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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Mrs. Parker White underwent two
serious operations at the Augusta
General Hospital Tuesday night.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Orders taken for Christmas
wreaths from now until Dec. LIST
Is years experience in this work.
Mrs. J. w. Lafayette. Tel. 165-w.
octaa&3o
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Miss Violet ingalls, of the sopho-
more class at Hallowell high Is to
move to Lincoln. Maine. in the near
future.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

The Ladies' Aid OF the Highland
Avenue NJ. f. Church will meet FRI
day afternoon in the vestry.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Miss Kathryn McGinn leaves today
for Portland and Biddeford. where
she will visit relatives and friends.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Mrs. Frank OBrien of Richmond
was calling ON Gardiner friends We'd
UrslnS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Edward and William Quirl OF Bos-
ton are In Hallowell for a short time
on business.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Miss Ellie Wcatherhee. Miss 1leen
BrOphy, Miss Marjorie Shaw. Miss
.trlccn l1itlman and Miss Rachel
Ripley. all teachers nj Gardiner High
made the trip 10 the Bangor conven-
ton bv automobile.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Mrs. Il. T.. Hazard and daughter
Ectiy left Wednesday for n few days
visit in New York City.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Mr.. and Mrs. George IJallett and
Claire SpoffOrd were in Waterville
Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Lee Hescock of the University of
Maine is expected home for over tho
week end
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Frank rcrcival Of Bath was the
ruest Wednesday Of hts mother Mrs.
M. n. FcrCivaL manager of the
Womcns shop.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

The Louden Hill Community club
will meet this afternoon with Mrs.
Annie Buchanan.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Opening OF Gardiner Flower Shop
Sat. Nov. 1. from 9 to I o'clock, Water
ST.. opp. post ONCE. octs0d1t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

John Nacomber and Frank LARA
bee of Portland were business call
ers In the city Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

NJ. A. Haraden of Bath was in the
city on business. Wednesday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Henry Gauvin Of Bangor is criti-
cally i'll at the home Of his sister,
Mrs. John Dupont. 294 Water street.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Old fashioned Halloween dance
Friday. City Hail. Hallowell, given
by Ward Community Club. Smiths
Orchestra. octsOd2t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Mrs. \. W. Cronk of Farmintor.
Y H. formerly OF this city Is visiting
her daughter Miss Ruby Cronk of
this city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30
HALLOWELL

Mrs. Peter e. Sylvan has returned
from the Augusta General Hospital.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Miss Jennie Louise Rollins will
pass the week end in Hallowell.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

chairs while five men waited patient
lx
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

Garage to let. III Spring Street.
octsadsts
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30
AUCTION SALE
Household Goods

A. the farm Of JOSEPH o. KING.
windsor. fourth house from the fair
grounds, Friday, Oct. 81. This let
consists Of one drop head sowing ma
chino, dining table. dining chairs, 3
yak ccmniodes. music cabinet, oak
rockers. four iron beds and springs,
four mattresses. chiEonier. bedding.
carpenter tools, machines. tools, mir
rcrs, dishes. tuss and other articles
too numerous TO mention. Sale starts
at 4 O'Clock regardless OF weather as
farm, has been sold ana has to be va
cated Ct once.
A. G. BRAGG. Auet.
y,-,ra.rN.ei
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

James Kirk of T.itchfeld was n
business caller In the city yesterday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-30

A. G. BRAGG. Auct.
, 1924-11-05

there are signs of decline in the farm
districts.
with all this. it does not do to be
optimistic.
"Sheep are higher because we are
$4,000 900 ar whereabouts short. In
addition, we have a protected wool
market.
"Hogs Is a rule rise and fall auto
matically with the corn crop, but they
get strong support from the export
trade, more especially in lard. Eur
ope" is constantly calling for hog pro-
ducts, so supply and demand contin-
ually regulate the market. Mutton
and wool, hams, bacon and lard re-
spond quickly. Today the demand
for these products is away ahead of
the supply.
Glow different our cattle business.
1t is a rudderless ship. We have lit
tie Dr. no export demand. Europe fills
her wants in the Argentine, Brazil,
Australia and New Zealand. We have
therefore, only the home market and
for years it has been over-supplied.
I'VE cannot get away from that.
We have got to get the supply less
than the demand to have a higher
market. 1t is almost certain we will
have a good market next spring,
summer and fall. Whether it will re-
main or not is something we cannot
speak definitely about. This condi-
ton of lethargy in our beef markets
must change. Economic conditions
will rule, and it is probable the turn
will come overnight, just as it did in
the sheep business the spring of 1921.
Since then. the flock has rained gold
to the growers and feeders"
, 1924-11-05

within a year / look for a strong
and sustained market for cattle which
will bring the industry back to nor
NAL and place raisers back on their
feet.
"The livestock industry is a three
sided business; cattle, sheep and hogs.
The two latter classes of stock are
acting s%plendidly. Mutton and wool
are high, and profitable to the breed
er and feeder. Hogs are at a paying
price. In Chicago week before last
they showed a gain of 1925 per 100
pounds over a year ago. Cattle, how
ever, are more or less in the dumps.
Receipts are slightly greater than a
year ago. At nine markets for nine
months the gain is 1874 per cent.
During September the gain was Z per
cent.
Monday of last week we had re-
cord-breaking receipts at all markets.
Chicago had $4,000 head, Kansas CT
ty $4,000, Omaha $4,000 and Denver
$4,000. We had a better market last
week, but the country responded to
the call. These heavy runs come
from two causes: First a poor corn
crop, both in quantity and quality;
second, a further wav of liquidation.
The ranchman has lost heart and is
shipping his cattle. He crosses the
Rubicon and burns his boats. But
there are signs of a clearing in the
sky. From the Northwest range
county we had up to October a, 1928,
124,500 head of cattle; this year up
to the same date we had $500. That
great cattle producing country has
shot its bolt.
"Now, we have heard this before,
but the figures tell the truth. AS l
go owe this part of the country the
cattle have disappeared. The South
has still a large number of cattle, but
, 1924-11-05

The National Museum is engaged
in assembling an historical collection
of radio devices which will place on
permanent record a vivid exhibition
of this rapidly expanding art Of COM
m~unication. -
-
Corn with stalks so short that the
ears appear to grow Directly out of
the earth and that mature in seventy
days is now being grown at expert
ment stations in the United States.
Only five lynchings occurred in the
first half Of the current year in the
United States.
The opium poppy was first known
among the Greeks and Romans. 1t
spread eastward, carried probably by
Arab traders.
, 1924-11-05
LIKES LIGHTING PLANT
Farm Wife Calls Il the Finest
Thing on the Farm.

Economic problems concerning the
extension Of electric power lines to
farms do not, as yet. disturb those
who have installed independent light
and power plants. Many thousands
of these plants are at work. on farms
that are too far removed from trans
mission lines to hope for service OF
the latter sort within a period of
years.
OF the 400. 900 farms in the United
States on which electricity is used in
on way or another. fully half are SUD
piled by ~self-contained farm light and
power sets. That they are serving
the purpose successfully in this
period OF the beginnings of farm cleo
IRRIGATION is indicated by the story Of
one farm family using such a set
This family lives in Stark County.
North Dakota. and uses its electrical
plant chiefly for lighting. What It
a to them is told by the woman
of the farm:
I'VE have In our house hot-water
heat. hard and soft water piped into
the kitchen and into the basement.
and an electric light plant, which we
think Is the finest thing on the farm
When We are out evenings. upon re
turning We need only TO urn q button
to give US light outdoors, by which
tho children and ! a nnd our way
into the house without n trouble
Then 1t is no easy to turn on the light
N any room needed while husband
takes me car to the ahed. where he
aiaO kHs the light 70 SO his way
, 1924-11-05

ia, is the sheepmen's worst foe as
it destroys many sheep in a single
nights hunt.
Since the day of the great Cardi-
nal Newman some 500 clergymen of
the Church of England have been re
ceived into the Catholic Church in
that country.
There are about five hundred swans
on the Thames River in England.
The original manuscript of Joseph
Conrad's first novel sold at the John
Quinn sale last year for $1,000. Thir-
ty years ago, when it was. first pub
lished, it attracted only a small group
of admirers and was considered a
complete failure. At the sale the first
edition sold for S120.
, 1924-11-05
The Hub of
The Problem

Costs r placed in a new light
by the whole project of farm cleo
triication. Why is it, many farm
r have asked, that it costs more
to supply electric service to rural
districts than to city homes?
Here is the answer, as summed
up by Prof. E. A. Stewart, of the
University of Minnesota, project
director of the Red Wing expert
mental line:
l. In rural districts the custom
er thus far has used materially
less electricity per nenth than has
the city customer.
2. In the country the average
is three customers to the mile,
whereas in the city there r from
80 to 200 to the mile.
8. The cost Of distributing elec-
tricity il everywhere greater than
the cost Of generating it, in city
and country both.
4. If electricity could be gener-
ated for nothing the problem of
economically supplying it to farms
would remain unaltered.
, 1924-11-05
TIMES AHEAD
FOR The CATTlEmAN
SAYS JOHN CLAY

The ca~ttle-raising industry, which
has been at the bottom for several
wears, causing great financial losses
To thousands of raisers and in many
cases throwing them into bankruptcy
is about to enter an r of real pros
perity such as it enjoyed in the days
before the war, according to John
Clay, pioneer cattle raiser of Colora-
do, Montana and Wyoming and presi-
dent of a string of banks in the lat
ter state.
Mr.. Clay is here from Chicago
where he is now making his home,
to conduct an extensive survey of
livestock conditions in the mountain
states.
"The ~deplorable condition of the
cattle market, the worst ever expert
enced," said Mr.. Clay, "has been due
to abnormal demand for beef created
by the war. The country was flood
ed with cattle and after the war the
supply greatly exceeded the demand,
Cutting the market and bringing
many raisers to the point of ruin.
"This condition is now rapidly dis
appearing. The cattle have disap-
peared from the northwest range
country. The decrease in the south
is not so noticeable, but there also the
grazing districts and farm lands show
an enormous reduction in number of
cattle. There is no export demand
for cattle and therefore the supply
must not exceed the domestic de-
mand.
, 1924-11-05
A Winter Coat?

Wife q a. n.y. "Where have you
been?"
He: "T' the club"
Wife: playing poker, l suppose"
He: eyes, here is $3.50 l won"
Wife: "Er-r-r-I'm afraid your din
ner is ruind, but it won't take long
to boil a pot of coffee.??
, 1924-11-05
Hurrah FIR Uncle

Chauffeur (honking horn vigorous
ly): "Hey! Get outta the road with
that w~heelbarrow. You're so slow
you outta be pushing a baby buggy"
Old Gent: "Sure-and you should
be in it."
, 1924-11-05
LOVE

She was eating in a restaurant
In her old home town;
Relations? None, not even an aunt.
How ravishing her gown
When she sat munching corn on
cob
In her old home town.
She munched it and
She crunched it;
Carressed it up and down.
Her ruby lips were busy
In her old home town.
Lenvoy?
And then l drove here home;
Reposed her in the barn;
She had the collie from eatin' corn
In her old home town.
, 1924-11-05
SOMETHING ABOUT
EVERYTHING and
EVERYBODY

In six years 10000 individuals, one
by one, have sought admission into
the Catholic Church in England.
The dingo. or wild dog Of Austral-
, 1924-11-05
Gee-Yes!!

Clerk driven to desperation by
bargain hunting boy): Listen, young
man, why don't you take that top?
Do you want to get the world with
a fence around it for a nickel?"
Boy: 81 dunno! Let's see it."
, 1924-11-05
ED puRDY,s PHILos

"Many of these young men who
go in for the javelin throw at col
lege take after their old man-ex-
cept that they substitute a ~javelin for
u flat iron"
, 1924-11-05
THE JUDGES JOSH
BLONDE BESS oPINES

~ told Dick he was getting better
looking every day and he said that
was a habit he had every year short
ly before Xmas"
, 1924-11-05
Is That So7

"Gosh, that girl is a good swimmer
isn't she?"
She ought to be. She was a pedes-
trian in Venice.
, 1924-11-05
Pedestrian View

Logic: Motor cars make US lazy"
Practical: 81 disagree with you,
neighborl 1t used to take me ID sec
onds to get across the street. Now
l can do the distance in 3 fiat.
, 1924-11-05
Yes, Indeed

"What makes you think Mary will
accept your p~roposal?"
"Well, she insists on US occupying
only n chair and
That's enough, boy-she's on the
last lap"
, 1924-11-05
Timely Question

Newsy: 81 see by the papers that
His Masters Voice sold for $500"
Truthful: "Gee-are they selling
wives now"
, 1924-11-05
Pigskin Poetry

The referee has just n rule,
He uses in football.
To penalize u own home team,
En- though the heavens fall.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19
THINGS
UNU SU Al
CHICAGO'S UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD
By T. T. MAxEY
&C, 1874, Western Newspaper Union)

The main retail and skyscraper dis
| trict of Chicago is damned into what
has been aptly termed the dreaded
mile square" and known as "The
Loop" The traffic congestion which
naturally resulted and steadily grows
worse as business Increases, produces
myriads of vexatious delays which re-
suit in costs beyond computation. nu-
merOus mishaps and the unnecessary
use of countless swear words.
In so large a city, the incessant
traffic necessary to move supplies
from rail depots to stores and fac
tories, shipments from salesrooms and
factories to freight terminals, mail,
coal to boiler rooms, ashes and exca-
waited material for new buildings to
dumps, etc., reaches a startling mag
nitude and becomes an increasingly
serious problem-the corner of State
and Madison streets, for instance, is
said to be the busiest corner in the
world.
TO relieve the congestion and cut
down the delay, a far-sighted corpora
tion constructed an intricate system
of Ur foreground tunnels through which
railroad operates. Now much of this
traffic is economically, quickly and
conveniently trundled through this I'M
derground artery Of commerce-dur-
ing a recent year about 611,000 tons
of freight, $4,000 tons of coal and 219,-
900 wagonloads of excayated material
and cinders
Six feet wide and III feet high. and
surrounded by a 12-inch wall Of solid
concrete, these tunnels are from ~ to
Do feet below the street surface. The
method of construction left no chance
for cave-ins or settling and has not
interfered with the foundations of
buildings. There is little water seep-
age, the average temperature is So de-
grees, winter and summer, and the
frequent passage of trains provides a
natural and adequate ventilation.
There are 60 miles of these horse
shoe-shaped tunnels, in which there
are 40 crossings, 652 intersections,
and 1924 switches. The equipment
includes 1872 electric motors and 5000
cars, each A feet wide, II feet long,
and holding from to tons, depend
ing on the nature of the load. The
track gauge Is feet. The tunnel and
It's equipment represents an invest
ment of about $4O,0C0,OOO. The opera
ton requires about $40 people.
Train movements are controlled by
telephone system of signals operat-
Ing to avoid collisions at street inter-
sections. In case of fire, deluge Of
water is prevented by heavy tight-fit-
ted iron doors over all shafts leading
to the tunnel.
There are connections with univer-
sal notwithstanding stations, railroad
depots, freight terminals, business
houses, Office buildings, etc.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19
Doing Awdy With
Tediun7 of Trouel

The phrase 1.-THE tedium of travel
will speedily become meaningless, SO
far as long-distance railway journeys
are concerned, if other companies fol-
low the lead of the London & North
eastern and run "cinema coaches"
says London Tit-Bits.
Experiments recently carried out on
long-distance trains proved conclusive
~ that even or. trSinS travelling at ex-
press speed films can be shown with
results as good as in a first-class pic
ture theater. True, few difficulties
from oscillation and so on had to be
overcome, but these have now been
dealt with successfully
The coach used as railway film-
theater by the London & Northeast
ern was not specially constructed for
that purpose. A coach in storage was
taken out, dismantled, refitted, shut
tered and equipped with operators
room and screen. Power was supplied
by the trains electric-lighting system
and the auditorium was seated for 80
people.
All clnema-theater regulations have
been strictly observed in the construc-
ton of this railway picture house.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19
THE WORLDS LARGEST
BUILDING

That sounds big and it Is big.
America, today, grows and moves
with such rapid strides progress be-
ing the order Of the day-that the
largest of anything of its particular
kind does not so remain very long.
In 1922, the General Motors building
in Detroit was the largest building
in the world. In 1923 the honor was
transferred to Chicago.
The so-called Furniture Mart, that
MISUNDERSTANDING structure which
rises on the shore of Lake Michigan
north Of the mouth of the Chicago
river, has the distinction of being the.
largest building In the world.
This building is sixteen stories tall
and covers an entire block of ground,
24O feet one way and 467 feet the
other way. The combined area of its
16 floors makes the astounding total
Of 1,25O,O00 feet, or upward of %
acres, while the cubical capacity of
this monstrous project mounts to the
unbelievable total of 100000 cubic
feet Think of it,
Then get this! Three trainloads or
$500 piling were used for foundation
purposes. Three million feet Of lum-
Der were used in connection with the
concrete work. Other materials Of
construction included such items as
$4,000 barrels of cement; 10000 cubic
yards or wagonloads of gravel; 4,5OO,-
600 common brick and 100000 face
brick; $500 tons of reinforced steel !;
miles and miles of piping for water
ing and heating purposes and miles
and miles of wiring for electric light
ing and other purposes, and 100000
square yards of plastering.
The exterior finish Of this colossal
building is of the so-called Gothic
treatment, the material being dark
gray brick with terra Gotta trimmings.
The top story contains restaurant
which seats $50 diners at one time
The bulk weight of the building is
estimated to be 325,O0O,000 pounds.
The estimated cost Of the ground and
building was placed at $10,000,O00.
The Furniture Mart is an addition
extraordinary to Chicago's many re-
markable buildings and its wonderful
business enterprise.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19

Marrying for love without a side is
sue of bread and butter is like sip
ping the froth from glass OF ice
cream soda.
An English farm has been equipped
with reservoir to collect and store
dew in addition to rain to supply cat
tie with water.
Belgium's increase in automobiles
since the war has been almost 100 per
cent and now has one automobile for
every 230 inhabitants
He that is not gallant at twenty,
strong at thirty, rich at forty and
experienced at fifty will never live to
be gallant or strong or rich or pru-
dent.
Raising cane suitable for making
saxophones reeds is a new industry
proposed for certain small areas is
the United States, where the climate
is suitable.
Some whales travel twice a year
more than quarter of the circumfer-
ence of the globe, being in the Arctic
in summer and on the other side OF
the equator in winter.
Fogs cause digestive troubles among
small mammals and birds in the Lon
don zoo, the animals losing their APP
BETTE and most of the birds refusing
to eat unless there is plenty of light.
Among the natives of South Africa
there is a general belief in the split
soul. One tribe believes in three
souls one in the head, another in the
stomach and a third in the big toe.
Raleen, commonly called whalebone.
grows in the mouths of certain whales.
It grows il dependent plates, ranging
from two to twelve feet in length, at
tsched to the upper jaw, and forms a
fringe-like sieve for collecting and re-
tanning food.
Comparatively speaking, leather is
the cheapest basic commodity in the
country today. improvements in proc
esses of finishing leather and the In
PRODUCTION of machinery and the ex'
ercise of conservation and utilization
in by-products has saved the public
millions of dollars.
Hsiong-Kej-wu, Chinese military
leader, has presented each of his sol
diers with handkerchief inscribed
with eight characters reminding them
of their meritorious service. Other
generals are distributing wash cloths
and toothbrushes.
The eight men of foreign birth who
signed the federal Constitution were
Elbridge Gerry, who was born in Eng
land; Francis Lewis, Wales; Robert
Morris, England; James Smith, Ire
land; Matthew Thornton, Ireland;
George Taylor, Ireland; James wilson
Scotland; John Witherspoon. Scotland
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19
CHICAGO MARKETS.

Hogs-Heavy weight (25O to $50
lbs), medium choice. $7.1O@735; me-
dunn weight Goo to $50 lbs), medium
choice, $7OO@725; light weight (16O
to 200 lbs), common choice, $3.50
7.2O; light light (13O to 100 lbs), COM
mon choice, $5,75@7O0; packing hogs,
smooth, $645@6.65; packing hogs.
rough, $6.2O@6.45; slaughter pigs l13O
lbs down), medium choice, $5.25@6.25;
slaughter sheep a4d lambs, medium
prime ga lbs DOWN, $12.00@145O;
culls, common Gall weights), $1,000
1900; ewes, common to choice, $3.50
@6.25; Gamers and culls, $1.00@S.5O.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-06-19

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get as much benefit out of it as have.
Mrs. PERCY w. RICHARDSON, r. ID.
No. 2, Skowhegan, Maine.
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hams Vegetable Compound helped Mrs.
Richardson. She gave it trial after
she saw what it had done for other wo-
men. For nearly fifty years Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
been thus praised by women. For sale
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