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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
ROME

SoUTH-Mr. and Mrs. Will Foss Of
augusta were callers at Mrs. J. r.
Watson's Sunday.
Mr.. Morash has gone to Halifax for
a few days.
Mrs. Mary Blaisdell and daughter
Angie have been attending campmeet-
ing at Lewiston, Mrs. Blaisdell re-
turning to her home in town Monday
and her daughter going to Peru, where
she is teaching.
Eva Blaisdell has gone to Readfleld
where she has a school.
Rose Martin has returned home at
ter a short visit with her sister. Mrs
Hiram Bean Of Oakland.
William Perkins has returned home
from a visit with his sister, Mrs. Syl-
vester OF Auburn.
Henry Bigelow. who has been at
tending campmeeting at Lewiston. re-
turned home Monday.
Mrs. Caroline Blaisdell is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Henry George Of Nor
ridgewock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Proposed Amendment No, 2,

"ShaI the Constitution be
amended as proposed by a resoIu.
ton Of the Legislature granting to
the Governor, by the consent and
advice Of the Council, the power to
remove sheriffs who do not faith
fully and efficiently perform the
duties imposed upon them by law,
and to appoint another sheriff in
his place for the remainder Of the
term for which such removed sher-
iff was eIected?"
The above is the second question
confronting Maine voters next Mon
day, in the list of five proposed amend
YOU going to vote on that question
Yes" or MO-"
We hope you will vote Yes" for
this reason: Because by that means
the people can hold the Governor re-
sponsible for a reasonable enforcement
O. law in any county where the sheriff
is VIGOROUSLY in the service Of selfish
and evil interests.
And for this reason: Because evil
interests and men of easy conscience
too often combine in politics to get
possession of the Office of sheriff and
to use It to the detriment of the well
fare and good name Of the whole
county.
And for this reason: Because our
present Governor has asked for this
power to hold over plotting law-hreak
ers, who we'll know the expense of
special session Of the Legislature to
deal with such delinquent officials.
And for this reason: That some
governors have taken refuge behind
the Legislative expense of removal of
multiplying officials. to permit wide open
betrayal Of the peoples purpose in
making laws, and to covertly encour-
age violation Of law in the interests
Of politics if not personal gain.
And for this reason: When a Gov
error is confronted by indignant citi-
zens demanding enforcement of the
States laws he should not be able to
blandly say. II am helpless; you elect
these officials and I have no power
over them"
Let us go to the polls next Monday
and vote to put the power in the hands
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Remember This Next Monday.

The responsibility which rests upon
the voters Of Maine in the coming
suffrage election is much greater than
that which has rested upon any other
state in which the electorate has been
called to pass upon the question of en-
franchising its women. This is due
not only to the importance of the is
sue itself, but to the effect the decision
will have upon the people Of ether
states, as we'll
First Of all Maine IS the first state
in which the suffrage question will be
before the voters since America en-
tered the war. For this reason the
ira ditiona, leadership Maine voters
have exercised in past elections is be
ing watched by millions of American
men and women. Suffrage has proved
to be a distinctive war issue, since it
is inseparably bound up with the cam
paisn America. is waging to make the
world safe for democracy Eneland.
France and Russia have demon
strated beyond the shadow Of n doubt
lat suffrage is a, wartime issue. by
arranging to enfranchise millions Of
women AS Maine is the first state in
which woman suffrage is to he passed
upon by the voters at large since the
declaration of war in April, a favor
able vote will do more than anything
else to convince the world at largo
that the government does stand for
democracy not half democracy
which denies women tho right to
voice in the affairs of government
but a whole democracy which believes
in utilizing and combining its great
! forces.
The decision Maine voters will give
September 10 to the request Of the
women Of Maine who are seeking
their political freedom, will find re-
Election the world over 1t is Names
opportunity to lead. Names emporium
ity to take a stand for pure democ-
racey.
Tic year 1917 has been remarkable
for the advances made by equal suf-
frage The voting population has been
increased by more than 100000
women since January /, The women
Of seven states have been granted
most important rights Of suffrage,
while Canada and the old world have
taken great strides forward in remov-
ing restrictions which have prevented
one-half of the citizenship from hav-
ing voice in the government.
Maine voters cannot afford to have
it said of them that they are willing
to block the progress of this world
wide movement. Complete triumph
for universal suffrage is coming closer
and closer, and Maine has before it
the opportunity Of serving as an i'm
rortant mile-post in the march Of
progress. 1t Is now generally recog-
nized that political expediency de-
mards the comforting of the rights OF
citizenship upon the women Of Amer
lea,
The cause Of democracy cannot af-
ford to suffer a backward step at such
a time as this. when the United States
is stalking her all in the struggle of
democracy in other parts Of the world
If the men Of Maine honestly believe
in democracy as opposed to autocfacy
they will vote yes" on September 10
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Going Up

The horrible news comes from Arkansas
that boy climbed a corn stalk to see
how the corn was getting along and now
the stalk is growing up faster than the
boy can climb down. The boy is plumb
out Of sight. Three men have undertaken
to cut down the stalk with axes and save
the boy from starvation. II grows so fast
they can't hack twice in the same place.
The poor boy is living on nothing but raw
corn and has already thrown down four
bushels OF cobs. Next.-Exchange
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
side the Great Divide.

An editor Of a paper printed in this
country in the German language has
been arrested for declaring that Cen
eral Pershing has done nothing to mark
him as a great general. Too bad the
editor couldn't be placed within the
German lines, before Pershing's troops
make their first attack upon the enemy.
He might get a different view Of Per-
shing's ability.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Steamer Islander

Leaves Augusta every day at 7.o5 A L.;
Hal]owen Con signaD, 7.13; Gardiner, 7.4o;
South Gardiner (on signaD, $50; Cedar
Grove, sos: Richmond. $40; Bath 9'io'
Arrives Boothbay Harbor about nSo,
Return, leaves Boothbay Harbor every
day at 1870 F. M; Bath 5,15. stops at
Richmond, Cedar Grove and South Gardl-
ner on signal; Gardiner; Halloween on
Signal. Arrives at Augusta about b
o'clock p. . Walter NJ. Sa- born, Angus
ia: Fran s. 'Wingate. Halloween; W. L.
Tozier, Gardiner; Agents
rnay16dtf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Out with thu Cancer.

Prussian nilitarism is a cancer on
the body OF Europe. 1t is bound to
eat out the very life Of the world un-
less it is removed. Europe has suffered
IL. silence for half century, realizing
that in acute attack she must go on
the operating table.
Special pleaders now argue that the
disease has been checked and perhaps
will never break out again, and GER
tainly not for years. Common sense
Of the world is to the contrary. We
KNOW the disease is there; that it
is bound to take on new growth, to
attack new tissue, the instant the con-
trolling agent is removed.
For the health Of the world the
Hohenzollern cancer must be removed,
root and branch. Not a particle Of
affected tissue must be left. We know
that the job must be done SOMETIME,
and we know that it can be better,
sooner more safely done, today. than
at some future day after it has grown
and reached into the body of Europe
more deeply, has even begun its hide
Gus existence in America.
Shall we commit the cowardly act Of
sinking our duty at a critical moment,
and turn the stupendous task over
=, o,,r cbiIdrep and grandchildren
Europe is on the operating table;
VIC have the knife, and we know the
disease and the ONLY remedy-shall
We lose our nerve?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
HOWARD OWEN
Augusta, Sept. !, 1917.

We presume the ants will say tat
this veteran editor and student Of hui
man nature and human affairs, has
not stopped to reason cut the erect
Iron women of vote of confidence
bv their husbands, fathers, brothers
and sons. Perhaps he has NOT
reasoned it out" but mems associa-
ton with women Of moral health and
something worth while, has much to
Go with their convictions after ma
turity.
II the lot of a man of strong mind
and just appreciation has fallen, from
his mothers lap to voting age'or lat
er, with women of intelligence and
character, he naturally realizes that
they are his own equal or that of any
other man. He knows their moral in
stincts are of a higher order; that
they more promptly select the wheat
from the chaff, and that they have a
more conscientious conception of duty.
Such a man will vote Yes, on
Monday next, on the suffrage question.
He will be likely also to vote Yes" on
the removal of delinquent sheriffs'
question. He believes in law and en-
forcement of law; he believes in JUS
tice and fairness in human affairs.
It is far from a compliment to the
women he has known for a man to
vote "No" on the equal suffrage ques-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

Boston coal dealers are on firm
ground when they protest that the diff
ference between what they pay for
coal and what they get from the con-
sumner is not all margin and profit
Boston Herald.
How far does that 240 pounds on
every ton which the consumer does
not get and the dealer does, go toward
covering overhead" expenses?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Willing TO Please

"Here's a nickel for you, my man." she
said to the frayed and ragged-looking In
dividual who stood under the porch with
extended hand. I'm not giving 1t to you
for charity's sake. but merely because /,
pleases me-
"Thankee, but couldn't you make Il a
quarter and enjoy yourself thoroughly,
ma am" : Pittsburgh Chronicle Tele-
graph.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

Colonel Roosevelt is about to become
member of the Kansas City Star special
staff. This vindcates our ng-cherished
conviction as we have watched his up
ward progress from the New York legis-
lature to the police commissonership Of
New York city, thence to the colonelcy of
the Rough Riders, thence to the presden-
cy of the United States and thence to the
proud title of newspaper man. that Theo>
dore was bound to amount to something
Onward and upward has ever been his
motto-Ma nchester Union.
Seems to be only one more step this
side the Great Divide.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

Of the Governor and hold him respon-
sible for the conduct OF officials under
him in carrying out the desire OF the
people as expressed in the laws enacted.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
W. C. r. u. SUFFRAGE Flying Squadron.

If any man in Maine thinks the
women of Maine do not care to vote.
he had better take his six cylinder,
and keep along with one of the Fly
ing Squadron Of the Maine ". =. T.
U.-out for votes. We oeheVe one
day would convince him that the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

women Of Maine are profoundly earn
est in this matter. Even the CON
sentative women of the w. Z. 1. L.
are flying around some.
The trip for the Lincoln County ".
c. T. U. Flying Squadron was ar
ranged by the County President, Mrs.
EVE NJ. Studley. of Medomak'
The squadron consisted OF Mr.
and Mrs. e. NJ. Lawrence. the
Misses Lawrence, home on their col
lege vacation, and E. NJ Lawrence
Jr, the soldier boy Of this patrlotic
family. The squadron spoke at Wal
doboro at eleven o'clock, TUESDAY
August q, Damariscotta Mills, ESQ;
Damariscotta, $50 and in the evening.
then Wednesday. August 22d, Bristol
Mills, Round Pond. New Haroor,
Thursday, August 2sd, Boothbay Har-
Dor, East Boothbay, Boothbay Cen
ter, wiscasset. Friday, August oath,
Dresden Mills, North Whitefield,
Cooper's Mills, Jefferson. This same
squadron has made several extended
trips in Knox County. and it is ex-
pected will fly through Waldo County
the final week of the campaign.
A squadron under the direction of
Mrs Nellie f. Fellows. County Pres
ident has made several trips into the
rural parts Of Auburn. Minot and Po-
land They plan to visit the southern
part Of Androscoggin County this
week with Miss Walker as the speak
er. In the northern part of the
county, on Wednesday, September 5,
the Quimbv Squadron will take in
Chase's Mills. Hebron, South Paris,
Norway, returning by the way OF
Euckfield. On Friday this same
squadron will speak at Turner Village,
at $50 A. NJ. Mrs. Quimby and Miss
Walker speakers, Miss Marion War
rem, Of Auburn. cornetist. Livermore,
$50, North Livermore, 10.45. Livermore
Falls, 1900 Chisholms, 800 East Liv-
ermore, 4.15, North Leeds, AS. Leeds
Center, SIS. Turner Center, 500 All
souadrons distribute literature
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Mars Vote Of Confidence.

Dear Journal:
The greatest compliment man
can pay his wife is by going to the
polls and voting for equal suffrage.
am proud that my old paper
t!l-e paper CT Luther Severance,
John L. Stevens, and James 6.
Blaine-continues to be on the
right side of every leading question.
Yours for success.
HOWARD OWEN.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
WHY He Didn't Save

DO you save your money
mister. il / saved my money Ia
have to cheat the grocer and the coal
man."-Detroit Free Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Thursday, September 6, 1917.

Recipe for success; subdue your
self-devote yourself.-Elbert Hub
bard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

With live hogs selling at over SIS a
hundred for most people it becomes a
case of THE Ham What Am Not
Biddeford Record.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES
,<ENNEBEC LINE

NENNEbGS LIVE
Leave Gardiner 34J z. NJ. Dresden 4.oo
p NJ Bath $50 7. NJ, Tuesdays, Ahurs-
DAYS and sundays for Boston.
Return-Leave Boston s F. NJ Mondays
and Wednesdays $50 Z. NJ, SatuTuays loi
Bath, Gardiner and intermediary lahuIilsS,
on FRIDAYS leave Boston r. NJ. Tor bath
only. returning Saturdays about a. NJ.
landings made at Popham beach
weather permitting, ana at hicii'iioi'O'
Bath AND BooTHBAY LINE
1a,ya Path $40 A. NJ. Tuesdays. Thurs
DAYS. saturdays and Sundays for CHRIST
u.s. cove and intermediate landings
Leave A. NJ. and p NJ. week days oniy
for Boothbay Harbor and irtermedlate
Return--.eave Christmas Cove Las P.
NJ. Boothbay Harbor F. NJ, Iuesoays,
Thursdays and Sundays for Batn ana
Cove Cove Loo a. NJ, Boothbay Harborr 800 p
n Saturdays only for Bath and inter
,,nediate landings. Leave Boothbay Har-
Dor x. NJ. and 1880 2. NJ: week days
only for BATH and intermeaia.e ia.iu.hsS'
BOSTON G. PORTLAND LINE
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland Week
Return leave Central Wharf, Boston,
Week Days a p. Nj.
Day trip leaves Portland Tuesdays,
Thursdays and ~aturdays at a. NJ due
METROPOLITAN LINE
Direct between Boston and New York
via Cape Cod Canal.
Leave North Side India Wharf every
day at 6. p. NJ, due 7.3o A. M
Same service returning from Pier IS, n.
r., New York.
MAINE STEAMSHIP LINE
Direct between Portland and New York
Leave Franklin Wharf, Portland. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays at $50 F.
NJ. Leave New York, Pier 10 y. r, CT
same days at 5. ?. NJ.
M. a. HARADEN. Supt., Bath.
H. A. CLAY. Su t., Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Light and Airy
What Happened to Mary

Mary had little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
It followed her to Smokytown
And now just look at it.
Selected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
The World War a Year Ago
T0day-Sept, 6.

Germans repulsed at Fleury,
verdun. French advanced south
Of the Somme to the outskirts Of
Chaulnes.
German airships bombarded
Constanza, Roumania.
Two Years Ago Today.
Forty French airships bonn
barded Saarbrucken, Prussia, in
reprisal for bombardment Of
Luneville.
Three Years Ago Today.
Won Kluck's army repulsed be-
fore Paris.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
"'Got any scars on your" asked the

mo said the recruit. but you'n
find some cigaroots in my coat pocket,
doc. st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Name GOSSIP
A Som That Reverberates

These lines were written in response to
President Abraham Lincoln's call for vol
unteers for three years service, issued
July 2 1852 (The author Is unknown
We are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more,
From Mississippi's winding Stream and
from New England's shore;
We leave our ploughs and workshops, our
wives and children dear.
With hearts too full for utterance. with
but a silent tear;
We dare not look behind US, but stead
lastly before
We are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more.
If you look across the hilltops that meet
the northern sky
Long, moving lines of rising dust your
vision may descry;
And now the wind an instant tears the
cloudy veil aside
And floats aloft our spangled flag In
glory and in pride,
And bayonets in the sunlight CLEAN and
bands brave music pour
We are coming, Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more!
II you look up all our valleys where the
growing harvests shine
You may see our sturdy farmer boys fast
forming into line
And children from their mothers knees
are pulling at the weeds
And learning how to reap and SOW
against their country's needs,
And a farewell group stands weeping at
every cottage door
We are coming. Father Abraham, three
hundred thousand more!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
OF the Track

Vance Mccormick in the course of a
political argument once said:
."Oh, you miss my meaning. You
are as far off the track as the recruit
who was being examined by the sur
geon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

Bucksport had a rather peculiar ca
lamity last week, which gave the dock
facilities Of the old port something Of
setback. A huge steel barge. loaded
with fertilizer, came to be discharged
at the storehouses there. The barge
grounded at low water and heeled of
slightly, being so heavy that 1t took
the most Of the wharf with 1t, leaving
much Of a wrecked dock. The barge
had to be lowed to Searsport to dis
charge and Bucksport stevedores lost
big Job.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
METROPOLITAN LINE

Direct between Boston and New York
via Cape Cod Canal.
Leave North Side India Wharf every
day at G. p. NJ, due 7.30 A. NJ.
Same service returning from Pier IS, \
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06
Augusta Lodge Directory
TRINITY COMMANDERY No ~

HN't&iH ~0"h"aHNIENI NO. Z, < T.
Stated conclave at Masonic Temnla =.
Friday evening, Sept. q. 1917, at IN u
vited to attend. IL
EN-. GEO. z. DIXON. &c
Sir GEO. H. BANGS. Re- ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-06

Portland Rotarians have invited
Donald B. Macmillan, the Arctic ex-
plorer just returned from four years
in the north. to be their guest and he
has consented to come at some later
date. The club has voted unanimously
to present to the First Maine Heavy
Artillery (Milliken Regiment) now IN
camp in Westf1eld, Mass, silk regi-
mental American flag to be the official
flag Of the regiment.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-27
RAILROAD MEN TO
CONTINUED from page one)

control would ruin the thousands OF
stockholders throughout the nation.
Placing of Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo in complete charge as die
tator has co-ordinated completely the
task of mobilizing the financial re-
sources of the United States without
danger.
Mr.. McAdoo has made a complete
success up to the present of the fl
nancing of the war. Now he will
dovetail this work with national rail
road financing. Prior to assuming his
duties as secretary of the treasury Mr..
McAdoo had plenty of practical rail
road experience.
And he will also have the assist
ance in his new task OF John Shelton
Williams, comptroller of the currency,
who himself had been expected to be
named for the post up until last night.
Mr. McAdoo will outline his plans
very shortly. AS has already been
pointed out in these dispatches he
will utilize to the fullest extent the
present personnel of the railroads. The
committee of operating vice presidents
who have accomplished great things
in the last three weeks in untangling
the congestion that had resulted from
the indiscriminate use by all govern
ment departments OF priority orders
will remain on the job. And for the
first time these men will have a free
hand to utilize all equipment every
where and to run the roads as a single
unit
The most significant statement in
cluded by the president in the official
announcement accompanying the TAX
ing over of the roads was that in
which he outlined his congressional
program as follows:
Immediately upon the re-assemb-
ling of congress l shall recommend
that these definite guarantees be Civ
en-: First, of course, that the railway
property will be maintained during the
period of federal control in as good re-
pair and as complete equipment as
when taken over by the government
and second, that the reads shall re-
ceive net operating income equal in
/ each case to the average net income
of the three years preceding June 30
1917, and l am entirely confident thai
the congress will be disposed in this
case, as in others, to see that justice
is done and full security assured to the
owners and creditors of the great sys
e TENS which the government must nov
t use under it's own direction or els'
a suffer serious embarrassment"
Senators and representatives WHIT
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-27

would talk at all approved the presi-
dents statement. They expressed the
belief that there will be very little
opposition from the roads. Some of
the latter can be expected to object
but they have all along insisted that
it would be a mistake for the govern
ment to take the roads over. But the
majority will be well satisfied mas
much as the average on earnings to
be guaranteed takes in the fat year
of 1916 to offset leanness of 1914 and
part of the present year. The rail-
roads of the nation under the presi-
dents plan will be guaranteed some
$947 ,267 All according to officials of
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-27

Wins HOOsier Range-Jewel Schwin
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. l.. l.. Schwin
OF this city, was the lucky little lady
who was fortunate enough to win the
baby Range Eternal given away by
the Hoosier Furniture company for
Christmas, to the girl guessing near
est the correct number of beans in
the bottle which has been on exhibi-
ton at their Shoshone street store. Al
ten O'Clock Monday morning II. b
Lue opened the bottle and counted
GA beans Little Miss Schwin's guess
was $50, while the next nearest num-
Der was 625.