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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Cold Weather Holds
Up Preliminary Work
On Kennehec Bridge

All land surveys for the approaches
to the proposed bridge over the Ken
nebec between Bath and Woolwich
have been completed and c. K. Allen,
field engineer in charge, turned
Tuesday to Kansas City, Mo-, after
being on the job in Bath more than
three months. He will take with him
a mass Of figures and outlines to be
completed after reaching his home
office. He will not return until after
the ice leaves the Kennebec. During
the time he has been here he has
completed more than 40 borings in
the river bed, just rs more than was
estimated when he first came to Bath.
The next step required will be the
approval by the United States dis
trict engineers of the location of the
proposed lift span in the new bridge.
Upon their visit to the locality it is
probable that hey will grant an OPP
portunity for all steamboat men to
express their opinion as to it's loca-
ton and general bearing upon navi-
cation. 1t has not been definitely de-
termined whether the bridge will
have six, seven or eight spans, but in
all probability will not be over eight
and there is a possibility that there
may not be over six.
The average depth Of water at
mean low tide ranges from 40 to As
feet In the locality where Mr.. Allen
made his borings, but there were in
stances when he was obliged to sink
his drill more than 120 feet before
reaching hard rock bottom, the in
strument passing through more than
so feet of silt before bedrock was
reached. There is possibility that
all the piers will not be built by the
pneumatic caisson process, as 1t is
possible that in some Of the deeper
sections the piers may be built on
columns driven through the sand and
mud to the hard surface! Any doubts
as to the Longevity of piling driven
for this purpose may be dispelled
when it is stated that piling driven by
the Caesars is still in good condition
Actual construction of the bridge in
expected to begin about June 1, and
will require about two years. At the
beginning only experts will be set at
work, but inexperienced labor will be
eventually employed until at peak it
is probable the payroll will be for $50
to 200 men, 80 per cent of the hep
living in Bath and vicinity.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Any Girl Can
-- ~. Be Pretty

A new kind Of face powder IL here.
Made by a new French Process--stays
on until you take it off. Pores and
lines do not show. Not affected by
perspiration. Gives life and beauty to
your complexion almost unbelievable.
It is called MELLO-GLO. You will
love 1t. d. w. Adams Company Dept.
Stores; Augusta Drug Company;
Daniel w. Sexton, Druggist; Stack
poles Pharmacy,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Believe Missing
Student Feared Rank

Philadelphia. Jan. 7.-(AP)--Fear
that he would fail in an examination
today is believed by the police to have
caused the disappearance of Joseph
Schwait. Temple University student
who has been missing two days.
The authorities doubt that he was
kidnapped and beaten by two men, as he
had informed his mother on a postcard
mailed the day OF his disappearance.
Inquiry at the university disclosed
that Schwait had not received q pass
ing mark in a recent test in organic
chemistry. According to the dean he
had been reprimanded for his work
and the examination in the same sub
ject was scheduled for today.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
First Canadian Railway

The first railway in Canada was
built by the Champlain and ST.
Lawrence Railway company, incor-
porated by an act of the legislature
of Lower Canada. The railway ex-
tended from Laprairie on the south
bank of the st. Lawrence river,
about eight miles above Montreal, to
the town of st. Johns, on the RICHIE
lieu river, distance of 16 miles.
It was opened on July %, 1886, by
Earl Gosford, the governor general.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Old Homestead of
Composer Famous
Patriotic Song. Burns

Manchester, N. H., Jan. 7-(AP)-
The old homestead Of the late Walter
Kittredge, composer Of the famous
song, 'Tenting Tonight on the Old
Camp Ground" at Reads Ferry, six
miles south Of here, was destroyed
by fire tonight with damage inestim-
able in point of historic value. The
monetary loss Is about $1,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
DAILY RADIO
Rv Frank Chairman
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM YOUR SET

get about as many stations as other
sets. Adding audio frequency to 1t
gives you loud speaker volume.
Putting radio frequency tubes be-
fore the detector gives you a little
better distance, II the noise level Is
not high, or allows you to use q
smaller aerial. Radio sets using
loop should have 8 stages Of radio
frequency application.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Hold Broker for Conspiracy

Fitchburg. Mass, Jan. 7.-(AP)-
Paul Mahoney, rs. insurance broker,
was arrested early today in Boston
for Fitchburg police on charge or
conspiracy. 1t is alleged that with his
brother, Frank Mahoney Of Concord
N. H., known as THE Boy Broker,
Paul defrauded Mrs. Anna Tewks-
bury and Frederick LeClerc of this
city out Of $4,000 in stock transac-
tons. Frank Mahoney is being held
on a similar complaint, having been
arrested following his discharge from
prison in Concord. Paul will be ar
raigned here tomorrow.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Montpelier, VT. Jan. 7-(AP)-The
4Sth annual session Of the Vermont
Bar Association adjourned tonight
after electing officers as follows:
President, S. HOLSTER Jackson of
Barre; vice presidents, Walter H.
Cleary of Newport, Allan r. Sturte-
want of Middlebury, and George H.
Thompson of Bellows Falls: treasur-
er, Webster E. Miller of Montpelier:
member of the board Of managers
Herbert G. Tucker, of Springfield.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

SoyS OPC AuSs WllAOuI Qu6StlOI hc
would have utilized with great earn
estness such an instrument for dis
semination of ideas as the press"
New York.-Joseph L. Higbee has
to his credit a swim of an hour and
ten minutes at night in the cold wa
ter Of New York harbor with all his
clothes on. Leaving a ship at Quar-
antine, he fell and was thought
drowned. When tug picked him up
he went home alone and ate an un-
usually hearty dinner.
Tulsa, Okla.-Boys must learn to
carve duck and make salad before
getting high school diplomas. A
years study Of home economies is
compulsory.
Los Angeles.-Ever hear Of Mich
ael Sinnott? He's a fellow who came
from Canada % years ago and made
quite a success with film comedies.
Now as Mack Sonnet, he has applied
for naturalization.
Little Rock.-Tex, a bad elephant
a century ago who has killed nine
men, Is to be electrocuted. He is
staked out near Hot Springs just
now after rampage through crops.
Albany. N. Y. - Mrs. Rhoda Fox
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
D urin 6 the

D ur ing the
past month the
writer has been
playing ra di o
doctor and has
been surprised
at some people.
W h o expected
the impossible
from a radio set
One man having
a 5 tube tuned
radio frequency
set was under
the impression
he aor1l ~1% A~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Tampa. Flat looks as II an ar
gument Of long standing at the 10Th
hole will continue in gull blast, for
Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen ap-
parently are not going to play each
other as planned.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

the automobile industry in Great
BRIAN is In better shape than it has
ever been. Sir William Let's, manag-
Jug director of Willys-Overland, Ltd,
said on his arrival from abroad.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Three seats on the New York Stock
exchange were sold today for 100000
each, the only out-of-town purchaser
being Howard o. Babcov Of Niagara
Falls, N. Y. The record price paid for
membership was $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Commercial failures in the United
States during 1925 are calculated by
R. G. Dun & Company at 21,214 with
total liabilities of s433,744,272, The
year before defaults totalled 20,625
with Indebtedness of $543,225,445 The
Increase in defaults was relatively
greater in the New England states
than in any other section, the ratio of
Increase there being % per cent.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

brities within four days was solem-
nizzed today when Edgar Selwyn,
theatrical producer and playwright,
and Miss Ruth v. Wilcox, former
George Whites Scandals girl, were
married by City Clerk Cruise in the
municipal building. Jesse L. Lasky,
-film producer and Mrs. Lasky. wit
messed the ceremony with Robert
Lorraine, actor, and Miss Pansy Will
cox Of Morgantown, w. Va, the
brides sister.
Hollywood. CAL, Jan. 7-{AP)-
Theodore Roberts, veteran stage ana
screen actor, whom illness two years
ago took from his place before the
camera into q wheelchair. is return
ing his wheelchair with him. for he
still is unable to walk.
New York, Jan. 7-(AP)-New
York and Boston played so minutes
to a. 2-2 tie in a National Hockey
League game tonight. Stewart of
Boston and Randall of New York were
carried from the ice after serious in
juries in a fiercely fought contest.
Boston, Jan. 7-(AP)-The full
bench of the supreme court today
decided that the city of Newbury-
port must share in the support of it's
county tuberculosis hospital at Mid
dleton, even though its tubercular
patients are treated at different in
stitution. TIE decision upholds
lower court verdict of $22,944 award
ed the county of Essex which
brought suits for that amount as the
city's share, with interest, in sup
port Of the recently erected hospital
in Middleton.
Pekin, Jan. S.-(AP)-Tuan Chi
Jul, chief executive of China, an
noupces that he will retire from Office
January Is.
Ottawa, Jan. Z. - AP)-Rodolph
Lenieux was reelected speaker of
the house of commons this afternoon
when the members Of the house had
been sent back after being summon
ed to the senate chamber to hear
the wilp' Of the governor general,
through his deputy chief justice An
glin. At the election, without opposi-
ton of Mr.. Lemieux. the commons
adjourned until Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

New Bedford, Mass, Jan. 7.-(AP)-
The city government tonight received
and granted an application from Chief
CT Police Edward p. Doherty for re-
tirement on half pay. The petition was
accompanied by physicians certificates
stating he was physically unable to
continue on duty. No successor has
as yet been named.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Graves. only woman in the legisla-
ture, has been made chairman Of
committee.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Northampton. Mass. Jan. 7.-tAP)--
The election of James II. Perkins of
Greenwich, Conn.,, to the board of trus-
tees of Smith College was announced
here today. He succeeds Thomas II.
Lamont of New York. whose term ex-
pired last June. MIR. Perkins, Har-
ward graduate, is president of the
Farmers Loan & Trust Company, New
York.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
Wall Street Briefs

New York, Jan. 7.-(AP)-Presperi-
ty for the railroads Of the country was
forecast today by George F. Brownell.
vice president and general counsel of
the Erie Railroad. who declared on the
eve of his departure for Europe that
the outlook was better than at any
time in the last 20 years.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
NEWS BRIEFS

100 Fascist clash with Florence
police during installation ceremony
of new CONSUL to whom they are OPP
posed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Miners and operators in conference
adopt resolution condemning the
spreading of false reports which lead
public to believe settlement has been
reached.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
ToDAY's POINTER

Acid will eat holes in the carpet,
SO keep some ammonia handy to
kill the acid.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Textile mill owners file bin with
clerk of Massachusetts, courts say
designed to permit increase working
hours Of women employees.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

new York hydro-electric develop
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

American Steel Foundries has begun
the new year with a good volume of
business on its books, with prospects
Of continuance Of current activity
for several months. said F. E. Patter-
son, treasurer and secretary. The
company is operating at an average of
80 per cent. of capacity with a steadi-
ly upward trend.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

f. New York. Jan. 7.-(AP)-The
third marriage Of Broadway cele-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Counsel for John w. Thomson. Tor
director of the Veterans Bureau, con-
victed of fraud, conspiracy; will fight
prison commitment on grounds that
his health Is seriously impaired.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08
FLASHES OF LIFE
(By The Associated Press)

Rome.-If Saint Paul lived today,
says Pope Plus. without question he
would have utilized with great earn
estness such an instrument for dis
semination of ideas as the press"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Canada's fifteenth parliament for
maIly opens Friday with speech by
governor general asking tax reduce
ton,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Flood waters of France still rising
with rivers in Paris but eight feet
below the level Of 1910, when the
most destructive flood of city's his
tory occurred.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

vesuvius eruptions continue but
fail to reach violence at first feared
and tourists enjoy spectacle Of smoke
and fire.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-01-08

Pekin, Jan. S.-(AP)-Tuan Chi
Jul, chief executive of China, an
noupces that he will retire from office
January Is.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

: It costs so little, yet it means So much for men.to be mem There is a great demand today for real men- the type who put their shoulders to the community wheels and help dc things.
 Any man can~be. .failue-it takes good man to be successful.
 Z. There's soraething in your eommun- ity which you can do. It's something that others. perhaps cannot rio. .. Ge out and search for it and lend help ing hand towards doing things you should do and divorce yourself from doing things you should not.-Ex.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

old enough to know better, tempted Adam in the Garden of Eden has age disported itself with so. much abandon as it does today. In bygone genera tions senescent men of 45 were wont to sing to. sweet, elderly women of 40, "Darling,<I Am Growing Old" But no more. No, ,indeedl Today the sheik of 45.sings>to the fiapper of 40, "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby" When the silver threads begin to appear among the gold, the present-day woman gets her hair bobbed, her face lifted, and makes her debut as red hot mamma
 Flaming youth, indeed!a Today it is age that sizzles, crackles and burns. 1t isn't youth that supports our jazz dances and gin mills2so much as it is the men and women in the roaring forties, the fatuous fifties; and the naughty sixties. Grandmas are the zlife of the party; graRdfathers are the wickedest thing about the place, and we don't mean maybe. Who gets tangled up in the divorce courts and the heart balm cases? Why: the bald headed, white haired daddies. Who wear short skirts, roll their stockings. and buy the most 1ipstick and rouge? All girls under 80.st.
 :. Flaming youth,, nothing! It's fam ing age we must take to task about the excesses of our modern life.- Seward Gateway.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05
Takotna, Alaska. June ,, 1926.
BODY OF MURDERED MAN
 FOUND IN CELLAR. SELKIRK
fDawson News

Evidence taken in the Smith tnur- Ter case. which was before Captain E. Tdlford, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in the court this morning, took up the best part of two hours. All available evidence was brought to bear in this preliminary hearing, but, as Harry Davis. the ac- accused slayer of Smith, had rio .de+ lending lawyer, and none being pro- curabIe, no questions nor arguments were directed from, hiss side of the question toward the witnesses. c. E. Mcleod repeated the story afo the Mcleod appeared for the prosecution om behalf of the crown.
 Constable Thornwaite, of the K. (. Nj. Police, was the first witness to be called in the hearing. In presenting ais knowledge of the case, before the ,ourt he told how he had been sum- noned from the post at Cafmaeks to assist in q search for Charles H. smith, sho had been reported missing rom the vicinity of Selkirk since Feb .uarye12. Upon arriving at the csbin 5fs Harry Davis, which is not far from that of Charles Smith, Thornwaite asked Davis if he had seen the miss Jng man. Davis is said to have re piled that he had mot, seen him for some days, following visit which the woodchopper had made to Davis cabin. After making an inspection of Smiths abode, iu company with Joe Menzies, of Selkirk, who assisted in the search, Thornwaite again visited the Davis cabin, wfIereupon, making a search, he found the body of Charles Smith in cellar which is directly un- derneath the floor of the building. Thornwaite stated that he had his at tention drawn to the cellar eR account of the fact. that when he began to search the Davis cabin the owner i'm mediately stepped over and stood upon the hatchway leading 'below.ss Upon this suspicion Thornwaite demanded Davis to allow him to go below, but he said that he had rtott gone. more than half way down the steps leading to the floor of the cellar befpre Davis threw up his hands and, declared that neIgave in, and further admitted that he had killed Chorles smith and had placed his body in the eellarshelow the house, where he had lett him pending such time as he (Davsl might be able to thaw out enough, ground In which he might bury his. victim.
 Davis was then immediately ar-
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05
THE YOUTH OR~aGE.

Holding flaming goetaesss aalKnenferr the follies of our ace@eeaiaysis quite the rage, but there are those who are coming to believe that. this aforesaid flaming youth is busua xeebiee flicker compared with hnss, egersasassr sfire- works staged, by 'red-hot agec, Never since those. days when Mothef. Eve,
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

/ '"-~~~ VI Charles Smith on or, about February 12, 1926, in the. cabin of the accused. Identification of the body in the cellar having been made, the accused and the body of body of Smith5were. taken to Selkirk, where Thornwaite await. ed instructions by wire:
 In the meantime Davis alleged that Smith had visited him and asked him to put a plaster on5 his back. Davis Is said to have deelsred that. while Smith was sitting with his back to the stove on which he heated the plasz ter, but upon administering it to Smiths back the''latter, finding it too hot, immediately became rolled, and. picking Davis rife off the wall, hit Davis across the temple, with the in strument. In the scuffe which fof- lowed it is alleged thataDavis man aged to gain possession of this weapon, with which he eis chaeged with killing Smith.h.
 In the evidence given by Doctors Thompson and Byrns. who held the autopsy on the Smith body in the Dawson morgue on Marah,;20, the facts were brought out thak. in: their professional opinion, death was caused by a bullet wound which. made it's entry into the body little below the armplt and which iemergedz slightly higher in position under the-left arm pit, death being caused almost instan- taneously winch the bullet passed through the aortas 4ors snaia artery leading from the heart.
 Four lacerationsewhieh, were found on the skull, and which were appar- ently caused from lsonaeSs blunt. instru- ment, were also found i, and one of these lacerationsp which :awas on the back of the skull and which had pene- trated to the bone, was,s in the doc tors opinion, sufficientiys serious to cause death, althoughethis, they stat ed, would not take place in short time, as would theacase with the huf- let wound. In1other words, the lacer- ations on the head of Smith were caused before the bullet was fired through the body, sas4was proved by the fact that large quantity of blood was found underneath the skull.
 With all the evidence Z. esubn1itted,. Captain Telford called upon theEiacz cused asking him if he had any aues-7 tions to ask or whether he would like to make any remarks. Davis, having no counsel, refrained from doing either, and consequently the prelim-. mary hearing was concluded, fand Davis was bound over to thefterrie torial court of the Yukon Territory ito await trial at the sittingeof the erim inal assizes. 2.
 The date for this sitting.is not def nitely known, as the court now awaits the pleasure of Honorable Justice G. D. Cacaulay, who is now Outside. Also, 1t is customarY4hat counsel he3 pro- cured for an accused man, and sas there is no other lawyer in Dswsonoat the present time to handle theacase, some one will have to be fengageasto come to Dawson.Se
 s5 This being the first-case. of it's kind to come up here since about 1917, great deal of irterest was manifested, as the court room was crowded to the doors at this mornings hearing.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

' An inventor in England claims he is able to rejuvenate thei,old and put off the old-age feeling in the, middle aged by the medium of electricity, His method eis by forcing am electrical current into the brain-
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

An automatic train stop, acting by electric induction, has been installed on branch line of the New Y York; New Haven & Hartford Railroad, and is expected to eliminate accidents
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

A device for recording applause ac- corded to public performers, has been invented2 It consists chiefly of vii brating drum supporting pen
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

mological room, storage and filing room, a radio room, battery and, charging room, and utility room.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

A speeial.splank of : the Imperial Forest Research institute at Dehra Dun, India, has been built for mak- ing paper, from bamboo.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05

The ereconstrueteda attic workshop of James Watt, with the toels, and para phernalia used by thesinventor of steam engine fame, is on exhibitionrin the South Keaasingtone Museum, Lon don.
The Kusko times., 1926-06-05
SCIENCE AND .iNvENTION.

It is reported in Germany that dis .covery has been made of a solder for welding aluminum.