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Evening star., 1925-06-08
May Business Fell or.

A ma jority of early calculations
made by the Department of Commerce
as to the actual state of business dlJ
ing May indicate decrease activity
over the country, as compared witt
the previous month.
Indices Of production and prices IN
pig iron, wool, silk and locomottSe
works showed decreases, and the
cessation of high pressure business
was also indicated by the reports q
mail order house sales. Most of the
records. however. indicated more ac-
tive business than during the sagrre
month of last year. ~
Personal Mention. 7
Milton f. Allies, president OF ho
Riggs National Bank, returned to his
institution this morning after several
weeks at his Summer home neat'
Harpers Ferry. Mr.. Allies is broNT
rested and greatly improved physically.
William F. Ham. president of the
Washington Railway and Electric Co.
has also returned after a Today trip
to New England and Canada
Local Exchange Quiet.
Lethargy prevailed on, the local
Stock Market this morning. Mergen-
thaler Linotype eased off to IT'S on
sales of 81 shares. and a single stock
certificate of Railway common was
traded in at 122h. Capital Traction
was firm at 95i2, as was Railway
preferred at SO. An odd lot sale uf
Washington Loan and Trust Co. was
made at 400, a new high record fer
the stock.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
There Were Fewer erocers

It has often been said that there
are too many grocery stores. We are
inclined to think so ourselves. The
numerous small, starving stores run
up high cost of operation-or may
be fail-and the public pays the bill
They keep the real grocers from en-
joying sufficient volume to make for
the most economical distribution.
But is the grocery business any
different in this respect than any
other of mans pursuits? If there
were only half as many laborers,
the laborer would get higher pay. If
the number of wheat farmers were
cut in two, wheat would bring a
higher price. Following this chain of
reasoning one merchant ventured:
well, maybe we've got too many
people"
We can follow the argument up to
this point. But what we'd like to
ask is: With only half as many gro
GERS, how much better off would the
surviving grocers be?
We're inclined to believe we had
better leave things as they are
Editorial in Che Progressive Grocer.
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Bates Debaters
Win, 93-12, Over
Univ. of Birmingham

Lewiston, June IA cable mes
sage received today at Bates College
from Erwin D. Canham announcing
the victory of the debating team
over the University of Birmingham,
93 to -. This was held May %, and
Is the fourth in the tour of the
British Isles by the Bates men. 1t
is the first in which the opposing
team has been made up entirely Of
undergraduates. This victory Is all
the more pleasing in view of the
fact that the decision is by vote of
the audience in 4 foreign land. An
American team would have to put
up unusually keen arguments to be
unusually convincing to overcome
the unconscious prejudice of
British audience against what must
inevitably seem to them a strange
foreign accent and manner.
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Gold Mine cockroache.

Mesa, Ari-The cockroach is a
lowly bug; he never had no show.
but he can tell you where to dig to
find gold below, and that's more
than a lot of "bugs," including
numerous humbugs, have done. So
save your cockroaches and locate a
gold mine.
Years ago a fabulously rich gold
mine in the Superstition Mountains,
25 miles east of this city, became
lost when the only man who knew
its exact location died. The mine,
known as the Lost Dutchman," has
been the goal of fortune hunters
ever since, some with divining rod
and others with Indian guide, but
the Lost Dutchman" has remained
lost.
Now comes a pair Of progressive
fortune hunters to whom such
Anticipated devices a. devining rods
and Indian guide are anathema.
Having read how certain rich
mine in Mexico that had been lost
ever since the Spaniards had cover
ed it up when they were forced to
leave the country more than 100
years ago had been rediscovered by
watching the peculiar actions of
some cockroaches in that vicinity,
they had 200 of the ''divining' cock
reaches sent to them.
The gold mine cockroaches stand
about one and one-quarter inch
high and have three gold stripes
down their back and are said to be
found only in the vicinity of rich
gold MINES.
The plan of operations o, the
new searchers is said to sc as fol-
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per's brother Fred soper in West
Winthrop.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wilson of
Richmond have been guests Of Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Masterman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Gordon and son
Scott and Miss Barry of Portland
were guests Sunday Of Mrs. Cora
Gordon.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c. Worters, Mr..
and Mrs. M. A. Paisley. Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Mathey and son Edward and
daughter Claire, Mrs. James Mathey
and Herbert Worters of Somerville,
Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Billion and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Dunn of Ais
ton. Mass, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Dris-
coll of Belmont, Mass, Mrs. Clifton
Titus of Portland and Ralph Titus of
Boston, were guests at 'Idlewilde''
over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Stockman,
William Stockman and Mrs. Albert
Taylor of Fairfield were guests SUM-
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Knight.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. j. O'Brien of Au-
gusta visited relatives in town over
Sunday.
Miss Beirdella Richardson and Paul
Brogan of Auburn were weekend
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Fall and
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Grover.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Schwartz and
two daughters, Constance and Janice
of North Easton, Mass, were week
end guests of Mr.. Schwartzs parents
Mr.. and Mrs. kenton Schwartz, at
Winthrop Center.
Herbert Bailey and daughter, Miss
Jeanette, of Rockland, Mass, have
been visiting relatives in town.
Miss Marion Maxim of Canton
Mass, has been visiting in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. B. Tarbox of Port
land were weekend guests of Mrs
Tarbox's sister and her husband, Mr.
and Mrs. L. p. Sturtevant. On SUM-
day Mrs. Lizzie Ellis, Lyman Mason
| and Miss Marguerite Sullivan were
guests at the Sturtevant home.
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WINTHROP!
Funeral Of William Il. Gordon

FUNERAL OF William H. 1oFooU
Funeral services for the late Will
liam H. Gordon were held Friday af-
ternoon at o'clock from the home
Rev. Arthur. Jones, pastor of the
Friends church was the officiating
clergyman and the bearers were the
four sons, Willie Gordon, Arthur Le-
roy Gordon, Fred M. Gordon and
Henry Gordon. s.
The burial was in the East Win
throp Cemetery. Mr.. Gordon was n
years Of age and besides the widoy,
Mrs. Ann Gordon he leaves seven
children and five grandchildren. Mr..
Gordon had resided in Winthrop for
about Al years and was employed for
33 years at the Bailey Oilcloth shop.
Relatives from out Of town who were
present at the funeral service were
Fred NJ. Gordon of Gardiner, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Gordon of Hal
lowell. Mrs. Grace Young and Gordon
Buzzell of Livermore Falls, and Wal
ter Gordon of Mt. Vernon.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. B. Grover on Sat
urday entertained at a family dinner
party. The guests were Mr.. and Mrs
w. J. Thibodeau and family of Lynn,
yer, Mrs. w. C. Kinds Jr., and two
children James and Frances and
Philip Sturtevant. At this gathering
four generations were represented on
the Grover side being, c. A. Grover,
C. B. Grover. Mrs. Kinds and her
children.
Mrs. Jessie Moody and daughter.
Miss Florence Of Gardiner visited
relatives in town Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George johnson and
son Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Frazee AND
two children Of Portland, Mrs. Char
les Morrison and two children and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Frazee and three
children were dinner guests Sunday
of Wilder Frazee.
DIR. Don S. Knowlton delivered the
Memorial address at Litchfeld Sat
urday afternoon.
: Stuart Wolf left yesterday morning
for Buffalo. N. Y.
Irving Pinkham was home from
Colby college over the weekend.
c, w. vose of Cambridge, Mass. Is
the guest Of his sister, Mrs. George
Foster.
The W. H. Cook house on Western
Ave. has been sold to Clarence Per-
the Ella Mcintosh Agency Of Angus
ia.
DIR. Luce and Miss Gertrude Luce
of Portsmouth, N. H., have been
visiting relatives and friends in town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Harris and
Mrs. Miney Harris Of Waterville
were weekend guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Kendall Harris.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar H. Jackson of
Augusta were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. C. K. Longfellow.
9 Mrs. Leslie Hudson Of Guilford
was tn week lend guest Of her moth
err, Mrs. E. A, Mason.
Mrs. Charles Stevens Of Fayette
was recent guest of her daughter,
Miss Marka Stevens.
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Goodrich.
Miss Dorothy Hume and Percy Jones
of Burnham and Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Stewart and family and Mr. and
Mrs. Ellory Stewart and Lillian
Stewart of Lewiston were guests on
sunday of Mr.. and Mrs. Ivory Hous-
ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. H. Soper of Port
land were guests Sunday of Mr.. So
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High Cost of Student pu. to 1u,urv

Taking the country throughout, it is
estimated that the fees paid by the
students at the various colleges repre-
sent only about half the cost of their
tuition. The high cost of students is
due mainly to the unusual luxuries
that they demand and the waste they
are responsible for.
They must have the most modern
equipment in their dormitories and
they are so careless or Indifferent in
the matter of caring for the property
that the expenses of these institutions
are about doubled.
They must have showers in suffi-
Gent number to accommodate all who
care to make use of them without the
annoyance of waiting for their turn,
and little attention is paid to the
waste of water and electricity. The
paper unnecessarily wasted is suffi-
cient to make substantial contribution
to the operation of any college.
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lows: When they near the sus-
pected location of the lost gold
mine they will let loose one cock
roach and will follow it. When It
tires and stops they will walk on a
Few yards in that direction and turn
loose another one and so on until
the last one turned loose returns to
the place where the next to the last
one stopped. They will then go to
the four points of the compass and
turn one loose at each place. When
these cockroaches all assemble at
the same place that's where the gold
mine Is. Simple, isn't it?
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any EVENING BLAZE GIVES AUGUSTA
F|REMEN A TOUGH BATTLE WITH DAMAGE
TO OAK Street HOUSE OF ABOUT $4,000

st.rting from spontaneous COM
.:'s,,n under a stairway in the shed
z ". house at 80 Oak street, owned
!. AZ Augusta Real Estate Associa-
q, { f,re which for a hot thirty
81 I,n.te. threatened destruction to
IS. s,y stable of H. w. Bailey which
~ sdioins the Oak street pro-
nag AZ the winthrop Court side.
pnP.hs group Of dwellings and
~ s,r~s IN the immediate neighbor-
us ave the entire force of the
1900 are department the hottest
.ss sarly Monday evening, which
~. nv have experienced since last
x ~ blaxe was a mean one to- get
IA with the Bailey stable APP
s..,fiv doomed as the flames from
~ ting shed were leaping thirty
-. IL fhe air and scorching the
~ and finish projection, five lines
sose were laid and the early eff
~. a the fire fighters were devoted
y holding the consuming names
e s,hin re confines of the building
..ssre they originated.
IA, vaIient efforts and one OF the
.,sssrest exhibitions OF controlling
~ drowing out bad blaze, which
&. depautment has had occasion to
s.,Sls IN some months. the damage
=. for the most part confined to the
80 street house shed and ell, and
~ furniture of the two families
wu.',rvine the house. Clarence Fish
ss;anted the upper fiat and the
1000 by fire and water to his
s,.rss1,re was heaviest and is not
scrrred by insurance protection. A
nsisv family. new tenants in the
800 $50 anpartment, also suffered some
d,nage from smoke and water;
The entire damage to the mouse
"a Attings will probably approx
s,sfe about 5000, with the house ful-
y covered by insurance. The north
"a Il the H. w. Bailey livery and
ssitine stable was considerably
scsrched and may add some $500 or
IA 10 the damage total.
q alarm from Box 511. which is
aIrectlv opposite the house num-
ssrsd 40 Oak street, was sounded at
IN minutes before z o'clock. and
within half hour the blaze was un-
rs control Of the firemen, though
IA all-out was not sounded until
10 o'clock.
The place where the fire originated
ia been used for the storage OF
rant pals and oils, and Chief Engi-
neer Roy X. Small. who thoroughly
Investigated the scene of the blaze
4 soon as 1t was possible to enter
Ia structure, which a few minutes
teforo had been a roaring vortex OF
dame. stated last night that in his
oplnjon the cause was spontaneous
combustion in the collection of in
fammable materials.
Ma Fisher had stepped out into
4hssecond floor Of the shed to call
the house cat. when she was con-
ffonttd BY the sheet of flame in the
ihed stairway. She called to her
hisband. who Immediately dashed
across The street to pull the alarm.
The several pieces Of apparatus were
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
customer is Always Right, Costly

One of the most successful retail
merchants in the country tells me
that he thinks we have gone to ex-
tremes in defending the hypothesis
that the customer is always right.
at is a good business slogan" he
says. "and frequently the customer
is right. But what about the times
when the customer is obviously
wrong? If we permit ourselves to
be imposed upon by saying that he
is always right, then we are unfair
to all the rest of our customers. IL
a woman returns a cloak that has
been damaged and we accept it, the
only way we can make up the loss
is by charging a little more for
other cloaks".-Fred Kelley, in Ma
tons Business.
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Rimians Fail in
| Second Attack
In French Morocco

Fee, French Morocco, June l-(At)
The Riffiian invaders today launch
ed another attack upon the heights
of Bibane, on the Ouergha front. but
with little success. The Riffs appear
hypnotized by this sector, where they
had their first success against the
French but where more recently they
have suffered two serious defeats.
Concentrations of ADD ell Krim's
forces continue to be reported from
different parts of the troubled zone.
Reports from the central sector of
the front state that $500 men have
been observed there, although with
the exception of sharp fighting in the
region of Bibane only desultory fir
ing has occurred.
The attack today was made With
machine guns. Previously the Riffs
have fused rs and 100 millimetre
pieces against the Bibane strong
hold
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

A factory whistle the other day
signalled the triumph of industry over
the Jersey marshes. Sixty acres of
swampland, habitat of water fowl,
cat tails, and rushes, has now be-
come the setting of what is to be
the second largest telephone factory
in the world. A complete cable plant,
power house, coal and ash handling
building, gas house, and the steel
skeletons of other buildings have
sprung up between the Hackensack
and the Passaic Rivers, built largely
upon thousands of piles driven into
1.-THE marshy ground, which has now
become solid.
With the first sound of the whistle,
1.-THE manufacture of lead-covered tele-
phone cable began; and the day of
the honking water fowl was ended.
The new cable shop is the first
Ipart of the Kearny Works of the
Western Electric Company, an enter
Iprise unique in industrial history be-
cause of the unusual site and the
original methods followed in its con-
struction. Before this site was
chosen, forty-two. properties in the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02
Final Meeting st. Mary's
Hay Name Society

a special entertainment feature
~ hoeu arranged for the final
mesting Of the season of the st.
xArys Holy Name Society, which
xin ~ held on Wednesday evening
q this week at 7.30 o'clock. G. A.
H&rfnon, Of Portland. general
agspt for the Grand Trunk and
Canadian National Railways will
deliver almost interesting and en-
tslsalning lecture, which will be
Illustrated with FIVE reels of NOV
ing pictures. 1t is anticipated that
there will be one of the largest at
tsndances Of the season at the ses-
sion tomorrow evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-06-02

struction of the buildings for the
manufacture of lead-coyered cable
started, half Of the site was in the
water.
The buildings have equipment with
capacity Of 2l0000,000 conductor
feet of lead-covered cable per week.
The Conductor foot" is the stand
ard, of measurement for cable, as it
applies to the total length of wire
made into cable, irrespective of the
different sizes of the cable itself.
With this weekly output of 10000
miles of wire, in the form of cable,
it would take only six weeks to pro-
duce wire enough to reach the moon.
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To Destroy Grasshoppers

The grasshopper pest appears In
the wheat sections ever so often and
the Kansas state agricultural college
has called to the attention of the
farmers that the hoppers roost at
night on weeds along the edge of the
field and that one of the most effec-
tive ways of getting rid of them is
to burn the weeds at night The en-
tomologists say that If the grass
hoppers can be held down long
enough for the second leaf of the
wheat plant to get under way they
are not likely to do much damage.
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How Many Events Could Pass in
Sixty Seconds

How Many Events Could Pass in
Sixty Seconds
Once. in the state of Massachu-
sets there was murder trial. The
captain Of a sailing vessel and his
wife had been stabbed to death.
Circumstantial evidence pointed to
the mate as the murderer. He had
been seen about the ship as she lay
in port. There were plausible mo-
tives to prompt him. But he pre-
scented an alibi. One person had seen
him here and another there through
the long evening on which some one
went to the cabin and killed the man
and woman.
There was just one break in the
complete account of the comings and
goings of the mate. For minute he
had been out of sight Of every wit
ness who could be found.
The public prosecutor made no
point of this until he began to sum
up his case against the accused man,
but then he said in effect: Gentle
men of the jury, you have been told
that every moment of the defendants
time upon the night of the murder is
accounted for except one minute.
The learned attorney for the defence
has said that it would have been i'm
possible to slay two persons in that
time.
Il wonder whether you gentlemen
know just how long minute can be.
1 am going to show you IL you will
keep absolute silence while l time
go seconds on this stop watch"
All were silent, and the attorney
indicated that the minute had begun.
They sat there in that stuffy court
room and waited for it to end. Three
times the defendant mopped his fore
head with his handkerchief. A juror
tried TO throttle a cough until the
minute was up and could not.
"And that" said the prosecutor.
after an eternity, sis one minute"
Half an hour later the jury brought
in a verdict of guilty.
Ever since the story was told to
me (wrote Haywood Broun in the
New York World), I have been Inn
pressed with the dramatic possibili-
ties of some such incident upon the
stage All need now is a story to
go with it. But in the dramatic YER
sion 1t will have to be 80 seconds. A
minute would be much too long. No
body could keep quiet for that length
of time in an American theatre.
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Forbidden Words

Among Scottish fishermen there is
a superstition that the word rabbit"
must be avoided at all costs in con-
versation while at sea. This word,
like salmon" and minister" is re-
garded as being unlucky. though no
one knows how this queer belief
arose.
In certain London theatres the use
Of the word fire" is forbidden. tide"
often being adopted as substitute.
water" is word that brewery
workers regard with disfavor, while
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look at quality or price first and style
last. Women do exactly the reverse
that is, they consider style first of all,
and then quality and price.
If an article Is priced preposterously
high. fashionable woman is likely to
assume that 1t must be more stylish
and that. therefore, the price is all
right.-The Nations Program.
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IN some hospitals it is breaking an
unwritten law to mention the word
disease"
Pernaps the queerest rule of this
KIND was that imposed on his work
ers by the late Herr Krupp, the Ger
man armament magnate. A maker
OF death-deaiing weapons himself. he
mad horror of the word death"
and 1t was understood by his staff
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AUGUSTA LOCALS

Nl1G Virginia Jones of South China
vii Sntertain the members Of the Ball
Bnds Club on Wednesday, June g., The
members will meet at the home Of Mrs.
+ + Bale on Green street at 10
o'clock md will make the trip by au-
tomobila y
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His Regular Job

Policeman, who has just caught a
burglar breaking into a bank: "Ah,
ha. What are you doing here?"
Burglar: II am financial reporter"
Policeman: "What were you going
to do in there?"
Burglar: 20, / was only going to
take few notes"-Stray Stories.
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G6eyeL Randall, = member Of this
ys1Rs graduAting class at Cony High
schooI has been appointed Augusta
eerryspcndent Of the Lewiston, Eve
mig Journal succeeding Miss 10 Pat
nngalL who = now located with the
WateryIlle Sentinel,
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Brotherhood of locomotive engin-
GERS and firemen open convention at
Cleveland with demonstration that
railroad pursue hands off, policy
rathan than attempt to draw union
men from Brotherhood
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New outbreaks in Shanghai ac-
company strike in Japanese spinning
mills.