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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11
LITHGOW LIBRARY
AND READING ROOM
Trustees Hold Annual Meeting and
Elect Officers fer Yea-Reports OF
Treasurer and Librarian Show Con-
ditions Very Satisfactory

Trustees Hold Annual meeting and
Elect Officers fer Year-Reports OF
Treasurer and Librarian Show Con-
ditions Very Satisfactory
The annual meeting of the trustees
Of Lithgow Library and Reading room
was held at the Library Monday aft
ernoon.
The treasurer's-report shows the Ii
brarv to be in sound financial condi-
ton and the report of the librarian
shows the usefulness OF the library has
increased materially during the past
year.
The following officers were elected:
President. Leslie c. Cornish: score
tary. Melvin s. Holway; treasurer,
Richard E. Goodwin; auditor. Sylves-
ter Judd Beach.
Book committee: Messrs. Cornish,
Beach. Holway, Harrington. Miss Hell
en- NJ Fuller and Mrs. Laura j. Hill.
Librarian Miss Julia NJ. Clapp; as
sistant librarian: Miss Elizabeth NJ.
Andrews.
The text of the treasurer's report Is
as follows:
Treasurer's Report
To the Trustees Of the Lithgow Library
and Reading Room.
Gentlemen: Herewith hand you my
report for the year ending Dec. 3lst, 1911.
RECEIPTS.
From the City of Augusta, regu
lar appropriation ..................S 1QuO.In
From the State of Maine, regular
appropriation ...................... lVooo
From interest on trust funds. o221. -
From rent of hall 60)
From librarian for fines .......... 1870
s3,443 80
Cash on hand Jan /, 19I7........ 339 IS
s3,7se s.
PAYMENTS.
For salaries ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1851. 81
For books Observation-Disclosures. $50 %
- fuel OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 217.5o
For -rter OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4oV
For light Observation-Disclosures. 1896
For repairs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SO OIL
For Sundry expenses .............. ll76t
For insurance. five years pre-
MUM Observation-Disclosures. IA o.
For Seth Williams Rural School
Library ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 al
$3530.4i
Cash on hand Jan. J. his. 252 A.
s3,7S2sS
TRUST FUND INVESTMENT.
City of Augusta ..............s 80, 0o0 o.
12 New Eng. Tel x Tel Co bonds II 900 o.
Western Union Tel. Co. bonds. 4,000 0,
Bangor Z Aroostook +. +. Co.
bond ..................... 1900 y
II shares Am. Agri Chem. Co.
pfd. stock .....:.*,.................. 10000,
Deposited in savings bank, at in
terest ...........-............ 1,s8jo2
| sii3S5 Q.
INSURANCE.
On buildings Observation-Disclosures 32 600 o.
On books and furnishings. ...,...... 1900 co
SAT ,00o o.
Respectfully submitted,
! RICHARD E. GOODWIN,
Treasurer
! Jan z 1918
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11

Edwin NJ. Foster OF Oakland was q
business caller Thursday in the city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11

Hon. f. f. Eewbert went Thursday to
Portland TO attend a meeting of the Dem
ocratic State committee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11

rendered by double quartet compf''
ing the choirs of the two churches'
All seats will be free
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11
FREDERICK HALE.
Protest Filed

Augusta, Me. II. Jar. i!i:.
Mr.. James G. Hamlen.
L. S. Fuel Administrators for Maine
Portland, Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11
LOCAL NOTICE

Tbcro wit ho q public circle tonight
nt go state street Key. Ruth Swift,
medium. collection 29c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11
Just
2 Days
More

For you to get your share Of savinus
at our big Economy Sale. which ends
Saturday night.
We cannot begin 70 tell you OF the
many big reductions that we are Of
fer'ng on all our mems and boys suits.
overcosts and other garments and YOU
viii have to sec the goods themselves
before you can realize how big a saw
ing cur prices will mean to you.
This sale affords really a double saw.
ing TO you as goods are steadily ad :
vancing in price and fabrics constantly
growing poorer in quality.
We have an especially good bar
gain in mems S1.5o shirts, all pat
terms, laundered or soft cuffs, to close
at S1.15. Now in the time to buy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-11
Senator Frederick Hale.

S. c. MANLEY, Chairman
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
WASHINGTON

The food administration issues
message to all eating places, clubs
and households urging two wheatless
days 4 week, and a bread ration equiv
alent to one and a half pounds of
wheat products a week for each per-
son.
The food administration issued
cal to every American to cut down
his use of wheat products 80 per cent.
The food situation is so serious that
the order probably will be effective
until the next harvest, three months
from now.
Export licenses for the shipment of
four cargoes of cotton to Spain We're
granted by the War Trade Board.
The house voted 1SS to ~ for per.
manent increase, ranging from to %
per cent, in salaries of postal EN-
ployees.
Acting Chief of Staff General March
is wedding out swivel chair" officers.
He says that $4,000 of them have new
er been in active training.
Petitions signed by 10000 residents
of Louisiana, North Dakota and Michi-
gan urging more drastic punishment
for persons and organizations uttering
disloyal statements were presented to
the senate.
BY vote of 367 to 2 the war finance
corporation bill, designed to furnish
financial assistance for the American
industries necessary to the war work,
was passed by the house. Representa-
tives La Toilette, Washington, and
Mason, Illinois, formed the opposition.
The senate has passed the measure.
Chairman Chamberlain, at the re-
quest of the war department, intro
duced a bill giving the President pow
er to take over all property necessary
during the war.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04

of her supreme trial; or that they are
hindering the government in her mighty
struggle of woil Id freedom let the thing
be wiped out of existence by the strong
arm of the law, and those of its men,
hers who are pro- German in sentiment
of the advocates of false peace, if
they are of draft age let them | say be
compelled to shoulder gun and enter
the trenches or go over to the party to
which they belong. If they are not of
draft age, then let them be required to
do some honest and efficient work for
the government, either in a ball and
chain gang or some goodprison shop. 1t
is nigh time stop was :put to the pro-
German spirit that is hindering and
cursing our government. l give you
this Mr.. Editor in the name of true
Patriotism. PATRIOTISM.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
FOREIGN

Patrol fighting grows more active as
bombardment by big guns increases in
intensity on Italian front. War min
lister resigns to take active command
on fighting front.
The seizure of Dutch ships was bit
terly denounced in Hollands upper
chamber. The foreign minister de-
clared the proceeding was without a
shred of justice, and senators, men,
bers of the body joined in the arraign-
ment of America and Great Britain.
Trotzky voices his distrust Of allies,
saying Russia is surrounded by foes
He pleads for new army of 10000
Commander of Finnish White Guard
refuses American ENJOYS request that
he hold parley with Red Guard gen.
eral for release of 16 Americans held
in Finland.
Hospitals on wheels, motor driven
and operated by women, are to be es-
tablished in France for American sol.
diers by the American Women's Hos
pitfalls.
France has issued strict press CEN
sorship rules.
Canadian forces around Lens hurl
5000 drums of deadly gas into German
lines and trap fleeing enemy with
heavy Earrage. .-.-.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
Gcrrnan-American War

Names of 200 American prisoners of
war in Germany are given out by the
Bureau of Public Information at
Washington. They include the men
taken on the steamship Esmeralda,
the engineers captured at Cambria and
others seized in trench raids.
Activity in all lines of the gun divi-
sion of the Army Bureau Of Ordnance
was shown in a report of the division,
which stated, among other things that
16 plants now are ready for the manu-
fact1re of mobile artillery.
An American patrol of four men
surprised a German listening post,
after crawling nearly a mile, and cap
tured It's occupant. The American ar
tillery conduct a heavy retaliatory fire
against the Germans for gas lombard
LcntS.
Gen. ]. Franklin Bell declares Amer
lean troops in France proved their
mettle when they withstoOd attacks by
German shock troops. He expresses
the opinion they will be equal to any
emergency that arises.
American authorities seized three
Dutch ships in the Panama canal zone.
Ablebodied men of draft age after
April l will be stopped by policemen
and asked to produce their registra-
ton cards.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
WORLDS NEWS
IN MIDGET FORM
Long Stories of Big Events Told
in Brief Paragraphs for
Quick Reading.
ABOUT BOYS IN TRENCHES,
Progress Of HostiIities on All Land
Fronts, in the Submarine Zones
and in the Up in the Air
BattIetieIds.
ABOUT BOYS IN TRENCHES
WAR BULLETINS

New German guns continue to bonn
bard Paris at range o about seventy
miles, and ordnance experts advance
several theories to account for the eX-
IRENE carrying power - tungsten
shells, double prOjectiles and projec-
tiles with prOpellers.
The British battle line has been bent
in a few places but not broken, by, the
most terrific onslaught ever launched
in war. Field Marshal Haig has in.
fiicted frightful casualties on the at
lacking Huns, and all the late reports
indicate that the great drive is still
raging with unparalleled ferocity. The
German official report of 10000 British
troops and 200 guns taken is held to be
indicative of the tremendous powers
employed by Hindenburg.
Germans began their great drive in
the west on both sides of the Cambria
salient after hours OF intense bonn
bardment. Advancing behind a bar
rage of smoke, they drove in British
outpOsts and penetrated the line at
some points. But, as was learned from
captured papers, ut no place did the
Germans attain any of their objec-
tives and their losses were very heavy,
Field Marshal Haig reported.
Four German warships are sunk in
naval battle off coast of France. One
British destroyer was damaged.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
SPORTING


One ,.undred and forty sanctioned
events, two-fifths less than last year,
We're approved by the Executive Com
mittee of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association for the com
ing season.
Penn State easily won the intercol-
legiate wrestling championship with
"a points, Cornell and Lehigh being
tied for second place, each with Il.
Bethincourt, frail youngster from
New York Military Academy, tainted
from exhaustion, but succeeded in
winning Clements fencing medal in
New York.
Napoleon Lajoie, baseball veteran
and champion batsman in the Interna-
tiOnal League last year, is coming
back to the majors, the Brooklyn club
having purchased him from Toronto.
Maj. Gen. ]. Franklin Bell on arrival
from France witnessed boxing cham
pionships at Camp Upton and lectured
ringsiders on craftsmanship.
Organization of the New England
Horse Breeders and Fairs AssOcia-
ton was completed at a meeting in
Boston of secretaries of racing and
fair associations and New England
horSemen. The purpose of the asso-
citation is to stimulate interest in
breeding so as to supply remounts for
the army and horses for racing and to
coordinate the work of New England
fairs.
Cornell and the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology will hold a dual
track meet this spring.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
PREDICTS REVOLT
IN GERMANY
DIR. Rosemeier, Formerly Berlin
Post Editor, Warns American
Labor.

DR.. Hermann Rosemeler, formerly
editor of the Berlin Post and now editor
of the Freie Zeitung in Berne, Switzer-
land. has addressed a letter to the
working people of America picturing
what will happen to them if Germany
wins. He predicts a social revolution
in Germany soon.
"What German rule means for the
laboring classes-must l explain that to
your" he writes through the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy.
"Look at Riga. where q few days after
the entry of the German troops the
leading members were shot. Look at
the occupied districts of France, where
the German slaye-hunters inaugurated
rains against women and children and
German officers took great delight in
disciplining defenseless children with
lashes of the whip.
"Glance at Belgium. where countless
thousands have been deported and
among the remaining population the
farce of a popular vote is enacted,
which Is but new illustration of what
the German Government, this abject
servant of the General staff, under
stands by the right of self, determine
ton"
And glance at ermany herself,
where the noble Liebknecht has been
in prison for nearly two years; where
the brave Dittman has just been sem
fenced to FIVE years hard labor; where
the valiant Kurt Eichner has been ar
rested; where thousands are in Jail,
and where starving masses, after an at
tempt to break their chains, were re-
turned to the treadmill of the war"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
WHEAT PRICE AT $3.50
President Has Already Ordered
$3.50 for 1918 Crop.
Passage of Section Proposed by Sena.
tor Gore Brings Senate in Con-
flict With President.

Washington.-The price of wheat to
the farmers was fixed at $3.50 per
bushel through the medium of an
amendment to the agricultural appro-
priation bill passed by the senate.
The amendment was adopted by the
vote of 40 to 1S, and the bill carrying
the amendment was then passed with,
out roll call. Total appropriations
carried in the bill amount to little
over $2SO00,OOO.
The adoption of the wheat price
fixing section was forced through the
senate over the opposition of the Pres.
i ident and Food Administrator Hoover
Five days of the debate were devoted
to the section, which was proposed by
Senator Gore of Oklahoma. If the
house should agree to the section II
may mean that the President will fine
1t necessary to veto the bill and send
it back to Congress for further con.
sideratiOn.
The action of the senate brings o
sharp conflict between that body and
the President as to the price which
should be allowed to the producers for
the 1918 crop. The President has al.
ready by executive order established
1920 as the basic price for wheat de
1vered in Chicago. This would mean
a smaller price to the producers at
their local markets. The senate price.
however, would guarantee to the farm
er at his local market the price OF
$3.50 as the minimum.
The effect of the $3.50 price, if car
ried out, would be to raise the price of
flour to the ultimate consumer, mas.
much as the 1920 price allows for trans
portatiOn and commission charges.
while the $3.50 price does not.
The debate on the bill brought out
strong pleas to help the farmers by
guaranteeing him price that would
make wheat raising worth while. Sen
ators Gore, McCumber, Gronna and
Reed, leading the fight for the $3.50
minimum price, declared that farmers
in the great wheat growing sections OF
the west and northwest are turning to
more profitable crops on account of
the low price obtained for their crop
last year.
They contended that the country
will face a shortage of wheat in the
coming year unless the producer is
guaranteed the higher price by way Of
a bonus to raise larger crops
A section designed to compel all
clerks in the agricultural department
to work eight hours a DAY, which was
inserted in the bill in the house and
known as the Borland amendment, was
stricken from the bill by vote of 40
to %.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04

Hudson Maxim believes that giant
German cannon within range of ord
nance possibility. Another expert
hints at new explosive agent of ire
mandOuS power.
Henry Ford proposed that America
build 10000 twO-man tanks, declaring
they could be produced i'll three months
and would end the war
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes is arrested
in Willow Springs, Mo-, charged under
the espionage act with obstructing
prosecution of the war.
Because of the lack of men to cut
palms in Florida and the railroad
for Palm Sunday. More than $4,000
orders were untitled.
The navy department denied the re-
port that Admiral Knight, commander
of the Asiatic fleet, had bought Rus
sian ships.
A searching investigation to locate
unlisted enemy alien property has been
begun by Mr.. Palmer, United States
custodian, who announces the penalty
of the law will be invoked upon those
who fail to list such holdings.
Governor Hobby of Texas signed the
state prohibition bill.
Dancing and cabarets in places where
liquor is sold will no longer be per-
mitted in Philadelphia.
The Texas senate passed the Texas
vote bill giving women the right to
vote in primaries and elections.
Since the new postal rates went into
effect last November there has been
monthly increase in postal revenues Of
more than $5.000,000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
Our Stock.

OF finished work ready for lettering
is 235 Monuments and lots of rough
stock to make more. The largest stock
between Baltimore and Pittsburgh. We
can supply you with better work and at
lower prices than our competitors. If
you cannot visit our yards phone US, or
send US postal card and we will have
one of our representatives call on you.
Phones: Cumberland, 1900; Frost
burg, 50.
j. B. WILLIAMS COMPANY,
SO N. Centre Street Cumberland, Md.
60 (. Union Street. Frostburg, Nd.
Advertisement 2 st
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
GENERAL


The first Liberty motor on the Pa
citic coast was installed in an airplane
at Sacramento.
The estate of the late James Stin-
man, former president of the National
City Bank, New York, is estimated at
$45OOO,0O0.
Mix prices to the consumer in Pill
adelphia will be a cent lower a quart
after April l.
Daniel G. Roper, commissioner of in.
ternal revenue, announced that the
time for filing the income return
blanks will not be extended beyond
April l.
Mike Donovan, known for half cen.
fury as the dean of pugilism, died in
New York of pneumonia after two
weeks illness.
Secretary Houston announced he
had appointed William Wallace Mein
of New York to act as his representa-.
tive regarding the fertilizer business.
Second Lieut.. Lester c. Bauman Of
Salt Lake City, an aviator of the Ma.
rine Corps, was instantly killed in o
fall at Miami, Fla.
1t was decided that the crews of the
Dutch steamers taken over at Balti.
more would be sent to Holland on the
Nieuw Amsterdam.
A wage increase from So to So a day
was obtained by organized icemen at
Cincinnati.
A. Mitchell Palmer, the alien prop
erty custodian, wants citizens to re-
port all property owned by the enemy.
The navy department announced
thar mechanics were urgently needed
tof the air bSet for service abroad
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
NO EXTRA RAILROAD DIVIDENDS.
McAdoo Forbids Any Payments Over
REGULAR Rates,

Observation-Disclosures General Nc
Adoo has forbidden the railroads to
pay dividends of more than their reg
ular rate of three years ending June
80 from cash accounts on hand Deem
Der 81, when private control ended.
Cash assets at the time are assumed
to be for all railroad purposes and sub
ject to government control. They may
be spent only for certain purposes
specified by the director general.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04

For SALE-One 1914 Model Pullman
automobile, in good condition, with
extra rim and tire; passenger, and
would make an excellent truck Bar
gain for quick buyer at $4,000. For
particulars, apply to STUART F. HAMILL,
Oakland, Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
Floats.

| have ordered one car of Floats to be
delivered in Oakland about April 1st.
All those who desire any from the car,
please mail card so that l may notify
you when it arrives. Price S11 from
the car, 80 per cent. phosphoric acid.
In 80 ID. sacks.
Adv. d. J. SwARTIENTRUBER
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
is BIG CANNON PLANTS READY
Toluol Extraction From Gas Beinu
Made in Many Cities.

TduC TIT WdTIJ NItICb.
INSTRUMENTATION completion Of
TO plants for the manufacture of mo-
bile artillery cannon for the American
army is announced by the gun division
Of the Bureau Of Ordnance. Some of
its other accomplishments follow !:
Expenditures of approximately S4o,-
100000 for plant facilities to manu-
facture artillery cannon, with an esti-
mate that S30O,000OOO will be spent
for cannon alone within two years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04
Wanted To Buy.

One dozen one year old White Leg
horn chickens. GOOD LAYING HENS
ONLY WANTED. A good price will be
paid. Inquire at this office for name of
party. Advertisement.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-04-04

DIR. Rosemeier was q leader " the
Democratic movement in Berlin and
since leaving Germany has begun prop
uganda in labor and radical journals of
France and Italy to convey the truth
of German rule
''Workers of the Entente countries, "
he writes, 1T really seems as though
you had not yet comprehended the real
char acter of German imperialism, its
rapacity, strength and cruelty. Truly,
you laborers of the Entente countries,
after three and half years more hor-
rible than the history of mankind has
ever known, you do not yet grasn in it's
entirety the terrible, awful danger
which is menacing the world"
DR.. Rosemeier then discussed the
Russian situation and the revolt that
brought her downfall, and predicts a
revolt of workmen in Germany.
81 am convinced that the German
revolution will come" he said. THE
junkers and theirl associates in Ger
many are also convinced that it will
come. But they cherish the hope that
the revolution will break out every
where else first; that this will give
them time to win the world war; that
this victory will enable them either to
nip in the bud the revolution in Ger
MANY or to suppress it with terrible
bloodshed "
Evening star., 1918-08-25

VICINITY Of Hotel Powhatan,a hish-grade
room with private bath sor running water, in
modern and private apartment; no roonning
houses; gentleman: will occuny sfter Sept. 4;
in reply please describe fully; breakfaGt? Ad-
dress Box 20S-P. Star once.
,--:-ss. - s-,k
Evening star., 1918-08-25
COUNTRY BOARD.

RURAL HoME-oN WEST RIVER. EsTAB.
hshed % years. Accommodations for 100 guests.
Bath, acetyiene gas lighting. salt water bath
ing. @. 4 p. phone. Descriptive circulars. II.
Newell. Shady Side, Nd. Ph. 1872 West River.
aos
Evening star., 1918-08-25
TABLE BOARD.

board. 27s
WANTED.
BOARD for gentleman and mother in mod
ern residence. Address Box TOR. Star ofiice.s
BOARD in exchange for law and expert in
vestmcnt instruction. Address Box 50-R. Star
ONCE.
Evening star., 1918-08-25

FOUR GIRLS or two couples can secure ex-
cellent rooms, also board. in suburbs; price
reasonable: no minutes ride to business dis
trict; fare. Mrs. C. D. Fort. 18th st.
between Bunker Hill road and Ash st.. Mt
Rainier Md 25s
Evening star., 1918-08-25

4oe PER CYLINDER for burning CARBON;
owner to remove plugs and wires. Cracked
cylinders, aluminium and castings welded equal
to new and absolutely guaranteed or pay.
n. n. Coleman. 207 18th 1t. NV. Phone Main
<Soe
Evening star., 1918-08-25

Al AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS.
1878 Murray 8. cabriolet; only 400 miles.
1917 Cadillac club roadster.
1917 Dodge touring; fine shape.
1916 Cadillac 8. roadster; extra hne shape.
1917 Hupmobile; 7-passenger.
1917 REQ roadster; 3-passenger.
1915 Hudson cabrioiet.
1916 Chevrolet roadster.
1917 Marion Handey: 7-passenger
1918 Pullman top delive-y: almost new.
AGENTS AUTO CO.,
Main 500. 1925 Conn. ave.