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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
Where Is City Report2

The fact that the present city admin
istration had published no city report w
to Friday night is causing lot OF com
ment among the taxpayers in the Guy
1t has been customary In former years
to have these reports ready for distrioa'
ton not later than the night or the tifs'
city caucus 50 as to give the voters
chance to study the reports of the CIT!
officials and learn something Of the II
nancial condition Of the city. Many o.
the voters say that without doubt I'M
present city government has made a poo
financial record, but delay in giving I'M
facts to the public is not likely u
strengthen them with the voters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25

f. c. Rawson of Mechanic Falls has
filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy
in the United States district court. His
liabilities are listed at sS157 and his as
sets at ss4o2 The principal creditors are
Jonas Edwards & Son, the Mechanic
Falls Loan g. Building Association and
Rose E. Whitney of Mechanic Falls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
WA7ERWLLE.

Miss Anna Chadwick and Miss Mil
dred Glidden of Augusta, who have
been guests of Miss Chadwick's aunt,
Miss Ada Jewett of Silver street, re-
turned to their homes Sunday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
Cleveland Buys Farmer

Cleveland. Feb. 2i-Announcement was
made here today that the Cleveland base
ball club has purchased outfelder JACK
Farmer from the Portland club OF the
Pacific Coast League. .l4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
70 Deferred by Sickness

sickness developed on the steamer while
she lay here few days ago and ali
nose seeking passage upon her were told
mat II would he necessary for ther ~
I'VE '"rcinated. 1t is believed that at
east were deferred by this require.
''n' from taking passage and proceede,,
10 '''hiaX or New York by rail
u" Florl2cl was owned hv the Xor
'"'R newfoundland K Halifax steam
snip 60, known ~ the Red Cross Line
OH winch G.. T. Bowering Co Tip,i.oa
o.. Liverpool and New York. arc ,ha
'ten'S. In recent weeks she had depart-
'' rom her schedule as she was rro-
P"'h''F used by the British government
NV q dispatch boat between this nor, ,,d
W" YORK the usual stop being made n
''"'.''N' Her passengers have ipc,,d.a
''tAble percentages She was due =, r,o,
IAN tomorrow morning and in New yorl,
newt Thursday Tho shin was hui,.
'''"Ss"w IN 1909 and registered 1850 tom,
net She conveyed the frs. Neufourd-
AN" regiment across the Atlantic in o.
''h'r iFiL accompanying other shine
carry inS the original Canadian oo,,in-
gent 'o'i'ih-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
Signals for Helm

message received here from Rrood
owe early tonight said that inst as
DARKNESS set IN four or five mo, u.ara
seen To rush from the forecastIe ~ a..
FrNals wheh the wash of the seas nor
United and wave for help. At that t,n.
y was impossible to do ANYTHING fo-
'eem' but there was a faint hone ,bo,
win the arrival of lfe-saving apnaratus
some survivors might be reached,
The relief train from this citv ,a,o,
cd Broad Cove, two miles fro,,, ,ho
wreck. soon after o'clock. II was nm
der The direction of Hon. Tasker Cool.
marine agent. and carried. besides nhy-
sicians and nurses. a party of naval
sunners with rocket firing apparatus
by means OF which it was hoped to get
line over the ship
The coastal steamer Prospero eouip-
PED with life saving apparatus from
flacentta Bay and four steamers from
me city have been sent to Broad Cove.
OUT none Of them had reached there
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25

Charles Barker Of East Vassalbort
was business caller in the city Satur
day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
Struck About 5 A. M.

The snip struck at Broad Cove about )
\ NJ She sent one wireless message OF
distress which was received at the Cape
Race radio station, saying that she wa.
ashore and IN imminent danger OF de-
structiOn. Her wireless apparatus worked
haltingy aud soon was silent.
Nothing further was heard from her and
Us the cove is in a remote and sparsely
settled district it was not until late III
the forenoon that rescue party reached
The scene. They discovered the Florzel
lying well III shore and subjected to a
lperciess pounding by the heavy seas.
Small boats could not live in the surf
and efforts 70 escape from the ship were
~ hopeless, while IN the absence Of life
saving equipment no assistance could be
rendered from shore.
Men could he seen on the bridge sig
mailing fnr help and some had dashed
themselves N the rigging
Gradually under the bunctng OF the
waves, the hull disappeared from view
and after few hours the vessel was al
most submerged. while men IN the rigging
-tiii signallcd frantically but hopelessly
for aid
While the watchers looked on, the bod
los Of five men and woman came ashore.
Four were Identified as those OF Edgar
Froude, captain Joseph Kean and Robert
Snow. passengers, and James Long.
sailor. The other bodies have not been
identified tonight
Meanwhile arrangements had been made
here 20 send the Terra Nova. n sailing
vessel to the aid of the Florizel and a
special train carrying physicians, nurses
ana supplies was made UP and dispatched
To the point uearcs. the scene of the
wreck
tn" crew Of the Florizel included one
woman, Miss T.. McHardy. The vesseI
was commanded by Capt. w. J. Martin
- master OF long experience and who was
'iedlt'i with the fun confidence of the
'Wuers The purser. f. H. Jones was
'nieI nurser of the Red Cross Line and
was serving on the Sterhano when the
'iier was sunk by the German subn,a-
iihc OF The Massachusetts coast
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25
14O PERSISTED
lCnntinued from Page One)

Io.Jn barrels of dry Goldfish ana herring
for New York and 1900 barrels Tor HAN
fax, which was her only port of cail pc
tween st. Johns and New York.
\ blizzard was brewing when she left
and il grew worse toward midnight, but
ahated in the early morning hours. The
Florizcl would have TO proceed south
ward along the coast toward Cape Race,
,Is!ut - miles distant. Mariners here
.lnk SHE probably put her head seward
10 tide out the storm and that when the
Wind moderated somewhat toward morn
ing her commander. thinking he had
passed south of Capt Race, turned west
,.qrd
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-25

Reuel Farris Of China was In the cit!
on business Saturday.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
HUN AIRMAN TURNS
GUN ON HELPLESS
Falling to His Death, Malevolent
German Shoots Women
and Children.

The desperate m~alevolence of q Ger
man airman, who, falling to his death,
tried to "go west in style" by taking
with him as many women and children
as he could Is graphically described
by Mrs. Laura Forest of the American
fund for French wounded in a letter
from Epernay, where she had taken
part in the evacuation of a hospital
before the German advance and wit
messed the fall of the Hun plane. The
letter tells how the Boche even after
he had fallen deliberately continued
to fire upon noncombatant spectators.
Mrs. Forests letter follows:
at was just after breakfast on Sun
day when the guns announced the APP
proach Of an enemy plane and we
crowded around the doors of our no
tel and watched what we thought was
the successful carrying out of a dam
gerous~ move, the sudden dropping
down of the plane through the area of
bursting shells and out of the reach
of the guns. Right over the building
he came, raking the street with ma.
chine-gun fire-and then came such q
burst of joy from the threats of the
people as is seldom heard: I'll est
tombel II est tombeP (He has fallen.)
when I found myself I was run
ming with the men and women and
children of Epernay, and with them ]
kept on running till the fallen plane
was I'm sight. Wounded as the avia'
tor was. he turned his machine gun on
the crowd and fired, killing a woman
and a child. And still we ran on and
found him and only the arrival Of Q
motor with the police let him live a:
long as he did. He died within a few
hours. The second man was buried
under the machine and the crowd was
well dispersed before he was brought
out, badly wounded. and carried away
/ never heard whether he lived Of
died."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK MARKET

Sioux City. Sept. 3.-The local
trade drew a fairly liberal supply of
cattle, some 232 cars or close to g.
900 head, an increase over a week
and a year ago. Market for killing
grades developed fair activity and
was quoted as steady to strong, while
outlet for feeding stock was steady
to as much as Is cents higher. Oma-
ha reported $4,000 cattle and the
market lower. but thsi failed to affect
the local situation.
Hog supplies were moderate and
the prices paid averaged about steady
with Saturday. Top again reached
1885, with the general bulk OF
sales from $18.S5019.30.
Sheep receipts were on the liberal
order and the undertone was slow.
Big end OF the supply was in feeding
grades and not much early business
was done.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
MRS. DOOLEY'S
ADVICE TO
WORKING GIRLS

Milwaukee, Wis.-"I wish all girls
who work and suffer from functional
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

me feel like a new woman. | can work
from morning until night and it does
not bother me, and / wish all girls who
suffer as / did would try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. =
Mrs. H, DooLEY, l135 25th Street,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Working girls everywhere should
profit by Mrs. Dooley's experience, and
instead of dragging along from day to
day with life a burden, give this famous
root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound q trial.
1t has overcome just such conditions 70,
thousands of others, and why not f.
you? For special advice, write w
=. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn. 4
The result of their 40 years expegi
is at your service.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
President in Proclamation Names
Sept. 12 as Date on Which
They Shall Register.
12,78O,OOO AFFECTED
Country to Devote Larger Part Of
Military Manpower Of Nation to
Bring Decisive Victory In
War, Says Executive.
REGISTRATION FACTS

All men OF Is to As years. inclu.
sive. must register.
Registration places open at Z a.
m. and close at 8 p. m. September
IL.
II In doubt about registration
places consult local draft boards.
= .
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
GIVES UP DEsERTER SON
Alabama Father Turns Him Over {,
Military Authorities.

Startling Hicks. Jr.. alleged to have
deserted his command at Camp
Wheeler. Macon, Ca, two months ago
Is back In the hands of military au.
thorities, through the instrumentality
of his father. The young man, who is
said to have hid In the woods near his
home, at Jasper, Ala, after leaving
camp, was turned over to the authori'
ties by his father, who had spent sew
eral nights In the woods before finding
his son.
ut nearly broke my heart to have
to arrest my OWE son and turn him
over to the authorities on so serious
a charge" the father told federal Of
ficials, 'but ever IL he is my son
cannot harbor him as q deserter OF
c~ountenance his action"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
HUN 4HuMcER STONE" SHOWS

s'ess Ne and Weep" Inscription on
Rock Barred In River Elbe.
The famous "hunger stone" In the
River Elbe near Tetschen. which, &C
cording to popular belief in Germany,
predicts Z famine when seen, is now
visible for the first time since the be-
ginning Of the war.
The stone lies In the bed of the
river and has never been visible save
at exceptionally low water. On the
stone II chiseled In old German I:
sWhen ~ zee me " win weep"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

ulS WOulu
profit by my advice
and take Lydia E.
Pink h am's Vege-
table Compound.
Before / was mar
ried, when | came
home from work at
night, l would be
just worn out with
pains which dragged
me down. L took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and it made
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
DRENcH GERMANS WITH GAS
Americans Throw Many Shells o.
Lines at Fismette.

With the American Army on the
Vesle Front, Sept. 3.-The Americans
gave the Germans In Fismette and its
vicinity the heaviest dose Of gas sent
v . since the Americans and Germans
took foothold along the vesle. The
Americans used mustard gas and OBJ
servers reported that Germans in
dividually and in small groups were
leaving the lowlands where the gas
fumes chung.
The Germans answered with mustard
gas, firing about q thousand shells be-
fore settling down to the usual artil.
lery firing. There was no infantry &C
ti0n.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
HONOR BADGE FOR
ALL WAR WORKERS
Americas Industrial Legion OF
Honor Is Formed.
GOVERNMENT IS BACK OF II

Women and Men Who Contribute to
Soldier Equipment Are to BE Des-
Ignated by Medal-WiiI Show That
Workers In War Plants Are Just as
Much Part CT American Army as
Men In Trenches.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
400 SOVIET TROOPS SLAIN

London, Sept. 2.-The Daily Mails
Hardin. M~anchuria, correspondent,
~telegraphing the situation In Siberia,
says the bolsheviki forces were de-
feated in q three days battle along
the Ussuri river losing 400 men killed.
The correspondent adds that the boil
sheviki troops are fleeing toward Kha-
boravska and that the Japanese have
occupied Imam, midway between Nikol
and Khaboravska.
Fierce lighting has taken place be-
tween the Germans and peasants, with
heavy losses to both.
The dispatch reads:
In the Ukraine the unrest among
the peasants Is spreading. Dymera
has been declared by the German
army commander to be In . state OF
siege.
Nevertheless the peasants succeed.
ed in concentrating forces around the
town and the commander asked for
r-einforcements from Kiev. After
two hours an airplane appeared over
the town and announced that two
steamers with soldiers and guns had
been dispatched against the peasant
forces.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03

In a thrilling sairplane battle
10000 feet above the fighting
lines in France, Francis Peabody Ma
goun, Jr., a Harvard man, and second
lieutenant in the British royal flying
corps, sent one of the Germans most
noted fliers crashing to the ground,
causing the Huns death and complete
destruction of his machine, according
to a letter sent by Magoun to his
parents in Cambridge, Mass. This
was the ~victor's first aerial conflict.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-09-03
70 INCREASE OFFICERS PAY


Washington, Sept. 3.-Increase Of
$500 q year In pay OF commissioned Of
fcers OF the army from second lieu
tenant to colonel Ii proposed In : bill
introduced In the House BY Repre-.
sentative Dyer Of Missouri. who points
out that no increase In the pay Of Of.
ncers has been given since 1903, 81.
though the cost Of living his incroased
n the army ~ well a in civil life.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
ORDERS HEATLESS DAYS
Canadian Program Almost Dupli"
Gates That of y. S.
President May Have to Decide on the
Continuation Of Program In
This Country.

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 5.-The opera
ton Of manufacturing plants Febru-
airy 8, 10 and IL, as a conservation
measures, is ordered by the cabinet on
recommendation of c.. A. McGrath, Do
minion fuel controller. The order In
cludes all munitions plants. It does
not apply to Western Canada or the
maritime provinces.
The order follows closely along tho
lines of the American five-day closing
order, and grants virtually the same
exceptions.
Two Open Days for Clubs.
It also is provided that during tho
months of February and March all
golf, yacht, canoe, hunt and country
clubs must be closed except on
Wednesdays and Saturdays. =
For the present heatless Mondaya
are ordered only, for theaters and
other places Of amusement. They
must remain closed every Monday
from February IS to March rs.
Deadlock on Fuelless Monday.
Washington, Feb. 5.-President VIII
son may have to intervene and say
when fuelless Mondays shall stop.
DR.. Harvey A. Garfield, the fuel ad.
ministrator, who issued the closing or
der, will have a conference with VIII
liam G. McAdoo, director general OF
railroads, to thresh out the problem.
Indications are that the two men
,culd deadlock on the question.
DR.. Garfield wants the order to r.
main in effect Indefinitely. Director
General McAdoo wants the order alb
roRated Immediately and the vi
program abandoned.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
TRANSPORTS FOR 100000
Ships Are Ready, 10 Statement o.
Secretary Daniels.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Secretary Da0>
iels has authorized the statement that
the Navy is assured of enough trans
port facilities to make sure that there
will be 100000 American troops IN
France early this year, as was stated
by Secretary Baker recently pelore
the Senate Military committee.
He made the statement when ny
formed that Secretary Bakers fore
cast for the number of men to be
sent abroad was challenged in the
Senate by Senator Hitchcock. he
would not say whether the navy de-
partment's outlook for ships was SUCH
IA to warrant the expectation of hav1
ing 100000 more men in France ~
the end of 1918.
Secretary Baker declined to com
ment in any way upon Senator Hitch
cocks address.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
300 MlNNEs0TANS TO CAMP
Orders Issued to Begin Entrainment
February %.

February %.
st. Paul, Feb. 5.-Completion of the
first draft call has been ordered.
All remaining white men of Mime
sota's current draft army quota, ap-
proximately $500, will be sent to
Camp Dodge the last of this month.
Orders to this effect were received
by Adjutant General Rhinow from
Provost Marshal General Crowder.
Entertainment is to be completed in
the five days beginning February %.
Only white men are included in the
order.
Every effort should be made, accord
ing to the call, to complete local divi-
sion quotas from men placed in Class
1. To this end expediting of physical
examinations is directed Of enougl,
Glass 1 men to insure tie desired
number. ....
This order regarding physical ex-
aminations Is, in some degree, . re-
versal of orders from General Crow
der previously sent, calling for cessa-
ticn of all such examinations pending
receipt of new regulations.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
MAY REDUCE IMPORTS
More Ships Needed for Trans
portation of Troops.
Administration Considering Drastic
Orders to Obtain More
Shipping.

Washington, Feb. 6.-The admins
tration has under consideration q so
per cent reduction in the volume of
imports as one of the measures for
making available ships transporting
troops to France.
Overseas transportation is recog-
nized as the real problem facing the
government in it's effort to put on
the firing line a big fighting force
and keep it in supplies. Estimates
Of the amount of tonnage necessary
to keep an army supplied vary all the
way from four to seven tons in con-
tinuous service for each man en-.
gagged. The United States now has
in all services about 100000 tons of
shipping, of which probably one-fourth
is engaged in bringing in materials
heretofore regarded as essential to
the National industrial life.
Neutral Ships to Help.
II negotiations now under way with
neutral countries are concluded sue
cessfully q large amount of neutral
tonnage will be used to supplant
American ships engaged in the non.
hazardous trades. It Is regarded as
unlikely that the entire 100000
tons Of American ships engaged will
be put into the transatlantic service
leaving the neutral ships to supply
so far as possible the gap made.
The general opinion Is that about so
per cent of the shortage will not be
supplied.
In addition to its efforts to obtain
neutral tonnage the government OK
poets to take over all American sail.
ing ships and large number of
French sailing ships, all to be put IN
the non.hazardous trades. This move
will add some tonnage to that avail
able for bringing in imports.
II a cut in imports is made the
government will select for elimination
articles regarded as non-essential In
the prosecution Of the war.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
Eastern Mills May Close.

Washington, Feb. 5.-Closing Of the
New England textile mills from coal
shortage is imminent, according to
kilograms from the National Associa'
ton of Wooden Manufacturers and
the National Association of Cotton
Manufacturers. The messages have
been submitted to the Senate by Sen
atcr Gallinger. Closing would suspend
making of thousands of army uni
forms. kilograms asked that navy
Golfers at once be dispatched to New
England with coal to relieve the sit
uation.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
Rcd eros. Spends Bio War Fund.

Washington, Feb. 5.-An accounting
OF American Red Cross war council
appropriations shows that up to jan
uary there had been appropriated
from the war fund $77.s43,4s5, every
dollar of which was for some form OF
relief at home or abroad. All admin
istration expenses in the United States
are paid out of general funds, largely
from membership dues, and for this
nurposa s1,2S9,292 had been appro-
rriated. This, with $S1s,O00 drawn
from miscellaneous funds for various
purposes made . total OF $79,l5O. 721.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
VENICE VISITED By AIRMEN
Enemy Flyers Also Bomb other
Towns With Bombs.

Rome, Feb. 5.-Venice and mum.
her of towns on the Venetian plain
have been bombed by enemy airmen,
according to the Italian official COM
munication.
While no damage and no casualties
resulted from the attack on Venice,
much destruction was fraugnt In the
towns of Padau, Treviso and Mestre,
where also many civilians were killed
or wounded.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08
U. S. BOY DOWNS FOE PLANES
Seventeen.Year-O Lad Brings Dow!
Two.

Seventeenth ar.oId Lad Brings Down
Two.
Paris, Feb. 5.-Taking advantage or
the fine weather members of the La
fayette Escadrille continued their
brilliant exploits over the French
front during the last few days, bring
ing down three German machines
and losing none themselves. Corporal
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., son of the
well-known American turfman, Capt.
Thomas Hitchcock, downed two enc
my airmen within q short time Of
each other-his first victories in the
air.
David E. Putnam Of Brookline.
Mass, brought down his third ma
chine. Both Hitchcock and Putnam
have been on the battle front less
than three months and have not yet
been transferred to the American
army.
New York, Feb. 5.-Corporal Hitch
cock, who is just II years old, tried
to enlist in the American army and
although he successfully underwent
the 1OO.hours endurance test in the
air, he was rejected because of his
youth. He went to France last June
and at the conclusion of his training
was regularly assigned to the Frenci,
aviation corps.
Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-02-08

Canada Sends Fish TO q. ..
Winnipeg, Feb. s.-Eignteeh CIR
loads of fish have been shipped to tho
United States to aid meat conserva-
ton there.