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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

Does the Saco river claim three
victims yearly as the result of a
curse placed on it by Indians in the
long ago-when Maine was a
primeval forest, and white settlers
were just beginning to arrive?
There arc those in BiddefOrd and
Saco who think so, fantastic though
it may seem. The legend is that a
white settler threw an Indian
rapoose into the torrent whereupon
the rcd chief, in sorrowful judgment
rather than in anger, placed his
curse upon the white race declaring
that three of their number should,
through the centuries, meet death in
the waters every year. This uncanny
legend was recently revived by the
drowning of Napoleon Souliere of
Biddeford, aged IA. 1t has never, of
course. been officially determined but
there are those who claim that the
Saco, somewhere along its winding
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13
PALERMO

Mr.. and Mrs. Grandville Rogers o.
Waltham, Mass. were visiting hei
sister, Mrs. Frank Jaquith, at west
ern Ridge, Palermo, last week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

The Two-Do,lar Fill GoirG-IIead-
lne-Thats always been the habit of
the article 50 far as VIC have obscrv-
Il
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13
MADISON
Mrs. Mary Jones

Mrs. Mary Jones died Monday
night at the home of her son, Wal
lace Jones, on Spear Hill, Arson
side, after critical illness of only
a few days. Mrs. Jones was a ma
tive of Madison and wa the widow
of the late Moses NJ. Jones. She was
SO years, months and - days old.
She lived practically her whole life
in Madison going to the Arson side
about two years ago. She is sur
vived by two sons, Wallace Jones of
Arson and George Jones OF Madison.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. {. NJ. Mckinney, Wednes-
day afternoon at Mrs. Jones late
home and the interment was in the
Jones family cemetery in Madison.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

The bell calling in straw hats is
supposed to sound its clarion notes
on Sept. Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

Work is to be commenced at once
on a new concrete bridge across the
Getchen Brook at the foot of the
Metcalf hill on the Arson side. 1t
is expected that the job will take
about month and during that time
traffic up river will detour by the
way of Spear Hill,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

When the new steel lightship No.
los, recorded in the Department of
Commerce as Five FathCm' because
she will he a beacon on Five Fathom
Banks, off the Delaware in the third
lighthouse district. returned to her
wharf at the Bath Iron Works Ltd.
Monday night at the completion of
her official trials she had successful
ly passed all tests required and will
Immediately be completed and turned
over to the Department of Com
merCe. She completed the official
tests in the kcnncbec river without
going outside. owing to the dense
fog. the first vessel ever built by the
Faith Iron Works Ltd. to have her of
fetal trials in the river. The Five
Fathom is the second of five similar
vessels built and building by the
Bath Iron Works Ltd. for the United
States Lighthouse Service, Depart
ment of Commerce, to complete her
trials.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

Civil service examinations for re-
serve policemen and firemen for the
City of Auburn. were held Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

course. has never failed to claim
its toll of death.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

L. s. Senator Hale has been select
ed to preside over the Oxford Bates
debate in Lewiston. Sept. 81.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

Rev. John G.. Rogers, pastor of the
Beacon st. Methodist church, Bath,
has been appointed to the passionate
of the Calvary Methodist church.
Lewiston, and will probably assume
his duties there the latter part of this
month or early in October. While
rumors of the proposed transfer Of
Mr.. Rogers from Bath to Lewiston,
have been current the past few
weeks. definite decision WAS not
reached until Monday night, when
notification was sent out by Bishop
Edwin II. Hughes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

Chaplin, EX- Mayor Charles L.
Clarke, Sidney E. Larrabee, a former
candidate for mayor, Summer w.
Johnson. a former alderman, and
James RI. Mcdonald, q former county
commissioner, are among those be
ing mentioned as possible candidates
for the new Portland council. which
will be elected on the first Monday
in December under the provisions of
the Council Manager charter adopt
ed by the voters last Monday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

CANTON AUGUSTA, NO. 9, p. N.
Regular meeting every third Tuesday
at o'clock.
JOHN DAY, Capt
A. IL. DRUMMOND. Clerk.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

None of the destroyers which were
wrecked on the Pacific coast last
Sunday We're built in Bath. Most of
them were constructed on the West
coast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

With q meagre description of a
rooming house. without giving the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13
Augusta Lodge Directory

JEPHTHA ENcAMPMsNT, NO. 1
Meetings fourth Tuesdays at P. NJ.
FRED b. HALL, G. p.
G. ). PEASLEE Scribe. +
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-09-13

street and number, a man wrote to
Postmaster Robinson of Portland a
few days ago. asking him to assist
in finding the house and the landlady
and request her to return his UNI
brella. Despite the faintest Of
clues in the letter, the postma sters
agent was able to find the house,
landlady, also the umbrella, and it
was sent parcel post TO its owner.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
PARALYSIS CURED BY
 FRENCH PHYSICIANS
TUMORS IN SPINAL MARROW ARE LOCATED BY IoDEx SOLUTION
 AND OPERATION CURES

PASIS, Dec 19.-Thanks to a re. cent French discovery, two paralytics have been cured of disease which was hitherto believed to be incurable Paralysis, it appears, is caused by tu- mors compressing the spinal marrow. In these hidden regions the doctors had little means of finding out just what the trouble was They tried the method of Dr. Sicard, which enc. lists of injecting iodized oil into the bony canal formed by the assembled vertebrae, where the spinal marrow is supported as by cushion of rubber filled with water
 The operation, while delicate, is not difficult and every intelligent doctor can make use of it. By means of this process radiographs obtain very clear negatives showing the silhouette of the emplacements of the tiny parti- cles of iodide contained in the oil.
 With the two patients in question the negatives showed just where the tumors were and an operation was performed, the patients being cDm- pletely cured.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
ESCAPED CONVICT
 y, k UlCHIIu l;l UtIH}Il] &sls 0 ~ ''1
Burglar too Conscientious to Allow Blame to Rest on Prison Guard

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.-"I un- derstand an investigation is under way to determine how I was able to saw the bars in the parish prison. I do not wish this blamed on any guilt less deputy. Hence my letter"
 This was the beginning or a letter received by local police from w. S. Lewis who about ten days ago escap' ed from prison just after he had been sentenced to serve three years in the state penitentiary.
 "The saws used in cutting my bars were never inside the parish prison. took a long piece of twine with me te the prison and let one end of this down into the alley and friend tieC the saws on. The rest was easy.
 Please do not. judge me too harsnl1 for my rash act. I played square ant told everyone I would get away if could. made known also that my es cape would not be attended with an. violence.
 My conscience will not permit m to let the guilt of my escape rest ol any of the prison guards who wer good to me. I hope you exonerat them from all blame"
 The letter which was signed "I, was mailed three days after Lewis escape from prison.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
SCIENTISTS FIND SECRET
 IF KANGAROO BIRTH

CHICAGO Dec. 19.-A kangaroo at birth weighs about eight or nine grains, is trifle more than an inch long and not much thicker than a lead pencil, according to George F. Morse, of the Chicago Zoo.
 How the baby kangaroo was born was a mystery until recently to zoolo- gists, said Mir Morse, because being pouch animal the actual birth was difficult to detect.
 We watched a kangaroo closely one day and finally were rewarded by the appearance of tiny thing not more than an inch long, on the tail of the mother kangaroo. It was a baby. We secured it and found it weighed nine grains. It was an inch and one sixteenth long and no larger than a lead pencil. It was perfectly form ed kangaroo, with the exception of the hind legs. These developed later as the animal grew. The front legs were perfectly formed and it used them to climb into it's mothers pouch where it remained for seven months,
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
SKELETONS SHOVV OWNERS ATE HORSES
CRO-MAGNON REMAINS UNEARTH ED NEAR VALLEY OF SAONE,
 ON COAST OF FRANCE

PARIS, Dec. 19.-Fifteen thousand years ago, according to scientists, the horse was the favorite food of the vil- lagers of Soluture, in southern France. The bones of tens of thousands of the animals killed and eaten by the nomad tribes form an important strata of the country Recent discoveries made by French eXcavators brought to light several skeletons of the Aurignatian age-a woman and two men, in pale olithic sepulchres, the bodies placed with the feet toward the east, the heads toward the west, the faces to- ward the rising sun
 The men were young, from 25 to 30 years of age, tall and well built, with large broad heads, not very long with rectangular eye orbits and long, nar- row noses.
 These men belonged to the quarte- nary race of Cro-Magnon, the horse hunters of the Valley of the Saone and affirm the ethnic relationship to the troglodytes of the Vizere and the Mediterranean coast.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
Republicans are JockeYino

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. House Democratic leaders are charging that Republican leaders are manipulating the ways and means committee in such way as to prevent action on the bonus bill First, it is alleged they are jockeying to give ample time to organize powerful propaganda now be- ing carried on to change enough votes to defeat the measure by stirring up opposition back home; secondly they charge that it is the intention of the republicans to hold up the bill while pressure is being exercised to line up a sufficient number of senators to sus- tain Coolidge's veto of the bonus bill.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
 JUCGLES WHEELBARROW

SPOKANE, Dec. 19,-Besides being vested with the powers of adjudica- ton Superior Court Judge R. M. Web ster of this city can juggle a wheel barrow as good as any Mick on the job. His honor toiled all day recently during the construction of another community built home for beneficiar- ies of the widows pension fund
 After workmen had appeared Sun day morning the day which had been designated by union labor as most ap- propriate for the work, Judge Web ster appeared with wheelbarrow and was assigned the job of wheeling rock and dirt, which he did the en- tire day.
 The house was completed the same day the furniture being donated by the stores of the city.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
PHONE COMPANY FIRES EMPL0YEs WHO sPEND

HELENE, Kan, Dec. 19,--Save or step out. Boiled down to final stages of brevity, this is the creed of the United Power and Telephone Ccmpany of Abilene by which all it's employees from office boy to superintendent must abide.
 Clayson L. Brown, president of the company, is responsible for the thrift plan. He compels his workers to save at least 10 per cent of theil earnings, in safely chartered invest ments that bring an equitable cash return.
 The measure was adopted, not be cause the firm cared particularly how the employees disposed of their salaries but in the interest of better efficiency as it was found that the man who saved was the better employe.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
DYING BECOMES CHEAPER.
 PRICE MATERIALS UP

ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Dec. 19.- The price of funerals in the Unite States will not be boosted despite the fact that materials were sent to Ja- pail in large quantities, and ih many instances were advanced
 Prices of silks advanced five per cert after the quake. The ravages of boil weevil in southern cotton fields have caused the price Of cotton to advance. A number of the big cas- ket companies, however, have an norrced that there will be no increas. in the prices charged undertakers for caskets.
 The average funeral with the best of materials and complete service, in cludin gautos, etc., will cost from $1OO to $500, it is said.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
CONGRESS PLAYS
 POLITICS WHILE
 NATION PAYS BILL
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS UNABLE TO AGREE ON AP-
 CONTINENTS
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
Adjournment Will Be Made Until After the Holidays, When Bal
 loting Will Be Resumed

WASHINGTON, Dec. l9.- Senate leaders expressed a belief tonight that the deadlock over the election of a chairman of the interstate com-- merce commission will continue over the holidays. Nine ballots this after noon left the situation much the same as a week ago. The insurgents are still able to prevent the election of Cummins, their votes today being thrown to Couzens, the Michigan dark horse.
 The Senate today passed a resolu- tion taking a recess from tomorrow to January g.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
DANISH ROYALTY
 WILL ARRANGE fOR
 AMERICAN BRIDES
FATHER OF YOUNG PRINCES CON. CEDES DOLLARS BETTER
 THAN BLUE BLOOD

COPENHAGEN, Dec 19.-Danish royal princes Viggo and Brick are soon to take American brides and Prince Waldemar, their father, is now en route to arrange these marriages, according to the government official newspaper, Roebenhausen.
 One of the chief requisites of the brides must be plenty of money.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
POOR MOONsH|NE AND
 HONEYMOON ARE MIXED

SIOUX CITY, Ia., Dec. 19.-It does not pay to mix moonshine with honey moon, MT. and Mrs. Owe Gates decided IS hours after they had faced the preacher.
 MT. and Mrs. Gates became man and wife 12 hours before an automo- bile accident between Sioux City and Sioux Falls Six hours later they were sentenced to serve 50 days in jail and each pay s10O fine.
 Police say they admitted operating still and were on moonshine ped ding trip. They narrowly escaped death in the accident which was re- sponsible for their being jailed. tx
 "There was more kick in the moon. shine than there was in getting mar ried,"' said Mrs. Gates, the 30-year-old bride.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19

CHICAGO, Dec. 19.-Maurice Lux Io-year old boy from Shelbyville, to. oay won the title of Corn King of the international Grain and Hay Show here when his 10 ears of white Dent corn won over several hundred other junior entrants.
 Besides winning part of the SIP 900 prize money given by the Chicago Board of Trade. the young farmer also annexed the junior corn cup won last year by Glenn Thares also of In diana.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
AVIATORS IN ROUTE ID WASHING
 PLAN LONG FLIGHT

SAN DIEGO, Dec 19.-Lieutenant Ben Wyatt, and Lieutenant John D.. Price with Machinists R. J. Caster and R. E. Burgsten are in flight from the Naval air station here to Washington where they will complete preparations for a flight around the world in com petition with military flyers who will leave on a similar trip.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
IRISH FIGHT F0R LOVE:
 ARMY SALARIES SMALL

DUBLIN, Dec 19.-It is highly i'm probable that any of the officers or men of the Irish Army will become wealthy on their pay. The new rates for the Irish army recently approved gives a major-general $S.05 per day; a colonel gets s575 a day; major, s46O;- commandant, s4.15; cap tain $2.75; lieutenant, first or sec ond $1.S5; sergeant major is paid s1.75; quartermaster sergeant s1.25; prive 75 cents per day. A recruit until he becomes a trained soldier is allowed 50 cents day, from which his rations come.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
FILM WORKERS
 POORLY PAID SAYS
 COMPANY AUDITOR

LOS ANGELES, Dec. l9.-Despite the popularly conceived idea that mo- tion picture actresses and actors are the highest paid workers of today, A. M. Brentinger, auditor of the Norma Talmadge company, came out with a mass of figures refuting the claim and proves that in consideration of their productions film actors are poorly paid.
 Brentinger claims that while the late Caruso often received s3,OOO for a night, and Sarah Bernhardt $5OOO for many of her performances there are few film actors that average s5 performance.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
Congress is still Dead|ocked
CHINESE ASSEMBLY HURLS INK POTS;
 SPEAKER INJURED
CHINESE ASSEMBLYMEN DEMON STRATE THE PEN IS MORE
 MIGHTY THAN SWORD

PEKING, Dec. 19.-Speaker Wu Ching Lien, of the house of parlia- ment was seriously injured today when he was hit on the head by an ink pot thrown during hand to hand fighting which broke up the session being held by the assembly.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
REVOLUTIONARY MOVE
 NIT CHANGE POLICY

WASHINGTON, Dec 19.-The revo- lutionary movement in Mexico has not operated to change the policy of the American government toward Mexico and President Coolidge is still hopeful of negotiating a recognition agreement to be ratified by the Senate.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
SYSTEMATIC LEVY
 IF TRIBUTE MADE
 BY SEATTLE POLICE GRAND JURY UNCOVERS PUTRlD MESS OF BLACkMAil AND
 LAWLESSNESS MUCH GRAFT EXPOSED Seattle Spirit Under Searchlight of Public lnvestigation-Tes estimony
 Damaging to Officials
MUCH GRAFT EXPOSED

SEATTLE Dec. 19.-The grand jury Investigating Seattle's vice conditions continues it's sensational exposures of police methods in grating from the business houses and underwood. A mass of damaging testimony is un- .earthing evidence of systematic levying of tribute from merchants large and small, apartment houses, taxicab companies, and the sale of special parking permits.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19

HARTFORD, Conn, Dec 19.-Hart- ford hunters heard reports recently that wildcat had been seen near the city. They were convinced when a local hunter bagged the cat devouring pheasant.
 A taxidermist found the animal to be the common or alley cat Sue cumbing to the call of the wild the animal had grown until it weighed 22 pounds.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
INVITES LEAGUE COUNCIL
 T0 MEET IN ROME
PARIS, Dec. 19.-Premier Mussolini has invited the league of nations coun. cil to meet in Rome in March.

< SEATTLE, Dec. 19.-A cache of ter thousand dollars worth of liquor brot in to the city by former police lien. tenant Roy olmstead for the Christ. mas trade was seized this morning hv Chief of Police SeEeryns.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
NEW "P|NCHOT COCKTAIL" !"
 SAID ID HAVE NJ "K|CK'' .s.zsa as, sle~f sas4awsglf
.s @aA asi

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 19.- The "Pinchot Cocktail, named after the extra dry governor of Pennsylvania, has made it's appearance in saloons that have remained open in defiance of the governors orders.
 The latest development in the Bat tie of the Bars has been so named, because according to the bartenders, it has no kick, to it.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
INFORMATION CLERK
 i HAILED WORLDS BEST

WELLESLEY, Mass, Dec. 19.- Wellesley College has a human infor- nation bureau. She is Miss Amy Nye, and has never been known to answer T don't know" to a question.
 More than 800 questions daily are asked Miss Nye. And she answers them and smiles.
 Miss Nye knows everything. Her mind is a veritable card index.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
ADMIRAL. WATSON SAIL 5
 WITH 40 PASSENGERS

SEATTLE, Dec. 19.-The steamship Admiral Watson sailed this morning with forty passengers, including Mary c. Delaney, Dr. c. H. Turpin, Mrs. P. Johnson and Henry Howard for Sew ard.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
WEST VIRGINIA GAS TAX
 YIELDS A MILLION A YEAR

CHARLESTON, Dec 19.-West Vir- ginia's new state tax of two cents on each gallon of gasoline sold to retail : CTS will yield approximately one mil lion dollars a year.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
KING AND QUEEN FLEE
 ..lgR[EcE T03 RyNAN|A

ATHENS, Dec. 19.-The king and queen of Greece tonight left for Ru- mania, pending the efforts of the rev. oMtionists tto change Greece in to- a republic.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
REBELS WHIP FEDERALs
 IN VICINITY 0F TA!NP|CQ

VERA CRUZ, Dec 19.-Rebel forces have forced the retirement of Federal troops from the Tampico oil fields.
 It is feared that foreign nations will nave to interfere to protect the fields
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
Notified of Treaties

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-The Sen ate today was notified of arbitration treaties between the United States. Britain and Japan.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
NOTICE TO MASoNs

NVTTCE O MN0VNS Regular communication Of Seward Lodge No. 219, F. &fA. N. Election of officers.
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19
DIXON ASKED ID .RACE
MONTANA MAN ASKED TO RUN
 FOR PRESIDENCY

HELENA, Mont. Dec. Ex-Governor Dixon is being boomed for the vice presidency nomination. N
Seward daily gateway., 1923-12-19

ToDAY's FISH MARKET X. JUNEAU, Dec. 19-Fresh halibu 13 and g cents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-26
STATE CAPITAL BUREAUl
 THE ICE HERALD {


 If the legislature passes the house hill providing for the creation of state docks commission of five per sons and putting upon it the respon- sibility of constructing a state sea port at Mobile under the constitution al amendment ratified last Novem- Der 1t is the purpose of Governor Brandon to find five men in Ala bama who are qualified for the work and serve in the positions not for the gain but for the desire to aid in do- ing a big work for the state.
 Following the passage of the bill by the house by a large majority Wednesday, Governor Brandon told several of his supporters that he re- garded the port development as one of the greatest pieces of work which will be done during his admlnistra- tion and that if the duty of naming the commission is put upon him he Is determined to find men who will do the work faithfully and we'll and vancement rather than the desire to obtain personal glory.
 Under the terms of the bill as it passed the house, Governor Brandon will not be restricted in the selection of the docks commission except in one instance: No person who has land to sell or facilities to dispose of on the waterfront at Mobile will be eii- gible for appointment on the com mission.
 The bill provides that the governor shall approve all expenditures of pub lie funds and all proposals for de- velopment work. Before any prop- erty can be purchased for the use of