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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Does America Know?

Ruth Wright Kaufman. special cor.
respondent Of the Vigilantes sends the
following appeal from Paris:
DOES AMERICA KNOW
That there is a WAR going On in
Europe?
That the WASTAGE on the British
front alone is 1000 MEN A DAY?
That present Of 100000 AIRSHIPs
70 the Allies will do no good unless the
ENGINES are OF the sort THAT CAN
BE USED at the front?
That when America sends MEN n
France. the men must be FED and
CLOTHED and given GUNS?
That the MAINTENANCE Of an
army at the front is the maintenance
OF city as big as Chicago suddenly
dumped In the middle Of desert?
That England has had to build her
own DOCKS in Northern France to re.
eeive her transports?
That It's like offering A LIVE ELF.
PLANT TO baby to offer to France
American troops without maintenance >
That IL Is easy TO reckon how much
tonnage is necessary TO TRANSPORT a,
army from America to the European
continent and how much tonnage ,s
required 10 feed such an army; tina,
France and England are scarcely ah,e
to feed and supply their own armies
without influencing their military and
economic situation still more and that
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
EMILY PAGE WEBB.
Pasadena. August is
Helped Some.

During the hot wave which passed
through Michigan a while ago when
the temperature registered lo4 in the
shade the people OF Adrian were some
what refreshed by the announcement
OF the engagement of Laura Freeze to
EuSune Ice. both residents of Adrian.
Corporal Unstructing awkward squad
ir rife practicel--'I told you TO take a
fine sight YOU dub; don't you know
what fine sight is9"
Rookie--"Sure a boat full of eorpor-
ais sinking
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
COMING EVENTS

Sept. 12-13-Maine State Board of Trade.
annual convention. Houlton.
Sept, l3-C. of NJ. farm demonstration,
Berwick.
Sept. 1+Public Utilities Commission
nearing on petition OF approval Of loca-
ton of branch railroad track in Portland.
at II, County Court House, Portland.
Sept. I4-Washington County teachers'
convention, Eastport.
Sept. IT,. of NJ. farm demonstration.
Eliot.
Sept, 15-U. Of NJ. farm demonstration.
Newfteld.
Sept. 17-Is-Maine woman's Suffra re
Association annual convention, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Maine Gossip
In Two Reyes

Or. H. Dyer. Fairheld)
Alas! my hired man is gone!'
Lamented farmer Bane;
He put suit of khaki on
And whistled down the lane.
He didn't count the damage
He was causing-didn't stop
To wonder how Id manage
At getting in the crop.
He left me without reason,
And I'm feeling mighty blue,
For help" is scarce this season
Drat the luck. what SHALL l do?"
my Jim has Joined the colors!"
Boosted sturdy farmer John
AS he boIted down the crullers
Extra early in the morn;
And I'm proud TO be the sire
OF true red-blooded son
With SUFFICIENT grit and fire
To battle down the Hun.
Yes, l know that III be sweating
Under single harness now
But I'll do MY bit by getting
In the harvest, anyhow"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

Sept. 11-l3-Oxford County fair, South
Paris.
Sept. 11-1+Central Maine fair, Water.
Vile.
! Oct. 2-Litchneld fair
Oct. 3-4-kennebec County Agricultural
Society Fair. Readfeld.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

Professor Millikan. Chicago physician,
has perfected scales so sensitive that the
component elements of the atom can be
divided and weighed down to the l-3O,-
W"'oH.10'Wo Of an ounce. With such
scales it ought to be possible to obtain
a fairy accurate estimate Of the kaiser's
soul.-Biddeford Journal.
Has il been isolated?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

He-What, another new dress! How
on earth am 1 going to pay for it In
these war times?
She-Well. my dear, I'm your wife;
not your financial adviser.-London
Opinion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
ResimentaT Reunions

Sept. l2-Fourth Maine Regiment, ID
Maine Battery, Berdan's Sharp Shooters
and Naval Veterans. annual reunion.
! Rockland.
Sept. 2-Annual reunion Of Old Port
! land Cadets, Riverton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
The World War a Year Ago
Today-Sept. 13.

French reached the main road
tn Peronne In q new drive. Ger
mans In Combles isolated.
Two Years Ago Today.
French airmen bombed towns
10 three German border prov
inces. Zeppelins raided England.
Great Britain established corps
for aerial defense of London.
Three Years Ago Today.
Germans retired from before
Paris all along the line. but
checked allied pursuit at scissors.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Augusta Lodge Directory
TRINITY CoMMANDERY No - :

Stated conclave at Masonic TernIs =,
Friday evening, Sept u, 49,. a; a -
Nj. Sojournlng fraters are cord,alv ~
vited to attend. az
km. GEO. L. DIXON. =
Sir GEO. II. BANGS R.,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

his hand,
Should hold up the nag in the land of
the free.
Q come to the rescue as the brave men
Of old
From office. and workshop. and outly-
ing farms,
Give your service, and love, and your
free gifts OF gold.
That our dear country needs to
strengthen her arms
Stand by men Of valor, be faithful and
true
To the land where Liberty draws free
breath,
Or in future Tyrant may rule over you,
And Liberty crushed. go down to her
death.
EMILY PAGE WEBB.
Pasadena. August is.
The above patriotic poem from the Los
Angeles Times was written by former
Maine woman who, although she left the
State o years ago. still treasures her
early associations In tho Pine Tree State
as the dearest OF her life.-Ed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
kENNESEC LINE
Service discontinued for the season.
--,, htn pnnTLRAy LINE

Service discontinued for the season
5aTH AND BooTHRAY LINE
Leave Bath Week Days only d 9l5 A.
NJ and geo ?. N. for BoothpaE haTpoi
and intermediate landings. 49,,
Retvrn-Leave Boothbay Faroor eeh
pays only at 100 A. N, and l2"o nooh' lof
Bath and intermediate landings
BOSTON & PORTLAND LINE
Leave Franklin Wharf Portland, Week
Days al $50 F. NJ. for Boston.
Return leave Central Wharf, Boston
Week Days at 6 +. NJ.
Day trip leaves Portland Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays at $ A Nj,
& A. NJ commencing Sept. 49,, due Bos-
ton 2. NJ.
METROPOLITAN LINE
Direct between Boston and New York
via Cape COD Canal.
Leave North Side India Wharf every
day at P. NJ, due 100 T. NJ
Same service returning from Pier is, y.
R, New York.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Direct between Portland and New York.
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland, Tues
days Thursdays and Saturdays at go p.
NJ. Leave New York, Fier 10 y. R.. q
same days at P. NJ.
NJ. A. HARADEN, Supt., Bath.
II. A. CLAY, Supt.. Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

This is no time for any man to
seek to avoid jury duty" said Justice
Warren c. Philbrook of the Maine
Supreme court at the opening Of the
September criminal term Tuesday
morning in the Bangor court house.
To-day a great many men are cheer
fully performing duty for the public
veal, even risking their lives for their
country, and all men with a spark. of
civic conscience should make every
effort to sit on jury when their
names are drawn"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Thursday, September 10, 1917.

The fashion Of tins world pass
eth away: ! would fain occupy my
self with that which endures.-
Goethe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

Small Point fishermen report the
best fishing Of their lives this sum-
mer. Hake have been. more plentiful
than for years and the high prices
have made the season most profitable
one. One fisherman made $50 in one
nights catch recently.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13
Odd Fellows Hall

ASYLUM LODGE. NO. 20, REGULAR
meeting Friday evening A. ? NJ FRI.
day, Sept. II, work in First degree
H. H. AUSTIN, y. g
(. F. WESTON, Re- =.
r. NJ. BURNS Fin So
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

OF course if the owner wants to
waste gasoline, that's none of our
funeral, says the Oxford Democrat
South Paris, but when man leaves
his car standing under our window
with the engine running for half an
hour. we have right to complain of
the unnecessary noise.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

and the investment is proving a veritable storehouse of trea- sure. The gold rushes of the Klondike and the Yukon are still recent memories; while silver, copper, platinum, and the rarer minerals whose uses are mostly scientific, contrib ute a pretty large total to the estimates of national wealth.
 \ The other day Dr. H. M. Smith, United States commis- sioner of fisheries, estimated that in fine furs alone Alas ka has already more than paid for itself. The Alaska seals. which with the blue foxes of the Pribilof islands, are the property of the United States are his especial hobby. When the Alaska sealskins were put on sale at the Funsten fur auc- ton at St. Louis recently-the exchange where buyers from all over the world come to fill their fur needs-he represent ed the United States govern ment in that transaction.
 Just then Dr. Smith, talking on Alaska and seals, and the enthusiasm of the true scien- list shines forth. For many years private individuals bought the Alaska sealing rights on long lease. They made' no efforts to preserve this valuable property; kill ings were enormous, and the entire herd was almost exterm- mated. Females, baby pups, yearlings, were sacrificed ruthlessly to the greed of the leSSeeS.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
COL. HOUSE IN ENGLAND

Col. House, unknown when Wilson was elected President, is the head of the American delegation to the allied war conference in Paris.
 The colonel has been stop ping in England, taking lunch with King George, talking with Lloyd George and letting all the plain Georges make his stay pleasant.
 Col. House has come to be the confidential man of the ad- ministration. Little is known of him except that lie is a sphinx and that the President sends him wherever there is any tangle to be ironed out or any big talk to be accomplish ed.
 The colonel is retiring, and speaks little of his exploits. But he must have been a busy man in the epast two years, and many hard tasks must have been his. When he reached England after passage through the submarine zone, a report CT asked him how he liked the trip.
 Just lovely" responded the colonel. Nice and pleas ant and quiet. In fact it is the first real restful time l have had in the past two years
 A good deal might be said of the man who can get rest and peace while the ship he is on IS lodging submarines. Ex.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
Alaska Uncle sam's Bargain

'Tisn't what money you pay that makes the value; it IS what you get, get, GET, for the money you pay, That s what coumts!'
 It was a thrifty oldtime country banker speaking, and he clinched the argument home with a thrust of his closed fist into the palm of the other hand. It's what you get that's what counts!" he re- peated again and again.
 When the United States bought Alaska from Russia for the then huge sum of $7,200,- GOO there was adverse comment aplenty throughout the coun- try. What a sum to squander for barren waste of rock and snowland, far up in the Arctic zone, undeveloped, unvege- tabled, and of no possible use or interest to nation whose chief wealth was agricultural, they said.
 We Americans have world wide reputation for making a good bargain. And assuredly Uncle Sam made the best kind of a good bargain when he paid, over that same $7, 100000
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
THE DIVINE RIGHT.

The kaiser, according to press dispatches, is refusing to open peace overtures with the Russian socialists. William, 1t Is asserted, will deal with the czar, and with the czar alone.
 Germany wants peace with Russia, and with any and all of her other enemies. It, therefore, appears a paradox that the kaiser should refuse to treat with the Russian revo- lutionists.
 But it only appears so. The kaiser is consistent, entirely consistent. He is the present supreme embodiment in this world of the old Divine Right idea of kings; an idea that has been steadily dying out these hundred and fifty years.
 The kaiser really believes that he is the appointed of God, that his line was selected from among thousands of Ger man families to rule the Ger man empire.
 This obsession of the kaiser goes so far that he believes other rulers, even his enemies, are likewise the appointed of God.
 Whenever a ruler is deposed by his subjects, there is an at tack on the Divine Right phil osophy. There was probably not a crowned head in the world that did not gasp wher the czar was deposed so quick ly and so easily. But most of the kings are so thoroughly muzzled that they did not dare to express their opinions.
 The kaiser, the incarnation par excellence of the Divine Right theory, is the only ruler who has thus far expressed his sentiments on his brother ruler losing his crown. And the sen timents are precisely those of the united European monarchs when King Louis lost his scep- ter and his head with the re suit that the "king's union" immediately took steps to put his heirs on the throne by force.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
NOTICE

The Common Council of the Town of Cordova will meet as Board of Equalization Dec. 3, 1917, at the Town Hall at p. m., and continue in ses- sion until the hour of g D. m. of said day, and shall continue in session un-
 [ til Dec. 10, 1917, between the hours of p. m. and g p. m. of each day.
 EDWARD F. MEDLEY, Town Clerk
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

want men to give the money they consume in smoking dur ing a given day in each week, we. would advise them to ask for the money outright.
 Supposing a man smokes ten cents worth of tobacco in a day, he would rather and bv far give the ten cents than agree to stop smoking for d day, because he can beg or borrow tobacco. The same may be said of a cigar smoker Besides, if a cigar smoker can afford to smoke a dollars worth of cigars a day, he can afford to give an extra dollar occasionally and keep on smok- ing. But supposing the men would come back at the wo- men and demand corsetless day a week; would they agree to. that? Women without that do not go shopping, and what ever they would have spent on that corsetless day had they gone out shopping, might help some. Think it over.-Ex.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01


 "The robe of authority, like charity, may cover a multitude of sins, says "sports" writ CT at the head of a column of dramatic criticism and other matter foreign to his depart ment. It is just like these foolish youngsters to start hurling brickbats to relieve their pent-up feelings, entirely nnmindful of the dangers of wrecking their Boss glass house.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The man who carelessly dropped ashes from his pipe in a powder factory in British Columbia, evidently never read the safety first rules saying that a man who smokes in d powder factory should use the utmost care. Such little ne glects as this cause good men to die.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
THINK IT OVER.

If the women folks in the States believe they can force a weekly" smokeless "day on the men folks, we would advise them of the fact that they have the wrong pig by the ear. If it is money they are after and
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The Russian socialists have a simple program. All they want to do is to make a peace and divide up the land. They will soon discover that it is Ca long way to NUtopia.''
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

Riding on a rail is no longer fashionable in the South. Lash es on the back with a coat of tar and feathers is all that is necessary for admission into the upper-ten of l. W. W. so- ciety.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The British and French gunl ners on the Italian front seem to be outings some holes ilS Mackensen's moving picture film.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

A young woman in Indiana canned 400 quarts of vege- tables and finished the seas on's work by canning a cow
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The yong woman who goes into the slums to get "color" for a story generally fells blue the next morning.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

Course dinners of the past will be something to brag about in the future.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

There will be no German slush money offered to the butchers to go on a strike but it would pay the food conser- vators to do a little in that line.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The news from Russia is as conflicting as the reports of an' executive session of the Amer ican senate.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01

The NATIONAL ARMY is drawn from our reserves of men. If you are drawn will you leave a cash reserve in the bank? You may not need it during the war but you cer- talnly will when you are mus tered out.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-12-01
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
 Travellers Checks

Neither wage-earner nor mer chant can afford to always live close to the margin of their resources. Whether you join the colors or not, start now building up a reserve by depositing with the BANK OF ALASKA, an institution that carries ample reserves and builds for the future. |
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-03
PERSONALS

Joe Powell who has been employed
in the Danley barber shop for the past
few months has gone to Morgantown
where he has accepted a position.
Judas Dickler was among the local
business transactors in Fairmont yes
terday afternoon.
with friends in Edgmont during the
week.
Mrs. Jack Gaskins was among the
local visitors in Fairmont yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. Milton Bejack and Mrs. Chas
Honaker left yesterday for the form
er's home in Alliance, O., where they
will visit for a few weeks. They were
called there because of the illness oil
Milton Bejack who is threatened with
appendicitis.
Mrs. George Gibbons was among the
local shoppers in Fairmont yesterday
afternoon.
Miss NADIA Strickler was in Fair
mont yesterday afternoon visiting
friends.
Miss Edna Jones, of Fairmont, was
in Monongah yesterday evening visit
ing friends.
Mr.. and Mrs Claude McBee have
returned after Christmas vacation
at their home near Morgantown.
Russell Shaver was a business call
er in Fairmont Tuesday Afternoon.
Mrs. Henry Lambert has been visit
ing friends and relatives in Fairview
during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Sheminsky have
recently moved in to the McKain prop
erty on Pike street In Thoburn.
Miss Maud Yoak, of RivesvilIe, was
in Monongah Monday evening visiting
her sister, Miss Grace Yoak.
Mrs. Max Bear was calling in Shinns
ton during the past week.
Mrs. Jake Pickus was in Shinns
ton yesterday visiting friends and rel
atives.
Miss Beulah Blue of Fairmont, was
in Monongah Monday afternoon as q
/ social visitor.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-03

product WIS heid IN indianapolis.
THE results Of my investigation, un.
known TO Mr.. Wedding, or the Ameri-
can Valve and Tank Company, were
erninently satisfactory"
W. ]. Wiegel. as secretary Of the
Greater Fairmont Investment Com.
pany, told how that his company. i'm
pressed with the benefits 10 be derived
by the bringing the plant here, would
subscribe $4,000 to the stock Of the
company. He also told that Senator
c. W. Watson had subscribed $500
and that Jere H. Wheelwright had
promised TO subscribe, probably for
the same sum as Mr.. Watson.
After c. w. Evans had told of testi-
monials he had received in answer to
mail inquiries, Carl Riggs made a mo-
ton that central committee OF five
men be appointed. each man to be the
chairman of committees which today
canvassed the city for subscriptions
The central committee US. named. is
Harry L. Heintzelman, T. Wilbur Hen
men. Sam. B. Iseman, c. S. Riggs and
G. w. Evans.
The banquet as prepared and served
by the ladies Of the Episcopal church
did much to promote the cordial rerep
ton with which the proposition was
greeted by Fairmont's business men.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-01-03
PERSONALS

Miss Ruth Barnes has returned from
Pittsburgh where she had spent the
holidays with friends.
The Misses Dorothy Howard and
Louise Conn who had spent Christmas
week with relatives at Point Marion,
Pa, have returned home.
Mrs. Minnie NJ. Martin, who has
been i'll for several weeks at the home
of her sister, Mrs. T. v. Buckley, on
Monroe street, will enter Cook hos.
pital tonight and tomorrow will under.
go surgical operation.
Mrs. p. NJ. Hoge and daughter have
returned from Cameron where they
had been the guests OF relatives for the
holidays.
Miss Ruth Wilcox, who had been the
guest of Miss Mary Katharyn Howard,
has returned to her home in Morgan.
town.
Mrs. Sabina Hill has returned from
Uniontown and Fairchance. Pa, where
she had been the guest of her broth.
ers, Rev. G. G. Conway and Rev. Peter
Conway.
Mrs. Ella Augustus has been i'll for
the last several days at her home on
Cleveland avenue
Robert and John Meredith have re.
turned from Buckhannon where they
had been tho guests OF their grand
father, r. c. Shackelford, for the holi'
days.
Mrs. P. B. Swearingen is recovering
from a several weeks illness at her
home on Pittsburgh avenue.
Miss Clara Hough has returned from
Washington. d. c., where she had spent
the holidays with relatives.
Miss Edna Kelley, Of indianapolis
Ind, is in the city visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Kern at their home on Wal
nut avenue.
Mrs. D. NJ. osgood and daughter,
Miss Beatrice, who had been the guests
OF relatives in Pittsburgh, have return
ed home. Miss Virginia 0sgood who
longer visit with relatives.
Miss Marie Boehm, who had spent
the holidays here with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Sam Boehm, leaves today 70"
Detroit to resume her studies in an
art school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Stotler, former
ly of this city, who had spent the holt,
days with the latter s parents, Mr.. and
/ Mrs. Charles Ford, in Clarksburg, and
with relatives here, have returned to
Lexington, Va, where the former is a
, student in Washington and Lee law
school.
Lou Lange has returned from visit
to Des Moines, Iowa.