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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
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Cereals

Whent.-The announcement that the
Food Administration would fix the
price of wheat on September l, thus re-
moving the suspense which has been
hanging over the market for some
weeks, attracted a good deal Of COM
ment. and, on the idea that the price
would be over 81. September contracts
were traded in At S2lO, or 5 cents above
the previous night. The trade Will be
glad 70 have this question settled, as a
good deal Of business is now being held
Up awaiting government action.
The Northwest crop was being har-
vested under favorable conditions and
there was improvement noted also in
European crop conditions. One OF the
Chicago houses issued review of the
situation. in which it was said that
North America, Argentina, Australia
and India will have 575.O00.000 bushels
OF wheat. 25.O0O,O0O Of rye, 100000 900
of oats, 40OOOO,O00 Of corn and 50,000,-
600 Of barley for export, and that even
these figures may be increased through
economies.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-22
Orchard and Field

Yesterday. A year age.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
COMING EVENTS

Nov. 21-Municipal election. Gardiner.
Nov. Ex-Governor and Council monthly
meeting at 4. Augusta.
Nov. 29-Tharksgiving day.
Nov. S0-Deering High school Alumni
Association, annual meeting. at 7.3O.
Dec. 3-City election, Portland.
Dec. 4-Superior Court, Cumberla nd
county, Portland.
Dec. 4-S-Maine Live Stock Breeders'
and Dairymens Associations, Newport.
Dec. 5-AndroscogCin Pomona, South
Lewiston.
Dec. 10-City election, Westbrook.
Dec. 1l-Supreme court, law term. An.
gusta.
Dec. 11-united States District court,
Portland.
Dec. 1l-14Maine State Poultry AssocIa
ton, Portland
Dec. 12-Public Utilities Commission
hearing on complaint of William Gilmore
ct ais We. Cumberland County p a. l.. Co
regarding Westbrook car service. at court
house. Portland.
Dec. 12-Publc Utilities Commission
hearing on complaint of r. NJ. Lewsen ct
ais VS.. Cumberland County p. & L. Co.
regarding Cape Elizabeth car fares, court
house, Portland.
Dec. 12-Municipal election Auburn.
Dec 1S-2O-Maine State Grange, Lewis.
ton.
Dec. 1s-cSFreeport Poultry Association,
Freeport.
Dec. 19-21-State contest for Boys and
Girls Clubs, Orono.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
ICEBORO

Fred Blake of Waterville was bust
ness caller in town Saturday.
Charles Millett went to Waterville Mon
day, where he has employment.
L. i. Robertson returned to Portland
Monday, after passing the weekend with
hin family.
Antes Dearborn passed the weekend
with his family.
Mrs. George Holmes has returned from
a visit with her mother at Cedar Grove.
Mrs. Frank Yeaton and Mrs. Irving
Hodgdon went to Lynn. Mass, Monday
called there by the serious illness of Mrs
Bates Litch.
Mrs. Ethel Brown OF Gardiner and Mr.
and Mrs. Austin Brown OF Aroostook
county, were calling on relatives In town
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs F. W. Farley OF Larone
were recent visitors in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Brown went to
Portland on business Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
SOLON

Mr.. and Mrs. W. Z. French OF Lake.
WOOD were guests over Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday at the home of their son. N
l.. French.
Mrs Julia Nittum returned Monday
from several weeks stay in Portland.
where she has been visiting and having
her eyes treated
John Mahoney is laying a pipe from the
brook to his house which will furnish soft
water for household purposes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Cross and son
Kendall and Mrs. Aston Rowell were in
Skowhegan Monday making the trip in
Mr.. Cross car.
Mrs. Sidney Baker remains in a very
critical condition.
There was no preaching at the Congre-
gational church last Sunday. Rev. Mr..
HIATT was on his way from, Bingham to
Scion and his horse was disabled SO he
could not proceed. 1t is expected there
will be services next Sunday.
Raymond II. Pierce, Y. NJ. c. A. score
tary from Massa chusetts, Secretary
Cover, Carlton Merrill and Leslie Cold
smith OF Skowhegan, were in town. Sun
day afternoon in the interest Of the T.
NJ. c. A. war fund. Mr.. Cover made a
few remarks and Mr. Pierce explained the
work in very interesting manner The
meeting was held in them. E. churci, at
8 P. NJ. canvass is being made Of the
town to raise funds for this work
Mrs Isabel McCiintock has gone down
river to pass the winter with her daugh-
ter.
The Ladies' Aid OF the NJ. r. church
will hold a fair Friday, Nov. o.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
The Duty That Confronts Us.

From a Skowhegan friend comes
clipping from the National Tribune,
Years of War Likely" and from Bos-
ton we are urged to publish portion
Of an editorial from last Sunday S
Springfield Republican on Dodgers
and Slackers." Each adds to the VOL
ume of best thought at critical hour
in the nations affairs. Blended they
emphasize need and duty OF the
American people-every last citizen of
this great country. Read:
National Tribune)
\ survey of the whole theater of
war in the light of the collapse of
Russia and the crushing Italian defeat
makes it appear more and more that
the brunt of the final struggle for
world supremacy is going to fall on
the United States.
Distastcrul as the fact appears, it
nevertheless must not be bllnked that
the Germans are practically holding
the British and the French on the
Western front, despite the definite
and daily gains made by the sledge-
hammer blows of Haig and Petain,
and are whipping the remainder Of
Europe in detail. 1t is better not to
deceive ourselves regarding the true
situation. and it would he foolish to
believe things as we wish them rather
than as they actually are.
IL is going to be the most gigantic
task in military history to whip the
Tcutons on land. But the United
States can do it with the aid of the
British and French though it may
take years and five or six million
Americans on the battlefield of Europe.
Therefore, every loyal American
should look the facts squarely in the
face and make up his mind to back
up his country TO the last dollar, the
last man and the last cartridge.
We have got to win this war or
there won't he an American Republic
when it is over. We must whip Ger
many or a Prussian Governor General
may he sitting in the White House.
This sounds improbable, but who
doubts that if Germany does win she
would hesitate moment to overrun
the United States? The people gen.
orally are not waking up to the terri
ble significance of this struggle, and
it is time they were. We must organ
re down to the last pin point, and if
we do this. with the man power and
the money power and the invincible
spirit of our people we are certain in
the end TO triumph gloriously. Every
body must help. everybody must do
his bit and, above all. we must steel
our determination to "carry on" to
the bitter end. no matter what the
cost in blood and treasure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
BATH RESTAURANT
MAN HAS GONE

Bath Ale Nov. 21-The restaurant
at 1874 Front street has been closed by
the employees owing to the absence of
the proprietor, Frank Morrill,. who
went away one week ago Monday and
who has not since been heard FROM.
Monday. Mrs. Ada Butterfeld went to
the establishment where she emptied
all food that had spoiled since the
restaurant was closed on Saturday,
washed up all soiled dishes and made
arrangements for depositing small
amount OF money that had been taken
during Mr. Morrills absence in a local
bank to his credit.
Morrill, had been running the res
talrant for some time and it is said
had built up a good trade and was
doing q good business He is be-
lieved to have gone to Boston last
Tuesday and returned as far as Port
land on Thursday when all trace of
him vanished Those best acquainted
with him fear that foul play may be
the cause of his prolonged absence as
he IS said to have had quite a sum of
money on his person when he went
away. 1t is said that, he was prompt
in settling accounts and it is believed
his financial affairs will be found
straight. Monday Acting Marsha
Place was in communication with
chief keegan Of the Lewiston police
in an effort to locate Morrill, through
an establishment where the restaurant
man has done considerable trading.
Morrill, is described as about five
feet. six inches tall, about So years
Old, has black moustache, wears
thick eyeglasses and when last seen
was wearing a green hat but no des-
cription of his clothing can be given.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
And then:
(Springheld Republican,

There are some among us who fail
to see and seize the opportunity for
national and world service that stirs
and inspires most of us to do all we
can for the government and the flag.
Money Is wanted and these men have
IT. The Liberty Loan campaigns and
the appeals for the Red Cross and the
Red Triangle affect these men SEEM
ingly merely as an irritation, when
they dole out a meager contribution, or
even refuse any response.
"Other men are giving their sons,
but the spectacle of great armies Of
their fellow-citizens coming to the
colors stirs these men as little as
might a parade of Sunday-school chill
dren In times Of soft ease. They have
accumulations of money. but regard
them as their own. something earned
by them and sacred to themselves.
Blind and deaf to the call of patriot
ism. they so about their own petty
businessmen their country's and the
Master's-as if life were normal and
civilization not threatened as if this
were a time Of money making and the
carnering of the good things of life,
ana not one lot tne SdCfl1C O-uIC ana
fortune. if the nation calls for them.
"In inspiring contrast are the men
and women who give up to the limit of
their means, and are adding their
time without stint to help make sue
cessful every appeal for the more ade-
puate prosecution of the war in behalf
OF liberty. This is their country, and
its peril reaches the depths of their
being. To he siothful in her service
in such crisis is to them unthink-
able.
This is testing time for the
United States. just as the period of the
civil War was for the citizenship Of
that time. older readers will remem-
her how the people of their vicinage
went up or down in the estimation of
their fellows as they responded to the
call OF country, or were evasive of it.
Honor. love obedience, troops of
friends went not to those who failed
in the discharge of patriotic obliga-
ton. Nor will they now. but lasting
contempt, voiced and unvoiced. Put
against greatness of soul and willing
ness to spend and be spent In the
service Of country and humanity
qualities everyone of us can display
and how bright the contrast between
worker and Stacker, the man and the
victim Of greed. whose soul has be-
como submerged in the slough of self
ishness.
1T does not seem TO occur to the
slackers with plenty of money to give
that they are being weighed and listed
calling on its true citizenship. and the
record is being made up. else for
shame's sake they might better their
record. But whoever holds back, the
republic must be made mighty to
swing the world conflict to a peace
worth having and living under. and
the people will see to it. He who is
not for the country is against it, and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
CAMBRIDGE

Mrs. Fred Ring, who was injured in an
automobile accident Thursday, Is suffer.
ing terribly from burns caused by being
soaked in gasoline when the auto over
turned. 1t was about one hour before she
could have medical attendance.
Mrs. G. L. Wilder was guest Sunday
at NJ. A. RandaIrs, Ripley
Mrs. Julia Gould has been passing a few
days in Dexter with friends
Mrs z. H. Hargill returned home Mon
day from Dexter, after visiting friends
for a week.
Mrs. May Leavitt Of Harmony Is caring
for Mrs F. p. Ring
Mrs. Stanley Mower has been on a visit
recently to relatives In Greenville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
RIPLEY

There was a good many at the Grange
Saturday evening and the box social was
a great success.
Nell Randall shot a deer in the back
field of his farm that weighed 23s dressed
John Weber and Charles Ellnes have
gone to Moose Pond to work in the woods
Schools closed Friday for a weeks va
cation.
Nat Vining OF ST. Adams Is visiting his
grandfather, Charles Hanson.
Mr. and Mrs. y. F. Woodcock are NOV.
ing their goods to Dexter this week.
Charles Roberts was recently in town
on business.
Almon Hemenway had toe amputated
Monday and is as comfortable as can be
expected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Locate Lost Auto

1t took the Portland police Monday but
three hours to locate a roadster which
had been stolen in Boston and for which
the Boston police department were look
ing for. A telegram was received at the
Portland police station during the early
hours of the evening. bearing the number
of the motor of the automobile With
ever on the Job" as the slogan. the
search was started and in less than three
hours the car had been located and the
story OF how it got there had been told
to Chief Bowen. A local business man
had bought the car and in turn sold it to
LADY very prominent in this city. The
machine had been in a garage for repairs
and from this medium the police got
their clue which lead to the finding
The automobile is owned by c. H. Bryant
Of Boston and Is 1917 model.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
kingsbur Middleton

george middleton, an iron worker
anu MISS Ance klngsbury, both OF
i'a'H' were united IN marriage Mon
u"S evening AT by Rev. Samuel
A. Evans of Peoples Baptist church
at the parsonage, 120 North street
Inc single ring service was performed
ana the attendants We're Airline Kings
bury and Robert f. kingsbury, sister
ana brother Of the bride. The groom
is son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Mid
dleton, fftchburg, Mass, and his bride
the daughter Of Alex kingsbury. Mr.
ana Mrs. Middleton will reside in
Bath.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Basketball League

There will probably be basketball
league in this section Of Maine this
season and a meeting will be held in
Brunswick soon to perfect an organi-
cation. Portland is to be represented
by professional team and with Lew
Iston. Auburn. Sanford, Brunswick.
Augusta and Bath teams in the league
some fast basketball may be expected
but there is very little interest in the
game here as yet.-Bath Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Mrs. n. m. Fields

Mrs. n. M. Fields
Mrs. Hope NJ. Fields, aged rs
years, wife of William II. Fields of IS
Maple street. Bath, died Tuesday
morning after a long illness Mrs.
Fields was a native of Bath, daughter
of Charles r. and Clarissa Clifford, and
had lived there all her life. She was
a most estimable woman who was
known and beloved by large circle
of friends who will mourn her loss.
She and Mr.. Fields were married on
January %, 1862. celebrating their 55th
anniversary last winter in an informal
manner when several of their friends
called upon them at their home. Be
sides her husband Mrs. Fields is sur
vived by one. son, DR.. Charles 5. Fields.
at home.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
The Retort.

1.-TWO wrongs don't make a right
And
A senator was discussing the food
control bill.
"While the bill has its drawbacks
he went on, there would be worse
drawbacks without it, and SO we can
face our opponents like the lady.
My love- her husband said to
this lady, you spend all your money
getting your palm read
She smiled sweetly.
And you, dear she retorted
spend all yours getting your nose
red.'"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Ahead Of Him.

Mr.. Gotcoin-Now. Willie, when your
sister comes down and is comfortably
seated on the couch with me I want
you to tiptoe in softly and turn the
gas down low. Will you?
Wlllie-You're too late. Sister told
me to come in and turn it out.-Stray
Stories
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
A Hotel Experience.

Inere are two classes of arrivals
who ask you to register for Them" said
MOTEL clerk yesterday. "One is the
woman with tight gloves who really
cannot write. The other is the men
who arrive after IL p NJ. and who
say; Just register (hic). old man, will
you! Been carrying this grip and M
hands so nervous ! couldn't hold q
pen. New York Sun.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

record in the hearts of his fellows"
And now let us add an excerpt from
letter from a boy in the American
Field Service in France:
Speaking Of country, Of course Ma
ture still does its work and we see
grass and trees, but you should see
what the Boches have done to the
towns. 1t is terrible beyond descrip-
ton. Every home. barn, building,
church, and everything is ruined.
They did not leave four walls and a
roof anywhere. Imagine a few million
men starting out from Boston and
completely destroying everything from
there to Portland and down to New
York, and out to Worcester. even to
poisoning the water and killing fruit
trees. That will give you an idea OF
what the Germans have done and that
they would do the same thing in the
above-named territory if they could
get the chance. That's one reason
why the people back home should wake
up and everybody, man and woman, do
all they possibly can and do without
all they can, in order to help out.
AS 1 see things, this talk of
the war being over soon and Germany
being all in. etc. is a FOOLS dream.
hope | am wrong but will gamble
much that l am not"
We cannot restrain our hopes but
the more we let common sense out
weigh our hopes and prepare for the
worst, the sooner our hopes will be
realized. We may be confident that
the central powers will collapse within
the week, but let us act precisely as if
we knew they would hold out FIVE
days.
John Lloyd Balderston. in a copy
righted article published by the Phila-
delphia Press, declares that famine.
dystenry and other diseases that go
along with under nourishment. are
forcing Germany to seek peace on al
most any terms this winter: that the
people are dying by thousands. many
of them Of actual starvation; that the
soldiers are fed better and will last
longer; that even should peace come
at once no power could rescue untold
thousands from their fate; that the
policy of destruction on the part of the
German war machine has rendered
early aid impossible from any source
the devastated contiguous territory
and crippled transportation on land
and sea. He says the crops in Ger
many and in all her allied countries
are little more than one-h half the nor
NAL, and Germany will collapse sud-
denly at almost any time. And he
closes with:
Germany is not the only country
which has food difficulties, where the
strain of war is felt more terribly than
Americans can conceive. Germany is
hanging on in the despairing hope that
one or more of the allies may crack
hrst. The slightest slackening Of effort
on the part of any one of the allies
especially on the part of the United
states. would inevitably encourage the
rulers OF Prussia to dragon their peo-
pie into holding out even if half die
in the process. The way to shorten the
war is to go on getting ready on the
assumption that it will last forever
then. when the Germans realize that
the strain is not weakening the allies
as much as it is telling on themselves,
the war may end with sudden and
dramatic surrender"
Let us hope for an end at hand. but
work as though Balderston's figures
were a pleasant dream.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Capt. MossIer Dies

capt. Charles X. Mossler, 80, unmarried.
died Monday OF pneumonia. He had re-
Gently arrived at an Atlantic port from
Portugal his first trip under his masters
papers, having for the past five years
sailed as mate ON foreign voyages. He
was a native of Orrington, a son of Cant
John Mossler a well known master mari
ner. and was for some time q watch.
maker in Bangor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
VASSALBORO

EAST-Bert Higgins of this town shot
one of the largest buck deer ever shot
here Nov. II, weighing 800 pounds. having
IA points.
Charles l.. Barker and Charles Clark
also shot very fine doe weighing 10
pounds Nov. 20.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
Lost Days.

You used to say" she complained
that you counted that day lost when
you did not hear the sound of nv
voice.
Yes | know he replied, land I
snail never cease to long for those dear
lost days.'-Chicago Record Herald.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

Lloyd George demands rush troops.
enormous tonnage of shipping, and vast
stores Of supplies. He shall have them,
but the Atlantic is quite some puddle
to step over, in spite Of modern eff
cheney.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

With famine confronting Russia she
cannot be Of great service to the cen.
trail powers for some time to come.
and her services to the allies have
been Of negligible quantity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

We fail to see hope Of benefit to any
body in separate peace" by Russia
She should first make peace with her
self.
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Lewiston Lad Hurt

Adelard Mason. 'l6, son Of ]. y. Mas.
son of Lewiston. was badly hurt while
duck hunting at Sabattus. Sunday morn.
ing A shot gun which he held was dis.
charged when the trigger came in con-
tact with the boat, and the charge en-
tered his upper right arm. Though SUI
ering greatly from loss OF blood the
young man was able to come to the city
later in the day and is now being treated
ut ste. Marie's General Hospital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
BELGRADE

Miss Florence White. teacher of the
Adams school, passed the weekend with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William White.
William White, who il employed by c.
r. 1illson' Belgrade Lakes. passed the
weekend with his family, returning to
work Monday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

Field Marshal Haig is collecting on
the German drive into Italy. Bulletins
from the west front look good to
Americans.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22

Germans are rushing big guns to
Flanders and the British are blowing
'em to flinders.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-22
One Of the Old School

Il suppose You want rubber tires?"
said the carriage man TO parsimoni-
Gus old fellow who was inspecting sew
eral vehicles with a view to buying
one. NO, sir" said the old man. my
folks amt that kind. When they're
ridin' they want to know it."-Life.
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Animal Babies.

The little lambs grow<into sheep,
=. The kittens grow to cats;
The mother hens once were peeps,
But rats were always rats.