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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
Chicago Cattle Market

lineage, ocI. ).
CATTLE-Receipts 5000; weighty
fed steers slow to 10 to - lower: little
change on yearIings or desirable handy
weight steers: these fairly active: veal
ers 50 under yesterdays high time:
bulk 11.75u 1880: few 1900 to outsid-
ers: other classes unchanged: top year
lings 11.50: best weighty steers 1920;
average weight 46l pounds; some 1853
pound average 1915: bulk grass cows
steers averaging 1875 pounds ZOO: sew
eral loads weighty Kansas S.15M9.2j.
HOGS-Receipts $4,000: active: most
ly Is to % higher: weightv butchers
and packing sows 20 to 81 up; top
1875: bulk good and choice 100 to 22J-
pound average 10SOm11.30: desirable
$50 to 350-pound butchers largely 1890
q 20: better $40 to 130-pound weight
mostly 1925 a 1875: bulk packing sows
$50 a 800; majority desirable strong
weight slaughter pigs 9.50@ 1000; es-
timated holdover $500
SHEEP-Receipts $4,000: active: fat
lambs steady to % higher: mostly %
higher: sorting light; bulk natives 1900
a 1925: few to city butchers 1880; bulk
range lambs 135oG1375: top 1885,
early: some held higher: choice clipped
lambs $50; fat sheep fully % higher:
choice handy weight range ewes 30
feeding lambs steady: early sales $50
a IL. 90; range Nearlings breeding ewes
1900.
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tdlt
GASOLINE TAX AMI REGISTRATION
FEE QUARTER OF A Cent A mile

Motorists of the country pay in the
form of gasoline taxes and registra-
ton fees an average of only a quar-
ter Of cent mile according to the
Bureau of blic Roads of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
That is what the fees paid in year
amount TO when divided by 5000
which is believed to be the avera sc
motorists annual mileage. The av-
erage license fee per mile travelled is
one filth of Il cent and the gasoline
taxes paid make up the differences
of one-tWenty- fifth Of a cent.
The 'moto"ist or truck operator is
assured of a good return from the
taxes he pays since the receipts are
very largely devoted to road con-
structlon and maintenu In 1923
81 percent of the motor vehicle Ii
cenSe revenues and SO percent of the
gasoline taxes were turned over to
the state highway departments for
expenditure under their Supervision
ana q considerable portion of the re-
manner was expended by the Coun-
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New York Produce Market

New y fk. Oct. 2.
WHEAT-Spot irregular: No. i dark
northern spring New York lake
and rail LIS: No. 2 hard winter ( O b
lake and rail 1.61i; No. mixed durum
DO Iva; No. / Manitoba do. in bond
1.15s. ''"u
CoRN-spot easy: No. ? yellow eff
track New York lake and rail 1889: No.
mixed do. 1312 w. ~
OATS-Spot quiet: No 2 white g.. d
Pokk-Steady: mess 80. 900
.NLARD-Firm; middle west 15.35M
Other articles were unchanged.
bUTTER-Firm: receipts 1902.
creamery extras. 90 score. SO. cream,
cry nrsts, IS to 81 score, 34}6sSI.
EGGS-Firm; receipts 1871: Pacific
coast whites to extra frsts 52d6o.
POIATOES-Dul1; Long Island per
$50 pounds 2.2S; New York do. 5000
CAH1AcEs-Firm: Long Island ~,
head e@sc; New York per ton 2o.o6a
Raw sugar was UNCHANGED TODAY NJ
e0s Tor Cuban duty paid. No sales
were reported.
An irregular opening in raw sugar
FUTURES was followed by declines I'm.
DER trade and commission house sell.
ing inspired by Inactivity in the snot
market Final prices were two to Az
points net leweN December s.ss. W.rch
81. May ISL. July sal.
kenned sugar was UNCHANGED at , Q,
20 $50 Tor hne granulated, Moderate
inquiry only was reported.
nenheo FUTURES were nominal.
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Chicago Produce Market
Chicago. Oct

Chicago. Oct. j.
Big selling to realize profits over
brought about a setback after an excit-
ing advance that upset numerous high
price records. On today's pinnacle
wheat to be delivered next May was
worth 1881 bushel.
: Closing prices for wheat were very
unsettled at &c to 12c net decline. De-
cember 1.45f to 1.454 and May 1.49.
to $50. Corn finished II TO FAC down.
oats &c to 1sc off. and provisions vary
ing from % cents drop to 35 cents gain.
Wild rushes to the buying side of
the wheat market took place immedi-
ately upon the opening of business, and
appeared to be largely a result of new
estimates eea on OF the world supply indieat-
able than month ago. Besides, unoffi-
ciai figures which were current put the
total world supply on October l at
only 1886 100000 bushels as against
day in 1923. With fresh export buying
that ran up to 100000 bushels of
wheat today and 100000 bushels of rye.
the markets climbed rapidly until
wheat showed 22c and rye exactly SC
a bushel advance.
Tumbling of prices ensued when a
battle royal in the wheat pit demon
strated that. for at least the time be-
ing. the volume of selling had broad
ened to an extent which the buying
was insufficient to withstand. Reports
telling Of enlarged domestic acreage
of winter wheat being seeded We're cur
rent. and foreign crop advices We're
received making the outlook appear
somewhat more two-sided than has re-
Gently been the case. The unGertone
at the last was by no means heaVM', but.
on the other hand. the price level was
about the lowest level of the day.
Corn and oats swayed with wheat,
corn hpinP also weakened hE summer
like weather. Hogs at the highest
prices in two years lifted the provision
market. but the effect was later more
or less offset by the fall of grain.
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Dun's Report

New York. Oct. 3.-Dun's tomorrow
Will say:
1t is natural to look for expansion Of
business at this season. and report :
ard statistical RECORDS disclose increas-
ed activity in different lines. The
movement is still marked by much in
regularity and results in some quar-
ters have not met expectations. but
the main trend is upward Notwith-
standing price uncertainty. demand for
steel especially from the railroads, is
larger: pig iron output rose 10 per cent.
in September: the textile traders sare
recovering gradually and dealings in
hides and leather have hroadened fur
ther. These are some of the concrete
evidences of revival and they aer sup
p'emented by another weekly state
ment' of freight car loadinss which
shows cnnciusively that there is a
notably heavy distribution of mer-
chandiso. Bank clearings. however. are
unusually large. with gain this week
of II per cent. over last years figures.
and n new low monthly total for this
YEAR has heen reached in number of
commercial failures
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COMING EVENTS

Oct. 2-4-Military Order of the World
war. Boston.
oct. 2--4-Eastern Maine Musical Fes-
uNal. Bangor
Oct. 5-Fire Pevention Campaign Week.
oct. 6-S-Eight District New England
Rotary Clubs. Poland springs.
OCT. 6-S--Wcstern Maine Musical Fes-
tival. Portland.
Oct. 7-renobscot Supreme Court,
Criminal and Civil term, Bangor.
Oct. cumberland Superior Court,
Civil term. Portland.
Oct. 7-Androscoggin Superior Court
Civil and Criminal term. Auburn.
Oct. 9-11-Maine Musical Festival
Oct. 10--Annual meeting Maine rrcss
Association, Falmouth Hotel, $50,
Portland.
Oct. 1l-12-AnnuaI session Associated
Industries of Maine. Poland Springs
Oct. 12-Columbus Day.
Oct. 13-Maine League of Women Vot-
crs, Portland
Oct. 14-Cumberland Supreme Court,
Civil term. Portland.
Oct. 14-HancoCk Supreme Court, Civil
and Criminal term. Ellsworth
oct. l4-kennehec Supreme Court, Civil
term Augusta.
Oct. Washington County Supreme
Court. Civil and Criminal term. Ma
Oct. 14-Oxford Supreme Court, Civil
and Criminal term, South Paris.
Oct. 15-17-55th annual State Sunda y
School Convention and Institute
state Street Congregational church.
Portland
Oct. 1S-West Minot Grange. 50th ami
Versary.
oct. 21-Sagadahoc Supreme Court,
civil and criminal term. Bath.
Oct. 23-kennebec Farm Bureau an
nual meeting, Augusta.
oct. 25-Preliminary competitive OK
aminations for West Point and An
napolis.
oct. 2S-Lincoln Supreme Court, civil
and criminal term. Wiscasset
Oct. 30-31-Maine Teachers Conven-
ton. Bangor.
Nov. 4--Presidential election.
NOV. 4e1--OXford County Fruit show,
South Paris
Nov. 4-6--Annual convention Associa-
Nov 1l--Armistice day.
NOV 1l-l3-Eighth annual convention
Association of Maine Assessors
=. iiail of Representatives Augusta.
NOV. )S-l9-2U--Annusl exhibitions OF
Maine Dairymen's Association. Maine
Ireamerymen's Association. Maine
Seed Improvement Association and
Maine Pomoiogicai Society at new
armcry. Lewiston.
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Rain Gods in Japan

Osaka, Japan, Sept. ga. P. by
Mai)-A summer of unprecedented
drought has brought to light strange
and primitive customs among the
farmers of the countryside around
Osaka
So great has become the menace to
crops that there has been supplica-
tion to the rain gods, used only In the
greatest emergency. and resorted 10
only twice in the last 20 years. This
is the opening Of the sacred weir
in the precincts of the famous Ora
shrine, near Osaka.
Seven men are chosen by lot from
among the people of the village IN
which the shrine is located. These
offer prayers for week, living apart
in the shrine precincts, and purifying
themselves by daily rites of a5solu-
ton. Then a fence of dry grass Is
built around the sacred we'll and the
opening begins. The well is buried
deep in the earth. Before its stone
cover can be reached three boxes.
each containing a prayer in ancient
Sanskrit. relics of the early days Of
Buddhism in Japan, have to be un-
earthed. When the stone cover of
the well Is removed. according to the
belief, an iEexhaus,ible food of cold
water gushes over the brim, the sky
becomes overcast and ran falls heav-
lily. How efficacious the prayers
have been In this instance Is not vet
known.
Only twice within the memory Of
man has this ceremony been carried
out, in 1854 and again in 1911. On
the latter occasion, the farmers say,
heavy rain began 70 fall while pray
srs were still being offered up.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04
Cyrus Carleton Of WhtefieId, Aged
100 Years ard Eight Months. Read
ing His Daily kenrebce Journal.

Especial to the kennebec JournaO
Whitedcld. Ne. Oct. 3--Ilis ships
are sailing in the air on clouds Of
fancy as CYRUS Carleton Of White
field. aged 100. years, eight months,
suns himself on his porch these
warm fall days and thinks of the %
ships or more that he has aided in
building. Also from his pleasant
Wnitefiold home he can look across
the fields and see the church which
he and a Mr.. Heath built in 1870,
selling evcrytpew after construction
at auction. with the exception of one
pew and paying for the building Of
the church. This grand old man of
Whitefield recalls hearing of his
grandfathers trips TO Boston on
horseback, as a member of the Leg
islature, long before Maine was a
State. And now that he is almost
1nl years of age, Cyrus Carleton,
who has heen busy man all his life.
can truthfully lsay that he has lived
temperate fife. He has never
smoked and chewed during his whole
life and the strongest he ever drank
was an imitation coffee of patent
make. He has always been most
! temperate in his life and is a shining
'h"iiiBIt VI liIS lIuttS cI wen HNln g,
He didn't serve in active service yf
the Civil War but he was engaged as
an enlisting officer and while the
urge of patriotism may have been
| none the greater than it is tpda V.
Mr.. Carleton slipped more than one
hve dollar bill into the hand of a
hesitating recruit.
Mr. Carleton was born and raised
IN Wakefield. He has lived there all
ms lie with the exception of three
years which he passed in Boston.
/, lnere wasn't 4 mite OF work to be
/ had IN Boston and so we came back
! home is his graphic description of
WY he didnt stay in Boston.
| he was born January 10. 1924 the
! son of Nathaniel Carleton and Eli
abeth Bailey. When he was ~ wears
OIL age he took bride. The wife Ia 9
( passed away and he has now ljvi, q
/ one son and two daughters Fran;
Pearce Carleton. who went 10 cali
toFn:a at the age Of Il and has since
nVed there; Ada Maria Bailey of
assalhoro: Lil.a Elizabeth Railov
Gould of Whitefeld.
ne is justly prnud, of his forefath-
ets. HIS maternal grandfather E,,der
Joseph Bailey, a Calvanfst Bantist
munster, was the first representa :
i've which WhitefeId sent to Tie
legislature, then in Boston He
pdternal grandfather, Capt. samuel
Sar.eton and his wife came to Whita-
neid When the countryside was 2 vii
oefness. That was after 1775 for n
was IN that. war that Capt. Car,e,on
served under General Washington
IN iact ne was lifeguard of Was
ington by times.
me early history of the town Of
"ih.eneio is Ike first primer read
ing TO Mr.. Carleton because he can
remember early Whitefield as CON NO
other resident of the community He
recalls the first priest Dennis RYAN
and his brother. John who came here.
Now there IS fine Catholic church
in WHITEHEAD
Mr.. Carleton has always been
Baptist. He did half the work in
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Power in League
Is China's Desire

Picking. Aug. 81 CA. P. by maiD-
China will make fight this year TO
regain her place on the council of
the League of Nations, lost a year
ago to Czecho- Slovakia, according to
reports in diplomatic circles. 1t is
argued that, being one of the largest
nations and therefore having to pay
liberal proportion of the cost of
maintaining the League. China is en-
titled to representation as one OF the
non permanent members. and her
delegates have been instructed to
prepare her case accordingly.
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ClALrch Notices

Methodist church. Rev. Weston
l.. Holman. pastor: Morning wor-
ship at 1880; music by young peo-
pies chorus: sacrament of the Lord s
SUPPER; Sunday school at 1I4J,
Fred A. Wyman, Supt.; Epworth
League at u O'Clock: happy hour
service at O'Clock; Interesting
praise service with brief address ny
pastor; mIdtwtcx service THURSDAY
evening at 80
Sidney Methodist church, Rev.
Weston +. Holman. pastor: After
roon worship ct 30; saGram ent OF
the Lorc's supper. followed by the
sunday school: Ernest Lewis, Supt.
All are cordially invited
At All Souls UniversaIist church.
Rev. II. G. Mann. pastor, the sub.
Jet Of the morning sermon at 10. 80
VIII be: ''Indebtedness to God "
sunday school at lliJ: Dean F..
Wheeler. Supt. The Ishers VIII he
Howard Gordon and Eodsrick Miller
and he collection VIII he taken by
Clarissa Haynes and Madoiyn
Young: Y. r. c. L. at 6: Haroia
Hallett, leader: sub China S
Real Revolution in Education. Eco
Domics. Society and Industry"
Catholic services Will be held in
Memorial hall Sunday morning a.,
$50 O'Clock, conducted By Rev. FIR.
Curran of Waterville.
United Baptist church. Rev.
Francis 8. Befnauer. pastor: 10 20
A. NJ. public worship. Sermon, spe-
ciai music. Celebration OF the Lords
supper and reception OF new nem-
bers: IL noon, opening Sunday OF
the new school year in the church
Bible school: all should be present:
. r. NJ. Junior Endeavor: 6.15 r.
NJ. Seiior c. r. Society; us r. NJ,
grand musical program with illus
trated hymns.
The entire Sunday school OF the
United Baptist church is urged to
begin the new quarter OF the new
Sunday school year with every mem.
Der present and the classes filed. II
is also necessary to verify the
promotion list of pupils who are 10
receive certificates: also to make
preparations and finsf assignments
for the Rally Day pageant 10 be Civ
en- Sunday. Oct. II.
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ties for road purposes.
Consideration of the gasoline tax
is of special interest To the motor We
hicle operator. Thirty five states
now have this form Of tax. the rates
ranging from one to three cents with
the exception of one state which has
a four cent tax. A one cent gasoline
tax increases the cost of operating
the average vehicle by less than n
tenth of a cent per mile. On trip
from Washington TO Philadelphia the
tax would amount to 10 cents. The
trip over the Lincoln highway from
New York to San Francisco would be
taxed $3.50. 1t is interesting to COM
pare these rates with the toll charges
which motorists formerly had to pay
on toll roads. On six deterrent turn
pixies in Virginia and Maryland tolls
amounting to s5.05 were charged for
total Of 1877 miles, which is equiva-
lent to 80 cents Il mile. IL "A state at
tempted to charge this same rate for
the use of public highways by auto
mobiles it would have to establish a
gasoline tax of sc cents per gallon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-04

Detroit, Oct. 3.-Carefully guard
ed, large solid gold medal is being
brought from the Pacific coast TO
the factory OF the Packard Motor
Car Company here. Ii is in the GUS
tody OF a. +. Rement, vice president
of the Lincoln Highway Association
and L. $. Evans, one of the found
ers OF the association. They will
present il to Alvan Macauley. preSi-
dent of the Packard upon their ar
rival in Detroit.
The medal was awarded by the
Canadian Highway association as
recognition OF the fact that a Pack
ard Six sport model car, driven by
Bement and Evans was the first au-
tomobiIe TO cross Canada from Win
nipeg to Victoria on an all Canadian
route. For l. years the medal had
been held up as a prize Tor daring
motorists. Many attempts had been
made to win it but each previous
effort had met with failure. 1t had
come to be regarded as certain that
no Automobile could be forced
through the roadless mountain fast
ness.
Death stalked beside the two mo-
florists Tor many days as they fought
their way westward through the
Canadian Rockies. While ttavers-
ing many parts of the route single
break down OF the car or q blow
out of a tire could have caused dis
aster and either could have been eX-
pected because the going was harder
than any automobile ever was de-
signed TO withstand.
For g.; miles down the Fraser
river canyon between Iytton and
Hope, r. c.. the car was driven over
the tics of the Canadian National
Railway through a box canyon Go
feet above tho river raging tor
rent 1t is this natural cut through
the mountains made by the Fraser
river which is followed by both the
Canadian National and Canadian
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Pacific main lines. Here too will
have to go the through coast-to-
coast Canadian national highway for
which Bement and Evans and the
associations official Packard were
the path finders.
For the whole 63 miles the speed
never exceeded four miles an hour
while frequently il took u half hour
TO go LOCO feet. Seventeen tunnels
and 800 trestles had to be negotiar-
ed Each Individual tie of the rail-
road track had to be climbed as =
separate obstacle. on some of the
trestles every other tie had been re-
moved during some construction
work, making the going more diff
cult. With four. passengers. two
railroad men having heen picked up
as aids, and 600 pounds OF baggage
the car carried more than normal
good roads load during two days o.
the mos, severe treatment 10 which
an autouobi could be subjected.
Heavy freight trains cannot be
controlled as wCll on mountain rail-
roads as they can on the nat tracks
of eastern lines and the results are
easily 10 be pictured had the break
inc OF, a spring. blowing out of tire
or any Ollef ottlttHl ileilttu 'it toi
in a tunnel or on a trestle for ar
appreciable time. Several times
safety points where the car could be
run of the tracks were reached only
a short distance ahead of trains.
When they arrived at Vancouver
the two intrepid motorists were tet-
ed for two days. The car was given
a minute inspection and,it was found
necessary TO make no repairs other
than tightening the body bolts and
spring clips. The tires were cur ana
worn almost down TO the last iaNer
of cord but they still held air. The
car was shipped to San Francisco by
boat and cement and Evans are now
returning east over the Lincoln
Highway
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Capt. Plants MemJry
HOn0red By Chinese

Hankow, China. Aug. PA. r. by
NaiD-An obeJsx SO feet. inches
aish. OF Changsaa granite, has JIst
neen completed az memorial TO
,.aptain Samuel Cornell Plant, the
nrst man % command merchant
sea amer on the upper Yangtsze, in
1900. Captain Plant was previously
river inspector OF the Chinese mari
.'ne customs. During his lifetime
ne did much for the fuftherance of
trade in the interior OF China. He
DIED at sea in 1927.
The monument, which has yet to be
unveiled, stands on the left bank OF
the ffngtsze gorges at Esin Tan
stthirty- five miles above Ichang.
u was built by public subscription.
Us total cost was $4,000 Chinese
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New York Money Market
New York. Oct.

New York, Oct. 3.
Foreign exchanges irregular
Great Britain, demand 4.46 lis. ca
hles 4.i6 sis, 60-day bills on banks
4 43'3-lG
France, demand 5.o7. cables 5.o7y.
Belgium, demand 4S2a. cables 4.S3.
Italy, demand 4.31a. cables 43S
Germany. demand per trillion, .o3,.
Holland demand 1856.
Norway. demand 14.l7.
Sweden. demand $3.50.
Denmark. demand 173S
Switzerland. demand 1905.
Spain. demand 1925.
Greece, demand LIZA.
Poland. demand 1914.
Czechoslovakia. demand caSl.
Jugoslavia, demand las.
Austria. demand .0O1<t.
Eumania. demand So
Argentina, demand $3.50.
Brazil, demand 1906.
Toxic, demand 40.
Montreal. 80 31-32.
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New Studebaker
Six Ultra-Smart

South Bend. Ind. oct. J IN
Standard Six. new six in the Stnc'j
baker line of its three slX-cyhn'q
cars, has features which make It M
like any other automobile seen \
American thoroughlares, automchI
engineers declare.
New body lines developed an
two years of secret study bebVI
closed doors by Studebakcr body FL
Gineers, suggest the latest renl1
ments OF designing, yet are WnoI
original In effect.
The two Standard Six Duplex MOI
els are revolutionary step IN aDll
motive design. There is n DupI
Phacton, seating passengers
the 3-pass engcr Duplex HoadssI
They are ears of the most origi'I
and striking beauty. II
These new Duplex models-wpli
are also offered on the newly VI
signed Special and Big Sixes-soII
the open closed car problem
widely agreed by motorists ana
gineers. For they combine,
pointed out, the advantages OF
type open ears with the comfort
snug protection OF the closed cal'
This new principle In design
upperstructure of steel-ligDt
very strong which is an integral
Of the body. This upper struco
has three plate glass windows,
side enclosing curtains that opo
on powerful spring rollers, all
cea1ed inside the upper lection.
this novel side-enclosure. wind.n
rain proof protection Is inSA'
provided when need arises.
Another radical forward step
motor car building Is the announ
ment by Studebaker that closed ny
els of the new Standard-Six WIZ
finished in lacquer--a new ana
msnent finish that enriches tDs
with dull satin tone,
The New Standard Six Is III
powerful and heavier than the ~
Six Of previous years. II contn
however, the Studebakcr-desn
offset valve type engine. but tne
power has been increased 23N'
I Huge. genuine alloon tires,
natural second growth hlesT
wheels, are regular equipment.
steering gear has been sDeciahy
signed for case in handing
balloon tires. a point women aT
ciate. Very large and powerLss,
wheel brakes will be regular es"'
ment. ssA =
Optional are Studebaker's new
drauIic 4-wheel brakes. Thes
the first hydraulic brakes that "
ate by power of motor, rather "
f.iyer's foot. ever used on an a.
lean car They are ABSOLUTELY n
locking. A new emergency w
operates from a level on the
multiplying braking effort four -
through the, propeller shaft.