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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-27
SECOND SECTION

This magazine supple
ment will appear every
Saturday In The Daily
Worker.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30
What's Doing Today
and Tomorrow

Today.
Entertainment-A card party and
dance for the benefit of the Providence
Hospital free dispensary, on the ROOF
garden of the hospital, tonight.
Outing-A group Of Methodist Sunday
schools Of the city, at chesapeake
Entertainment Parents Night
Under the auspices Of Troop No. IS, Boy
Scouts. in the Y. n. H. A Building
L1ncheon--The Civilian club, at the
Lafayette Hotel, at 1880 o'clock.
outing-Under the auspices Of the
Council of Jewish Women, for Sunday
school children. at Glen Echo.
Concerts-Th Soldiers Home Baan,
at the Soldiers Home At 1 S:ls oG1oc c6
hospital. at $3.50 o'clock.
Meetings-Masonic Lodges: Dawson
No. 16; Lafayette. No. 10, and Ana
cOfs .aIn T f0oiteAunder the auspices of the
ship Chapter, No. II, Of the Order Of
the Eastern Star, at Wisconsin avenue
an" RummaEe sais-Under the auspice.
8. q. s., at 17Is seventh street north
WASHINGTON Council OF the
Knights or Columbus at Sis o'clock.
Concert-The Navy Band at Wash.
ington Circle, Pennsylvania avenue and
i Picnic Supper - The washinst ton
wellesley club, At the home OF Miss
1Sdna spaulding. sO21 Q street at e:SO
: ! Meeting-of the representatives Of
the subordinate and Rebekah lodges OF
the baseball committees at the temple
at 1880 O'Clock. -
The Washington times., 1925-06-30
PRINCE GEORGES POLICE
HUNTING FOR "FlREBUC"

Police of Prince Georges county
today are searching for the alleged
"firebug" who is believed to have
set fire to the OLD Weed mansion
at College Park Heights late yes
at $4,000.
A few minutes before the flames
burst from the windows at the resi-
dence, a man was seen running
away from the house.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

tenth Infanry Brigade, the Sixth
Field Artillery and the Third Cav
airy. Arrangements have been
made to use the field in the camp
stadium. It is expected that the
games will get under way early in
July. The teams are putting in
much time practicing.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Captain Sidney H. Negrotto, u.
s. A, has been assigned to duty
as an instructor with, the e. M. I.
C. Captain Negrotto is attached
to the 18th infantry.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Major Bates Tucker, u. 8. A.. re-
tired, has been designated as an
assistant to Lieutenant Colonel G.
Mclaughlin, u. s. A., director OF
training.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Major Ernest J. Dawley, u. s. A.,
first field artillery brigade, has been
appointed by Brigadier General La
Roy s. Upton, commanding gen
eraI, as the polo representative Of
the can1n.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Captain Hollis T. Clark. u. s. A,
retired, professor Of military science
and tactics, st. Johns College,
washington, who has been on duty
here az camp librarian, has been re-
lieved OF duty and ordered back
20 the school to prepare for the
next term.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Plans are under way for the for
nation Of a polo association here.
There viii be teams from the Six
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

The following reserve officers
nave reported here for the fifteen
days training: Captain Theophilus
x. Parsons, Roanoke, Va, and
Lieutenants Leonard Dooms Fox,
Greenwood, Va, Lloyd E. Nc
Corkle, Keysville, Va, and Daniel
Alonza overbey, jr., Danville, Va,
all Of the infantry reserve. They
win be relieved Of active duty here
on July Z.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

Camp Meade Sojourners Club No.
4 will meet tonight at the Officers
Club, Tank School. Major General
Amos A Fries, national president,
and Major Roe Fulkerson, o. r. c.,
grandmother, are expected to be
present.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30

There is one student of the R. o.
7. c. here from the University Of
Florida, Francis r. Todd; one from
the Ohio State University, Donald
L. DeMuth; one from the Univer-
sity of Alabama, Joseph HI. Clutch
ms; and one from the College Of
the City Of New York, James w.
Randolph.
The Washington times., 1925-06-30
PAYMASTER IS
WELCOME At
MEADE
% Reservists Instructors for
Training Camp Are
Drawing Salaries

CAMP MEADE, Nd, June 3d.
This is payday for the reserve Of
ficers on duty here for forty-five
days as instructors with tho citi-
zens' military training camp which
will open tomorrow. There are
about twenty-three reserve officers
on the forty-five-day detail.
Lieutenant Frederick S. Lee, field
artillery reserve, the regimental adj
jutant for the 31sth Field Artillery
in Washington, has been assigned
to duty with Battery A Of the
Sixth Field Artillery while he Is
on duty here for fifteen days. Lieu
terant Lee is graduate Of West
Point and has been very active in
reserve corps affairs In Washing
ton.
Captains Charles L. Ladson and
Hallock P. Long, also of the S1Sth
Field Artillery, Washington, have
been assigned to Battery d of the
Sixth Field Artillery for their tour
of duty. Both officers were for
merry with the District of Columbia
National Guard. Captain Long has
been on duty with the Sixth Field
Artillery for the past three sum-
mers.
, 1925-10-23
NOTICE..

THE annual general repairs of the
l Public Roads shall begin on LIST
October, and be completed by 31st
January 1926 The road should be
weedeu and bitches and |culyerts
cleaned out in the month of Octo-
Der, after which the usual repairs
of crawling, rerairs of walls, cul-
verts and bridges &c. should be
done
All dead trees must be cut down.
and branches Of trees oy~erhanging
road, trimmed.
All road h lders are requested
in the meanwhile to have all dam.
ages done to the roads by the re-
cent rains, repaired as quickly as
possible.
EDGAR w. MEYER,
Charm IN. Road CUmmi85jon.
st. Croix, V. l..
September 26th 1925.
, 1925-10-23
In the District Court Of The lirgi0 Is
lands Of The United States,
ChriStianSted judicial District,
INTHE MATTER OF THE JOINT ES-
TATE OF ROSAMOND MACKAY, DE
CEASED. AND HER SURVIVING
HUSBAND WILLIAM HENRY
MACKAY.

NOTICE is hereby given that the un-
III dersiqaed William Henry Mckay has
~ hccn appointed administrator OF the
Joint estate of Rosamond MacKay, de
ceased. and surviving husband Wi liam
Henry Mackay.
All persons having claims against the
said estate are hereby notified to present
same to the attorney of the said admins
traitor, Lawyer A. E. Stakemann, at his
office at No 78 in Kings Street in the
Town Of Christiansted, within six months
from the date Of this notice together
with necessary proofs Of same.
All persons indebted to the estate are
requested to make payments to said at
t0rney.
Chrstiansted, St. Croix, September
5th 1928.
w. H. MACKAY.
administrator.
, 1925-10-23
Incompatible Cord Material in
Goodyear Balloon Tyres

Goodyear has perfected 4 new construction of cord ma
which gives to the individual cords as much as 500 greater
In other words, the cord material Goodyear is now using
before it breaks than the former cord used by Goodyear and
SupertVist is distinctly d Goodyear development and is
Under abnormal conditions OF road service, tests freque
age for tyres made from this new cord material over tyres n
With the superior All Weather ,read and this vast .impr
the cord material Goodyear Tyres are now beyond comparist
This Incompatible material is now used in regular Good
into Goodyear BALBOA tyres Of both kinds to fit new SINAI
majority of wheels now in use.
1o01KJ ~ 40 WIN MO coon WE
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08

up, doors had been nailed up and
much of the original contour of the
place had been hidden.
But as it stands today, Fort West
ern Is as near like the original home
of Captain Howard and his family,
as human endeavor can make it. The
Fort is now the home of many in
teresting relics which have been
gathe1Il from far and, near. The
room which is furnished by Koussi-
noe Chapter. ID. A. r., is a mecca of
things antique and historic.
If Captain Howard should return
to Fort Western in spirit today he
might not be SO surprised. While
the outside surroundings would
cause the staunch old settler to gasp
he would feel perfectly at home in
side. And the shades of Benedict
Arnold, who stayed at the Fort for
nine days. 1915, on his way to Que
bee, would not be so surprised when
he went through the wide doors into
the Fort.
Fort Western, NOW restored to it's
original state, is open to the public
and is one of the points Of interest
to the sight seer in Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08
BINGHAM

Pop. 1143 Val. $o46,466
Bingham was the southern town in
the Bingham Purchase, upon the east
bank of the kennebec River. 1t was
named in honor of William Bingham,
the proprietor of the purchase. The
first settler in the town is supposed
to have been Deacon Ephraim Wood.
Daniel Foster, Joshua Goodrich,
William Fletcher and Rev. Obed Will
son were among the first pioneers.
William Fletcher the first perma :
nent settler, moved from Scion to
Bingham in 1893 and located near
! the present site of Bingham Village.
Rev. Obed Wilson came from
Starks in 1902. In 1887 he preached
the dedication sermon in the church
at Bingham.- He was chairman of
tn, first board of selectmen and re-
presented the town in Legislature
for eight terms. four at Portland and
four at Augusta.
In 1914 there were but two houses
in Bingham Village, but it was in
corporated two years before, on Feb.
6. 1912.
Bingham is situated % miles
northwest of Skowhegan. 1t has an
area of 23,040 acres. It's industries
include numbering. and numbering
products. brick making and furniture
manufacturing. Excellent schools
and churches are maintained.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08
PITTSFIELD
Val. $2,O22,716

Pop. 2700 Val. $2,022,716
OF Pittsield, once known as Ply
mouth Gore, nothing is known previ-
Gus to 1894, when Moses Martin, who
had previously penetrated the I'M
broken forest on a hunting expedi-
ton, came from Norridgewock, built
log cabin and commenced clear
ing for farm.
The valley of the Sebasticook riv-
e. at that time was a favorite hunt
ing ground Of the Norridgewog In
dams. In 1915 the settlement of Ply
mouth Gore was organized as Sebas-
ticook Plantation and in June. 1919
the inhabitants petitioned the Legis-
lature and were incorporated q town
by the name Of Warsaw, it being
said that an Augusta man, named
Bridge. selecting the name. On Feb.
IA, 1924. the name was again chang
ed to the present name Of Pittsfield
in honor of William Pitts. Esq. then
large land proprietor in the town.
In 1928 a portion of Palmyra was an
nexed to the town.
Among the industries of the town
are numbering, spool. bobbin and
novelty manufacturing, wooden man
featuring. and tool making.
Pittsfield is located 90 miles east
of Skowhegan on the Maine Central
Railroad, in Somerset County.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08

offer the Academy to the State as a
gift-not as a free gift for the State
assumed an existing mortgage OF
$3632.50.
This arrangement between the
Town and the State having been
completed. the Normal school came
and has since been doing an ever
increasing business. Then there was
the May school. They called it the
May School for girls. But the girls
did not have a monopoly for a few
boys were admitted. This school was
opened and operated by Julia H. and
Sara r. May, sisters, and graduates
of Mount Holyoke Seminary. I'M
fortunately the school was removed
to Strong in 1881.
The Abbott School. named Little
Blue" deserves more than passing
mention. Rev. Jacob Abbott owned
and occupied tract of about twenty
acres in the center of the town as q
homestead. Deciding to leave the
State he turned the property over to
his brother, Rev. Samuel Abbott to
be used as private school for boys.
This twenty acre tract on it's lower
stretches is covered with a heavy
growth of hard wood. The land COM
prises abrupt hills. low valleys, and
plains. 1t is crossed by a brook.
Rustic bridges with solid granite
foundations and masonry offer the
stroller chance to cross. There are
paths over and around the hills, and
there are two artificial ponds in the
course Of the brook. It's a good
place and n good school. The Alb
bolts established it. They spared
neither work nor money to make it
both attractive and we'll equipped. 1t
is still doing business. This school
is in the central southerly part OF
Pennington Center village.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08
PENNINGTON

..<, :. ~
In 1881, when Stephen Titcomb
built his camp in the valley Of the
Sandy River the only roads were In
dian trails. Stephen was the first
white man to pass the winter in
what is now the town of Pennington.
Later came the Blodgetts and But
terfields and Corbetts and Weatherns
and Bullens and Tuftses-all sturdy
stock attracted by the glowing re-
ports of fertile soil and good hunting
found their way into this section.
| They seem to have come generally
from Damariscotta and Topsham.
They came up the kennebec to Hal
lowell; thence to Readfield Corner;
then they followed the compass
| northwesterly to the Sandy River,
then up the river to the LOCUS of
what is now called Pennington.
The great asset of the town is the
Sandy River. 1t crosses Pennington
lengthwise, coming down through
Madrid. Phillips, Avon and Strong.
The river and it's tributaries furnish
power for the scores of mills along
fifty miles of its course but, more
than that, the fertile intervale lands
are indebted to the turbulent fresh
elS VI inc SdHuy river LUZ tISlI IiCii
soil, and it's this. more than any
other one cause, that makes Farm
ington prosperous farming COM
munity.
Six canning factories send out the
finest quality Of sweet corn, apples
and beans. The Maine Central starts
it's so-called cattle train at Farming
ton every Monday morning for tine
Brighton market; thousands of bar
rels of apples shipped from here
every fall; in addition to feeding it's
home stock thousands of tons of bal
ed hay are shipped from both the up
land and intervale farms.
A word about the schools of Farm
ington, past and present. First
comes the Pennington Academy. The
ell of what is now the State Normal
School building originally housed the
Pennington Academy. The Academy
was chartered by the General Court
of Massachusetts in 1907. 1t opened
for business five years later. 1t lived
to the ripe age of fifty-one years and
sent out the usual number of illustri-
GUS graduates. In 1863 the chance Of
| having a State Normal school locat-
ed at Pennington looked attractive
to the trustees of the Academy, and
after due elaboration they voted to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08
THE RETURNED MAINE BATTLE
FLAGS

Nothing but flags-but simple flags,
Tattered and torn and hanging in rags;
And we walk beneath them with care
less tread.
Nor think OF the hosts of the mighty
dead
That have marched beneath them in
days gone by.
With burning cheek and kindling
eye,
And have bathed their folds with their
young life's tide.
And, dying, blessed them, and, bless
ing, died.
Nothing but flags-yet methinks. at
night
They tell each other their tales of
fright;
And dim spectres come, and their thin
arms Irvine
Round each standard torn as they
stand in line,
AS the word is given,-they charge!
And the dim hall rings with the bat
ties storm.
And once again, through the smoke
and strife,
Those colors lead to a nations life.
Nothing but fags-yet they're bathed
with tears,
They tell of triumphs, of hopes of
fears;-
OF mothers prayers, of a boy away.
OF a serpent crushed. of the coming
daye
Silent, they speak, and the tear will
start
AS we stand beneath them with throb-
bling heart,
And think of those who are ne'er for
got.
Their flags come home-why come
THEY not?
Nothing but flags-yet we hold our
breath
And gaze with awe at those types OF
death.
Nothing but flags, yet the thought Will
come.
The heart must pray though the lips
be dumb.
They are sacred, pure, and we see no
stain
On those dear loved flags at home
again:
Baptized in blood, our purest. best.
Tattered and torn, they're now at rest.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08

of the work which had been done
under the protection of his men.
The tort was named Fort Western in
honor of an English friend Of Gov.
Shirley. When the last beam was in
place and the last spike driven into
place, the Governor took his small
army and returned to Boston.
Captain James Howard with 90
men and four cannon was left in
command of Fort Western. And
this time it was built to stand. While
there was unfriendly feeling all
around. no successful attacks were
made Upon the fertilization. The
long wars between the French and
Indians were still going on ana the
hostile feeling along the border was
apparent.
Those were the days when the true
need of the Fort was brought into
play. Standing alone in the vast
Wilderness, the sturdy little Fort
was a haven for the traveller, the
trapper and the hunter.
In times of war, Captain Howard
had held the Fort. In 1850. Fort
Western was abandoned as a forti-
fication as were the other Maine
IOItS. bul the pldtt Ilstu DtCOiile Il
home to Captain Howard and he re-
manned there as keeper.
BY this point, Captain Howard is
said to be the first Augusta settler.
The once war-lille Fort became a
peaceful abiding place. The pail
sadeS We're torn down and doubtless
furnished warming firewood for the
Forts huge fireplaces during the
buildings met a like fate. Times OF
peace We're in order.
One block house was torn down
shortly after the Fort was given up.
The second block house remained
until 1884.
Captain Howard was a hardy man,
possessed of forethought and per-
severance. He started out with the
firm determination of making Fort
Western his home and the home of
his sons. Proceeding in the proper
manner he took up three lots of
land, which were occupied and util-
lied by himself and his sons. Seven
years after the Fort had been aban-
doned. Captain Howard purchased
the place which comprised 100 acres.
He was no longer keeper, but owner.
And as the years went by the father
| and the sons bought much more
land.
Part of the main building of the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08

Fort Western, Erected in 1854, on
East Bank of Kennebec at Augusta
---Anciently Called Cushn0c

sisted in the building of Fort West
ern by Governor Shirley and 500
soldiers. This was in 1854. They
also built Fort Halifax at Winslow
at the same time. Fort Shirley at
Dresden was already built and the
land company lodged their employees
there while the construction of the
other two forts was in progress.
The scattered English settlers in
this part of the country were to be
protected by this chain of three
forts, Shirley, Western and Halifax.
Fort Western was to be an auxiliary
to Fort Halifax, the most remote of
the three. The storage of supplies
for Fort Halifax was to be made at
Fort Western.
Being at. the head of navigation
as it was. Fort Western commanded
valuable position in the fortifica-
ton of the wild and rugged country
Governor Shirley's cannon and sold
iers protected the land companys
men as they chopped the giants of
the forest and shaped the lumber
for Fort Western and Fort Halifax
The lumber was cut in the vicinity
of Dresden and towed up river on
RATS. The walls of the fort, the
sentry towers and the palisades grew
up slowly, before the wondering eyes
and in spite of the revengeful arrows
of the Indians.
Fort Western was completed late
| in the year of 1854. The main build
ing of the Fort. as seen today even.
was 100 feet long, % feet wide and
16 feet high, The two block houses,
| Of which reproductions today seen,
were also constructed of heavy tim
Der, 20 feet square, with projecting
upper stories and sentry boxes on
| top.
The block houses were built south
west and northeast of the main
building. Two small sentry boxes.
| u feet square. A palisade connected
these four buildings. enclosing the
Fort. as well as a parade ground,
160x62 feet.
Outside of this padisade and 80
feet from it. was on three sides, an
other palisade. The river bank was
| on the fourth side, about the same
distance from the inner palisade.
| The pride of the forest had been
cleaned to fashion the mammoth
timbers. The doors and the WIN
dows were of solid plank. The Fort
was built in a way to Withstand time
and tear of years and years.
! Governor Shirley was justly proud
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-08
lie FlagS"--Of the Civil War i'm ROtunda of S
ndo flag al
by Moses O il employed az Ter a he house.

The source of the inspiration that
caused Mr.. Owen to write THE Re-
turned Maine Battle Flags" is en-
bodied in letter written by Mayor
Augustus r. Smith to State Librarian
Henry l.. Dunnack. The letter fol-
lows:
ut was during the winter of 1861
GO that Moses owen and myself We're
employed as clerks in the Secretary
of States office at the Maine Capitol.
We boarded at the same place. hav-
ing adjoining rooms.
1.-The flags of Maine regiments that
had returned from the War of the
Rebellion had been turned over to
the Adjutant General and had been
grouped around the pillars In the
rotunda of the State House.
while returning from dinner, in
passing through the rotunda to the
Secretarys office, Mr.. owen CHANGED
to overhear this conversation be-
tween two young lady visitors who
had just come into the rotunda
ahead of him. One said, What are
these pointing to the flags. The
other remarked, oh. they're nothing
around This casual remark about
theme and inspiration that produced
the beautiful poem: The Returned
Maine Battle Flags
"a short time after this incident,
perhaps the next morning, after we
had entered the Secretary's office to-
gether. and had taken our seats at
the large, double, fiat top desk,
which we occupied together. Mr..
Owen commenced to write verses on
sheet of wrapping paper, such as
we used for a desk pad. He, being
a very rapid penman, soon had writ
ten four verses of poetry in pencil.
Observing this, l became anxious to
read it, but he was not inclined at
first to show it to me, saying 1t was
of no consequence and he would de-
stroy it. 7, however, prevailed upon
him and read it and, against his
protest, I Immediately took it to Col.
James II. Cochrane, then deputy of
state. to read, who pronounced 1t
fine The result was, after making
copy, the poem appeared in the
Kennebec journal the next morn-
ing"