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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11
Fire Apparatus
ASsO'n Formed

At citizens meeting held Monday
evening in the American Legion hall,
called by Emerson-Lane Post, the
Richmond Fire Apparatus Association
was formed with the following off,
GERS; J. w. Randlette. president: Dr.
V. r. e. Carey. vice president; J. E.
Alexander. treasurer: executive COM
mittee, the above named officers and
Fire Chiaf~C. w. Dunlap. The object
Of the association is to purchase by
public subscription a motor combina-
ton fire pump and chemical. 1t was
one Of the most enthusiastic public
meetings ever held In town, and those
present were unanimous in the neces-
sity Of a fire pumping engine of the
motor type. not only as protection to
village property but to farm proper
ty, and particular stress was placed on
the protection It would afford the
farmer. who has no protection now.
More than $500 was raised at the
meeting and general soliciting COM
mittee composed Of e. B. Preble
(chairman), Mr.. and Mrs. E. p. Favor.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Alexander, Harold
N. Libby and Robert P. Stewart, was
appointed by the executive committee
to plan soliciting campaign to cover
the town.
Rev. and Mrs. Frank Dresser are at
tending a conference at Rev. Browns
church in Rockland for the remainder
of the week.
The ladies Of the Auxiliary have or
ganized a sewing club and will meet
for their first meeting Tuesday after
noon at 2.30 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Mayford Morris. on Church
street. Anyone desiring wax flowers
may leave orders with Mrs. Earl
Preble.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Newell and
Mr.. and Mrs Herbert Libby Of Gardi-
ner, Mrs. Emma Bowley and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Bowley and son Frank of
Litchf1eld. Mrs. Eugene Purington
passed the day Sunday at Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Reynolds.
Mrs. Asa Newell, who has been Ill,
Is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Reynolds were
visitors at the home of Mrs. Emma
Bowley in Litchfield Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kimball were
business visitors in Portland Wednes-
day.
The reserved seat tickets for the
high school reception, which Is to be
held in the Opera House Friday eve
ming. are on sale at the A. E. Small
store at the usual price. There is to be
no admission charged. contrary to the
rumor being circulated.
Warren Peacock of Gardiner was a
business visitor in Richmond Tuesday.
A telephone has been installed. at
the home of Sadie Meyers, Dresden
Mills-No. 9-34.
Mrs. Stanley MARI of waterville is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Preble.
Grand Patriarch George Leavitt,
with Bryan Ludwig. F. E. Preble and
]. G. C. Farnham, attended the meet
ing of District No. IS Encampment, I.
o. o. F., held at Skowhegan Tuesday
evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

:. Mr.. and Mrs. Will Jackson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Melvin Appleton, Mrs. Stella
Parker and Mrs. Marion Derry pass
ed the week end at Camp Bonavista.
Liberty. A fine string of fish were
caught. Mr.. jackson landing a SAL
mon which tipped the scales at FIVE
pounds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11
SIDNEY

Mr.. and Mrs. George Tilton were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Arthur Pettegrove. Gardiner, Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. David e. Bailey and
children, True, Alice and Clara, of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

George Hysom Of Gardiner and Harry
Hysom Of Vassalboro. besides several
nieces and nephews and one grand.
child. Leland King. Jr.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

Weeks Mills: Mrs. Winnie Clarke of
Weeks Mills and Mrs. Jennie Brown
of Cooper's Mills; three brothers.
Herman Hysom Of Weeks Mills;
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

-, annie Stiles left Wednesday
Al "a for Rockland, where she will
n0llIae g,Iest of Miss Abbie Carter.
Wv there she will attend the Bap-
w 'ssonyention which is being held
y that city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

The w. c. T. U. meeting regularly
scheduled for this afternoon will be
held next Thursday evening, June II.
A most interesting program is being
arranged which will make this meeting
one Of the outstanding gatherings of
the year. Announcement of the pro-
gram will be given later.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

Gertrude NJ. Cannon and Grace A.
Cannon have sold their homestead
property at 1873 State street to Alice
M. Clark. The sale was made through
the E. E. Newbert Agency and the
transaction was completed Thurs
day. This substantial and well
known house was built by the Misses
Cannon in 1908 and has been con-
tinually occupied by them.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

,rrJNERY-Outstanding values
!. .se new materials; trims and styles
!, =. .ss moment at $1.00, $1.95, $2.95,
md 1875. Marion c. Genest. Opera
ususa Block. 1une9d4t
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

-. niano pupils Of Miss Carrie M.
Ias .rd will give public recital
Btaai~ ~su,ne in the Penney Memorial
bis s BEGINNING promptly at 7.s0
sa,iock
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11
AUGUSTA LOCALS
"a r.,.nhons Your Locals to 1877

,,,.. Miller went to Portland
r'Wsr ns afternoon for a few days'
Ipa,ress trip.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

WEST-Rev. John Rix, Of Bel
grade Lakes, will preach at the
Chapel June IL. at 2.30, p. M. All in
vited.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

Capital Clothing Co. opp. POST
office offers: Mems khaki pant.
SIPS; Mems unionsuits. SEC, boys
49c; Mems work pant, s1.95; Mems
uskide sole Moccasins, s2.69, boys
: :s4s Mems Shoes GOODYEAR shoes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-11

The Augusta Furniture Co. are
featuring: Camp Cots $3.50 and 4.50:
folding chairs, CSC; gasoline cook
stoves. with ovens, just the thing
for tourists, $12.50.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

woman, who powdered and painted. His powders
and paints made from coored earths, white, red and
yellow have been found and the pestles in which he
ground and mixed them. With them he painted his
whole body not to be beautiful and captvate the
opposite SEX but for ceremonial purposes, and to be
frightful and impress his enemies.
Professor Absolon, however, has found one ivory
vanity case containing red chalk powder, so dantily
made that one cannot help feeling that some women
at least made up little even them, and probably
criticised for trying to be mannish.
To-day, 10000 years later we find the same Gus
toms among savage tribes. Our Predmost ancestor
was savage but not that kind, for his skulls show
that he had as good brain as the average white
man of 1925. The male white now scorns paint
and powder but tattooing, which was invented about
the same time still persists.
Clothing was of vital importance to these people,
who lived close to the ice cap, which in their day had
crept far down from the Pole. Even in Summer,
when the wind blew from the frozen north, it must
have been pretty chilly Their clothes were the furs
of animals The skins of most any beast were used,
from the chief struttng about in his lion skin to the
village idiot shiverng in the NANCY hide of hyena.
For in the Winter months some of the furs
must have been sewed into loose fitting jackets and
pants, such as keep the modern Eskimo warm We
know also that fur 'coaks were in style, because
Professor Absolon has large and interesting colec
ton of buckles made of bone and ivory and pierced
with two holes. One hole small, evidently the
one into which a bone button was sewed perma-
nently The large hole was to let in loop through
which pin of bone wood stuck One of
these buckles at the throat and another at the
waist.
One kind of hide we may be sure he did not wear,
though he had plenty of mammoth hide. When
tanned and dried the skin Of the great animal would
be as stiff and almost as heavy corrugated sheet
iron. However, bent over pole, it gave him fine
tent, and he may have used it for hinges and foot
gear.
These clothes were sewed with needles made of
reindeer horn and represented Of primeyal
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

Great Britain Rights Reserved
bTHE fascinating discoveries which Professor D.
K. Absolon, of Prague University, has just
made in Morava prove that the Predmost
man of 10000 to 10000 years ago fought with the
mammoth bigger than any animal that walks the
earth to-day, and with the cave BEAR whose skele-
tons show that twelve feet tall when it reared
up on its hind legs However, in those days, now,
the lion was the king of beasts We know this by
The reverential way. in which the caveman treated
the lions remains
He not only chose the leg bones of that beast to
make into daggers when other bones would have
served the purpose fully as we'll and required less
labor, but lions tooth was precious gem. The
proud possessor it a string around his neck
when hunting 1t then was supposed to give him
some Of the lions courage, and was a charm against
the attacks of other animals, the lion himself
At home in the presence of the tribe, it gave him
prestige. On such occasions he wore it suspended
solitaire in the middle of his forehead With
his crude implements it must have taken great skill
and infinite pains to drill hole through lions tooth,
but Large number of the eye teeth of the big cats
have been found drilled with neatness worthy of
the panel of first class radio set.
Science suspects that women wore their share Of
these vsluabes not to make them ferocous, because
that not desirable even then in woman, but
because it proved TO other women that she had cap
tured the heart of mighty hunter-in other words,
a very eligible man. She had lots of other inery,
necklaces of snail shells, beads of mammoth ivory
and teeth of the Arctic fox, wolf and hyena
On this page last Sunday it was pointed out that
the caveman tall and brutal faced, while the
cavewoman small and delicate featured In the
of evolution, man face has become softened
and efeminized, while woman has grown taller and.
some think, holder.
In those early Stone Age days it was man. not
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

Of announced world
arnanev brought
of and tools toilet
of Glen o
jewellers lived what
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the fact a
with he
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Stone finding
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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

wolves as he slew and ate them. In those athle
contests the dinners were always on the losel
Wolves skulls were always split open to get at d
brains, which seem to have been quite delicacy.
On many occasions there must have been ain e.
barrassng oversuppy of meat on their hands,.
warm weather it would spoil before the little CO.
munity at Predmost could eat even small perce3
age. But it was not allowed to spoil, for Mr.. Preh
torc Man lost time in advertising that he had fol
for sale. He beat on hollow log or drum and
built fire on top of the high cliff, throwing VI
skin over it now and then to make the smoke rise
irregular clouds, which distant communities COT
read and understand.
In trooped hungry ladies and gentlemen w
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

thOse needles they must nave
had great patience. If men made them for
their sweethearts they must have been deeply
in love-
When a mammoth was caught in the pits
and killed it was cut into small enough pieces
TO be lifted out of the pit and dragged home.
II is quite task for modern butcher to cut
up the carcass of steer, though armed witt
cleavers, saws and knives of sharpest steel.
The cutlery of the Predmost man consisted
of shnrt flint knife blades set into handles of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

bone and of axes made of various kinds OF stone,
with bone and sometimes probably wooden handles,
though wood has not the power of bone to resist the
ages Besides these he had knives and axes made
of ivory and small saws of flint Also there was
strange looking twopronged ivory fork believed to
have been used to draw the nsdes out of slaughtered
animals.
With such unpromisng tools he had to attack the
mammoths leathery hide, hack his way through
the tough muscles and somehow manage to carve
the great joints. This formidable operation had to
be performed at once and the heavy booty dragged
home, for it is clear that the country was full of all
manner of earnivorous animals, lions, cave bears,
hyenas and wolves. Primeval man staggering home
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

under his burdens was often beset
these four-footed "hi-jackers."
The great bone piles are full
fossils of these animals, particulai
wolves. The Predmost man had
drop his load of mammoth meat a
have it out with his enemies, not w
a rifle at long distance, but hand
hand. If he lost the battle the wolf
ate the mammoth meat and him, {,
liz he won. he took the bodies of 81
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03

Remarkable Specimen Of Pre-.
historic Jewelry as Worn by a
Cavewoman 10000 Years Ago:
A Necklace of Snail Shells Half
the Original Size and Beads Cut
from Mammoth Ivory, and Teeth
of an Arctic Fox, Wolf and
Hyena Pierced for Stringing as
an Ornament.
mans most finished work. Quite
a number of beautiful specimens
have been found, because, like
needles of to-day, they were
small and easily lost. We may
be sure that each of Professor
Absolon's collections represented
much weeping on the part of
some cave lady twenty to thirty
thousand years ago. A we'll
made needle was a treasure and
an heirloom. Mrs. Caveman
could not send little Bobby
around the corner for another,
because the boy would not fipd a
ten-cent store, but more likely a
cave bear. 3
To make one of these needles
it was first necessary to bore a
hole. The instrument for this
was a small silver of flint placed
in a socket in the end of a bone,
which had to be twirled back
and forth. until it bored its way
through. When the hole was
made it was necessary to rub it
on a stone until it was ground
down to the required size and
shape. If women manufactured
those needles they must have
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-01-03
Bv Prof. Charles w. Goodwin
Distinguished British AnthropoloEi't
CHAPTER ii.
concluded from Last Sunday

c) By Weekly. Britain Rights Reserved
bTHE fascinating discoveries which Professor D.
K Absolon, of Prague University, has just
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-16

NEW YORK MARKET
Atures OF the Days Dealings I'm All
the Leading Stocks

view York, Mar. 15-(By the Asso-
Nu Press)-Stock prices bounded
WARD IN the last few minutes of
salng today after an early period
HeSularity which was featured by
n weakness of the southern railroad
%S Trading, which was rather
early in the session. quickened
Me rebound, total sales aggregat-
Li7l,2OO shares.
VI ana motor shares led the re-
HE' General Petroleum was in
n Vanguard of the petroleum group,
aolng over four points to a new
s ~ record at IS on reports that it
MI De absorbed by the Standard
SSolnpany of New York through an
huge OF stock on a two for one
@ substantial gains also were
saIea by California Petroleum,
'uefai Asphalt and Pan-American
IN, mack Truck, selling ex-dividend,
!. 'su from 120 IA to 1241s for a
san OF points on the day. Gen
M Ssotors, Hudson, Fisher Body
~ Stewart Warner closed to
NY points higher.
eaaness Of several Of the south
aiI snares was attributed to the
'preao circulation of rumors
49,, inc Florida land boom had
h 49, ss Its peak. that some of the
sstate developments had met
knt. ,evefsal Of fortune and that the
M season had been shorter than
h a. Atlantic Coast Line broke
M 81. % 2OS, but snapped back to
seaooard Air Line common fell
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-03-16
Chicago Cattle Market
Chicago. March LEA

Chicago March 15.-(AP).
CATTLE-Receipts $4,000; fat steers
with weight fully rs lower; spots off
more: yearlings Is to 25 lower; best
matured steers HOO; yearlings 1920;
bulk 9.00@10.25; numerous loads South
Dakotas 1000@10.50; choice stock
closing about steady; vealers mostly
SO lower at 11.50Q12.00; meaty feeders
weak to Is off; largely 500; this
kind scarce, fully steady.
HOGS-Receipts $4,000; market
moderately active; opened 10 to Is
lower, closed with early decline recov-
cred; bulk $40 to 325-pound butchers
11.66@12.35; bulk desirable 200 to 225-
pound weights 12.75@13.35; good and
choice 1870 pounds down largely 1850
@1410: tops 1870 pounds up 1925; 100
pounds up 14.10; packing sows 10000
HOO: bulk sorted killing pigs $4,000
laps; shippers took $4,000: estimated
holdover $4,000.
SHEEP--Receipts $1,000; fat lambs
generally steady to strong; closing
slow, especially on clipped offerings;
several doubles choice light and handy
weight lambs 1925 @14.50; bulk 1925
@1400; clipped yearling wethers aver
aging around 116 pounds 800: fat
sheep and shearing lambs fully steady:
bulk shearipg lambs 13.25@13.70; few
loads 13.75@14.00; choice aged weth-
ers 1000; bulk fat ewes 7.50@8.00; few
choice kind UP to 800.
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FINANCIAL NEWS
M

the day. The principal commodity
markets were lower Wheat sagged
~ to cents a bushel in sympathy
with lower foreign prices, but made
| partial recovery toward the close.
The cotton market was dull and ir-
regular, final quotations being six
points lower to six points higher.
Raw sugar was unchanged. but fu
lures were slightly easier in reflec-
ton of more liberal offrings in the
spot market.
Coffee prices dropped six to twenty
points.
Call money renewed at IA per
cent and remained, at that rate all
day. Time money and commercial
paper rates were unchanged.
An extreme break of nearly so
points in Belgian francs, part of
which was later recovered, featured
the reactionary foreign exchange
market. Selling of Belgian bills
presumably was inspired by reports
that the proposed revaluation plan
would involve the sterilization of the
currency around the four cent level.
The other active European currencies
showed moderate receSsions on SELL
ing which may have been influenced
Dy OcNtlOpIIleiltS at StIleNd. DtildHu
sterling ruled lis of a cent lower at
4.S5 Ills and French francs were
again quoted below $50 cents,
week END loss of about 3 points.
Erratic fluctuations in stock prices
today were accompanied by marked
unsettlement in the bond market
which failed to maintain the strong
tone developed on last weeks recov-
cry. Selling pressure was directed
mainly against railroad liens, which
proved vulnerable because of the
weakness of the carrier shares.
Uneasiness over the Belgian finan-
cial situation, occasipned by a precip-
itate drop Of almost half a cent in the
franc and reports that loan negotia-
tons in London had struck a snag.
caused scattered selling on Belgian
bonds, but the declines were limited
to point or less. The present I'M
certainty is not expected to interfere
seriously with arrangements for
new interna tional loan although 1t
may delay the discussions.
Railroad obligations followed the
downward trend of these stocks
without developing acute weakness,
although the same motives apparent
ly accounted for the selling in both
markets. Seaboard Air Line issues
were the hardest hit. four of them
falling one to two points on disturb
ing rumors. regarding Florida real
estate speculation. Norfolk & West
ern convertible IS dropped 4 points
and the consolidated As a point, but
Atlantic Coast Line and Southern
Railway liens held firm in the face
of breaks in these stocks. Pennsyl-
vania As of 1852. Union Pacific re-
funding As and South Pacific collat-
eral As also yielded to selling pres
sure but some of the st. Paul, New
Haven. and Denver & Rio Grande is
sues displayed independent strength.
Florida East Coast 12s were aided
by the prompt oversubscription of the
roads new S15.000,000 bond issue.
Soft spots in the public utility and
industrial groups included ~the local
traction issues. the Wilson & Com
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IA to 33 ga and then rallied to Sc
and the preferred dropped 2 IA to 81
ga closing at the bottom. The min
imum prices of all three were new
low records for the year. Southern
Railway sold off over 2 points tot
Ill "a, but closed point above the
low. Other rails were mixed. Della
ware and Hudson was run up 3-4
points to III, closing near the top.
and Canadian Pacific, Louisville and
Nashville. Pere Marquette and Texas
and Pacific showed net gains Of about
/ to points. On the other hand the
st. Paul issues. Chicago and North
western, Chicago and Alton prefer
red, Pittsburgh and West Virginia,
st. Louis, Southwestern and Wheel
ing and Lake Erie preferred showed
net declines of 1 to points.
TIL announcement that the katy"
preferred dividend had been raised
from So to Sc annually was made af-
ter the market was closed. The stock
closed at 81, up ga on the day.
The late rally was accompanied by
predictions of easier money rates,
now that the first federal income tax
payments are out of the way. Cen
eral Electric rallied over points to
325k. United States Cast Iron Pipe
jumped six points to 17S and Air Re-
duction, Allied Chemical. American
Can, Fox Film, Loewa, Texas Gulf
Sulphur and Union Carbide showed
net gains of 2 points or more.
There were several soft spots
among the specialties, Ward Baking
B collapsed 71a points to SO, new
low for the year and then rallied to
So "a, and Foundation Company
dropped from an early high of 1919
to 991a, also a new low, and then
snapped back to 103As off 2 5-S on
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TOWN ELECTIONS

OWLS HEAD-Selectmen Parker s.
Merriam. A. Walker Brewster. j. Dana
Knowlton; town clerk, Abbie NJ. Heard;
treasurer and tax collector, Chas. ".
Livingston; school committee, F. l..
S. Morse, A. A. Baine. l.. McCouchie,
L. Whalen. Money appropriated. $12.-
269.34: Schools. $2910: highways
S5165; support of poor, 500; other
purposes. $1,000 to reduce town debt;
$50, Maine development; $500 for town
for Mothers Aid; $27S.34 for electric
lights.
ISLESBORO - Selectmen. NJ. r.
Trim. f. l.. Pendleton, H. c. Pendle
ton; town clerk, Horace w. Sprague;
treasurer, Marcellus Zeazie: tax collec-
tor ]. A. Pendleton; school committee
Carrie Ladd. l.. f. Smith. c. e. Kim
ball. Money appropriated, $29,S10:
Schools. $10,600: highways, s4666;
support of poor, $4,000.