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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-18
COMING EVENTS

March 1S-City elections, Old Town.
March 19-Penobscot County Medical
Association, address by State Food Ad-
ministrator Merrill at Bangor.
March 20-H-Maine State Council
Daughters of the American Revolution,
Falmouth Hotel. Portland.
|, March Y-Semi-annual meeting State
Bo.rd of Trade. Lewiston, Chamber OF
Commerce.
March 25-Maine State Nurses Associa-
ton at 1890, Augusta.
March Especial communication OF
Grand Lodge, +. & A. VI. to dedicate new
Masonic nall, Lewiston.
March 2S-Maine Writer'S Research
Club at 2. Augusta
March 26-2S-Maine Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs, Augusta
March 2S-MeetIng Of Republican state
convention, Portland.
March 29--Good Friday.
March 31--Easter Sunday.
April Last day to file income tax re-
turns.
April City election at Calais
April 2-Supreme Court, civil and GRIM
inal term. Rockland
April 2-Supreme Court, civil term, Ban
gor.
April 2--Supreme Court civil and Grim.
inal term, Skowhegan.
April 2-Superior Court. civil term,
Portland.
April 2-Superior Court. civil! and Grim.
inal term, Augusta.
April Limited States District Cour,
Portland.
April 3-Democratic State convention at
Portland.
April 1o.-Annual Spring Conference =,
New England Of the Methodist Episconai
church. Augusta.
May a2-New England Eclectic Medical
Association. Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-18
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS C0NSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
If cross, feverish or bilious
give california Syrup
of Figs"

No matter what ails your child. a
gentle, thorough laxative should al
ways be the first treatment given.
IL your little one is out-of-sorts,
half sick, isn't resting. eating and
acting naturally--look, Mother. see if
tongue is coated. This is a sure sign
that it's little stomach, liver and bow
els are clogged with waste. When
cross, irritable, feverish, stomach sour,
breath bad or has stomach ache, di-
arrhoea, sore throat, full Of cold, give
teaspoonful of california Syrup Of
figs" and in a few hours all the con-
stipated poison, undigested food and
sour bile gently moves out of it's little
bowels without gripping. and you have
a we'll. playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" because
it never fails to cleanse the little ones
liver and bowels and sweeten the
stomach and they dearly love its
pleasant taste. Full directions for ba-
bies, children Of all ages and for
grown ups printed on each bottle.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask
your druggist for a bottle of "Califor-
ria Syrup OF Figs" then see that it is
made by the california Fig Syrup
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Business Conditions in Russia

The Russian farmer is back at
work on the land and living on his
own produce" reports Charles l..
Preston, I prominent New England
shoe and leather man, who has lust
returned from a trip to Vladivostok on
n special mission for the Bureau Of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. De-
oartment of Commerce. $50 far as
food is concerned he IS rot badly off.
but he is quitting very iitt.e on the
market. He barters for the little he
needs in the way of manufactured
goods. but will not accept money for
his produce He refuses to worry
about the fluctuations in tn, value Ct
the ruble.'
Mr.. Preston, who has spent many
years in Russia, went to Russia on .his
occasion in behalf Of the Government
to find out wha: could be doae to facil-
itate the shipment of hides and skins
to the United States, bu. found little
encouragement for the near future.
Farmers are not allowed to kill calves
for period OF three yeats AMI only
small quantitie Of other hides and
skins are being bartered by the raisers.
Old stocks are held in interior ware
houses and by spectators. but there
are no important supplies Of hides and
skins in or near Vladivostok.
The business stagnation in Russia,
explains Mr.. Preston, is due in part to
the depreciation of the ruble and TO
restrictions on the banks Transfer
o. money by banks from one city to
another is forbidden and depositors ere
Tot allowed to draw more than 80
r"bles' at a time. In ordinary time
ESQ rub!ss is equal to ti,l.e mere
than &125. but Is worth great .Ieal
less now.
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Monday, March IS, 1918.
Rank and Title for Nurses.

Why are not our daughters who go
to war, as much entitled to rank as our
sons who are in active war service
The skilled nurse at the front is today
as much of necessity in the fighting
forces as are the soldiers. Natural
opposition arising because the sugges-
ton is new, is demolished by a mo-
ment's fair minded analysis. We
urged it months ago and hope to see it
an accomplished tact in all allied gov
eminent war provisions very soon.
On this subject the New York Times
says. editorially:
To give military rank and titles to
women nurses is a proposal likely to
excite opposition at first thought, but
experience has taught both the British
and the Canadians that to do SO, tends
strongly to increase the efficiency Of
the nurses whose work is done for
wounded soldiers. That, in itself, is
enough to justify our own adoption of
the plan. and. such being the case. the
change cannot be made too quickly.
Certainly it should precede the great
battles with heavy casualties through
which our men will sooner or later be
going. Never before. as in this war,
has the line between civil and military
tended to fade away. Peoples, not
armies, are now engaged, and the
nurses in both the advanced and the
base hospitals are as really part of
the fighting force as are the soldiers
And there is much in names, especially
in dealing with soldiers. Every army
surgeon knows how much more easily
he can control his patients now than in
I the old days when they all addressed
him as DOC" and obeyed him or not as
they chose The military nurse would
derive a like advantage from being a
Lieutenant or 4 Captain, for it is not
soldier habit to trifle with the wearers
OF those titles.
And not only do the nurses have a
training hardly less arduous than that
by which men are prepared for the
firing line: to a considerable extent
they share the dangers of the front and
they often die for their country as
bravely and in the same way as the
active combatants.
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OUR BOYS
y Write from :
OVER THERE

Bugler William +. Sprague, Com
pany VI, 1o3d L. S. Infantry, the only
South China boy in France, and a
former member Of the Senior class at
Erskine Academy, has written another
interesting letter to Mrs. K. E. Owen.
He writes in part as follows:
Somewhere in France,
Feb. IL. 1918.
Dear Mrs. Owen: 1t is q rainy day
here and SO l have time to drop you a
few lines to say that l am still well
and as determined as ever to get the
Germans. I am in dug-out at the
present time and can hear the noise of
a bomhardment very distinctly. There
are about a dozen of US and we are
really enjoying it.
We moved about four days ago from
the town where we We're when / last
wrote, and now we are where we can
see the real destruction of the Ger
mans, and also hear their shells
whistle over our heads. Yesterday
saw a German air raid on French
observation balloon and it was some
sight" The result was that the bal
loon is nowhere to be seen this morn
ing.
messed some pretty rough sights-more
than l could tell you about here, so I
will wait and tell you the whole story
when | return. l will say, though,
that the Boche are about the most
barbarous race l have ever seen.
certainly realize, or think, at least
that | realize the seriousness of war
1t is certainly fierce-and some Of the
sights | have seen in the last few
days of the destruction of human bod
les. | couldn't tell YOU the conditions
and wouldn't if could.
i have seen the remains of an old
battle ground, shell torn. plowed full
Of iron in every conceivable shape and
literally full of trenches. 1t is silent
now but after you have explored it as
have, and seen the mass of con-
fused iron, and all: and then let your
eyes rest on the multitude Of black
crosses, you cannot help realize the
seriousness Of war
There are many interesting things
which I have found, a German priv
ate's helmet for one, and lot Of
other things, but on account Of room
cannot keep them. / can also say
that | know the sound of German
shells shot from the front line
trenches.
The water here is very poor and we
have to watch out for poison. as the
Huns occupied this country where we
row are, only about four months ago.
When town is raided by them, the
churches seem to be the center of at
traction, and they do enough of all
such things to fill book.
Well ] hope this thing will be
settled soon, and we will be able to re-
turn to good old L. S. A. once more
But until then-why we will just do
our best and hope for the best But
we are all we'll and our one aim is the
Kaiser, so guess he is doomed.
Well. Mrs. Owen. we have to write
short letters on account of the great
number to be censored, so will have
to close for this time. Give my best
regards to every one. / surely hope
that everything is progressing smooth
ly with the school. Write as much as
possible for letters from here will be
, scarce from now on, as we are limited
to one q week.
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The New England farmer who has a
maple grove and fails to tap the trees
the coming spring will be neglecting his
plain duty-and be very improvement. be-
sides.-Boston Globe.
If simply tapping the trees was all
there was to it there would be no slack
ers this spring among the New England
farmers who own maple groves. The
lack Of help the fuel supply, the depth of
the snow in the woods and the high cost
of buckets, are all factors in the prob
lem. With wages higher than ever be-
fore. with wood worth eight or ten dollars
a cord when delivered at the nearest vii
lage and with prices for buckets and con-
tanners almost out of reach, even 20 cents
a pound for maple sugar and sl.5Q gal
lon for the syrup do not look so good as
half those prices looked a few years ago.
-Biddeford Journal
And, like all ventures in the farmers
diverse livelihood, there's no gilt-edged
security in the weather.
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LITCHFIEI,D

PLAINS-Mr and Mrs. Fl. w. Max
we'll who have been ill., are reported as
much better.
y. r. Small and T.. W. Pierce are cuff
ting lumber for G. T. stockham.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. T. Powers. who have
been quite III. are reported as better.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. \. Fogg and F.. NJ
Lapnani attended POMONA Grange at
South Litchfeid, Wednesday.
William Blanchard has sold bis far,
Clarence Washburn.
f. F. Ranks has sold his farm, r.
White. "
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Woman's Shars.

The American Library Association,
working with the Commission on
Training Camp Activities reports the
first appointment of woman librarian
to e camp hospital library. Miss Olga
Wyeth, who has been librarian of the
University of Illinois will go to Camp
Wadsworth. Spartanburg, S. c., to take
charge Of the library work in the camp
hospital there.
If the war lasts long enough equa.
suffrage will not only be universal, but
equal service as well.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-18

and advise all ailing women to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and I will guarantee they will
derive great benefit from ~ Mrs.
FRANK FITZGERALD, Is N. 41st Street,
West Philadelphia, Pa.
There are thousands of women every
where in Mrs. Fitzgerald's condition,
suffering from nervousness, backache,
headaches, and other symptoms of q
functional arrangement. 1t was O
grateful spirit for health restored which
led her to write this letter so that other
women may benefit from her experience
and find health as she has done.
For suggestions in regard to your con-
dition write Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass. The result of their
% years experience 10 at your service.
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YOUNG AvlAToRS'
WONDERFUL PLUCK

| Dallas, Texas, March 1.-THE old
adage that burnt child breads fire"
apparently doesn't apply to the young
iaviators IN Texas training camps.
| Despite the number of men killed or
injured in Texas aviation training
fields. the several thousand student
aviators in Texas have never lost their
nerve" nor has single one indicated
that he would rather desert the
aerial war game and fight on terra
firma.
! In fact several who have tumbled
from dizzy heights while flying and
suffered injuries varying from a brok-
: en- neck to the loss of a dozen teeth.
are counting the days when they will
be discharged from base hospitals and
be permitted to resume flying.
! Several weeks ago Frank Forbes Of
New York tumbled $50 feet while
steering one of the big flyers at the
American aviation camp near Fort
Worth. When they dug him out of
the wreckage he was more dead than
alive. He was hurried to the hospital
and surgeons said that his neck had
been broken-he might live and he
might not. But Forbes disagreed with
the surgeon.
| I'm good for a lot more flying" he
told his nurse after the doctor left
him.
For eight hours every night TWEEN
typound weight is used to keep his
spinal column drawn upward A
nurse adjusts the weight at midnight
and it is removed at s o'clock next
morning. During the day Forbes
walks about the ward and amusement
room, to all appearances very ro-
bust young man. Now it is stated
that he will be entirely recovered in
! few weeks and he expects to resume
practice lights and win his commits
sion as a flyer.
Eric Biddle of Philadelphia tried to
join the American flyers but was re-
| jected on account of his eyes. Then
he tried the Royal Flying Corps ana
vas accepted by the Canadian of1cers.
When the Canadian training camp
was moved from Toronto to Everman
field at Fort Worth. he came along.
He suffered several minor falls near
Toronto but his injuries were slight.
Several weeks ago he tried a nose spin
| Willie dUOul wv lttt up. l1C i"''NN ~
straighten his planes in time TO turn
the machine and when the ambulance
attendants reached him he had brok-
en- ankle, broken nose and practically
| all of his front teeth were missing.
| When they finished dressing MS
wounds he said: "Oh. this is nothing.
! ] had all my teeth knocked out before
| in a fall. The first time it was my
solo in Canada I certainly do want
to fly again and I'm going to. me
spinning nose dive is not so dangerous
| If you start it we'll above the ground.
| II takes only a moment to right the
machine. But when you are GIVING
downward there is a great pull Oh tfe
lever and you have to use all your
strength to get it back"
/ Biddle comes Of the famous blddie
family of bankers and millionalres.
There are five sons in the service:
Young Peyton March. who was Kiiieu
at Fort Worth a couple of weeks ago.
and Bddle were close friends ana
while NIarch's death shocked Bldoie II
did not lessen his determination TO-
become a flyer.
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"kindly Consideration"

Dear Mr.. Pats and knocks:-I cannot bu.
feel grieved that the seeds which you
hoped to plant were destroyed in your
fire recently. For the purposes of germ
ination should say that your stock is
now useless. l have received some OF
the much priced government seeds and
am offering them to you in the hope tina;
they may be acceptable
In these days of food conservation, I,
is possible that you may yet make use
OF the seeds that were deluged with
water If there were peas in the parcel
why have you not had pea SOUP Surely
the water and the heat were provided IL
the fire. Being Government seeds
ioubt II any more pork" would be need.
ID for the soup.
Very respectfully,
/. NJ. WISE
We will add that Chad has also prom
sed us some seeds and we are right sure
hat in the due course OF time our stock
" contributed poetry will be replenished
Pats and Knocks.
Coming back.
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DAILY KENNEBEc JOURNAL, MONDAY MARCH IS, 1918.
LIGHT and Airy
Send Ny Mail TO Old Berlin

Send MY Mail To Old ber""
(Song rights reserved by the autnor''
Now when Private Sammy Whltins,
With our troops was sent to France
To the home folks he was writing,
At the Huns he'd like a chance.
So his line to Aunt Eliza
Has an op-to-ms- tic note;
But l can put you wiser,
II l tell you what he wrote.
CHORUS.
Ny dearest Aunt Eliza.
l was glad to hear from YOU,
And the Kaiser he is wiser
What the Yankee Doodle do.
So the next time that you're writing
Note my new address within;
Private Sammy Fighting Whiting,
Send my mail to old Berlin.
Still they're sending over Sammies,
A million soldiers, true;
And they're writing home to ''mammles
And to aunts; what they will do,
They have got the German Kaiser
So he's watching on the Rhine;
And Sammys aunt Is wiser,
When she gets firm him this line:
CHORUS.
F. NJ. TURNER.
March 10, lalS. Togus, Me.
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Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.

In Effect January 20, 1918.

TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA
=..-u:s.I GOING WEST-3.05 A. M,
VH1Y4 Portland and Boston; h
IAl94A3 61s A. NJ, Pennington.
IkW3tt1s(N1I Bath, Rockland. Portland
Nf}HSH Boston, Montreal and Que
, bee; 936 A. NJ, Brunswick,
PORTLAND, Boston: 80 z. NJ, local: 4.05 P.
NJ, (express) Brunswick, Lewiston, Port
land, Boston; 5.l5 I. NJ. Hallowcll. Gar
diner and So. Gardiner; 1852 =. NJ, Lewis
ton, Bath. Portland. Boston. Sundays
3.05 and lois A. NJ, $40 and 1852 p. M,
PORTLAND and Boston.
GOING EAST-l.10 A NJ. Bangor, S..
John, Halifax. Sunday morning at LIS
A. Nj, does not connect beyond Bangor
Us A. NJ, for Waterville, Bangor, Bar
Harbor, Calais and Aroostook Co.; 9.26 A
NJ, local to Belfast. Bangor and Skowhe-
gan; X 1.02 noon, Waterville; pa P. M =.
express to Waterville; thence local to Bel.
fast Harmony, Dover and Foxcroft and
Bangor and Mattawamkeag; 1.31 F.. NJ,
Waterville and Bangor. Sundays 1.1o A.
NJ; $50 A. NJ. $40 p. NJ. for Waterville,
pittsfield and Bangor.
Trains leave Augusta for Hailoweu.
Gardiner and South Gardiner at 6.lS. 9.5b
A. NJ, 80, 5l5, 1852 T. M, Halowell ami
Gardiner only 4.05 P. NJ, Gardiner only
sos A. NJ. daily except Monday.
Is VIII not run Mondays. February 4th
to March 18th inclusive.
NJ. r.. HARRIS, GenI Passenger Agt.
D. c. Douglass. Genl Mgr. Portland Ne.
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The Bureau of Education states that
Commissioner Claxton is now appealing
TO the patriotism of former school
teachers to fill the ranks of the teach
ing profession depleted by the war, and
to school and state authorities to re-
peal the existing laws which prohibit
married women from teaching In the
public schools. He should also urge
that schools be supplied with fuel, even
if the breweries have to do without it.
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They CAVE
THIS RUN DOWN
Man vIN0L
And He Got Back His
Strength and Energy

Sheboygan. Visit was all tagged
OUT run down. no appetite, nervous.
sleepless nights and drowsy during
the day and was not fit to work. A
friend told me to take Vinol. l did
so, and can now eat three square
meals a day. l sleep we'll, am alert
active. strong and we'll and have
gained eleven pounds.'-A w. Highly,
Sheboygan, Wis.
This is because Vinol contains the
clements needed to create a healthy
appetite and restore strength. The
complete formula is printed on every
package. This is your protection.
Bowditcn- Webster Co. Druggists,
Augusta Vinol is sold in Waterville
by w. c. Hawker and in Hallowell
by Guy X. White and at the best drug
store in every town IN the country
Adv.
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f.. j. Roberts, d. d. s.
DENTISTRY
TELEPHONE CALL 5Y.W.
jan12. mon-wed,tf
CHELSEA

MIS-. kenney Of Gardiner was last week
the guest OF her sister. Mrs. Frank Stall
ford.
MRS. Florence and Miss Grace Thomp'
son were last week calling in Augusta.
MRS e. NJ. Gilman. who has been IN
augusta for the past three years. hai
ie.urned to her home in East Chelsea.
ui'h haton of Randolph was the week
Gnu guest OF Miss Lila Swift.
- MaDei Page was Friday the gussl
Oh Mrs. Selma 'Trask.
o. W. Thompson has been drawn \
s on the Jury at tho April term q
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The Mexican government has az
cepted an invitation to participate III
the Agricultural Congress to be held III
Kansas City. Mo, next October and mas
instructed the department Of agricul-
ture to prepare an exhibition OF the
farm products Of this republic that VIII
adequately represent the country. a
number of governmental representa-
tiyes also will attend the congress.
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Name Gossip
Loves QUESTIONABLE

Or. II. DyeU
Dan Cupid. dimpled dealer
In Loves divine delights
EXtortionist, and stealer
OF sovereign single rights
Claim you the same successes
Since Wars becrimSoned morn,
Or have your golden tresses,
Like SIMPSONS locks. been shorn?
Your buSiness-has it crumbledT
Your patronage-diSmaye
Or are you crushed and humbled
BY Mars increasing trade:
Your honeyed darts-exhausted?
Your fount of sweets-dripped dry?
BY queries thus accosted.
What, Sir, is your reply?
THE ANSWER.
My enterprises flourish
Despite the flashing sword
Progressive plans ! nourish--
I am a busy god.
Ambitions hand has crowned me,
And Zeal and Fervor shine
In golden rays around me
No apathy is mine.
Though Mars may roar and thunder
OF business grown apace,
He cannot run me under"
Or crowd me from my place.
Fen War to Love must render:
The hearts it holds apart
Grow melty-ripe and tender
Fit fruitage for my mart
Fear not for tagging spirits,
Fear not for failing vim:
/ hold my former merits
! am in perfect trim.
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A bill is to be introduced into the
Legislature recommending that Port
land have a commission form of gov
ernment, because, its supporters say,
the city is now progressing toward
bankruptcy. attracting no people to do
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been IN bad health
and had several at
tacks of nervous
prostration until it
seemed as if the
organs in my whole
body were worn
out. ] was finally
persuaded to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and it made
q we'll woman of
me. ! can now do
Ill ,
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Live chicks may now be sent by parcel
,ost provided they are properly prepared
or mailing. In announcing this decision
he Postoffice Department said chicks
:ould not be insured or sent c. Q. D., nor
,arried TO destinations more than - hours
mailing distance. Courier-Ga
zette.
We wonder what the postage bill of
Fats and Knocks Owen is likely to be,
this spring.
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CORNVILLE

NORTH-Perley Brown is confined to
the house with the humps
Mrs. Jessie Hill. who has been caring
for Mrs Albert Rowell at North Madison.
returned home Tuesday
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The wheat that the war masters told
the people of the central allies THAI
Odessa had, Odessa hasn't, it seems,
and now something else must be done
war is all that it is cracked up to be.
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The L. s. senator who admits that
equal suffrage is sure to come and is
almost here, and so votes as to delay il
as long as possible, must take himself
too seriously.