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Evening star., 1923-11-03
JAIL SENTENCES GIVEN
IN PROHIBITION CASES
Men Receive as High as Sixty
Days Imprisonment and
Women Are Fined.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md. November g.
Five men and two women, caught in
a recent raid conducted in this county
at Brunswick, were yesterday con-
victed of violating prohibition laws
in the federal court at Baltimore and
sentenced to terms in the Frederick
county Jail and to pay fines.
Those convicted and the sentences
are:
Max Meyers. Brunswick merchant,
sixty days in jail; his wife. a fine of
$3.50: Meyer Friedman, Brunswick
merchant ninety days in jail: his
mother, Mrs. Julia Friedman, Bruins
wick. $3.50 fine; Walter Ambrose,
proprietor of the Yardley Hotel,
brunswick, sixty days in Jail; Clar-
ence Ridgeway, clerk at the Yardley
Hotel, thirty days in Jail, and A. T.
Chase. near Brunswick, fifteen days
Evening star., 1923-11-03
S11,315,S3 ROAD
FUND ASKED IN MD.
Money for Maintenance and
Reconstruction in 1925,
1926 and 1927.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE. Nd, November "a
request for s11.315,363e0 for mainte-
nance and reconstruction of state
highways during 1925. 1926 and 1927
has been decided upon by the state
roads commission.
This amount is the total of the
estimated receipts minus the expense
of maintaining the motor vehicle
commissioners office and 20 per cent
for Baltimore city, from automobile
license fees and the gasoline tax for
the three-year period.
OF the actual receipts for the year
ended September 80, of S3,3S1,753.73,
only sl.955, 5,9l5,5S were spent for
maintenance and reconstruction of
state roads The roads commission
estimates that the 1924 receipts will
show 20 per cent increase over the
last fiscal year and that 1925 will
have a IL per cent increase over 1924.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
Clothing Burned
Off Man Sleeping
Too Close to Fire
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND. Nd, November 3.
David Cassidy, sixty-five years.
is in dying condition at Allegany
Hospital. from burns. He was
found lying on the ground early
yesterday near the mule bridge"
along the Chesapeake and Ohio
canal with his clothing burned
completely off. his shoes alone re-
naming.
According to investigation by the
police. Cassidy, with several COM
panions. was drinking, and had
spent the night in the open by a
small fire and Cassidy lay down to
sleep, too close to the flames. Cas-
sidy has been well known about
the city for years and was active
in the heyday of volunteer fire.
men,
Evening star., 1923-11-03
POTATOES CAST IN FIELD
ARE FATAL TO8 COWS
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OAKLAND. Md, November g.
Isaac Allen Paugh. prominent farmer
Of this locality, lost eight cows that
ate potatoes that had not been gath
cred from the field and had frozen
during the latter part Of last week
during exceptionally heavy freezes.
Twenty-four hours after the ami
mails had been placed in the new
pasture range eight were dead. The
remaining four cows, although show
ing signs of being sick, have recov-
cred. The potatoes were of inferior
quality that Mr.. Paugh did not care
to store.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
FALLS CHURCH.

FALLS CHURCH, VA. November 3
Especially mass meeting will be
held at Odd Fellows Hall tonight to
explain the proposed bond issue of
$50,000,000 for state roads. which is
one of the important questions to be
decided at the coming election. The
meeting will be sponsored by the
Citizens Association and Women's
Club and excellent speakers will be
present. Every man and woman who
expects to vote is urged to attend this
meeting
Evening star., 1923-11-03
BOY NAMED BY WILSON
UNDERGOES OPERATION

Special Dispatch to The Star
LYNCHBURG, Va, November a.
Thomas Jefferson, seven-year- son
of F. 0. Shaner of Madison Heights,
a Lynchburg suburb, whos was named
by President Wilson. when request
ed by his father to do so in 1915,
has just undergone an operation at
a hospital here for removal of an in
fected bone, which resulted from a
rusty nail penetrating the foot some
months ago.
The child is the eighteenth of
twenty children in the family, seven
teen of whom still are living.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
Boy, 4 Years Old,
Steals Ride Under
Auto of Father
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CUMBERLAND, Md, November
3.-Traffiic officer Ray Johnson
stopped the driver of a small
closed car on Mechanic street yes
terday and told him a boy, only
four years old. was clinging to
the frame underneath the car.
The driver of the car, an Eek
hart resident. said the child was
his son. He told the police when
leaving home he refused the child
permission to come with him. and
supposed he had gone back into
the house.
However, the child held onto the
frame the distance from Eckhart,
ten miles. and how he escaped
being killed is a miracle.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
MAN HUNTING NICKEL
RUN DOWN; MAY DIE
SneciaI Disnatcb 10 Tbe star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md, November g.
Search for nickel he dropped in the
dark while walking along the Wash
ington- Frederick pike near Frederick
last night may cost Benjamin Make,
forty-five, negro, his life.
He was run down by an automobile
bus of William V. Wolfe, driven by
Raymond Scuder, en- route from Wash
ington, as he crawled through the
grass along the roadside in a vain
search for the coin. which was later
Make was unconscious when taken
to Montevue Hospital and has a frac-
tured leg, compound fracture of the
jaw and severe. injuries about the
chest and shoulders.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
YEAR-OLD BABY ENROLLS
FOR 1910 COLLEGE CLASS

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYNCHBURG, Va, November a.
President Rice r. Anderson of Ran
dolph-Macon Woman's College, who
was in Dallas, Tex, recently to set up
a campaign there among alumnae of
that college for the $3.50. 600 endow-
ment and development campaign, en-
rolled while there one-year-old Rosa
Walker for the 1910 class here.
The child is the daughter of Mrs.
James Walker, nee Manning, of Dallas,
a graduate of the 1919 class. and a
Granddaughter of Mrs. w. w. Manning,
a graduate of the class of 1894. and
an aunt. Miss Grace Manning. also of
Texas, now is a Junior at the college.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
BEAR CLIMBS FIRE TOWER
TO LOOK AT LANDSCAPE
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
HANCOCK. Md. November 3.-Dis-
trict Forester w. L. Byers sof Nc
Connellsburg, Pa. twenty-five miles
above here, reports that bear re-
Gently visited the Blue Knob forest
hre tower. climbed to the fifth plat
from, as its tracks showed viewed
the landscape, descended and returned
to the game preserve at Bobs Creek
five miles distant.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
HEAVY VIRGINIA FROST.
Flowers and Vegetation Are Killed
by, Sudden Cold.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, November 3.-The
month was ushered in with frost
a killing frost-when flowers and
vegetation in the gardens were
blackened and destroyed.
The frost was general in Virginia.
the thermometer registering as low
as % in the country near here. Late
corn went down before the frost and
late tomatoes and other vegetables
were killed.
Frost is later this year than usual,
allowing time for the gathering in
most of the crops of every sort be-
fore the advent of cold weather.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
MRS. NANCY C. RUST DIES.
Prominent Valley Of Virginia Fig
ure Passes Away.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY. Va, November 3.-With
the passing of Mrs. Nancy Cabell Rust
widow of Brig. Gen. Albert Rust of
the Confederate Army, the valley of
Virginia loses one of its most distin-
guished figures.
The daughter of John Breckenridge
Cabell, she was born in Lynchburg in
1929. Mrs. Rust was long a resident
OF this place. where she extended an
influence that was Virginia wide
Her demise occurred in Boston, at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pauline
Darlington Bouve. a writer of note.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
RECEIVERS FROM PISTOL
WOUND BENEATH HEART
Richmond Physicians Are Puz-
zled That Man Did
Not Die.
Special Dispatch TO The star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, November %
w. Malcolm Peters, cashier in the
offices Of the express company here
has left the hospital and returned to
his home. Nearly two weeks ago he
was found with a bullet wound in
his breast. lie was unable to tell
anything about the affair until sew
eral days after. when he said he had
been examining a new automatic pis-
tol and that IL exploded suddenly.
The bullet entered just below his
heart, and physicians are puzzled that
he did not die.
Evening star., 1923-11-03
SHOES, SIZE NO. ID,
SENT TO AFRICAN CHIEF
Special Dispa tch to The Star.

1 1T''I~I
LYNCHBURG. Va. November "A
local shoe company here has Just
completed and is sending to Africa a
pair of No. IA shoes, veritable schoon-
ers, which are to be worn by an
African chief, Wembo Nyama, who
lives in village which bears his
name.
Request for the footwear came from
DR.. c. p. NJ Sheffey of this city, who
Is engaged there in medical mission
ary work under direction of the
southern Methodist Board
Evening star., 1923-11-03
GREEK REBEL IN ROME.

LONDON, November 3.-The arrival
at Rome of Gen. Metaxas, who headed
the recent unsuccessful revolutionary
movement in Greece, ie reported in
Il Central News dispatch from the
Italian capital. He is accompanied
by a number of Greek refugees.
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story also that DR.. c. +. Haynes wa,I
located there and NJ. B. Cyphers seem,)
to have had gun-smith place in ths|
same building. For years however
the second floor has been occupied AL
a photographers studio, C. A. Paul, nj
C. Bassett and c. T. Huff the presend
occupant having been the tenants.
The third building shown in ths
picture. now the home of the Milbura
Fruit Go. with tenement on ths
second floor, was at that time occul
pied by the late W. r. G. Estes whs
conducted a mems furnishing store
This structure was moved to its pre-.
sent site from its location nearer I'M
bank of the river, probably by Moses
Pike. The late 4. n. Merrill bough
this block of Mr. Pike and it is inter-
esting to note that this was his first
purchase of business property. Ate,
Mr.. Estes vacated the property Vol
Vickery conducted dry goods stor,
there afterwards moving to what d
now the Lewis block on Madison Ave
The Morrisett store was also LOCATED
in this building prior to the occupanq
of the Milburn Fruit Co.
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Ninety-third Birthday Yesterday

Mrs Sarah Loring celebrated hs1
93rd birthday yesterday at Oaklana1
She was born in Skowhegan, tn]
daughter of Levi and Sarah Wlthaa
York. In 1851 she married j. VI
Kidder of Skowhegan, who died on nll
way to California. She later marris1
VIM. Vixon of Norr.dgewock and sun
sequently Isaac Loring of Athens
They resided on farm in AtneIJ
until the death of Mr.. Loring, whlu|
occurred In January, 1903. Shors|
after that Mrs. Loring came to oa'l
land, where she has since made n'|
home.
She has one son. Henry A. klnua|
or Arlington, Mass, and two granu
sons, Henry d. Kidder of Cambrlas.|
Mass. and Herbert l.. Kidder OF M,l
York City; two brothers, VILLA
York of Oakland and Joel fork II
Hoxie. For many years Mrs. LoI~'l
was member of the old Free pc,
fist church in town, and Ill 81.
weather is a frequent attendant ia.
the United Baptist church. She a,
belongs to the Fidelity class associa'
ed with the church and in when sS
has always been deeply Interest," -
For several years she was supen
tendent of the High street mlss'o'
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erly owned by his aunt, Mrs. Hulda
Malbon whose husband, ames Malbon
was associated in the market business
on the street floor with his brother
Joseph H. Malbon at the time the ac-
companying picture was taken. Mrs.
Malbon appears to have purchased the
property from Joseph L. Patten as
deed at the Court House is recorded
from that gentleman to Mrs. Malbon
on January n. 1861. The Malbons
lived where E. l.. Savage now lives on
Water Street and James Malbon con-
tinued to operate a market longer
than the partnership with Joseph
existed. Hulda Hobart Malbon deed
ed the property to ID. F. Hobart father
of D. B. Hobart on June 20, 1894, the
present owner coming into possession
of the same by inheritance Succeed
ing Mr.. Malbon tenants Of the first
floor were George Fairbrother, George
Paul and Levi Emery, A. H. Lang
markets, a tea store and the Lewia
Shoe Co. present occupants.
At the time the picture was taken
the signs indicate that d. F. Hobart
himself had an Office in the second
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Profitable Session for AgriculturallSu
held In Victor Grange Hall

The mems and w0men's diyisions
of the Fairfield Farm Bureau held
their annual all-day meeting at Vic
tor Grange Hall, January Sd. Th.|
meeting proved to be one of the mosI
interesting and valuable ever held BY
this local. About fifty members were|
present.
The session of the womens divsiOa|
was in charge of Home Demonstra|
ton Agent Miss Marion Hare. And
under her direction the work for 1871
was planned The following ofTcen|
were chosen: Chairman, Miss Lug|
Bigelow; secretary, Mrs. Donali|
Ellis; clothing project leader, Mrs
Mark Stevens; food project leadet
Mrs. Helen Jones; household manage|
ment leader, Mrs. Harold Hoxie; fired
less cooker campaign leader, Mrs
Harold Hoxie
The session of the mems diyiso,I
was in charge of County Agent c. N
Storer. The demonstration projechI
that he presented for 1923 were enI
Enthusiastically received, and Largo
number of members agreed to under
take demonstrations in use of lime
potato seed plots, Maine $40 oats, OF
chard fertilization and grating, and
accounts.
Mr.. Wilbur and Mr. Talbot Of thu
University of Maine were pressed
and gave interesting talks on poultEl
and the work of Cow Test Assoca.|
tions.
Much interest was shown in tls|
formation of group for work NJ
Feeding Economics. Practically
every dairyman present was desr-
ious of forming such group. A1
briefly outlined at the meeting thsI
work of such a group would be direct
cd toward the production of a highal
grade of roughage by the raising OIL
more clover and to the production OF
a higher grade of silage by growing
New York Mammoth Flint corn, and
by the growing of soy beans and
sweet clover to be cut into the sllo
with the sweet corn. The cost OIL
concentrates is to be reduced by the
utilization of greater quantities OIL
home grown feeds as oats, barley and
yellow corn; and by centering tR
feeds that must be purchased on A
small number of items that could e|
bought in straight cars directly from
the mill, and at the season of the yea|
when prices are lowest. A meeting
of this group will be held at N. vi
Tozier's Saturday evening, January
10. All interested are invited !"
! attend
The secretary of the local sposs
briefly of the success of the CO..
operative purchasing of fertilizer
materials, stating that last year ma
terials were purchased for 200 tons
of fertilizer; and that these had given
such good satisfaction that the inter
est in home mixing is much greatef
| this season.
/ The following officers of the mems
| division were elected: Chairman
Ralph Clifford; secretary, Donald W.
Ellis. Project leaders for CLUBS
Mark Stevens; for crops, A. II. Ells
for dairy, A. +. Hodges; for Poultry
N. w. Tozier; for Accounts. Ralp1
Clifford; for apples, f. f. NOVEL;
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Hartland School Notes

II. -. Clifford visited school Jan.
Is. The following pupils received
o. X, Arden Hayey, Doris Maxwell,
Roger Emery, Angilee Fuller, Frances
and Ethel Kimball. Bernice Harding,
Helen Manson, Robert Brown, Doris
Buzzell, Charlotte Waldron, Stella
Libby, Darrell Currie, Christine
Sweet Esther Griffith, Cora WeDber,
Guy Hunt, Roger Baker, Emma With
ee. Verona feathers.
Darrell Currie, Grade III has had
perfect Arithmetic papers all the
week and Roger Emery. Angllee Full
Ter. Doris Maxwell. Arden Havey and
Ethel Kimhallin Grade ~.
Verona Leathers Is leading the Star
race in Fourth B reading this week.
The teachers of this district expect
to attend the county convention at
Pittsfield, January 10.
The Hartland Primary school re-
ports for the week ending January
Is: Those perfect in Second Grade
arithmetic: Woodrow Luce, Doris
Manson, Gladys Carter, Alfred Bell
and Eva Wheeler. In Grade |, FLO
rice Sleeves, Virginia Bell and John
Ginty.
Mr.. Clifford visited the school Janu-
airy H.
Tho following pupils received o. *.
In spelling: Alfred Bell, Jennie
southards. Nilda Wheeler, Mildred
i:aIssoury, Woodrow Luce, Edwin Aus
tin. Gladys Carter, Roland Austin,
Eva Wheeler Doris Manson, Iva Kim
ball and Eva Kimball.
Dorothy Varnum who entered cchool
this year has been promoted to the
Second Grade and is doing very good
work there.
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Historical Sketch OF Sk0whegan
Trust 60. Building and Adj
jaccnt Blocks on Water
Street

Time and man have greatly changed
the appearance of Joseph Patterns
front yard. The accompanying illus
tration is a picture OF that portion of
Water street which was formerly an
open space between the Patten home
stead and Water street. This pro-
perty had been in the Patten family
for fifty years or more and all of the
children of Mr.. Patten, senior, had
been born In the old homestead. In
1859 Joseph Lee Patten purchased the
old home from the heirs, and then
cut through down to the river bank
a street which is now called Patten
Court. He then moved the old home
stead down to the lower part of the
lot and sold the front eId lot which is
now being occupied by the Skowhe-
gan Trust Co. building and also the
lot next TO it to the Malbon family,
some of whom used 1t for market.
This picture was probably taken
in the sixties and changes notable
indeed have come to the three struc-
lures since that time. The buildinge
shown are the present Skowhegan
Trust Company building and the two
blocks adjoining on the east. The
bank building was erected in about
1865 or 1867. The foundation of the
structure was however put in place
before the outbreak of the Civil War
by J. Parker Boise and William
Tucker who intended to erect build
ing to be used as clothing store and
a harness shop. They became dis
couraged because of the increased
cost of building operations and the
work of actual building was delayed
until the date already mentioned The
Second National Bank of Skowhegan
| built the structure and the first ten
| ants were the bank corporation on the
| west side and r. n. Dinsmore of the
| Somerset Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
on the east side. The upper story was
| tenement occupied by Mr.. Dins-
! more and his family. Mr.. Dinsmore
| continued to occupy the premises
until the business was taken over by
| his son II. A. Dinsmore in 1885, H, A
remaining there for time after. In
F., 1900 the first floor was remodeled
and taken over entirely by the Second
| National Bank which became the
| Skowhegan Trust Co. in March. 1911
George W. Cover was the first tenant
after the building was remodeled OF
the second floor. DIR. +. q. Sawyer
was located there for short time
., and he was succeeded by Judge +, F
Danforth who still is a tenant OF thu
property The adjoining building
now owned by D. B. Hobart was form
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Helps Of Little Cost
(Roland r. Patten)
KEEP TRACK OF MACHINE,

KEEP TRACK OF MACHINES
| think the one thing that cost the
least and yet has saved me the most,
both in comfort of mind and dollars.
was my custom of fling away all the
information | could get at about each
farm implement or machine. For
carrying out any plan of this kind a
verticle file is very nice, but it is by
no means necessary. A box of wood
or pasteboard will do. All that is
required Is to grasp the purpose of
the plan and stick to it. Get the ca
talog, list of separate parts, everything
in print, about every machine on the
farm, and put 1t in this file. In start
ing this plan. try to have the printed
matter of the same year that the ma
chine was made. This is readily done
II attended to when the machine is
bought. If for machines already In
use. and the catalogs of the year OF
it's make are out of print, get the edi-
lions OF any year but mark ON the out
side the year in which your own ma
chine was made.
Keep your file cleaned up. Put no.
thing else into it. When machine
is worn out. sold or otherwise dis
posed of, take out all the literature
that pertains to it, 1t will greatly
simplify matters also, where, as is Of
ten the case, the printed matter may
treat of machines besides the one you
own, to fix it, to open at the page
where your machine is illustrated and
described This, may be done by cut
ting the corners of the leaves as the
banker does his pass book, that Is
open at the proper page and clip the
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cation were sufficient when coupled
with natural ability. With him the
fundamentals were enough and his
success has proved his theories. He
may well be called self made man
and he has mastered whatever he has
tried
The first ambitious project of Mr..
Munsey in New York was the start
ing of THE Argosy." This was large
ly for children and it commanded
some of the ablest writer in the
country. Such able men as Horatio
Alger Jr., and Edward S. Ellis were
among the contributors and the week
iy publications soon achieved wide
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clientele. The paper soon absorbed
the two eldest magazines in the coun-
-GodEs iady's Book and Gody's
Magazine. In Augusta Mr.. Munsey
had come in contact with publishers
and had picked enough of their bust
ness TO fire his own ambition. In
his book entitled THE Story or The
Founding And Developing OF The Mum
sey Publ shing House. Mr.. Munsey
says.
ITO start without capital was pref
ty difficult problem, and especially to
start in New York, and my ambition
was 10 locate there and to issue
publication of good grade. The ca
pitalists of New England are not wont
to take long chances. They are wise
in frugaity and safety. An enter
prise so hazardous as publishing and
managed by a man who had no prac-
teal experience. did not appeal to
them Capitalists of small degree,
and some Of larger degree, listened.
however. with polite courtesy to my
carefully worked out plans for the Ar
COSY. You see. had already got as
a name. and that little bit OF crystali-
cation was worth something as a su-
cleus."
But Mr.. Munsey persisted and at
last succeeded in raising four thou
sand dollars. And here he again
bursts out:
-Four thousand dollars! The over
whelming assur k1ce. the andacious
rope, the infinite sense of this pro-
position astounds me today as | look
back upon it and know what real
publishing means in a town like New
Manipulating that has the pretense
to reach out for national support
But ON such slender possibility !
threw away a certainty cut myself
off from friends and associates, and
plunged into this great whirlpool OF
strenuous activity with confidence
and courage that knew no limitations.
1t was pathetic. pitable even, and the
more 80 because | had barely landed
here when discovered that my plans
for the Argosy were hopeless. A day S
investigation made it clear that the
information which had been furnish
ed me, and on which ] had based my
calculations. was OF hearsay nature.
II was worthless, and the facts | dug
out for myself were sufficient to make
the whole proposition impracticable
and impossible.
But it didn't prove to be SO and the
final result is ample proof of what q
young man of brains, ambition and
energy can accomplish in this coun-
try. True the enterprise failed for
a time but other friends came to his
assistance and the Argosy struggled
on and is still in existence. AS Mr..
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Card OF Thanks

We wish to express our thanks for
the kindness and sympathy shown by
our friends and neighbors during our
recent bereavement and for the beau
tiful flowers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tracy Stevens
and family
Mrs. Kettle Head
Miss, Bernice Head
Skowhegan, Me-, Jan. Is, 1923