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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

The White Cloud Laundry say serv-
ice plus special attention TO all starch
ed work-colars, shirts, dresses. shirt
waists, etc. UneXcelled facilities for
this class of work.-Adv
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

r. Harland Smith of Gloucester,
Mass. is the guest of Walter P. Fo-
ley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Hersom & Bonsall will sell today 5
lbs sweet potatoes l9c. lbs rice csc,
BIB bag graham, big G. Sic; 10 lbs
sugar CSC; 5 bars Swifts Arrow soap
25c; ! lb Whitehouse coffee 31c. Note
other low cash prices in adv. today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

A fresh lot of the popular Lady
Helen chocolate cherries just in at N.
T. Foslom & Sons. Full pound boxes
39c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Riker's violet witch hazel delightful
and refreshing for the toilet, a 10
ounce bottle 39c at John Coughlin's.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Special sale at Cyr and Savoie's
jewelry store-Musical instruments,
jewelry and fixtures.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Here are genuinely remarkable
values at the D. W. Adams Co. today,
aside from the galaxy Of good things
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

An abundant stock of heavy winter
clothing for the working man and the
out-of-doors man is on the shelves at
j. B. Farrel's. Many lines are at old
prices and offer substantial savings.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

c. z. Downing calls special atten-
ton to the SIS Victor-victrolas, as
the new models coming in bring $3.50
adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Tho Saturday Evening Post
The ladies' Home Journal, I yr, $3.50
Youth Companion, So issues 1918,
Nov. and Dec. 1917 Free to New
Subscribers. e.. $500
Needleraft, I year.. -. 35c
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

A ladies' high-cut boot black with
white top, $3.50 value IS. Boys gun
metals at 81, mems $3.50 butchers
$3.50; children's high cut school shoes
81 to II, 81; growing girls high lace
boot So: boys high-cuts SO. Well
mans special-Darby block near the
bridge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Specials at the East Side Tea as(
Coffee store today are 23c Aroma CD
fee at 19c. 2 lbs. sec; CSC Formosa
Oolong tea &c 10. 2 lbs. SIC; Goody
Goody seeded raisins, lie pkg, two fo
21c. See the big Dolly Warden sew
ing basket in window-goes for ST.
cash with S. in cash trade.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

A special 10 cent violet talcum at B
E. Bither's drug store today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Those coat sweaters for men at thu
e. E. Davis & Co. are Al values a
soc. They have pockets and sizes ar.
SO to "A. Broken lots mems heav,
weight shirts and drawers, Acc gar
ment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

Preserving pears, soc PIX; caunfiov
err, 10c h.; green tomatoes SOC PIX
sweet potatoes, lbs. for Csc; crab al
piles. 40c PIX. blanched peanuts, o
ID; native spinach, celery, lettuc
Weber &, Hewett.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-13

More of those fresh large cocoan,
cakes at Miller's Fruit Store today fc
&c dozen, ALSO kellogg's chocolate co,
cred cherries 39c III pkg. Chocolate
covered marshmallows 29c lb, 3 II
Malaga grapes 25c, Glib baskets 4ee
sweet Tokay grapes Glib baskets s.
Plenty of other grapes. Try that de
llcious home made fig bar, PIC I
keilogg's assorted chocolates IS
pound pkg.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
DANCEHALLS
HEAR RUMORS

Hearing rumors that the Taco
ma dance halls were to be raided
by Tacoma policemen Saturday
night, dancehall managers and
their attorneys visited Commits
sioner Petit in his office Satur-
day and protested excitedly to
any raid.
The commissioner told Thorn
that he had issued no orders for
a raid, and that none would be
made unless the police had learn
ed of violations of the dance hall
ordinance.
Petit told the dancehall mana
gers that he intended to close
their resorts as soon as he found
legal cause for doing so. He no
titled them of new restrictions
that would have to be put in ef-
feet at once, including an admis-
sion charge at the door and no.
smoking rule.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
FIRE STARTS
in SHIPYARD

Five ships under construction
at the Seaborn shipyards, on the
city waterway, were endangered
by fire at 2 o'clock Saturday
morning when a small boiler
house near them started to blaze.
Efficient work on the part of
city firemen and the fireboat pre-
vented the blaze from leaving the
building in which it had origin.
There Is no suspicion on the
part of local officials that the
fire was incendiary. Clothing Of
workmen in the shipyard had
hung in the boiler house to dry
during the night. 1t is believed
that some of the garments were
too close to the smoke-stacK.
The boiler house was in the
center of the shipyards, and with
in so feet of three of the ships.
Flames were bursting from the
roof of the small building when
the fire alarm was sounded. The
loss amounts to $1,000, including
large collection of ship-workers'
tools that were destroyed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
SHELTER TO
BE UNIONIZED

A complete unionization of all
workers of the Tacoma Smelling
Co., possibly followed by a
strike Of all employees for higher
wages, is the aim of labor leaders
in Tacoma.
Charles Perry Taylor, secretary
of the State Federation of Labor,
who has been assisting the smelt-
err strikers in organizing their
union, declared at the Central
Labor temple Saturday that there
would be no new developments in
the strike until the plant had
been thoroly unionized.
1--WE are proceeding slowly be.
cause we want to get all employees
of the smelter under the protec-
ton of the American Federation
of Labor" said Taylor.
1--WE believe that this is an aus
picious time for unionizing the
plant. Already a large number
of men in the plant have secretly
joined the union. Others are
joining each day, at a rate OF
from Is to 20 daily.
when the plant is completely
organized, the question of a
strike that may shut down the en-.
tire smelter will be decided ny
the smelter company's attitude
toward the demands of the men
for an adequate wage"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
HOLD I.W.W.
INDEFINITELY

SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec. 20
Just as federal authorities were
about to release As of the so l,
w. w. caught in the raid in which
William Hood and G. F. Voetter
suspected of dynamiting the gov
ernor's mansion, weer also taken,
President d. W.. Carmichael oil
the city commission and Commits
sioner of Public Safety Simmons
instructed Chief of Police Conran
today to hold them indefinitely.
The city officials took this &C
ton because they fear trouble II
the l. w. w. are turned loose
During the week of their impris.
onment the l. w. w. have beer
singing songs of hate, cursing the
government and writing traitor
GUS inscriptions on the walls Of
their cells.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Strikers Viewpoint
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
AS far as patriotism is concern
ed the smelter workers wish to
have 1t understood that they Are
hand in hand with the government,
and every man and his family
would be ready and willing to be-
long to the Red Cross, IL his sal
airy would permit. But with the
present high cost of living, and
Liberty bonds to pay for, 1t is
barely possible to maintain liv-
ing.
1t would hardly be justice to
these workers to be called slack
ers just because they ask living
wage.
England's heads nave made it
plain to their corporations that
the laborer is a very important
factor in the war, and that the
very best treatment should be
given them, and that they should
cooperate with them in order to
win the war. Let us all do our
bit towards winning this great
problem, but first of all we must
have a living wage in order to
keep up the labor which is so
much needed in order to win the
present war.
There will be a benefit dance
given within the next 10 days.
THE STRIKE COMMITTEE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
The Railroads
EDITOR THE TIMES:

EDITOR THE TIMES:
The federal governments TAX
In charge of the railroads of
this country is one of the great
est events in the history of Amer
lea since the civil war when over
100000 slaves were emanci-
pated.
1t is step in the right direc-
ton. And as the clock of progress
never turns backward full public
ownership must come in time. 1t
sounds the knell of private own
ership of all public utilities. Great
Britain early In the war had to
take charge of her transportation
facilities and her greatest blunder
was that she did not take charge
of her coal mines.
Observing the congestion on
railroads caused by the Spanish
war, the writer prophesied then
that IL this country was drawn
into a great war the government
mould have to take over the rail-
roads. That time has come.
]. A. SPROULE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
LABOR-CRuSHINC
POLICIES Fatal

TOOK OCCASION TO SAY in his
annual report to congress:
1T is regrettable to state
that the organized postal en-
ployes are making many self
ish demands and insisting
that their salaries be perma-
nently increased, altho
they are justly compensated,
receiving more than three
times as much as those fight
ing In the trenches, who must
of necessity suffer the hard
ships of warfare and sacrifice
their all IL necessary"
In the first place, the postal EN-.
ployes don't get more than three
times as much as those fighting in
the trenches times $50. go
is $f19.40 a month, far more
than the average postal salary.
In the second place, the postal
employee doesn't sleep In govern
ment barracks, eat government
food. wear government clothes,
and have extra family allowances
ranging as high as $50 a month.
with provision for death or dis
ability.
Suppose that on top of this
the postmaster general had
recommended that your o =
ganizatiOns, the only effective
medium thru which better
conditions can be sought,
should he FORBIDDEN BY
Act OF CONGRESS and that
you INDIVIDUALLY should
be PROHIBITED FROM APP
PEALING TO CONGRESS
FOR RELIEF!
Would you stay in the service
If you could help it? Or, IL you
continued to remain, could you
render the same efficient service
that you would put forth il you
were treated decently and with
some degree of consideration for
the fact that you are after all q
human being with wife and chill
dren dependent upon you for sup
port?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29

A fire which broke out in the
official residence of the Burgo-
master of Kassel, a model official,
who was never tired of preaching
to the people about the virtues
of self-sacrifice for "the holy
German cause" has left him a
chastened and at the same time
discredited and miserable man.
The Munich Post says:
THE fire brigade fastened to
the premises, but on arriving at
a room which seemed to be in i'm
minent danger of destruction,
they found the burgomaster and
his people standing on guard at
the door and trying to stem the
onrush of the firemen by the
magic words, Official Apartment.
1.-THE firemen forcibly pushed
the guards aside and penetrated
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Fire Shows Up Burgomaster AS a
HOarder of Hams and Sausages

into the room, when they iounu'
instead o the official deeds,
books, and seals which one might
expect to discover in such an
apartment, a great hoard OF pro-
visions. Hams and saucages were
hanging in festoons from the al
ready burning gallery; cheese
butter, and pots of jam hampered
the firemen's teps over the
smoking floor.
"In the meantime the inhabi
tants of Kassel, who cannot all bt
burgomasters possessed of off
cial apartments are glad IL the!
can secure few potatoes or a tur
nip for their dinner, with al
ounce of rancid bacon for Sun
days.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Wheatless Bread

EDITOR THE TIMES.
l am a cook and work in log
ging camps and usually in the
larger camps. make all the
bread when working, SO / know
how bread is made.
have noticed that in all the
restaurants that ! have eaten in,
both here and in Seattle, that on
wheatless day they simply substi-
tute rye and graham bread.
Graham flour is nothing but
the whole wheat ground up, and
you have to mix 1t half with white
flour to bake It.
Rye bread is much the same.
You cannot make bread from
straight rye flour; It is too heavy.
You have to use white flour. II
the people really want q wheat
less day and Hooverize right, /
suggest cor nbread.
While IL does require a small
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Want to Hold
Men on Farms

UNITED Press Leased Wire.)
SPOKANE, Dec. 29.-Holding
that the raising of even a nor
NAL wheat crop in the Pacific
northwest will be hazardous next
year unless some provision is
made to furnish necessary men,
kilograms were sent today to
President Wilson by local com
mercial and agricultural interests
urging immediate action to hold
the young men of this section on
farms, instead of permitting them
to join the army and navy In large
numbers.
Suggestion is made in the tele
gram that a national war time
food production administrators bt
named to acquaint the people
with the supreme necessity o.
increased food production.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
BlJRI ES0N'S ARROGANCE BIlAALED FOR SLOW MAIL.
EAST I'M Grip OF
RAGING BLIZZARD

critical on the lower East Side,
where coal is doled out by the
bushel. The city fuel administra-
tor today declared dealers in this
section had been put on the
emergency list and would be given
all possible Of the precious stores
still left.
The prospects were today tnat
Broadway would go into almost
total eclipse tonight. :,
All the east reported colo
weather and a blizzard raging TO-
day. All the large cities ike
wise reported shortage OF coal.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
REPORTS WIFE
IS MISSING

William Geddy, 6237 So. Ce-
dar ST., notified the police Fri
day night that his wife had disep-
peared Christmas night and that
he could find no trace Of her.
He left Mrs. Geddy at the home
of Bert Smith, 1850 So. l. st. for
the evening, he said, and she de-
parted during the night. Detec-
tives are investigating. Mrs.
Geddy is 80 years old.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Milknnen Put
off Meeting

Tacoma milk dealers have
postponed their meeting Satnr-
day night for another week, ow-
ing to the flood. Several of the
dairymen are marooned and un-
able to reach the city, according
to o. r. Mckinney, president of
the dairymen's association.
According to Mckinney, the
milk producers have raised their
price to the distributors five cents
a gallon, making the present
price 80 cents. Whether or not
the retail price will be boosted
again cannot be predicted, says
Mckinney.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29

WASHINGTON, Dec. 90
What is the matter with the
mails? Why does 1t take
two days for a letter to go
from Washington to Cleye-
land, six days, and some
times seven, from Washing
ton to Tacoma, and "a hours
even for local deliveries?
or course everybody knows pas
senger trains and mail trains are
running behind schedule, and this
does account for part of the delay.
But it accounts for only small
part.
Investigation shows that the
greater part Is in the postoffice
department and cannot be laid on
the railroads.
What, then, is the matter with
the postoffice department?
First, the blind arrogance
of Albert Sidney Burlesonx
postmaster general, and his
associated bureaucrats. They
will not even admit that
there are any more delays
than normally.
Here is the statement of Will
liam I. Denning, superintendent OF
railway mail service before the
house postoffiee committee, Dec
6, 1917:
I'VE do not admit that there are
any more complaints now than
heretofore, or more than usual
There have been complaints about
delays in the mail service, to my
knowledge, for 10 years."
Can you beat that?
Until the department is willing
to admit the service is rotten
there is, of course, no hope for i'm.
(provement.
False Economies
The second cause of postal de
lays lies in the destructive eco
Monies instituted by Burleson in
his desire to show a surplus.
Did you know that last veal
Burleson reduced the number o.
railway mail clerks by 1900 and
on many important lines com
pletely abolished the assortmen
of mail on trains?
Well, he did, he admits it.
A few dollars are saved; blu
THE WHOLE PUBLIC is DIS
COMMODED AND BUSINESS
|THRUOUT THE COUNTRY Is
DELAYED.
Third, and most important o
all the causes underlying mail de
lays and postal inefficiency, is thu
fact that BurlesOE's labor policies
arc causing an unprecedented
number of the most efficient EN-
plOyes to leave the service.
Ignores LabOr's Needs
This is denied by the postoffic,
department; but the cold figure
compiled by the department itsel
show conclusively that both clerk
and carriers are resigning almos
TWICE as fast as in any previou
year and almost THREE times a
fas.. as in the average year.
WHY is THIS?
We need not examine all TIL
multitudinous grievances of tn
postal employees. Take only on
concrete example, which you cal
easily understand because yo1
have seen and talked with the NAL
| 1t concerns.
Suppose you were a city lette
carr.er-you see them every morn
ing plugging along under thei
heavy load of mail, efficient, intel
Iligent fellows. Suppose your wag
scale had not been changed TO
years, and that thru the oper
alton of the automatic promo
TONS" of which Postmaster Bur
Lesson makes SO much, the salar
of you and your fellow carrier
averaged only $11.94 more for tn
whole year of 1917 than for 1915
altho the increased cost of livin
had cut it's value in half.
Refuses Increases
Suppose that after these fact
had been laid before the postmas
ter general in memorials and pc
Ititions, he NOT ONLY REFUSED
no RECOMMEND ANY IN
CREASES IN SALARY, BU'
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Police Job
For Donovan

Clarke Donovan, clerk in the
public works department, WAS APP
pointed Saturday as clerk and as
sixtant Bertillon officer in the
police department. Donovan will
assist Police Chief Smith in the
work of maintaining criminal
Identification records. Arthur w.
Carlson has been appointed to fill
Donovan's position in the public
works office.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
WOMAN HAS EIGHT
SONS IN SERVICE

tUDit~d Press Leased Wire.D
PILOT ROCK, Ore, Dec. 29.-
With her eight sons all in the
army or navy, Mrs. Henry Bolts,
q widow residing here. feels she
holds the record for furnishing
Uncle Sam man-power.
The last Of the boys, Clyde,
was sent to Vancouver barracks
today, after enlisting in the avia-
ton corps. -Four others are in
the army and three in the navy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
TREAT u. S.
PRISONERS
AS ANIMALS

AMERICAN FIELD HEAD
QUARTERS IN FRANCE, Dec.
29.-Americans who may be CAP
tured by the Germans are to be
regarded as not entitled to the
ordinary courtesies accorded pris-
oners of war, according to infor-
nation reaching here today.
1t is presumably the intention
of the Germans to employ Ameri-
can prisoners in lower forms of
labor and under wretched condi-
lions, such as the Teutons impos-
ed on Russians in the past.
The Germans regarded the Rus
sian prisoners as little better than
animals and compelled them to
live In frightful surroundings.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
CLAIMS HUN SPIES
SHIPPED FROM U. s

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. -
Nearly 1000 German agents have
gone to Russia thru San Francisco
since the revolution, playing q
big part in the disruption of the
Russian armies, according to
charges made to federal authori-
ties today by George Rosen, Rus
sian attorney.
He alleges three were from San
Francisco, seven from Los An
geles, 200 from Chicago and zoo
from New York. Tho KersEsky
government paid their expenses,
believing they were political en-
lies.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
SMALL BOYS
HOLD UP MAN

Two small boys armed with a
big revolver held up F. L. Kun,
1918 East 9th ST., Thursday
night and robbed him of 81, a
ring, and 10 pool chips, accord
ing to Kunz' report to the police.
The holdup occurred at Puyallup
ave. and East Il st.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Bergfeld Quits

Paul Bergfield, assistant build
Ing inspector for several years,
has resigned his position at the
city hall and will open an archi-
etct's office at 2132 Wilkeson st,
January /. Bergfeld Is one OF the
pioneer architects of the city.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
TREASON, SAYS
RED LEADER
UNITED Press eLased Wire. !

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29.-M.
Stitslavski, leader of the social
revolutionists and Russian peace
party, returned here today from
Brest iLtovsk, declaring that the
negotiations with the Germans
amount to treachery. He resign
ed his place as one of Russia's
representatives in the peace con-
ference.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Employment
Office Raid

Raiding the Central Employ
ment agency, 1916 Pacific ave-,
late Friday night, Detectives
Thompson and Nix arrested seven
men charged with gambling.
Gordon Kneeland was charged
with operating the game. The
men were playing stud poker,
according to the police.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29

NEW YORK, Dec. 2e.-Zero
cold, with swirling snow and
marrow-chilling Winds brought
another crisis In New York's coal
shortage today.
The worst cold wave OF the
winter found the greater city
practically no reserve supply Of
fuel, and with snow threatening
still further to clog transporta-
ton. The thermometer touched
the zero point on downtown street
indicators early today.
The situation was extremely
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
French Loan Is
Oversubscribed
Omitted Press Leased wire.)

UNITED Press Leaned Wire.1
PARIS, Dec. 20. - Frances
great wooden stocking is still In
exhaustible in it's store of gold.
Announcement was made today
that the latest French loan hGd
been over-subscribed by 276,000,-
900 francs (about $53,00O,000).
The loan was for 10,000,000~,
600 (about $1,930,000,000).
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
US. BALLOON
MAN INJURED
UNITED Press Leased Wire. }

united Press Leased W1r0,J
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 20.
An American balloon which left
here Thursday night with Capt.
Mccullough and six student BAL.
loonists, landed today in Mexico
with one of the part ybadly ip-
jured, according to word received
at the Missouri Aeronautical sos
ciety balloon school here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
In the
Editors Mail

amount of wheat flour, it is the
nearest thing to wheatless bread
you can get. FRED VINTON.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-29
Wants to Know
EDITOR THE TIMES:


Being part owner of the battle
ship Marjorie Sterrett," by my
holding of one share of stock in
same (par value 10c), am ma
turally anxious to know the
whereabouts of said boat, also rs
part owner of the largest flag in
the world, would consider it a
favor if you double shoot the turn
and try and locate said flag.
A READER.
The Times has no fnfOr-
nation regarding either of
these highly important naval
and military projects.-Edi-
tor.