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New Britain herald., 1923-08-16
W. c. 7. U. TO CELEBRATE
FIF1IETH ANNIVERSARY
Coming Rack To the State of Its
Original Start Half Cen
fury Ago

Columbus, Aug. 1.-THE Women's
Christian Temperance Union will
celebrate the tiftieth year of its exist
ence by coming back to the state that
gave it birth-Ohio-fo its annual
convention.
1t was Just about half century ago
that Mother" Thompson at Hills
boro, Ohio, surrounded herself with a
band of militant women intent upon
one thing. the putting out of business
of liquor selling establishments. From
that informal organization grew the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
which now has organizations in every
state of the United States and reaches
into 81 foreign countries.
The Jubilee" convention will be
held here September to IA. Twelve
hundred delegates will attend.
Important aspects Of the meeting,
which will have law enforcement as
its theme, will include possible pill
grimage to Hillsboro, street pageant
and a march of allegiance to our
flag and country" in which 5000
women are expected to participate.
Abraham Lincoln left an estate of
more than 800 000
New Britain herald., 1923-08-16

Dresden has an exhibition of toys
and sporting goods to show the ad
vance of manufacture of such articles.
New Britain herald., 1923-08-16

Some public schools of the Pacific
coast open their fall session late in
July.
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AT AUGUSTA
Continued from Page One)

on the Roadway even with the horses
bodies.
Above Bridge street. several build
inSs were flooded AT the Bond
Brook bridge the water was within
six feet of the level of the street and
at 10 last night many were found who
predicted that there would be water
in the street 10y morning. AT that
time the water was beginning to wash
over the retaining wall of the park
at the south of the Edwards Manu-
featuring Co. plant, and six inches
more of water would easily food
part of the park.
Three feet more of water was all
that was needed to wash into the
basement of the City building, and
two feet of water would reach the
lower girders of the railroads bridGe.
The water started to rise late Sat
urday night and rose rapidly during
the night, 5 feet 5 inches of water
going over the dam at Loon Sunday.
1t rose to 10 feet at Z o'clock last
night and no later report was avail
able. According to tradition a foot
of water over the dam is equal to
two feet below it. SO it must have
risen over two feet and Il half i'll
seven hours. At II o'clock Sunday
morning it was beginning to cross
the road behind the postoffice.
A man who had been working in
one of the local stores helping to
remove the goods from the lower
floor. stated late last night that at
about 80 the men who were York
Ing there had tackled a yard stick
up in the cellar with the end just
touching the water. At 80 when
he looked at it, but II inches of the
yard stick remained out of water.
showing a rise OF % inches in six
hours
A barometer of the rise of water
is furnished by the water in the
shaft at the journal building. At 8
O'Clock there was n IA inches of
water in the shaft. at 10 there was
-23 ia inches. while at IT there had
been a further rise of D inches, a
total of IS "A inches of water show
ing. At 30 this morning the meas
urements were #. l ina
Nor did the prospects for any
abatement in the rise of water seem
good At II o'clock the Associated
Press reported that several gates
had been raised at Moosehead Lake
to take care of some of the surplus
water there. A higher crest of wa
ter was reported at Skowhegan and
high tide was due here a bout >
o'clock this morning Many predic-
tons as to the rise still TO come
varied between two and five feet.
Rain had begun to descend again
as strong as it did Saturday night.
and this would raise the water mark
still higher.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
ADJUSTMENTS
Mine Scene in Luck" Featuring
Johnny Hines SAID to Be Most
Realistic Of Its kind.-Truth to De-
tail Carried Out lmpressively

There is no telling these days to
what extent motion picture produc-
ers will go to obtain realistic at
mosphcre in the higher grade pic
lures offered to an eXacting public.
In Luck" Johnny Hines feature
comedy drama which is at the john
son Opera House today and tomor-
row, one of the outstanding scenes
is that of the interior of coal mine
wherein the hero makes a thrilling
rescue of Violet Mersereau who by
chance has been caught underneath
when part of the mine caved in.
Since it was impossible to deliberate
~ wreck mine for movie purposes.
the next possible thing to do was to
build a prop" mine at the studio.
Accordingly "A highly trained techni-
cal staff was brought together. who
after spending some two weeks at
the Buttonwood Mine outside of
WilkeSbarre to obtain, the necessary
technical information. returned to the
studio and after two additional
weeks OF painstaking endeavor built
a studio mine that will probably de-
ceive a great many people into be-
lieving that it is real honest to-
structed was the set that when
Ihotogra phs of it were forwarded to
The president of the Buttonwood Mine
he declared it to be an exact likeness
of his own mine from which the Or
iginal plans for the studio mine were
taken.-Adv.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
Four Escape Death
in Fall High Tower

The Kennebec river was brought
to freshet pitch and much damage
resulted to stocks of goods in the
sub Easements of stores on the river
side of Water street. Trees. light
and telephone poles were broken
down. tree branches Uttered the city
streets. and in one instance a near
fatality came in the wake of the
terrific rain and wind storm of Sat
urday night. which was ushered in
by intermittent deluges of rain
throughout Saturday after II in the
morning.
Four people narrowly escaped
death when the 10 foot steel tower
carrying the feed cables for the To-
gus branch'of the Androscoggin and
west bank of the river. was blown
over by the wind and crashed into
the house at ) Capital street. Mrs
Sarah Cram suffered bruises and
Mrs. Winnie Cram and her II year
old son. William Larrabee. expert
cnced severe nervous shocks. All
were sleeping in room on the first
floor of the house. when between
6lo and 60 Sunday morning this
transmission tower crashed down.
striking the ewes on the east side
OF the house, then ripping off the
finish of the window in the room
In which all three were sleeping,
crowding the outside studding in.
and showering the aged woman and
boy with palster.
Mrs. Sarah Cram was struck over
the right eye by the window casing and
quite severely bruised The boy Will
liam. who had not been wcll was in the
bed with her, and this bed headed uu
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Railroad Tracks
Washed Out in n. H.

Plymouth, n. H.. April 29-The
Pemigewasset river and its tributar-
les reached the highest stage in 10
years here today with six foot
freshet overlooking the banks of the
streams as the result of rain during
the last two days. 1T
One mile OF the Boston and Maine
Railroad tracks from Plymouth n.
H.. to Bridgewater. n. H., have been
washed out Intervale, a fiat stretch
of land~a mile wide opposite Ply.
mouth. is entirely covered with
foot of water and the roads across
this section are impassab BILE. From
10 to- II houses there are surround
ed by water: "a
The Pemigewasset Valley branch
or the Boston and Maine Raiiroad
has been washed away at several
points between Plymouth and North
Woodstock. The Daniel WebsSe'
highway is inundated and impass-
able in many places. The Goose
Hollow bridge on Mad River went
out this morning.
Reports from the mouth of the
river state the flood has begun 70
subslde but the flood level OF the
stream here remains at a standStllL
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30

Jones; Jolly Trumpetcr, Richard
Lasselle; The Bugle Call. Lavina
Berry; Boat Song. Hattie. Matthew's:
Harcbcll, Myrtle Nichols; Playful
Rondo, Effie Dodge; The Light Ca
valry, Norman Littlefield Itali: an
Dance Scene. Evelyn. Lessard In the
Blacksmith Shop, Cecil Pare: Dance
of the Wood Sprites. Ellen Skehan;
Birds of Paradise, John Black Rus
sell Taylor: Minuet from Don Juan,
Adele Pcase; Ring Dance, Marjorie
Reilly; Curious Story. Madeline
Berry; Chinese Dance, Donald
Stone; Fleeing Clouds, Evelyn
Morse; Fra Diavlo, Lois Folsom;
Dragon files, Anna Hamlin; In the
Mountain Hut, Edith Reed; Bobolink
Schottische. Marguerite Bcaurc-
guard: Song Without Words, Grace
Carter; April Blossoms, Evelyn
Reed: In Solitude. Elizabeth Albee;
In the Par, Bessie and Charlotte
Thompson; Barcarolle. John Hayes;
Polish Dance. Gertrude Crossman;
Traumeri and Romance. Frederick
Folsom; Silver Nymph, Gertrude
Ginsrow; Fairy Barque, Cornno
Merrill Humoresque. Charlotte
Black: The Storm King. Madeline
Fuller: Narcissus, George Hunt;
Woodland Echoes. Emily Thornton;
Charge of the Uhlans, Charles Ske-
han; Spring Son, kathleen Lewis:
Scherzo- Ballet. Dana Eldridge; The
/ Ilattcrer, Annie Belts; Mazurka-
Caprice, isabelle Jones; Polonaisc,
Emma CrOSSman.
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MERCHANTS HUSTLE GOODS from
EASEMENTS, PART OF WHARVES
LOST, LUMBER CARRIED AWAY

The heavy rain Of Saturday night
and Sunday morning caused such a
rise in the river and stream, that
Mayor Lamb caused the freShet alarm
to be sounded at II o'clock Sunday
morning. Almost Immediately the
business section took on Saturday
afternoon appearance. The mer-
chants along Water - street hastily
removed their stock of goods from
the Easements to the floor above,
and they were none too soon for at
noon the water had. entered many of
the Easements of the stores and con-
tinued to rise for some time after.
According to the almnac itw as high
tide in the river at 1.04 and at this
hour there was more than a foot of
water in the lowest Easements of the
Water street stores. III the WharvcS
OF the city were inundated. John II.
Mosher of the Gardiner garage had a
lot of me- cars at the wharf of the
Eastern Steamship Co. and these
were removed to a place of safety.
This concern also had some new cars
stored in the storehouse on the F. n.
Boston wharf and with these they
were not SO fortunate, and a crew of
men were engaged in lacking them up
on timbers to get them above the
danger line. The Gardiner Automo-
bile Sales Co. had a lot of new Fords
in their basement and these were re-
moved in safety before the water en-
tered the building.
During the early morning Sunday
the wind worked havoc with the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
Of Saturday and Sunday caused the wa.

Of Saturday and Sunday caused the wa.
ter in the Sebasticook river to rise to
food conditions and Sunday night at q
o'clock the river was overlooking us
banks and the boilers and engine room
at the American Wooden Co.'S Sebasti.
cook plant were flooded and out Of com.
mission and the water from the rive,
was flowing down through the mil,
yard at the Pioneer plant. and the first
feet, which contains the finish room
Of the mill. was flooded to consiG
cradle depth. Operations at either oil
these mills will be impossible Monday
The water had been rising about one
and one-half inches per hour since /
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Teams were
removing stock from the Pioneer mill
storehouse Sunday night and consider.
able damage will be done to. stock. II
was stated Sunday night that the lea
in Moose pond above HartlaAd had
broken up and was on the way down
the river, which is expected to cause
office and main mill Of the Pioneer min
| was about a foot under water at o.
O'Clock and the indications were that
| the river would continue to rise for
several hours.
, The McGilvery Cummings shoddy
plant farther down the river was also,
somewhat under water on the first
| floor and a storehouse containing gu.
| gar and -four. belonging to +. E. Mayo.
! was flooded to a depth of several inches
and considerable damage was reported
| to stock in this building.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30

trees of the city and they were pretty
well pruned of dead wood. Large live
branches We're also torn from their
moorings. One of the trees on the
common was ruined. The large pine
in the rear of the home of Doctor
Pierce lost heavy limb, which in its
fal struck the roof of the garage Of
Judge Will c. Atkins and crashed
through the roof.
The Randolph end of the Gardiner
Randolph bridge lso suffered from the
gale, the up-rivcr side of the wooden
portion being blown akay. The city
lost considerable OF the lumber they
had stored on Gray's wharf, and
workmen were. engaged during the
forenoon in the salvage of what re-
manned During the afternoon, after
the tide had turned the rise of water
continued at the rate of about two
inches in 40 minutes. 1t was a favor
lite outdoor sport, selecting a post and
making mark two inches above the
water, to make the rise.
A part of the edge of Gray';s wharf
on the upper side, started seward
but did not get very far as it an
chorcd against the pole on the wharf
that supports the wires that supply
Randolph with light. AS the strain
on the pole was great, a crew of men
from the Central Maine Power co.
were engaged in getting the wreckase
away and&ucceeded at 400 in the aft
ernoon. During the day all kinds of
draft material from the banks of the
river care SWirling past.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
Flood Conditions
Hold in Maine
and New HAMPSHIRE

Portland. Me, April 29-Streams
rising ten feet above their usual lev
eel as the result of rains during the
last two days, have flooded the val
lcys in the. mountainous and hiliy
districts of Maine and New Hamp,,
shire and sent the farmers ana
townsmen scurrying to higher grouna
with their families and possessions
for safety.
Many points in northern New
England report railroad tracks WASH
ed OUT roads flooded so that farm
ers can not return to their homes
from up-country where they wen.
earlier in the day: wooden and paper
mills forced to close down on az
count Of flood waters in their plants
and telegraph and telephone lines
down for long distances.
A locomotive toppled into the ditch
near Concord. n. H.. as the traeh
was washed out from under, and tG,
engineer and fireman barely eseapeo
by jumping from the cab windows
Many large bridges have been WASH
ed out at, various points.
The waters are reported to be SUD
siding on the upper reaches OF seme
OF the streams, but still rising az the
lower end of most of the rivers.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
WATER THREATENS
overflow STREETS
MUCH DAMAGE

With thn rand rise % tbo r;,or c,,,,
day an element of stress was injected
into Hallowc1IS usually ncacnfpI cah-
bath. Automobiles and pedestrians
gathered along the river front ana
there was feyerjSh actiyity in renov-
ing goods from cellars along the r;vnr
side. IL is interesting to notn ,bat IA
cleaning which some members of thn
Board Of Trade advocated at the recent
meeting should be given to the river
front came moro quickly than seemed
altogether desirable.
There were several amusing incl
dents. Some pigs. carly removed from
ncari Ninsatc'S, objected most yirnr-
ouSl.- to being rescued and tried TO t.1,c
any path but that of safety. Towards
the last of the afternoon horses and :,
cow were removed from HamiIton's
Nariou~ focks of hens that had dvelt
in peace along the river had TO make
haSty changes Of roosts.
There were Some 1umbIcs into saw
dust and into ,hn river IN tJ,n n.,.t of
eager small BOYS. but no casualties a
shed belonging to Whitchousc noatcd
off ali Int y small section NIon l.
boats salvaecd a wagon that yas in
the shed and cot il 50 that il cou1d n
drawn in Nv a volunteer crow IA III
chorcd.
Walter Ivnn's houeobo,+ tb,+ h,a
spent peaceful winter on dry 1and
started TO 90 ,o sca and was .ncbnraa
to an elcctric licht nost ,rbo ,,,.,or
went ncarly T., tho TON of tbo o15 Loa.
I.ndjrg a. IN n,oIn,i- ,v,n III ' ~
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MAY CARNIVAL
GREAT SUCCESS
DESPITE WEATHER

Maria Claul's fourth annual May
Carnival held Saturday evening in
CtN hall, was u distinct success in
spite OF all that the weather man
tried to do in the way Of vigorous
rain and wind. The hall was decor
ated in unique and striking fashion
with long row of alternate blue
ard white pennants hung diagonally
across I rom corner to corner. On
tncm one read in large letters an.
e. q. s.. May Carnival. April %" 1t
Is understood that the idea of these
remnants was Mr.. Bigelow's. but
that the execution was the generous
Kindness of Mr.. Meserve. They had
recn originally intended to be strung
across the street. but the rain pre-
Nemlin"' they were used with cx-
cellent effect in the hall.
AS one entered the hail and turned
70 the right, he came first upon the
large booth in charge of the ninth
craze. This was very effectively
decorated in pink and green. with
"a! stfeamers and roses. Canned
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-30
Mrs. Mary Whitney

MIS- Mary Jane Whitney of Somer-
vile formerly Miss Mary Jane
Cvut Ii Of IIalloWcll, died Friday at
the Scmcrvillc Home4efor the Aged
in hl" lo2nd wear. She was born in
Halle well, the daughter OF Elijah
CoUci. and the granddaughter of
J"h- Couch. soldier of the Ameri-
Gun Revelation. The last Of her
,anEil. In Haliowcll was her sister,
Miss Kate Couch. lifelong resi-
dent Of HalloWcll. who died some
years since.
Mrs. Whitney had recently been
made an honor1 -t. ,l'r'ire-' of the
So.helvli!e Chap.&r OF L Daughters
Of the American EcvolutIcr. She
W3&. of course. u reel 2lanGGaTgh-
fcr" Of that war. She waS intensely
patriotic and fer some years in her
youngc: DAYS used to Keep in repair
the fags of the city OF Somerville.
For thai reason ShA WI: often called
the "Hctsey Ross" If SomervilIe.
Funeral services Wtrc held Sunday
Afternoon ut thc hom" Of which she
has bee" an inmate f'r the last 20
wears. Rev. Ans in X. DeBiois of the
First Baptist churrl:. Boston. officiat-
ell TT, bod" VII reach Hallowell
en- train cl2 :Cdav anr Will he buried
in the old family lot ii the Hallowell
cemetery.
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Mis-. Martha Bartlett New Librarian

Miss Martha Bartlett has been elect
ed librarian of the Gardiner public IL
brary Mics Bartlett who for the past
four years has been in charge of the
Rockland public library, has presented
her resignation to w. T. Cobb. presi-
dent of the board of trustees. her res
ignation to take effect June 1. Miss
Bartlett'x SUCCESS with the library has
been so pronounced that it is not sur
rrising that her work should have at
tracted notice from the outside, with
the result that she has been rendered
charge of the Gardiner library at con-
s;derabIy larged salary than she recelV-
ed in ROckland.
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Granite Hill Notes

The roll of honor at the intermedi-
ate school this week was as follows:
Loretta NJ. Levasscur, Thomas Cyr.
Gilbert J. Cyr. Carl +. True, Herbert
r. True. Clarence ]. Pierce Irene Y.
Levasseur, Agnes n. Levasseur. En-
ma NJ, cyr. Emile Cyr. Omer Cyr.
Beatrice Levasseur. Susie c. True.
Corinne Cyr, Lena J. Crocker, Claude
LevasSeur.
Miss Maisie Ober has returned to
her home in North Jay.
: Mrs. Thomas Mcdonald and
daughter, Kathleen. of North street.
Augusta, We're visitors Friday at
Glanitc Hill.
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AT MADISON
Especial to kennebec Journal)

Especial to kennebec Journal)
Aiadisc.., April 9-The water Is the
highest in the Kennebec river at this
point, since the big freshet in De.
cember 1882, Early in the afternoon
the water began to run down Water
|street around the end Of the Madi.
son wooden mill. An attempt was
made at first by a crew OF men to
! prevent the water going across the
lawn at the wooden mill ONCE. The
water rose 50 rapidly that this was
soon given up and the men under the
direction OF Street Commissioner W.
w. Johnson, went to work to build
dam at the foot Of Water street to
prevent the Water from going across
the lower end Of Main street.
Three tenements above the Madisea
MI VIZ fc--ed out and the occu.
| pants taken out in q boat. The base.
| ments of both wooden mills are under
several feet OF water and the genera,
tor room at the Great Northern i,
partially flooded. A Golfer dam inst
above Arson and Madison bridge
went out about o'clock in the after.
noon and for a few inmates the crowd
on the Arson end was in considerable
dangersas parts of the dam lodged
and bent railing. The residence Of
T.. B. Weston two miles above the
village is surrounded by water also
the residence of Horace Smith on the
Arson side. Mr.. Smith has driven
his cattle to higher ground.
The water is still rising and reports
from up-river indicate there is still
more water to come. At P. Ma
feet of water was reported running
over the crest of the dam at Solop
and the box at the pulp mill is I'm.
der foot Of water
Short logs are running freely and
sections of the Patterson bridge. five
miles above here are reported out.
Also a small bridge at Concord.
There are bad washouts in the rail-
road between Bingham and Scion.
There is no wire communicates
above Bingham.
Inc already alarming situation
here las been intensified by. the rails
ing OF sc-eral gates at Moosehead to
save the dam. there
Boats were used in rescuirly pcopIe
from their homes on the river rnad
toward North Arson. Water street
here is more than 10 feet under wa
ter. A dam Of bags filled with sand
has been thrown UP at the foot of
Water Street to divert the water into
the canal and prevent flooding Main
street section. The Madison ice
house is surrounded by water and
probably will be carried away.
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Wallace r. Ferris

Wallace r. Ferris died at his home in
Chelsea Saturday evening after long
illness. Mr.. Ferris was born at Mill
Cove Queens county, y. B.. August 16.
1863. having been a resident of Chelsea
about seven years. Part of this time
he was employed at the Farmers Union
in Gardiner. He was a member of the
lodge of Odd Fellows at Mars Hill. Me,
He is survived by wife. two sons. and
several brothers and sisters in New
Brunswick Funeral services will be
held Tuesday at . T.. NJ from his late
hNY