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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02
STATE HOUSE
Next Meeting of Governor Council, Friday, 10 NJ

struck the tower house shortly after
he had come out of 1t for the day,
a fact that probably was the means
of saving the watchman'S life, for
the house was moved off the steel
tower as if by gigantic explosion.
The glass in the windows was spun
out and deposited on the grass at
the base of the tower in the form
of fine threads" said Mr.. Long.
The metal in the telephone and
map table and binoculars was fused,
and the woodwork of the house
simply disappeared. The bolt after
demolishing, or rather, evaporating
the house, came down the steel
framework and scooped out a mar
row bowl in the surface of the
granite ledge. 1t was some bolt!'
he concluded.
Virgil Goodrich, who has been IN
charge of tower and camp building
crews for the Forestry Department
this summer, has just completed the
new tower house on SaddlebaCk,
which ranks among the highest of
Maine mountains, being a bit over
1900 feet in elevation.
The pictures show the tower af-
ter the lightning struck the house,
and the new house and flag that
replace the demolished structure.
Mr.. Long has been in the service
of the Department for several years,
having had other stations in various
parts of the State, but he says that
the past summer was the most
eventful one in his entire woods
experience.
THE day after the tower was
destroyed we had quite severe
earthquake on Saddleback," he said.
"a party of three girls from Wingo' s
Camps were climbing the mountain
and stopped at the camp for lunch
just as the earthquake arrived. 1t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02

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Jones l.. (Deliciousg Noyes l. tBsI
fower) Jones /. (Alexander) Cors,
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Corson ], Jones .. Corson 9. Gard
Royal Jones l, Weeks ., Gassett
(Nodhead) Jones /, Corson 2, CASE
3. (Milding) Corson l. CRarye-
Noyes /, Jones >, Mrs. H. y. Pease
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Gassett !, Corson 2. BLACK Oxfor.
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son ], Mrs. Dill >. Mrs. Pease
(Bailey Sweet Gassett 2. (Rolti
Corson I. tArctic) Corson !, Pease
(Granite Beauty Jones I, Corson
(Roxbury RUssett) Corson 1, Jones
Mrs. pease 3. (Toiman's Sweet Jen.
l. Corson >, Gassett 3. Golden Ri
setD Corson ]. c. T. Gay ?. Gasset
Coles Ounce or RusselD Corson
Mrs. Pease 3. (Gano) Jones l, Cors
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Single Plate Pears and Plums
bartlett pears) Tilton /. tSeeka
Jones l. (Sheldon) Tilton. /. (Clapd
Favorite) Tilton ]. tGrapes) Jones
Tilton .. bradshaw plums) Jones
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Jones l. CUnion Purple) Jones
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02
Another Week with
No Frost Will Mean
Normal Pack of Corn

Charles II. Crawford, formerly of
the State Department of Agriculture
and now Executive Secretary of the
Maine Wool Growers Association,
who has been visiting several of the
States corn growing and canning
sections, stated Friday that if the
cold weather holds off for another
week or ten days the corn pack for
the year will be nearly UP to normal.
"A few weeks ago the Gamers fear
ed that the pack would be about
So per cent of the usual amount.
but the plants have been running
at capacity since then. and a few
more days will bring the yield up to
the usual amount"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02
State Officials
O. X. FarmingtOn Fair

Officials OF the State Department.
of Agriculture who have been attend
ing Pennington Fair during the past
week state that the fair this year
was by far the best in the history
of the association, good crowds be-
ing present right along. and that of
Wednesday establishing new record
for attendance. The stock exhibits
were also far above the usual aver
ae, and the showing of agricultural
products is said to have been I'M
usually fine. Commissioner Frank p.
Washburn of the State Department
of Agriculture was in attendance
most of the week and was much
pleased with the Fair.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02

G ecially at
I h | S tim e be-
cause in recent
weeks much has
been said in the
newspapers and
elsewhere in be-
half OF savings.
Tremendously
powerful a n d
useful agencies
have b e e n ex-
pending special
efforts a ! on 6
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02

The capn and mate of the Sailing
sally were at odds. They scowled
whenever they met, and seized the
opportunity of scoring off one
announcer with fiendish glee. Each
TOOK turn at making the days en-
tfies IN the log book, and the mate.
when making his entries. found in
the cap ms handwriting the words:
August 5, 1923-Mate drunk.
He stared at it wrathfuIlv mo-
ment. Then he took up the pen and
wrote:
August 6, 192s-Captain sober.
From Everybody's Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02
LEARN RIGHT USES OF MONEY
AS WELL AS HOW TO SAVE
BY S. w. STRAUS,
President American Society for
Thrift.

TT is well to have impressed on Us
Il the fact that thrift means more
than mere saving. This is true
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-10-02

He-1've decided never to marry.
She-After ten girls have refused
You. l should think that's a wise
decision
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
MAY

No other month has been so much written about as "the merry mnth of May" It might be called the magic month, for legend and tradition con- meet many tale of romance with this last month of spring.
 Strange beliefs have from olden times belonged to the first day of May. Then the maid may find her lovers face n the quietness of hidden pools and the dew of May Day holds fairy beauty. Around the May Pole laughing children dance, hardly knowning that their festival began as a religious rite, as a dance of thankful ness for life renewed with springtime.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
WISE JUDGE

In the city of Miami, Okla, there is wise judge. We don't know his name, but he's wise. Nineteen boys were arraigned before him for perpetrating a lot of petty thefts. Did he send them to the reformatory, to make criminals out of them in good earnest? He did not. He called in their parents and had each one given a good old-time tanning with hickory. Then he turned them loose. It'll be a long time before those lads swipe any more milk bottles.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
HOW TO BE HATED

Old Ed Howe, the Kansas wise man, used to tell the readers of his paper, the At chison Globe, that the mean est man in Atchison always made his family wait until the January sales to buy their Christmas presents.
 A man in Indiana, it is said, used to refuse to let his wife pick the apples for her own use. "John, she would remon- strate, "there aren't any of the half-rotten ones left"
 "Then wait until some rot, ' this mean old fellow would snap back at her. Were too poor to eat the good ones"
 Everybody despises a mean old cuss like those fellows Women will send flowers to the jail to bedeck the cell o1 murderer, a theft may be given aother chance, but when a person is just ornery ana mean, there's not much sym pathy for him anywhere: And the reason is that we are all idealists, more or less. The rapacious old humbugs of the old days who acquired a mill- ion or so by more or less shady methods, found that after all the best use to which they could put their money was the service of mankind. We can forgive almost anything in our fellow-creatures but small ness of soul.
 Every man and woman who really wants the good opinion of their neighbors need not possess the entire calendar ot virtues. Just generosity, that's all. Just a little human kinu- ness in one'smakeup will make other folk overlook the faults
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

q am afraid, doctor," said a woman to the physician she had cornered at 6 reception, "that my husband has some terrible mental affliction. I sometimes talk to him for hours and then discover he lit orally hasn't heard a word I said"
 "That isn't an affiction, Mad am," was the weary reply. That's divine gift"
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
A LEAGUE RACE

Dr. Mayo, of the famous Mayo brothers, says walking is the best exercise that can be taken. But with 20,0OO,OOO automobiles in the country, walking will soon become one of the Host arts" Dollar-a gallon gas, when it comes, may revive a little fleeting interest in ambulatory indulgence.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

headed up the street. Finally he met a man who looked like a native.
 Pardon me-" said the stran- ger, fare you a resident of this town?"
 "Yes, sir" was the rejoinder of the other. "I have been here something like fifty yarss What can do for you?" T am looking for a criminal lawyer" responded the stran- ger. Have you one here?" Well said the native reflect ively, "We think we have but can't prove it on him.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Washington is another illustra- ton of the differece between fame and notoriety. Washing ton gained one, and Hughes the other.
 1. The cheapest guy we've heard of for a while gave his girl a lip stick so that he could get it all back again when she thanked him for it.
 Spring usually may be de- pended on to bring winter.
 The man who doesn't need advertising in his business probably does not need to be in business, and usually isn't for a very great length of time.
 "You seem able-bodied and healthy" she remarked cold ly; "you ought to be strong enough to work"
 "True enough, lady," he re- piled. And you seem beauti- ful enough to be in the nov ies, but evidently you prefer the simple life"
 Her cold look vanished and she gave him a good meal. A guest in a Cincinnati hotel was shot and killed. The negro porter who heard the shooting was a witness at the trial. Prairie Farmer tells the story: "How many shots did you hear?" asked the lawyer.
 Two shots, sah," he replied. "How far apart were they?" Bout like dis," explained the negro clapping his hands with an interval of about a second between them.
 Where were you when the first shot was fired?"
 Shining gentleman's shoe in de basement of de hotel"
 Where were you when the second shot was fired?"
 "Ah was a-passin' de Big Fo' depot"
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
E. ':L OF NOT VOTING

in :. -daress delivered a few d@ys a 70 to representatives ot Daughters of the American Revolution, President Coolidge ut r.sl 2 warning that should engage the serious consider at.on of every American citi- zen.
 1t w,.s a warning against the alarm lgly rapid increase in the ia iure of citizens to vote. In thia tendency, said the Pres ident unless it is checked and supplanted by a healthy inter e1~ in elections, is spelled the IcrCa Il doom of the republic. "The whole system of Ameri- can vernment rests on the F lio; box" asserted the Presl- q r< Unless citizens perform the duties there, such a sys- tenn Of governmennt is doom ed to failure"
 The fact that disregard for duty of voting has steadily in- creased since 1880, was point cd out. In 1896 the number of qualified voters participating in elections was 80 per cent of the electorate. In the 1920 and 1924 presidential cleo tions the average declined to less than 50 percent, despite organized efforts to bring out the vote.
 "The perilous aspect of this situation," said the President, ''lies in it's insidiousness. With the broadening of popular powers, the direct election ot practically all public officials, and the direct nomination of most of them, there is no op- portunity for an expression of the public will, except at the ballot box.
 "As our resources icrease, as the relationship between indi- viduals become more intricate, the government becomes more and more important
 We do not need to fear a frontal attack upon it. When ever the public scents that it is in danger, it will be quick enough to give it adequate support. It is only the approach to some silent and unrecogniz- ed peril that needs to give us alarm. We are placing our re- liance on the principle of self
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
ABOUT ADVERTISING

Newspapers of America pub lished last year advertis- ing which cost 795O,OOO,OO0. Those who do not believe in advertising probably think this
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

government. But if the people ail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government"
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

huge amount was donated by kind-hearted, but brainless business men.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
Just For Fun

Some young men go to college while others just dress funny and let it go at that.
 Only a man with a good sub- stantial income can afford to write poetry.
 The man who has no time for an occasional laugh needs a vacation.
 The man that don't build castles in the air, don't build any with bricks.
 If you stare at a woman, she'll say you lack manners. If you don't stare at her she'll say you lack sense.
 Hubby-"I miss the old GUS pidor since it's gone."
 Wifey-"You missed it be- fore-that's why it's gone"
 The wonder is that any one ever thought of the phrase 'the quick and the dead" be- fore the age of automobiles.
 SETTLES PRICE
 Preston Settles, of Spring field, Ohio, and Anna Price, of Cincinnati, were married recently.
 This is the time of year that everybody wants to blow a day or two except the guy that has to blow.
 Runnrt HuCheS criticism If
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

T can tell without asking whether John has won or lost at poker the minute he comes home"
 How"
 "If he has lost he throws his pants across the foot of the bed. If he has won he puts them under his pillow"
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

One afternoon a stranger de- parked from a train at a hust- ling town in the West and
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Vanity's last name is not al- ways woman. A male dancer in Detroit paid $500 back ali mony to keep from going to prison because there they would cut off his beautiful curly hair. Isn't that just too dear?
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Job Printing Neatly Done At The Herald Job Shop.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Rupert Hughes criticism of
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Washington is another illustra- ton of the differece between fame and notoriety. Washing ton gained one, and Hughes the other.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Some young men go to college while others just dress funny and let it go at that.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12
SETTLES PRICE

This is the time of year that everybody wants to blow a day or two except the guy that has to blow.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

The cheapest guy we've heard of for while gave his girl a lip stick so that he could get it all back again when she thanked him for it.
Hyder weekly herald., 1926-05-12

Only a man with a good sub- stantial income can afford to write poetry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29
GETS.
TWO GIRLS

DETROIT, Dec. 2s.--Attacks on
two girls. one by a clubber who
struck his victim with q wrench.
and the other by q negro who threw
q sack over the girls head. then
robbed and assaulted her, concerned
police today.
Both girls were followed as they
went home unescorted.
There Is no indication the white
clubber Is the Toledo maniac who
has slain several women there ana
injured many more.
The clubber pursued Miss Merle
Collins, 20-year.old stenographer, for
two blocks and then slugged her
over the head with q wrench on
the steps Of her home.
The man escaped as the girls
father, Charles, appeared at the
door In response to the girls
screams.
The second girl, Mildred Zeiglcr,
II. was assaulted and robbed in q
vacant lot. She was found uncons
QrtnHla
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to get her boy bacl-she hadn't
seen much Of him since 1917. And
she had been seeing less OF him
the last few years-she was getting
old and tired, and discouraged.
Wanted Her Boy Home
The ride out to Congress Heights
Is wearisome and jolly; ana It's q
long walk from the front gate of
the asylum grounds to the building
where Gaffney was quartered.
Sometimes II rained, and then
again it showed, and made the con-
crete walks slippery. She wanted
him home with her-she never saw
anything crazy about him.
So Mr.. Curtis thought she would
make q fine prosecution witness
for the defense, dis it were.
Still he couldn't help wondering
why the opposing counsel had sum.
moned her. What did they expect
to prove by her testimony Tic
felt q little uneasy over the qlles.
ton, because in hearings OF this
kind the petitioner puts his side
up to the court first, and he'd have
to make out his case before he
knew what the Government counsel
was up to with Mrs. Gaffney.
/ But she was bound to make o
good witness Tor her son any way
you took II, and he would rather
quote her testimony as coming
from the Governments own wit
ness" than az mere testimony Of q
mother In favor OF her son.
It seemed like looking q gift
/ 4. - ~. -
matter any further, and he called
his first witness.
After an hour or two Of obiec.
ings and exceptions and arguments
and presidents, the Government
started in.
Mother Not Called
Witness after witness was called
and pumped dry, and we sat there
expecting every time to hear Mrs.
Gaffney's name called and find out
what the Government counsel was
up to. Then That's our case,
your honor and Mrs. Gaffney
hadn't been called.
"Aha!' said Mr.. Curtis, half
aloud, that's the game e It?
what gamer" we asked. eve
can 10llOW IE1Ck4 JEA11lG CASES al
right. but habeas corpus sEenan-
eRans are over our head like the
EngIish Channel) -
4. What gamer Its q sort Of a toe
lold-but / know the break for It.
IL the court, please" and he be-
gan his argument,
When he had finished 1t was the
Governments turn. In summing up
a.. na~n UGanfia,ranu ~ tfA ftlyv -
we heard, dazedIy, "it may be that
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or so-the. william F. Gaffney case.
The respondent DIR. William A.
White, Superintendent Of st. Eliza;
beti1's. was represented by Assist:
ant District Attorney Burkenshaw;
Gaffney, the petitioner. was repre-
sented by Attorney George f.. Cur
tbs; and the hearing took place in
Chief Justice McCoy's Court Octo.
Der % last.
Mrs. Gaffney, the petitioners
mother, was summoned by the Gov.
eminent counsel as a Government
witness, and Mr.. Curtis was glad
enough to have 1t that way-she'd
make a. good case for Gaffney out
of the Governments own witness.
For Mrs. Gaffney was anxious
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29
By DONALD Med OUGAl

IF the patient hasn't any lawyer,
that won't make any difference to
the Government counsel. He's going
to do the job right, regardless.
He's not going to jog along easy
and leave half his apparatus behind,
on the plea that it doesn't look
like much of a fire.
He's a professional fighter, ana
he leaves his corner with his guard
up and his wallop all ready for
planting. 49,.
What chance does an ordinary in
dividual stand against him?
Here's stunt pulled lin one OF
those habeas corpus cases you've
heard so much about the last year
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the petitioners family II DESTROYS
OF having him back In their home, a.
counsel has said. But * 30. why
has not some member Of the family
testified to that effect? The petit
toner's mother-Mrs. Gaffney--iss
here in this courtroom, and has been
throughout this hearing. Why
hasn't she been put on the stand?
Isn't ii highly significant that petit
toners counsel II unwilling g have
her
..By GoDr' petitioners counsel.
beloved, rising entirely out Of
turn) and walking toward the Jury
box, II Will not allow such insinuar
lions to be cast upon this overseas
veterar-
.'sit down. Mr.. Curtis, you are out
Of ORDER" the court admonished.
"A wrong impression e being made
1po YnoITIIeessTTT I
ssYes. IL the court please" The
gong had changed, the round was
Nh. Mr.. Curtis dropped his hands
to his sides and went to his corner.
But the rules OF court procedure,
ike poker and prize fighting, though
numerically strict, are fair. There
Is always compensation for rules
gone wrong. Il you know where to
look for 1t.
BY some legal maneuver that we
couldn't MISREPRESENTATION like
Point OF Personal Privilege In de-.
bate, probably Mr.. Curtis got the
floor In the midst OF the Govern.
ment's speech to the jury, and
grabbed It. He explained why he
had not called Mrs. Gaffney to the
stand under court rules, he couldn't
and challenged the Governments
counsel to explain why they had not.
The incident was dramatic In com.
parison with the dead.level naOnot.
ony Of what had gone before and
came after. It was high.light that
the jury remembered and carried
with them to the jury room, along
with 3 vague kind Of feeling that
the petitioner had mot been treated
with entire fairness. Anyhow, they
found FOR the petitioner, and he was
released.
lAnOtIer instaImeat tomorrow
s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29
Lau 7lffs Con1picate
Lunacy Hearings

the tenth series Of articles conditions
suit Of Investigation BIZ member Of The Times staff
By DONALD McDoUGAL
When public official is served with habeas corpus writ
in unacy case the Districts legal department must defend
him the same as the fire department alarm
assistant counsel assigned to the should say
don't think I'll this case-Im the man ism
razyhe ought to be out be in the position of fire.
man refusing obey orders His job is to defend the case
the best knows hoby every twist and turn and crook OF
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29
TABLEAUx At 81. MARKS

Nine religious and secular tab
Ieaux marked the annual Christmas
entertainment Of the Sunday school
Of st. Marks Episcopal Church.
Third and A Streets Southeast, last
Snirilt. The children were under the
direction Of David r.. Beattie, Miss
Ada. Voute, Miss Florence r. Johns
and Miss Grace Robinson.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29

Tell You wants to over one hundred
thousand sreaderS OF The Times and
Herald through the Classified Ads.
Right usage brings resuits---rct regrets-
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How;s this for nelDs

Another cut in prices! Goodness
knows the pre-holiday reductions
made prices srossy, and this final
round i the knockout.
But our customers expect extra
holiday bargains. Here they are. No
shop will offer finer values for your
money.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-29
T'yvo-Pa ants
Suits

The extra trousers are regulars not knickers.
That's what gives yousthe wear Of two suits in one
Description is complete when we say the stock in
cudes Ell that could Be desired BY the college boy the
business man and the professional man.
Putnam patriot., 1926-02-05

WAS stormy only two tasIes uert uIev. ea Itase who attended had 6 mo-t en]oYahle evening in spite of the in- element weather
 Mu John F. Grosnenes n enter tainlns her mother. Mrs Marry F Barrow of North Attlebdro.
 Nr and Mrs John D Campbell are speassae this week in Bostnn
 Mss Frances Dasgett has returned from North Attleboro ahere she hss been the guest of her sister. Miss Jose- phlne Clap. during the past week.
 Ar George F. Niles has recoveres from kis illness and is able to be oat again
 Mr and Mrs P V Garrison. whr have been visiting friends iH New jersey and Philadelphia for ssvera weeks VII return to the South cot taee aboa; the nineteenth of the month
 Mir Rider Davies. wha expected ta aEElEc early in the ueek ta spend the remainder of the vinfer. wnv sud- denly taken ill and obliged to detas- hef arrival until next week