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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

White & Harlow Co. have purchased
Mrs. Elbridge Ranks farm and saw mill
lat the Plains.
Litchfeld Grange has been invited to
visit the West Gardiner Grange Tuesday.
Harlan Fossett principal OF Litchfeld
Academy, is III with chickenpox.
Mrs. Hattie Dakin Of Winthrop, Mass,
is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Lydia
Howe.
Mary. daughter of Herman and Edith
Small, is iii with a cold.
William Blanchard will hold an auc-
ton of household goods and farming tools
on Monday, March 25-
Mr. Bates. who has passed the last few
months at Mrs Emily Smiths, left Mon
day for Fairfield.
The Ladies Sewing Circle and Woman
Missionary Society will meet at the YES
try Wednesday. March %.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin of Massachusetts
are visitors at Mrs. Emily Smiths Mrs.
Martin is Mrs. Smiths grandniece.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Farr and daughter
Katherine Of Manchester were visitors
Monday at F. w. Libhys.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

w f. Barnes of Melrose. Mass. was
a visitor Tuesday called on business
matters for the day.
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Mrs. Nell Douglass

CORNERS-Mrs. Neil Douglass died at
her home on the Richmond road Sunday
night aged s. years. She was the daugh-
ter Of Daniel and Marian Campbell. Mrs.
Douglas Is survived by her husband,
three sons, Charles of Gardiner, Oscar
and Arthur of Richmond. and two daugh-
and Mrs. Belle Roundy. OF Richmond,
also two brothers. Eugene and Charles
Campbell Of Litchfield. and two sisters,
Mrs. Herbert Carville of Webster and
Mrs Mary Benjamin Of Haverhill, Mass.
Mrs. Douglas had been in poor health for
number of years.
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LOCAL NOTICE..

Marquerade nv Golden Cross, Grange
vail Friday evening. Cartoons orches-
IN. mch20,2l.o2
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MRS. BeJamin CASTOR of South Pitts
ION was the guest of her sister, Mrs.
James Castor, Randolph, Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

Dance. FrenCh's Corner. Saturday
evening March %. Witholugam orches-
ira mcho0, Il 22,223
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

MIS-. Earl Fossett and children are
.itinc friends in Lewiston.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

Mes Harriet Addition OF Prospect is
:, ~ues, Of Gardiner friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

lanes Peacock was visitor in Hal
well Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

w. E. Strong of Boston was a bust
ness visitor in this city Tuesday
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

Among this city's business visitors
Tuesday was L. S. Dayton of Bangor
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

s. L. Bemis Of Portland was among
this citys business arrivals Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20
GARDINER LOCAL ITEMS

c.orgo Henry Of Boston was calling
Gardiner friends Tuesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

=, = Monaghan of Freeport was the
,e., Of relatives in this city Tuesday.
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Easter Sale a Success

! Eugene Lishness is seriously i'll at his
hcme on Water street.
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The Continental Insurance Company,
90 Maiden Lane, New York.

90 Maiden Lane, New York.
ASSETS DEC. 81, 1917
Sea Estate $l,W0,UN.W
hr;gaga Loans 10000
ella,eral Loans. aN.000 o.
socks and Bonds, (Actual
Market Value Dec. n. 1910, A.Ni. 800
ash N once and Bank. i.o&.0S.2o
AGENTS Balances. 1924, SOC. y
sIs Receivable. a25,plA.72
'ierest and Rents, S2, 2l@'
A. other Assets, None
Gross Assets. $50 81. 9S3. *
Deduct Items not admitted, 107, 52a.l.
Admitted Assets s3o 500, 654 rs
LIABILITIES DEC. 81, 1917.
Ne Unpaid Losses. es4 1os ~
nearned Premiums 1857. "a s.
Al other Liabilities, LIB, oSo.o2
ath Capital loO00. coo no
scrnlBs over all Liabilities. S,T4,.-p.52
Total LA bilities and Surplus, So, $50. 6A. OS
II JORDAN. Agent. Gardiner. Me.
sAcoMBER. FARR & WRITTEN.
Agents, Augusta, Me.
nchs-is-3
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WINTHROP HILL

Totals .,............... 456 45S 4Io---1329
Winthrop Hill three points, NJ. & &. one
point
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-20

A remedy Of the Old School, where
merit counted. For more than 80
years this medicine has performed its
mission of correcting digestive disor-
ders. headache, biliousness, constipation,
and kindred complaints in Z manner
that makes it a most desirable medi-
cine. Try it once on our "Say.so":
we feel sure its efficiency will COM
mend it for place in your family
medicine chest. Sold in large bottle,
fifty cents each, by druggists and
general storekeepers. Sample fred , :.
,yss 1he Il. F." Medicine Co. y
~ - Portland MAiaA { 1tls,7l
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High man total 2S4--Lerette. H
man single. 108--Lerette.
Evening journal., 1918-11-04

VOTERS, Reflect!
REFLECT, That might
been elected offices a
nd
should
the tina the
ditnotb
in
That the tn dn,an dbus
fnamL,aH ansofH The eounr O restore an to md
nefoHo whoae manned scar bd
edoeundn He f fpbe
bm thai
uungOe ar BY
that H~au rough Republic
obn OIL OF
of all S oil
House Representatives.
themselves
pIshinq viii Wilmington
Voters NonP Partisan League of Delaware
E. President
Evening journal., 1918-11-04

Voters Non-P ARTISAN League of Delaware
F. M. DAVIS President
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
GUNFIRE is MADE
SURE BY PHOTOS

furnished with a complete lithographic
and zinographic printing plant and
skilled workers, photographers and
mathematicians. In a very few hours
after the receipt Of the days opera
tfons from all the various sources,
dozens Of copies of the corrected maps
are ready for issue to all the stats
of corps, divisions and brigades COM
prfsed within the army concerned.
Nothing is omitted from the maps
every church, house, chimney, mill,
bridge, road, railroad, group of trees
is marked, as we'll as every turn and
twist of an enemy trench or system Of
barbed wire entanglements; every
stream, ditch, bridge, ford, every path
used by supply parties, every point Of
resistance, organized shell crater, look
out post is shown on the maps. Maps
on very large scale are given when
an attack is about to be carried out,
so that each officer and man partici-
pating may know exactly what is in
front of him and what ne may expect
to encounter during his advance.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
CHAPTER XIII.
My First Official Bath.

Right behind our rest billet was q
large creek about ten feet deep and
twenty feet across, and it was a habit
of the company to avail themselves Of
an opportunity to take swim and at
the same time thoroughly wash them
selves and their underwear when on
their own. We were having spell of
hot weather, and these baths to us
were a luxury. The TOmmie3 would
splash around in the water and then
come out and sit in the sun and have
what they termed "shirt hunt" At
first we tried to drown the "cooties,"
but they also seemed to enjoy the bath.
One Sunday morning the whole Sec
ton was in the creek and we were hav-
ing a gay time, when the sergeant ma
jor appeared on the scene. He came
to the edge of the creek and ordered: {:
"Come out of it. Get your equipment
on drill order,' and fall in for bath
parade. Look lively, my hearties. You
have only got fifteen minutes" A howl
of indignation from the creek greeted
this order, but out we came. Disci-
pline is discipline. We lined up in
front of our billet with rifles and bay
onets (why you need rifles and bayo-
nets to take a bath gets me), a full
quota of ammunition, and our tin hats.
Each man had a piece of soap and
towel After an eight-kilo march along
dusty road, with an occasional shell
whistling overhead, we arrived at
little squat frame building upon the
bank of a creek. Nailed over the door
of this building was a large sign which
read divisional Baths" In a wooden
shed in the rear we could hear a
wheezy old engine pumping water.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11

bomb. To ignite the fuse, you had to
rub it on the STRIKER" just the same
as striking q match. The fuse was
timed to five seconds or longer. Some
Of the fuses issued in those days would
burn down in second or two, while
others would "SiZz" for week before
exploding. Back in Blighty the NUM-
tion workers weren't quite up to snuff,
the way they are now. If the fuse took
a notion to burn too quickly they gen.
orally buried the bomb maker next
day. So making bombs could not be
called a "cushy" or safe job.
After making several bombs the pro-
fessor instructs the platoon in throw
ing them. He takes "jam tin" from
the fire step. trembling little, be-
cause it is nervous work, especially
when new at it, lights the fuse on his
striker. The fuse begins to "sizz" and
sputter and a spiral Of smoke, like
that from a smoldering fag, rises from
it. The platoon splits in two and
ducks around the traverse nearest to
them. They don't like the looks and
sound of the burning fuse. When that
fuse begins to smoke and 'sizz" you
want to say good-by to it as soon as
possible, so Tommy with all his might
chucks it over the top and crouches
against the parapet, waiting for the
explosion.
Lots of times in Nombing the "jam
tin" would be picked up by the Ger
mans, before it exploded, and thrown
back at Tommy with dire results.
After lot of men went West in this
manner an order was issued, reading
something like this:
"To all ranks in the British army +:
After igniting the fuse and before
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
ALSACE-LORRAINE
LOOTED BY HUNS

and solid. The styles which bear the
names Of the kings of France, and
which, in the villages, were of fine
and delicate workmanship, acquired
In the country districts a character
entirely original, rustic 1t is these
that the antiquarians are now after.
"As consequence while attending
auction sales they find time also to
seek out the little Alsatian homes and
find little difficulty by paying the
country people in actual currency in
acquiring the old family clocks, of
which the majority 40 longer run, and
the chairs with their magnificent
backs worn by age.
'"Thel demand for objects of this
sort has increased immensely during
the year that has just finished. The
real buyers Of them are to be found
in the large cities. For the most part
they are the new rich who have
made their fortunes from the war and
who from one day, to the other find
themselves transported from the coun-
ter to the top of German society and
seek by all means to surround them
selves with objects of ancient art"
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11

throwing the jam-tin bomb, count
slowly one! two! three!"
This in order to give the fuse time
enough to burn down, so that the bomb
would explode before the Germans
could throw it back.
Tommy read the order-he reads
them all, but after he ignited the fuse
and it began to smoke-orders were
forgotten, and away she went in record
time and back she came to the further
discomfort of the thrower.
Then another order was issued to
count, zone hundred! two hundred
three hundred!" But Tommy didn't
care if the order read to count up to
a thousand by quarters, he was going
to get rid of that "jam tin," because
from experience he had learned not
to trust it.
When the powers that be realized
that they could not change Tommy
they decided to change the type of
bomb and did so-substituting the
"hair brush," the "cricket ball." and
later the Mills bomb.
The standard bomb used in the Brit
ish army is the "Mills." 1t is about the
shape and size Of large lemon. Al
though not actually lemon, Fritz in
sists that it is; perhaps he judges it
by the havoc caused by it's explosion.
The Mills bomb is made Of steel, the
outside of which is corrugated into 48
small squares, which, upon the explo-
sion Of the bomb, scatter in a wide
area, wounding or killing any Fritz
who is unfortunate enough to be hit
by one of the flying fragments.
Although very destructive and ef-
ficient bomb the mills" has the con-
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
HAS HARVESTED MANY CROPS
Alabama Farmer Takes 38 of Them
From One Piece of Land In
Nineteen Years.

Montgomery, Ala.-Harvesting 38
crops from one patch in 10 years, pur-
chasing seed potatoes only once in
that time, is the record of r. w.
Phelps, a prominent farmer Of Shot
we'll, Ala.
Mr.. Phelps looks after the digging
If his potatoes himself and sees that
4 sufficient number Of potatoes are
left in the ground to furnish seed for
the next crop.
After the crop natures the ground
is covered with pine straw, not only
protecting the crop from cold but also
furnishing fertilizer for the next year.
Two full crops are grown each year
and potatoes fresh from the earth
twelve months year are had by Mr..
Phelps method and gratifying results
are obtained in every case.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
Transferred to Maps They Bring
French Artillery to High
Efficiency.
PROCESS IS new INVENTION
Every Enemy Object Accurately Re-
corded After Airmen's Scouting OF
FIights-Maps Brought to
Date Daily.

French FrOnt.-Accuracy and, ettl-
cheney have been made possible for the
French artillery by the invention OF
an instrument that enables French
mapmakers to locate almost exactly
an object within the enemy lines Whlch
has been photographed from an ar
plane. In transferring to a map the
photographed object, such as an enemy
battery or munition dump, the margin
of error is limited to less than hve
yards.
This permits the French artillery to
pour it's shells with almost certain aim
onto German gun emplacements'
trench positions, crossroads, canton
ments, railroad lines, aviation camps
and other enemy organizations. 1t is
unnecessary for the gunner to have
even a distant view Of the object he Is
firing at.
Invention Makes Transfer Easy.
To take a photograph of the enemy
lines from q French airplane is an
easy matter, but to transfer the OBJ
jects photographed to their exact To-
cation on a map was for a time ex-
tremely difficult. This was due to the
varying heights and angles from which
the airplane observers made their
photographs. By the invention OF one
of the officers attached to the geo
graphical section, this difficulty has
been almost eliminated.
Not only the aerial observation serv-
ice but other methods of spotting Ger
man positions-mOre especially can
non and machine-gun emplacements-
are utilized as aids to the work Of the
military map-maker. The flashes OF
guns as they are fired from the Ger
man side form one valuable adjunct
to his work, but the most important OF
all is the calculation Of the speed Of
the sound of the firing charge of the
German shells. This has been brought
to a basis of such perfection that the
guns can now be located with almost
absolute accuracy. In fact, in recent
operations it has proved that the sys-
TEN of observation by sound has given
successful results in over 80 per cent
of instances.
In every army there is branch of
the geographical section and each is
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
THESE BOYS
BY ROBERT ADGER BOWEN
of The ViqiIantes.

of The VigiIantes.
They are not heroes in their own es-
TEEN,
These boys whose souls with hero
ism glow,
Whose steadfast eyes so clearly see
below
The semblance and the glamor Of the
dream.
Yet not the less upon their spirits
CLEAN
The joys and splendors Of young
life's bright show,
The ardent flame, the keen desire
to know,
And loves right royal guerdon to re-
deem.
VIII they come back? we ask with
quivering breath,
Nor dare to show the very dread
we feel,
So calm and bravely unafraid are
they;
AS though the challenges they make
to Death
The purposes divine of Life re-
veal
'Tis we who falter at the price
they pay!
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
CLOSE LARGE STORE
TO FIGHT FOR COUNTRY

Chicago. = When the lights
were put out the other night in
the four-story department store
Of Moeller Brothers, here, the
curtain went down on the first
act of a stirring drama Of pa
triotiSm.
The Moeller brothers, John P.
and Earl G. have offered up the
milliOn-dollar business as a sac
rifice on the altar of loyalty to
the nation in which their father
and grandfather, both German
born, made their fortunes. Stock
and buildings have been sold
and the brothers now are await
ing daily the call to report for
service in Uncle Sans army.
For 40 years the Moellers,
grandfather, father and sons,
have been building up the busi-
ness, until last year its transac-
tions totaled more than $1,000,-
600. Three and a half years ago
the father died and the sons
took up the business, which at
the time of it's liquidation had
over $50 employees.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
HIS NURSE A SCHOOLMATE
United States Soldier Has a Remark
able Experience in an English
Hospital.

Tacoma, Wash.-To be nursed back
to health in far away England by
former schoolmate is the happy for
tune of Perry Howard, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. Howard of Puyallup.
Mr.. Howard is confined in an Eng
lish hospital suffering from exposure
following the sinking Of the Tuscania.
At the hospital he was assigned to
the care of Ada Allan, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Allan Of Puyal-
lup. Mr.. Howard writes his parents
that his sufferings and disappointment
were in a measure assuaged by meet
ing with one with whom he could talk
over old times.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11
The joys of the bath are de-
picted by Empey in the next in
staIIment.
(TO BE CONTINUED1
Great Writers Law.

Shelley had an indolent vein.. He
was very fond of the water, and many
of his finest poems were composed as
he idled at his ease in a boat. He
made the best of his short life, how
ever and that cannot be said for Cole
ridge, who seemed to be afflicted with
that lack of will to work which some
people call laziness. He had one Of
the greatest minds, but he left even
his finest poems mere fragments.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11

I'LL DE
fidence of the thrower, lii that he
knows it will not explode until re-
leased from his grip.
1t is a mechanical device, with a
lever, fitted into a slot at the top,
which extends half way around the
circumference and is held in place at
the bottom by q fixing pin. In this pin
there is a small metal ring, for the
purpose of extracting the pin when
ready TO throw.
You do not throw a bomb the way "a,
baseball is thrown, because, when in
a narrow trench, your hand is liable
to strike against the parados, traverse
or parapet, and then down goes the
bomb, and, in a couple of seconds or
so, up goes Tommy.
In throwing, the bomb and lever are
graSped in the right hand, the left foot
is advanced, knee stiff, about one and
half it's length to the front, while
the right leg, knee bent, is carried
slightly to the right. The left arm is
extended at an angle of 45 degrees,
pointing in the direction the bomb is to
be thrown. This position is similar
to that Of shot putting, only that the
right arm is extended downward. Then
you hurl the bomb from you with an
overhead bowling motion, the same as
in cricket, throwing it fairly high in
the air, this in order to give the fuse
chance to burn down so that when
the bomb lands, it Immediately ex-
plOdes and gives the Germans no time
to scamper out Of it's range or to re-
turn it.
AS the bomb leaves your hand, the
lever, by means of spring, is projected
into the air and falls harmlessly to
the ground a few feet in front of the
bomber.
When the lever flies off it releases
a strong spring, which forces the firing
pin into percussion cap. This ignites
the fuse, which burns down and sets
off the detonator, charged with fulni-
nate of mercury, which explodes the
main charge of ammonal.
The average British soldier is not an
expert at throwing; it is new game
to him, therefore the Canadians and
Americans, who have played baseball
from the kindergarten up, take natu-
rally to bomb throwing and excel in
this act. A six-foot English bomber
will stand in awed silence when he
sees little five-fOOt-nOthing Canadian
outdistance his throw by several yards.
[ have read few war stories of bomb
ing, where baseball pitchers curved
their bombs when throwing them, but
a pitcher who can do this would make
"Christy" Mathewson look like piker,
and is losing valuable time playing in
the European War bush league, when
he would be able to set the ''big
league on fire.
We had cushy time while at this
school. In fact, to us it was a regular
vacation, and we were very sorry when
one morning the adjutant ordered us
to report at headquarters for trans
portation and rations to return to our
units up the line.
Arriving at our section, the boys
once again rendered us the glad mitt,
but looked askance at us out of the
corners of their eyes. They could not
conceive, as they expressed it, how a
man could be such blinking idiot as
to join the Suicide club. was begin
ming to feel sorry that I had become
a member of said club, and my life to
me appeared doubly precious.
Now that I was a sure-enough
bomber 1 was praying for peace and
hoping that my services as such would
not be required.
The Benson signal., 1918-05-11

sinking Lusitania with the Of
Arthur American living Jersey City,
England enists private the British After
officer he
big
acquaintance After brief period of training
he
while the bullets whz overhead tnpey
the trenches
fight
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-25

r. NJ. Brown OF Wilton was a week
end visitor at A. T. Craigs. Mr..
Brown has just returned from six
weeks Y. NJ C. A work at Camp
Devens.
Mrs. Frazer Gee has returned to
Lewiston for medical treatment
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Morrow of Rum
ford are passing the week at Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Nightingale's.
A. f. Moore and II c. Emery at
tended the Third Liberty Loan com
mittee meeting at Fairfield village,
Sunday afternoon
Mrs. Colby JOY @as visiting rela-
tives in Shawmut one day recently.
Mrs. Almon Goodwin was a dinner
guest at Mrs A f. Howes Thursday.
There has been shipped for French
Relief work from the Ridge road dur
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-25
THE FORKS

Mr. and Mrs. w J. Holway are
.nding the week in Portland.
Ijitle Malcolm Harris is quite i'll
I'm chronic pneumonia. DR.. r. c.
pr1vn is the attending physician.
Miss Jessie Farley came home last
ii. tn make her parents a visit
Miss Jennie Kennedy spent the week
end in Bingham.
Mrs Joseph Kiah, Mrs. Henry Far
md Leamon Pierce went to Jack
man. Friday.
william German was in Bingham the
last Of the week.
> ". Fitzsimmons recently return
ID from Wateryille.
BUY a Liberty Bond and help win
the war.
Mrs. James Kinsley has come home
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-25

after spending the winter in Kokadjo.
Mr.. and Mrs. James D. Durgin have
opened their house again after spend
ing the winter at Dead Stream.
The service flag displayed in the
window of Burleigh High school has
fve stars representing the following
boys now in service and graduates of
that schools: Alton Durgin. Harold
Comber Harry Morris. Sturgis Durgin
and Carl j. Sandberg.
Mrs. Scion Bunker, who has been i'll
for several days, is improving
Bert Morris and Oscar Jones have
been breaking in the colt that Scott
Durgin lately purchased of James
Dewey Durgin. We expect he will
win the blue ribbon next fall at the
fair
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Wilson have
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-04-25
RIDGE ROAD-FAIRFIELD

Mrs. Ellen Balentine, who suffered
from a shock a while age, is not as
well at this writing
Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Craig attended
the Maine Methodist Conference at Au-
gusta, last week.
Mrs. Laura Wentworth of Fairfield
village, has been spending the week
with her nephew, Warren Balentine.
II. c. Emery was a business caller
in Skowhegan recently.