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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25
Me. Asso. of Agricultural
Fairs to Meet in Water'ln'

The annual meeting Of IN" va,
ISOLATION of Agriculture f"-'7
held in this city Oh Weaknesses
s. at the cit Y council rooa's -
city building. at which t.tr A.'''-. ~
ton of officers will take '.'''
ports for the year will h" re-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

1. The wind-up Of the big conference
Of course everybody knows WHAT con-
ference. the Community Efficiency Con-
1erence-is to be a real flre-cracker. a
red-hot snapper that will leave Angus
"a and her surroundings thinking.
You've guessed it. first time! Yes.
Fred p. Smith IS to be the chief
speaker But there's more to it. Let
a,s whisper this Everett Davis, who
has made Augusta folk jump up AMI
holler. is to lead the singing
: Certainly, There ARE to be other
attractions, but if these won't fetch
you nothing will so why bother?
, The Journal is sorry 10 report one
important change in the program. but
aside from that il is assured by the
y. M. c. A. plotters and drivers OF this
thing that the program is to go through
!ust as follows
. Raymond Robins is not to be present
Sunday evening
Program
SATURDAY MORNING
~. NJ. c. A. Gymnasium,
Orlando Frost. Belfast. Presiding.
s0-Reconstruction Programs.
For Fighting the Social Evil.
Or. n. F. Hitchcock. Augus.a
For Improving Health Conditions.
Or. l.. u. Bristol. Augusta
For the Welfare Of the Industrial
Worker. I. NJ. Ham!!n, Milo
J" 80 Address.
Charles r Towson. New York
'@-Address Developing the Latent
Resources OF d Community.
Harrington Emerson. New York
II 0-Discussion Of the above. program
The following men will lead in the dis
(, 'ussion: James Ba yl.y. State Board
, OF Charities: W. r. Moran of a. !.
:. l.unn & Sweet Co. Auburn: WILLARD
: Newell. Bath Iron Works. Bath
At the discussion period MI Emerson
will conduct a round table confer
ence on general topics relating 10 eff
: hcerCy.
1el5--AdJourn.
SATURDAY NOON
Green Street Methodist Church)
Hon Leon :. Higgins Presiding,
President of Maine Senate.
1,T-Civic Luncheon. Address.
Raymond Robins Chicago
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
". NJ c. A. BuildingI
Henry F. Merrill. Portland. Presiding.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25
Funeral Of Mrs. Anna Eigue

The funeral of the late Mr., ~
Nigue was held from The ~a'red as'
church Friday morning az $50.
The bearers were JOSEPH 'io'o' :
gene Butler. Paul Pcu.i". VIE y
deau, Hilairc Gregory and 1om's
roux. Interment was al The tA.A
Pine Grove cemetery.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Miss Eltha p. Daggott has rs,urr'
to her duties as MANAGE ~ To W."
ern Union office, after heinc aIs,'
from her duties for the pas c:'
weeks because of III ho@lth G
Daggctt has been visiting At p
home at Belgrade Lakes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mr.. Hoag Of Wa,erviie has her Y
town during the past We in the r.
terests of the Pencbsrot Bay I.ler''T
Co. While here he was &c., d
the Castine House. -CaStne letter U
Bangor News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25
Roekland Business Man

Rockland. Nc, Jan. "a. - " IL :,
Ninal. president Of II" 'i'''- q.
tional Bank of ThomA~t''' ~ 4
day. Mr.. Ninal. who WAS % ~.
had been in the dry soN"S m
for half a century and II sgd
was representative III '
Legislature.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

MIR. and Mrs. +. o. Hackett ri +
city were in Robinson. Aroo'"
county, last week whore They ""
guests of MIR. and Mrs. Will MlrT
of that place. Mrs. Hackctt also "a
proved the time in ealing on
neighborS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mrs. Harry Goodwin has cont 20 FIR
McHenry at Baltimore. Nj N1era 81.
will visit her son Leon. "h" IS =,
ceiving treatment at ~" n.itt.y To-,
pital at the fort.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Representative Fred / il9',ey
North Arson is in the city for teV
days calling on Mrs, H"iler. VITO i
at the Sisters hospital. Sh' VIII IN
dergo a surgical opera ton Sa'urda!
morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

A very large nunier t.om &c -.
attended the musical comedy .aet,
The Tinker Twins" gwen IT, ual.,
Memorial hail THURSDAY .\er,r.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

A special meeting of thu \. O. :
W. Lodge was held At th"fg taN ia
day evening. and in spite % H.
weather there was Il good at, ni.9,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mrs. Dellie Dixon has Returned !
this city from Benton. Wh"re s,a IA
been passing some time win J,,a&;s
and friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Iinwoo0 Pratt. who has been or,
i'll with tonsilitis. is worry much IN,
proved and is able to h" ut,r
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Charles Treworsy has return.'
from several days stay at Sl-r
with relatives and has resumed h;
studies at Colby college.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mrs. H. j. Agger of pn,.ao,
and Miss Frances Asscr Of Ports,
are in the city on few days' ...,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Principal Drew 7. Harthorne J..
returned from Bangor Whulr he ~.
been on a short business I'm
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Miss Ida NJ. Wsldron, clerk 4, =.
Emery Brown store. Is a!sen, 10,
her duties because Of illness
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

E. T. Morton has returned t-o,, :.
susta. where he has been se.v.as !.
a traverse iuryman for the pdst ".
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mrs. Pratt has returned II he- A.,
ties as clerk at the Emery Blow.
store, after a few days' absence
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Ernest Bearce has returned g..
trip to Dover. whore h, visited ~
parents for a few days.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Game Warden Richard } I-,.o.
Augusta was in the clty Frltav 4.
business connected with the OIL.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Don Monday evening there w.Y ;.
social at the Methodist churca by i.
members of the Queen Es,her S...,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Mrs. Roscoe Abbey Of Skowh.c.
passing a few days in 'he ery ~
friends. ''
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25

Myra l.. Elkhoff of MeIrosc n,
has been a visitor in the city j,r -
past few days. "a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-25
Oak Grove
Defeats Nj. c.. I.

Vassalboro. Me. Jan. "a
BY better passing. better team work
and better shooting. OakGrove de
feated the Nj, G. I. basketball team
Friday night by the score Of q to u.
OAK GROVE AZ. c.
f. Scott, ri ............. ID, c. Emery
robertson II ........... RI, Dwelley
'................... Jenkins. :.
Suttie' ............... c. Tarbell
Mhton' 70 ................. II. Gonyl
a. scott, Id IF. Fowler. Emery
Score: Oak Grove 90: NJ. c. L., y.
Goals from floor. A. Scott 4. Suite ;.
robertson, +. Scout. Fowler ., COMA
2. c. Emery l. Goals from fouls, A.
Scott :, Suite. Tollefson. F. Scott,
Fowler Cionya. Referee. Mullen.
Time, two l. and one TO- minute peri
DDS.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS

lFrom the Farmer, Wednesday, September 1O l869)
 We make the following ext statistics print ed In the annual report the yeighh annual convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the diocese of Connec icut:
 sms infants confirmed 10; marriages D. burias 9 Sunday School teachers 36 scholars 220 rbuions, S2,if57S.
 Christ churei-Rev J. B. Faulkner recor-Famies, I8o; b8ptsms, nans 1S adults confirmed, 2i communicants, teachers 26; contributions SiII333.
 Church of the NatvitlBev. E. F. Bishop, recor-Fami- lies 6l baPtsms infants r; adults 3; communicants, Az marriages E bura 2; Sunday school scholars 5S; contribu ions Sl.i2f1S.
 St. Pa4I's-Rev. \. s. Richardson rector-Famies 100; baptisms infants 2 adults commitments, marriages 5 buras g. Sunday school teachers 2f; scholars 20O cont buttons Sf,2l35I.
 Trnity-Rev Sylvester Clarke rcctor-Famies. 200; bap- usms, infants 3; adults I3; confirmed 2i communican l65; marriages, l6; burias Sunday teachers 2i scholars l31; contributions, $l9297O.
 They are telling capital story of Colonel Robinson, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Wisconsin, years he the editor of the Green Bay Democrat and having to East business, before the teegr9mS and rapid raye he left his wife, shrewd smart little Rhode Island woman from Wiig family). the paper for two three weeks The next number out O the utter COnsternaion Democratic readers red-hOt Whg sheet laying the Democracy right and left; and she kept it three bands return By that time the readers preciated the joke and the husband obliged do sae but he will hear the last of his wfes editorial froc
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
SAFETY FIRST

TT HE ROTARIANS of Bridgeport, disturbed by the large A number of fatalities arising from traffic, putting safety first campaign with the purpose of bringing to every and child in Bridgeport the principles of right acion in the streets.
 Too many people killed maimed in by automo- piles and by trolley The of energy fog e service of implies certain unavoidable accidents. But most accidents ayoidabe. They due to careless ness o inferior understanding the danger pre- yenable causes
 Tn the Detroit campaign they used posters showing pie tlro of Death, lowering wrecked automobile, Death being donO in red ink
 Theoretically the fear of death ought 10 be sufficient sain careesness in automObt the desire tO ought o make pedestrian watch his step The fact is other wise Death is not feared until it arrives Everybody takes chance The Death poster isn't good for another Death isn't red but yellow, ivory white, the color of a skull
 Far effective would be poster showing Police Com missioner Stanley in imperial purple dragging 10 the police station two traffic law voatOFs done in nice yellow not bright The poster should bear also cartoon of city judge, done in charcoal sentencing reckless driver in jail.
 The eolors in this poster would be symbolic ?purple of the royal determination of the citizens make the city safe yell
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
PERRY FEAT
 SAVED OLD
 GLORY IN FIGHT

There is only one flag that has ne--- CT known defeat. It is Old Glory.
 It shall never know defeat!
 The United States fleet. under Con- modore Perry. defeated and captured the entire English fleet, under Com mander Barclay, on Sept 10, 1912, in the famous battle of Lake Erie, fought off Put-in-Bay. The action commenced at Is minutes beforer 12, and ended about P. M. The loss of the British was 200, while the Amer jeans lost 27 killed and 96 wounded.
 From the lips of great men at top notch moments leap memorial worcs. Perry's message to General Harrison, Commander of the Army of the West, immediately after the battle of Lake Erie: We have met the enemy and they are ours" Our John Paul Jones answer on the blood-smeared deck of his ship, in the face of the enemy's shout Surrender" Damn your soul, we've only just begun to fight" Far raguts thunderous command in the mined Mobile Bay, Damn the torpe- does, go ahead" Lawrence's cry to his marines as he was dying on the deck
 
 peake, Don't give up the shipi" Dowey's calm order-so sure of him. self-"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." And Israel Putnam's Trust in God, but keep your powder dry" The war of 1912 between the United States and Great Britain had it's origin in a plot by Great Britain to dismember the Union. The plot was discovered and disclosed. John Henry, an Irish-American, exposed the conspiracy of the British ministers and the Governor of Canada to SOW discontent in \ ew England, with a view to its secession and union with Canada. There had been impressment of American seamen, and seizure of Americans on the high seas while sailing under their country's flag; and orders in council affecting the right of neutrals. In 1912, Congress Gec2ar- ed war against Britain, and voted to raise an army of 3O,o00 men. At once 50, 900 volunteers sprang to the flag. At the Battle of Lake Erie CommO- dore Perry had never seen a naval battle. During the battle he had to exchange his flagship in the midst of the action. His personal bravery at the paintings of Perry a the Battle of Lake Erie, by w. P. Powell. It hangs in the Capitol at Washington. Perrys victory aroused the greatest enthusiasm in the country, and placed him in the foremost ranks of Ame-- ica's heroes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
RED CROSS SEAL SALE WILL BE
 STARTED SOON

The Connecticut campaign for the sale of Red Cross Christmas SeaIs has been formally begun by the State Tuberculosis Commission. acting as agents of the National Tuberculosis Association. Bulletins have already been sent to agents of the commission in scope of the campaign, which will be held from Dec. l to Dec. 10.
 The personal solicitation method will be employed, and it is planned U raise $1OO,0OO in this state. The National Tuberculosis Association aims to secure S65OO,0O0 through the drive.
 As in former years, the seals will be used on letters and packages just before Christmas to spread human ity's message that tuberculosis can be cured and can be prevented. The seals supply the funds for the great educational campaign carried on all over the country by the National Tuberculosis Association and in Com necticut by the State Tuberculosis Commission
 The envelopes, with the seals al- ready printed on them, are to be used in furthering this campaign Each envelope has printed upon the back flap the seal, which is dark blue with a picture of Santa Claus taking a message of Merry Christmas and healthy and happy New Year into a home by way of the chimney. T. also contains a health slogan, for the health of this community
 The envelopes are to be used all over the nation. Several different styles have been made up and the printing on them has already begun. They will be sold to business houses at cost, plus the price of the Red Cross seals, which is one penny apiece.
 The agent for Bridgeport is Visiting Nurses Association, Mrs. Sanford StOddard, president
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
BIGGEST GOLD TRANSACTION
 IN PROGRESS

As yet no results are apparent from the action of the British Government granting permission to the South African gold producers to sell their current production in the best mar ket. The natural thing for them to 60 seemingly is to send their gold to New York. and sell drafts against il in the London market. With sterling at s4.2O, they would realize about I2 per cent. more for it than the coinage value in London. less the extra cost of transportation, and this would help considerably in meet ing the higher costs of production under which they are iaborirg.
 Scarcely anything is being said about one of the biggest gold trans actions of history, just now in pro- cress which Is the transfer of S102,- 00o, 900 in gold from the Rcichsbank, the Central bank Of Germany, to the Federal Reserve system of the United States, in payment for shipments Of food made in recent months by the United States Food Administration. This is equivalent to an importation of the above amount of gold. It has
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
WILLIAM THE
 CONQUEROR OF
 ENGLISH FAME

When Charlemagne surveyed the dragon-prows of the Vikings galleys thrusting into the light across the was broken, his kingdom at an end. William I of England, surnamed the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was descended from the golden-haired Vikings or Norsemen who bore down, from the glacier-lands of the north on the fair country of the Francks, and planted themselves on its northren coast, calling it Normandy" The day We commemorate, Sept. g, is the date of the death of William the Con- queror, in 10S7, when he was on a and fury into the heart of his foes. William I was the bastard son of Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy. In 1O51 he claimed the Crown of England, not alone on account or a promise made to him by Edward the Confessor, his kinsman, but by his marriage with Matilda, daughter of Baldwin V of Flanders, who traced her descent from the Saxon King Al fred the Great. William, a man of iron determination, of exceptional physical force, of a vigor that could dig out a path in the snow with his own mailed fists for his disheartened troops. and a man of great initiative
 had set his eye upon England, and England he would havei Having per suaded his Norman barons of the
 righteousness of his proposal to them,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10

already been received by the National Bank of the Netherlands, and may be expected to appear shortly as a credit at the Bank of England Just how it will be handled thereafter remains to be seen, but it will be eventually distributed to the several reserve banks which participated in the ad- vances to the Food Administration
 The effect of the receipt of this gold and of any importations from South Africa will be to raise the per centage of reserve in the Federal Re serve banks. Presumably, however, the Federal Reserve Board intends to keep as tight a rein on credits as practicable, and these additions to the gold stock will have no influence on current banking National City Bank. \. '.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
TODAYS ANNIVERSARY.

The ringing of the Curfew Bell at o'clock in the evening, when all fires and candles Were extinguished under severe penalties, was introduce ed into England in September, 106S. "Curfew' means "couvre-feu" (cover the flre), in the Norman-French tongue introduced into England at that period. It must be remembered that in those days people had no watches nor clocks The condition of society was such that it was danger- ous to go out of the house after dark. The Curfew Bell was rung as a warn-v ing to stay at home, and thus avoid over, in monastic establishments, and in the dwellings of the aristocrats. it had been the habit to ring a bell for certain great offices and to indicate the hour for religious devotion. A third reason for the Curfew Bell was that houses were constructed largely of wood, and were extremely liable to take fire when wood was indis- criminately used. To cover up tho lire, a utensil was used, in shape like an enormous hood with han de. The curfew bell is rung in many. quaint towns and villages in Eng-s land. The reader will recall that thet opening verse of Gray's immortals Elegy written in a Country Church- yard, begins, The curfew tolls the knell Of parting day"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10

low of the humbcd condition of the law vioIaors and char gloomy atmosphere inside the North avenue jail
 Quiet sadly. for is really credit to the human mind that this should be the man Is more afraid of be- arrested for traffic law volaon than he Is Of being killed
 Commissioner Stanley arranged suggested on poster would create affection for safety than a thousand pictures death done scarlet cOored like Bol shevis flag
 When recently people dying by the hundreds in Bridgeport they knew influenza disease to be crowd disease they couldn't be kept from sneezing in crowded places
 desire comfortably will not be inhIb- ed by the regard fellow creatures fe how shall it be supposed that picture of death be effective picture Jack Stanley, in producing compuncon in the hearts of reckless drivers?
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
CARDINAL MERCIER'S VISIT

~ ARDINAL MERGER is welcome to America He long O since the affection of the American people, In Belgium outstanding figure sincere ouspoen against the injustice the cOnqueror worthy presentative spirit which quails before material weapon.
 The good which flowed the vaiance of this single priest counted Leaving out the of spiritual which beyond the computation of man. Cardinal Mer cicr people Belgium suffering untold The Ger power lid much ay bodies and appa the minds of they would have done had the soul of Cardinal erected barrier against the Inadn Of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
DISCOvERER OF
 NIGER RIVER
 BORN THIS DAY

Sept. 10th is a big birthday, of a big man, of Iungo Park, 6i-coverer of the River Niger. His birthday has a bearing on British "Protectorates" in West Africa.
 Mungo Park. a celebrated Scottish adventurer was born in 1771. He twice attempted the discovery of the course and outlet of the Niger, long a source of conjecture with geogra- phers. In the second attempt-his sec ond expedition,-he lost his life by an attack on his boat by the natives, Other travellers. intrepid men, follow ed along the path he blazed, but to Mungo Park we owe the first brave attempt The Dark Continent is still mysterious Africa, the land of de- sire" Its riches are again today the battle-gr ground of furious agitation. The vast question of the Kameroons, and of the colonies relinquished by Ger many. has yet to be settled by Eng land and France. Mungo Park gave his life to shed light upon Africa's mighty river of the West, me Niger, a river second only to the Nile and
 
 The enormous network of rivers on the Guinea Coast forms the delta of the Niger. MungO Park was the first European to see and to describe the upper River. He says III his Trave1s, T beheld it glittering in the morning sun as broad as the Thames at West minister, and flowing slowly to the eastward" When he returned to Afri- ca he sailed down the River past Tim buktu whence issue even today the fierce Touraegs, to fall upon French military outposts a tribe dreaded by even the wild Bedouin of the desert of Sahara.
 The Niger is a very gracious river to nations bent upon "beneficient as similattCS." It is available for shallow draught-steamers to the far interior. It rises within 1JO miles of the sea in the mountainous district which mark out the Northeast frontiers of Sierra Leone and French Guinea. It makes a vast curve before it finally enters the Gulf of Guinea through a delta of immense extent. It flows through British and French rerrl-Ury. The natives call the Niger Joliba, meaning the Great River. Its birth place has been tracked,-in a deep ravine 5000 feet above sea level a tiny spring issues from a moss-cover- ed rock forming a pool below. This is the Niger, The rivulets and tributaries which flow into it, and the chain of lakes through which it moves as 1t makes it's way to the sea, sweics 1cs mighty current. At places the roar of its cataracts and rapids can be heard for miles. Successive explorers have mapped out the Niger, but to Mungo Park of Scotland are the honors due of the first intrepid effort.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-10
SOME COMEDY.

"A Sisterly Scheme" presents an in noyation in vacation-tfme comedy as it's locale is an inland summer re- sort-Lake George, New York, and not the seashore. Mrs. Sidney Drew directed as well as played the leading role of Polly. John Cumberland, known for his characterizations in such stage successes as Up in Ma bells Room and Fair and Warmer appears in the cast