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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-16

October 20, 1868, that Mr.. and Mrs.
Libby were united in matrimony, be-
ing the first couple to wed in
Browns High church at Pleasant
dale. The ceremony was performed
by the late Rev. Mr.. Aver. Mrs.
Libby is native of Portland. born
in that city September 4, 1S49, while
Mr.. Libby came from Scarboro where
he was born on Feb. 5, 1912.
Wendell Currier and Everett Sew
erance of West Sebec started out the
morning of Oct. each with % rifle
looking for partridge but returned
after short time with a nice deer
which weighed 125 pounds dressed.
The boys felt quite proud of their
trophy as they shot it at a distance
of 200 feet, both firing at the same
time. One sho: hit him between the
eyes and the other lodged in his
vitals, dropping him in his tracks. 1t
was a pleasant surprise to the boys
as they did not expect to get big
game with their small rifles.
The Year Book Of the Maine Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs is in the
hands Of the club women, with a
handsome, patriotic cover SO different
from anything the clubs have before
had that It is both refreshing and
welcome. A change is generally
good for one, when one thinks of it.
The contents Of the little book show
that the club women during the first
year of war have not let drop their
torch, by any means, but have
steadily carried on, in spite of the
other calls upon their time. There is
a general acknowledgement of the
fact that clubs have their place, even
in times of stress, just as other insti-
tutions which make for moral support
and mental stimulation have theirs.
Little Albert DeRoche, the 5-year-
old son of William DeRoche of Orono,
is quite a hero in the eyes of his
playmates since he helped to rescue
his brother Peter, two years younger.
The two little chaps were playing in
the rear Of the Mansfield factory,
which is on the bank of the Still
water river, when the younger boy
fell into the water. Albert, too small
to pull Peter from the water, grasped
the other by the hand and screamed
for help, holding on for several min
utes until Benjamin M. King an
swered his cries and rescued the tiny
or h CIT
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-16
KNIGHTS OF THE MAccABEs'

kennebec Tent No Is, meets in S ~"
cabees hall the former Elks IA
quarters, Water ST., on first and ''pI
Monday of each month at 100.
X. +. BEANE. COM
VIM. f. CROSS, K. n
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
WILL INCREASE WAGES

The government has under consideration the in- creasing of the wages of all railroad employees whose salaries are below S1OO. The fact that certain ployes of the railroad company not uniOnized and that they have been neglected by the railroad companies has caused an investigation of conditions among these employees and congress is to provide large increases Along the Santa Fe the conditions of the ununionized labor is lamentable. Men who would ordinarily be drawing from S1S5 to S15O per month in other pursuits, have been paid from S60 to $9O. The poor Mexican the section gets the munificent sum of SIPS per day. s7.5O per week. On this stipend he has to support himself and pos siby family of four five, and at the same time has to make his purchases of supplies through rail-
 road supply house, the track foreman getting rake off on the business. The this method is stop ped the better it will be for the workers and the more loyal will be the service to the government.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
MUST NOT WEAR
 MILITARY UNIFORMS
To the Editor.

To the Editor.
 Dear Sir: There have been many discussions and inquiries regarding the wearing of uniform or parts there of by civilians. Below are some ex- tracts from the laws governing that matter and it is requested that you give publicity to this in your columns.
 Section 125 of the National Defense Act approved by congress June 8, 1916, reads in part as follows:
 "Sec. 125. Protection of the Uni form.-It shall be unlawful for any person not an officer or enlisted man of the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, to wear the duly pre- scribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps, or any distinctive part of such uniform, or uniform any part of which is similar to distinctive part of the duly pre- scribed uniform of the United States Army, Navy or Marine Corps.
 "Any person who offends against the provisions of this section shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment"
 Any persons violating this law come under the jurisdiction of the federal courts.
 Many people are wearing parts of regulation uniforms. Girls with reg ulation or very similar bluejacket jumpers and boys with regulation bluejacket white hats are very promi- nent by their numbers. These things are being more strictly investigated now, and all officers and men author ized to wear the uniforms are under orders to report all violation of this law. Many stores are also selling these goods and advising their cus- toners that they can wear them. These stores are also violating this law, and reports are being made daily that will probably bring some unsuspecting of fender into the courts. I am sending this letter to all editors with the plea that they put this information into their columns, both as protection to those who are authorized to wear the uniforms and to those who are vio- lating the law.
 Respectfully,
 CHAS. 4. HARRIS,
 Recruiting Officer.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
NO ATTACK ON MINES BUREAU

Two weeks ago the Miner adverted editorlally to the fact that at least by implication, matters bOOst ing one mine at the expense of the whole Oatman and Gold Road district going out as coming from the Oatman Bureau of Mines and apparently with the cognizance of the secretary of that organization Now, we don't care to go into the argument of the matter, but we again say that when newspaper gets communication for publication conveyed through the mails in an envelope of the bureau 1t would look nightly as though the bureau was be- hind that envelope no matter whose name might be signed to the incIOsure.
 Oatman has Bureau of Mines, and that bureau has some of the best in the county as its mem bers but we take it when strike of the magnitude of that made in the Tom Reed the past month is al- lowed to go by the board there is something lacking about secretary whoever is responsible for the news end of the bureau Take the matter of the Tom Reed as given out in the News of March g, which is commonly supposed to be edited by the secretary of the bureau, and the fact that effort made to take advantage of the great value of that strike to the district is apparent It gave it out that the drifts carried values of $15 and that they were in dis tance of 12O feet. AZ that date were informed by the Tom Reed management that these drifts were
  then in PA feet the and that the value of the ores in these drifts far in excess of S15. Why were these values minmized by the secretary of the bureau?
 The fact that paper supposed to represent great gold camp like Oatman is printed and sent out from an office at HermOsa Beach, in the alfalfa state of California is another knock on the district that the Oatman Bureau of Mines might look into, and might account for the fact that the that comes out m their sheet is something like week old when it ar- rives. We do not care much about the fact that the sheet is printed in the California town, but it looks to us that sufficient local and general Arizona state news might be found to displace the boiler aspect of the sheet and give it standing among newspapers. The Miner has only the greatest re- spect for the Bureau of Mines of Oatman, but we be- Heve it could be made to do great work provided 1t employed live one to collect and send out its big news events instead of allowing them to be kept un- der the That" of the secretary.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
NOT ENOUGH SCENERY

The negro stevedores of the south ern states of the American Union have been conscripted and shipped in great
 numbers to ports in France for un- loading the incoming American steam CTS. Their cheerfulness has quite captivated the gayety-loving French, who never tire of listening to their laughter and their ragtime songs. When the "bosses" want to get a backyard job done in double-quick time, they usually order brass band to play lively negro tunes alongside the ship. Every stevedore thereupon "steps lively" and apparently his heavy labor becomes to him a light and joyous task. One stevedore, to whom the Atlantic voyage has been test, exclaimed: "Mah goodness, An never knew dere was so much water between dem tew countries. Dere ain't enuf scenery for me, no sah, an if de United States don't build a bridge across dat dere Atlantic Ans gwine to be Frenchman for life"
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
ARE YOU A SAMMY HACKER?

We read great deal just now about the Sammy Backers." Do you know what Sammy Backer" is? WelI that's the one back home to whom the soldier boy looks for encouragement when he is Respondent, for help when he is trouble or sick for letters for eas for books, papers, and best of all perhaps for someone who can come and visit him and thus break the spell of homesickness and the mOnOtony of his routine camp life.
 Think of the privilege of having been or still be- ing Sammy Backer! You are-fOr you're worker in the Y. NJ. C. A.-yOure worker in the Red Cross you've bought Smleage BOOk-yOu've done your bit for the Knights of COlumbus-yOu own Liberty BOnd-yOu have little start Thrift Card and the glorious part of it all is that you just keep keeping On." That's the glorious part of Americas patriotism. We'll be proud some day we had share. And, oh, forgot how much food conservation counts! One Japanese expressed it: '1t makes me bashful to think do than refrain from best food. I wish to be best American money can buy. make loud cheer for them which wear button saying I owe for Liberty BOnd.'"-Sun, Flagstaff, Ariz
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
KNOCKING TOM REED

A coterie of Los Angeles brokers evidently Tn combination to knock the bottom out of Tom Reed and at the same time boost their individual stocks As an illustration of this we have but to quote from the financial page of the Los Angeles Examiner of last week Friday:
 ''Tom Reed stock resumed its hunt for lower
 levels on the local stock exchange yesterday and
 after finding a recent low mark at lSO the
 final sale was weak at 1S2H. Little outside in-
 terest was shown in the stock excepting few
 selling orders which appeared on the report that
 tbe thin streaks of picture rock along the
 vein have pinched out altogether.
 ''True to form, Gold Ore continued its steady
 advance with Thursdays closing price the lowest
 for yesterday and one sale at bidders option
 recorded at 45H."
 What dirty fling at of the great mines of the Pacific Coast.
 And the "hin streaks of picture rock" have played out in the Tom Reed, have they? To whose advan- tage does this sort of advertising inure? Is it a campaign to boost the Gold Ore, which runs "true to form" on the exchange, or is it the brokers who have sold Tom Reed short trying to beat down the stock in the big mine to take profit later on when delivery of the stock will be demanded by the buyer? Who really is back of the knocking of the Tom Reed? Is it the fellows who recently made great strike in the United Northern and boosted that stock to F cents and then admitted that there was no strike in thaC property; that it was all mistake? Did the men high up in the councils of the Los An gees stock exchange have any shares in the United Northern wheE it was boosted on change? Would that boost of the United Northern look good to stock buyers if the matter was closely investigated? And now would the line of advertising and knocking that is going out against the Tom Reed by the members of the Los Angeles stock exchange increase the faith of the stock buying public in that organization? While it is not surprising that the Examiner lends its financial columns to the cheap advertising of stock brokers the stock exchange should surely keep clear of any implication of interest in these schemes
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
OPEN THE RESERVES TO THE
 MINER

An effort is being made to have congress pass an act providing for the opening of the Indian tOns and reserves to the miner and prOspectOr. Many of the reservations have minerals necessary to the conduct of the war them and of the larg est coal deposits of the country said to be located on the Navaho and Uintah reservations. It is to be hoped that congress, the Interior Depart ment may see the way clear to the opening of the rserves. Some of the reservations have prOyi- sion for the opening to easers of any part of the lands by the department, congress alone having troI.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
THAT'S THE RUB

q hear that Richwood's daughter ran away with the chauffeur"
 'Yes, and Redwood is nearly crazy over it"
 "Well, it is hard to lose a daughter in that way"
 "Oh, don't know so much about that, but they took the motor car with them."- Francisco Star.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
A TIMELY WORD
FOUR ENEMIES"

Now is the time to swat the flies those nasty little worms that puts on wings and take the prize for spreading fatal germs. They must have filth in which to breed and there they thrive quite happy, but soon they long for other feed and presently get scrappy. They entrenched ev'ry side like enemies in battle. In sites and stables millions hide and dwell among the cattle. They set of germy spies and try our hearts to soften; they sample milk and cake and pies then, presto, tis coffin. The only way to fight this foe is just to smash his trenches-cean up the town from tip to toe. Remove the putrid stenches. Let evry join in the fight and have an awful slaughter, clean up the town with all our might before the days grow hotter.
 MART IONA.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
THE LADY NEXT DOOR

I told the lady next door that my uncle had sent me a fine encyclopedia, and that I was so pleased.
 "Gracious~ she exclaimed, q wouldn't want one around! Isn't their bite quite poisonous 2"
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
NO HALFWAY MEASURES

Under a "sketchy little thing" ex- hibited by Jones there hangs a printed card which bears the words:
 "Do not touch with canes or umbrel- las"
 An appreciative small boy added the following postscrip:
 Take an ax."-Christian Register.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
LITERALLY

"Well, my lad" said the facetious man to the elevator boy, q see in your position you have chance to rise.1
 "Oh, yes," growled theboy, "but I get called down every time do it."
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
AN EXPERT AT THE GAME

Lady-"Here, my poor fellow, is a quarter for you. It must be awful to be lame; but I think it's worse to be blind"
 Expert-''Y You bet it is, mum. When I was blind, they was always handin' me counterfeit money"
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
VAIN IMAGININGs

Whats de meanin' of desc work less days?" asked Meandering Mike.
 q dunno" replied Plodding Pete. '1'm kind O hopeful dat mebbe we've got de government back of us at last" Washington Star.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
CHINESE SIGNALS
CHAS. A. HARRIS,
 Recruiting Officer,

The Chinese do not beckon as we do with the palm of the hand turned up, the fingers curled, and the index fin ger successively bending and straight ening. They beckon with the fingers curled downward, sweeping the whole hand vigorously back and forth.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
PLAIN" COOKING

Good heavens, John, what made you pick out such an ugly woman to send home? She scared the baby all most into fits"
 "Just did what you told me, Maria You said you wanted plain cook and I got the plainest one to be had."-- Baltimore American.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Customer Gin department store)- What are all those people doing at the other end of the store?
 Floorwalker-They're looking at a man who is falling down the ascending stairs.-Judge.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
:: :: A FEW LAUGHS
COULD HOLD HER NICELY

Have good time while you were away?"
 "Yes, and I met college boy who can hold 200 pounds with one hand"
 ''Well, met, girlie. You only weigh 135. 5."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
THE ETERNAL FEMININE

q asked the young lady speaker in the debate why the logic of that side appealed to her."
 "What did she say?"
 "She said, Because .'"-Baltimore American.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

I am the days work of the
 weakest man and the larg-
 est dream of the most dar- ing. I am the Constitution and the courts, statutes
 and statute makers, sol- dier and dreadnaught, drayman and street sweep, cook, counselor, and clerk. I am the battle of yester- day and the mistake of to- morrow. I am the mystery of the men who do with
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23
ON A LIGHTLEss NIGHT

Her-Thanks so much for this candy. You know I have a sweet tooth. you also have a sweet mouth.-Fla. Times Union.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

out knowing why. am no more than what yo uoe- ieve me to be, and am all that yo ubeleve can be- My stars and my stripes are your dreams and vour lsbors FRANKLIN K. LANE
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

By vote of 42 to 30 the house of delegates late yesterday afternoon defeated the bill giving the women the right to vote at presidential elections. The bill giving the right vote at municipal elections is expected to share the same fate today
 Daylight saving now awaits only President Will sons approval. House amendments to the daylight saving bll requiring all timepieces to be advanced one hour beginning the last Sunday in March, were accepted today by the senate.
 Who judges himself severely is most lenient with Others.-Albany Journal
 (And it's rule that works both ways)
 If you must lie, don't try to fool yOurself.-Bng- hampton Press.
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Buy Thrift Stamps
Mohave County miner., 1918-03-23

Who judges himself severely is most Ienient with Others.-Albany Journal.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-13
JENKINS DEALS OUT
LIMIT FINES TO ACCUSED

Joe Stewart, alleged TO be a vagrani
BY the police, was fined $500 by judge
Ben jenkins in the corporation court
Tuesday afternoon He was arrested
Monday night at Stanton and San An
tonic streets Ethel Stewart. who &C
cording TO the tale he told the police
was mis- wife, but in a later statement
he said was not, was not tried be-
cause she was too i'll to appear in
court She was arrested at a house
in the 1000 block on Wyoming street
Monday night
Jose Berries and Jesus Gonzales
arrested at Mesa and Texas streets on
a charge OF disturbing the peace,
were fined IS each by judge jenkins
Tuesday afternoon. 1t was alleged
that they applied vile epithets to q
Chinaman-
Ella Tellss, arrested in a rooming
house at Second and Stanton streets,
early Tuesday morning, was fined
5000 on a vagrancy charge by judge
jenkins Tuesday afternoon
Frank Mccoy, arrested on a charge
Of being drunk, forfeited bond Of SO
by non appearance for trial.
AtilanO Armendarez, arrested Tues
day morning, was fined 500 by judge
Ben jenkins in the afternoon, on a
charge Of indecent exposure.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-13

Whatever the Siberian republic
may turn out to be when we know
anything OF it, we may at least be
sure that Germany reckOns upon
dominating it as she reckOns upon
dominating all other fragments Of the
shattered Russian empire
If the triumph Of our enemy's in
fluence is to be guarded against in
the region with her Japanese and
other allied interests are especially
strong, the sooner the business is
undertaken the better. There is no
sense or justice in permitting chaos
and helplessness in Russia to be
turned to the advantage Of the enemy
if it can be prevented. If such action
as was taken in Manchuria should ul-
timately be the means of reestsblish-
ing a national authority Of cOnstitu-
tiOnal character in Russia, and II it
should supply a rallying point for the
forces Of sanity and order, then a
priceless benefit would be conferred
on the Russian people.
The question at present is one Of
legal and necessary protection OF
threatened national interests In a
situs ton without parallel and in
which the ordinary formula Of inter
national action are meaningless, the
care OF allied craftsmanship
IS a whole will be, while allowing it
self to be guided by the logic Of events
as they arise, 70 diYest whatever is
done of any color of aggressive or
anneXatiOuist Intentions"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-13
Says Cleanup
Has Too Much
Advertising
Chaplain LederIe Inquiries
Why Tell World About
Local immortality?

Chaplain Francis Lederle, who for
merIy was secretary Of the FL PasO
Catholic diocese. speaking to members
OF the Ad club at Wednesday lunch
con, on the cleanup campaign going
on here said it was his opinion that
a great deal. Of the publicity that is
being given to the cleanup Is done by
a lot of notoriety seekers who are
seeking to have their names in the
paper. He said:
There is a certain amount Of immor-
atty here. There is everywhere Fort
Worth has it, Austin has, and, in fact,
every city has it But why advertise
to the world that we have some here2
FL Paso is as clean as any other city,
and we know it. Let's not advertise
our cleanup any more We want
clean town, and we are going to have
a cleaner town, but let's get at II
without the cheap advertising
Have AviatOrs Speak
Lieut.. Earl Weisiger, Of the signal
corps aviation branch. a former FL
Paso boy, who has just been gradu-
ated from the aviation school at KEEL
" field, and Lieut.. Lee Hubbard, an
other graduate from the school, at
tended the luncheon and told the ad-
men about the school OF aviation. All
OF the members of the club were in
terested in the work and asked the
lieutenants numerous questions re-
garding the technique Of flying.
The round table discussion planned
was postponed until next week be-
cause Of the absence Of Harry Swain,
who, with J. R Segan, is TO conduct
the discussion.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-13

"OEIo. Japan. Feb. 1s-CCorre-
spondence OF the Associated
= Prsss.)-Viscount Motono, the
foreign minister. at q meeting OF the
general budget committee Of the house
u pesrE, today. was asked whether
America was attempting to gain spe-
eisI rights in Russia, such as the
transfer OF the peninsula Of KAN
chztkas across the Bering sea from
Alaska
1T is true" he said. that Ameri-
cans are active in Russia. and not only
they. but the Japanese and English as
well ] do not care 10 say anything in
concrete form now. except that the
transfer Of kamchdtka is not recog-
nizsd as a fact by the government"
Is a Sealing Base.
The peninsula OF Kamchatka eL-
tends south from the eastern projec-
zion OF Siberia It is due west Of
southern Alaska and separates the
Bering sea from the sea OF Oshotsk- 1t
Is about IS degrees west OF the Aleu-
States Kamchatka has four or five
towns OF minor importance. It is a
sealing and whaling base Of some i'm
r0rtznce-
SUI Defending Japan.
London, Eng March 1s--Concern-
ing doubts expressed in some quarters
on the subject OF japanese interven-
ton in Siberia, the Daily Telegraph
says Japan is a British ally OF Il
years standing and during all that
tine she has, apart from the services
rendered 20 the allied cause in the
course Of the war shown herself an
honorable and Trustworthy associate.
The PAPER continues.
The overwhelmingly strong inter
est Of Japan in this part OF the world
iE q course apparent from a glance at
the map. Japan is a highly organized
trading nation and IS directly inter
estsd IN the maintenance OF general
peace and order in the lands where
her economic relations are close and
which are supremely important to her
welfare That was fully recognized by
Great Britain in the treaty Of 1905.