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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
FIRE PREVENTION

Fire is danger that never
sleeps" remarks the Marion Star. One
might add: Culch; rubbish. is a dan
ger that ever accumulates. Whether
in the form of slash" in the great
woods, old papers in the attic or
sweepings in the cellar it is that to
which fire on the rampage turns as
grsedily as a bibulous generation to
strong drink.
/ Aside from calling attention to
counting the cost Of fire damage a
week set apart for special atten-
ton to this matter can be observed to
great profit if it leads to cleaning up
the premises. The public through
law already essays to regulate habits
in the individual no more menacing
to ones neighbors than this habit of
slovenliness in disposing of the
refuse. a decided improvement might
be assured if the law required views
Of rubbish accun mutations in high
places as we'll as low to be thrown on
the screen for public inspection:
shame would drive the negligent to
proper observance of cleanup week.
With regard to human life this
neglect Of the accumulations of
debris, which are so many opportuni-
ties for fire damage, is almost as ser-
GUS delinquency as leaving loaded
firearms for the children to. play with.
The toll of lives taken by fire in this
country alone is appalling. The rub
bish heap is also a fertile field for the
disease germ which thrives best in
filth.
Turning to the matter of property
the record carries evidence of the lack
of wit "a half billion dollars worth Of
property destroyed by fires in this
country last year. seventy-flve per
cent Of which was preventable.
Fire prevention week. It would
seem that we needed several weeks of
prayerful contemplation of this
handiwork of our stupidity and shift
lessness.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08

The king may rule Ger land and sea.
The Lord may live right royalty,
The Soldier ride in ponp and pride.
The Sailor roam DER the ocean wide,
But this or that. what'er befall,
The farmer, he must feed them all.
The Writer thinks. the Poet sings.
Tie Craftsman follows wondrous
The Doctor heals, the LAWYER pleads,
The Miner follows the precious leads.
But this or that, whater befall.
The Farmer, he must feed them all.
The Merchant, he may buy or sell,
The Teacher do his duty we'll.
But men may toll through busy days
Or men may stroll through pleasant
ways.
From King to Beggar, whate'er befall
The Farmer. he must feed them all.
The Farmers trade IS one of worth,
His pasture with the sky and earth:
His pasture with the sun and rain,
And no man loses for his gain,
And men may rise and men may fall
But the Farmer, he must feed them
all.
God bless the man who eacws the
Who finds US milk and fruit and meat
May his purse be heavy, his heart be
light.
His cattle and corn and all go right
God bless the seed his hands let fall
For the Farmer he must feed US all.
The Friendship correspondent OF
the Rockland Courier Gazette writes:
A number Of young people from
this place attended the house-warm :
ing at Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Wood
cocks in Warren last week. This
young couple had just returned from
4 trip to the White Mountains and
were happily surprised when about 80
friends marched in. A delicious treat
was soon prepared including pies, ice
cream and several kinds of cakes.
Miss Leda Waltz and Maurice Well
man entertained with their singing.
These two are we'll known through
the middle states, having sung IN
every state in the Union. Mr.. Well
man at one time sang for the Victor
people but since moving east has been
travelling salesman. Margaret
Thornton gave some excellent recita-
tons assisted by Charlie Lane. Mr..
Woodcock, musician of great re-
nown, kept his seat at the piano and
charmed the company with its rich
and melodious tones. a psize was
offered to the one drinking the most
milk. Miss Eva Bucklin was the
winner drinking ~ quarts more than
anyone present. Henry Montgomery
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at the Real Cause Take
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands Of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead Of
taking tones, or trying 70 patch up
poor digestion. they ar: attacking the
real cause of the Acknowledged
live and Gsordered bowels
DR.. Edwards Olive TaL...ts arouse
the liver in a soothing, healing way
When the liver and bowels are per-
forming their natura. functions, away
goes indigestion and stomach troubles.
Have you a bad taste. coated
tongue, poor appetitc, a lazy, don't
car ceiling, no anbit :, Or energy,
trouble with undigested foods? Take
Olive Tablets, the substitute for Aiomsl.
d. Edwards Olive Tablets arc a
puely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. Tney dc tn, work without
gnpilie, cramps or pain.
Tax. one o. two Z, bedtime for quick
sehe.. Eat what you like. l5c and SOC.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
ScrofuIa Most Progressive Now.

Sudden changes of weather are es-
pecially trying, and probably to none
more 50 than to the scrofulous and
cons umptive.
The progress OF scrofula during a
normal autumn is commonly great.
1t 10 probable that few people ever
think of scrofula-its punches. erup
tions, and wasting of the body--with
out thinking of the benefit many
sufferers from it have derived from
Hoods Sarsaparilla, whose success
in the treatment of this one disease
alone would be enough to make it
what it is, one of the most famous
medicines in the world.
There is probably not a CITY or
town where Hoods Sarsapariila has
not proved its merit in more homes
than one, in arresting and completely
Graduating scrofula, which is almost
as serious and as much to be feared
as its near relative,-consumpti
Hoods Pills, the cathartic to take
with Hoods Sarsaparilla, in cases
where one is necessary, are gentle in
action and thorough in effect.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08

President Harding again gives evil
dence of his faith in the patriotic
character of the men sent to repre-
sent the country in Congress- Some
fear that if that body remains in ses-
sion during the arms parley some of
its members may resort to expedients
for making the parley a failure The
President wishes Congress to stay on
the job until it's work is done. The
need of that work being done is
pretty generally understood. It is an
impressive need, SO much so the
President, if he has any apprehen-
sion that congressman may forget
they are Americans, thinks it war
rants the risk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
TitiIIated BY Trouble


Lloyd George spent his vacation
talking to worried mayors Of Eng
lands cities who were worrying about
The unemployed When they left
him at leisure he managed to handle
enough official business by wire to
keep the telegraph ONCE at Gairloch
busy twenty-four hours a day. Be-
tween times he received reports so
numerous and voluninous that the
couriers formed an endless process
sion
Consider the troubles Of the little
Welshman. The Moplah in India, a
Mahdiin the Sudan. a llama in Tibet.
an unreconstructed burgher on the
Neldt, a laborite in Manchester.
Sim Feiner in Dublin--they all have
the power coupled with the .inclina-
ton to annoy and irritate the most
troubled man in the world.
Lloyd George comes close to being
Old Man Troubles favorite SON
When it isn't Ireland it is India and
Egypt. When it isn't the coal miners
quitting work it is matter of $780,
COO Englishmen out of work, demand
ing work with winter coming on.
Still he clings to power. 1t is the
nature of man. he he a Welshman. a
Scot, a Yankee. son of Gaul or
Rome. n Ahkoond of Swat or Hot
tentot of the bush. Lloyd George will
cult when the coalition breaks. when
his enemies rise up and overWhelm
him, when he can no longer shift,
whirl and maneuver
His troubles may be as the sands
of the Channel. but 1t is something to
sit in the coming tower of the Brit
ish Empire and pull the levers. He
will quit when he must.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT DETROIT

Detroit, Mich. Oct. THE Rev.
r. ]. Wade, d. D., corresponding
secretary of the committee on con-
servation and advance of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, Chicago, Ill,
announces a national conference of
the church to consider its world wide
missionary and benevolent interests
to be held in the church house Of
Central Methodist Episcopal church,
Detroit, Mich, Nov. Is, 16 and II.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
"The Series"

(Phil. Public Ledger
Yes, that same old row of SILVER
ing fanatics stood in line all night
before the first game. They built
themselves the same little fires and
were. preyed upon by the same night
winds, ate the familiar hot dogs"
and came to that same gray. chill
dawn. familiar down the years of
The Series"
The man who always shows up
from somewhere 1000 miles away was
on hand as per usual. The familiar
"scalper" was scalpirg as of yoYe.
The tickers are ticking the same
old ticks and the crowds that look
exactly the same as crowds of other
years groan and moan. cheer and
jeer, grunt and yelp before the score
boards over this broad land of ours.
At, say, o'clock in the afternoon
q farmboy somewhere in Iowa will
toss the last scoop shovel" of a load
of corn into the crib. hop out of the
wagon and race for the farmhouse
phone to ask Central if she knows
or has heard anything about how
the game came out"
Maybe it will be shutdown when a
coThand. wearing a sixteen-ou
hat and a ragged and always unbut-
toned vest with a pair of wire cut
tiers sticking in his left bootleg and
a rope at his saddle horn, viii "lope"
UP to the water tank at Fed Springs
and "layWay" the conductor on a
red ball" freight for certain infor-
nation about the Yanks and the Gil
ants.
Crowds hang on the rows of cabl-
lstic figures that tell the tale of a
battle lost and Won and the manner
of its winning and losing. Strings
of these figures will =, be hurled by
lishtning's fist to lonely ships far out
in lonesome seas.
Yes, in despite of unemployment,
tax-revision snarls, the troubles Of
disarmament, Black and Tans, the
Moors of Melilla, wars and runors
of war. battle. murder and sudden
death, the "ku- kluxes'' and even the
Black sox-es," the series" is "the
series and the game remains the
game"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
Shiloh Kingdom
Must Pay $1,000

The present term of the Supreme
zed by several unusual features. One
of them was a case heard before
Justice Dunn, without jury Wednes-
day evening, in which the defense not
only presented no testimony, but had
neither attorney nor witnesses pres
ent.
The defendant was The King
dom" the corporation which owns
the property at Shiloh. The plain
tiff was Mrs. Hugh O'Connor of Au-
burn. formerly a resident of Shiloh.
who brought suit to recover 5000
which the O'Connor family invested
in the colony on the hilltop The
case was heard before Justice Dunn,
and the only witnesses who testified
were Mr.. and Mrs. OConnor and
their daughter, Miss Iva O'Connor.
GIrs. O'Connor said they first met
Frank w. Sanford, the leader at Shi-
loh, while living in the state Of
Washington. According to the testi-
mony, the former leader painted in
glowing colors a picture Of the idyl-
lie life on the hilltop. They would
have comfortable home for the re-
mainder Of their lives; there would
be congenial employment, and the
educational facilities were of the
best.
1t seemed such happy, carefree
ideal sort Of existence that they came.
Meantime, Sanford had seen the
daughter, Miss Iva, then a student
at high school in Chicago. and had
told her that at Shiloh she could re-
ceive the other benefits he had des-
scribed to her parents. but excellent
training in her favorite subjects.
The O'Connor family have been
sadly disillusioned, according to the
testimony. Mr.. O'Connor has acted
as chauffeur for the leader, both at
Shiloh and in Boston. Miss O'Con-
nor was also dissatisfied with the
educational opportunities.
Justice Dunn decreed that the
OConnors were entitled to recover
the entire amount they had paid to
Shiloh.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08

many Of our drug making and dye
making flrhs-we had 213 compan-
les making these and other coal-tar
products last year-have a right to
complete tariff protection. The
chemists at Columbia University
have adopted resolutions asking for
a "selective embargo" Any. embar-
go needed in certain parts Of this
field can and should be provided by
wise tariff legislation, and not, as
some demand, by the arbitrary de-
crees of a licensing bureau.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08

a corned hake merchant from North
Gushing. gave a short lecture on
women's right The party adjourned
at a late hour each one very much
elated over the evenings entertain
ment.
Wallace c. Dawes of Lewiston will
probably long remember what was
said to him by Associate Justice
Charles ]. Dunn on Thursday morn
ing in the supreme court at Auburn.
Dawes had been brought into court
on complaint of his wife that he was
in arrears 1924 in payments ordered
by the court for the support of his
daughter Dawes gave his testimony,
when the spectators and officials
were startled by these words from
Judge Dunn:
You are in contempt of court. The
doors of the Jail are open for you
Mr.. Sheriff, he is in your custody
Put him in the county Jail" Dawes
was later released. a settlement hav-
ing been effected by counsel.
Brunswick is hoping to be the first
permanent landing place for aircraft
in Maine, it having been visited this
week by representatives of the At
lantlc Coast Airplane Service, who
came by plane from birmingham,
Mass, and who think Estabrooke
field will make an ideal landing place
The first graduation from the
Madigan Memorial Hospital at Houl-
ton was recently held. the graduates
numbering four, Miss Helen C.
Somerville and Miss Anna Dalton of
Houlton; Miss kathleen NJ. Coffey Of
Bellville, \. B: and Miss Marios
Duffey of Benedicta. The diplomas
and class pins were awarded by
Father Silke.
The Bowdoinham Baptist Associa-
ton meeting held Thursday, Oct. 6,
at West Harpswell brings out some
interesting facts regarding the Bap-
fist denomination in Bowdoinham.
The first Baptist minister going
there was Elder job Macomber in
1882. He was ordained there, in IL
81, having a few years previous to
TINS organized the First BAPTIST
! church BY a petition to the General
Court of Massachusetts,. signed by
5o citizens of Bowdoinham, and by it
granted, the first Baptist church was
| formed.
| AS the society was large, and
covered a very large territory. The
new society at Cathance landing a
nearby village. was formed, in 1920.
and in doctrinal belief and practice,
the Second Baptist church, from
which Rev F. S. feathers goes. is
the perpetuation of that organization
which on May "a. 1857 formed the
| Bowdoinham Baptist Association.
Three towns united to form this
association: Bowdoinham, Thomas
ton and Harpswell, and the town in
which it was formed gave tile name
/ to. the organizati ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
HAVE REACHED IMPROVEMENT

We are now at the point where
business improvement begins if we
may trust to the conclusion reached
by Roger ". Babson and which he
explains by saying that there are
twelve periods in each business cycle,
OF which we have now reached the
sixth.
The periods through which We
have passed are: the first, every
cycle beginning at the peak of pros
perity, accompanied by large profits
and high wages
This is followed by period of in
efficiency, accompanied by declining
bond prices
Next we have the period of dis
honesty and profiteering. accom-
panied by declining stock prices.
Then comes the periodical crime
wave, with declining modify
prices.
Lack OF confidence is then every
where apparent. which results in
general unemployment
People must then cut down living
expenses. families double up, all of
which results in declining real estate
prices. This is the end Of the gen
eral decline and improvement usually
begins at this point of the cycle.
The remaining periods are these:
Thrift becomes more evident and
this results in declining interest
rates, allowing banks to loan money
to start new building and again set
tbs wheels of industry moving
The unemployment period always
results in greater efficiency. which is
evident at this point in the cycle. In
creasing bond prices are noticeable at
this time.
Peopls become more honest, fairer
prices are asked by both merchants
and labor. We get a dollar in value
whether buying merchandise or labor
which we did not get during the
period Of prosperity
Renewed religious interest is now
evident. resulting in restored conf
dence. greater buying. with the
Strengthening of commodity prices.
10 lOiiO"Vu ny great ACTIVITY
In all lines. with labor fully en-
ployed.
The cycle has been completed: ex-
travagance ana waste are again in
evidence with high money rates.
Mr.. Babson has charted the Sc.
quence in which he finds the indus
tries are hit. First come rugs and
jewelry. then silks, then the leathe,
industry. The first merchant to feel
the depression was the clothing deal
er, he says, though this may not &C.
cord with all local experience. He be.
lieves that as farm products were the
eighth to be hit they will be the
eighth to recover The twelfth in.
dustry. the semi-luxuries, such a:
tobacco for men and fnery for WON
en- has not vet been hit.
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Appealed Gases

In the appealed ease of Mabel z.
Cook app. from decision of probate
court, refusing the removal of an
executor, Chief Justice Cornish rem
dered decision in the Waldo county
supreme judicial court Of appeal
dismissed without costs, decree of
probate court affirmed
IN the appealed case of Lillian H.
Parker, app. from decision Of probate
court granting license to sell real
estate. appeal sustained without
costs" Petition for sale of real es-
tate dismissed
Ernest c. Seider app. from decree
Of probate court granting will Of
Sarah Seider, appeal dismissed de-
cree of probate court affirmed
The same entry was made upon the
docket in case Of Myrtle Watts app.
from same decree.
Judge Cornish rendered a decision
Of nothing due either party s per
decision on f1le'' in the case Of Daisy
P. Miller VS.. Eugene D. Tapiey, in
suit to recover rent on real estate,
owned by plaintiff and collected by
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-10-08
Waldo County Court
Grants Is Divorces

Belfast, Me. Oct THE following
divorces were decreed at the Waldo
county judicial court on the last day
of the September term which adj
iourned Thursday night, by Chief
Justice Leslie c. Cornish of Angus
ia:
lola NJ. Clement from Walter A.
Clement, both of Belfast, for cruel
and abusive trea
Nora NJ, Lanapher of Thorndike
from Elden NJ. Lanpher of Brooks,
cruel and abusive treatment. custody
of minor child given to libelant.
Nettie Billings from Edwin G. Bill
ings both of Monroe. for cruel and
abusive treatment
Harold NJ. Linscott of Liberty from
Alice E. Linscott of RoXbury, Mass,
for statutory cause.
Esther L. Ready of Northport from
George Ready Of Belfast for non
support and cruel and abusive treat
ment. Custody of minor child to Ii
belant
l. Arthur c. Flanders from Viola E.
Flanders. both of Belfast, for statu-
tory cause.
Frances E. Hasson of Belfast. from
Charles w Hasson of North Newcas-
tie, for cruel and abusive treatment
and non support.
Bertha Fields of Jackson from
George w. Fields of Wastburn, for
desertion
Elisha E. Knox from Wavie Patten
Knox, both of Burnhanl, for statu-
tory cause.
Leone A Borlev of Belfast. from
Charles c. Bovley of kineo for deser-
ton
Leo H. LIE San of Frankfort. from
Elsie Valentine lie San of Brooklyn.
n. Y, desertion.
Charlotte NJ. Ford of Belfast from
Melvin E. Ford. of Westbrook. for
desertion. custody of minor child to
libelant.
Lillian Garland from Earl NJ. Gar
land of Islesboro, cruel and abusive
treatment, custody Of minor child to
libelant.
Ella L. Meservey, Of Waldo from
Daniel Meservey Of Morrill,. cruel and
abusive treatment.
Ruth F. Downs OF Frankfort from
Harry L. Downs of Frankfort, for
desertion, custody of minor child to
libelant.
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Chemistry and tho Public
(NeW York E,NAnine Pnstl

It is fitting that three thousand
British, Canadian and American
Chemists should be sitting together at
Columbia University, for they have
been acting together for seven years.
The chief feature Of American
chemical history after 1914 was the
remarkable cooperation Of American
and Allied--especially British
chemists upon problems pertaining
to munitions and other war essen
tials. They found themselves faced
by Germany which had built up its
chemical industries by decades of
shrewd effort AS Mr.. Garvan said,
the Germans had taken the discov-
cries of the British chemist Perkin-
The Perkin Medal is one of our most
priced scientific awards-and had
made it the basis for a chemical
technology unapproached elsewhere.
Happily, we were able to build up
some branches of industrial, agricul-
tural and electrical chemistry with a
speed that surprised those who were
unacquainted with our resourceful-
ness and our skill in research. BY
the end of 1915 the United States
had the largest aniline plant in the
world and was credited with nitric
acid and nitro-cellulose plants three
times greater than any others.
Not since Syracuse waited for the
inventions Of Archimedes to beat off
the Romans has attention been con-
centrated upon science in war time
as Americans concentrated it upon
chemistry after 1917. We had been
shocked into realization that we had
depended upon Germany for medi-
cines and dyes; that we had develop
ed no Independent potash resources:
that we had done little with our
Louisiana sulphur: that we had
looked to Chile for nitrates which we
should have manufactured in part
for ourselves, and that we had
wasted the precious by-products we
might have gained from coking The
results of our awakening are shown
in the newly issued summary of the
1920 census. In 1914 the United
States had 754 establishments manu-
featuring chemicals, with products
worth 5000, 10J,S00. In 1920 it had
1874 establishments, with products
worth 94.643,000. The increase in
the value Of the products in six years
was 2iI per cent. The manufacture
OF potash and potassium products
was slightly more than twice as
great--Reasured in value---as in 49,
IA; that of acids about two and q,
half times as great, and that OF So
das and sodium almost three times
as great. and that Of coal tar pro.
ducts was s133 SAC, 900 as against a..
$4,000 in 1914. or about nfteen times
as great
Gratifying as this progress il. the
completely Of some essential chemi-
cal industries, the careful adjust-
ments they must establish with
other industries. render more pro-
gress necessary before we are safe.
Leaders in the coal-tar businesses,
which are vital to national defense,
declare that although we have far
surpassed all other nations except
Germany and Switzerland, we need
five years yet to make our position
impregnable. For the time being