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Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

S. P. Cunningham of Mexico has
again been honored with the appoint
met as District Deputy Grand Master
of the Masonic order for this dis
trict. 1t is Mr.. Cunningham's sew
enth yearly appointment to this po-
sition. He is a most worthy fellow,
Jealous and earnest for all good
works.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

The rate OF postage on letters and
postal cards is to be increased one
cent. Under the Act of Congress ap-
proved October 3, 1917, changing
the rates of postage, three cents will
be required to transmit a letter
weighing one ounce or less. A charge
of two cents each will be required for
transmitting postal cards.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

Mrs. e. r. Locke, Mrs. Pelide
Locke, and Mrs. Fred Morris take
this means to invite all the friends
to meet Mrs. Sam Locke Thursday,
today, 8 to p m, at the home of
Mrs. Fred Morris on East Promenade.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11
MIR. ROBERTS DEAD.

Isaac Roberts, 80 years old, died
at his home in Mexico last week. He
had lived here long time. The wife
survives besides three sons and one
daughter-John w. and Chester of
Wheeling, Ark w. C. of Kansas,
and Mrs. Pearl Hopkins of Olslaho-
ma City.
Rev. c. c. Grimes conducted the
funeral, interment in Elmwood.
The pallbearers were Messrs. Whit
son, Powell, Worth Allen, Waggoner
Bise and Donnelly. The honorary
pallbearers were Messrs. Tinsley,
Collins, Botkin. Risk, Clark, T. ].
Roberts and Dan Roberts.
FROM ED. w. II. HOOK.
Hunter, Mo-, Oct, 3, 1917. Dear
Brother Beal: 1 am glad to say to
you that my health is some better. l
hope to be able soon to resume my
letters on my autobiograShy. If
able will write letter next week. /
am much pleased with Message. |
am sure it grows better as the weeks
go by. l hope you are prospering
and happy. Yours,
w, H. HOOK.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11
FROM ELD. w. H. HOOK.

A number of cases of scarlet fever
reported among children in Mexico.
All are quarantined. The primary
room in Central School is closed for
a week till the danger of spreading
is past
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

Miss Ruth Rouse will have a short
program at Hedgedale School satur-
day evening, October "a.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

Colin M. Selph postmaster at St.
Louis will address the Chamber of
Commerce in Mexico tomorrow night
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

Before Winter
Sets In
Don't youneeds some
vacation?
Your health andwork
demand it.
No matter how short
it is - get a taste of
the West and real
vacation joy.
It's just a few hours
to the Rockies, to
Denver, Colorado
Springs, the Pixies
Peak Region or the
Estes, Rocky Noun
tain National Park,
via the Burlington,
the fall season is per-
fectly delightful.
Camp, fish, climb,
motOr-take all the
family along.
| knowdan ymdeos
short trips. I'll fit
'em to your time and
purse if you'll come
in.
T. L. MARSHALL
Ticket Agent, The Pleasant Way to
Travel,
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11

The Jesse school southwest of here
is closed on account of diphtheria.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-10-11
ORDER OF PUBLICATION.

State of Missouri, County of Au.
drain, IS. In the Circuit Court, No
vember Term, 1917.
Mary Taylor Thompson, Plaintiff
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Out Ct the Pains of War,

Yesterday we published a poem by
kipling in which he had, years ago,
foreseen the sure consequences of ma
d. tional indulgence and heedlessness.
How true were his words-"Ye would
: neither look nor heed,
. Today from Mrs. Elizabeth Powers
Merrill, the Maine woman whose fame
is rising higher as the clearness of her
. vision is better understood and an
precIatod, comes d glimpse of some
thing beforehand the soul of the
= world is born"
After the trumpets of war are
= sllenced new morn shall dispel the
darkness of the worlds passions. Out
of the travail that self Indulgence and
greed have caused is born a new soul
OF world proportions, an era better for
all mankind. ar awakening to some of
our worst follios, a world acceptance
or the brotherhood of all mankind. a
new knowledge of His mission.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Thrift-over-the- Counter.
(Collier'S)

An important contribution toward
preparedness is now being made by
the National Thrift Bond Corporation,
recently founded with offices at 81
Broadway, New York City. The idea
is to make it possible for anyone, any
where in the U. S. A., at any time dur
ing business hours, to invest as little
Cor much) as $40 in sound interest
bearing securities which can be readily
sold again for cash. The corporation
is to purchase State, municipal, and
other ax-secured bonds, place these
ing business hours, to invest as little
bonds in units of $40 each and bear
ing interest at per cent, or 80 cents
per year. for each such bond When
the plan is in full operation these
bonds will be furnished by the cor
poration to department stores, drug
stores, cigar stores, and other popular
retailers at the fixed price of 1885
each. The stores will make a modest
distributors profit by retailing them
at SO apiece, and will also buy back
at $685. each in case the investor
wants to cash in at any time. The
corporation will keep going on the
difference between the per cent paid
investors and the a or Al per cent re-
ceived on the underlying state, NUM-
cipal, and other securities The plan is
absolutely sound. is backed by re-
sponsible and reliable men, and will be
a big addition to our genral investment
scheme. We need these popular sized
securities to help drive out the gold
brick type of financing. 1t is also very
important that means be developed for
getting everybody in at once on ma
tional bond issues when war comes.
Great Britain has gone far beyond this
plan in popularizing her new public
debts, but beginnings are beginnings.
few thrift bonds will make dimes
grow in your pocketbook.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Light and Airy
The Rural Telephone.

Neighbors not so far from here
Put in telephones last year
Farmers built a rural line.
instruments all talked up fine.
All you had to do was ring
Every bell went ting-a-ling;
One for Swanson, two for Boggs,
Long and short call for old Scrogs.
Every neighbor had his call;
Twist the crank and that was all.
Mighty nice when work was through
To gossip for an hour or two
With your neighbors one by one:
Mighty nice-but lots of fun
When you heard some other two
Telling what was not for you.
Every time the signal rang,
To telephone each farmer sprang,
Slyly grinned, and softly took
Each receiver from its hook.
Other peoples secrets dear
Poured into his his large red ear;
How he slapped his legs, Il swun,
Telephonin's lots of fun
Somehow in a week or two
Troubles dark began to brew:
Farmer Jones got fighting hot
heard ScTogs calling him q sot;
Farmer Scrogs seemed angry too:
(Heard Smith telling what he knew.
Smith heard Johnson telling lies,
Paid him off with two black eyes.
John heard young, Isaac Boggs
Underbid him on his hogs;
Boggs o'erheard sneaking churl
Maxim glove to his best girl.
Women, too, were in the muss,
Raised a most tremendous fuss.
Everyone from Scrogs to Jones
In glass houses throwing stones.
Now the line has silent grown,
Wires rusted. poles DER thrown.
Twenty friends are deadly foes.
Each one full Of griefs and woes.
Each too mad to speak a word.
Cause of things they'd overheard.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Editors Letter Box
The Small Vegetable Garden

House of Representatives,
Washington, d. G., April 10, 1871.
Editor Kennebec Journal:
In view of the great Importance to
the country as well as to the indiVld-
ual that the supply of food should be
increased, l hope you will urge upon
Your readers the wisdom of planting
larger and more vegetable gardens this
season. In this connection I find that
the government has just issued very
useful and interesting booklet entitled
THE Small Vegetable Garden" This
contains interesting information and
suggestions as to how to obtain the
best and biggest yields from small
plots Of ground. 1t is to be hoped that
in the families of the readers of your
valuable publication there may be
many school children who will take
an interest in this matter and plant
gardens of their own. To these and
all others, who desire it, and will SO
inform me l shall be very glad to send
the booklet above referred to, a linn
tied number of copies of which I have
obtained for distribution.
JOHN A. PETERS.
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on the Wrong Track

Little Willie wore his dads clothes,
which his mother cut down for him as
best she could.
AS little Willie was getting into a
vest that had been cut down from an
overcoat he began to growi and
grumble.
Whats the matter now?" said his
dad.
why" said Willie, this here pocket
amt got no bottom to it."
Pocket nothing" said his dad.
That's a buttonhole. "-Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
The class in English was being
taught the intricacies of forming ad-
jectives from nouns by the addition Of
-ous. Examples were given such as
hazardous from hazard, meaning full
Of hazard; contemptuous. full Of con-
tempt: venturous, full Of venture. etc.
Then the class was asked to give ex-
amples Of their own.
Il have one, sir" piped up little
Reginald ~
What is5ite" asked the teacher.
''Pious, fun of pie" beamed the
schoiar.-P. r. Hayward.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
What Do You Think of It?

But right here practical minded folk
are confronted by such reports as this.
sent out from Washington in special
service to some newspapers:
secretary Houston will ask the con-
gressional military committees to incor-
porate into the pending military legisia-
government to draft men for service on
farms. This was assured today (Mon-
day. when the special departmental com
mittee reported returns from $500 crop
estimaters throughout the country, show
Ing that there was a serious shortage Of
farm labor.
with the planned increased production
Of food staples, this labor shortage would
be multiplied greatly. and, officials of the
department declare. would become a posi-
tive menace to the entire food-raising
program now In process Of formulation
by the government.
Just what will be the nature of the
resolutions to be made by Secretary
Houston to Congress within the next
few days ofi1cials decline to state at this
time. 1t Is strongly fntimated. however.
that Congress will be asked to give tho
council Of national defence. or the secre-
tary Of war. specific authority to mobi-
lice an army Of farmers sufficient in num-
bers to handle all crops. and to move the
units Of this army from place to place
as the need arises"
So the head Of the Agricultural De-
partment of the United States has
found out, at last, that there is
shortage Of farm labor; that every ten
dency of American life in recent years
Gin spite Of all the back-to-the-farm
talk) has been toward the cities and
away from tho farms; that shorter
days. and higher wages. and more ex-
citement, have enticed the farm boys
and girls; that speculative freebooters
and organized parasites have been per-
mitted to 1--we on the Bonded backs Of
Mariners until there is only bare exist
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
The Soul of the World.

TBy Elizabeth Powers Merrill.1
The trumpets are blowing, are blowing
High over the land and sea-
The bugles are grievng. are grieVlng,
And calling to you and me.
Other days are, coming, are coming,
The day-star foretells a new morn
When the trumpets of War shall be ST.
lenced,-
And the Soul of the World be born.
why is it, o God, for the best things
That mankind must suffer and bleed!
Why is it the treasures that life brings
Have birth in life's greatest need!
Why is it that out of earth's SORROW
It's bitterness and it's scorn,
That the Dreams of mortals rise higher,
And the Soul of the World is born!
Let us wear our swords and be knighted!
Let us answer-man to man!
There's a Wrong that needs to be rlghted-
The heart of earth calls to man!
For the lives of the dead and the living
let the sword of right be drawn
0 God of all life and all peoples
Let the Soul of the World be born.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
WOMAN'S NEW DUTIES
IN WAR-STRICKEN WORLD

In opening a two-day suffrage school
at Lewiston, April 17-1S, Miss Alice
Frost Lord, chairman of the local COM
mittee in charge, spoke of two facts
which are Of interest to all women IN
Maine and to the voters Of this State,
on whose ballot next fall depends the
success of. the suffrage cause this year
She said in part:
I'VE find the Maine uffragists-true
to New England traditions-are an en-
thusiastic but not militant type. we
are our own mothers and home-keep-
ers. our own teachers, to whom the
mothers entrust their children part of
every week: our own clerks, with whom
the rest Of us do business across the
counters of our stores day after day;
our professional women, Just you, and
you, and /.
eve are not petty seekers after Of
flee; we are not shrieking remonstrants
against the tyranny Of man-for Maine
has been very generous in her legal
treatment of women. But we, who are
interested in this cause, are suffraSlsts
because we rejoice to be part or that
great, worldwide movement toward
truer democracy which only yesterday
dethroned the Russian car and today
is shaking the very foundations Of
Teutonic autocracy; a movement which
Is as irresistible as the tides, because
Il IS part of the marvellous unfolding to
the consciousness of man of higher
ideals Of human service, in the name Of
God.
ut is because the woman always has
been the ministering angel Of the
race, yesterday more exclusively in the
home, but today in yearning that
reaches out to a whole war-stricken
world, that she faces new duties, with
ballot in hand, not with reluctant feet,
but with shining face and out-stretched
hand and step-by-step with man. We
do not plead, neither do we command,
We only uplift our vision and our
ideal, not knowing that the brighter
shining of the eternal Truth, radiant
with love, can but draw all men there
to.
Our sisters may have sometimes
Numbered with the ballot. 1t is not i'm
possible that we may make our mis-
takes. too. Perhaps even our brothers
have made few, in the performance of
their civic duties. But there are many
good reasons why we are enlisted in
this campaign for the passage of the
suffrage amendment in Maine next
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Thursday, April 10, 1917.
Send for Garden Booklet

which we are publishing elsewhere in
this issue. urges the Importance of the
small vegetable gardens. The con-
gresham has a limited number Of cop
les of a government booklet on gar
dening which he will send to those
making first applications. A copy Of
) the booklet is at hand and from a
cursory examination appeals to us as
admirably adapted to answering the
questions and solving the problems Of
) the average amateur gardener. It tells
one how and when and where to get
busy" In bucking the h. C. of |.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19

ence in the hardest toll for the great
masses of soil workers.
The secretary of agriculture is nnolhs
out these things, through food crop
estimaters", Oh, Lord!
How does the following proposition
strike the farmer of Maine, or of any
other state:
That Congress should give specific
authority to the secretary of war to
mobilize an army of farmers sufficient
in numbers to handle all crops and to
move the units from place to place as
the need arises?
From where are these farmers to be
drafted? When and where will they be
sent if it has taken the agricultural de-
partment until row to discover that
there is a shortage of farm labor?
Time should wait; the sun turn back
in its course: the Won Houston line
hold, while the agricultural depart
ment's raw recruits are marched from
field 10 field in hoeins time and in har-
vest days
There are not enough farmers now to
meet the national demand for food
product, and thousands of the sons and
hired hands of farmers are Fastening to
enlist.
Now, then, kere is a practical sug-
gestion that may reach Washington in
understandable form by the first Of
June or therea bouts: The government
is to expend s25, 0CO,0O in encouraging
agriculture. why not use some of that
big sum in aiding sons of the farms
who have been attracted to the cities
by high wages and short hours, and are
now confronted by $12 coal, 500 flour.
and SO potatoes, to get back on some Of
the unoccupied lands with prospect OF
living returns for their families?
In every New England city are men
scenes of younger days on the farms.
They cling, in spite Of the hard times,
because of school advantages for their
children, in part, and in part because
farming had become unattractive in
returns and out of the question for a
poor man to stock and equip for work.
Land has been easier to obtain than
were the machinery and team neces-
sary to stand any show of successful
returns.
These city men have known for years
that they were paying 100 percent more
for farm produce than farmers were re-
ceiving, and they have seen the sure in
crease Of consumption and the sure de-
cline Of production.
Does the government know the
cause? 1t is plain: The farmer has
been farmed by Tom. Dick and the
devil mostly devil, in the guise Of
| spectators, grain and live stock
gamblers, market cornerers and other
'middlemen." The government has per-
mitted it until another national crisis
brings it to official attention with a
! bang.
Now the government KNOWS that
there is shortage Of farm labor; that
the nation has cleaned out it's surplus
food; that we are confronted by a
shortage Of food, and that, at least,
something MUST be DONE.
Let the government go about sup
pressing the parasites and setting them
to farming land instead Of farming the
farmers. Let the government also set
! Systematically about encouraging the
business Of farming. so that he who
cultivates the soil may look ahead to
shorter hours Of labor, as we'll as do
| railroad men and workers in gun fac
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
WHITEFIELD
Donald Mcdonald

Donald Mcdonald aged 81 passed
away Thursday morning Apr. 10 at
Augusta State hospital, just six
months after being placed there for
treatment. Some two years ago he
met with an accident falling from a
load of hay striking on his head and
shoulders. Shortly after that he sus-
tanned a paralytic shock from which
he never recovered.
Several years ago he moved his fam
lily here from Cambridge, Mass, to
care for the Harlan Food farm. He
was a kind hearted man always hav-
ing a pleasant word and smile for
all and the community sympathizes
with his family in their afliction
The funeral was Sunday at Union
church and Rev. Mr.. Emerson the pas
tor officiated Many neighbors and
friends gathered around the little
group Of mourners and sang the
hymns he loved SO well, Wonderful
Words Of Love- What a Friend We
Have in Jesus" and God Be With
You"
The flowers and beautiful plants all
spoke of the tender sympathy of their
many friends The bearers were
Carleton Philbrick, Frank Jewett, Or
rington Weeks, Artell Felt He leaves
besides his wife, Annie and son Leo
Mcdonald, four sisters. Mrs Christina
Doyle of Cambridge. Mass, Mrs. Eliza
Reamy of Los Angeles, Cal, Mrs. Mary
McGlory Westboro, Mass, and Mrs.
Sadie Burns, Dorchester, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19
Maine Gossip
Tho Challenge.

o We who opened your happy eyes
Beneath Americas tranquil skies;
The sunbright years into storm have
passed,
Strange menace sounds in the tempest
blast.
The rights.-the gifts which your lives
have known
Are blessed by the flag ye call your own.
AS the peace-light fades from its folds
away.
All! how will We serve that flag today?
o We who fastened from far-off lands
Whose letters lay on your hearts and
hands,
Or fed from tyranny's prison bars
To dwell, free men, meath the Stripes
and Stars
Ye have reaped where others in tears
have sown,
Rejoicing to call this flag your own.
AS wars fierce lightnings about 1t play,
All! How will ye guard that flag today?
Wisdom of Age and strength Of Youth,
Grid we now for defence Of truth
The stricken lands and the smitten seas
Challenge our pleasure, our gain, our
ease.
If Justice and freedom be overthrowr
How dare we call this flag our own!
In the light of it's glory let us pray.
Lord, how may we serve that nag TO-
ELLEN Hamlin Butler.
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COMING EVENTS

April 20-Annual Goodwin interscholas-
tic debating contest, Colby college, Wat
erville.
April 21-First annual reunion class of
1916, Portland High school, Riverton
Casino.
April 22-Humane Sunday
April 2i-Supreme Court, Lincoln county
civil and criminal term, Wiscasset.
May S-kennebec County S. S. Asso-
citation annual meeting, Green street, NJ
Z. church. Augusta.
July 9-13-Annual conference of Super
intendents of schools and Secondary
School principals, Castine.
July 16-August Estate Summer Schols
for Teachers, Castine, Pennington and
Maphjac
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-19

Commenting on the great number of
volunteers for service in his agricultural
corps at Farmingdale Chad" writes in
the X. j.:
'Henceforth all recruits in our Farming
dale Corn club service must be trained
on the ground. With the above volun-
teers properly instructed in the manual
of the hoe and bug poison, our division
will be ready for recruits"
If that Corn club we got the picture of
last fall is going to have anything to do
with this proposition, we not only offer
to enlist: we insist on it.-Pats and
Knocks In Portland Press.
Are you sure you can qualify?
Member we can't accept recruits who
are too tall for their weight