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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

time, but before it is decided what Is
to be done, assurance/mu be given
the company operating the boat to
Boston that freight and patronage
will be forthcoming.
The Kennebec river is navigable as
far as Augusta. The government
has expended large sums in dredging
the channel the whole length of the
river and not so very long ago the
Kennebec was a busy stream from
the time the ice went out until win
ter closed it to navigation. Ice
houses lined the banks from Rich
mond to Augusta. Many saw mills
and other industries were in opera
ton. For miles the river was lined
with schooners awaiting cargoes of
ice or lumber and discharging coal.
The boat to Boston made trips three
times a week and was loaded to the
guards on every trip. The smaller
steamboats, which ran to Boothbay
Harbor were well patronized. Every
one going down river" for a little
vacation took these boats and most
enjoyable trip it was.
Many things have conspired to
sweep away about all of the shipping
the Kennebec once knew. The ice
houses are no more. Many have
burned down, many more have been
torn down, while the few which re-
main are in ruins What was at one
time most profitable industry, en-
ploying thousands of men, is known
no more. The same is true of the
saw mills which once were to. be
seen all along the banks of this beau
tlful river Only one or two remain
and they are largely engaged in doing
local business. The great RATS of
spruce and pine logs which once
f1oated down the Kennebec from as
far away as Moosehead lake and all
the neighboring lakes and streams
are to be seen no more. Above Au-
gusta, and particularly above Water
vile. large amount of pulp wood is
fioated down the river, but this is
about all the traffic it bears.
AS matter of economy all of the
coal used in the kennebec valley
ought to be carried there in vessels.
1t is being transported by rail for the
most part and the people are being
taxed very heavily to pay the heavy
, charges. All of the old time indus
tries are gone. The Kennebec river
is practically deserted. To those who
remember what it looked like only a
decade or so ago a survey of the
Kennehec is depressing in the ex-
treme. Along it's banks ought to be
countless industries. Ships from
every part of the world ought to be
floating on it's placid surface. The
region about it is the most attractive
in Maine. The people living in the
Kennebec valley are among the best
the State affords. Yet above Bath
nobody who can recall what the
Kennebec river looked like twenty
years ago would recognize it today,
stripped as it appears to be of all its
shipping and the major part of the
industries which once brought the
vessels there.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Editors Table

The Shorter Bible-The Old Tesla
ment, translated and arranged by
Charles Foster Kent, Woolsey profess
sor of Biblical Literature in Yale Uni
versity. Published by Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. New York, 1921. The story
of the Old Testament told in plain
language, simple yet dignified, under
standable by even a child. 1t does
not pretend to give the full text but
selects certain parts and presents it
IN narrative form, with a view of
arousing new interest in the bible and
especially among those who feel too
busy or are disinclined To peruse the
regular editions. 1t in no way de.
tracts from the dignity and majesty
OF those editions. but it certainly does
tell the same matters in more inter-
esting style.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
WILL NEVER CEASE

WONDERS WILL NEVER CGASE
Came the telephone, the Weather
Bureau service and the rural free
mail delivery, with the electric lights
and power and modern machinery for
the farmer, but who ever expected
that the agricultural market reports
would be delivered broadcast over the
country by radiophone. Yet, that
has been put into operation within a
few days at East Pittsburg, Penn,
farmers and others within a few hun
dred miles of that place being served.
Radio station KDKA sends the report
over a wave length of $50 meters.
This is an experimental demon
stration, but so far has the service
been perfected that it will undoubt-
eddy be continued. 1t follows closely
the inauguration of sending of agri-
cultural market reports by wireless
which has accomplished wonders
Radio market reports are now being
sent daily from Omaha, st. Louis.
Washington and Bellefonte, Pa, and
being received by wireless operators
in twenty-five Central and Eastern
states, who Immediately relay the
news to farmers, shipping associa-
tons, distributors of farm products.
and others. The Department of Ag
riculture is receiving many crafty
ing reports regarding the usefulness
of the service and marketing organ
izations everywhere are not only
watching the work with keen interest
but are arranging as rapidly as posi-
bic to utilize the service.
The use OF the radiophone will
greatly simplify the handling of the
market reports, because it will be un-
necessary for the receiver to have
'any knowledge of the dots and dashes
OF the wireless telegraph, as the
English language itself will transmit
the news. and with the present in
struments it will he as though You
were facing the speaker, or using an
ordinary telephone.
Arrangements can be made with
any local experienced wireless oper-
ator to receive and relay the mes
sagcs. which the government will
send, free of charge.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Auburn Man Saves Children

Murray w. Watson of Summit
street, Auburn Heights, on Monday
by his prompt and quick witted &C
ton perhaps saved the lives of three
children from going over Golf hill IN
a heavy motor truck, in which they
had been playing. They accidentally
released the gears and the truck
started rolling. Mr.. Watson saw the
trouble, leaped onto the running
board and damned down the emer-
gency brake. which did not take. lie
then grabbed the wheel and swerVed
the truck into Prospect street, ana
the machine stopped when it struck
the rising ground.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
H. s. Williams, D. c.
CH|ROPRACTOR
Palmer Graduate, Lady Attendant
2o6 Water St., Augusta, Maine
Over z. E. Davis Co.
Tel 49,
Railroads and Steamboats,
MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD
Eastern STANDARD Time
TRAINS LEAVE AUGUSTA FOR

Bangor, i1.24 n. M. $3.50 a. IN. t2.35 a. IN;
*947 a. m. Y 80 p. m, So l p m. t6.i0 p. IN.
B. & A. Pts. II 24a m. Y. 80 am.
Bar Harbor. 81 80 a. III. t2.35a.m.
Bath, IA a.. M, 1886 u. m, SlOlo a. m.
taos p. M. t6.l0p. m. 40. As p IN.
Belfast t9.47 a. m, r. SO p. IN.
Boston. T3. 10 a IN, t6 Ii am. 1886 a m slOls
am. Z. 46 p 1874 pm, ti.O1 pm lO4sp PIN
Calais. f2.35 a. IN.
Dover and Foxcroft, II 80 p m.
Gardiner. 10. 10a. IN. t6.l4 a. m. 70 80 a mi
s10IS a. m, II &c p. M. 1884 pm I4.O5 p. H.,
isis D. m. t610p m. *104S p. IN.
Haowell, t6. IA a. IN. 1886 a. m. $40 - a M
t2,46 p. m. 1894 p. m, t4,O5 p. m. t5'l5 PM
t6l0 p m, 40 As p
Harmony, z. 50 p. III.
Lewiston, t6 IA a. m, 1886 q. m. $40 Is a NJ
IL .46 p. m. Il .05 p. m, 40 ~ p. III.
New York, 1884 p. m. 1910 p. III.
Portland. 49, Ca m t6. II a. m, t9.36 m $40 -
am. Y. 46 pm, So "a pm t405pm., t6lO pm
40 AZ p. m.
Rockland. t6 IA a. m. 70. &c a. m, t405 pm
Skowhegan, *0.i7 m, r. 50 p. IN.
So Gardiner, 10. II am. 1886 a, m. slO u am
IL. i6 p. m, 1884 p. M, t5l5 p M, 1o'lo P H.
Sl0.4S p. IN.
St John. tl.24 a. M.
Waterville. IL "a a. m. 81 80 a. m, Y 80 a m
*9.47 a M. t1.06 p. M. 253 p. m, s3.I- p u
t6.40 p. m.
Daily. Daily, except Sunday.
Sunday only Z Daily, except Monday
DC. DOUGLASS, NJ. l.. HARRIS,
1921 VI & Genl Mgr. Genl Passenger hE''
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PARTED after 40
PAINFUL YEARS
A Postmaster Has Lost Something
But Isn't Sorry It Has Gone

E. F. Drew, postmaster at Onawa,
Me-, writes the Priest Drug Co. Ban
gor, Me-
| had indigestion 40 years. / have
been using Priests Indigestion Pow
der the past two years. 1t is the best
l have ever used and gives me quick
relief.
have recommended to others and
they report it the same.
For sale by all druggists If your
dealer does not carry Priests 1ndi-
gestion Powder, insist on him order
ing it from the wholesaler or Priest
Drug Co, Bangor, Me. Samples sent
free. Mention paper in which you
read this Observation-Disclosures
may 1914
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
When Maine Cut Ice
(Boston Transcript


A despatch from Maine brings the
news that the last of the icehouses
above Gardiner bridge on the Kenne-
bee river is being demolished Below
Gardiner. there are few of the ice
houses remaining. The day may soon
lac coming when nowhere on the river
will there be left trace of once
great industry Time was when the
ice cSt in winter on the Kennebec pro-
vided relief from summer heat in far
distant portions of the land, and
even in the isles of the sea off the
American coast
There were picturesque scenes dur
ing the ice harvesting. Travellers on
the trains of the Maine Central Rail-
way were afforded on bright winter
days a 20-mile panorama of activity.
From Richmond to Gardiner and be-
yond the frozen surface of the river
was black with thousands of men and
horses. There was opportunity for an
army of men to find occupation at a
time of year when they might other
wise have been without work 1t
meant the expenditure of large sums
in wages and the hire of the horses
driven over the ice fields by their
farmer owners. In the summer there
was activity Of another sort when the
river was the highway for the schoon-
ers that came to carry the ice to the
distant cities.
But scientific knowledge and inven-
tive genius were working to end this
profitable industry. The time came
when 1t cost less to manufacture ice
III Southern cities than to carry it
there from Maine. There was a pc
Rod when stocks of ice were carried
IN the kennebec houses as a reserve
supply for cities so far north that
they depended on the natural product
but might not be able to obtain it near
at hand in mild winters There fol-
lowed the time when little or no cut
ting was done on scores Of fields that
were the centres of feverish activity in
the winters of past years. The far
spreading icehouses were always men,
aced by fire. Lightning was the cause
OF destruction of many of them.
Sparks from the passing locomotives
PROBABLY fired others. In recent years.
there has been no incentive to re-
place those that have burned. Some
have been demolished to get them out
of the way.
Ice is still cut on the Kennebec. but
the great industry of the past is gone
and there is no chance Of, it's revival.
Not only does the natural product
meet the competition of The manufac-
tured ice. but, with the perfection of
refrlgerating systems, the time has
come when even in New England
householders as we'll as the managers
or hotels and other great establish
ments are chilling their refrigerators
with the aid of the electric motor and
chemical mixture. 1t may be a bet
ter state of things, but it means the
passing OF what was once a f1ourishing
industry in the nearby State.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Saturday, May "a, 1921.
THE TARIFF AND NEW ENGLAND

In spite Of the agitated protesta-
sion against the emergency tariff and
. anti dumping bill carried on primari-
~ by Senator David l. Walsh of Mas
sachusetts, the bill has passed the
Senate by vote of 60 to % with sew
en- Democratic supporters and only
sne opposing Republican. Tariff fea-
lures of the bill were kept intact, as
were also the regulations in favor OF
.he stimulation of the United States
dye industry. The bill to be effective
.or six months provides increased
rates Of duty on wheat, corn, beans.
peanuts, potatoes, rice, cattle, sheep,
neats, long staple cotton and cotton
manufa ctures, wool and wool manu- =
features, sugar, milk, wrapper and
5ller tobacco, and other farm prod
ucts"
Senator Walsh has stated that New
England and the North Atlantic
states in particular must of necessity
obtain many of the food supplies in
Guided in the foregoing list from sec
lions beyond the Canadian border and
khe Allegheny mountains and that an
attempt 10 shut off the easy influx of
such supplies would increase the cost
81 living To marked extent. By
a,akins it necessary for people in
shcsc sections to import foods com
Ing from long distances the in
creased cost of living will eventually
react on the price of products of this
part OF the country and the effect OF
.he tariff would be to raise the level
of prices without benefit To the farm
.r or consumer"
But the voting majority have dis
agreed with Mr.. Walsh and see less
Of danger TO the agricultural indus
try of tho North Atlantic and New
England states in prohihitive duty
tlaN IN a certain suggested feclpiOc-
,ty, in regard to Canadian and United
States goods. Canadian farm prod
ucts are now far in excess of the do
alestic demand; Canadian producers
are, says a statement from Washing
ton, eager TO rush supplies across the
border III much larger quantities thar
would be well for home producers.
New England has for some years
ocen increasing her profitable pro-
auction of agricultural products The
industry is now in state Of interest
ing growth and it would be n Sitting
blow to its progress if free entry oil
Canadian goods should be made pos
sible. Better. beyond any reasonable
doubt, to prohibit easy admission OF
such staples as are included in the
list and keep our farmers prosperous
and progressive.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
INSPECTOR
Jno. B. Fournier Now
On Job Feeling Fine
Declares Change In His Condition
Since Taking Tanlac Is Simply A..
tonishing

John B. Fournier, 3 Park Place,
Portland, Me-, track inspector on the
Portland Street Railroad. is now an
enthusiastic witness to the wonder
full merits of Tanlac. He says:
"Tanlac has done me more good
than all the other medicines l ever
took. l am now seventy years of age
and for a year or two before I took
Tanlac my condition was such that
l could hardly get about. My kidneys
were badly out of order and my back
hurt me all the time, in fact all my
joints were stiff and painful When
stopped over my work as inspector
my back felt like it would break and
l couldn't straighten up except by
catching hold of something to pull up
by.
Il didn't eat thing scarcely, and
even then l had almost unbearable
pains in the pit of my stomach. At
night I would lie awake by the hour
and in the morning felt SO weak and
miserable it was all l could do to
crawl out of bed. | took something
for constipation almost daily and had
well, | am just now on my third
bottle of Tanlac and the difference in
my condition is astonishing. I am
always ready when mealtime comes
now. | enjoy every mouthful and my
food agrees with me perfectly. l
sleep like a top all night long. All
the pains have gone from my back,
and | can bend about as we'll as |
could when a young man of thirty.
Hardly day passes that / don't tell
some of my friends about Tanlac and
I am more than glad to make this
statement for what it may be worth
to others"
Tanlac is sold in Augusta by John
Coughlin; in Weeks Mills by j. A.
Merrill; in West Washington by Wal
ter F. Burdick: in China by Bailey
Bros; in Albion by l.. +. Cannon and
Libby Bros; in North Wayne by w.
l.. Morrill,; III Palermo by II. W.
Worthing: and by the leading drug
Gist in every city and town.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
One Good as the Other to Her

That daddy in the eyes of childhood
is always just as big a man as any in
the world was evidenced one day in
the West indianapolis branch library.
A tiny, smiling girl stood at the
desk.
What does your father do?" asked
the librarian in an effort to identify
her father among the many men of
the same name in the city directory.
He's either a 'milIioneer' or an
engineer, and l can't remember which,"
returned the tiny one. with a puzzled
Observation-Disclosures News
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14


Il feel it my duty to tell you what
Fruit a. tives'or Fruit Liver Tablets
did for me.
I tried several kinds Of physic for
over three years: and, of course.
while took it every night my bowels
would move: but as soon as l stopped
taking physic. would be constipated
and would have Piles terribly.
l heard Of Fruit-a- tives' and
bought one box and took them. Now
l am not troubled any more with
Constipation and no more Piles.
'Fruit-atives' did for me what no
other medicine ever did; they left no
after effects, and now l do not have
to use physic.
I recommend Fruit tives' to all
my friends"
MRS. JOHN CAPOZZI.
SOC. box, 6 for $3.50, trial size CSC
At dealers or from FRUIT-A-T IVES
Limited. OGDENSBURG, N. Y
Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
father OF Three
CHILDREN WRITES
FROM CANAL ZONE

Balboa, Canal Zone. A father of
three children writes: "Will you kind
w send me by mail two bottles of
YOUR DR.. True's Elixir. I cannot buy
II here in Panama. 1 have three chill
dren. and the Elixir is the best fam
ily remedy 1 ever used. When one
of the children isn't feeling right,
give him a dose of DR.. True's Elixir
and he comes out hale and hearty in
the morning. Our children have
shown no signs of worms since they
have taken the Elixir" F. H. Pur-
ington.
The prescription. DIR. True's Elixir
the Family Laxative and Worm Ex-
peller, has done wonders for sack
people. No harmful drugs-works
quickly and effectively.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINEIl,.
Boston and
Portland Line

EXPRESS, PASSENGER AND
FREIGHT SERVICE
STEAMSHIP RANSOM B. FULLER
STEAMERS LEAVE BY DAYLIGHT
SAVING TIME
FARE Sale - STATEROoMS Sl.s2,
WAR TAX INCLUDED
Leave Portland, Franklin Wharf,
tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
at 8 p. M. for Boston
RETURN:-Leave Boston, Central
Wharf, Mondays, Wednesd and
Fridays at 8 p. NJ.
At Boston connection is made with tho
metropolitan Line passenger ana
freight steamers for New York VIA
Cape Cod Canal.
II. A CLAY, Superintendent.
Franklin Wharf.
Tel 66oo aprl3dtt
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
No Chance for Objection

A Brooklyn man claims that the
Oldest joke is the one about the 6-year-
old boy who said to his father one
day:
Daddy. I want to get married"
And who are you going to marry?"
asked his father.
I'm going to marry grandma" was
the reply.
Huh said his father. DO you
think l would let you marry my
mother"
why hot?" demanded the boy. You
married mine, didn't ?"-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
The kennebee River.
(POrtlap6 procS>


! Augusta. Hallowell Gardiner.
Richmond and Bath, all Kennebec
river cities and towns, are rejoicing
over the fact that arrangements have
at last been made to re-establish the
Kennebec-Boston steamboat service
and to run boats again from points
on the river from Augusta and below
to Boothbay Harbor and the islands
adjacent thereto. The city Of Rock
land has been taken over by Carl K.
CROSBY or Bath from the Eastern
Steamship Company owing to whose
enterprise the boat service is to be
resumed.
So far it hasn't been definitely de-
termined whether the City Of Rock
land will run up the Kennebec river
beyond Bath. The people Of Au-
gusta hope the terminal of the line
will be at Gardiner as it was at one
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

If conditions at the oxford Hospi
tai, where sick and disabled World
War veterans are being treated. are
as alleged by a writer in a Boston
paper. state and government officials
should take prompt action. If the
statement is not true or overdraWn,
then the hospital management should
talks prompt action for redress
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

1t is safe bet that none of the boys
who wore the khaki in the World
War are among the warning element
in the mountains in West Virginia,
unless again clad in the same uni
form.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

Needn't worry about any shortage
in clothespins. a Norway, Me. ski
and snoWshOe manufacturer has
such an accumulation of waste ash
lumber about his factory that it be-
came serious problem to dispose
of ii. He therefore installed ma =
Chinery to make clothe spins-of the
real old fashioned kind
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Won the Crown

An English schoolmaster promised
a crown to any boy who should pro-
pound riddle that he could not ans
wer After many had tried. bright
youngster said: why am [ like the
Prince of Wales?" The schoolmaster
puzzled his wits in vain and finally
was compelled to admit that he did
not know.
Why" said the boy, cts because I
am waiting for the crown. - Boston
Transcript.
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1t is to be hoped that John j. Nc
Namara, released on Tuesday from
the penitcntiary at San Quentin. Cal
where he had served years and j
namiting the LleWellyn Iron Works
at Los Angeles. will not resume his
former occupation.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Editorial Comment
Edison Not Wholly Right.
(Boston Globe)

The questions that Mr.. Edison
pumps at applicants for employment
IN his business may seem to require
an unreasonable amount of knoWl-
edge, even on the part of college
graduates, and certainly it is unfair
to denounce all who cannot answer
them as ignorant, but apparently Mr..
Edison finds some applicants who
can answer his questions, and those
are the men he wants.
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Close as thew Make EN-

Real Estate Owner-The man that
owns this property is the tightest
man in the world
Prospect-Wont he build?
Real Estate Owner-Not that. but he
kicks every time the wind blows some
dust off his lot He claims he's losing
his property that way.-New York
Globe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

In addition to running a pottery
brewery and a line of stea nshlps'
William Hohenzollern, former En-
peror of Germany, has large holdings
in several theatres and opera houses
in Berlin.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

What has become of the old fash
toned man who donned a linen buster
when he moved the lawn?-Boston
Transcript.
He's probably using the buster on
an automobile trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

1t is becoming more and more diff
cult for a woman dressed in the fash
ion to wear fur coat without tick
ling herself with it.-Washington
Post
Yes. it's decidedly ticklish situa =
ton
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

Canton, May PA crow testing
association is to be organized at
Canton Grange hall. Friday evening
and officers elected.
Huh?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
Tel. 66oo

at the home of Mrs. a. =. Morrison
Friday evening, May 10. Plans VIII
be made for a fair and supper, the
proceeds to go towards repairs on
the church.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

Think twice before you believe
what any man, whether an Einstein
or not, cannot make plain to you in
words shorter than ''relativity"--
Boston Herald.
Oh, you doubter!
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

Now, don't be uneasy because it is
Friday and the 18th. Perhaps it will
be the luckiost day you've had for a
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

The New England apple crop this
year. which an apple-buyer says is
going to be the smallest ever known,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14

There will probably be other upsets
before the curtain rings the close of
the college rowing season.-Boston
Transcript.
Now don't throw cold water.