The Firemen Couldn't Save It

New York, 1895

Fire broke out in the barber shop of Lewis Block, at Bay Shore, on Tuesday morning, and in spite of the efforts of the firemen the building was completely gutted. The loss is about $2,000.


The Robbins Potato Digger

The celebrated Robbins Potato Digger is necessary to successful farm work. It is the best made. Arrender Smith, of Rockville Center, is agent for the digger. Go see it, or he will call upon you.


Fire at Lindenhurst

Shortly before midnight Sunday night the dwelling of Isaac Taylor, at Lindenhurst, was destroyed by fire, with its contents. The loss will aggregate $2,000. The origin of the fire is a mystery.


Mrs. Ramming Gets a Divorce

A decree of absolute divorce was granted Tuesday morning to Rosa Ramming by Justice Gaynor, at a special term of the supreme court at Long Island City. The husband made no defense.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 8, 1895, p. 4.

Jamaica Brevities

New York, 1895

Haugaard Brothers have leased Kline & Gordon's planing and moulding mill on Fulton street, opposite Ackroyd avenue.

James Walker, colored, a veteran of the late war, residing on South street has received a pension of $8 per month and $300 back pay.

The directors of the Jamaica Choral society are William S. Cogswell, John Fleming, Theodore Chapman, Jesse Browne, Jr., and William F. Wyckoff.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

News from Springfield

New York, 1895

The Methodists are holding a week of prayer in their church.

Amaziah Foster has leased his farm for five years to parties from Foster's Meadow.

William Mills has sold his farm on Springfield avenue to Charles Augustine of Jamaica South for $4,600.

A surprise reception was tendered Lewis Mills on Wednesday evening in honor of his nineteenth birthday. A very pleasant evening was spent.

A reception was held Saturday evening at Miss Annie Boyce's house in honor of Miss Maggie Shingle of New York, who is spending a short time here.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

The News of Richmond Hill

New York, 1895

Miss M. A. Briggs is visiting friends at [New]foundland, N. J.

Miss Russell, of Stewart avenue, is visiting friends at Saranac Lake.

Postmaster Jacob L. Van Wicklen is recovering from a severe attack of the grip.

Thomas L. Fowler has moved to New York city, where he will make his future home.

Deputy Sheriff Kurz has been confined to his home during the past week with pneumonia.

James B. Post, of Staten Island, is visiting his son, James B. Post, Jr., of [Wal]nut street.

Mrs. O. B. Fowler and the Misses Ruth and Ethel Fowler, are spending the winter in Brunswick, Ga.

The Rev. Dr. Fitch, of Richmond Hill, has been appointed to the charge of the Church of the Epiphany at Ozone Park.

The Rev. Dr. Moir, of the Church of the Holy Communion, New York, lectured at the church of the Resurrection on Sunday evening.

The board of education appointed Conrad Koehler as a member of the board in the place of A. G. Wheeler, deceased, and C. W. Baker, of Dunton, in the place of A. H. Man, resigned.

Haugaard Brothers have nine cottages in the course of erection. Seven of the nine have already been sold. The new cottage for Henry C. Haugaard on Chestnut street is in frame.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

Note: [*] What's in brackets is supplied by me because it was missing in the torn newspaper.

Woodhaven and Ozone Park News

New York, 1895

The infant child of Joseph Tack died from pneumonia.

Highway Commissioner Wolff lost one of his best horses Sunday night from pneumonia.

Louis Eldridge has been confined to the house for the past week with a severe attack of the grip.

There are quite a number of cases of grip around Woodhaven and Ozone Park, and the doctors are kept busy.

Brooklyn Hills has taken on a city appearance with 75 naphtha lamps burning. They are a decided improvement. The residents will no longer need dark lanterns to find the way home.

Henry Seuhr, of South Woodhaven, had a valuable cow poisoned Sunday night by Paris green. The poison is believed to have been given to the animal by one of Seuhr's farm hands, and he has been arrested.

Complaint has been made to the board of health that parties are dumping refuse from the gas house at East New York on the Ryder farm at South Woodhaven close to the new school house. The school trustees made the complaint. The town clerk notified the executor to abate the nuisance at once.

The big factory resumed work Monday morning, with about one half the usual force. The company has adopted a new rule. It is that preference of position be given to people who live in the town. Quite a number of men have been discharged who live in East New York. A reduction of wages has taken place of about ten per cent.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

News of Hollis

New York, 1895

Mrs. Williamson is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. E. Phelps.

Miss Lou Thompson is visiting her friend, Miss Helen Livingston.

Mrs. Hough, of Lakewood is visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. Beebe, Jr.

Mrs. E. Martin has been entertaining her daughter, Mrs. S. K. Pugh, of Montclair, N. J.

A business meeting of Columbia hose company was held at the truck house Wednesday evening.

Owing to Presiding Elder Van Alstyn holding quarterly conference Thursday evening, prayer meeting was held Wednesday evening in the Methodist church.

Miss Edna Nagle celebrated her birthday by giving a pink tea Wednesday afternoon to a few of her friends. There were present the Misses White and Miss Hester Johnson, of Jamaica; Miss Lou Thompson, of Rockville Centre, and the Misses Zenobia Ely, Rebecca Nagle, Helen Livingston, and Edna Nagle of Hollis. In the evening the company, with their gentlemen friends repaired to the parlors of Miss Livingston, where a dance was indulged in under the direction of Richard Riker, of Brooklyn.

A special meeting of the King's daughters of the Methodist church was held at the house of Mrs. D. S. Purdy Wednesday evening for the purpose of electing new officers. The following were elected: Miss Christina Johnson, president; Miss Addle Munday, vice president; Mrs. E. D. Sibley, treasurer; Miss Mamie Watts, secretary. Miss Grace Clark and Mrs. E. Johnson were proposed as members. The meetings will be held Thursday afternoon hereafter instead of Friday, and the next one will be held January 24th at 3 o'clock, at the residence of Miss Julia Beebe.

Tuesday evening a large company gathered at the Methodist church to tender the pastor, Rev. Theodore F. Clark, and his daughter, Miss Grace, a reception. Under the supervision of the ladies the church presented quite a home-like appearance and a most enjoyable time was had by all. Several duets were given by Mrs. E. J. Johnson, organ, and F. F. Johnson, Jr., violin, and two selections were rendered by the choir, after which interesting addresses were given by Dr. Couch, of Brooklyn, and Rev. T. F. Clark who compared his first reception as a minister with the present one.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

The News of Queens

New York, 1895

Ex-Justice Bokee has recovered from his attack of grip.

Mrs. M. Murphy, of Creed avenue, is again confined to her home by sickness.

The hook and ladder company held their annual ball at the Lyceum last evening. There was a good attendance.

Charles B. Suydam has gone into partnership with his brother in the gentlemen's furnishing goods business in New York.

Thomas Callister is building at his wagon factory a moving van for Peter Walter & Son, of Rockville Centre, to cost $700.

Alexander Hendrickson and Charles DeBevoise, of the Springfield road, both of whom have been seriously ill with pneumonia, are recovering.

The new series of rifle matches which commenced at the Athletic grounds Saturday evening will be continued every Saturday afternoon and evening, concluding with an all day shoot on Washington's birthday, open to all.

The Penochle club held a meeting at Barb's Hotel Thursday evening, and completed arrangements for holding their first annual ball on February 25th. The ball promises to be one of the grandest affairs of the kind ever given in Queens.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 18, 1895, unknown page.

Newspapers of the United States

1895

In addition to the 1,835 daily newspapers published in the United States on the 1st of January, 1894, there were 31 papers published every other day, 235 published twice a week, 14,017 published every week, 85 every two weeks, 349 twice a month, 8,125 every month, 307 every two months. Altogether there were 20,006 papers in existence on that day in the United States against about 150 in 1800.

Of the daily newspapers, the first of which was printed in this country in the year 1782, not more than four are in existence today of those which saw the beginning of the present century, and of these the oldest is The North American of Philadelphia. The total issue of the publications of the present day in this country is probably not far from 4,000,000,000 copies a year, and of this amount New York city probably furnishes nearly one-fifth. — Chautauquan.

Maine Notes

Maine, 1916

The annual reunion of the 4th Maine Regiment, 2nd Maine Battery, Berden's Sharpshooters and Naval veterans was held at Grand Army Hall Friday. Conspicuous among the members present was Percy Montgomery, aged 99, who served in the battery.

Harold S. Wright, a carrier at the Lewiston postoffice, was one of a mounted delegation in the parade which greeted Theodore Roosevelt Aug. 31. As a result papers have been served on him, alleging partisanship contrary to civil service requirements.

At Dexter Friday two bolts struck the belfrey of St. Anne's Catholic church, badly demolishing one side and doing damage estimated at $500. Lightning also entered the mill of the Dumbarton Woolen Company and started a fire, which was extinguished before any serious damage was done.

Freeman Mariner, 25 years old, of Patten is on the dangerous list at Bangor hospital with a shattered shoulder, caused by the accidental discharge of his rifle, which he had placed in the bottom of a canoe on a lake at Moro.

John Scott, 80, died at Ste. Marie'es General hospital at Lewision, as the result of injuries sustained when he fell from the hayloft in his barn. Mr. Scott suffered a fracture of one hip and also internal injuries.

Think of it, for September; Seven hundred and seventy-five guests at Kineo and every one of them having the time of their lives, as well as the opportunity of seeing white frost on the trees and a temperature in the early morning of an even 30, as was afforded last Monday week.

Miss Ellen Olive Walkley, of one of the oldest families of Southington, Conn., is soon to become the bride of Rev. Dr. David Nelson Beach, president of the Bangor Theological Seminary, Dr. Beach is much older than his fiancee, nearly 70. He graduated from Yale in 1872 and from Yale Divinity School in 1876. He filled pastorates as a Congregational minister at Westerly, R. I.; Wakefield, Mass.; Cambridge, Minneapolis and Denver.

It is quite likely that the work of the Rockland Y. M. C. A., which was dropped two years ago, may be taken up again this fall, using the association's old building on Limerock street until the way can be paved for a suitable structure on the new lot, bought this year. Interest has been sustained among the boys through the medium of the High School Annex, founded by Supt. G. A. Stuart.

Portland is not likely to land the Eastern League pennant this year. Local fans have supported the team almost up to a profitable point, but the season is said to show a net loss to the owner of the franchise. Sentiment at Portland seems to be that there will be another change in the circuit in 1917.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 8.

Recent Events

1916

According to Seattle Times, a $22,000,000 fleet is to be built in Pacific coast ports for A. U. Anderson & Co. of Copenhagen, Denmark, which will be placed under American flag. 14 vessels already have been contracted for.

Citizen soldiers who attended earlier camps at Plattsburg, N. Y., as well as those now in training there, will receive from government their traveling and subsistence expenses under army appropriation bill passed by Congress.

Mexican de facto government has promulgated decree requiring companies engaged in production of crude oil in Mexico to register in the tax bureau of ministry of finance before Sept. 15.

Department of commerce reports that 221 firms are holding nearly 5,000,000 cases of eggs — about 143,000,000 dozen — in cold storage, or 10 per cent less than a month ago.

Herald New York despatch says railroads may delay attack on eight-hour law. Prominent officials believe President Wilson's statement to Congress Friday was a pledge of remedial legislation and are inclined to await outcome of election.

State department has received information of an agreement between Great Britain and Norway whereby latter will place an export embargo on raw copper and will receive without interruption imports of copper from this country.

Copper is now chief article of export from Alaska. Export value for year to June 30 was $26,488,000, compared with $5,182,000 in 1915. Receipts of copper from Alaska aggregated 117,000,000 pounds.

A new labor union, composed of government employees, has decided to ask President Wilson to make Saturday a half-holiday for all government workers throughout the year.

Arrangements are being made for formation of a $50,000,000 automobile company in France to manufacture cheap cars after war capable of competing with Ford.

New revenue bill makes income tax returns public records, with proviso requiring an order by the President before such records can be seen.

London Times says that Swedish harvest will be finest on record, crop yield being from 50 per cent to 200 per cent above average.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 7.

London Summary

1916

London, Sept. 11 — Armies of the five Nations have begun to turn back the German-Bulgar invasion of Greek territory. The British have crossed the Struma and driven their enemy toward Kavala in severe fighting. Under Serbian pressure on the other flank the Bulgarians have retreated toward Monastir, and the French, in the center, have let loose the full power of their artillery, pulverizing Bulgaria's defenses.

Greece is on the verge of war. A Ministerial crisis is imminent, and it is believed Premier Zaimis has already tendered his resignation, reports Reuter's correspondent at Athens. The Greeks, fired by the surrender of the whole provinces to the Bulgars without a blow, are flocking to the Allies for arms and a chance to drive out their bitterest foes.

While Russia is pouring troops into Southeastern Rumania, where the German-Bulgar army has conquered most of the Dobudja, it is claimed, the Rumanian forces are still advancing in Transylvania and overcoming vigorous Austrian resistance.

Vienna declares Russian attacks on Halics in Galicia and along the Kovel front in Russia have been brought to a standstill.

German counter-attacks against the British and French on the Somme front last night and today broke down without regaining any lost ground.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 7.

Our Day On Earth

1916

Augusta registered its first Chinese voter this. year, Chin Bong, who runs a laundry there. He was born in Seattle 28 years ago and is married, his wife being at present in China. Previous to coming to Augusta he lived for sometime in Boston and was a voter there.

A. Leon Esty, who was in the automobile with James W. Rafter in the smash-up at the Gardiner railroad crossing of Nov. 2, 1913, has brought suit in the United States District Court of Vermont in the sum of $10,000 against the Maine Central Railroad. It will be remembered that Mr. Rafter won in his suit for damages and was awarded $15,464.99. It was claimed at the time that the gates were not properly operated at the approach of the train.

A grand record for faithful performance of duties was rounded out last Wednesday by Edward G. Wyman of Bangor, when he retired from active service at the First National Bank of that city, after 52 years of continuous service, of which 38 was as cashier. He was given an assistant and granted a long vacation, on salary. Few men anywhere has a longer or more honorable career to his credit.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 1.

Editorial Comments

1916

Alice B. Glines, editor

More and more newspapers are owned for ulterior purposes.

After the war Europe can engage in iron mining all over the lot.

If the Bremen keeps it up she will become another Flying Dutchman.

We must not think the presidential campaign has really started; Judge Hughes has not ridden on a locomotive yet.

What is a yegg? It used to be headwriters' short for highwayman, but now they are beginning to use it for a safe-blower.

Luckily it was only foggy, not a storm, or it would not have been such a picnic going to the Two Lights to see the Bay State.

Among the numerous plans to "help the farmer," the one that seems never to occur to folks is to keep their hands out of the farmer's pockets.

There is no knowing how soon the war may stop. The Germans are a people much devoted to logic, willing to base their actions on their mental processes. Once they see that every week's delay puts them in a worse position, how long will they then delay?

Portland has reckoned her temporary settlement from 1632 or 1633. If Biddeford is to reckon hers from 1616 Portland could reckon hers ten years' earlier. Christopher Levett did build a house to accommodate the annual fishing voyages, which was still standing in 1632 when the Trelawny settlement at Richmond's Island started. Vines built only temporary cabins if anything; Sir Ferdinando Gorge's book says Vines dwelt with the savages. Levett's house was about three miles from Portland proper; Vines's wintering place about five miles from Biddeford proper. Biddeford is in truth a year or two older than Portland, both in their preliminary settlements, which ended in 1690, and in their permanent settlements, a quarter of a century later.

A way by which our readers can help us in our unequal struggle with the paper mills is by reading the fewer papers the better. The reading public are in the final analysis the intended victims of the paper mills' greed. If subscription rates are raised, the people must pay the increase or stop reading, and if advertising rates are raised the people in the long run must pay the increase in the added cost of the merchandise they buy. But we are not obliged to read any more newspapers than we want to, and the sooner the demand falls below the supply the sooner the paper mills' raid will collapse and react on themselves. Of course if we receive paper for next week (at a high but not highway robbery price), we will issue as usual. At this writing no encouragement is offered us.

Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas, the Prohibitionist candidate for President in the Blaine-Cleveland campaign, has just gone to his reward without the satisfaciton of voting to back up President Wilson. The curious pranks fortune plays with us humans is illustrated by a personal anecdote told by Gov. St. John on the platform of the former City Hall in Portland. Governor St. John was being branded as a traitor to the party that freed the slaves, and John A. Logan was Blaine's running mate for Vice President. But before the war, when both men were young lawyers out in Illinois, St. John lay in jail for assisting in the underground railroad and helping fugitive slaves to escape into Canada, and John A. Logan was the Democratic prosecuting attorney who convicted him. Another memorable phrase in that speech of 1884 was his advance vision of the blight of trusts. "I was taught in Sunday school," he said, " that the world is 6,000 years old. Now if Eve had never got Adam to eat that apple, and if they were still alive in the Garden of Eden, and Adam had had a salary all this 6000 years at $25,000 a year, and never spent a cent of it because everything was gratis, he would now have $150,000,000. But John D. Rockefeller, who was a clerk in a grocery store out in Illinois when I was a young lawyer, has got more now than Adam would have had." "Did he earn it?" asked one of the clearest minds of our generation.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 26, 1916, p. 6.

Recent Events

1916

What is believed to be first shipment of wood pulp to this country from Europe came in Boston last week in Danish steamship Dania. It consisted of 15,000 bales. Shipment is first of a series to be sent over to relieve paper situation.

Secretary Lane of the Interior announces that during August, 1916, more than 1,124,000 acres of land were designated as non-irrigable and subject to entry under the enlarged homestead act.

In New York City the Mothers' Pension department established by law — with funds collected by taxation — reports that it cost 5 per cent for administration of Pensions to Mothers.

New world's record in naval gunnery has been made by new United States superdreadnought Pennsylvania. Twelve 14-inch rifles, mounted as a main battery in four turrets, on a simultaneous discharge in a recent trial registered five hits on a small target 11 miles away. At that distance a target is not visible to gunners.

Major General Albert L. Mills, chief of the Bureau of Affairs, died at Washington on September 18.

The Montgomery, Alabama, Board of Education announced on September 13 that a tuition fee will hereafter be charged all pupils entering the public schools. The action is caused by deficiency in income.

The estate of James J. Hill, the railroad financier, according to a preliminary inventory by the Probate Court in St. Paul, Minn., approximates $40,000,000, upon which the State will receive $1,250,000 as inheritance tax.

The Province of Ontario closed all bars and liquor shops on the 16th. This is in compliance with a war measure that is to remain in force three years unless repealed. Liquor dealers will be permitted to sell "soft drinks," including beer with two and a half per cent alcohol.

A protest against the presence of four Negro officers as members of a court martial composed of twelve officers trying white soldiers at San Antonio was filed at Washington on September 13. The protest alleges that this is the first time that enlisted white men were compelled to stand trial before Negroes.

Central Powers Were Defeated in Great Battle

1916

London, Sept. 22. — The latest official communication from Bucharest confirms the entente powers reports that the great battle in Dobrudja has ended in the defeat of the central powers after six days fighting. The battle began last Friday, and gradually increased in scope and intensity until Tuesday evening, with the result that on Wednesday the Germans, Bulgars and Turks crushed, were forced to withdraw, burning villages in their line of retreat in an effort to retard their pursuers.

The same communication referring to the Transylvania theatre announces that Rumanian forces have entered Ordernei, 50 miles northeast of Kronstadt. One-fourth of Transylvania is now in Rumanian hands.

With references to these operations, Berlin merely says that "fighting in Dobrudja has come to a standstill."

Rumanians, Russians and Serbian were pitted against the invaders, strong reinforcements having been hurried to Dobrudja when the operations under the noted German field marshal threatened to overwhelm a section of Rumania.

Earlier London Summary

1916

London, Sept. 20. — Chief of Staff von Hindenburg's vigorous efforts to turn the tide both east and west have met with indifferent success or plain failure during the last two days in all theatres of the war except southern Transylvania.

In France from 9 o'clock this morning until night the Germans threw wave after wave of infantry in heavy assaults against a three-mile front at Bouchavesnes, on the French line, half way between Combles and Peronne. At 1 o'clock the Germans after several failures reached Bouchavesnes, but were immediately driven out at the point of the bayonet.

On all other parts of this field the Teutons, broken by the French fire, ran back to their trenches, leaving great numbers of dead.

In Transylvania the Rumanians have met with serious reverse in the region of Hatszeg, whence they have been driven back to the Transylvania Alps and the town of Petroseny and Szurduk pass have been recaptured from them, according to Teutonic reports.

In Dobrudja, where the Russians and Rumanians have been heavily reinforced, Germanic accounts say the battle is fluctuating. Sofia reports successes for the Bulgars at certain points, while Bucharest claims a victory for the Rumanians near Enigea, 19 miles south of the Constanza railway.

Russia's heavy pressure, despite desperate counter blows, is steadily crowding the Germans, Austrians and Turks through the Carpathians south of the Bystritza River, where Berlin and Vienna admit Russian gains for the third successive day.

West of Lutsk in Volhynia, where a great battle is in progress, the Teutons say Russian troops that penetrated their lines were thrown back again.

Tonight's British official report says:

A captured order of Gen von Falkenhayn, dated Aug. 24, says the wastage of German cannon and ammunition in the last few months "has been considerably in excess of production," and there is a serious diminution in the reserve supply. The Army is ordered to preserve material, "for, otherwise, making good the losses and placing new formations in the field will be rendered impossible."

Bucharest's claim regarding the Dobrudja campaign is partially corroborated by the following German statement:

The Allied fleet is blockading the Greek coast occupied by BUlgaria. British aircraft have raided Deama and French aeroplanes attacked Monastir.

London Summary

1916

London, Sept. 25. — A great attack today by the British and French infantry crushed in the whole German front for an average depth of a mile on the 14-mile line from Martinpuich to the River Somme.

The British captured the powerfully fortified villages of Morval and Les Boeufs, virtually cutting off communication with Combles, and took with a rush several lines of German trenches all the way to Martinpuich, along a six-mile front.

Northeast of Combles the French swept forward to the edge of Fregicourt, almost meeting the English advance on this stronghold from the northwest. Gen. Foch's troops captured the village of Rancourt, a hill near that village and systems of trenches nearly a mile in depth down to the river.

The Germans suffered heavy losses, including a large number of prisoners and much war material.

Gen. Russiloff has begun a fresh offensive on a large scale, according to semiofficial advices from Petrograd, with the purpose of piercing the Austro-German defense from Pripet marshes to the Hungarian border and meeting the challenge of Field Marshal von Hindenburg, who hopes to deal a decisive blow before Winter.

A Russian success in the Rumanian province of Dobrudja is reported in a semiofficial news agency dispatch from Odessa. The dispatch says the Russians took 2000 prisoners.

On another of her numerous battle fronts, in Western Macedonia, part of Russia's countless hosts have begun a violent offensive, along with French and Serbians, against the Austro-German-Bulgar forces north of Florina, where the Allies have captured a hill and a village and are crossing the frontier into Serbia, despite fierce opposition.

French and British troops last night took a village and trenches across the Struma River.

The Italians have carried by storm Garinal Mountain on the Northern Alpine battle line.

Gen. Haig's line now stands three miles from the edge of Bapaume and the nearest curve of the railroad that parallels the German positions and supplies their fighting front on a length of about 20 miles.

Bucharest claims the Rumanian advance in the Caliman Mountains continues, and there and near Hermannstadt prisoners and machine guns were captured. Since they began the invasion of Transylvania the Rumanians have taken 6884 prisoners, it is declared.

Vienna's account asserts: "Rumanian front, between Szurduk and Vulcan Passes, Rumanian advances were repulsed.

"Transylvanian Eastern front: There was lively fighting."

The Rumanian report announces further progress has been made against von Mackensen's army near the Black sea.

It is announced officially in Paris that the number of prisoners taken by the Anglo-French forces on the Somme from July 1 to Sept. 18, aggregated more than 55,800. Of these, 34,050 fell into the hand of the French.

Berlin reports no activity on the whole of the western front.

Folks, Facts and Fancies

1916

Henry Wheeler, secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, predicts 75c. for fresh eggs in Boston this winter.

Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, announces that he and "his neighbors" will support President Wilson for re-election.

Horace White, for many years one of the Country's foremost journalists and an authority on financial subjects, died at his home in New York after a long illness. He was 82 years of age. Born at Colebrook, N. H., in 1834, Mr. White was educated at Beloit college and Brown University.

George W. Perkins finds that Maine progressives "almost unanimously" supported the republican ticket, and predicts that all progressives in the country will follow their example in November.

Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft, have accepted invitations to attend a reception in honor of Charles E. Hughes at the Union League club, Oct. 3. Elihu Root, president of the club, will preside.

The spire of the old Congregational church in Greenwich, Conn., whose peak is the highest point between New York city and New London, has been condemned. The church, it is said, is the richest in Connecticut. Its spire has been used for years as a steering guide by vessels.

With a crew of one man aboard, the 40-foot sailing launch Sir Francis, bound from San Diego, Calif., for the St. Lawrence River, cleared from Colon, Panama, for Jamaica and Key West.

"Mary" the big circus elephant which killed her trainer at Kingsport, Tennessee, Tuesday was hanged at Erwin, Tennessee. A railroad derrick car was used in the execution. The animal was forced to the tracks by other elephants, heavy chains tied around her neck and she was hoisted into the air. She was valued at $20,000 by her owners.

Ka-e-na-gi-wes, an Indian chief of Cass Lake, Minnesota said to be 128, and a heathen all that century and a quarter, won't be buried in the Spirit Land of the Chippewas' Happy Hunting Ground. He has taken the name, John Smith, and turned Christian.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 26, 1916, p. 8.

Maine Notes

1916

With prospects of a big lumber cut this year, the Bangor operators are facing quite a serious problem in getting help enough, and good men are scarce at any price. Wages offered are now from $35 to $40 a month, with board and transportation, much higher than usual. The usual influx of Canadians is lacking.

The Recreation commission of Portland has taken steps to provide a toboggan slide on the slope of the Western promenade during the winter, a sport that has never been cultivated to much extent here. A slide has been maintained by the Portland Country club, but otherwise the general public has been forced to content itself with limited opportunities for old-fashioned coasting.

Lucius B. Swett of Sanford has been appointed Judge of the York county probate court by Governor Curtis to succeed the late Judge Nathaniel Hobbs of North Berwick.

Manager Hugh Duffy of Portland has been given permission to transfer his franchise to another city the choice to be ratified by the directors before becoming effective. It was reported that he would transfer his team to Lawrence or Haverhill next year.

In the Bangor strike, over 100 went out and only 12 have returned to work, the company having filled the places of the others.

Harry A. Dearie, alias Harry A. Devoe of Worchester, Mass., Albany, N. Y., and Oliphant, Pa., was freed of the charge of breaking in the United States District court Friday afternoon but was re-arrested on a charge which accused him of breaking into the post on Aug. 11.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 26, 1916, p. 8.

Death at the Supper Table (and Other Unfortunate News)

1907

MUSKEGON, MI. — Charles Bromstra, 37 years old, while working complained of pain in the region of his heart and said he thought he would die. At the supper table he expired.

MONTROSE, MI. — A broken brakebeam tumbled 14 box cars of a Bay City to Durand train on the C., S. & M., four miles south of here. Four of the cars were reduced to kindling wood and the track torn up for a long distance. Nobody was hurt.

DETROIT, MI. — Florence W. McGill, upon looking into the bathroom, found her mother lying dead in the tub, face downward, with water covering her head. She had been taking a foot bath and it is presumed that she was overcome and fell head foremost into the water.

PORT HURON, MI. — Guests at the Windermere hotel, Gratiot beach, have complained because of the fact that the waitresses employed at the hotel bathe in the lake at the same time as the guests take their daily plunge. The lake being very large, however, no attempt has been made to put a stop to the practice.

LANSING, MI. — William Henry Harrison, a quaint character, 72 years old, who worked for years at Delta and refused to accept any employment from his employer, dropped dead on the street here from apoplexy. He had just emerged from Beck's clothing store when he toppled over against a passerby and was dead before he could be lowered to the sidewalk.

AMERICUS, GA. — Bram Goodwin, a Sumter county farmer, dropped dead in a cotton field. His brother Arnold summoned and at the sight of the body he fell on it and expired.

JOLIET, ILL. — William Myers, a young man of McKeesport, Pa., who was stealing a ride on top of a coach of a passenger train was struck by the viaduct under the Michigan Central tracks at New Lenox and beheaded. Two companions, with whom Myers boarded the car in the yards at Chicago, escaped because they were lying flat on the car roof.

NEW YORK — Mrs. Catherine Gillighan, at the age of 107 years and four months, is dead at her home in the Bronx. She had lived in New York 35 years, coming here from Ireland at the age of 79 to join her eight children. Mrs. Gillighan ascribed her longevity to her habit of eating onions at every meal and her refusal to worry about anything. She never tasted medicine.

LIGONIER, IND. — Pat Summers, one of the best known horse breeders in this section and owner of Edifice, was killed by lightning while in a barn at his stock farm near this city during an electrical storm. Summers had just returned from Kendallville where he was training a large number of horses for the fall track. Several valuable colts were saved by Summers' son from the burning barn.

— Daily Eagle, Traverse City, Michigan, Aug. 3, 1907, p. 5.