Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-10

for AZ months. AS the war has now
been going on for more than three
years, or SO months, I look, for it to
come to a close by mid winter" I'm
Gle Add" who is a Civil war veteran,
a retired fisherman and somewhat Of
an ex-evangelist, has found time dur
ing his life to study the Bible and mas
ter some Of its teachings. Twenty
years ago." says he, Il told the people
at the Union church here that the
whole world would be at war and that
the strife was not many. years away,
but everybody said I was crazy. Now
perhaps they have come to thing diff
ferently."
Lloyd Llewellyn Noyes, the Agar
old son Of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Noyes
of Dover, is probably the youngest
farmer as well as being one of the
proudest tillers Of the soil in Piscata-
outs at the present time. Master
Noyes in the spring planted some po-
tatoes and on Wednesday he harvested
his crop and obtained exactly one peck
assistance planted the seed. hoed the
potatoes and on Sept. 5 did the digging
entirely unassisted.
Robert Thayer Sterling, one Of the
keepers at Seguin light. came into port
Wednesday in new and improved
way-somewhat different from the
way the light keepers used TO come in
to port in the good old days, says the
Portland Press. They then had to
start out in a row boat fitted with a
small sail. or perhaps Hampton boat,
with spirit sail rigging, and make the
best of their way into port. Maybe
they got a tow behind some other larg-
err vessel and maybe they didn't.
Sometimes it took them almost all day
to get in and sometimes even longer
than that. Keeper Sterling. however,
stepped into his new speed boat crank
&c her up and away he went like a
shot. 1t is 35 miles, as he came from
Seguin light to Custom House wharf,
but he made the trip in three hours
fiat.
Senator Frederick Hale of Maine
during the debate on the War Revenue
bill in the United States Senate
Wednesday was called to the chair by
Senator Salisbury President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, and presided
for some time over the deliberations
of that body.
The Stroller in the Portland Express
the other day said It's no snap to be a
lawyer, though there are people enough
who think So and in illustrating his
point tells the following about the States
attorney general:
Acknowledgement Guy II. Sturgis has
been having stretch of study lately and
evidently studied straight to the point.
He was called in to represent the people
in the case Of certain railroad which
proposed to raise its passenger rates. The
case meant good deal to the people. and
it meant good deal to the railroad. The
Public Utilities Commission set date for
the hearing, and railway experts and
department heads were present with good
and plenteous arguments to support their
belief that the passenger rates should go
up.
1.-THE people were there to see what
would be done about it. But the talk was
of stock depreciation, future developments
dividends forced wage Increases sinking
funds. duty to stockholders, coal costs
and estimated future expenses. It was
everyday knowledge with the railroad
people and their attorneys, but extremely
technical and involved to the people. 1t
being no part of the duty of ordinary
business men to run big railroads, the
knowledge was all on the side of the rail-
way company's experts
THE people were not sure that the rail-
road wasn't right in its demands, but
they were not familiar enough with run
ming railroads to be able to prove it was
! wrong. Acknowledgement Sturgis, being
a lawyer and not railroad president, ad-
mitted that he was in more or less the
same boat. He proposed. however. to find
out.
HE had Just been called into the case,
ne told the members of the commission,
and he would like a little time to sift the
thing to the bottom 1t was only right he
| thought, that the interests Of the public
be safeguarded. He was not prepared to
say that the railroad people had not the
| EISnL OI the matter Tn the Otner mana
he was not prepared to say they had
They were fighting on their own ground
Tat their own game. and he wanted to look
into 1t little.
The commission being court DESTROYS
that both sides have an equal opportunity
In all things, agreed with Mr.. sturgis
who thought he could properly inform
himself on the matter il he sat up nights
in three weeks or so perhaps. So while
the attorneys of the railroad urged that
the commission decide their claims at
once, since the proposed rate was to 60
into effect within a few days, the COM
mission decided to decide on nothing at
ALL
News columns have within a few days
past. told the rest Of the story succinctly
Attorney General Sturgis Immediately
the commission gave him time to look
into the matter. went into the trenches Of