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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-16
FAYETTE

Mrs. Hazel Harrington, who has
been teaching at Wayne, has returned
home.
The Ladies Circle will meet Thurs
day with Mrs. Charles Small.
Fred Schmidt, who has had his
finger amputated recently, is reported
as getting well slowly.
George Hesmer is working for John
Bamford.
Mrs. w. w. harrington, who has
been very i'll with a cold. is gaining
Schools in town began March 81.
The girls who are planning to join
the Girl Scouts are requested to be
present early next Saturday after
noon at Mrs. Lucie Parlin's.
Robin and chipmunk have been
seen as signs of early spring.
Gertrude Gile Barron, who is teach
ing music at Canton, has returned
home for two weeks vacation
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Freight jam

A multiple-unit system Of freight
handling, which has proved most
successful in South Africa and in
our own southern and central-west-
ern states. is expected to go far
toward relieving the congestion at
railway terminals and transfer
points, and eliminating the evil of
the idle car, which now stands for
days upon siding waiting its turn
to be spotted" and unloaded. The
new system, says the February Pop
ular Mechanics Magazine in an IL
Illustrated article, contemplates the
disuse of the box car and the SUBJ
stitution of standard fiat cars of 80
tons capacity. The freight-con-
tanning units are constructed of steel
plate and in two capacities. IL
and lotion, so designed that 20 of
the former or five of the latter will
exactly fit the standard car.
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PLYMOUTH ROCK
TO BE MOVED

Plymouth Rock soon will be back
where it was when the Pilgrims land
ed on it 800 years ago. ,rs,
The rock began its journeyingS
about the town of Plymouth about
$50 years ago. Now 1t is headed back
to a position as near as possible to
the spot where the Pilgrims first saw
it when they sounded we harbor and
founde it fit for shipping, and
marched into We land & founde di-
verse cornfields e. little running
brooks. a place fit for situation"
A fish wharf had been built over
after the coming of the Pilgrims, the
rock was identified as their first land
ing place in Plymouth. The belief
was based upon the statement of
Thomas Faunce, whose father came
over in the Ann. which reached Ply
mouth harbor three years after the
arrival of the Mayflower. Faunce was
95 years old when.he told the story,
which he said was based on what his
father and other Pilgrims had told
him.
The rock began it's travels at the
outbreak of the revolution, when a
portion which had been split off from
the boulder was removed to the town
square and placed at the foot of a
liberty pole. The other portion was
brought up into the town on July 4.
1884. 1t remained there until 1880,
when the two parts were reunited and
granite canopy placed over them.
Now it is going back to it's first rest
ing place.-Boston Sunday Herald.
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An EARLY Settler

In 1884 Capt. Ezekiel Merrill of An
dover, Mass, took his family to a
place near Concord, Mass, and es-
tablished them on a small farm. He
had been through the Revolutionary
War and in order to make all things
straight he had to sell his property at
Andover. The cost of the moving left
him penniless. 1t was about this
time that the State officials, in order
to induce settlers to come to the
province of Maine, offered 1000 arces
of land to the father of the first white
child born in the new grant.
Captain Merrill saw his chance so
he took his family and household
goods on an ox-sled with four oxen
and started. There were a half a
dozen children. 1t was March and
there had been a very severe winter
when he came to the Androscoggin
river there were no roads. The snow
was seven feet deep in the woods. and
there was imperative necessity for
haste.
So the family stopped there and
Captain Merrill and his eldest son
made handsleds and they took the
mother and the children and went
down the Androscoggin river Is miles
then up the Ellis river Is miles so
that baby could be born in the new
grant.
The Merrills built a camp for their
first shelter in the town of Andover
a farm once owned by DR.. Newton of
Webster. There was no doctor with
in 40 miles, nor any white woman
anywhere. Mrs. Merrill did rot see a
white woman for three years. But
the Indians told Capt. Merrill Of an
old Indian woman, the wife of the
chieftain Sabbatis. or Sabbatus--
Mollocket-who had quite reputa-
ton as a midwife among the Indians.
She came and the first, while child in
the town, Susan Merrill, was first
Graded in an Indian woman's arms.
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Merchants Declare Prices Will
Not Be Lower-To Buy Now
Will Help Stabilize All Bust

ness.
, Waterville merchants and Water
vile people in general have come to
the conclusion that this is the time to
buy.
Buy Now" is the slogan that has
gone forth. 1t is pointed out that
prices have reached as low a level in
wearing apparel as they will reach
Il firmly believe that prices will
not be lower, but will, rather go
higher" said one of the leading
| clothiers of Waterville to the Journal
yesterday. 1.-THE abnormally high
prices of war times have gone. All
of the merchants of Watcrvile were
stocked up with these high priced
goods. They saw that lower prices
were on the way. They knew that
the people were entitled to lower
prices, even If it meant an actual
financial loss to the merchants. And
so the prices of the high priced
goods were chopped, chopped regard
less of what had been paid for them.
The goods were sold and the people
of this section received the benefit.
goods, the merchants of Waterville
have now stocked up with their
spring supplies. The prices are the
spring prices, the lowest that have
prevailed for some time and lower
than they will be again for some
, time. 1t will be of the greatest ad-
vantage to the people of Waterville
and the surrounding towns to do
their buying now, not only because
| they will be able to take advantage
of the new spring prices. but because
they will be able to get the very lat
est things in spring goods"
| For the rest of this week. the Buy
Now" campaign will be on in Water
vile. Visitors from the surrounding
| towns have taken advantage of the
opportunity and have decided to
come into the city and get some of
the new things that have been offered
in tempting array. What the stores
have and the attractive prices
charged for them will be found in
this issue of the Journal 1t is
worth a great deal to all the shop
pers to look over the ads. of the Wa
terville merchants and see just why
articles should be bought now and
why Waterville will be helped.
Aside from the actual benefit to the
merchants and the purchaser, indus
try as a whole will benefit. Quick
over turns of stock mean more bust
ness for the manufacturers and more
business for the manufacturers
means more work for the people. 1t
ia a circle of prosperity in which
everyone receives benefit.
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thankless and often a lifelong druid
gerry. 1t is the exceptional home that

thankless and often a lifelong druid
gerry. 1t is the exceptional home that
is without one or more servants"
There is a school law in Monte
video for compulsory education but
there is also q law that children who
come to school must wear shoes and
the boys collars, ties. and aprons.
Some families send their young serv-
ants to school for half day. Most OF
them evade the matter entirely.
The illegitimate birth rate in South
America is said to be higher than in
any other part of the world. Desert
cd children are so numerous that
these little slaveys, often toiling from
early morning until late at night, are
to be found everywhere. Suicides
among them are frequent.
The Y. w. c. A. under the direction
of Miss Irene Sheppard of the Ma
tional Board, many years a resident
there, is striving to bring American
standards and ideals of education and
recreation, into the life of girls of all
classes.
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Everyone is looking forward with
interest to the production of "Mikado"
which is to be given tomorrow evening
at the City Opera house by the knights
of Columbus. The rehearsals have
been in progress for a long time and
this famous opera will be reproduced
by local talent with all of the cos
tunes and stage accessories of a pro-
fessional production. Harrison Smith
has charge of the music, and the SOLO
lists VIII be made up from the best
musical talent of the city and the cho-
rus is sure to be a good one. The sale
of tickets has been phenomenal and
the opening sale Monday morning was
characterized by absolute fairness. no
seats being reserved and each one be-
ing served in turn.
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MENTALITY is !.
NOT ABNORMAL.

There is nothing alarming in the
statement made recently by Bos-
ton doctor that the average mentality
of Americans is that Of a 15-year-old
child, according to DR.. L. Vernon
Briggs. noted neurologist and PSYCHE
artist.
DR.. Briggs was division psychia-
trist of the I'd division, army, A. E.
+. He has made an exhaustive study
of mental diseases, is an alienist of
world wide reputation, and has been
identified with practically every
movement for the advancement of
the care of the mentally deficient.
There are about G per cent. of the
people in the country mentally de-
ficient," Dr. Briggs told a Sunday
Herald reporter. Somewhere be-
tween and 10 per cent, but nearer
per cent. are mentally deficient.
can't see where DIR. Taylor got the
figures that he quoted as the figures
taken from the army tests. The num-
Der mentally deficient was not any
where nearly as great as 10 per cent"
AS for Is years being the average
mentality of society, DR.. Briggs ex-
planned that in making mental age
tests, such tests were usually only
given up to the age of Is. as people
who registered satisfactorily to that
age were considered normal.
'All persons can't be judged by the
Same standard, either. The man who
has had every chance for education
and has made the most of it must
necessarily register a higher mental
ity than the man whose education has
been limited. There are different
standards for different classes of
people"
DR.. E. w. Taylor, who made the
Aforementioned on army test fig
rres, so he said--that the mentality
of a large majority of the people of
this country is rather below that of
15-year- old child, refused to dis
cuss the matter further when Sun
day Herald reported asked him to-
Boston Sunday Herald.
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COMING EVENTS

Mar. I5-21-W. L. u. Maine day
Mar. l6-State Council of Maine D. A.
3 r.. Portland
Mar, 16--Sc merset county Veteran
ing, SkoWhegan.
Mar. 16-17-D. A. r. State Council,
Portland.
Mar. 17-st Patrick's day,
banquet. Falmouth hotel. Portland.
Mar. 21-Municipal election, Old Town.
Mar. 25-Natfonal Commander r. w.
Galbraith, Jr.. American Legion, in
Augusta.
Mar. 25-Good Friday.
Mar. 27-Easter Sunday.
Mar. 2S-Apr. Farmers week Coz.
lege of Agriculture. q. of M. Oronc.
Mar. 29-Maine Federation Of Agricul-
tural ASSOCIATIONS, annual meeting,
Mar 29-Maine Federation of Farm
Bureaus, annual meeting, L. of NJ,
Mar. S0-Maine Beekeepers' meeting,
Mar. 30.-Maine Holstein Breede RS
Association q. of M, Orono.
Mar. S0-Maine School Course Alumni
ASSOCIATION annual meeting, U. of
Mar. $o-S1-New England Rotarians,
Boston City Club, Boston.
Mar. .31-Maine, State Pathological So
Ms eety, o. of NJ s or9no, rmnrovenent
Association. U. of NJ. Orono.
Apr. 4-Munlcipal election, Calais.
Apr. 4-11-National Prosperity week.
Mar. 5-Oxford County Univcrsalist
ComradcS, Norway.
Apr. 3-Bird day.
Apr. S--Eclipse of sun.
Apr. 13-1S-Maine Methodist confer
ence, Biddeford, Bishop Hughes pre-
siding.
Apr. 11-4O0th anniversary arraign-
ment of Martin Luther before the
Diet at Worms.
Apr. 19-Patriots' day.
Apr. 2O-25-East Maine Methodist con-
ference, Guilford. Bishop Hughes
presiding.
Apr 22-Total eclipse of moon.
May 13-14-New England Osteopaths
annual convention. Portland.
May 30-Memorial day.
June 27-2S-Annual convention Typo
graphical Union, Bangor
Aug. 2-13-Maine Christian Endeavor
summer school. Oak Grove Seminary
Vassalboro.
Aug. 11-Fifth Me. Battery Assn,
South Paris.
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Blow to Sardines

The passing of the free lunch
counter incidental to the closing of
saloon bars was responsible in part
for the depression in sardine prices
which packers say are now below
the cost of production and close to
pre-war figures. Competition result
ing from increased importations Of
foreign sardines after the war was
another factor. Although the 1920
pack of Maine sardines is said to
have been more than 100000 cases
short of that of 1919. more of last
years sardines are held in storage
here than usual owing to the poor de-
mand and the unwillingness of the
packers to sell at present prices. The
average pack of Washington county
factories, including those in this city
and Lubec, is 2,250,000 cases of 100
cans each. Prospects for an average
pack in the 1921 season, which opens
April Is. are conditional, according to
the packers, on an improvement of
demand from johbers, with labor and
packing materials expected to be low
err than last year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-16
Changing the Pig Pens

Many a farmer has the habit Of
leaving his hogs for years in the
same pen, without changing now and
then. This is one of. the worst mis-
takes a man can make. The hogs
will get sick or will not grow as they
should, as such a place will get dirty
and will be the breeding place of all
kinds of sickness. Every hog raiser
should have at least two or three
places for his pigs, 80 that he can
change at least once each year. In
the unused pen there should be
planted a forage crop such as clover
or rape. These crops will grow well
in such a place as there will be plen-
ty Of manure. When the forage crop
is grown the pigs can be transferred
to the first pen again, where they
will clean off the forage. The other
pen can then be used for a forage
crop. Rape is an ideal crop for SOW
ing in the pens, as it. will grow quick
ly and produce succulent feed before
any other forage crop can be har-
vested.-Farm Life
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A Man May Be Only Down

When Abraham Lincoln was a
young man he ran for the Legisla-
ture in Illinois, and was defeated.
He next entered business, failed,
and was seventeen years paying his
debts.
He was engaged to a beautiful
young woman-she died.
Entering politics again, he ran for
Congress, and was again defeated.
He then tried to get an appoint
ment in the United States Land Of
flee, but failed.
He became a candidate for the
United States Senate, and was badly
beaten. .
He ran for vice president and was
once more defeated.
When you think of your hard
luck, think of Lincoln.-American
Legion Weekly.
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Funeral Of James II. Mcmahon

Funeral services for James H. Nc
Mahon were held at the Sacred
Heart church Tuesday morning at
. o'clock, Rev. Father Curran sing
ing the high requiem mass. The
bearers were John Hogan. Paul JUL
lien. Thomas Larkin and William H.
Murray. Among the relatives of the
deceased who attended the services
were Miss Margaret Mcmahon, a sis
ter of the deceased from Augusta;
Joseph Dolan and Thomas Mcmahon
of Brunswick: Michael Cusick, Mrs.
Michael Hickey, Thomas Hickey of
Gardiner and Miss Ellen Clancy of
Augusta. The remains were taken
to Brunswick for burial.
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CANAAN

The little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arland Williams has been named
Anita Katherine.
Sunrise Chapter o. E. S. held it's
regular meeting Saturday evening.
March IL, after the regular business
meeting an interesting entertainment
was given. Broom drill by Is ladies';
piano solo, Nellie Tibbetts; song. Ed
ma Burrill; a game, cross questions
and crooked answers; after which the
gentlemen secured their partners for
refreshments by matching broken
candy hearts. which were distribut-
ed among the ladies and gentlemen.
Delicious refreshments of home made
candies, sailed peanuts and oranges
M.1e served by the committee. There
will be work at the next meeting.
March &c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Williams have
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Bouruue Post

AT the meeting of Bourque Post
Monday evening committee consist
ing Of f. c. Wilson, w. H. Murray
and Clarence Proctor was appointed
to arrange for a suitable observance
for Memorial day. A large number of
peoples, the national flower of the
Legion, which was adopted at recent
meeting in Cleveland. O., have been
ordered for decoration on that occa-
sion.
committee consisting of II. j. An
drews, Rev. John H. Yates and How
ard WEIGH was appointed to plan for
an entertainment to be given by the
post to the Grand Army veterans the
Monday previous to Memorial day.
Hon. Frank Redington was the
speaker at the meeting and talked Of
the matter of providing a memorial
building in this city in memory of the
soldiers of the World War and it was
voted that a memorial building shall
be constructed or acquired by pur-
chase.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-03-16

soon attracted by the boys unusual
intelligence. After two years in
America, the father was again sent
abroad, empowered to negotiate 9
treaty Of peace with England, and
the son accompanied him as his
secretary. The father and son
travelled from capital to capital, in
the interest of the new nation,
meeting the most eminent states
men and scholars of the Continent.
When the Commissioners from the
United States met in Europe to
negotiate peace with England,
young Adams was chosen Secretary
and performed his duties so well
that he won the commendation of
the distinguished members of that
body. With rare judgment, after
the conclusion of his fathers work
abroad, John Quincy Adams pre-
ferred to return to America to COM
plete his education in an American
College. He wished also to study
law, that, with an honorable pro-
fession, he might be able to obtain
an independent support. Soon after
his admission to the practice OF
law, clients came in great num-
bers,-a reward richly merited by
the purity of his character. the
loftiness Of his principles, and his
intense application to every study
which would aid him to act we'll
his part in life. Washington was
greatly impressed with the talents
Of the young lawyer, and appointed
him Minister to the Netherlands,
being then only twenty-seven years
of age.
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Moose Trapped By Ice
Dies TRYING to Escape

Game Warden Richard ]. Upton OF
Augusta was in the city Tuesday
bringing from Albion the hide of a
COW moose which had been caught in
the ice in Fifteen Mile stream, Albion
and which had burst a blood vessel in
its attempt to escape. Mr.. Upton was
assisted by Deputy Warden Jesse AL
exander. They removed the skin from
the animal and gave the carcass to a
farmer for his chickens. They are
taking the hide to the State fish and
game department at Augusta.
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Shoplifter Unbalanced?

Mrs. Alice Patriquin of Chesterville,
Me-, is now under observation at
Lawrence, Mass, by physicians in
order that her mental condition may
be accertained. Complaints. charg-
ing larceny in nine counts and to
which she has pleaded guilty, will be
taken up for final disposition in the
district court here on March %. Mrs.
Patriquin was arrested last week on
complaint of a local store manager
that she had been observed steal
ing articles in his establishment.
Physicians who examined her report
ed to the court that she had recently
undergone a major surgical opera
ton and the resultant mental strain
might account for her recent actions.
She has pleaded guilty to thefts in at
least seven stores here, but her case
is admittedly peculiar. since the au-
thorities of Chesterville have in
formed the local police that she and
her husband, who is manager of big
farm there. enjoy excellent reputa-
tons.
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Plan Maine Smoker

Plan Maine Smoker
University of Maine supporters will
have supper and smoker at the Fal.
mouth hotel. Portland, Saturday eve
ming. March 26, at z p. NJ, at which
coaches of the various Maine teams
will be in attendance, and at which
there will be a whole series of brief
speeches calculated to stir up inter-
est in the alma mater. The affair
will not be strictly speaking an alum
nj event, since it is open to all who
ever attended the University of
Maine, whether graduates or not.
The athletic situation will be talked
over, and the coaches will be heard
from. Representatives from Boston
and New York as we'll as from all
parts of Maine will be in attendance.
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rOHN QUINCY ADAMS

IOHN QU1NC1 ADAMS was
born in the rural home of
- his distinguished father, John
Adams, in Quincy, Mass. His
mother, a woman of education and
exalted worth, watched over his
childhood during the almost con-
slant absence of his father. Dur
ing his first years Mrs. Adams her
self taught her son the elements
of English. At an early age
young Adams gave indication of
the unusual talents and wisdom
which later made him the most
learned of our Presidents. Few
Presidents were blessed with such
noble parents. No other President
was so fortunate in his youth to
have become associated with so
many distinguished men of his
own country and of foreign ma
lions. When but eight years of
age, John Quincy Adams stood with
his mother upon an eminence, lis
tening to the booming of the great
battle on Bunker's Hill, and gaz-
ing upon the smoke and flame bill
lowing up from the confagration
of Charlestown. Often, during the
siege Of Boston, he watched the
shells thrown day and night by the
combatants.
When he was eleven years old
he sailed with his father for Paris,
where his father was to join Frank
lin and Lee as representatives of
the new nation at the French
Court. The boy spent year and
half in association with these
distinguished men. They were
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Japanese Invasion

Perhaps comparative idea OF
the actual danger of the japanese
invasion of which some rapers wax
SO vehement, may be gained from
the immigration figures. From
Europe we receive millions yearly;
from the West Indies came 1O7 600
in 10 years; from Mexico, $4,000 in
l year: from Japan to the United
States and to all of its possessions
1850 in 10 years. or an average of
1,SS7 per year.-H. H. Windsor, in
Popular Mechanics Magazine for
February,
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No Servant Problem in the Argentine

No Servant Problem in the Argentine
That servants still in the early
teens can be obtained in South Amer
lea for as low as three to five pesos a
month, peso being less than forty
cents, is one of the surprising fea-
lures of life there for the American
housewife.
Servant life here is something
from which there is no escape"
writes Bernice A.. Miller. Physical
Education Director for the Y. w. G..
A. in Montevideo, Uruguay, South
America. THE great army of SER
wants are ignored by the census
Often mothers of the lower classes
place their little girls before they
reach their teens as servants at the
low wages of few pesos a month
Thus they begin at tender age, q