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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Mrs 4 Z. Jackson OF his o. has
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Mss Ellen Taylor q Crosby street
Passed -ae weekend with her
coUscs, Mrs Frank WaEga and
fan:Iy q Monmouth.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Mrs. Alice Pinkhan was an over
Sunday guest Of -Eer cousins. Frank
and Lena Taylor OF West Sidney.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Donald c Aetcatt was causr
Tuesday II Portland on matters a.
business
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Ms Emma Haskell ard daughter.
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were guests over rEe Fourth OF Mrs
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Miss Helen Ralney passez. rne
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

Congregational church ard inter-
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-07-07
LOCALS

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
THE OLD AUTOGRAPH ALBUM

From the Seattle Post st>Intelligencer. XXX THAT has become of the old wv fashioned autograph album
 with the imitation red leather cover, huge scrawiing gold script "Au- tographs" letters on the cover and white and pink blue pages? What have you done with yours? Look it up, and as Fyou turn each page the weary years will slip from your shoulders and long forgotten faces wreathed in smiles will peep at you from the purpling shadows of other days.
 When far away. on land or sea,
 Read these lines and think of me.
 Well, now, little Nellie Proctor wrote that, didn't she? The little creature who blushed when you spoke to her, for sine liked you, didn't she? Don't you remember how you asked her. book ex- tended, to write her name on the page? Have you forgotten the wide. ornamen- tai flourishes and the meandering chi |rcgraphy? But she was pleased and you were pleased, were you not?
 And rol1icking, lovable Clarence, the only boy of school days who owned a muzzle loading shotgun that had power enough in charge to drive a truck ! Here it is, right on this blue page: You ask me to write in your autograph, But don't know what to put in; For there's nothing original in me Excepting original sin.
 How long has 1t been since you have seen Clarence? And where is he? | Roses red, violets blue Sugars sweet. and so are you. Indeed you were. as little Hattie WalWorth wrote in those familiar days
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08

From the London Times.
 M h1ADRID-The sudden vicious rush
 IW|I of a short-horned black bull in SvS the Talavera plaza that killed
 Little Joseph (the Cockerel,) has sent a
 wave of emotion from end to end of the
 peninsula that surpasses anything evoked
 by news of the bloodiest battle of the
 world war.
 Scores of motor cars rushed along the
 dusty Estremadura highroad. thousands
 of shepherds. cattle rangers and villagers left their flocks and homes in the
 broad valley of the Tagus and thronged
 round the mortuary chapel of the bull ring where, during night-long Vigil, hardened men of the cruellest profession in the world sobbed like girls. Talavera fair ceased its transactions. the civil gov ernor arrived from Toledo, and deputies and notables headed procession of the entire township to the station when the einbalmed body was placed in special train for conveyance to Madrid. here to receive the homage of the capital before interment at Seville
 It Is true 10 say that JoSehtoS uooln has o, ershadowed the festival of the kings birthday and the domestic worries caused by the shortage of the bread SUD- ply and the strike of 300 hotel cooks. | A multitude congregated at the station to meet the coffin and carry it shoulder high. Most of the night and all today silent crowd filled the street where the bullfighter lived, and masses were said beside the coffin from dawn to mid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
SPAIN MOURNS TOREADOR

day, at one of which Senor Maura prayed
 The kings aide-de-camp and the prime | minister visited the corpse, and in the afternoon, when the coffin was borne to the station on the way to Seville, such a coucourse collected as has rarely been seen in Madrid. The parish clergy in fun vestments sang the responses, quan- 1 titles of flowers were showered. and the
 hearse was buried in wreaths. "Joseiito" was the idol of the public,
 who adored him as the "Pope-King of
 bull fighters with a fanaticism that. | drove them to hurl insults at him on his off days when inspiration failed, as it
 does at times with all artists. including | the gods of Tauromachy. A son and
 brother of great bulf fighters, Joselito,
 while professional. was a thorough sportsman. He it was who encouraged a ganize a fight at Talavera, offering to
 waive fees and even giving up an en- gagement at Madrid to fulfill his prom
 ise.
 | Six bulls run at Talavera proved cow ardly yet bloodthirsty and very difficult
 to kill. fighting shy of the banderillas
 (darts) and cloaks. and charging home
 horses and men and killing eighteen
 horses. The fifth bull named Bailador ("the dancer') killed Joselito. perhaps
 the brightest light of the bull ring since
 the days of the great Espartero. who
 likewise died while providing public holiday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
Some Causes of Alabama's
 Continuous Go-Ahead Process

OOntlnuOuS GO-Ahead Process |W HATsOEvER form the adjust
 w ment process takes, there does not appear reason why the Sir mingham district should not go through it with flying colors.
 There has been no speculation here. The tens of millions invested in the district have been placed in plants producing necessities of the human race and the expansion process has been one that counts for economy of output, which, in turn, means a widened trade territory Very significant is the increase of Alabama iron production in May, when the output was two hundred and twelve thousand tons, an increase over May, 1919, of 54 per cent. The April increase was forty-two thou |
 sand tons and that of May seventy five thousand tons. The increase for the first five months of the year is one hundred and sixty thousand tons, or 20 per cent.
 What is most encouraging is that the further we have gotten into the year the greater has been the iron output. We come to June, the first summer month, with active iron producing capacity of the year, with iron yards bare of stocks and with an elastic export trade caring for that proportion of production which might suffer from the domestic transporta. tion difficulties.
 The southern iron melt is the larg- est in it's history and is increasing month by month.
 One of the bed-rocks of this con tinuity of industrial operations in ths south when the east has experienced severe industrial set-backs is tht strikeless temper of the southern peo pie. Back of that is the common tongue of purely American popula tion. We would not change these con ditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Close Call


 Fearless Tinney had a narrow es- cape from death in his airplane ex- hfbit at West Lake Sunday afternoon when he attempted to swing from one wing of the plane under the engine to the other" said Pilot David K. Trot- ter. This is d most daring feat and one in which several men have met death in an attempt to accomplish 1t.
 The rope was fastened under the middle of the plane and Tinney, on one wing, caught hold of the rope and at tempted to swing to the other wing. On account of the strong wind he missed his mark about three feet and was unable to climb back up the rope to the plane. Pilot Sam Harrel who was driving the plane, realized that Tinney was unable to return to the plane, so he flew very low over West Lake and allowed him to drop into the water. This was the only thing that saved his life, as he would have been killed if Harrell had attempted to land. However, the people who had gathered to witness this daring feat thought this part of the performance and did not know how near tragedy it had been. After this he then re- turned to the plane and made his jump from height of 5000 feet in a parachute"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
No Cause for Democrats
 To Take On Timidity

1.-THE really live ghost at the re-
 N publican national convention and that standing tremendously wraithlike in the path of success at the November polls is President Will son.
 The republicans have gotten no consolation out of the League of Ma tions and they cannot shake it as an issue. On the eve of the national convention they recognize the wonder full hold which this man has on the people and his ability to translate it's idealism in the concrete. Mondays advices from Chicago were that Root and Lodge have league blanks and that the 'irreconcilables are modifying their views" An ex- perienced writer on the scene of the preliminaries says:
 ,"In the face of the evident temper of the delegates here for some sort of constructive declaration rather than a declaration of mere criticism and utter negation, it is evident that the irreconcoilables are modifying their views. Borah will accept some compromise"
 If the republicans had been more bent on a constructive process and
 less on an Wilsonian one during
 the long months of word wasting, they might have scored both a party
 achievement and what may have been
 construed as improving on the Will
 son plan; but seven-eighths of the re- publican league thunder was purely political and personal, and the nation has so construed it.
 Neither can the republicans escape
 the denunciation of the President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
Hitting Them All

This is one time they are going out for us all,' says Judge B. M. Allen. The old, old story about Birmingham paying all the taxes is evidently to undergo an alteration, at least insofar as my farms in Hale and Marengo are concerned. l have been boosted not 50 per cent, but, in one instance, between 200 and 300 per cent.
 Speaking on more pleasant topic, MT. Allen said:
 There is lot of summer camping down on Lake Bankhead, near lock IT.. A number of Birmingham's prominent business men have established summer homes there. The road to the lock Is in good condition. You go out via Bes- semer, Oak Grove and Mud Creek.
 'In time Lake Bankhead is going to be the playground of Birmingham. The only pity is the time we must wait for that coming event, pending which we have one congested amusement park"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 @ LADYS MARY SMITH FAIR II 0 BANKS affirms that marriage
 > Is an art. Thereby she lets her self in for an argument with Fannl
 Hurst, who seems to think that the in- stitution was invented 10 provide occa : sional relief from eye strain ana
 writer's cramp. The Hurst plan may do we'll enough in effete New York. bus out in California. where hearts beat true amid the grea topen spaces they
 are strong for home life.
 In fact. they have to be strong in orr
 der to stand it. Mary's motfer says
 that Douglas is a model son-in-law, and a great protection Against burglars
 Yet 1t appears that an occasional Dur-
 glary would be almost relief. when
 anybody looks sad. Douglas stands in
 the middle of the room. waves his arms. and says that he is pushing the clouds away Our life is simple and frank ,'' says Mary; just an old-fashtoned sort of life :" When there is sickness in the family Douglas pulls the invalid out of bed and takes her away to climb noun tains for few days. and she isn't al- lowed to drink water for an hour after she comes home. When hosy-fingered dawn breaks. he telephones to the flor ist for bouquet of orchids. and then starts out for a stroll across the estate. | He comes back on the run. doing the high hurdles over the hedges. sprinting , across the pansy beds. splashins through the pool. with twenty five Alaskan dogs at his heels; plunges into | the parlor, dripping mud. water. and pansies; dashes upstairs and down again. put shis feet on the furniture ana asks if breakfast Is ready. "AI l adorable fellow" signs Mary: This boy fish pranks. you know, and his uttel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08

and so was Hattie. Did Hattie mean 1t: Didn't you one gusty day coming home from school pick her hat out of the mud as your playmates shouted their mockery, and didn't she say. with the coyest of smiles, T like you?" And when you asked her the day school let out for the summer to write a verse in your autograph didn't she do 1t? And did she care because you had patches on your clothes?
 Page after page. line on line, you see these reminders. You come to the wild rambling hand of your favorite chum and playmate. Dutch" Magee. You re- member fearless Dutch, who could climb hickory sapling to the top, bring it down with his weight and then spring into the air like rocket? Dutch, with whom you went hazel nutting and wal nutting; Dutch, who tempted you to run away and go swimming?
 You recall don't you, how he would raise his two forefingers apart like the letter w." the silent sign language of boyhood. And how you watched the heat waves rising from the street and could not resist the call of the wood- land?
 All these of childhoo od-Grace Good- rich. who brought her doll to school pushing Nellie, Dutch, Clarence and the rest whom you have never seen since you moved away from the old home town. will always look to you as they did on that last day. will they not? Can you think of them as grown up2 It would be difficult, wouldn't it. to visualize Hattie and Nellie as women? Wouldn't it be nicer to leave them as they were, their childish sweetness and freshness and implicit trust imprinted on the pages of your autograph album?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08

but comprehensive. They leave no loophole. Prohibition is a part of the basic law of the land and will so re- main, unless the amendment is re- pealed, possibility too remote for present consideration.
 There will be a sigh of relief throughout the country that the wet and dry issue is settled, and settled permanently. The liquor people, by seeking to control politics and pros- tituting the electorate, made them selves obnoxious to the decent peo- pie of America and hastened their own downfall. When prohibition be- came a powerful factor in politics it was seized upon by opportunists, the political prohibitionists, who used a worthy cause as a means to ride into office. Their methods were as rep rehensible in manyrespects as the tac- tics employed by the liquor interests.
 Too long has prohibition been bone of contention. Even after the eigh- teenth amendment was passed it con- tinued to figure in political cam paigns, as in the recent senatorial
 election in Alabama.
 When the supreme court sounded the death knell of John Barleycorn,
 until then deemed by many persons
 merely in comatose state and short
 ly to be revived, it also passed sen
 tence on beer and light wines. As a
 law, the eighteenth amendment is Iabsolutely leak-proof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
More Work, Less Talk

q am afraid we are going to talk ourselves into hard times" says c. w. Wilson, a real estate man of Montgom- . cry, who was in Birmingham last week.
 Down in the capital city conditions are very good and promise to be bet ter, but every time two men get to- gether they begin to wonder what the world is coming to with the mounting cost of living and the rain and late crops.
 While undoubtedly the high cost of living is serious and the late crops and Likelihood of short one is more so, see no reason to waste good time talking about it. If a hard winter is coming, let us prepare for 1t and not talk about it. Don't cross the bridge until you get to it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
Too Much Like Work

"A friend of mine has become inter- ested in Bible study and has taken, an active interest in Sunday school work, says Perry Fowlkes. Somehow, he did not seem very happy over it, and finally asked him why he was taking it so to heaert. He said it came from the fact that he had to dig up the lessons. He confessed that he was surprised be- yond measure to know just how serious ly the class took itself and how much downright studying it took to keep abreast of it. He owned up that he dropped out of Sunday school when he was but lad, and that in those days the teacher told Bible Stories, asked a few simple questions and that, so far as any or the pupils preparing their lees sons it was an unheard of thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08

contained in his recent telegram to the heads of the sixteen brotherh pods, in which he declared that:
 "1n nine months this Congress has taken no important remedial action with respect to the problem of the cost of living, but it has failed even to give serious consideration to the urgent appeal, oft repeated by me and the Secretary of the Treasury, to revise the tax laws, which, in their present form, are indirectly respon- sible for the high cost of living" 6 Even the vote-getting soldier bonus bill was left on the calendar.
 Timid democrats have taken on that mental state without outstanding cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
REARING TO GO

REARING TO GO Dark horses, are restive,
 The lean and the fat Are ready to run on
 The drop of the hat. They wait but the summons, Whate'er 1t may be,
 To give a performance
 Most thrilling to see.
 PAINFULLY ENLIGHTENED "Mr. Bibbles seems distressed about something"
 He had a trying experience" What was it?'
 He made the mistake of telling a prohibition enforcement officer he couldn't search the Bibbles baggage without a warrant"
 MUST BE A GENIUS 'He seems to stand well with his wife's relatives" They consult him on questions per- taining to books. music and art" T see.''
 '.But they merely look at him and sigh deeply whenever money matters are mentioned" HATES INTERRUPTIONS "Blobbins takes poker seriously. It's something more than . pastime with him." "Yes? 'esl When Blobbins sits down to a game he first disconnects the telephone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
Member of the Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Blrmlns hain carrying the Associated Press ois- patches.
 The Associated Press is exciusl'eiy entitled to the use for puoiicatioh VI all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published therein
 All rights of republication or speciai dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
HIGHLY ExHAusrING

HIGHLY ESTABLISHING
 T notice you walk to town every morning.
 My doctor advised me to take a little exercise,"~said MT. Clipping.
 "A good idea, I dare say"
 Decidedly. but I'm always meeting somebody else walking to town and by the time we get through arguing politics I'm unfit for hard days work in the office."
 IMPROPER
 'The class graduated insngeraiis-
 Very commendable."
 But to be consistent. the commence ment orator should have worn overalls instead of s15o suit"
 That might have looked like af- lection. The eminent capitalist who spoke is a self-made man." LIFELIKE And this?" "A portrait of MT. Jagsby, done in oil" 'Tn a favorite pose, I presumer' Exactly. You will notice he holds a walking stick in his right hand, but substitute a glass for the cane. and you will have MT. Jagsby in the iden- tical pose he used to assume when crooking his elbow" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-08
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A man often wonders how he gets his colds when he sleeps with his bed- room windows closed.
 A girl can eat a dozen sour pickles and be as sweet as ever But it is different when she eats one onion.
 EveryNztime a fat man sees fat woman in "a straight front he is all most tempted to buy a corset. The reason a man tells you that he has changed his mind about doing a thing is because his wife changed it for him.
 After looking at a new baby bach elor can't see what in Sam Hill the father has to feel proud about. A single girl may be independent when she is 19. But she is more des- perate thafl~independent when she is 20 Even when girl has flat chest it is "a great comfort to her to know that. she has pretty eyes If you could get all that you think you need. you would have enough for 50 or 60 people