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Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Editorial Comment
Overtakins the Submarine


When Admiral Sims said III i>oH1
May 3. I'VE hope within the ho~.
night, the construction in the agsresA.s
will beat the rate OF destruction %
lied merchant ships. he may may :"
been speaking OF an event aireau' P
NJ. Leygues, French Minister u ~"
rine reminding US that the sea mas no
conn,unioue assures us In general
terms that German submarines 90 .'0"
sunk faster than they are 1auh.'
while the sinking Of Entente merchant
ships constantly and almost steaoiiy ue-
clines, month by month
From Washington come two signm'
cant statements: The first, that si'ips
are being launched faster than they are
beipe sunk: the second, that the first
million tons of complete ships dehVerea
to the Government by the Shlpp'hs
Board, including Communicated SHIPS
begun for private owners. have been pun
into service.
BY May II, 159 ships of 1.loS.62 tons
had been completed; 6S7.8s6 tons since
Jan. /. Recovering from hard win
! y
ter each month. Delivery of wooden
! ships is beginning. Delivery OF steer
I ships was made last week at eight
. yards. Fourteen vessels In all were
launched in the last seven days.
| NJ. Leygues speaks Of cleaning up
! the sea as one cleans up trench.
/ Secretary Daniels says the navy's con-
struction order is 'full speed" ahead" :
merchant shipping does not hamper
naval progress. AS crowning feat. Mr..
, Schwab plans, ITO add 60 per cent. more
tonnage to the program" and says that
4 ''he knows Of no obstacle" to that
! achievement
The submarine was TO have won the
war for Germany. 1t seems to be beat
en-. although ;hat is no reason for re-
laxing effort.sThe faster shiphuildins
/ proceeds the sooner the war will he
over.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
SOLDIER BOYS

Newell Palmer, who is in France
with the 103d regiment, has been re-
Gently recommended by Gen. PERISH
ing for second lieutenant's com
mission. Observer do
ver.)
Francis r. Greeley, son of George
+. Greeley of Hudson. Mass. former
~ Of Ellsworth, has won an ensign's
commission in the navy. The young
man took up the study of wireless
telegraphy as a fad while at high
school. and while still in high school
took the government examination in
wireless telegraphy. and received q
certificate, being one of the youngest
men ever receiving that distinction
He enrolled in the naval reserve as
wireless operator, and on May !.
1917, responded to a call for volun-
teers for service as operator on
destroyer. Since July Of last year he
has been in active service in Euro
pean waters, and there earned his
promotion.
The Norway Commercial Club is to
unfurl a service flag in its hall which
will carry four blue stars in honor of
Lieut.. Harold NJ. Allen. Medical
Corps, bath Regiment in France. who
was president of the club when he
vas called away; Sergt. Francis NJ.
o Brion, Co. ID, 1880 L. S. Regiment
France; Priv. Fred Rowell. Aviation
Corps, Camp Dick. Texas; Priv
Hugh Bethel, Depot Brigade, Camp
Devens, Aver, Mass.
A letter received from David f.
Hayes Of Bethel, with the 26th Reg
iment of Engineers confirms tho 70
port Of his recent promotion from,
Lieutenant to Captain, and has been
placed in command of comnapv
from Connecticut Captain Havas
says that his recent happy home in
France was completely DESTROYED nv
the German drive. but that he is sill,
somewhere in France. and expects to
stay until the Kaiser says enough "
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Knitting Women
BY
KATHLEEN NORRIS.

COZ million furnished by the Red Cross
women Of Amenca"-January ReporD
We are the knitting women weaving swift
Our webs of olive drab and navy gray;
We are the women, keeping thought away
BY this new work Of love, this eager gift
Through which men, facing the bitter hight
Under the stars of far and foreign lands,
SShall know that still million women's hands
Uphold them in the darkness and the light
We are the knitting women, knitting fast
web Of love; our million hearts are sent
AS one, with ev'ry marching regiment
Loves own democracy is come at last.
High over stricken France the black smoke towers'
Beneath it, in the hurry and the noise
Are eastern, western, northern, southern, boys.
No longer yours or mine,-forever ours!
We are the knitting women; weaving strong
A web Of prayer; our eyes with tears are dim,
But, wife or mother, we shall search for him
Across the seas. morning and even-song.
Lord God,-we pray-look down on what we dol
Bless this work, help US to play our part.
The God Of Battes-Father, still Thou art
The God of waiting-waiting women. tool
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

The West Bowdoin church will OBJ
serve the Centennial anniversary or
the organization Of the West Bow
doin Free Baptist church. May 70.
There IS a committee TO arrange Iol
transportation between Lisbon rams
and the church by auto. Free enter
tainment will be furnished those
wishing to remain at West BoWdoln
over night. Sunday noon there VIII
be basket lunch at the church. HOT
tea and coffee will be in readiness TO
serve with the lunch. Following is q
partial program:
Sunday morning at 1875, organ
voluntary; singing; invocation;
singing by choir; reading Scripture;
singing prayer: Offering; vocal solo;
sermon by Dr.. George II. Hamiin;
singing; benediction. AT noon there
will be opportunity for social greet
ings and a basket lunch, with hot
tea and coffee for all who wish.
At O'Clock the program will be-:
Devotional service; historical sketch
Of church; brief addresses by pres
ent pastor, DR.. c. + Wright, and ex-
pastors, Sidney Wakcly, f. T. Whit
man, George +. Knceland, George f.
Hamlin. Hubert Wynan, ID. +. An
drews. Paul Curtis, NJ. G. Powers,
Guy Benner, j. j.. Roberts. There
will be singing by soloists. quartet
and choir during each service
throughout the day.
Evening service at 7.45. praise
service; sermon by Rev. George r.
Finnie OF Lewiston; singing; con-
secra.ion service: singing: bene-
dIctior. Any friends wishing to re-
main over will be entertained II
, West Bowdoin homes
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
"BLUE SKY" LAW ADVERTISE.
MENTS

Application having been made to the
Banking Department by the following
named persons TO be licensed as Dealers
in Securities under provisions of Chap.
~, Sec. II to %, OF the Revised Statutes,
as amended, legal notice is hereby given.
and any person may, within two weeks
from the date of this publication file OBJ
lection to the proposed registration with
the Banking Department
Name Business Address
Equitable Trust Co. 81 Wall st.
New York.
FRANK l.. PALMER
Bank Commissioner.
Augusta, Maine, April Il, 1918.
ma N1Sd1.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
The Idle Men.


II is becoming decidedly unfashion-
able 20 be an idle man. We miss the
Joyous groups Of young men who used
to gather on our streets after the
close OF the days schools or business
but we are proud that they are
either at the front or in training for
going there. Another kind of groups
the inherently or from choice and
both inexcusably idlers and loiterers
they are still with US and an eye
sore and disgrace to themselves, the
city and the State.
New York state has Just adopted a
law that compels every man. rich or
poor. TO have some occupation, or pay
the penalty. We have no such law,
but we do have State and city laws
TO prevent idling and lettering in
public let them be enforced.
The reason why is well told by
Mark Swan Of the Vigilantes, who
says:
We're NJ war. We need soldiers.
we need munitions, we need ships, we
need food. and everywhere about us
are idle men. Not casually idle
ohronically idle. Men whose en-
thusiastiC slogan is I'm too proud to
work" Men who would break all
records for a hundred yard dish if a
Job walked up and tapped them on
the shoulder.
Some Of them hold down benches in
the parks, lazily content with crusts
and rags. some of them dine at the
Ritz and make solomon in all his
glory look like piker in a hand me
down. but they're just common or
garden loafers. the lot of them.
economic slackers-and they ought to
he taken in hand.
They re everywhere: ganEstcrs on
tho side streets. Young loafers on the
corners. tango lizards in the caharets,
har nics. who arc so used to standing
WIN one foot on tho brass rail they
can't keep both feet on the ground;
crooM touts. riff raf. in the cities:
=
front % tho Mansion House--hanger
on ~ the 'decpo waiting to see the
Train come in tand If il never came
y would moan nothing in their young
ltvesl. tho gathering around the stove
In Cy rerkins grocery store-intcnt
on the checker championship Of the
.:oss roads. They're all about lis.
~'llagc, city. country. indoors. out,
doors drag and menace.
Tho idlor IL. individually. social
excrcscencc md collectively an
economic waste. lie is the leerine
nonation OF all decent human i'm Z
pulses and ideals NJ this time, when
the hand and mind OF every human
unit is desperately needed the de-
liherate refusal To pitch in and do
something, is defiance to the race
and an insult To the Almighty.
In times Of peace. we are COM
PEELED 10 put up with the chronic
loafcr. because our guaranteed pur-
suit OF life. liberty and happiness.
means 10 some men the privilege TO
graft-to others the right to loaf, but
In time OF war. when every man is
needed. when all our rights and
privileges nrc threatened. these men
have no right 10 shirk the burden the
rest of us carry cheerfully, and they
ought 10 he used 10 the best ad-
vantage. for the common good-with-
out the slightest consideration Of
their personal preferences.
Pick out these men and women
who choose TO be parasites, the loaf
ers. the slackers. the sneak, the
idlers. the criminals. all the dead
wood. draft them ana put them TO
work
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

bridge at $50 O'Clock Wednesda!
morning. Mr.. Cochrane, the boys
father, and Ensley Rideout. togethel
with the boy, were fording the rive
on their way to work when the pol'
holding the forward wheels came GU.
and separated the wagon and let az
three into the stream The water
had risen during the night and ther'
was quite a current. and the boy be-
csne exhausted and sank, while u'
two men could do nothing to saw
him and it was with defficulty tn"
they were able to reach the shora-
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Run Auto Without Plate.

Wihiam Mason. charged with oner-
atns an automobile without regis
tfation plates, was fined s. and costs
amounting to $S.3S. which he maid
Thursday at Bangor. A warning wa .
ssuco oy the court to the effect that
heavier fines will be imposed in fu-
ture cases of this kind. The max;.
mum fine provided is $50.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

The longer the daylight saving
plan Is in operation, the better 80 per
cent. OF the people like it and 1t is
very probable that considerable
Kicking" will be heard when a re-
turn noxt fall Is made to the old style
Of reckoning time,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

Bill--Do you know Coates. the tailor?
Gill-Surely l DO. ''i:e had me in court
yesterday For what" oh. got
suit a clothes from him And didn't
pay him l suppose 'Righto.' And
how did il come out:'' 1T looks now as
if he's going to lose two suits. "-scran-
ton Times.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
imprcssionist;c.

Whistler once undertook to get a fell
low artists work into the Autumn
salon. He succeeded. and the picture
was hung. But the painter, going to see
his masterpiece with Whistler on var
nishing day. uttered an exclamation of
dismay
Good Heavens" he cried, You're
exhibiting my picture upside down"
Hush" said Whistler The commit
tee refused it the other wa. a"."-Boston
Transcript.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

A common way Of referring 70 the
French places which now figure In
the war news r. 'Blankblank. or
whatever they cail that place.
Pats and Knocks.
That must be where what.ys- may
call him has rnovsd.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

goods to a boy of IS and was turning
over in my mind the terms | could
offer him for partial payments. when
he said. Anything off, if l pay cash.
and pulled out roll o. bills amount
ing to $1,000"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Pershing Crossing the Rhine


Pictures of Pershing crossing the
Rhine will he as popular in American
homes rs pictures of Washington
crossing tie delaware.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
DIED

, H0Opf-in Melrose. Mass. May -.
y; Boody, formerly of Bangor and
Milo, aged So years. 5 months.
IRACf-ln North Amity, May II, Lib
erty Tracy, aged IS years.
Gll.LEY-ln Cranberry Isles. Nav s.
Joseph Warren Gilley of Bakers Island
aged IS years.
GATCHELL-In Baldwinsville. Mass
May l., DR.. Harold II. Gatchell. aeei
AZ years, months, days
WHITE--1n Woodland, May f., Mrs
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Bankruptcy Proceedings

The following petitions in ba,k
ruptcy have been filed at the ofBca 80
Clerk Warren in the United States
district court in Bangor: Henry A.
Thomas of Skowhegan, laborer and
mail carrier. Secured claims. sa5o.
unsecured. s2130.95. Arthur G. De-
Lait Of Ashland. laborer. Secured
claims, S79; unsecured, s1los.5o
Seeley N. Clark of washburn. labor
er Secured claims, SIS; unsecured
sSSo'ea. George H. Wiggin Of Houl-
ton iaoorer Secured claims, $500:
unsecured, s4l5o.37. Notes and bills
which ought to be paid by otber,
parties thereto, s5576
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

That oil and gas are minerals with
- meaning OF a reservation by
deed Of AL minerals rights" upon 'hs
land described in the deed is heio ~
an Oklahoma court.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Light and Airy
Traoedy Of Pork,css Saturday

There was a young person at Sydenham
Who was lured into eating forbidden
ham.
For some wretch in disguise
In cold chicken pies
Had unjustifiably hidden ham.
Chicago Tribune.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Railroads and Stean,u...S
MAINE CENTRAL R. R.
In Effect January 20, 1918.

IN CHeCt january <Oy iS'o'
TRAINS LEAVE AL ICSTA
-r.rzsa>vssl GOING WEST-3.U5 A.
..HTK NJ, Portland and Bos'
lE9 ton; t.ls A. NJ, Farm
KOaIEslu1l Ington, Bath. KocklL. Il
lkH;LIly:IIl:IH cortland, Boston. Mon
E------J real ana Quebec; 8 80 A.
-. =. ~.,a'.>.-, Portland, ooston; $40 .
M, local, 4.uo +. NJ, (express) Brul....
wick' Lewls.on Portland boston, 5b
+. M, iia!lowell. Gardner anu o. Gar
diner; lUo2 4. Nj, Lewiston, Bath, POrt-
lai.d, Boston. Sundays 90 anu IUlj 4.
NJ $40 and 1902 Z. M. ior,l4Ld an
Boston.
GOING EAST-llO A. NJ, Bangor St
Johi,, Halifax. sunday morning a, liz
a NJ. does not connect b>yOlId B-.nS1i'
20 A. M. Tor Waterville Bangor. h's
iarDor. CALAIS ana AruostoUk Co.. 10
a. NJ, local TO Belfast. Bangor an an
SkoWhegan; l.U2 noon. WaterVh1e'
E.4' +. NJ. express to Watervliie' thehS1
iocai 10 Belfast, Harmony, Dover anu
foxcroft and Bangor and Matt. Vim
keas: iSl =. NJ, WaterviIle and banboI'
sundays i.lo A. M; 80 a. NJ, 3'4J l.
NJ, Tor Wateryilie. I4ttsneld an Dali
scr.
Trains leave Augusta for liaiioweis,
Gardiner and South Gardiner at ~ ) %
A. NJ, $40. 5.l5. 1852 +. NJ. Hal&weH
and Gardiner only 4.05 =. Nj, Gardner
only 3.0o A. NJ. daily except Monday.
III. l.. HARRIS. Genl. Pass. Agt.. ID. ''l
douglass, Genl Mgr Portland. Ne.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
OUR BOYS
in
OUR C0UNTRY'S SERVICE
Somewhere in France,

Somewhere in France,
April Il, 1918.
Dear Sister:
suppose YOU have the card saying
the ship on which my company sailed
had arrived overseas safely. Well ]
am feeling fine, was sick on leaving
America, had a kind of grip Although
we have not been here long. vet we
have seen a lot of country; il is very
beautiful; the weather and climate here
is like California. 1t is very noticeable
that the women and children do al the
farm work. the men are at the front
fighting for the future existence Of their
country. They surely need our help
and lots of it. ! have not seen Il news
paper for several days so do not know
what progress is Icing made at the
front. | have seen one American loco
motive here. their own are dinkey be-
side of ours and the cars are very funny
things compared to our own. | wish |
could send postcards and pictures but
they are tabooed. but there Will come
time and we all hope soon, when the
Stars and Stripes will float over Berlin
and the Kaiser is no more.
No packages are to he sent without
we write for them.
Lots of love, Guy.
Guy Vincent Wright,
4t., Bn. Co. NJ. ed L s. Engineers
American Expeditionary Forces,
Somewhere in France
This letter was received by Mrs. u r.
Dunn, Readfield Depot from her broth
er few days ago. He has been in Cali
fornia for the past seven years and
joined the engineers Corp. there in Dec
1911, was sent to Maryland to train and
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

Percy Cochrane, Atkinson, Drowned
Percy Cochrane. the I -year-old son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Cochrane A.
k'nson. was drowned in the Piscat-
aQuis river about mile below the
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18
Eastern Steamship Lines, Inc.

6OSIUN q PORTLAND LIVE
Leave franklin Wharf, Portland. Mon,
Gays: Wednesdays and Fridays at l."
r; NJ. Return, leave Boston TuesdaFA
Ihursdays and Saturdays at go + NJ
BATH & BOOTHBAY LINE
Leave Bath week days only 2.io +; .,
ior boothbay Harbor and intermedia"
landings. Return leave Boothbay hal.
Dol, week days only at 7.00 A. VI. w
bath and intermediate landings.
II. A. CLAY, Superintendent
Franklin Wharf Portland, Ne
NJ. A. HARADEN. Superintendent,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

Mrs. Maud McKindsley of Joyce
has a flock of 3S Single Comb White
Leghorn pullets that from Dec. l un-
til May l laid 1869 eggs, which beats
record published a short time ago
in the kennebec Journal of 3i2S eggs
from 80 pullets.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1918-05-18

Dated at Augusta, Me, May Sth. 1913
ma aN9ll-l3-l5-lI-lS
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01
NO DR RUNKS UNDERBONE
 DR 7 "A "
No Arrests Made During Past
 Month for Drunkenness

The bone-dry law in this territory has cut down drunkenness if not drink ing in Ketchikan. The records of the municipal magistrate show this un- mistakably.
 In December. the last month of the wet" year, the police of Ketchikan made 2S arrests for drunkenness and disorderliness. In January. 1918. the first month of the bone dry law, the arrests for drunks fell off to 4, all made on January first, the last of the New Years eve joymakers.
 The new years is starting with a clean record, and the coming months will show what the bone-dry law is doing for Ketchikan. Last year there were 324 arrests for drunkenness, as follows: January 1917, 1 arrest; Feb ruary 13; March IS; April 1; May 1S; June %; July 34; August 52; Septem- Der 5S: October AT; November 30; and December 2S.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01
DENVER HEIRESS BEING SOUGHT BY
 HER RELATIVES
Word from Amarillo, Texas Says She is Living-Estate
 Waits Her and Relative

The Denver Republican says na- tion-wide search has been instituted for pretty Laura Chronister, missing Denver heiress, by her grandmother, Mrs. Joseph Penn, whose ranch is sev- eral miles east of Denver. Until the granddaughter is found, a valuable es- tate cannot be settled nor any of the property left to her by the queer will of grand uncle disposed of. Seven years ago in January, Laura Chronister, then IS years old, disap- peared one afternoon from Eighteen and Welton streets while on a visit to relatives in Denver. The girl had waited outside a store while a girl friend who accompanied her made a purchase When the companion re- appeared Laura was missing. Her fam fly has not seen her since, altho word mysteriously received from Amarillo, Texas, assured relatives that she was still alive. The name Snow was signed to the information.
 At the time of her disappearance passers-by told the police they had seen a low-slung touring car stop at the corner and then speed away in a cloud of dust east on Welton street, but their description of the car and its occupants was so vague and their stories differed so much that the police were unable to follow up the clew The authorities gave up the search as hopeless after two weks.
 Meanwhile a grand uncle, William Penn, with whom the girl had been a favorite, left Colorado and went to the Cobalt country in Canada. There after two years of hardships he made strike and began to prosper. Before he could realize on his holdings he died
 Search thru his effects uncovered queer scraWl of a will sewed in be- tween the covers of his Bible. It was properly attested and legal enough to tie up his property for all time unless his missing grand-niece was found
 He bequeathed his mine holdings to the missing girl, and in making other bequeaths to relatives the condition Laura must be found before they could inherit.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01

for, legend has peopled the island with ghosts, whose wailings and moan ines and the clanking of whose chains strike terror to the stoutest heart. Those whom necessity have compelled to stop there tell narrowing tales of the unseen inhabitants of that deso- late place. of the moans and cries which filled the air during the hours ot darkness, and drove them at the first opportunity to seek other shelter. For Chirikof. according to the legends ol the Natives, was the prison of the early Russian inhabitants of Kodiak. To this bleak and desolate island were banished the offenders against the Russian law or the edicts of the offici- als in command of the Russian settle ment
 Tales of horrible cruelties visited upon these unfortunates are handed down ln the Native legends; how the offenders loaded with chains. were landed at Chirikof and left to their own resources. There was no escape, and the unfortunates. prey to the hor- rible sufferings from hunger and ex- posture eked out a terrible existence until death relieved them of their suf- ferings. Many years have passed since the last of these unfortunates passed away but their restless spirits still moan, according to the tales of the Natives, this bleak and desolate island filling the air with ti1" lamentations and the clanking of their chains. So vivid are these stories that even the white men shudder as they pass the unhallowed spot, ;..l, like the Natives they pass it by without landing. No lure of possible mineral weath induces the hardy prospector to vist this awe some place. it is summed by all, and so dark and sullen it lies untenanted except by the wild fowl and it's ghost Y inhabitants. Valdez Miner.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS
Thursady and Friday

ALASKA-Controller Bay-Okalee Channel Buoy ?, reported January Ii, rstS. dragged from its position by ice will ba replaced on station when prac- ,icabla
 sumner stratt-Helm Rock Gas and Bell Raoy H. s. reported not burning January &o. Ia1S. will 5e relighted as s1on = practicable
 Wraaseu Syrait-Midle Ground L.ga1 established January 3l. 1918. eash.az white every sec. flash O. sec. duration. 1o candlepower on a smal. black house on a white pile dol aA,n. = located on the northwesrerly s.de Q. channel abreast Of present Fe-e.s6urg Float Light 24
 Weaagcl strait-NIiddle Ground Iieh- 24 will be discontinued and Peter eare Bar Baoy 24. red second -lass spar. wi.l ba established in the same position in tae near future. Fur: ther notice Of this change aill be issu- ed when made.
 P direction Of the Commissioner Of Ligh.aousas.-W. C. DIBRELL. Insp
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01

Eighteen thousand babies will be born 10 Belgian and French mothers who are too poor, because of the war, to give them the reception they should have The fathers of these new bab- ies either are dead or fighting
 The Spokane Chapter of the Red Cross has undertaken to furnish 300 complete baby outfits -or these young sters within the next three weeks
 This will be done entirely aside from the war work, which forges ahead from morning to night at the Paulsen Build ing, and which must never be halted even for babies!-Seattle Red Cross Bulletin.
The daily progressive-miner., 1918-02-01

The remains of a white man, later dier at Fort Davis who disappeared last July, were recently found lying on the shore of lagoon in the vicin- ity of Cape Nome. The remains were laying partially in the water, the head being above the ice. It is evident that the man died shortly after disappear ing and did not desert as the authorit- ies supposed at the time.