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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
Merchants Decide on Wednesday Half Holidays June FL to
be merchants Day"-Engagement Announced at Novel
Party-Death of Charles Salisbury of Canaan

son and Mr.. Hussey of the Good Will
faculty accompanied the boys.
Mrs. Timothy Pike Of Athens was
in town Saturday to meet her
daughter, Miss Loantha Pike, who Is
teaching in Palmyra village and
who was weekend guest of her
parents at their home.
Samuel Rollins and his grand
daughter. Miss Gladys Rollins of
Concord. are guests of Mr.. Rollins
daughter and her husband, Mr.. and
Mrs. Roscoe Bigelow.
Mrs. Charles Horne of Canaan
was in town Saturday on business.
Mrs. Frank L. Flint and her
daughter, Mrs. Alfred Morrill, of
Cincinnati, O., were in Waterville
calling on Mrs. Elizabeth Powers
Merrill at the home Of her sister,
Mrs. H. A. Bennett on Silver street,
!, Saturday afternoon.
John Gordon, who is employed in
town as timekeeper for the Kenne-
bee Log Driving Co., passed the
week end at his home in Bingham.
Mrs. Cora Watson of Norridge-
| wock was in town shopping Satur-
day.
Miss Clara Libby will return from
Waterville today, where she has
been the guest Of her sister, Mrs.
Harold Butterfield since Saturday.
Elmer e. Town of Madison was
in town Saturday to meet his son,
Don Town. and the latter's wife and
son, Robert, who returned from St.
Petersburg, Fla, where they had
| been passing the greater part of the
| winter.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney York Of
| North Athens were business callers
in town Saturday.
Mrs. Maud lies returned to her
| home Saturday afternoon, after be-
ing in town on business, the guest
| of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Poulin of East
, Front street.
| Miss Mildred Beale and Miss Mar
| garet Chase were in Waterville Sat
! urday shopping.
The executive board of the Pa
rent-Teachers' Association held its
regular business meeting at the High
school building, Friday afternoon.
A group of young ladies passed a
very enjoyable evening Thursday at
| the home of Mr.. and Mrs Willis A.
| Bailey on Fairview avenue, as guests
of Miss Macomber. 1t was really an
! announcement party at which time
| Miss Macomber announced her en-
! gagement to Prince Drummond of
| Waterville, although the ladies were
| invited to sewing party. Cards
bearing the names of Miss Nacom-
| Der and Mr.. Drummond, the letters
! being disarranged, were passed
! around and Miss Caswell was the
| first to figure out the, announcement.
Miss Macomber is the daughter Mrs.
| Cora Macomber of Ellsworth and
, for several years has been the eff
cient instructor in the second grade
school in the Lincoln Building. Mr..
Drummond is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. F. Drummond of Waterville
and has position in the Water
Vile Savings bank of which his
| father is the treasurer Miss Ma
| comber has many friends in Show
| hegan who will be pleased to know
] OF her engagement. The following
were present at the party: Mrs.
Margaret Day. Miss Dorothy Day,
Miss Magma M. Gordon, Miss Annie
| M. Caswell. Miss Gladys G. Pennell.
| MISS Sarah Snow and Miss Betty
| MacOmber.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02

from Conner Realty Company to AL
bert B. Walker.
New Observation-Disclosures Walton of
New Portland to Ernest A. Luce of
New Portland, undivided half and all
f. Walton owned in premises decided
to Almon Jackman and Frederick
Walton by Henry Record. Isaac B.
Knapp of Westfield, Mass, to Clyde
Cole of New Portland land in New
Portland, being all of the same prem
ises as conveyed to Warren Dunbar
by Asa S. Taylor by quit-claim deed.
Omar w. Ahase of New Portland to
Thomas 3. Wood of Lexington land
in New Portland, also lot known as
old tavern in the North village and a
3rd parcel formerly owned by Harris
j. Richardson.
Seboomook-Nellie M. Goliath Of
Seboomook and Beatrice WATSON and
Emma F. Gipson both of Bingham
and Simon p. Goliath and Robert NJ.
Goliath both of Exeter to Ralph l..
Heating of Portland, all right and
title and interest in a parcel of land
and buildings in Seboomook in town.
running northerly from Seboomook
Wharf, reserving land with store
building thereon.
Skowhegan-Herber F. Green of
Skowhegan to Thomas ]. Guilfoyle
and Ida May Guilfoyle of Skowhegan,
land in Skowhegan on Hathaway
street, formerly owned by Mary E.
Varnum. Julia Thibodeau of Show
hogan to Evander J. Mitchell Of
Skowhegan land in Skowhegan, with
buildings Ills acres) on east side of
the Kennebec river, formerly owned
by Henry Boynton.
| St. Albans-Myra L. McKenney of
st. Albans to Loanther b. Southland
of st. Adams, land in st. Adams on
road leading from St Adams village
to West Ripley, with buildings.
The young girls of the Sunday
school class in the bethany Baptist
Sunday school taught by Miss AHee
Written were entertained by the jun
Tor boys club of the ri Sigma in cell
ebratiun OF their victory In a baseball
game played last Saturday against the
Blues of the Federated Sunday seheel
and returning a party which the girls
had recently given them. on Friday
evening at the home OF Mf. ana Mrs
Ernest L. Savage on water street.
They were assisted in entertaining by
Mr.. and Mrs. savage, Miss Written
and Mrs. Ethel w. Arnes. Twenty-Five
were present. The f3fst OF The evening
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
Mayoress Of Goodhue, MINI.

Goodhue. Mimi, May 1-Goodhre
has elected a woman mayor who can
do more things about a newspaper
office than most newspaper men.
Mrs. Florence ]. Pierce is the LADY
Her husband runs the local paper
and Mrs. Pierce can feed the big press
or write for the paper. as occasion de-
mands. Her regular work is keeping
the books and doing the general ONCE
work.
She got further public experience
as assistant to her husband, postmas-
ter in their home town for 16 years
Mrs. Pierce's race for mayor was
close. The balloting was heavy ana
she beat out the hank president VINO
held the job by one vote.
Goodhue's new mayor said today
she hoped ito first FIX up. and tidy UP
the streets such as is needed without
spending lot of money and begin
the practice of making from year 10
year such permanent street improve
ments as the Golfer will warrant
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02

was passed at the picture theatre,
which is next house to the Savage
home. After the pictures games were
played and music furnished by the
boys and girls and Victrola music was
enjoyed. Delicious ice cream, saltines
and cake were served and the girls
and their young hosts. who were royal
entertainers, passed very happy eve
ming, and all the young people appre-
ciated Mr.. and Mrs. Savage's kindness
in opening their home for the party.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
BOWDOIN

Herbert Adams, Chester Carr,
Achsah Purinton, Mrs. Hattie Babb,
Mrs Sadie Starbifd and Emery Pur-
inton and wife of East Bowdoin, at
tended Pomona Grange last Wednes-
day. w. j. Thompson, master of the
State Grange was present and gave
a very interesting talk C. C. Purin-
ton. lecturer OF the State Grange
was also present and insisted very
strongly that the farmer should not
work over eight hours a day.
Rev. Levi w. Staples who former
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
WEST GARDINER

SPEARS CORNER-Clyde Swift
who has been very ill with pneumo-
MIA, is somewhat improved in health.
One hen in the neighborhood has
ambition for a large family She
was found in stolen nest setting
on 80 eggs.
The work of raising money to
help the suffering, starving people
in China has begun here, and the
people here are glad to help and
are giving literally.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
Real Estate Transfers

neai estate transfers in Somerset
county recorded in the week ending
friaay, April 20, We're as follows:
Athens-William M. Avery of Ath.
ems to Mittie c. Avery. land IN
Athens on road from Athens yi,,,y
~ west Athens, formerly owned by
MARY N. Brown. Frederick Parkman
vi skowhegan, to Walter c. Hobbs
OF Madison, land in Athens, with
buildings (15o acres), formerly owned
oy Vira K! Robinson.
Blngham-John Guam Of Rinsbam
10 Helen Cahill of Bingham. land in
blnsham. being lot No. 63 as per nlan
or house lots by Forest H. Colby for
merry owned by Forest H. C0lbv. Of
aus. Howard Russell of Bingham to
Forrest H. Colby of Bingham. land in
blngham village on Murray street.
being part of land conveyed in two
deeds one by Frank Smith and Cur
rem L. Smith and the other by Albert
I. Murray. Forrest H. Colby of
Blngham. Earl r. Taylor, Simeon ].
Whitney, William W. Durgin, Alton
3. Carl. Chester A. Rollins and Elias
A. vaughan of Bingham to Guam of
bingham, land in Bingham, being lot
NO. 46 according to plan made by
Forrest H. Colby.
Canaan-Sylvester NJ Raymond Of
Pittsfield to Percy j. Lancaster land
In Canaan formerly owned by Annie
Nrucher, sometimes called Anna
Kruger of New York City.
neutrality-suspicious. ]. Corey of
Cambridge to Fife ]. Corey of Cam
bridge, land in Cambridge. LIST parcel
being south half of lot No. IL in End
range ESQ acres), formerly owned by
Bemis Moore; End parcel part of lot
No. IL in End range (25 acres). for
merly owned by Francis w. Hill; Bird
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
DIED

MERRILL-Brewer April 2s. Hon.
Bisbee b.. aged II years.
LANCASTER-Old Town, April %.
Fred A.. aged "a years.
DALTON-Bangor. April %, Mar
garet s.
81 years.
McCARTHY-Bangor, April g. Mrs.
Hugh. aged IS years.
THOMPSON--Cente Montvil,e. Apr.
2s, voIney. aged 76 years.
DAY--Camden, April ~. Mrs An
gusta NJ. aged 81 years. S months
HiGHAHDS--Bangor. April II, Abb
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02

ly preached at the East Bowdoin
church, has been very sick.
Alice and William Haigh Of Tops
ham, was calling on friends at East
Bowdoin Thursday.
Charlie Babb and l.. c. Starbird
are working on the Federal road.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
Women Mayors to
Brighten Up Towns

st. James. Mo-. May Mrs f. w.
Oesley. Mayor Elect Of st. James ana
the first woman chosen to fnayoral-
ty in Missouri, announces she intends
to "elean ana brighten up" the city
after taking Office tomorrow.
Speaking of her successful "plat-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02

In 1915, 206 persons in this coun-
try had average individual incomes
of $2,232,707.. in 1917 the number 81
persons making returns in this group
(of more than million dollars
year, had dwindled to 141, and IN
1918, the number of "millionaires
had fallen to 67.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02

"A Warning-to feel tired before ex-
eftion is not laziness-it's a sign that
ne system lacks vitality. and needs
sufferers should not delay. Get rid ~
that tired feeling by beginning to
take Hoods Sarsaparilla today..Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-02
Thin Folks

III you are weak. thin and nervous
let 3. .E. Bither supply you with Bl'io
Phosphate. II is guaranteed 70
crease weight and strength and r
store energy, vigor and nerve force
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Tribute to a Good Cook.
Old Kentucky Negro Woman's Man!
Fine Qualities Recognized.

From the Mount Sterling Advocate.
On December II Amy Scott of color
departed this life and entered heaven
after having been a sincere Christian
for forty years and nine months TO the
day. She belonged TO a high class col
ored family. Her skin was black. but
her soul was white. and she had many
qualities that could be adopted by her
race to Its advantage. There are not
many negroes tho equal of Amy Scott
In more ways than one. For sixteen
years Amy Scott was the highly appre-
ciated servant of Hon. u. J. Peters. who
for four terms was Chief Justice of the
Court OF Appeals. Upon his death and
that OF his wife she hunted up another
family of quality and lived. She was q
leader Of her race, had the first upright
plano owned by her people in the county
and could play Il with quite a good deal
Of proficiency. She could recite poetry
we'll
Amy had been with the Bean family
for twenty-four years. Her dinners to
her friends OF color were nt 10 set beforo
a king, oftentlmes costing her month =
wages. She was woman OF honesty
and had the respect of both white and
black. and took great pride In being
better than the common herd She was
one OF tho best cooks in the bluegrass
ar took great pride In excelling others.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Exit the Vicious Circle.

We read in one news column that a
big steel company has reduced wages
from 10 to 20 per cent. But we see
in another column that this country
needs 1,250,000 new homes.
When steel and other materials used
in the building of apartments and
houses come down to a price which is
attractive to the prospective investor
or home owner, then the work OF
building the homes which are needed
by FIVE or six million people will get
under way in earnest. The reduction
in wages, while It may not be blessed
to-day by the workmen affected, will
he blessing by and by. 1t will mean
that hands can be kept at work and
that homes can be built for all.
The old circle OF ascending prices
was rightly called vicious. The new
circle, bringing down the cost of liv.
ing, is benevolent.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Something to Blush For.

The American people, who are any
thing but cheap, must grow red in
the face when they read certain de-
tails Of the business of bringing back
the three naval Lieutenants whose
balloon carried them to Canada.
When the head of the adventuring
party, Lieutenant KLooR, telegraphed
TO the Rockaway naval air station
for S400 to pay the expenses of the
return by rail, the men Of the sta
ton were compelled to pass the hat
among themselves to get the money
The Navy Department, it was ex-
planned, can reimburse the balloonists
only to the extent of eight cents a
mile from the railroad point nearest
which they land to their home sta
ton. The Secretary of the Navy has
a contingent fund, but the men Of the
air station evidently did not believe
that this could be depended upon for
quick, if any, action.
The Navy had appropriations Of
nearly half billion In the present
fiscal year, and yet It's employees, on
official business, must borrow from
their friends or take a chance of
staying In the SHOWS of a foreign
country
1t was easy for the Government
TO get and pay out money in the re-
cent jamboree of extravaganza and
graft. 1t made its financial methods
flexible enough then. But they stiffen
up when merely the pride and safety
of loyal service men are at hazard.
How the Canadians must laugh at
an Administration which can squan-
der billions but cannot find S400 in
its pocket to bring its aeronauts home
from the wilderness.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05

charge of an electroscope by means
OF rays emanating from the body Of n
medium. AS result Of these expert
ments DIR. IMoDA has concluded that
the radiations OF radium, the cathode
radiations Of the Crookes tubes and
the radiations from the hy Of the
medium are fundamentally the same.
In view of these conclusions, reached
by reputable scientist, the posi-
bility naturally arises that radium
may be the means OF communication
with the spirit world, and important
experiments TO determine more clearly
the similarity between the radiations
of radium and mediumistic radiations
are being carried out. with the prom
ise of important results.
DR.. CABMEGToN points out that
man never would have arrived at his
present positive knowledge of the
structure of the universe and of the
laws which govern It's operations had
1t not been for instruments now. en-
ployed by the chemist and the physi-
cist This probably applies as we'll
to the investigation Of psychic phe.
nomena as it does to natural phe-
nomena. Until It is possible to apply
definite laboratory methods and study
psychic phenomena with instruments
more delicate and less susceptible to
outside influence than the human
senses mankind probably will know
very little about psychic forces. But
proper scientific study and investiga-
ton should lay bare the laws and the
conditions under which these forces
operate. opce this is done the nature
Of the forces themselves probably will
be determined also.
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Swann's Little Revenge.

The statement issued by Senator
TBEoDoRE Douor s RoBISsoS and As
semblyman JOS II STEINBERc. call.
Ing the attention Of the Legislature
TO evil conditions In this city, was put
forth in the line Of official duty.
Enrnged by the legislators refer
ence TO the miserable state of his
Office, District Attorney SWAMI has
mbpGnaed the Senator and the As
semblyman 70 appear before the
Grand Jury. No doubt they Will ap-
pear ard they should have very little
trouble to substantlate all that they
said about SwANN's Office.
The incident is typical Of Mr..
SWAMI. If the Robinson-Stelnberg
statement had been held until to-day
and then made public in either house
of the Legislature SwANr could not
have subpenaed the authors OF It.
We give him credit, with all his de-
fects, for knowing the constitutional
provision in this respect.
But the Senator and the Assembly
man, who were helping to arrange n
legislative programme, naturally did
not wait until their houses were
actually in session. Thus SWAMI
had his little chance. "These men,"
he screams, cor any one else who
makes that kind OF statement, Will
be brought bsfore ths GraYA JURY
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Psychic Laboratory Work.

DR.. HEREwARD CARBINGToN has
opened an interesting field for discus
sion and speculation with his state
ment TINT a laboratory properly
equipped with physical apparatus,
principally electrical and Photographic
devices, for intensive study of
psychic and mediumistic phenomena
would enable American scientists to
reach some definite conclusions within
ten years as to the possibility of CON-
munication with the dead. Certainly
IL must be admitted, regardless of
ones belief or disbelief in spiritlsn or
the phenomena generally associated
with il. that the possibilities Of such
investigations are as boundless as
they are fascinating.
In this matter Of investigating
psychic and occult phenomena the
United States has been leisurely. 1t
is true that JOSEPH RIM has for
many years been a thorn in the flesh
of the mediums, but he is not inter
ested in the possible presence of un-
known forces and powers. Mr.. RIM
goes TO seances to prove that no
ghosts are present, and so far, to the
utter disgust OF the mediums, he has
proved II. But, with the exception
Of Or. CARRIyGToN-and recently
THOMAS A. EpIsoy--there is no no
table person in the United States,
since the death OF WILLIAM JAMES.
Professor HysLoP and Or. RICHARD
IIoDGsos, who is studying the subject
II ON purely scientific point Of view.
In Europe, where the war gave
tremendous impetus TO the study Of
psychic phenomena and where mill
ions are hoping that there may be
some means Of communicating with
the millions who died on the battle
fields, psychic phenomena are being
investigated by men Of great scientific
learning and repute, such as DIR.
INopA, Professor Mosso and DR.. PAUL
JorRE At the time of his death Pro-
fessor CuaIE was busy devising an
instrument which would register and
direct psychic power liberated from
the body Of a medium in trance. In
France, England, Poland, Spain, Italy
and even Japan there exist to-day well
endowed societies which are estab-
fishing and equippIng Laboratories as
fast as the proper instruments and
machines are invented.
Initial studies have been made by
scientists under the direction OF the
Paris Psychological Institute. TO the
laymsn perhaps the most interesting
and suggestive Of these is an expert.
ment made by Dr. IxopA N the dis
The New York herald., 1921-01-05
Spilling the Tariff Beans.

When clodhopper law smiths and
mossback propaganda makers try to
vindicate such crude and bungling
work as the emergency tariff bill by
referring to previous schedules dating
all the way back to 1923, they do not
improve their case with the public.
They might as well treat railroads
and motor cars from the point of view
Of canal boats and OK carts.
The fundamental principle of the
American tariff system, in which this
paper ia thoroughly grounded with the
strongest conviction, may be stated
very simply. 1t may be understood
as easily. Intelligently practised, it
may dispense with apologlsts; 1t vim
dicates itself.
The American tariff system is de-
signed not merely to create and fos-
ter home production, but to stimu-
late improvement of process and per-
fection Of results. 1t must broaden the
whole home market and strengthen,
not weaken, the general purcha sing
power.
A duty OF 100 per cent might be
required at one stage of the found
ing or development of an industry,
but none at all at another stage. A
duty Of 10 per cent or 100 per cent.
or 1000 per cent. for an industry
might fail to attain the ideal of this
American policy in that industry IT.
self if the very tariff act did more
harm in second direction than 1t did
or tried TO do good in the first dlrec-
ton.
A tariff duty on wheat reaching
TO the blue sky. for example, could
never sell the American farmers crops
at fair price if general American in
dustries were allowed by the tariff
makers or compelled by other circum-
stances TO go on the rocks.
If American mills and factories are
! idle If American wage earners are out
of work, the American farmer can.
not sell his crops, tariff or no tariff,
because his economic salvation, first,
last and all the time, depends upon
being able to sell ia this, our own
American market, the greatest and
richest in all the world.
Any tariff to be sound and to make
good must never ignore the supreme
national faetor-the earning power
Of the whole nation to be spent on
the products OF the various and VA
ried industries of the nation. farm.
Ing and all.
Men who make special duties with
out due consideration Of the interests
and necessities of the country as q
whole do not make them under the
elemental principles of the true Amer.
ican tariff system. They do not in
truth comprehend what the American
tariff system Is Men who make
tariff schedules like those rushed
through the House but tagged for
/ examination in the Senate, do not
save or help the farmer as he may
/ deserve or need to be helped. They
simply. in the vernacular of the day
/ spill the beans.