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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-17
DETROIT

Funeral Of Mrs. Martha A. Harding
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha
| A. Harding, whose death occurred
Monday. were held from her late
home, Wednesday afternoon at one
o'clock, and were largely attended.
| Rev. Aaron Smart. of Bangor, con-
| Quoted the services, speaking COM
forting words to the bereaved fam
lily, and friends. F. A. Fairbanks
of Pittsfeld was funeral director.
Pail bearers were Ernest Harding,
Wilbur Harding, Fred Pushor Albert
| Tilton, and William Seavey. The
profusion Of beautiful flowers Of
ferings from neighbors and friends
showed the affection and respect in
which she was held by the people
| among whom she had lived so many
years Of her life.
! Among those from out Of town at
tending the services were Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Pushor Of Corinna, Mrs.
Foster Alexander and Miss Marion
| Harding of Bangor, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leeman Clark of Pittsaeld, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Browne of Carmel, Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Harding and sons.
Kenneth and Norman Harding of
Newport. Mrs Mary Batchelder of
| Hartland, Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe
Harding of Plymouth, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Clarence Norton OF Pittsfeld. In
terment was made in the family lot
| in the village cemetery.
The deceased was born July 20,
| 1852, daughter OF BENJAMIN and
| Sarah Norton in Detroit, and the
| most of her life was passed there.
| She was united in marriage in early
! womanhod with Jesse D. Harding, a
| veteran of the Civil war. To them
| were born four children, Ernest and
Wilbur Harding, and two daughters,
! Mrs. William Seavey and Mrs. Albert
Tilton.
Mrs. Harding has been in Ill
| health for long time and everything
! that loving care could do was done by
| her devoted husband and daughters
| but it was of no avail, the heart dis
| ease steadily progressed until her
| death, Monday She was a devoted
| Christian and died in full faith of a
| future life. A kind and loving wife
| and mother, a good neighbor and
| friend and she will be greatly miss
| ed In the home and community.
| Much sympathy Is felt for the
bereaved husband and family in
| their great loss.
Phyllis Booth. little daughter Of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Booth, fell from
| the door step of her home Monday.
and broke her left elbow. She is
getting along as we'll as can be ex-
pected.
Mrs. Mabel Peterson and three
! daughters, who have been visiting
relatives in town for several days,
left Wednesday morning for their
home in Boston.
Walter Kirke from North Dexter.
who has been in i'll health lately, is
staying awhile with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Kirke, at their home on
Main street.
owen Greene from vinalhaven is
a visitor in the home Of Van Nichols,
this week.
MRS. Effie Remick Of Kelso. Wash,
Mr.. and Mrs. Merlin Chadwick of
Plymouth, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Arno
of Corinna were Sunday visitors IN
the home Of E D. and L. L Brown.
Most of the farmers are haying In
full swing this week.
Ernest Porter visited friends IN
Madison, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Goodridge OF
Burnham visited Mr.. and Mrs. G. Il.
Seekns, Sunday.
Miss Eileen Soper and little sister.
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Postum FavOrite Meat
COMPOSER of "DiXie"

Mt. Vernon, o., July 16.-(P)--
There are persons here who remem-
Der the last days of Daniel Decatur
Emmett, the famous composer of
Dixie" who is buried in Moundview
Cemetery, near Mt. Vernon.
Emmett was eighty-nine years old
when he died. He was born here in
1915 and died in his cabin, not far
from his birthplace.
II spent many an hour in Emmett's
cabin" said ]. w. McConkie. How
he could sing, and play the violin.
He would sing by the hour, in his old
age. If fat sleek possum were prom
ised him at the end. He was pas
sicnately fond Of the meat Of that
animal"
Emmett received inspiration for
the swinging Tilt of Dixie while
watching a group of negroes load
cotton on the wharf at Memphis, ac-
cording to McConkie.
"They were hunning," said Nc
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Conkie. lust keeping time a. they
juggled the bales, and something In
their attitude and song gave Emmett
the inspiration for his IMMORTAL
tune"
Emmett always returned to Mt
Vernon, after a tour of his minstrel
troupe. once, at the height of his
glory, he came back from England
with $4,000. a fabulous sum In those
days
His grave is the scene Of frequent
pilgrinages.
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and all departed wishing her many
more pleasant returns of that day.
Rev. and Mrs. Wilbur Hale of
Townsend, Mass, are visiting his
brother, Rev. f. ]. Hale.
Fred Erskine of Woods Hole,
Mass, is assisting o. P. Hilton in
harvesting his hay.
Ora Boynton is repairing his barn,
assisted by his brother, Willis of
Whitefeld.
Mrs. Ida Miller Of Fitchburg,
Mass, is visiting her cousin, Mrs.
F. ]. Hale.
Mrs. Margaret Kerr of Damaris-
Gotta Mills, is passing a few days
at her late fathers home.
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az are utlilzed again in the shipment
oI sSvice parts and other materiaIs
20 dealers. An average of 0oo
oo0es are reclaimed monthly. WV
A. ood and ends Of lumber used In
one manufacture Of export shipping
crates. which formerly found their
way INTO power house furnaces. are
.ooay utilized In car shipping. and
IN making smaller crates.
according to records of the sal.
vsse department $3.50, 600 board feet
- ,anloer We're reclaimed in 1925.
~ March OF this year 343.272 board
feet were saved.
The salvage department does mt
even overlook scrap paper. In 1aSs
enough Of 1t was collected and haIad
to fill Al freight cars.
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and will soon return to their home
in New York.
Mrs. William Mcfarland has, the
past week, had as guests her brother
and son and his boy friend from
Massachusetts.
Daily Vacation Bible School is in
session forenoons, this week at the
Congregational church.
Mrs. J. F. Philbrook Is enter
tanning her sister, from Bangor.
F. A. Coolidge eturned Wednes-
day from Livermore after a weeks
visit with relatives.
The Ladies' Aid of the M. z.
Church will hold food sale Satur-
day, July l, at Wright Grams.
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Trout Abundant In
Frozen Streams,
Alaska

Tanana, Alaska, July 16.-(P-
Arctic brook trout are found in al
mountain streams throughout Alaska
being quite abundant in the extreme
headwaters where they spawn. The
arctic divide is no barrier as all
creeks flowing north into the Arctic
ocean TEEN with speckled trout.
In Alaska, stories are told around
camp fires of the extreme hardness
OF the arctic trout, which may be
just fish stories or an exception to
the rule that all frozen fish are dead
fish.
After freezing solid to bottom the
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creeks In the high attitudes begin a
series of overfiows. the oncoming wa"
ters backing up and oozing to the
surface along the banks and then
spreading out and freezing, layer
upon layer. forming new ice.
In the deeper channels and eddies
the backing up water uplifts TIE ice
and forms great hummocks and
ridges that split in crevasses to the
waters underneath.
In the deepest pools and eddies, far
down from the heads of the small
streams, the arctic trout is supposed
to live during the long winter. re-
turning with the high waters in the
spring.
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JEFFERSON

SOUTH-About 40 neighbors and
friends gathered at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Leadbetter,
Wednesday evening. to celebrate her
birthday. They gave her a genuine
surprise, as is the custom in this
place. The evening was passed very
pleasantly with games and music
Ice cream and cake We're served
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SOLON

Mrs. Anna Boswell has returned
from lewiston, where she has been
since February, receiving treatment
for broken hip. She was accom-
panied by her niece, Miss Edna Con-
forth.
Mrs. Katie Ward and two chill
dren. who have been visiting rela-
tives here, went to Dexter, SUNDAY
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PlTTSTON

That a walk does not brighten
some of our young was proved to
residents of this town, Monday, when
Mrs. Eta Kicker, "a years young.
missed the Gardiner car at Western
Avenue, Augusta, Monday, and with
companion three months older
than she walked to the HalIowelI
Post Office, a distance Of about two
miles arriving there about 8 minutes
before the next car bound for Gar
diner
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Keepinu the Wolf Awav

Prospective Tenant: If I pay the
rent you are asking, I'm afraid l
won't be able to keep the wolf from
the door.
House Agent: The janitor will
attend to that. sir. No animals of
any kind are allowed in this building.
The Progressive Grocer.
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Margaret, passed Tuesday and We'd
nesday with their grandmother. Mrs.
Eta Norton, at her home here.
Miss Ethel Brown, who is stopping
in Athens this summer is in town for
a few days this week.
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Compared with contemporary, big, bulky cars the
Overland Whppet appears and much more grace
full That because height and length true artistic
proportion.
In the Whppt have the feeling closer
to the ground with the resultant of solidty and abb
sencc of that deway noticeable in the conventional type
OF car That hghup-n-thea feeling gone . here is.
new kind of riding comfort.
Hitherto anbeard-of economy
Here last automobile that will run 40 miles on
gallon of gasoline well over miles on gallon of oil
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Hitherto unbeard-of economy

with extraordinary mileage on tires
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cal upkeep. Hprg5t-Ssat5 ere
You can compare the Overland Win placed in q natural
pet with all other American light cars y rs5aL position
on the basis of price alone But from the
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The Overland WhipPct is furnished in three body styles
-. Sedan, Touring and Coupe.
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In fairness to yourself this wonderful newtype car
WHY'S Overland, Inc, Toledo, Ohio
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frankly resemble the Smarest AUTOMOBILES Of America and
Continental Europe Stand front of this car and you can
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The radiator is typcally foreign every lire curve and
contour of the body the result of panstag craftsmanship
and study.
Complete symmetry of design has been achieved with COM
pact external dimensions.
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you these unique engineering attachments.
The Overland Whppet different from anything you have
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Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
Grade Cards To Be Given
Out At High School Today

The second six weeks period OF
the second school semester closed
Friday of last week and today the
grade cards for all high school stu
dents are being given out. The schol-
arship for this period has not been
announced but it is expected that it
will be higher than at any other pc
riod.
If the senior class win again they
will clinch scholarship honors for the
year as they have already taken
honors for the first semester.
The honor roll will then be an
nounAed later, as we'll as the class
average for sthe term.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
GRAIN MARKET
(By Dispatch A. p. wirel

CHICAGO, April 6.-Late recessions
in the wheat market today wiped
out early gains. Easing of wheat
values at the last resulted more or
less from the fact that offerings of
shinments from Minneapolis to Chi
cago were almost on profitable de-
livery basis here as compared with
Nav. Chicago closing quotations on
wheat were nervous at the same as
Yesterdays finish to % C lower, May
(new) $1.57a4 @1.57% and July $1.359s
to $135%, with corn Bc off to Bc
up; oats at B@Ac to &c advance
and provisions unchanged to 17@20c
down.
At first the wheat market showed
a. decided upward trend, helped by
firmness of security values in New
York and by unexpected strength of
wheat quotations at Liverpool. AS
sertions that adverse weather caus-
ing further delay to spring wheat
seeding in the northwest would rem
der the crop more subject to injury
later from rust were given consider
a1Yla notice Estimates were likewise
current that 100000 bushels of NORTH
American wheat had been purchased
for shipment to Europe and thav
wheat supplies on ocean passage had
decreased 1,696,0O0 bushels.
Favorable crop reports from the
winter wheat region, west and south
west, did a good deal, however, to
induce profit-taking sales in the last
half of THE day, especially on the
mart of early buyers and of houses
with eastern connections notwith-
standing indications that European
demand was likely to be larger for
the next few weeks than has been
the rule of late. Meanwhile,l Minne-
anolis was Offering No. northern
wheat to be shipped to Chicago at
3Hc over the price for Chicago May
(nawl Under such circumstances
Chicago advances were lost although
Chicago contract stocks of wheat
are down to $4,000 bushels. No. 2
northern is deliverable at par ola
Nav contracts and &c penalty on
new.
Unsettled weather and smallness OF
arrivals of corn here, 92 cars today,
kent the corn market steady. Some
corn export business. both at the At
ldntic seaboard and by way of the
Gulf of Mexico was announced
Persistent delay to seeding of oats
gave an upward swing to the value
of oats. Active export call Tor oats
continued. Provisions tended down
ward in line with hog values. For
eign selling of lard was feature.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07

fornia. Petroleum company. Steels
displayed a firm undertone. u. S.
Steel common touched new high on
the current recovery at 1235s and
Gulf States, Sloss sheffield and Re
public each advanced about 2 points.
Substantial gains also were recov-
cred air reduction American Smelt-
ing, American Ice, Associated Dry
Goods, j. l. Case, Coca Cola, Federal
Mining and Smelling preferred. Gen
eral Electric, Loose Wiles Biscuit
and Woolworth all up to nearly 6
points and South Porto Rican Sugar,
up 10.
Rails were quiet, but the undertone
was strong. Atlantic Coast Line,
Atchison, New York Central and
Lackawanna scored moderate gains.
The principal commodity markets
lost ground. Wheat rallied at the
opening in sympathy with an advance
in Liverpool, but lost it's gain on
later realizing. Cotton closed un
changed to 10 points lower. Raw
sugar was unchanged but futures
sagged to points on increased Of
fering:s in the spot market. Coffee
slumped 9S to SO points on increased
crop estimates.
Call money renewed at Az per
cent, as against Az yesterday, and
then eased to 4, closing at the bot
tom.
Many brokers reported that large
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
In
CITY ELECTION
PASS 1000 MARK

Registration for the city election
to date has passed the 1000 mark,
City Clerk C. w. Pratt announced yes
terday, and it is his prediction that
by election day, on May "a, the grand
total will be about $500.
Two years ago, the total registra-
tion for the local election was 2,O18
but it is believed by those in posi-
ton to kno wthat this figure will be
surpassed this spring. Canvassers are
now busy registering the voters in the
various wards while about 100 voters
have already registered at the city
clerks office in the city halh
1t is absolutely essential that every
one register who intends to vote. Past
registrations have no bearing on tho
eligibility of voters this spring and
the lounty registration is also entire
ly separate from the city listing.
If canvassers have missed any vot-
ers these persons overlooked can reg
lister at the city hall, should they not
he solicited at their homes.
The city primary falls on April "a
this year, with the election on May "a.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
Business Houses Must
Not Use Trash Cans On
Street For Store Debris

City Clerk G. w. Pratt has found II
necessary to call the attention OF sew
eral business houses to the fact that
the waste cans placed on avenue
recently by the city are to- be used
only for street or personal refuse and
not for debris accumulated in the va
rious business establishments.
Several concerns are reported TO
have been dumping refuse from their
stores in the cans, whilh is not the
purpose for which the city obtained
them. Pratt has written to rev
places notifying them of this fact
and asking them to use receptacles
which they should have stationed IN
the alleys for their debris.
The cans are proving great AID
to the city in keeping the streets
clean, Pratt finds, and he is anxious
that citizens use them all that they
may desire in the proper way. con-
tinued violations by any business
houses of the regulation regarding
the disposfng of business refuse In
the cans will bring further alton from
the city, Pratt states.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH WEDNESDAY APRIL 1926

sums were available at the lower
figure. Time money held steady at
Az per cent, and commercial paper
was quoted at Az to Az.
Although all of the European banks
reopened for business after a pro-
longed Easter holiday, trading in
the foreign exchanges was quiet. De-
mand sterling held firm around $4.85
and French francs were quoted slight
lv higher at 3.47 cents. Renewed
heaviness developed, however, in Bel
gian francs, which dropped over 5
points to 3.72 cents.
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07

duced over ,$535,00,0G0 last month
helped to revive confidence other
bullish factors included continuance
of easy money rates, more favorable
reports from the automobile industry
and the prompt oVer-subscription of
the $65,OO0,0OO Associated Electric
bond issue, the largest this year
Equipment shares gave one of the
best demonstrations of group strength
with buying influenced by predictions
of substantially higher railroad or
ders this year.
The renewed demand for the public
utilities was based on predictions of
special dividend distributions, the
first of which was, fulfilled today
when directors of the American Light
and Traction company Increased the
annual dividend ON the common from
81 to SS and declared an extra of 81.
Columbia Gas and Electric, which is
reported to be considering the dis
tribution of stock dividend, or an
increase lin the regular $3.50 rate,
closed liz points higher at 751s after
selling a point above that figure.
Optimistic reports on the motor in
dustry came from several sources.
Mack Trucks, which did a record
breaking business in March, was bid
up over points to 11S1s and then
eased to 1928. Hudson, General Mo-
tors and Packard advanced point
in these issues, which are reported
to harbor. a larger short interest than
any other group.
The approach of the spring plant
ing season probably accounted for
the heavy demand for the chemical
and fertilizer issues. Special strength
of the Commercial Solvents issues,
each of which moved UP over
points, was associated with report
that the company had won important
patent litigation in England.
4 Oils were slow in recovering. from
the disappointment occasioned by the
abandonment of the plan for the mer@
ger OF the Texas Company and Cali
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-04-07
MUSIC PROGRAMS
AT GRAND TO BE
QUITE UNUSUAL

very unusual and high class en-
tertainment will be given at the
Grand theater Friday night when the
high school music students of south
ern Arizona compete I'M seven events.
The program will begin at p. M
This program has been arranged SO
that all who desire may attend ana
consists of the more. interesting num-
bers of the music contest which Will
continue for two days.
The soprano and contralto solos for
girls and the tenor and baritone SOLOS
for boys, comprise the solo events
Of the evening, while the balance OF
the program consists of quartets by
boys, girls and mixed numbers with
all the schools being represented.
Last wear the local high school en-
trants carried away many honors III
the quartet events and hope to re-
peat their performances this year.
Each school has lost most of the
array of talent 1from last years
eroups but new material has added
zest to the contest.
Music lovers are assured and eve
ming of enjoyment at very moderate
admission price. Season tickets are
now on sale for one dollar, good for
all performances for both days.
These tickets are transferable in case
other members of the family wish
to attend some of the events. Single
admissions to all sessions are %
cents for adults and rs cents for
students.
Miss Anna Belle Driskill, director
of music in the local school, IS giving
her entrants a great deal of practlce
this week perfecting the selections 10
the highest possible degree Extra
rehearsals are being held each day
for some of the groups.