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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

Mrs. Alice Small and Miss Thclma
Martin of Bangor are guests Of Mr.,
and Mrs. j. T.. D. Purngton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

K. T. Mertman of Topsham, was
calling on friends in this city. FRIDAY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

Master Roy White Of Richmond is
visiting his sister, Mrs William Trask
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

Mrs. NJ. B. Cook Of Bridgton is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. =. d,
Woods of this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

". T. Manser of Whitedeld was call
ing on friends in this city Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

Robert Michigan of Lewiston was 2
business visitor in this city Friday,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

George Chase of Portland was among
the HallowelI business visitors FRIDAY.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-03

Miss May Redlon Of Searsport is
visiting friends in this city.
A. G. Richard of Boston, was a
business visitor in this city Friday
Il. T. Mertman of Topsham, was
calling on friends in this city. Friday.
Master Roy White Of Richmond Is
visiting his sister, Mrs. William TrasN
W. T. Manser of Whtefeld was call
ing on friends in this city Friday.
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| George Chase of Portland was among
! the HallowelI business visitors Friday.
Robert Michigan of Lewiston was
| business visitor in this city Friday.
Mrs. NJ. 3. Cook Of Bridgton is
| the guest of her sister, Mrs =. D..
/ Woods of this city.
! Mrs. Alice Small and Miss Thelma
! Martin of Bangor are guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. j. +. D. Purngton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John L. Straight and
children of Portland are visiting friends
in this city over the week end.
! Miss Elizabeth Foster of Lewiston is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. ; S. keene Of
I this CITY
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
SCHOOLS TO CLOSE
Nine Mondays VIII Be SchooIless
Days.

The County Superintendent has is
sued the following circular letter to the
public school teachers OF Garrett county.
under date of January 81:
The County Superintendent desires to
call your particular attention to a para
graph in letter received yesterday,
Sunday, January 20, 1918, from DR.. Nj.
Bates Stephens, State Superintendent.
Mccoy Hall, Baltimore, Md, the letter
referred to being dated January 10.
1918. The paragraph reads as follows:
The last ruling of the State Fuel
Administration Is to the effect that all
schools close on Mondays for ten weeks.
Because of a contrary INTERPRETATION
yesterday morning rendered by the As
sistant Fuel Administrator, Mr.. Mar.
shall, and notice of same sent TO several
County Boards of Educa ton, there will
be no penalty should some of the schools
remain open next Monday C"Next
Monday refers TO Monday, Jan, 21st.)
AS the County Superintendent in
terprets this paragraph, ''all schools
therefore shall be closed upon the next
nine (9) Mondays, or until Mon Law
March 20, 1918, inclusive. Study care
fully the paragraph herein and all the
dates given and you can readily under
stand its full meaning. Should there
be any variations in this order or any
other constructions placed there upon
by those in authority TO US. YOU shall be
Immediately notified thereof by this Of
fee.
The Board of Education of this
county reserves the right to require
that each of these Mondays upon which
the schools has been closed shall be
made up by your school before it finally
closes for the school year 19l7-19l8. In
all probability this is the way by which
these Mondays so lost shall be COM
pensated. for the State School Law re-
quires school year to consist of not
less than $50 days of school or the funds
from the State Treasury are cut off by
the law from this Board of Education.
Yours very truly,
F. E. RATHBUN.
County Superintendent.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
TIE PEOPLE ARE SAVING.

The English have not been considered
saving nation, and one of the most
notable examples of the effect of
patriotism on whole people was the
fact that during the year 1916, although
purchasing billions of dollars of war
bonds, the small savings banks de-
positors in England increased their de-
posits over $50, 100000.
The patriotic appeal to the Ameri-
can people for war savings has met
with similar response. Statistics for
the year 1917 are not yet available, but
reports from various sections of the
United States indicate that membership
and assets in cooperative building, or
savings and loan associations, increas-
ed at least 10 per cent. the same rate
of increase for the year 1916 and about
the average rate of increase fer the
last 10 years.
The small savings-bank accounts show
similar increase in numbers of de-
positors and amounts of deposits. Sales
of War Savings Stamps also show a
great growth of the habit of saving.
The American people have responded
to the call of duty to economic and
save. They have not only purchased
nearly $4,000, OOO,0 900 of Liberty Loan
Bonds and War Savings Stamps but
in addition they have increased their
savings as above shown. Patriotism
and saving are synonymous now, and
economy is duty, and many millions
of American citizens are dong their
duty in this particular
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24

Security Leagues
campaign of Patriotism Through EducatiOn)
The blindness come upon any man is not
to know his enemy when he him; mistake smiling vii
liam with dagger concealed in his hand, for a
moral cecy disastrous product of simple kind
y goodnature ndsrsition suspect it
in others The thing and particularly
republic like ours founded upon Out this
kind of blindness the United States has suddenly found itself
aroused and forced to tear the scales from The German
Kaiser empire has been secret smiling almost from the
time the king-oving Bismarck prepared foundations It's
covert enmy grown every year since William IT
with rattle of his sword, and a call the Old God
the GodO and BATTLE assembled his throne chosen
representative of power heredi
ary from robber baron Middle Ages The
antpathy natural that of an up
right Judge for the in Berlin and his supporters knew
that their principles of deadly opposition to
the law of liberty enghtening the world The aversion
purpose could always peepng out It
peeped in Manila Bay in only shrink steady
eye Admiral Dewey 1t peeped in Venezuela when there
Roosevelt guard 1t peeped Mexico the Pacific
and know at many times and places which escaped
the Like crawling serpent crept into our
very house and hid itself there the form spies unreognz
ed in their disguise of false friendship.
der tag came, black with treaties horrible
with outrage and murder making and land charnehouse
into which ncrclesy thrown old helpless women
young girls and innocent babes while world
toward Inc chaos of barbarsm order put Deutschland
ueber Allies enthronc the German all human
and exnguish the torch of freedom mankind
These eravagant words tell nothing but
The three have opened eyes angu
age can exaggerae what they behold.
any intelligent bertylovng American what we are
fighting for? Is possible for him comprehend that we
fight and fight with all the strength arms and all the
determination that seeled Washington beginning and Lin
the middle period in order preserve the cause Of de-
and human rights In Gods name let none of orr
counnen be blind doubt undeeated Germany
would in the future America bed whe to
fill the depleted arteries of the OF military conquest and
rule that sucking the blood prostrated Europe
all fight in whatever way word but
fght until the foul spirit that brought this abomnabe war
and abased all, has been laid dead
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
RED CROSS WORK
Organization to Give Reliable In
formation of Casualties.

To give relatives of American soldiers
of casualties at the front, the American
Red Cross has organized at national
headquarters Bureau of Communica-
ton, of which William r. Castle, Jr. =,
is director. This Bureau supplements
in personal and humanitarian way the
reports of the Statistical Division of
the War Department which gives to
relatives notice when a soldier is re-
ported killed, wounded or missing.
The anxiety which naturally results
from the official report to relatives that
a soldier has been wounded" OF is
missing" will as far as possible be
dispeIed by the Bureau which will ad.
wise in detail the nature and extent of
the wound, and will gather evidence
from comrades in arms and at the hos
pitfalls and rest camps regarding those
reported ''missing.
ANY information Of interest or con-
ISOLATION to relatives thus obtained will
D0 II dll0IitIICN " tINhi IIiIOuSu per
sonal letters, while messages from the
wounded will be conveyed through this
same agency.
The information on which the Bureau
will base its reports is gathered through
a central office in Paris, under the di-
rection of E. Gerry Chadwick, of New
York, aided by the Rev. Robert DAVIS,
of Englewood, N. j., and thirty as
sistants stationed at the base hospitals
and rest camps to which soldiers are
generally returned following important
engagements.
forces and par icipation in the war,
this number vii! have to be greatly in
creased. The information will for the
most part be forwarded from the Paris
office to this country by mail.
For the present the Bureau is report
ing on all cases that come to its atten-
ton. However, it is probable that with
the increase of reports from the front,
information will be sent only to rela-
tives requesting it, except IN cases of
those imprisoned or reported missing. :"
This is Red Cross service in Great
Britain. France, Italy, Germany and
Austria. In the London office of the
British Red Cross. more than two hun
dred women are constantly employed
in communicating with relatives of
soldiers and their card index already
covers more than three million cases re-
ported or.
Ine bureau will lreceiYe through tne
international Red Cross office at
Geneva, Switzerland, the list of Ameri-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24

Thrift Stamps and War Saw ings
Stamps are the most democratic of in
vestments and America expects every
American to show love of republican
institutions by investing in this demo-
cratic security. The aggregate amount
of the investments and the number of
investors in these War Savings secur-
ties are in way the answer of the
people Of this great Democracy to the
call of the cause Of democracy through
out the world and the vindlcation of
civilization and humanity.
They afford every person. however
humble and however small his means,
the opportunity to contribute his part,
to do his bit, in this great struggle
against the military.tmasters of Ger
many who seek to dominate the world
in contempt of justice and right and
freedom and without mercy. Surely
every American desires to have a part
in the defeat Of autocracy and the sue
cess of liberty and right.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
INSURANCE FOR EVERY FIGHTER

The Treasury Department is making
every effort to have every member Of
Americas fighting forces take adyant-
age of the GOvernment-insurance plan,
which Secretary McAdoo asserts to be
"the most just and humane provision
ever made by any nation for Its soldiers
and sailors"
The purpose is rapidly being achiev-
ed, the insurance having passed the
third billion mark in the total Of policies
written, and there are many military
units in which every member has taken
insurance.
The automatic insurance provided by
the law is only partial and limited pro-
lection, payable only to wife, child, or
widowed mother and ceases after Feb
ruary II, 1918, 1t is important, there
fore, not only to the soldiers and sailors
of the country but to their families and
dependents, that before that date they
avail themselves Of the full Government
protection, which can go as high as So
900 and is payable to a wife, husband,
child, grandchild, parent, brother or
sister.
The law also provides for the reeduca-
ton and rehabilitation of the totally
disabled and monthly compensation to
those disabled.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24

can prisoners supplied officially by the
German government. In cases of i'm
prisonment. the Bureau reports to rel
atives, after which the case is referred
to the Red Cross Bureau OF american
Prisoners Relief. of which Franklin Alb
bott Is director.
The American Red Cross Committee
in Berne sends each American prisoner,
every two weeks, three ten-pound food
packages. These subsistent stores are
provided by the government and the
American Red Cross. A sufficient
quantity of supplies is now on the way
to Switzerland to care for 10000 Amer
can prisoners for period of six months.
This Bureau is also the sole agency
licensed by the War Trade Board tc
transmit money to American and Allied
prisoners in Germany.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
.FAVORS PLAN OF
DEPARTMENTAL
Director General McAdOo In Ac-
count Within Congressman
Zihiman.

In working on his bill providing for the
! Government taking over and operating
the c. & o. Canal, Congressman Frede-
rick N. Zihlman, of the Sixth Maryland
District, is advised that Hon. William
G. McAdoo, Director General of Rail-
roads. is heartily IN favor of the plan.
/ Mr.. McAdoo is of the opinion that
| the President already has the power
under existing law to take over the
canal. He states that in his opinion all
that is needediis an appropriation to en-
able him to equip the canal so that 1t
can be used The existing law re-
ferred to is the Army Aporo oriatlon
which was passed on August 20, 1916 in
the second session of the 9th congress.
An appropriation is provided for in the
pending railroad bill.
If this view is correct it is not neces-
sary to amend the present bill in any
respect to cover this matter. A Joint
resolution was offered in the House in
the present congress by Hon. J. Hamp-
ton Moore, of Pennsylvania, to amend
the pending bill by inserting the word
canals"
Mr.. McAdoo says:
Il think very favorably of the idea
of developing the inland waterways,
and if congress passes the pending bill
the whole subject will be Immediately
studied and every effort Will be exerted
to make the widest possible use of such
/ facilities.
Mr.. Zihlman is highly elated over the
/ favorable attitude taken by Director
General McAdoo on his proposition, but
he will not abate his efforts to get
/ favorable action on his bill making it
mandatory for the Government to take
over and operate the C. & o. canal.
! Mr.. Zihlman contends that with the
increased burden being placed on the
railroads on account of the war they
cannot be expected to haul more than
at present, and possibly less, and that
! if the inland water ways of the country
are utilized during the spring, summer
and fall in storing up great supplies
of coal, there would be no reoccurence
of the present coal crisis.
Representative Zihlman states that
by operating the C. & o. canal as he
proposes, more than one million tons
could be hauled each year from the
Cumberland fields in this way, which
would take care of the soft coal needs
of Washington as well as the large in
dustries in that section and those at the
head of the Chesapeake Bay.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
FORWARD AMERICA

Forward Americal
With banners cleaning bright,
AS God gives US to see the right.
Wen hail thee, our flag so true
Three cheers for the Red, White and
Blue.
Forward America!
We shout aloud to one and all
Don't you hear the country's call
Of freedom? Freedom we need,
For it is Democracy's call, indeed.
Forward America
We will ever stand for the right
Our flag waves DER the brave and true,
We hail thee, honor thee, proclaim
thy might,
Three cheers for the Red, White and
Blue.
HAZEL A. LILLER, Age u,
Grade 5, Oaklandr Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
What The Victory or Defeat of Ger
many Means to Every American.

Contributed by GARRETT P SERVISS the National Security
campaign of Patriotism Through Educaton.)
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
Alaskan Mineral Field Is Rich.

Once again Alaska comes to the front
and demonstrates what a rich source of
minerals it is. While the gold shows a
slight falling off from 1916, tor the wear
1917, it still reached the imposing total
of SIS, 45O,O 900. But copper was far in
the lead of metals, with total value
of $24, 100000 In the SO years of min
ing Alaska has produced more than
1891, 900, 600 worth of minerals. In ad-
dition to this, its fisheries and other in
dustries have produced immense sums,
making this arctic territory one of the
most valuable possessions of the United
States. 1t now seems strange to think
that there was time when men of
some business acumen sneered at
Aa9ke ard is efa.'a calling it
Seward S Foiiy."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
Moving Picture Benefit.

At the Empire Theatre on the night
of January 31st moving picture show
for the benefit of the local Red Cross
Chapter will be given. Miss Anna
Gender will play during the evening.
An admission of 25 cents, including war
tax, will be charged. The cause is
worthy OF the slrpcrt Of every resident
of the tuV-..
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
School Closed.

On account of frozen water pipes the
Oakland High School was compelled to
suspend last Wednesday and did not re-
open until Tuesday morning when a
supply of water for the heating plant
was obtained.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Z American Fliers
Reported Missing

- PARIS, April 6--Charles Kerwood, of
bryn Mawr, Penn, and Houston Wood
ward, OF Philadelphia, both members of
lhe Lafayette Squadron, have been
missing since April 1.
G. her~ood, "" '; while 9atroliins in the
man airnlanes. He was flying a bomb
lns machlne. which obliged him to keep
at lower altitude than his comrades in
the patrol, but he unhesitatinslv en-
gagged one of the Germans. Almost at
once a quartet of Germans were attack
ing him. Surrounded, he defended him
ser bravcl " with his clumsy bombing
plane against the lighter aeros.
l., manderson Lehr, of Albion, Neb., be-
,.onglns ,,3lnS to the same, patrol and flying
nlghcr, saw kerwood battling with tho
Germans, but shortly lost sight of Ker.
woods machine, which fell behind the
German lines. 1t is not known whether
the fall was fatal to kerwood or he was
taken prisoner
Woodward left on a scouting expedi-
ton on April l and has not returned.
There is nothing to indicate his fate
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Senators Prepare
New Training Bill
1t Calls for Military Service of
! ouths in Nineteenth and
twentieth Years

WASHINGTON, April GA military
training bill, 70 become effective after
The war, IS under preparation for early
introduction BY Senator'S Chamberlain,
q Oregon, chairman Of the Military
committee; New, Of Indiana, and
"adsworth, of New York. It's sponsors
SAID to-day an effort would be made to
get the bill passed at the present scs-
sion. A universal service measure pro-
viding for training during the war was
defeated in the Senate recently.
Under the plan proposed youths
would receive military training N their
nlnetcenth and twentieth reara. Si,:
months training would la in camps
md the remainder n their home co.l1-
munlties: Men from tweHty~one %
tWenty-siX years OF age would be in
the first reserve and those from twen-
ty-s!x to thirty-one in the second.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

and of God. God is no longer police
die"
By way Of explanation Of is work
or the fighting lines, the man who has
been preaching since he was sixteen
says:
Il wanted to co something for the
boys over there. I'd rather clean their
boots or carry their kits than to
preach the best sermon in the world
iust wanted TO serve them, and !
didn't care whether l did it washing
cups or scrubb;ng floors OF handing
out chocolate or preaching.'
Three Years on Fighting Lines
Ever since the war began he has been
doing something. Most of three years
has been spent on the fighting lines
and the rest of the time he has been
back in England telling the folks at
homc how the boys at the front are
getting along
So important was his message and
sc effective his delivery that th;:
roaming gypsy. almost ga man without
a ,@un r.; was welcomed last month
1T buckingham Palace. Express ;rg his
persona +nan,,s fer The splendid ser
vices rcaG,re& British troops on the
firing ,..rc .nd ior cons sp:cuous SERVICES
20 the British people. King George
pinned upon the khaki uniform worn
by this gypsy" the medal which pro-
GAINS his membership in the Order of
the British Empire.
After two addresses in BROOKLYN
Sunday. Gypsy Smith leaves on a two
months tour of the South and West
as far as Kansas City, to bring home
to Americans something of the spirit
q n,
fight in France. And his story. told
with simplicity and a seriousness bred
in the face Of death and suffering. is
getting across to American audiences
qaite as effectively as to the throngs
who have heard him speak in England.
He Tells His Story
But let the evangelist speak for him.
self, as he is so ernently qualified to
do
Its the biggest bit of worl, God ever
gave me to dog They've got my heart,
those boys Of ours and of yours over
there, who are fighting without thought
Of being heroes. Fer months at a time
I've lived with them under shell Ire
A whole month l was never further
than 770 yards from the Germans. Nv
mustachc froze to my blankets every
night. My boots froze to the floor. T.
was the coldest time of my life. and
the most hungry. 1t was also the han
piest. was doing something for the
boys. They never let me go out of
my cellar without my gas mask, which
saved me four times.
"Whenever have spoken to the bows
cut there | have had German cannon
as rival orators. | have spoken in c.m-
petition with motion picture shows and
fashionable concert parties. In an
Australian camp where I arrived un
:Xpected]y one day the boys POSTPONED
boxing tournament in order 20 urn
out en- macse to hear me.
"It's pretty fine to hear the chaps