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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Interference from
Clouds at Portland

Portland, Me, Jan. 24.-Inou-
sands of Portland citizens from
roofs, streets and windows of homes,
peered through bits of smoked or
colored glass this morning and OBJ
served all stages of the eclipse up
to the time when the sun was about
three-fourths covered by the moon.
At that point, clouds drifted in the
range of vision, and spoiled natures
spectacle. Several times later it was
possible to catch a hazy glimpse of
the two bodies through riffs in the
dense clouds. but nearly everyone
agreed that the eclipse, viewed from
this city at least. lacked thrills.
The maximum darkness reached
at any time was no murkier than
that of the stormy day. Electric
lights were turned on in many Of
fees, although not actually needed.
Percy Is. McCord, amateur radio
cNperimcnter. picked UP the follow
ing message from the coast guard
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
Meeting Boys Club
Committee Held

A meeting of the committee In
charge of the drive to raise funds for
the Waterville Boys club was held in
the office of the mayor Yesterday aft
ernoon. The following team captains
were named: Carroll n. Perkins. II.
B. Welch. c. F. Miller. S. L. Berry,
o. J. Giguere. George Z. Vose, Walter
Austin, Arthur Daviau. r. T. Tur-
cote. Alfred Johnson. Fred A. For
tier. w. A. Brown. Samuel Freeman.
A. F.. Cyr. all OF Waterville, r. A.
Jewell and II. o. Brown of Fairfield.
Robert Nivison and Joseph Belanger
of Winslow. and +. L. Foster Of Fair
field.
a meeting Of the team captains
will be held at the Elmwood hotel
next Friday evening to make UP the
teams. A list of 1000 names has been
made from which to draw the MEM
bers Of the teams. G. F.. Glover. SUI
perintendent of the Waterville pub
lie schools. was named as a commit
tee of one to look after matter per-
tanning to the drive in the public
schools.
DIR. 7. J. Hill. Mayor Leon o. Teb-
belts. Arthur ]. Roberts and Edwin
Meader were appointed as special
committee to help out where need
ed. 1t is also planned to have n
committee of women, not to solicit
funds. but to render such services as
they are able to render.
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DRUGS EXCITE
THE KIDNEYS,
DRINK WATER

The American men and women
must guard constantly against kid
ney trouble because we often eat too
much rich food. Our blood is filed
with acids which the kidneys strive
to filter out; they weaken from over
work, become sluggish. the elimina-
tive tissues clog and the result is
kidney trouble, bladder weakness and
a general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps
OF lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy. full of sediment, or you are
obliged to seek relief two or three
times during the night; if you suffer
with sick headache. or dizzy, nervous
spells. acid stomach, or if you have
rheumatism when the weather is
bad, begin drinking lots of good soft
water and get from your pharmacist
about four ounces of Jad Salts. Take
tablespoonful in a glass of water
before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys may then act fine.
This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice,
combined with lithia, and has been
used for years to help flush and
stimulate clogged kidneys, to neu-
tralize the acids in the system so
they no longer are source of irrita-
ton, thus often relieving bladder dis
orders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; can not
injure, makes a delightful efferves-
cent lithia- water drink and belongs
in every home. because nobody can
make mistake by having a good
kidney flushing any time BY all
means have your physician examine
your kidneys at least twice year.
Adv
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The Author of "Peter Pan"

Sir James Barrie, besides being one
or the most infrequert of magazine
contributors, is also one of the shyest
ana most elusive Of literary celebri-
ties. He is SO unaltera bly, opposed
to granting interviews that a few
years ago, when he visited the United
States. even New York newspaper
men were unable to get word out
of him. One of them, in fact, after
vainly trying every exredient known
to the successful journalist, wrote n
wholly imaginative interview and did
1t so successfully that 1t is considered
something of a classic OF its kind.
IL happens that an American, Mr..
Herbert Brenon director of the screen
production of peter Pan" has re-
Gently been very close to the author.
and to Mr.. Brenon We are indebted
for the following glimpse of de-
lightful personality. Barrie" he
says. lis a little man, short, shy and
shabby, with a twinkle in his eye and
a great love for humanity in his
heart-and usually pipe in his
mouth. He is wise, whimsical and
witty. His sympathies are of the
widest. his kindness Is without end.
He Is in years perhaps sixty-five;
but his age is all on the outside. His
hair and mustache are gray, but his
heart is that of a child, and he has
the most sympathetic face have
ever seen. He is as unusual as
quaint and curious as Peter Pan
himself. l have never known a more
delightful companion. He has a mind
SO rich in folklore. so fertile in
strange fancies-partly made up Of
fiction. partly of fact, which he re-
lates with distinct fascination that
he seems kind of modern Aesop.' -
From the Delineator toy February.
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for some time the precarious condi-
ton Of his health. but he would not
stop. And SO he went, as he must
have wished, and perhaps have
foreseen. suddenly, still in the game,
still working.
"Dr. Whittier had very keen and
very lively mind. He was the wit
tiest among us, with a dry, quaint
hCmor that was the expression oe
his own elusive personality. He ell
joyed turning the tables on himself.
when we turn from his mind to
his heart the first and perhaps tho
last thing to record Is his deep per-
sonal interest in the members of the
student body No other member OF
the faculty did SO much to help I'M
dergraduates who were in need Of
work or of financial assistance. How
often professors and students too,
would say to discouraged and needy
boys, Go to DIR. Whittier: he will
help YOU TfAt same interest and
sympathy led him to climb Jrmi-
tory stairs or '-alis to distant chap
ter houses at all hours of day and
night when students were Ill or hurt.
1T must be some consolation to
those who knew him best and loved
him to remember what q fine man
he was, how devoted a husband and
father. how good citizen. how loyal
a friend. To the college he gave the
last full measure of devotion, and
surely to him
Some corner of the world will be
Forever Bowdoin'
Others will take up his manifold
tasks and duties; for the college .oes
on as her servants do their FORK
and die. His influence will for long
years to come still inspire and help.
After unremitting toll to him comes
rest-after labor repose-and the
sweetest nunc dinittis must have
stolen on mis- ears, for he must have
known that he had done good
work."
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WAYS AND BRIDGES

The committee on Ways and Bridges
will give a public hearing In Room
113 at the State House. in Augusta, on
WEDNESDAY,. Jan. %, 1926, 2 P. Nj.
II. P. %. Resolve for the repair
and rebuilding of the Foster Hill road
in Freeman.
II. p. 81. Resolve providing for per-
manent improvements of the road In
Jerusalem Township. Franklin coun-
ty, Maine.
II p. 81. Resolve in favor Of the
Town of Bethel for repair OF road.
II. p. 80. Resolve in favor OF the
town Of GiIead in oxford county for
repair of road on north side Of An
droscoggin river.
H. p. 80. Resolve in favor Of the
town of Gilcad for repair Of road
across Wild river.
II. p. "a. Resolve in favor Of the
town Of New Portland for aid In re-
pair and construction Of road.
Fl. p. 35. Resolve in favor Of the
town of Moscow for aid in repair OF
road.
II. P. 80. Resolve in favor Of road
in the town Of St. Adams.
H. p. 80. Resolve appropriating
money for a road in Pittsfield.
II. P. IL. Resolve in favor OF
bridge In the town of kingman.
H. p. 80. Resolve in favor Of road
In the town of Monson.
H. p. &c. Resolve appropriating
money to aid in building q road in
Winterville Plantation. Aroostook
county.
HOMER H. DUNBAR, Sec.
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Former Sheriff
Colby F. Getchell
Dies at Waterville

SolpJ t rClCiIClI' LII many SCai = n
resident of Waterville and for three
terms the sheriff of kennebec county,
died at his home. 16 Allen road. sud-
denly yesterday morning. Mr.. Getchell
had enjoyed good health up to the
time of his death. He had finished
eating his breakfast and was sitting
in front of the fireplace when the end
came. His wife was in the next room
and rushed to her husband when she
heard him slump down in the chair.
Efforts to bring the man back to
consciousness were made by MEM
bers of the family and a doctor was
quickly summoned. but death had
been instantaneous, resulting from
acute INDIGESTION.
Mr.. Getchell was born In Winslow
on the 18th day OF November. 1851.
and he attended the schools OF that
town. When a boy he worked in the
woods and on the river. later becom-
ing a custom shirt cutter and work
ing in the King factory in Oakland
and the Hathaway factory in Water
Vile. In 1899 he was made a deputy
sheriff by Andrew McFadden. then
sheriff of the county. and served four
years under him and four years un-
der his successor. Frank Ham.
In 1908 Mr.. Getchell was elected
sheriff and served for two years. He
was elected for a second term in 1912
and again in 1914. Since leaving Of
flee in 1917. Mr.. Getchell had been
virtually retired. carrying on some
work in real estate. He was appoint
ed chairman Of the board of registra-
ton for Waterville by Governor Mil
liken and reappointed by Governor
Baxter.
Besides his WIFE,. who was Miss
Ella Jacobs. Mr.. Getchell is survived
by a brother. Daniel w. Getchell OF
Winslow, who celebrated his 18th
birthday three weeks ago. and two
sons, Chester w. and Wesley. both OF
this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Getchell observed
their 50th wedding anniversary on
April rs. 1923. at which time they en-
tertained in their home many people
from all parts of central Maine.
Funeral services will be held from
the home on Tuesday afternoon at 2
o'clock. The knights Templar ritual
will be used. Rev. BENJAMIN Beatty
of the Getchell Street Baptist church
officiating Burial will be in the Pine
Grove cemetery in this city.
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Memorial Service
fr..&;onad from Pace Cne)

Mater. He was for so long sucn
vital part OF the college that IN d
real sense what he did for BoWdoll
abides, and we must thlnK OF ms
work and of his influence as FORCES
that are still alive. The college Is
proud to inscribe his name on the
roll of those who have done the most
for her and will long hold MIN up
to the generations that are yet Tor
to come as an inspiring example,
pattern of loyalty and devotion.
DIR. Stills then traced DR.. Whit
Tiers career through his life OF SER
vice to Bowdoin. without interrupt
ton, almost without vacation a per-
iod of IS years crammed to the full
with work and only ended by death.
After speaking of DR.. Whittiers
war service and Of his work IN the
Bowdoin Medical School, President
Sills continued:
For one very interesting thing
1T DR.. Whittier was that without
much university or graduate
[. aiming he had in very full measure
the attitude of the scholar and the
scientist. He did as much original
research as did any other men,
Der of the faculty of his time, per-
haps indeed he did more. Some OF
his discoveries were of national I'M
portance as for example his demon
stration microscopically that the fill
ing pin of every rifle has an IN
dividuality of its own. that every
cartridge leaves as it were its own
finger prints.
"Reviewing thus hastily the outer
life of DR.. Whittier we can see how
many sided and how interesting a
man he was-an athlete, a physi-
clan, an expert in physical traini1~.
q pathologist, bacteriologist,
criminologist, the friend of the hum
blest freshman, and the peer of men
in his own line all over the country.
What man does is after all
pretty good indication of what ne
is; and as one passes swiftly in re-
view those busy years. it is not ur-
prising to find the keynote to DR..
Whittier's career in hard work, In
tireless industry. OF all the men of
my acquaintance he worked the
hardest and rested the least. He
was not a busy rlan with that fret
fulness and BUSINESS that is the bare
of so many Americans and that is so
essentially childish. He always had
time to ne interrupted. l never knew
him to say, I'm busy But he work.
cd as few other men work, and long
into the night. In the Lucret.an
phrase noCtes vigilavit SerenaS.
Those lights in his laboratory enc
Gould never find ont, pass he by ever
50 late. Many OF his friends realized
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AcLeary Speaks at
MdeavOr Service

Robert H. McLeary, a sophomore
Colby College, was the :pe;, ker
the Christian Endeavor services
I.the Getchell Street Free Baptist
uurch last evening. Mr.. - airy
MSmade for himself a considerable
Npctation as n deputation preacher
NJ az the college is prominent In
Noating and religious work. HIS
Himon last evening. which was lis
aDea TO with grea. interest and res
iecs was entitled, Sins
me talk was based on the various
~Snceptions of sin during the life of
.lIM and In a very interesting man.
Wy ne emphasized the saving power
Iesus, The three sins which
.nlA pointed ont in his teachings
MY clearly and fully explained ~
~. McCleary as WIS also the ques-
wv Was Christ Slnless."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26

new furnace for the church in the
hands OF the trustees. There was a
general discussion of future plans
the churcm, at the close of which 4
social time and smoker was enjoyed
The next meeting of the club will
he at the home of Perley Grant on
High street.
Rev. r. j. Mooney will deliver a
steropticon lecture on Shakes
peare's Macbeth" for the benefit of
the Athletic Association at the l.. H.
7.30.
Alrs. McAllister # Burnham was a
guest or her mother, Mrs. Lydia No
BILE Friday.
Mrs. Doris Day of Oakland passed
the week end with Miss Vera Day
on Bunker street.
There will be a public dance I'M
der the auspices of George o. Grover
post, No. II, in the Legion han
TUESDAY evening. Music will be fu :
nished by Tozier's Singing Orches-
ira.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-01-26
STATE MEETINGS
IN WATERv|LLE
DURING WEEK

Waterville is to be the scene for
State meetings of two organizations
this week. The 18th annual Grange
Lecturers conference is to be held
on Thursday and Friday and the
State Fedora ton of Womens Clubs
annua! meeting will take place on
Thursday.
The meeting of the Grange lectur-
ers will open Thursday evening with
meeting at which a number Of
prominent men will be present, in
Guiding Governor Ralph o. Brewster,
DR.. A. 0. Thomas. State commissions
er of education. f. =. Washburn,
State commissioner of agriculture, o.
l.. Martin. national lecturer of the
Grange. and John E. Abbott of North
Berwick. State master of the Grange.
An entertainment for the opening
session has been arranged by the
Waterville Winslow Chamber Of
Commerce which will include selec-
tions by the Colby Male Quartet,
, solos by John +. Choate. readings by
Edward Baxter and saxophone solos
by Mr.. Pomeroy of Benton.
The other sessions of the meeting
will be given to a general discussion
of the work of the lecturers and the
meeting at 100 o'clock Friday after
noon will be open to all Changers.
The Federation OF Woman'S Clubs
will limit their meeting to a single
day Thursday. opening at the Uni
tartan church at 10 o'clock. Adj
dresses of welcome will be given by
Mrs. Maybelle II. Brown. president
of the Waterville club Mayor Leon
o. Tebbetts and Arthur j. Roberts,
president of Colby college. The re-
Spouse will be made by Miss Anna
&. Witherle. first vice president of the
federation. Mrs. Florence Waugh
Danforth will deliver an address and
the reports of the heads of the de-
partments will be heard.
At noon a luncheon will be served
at the Ware parlors by the women of
the Unitarian Alliance. At the aft
ernoon meeting. which is open to the
public, there will be selections on the
OH gan and by Quartet and at 2.30
o'clock Governor Brewster will
speak. The meeting will close with
Il luncheon served by the executive
board of the Waterville Woman's
club at the home Of Mrs. E. p. Fish
on College avenue. Music will be
furnished by the Colby trio.
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NATIONAL HOME

Officer OF the day, Capt. John DAILY.
Alexander l.. Nicholson has re-
turned from pass to visit relatives
in Boston.
The returns from furloughs Satur-
day were Frederick II. S. Morrill,
from Lewiston, Henry Deveno from
Central Falls, r. l.. and Albert Le-
Clair from Lewiston.
Frank Michael Connors, of Man.
chester. N. H., late U. s. Navy, has
been re-admitted to the Home.
Ivan Bicknell Post No. 90, will hold
its regular meeting this Tuesday
evening and request full attend
ance. Refreshments after the work.
The Sunday evening concert was
largely attended and thoroughly en-
joyed. Fred f. Fairbrother rendered
a pleasing trombone solo.
Ernest Micue. late Co. f, Is, U. S.
1f"hi Art. and Arthur l.. Manches-
ter, late U. S. Navy, have been grant
ed discharges from the Home.
The Home Sunday school held a
social Saturday evening in G. A. X.
hall from Z to 10 O'Clock and there
were about 81 present. The evening
W, was pleasantly passed playing games.
There were also violin duets by
Messrs. George w. Page and Henry
Ramme. Refreshments of ice cream
cake and fancy cookies We're served
during the evening.
George p. Dudley, OF North Jay.
late First Co, $50 Depot Brigade,
Thomas ]. Mckinney of Charles
town. late U. S. Navy; Patrick j..
Kirby of Leominster, late Co. K, 9.
Mass. Cav; Arthur J. Daige, of
Utica, late Co. d. 26, U. S. Inf. Le-
Forrest Crocker of Bath, late Co. X.
l. Me. Inf, and Everett II. Bradford,
of NORWAY. late Co.,I, 326. L. S. Inf,
have been admitted to the Home.
The moving picture program for
this week will be Monday, Edna Pur-
Vance in Tho Woman of Paris. >
with Il SportliGht and comedy: Wei
neednN NInlh Damn and CIV CNNN II
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Mary Abby Hunter

Mary Abby Hunter, widow Of the
late William II. Hunter. died yester-
day morning at the home Of her
daughter. Mrs. A. w. McLeary, "a
Drummond avenue.
Mrs. Hunter was born in East
Strong IS years ago, the daughter of
Ephriam and Mary Cutie HartwelL.
During the early part of her married
life she lived in Portland, later NOV
Ing to Strong.
She is survived by one daughter,
Mrs. Josie McLeary of this city; one
son. Harry Hunter Of Strong; two sis
tiers, Mrs. Bell Butler Of New York
and Mrs. Charles Wilder of North
Wilbraham. and six grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held from
the home in Strong at o'clock Tues
day. 1nterment will be in the family
lot in Strong.
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Prof. shap!ey's Test Success

Buffalo, N. Y. Jan. 24.-Prof. Har-
low Shapey, director of Harvard OBJ
servatory, who watched the total
eclipse of the sun with special appara-
tus from the United States weather
bureau on top of the Telephone build
ing, declared after his experiments
lad been completed that he was salts
fled with the potential scientific value
of his observations.
Any actual photographs Of the sun
in eclipse were probably not obtained
with great success from his station,
Prof. Shapley said, but he was able to
make observations of color bands and
other phenomena which he considered
of great value.
The object of his efforts. Prof Shap-
lev said he believed had been IS per
cent. accomplished. He was assisted
by Dr. c. NJ. Olmstead of the Univcr-
sity of Buffalo, former astronomer at
Mt. Wilson observatory. California,
end other members of the University
Of Buffalo staff
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WANT MARK DOWN
Continued from PAGE One)

rim alone discussed the debt ques-
ton, his address had more of an eff
feet throughout the country and
was given more space in the news
papers than the speech of the pres
ent premier and the man who seven
times had headed the leader of
Frances ship of state.
The embassy is the more danger
Gus question from the viewpoint of
internal politics. Parliament is more
evenly divided on 1t than on any
other problem now facing the pres
ent government. Therefore, Premier
Herriot decided that he must dis
pose of it first.
But both parliament and the coun-
try appear to realize that all other
questions are of secondary import
ance wher compared to the debt i'm
broglio, the settlement of which
strikes at the very root of Frances
economic and financial life. Premier
Herriot's speech on the subject dur
ing the course of the coming week
is expected to be the most important
declaration the present government
has been called upon to make since
it assumed power last June.
A cabinet council presided over by
L
8 o'clock tomorrow evening and 1t
will lay before his colleagues for
their approval an outline Of his dec
laration on Frances debts.
Excepting the 26 Communist dep
uties, whose avowed policy is the
destruction of all Bourgeoise gov
ernments, close students of French
parliamentary life assert that there
are not 10 members out of the 5S4
deputies who favor outright repudia-
ton OF the American debt. They
declare. however, that there certain
ly are not 10 members who are pre-
pared to accept the figure of more
than four billion dollars mentioned
recently in the United States as the
amount owed the United States by
France.
Premier Herriot Is regarded as
likely to experience no difficulty in
welding the chamber into a solid
whole behind him when he advocates
that the amount of the debt be con-
siderably reduced. Practical una
nimity is also said to have been
reached upon the thesis of recogni-
ton, without discussion of principle,
of the debt to an amount of more
than nine hundred million dollars
advanced to France by the United
States from November II. 1913, to
September. 1910. but concerning the
amount obtained from the United
States during active war operations,
France will insist upon substantial
reduction.
The phrase coined by former Pre-
mier CaillauX, to the effect that "a
large part of that money was used
for the purchase of uniforms in
which our soldiers were killed." met
with much success in the chamber
Of deputies last week. The French
government. it is asserted. does not
desire to enter debt negotiations in
a combative spirit but hopes to per-
suade the United States that France
should receive preferential treatment
over other countries which suffered
less than France during the war.
In line with this purpose great ef-
forts have been made in ministerial
circles to convey the impression that
last weeks speech in the chamber
by NJ. Marin did not represent the
cabinets viewpoint.
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N0man'S Club
Mtertains Children

Enc Business and Professional
ans Club entertained 20 chill
aat their rooms in the Profess
49,. building Saturday afternoon,
nss,ng them for the assista nee
,,ss aad given at the B. P. q. club
jmsAlnment which was held in the
d. High school auditorium on
- evening Of January Is. The
AZ = was Mrs. Alice G. Osgood
que was assisted by the Misses
h.ace Morris and Mary Hogan.
nss,ns and games were enjoyed or
|cr.,n ours and refreshments of ice
Il waters and candy were serv
h me Youngsters were in unison
us.pressing their pleasure of the
Avse present were: Eleanor
| On = carmen Bezier. d ,nna Ken
laS.,D ettina Robar. Doris Booth,
~ wort, Phillis Knight, Flor
tss. VEIN. Priscilla Perkins. Ma
NM Parks, Lame Rancou t. Jo-
fbrsss George. Eybil WoIman,
hr 'ce Shapiro, Geraldine Goud-
Ia. Mildred Slower, Harvey
An.s Cecil Hutchinson, Bernard
So John Alden.