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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
TROY.

Miss Edith Estes is enjoying new
piano.
Roderick Coffin has had the misfortune
to lose nice cow.
The wedding reception of Mr.. and Mrs
Rosendal Gerry has been indefinitely
postponed.
Mrs. Annie Higgins and son are visit
ing in Hartford, Conn.
Mrs. Mary Parkhurst of Albion has
been the guest of Mrs. Reuben Rhoades.
Miss Sadie Gowen has returned from
her lecturing tour of several weeks in
Rhode Island.
The Sunshine Society had a pleasant
meeting in the hospitable home of Mrs.
T. W. Halves, Nov. 18th. The next
meeting will be with Mrs. John Smith.
The Troy branch of the Red Cross has
made their second shipment of goods
consisting of Is comfort pillows, 9 pairs
socks, pairs of wristlets, helmets.
sweaters, IL comfort kits and 20 Christ
mas packages. The North Troy Reading
Club contributed 20 books and Mrs. w
b. Ferguson box of cigars. Meetings
will be held in the Grange Hall every
other Saturday. At the next meeting,
Dec. list, more comfort pillows will be
made and all are requested to bring their
Sharpest shears.
MIR, and Mrs. Walter E. Halves who
nave been visiting relatives at the Cen
ter have returned to their home in Chel-
sea, Mass. Mr. Halves is one of our Troy
boys who has made good and of whom
Troy is Justly proud. The following
sketch from a Lynn newspaper will in
I 'erest ms many friends here: SIN giving
the history of old employees, there is one
man IN the Lynn Division who, although
he does not wear a uniform has worked
continuously for the company for over
torty-four years. His name is Walter E.
Hawes, Receiver at the Lynn Cashiers
Office. Mr.. Halves entered the emplov
OF the Lynn & Boston r. r. in April 1879
tnder Superintendent Stephen Green of
he Chelsea Division and Foreman Fenno
OF the Washington avenue stables. At
this time the main office was in
Chelsea, Mass, and all money COL
lected was sent there to be counted
i When the general offices were opened
IN Lynn, Mr.. Halves came to Lynn as Re-
celver under Mr.. Palfrey, General Audi
tor. Mr.. HAYES says he has counted mill
lions of dollars in his forty-four years
service and expects to count good many
more Millions"
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
Architects Go to France

1t Is gratifying to learn that many
architects have responded to the call
of the signal corps of the war depart
ment for volunteers from the profess
sion to go to France and assist in the
construction of aviation camps there,
says an exchange.
These men enter the national service
as first lieutenants, as so many men,
bers of other American professions
nave done. They will provide the gov
eminent with expert aid in the carry
Ing out of task which promises to
rank among the most important of the
war. The entente campaign in the air
will be vastly increased next year If
present plans hold. The number of
machines to be put into service is ex-
pected to reach far into the thousands.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
BEGINNING OF man
Origin Is Retreating More and
More Into the Past.
Topic Still Absorbs Interest Of Anthro.
biologists and Other Scientists, Each
Discovery Renewing Discussion.

The antiquity of man is still an alb
sorbing topic among anthropologists
and other scientists, and fresh discus
sions arise with each new discovery
of ancient human remains. In this
connection, it is interesting to note,
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
that DR.. Arthur Keith of Edinburgh,
an authority on the subject. believes
that the living Australian aborigine
is of an older type than any of the
fossil remains of modern man found
in Europe. The New York Medical
Journal says:
''The date of the origin of the hui
man species, by each new discovery
of missing chapters in its history, is
shifted to more and more remote
time. The Neanderthal skull, which,
by it's prominent supraorbital ridges.
downward, seemed to link man close
ly, if loosely, to the higher apes, still
had brain capacity quite equal to
that of the average modern man, and
on this account pointed to still more
remote beginning of the human being.
The brain of the Neanderthal man was
not only large but elaborate, and, as
shown by the remains of his culture,
he possessed fire and made flint imple-
ments. Though ancient, he was any
thing but an ape.
'The Heidelberg skull, which resem-
bled the Neanderthal remains but was
still more markedly simian in general
features, had also a capacious brain
case and is believed to have belonged
to a creature with comparatively high
mental development. The Neanderthal
man is placed some 100000 years back,
while the Heidelberg skull is presumed
to date to a doubly remote time.
"The prehistoric remains found by
Doctor Dubois in Java, the bones of
Pithecanthropus, as he has been called,
We're of decidedly earlier geological
date, as indicated both by their sur
roundings and by their own features;
the brain case was small and the era
NAL traits were otherwise more ape
like than those of any other known re-
mains. 'All the structural characters
of Pithecanthropus, so far as we know
them, are exactly of the kind we ex-
pect to find in the early ancestral types
of man. The unearthing of the Java
man pushed the date for the origin of
the human type backward another
period of a few hundred thousand
years, or into the Miocene epoch OF
geological time.
The chain linking modern man di'
rectly with an early type similar to
the gorilla or chimpanzee seemed to be
growing strong until, in 1912, the
bones of an ancient man of another
type were discovered in England in
the Piltdown cave. This, according to
DR.. Arthur Keith, who is as great an
authority as can be found, is the old
est specimen of true humanity yet dis
covered The brain of this being was.
In size, at least, up to the modern
standard but otherwise the bones are
the most simian recorded
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
KEEP THE FARMER WELL" $40.
GAN.

''keep the Farmer Well' is one of the
slogans of the United States Public
Health Service. 1t has likewise been
adopted by the State Department of
Health in Augusta The health of the
farmer today means not only an increase
in the comfort and the efficiency of the
population of Maine, but also the adop-
ton of a mighty weapon in Americas
war for Democracy
The supreme need of the nation for the
coming months is an abundance of food
stuffs. After this immediate demand is
met, the supreme need will be men and
women who can efficiently organize the
country's resources In their respective
localities and who can produce more and
more foodstuffs This will require men
and women who are physically well and
able to meet the situation. 1t calls for
men and women who are protected from
disease, who have learned the rules of
health, who know that prevention is bet
ter than cure. keep the Farmer WelP'
is an admirable slogan at any time. To-
day it represents national necessity and
an opportunity for Maine.
A statement comes from DR.. L. D.
Bristol, health commissioner for Maine,
to the effect that the country population
is to be one of the great interests of the
State Department of Health The prev
alehce of smallpox in many parts of the
State will naturally become a starting
point for needed improvements 1t is a
plan of the State Department of Health
to organize rural districts for the elimi-
nation SO far as possible not only of
smallpox but of typhoid and diphtheria
and all other contagious diseases
DR.. Bristol has pointed out that the
farmer himself has the great responsible
ity in local health work. Farmers or
carnations and rural clubs of all sorts
can accomplish much in protecting their
communities. Individuals, single hand
ed, can work in the interests of the
health service to good advantage. The
State Department of Health will welcome
every inquiry that comes to it and will
furnish information, suggestions and
other help wherever needed.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
Chestnuts to AidAWar.

British children all over the country
wherever the chestnut tree grows are
gathering horse chestnuts as told in
the Christian Science Monitor. It is
their particular contribution to the
winning of the war, for ripe horse
rhestnuts have been discovered to pro-
vide good substitute for the grain
which Is used in the making of NUM-
lions. 1t will be quite valuable serv-
Ice, for the computation is that every
ton of chestnuts will save half ton
Of grain. The gathering is organized
by committees in connection with the
schools, and woods and lanes see
bands of young patriots enjoying their
war work" hugely.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
STOMACH DEAD
MAN STILL LIVES.

People who suffer from sour stomach,
fsrmentation of food, distress after eating
nd indigestion; and seek relief in large
.4unks of artificial digestors, are killing
.-slr stomachs by inaction just as surely
the victim of morphine is deadenine
and lnjuring beyond repair every nerve
d As body.
What the stomach of every sufferer
...rl Indigestion needs is good prescrlp-
.n that will build up his stomach, put
-rngth, energy and elasticity into 1t,
make it sturdy enough to digest
rtv meal without artificial aid.
The best prescription for indigestion
written is sold by druggists every
IRE and by A. A. Howes q co. and is
ily guaranteed to build up the stom-
a and cure Indigestion, or money back.
This prescription is named Mi-o-na,
4 is sold in small tablet form in large
>es, for only few cents. Remember
.s name, Mi-o-na stomach tablets. They
ever fail.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
RUINED CITIES OF FRANCE
Many Of Them Have Taken on q
Character Of Permanently, So End.
less Does War Seem to People.

There is new kind of city on earth
today, strange, nightmare kind of a
city that has taken on for the people
of northern France almost a character
OF permanency, so endless is this war,
People have lived through so much
SHINE August, 1914. that they seem to
themselves to have been always at
war, and, looking forward, they see
nothing but long years of warfare. The
ruined cities such as Arras have be-
come part of the natural order of
things, and the strange life in them has
come to seem natural sort of life.
Towns like this are found by the score
where the SLOW pressure of the allies
is forcing the Prussan back, saws a
war correspondent.
They are the towns that have been
bombarded and bombarded again,
taken and retaken, assaulted and cap
tured, and cannonaded by those who
held them the day before, until it is
marvel that one brick remains on an
other. They are full of ruined houses
and shattered quarters of all degrees
OF destruction, and stranger than all,
they have blocks and sections that by
some miracle escaped
Here is a row of houses that might
De In the far South, 200 miles from the
battle front. The shutters are I'D and
the streets are deserted, as though the
people were late in rising Here is
public square pitted with shellholes,
one side fronted by row Of buildings.
whole save for broken windows, the
other bounded only by shapeless
masses of brick and stone. Here and
there = slow smoke curls upward from
some gnawing fire. A hundred yards
away there may be stubborn family
still occupying it's old home, but no.
body puts out the fire The civilians
are too hopeless and the soldiers are
too busy.
Aid here is house with the front
sliced off by shell and the rooms still
all IN order-a strange spectacle-with
beds and bureaus and chairs and tables
all in order, as though some enterpris-
ing furniture dealer had undertaken
new and ambitious form of window
display. For the most part the noblest
buildings, the churches and public halls
and the lowered relics of the Gothic
period are gone-they furnish too easy
mark for the rangefinder. And ever
ana again a dull crash tells of another
smell carrying on the barbaruus work.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
DYNAMITE Saves Potatoes,

A resourceful farmer found a new
way to use dynamite and saved a near
ly matured crop of potatoes in a BADLY
flooded field, says the Scientific Ameri-
can. Usually heavy rains filed all the
neighborhood drains and bitches; in
his emergency the owner put down a
number of holes eight to twelve feet
deep with post auger and exploded
a charge of dynamite in the bottom Of
each. This opened up passages into
the sandy sub-soil, through which the
surplus water drained rapidly, and the
crop was saved, although many nearby
crops were ruined by the excess OF
water standing in the fields.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
PROSPECT FERRY.

Miss Emeline Mcfarland of Brewer has
been guest of Mrs. Gerry Harding.
Mrs. W. H. Hartman and Mrs. w n
CHM recently visited relatives in Rock
land.
Mrs, Percy Harding is confined to the
house with severe cold. She has been
attended by DR.. Foster of Bucksport.
Eugene Barnes and W. d. Hartman
were at home from Stockton Springs to
spend Sunday with their families,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
THE WELL SOLDIERS HOSPITAL.

Edna Ferber, the famous writer of
Emma McChesney stories, has visited a
war camp and acquired new idea of the
Y. M. C. A. and it's purpose and work
She has written "Why Am for the Y.
M. C. A. of which the following is
part:
Up to fifteen minutes ago my knowl-
edge of the Y. M. C. A. was limited to
those familiar posters depicting bare
legged young man attired in the breezy
garment KIN own as track pants. He was
always crouched in a Ready On your
mark! Sell Go! attitude, and it was plain
that he was all ready to run around
something or other. Sometimes that
picture was varied by another showing
the same young man about to dive into
large, lively-looking swimming tank
Oh, yes. One more thing. knew that
the Y Nj. C. A. was substantial, square,
red brick building, rich in windows, and
with printed notices of meetings and
classes tackled up on the door and in the
hallway That's all.
My knowledge has so widened and
broadened and deepened in the last few
minutes that it seems imperative to give
all of it to someone and some of 1T to
everyone. | know now that the Y. M.
! c. A. is going to be one of the biggest
| factors in the winning of this war.
know what a well-known editor of
widely circulated magazine meant when
he said: every cent that | have to give
in this war is going to the Y. M. G. A.
That's where it will do the most good. "
| | know that that young man IN track
/ pants is young man in khaki now, and
that the Y. M. c. A is going to mean
more to him and to you and to this
| country in the next few years than 1t has
ever meant in the past. It's going to
mean books, comfort, welcome, warmth
cheer, help and direction.
Any person who has visited training
camp in the last few weeks knows what
| the Y. NJ c. A. buildings represent to
the soldiers Multiply that by winter
cold, the strangeness of foreign land,
trench hardship and loneliness, and you'll
have the answer to what it's going to
mean to them Over There.
| What the Red Cross is to his wounds,
| the Y. M. C. A. is to his-what's
the word? Spirit? Soul2 Mental and
physical we'll being2 All four thrown in
to one. There is that in the Y M. c. A.
hut to heal his loneliness. 1t sews up
the stitches in the gap made by absent
| family and friends. 1t is refuge, club
, , house, meeting place, a library, a
lounge. He can't smoke in his barracks,
; but he can in the Y, M. C. A. He can
get the new books and the magazines
there, and the newspapers. He can learn
| French there and English, too, which he
needs much worse. It's the well mans
! hospital, is the Y. M. C. A And a
whole country of men and women left
! behind in comparative comfort and ease
j must be made to realize this fact.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
Vermont Increases Food.

The hope that the appeal for the
production of more food might result
In some increase Of wheat-growing in
the East has been justified in Vermont
1t is estimated that $1,000 bushels of
wheat We're grown this year, against
25,OOO bushels last year. The Yer
monters have also done we'll along 9TH
er lines, for theaestimated yield Of
corn, wheat, oats barley and potatoes
in 1917 is 10,69S,00O bushels, compared
with 7,S47,00O bushels in 1916.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
FREE OF CHARGE.

Why suffer with indigestion, dyspepsia,
torpid live, constipation, sour stomach,
when you can get a sample bottle of
Green's August Flower free at VIM. 0.
Poor & Son This medicine has remark
able curative properties, and has demon
strated its efficiency by fifty years of
success. Headaches are often caused by
a diSordered stomach.
August Flower is put up in 25 and rs
cent bottles For sale in all civilized
countries.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-11-29
Maine Central r. r.
BELFAST AND BURNHAM

On and after Oct. l. 1917, trains connecting
at Burnnam and Waterville with through trains
for and from Bangor, Waterville, Portland and
Boston, will run daily, except Sunday as fol-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-06
RED OAK CITIZENS TO TELL STORY OF
VILLISCA MURDER IN OMAHA MEETING
Villisca AK Murders to Be
Discussed in Mass Meeting

One thousand residents of Montgomery county, Iowa,
will come to Omaha Saturday to attend meeting in
Boyd theater at which the bood-curdng Visca ak mur-
der will be discussed
majority of those who will attend the meeting will
travel 100 miles by motor and special train
will be charged that free speech has been denied in
Iowa under an injunction against j. n Wkerson detec-
tive whose four years investigation of the murders cast sus-
pcon on prominent state senator This state senator
said to be using his influence and apparently is backed by
Attorney General Havner to prevent further disclosures
No precedent known for such gathering The audi
ence composed of outraged citizens of state will travel
into another state to hear testimony against their neghbors
because state officials alleged to have lent their influence
to proceedings which make free speech at home impossible
Eight persons cruelty murdered at Vllisca in the
dead of night June 8, 1912 by fend who crushed their
skulls with Joseph Moore and his entire family and
the two Stnger girls who overnight guests at the
Moore home the victims.
No person has been tried for the crime. Rev. Lyn
George Kelly itnerant minister arrested May IA
and now awaits trial in Red Oak murder charge The
father of the murdered girls and sister Of Joe Moore openly
assert Kelly is innocent
Attorney General Havner pushing the prosecution of
Kelly Residents of Visca and Red Oak declare that Hav-
ner was instrumental in obtaining the passage of law by
the last legislature placing ban free speech under which
public disclosures in the murder stopped when they
attempted to hold meeting at Red Oak Havner is
said to have sought to commit Kelly to insane asylum
step which would bar the prosecution of any other person
suspected of the crime
State Senator F. Jones of Visca prosecuted and lost
900 damage suit against Detective Wikerson who will
address the Saturday meeting in Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-06
Big MUDDY |SON
RAMPAGE; town
MAY Be FLOODED
Entire Town of Decatur is
Threatened as River Cuts
Into Banks at Rate of
Fifteen Feet a Day.

The entire town of Decatur, Neb.,
is in danger of being eaten up by the
Missouri river.
The long-continued siege of high
water in the Missouri this spring has
cut 100 feet of the bank away, and
many small shalks and houses have
been abandoned.
The river is still cutting the bank
at he>north edge of the town at the
rate Of fifteen feet day. Pickets
guard the river bank day and night
to be ready to warn anyone whose
residence or whose property it might
become necessary to move during the
night.
The Gallup elevator, a huge grain
elevator, had to be moved few days
ago, and now the river has COM
pletely devoured the site where the
fine elevator formerly stood.
lust Move Old Till.
The historic old mill, one of the
Oldest in the state, a landmark to the
old settlers and early pioneers OF Ne
braska, will probably have to be
moved within the next few days, as
the stream now is cutting danger
ously near its foundations.
The river strikes the northwest
part of the town on its southwLrd
course and then swerves sharply to
the eastward. 1t is on this sharp turn
that it is cutting its bank. The bank
here is about ten feet high. The
swift current undermines the grounl
and the sodded bank falls in with
succession of emendous splashes.
People watching the ravages of the
river and workmen \endeavoring to
save property dare not go nearer than
ten feet from the edge of the bank,
lest ii be so undermined that it will
crumble away and fall in with their
weight.
Many Acres Devoured.
From six to ten acres, it is esti-
mated, have already been devoured by
the Big Muddy.
The unusual ravages of the river
this spring and summer are attributed
to a combination of the heavy and
continuous spring rains, and the June
rise. Ordinarily, the river comes up
a little when the ice goes out. Then
it subsidies, and does not rise again
until the snow water from the noun
tains brings on the annual June rise.
This year, however, the river came
up as usual when the ice went out.
Immediately the heavy rains followed,
unusual rains all up and down the
valley, which caused the
river to leap over its banks, thing
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-06
PART OF CHINESE
ARMY BALKS AT
new MONARCHY
Military Governor Of Chill
Province Sends UItimatum
to Chinese Dictator;
Marking is Capital.

London, July 5.--A dispatch from
Tien Tsin, China, to the Morning
Post says that Tsao Kun, military
governor of Chilli, whose attitude
hitherto has been dubious, has sent
an ultimatum to General Chang Hsun,
who restored the emperor, demanding
that he withdraw from Peking within
twenty-four hours. Tsao Kun is now
mobilizing his forces. His action, it
is considered, will endanger the
chances of the monarchy.
Tuan Chi-Jui, former premier, has
reaccepted that post and is mobiiz-
ing 10000 men in the province of
Shan Tung Hung to march against
the monarchists.
Nine alleged traitors, including
Prince Pu Lun, chairman of the coun-
Gil of state, have been executed by
Chang Hsun.
A dispatch from Shanghai says the
commissioner of Shanghai
and the military governor of the
province of Che-Kiang refused to
recognize the empire.
Dictator Ignores Ultimatum.
Tien Tsin, July 5.-A military
clash in China is imminent. The
troops of Peking are showing signs
of opposition to General Chang
Hsun's dictatorship under the guise
Of monarchy. At the same time
the troops of Tsao Kun, military gov
ernor of the province of Chill, are.
and preparing to proceed
to Peking.
Tsao Kun's action followed an ul-
timatum sent to General Chang Hsun
giving him twenty-four hours to
troops from Peking. Cen
eral Chang Hsun took no notice of
the demand.
A provisional government has been
established at Marking, capital of the
province of King-Su. Baron Feng
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-06
German Commercial Agent
In New York Kills Himself

New York, July 5.-Richard Adam
Timmerscheidt, representative of Ger
man commercial interests in China,
committed suicide here today by
jumping from his rooms on the tenth
floor of bachelor apartment house.
He had first slashed his wrist with
razor blade.
Timmercheidt, who was said to
have been at one time an agent for
the Russia government, took out his
naturalization papers here in Decem-
Der, 1914. He was apparently man
of considerable wealth.
No motive for the suicide has been
ascertained by the police.