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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
Chicago Produce Market
Chicago. Jan. I

Chlcago. Jan. T.
Wheat scored an ADVANCE today
whereas corn was lower. Buving on
the part of northwestern interests to-
Cether with reports that European pur-
chasing of Canadian wheat was the
LARGEST in some time. had much to do
with lifting wheat. The market for
wheat closed unsettled ! to &c net
higher. May loss to 1.oS9 and July
1n65. In corn there was to q set
back with oats ut off to &c IN. and
provisions ranging from &c decline to
&c gain.
It was estimated that at least t.
600 600 bushels of Canadian wheat had
been bought since SATURDAY for ship
ment to Europe. and this circumstance
was emphas sized by an advance in
wheat quotations at Liverpool and by
the fact that temporarily stcrings.
francs and lire all showed an uptnrn.
Rullish sentiment as to wheat was fur
thor stimulated by general Scantincss
Of domestic receipts and by New YORK
stock market strength. AS well as by
n decrease Of the wheat total in the
United States visible supply state
ment. 49,
Special Significance in connection
with dwindling of wheat arrivals at
primary markets in this country was
attached to messages from Kansas
CITY saving that receipts there were
inadequate and that for about the hrst
time this season the stock In store wa,
being drawn upon. It also was noted
that the movement of Canadian wheat
from interior points had fallen off as
compared with the recent volume.
Proit-taking sales and prospects OF
enlarged rural offerings affected the
corn market. The weather conditions
we're favorable to more liberal ship
ments from the country. and the Wis
ible supply showed n substantial gain
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
Tentative Dates
for Grand Circuit

Syracuse. n. Y, Jan. 1.-THE sched-
ule committee of the Board of Stew
ards Of the Grand Circuit met be-
hind closed. doors late today and con-
sidered the light-harress horse rae
ing program for 1924. The stewards
will announce the dates tomorrow
The following tentative program 1t
was understood, was considered.
July . to 11-North Randall (nine
days..
July II to 1S-Toledo (five days).
July 81 to 25-Kalamazoo GIVE
days..
July IS to Aug. 4-co'umbus tseven
Aug Z to 1s-windsor. Ont, (siS
days-three each week..
Aug IS to 23-North Randall cave
days..
Aug. 25 to S0-Readville. Mass.
Gave days).
Sept. to 5-Hartford. Conn. Gave
days..
Sept. s to 1s-Syracuse, Ave daysl
Sept. Is to 20--Toledo. Give days)
Sept. 90 to Oct. 2-Columbus, (ter
days-five days each week).
Oct. 4 to 11-Lixington, KY, (sever
days..
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
SPORTS

Boston, Jan. Harold Carlson Of
Boston was elected captain Of the Bos-
ton University football team today. He
plays ut fullback on the eleven and
also n an outne1der on the varsity
baseball nine and q member Of the
varsity boxing team.
New York, Jan. THE New York
Giants announced today two veterans
Of the pitching STAFF had signed 1924
contracts. They are Wilfred (Rosy)
Ryan and Jack Bentley, southpaw star
purchased for $4,000 year ago from
Baltimore.
Boston, Jan. THE Minneapolis
team Of the U. 8. Amateur Hockey
League defeated the American 1924
Olympic hockey team here tonight 2
Goa1s to 0. The westerners scored
twice in the second period. The olym-
pfc players stages brilliant individual
efforts but their opponents excelled
in team play.
Cambridge. Mass, Jan. Up and
down will be the motto of the candi-
dates for the Harvard varsity and 49,
pound crews for the next few weeks.
In order to put the men in good con-
dition the trainers have devised the
plan OF having them meet at Claverly
hall three times week. run from
there to the stadium. climb the sta
dunn stairs two or three times and
then run back to C1averly. Formal in
door work on the rowing machine will
be started on February Is.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
Inter.college Regatta
At POughkeepsie Jan. II

New York. Jan. Try. A. P)-The
board OF stewards Of the Intercollegi-
ate Rowing Association today decided
TO hold their annual championship re-
Ratta June II on the Hudson river at
Poughkeepsie. providing satisfactory
arrangements can be made with that
city and with the railroads. This is
the earliest date for the regatt in years
and comes but three days after the
Olympic rowing tryouts.
The stewards also decided TO make
the race virtually an open college row.
ing championship in which any crew
meeting the standards of the associa-
ton may be eligible to compete. In
vitations will be issued to Princeton,
Navy. Washington and Wisconsin,
among others.
The stewards decided to keep the
varsity race at three miles. voting
down suggestion to increase the dis
tame to four miles.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
TRADE RECORD
WORLDS RAILWAYS

1906. and 241o in 1896. Gov
ernmental ownership, however,
differs widely in the various coun-
tries and continents. In Europe as
a whole about 500 of the railroads
are governmentally owned, in South
America approximately $3.50, in
Africa 500, in Asia 1919, in Aus
tralasie 900 and in North America
exclusive Of the United States
about 1919. In the United States
and Great Britain as is we'll known
governmental ownership of rail-
ways does not exist and this is true
also of Spain. On the other hand,
in the newly erected country Of
Poland all railways are owned by
the government, in Germany about
92go, Italy approximately 1875,
Belgium $685. and in France about
22%. Outside OF Europe conditions
also differ widely. In India includ-
ing the native states the share
owned or controlled by the govern
ment is about $50. Japan 67H.
Canada approximately S0%. British
South Africa S2%. and British
Australasia $3.50.
The growth of the worlds rail-
ways since the beginning of the
war is. according to very high
authorities IN woEl& railway matters
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

approximately $4,000 miles, the total
for 1918 having been, according to
that generally accepted German
authority, Archiv fur Eisenbahn-
wesen. 690,l33, and. for l920-2l, as
stated by the 1928 edition of the
London Railway Year Book. 747,-
667, while the known additions made
in 1922 and 1928 would apparently
justify the assertion OF the Trade
Record that the world total at this
time is approximately 10000 miles
agaist about 100000 at the beginning
OF the war.
The worlds next duty in the
matter OF railway construction, adds
the Trade Record. is the construc-
ton OF railways in the undeve!oped
sections of the globe especially the
tropical areas having untold pro-
ducing possibilities but lacking
transportation facilities to move
their products to the waters edge.
The railways in temperate zone
United States average 50 miles to
each 1000 square miles of area and
in Europe e. miles OF line per 1000
miles of area: while, on the other
hand. South America. chiefly trop-
ical, has but ? miles of line per
thousand square miles of area. Asia
= and Africa ) miles per thousand.
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e;tma,. The Shorthand Inventor

Pitman, the inventor OF mooe.ii
shorthand writing. was worker: ~
sixty-five he was in his office at A.
M. summer and winter. Till he was
fifty he never took holiday or want.
ed one. For. 20 years he worked II
hours at his desk. from A. Nj. 10
p. NJ, with hours off for meals. a.
forty-five he began to knock off al .
p. M. He lived to be eighty -four. AZ
twenty-five dyspepsia nearly killed
him, but he got over it by giving up
meat and wine. He worked incess-
antly at his system of shorthand CIV
ing it popularity by his complete re-
norris of lectures by prominent scien-
fists in Manchester, England. his
successor, BENJAMIN Pitman, I'M
proved upon his plan. But short
hand was we'll known among the an
clients, some of the old Roman ora
tions. those of Cicero having been
preserved for us that way, i'll all
probability.
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New York Produce Market

New York. Jan. I.
FLOUR-Quiet; spring patents $50
66.t0: spring clears a.O0d $50: soft
winter straights AS d5OO; hard win
ter straights 5.40@ 600.
WHEAT-Spot steady: No. l dark
northern spring G. track New York
domestic 1894: No. . red winter Do,
Lee: No. 2 hard winter ( q l.2j; No
l Manitoba do. 1,161 and No. mixed
durum do. 1.15.
c 1 New York rail sea- No white
do. 93i; No. 2 mixed do. 9l3.
OATS-Spot steady; No. white so
ass.
FORK steady: mess c4.75; family
so. 90.
LARD-steady; middle west 1900
1910.
BUTTER-Firm: receipts lOte
creamery higher than extras $50 S6
creamery extras. % score. 55, do. iirstS
IS to 81 score. 4SA@54b; packing stock
current make No. 2 30I3l.
EGGS-F'irmer: receipts S2Sl; fresh
gathered extra firsts 46@4S: do. flrsts
43G45; do. seconds and poorer 33d e.;
New Jersey hennery whites closely se'
lected extras 50M52: nearby hennery
whites closely selected extras 50a So.
state nearby and nearby western hem
merry whites flrsts to extras 44dbo;
nearby hennery browns extras S1G 49,
$50 pounds 3.65@i.00: Long Island
4.50@ 475; New York 325G375
ABBAGES--Firm: New York white
per ton Danish 10000 1000: do. red
40 0m 5000: southern per hamper les
01.75; Long Island per head $cd 1Oc.
The raw sugar market was easier
and &c lower today.
Opening irregular and from i've
points lower to four points higher
raw sugar futures eased off under II.
quotation and trade selling prompted
by the issuance of some January mo-
tees. the settling OF the Cuban rail-
road strike and the increasing supplies
In Cuba. where 100 centrals are now
grinding. Final prices were -four TO
Is points lower. January 40, March
449. MAY 4.53. July 4.65.
Refined suEar was easier and I'M
changed TO 10 points lower with fine
gre nulated quoted from $50 to $50.
Refined sugar futures nominal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
They now approximate $780,
600 mile. against 500, 900 in
1900, and Is, 600 in 1850.

Published reports that certain
European countries are considering
the ACCESSIBILITY OF sale OF their
governmentally owned railways
with a view to the utilization OF the
= proceeds for other purposes lend
interest to a compilation by the
Trade Record of The National City
Bank of New York regarding the
railways of the world and the share
owned by the respective govern
ments. The total length OF the
world railways. says the Trade
Record, according to the latest hg-
ures of accepted authorities now
approximates 10000 miles against
about 100000 miles in 1913. 100000
in 1900, 100000 in 1890. 100000 in
1880. and $4,000 in 1880. these hg-
ures being OF course in very round
terms.
The share of the worlds railways
owned by governments, according
to high authorities of the railroad
world. is in 1923 about 1885, against
approximately 33Ss in 1918. $50 in
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

amount systematically saved?
In the final analysis it is not so
much what man earns as what he
saves that makes him really con-
tented and happy. He may earn
$4,000 a year, and If he has saved
nothing he will be discontinued,
while a man who earns only $4,000,
II he has Systematically saved some
portion Of that $4,000, has feeling
of security and contentment that
can be obtained only with the
processes of saving. In other words,
raising a mans salary does not in
sure happiness unless that man
saves at least some portion OF his
increase against future wants.
Higher wages, or. as might be
stated, inflated wages, will never
correct inflated living.
Sound and wholesome policies Of
personal economics dictate that in
creased earnings should mean in
creased opportunities for saving as
we'll as increased opportunities for
spending.
The same principles apply in the
management of business. A con-
Germ may be large and doing an ex-
tensive business, but If it's increased
volume is not accompanied by a
corresponding upbuilding of assets
or reserves it is not really making
progress.
The test Of real success is thrift.
Neither in personal matters nor
in business can true progress be
made without it, no matter how Cir
cumstances may make it appear
otherwise
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

much good material in the various
teams which compete for the trophy.
For the last two years the Phi Delta
Theta team has proved to be supreme.
running up large scores in the course
Of their games. and has won the cup.
Twice the Delta Epsilon five has come
within enc game Of the cup only to lose
the deciding game to the Phil Delta.
This year with a wealth of promising
freshman material in all Of the frater-
mites there should be some good
games.
Wednesday AFTERNOON the lambda
Chi Alpha team will battle with the
Alpha aggregation. while the Delta
Kappa Epsilon men will meet the Delta
Epsilon five. The remaining games OF
the schedule have not yet been an
nounced. as. Prof. C. Harry Edwards.
athletic director at Colby. has been
busy In getting the new hockey ring
into condition. but 1t is expected that
he will meet representatives from the
fraternities and fxe the schedule for
the rest of the season.
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Boston Produce Market
Boston. Jan. I

Boston. Jan. 7.
REEF-Choicc whole cattle 17M1S.
BUTTER-Extras 4Sl053: firsts As
asa
CHEESE-Fresh choice 25@253;
hrsts 22I24h.
CORNING. 2 yellow 92193.
EGGS-Nearhv hornerv brown ex-
tras Sc: white and mixed extras 81
6D54: western extras so.
FLOUR-Spring patents, 196-lh.
ard 6.35G7.25.
HAY-No. timothy 2S629.
thanksgiving 20W25.
OATS-Fortv pounds GOA 81.
PORK-Medium backs $3.50 031.50.
POTATOES-Green Mountains 100
a 200 per 100 pounds; sweets 2.75.
SUGAR-American Sugar Refinery
quotes 500 cents in 100barrel lots
less per cert. for cash.
EEAI-1om24
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

FURNISHED to the Kennebec Jour-
nal through the courtesy of j. A.
Carnage & Co, Of Augusta and
Waterville.
Washington, Jan. 7.-ApproXimate-
ly S4.210,000,000 in gold coin and
bullion now is held in the United
States, according to an estimate
made officially by Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon.
Last year the monetary gold stock
Of the United States was $S.7S5.000.-
900 while in 1913 ii was only $1,S71,-
000.0 900.
The present accumulation Of gold
here represents an increase of l25
percent over the stock in the pre-
war year.
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Chicago Cattle Market

Chicago. Jan. 7. j..
CATTLE-Receipts 10000: beef
steers and yearlings strong 10 shade
higher: top long yearlings 1900; sew
eral loads 1O.50@11.75; best handy
best handy weight steers 11.20: 1880
paid for 1497-pound average. some
15S4-pound hullocks Mt 1850. bulk fed
steers7. 50D10.00; numerous loads
handy weight and strong weight hui.
locks Mt 10.00DfO5O: common grades
light weight steers active: heavier kind
of comparable finish slow: fat she
stock large Is to Csc higher. closing
with share of early advance lost: most
other killing classes fully STEADY:
strong weight Gamers 800: weiRhty
bologna bulls 500m 5.25: palmer eau
sage bulls downward to $50; bulk veal.
ers to packers around 11.50: few IL co.:
stockers and feeders scarce. active
largely &c higher out of first hands;
hulk 575n7.00: common light stock.
ers downward to $50.
HOGS-Rcceipts $4,000: opened 10
to zoe higher: closed with early upturn
lost: top 7.65.
SHEEP-Receipts $4,000: fat wooded
lambs steady: best grades Is TO 25c
higher: sheep and feeding lambs
steady: bulk fat wSoled lambs 13.5Oa
1890: top 400: good yearling weih-
ers 11.25: light and handy weight fat
ewes 5000 So; choice feeding lambs
1856
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Norwich Univ.
Baseball Dates pa

Northfield. VT, Jan. 7-Norwich
University will open its 1924 base
ball season with Union in Schenec-
tady April II, according to the schcd-
ule made public today. Other games
will be:
April 1S-St Stephens at Allen
dale on the Hudson.
April 19-Williams at Williams
town.
April 26-Dartmouth at Hanover.
May 2-St. Stephens.
May 3-Vermont at Burlington.
May 8-Middlebury at Middlebury.
May lost. Michaels at Winooski.
May 13-St. Lawrence.
May 16-Springfield.
May 20-Middlebury.
June 4-Vermont
June 1S-St Michaels.
May 81 and "a are open dates.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

One of the most common species OIL
winged vcrmin and one of the most
detrimental is the common American
crow. His fdndness for eggs ana ms
ability to hunt out the nests makes
him extremely detrimental to such
game birds as prairie chickens ana
waterfowl where they are nesting on
the prairie in the neighborhood or
prairie lakes and sloughs. If a crow
cannot dislodse the lien from the
nest, once he has found her. this
black thief sets up a cawing that
soon brings others to his aid. Then
/. is only a question oe seconds until
thew have crowded the setting bird
off the nest and are Gorging them
selves on the partly incubated eggs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

Gold has been flooding the United
States from nearly all countries Of
the world since 1916. No othe,
country has so much OF the yellow
metal.
The situation long has caused
anxiety in many quarters. The
presence of gold in any country tends
to boost prices. This Is because q
the temptation to use 1t us the
basis fer currency imitation.
Some government officials now are
unusually anxious lest this be made
a political issue during the next few
months. "Cheap money" would I've
the slogan OF such an Issue. This is
another name for low interest rates
which, according to the view of many
politicians, is n vote getting issue.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
Where Queer Names

Many ministers could, from per-
sonal experience, tell of strange
names bestowed upon infants at their
baptism, but few could equal the fol-
lowing story recently told by the
bishop of Sodor and Man.
A mother, who was on the look
out for a good name for her child
saw on the door of a building the
word "Nosmo." 1t attracted her, and
she decided that she would adopt it.
Some time later, passing the same
building, she saw the name King
on another door. She thought the
two would sound well together, SO
the boy was baptized "Nosmo King
Smith"
On her way home from the church
where the baptism had taken place
she passed the building again. The
two doors on which she had seen
the names were now closed together
and what she read was not "Nosmo
King" but NO Smoking
The Argonaut, San Francisco.
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Inter-Fraternity
Basketball League
Starts Today

Especial to Kennebec JournaO
waterville. Jan. 7.-Tomorrow after
noon will witness the opening of the
annual interfraternity basketball
League at Colby College with two
games starting the season off. The
games to be played Tuesday are to be
thu Alpha Tau Omega aggregation
against the fast Phi Delta Theta FIVE
and the Zeta Psi basketeers will face
the Non-Fraternity courtmcn.
The intcrfraternity basketball league
has been In force now< for several
yeaIa At Colby and has brought out
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08
DENY REPORTED
MATCH GIBBONS
AND DEMPSEY

Indianapolis. Ind. Jan. Eddie
Kane. manager of Tommy Gibbons. de-
clared here today that negotiations are
under way with James c. Mullen. Chi
cago promoter. for bout between
Gibbons and Jack Dempsey. heavy
weight titleholder. Kane said he ex-
pected to meet Mullen within the next
few days to complete the negotiations.
Kane said he would insist that the
bout be held where decision can be
given and where a boxing commission
Will name the referee.
New York. Jan. Jack Kearns,
manager of Jack Dempsey. today de-
MED that he had made any agreement
with James c. Mullen. Chicago pro-
moter. for a match between the heavy
weight titleholder and Tommy Gibbons.
Kearns said he had been approached
by Mullen several weeks ago but had
received no definite proposition from
the promoter.
ITS all news to me-" Kearns declar-
ed when informed of Mullen's an
nouncement. II told him I was in
terested in a return fight with Glib
bons-I always am--but that's as far
as II went. / expect the champion to
see quite a bit of action this year but
as yet we have nothing definite sched-
uled."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-01-08

emit IS an up
perfume tim Q
to give thought
to the matter
Of increasing
ones savings
a l on G with
ones increased
income.
Will your en-
larged salary
for 1924 mean
simply an ad.
vanced living
standard, or
will it mean
also an added
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What is the advantage of
getting a "loop' in a shot for
the basket?
Answered by
DANNY McNICHOL
Former University Of PennsyIva.
MIA captain and captain of the adj.
American basketball team. Charac.
terixed, by many sporting writer's as
"ths greatest basketball player Of all
time"
A basketball must be thrown
higher than the basket in order to
20 through. The more ball is
arched. the greater the clearance
allowed In passing through the bas-
ket
When a ball Is arched in a shot
for the basket. there is the POSSIBLE
fly that even though the shot does
not go in clean. the blackboard may
convert 1t into a field goal. This is
hardly possible on a shot made on
n direct line for the rebound from
the blackboard on such n shot gen.
orally carries the ball well back over
the basket.
There is happy medium as to the
height of shot, for those thrown
too high have n tendency to wabble
in air and lose accuracy as to dis
lance and direction.
Copyright. 1924. Associated Editors)
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Friends Of Mrs. Fred Rollins will be
glad to learn that she IS able to sit up
for a short time each day.
Frank Cole is improving after an
attack of the grippe.
Miss Thelma johnson and Samuel
Clarke, Jr., were visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Reynolds
Monday evening. Mr.. Clarke IS &c
leave today for Exeter Academy In
New Hampshire.
Miss Florence Grindall Is improv-
ing after a recent illness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lessard who
have been visiting relatives In town
have gone to Oakland where theS
will visit for a while.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Aleen and son
Cecil of Waterville were recent call
ers in town.
Mrs. Calvin Graves and daughter
Thelma of Waterville were recen'
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. S. c. Reynoius
OF Bay street.
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ORDER OF NOTICE THEREON
District of Maine, SIS:
On this 5th day Of January. A. D.
1924 on reading the foregoing petition,
1t is
Ordered by the Court. that a hear
ing be had upon the same on the 18th
day of February, A. D. 1924. before
said Court at Portland. in said Dis
trict, at ten o'clock in the forenoon:
and that notice thereof be published
in Daily Kennebec Journal. a news
paper printed in said District, and
that all known creditors. and other
persons in interest, may appear at
the said time and place and show
cause, If any they have, why the
prayer of said petitioner should not
be granted.
And it is further Ordered by the
Court, that the Clerk shall send by
mail to all known creditors copies of
said petition and this order. addressed
to them at their places Of residence
as stated.
Witness the Honorable John A.
Peters. Judge of the said Court. and
the seal thereof, at Portland, in said
District, on the 5th day of January
A. D. 1924.
JanSd1t