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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
THE ALABAMA PRESS
Get Them Early
(Opelika News)

Fill the incubator once more, or set a few hens. Get the matches off before July. Late matched chicks are costly chicks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

A ruling by a California judge that when dog has something in his mouth it is his property, should settle at least one "bone of contention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

Some folks talk as if they consider the World War a success or failure according to whether it's debts are promptly paid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

It is hardly necessary to predict that the new play entitled, "Tons of Money" will have quite a run.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
No Limit To It

(Boston Herald) Any action can be marathonized by continuing 1t past the point at which lunatic would stop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

The Houston Post observes that the hip-pocket lie has turned loose on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala. postoffice as second-class matter under act or congress, March 6, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
The Radiavamp

(Wife Named Radio as Rival Headline).
 The baby was sleeping,
 The mother was weeping, The father was far on etheral seas. He sat in the attic
 Mid pillows of static And angled for lectures and songs on
 the breeze.
 Time was when he wandered In taverns and squandered His wages on things alcoholic and
 damp,
 But now he was sober
 And drear as Octobe His heart had been lured by the radio
 vamp.
 "He loved me-" she muttered, "When homeward he fluttered, A smile on his face and a skinful of
 brew;
 But now he can't see me He sits cold and dreamy And woes Kansas City or Kalamazoo" Having gazed on picture of Louis Philip Robert, Duke of Orleans, we can understand why so many French men crave to set him on a throne. Those whiskers are enough to thrill any Gallic heart.
 Casualty reports show that the cas- fest way to find leak in a gas pipe is to use lighted candle.
 The bullet-proof prophet of the Moros attempted to prove it to the constabulary. His theory was shot full of holes.
 Husband Says Only Six Words ir Three Years" He missed his calling He should have been a golfer.
 Smile Early You'll make each working day A great deal more worth while If you will only say
 Good morning" with a smile.
 ". c. N. Stokers of the good ship Lafayette threaten to strike unless they get thei, daily ration of red ink.
 Slogan: Lafayette, we arc thirsty But few years and the new gen eration will look back and wonder a, the old-fashioned girl of 1923. An accommodating historian has traced the Astor wealth back to Cap tain Kidd. It seems that old Johr Jacob, pursuing the skin game on tn, coast of Maine, discovered a chest o1 pirate gold, and thus founded the As tor dynasty. It is a sweet tale-mucl sweeter than skunk skins. "lt Is Not Always May" He plants his garden in the spring ~ Ere days grow long and hot. Last year he did the selfsame thing
 And then forgot.
 His Missus
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
"It Is Not Always May"

He plants his garden in the spring - Ere days grow long and hot. Last year he did the selfsame thing
 And then forgot.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
Financial Note

Don't do your shopping in bucket shops.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

Stokers of the good ship Lafayette threaten to strike unless they get their daily ration of red ink.
 Slogan: Lafayette, we arc thirsty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

But few years and the new gen. eration will look back and wonder at the old-fashioned girl of 1923.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
Smile Early

You'll make each working day A great deal more worth while If you will only say
 Good morning" with a smile.
 ". c. N.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09
NEWS BUREAUS

FREDERICK l. THOMPSON. ... Preside
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

Husband Says Only Six Words in Three Years" He missed his calling. He should have been a golfer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

She scolds me just as she used
 to do.
 The point is that the spring poetry season is on, and the next number on the program is eagerly or fearfully awaited, according to the point of view.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

Casualty reports show that the cas- fest way to find leak in a gas pipe is to use a lighted candle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-09

The bullet-proof prophet of the Moros attempted to prove it to the constabulary. His theory was shot full of holes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09
Nichols subject is "WOrk with the
Children"
Corn Growers Would
Extend County Quarantine

Portland, Me-, May S-The quaran-
timing OF York county. and the town
Of Sebago in Cumberland county, for
the European Corn BOrer. while the
remainder of Cumberland county re-
mains unquarantined. presents q
serious situation tor Portland grocers
who contract ahead for thair acreage
of corn with considerable number
of York county growers. and for
Portland Gamers. who also receive
much OF their product from York
county. ill.,
A possible solution Of the problem
has been suggested by extending the
quarantined area, so as to include all
Of Cumberland county. 1t Ii repre-
sented by those who favor this plan
that little corn grown In Cumberland
county IL shipped In Its green state
outside the county. and that 1t would
be no hardship to Cumberland county
On the other hand York county
growers. with whom corn acreage
has been contracted and the Cum
berland county grOcers and Gamers
who have contracted for the acreage
OF York county growers, will be very
seriously affected by the quarantine
as it stands.
The decision as to the guaranteed
territory rests with tho State Com
missioner OF Agriculture, Frank p
Washburn, and his action is taken
upon the advice of agents from the
u. s. Department of Agriculture. A
delegation of York county growers
and representatives of Portland can
ming concerns expected to meet MIR
Washburn and representative OF
the Federal Department Monday but
Mr.. Washburn failed to arrive as ex.
pected.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09

The tillage of the soil was far re-
,, moved from the ambitions of most of
the early visitors to Maine. Hunting
in the spacious woods. fishing in the
burdened streams, and along our
coast and trade with the Indians
were the principal incentives to the
active Adventures.
Many of the attempted settlements
were failures due to the primitive
normadic impulse and the lack of
that stubborn rcsistlcss perseverance
required to establish the farm home
in early New England.
Two colonies stand forth as emil
nently successful in America, one at
Jamestown. DONNA ted by the re-
markable leader. Capt. John Smith,
the other at Plymouth, actuated by
religious motive, either to obtain
freedom to worship God according
to the dictates of conscience, or as
others assert to make others wor-
ship as they would have them. In
either case it seemed Providential
for an early permanent settlement
of New England that a schsm arose
in the Church of England at the
time it did. The march of civiliza-
ton up the kennebec was a long
dIu tculouS one. Inc time from lne
settlement of Popham at the mouth
Of the Kennebec, then called Sagada-
hoe, to the settlement of Bloomfield
in I'LL was longer than that from
the birth Of our Republic to the
present time. There were several
causes for this slow progress. 1st.
The inclemency of our northern win
tiers. I'd. The unavoidable hardships
arising from entering a large forest
and starting a home. Sd. The hos
tility of the French and Indians. The
boundaries between the French and
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09

dinner was of rdspberries picked on
the way. as they carried no food. 1t
was night when they reached the
| mill; the miller asked them to stop
all night and gave them a good sup
per. lodging and breakfast. After
breakfast they shoaldered their meal
and moved homeward. again picked
raspberries for dinner and reached
home at nightfall. The meal was
used very prudently, new potatoes
| with 1t to make 1t last longer until
the rye could be harvested. They
then lived on rye-bread and green
corn till the corn was ripe, then until
wheat was harvested the next year
on hominy and brown bread.
On occasion the wives could make
little hominy or meal for "hasty
pudding" by pounding well dried
corn in mortar or on fiat stone.
Early farmers and their wives were
kept prey busy. Eben Weston says
that they were too busy to be neigh
b0rly. Sometimes relatives we're
hardly acquainted with each other.
The stay-at home habit prevailed.
We should take off our hats to these
men and should keep thcii. off to the
women. We can hardly imagine their
lonesome lives, devoted to the vari-
GUS pursuits then required of them,
but now unknown and unthought Of,
on account of the modern division
Of labor.
Not the least Of these hardships
must have arisen from the lack of
society. for sociability is one of the
strongest impulses of the human
race. ~.
The wife of Joseph Weston was
called one of the handsomest women
in Massachusetts. We naturally think
how gratifying 1T might have been
Tor her to set that handsome face in
q pretty Easter bonnet and attend
meeting In a crowded church in
Observation-Disclosures everyone went
TO churchAand excite the admira-
ton of the devotees to the beautiful.
She foregoes this opportunity and
Detakes herself to the forest primeval
70 grind well dried corn in q mortar
20 make hasty pudding when her hus-
Dand could not spare the time to go
to mill. We must reverence her self
sacrifice and devotion; her vanity. II
she had any, must have been buried
In the altruistic pursuit OF opening
up greater opportunities for poster
ity That part of Massachusetts
from which the earlier settlers came
was unsuitable for wheat and they
attempted TO raise but little of ii.
winter wheat was tried and some
years seemed quite successful but it
was never standard crop on account
OF the smut and the weevil and the
fall droughts. 1t Is only recently that
oat meal has been used as an article
OF family consumption.
IN addition to his land on the west
bank, Peter Haywood owned the up-
per half OF Great Island and Cakes
Island near the opposite shore, while
the lower half Of the large island, the
ten acre island arc some small
Islands below belonged to Weston
While the. often worked together.
they were n<t in partnership.
The say mills were built as con-
veniently as~possihle to largo grow this
OF pine. Pine growth was heavy be-
tween the river In the lower part Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09
PERSONAL MENTION

Miss Jennie NORM Of the Lafond
Cash Dry Goods store, went to Jack
man on business Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Joseph Sincyr went to Wa
tcrville Tuesday morning to see her
sister. Mrs, James Lessor, who is
very i'll.
Mrs. DIN Vallicre was in Water
vile Tuesday shopping and visiting
with her aunt. Mrs. Nathan Bou-
lette.
Mrs. Robert Munson. parole officer
of the State Reformatory for Women,
left Tuesday morning on a business
trip in Knox county.
Mrs. Cyrus Fortier, son, Horace,
and daughter. Miss Cecilia Fortier,
were guests of friends in Waterville
the first of the week.
Friends of Mrs. j. Merton Swain,
formerly of Skowhegan. now of Far
mington. will Ne sorry to learn Of the
death of her father. Mr.. Dewolf, in
Winthrop. Mass.
Mrs. Sarah Marston and her grand
daughter, Miss Mollie Marston. who
have passed the winter in California
and in the Hawaiian Islands have
returned to SkOwhcgan.
Mrs. Jennie Blanchard, who is now
making her home in Waterville, has
returned to that city after a recent
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Arthur
LemieuX.
Members of the Somerset CHAPTER
No. SO, Order of Eastern Star will &C
to Madison this Wednesday night
where they will perform the work
and will be guests of the Minerva
Chapter
Among the S. Fl. S. young ladies
to attend the track meet at Water
vile between Coburn and S. H. S
Monday afternoon were Mary Merrill
Mildred Fox, Marie Bison, Phyllis
Whiting and Doris Sylvester.
Friends and relatives Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George Russell of Carroll. Iowa
will be interested to learn that they
are expected to arrive in Skowhegan
in few weeks to pass the summer
in Somerset county. Mr. Russell Is o
brother of Mrs. Lysander Robinson
Of Bloomfield street. and Mrs. Rus
sell is a sister of Mrs. Fred V. Bar
ker of Athens.
Rev. George L. Thurlow. pastor of
the Federated church left Tuesday
morning for Biddeford where he will
be in attendance upon the annual
meetings of the State CONGREGATIONAL
Conference which opened Tuesday
! afternoon and continue through
Wednesday and Thursday forenoon.
Mr.. Thurlow will spend Wednesday
night in Portland and will return
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09

parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Sylvester,
on Water street. The evening was
passed socially with games, stunts.
Victrola music and dancing. The
two prizes given were both won by
Miss Mary Merrill. The hostess and
Mrs. Sylvester served delicious re-
freshments and the evening was one
of much pleasure to all who were
present.
Col. Roy T.. Marston, who has re-
Gently returned from a transconti-
mental trip, was the speaker at the
Tuesday noon Rotarian luncheon,
telling of l. different Rotary Clubs
which he visited.
Roland T.. Patten. manager of the
Independent-Repo was the
speaker at the regular meeting of
the Simon Peters Post. American
Legion, held in it's rooms Monday
night.
The committee made up of Mrs.
Viola +. Smith, chairman, Mrs. Myr-
tie NJ. Lamb and Miss Lila Weston.
who have charge of the public dinner
which the ladies of the Social Circle
Of the Centenary Methodist church
are to serve in the church vestries.
| Thursday. May 10. from 11.3O until 1
p. NJ, met Monday afternoon with
| the president, Mrs. Lillian NJ. Smith
| at her home on Madison avenue and
| decided upon menu. 1t was also ar
ranged to offer aprons which the cir
| Gle have on hand for sale.
| Grating demonstrations held this
week were as follows: Monday fore
noon at George Stafford's in New
Portland; Tuesday afternoon at Lee
mont Rich's in Scion. On Monday of
next week a grating demonstration
will be held at the farm of Joseph
/ French and son in Scion. c. A. Stor-
or the county agent will conduct
these demonstrations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lysander Robinson
who have passed five months in Los
Angeles and Long Beach. Southern
CAL have returned to their Bloom
field street residence. On their re-
turn they visited Salt Lake City
Colorado Springs. Niagara Falls and
| stopped in Carroll, Iowa, where they
were guests of Mrs. Robinson s
George Russell The Robinson's re-
port an excellent trip and that they
much enjoyed the winter in Cali
fornia.
Many Somerset county friends OF
| NE. anu AlfS. IOIldll 1edtOIl VI MeI
Ger, will be sorry to learn that their
little son. Winfield. aged nine months
is critically i'll and is being cared for
by Il trained nurse. Mrs. Alta Bates
of Norridgewock.
In the announcement of the pro-
gram of the annual meeting of the
! Augusta district of the Woman:
Home Missionary society of thu
! Methodist churches which ia to bt
held at Rumford on Thursday, Ma.
81. appears the name of Mrs. Herbert
l.. Nichols, wife of the pastor of thu
Centenary church Skowhegan. Mrs
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09
the FARMS OF SKOWHECAN
BY c. w. JUDKiNS

| English territory remained for a
! long time unsettled.
1t was after the treaty of 1853 with
the French that the Kennebec Com
pany succeeded in starting n settle
| ment of their lands on the Bloom
| field side Of the Kennebec by giving
| away land to actual users. two hun
| dred acres to each male. Joseph
| Weston with two sons received 900
acres. Peter Haywood with one son
| 400 acres and John Emery with four
sons, 1000 acres. John Jones, the
| original surveyor Of these lands, was
Westons nephew. and doubtless he
told Weston Of the Great Island and
the little work required upon 1t to
prepare it for crops, and also of the
meadows on the western bank where
hay was growing to support herd
Of cattle They took twenty head Of
cattle with them from Massachusetts,.
They afforded to Haywood and
Weston the most convenient medium
of exchange then available and they
also served as beasts of burden and
furnished food. Horses then and
afterwards were considered an USE
less luxury. Their harnesses were
costly, while a farmer could make
the simple OK yoke out of a piece of
elm or maple. II the horse broke his
leg he was complete loss while the
OK could be used as food.
They bought corn and potatoes for
seed at Vassalborough. The island
was cleared Of it's light growth,
burned over, planted and sowed. The
river made 1t unnecessary to build a
fence against an invasion by the
cattle. The food from the cattle came
from the grass on the right bank and
there the stock was kept.
Wild meat and fish were plentiful.
Isaac Smith. who came as lad Of
sixteen, has the reputation Of being
great hunter of moose and deer.
The journey to the Erist mill was
long one. to Vaughn's mill in Halo
well, by boat when the river was not
frozen. and at times on foot or with
hand sled In winter. Vaughn was a
wealthy Englishman who had great
hopes for Hallowell as the head of
navigation and he gave it a good
Initial impulse by establishing there
a grist mill and brewery.
1t would not be strange II some of
the men of Canaan thought that they
needed more than the milk and
honey with which the land was flow
ing. The large number Of carrying
places on the trip to Hallowell must
have made the journey a hard one;
the one on foot or with q hand sled
in winter is almost unthinkable.
TO elucidate the method of taking
grlst on the shoulder, we will quote
from William Allen, who at a later
date mad personal experience with
this method Of going to mill. Allen
saw Simpson White. a strong man,
take a bushel and d half Of corn on
his shoulder and g. ten miles to mill,
A bushel was q common load for a
man. John Thompson carried a
bushel from Sandy river to Winthrop
more than twenty five miles to mill.
on one occasion two families in
a new settlement. sent two BOYS
hfteen years of age-small, ragged
and barefoot, ten miles to mill, each
with . half bushel Of corn. Their
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09
PERSONAL MENTION

Mrs. Cora Cayouette and Mrs.
Fred POulin were in Waterville
Tuesday afternoon calling on friends
4. and on business.
Mrs. William Kincaid and Mrs.
John Clifford passed the day Tues
day in Waterville on business and
calling on friends.
g Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, the lecturer
, of the Somerset Pomona Grange was
in Scion Tuesday in attendance at a
meeting of Pomona Grange.
Nelson Wheeler Weston. the five
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Weston of West Front street, sub
United to a surgical operation at the
Somerset hospital Monday morning.
Several Swokhegan men, including
Mark Savage, Eugene Tarbox, Roy
Sylvester. and Harold Parker were
in Augusta Tuesday where they took
Ahe 32nd degree in Masonry.
ou Mrs. Ray Gordon has gone to
= Cambridge. Mass. where she will en-
ter a hospital for treatment. She
was accompanied by two children,
Ray, Jr.. and Ncttie Gordon.
Attorney Sherman Shumway of the
law firm of Cover and Shumway,
went to Rumford Tuesday morning
where he has business in the May
term of the Supreme court of OK
ford county.
Edgar L. Ford and Leon Smiley
road builders, were in Augusta Mon
day. afternoon to he present when
the bids which had been put in for
the building of various pieces OF
State road were opened.
&, Mrs. Clara Wyman, who was call
ed to ,Rumford the last of the week
because of the death of her broth
, er, John Dolbier, whose funeral SER
',,vlce was held Sunday afternoon
returned Monday night.
Lafayette Foster, who resides with
his daughter and husband. Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Gerald of Water street,
who have passed the winter in Flor
ida. and during their absence has
resided in East SkOwhegan, was in
town on business Monday.
"A Mrs. +. a. Christensen and two
.chilrdtnd that evening at the house
g children. who have been guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. George
d, Woodbury. left Tuesday morning on
their return to their home in South
Portland.
&. Mrs. Helen Weston Hutchinson is a
surgical patient at the Kennebec
Valley hospital where few days ago
she submitted to surgical treatment.
Mrs. Perley Tyler was visiting
Tuesday with relatives and friends
in 'Hinckley.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09

the town and the present site
Canaan village, and more scattelll
up the river and again heavy %
tween the Great Eddy and Maool,
Mills, and along the Madison roa''
near what is now the Fair GrounGi
1t is claimed that Haywood gave
the people fifty acres for the use
the minister, together with groun'
for q grave yard and his remunel.1
ton was that the town should ce7
for him five acres of land every w
for ten years. Not high when
claimed that a good man ough1
clear an acre day. The minister
salary was small and he needed
supplement it by work on the lai]
The cleal & of land as it was cleal'I
at that time would be consideI1
destructive today. Now the nmp1
standing on the land would be muj
valuable than the ground. the 81
mills sold pine boards Tor n
per thousand and they were VIZ
free from knots and defects. Jox,I
Weston Sd, Capt. JOY bousj
his first broadcloth coat for Y
money received from the saie
ashes at not over fifteen GEMS
.bushel. The ashes were obtained
Telling trees. cutting them up
placing them in piles letting VI
dry and burning them. The elm
supposed to furnish the ashes n'
est in potash. To show the price
some farm products l quote y
articles in the estate OF the III
Joseph Weston.
He left twenty cattle
Two swine worth $6.6Q eae'
IS bushels of corn at Ill
35 bushels of rye at
IS bushe
100 bushels of potatoes at -
rs q busne
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-09
FAYETTE

The school at Fayette Corner will
reopen Monday with Mrs. Cum
mings as teacher until Miss White
more can return.
Ezra Keep lost a valuable horse
Saturday. It's leg was broken when
he dropped through culvert.
The recent rain made the roads
in very bad condition and it will
take quite few more days work
to make them fit for service.
Anthony Tibbetts and family were
recent guests of Mr.. Tibbetts'
brother, Alton.
James Norton was a Sunday guest
OF his daughter, Mrs. Delbert
Smith.
The tax rate for the town this
year will be $50. on $1,000. Warren
Hewett is tax collector.
The May Ball will be held May
10th at Startling Grange hall.