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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Facts About The Panama Canal

Many people have an idea that the
Panama Canal runs from east to
west straight across the isthmus; the
axis of the isthmus runs from south
west to northeast. The canal was
built from northwest to southeast,
almost at right angles to the strip
of land. and the Pacific end of it is
about q miles east of the Atlantic
end.
Both entrances to the canal are
protected by .breakwaters. A thor
ough system of lights and buoys
makes the canal as safe to use at
night as by day.
The PASSAGE between the Atlantic
Ocean and Gatun Lake is made by
three steps of Gatun Locks. On the
Pacific side the passage between the
summit level (Gatun Lake leveD and
the Pacific is made by means of
Pedro Miguel Lock, Mira Flores Lake
and Mira Flores Locks. A set of
three locks to make the. whole step
at one time. would have been built
on the Pacific side if it had been pos
sible to secure site affording firm
rock foundation large enough to ac-
commodate them.
The flights are duplicate Cor
e-barreled) so that ships may
be passed in opposite directors
simultaneously. .
The canal is capable Of handling
this largest ships now in existence.
1t could handle about 4S ships of
usual size in q day. or about 1900
in a year.-From Adventure Maya
zine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Mother NathrA Al Wof K

A striking example of the effects
of environment and changed ccndi-
tons of life upon the forms OF amin
ais is furnished by a species of part :
ridges living in the Canary Islands.
About 400 years ago the Spaniards
introduced the red-legged partridge
from Europe into these islands, hut
as recent examination proves, it has
undergone notifications clearly
brought about by the conditions un-
der which it lives.
It's back has turned from russell
color to gray. This looks like a case
of protective coloration, since the
bird passes it's life amid gray vol
canic rocksA
Then its beak has become one
fourth longer and thicker than that
Of its ancestors and of it's European
relatives, and its legs have also in
creased in length and grown stouter.
These changes are exactly such is
were needed to suit it to the life that
1t is now compelled to lead amid the
rocks and on the mountain sides of
the islands. where a more vigorous
physical development is required
than was needed upon the plains of
England and France.
As has been remarked, IL such
changes can be wrought by nature in
the animal form in 400 years, what
might not have been accomplished in
400 centuries?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16

Elisha S. Newell passed away
Monday morning at his nome in
South Portland. Few men are better
known and held in more loving es-
TEEN in Gardiner than was the de-
ceased. as he was for many years a
resident of Gardiner and Farming
dale, moving to South Portland some
five or six years ago.
He was born in the town of Dur
ham, Oct. 2, 1886 and when a young
man was inclined toward educational
work and taught school for several
years. He commenced his railroad
career on April II. 1854, starting as
brakeman of passenger train
running between SkowheGan aud
Portland. The following September
he became fireman in which position
he remained until May IL. 1868 when
he was made permanent engineer
Until his retirement some eight or
more years ago he had served under
IL general managers in the course Of
his railroad career.
To hear Mr. Newell tell Of the
early days of railroading -tas treat,
and to make one of the boys gather
ed about him in the baggage room
and listen to his tales was considered
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Letter Of F. E. Scott
Tc Journal Friends

Gardiner friends of Fred T.. Scott
arc always glad to hear from hii:l dur
ing his winter ramblcs in sunny
California, and will appreciate the
following:
"Glendalc City, Cal, JAN 10, 1923.
Dear Journal.
Just few lines this morning to
let you know where | am located.
We left Gardiner November eth and
after six days travel over the Boston
and Albany, New York Central, Union
Pacific and Southern Pacific; we ar
rived in San Diego. Here is the best
climate | have found in all my Cali
fornia travels. The gardens about
here look like Maine in June or July.
Peas all in full blossom. moving ma
chimes running, oranges and lemons
being harvested. / can't realize it is
winter. Tourists from the east are
coming into California every day by
the thousands. A few days ago | met
man in San Diego who was looking
for room. He said that the night
before he had slept in q bathroom
and he could not get a room in the
city.
I just want to mention one thing
about my mother. Some thought
that we were foolish to take her
along: that She could not stand a trip
like this. She has stood the trip bet
ter than either of us and has not
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Joint Installation CT
Canton and EncarnpMent

Evergreen Encampment No. 40 and
Canton Evergreen No. II held joint
installation of officers on Monday
evening. There was a large atten-
dance and the work passed off with
with remarkable smoothness. For
the Encampment District Deputy
Crane Patriarch George Leavitt and
suite installed the following: G.. T.,
Don c. w. Blair; II. j., Dwight En-
cry: S. w. Fred c. Edgerly: J. W., w.
J. Clark: Scribe. +. =. Collins; treas,
S. y. Soule: Guide. arthur Smith:
First Watch. Frank Moore; second
watch. Harry Grant; Third Watch,
John Young; Fourth Guard of Tent.
George Brockman: Second Guard of
Tent. Harold futile, Brig. Gen. Loen
w. Gerrish and staff installed the fol-
lowing for the anton: Capt, Fred c.
Edgerly: Lieut., Fred j.. Lord: En-
sign. Johnson 3. Jameson: Clerk,
Ralph b. Dale: Acct, Harry G.
Coombs; Guard. John ID. Mckinnon:
standard bearer. Harold futile; sent.
William NJ. Robinson; Picket, Don C..
W. Blair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
First Victim Of World War

NJ. Poincare recently. offieiata'
the ceremony of the inaugufauAl
Jonchery in France of the month";
erected by public sub9criptiou 70.
memory of Corporal Peugot
schoolmaster of Pissouy, a villan
IS inhabitants. in the Departnsn'
the Doubs. who was killed b.
Germans before war was declares
The monument, about eight lee
height, bears the inscriptions:
"On this spot on Sunday A@
1914, at 10 A. M-more than ~ y
before she declared war on IN,
and while the republic. in oraa'
avoid all cause for conflict, mad "
drawn her covering troops " "
within the French frontier line.s
pcrial and royal Germany snea
first French blood.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Mrs. Wedce Entertainss

The women's foreign missionary
society of the Methodist church was
entertained Monday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. William Wedge. The
president, Mrs. Noel Sleeves, was in
charge of the meeting. The program
was anextremely interesting one. The
general subject was China. it's mis-
sonaries, schools and their pupils.
The first number en- the program was
music. Mrs. Horne gave an excellent
article on the work among the chill
dren in China. Mrs. w. Fl. Perry fol-
lowed with an interesting account of
some of the older Bible women of the
country and their work. The closing
number was music.
At the close of the formal program
there was informal discussion of spe-
cial points of interest and de-
lightful social hour. The hostess,
Mrs. Wedge. served particularly de-
licious refreshments of jelly mounds,
with strawberries and whipped cream
and sponge cake. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
NATIONAL HQN|

Officer of the day, Capt VII
W. Van Horn. ~
Timothy J. Maher has been rt.s
a furlough to visit relatives N p
tonGage w. Russell ! has REIN,
from a furlough passed with
daughter in Haverhill.
Joseph Birdette, late Co. HIN
Inf, has been granted a disch,
from the Home.
Cutler Post No. As. G. A. r.
hold its regular meeting at 23Da
afternoon. and a full ATTENDING
desired TO transact important Il,
ness.
Alphose Cote, Of Lewiston, hu,
cepted a position as eornet PLAYA
the Home orchestra.
William =. Mcnamara has re,vr
from Boston. where he passed !
week end with his son. John \
Namara, in vaudeville on the B.
Keith circuit. GS
The funeral of the late John q
was held from the Home chad
1880 Monday, Rex. Fr. McGoxsl
ficiatipg. - '''''.
The funeral Of the late JOIN
LydstOn will be held from the III
chapel at 1880 Tuesday, Rev. T.
Phalen officiating.
Mrs. Henrietta Hayes has resir
her position as nurse in the HI
hospital to accept the position I'll
sistant chief nurse in the Home b
pital at Dayton. Ohio.
The crew commenced Monda!
harvest the annual crop of Ice
the various departments Of
Branch. Some 400 tons are
and housed yearly. p
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Eskimo Leland

There are many legends of the
moon. Almost every ancient people
has it's moon story, but that of the
Eskimos is particularly interesting
and poetical. 1t tells how, long ago,
before there were a sun and a moon
in the heavens. a brother and sister
lived alone in an iglOo. One day tn :
brother grieyously ill-treated a his
beautiful sister. who became so en-
ragged that, : picking up flaming
brand. she chased him out of the
iglcoa and into the sky And = ever
since then she has been chasing him.
She is the sun and he the moon.
Since the first astrologer foretold
the future, and the first gypsy warned
of a dark stranger" the full moon
at the birth of female child has
been supposed to portend an unfortu-
nate career. Upon those male chill
dren born at the full of the moon a
healthy. vigorous body and longevity
were bestowed. Children of both
sexes. born on the wane of the moon
or on the Increase. would assuredly
die young, or If they did outlive ey-
pectations it would be because tbs.
were guilty of some great crime.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
RICHMOND
Frederick Hathorne

Frederick Hathorne died at MS
home on North Front street early
Sunday evening. after an illness Gov
ering the past few months. MI.
Hathorne was born in Richmond IN
1876. and after attending SCHOOLS IN
this town he left for Massachusetts.
where he spent most of his life lie
was for many years chief engineer
of the Eastern Steamship Company's
boats. The funeral will be held on
Wednesday at l 2. NJ. at the home
on Front street. The burial will be
in Dresden. One sister. Miss Eliza
beth Hathorne. survives.
Susan L. Patch died at the home
of her son Sunday evening. Harry
other son. Henry +. Patch, Sunday
evening on Gardner street. where
she was passing the winter. Her age
was Sc years. The funeral services
will be held in Beverly. Mass, on
Wednesday.
Mrs. Chas. A. Snow was called to
Stockton Springs by the death of her
father. Aston +. Ellis. aged 62. Flu
neral services Wednesday afternoon.
Richmond high school will play
Lawrence high school of Fairfield
at Richmond Opera House, Rich
mona, ETludN. Jan. Ia. i Illo SiIiC
promises to be a fast one from start
to finish and good crowd is eX-
pected.
A supper will be served at the
chapel OF the NJ. e. church on PLEAS
ant street, by the men. on Wednes-
day. Jan. IL, at the usual hours.
The Women's and Mems club of
the Farm Bureau will hold their an
nual meeting in Curtis hall, on We'd
nesday. Jan. "A, at 10 A. NJ.
Miss Gertrude Moore Is at present
employed at the local post office, fill
ing the position of assistant post
mistress, that Mrs. Hazel Libby re-
signed.
Reed Jack and Will Stinson were
drawn from Richmond to serve on
the traverse jury at the January
term of S. J. court at Bath.
B. f., Curtis was elected men,
Der of the board of trustees of the
Augsta Trust Company.
Miss Gertrude Moore spent the
weekend in Portland with her par
ents. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Z. Moore.
Miss Dorothy Honaker has re-
turned from a two weeks visit with
relatives in Portland.
Mr.. e. N. Hartford was a recent
business visitor in Bath
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Introducing the Wart. Hoo

Natural history books delight in
repeating how the wart-hog is the
most hideous beast on earth. But that
is tall order. Wart-hogs are a head,
an enormously magnified, night mar
flied pigs head, swollen and pimpled
with magnificent warts, adorned by
little red pigs eyes set away up top
at one end. and overarched by the
most colossal double pair of tusks in
all the world of the wild. A barrel
bellied pigs body, topped by a hog
name. and propped up by sturdy legs
somehow hold the head and tusks up,
and pigs tail adorned with a tuft is
stuck on after. And watch that tail.
It is the wart-hog's little flag of pa
triotism, not just any old caudal APP
pendage.
Wart-hogs are the most matter-of-
fact people in the wild. and the hard
est to bluff. St. Mars, in Adven-
ture Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Mail Carriers to
Have Half DaV Off

The order recently issued by Post
master General Work authorizing
pOStmasters to excuse from duty on
Saturday afternoons such employees
as could be SO excused without in
jury to the service or adding expense
to the same. went into effect on Sat
urday, Jan. 18th.
On and after that date the city
carriers of Gardiner will make no
deliveries of mail in the residential
section after / =. NJ. on Saturday;
mail in the business section will be
delivered as usual and the regular
collections made.
1t has been arranged so that the
office clerks will have one Saturday
afternoon off every two weeks, c,-
cept the money order clerk, who
will have Wednesday afternoon in
stead.
1t is hoped that this slight cur
tailment of. service will cause no
great Inconvenience to the patrons
of the office. and that it will be ac-
cepted by them i'll the same spirit
that prompted the postmaster gener-
al to give it,
Live and let live" IL
CHARLES j. BRAGDON,
Postmaster.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
RHODE ISLAND WOMAN
SPEAKS her MIND


About two years ago Mrs. Anna w.
Sheehan of 20 School ST., Pawtucket,
r. l.. wrote about her sick children
and how they were restored to good
health. She closed her letter as fol-
lows: Il am never without your Dr..
True's Elixir in the house. 1 take it,
my hsuband takes it, and whenever
sick it is the most wonderful medicine
ever took l will always recommend
1T. for know it does the work and can
prove it. Tell anybody to write to me
and will tell them"
DR.. Trus's Elixir is the True Family
Laxative and Worm Cxpeller and has
been helping to better health thou-
sands of working people, children and
mothers for the past 70 years. It is a
renowned. reliable laxative compoupd-
cd to relieve constipation pleasantly
and enectively-unequaled for Kidding
ANY,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Looked Good to CannibaIs

Few women have no fear of canni-
balls or wild animals, but it remains
for Miss Beatrice Grimshaw, an Irish
novelist, to fear nothing under the
sun, as she puts it. Miss Grimshaw
is returning to London soon after
having lived on a secluded island in
the Pacific ocean for several months.
She has spent many years in solitary
wanderings in some of the lonelicst
places in the world. it is said.
Once she explored the wild island
of Goarbari in the gulf of Papua,
wherSin 1902 a well-known mission
airy. Chalmers, was killed and eaten
by cannibals. Talking of her expe-
rinces there, she said: 1.-THE ma
tives were extremely excited and
jumpy. They came and held up q
joint of human flesh before me,
laughing. 1t looked horrid and smclt
worse"
While visiting the Tijians this sort
Of thing happened to her: zone
young woman, shoe brushed haired,
wild-eyed, and long of tooth, cares.
sed my arm in a passive way of de-
light, even going SO far as to set her
teeth gently in the flesh and exclaim
longingly, 'Vinaka no kanaka' ('what
good food!o From the Continental
Edition of the London Mail.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16

The forestry nursery at Saratoga
Springs, which is in the course of
organization at this time, will be the
largest in the world at no distant
date. When completed it will have
an output Of 10.o00,000 trees per year
and some idea of the scope of this
new nursery may be gained from the
fact that during the transplanting
season last spring the employees of
this nursery several times rams
planted. more than $4,000 white
pines in a single day. Seven rams
planting tables were In operation at
one time. 1t IS at these tables that
the transplanting boards are filled,
by which fifty young trees are plant
ca IN row simultaneously. The
beds in which these plants are grow
ing present a very attractive sight.
the trees being all the same size and
planted in faultless rows.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
Valuable Pho.phats Eume.

Millions Of tons Of phosphates pre-
viously wasted will be saved poten.
TALLY as result of the perfection of
new reclamation system devised by
the United States Department OF
Agriculture.
heretofore heavy annual wastes of
valuable phosphate material have
occurred during the mining and man
u!acturing processes The new method
OF controlling these losses consists in
mixing the "run-of- mine' phosphate
with sand and coke and smeltinr the
mass in an electric or. fuel led fur :
mace. In this process the phosphoric
ACID is driven of as a fume and NAV
20 readily collected in concentrated
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16
HAD SUFFERED
II weary Years
Tanlac Quickly Ended Prolonged
Stomach Trouble, Says Mrs. La
Bonta-Now Fully Recovered

Il could shout for JOY" cit has no
equal and similar grateful express
sions, too many to enumerate, have
been voiced by thousands benefited
by Tanlac. One of the most en-
thusisastic to praise the medicine is
Mrs. Fred La Bonita, highly esteemed
, resident of SO Myrtle ST., Portland,
Me-, who said:
II suffered so from stomach trou-
| BILE | feared every day may be the
last. and for twelve years l was a
| physical wreck. Headaches, dizzi-
ness, constipation and sleeplessness
added to my misery. l b ,ated up
with gas after eating, became faint
and short of breath, and my heart
| palpitated so l could not walk across
the floor. l grew cold as ice, shook
like a leaf and would drop down eX-
hauSted.
"But Tanlac simply made-me over.
l can eat anything, have gained
eight pounds. do all my housework,
and simply could jump with joy over
, my good health"
Tanlac is for sale by all good drug
gists.
Over 35-million bottles sold.-Ady,
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!Airplane Used In
| Fire Protection

Chicago, Jan. 15-(By A. PO--
The airplane patrol used in the west
to detect and fight forest fire zones
and insure their correction and the
elimination of fire hazards.
The Underwriters Laboratories.
maintained by the fire insurance
companies to test and approve fire
prevention and safety devices, IS in
| vestigating the possibilities of air.
plane. photography.
BY means of an airplane map of a
large city, fire hazards which escape
! notice of the casual observer on the
ground become apparent, according
! to officials Of the laboratories. The
| maps are made at heighth of at
! least 10000 feet to eliminate distor-
ton of the parallel lines, which oc-
ours in pictures taken at low alti-
! tudes.
The maps are useful for fire de-
partments in studying the condition
of roofs, sky-lights, lumber yards
| where the topography is constantly
| changing, and the condition of back
yards and vacant lots, particularly
where refuse heaps or box and lumber
piles may constitute fire danger to
adjoining buildings.
Major A. r. Schroeder, former
holder of the worlds altitude record
and now in charge of the aviation
section of the laboratories work, has
discovered numbers of fire hazards
| in his own flights over Chicago.
The proposed airplane maps will
| supplement the usual insurance bro
ker's maps, which show by the use
| of various colors the material and
type of construction Of every build
! ing in given section. The present
; maps. the laboratories point out, fail
/ to show fire dangers from stored ma
, terials or refuse in open spaces ad-
i joining the buildings
! One New York lumber company
has already adopted the idea and
furnishes airplane photographs of it's
yards to the insurance brokers once
a month. so that, in case of fire, the
actual condition of the yards will be
available, in case of controversy.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-16

a privilege. For many years MIR.
Newell ran the shifter in the Gar
diner yard, as these duties entailcd
no Sunday work. He remembered
distinctly the old wood burning Loco
motive that Joseph M. Alexander of
Boston used to run in the early part
of his SO years service on the Bos-
ton and Albany. This same engine
was afterward sold to a Boston junk
dealer and from the junk heap went
to the old kennebec and Portland
Railroad. Mr.. Newell was assigned
to drive this engine between Gardiner
and Augusta. 1t is said that the old
engine travelled total of 100000
miles, some distance for those days.
Mr.. Newell also ran another wood
burning engine called the Ruel VIII
liams, which weighed only 16 tons.
This engine consumed one and one
half cords of wood on the run f.om
Bath to Nassalboro. Mr.. Newell
served IA years on a run from Port
land to Waterville and return, the
run at that time being one of the
longest in New England, 165 miles
i'll length.
AS an engineer. Mr.. Newell has
held the throttle on the engines; of
many special trains which carried
such celebrities as Horace Greeley
and James G.. Blaine.
The deceased was of an intensely
religious nature and served for many
years as pastor of the Second Advent
church of this city. He was wonder
fully well vcrsed in the Scriptures
and an interesting preacher. lie
| joined the Masons in 1867 and always
| maintained a lively interest in the
order.
Mr. Newell leaves a widow and two
| daughters. Mrs. r. F. Evans of
South Portland and Miss Alice New
ell. Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 10 A. NJ. from his late
home in South Portland. The le-
mains will be brought to Gardiner on
the 2:32 train for burial in the Farm
inGdale cemetery.
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Polinice Neri

Hallowell people will regret to
learn of the death in London. Eng
land. of pneumonia, of Poliltice Ne1i,
eldest son of Mrs. Giselda Ncri of
Hallowell. He was born in Cdrrara,
Italy, but came to America with his
parents when he was only three
years old,
He was educated in tic public
schools of Hallowell. graduating
from the grammar school. and eflicr-
ing the high. Then at the age Of 16,
re returned to Carrara, Italy. where
he finished his education, studying
architecture.
He made his home in Carrara,
where he is survived by a wife, and
son. the latter now serving in the
Italian navy. Mr.. Neri himself
served in the World War, seeing q
full year of active service on the
battle front. He was employed in
London at the time of his death.
He is survived in this country by
his mother, Mrs. Giselda Ne,i, OF
Hallowell, and by three sisters, Mis-.
John Arata and Miss Cline ne Neri
of HallOwell and Mrs. Cosmo Rngga
of Westerly, r. l.
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Girls Club Notes

r. p. Hazard will not speak be-
fore the Gardiner Girls Club as
scheduled for this evening, but will
do so at a date to be announced
later. Instead a reunion meeting
will be held. All old and former
members are invited. The cast for
'Tony," the musical comedy soon to
be given by the girls will he chosen
at the meeting this evening. l.elrosh-
mentS served. All out
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Funeral of Charles r. Bailey

The funeral of the late Ciiail:s F.
Bailey was held Monday afternoon
from the residence OF his dius fter,
Mrs. Harry Page, 21S Water street.
Rev. w. p. Bradford of the Old
South Congregational church Oil =
ciated.
The bearers were Chester Turner,
Chester Huff. Alden Grimes. anG
John McKelvey. The inteiinent was
in the family lot in the Halluwell
cemetery.