Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-11

nc pAlSc yOu paul YOU IL SooI loTSel,
The goods you get will stay:
The price you will not long regret
The quality You may.
They ought to cut this price" word
out
OF dictionaries red.
Make value what men talk about
Nor just the price instead.
In food or metal, cloth or woods,
Remember this advice;
Don't let the price control the goods,
But goods control the price.
So far that new Chinese game has
got along without encountering an
Anti-Mah Jongg society, says the
Portland Evening Express.
will be observed at University OF
Maine from Jan. IA to 20. according
to an announcement made by the
Senior Society. Each fraternity will
keep record of it's guests and
visits, and a cup. known as the
hospitality cup will be awarded the
winning fraternity. The keynote of
the week will be hospitality" and
the slogan will be "to broaden friend
ship and increase Maine spirit"
Maine began to can sardines in
1S41 and the pack was small. Ac-
cording to the Commissioner of Fish
cries, Mr.. Henry O'Malley, the pack
of sardines in Maine for 1922
amounted to 1,775,87S cases. valued
at $3.50, 100, compared with 1896
cases. valued at $3,960,916 in 1921.
The pack of sardines in California in
1922 was 72S,919 cases, valued at 49,
3G1,4S0, compared with 415.5S7 cases,
valued at s2,S46,Si6. in 1921.
The scarcity of fish in the local
markets was partially relieved by the
arrival of half dozen of the local
fishing vessels yesterday. Their
catches We're small, however, and the
trips all sold at high prices, the deal
erS paying the fishermen out of the
boats from six to thirteen cents q
pound for cod. ten cents or better
for haddock, and seven cents for cusi
and haKe. HOLSTERS still command
fifty-fve cents a pound live weight
out of the boat.-Portland Press
Herald.
Rockland Chamber of Commerce
has decided to buy tractor and
give it to tire city. providing that the
city will buy another. The idea be-
ing that. with tractors in operation,
il will be easier and less expensive
to. keep clear of snow the roads and
sidewalks. 1t is also pointed out
that. with tractors for use on street
work, it will he a saving over US
ing horses and that more work can
be accomplished. There is no doubt
but that n tractor would he found
convenient at many times in most
any community-Bath Times.
Twenty-sevcn aliens were made
American citizens at a naturaliZa-
ton session of United States district
court in Portland by Judge Hale.
Among the new citizens was Wlady-
slaw Jendraszko. who asked that his
name be changed to Laddy len
drasko. The court consented to
dropping the from the surname hut
objected to the Scottish twinge TO
the given name of n native of Rus
STA. Max Wagman. a native of Rus
STA. had his son for a witness, the
latter promising the court that he
would see to it that his father at
The principal features of tho Law
Enforcement" membership meeting
Of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce,
were the declarations by Seth May,
federal prohibition director for Maine
and James A. Pulsifer, Androscoggin
county attorney. that the criminal
laws of the United States are far in
ferior to those of some foreign coun-
tries. England. Germany, France
and Scotland. for example. Mr.. May
advocated electing men to the legis-
lature who would make il their bust
ness to give the justices of Names
criminal courts. power to voice their
opinions regarding respondents
guilt or innocence. which he said IS
the privilege of federal justices and
judges in the English criminal courts
which both he and Mr.. Pulsifer held
up as shining examples.
The oldest established music store
in Lewiston. run by the same people
who started it. is that of W. l. 10th
rop at 1S6 Lisbon street. Mr.. 10TH
rop has been in this business and &C.
cupied the same rooms for 80 years.
He came to Lewiston from Leeds
more than SO years ago to work in
the old Lewiston mill-a factory for
making cotton cloth. The old factory
is below the Grand Trunk station on