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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
READFIELD

At the last meeting of Readfeld
Grange, Mrs. Edna S. Fish. chairman
of the Library committee, presented
an interesting report on the library.
Since the beginning of the year very
decided improvements have been
made, a arrangement of the room
with new shelving has made the books
much more accessible to members, as
well as making the room much more
cheerful and the use of the library
has been noticeably increased. A
sale was held in the early part of the
year and a substantial sum realized.
About 80 new books have been add
ed, money gifts have been made and
there are now about 900 volumes on
the shelves. The cheerful and happy
disposition of Mrs. Sadie ]. Dunn. the
librarian, draws many to the room
who might otherwise pass by.
Appleton Moore and son, Irving
were calling on friends in town this
week Irving held rank as major in
the late war and is now employed by
one of the great electrical companies
in New York City.
EAST-The L. S. c. was very peas
antly entertained at an all-day meet
ing at the home of Mrs. Emma Fifleld,
Wednesday. September %. A bounti
full dinner was served Next meeting
will be held with Mrs. H. F. Aldrich.
Winthrop, October s.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hartshorn are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Miller in Wis
casset.
The Across Country club met with
Mrs. Lena McKenney, Wednesday
afternoon, eight members being pres
emit and several children. A good Soc
ial afternoon was passed, after which
delicious refreshments were served.
The next meeting will be held with
Mrs Ella Williams.
Frank Taylor of Winthrop, has
been threshing grain IN this vicinity
the past week.
Miss Marcia Young Of Augusta was
a guest Sunday of Mrs. w. T. Mace.
Milton Gordon has enjoyment IN
Waterville,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
Chicago Produce Market

Chicago, Sept. 30.-(41.
Except during belated month-end IL
uuidation just at the last, wheat SHOW
ed an advance IN price most of the
time today. New export safes of North
wheat totalled more than L.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01

& R. w. Hanson sold so calves at 12c:
120 lambs, av. IS lbs, at 13c: 90 hogs
at lac, and SO dairy cows at S60&120.
Z. f. Cummings sold so calves at 12c;
and IS dairy cows at $500115.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01

Passenger. What makes xnis
train so Slow"
Irate Conductor: IF you don't
like it, get off and walk"
Passenger: II would, only I'm not
expected until train time.-Dart-
mouth Jack o. Lantern.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01

High 1926 $500 147.46 1852
Low 1926 1911 105.SS
Total stock sales 1,412,100 shares.
sex dividend .05.
Eek dividend .0625.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
AUTOMOBILES
Autnmohile Anencies

F0RD-Authorized dealers. Capital
City Motor Co. OPP. depot, Augusta
HUDsoN-EsSEX SALES CO.-Sales
and service. 292 State St, Augusta,
1874 Water St, Gardiner.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
New York Stock Market
Corrected Daily by
j. A. GAMAGE G. co.

STOCK rTNEr-'..5
335 Water Street Augusta
Phones f2e1-12e.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
Business Property

CHILD ST.-Building and lot. Could
be used for garage or Worship. In
quire Trouant & Bates, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
ms Inc City Public Markepace For Wants Kinds
MERCHANDISE
Wanted-To Buv

will pay cash for fur
niture, hooked rugs, silver, glass and
china. Write Box IS, Waterville.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
Auto Accessories

STORAGE BATTERIES-Havi dis
continued Willard, we offer the ia
nous "Philco" at attractive prices.
Ford size battery, rubber separators,
dry charged, $3.50. Waterville Mo-
tor Co, Bangor St, Augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
EMPLOY MENT

PEOPLE YOU KNOW are using the
classified section every day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
Machinery and Tools

ENSILAGE CUTTER Complete, sull5y
pillow and hand cider press. Mrs.
Everett Withee, Augusta. Tel S35-M.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
REAL ESTATE FOR RENT

WINTHROP ST, 2S--Furnished rooms
Tel. 1855. Mrs. Davis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01
MERCHANDISE

Building Materials 81
LUMBER-Finish and dimension, Ce-
loteX, shingles, and flooring. Halo
well Fuel Co, Tel. Augusta 1873.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-01

RADIOLA 4-Kadlo, IN Inc condltlon.
G. w. Jones.
RADICAL its best, the Advance, As
volt B Batteries at So. Better SER
vice, longer life, on sale at the Edge
comb Photograph rooms. Gardiner.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

little red ones. It is the same pre- judice that makes a new white po- tato a sorry wanderer of the streets of New York in mid-winter. For
 years New York has consumed by itself practically the entire export of
 all crops from Bermuda. Among
 these are Bermuda new potatoes
 which are always red. Georgia and Florida are now producing potatoes just as new and just as early but they are white and New York prefers the red ones.
 Prejudice may mold and color
 our vegetables, but to science and invention go the credit for their present honored position on the American table. Science found that mysterious substances called vita mins were vital to the nourishment of man. Then they found that vegetables were rich in vitamins. Home economics workers broadcast this news. They persuaded the house. wives that man could not live by meat and wheat alone. Inventors created the refrigerator car which lengthens the season of most vege- tables from one month to twelve. Now q Chicago housewife can mark ct in the Imperial Valley, California for lettuce in February; in May, she turns to Carolina; she buys at home in June; relies upon northern New York in September; and in Decem- Der her market basket is filled by Florida.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
SIMPSON ID ASK
 JAIL FOR THREE
Wants All Accused Held in Hall-
 Mills Case

Somerville, N. J., Aug. 20 R(- The Hal-Mills murder case. today had resolved itself into a struggle between opposing attorneys over the question of bail for the three charged with the murder of the New Brunswick rector and his choir leader four years ago.
 Counsel for Henry de la Bruyere Carpenter and Willie" Stevens, in jail here awaiting the action of the grand jury, have announced that they will apply Monday for the pris- oners' release on bail. Senator Simpson, the states attorney, has said that he would oppose bail for them and ask revocation of the S15,- 900 bail of Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall, the slain clergyman's widow.
 The defense's application will be made before Chief Justice Gunmere of the supreme court at Newark. Counsel announced their next move after Judge Cleary of the court of common pleas formally committed terday.
 When Senator Simpson learned that the application would be made fin chambers" he said he would op- pose that, too, because he thinks all matters in the case should be argued in open court.
 More than 60 witnesses were call ed in the hearing which lasted three and one-half days. Judge Cleary decided a prima facie case had been established and that it
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

vegetables in which the trade is
 more than a million dollars a year,
 only six, Irish potatoes, sweet pota-
 toes, tomatoes, sweet corn, green
 beans and peppers, are native to the
 Americas. In dollar value the worth
 of threo All-Americans in the veg
 etable markets, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and tomatoes, eclipses the
 total value of the other sixteen. Let
 tuce, celery. asparagus and carrots,
 among the foreigners, are European. | Tho onion, cabbage, green peas, cu-
 cumbers, cauliflower and eggplant arc out of Asia, Watermelon and
 cantaloupe, it is supposed. bought their passage from North Africa.
 Ancestors of practically all fresh vegetables are living on their native heaths or here. Very few links are missing. A striking illustration of evolution as applied to plants can be given by preparing dinner using these ancestors of the modern vege- tables. Most of them are not dif- hcult to obtain. They grow in American fields and beside American fences. Most everyone is familiar with wild lettuce as a field weed. This Cinderella weed has the same coatof-arms as crisp, sweet Iceberg head lettuce!
 When Vegetables Were Medicine
 Gather some Queen Anne's lace for the evolution menu. That white midsummer spray is the flower of the wild carrot. Pull it up and see the laughably thin wedge of it's root. The grandfather of all beets has root about as big as a baby's little finger. Wild onions grow widely in America, reversions of some import ed stock. They are larger than the onions true ancestors which spring up in Persian deserts after the win ter rains.
 Wild cabbage does not grow In the United States. It grows in Eng land but only an experienced botan- ist can find it on the windy chalk cliffs. An amateur would look for q head of leaves. The ancestor of all cabbages, and that means cauli- flower and Brussels sprouts too, is a sprawling weed with tough leaves resembling the figure of oak leaves.
 But the bitter natures of the grandparents of our modern vege- tables was their original recommen- dation to the human race. Back in the not-so-long- people put great trust in herbs as sovereign remedies for all sorts of ills. Innocent celery, European ditchweed, for example, was listed in the 'Herbals' as an important drug. The phrase "cut and dried" is a product of that period. When the custom went out herbs became a drug on the mark ct But trade in weeds as drugs had brought their cultivation in gar dens where they became larger and less bitter. People who had used buy them for food and when people insisted on sweeter end bigger weeds the weeds became vegetables.
 Red Vegetables Preferred
 Bringing up the vegetables to suit public preferences is now a task for the expert. A dominant public preference In America is for red vegetables. The original tomatoes were yellow but few markets today will disclose a single yellow tomato. Watermelons that are naturally vel low are just as good as red ones, but only the latter go to market. South Europe, China and Japan favor white radishes which grow in the Orient to three and four feet in length but the United States likes
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
Pistol Is Douhted

Philadelphia, Aug. 20 Pl-Polict today entertained serious doubts q pistol thought to have been used in the murder of the Rev. Dr. Ed ward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Elean- or Mills really was the weapon in i question.
 The pistol, given to police by Will liam Winterer, a chauffeur. is .25 caliber. of Spanish manufacture Two bullets recovered from the 1 corpse of Mrs. Mills were of .32 cal ibre. It was pointed out, however. | that a .32 caliber American cart ridge might possibly have been fired in the .25 calibre foreign weapon, although this would be impossible wit an American pistol. | The pistol today was in New Jer- i sey, in the hands of Police Lieut.. w. T. Cieciuch of Jersey City. who left last night for New Brunswick with the automatic and a statement from Winterer for investigators here.
 Winterer told police last night that "on or about October 10. 1922 at about 1 a. m. I was living at the Alton hotel on South 18th street, Philadelphia" the statement said. T was reading and heard voices in the room adjoining mine. There was woman in the party who was cry ing and rather hysterical. I heard a man say: I want you to cut out that nonsense. If you don't I'll use this, and fix you the same as l did the others
 The woman then said: I can't understand why they don't send it, to which the man replied: Don't worry about that; you'll get it to- morrow
 T came to the conclusion they were talking about a gun. Then they talked about going out 10 get something to eat. A woman sald: I won't go unless you leave that gun here
 Winterer said he stepped into the hall when the party started to leave and that he saw two men and two women. All were less than 30 years old, he believed. After they had gone he obtained a key to their room. entered and found the revol- yer in a drawer. He also found q New Brunswick newspaper. He took the revolver and newspaper. A short time later the men and wo- men returned.
 T am sure they were the same persons" he said. flor one of the men exclaimed: The gun is gone" The party left the hotel at once"
 Winterer said the magazine of thu pistol was empty.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20
LETTUCE BECOMES
 VALUABLE CROP
Rises to Fourth Place in 'fMil-
 GOnaire Produce"

Washington, Aug. 20 GP,-The rise or lettuce to fourth place among the millionaire vegetable crops in ma Cnlted States, announced by the department of agriculture, read, hke an Horatio Alger story. Lettuce with United States crop worth S24'767,o00 in 1925, four times its value in 1919. ranks close to the leaders, potatoes. sweet potatoes and tomatoes.
 Neglected the Vitamins
 Fresh vegetables as a class are successful upstarts in American markets. Not so many years ago it was necessary to distinguish be- tween grocers and green grocers. Quitting the staples, potatoes and sweet potatoes, the business in F vegetables came to s236,000,00O in 1925.
 What would a modern dietician think of the Pilgrims first Thanks giving dinner? Although there is no recorded bill of fare they prob- ably ate: venison. partridge, turkey, fish, oysters, duck, geese. barley loaves and corn bread, pumpkins, squash and wild grapes.
 Terrible" would be the dieti- clans verdict. "Too much protein. Important vitamins neglected. There ought to be four or five vegetables. Where is the salad course?"
 Pioneering, it seems, demands a red meat diet. While the Pilgrims were living on meat, it was not necessarily the custom in the home land. By 1900 vegetables were wide ly used in England and were even more popular on the continent Man has made some use of herbs since the dawn of history.
 The Pharaoh's Grocery Bill
 On a stone of the Great Pyramid in ancient times was an inscription which showed that every Egyptians liked a dash of statistics now and then and that the laborers liked vegetables. For radishes, onions and garlic for the workmen.' the in- scription recorded, the sum of 1,600 talents If we use the Hebrew gold talent mentioned in the Bible as the standard rate of exchange that sum would work out to approximately 100000 for radishes, onions and garlic. The American radish and onion crop for two and half years could be purchased for the settlement of the Pharaoh's green grocery bill.
 The little radish long ranked a first family of the vegetable world. So greatly did the Greeks prefer it over other articles of diet that they had the radish represented with a gold model placed in the temple of Appollo at Delphi. The further showed their preference and elabor- ated their agricultural extension ex- hibit with a beet in silver and a turnip in lead.
 Vegetable Immigrants in America
 America has looked to Europe for vegetables, as well as population. to stock the country. Of nineteen
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

would be usurping the prerogatives of a grand jury to permit defense testimony.
 Senator Simpson declined to say whether he would ask for special grand jury. The next grand jury is scheduled to be sworn in the third Tuesday of next month. The sena- tor did say, however. that he pro bably would make application for q foreign jury, since he had been told that the foreman of the present grand jury, who is the publisher or a weekly paper here. has been at tacking the prosecution editorially.
New Britain herald., 1926-08-20

The Buenos Aires and Pacific rail- way runs between Buenos Aires and Valparaiso, two tropical towns, hut the line, in crossing the Andes, rrins for hundreds Of miles through a region of eternal snow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-23
THE EVENING STORY

4, back porch, a good sized lot with gar.
| den room and a big tree. The price
| was a little more than they felt they
| wanted to pay, but they took 1t, never
| theless. And week later they moved
out there. There was still time for
| Cornelius to make a garden.
They were blissfully happy. Jane,
beating eggs on her back poINh, which
| the tree shaded, envied/ nobody, and
Cornelius, looking up at her. as he
worked in his garden, pitied every
| man who had not Jane and q, home
OF course, the Blisses and Horizons
and Killens came out to see what was
being done, They came to dinner and
ate the young lettuce and radishes
and green onions with gusto.
Jane declares she's going to keep
a few hens" Cornelius said. There s
room, think, for coop in that cor.
ner where I'm going to put up the
garage"
''Oh, you're going to have a carr
Peggy Bliss cried. For heavens sake
don't get Superior six. Why, it broke
down.
"All we can afford is a f1ivver."
Jane said
There was silence.
1t was a glorious moonlight night
and cool air blew in from the west,
bringing the scent of the pretty flower
garden next door. A nighthawk cir
cled and uttered short, penetrating
cries. Otherwise there was a blessed
quiet.
<"Well," Sam said, 81 wish we had
money enough to buy home"
so do T." Ted Horton spoke
quickly. But we never shall have" "
7 l. =
ish cigarette over the railing.
II expect to pay rent all my days.
he said. Peg wouldn't live out like
this for anything, would you, Peg?"
Seems lonesome to me-" said lively
Peggy.
It's not lonesome at ALL" Jane said
1--WE have the most wonderful neigh
bors-"
"Neighbors! What are neighbors?''
Sam laughed.
There's one coming now" an
swered Cornelius.
1t was Mrs. Holmes, steering for
the back door with a great bowl In
her hand. Jane whirled up and ran
to meet her. After a gay converse
ton, Jane came back with a tray,
spoons, dishes.
ice cream" she said. "They made
Il ulB AIeeZeIluI, expecting company,
and the company didn't come. SO we
are lucky. Made out of real cream
and eggs. Doris. here's your portion -
They ate the delicious cream appre-
ciatingfy while Jane planned how she
could return the pleasant courtesy on
the morrow. Her thoughts were inter-
rupted by Sam Killen saying In a low
voice:
$50 this is what neighbors mean!
Let's come out here to live, Dor"'
Sure" Doris responded.
THE END.
Copyright 1926
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-23
Won HINDENBURG WANTS
SIMPLE SLAB ON GRAVE
German President Wants Plain
Marker, But if Monument Is De-
manded, He Prefers Uniform.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, December 23.-President
Won Hindenburg wants only a simple
slab over his grave, but if monu-
ment must be raised in his honor he
prefers that it take the form of a
likeness of him as an old soldier in
uniform.
Prof. Hugo Vogel, who often has
painted portraits of the soldier Presi-
dent. reveals this in telling of a talk
he had with Won Hindenburgh.
"I don't want anything except a
simple slab to be placed on my grave,
he quotes the President as saying.
"Just the name Won Hindenburg
should be engraved upon it; nothing
modern or inartistic or gaudy AS
far as I am concerned, you might add
on the back of the slab: Letters will
no longer be accepted: I've been both
cred with them too often since 1914
If posterity insisted on erecting a
monument to him, however, the field
marshal expressed the hope 1t be the
figure of an old soldier in his regalia,
adding:
81 shouldn't like to be represented,
as is Kaiser Friedrich in Bremen, sit
ting naked upon a horse, or bedecked
with any old bathing cloak"
Evening star., 1926-10-12
other success which again rang the
bell," for the President Players.

other success which again rang the
bell" for the President Players.
Honors go to Walter Gilbert, in an
intensely human, sympathetic and
touching portrayal of the role Of Tony,
the Itslian grape grower, made rich
by prohibition. who as an old man
succeeded by a ruse in marrying a
young and beautiful wife. then win.
ming her love. Frank Carlton is a
bluff, brusque and magnetic figure as
Joe, adopted" son of old Tony, an
1. w. W., and "migra MT" Leona
Powers is ths4lling as Amy, the wait
ress from an Italian spaghetti "joint"
in San Francisco, who came to marry
Tony, on the strength of letters writ
ten for Tony. by Joe. and a picture
OF Joe. the youth, instead Of Tony,
the old man.
Out Of this maze of deception. disil.
lusicnment and emotional crisis into
which the little girl is plunged at
| first she emerges into what appears to
be supreme happiness with the old
man, until specter from that first
terrible day and night arises to haunt
the happiness Of all. This brings to
the play it's tense climax, when all
! seems about to be shattered into a
| bursting skyrocket's daZe of burning
conflicting elements and with nothing
ahead but the long, black drop to
earth below. Then old Tony claims the
expected child of Joe and Amy as if it
were his own, and the apparently
broken threads are patched up in a
surprising finale.
Russell Fillmore gives an excellent
portrayal of the doctor, and Francis
Fraunie is entertaining as the post
man. There are several hilarious Ital-
ian hangers on and workers on Tony's
Evening star., 1926-10-12
POLI'S-"HOwdy, King"

In the middle of the terrific barrage
Of words laid down last night at the
premiere of "Howdy, King" at Polls
stood the inevitable romanticism of
Ann Nichols-this time a Graustar-
khan admixture of Arizona cowboyism
and the etiquette of Ell Dorado. one of
those starving, straight-laced mon
arches that fiction writer's usually To-
cate somewhere in Europe.
The play, with such a motif has its
moments. but there are so many
words between these moments that
the waiting proves rather difficult at
times To Minor Watson, formerly
leading man of the National Players
here, falls the great burden of putting
the comedy across. He does with it
as much as is humanly possible, but
if the Actors Equity has any pity on
its members, it might do well to es-
tablish 10000 word night as limit
for any actors memory and voice.
The weakness of ''Howdy, King" is
it's length of word, comedy and situa-
ton. 1t would require a fair sized
ampitheater to accommodate the ac-
ton that is jammed into the hours
and 20 minutes it took last night to
run the piece from Nice through the
revolution in the capital of FL Dorado.
There's comedy in "Howdy. King"
Lots of it. There is too much, in fact.
Perhaps Clifford Brooke, it's director,
can curtail it's meanderings. If he
does, he may produce a lasting work
for Miss Nichols. The task, however,
is no light one.
AS intimated, the play concerns
itself with the manifold adventures of
an Arizona rancher who has the
throne of Ell Dorado thrust upon him.
His reactions to the monarchial idea
with it's inhibitions, its loveless mar
riages and it's abuse of the common
people, provide the wide sweeping ac-
ton Of the play. Disguised with the
king business in less than a day, he
becomes leader of the revolutionists,
whose slogan is, Death to the King
Toward the end, there is a great con-
flict IN the palace and although one
can't be certain it appears thar in the
midst of the shootings and cuttings
a republic is being born.
The play brings back to Washing
ton, Deneta Lane. who spent most of
the Summer playing leads in National