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Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Lester D. Eaton, the new warden
Of the State Prison, has charge just
now of pol convicts. the largest num-
ber confined in the Thomaston in
stitution since 1918. Only three are
women. Forty convicts. additional to
the number above mentioned are on
parole, and one escaped convict. 10
seph Henley, is in custody in Aroos-
took county. The general health of
the convicts is good, there being very
few on the hospital list this fall.
The manufacture of sleighs has
been unusually brisk, and zoo of them
will have been turned out when the
season closes. There have been ship
ments from the prison almost daily
to Aroostook county. where 1t would
seem that they have sleighing about
all the time except the Fourth Of
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
But They Will Come Back
Bangor CommerclaD

'IbdIISUI NVIIIIIFI CINIJ
The Maine migration to Florida
has set in and for the next few
months friends will receive many let
ters telling of the beauties and at
fractions of Florida. But all the en-
iSrants will be back in the spring.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

A letter from Director Horatio n.
Crie of the Sea and Shores Fisheries
Commission says that he feels that
the statement in last Fridays Journal
to the effect that on the day before
Holsters were selling at and 10 cents
per pound in Boston was a little mis-
leading, because it conveys the i'm
preston that all Holsters were selling
for that price on that date. On the
same day Maine Holsters were whole
sailing for from 25 to 2S cents per
pound. Do not confuse the good
9Iaine product kept in good, clean
Sea water with Holsters kept in the
polluted water surrounding the large
cities"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
Experiences

Archie-And what did your father
say when you told him that / said
could not live without you?
Elsie-He said he used to tell
mother the same rot.-London An
swerS.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
An Awakening Ahead

Mr.. Hiclts--I spent my honeymoon
here.
Mrs. Dicks-That is the happies 1
time of ones life. isn't it?
Mr.. Hicks-Yes. One is so ignorant
of the future then.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

A hotel in Atlantic City is planning
to spend million dollars on wing.
Must be a turkey wing. don't you
think ?--Wa terville Sentinel.
Riches certainly make themselves
wings" these days.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

The scientists are now telling us
that the time is not many generations
distant when the average man will
live to be a hundred. Wonder if
they've taken into account the effects
of Thanksgiving dinners?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
And DRINK

Because some scores of jobless A. Z.
F. veterans enlisted in the Spanish
Foreign Legion to battle with tine
Moors in Africa, 1T doesn't mean they'd
rather fight than eat. 1t means they'd
rather eat.-American Legion Weekly.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Why not have the Army and Navy
put on game at Washington for the
lcdification of the Conference?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
GoiuQ the Pace

What kind of a time is he having
on his motor trip"
Guess hes having pretty lively
time. He sent me a picture postcard
Of a hospital. News.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

washington PosD
Maybe business hesitates to turn
the corner before knowing what the
traffic regulations will be when it
gets around
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

One watching the performances,
Friday, might conclude that running
automobiles had become a winter
sport.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

July. The harness business is also
good, and many truck bodies and
wagons are being turned out in the
carriage department.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

The Reckland Courier Gazette says
that Bert BIethen (Rockland's pres
ent postmaster) and Dan Coakley
were the first to cross the Spruce
Head bridge after it was opened 10
the public.
DO | remember it," asked Post
master Blethen, yesterday. Should
say l do" And he gave vent to
|. ugh which shook the Post Office
corridor-a laugh which was spiced
by the recollection OF how Mr.. Coax
ley and he had put one over on Willis
Adams.
my father. John Blethen, lived on
the island at that time" said the
postmaster, and he heard us arrang-
ing to be the first TO cross the bridge
why don't you take Tim, he's been
waiting 2o years for the chance" said
Mr.. Blethen, senior.
Tim was the family horse, and a
right wise old bird.
so we ,hitched up and started for
the bridge" continued the narrator
When we got there some of the
planks had not been put in place, but
we soon found them and drove into
the village big as life. Willis Adams
spied us from his Office. How in the
name Of all that's holy did You get
here?" he wanted to know Holy
wasn't the word ne used when we
told him"
A. c. Swazey and Fred ". Smith,
the committee appointed to look after
of Emma H. Dean of Newark, \. J..
announce that a complete settlement
has been made by the executor and
trustee. AS a part Of its share, the
( town OF Bucksport comes into posses
sion of the Bradley block and tene-
ment house in the rear, corner of
Main and Central streets, and the
residence Of the late Luman Warren.
corner of Main and School streets.
The trust fund is for the purpose of
erecting and maintaining public
building in memory of the late Lu-
man Warren, brother OF Mrs. Emma
H. Dean.
Brownville welcomes the report
that the idle slate quarries IN that
town may soon be reopened. They
are owned by a Worcester, Mass,
corporation and two Massachusetts
firms are said to have looked them
over with a view of purchasing The
demand for roofing slate is said to he
increasing and the Brownville slate
is said to be unsurpassed for that
purpose.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

What business has March's lion
looling around here the 25th of No
vcmber?
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
Editorial Comment
No Cause for Wonder

(Boston Transcript
You can't wonder at the number of
college drives nowadays, with the
cost of stadiums as high as it is.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

-Four Corinna men have been or
are hunting in Blanchard and the
correspondent of the Dexter Gazette
remarks: I'VE think they must have
sent the game home to be shot, as
there have been six deer shot near
Pleasant Vale while they have been
awaV"
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Turkey went down in more ways
than one
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Only $685. 100000 to he raised. by
taxation next year.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

the home grange presented pro-
gram which included n song by the
choir. readings by Mrs. Ida Wingate
and John Ladd and vocal duet by
II. A. Moore and Mrs. Elizabeth
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

weymouth. Baxter; Dorothy Cald-
well, Island Falls; Edrie MahaneT
Bangor; Edna Starrctt, Bangor;
Elizabeth Tarr. Biddeford: Theresa
Thompson, Biddeford. and Marie.
Washburn, Presque Isle.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

No 'times Thursday-Bath Times.
THY modesty's a candle to thy
merit" - -
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

]. A. Magill runs the Vaughan
house in Caribou and he also some
times ahunting goes. He was up to
his cottage at Portage Lake the
other day and CHANGED to look out
the window, glimpsing a deer stroll
ling about, chronicles the Aroostook
Republican. He quietly opened the
window. stuck out his trusty rifle, took
aim and fired. He took home with
him a 16-point buck.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
Maine GOSSIP
The Hoar Frost


oh, sleep. little pines, in your serried
Through the shine of the stilly
Oh, dream and sigh, you great pines
high.
1 bring you blanket white.
In glittering wreaths l twIne your
leaves,
With fairy tinsel spread.
And soft and light coverlet white
] drop on your drowsy head.
l frost your cones till they hang on
high
Like diamond apples against the sky.
Oh. fir tree tall by the mountain wall,
/ bring you a diadem.
The beech's grace | hang with lace.
And the cedar from crown to hem.
In a bright cascade are my splendors
laid
To cover the old dead weeds.
That bare and brown were laden down
With a burden of rafting seeds.
/ clothe the valley in vesture white
And weave the woof in a MINDLESS
night.
With ? silent pass l change the grass
Into silver domes of spray
The naples spire l paint with fire,
But her last sweet buds ] slay
BY hill and vale and rock and swale,
With flying feet ] go.
To herald the way for Winters sway,
On his throne of ice and snow
All things must sleep as ] pass by.
And l cover them close meath a still
white sky.
CAROLYN NJ. LEWIS. in n. Y.
Times.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Woolwich will on Saturday, Nov. &c,
have special town meeting for the
consideration of the recent selling by
the right of eminent domain by the
Bath Water District of certain prop.
erty in Woolwich, for the purpose of
building dam to conserve the water
supply at Lake Nequasset, from which
Bath gets its water The property in
cludes right of way from the State
highway to the site of the dam, which
is already being constructed of con-
crete. the old mill near the dam and
the necessary land on either side of
the outlet for the dam. The recent
dry season and low water in the lake
was the cause of the Water Districts $
action. The effect of the new dam on
the f1shway in Nequasset stream
makes the matter of Importance to the
town. as 1t has in the past derived
considerable rcveSue from the fish.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

(syndicated by Associated Editors)
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

Alfred Jail is once again ION ths
map" having quite a number under
sentence and 90 bound over inmates.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
Use SL0AN'S TO
LEASE LAME BACKS

VOU can't do your best when
your back and every muscle
aches with fatigue.
7. Apply an'SLiniment freely, ,cith-
out rubbing, and enjoy penetrative
glow of warmth and comfort.
Good for rheumatism, neuralgia,
sprains and strains. aches and pains,
sciatica, sore muscles, stiff joints and
the after effects of weather exposure.
! For forty years pains enemy. Ask
your neighbor. Keep Sloon's handy. i.
At all druggists-3sc, zoe, $1.4o. I
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
CANTON AUGUSTA Nosp N

Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at O'Clock. Tuesday. Nov. 10 noml-
nation of officers.
+. NJ. SPEARIN. Capt.
A. NJ. DRCMMOND. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
JEPHTHA ENCAMPMENr NO

Meetings at $50 Z. NJ. every second
and fourth Tuesday. Tuesday, Dec. 49,
Patriarchal. Second nomination Of
officers.
HOYT Fl. AUSTIN. c. P.
q. 5. PEASLEE. Scribe.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26

VI. T. McENoN)
In Detroit. Mimi. truck goes
tc and fro and on this truck IS tht
legend:
Daily Kennebec journal., 1921-11-26
Augusta Lodge Directory

Cdd Fellows Hall
ASYLUM LODGE, NO. 70, !. o. o. r.
Regular meeting Friday evening at
$50. Friday, Nov. -. First degree.
q. ). PEASLEE, y. q.
EDWIN +. WESTON. Secy.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11

was brought in for him to ride. One
job seemed to appeal to this mule.
This was cultivating garden with a
single-shovel pillow. He was never
known to step on growing plant and
always put on an exhibition stunt
when it came time to turn. The Court
right boys and their father became
greatly attached to the old mule as
the years wore away, respecting his
whims and humoring him like spoil
ed boy. He was only 141a hands high.
One season he was worked alongside
of Mark Hanna, monster 17h hands
high. Everybody thought this would
be the end of the little outlaw but
he was alive and frisky when Mark
quit the game and died in disgust
But Old Jack did not die of old age;
he was too obstinate for anything like
that. He foundered on his feed and
died an unnatural death.-Paris APP
peal.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11
THE COUNTY SCHOOL UNIT

The small isolated district school is
the type of school usually found in
pioneer communities. Most of the As
States of the Union began their schooI
system with the isolated country
school. Experience has shown that
the schools suited to pioneer condi-
lions do not necessarily meet the
needs of progressive, modern COM
munities. AS the inefficiency Of this
smaH district school has been seen
the states have gradually changed to
better organization.
The six New England states have
the "Town" almost township sys-
temp. Everything in New England
centers about the "Town" so this is
the natural and proper type of or
ganization in these states. OF the re-
manning az states, 20 have adopted
the county unit system and made this
system mandatory for every county
in the state; 2 have adopted an OPP
tional county unit system; a town
ship system; 3 have both a township
and district system; the IL remaining
states have the small district sys-
TEN.
Thus it is seen that three-fourths
of the states have avoided or aban-
doned the small district system. No
state that has once adopted the coun-
ty unit system has ever abandoned
it. This is certainly an unanswerable
argument for the county unit, since
most of the states have changed from
the small district to the county unit
system; certainly some of these would
have changed again to small districts
had not the county unit proved bet
ter system.
Of the IL states that have the
small district system, Missouri is the
oldest, except the state of New York.
Since the state of Missouri is now a
century old as state, it has certain
ly passed the days of settlement and
exploration. Pioneer methods and
pioneer tools have been replaced in
Missouri by modern methods and tools
in nearly everything else. Why not
in the schools? Are the children of
Missouri not her greatest asset :?
Should they net have the best? Shall
we do less for our children than Utah
does for hers? Shall we do less than
California and Arizona? We shall
unless we improve our present school
system. Up to date no one has Of
fered anything better than the coun-
ty unit.
Six years ago only Is states had
the county unit system. Now % have
this system, an increase of in six
years or more than l per year.
Every state that has a small dis
trict system knows that it is ineffi-
cient and hopes to change it sometime.
When will Missouri join the major
ity column and the progressive col
umn of states?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11
$50! !
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s3's9|ls2.EZz!El!ilf
THE HOME NEWSPAPER

When people want to interest dis
tant friends in their home town they
send away copies of the local paper.
When any one wants to know what
kind of place distant town is he
sends for copy of the local newspa-
per.
When the merchants are full of
courage and advertise freely, an i'm
preston is created among the many
people living outside of town who see
the paper that this is a wide-awake
little business town. If at times the
merchants let up a little on their adj
vertising, the town does not look so
good to outsiders.
In supporting the home paper,
therefore, you not only get the local
and business news, but you help on all
civic causes, you are enabled to par
ticipate to the fullest extent in its
life, and you help the town exert in
fiuence and create a favorable ina
preston outside.-Exchange.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11
FAMOUS OUTLAW FOUND DEAD

"Old jack" known to everybody
out southwest of Paris, was found
dead on the Judge COPYRIGHT farm
last Thursday morning, having passed
peacefully away after an outlaw life
extending over 36 eventful years.
"Old Jack" was perhaps the most OBJ
stinate and self-willed mule the world
ever saw. He was willing to work
any other mule to death, trick he
performed several times, provided he
was handled right. Nobody could put
bride on him, not that he was OPP
posed to brides but because they
should be donned. If his master
would hold the bride in proper posi-
ton and stand back a few feet he
would walk forward and take it of his
own accord, otherwise he would loaf
while the other mules worked. sold
Jack" was deeply prejudiced against
carrying anything on his back whether
it was man or a saddle, and it was
task he never submitted to as long
as he lived. Time after time some
self-confident man assaved the trick.
In every instance the old mule shook
him off and tore the saddle to pieces.
Once at Holiday wild west broncho
buster offered a prize for any animal
he could not tame. When he got
through with Old Jack, his tighs were
all frazzled out and there was whole
section of seats and canvas missing
from his tent where the victorious
mule had dashed through when the
struggle was over. A similar catas-
trophe overlook circus performer at
Paris some years later when Old Jack
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-02-11
CONDEMN HIGH PRICED
STOCK FOODS
Prominent Hog Raiser Says
Prices Charged Are I'm
warranted Makes
Own Hog Food,
With Better
Results

"That ne is all through paying fan
cy prices for stock foods and hog
remedies and that he is raising some
of the best hogs ever placed on the
market" was the statement made re-
Gently by E. H. Beckstead, well-known
hog raiser and authority on live stock.
Mr.. Beckstead's hogs are the envy
of his neiglsbors, and have topped
the market" for several years in Iowa.
He states that for years he bought
high-priced hog foods and hog rene
dies, but he is all through paying ex-
travagant prices for what he can
mike himself. He states that what
the hogs need are minerals, and tells
the secret Of his wonderful success by
explaining that he takes about five
pounds of ordinary mineraline (which
is pure concentrated minerals and
cost only a couple of dollars) and
mixes same with enough bran or
filler to make hundred pounds. All
hogs, and especially brood sows, re-
quire minerals, as they keep them
free from worms, and in the pink of
condition, and are essential to the
hogs growth and well balanced ra-
ton. This inexpensive mixture
placed in a sheltered box where the
hogs can get at it as they need it,
viii produce far better results than
any high priced so-called stock foods.
Send two dollars to the Mineraline
Chemical CO., 1888 North Wells ST,
Chicago, Ill, and they will forward
you BY prepaid parcel post, enough
mineral to make d full hundred
pounds, lAdv.)