VIM
chester, Mass, is the wife of physician,
and has had a thorough hospital training
Another sister, Miss Eva M. Dickson of
Newton, Mass, is now taking a hospital
course, and both are likely to engage in
Red Cross work.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
SICK WOMAN HAD
CRYING SPELLS
Restored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
was all run down and
had female troubles

and nervous feelings
and my head both
cred me. / would
often have crying
spells and feel as if
l was not safe. If
| heard anyone COM
ing l would run and
lock the door so they
would not see me.
| tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so | said to
nv mother q pl1ess
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
MAINE CENlkAl RAILROAD
BELFAST AND Bl]RNHAM.

On and after Oct l. 1916 trains connecting
at Burnnam and Waterville with through train.
for and from Bangor, Waterville. Portland and
Boston, will run as follows:
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

b. -- Safety Committee have
- buted 5000 bushels for SOW
a- . Maine farmers. About two
A.'- ara reQuired to seed an acre of
-@ .l' soil used to produce about 80
e0.A 2- re although the average for
r".4'' -utry is only about Is bushels.
. .s4es "li make at least E barrels of
-- We Stall demonstrate this year
Wy" We an raise all our own flour in
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
CAPTAIN of Railroad Company.

PORTLAND, Me, May &c. William L.
Post, assistant in the Maine Central en-
cheering department, has been designat-
ed as captain of engineers to raise COM
pany of railroad men for the war among
employees of Maine roads.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

1t is proposed to build wooden ships at
Birch Point, Wiscasset. The ships are
to be Eof wood, built on the 10 percent
profit plan of the U. S. Government
This Birch Point property is understood
to have been sold by Charles H. Butler of
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
A. B. Kicker Offers Auto Ambulance. Son
to Drive,

PORTLAND, Me, May 20. A. B. Rick
er of Poland Spring has offered Mai. Will
liam l.. Cousins of this city of the Medi-
cal Corps motor ambulance for COM
pany of 120 to be recruited here, and his
son, George Kicker, has volunteered to
drive it,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Help Wanted
FEMALE.

BIG PAY and steady work for girls and
women in large rubber shoe factory. Expert
creed girls earn $40 and slS week. Inex-
perienced ones paid a worth while salary and
given free board and room while learning
which takes about a month. Live town, neal
large cities. Good theatre; fine working con
ditions. Company furnishes hall for dancing.
athletic field, free insurance and medical at.
tentiou. Fine chance for family: work for
all. Good homes at very low rents DON'T d.
eide now. Write today for illustrated booklet
"a Good Job at Beacon Falls" Address
EMPLOYMENT DEPT,
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.,
BEACON FALLS, CONN.
3w22p
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

Three full cargoes of strawberries ar
rived in Portland in one day last week,
The sun has been shining somewhere.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
PRESTON'S
Livery, Boarding and Transient Stable.

is SITUATED ON WASHINGTON STREET JU5f OFF MAIN STREET
hono. 81 -
W. G.. PRES
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
TRUCKING

am prepared to do all kinds of trucking
Furniture and piano moving a speciality.
Have just added to my equipment a-tor
Acme auto true kmade by the Cadillac con
Germ. Leave orders at the stable, corner Of
Main and Cross streets, and they will re
ceivs prompt attention.
Telephone connection.
WV. BLAZO,
1a6Waldo Avenue, Belfast.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07

Three Aroostook men, agents of the
Aroostook Potato Shippers Association.
have been fined $1,000 each in the federal
district court, for conspiring to restrain
trade
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-06-07
Three Maine Brothers Enlist in the Nav,

;. BIDDEFoRD, Me, May 20 More en-
llstments in the Navy have been made
from this city since the declaration of
war than in any municipality of similar
size in Maine
The three sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. r.
Martel, Pearsons lane, have just enlisted
IN the Navy They are Joseph, Omer
and Octave Martel we'll known here
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-22
TEMPLAR PARTY
TOURS OAHu AND
HAS JOLLY TINE

II a vote had been taken yesterday
afternoon about l o'clock by the
Visiting Knights Tempiar delegation
IN the respective merits OF the two
Aclandiess brothers, Link and
Suu2y Jim, at a yerdant little piece
o. paradise on the windward side Of
Oahu. the latter, who has been the
moving spirit in all the welcoming
events and entertainment stunts.
might have lost 3 bit OF his popularity
10 his relative, For "Link" took his
good cook and maid servants and man
servants in hand and stirred up and
conc0cted an old-fashioned basket
fuRcheon az his country place at Wal.|
Kane the likes of which had never be-
lFf oeen seen anu the memory o.
which will go down into the annals d
,,s4s an tie 4sllnds Of the SaliIofnians
as b real. honest.tC Henry spread
The stop at The McCanaIess place
ives the ehiai event for the merry
patty OF about I59 in % autos. when
stuffed from the Young Hotel at 70
o'eloek IN the morning and returned
gneui ) N the afternoon. with the
naf JeloHs scenery of Oahu another
crammed to bursting with hawaiian
beauty and charm.
Z 8s the guests OF the Honolulu
Con- fnandery the visiting California
Gogfhandery. with friends and rela
lives. were enthused at the Pail; mar
veied al the way pineapples 90 into
The can at Libby's; rayed about the
pretty settings Of Haieiwa for an
hours enjoyed one of Hawaiis proud.
est attractions-a clear, cool day.
picked ripe pineapples out Of the
field on the way home and got back
In plenty OF time for a wonderful.
whirlwind finish, gasping with de
light at the hibiscus display in the
Pan-Pacific building.
Tonight the most elaborate affair
to be yet staged for the visitors b.
their local brothers will be a Grand
banquet in the gold room Of the Youna
Hotel arrangements had been MADE
Tor 200, but now it, Is believed $50
plates Will be laid to accommodato
every one.
5. IS. Paxson, past eminent com.
sander and chairman of the present
committee, who has not
let an opportunity slip to make the
visitors at hole-nor has any Homo.
lulan for that matter-wiH preside at
the feast tonight and after the first
attack on the sagging boards and
sparkling glass has partially subsided
viii call en- visitors and hosts alike
Tor informal talks After the feast fho
party gees to the directors ball At
the armory.
Tomorrow the Templars will Visit
sugar mills and plantations.