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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

A Machias letter in the Bangor
Daily News says that The Rev.
Dwight A. Ball, state superinten-
dent of the Universalist churches.
came to town Saturday night and
stayed until Tuesday morning. His
visit was in the interest of the drive
now on in the Universalist church
OF America for members. ministers,
missionaries and money. This
drive is in preparation for the cell
ebration next fall Of the 15Oth ami
versary of organized Ursversalism in
America. Supt. Ball occupied the
pulpit OF the Cniversalist church
Sunday morning. May 4, spoke to the
Sunday school. addressed the even
ing service at 40 and on Monday
evening held a council" meeting
with pastor. trustees and others in
terested. While in town, Rev. Mr..
Ball was the guest Of Mrs. Martha
H. Vose of High street."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
BouHard. PouIin

Wedding bells were ringing on
Wednesday morning at st. Angus
tines Catholic church in honor of
the marriage Of two of Augustus
young French-American people, Will
liam Bouffard and Miss Anna Marie
Poulin. which ceremony took place
at o'clock. Rev. FIR. Paul Buhrer
officiating in the presence Of the rel
atives and many friends of the bride
and groom. Mr.. and Mrs. Bouffard
left on the 9.36 train for a brief we'd
Ding journey to Somersworth, N. H.,
and after their return will make their
home in Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
PHOSPHATE
STRENGTHENS
WEAK NERVES
Nothing Like Plain eitra. Phosphate
to Strengthen Weak Nerves and
Increase Strength and
Viaor.

According to a noted French Scientist.
the most effective remedy for nervous
ness. insomnia and ailments due to de-
pleted nerve force. is form OF organic
this country as Bitro- Phosphate.
1t Is described as substance which
is similar in composition to the phos-
phorus naturally found in brain and
nerve cells and. being easily and QUICKLY
assimilated, the work Of creating nerve
force. strength and vigor begins imme-
diately it is taken into the human sys-
lem.
There are many reports Of astonfsh-
ing results from its use, some showing
remarkable improvement even in stub
born cases Of long standing nerve weak
ness. AS there are many kinds OF phos-
pilates. care should be exercised to pro-
cure the genuine Bitro-Phosphate. as
sold ~ B. E. Bitter in Augusta and all
good druggists.-Adv.
InayS-l5-22-29
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

The Miriam Circle Of the Penney
Memorial church will hold it's reg
ular monthly business and social
meeting at 40 o'clock this Thursday
evening at the home Of Mrs. Arthur
Minchin, Hillcrest terrace. Members
are urged to make a special effort
to attend. as business is to be
brought bef-re the meeting which
will require everyone's attention. AS
usual pleasing program has been
arranged. The hostesses for the ev-
ening are Mrs. Kellar. Mrs. Dow,
Miss Ola Mcmahon and Mrs. Min
chin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
RHEUMATICS
NO LONGER
IN DOUBT
'NEUTRONE PRESCRIPTION es''
CURES AND KEEPS THEM CURED

rheumatism had been considered in.
durable until "Eeutrone Prescription
49,. a combination Of rheumatic reduce
Ing elements. was placed in the hands
OF its thousands OF sufferers
"Nsutrcne Prescription 80" Is .
specific positive in its action, quickly
removing all aches and pains in in
famed joints and muscles, and limber-
ing them up in way that would
surprise you.
"Neutrone Prescription 90" will re-
lfeVe the worst symptoms in the most
severe cases OF Rheumat ism within
one or two weeks. Go get a Soc or
81 bottle and watch 1t work Nothing
has ever done what this prescription
viii do. Mail orders filed on 81 size.
For sale by Bowul-l o. " ess.e. Co
and leading druggists everywhere
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
LOCAL NOTICE

The Salvation Army has been test
ed and proved its worth on the battle
fields Of France. Ask the boys.
They will tell you the truth. The ap-
probation Of the American people
will be tested and proven during the
Home Service Campaign from May
10 to ~. The national target is
thirteen millions. Augustus quota is
$27.10e. The local quota includes
$4,000 for q building. For informa-
ton apply I, Commandant T. A. Ma
gee. Is Davenport St. Augusta. Me.
Tel. 675-M. Checks should be made
payable to Charles s. Hichborn,
treasurer. apr. 24dtf
Grand Novelty dance Thursday
evening. May Sth. in Union hall I'M
der same management as Hayseed
party. This Is to be q real novelty
party where each person will re-
ceive q souvenir. Douglas orches-
ira has been secured to furnish
music for the occasion and all are
assured Of q pleasant evening. Cen
tlemen 40c; ladies' 20c. mis-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
1.-THE INDEsTRucTleLE
WIFE" HERE r0nA'

WIFE" HERE TODAY
Beautiful Alice Brady Shows Just
What Kind Of Spouse the Athle.
tic Girls Makes; Colonial Theatre
Comedy Tells New Kind Of a
Story.
The man who loves an athletic girl
has something to learn and he will
learn something from 1.-THE 1ndestruc-
tible Wife" which is the feature at
traction at the Colonial theatre for
this afternoon and evening.
Alice Brady who appears in the
leading role of Charlotte Ordway is a
woman of rare beauty and rare abil-
ity. At the same time. she is a wom-
an of rare athletic accomplishments.
She is all this naturally and in the
part she plays in 1.-The Indestructi-
BILE Wife" she is all she is in real life
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

1t is expected that there will be a
lot Of blossoms this season on the
terrace above the retaining wall at
the west side of the tracks Of the
Maine Central Railroad. in front of
the passenger station. where the COM
pany has set out a lot Of Towering
shrubs. The shrubs set out two years
ago had a hard time Of it because
Of minor washouts Of the soil on the
terrace. but those lost were replaced
last year and it looks now as if they
were going to do something in the
Towering line the coming season. One
shrub near the north end of the ter
race is already putting forth yellow
blossoms. and when the others get
wcll underway the terrace should
present pretty spectacle.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Current Events Club will hold its
annual meeting at o'clock Friday
afternoon with Mrs: E. c. CARL. 1s
East Chestnut street. First busi-
:ess will be election Of officers. Ad-
dress by Mrs. Myrtle T. White, pres
dent of the Maine Federation of
Women's Clubs: music; Miss Jane
". Harris will give a talk on the
proposition of School Gardening"
which has been started in Augusta,
this spring.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Patients admitted on Wednesday
to the Augusta General hospital
were Lewis Benner. John Roberts
and Bertha White Of Augusta: Rob-
ert Flagg of Winthrop Center: Hen
~ Flood of Vassalboro; Erlend
Wood Of Waterville and Dorothy
White of Haverhill, Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

to the piece; in fact there are two
interesting stories which. in their cul-
mlnation. unite in the bonds Of we'd
lock the North and the South.
The fact that 1.-The Birth Of a Ma
ton" is being given at popular prices
is unheard of in other cities. The
cost of tickets in Lewiston and other
places in New England has been that
of regular road shows. The first day
OF the Augusta engagement was a big
one and it looks as if the succeeding
presentations would be greeted by
capacity houses-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

A cosy corner and Marden's ice
cream offers a combination in enjoy
ment difficult to equal. J. E. Devine's
quality drug store. 240 Water street,
provides the opportunity in newly i'm
proved quarters and an assortment Of
Marden's cream flavors so we'll liked
by all.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
Chapman Well Known in Lewiston

Ellie r. D. Chapman, the Lewiston
boy who is lying in a hospital with a
bullet wound in his hip. and who is
later to be called upon to explain his
wound. and the schooling of Mrs.
Dorothy Schwartz. which occurred at
the same time. is well known in
Lewiston, being the son Of Daniel c.
Chapman Of Sylvan avenue. and
was graduated from the Jordan High
school in 1917. During the last two
years of his course he worked dur
ing his spare hours in local store.
He was later taken into the perma-
nent employ OF the company and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

In the Grammar School League
series a baseball game was sched-
uled to be played Wednesday after
noon by the Smith team and a team
representing the 9Th Grade, but the
Smith team did not show up and &C.
cording to the rues of baseball the
game is forfeited to the 9th Grade
team with a score of 9 to 0.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

1t may be just claim and it may
not. In any event the automobile
which is involved in property damage
may cause a law suit. Wise drivers
pin their faith on Liability Insurance.
c. E. Downing makes a specially Of
this class Of protection.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

E. L. Ripley is putting up the
frame Of a building for an addition
to be erected at the north side of
his boat building shop on Howard
street, the addition to be about half
the size Of the present shop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
NEW HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
Mayor eurIeigh Martin Appoints Paul
Simpson to That Position

Mayor Burleigh Martin announced
on Wednesday the appointment of
Paul Simpson as highway commits
sioner for the city Of Augusta, to
fill out the unexpired term of p. w.
Varney, Resigned. Mr.. Simpson has
been connected with the State High
way Dept. as engineer and practical
road builder and is well-known in
this city. He is a brother of Wal
worth Simpson. who is now in ser.
vice overseas.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
Old Time rG|ned

You experiment with many socaled wonderful
Liver trouble Constpatonyou spend
o a dr inc w'oey pills. tablets and after
hen you commenced There one SAFE speedy reliable house
old remedy which has been prepared and sold in Maine
sixty and which has relief thousands Of sick and
iderng personsthe true and original a. F. Atwood Medicine
he dose small and easily taken the action and
Doubtless your Mother Grandmother kept always the house
lady for time of trouble and you will be glad get back
it. after series Of dsappontments Get bottle today and lie
repaired to ward Oft Sickness Fifty cents at your dealers.
The L. F." Medicine Co.. Portland. Maine. 4
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Mrs. F. A. Luce. of Center Hoa'''
made two custard pies las, we'd
She is a good cook TIL" pies wa
thick and delicious--i.he mother Nv
to make; the kind tina, sugseS,sr,
the boy the idea that h. "o''u NJ
to be in the center Of an acre O ..
tard pie. just level with MS '-H .4
and be obliged to eat his va -
But. here is the nah Of 'h'' ~,
The two pies We're mad" Hon. =,
one egg. This egg measured =.
by s 81 inches. was double yois
and took the placc OF SIX o'-
eggs. Easy there. You "2r0" 81
was laid by a goose. Mrs i'u''
80 goslings and more cfmihs'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Green Street Methodist
Episcopal church will meet with Mrs.
L. D. Bristol. n Winthrop street. at
7.30 Friday evening. A special pro-
gram has been prepared for the meet
inI.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Travellers down the he2n''Y -.
miss the familiar slcht of INK =.
some sea-going yacht ColoH'4' =.
has since the fall Of ~. been
at the Eastern StealA~"'p W." y
Bath. owing to war toHNi''on ...,,,;
sailed last Saturday lor " u:
where she will go on the H'a''ns .,,s
way and will later be aga"
in commission.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

The Home Service Section Of the
American Red Cross. Augusta Chap
ter, will hold meeting at their room
at 4.30 Thursday afternoon. May Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

At the regular meeting Of Asylum
Lodge. No. 70. I. G. o. F., on Friday
evening. May 9. the First degree will
be conferred on several candidates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Senator J. Merrill Lord of Kezar
Falls. Of the York county delegation
in the 18th Legislature. was among
the visitors Wednesday in Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Announcement is made at the Of
flee of the Board of Education that
Mrs. Beatrice Coffin Of Bath has been
elected to teach the Stone school, to
ill the vacancy in that position due
to the resignation of Mrs. Abbie Bal
lard, who has given up the position
on account Of poor health.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

made assistant manager, ScH,
teachers, his neighhors and rev
H. Bean, pastor of II, llaml1ohl :
church, which he attended, speaA
the highest terms ut rim.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

This is the way the i''.Jhsf"'
respondent of the Ccmm"rtiai' ,
hundred and thirty seven INV
FIVE hundred dollars worm =. 49,,
,antic salmon from the 'fals 81,
Fish hatchery. East or'anu' "a
shipped to Columbia l...s -. ''. ~,
ution in Pleasant Iit'i' l''' u
This is the third shipment W.,
week, one lot going to FEeFf! A'''
the other to DennySEI!!'
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Mrs. Martha Warren of Dover is
the guest of Secretary of State and
Mrs. Frank w. Ball at their home on
State street. ...
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
Thursday, May 8, 1919.
AUGUSTA LOCALS

Smith & Smith will receive a ship
ment of fresh mackerel this morn
ing for sale at 1Sc. per pound.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08
TOM MIX APPEARS
IN nEAfA nEElEa

~ OeAVN.OEFIER
To say that Tom Mix just defies
death in Fighting for Gold," the Will
liam Fox picture in which he will be
seen at the Colonial theatre on FRI
day isn't saying half enough. He
does more than defy death; he even
shakes the Great Mystery by the
Hand and then let's go. While
Fighting for Gold" is full Of hair
raising stunts that only Tom Mix can
do. there is a ripping good love story
to it. The girl in the case, Miss Ted
dy Sampson. is really a female Tom
Mix for the way she stages stunts il
almost equal to that Of the big star
himself. Another feature on the pro-
gram will be the appearance OF dainty
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

Marion Davis in THE Burden I
Proof."-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-08

and then considerably more. Char
lotte is the type of girl who would
rather pound punching bag than
eat; who would rather row a boat
than ride in the chug -chug kind; who
would rather walk to the top Of a
twenty story building than take the
elevator. In other words, she is tire
less.
Her husband who really loves her
finds that the pace his gentle" wife
has set is too hard for him. He falls
by the wayside and then schemes
with some friends to wear her down.
They. too. are outdistanced except one
who very soon shows that he Is low
ing Charlotte. Serious complications
develop. but the tireless' wife finally
promises to do better. her home low
ing husband is reconciled and all is
happy again.
Alice Brady has never appeared to
better advantage than she does in
this irresistibly interesting drama.
There is just enough seriousness to
make the suspense worth while and
in the role Of Charlotte. Miss Brady
gets all there is out of the part. 1t
is even said that in the rehearsals for
the play. she tired out the other mem
bers Of the cast so that the filming
had to be suspended until they could
recuperate.
The third episode Of 1.-THE Silent
Mystery will be shown this evening
This famous serial by Francis Ford
is proving one Of the most powerful
ever offered in the city. Thursday
night audiences as a result test the
capacity of the theatre. A side-split-
ting Strand comedy and the up-to-
the-minute Pathe News complete the
program for today.-Adv.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28
SEEK OIL LAND
UNDER RED RIVER

is the right Of the aboriginal owners
of the land on both sides of the river.
and these are the people of the Wich-
ita tribe of Indians.
The ancestors of the Wichita In
dams have lived in Oklahoma and adj
1acent states for thousand years. and
for approximately five hundred years
past they have occupied the country
on both sides of the Red river in that
part Of Its course where II traverses
the Burkburnett oil fields. In using
the word occupied in this connection,
l do SO advisedly, for these people
have always been sedentary in their
habits, living in fixed villages and de-
pending largely upon the cultivation
Of the soil for their subsistence.
1.-THE rights of the Wichita Indians
to the ownership of these lands has
never been extinguished by purchase,
exchange or otherwise, though state
and federal governments have seem
ingly proceeded on the theory that no
such right ever existed.
"In 1918 certain chiefs and warriors
of the Quapaw tribe of Indians, in
council at st. Louis with William
Clark and Auguste Chouteau, as COM
nissioners representing the govern
ment of the United States, entered in
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28

to treaty by the terms of which they
ceded all of the lands In Oklahoma aud
Texas between the Arkansas and Can
adiah rivers on the north and he Red
river on the south to the government.
The fact that the Quapaw Indians
lived j. eastern Arkansas. that they
seldom went as far west as the eastern
boundary of Oklahoma and that they
never by occupancy or otherwise eyer-
cised any form Of ownership or juris-
diction over any Of the lands within
200 miles of the region where the
Nichltas were living do not seem 20
nave entered into the consideration
at all, if, indeed. the government COM
missioners had any knowledge Of the
existence Of the Wichitas at that time.
Yet, with this Quapaw transaction as
a basis, the government of the United
Suites executed a grant of these lands
to the people later. More than thirty
years later the Wichita people first
learned that their country had been
sold by the Quapaw and then granted
to the Choctaws
"If the government of the United
States ever means to do the square
and honorable thing by the Wichita
Indians it will never have a better
chance than it has at the present time.
Their lands are gone-sold to strang.
ers without recompense to them and
without their consent-but they still
have an equitable claim to the owner
ship of the Red River channel oil prop
critics, and simple justice demands
that they be given a chance to estab
lish it."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28
SINGER SUFFERS
TRIALS IN ITALY

instance, she made her operate debut
as Mimi in his la Boheme," carry.
Ing through the part with success
when she was in the first stages of
typhoid fever; she fell under official
suspicion as spy In laramie, where
there is an Italian naval station: she
underwent siege of blackmail that
resulted in sending two oppressors to
prison, and she became the betrothed
of young noble, who was killed In the
war.
In addition, her progress toward a.
career was hampered by the stern OBJ
position of her father, Silas Marcus
McVane, formerly professor of history
and international law in Harvard, re-
firing as emeritus professor. After.
ward the family became so proud of
the young singer that they established
a home in Rome, where Professor Nc
Vane died at about the beginning OF
the war.
In connection with the spy and
blackmail episodes it seems that Miss
McVane unwittingly snapped her cam
era when the lens was pointed in the
direction of masked batteries. Soon
she became the object of scoffing IN
the street, she was Kissed at the op-
era, she found herself unable to get
letters to her friends or to hear from
them. She became so nervous and dis
pirited that she wished to go away,
regardless of her operate contract,
and was threatened with arrest If she
tried to go. When. at last, men an
noyed her with threats of publishing
the spy story and thus running her
career unless she paid money to them,
she contrived to get word to the
American ambassador In Rome, who
put the wheels in motion for black.
mail trial, whereby Miss McVane was
cleared and the men were punished.
She was led to adopt singing as a
profession on the advice of artists and
others who heard her voice in Paris,
where she had gone merely to perfect
her French. When her French instruc-
tors sent her TO Milan, with letters to
the composer Puccini, she knew the
leading roles in 90 operas. 1t was re-
ported that Puccini intended to write
an opera for her, but the war abb
sorbed him in other affairs.
Miss Edith McVane. writer and
novelist. and the Baroness Dodeman
de Placy are sisters of Miss McVane.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28
Wichita Indians Now Set Up An.
Gent Title to River
Channel.
HISTORY INVOLVED IN SUIT
Question Enerosses Attention of Law.
yers, Oil Men, Land Owners and
Federal and State offcials-Gives
History of Wichita Claim.

Austin, Tex.-Seldom has a case
been filed in American courts in which
history has been involved to the ex-
tent that it is in the question of the
ownership of the channel of the Red
river, beneath the bed of which are
valuable oil deposits.
This question has been engrossInr
the attention of lawyers, oil men. land
owners and federal and state officials.
The state of Texas claims ownership
In the bed of the river to the center
OF the channel, while the federal gov
eminent and the state of Oklahoma
oppose the claim of Texas under the
terms of the treaty of Spain in 1919,
by which the northern boundary of the
Spanish dominions in Texas was desig-
mated as the south bank of the Red
river.
The federal authorities hold that
the ownership of the Red river bed
areas in dispute belong to the Indian
tribes which owned the adjacent res
ervations, and the state of Oklahoma
maintains that. as meandering
stream. the bed of the Red river is
state property and should be leased
for the benefit of the state school fund.
Joseph B. Thoburn, secretary of the
Oklahoma Historical society, has ad-
vanced the suggestion that there Is
still another claimant to the owner
ship of the oil bearing area of the
channel of the Red river. namely, the
Wichita Indians. Mr.. Thoburn in the
course of an extended statement says
colder than any of the claims of
ownership which are now being
pressed for the possession of the oil
bearing areas of the channel of the
Red river-older than any claim Of
the State of Texas by rights derived
from Mexico or Spain. and older than
any claim of the State of Oklahoma
or of the United States which may
have been derived from France
through the purchase of Louisiana
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-11-28
ReveI in Baths Once for Million
aire Huns.
Red Cross Refits Salisbury Watering
Place for Rheumatic
Roumanians.

Bucharest.-Thef famous salt baths
of Salisbury. where the millionaires of
Austria. Hungary and the Balkan
states used to spend their summers,
now are curing rheumatic Roumanian
soldiers
Stripped of all their luxurious fur
nishings during the war. the Salisbury
baths have just been reftted with the
aid of the American Red Cross for use
as military hospital for chronic rheu-
matism resulting from trench war
fare. Five hundred soldiers are there,
recovering from rheumatism and SIM
liar diseases contracted while under
going the hardships of war.
In times of peace thousands of tour