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AT VALLEY EORGE Dedication of Memorial Tablet to Maine Soldiers Valley Forge Pa Oct 17 In i the presence of a large assemblage of men prominent in Maine and Pennsyl t vania a monument to the memories of soldiers from the State of Maine who were at Valley Forge in the winter of 17771778 wasunveiled this afternoon at the historic camp George E Fellows president of the Maine Society of the Sons of the American Revolution presided at the exercises Governor Cobb of Maine presented the monument to the Valley Forge Park commission and it was accepted by W H Sayen a member of the com mission Gov Cobb spoke as follows Mr President Ladies and Gentlemen The whole country owes a debt of gratitude to the men and women who justly proud of their ancestry have done so much to perpetuate the deeds and memories of those who participat ed in the struggle for independence and constitutional liberty in America A definite motive inspired the great commonwealth upon whose soil we stand today and whose guests in a sense we are to set aside to care for and to consecrate forever to a reverent patriotism this hallowed and historic
UosUaii But Not UN Legislature Can Decide State Reapportionmenf The men in the Legislature seem to be spending a lot of time talking and listening to talk memorializing Con gress on matters which are complete ly outside their jurisdiction and final ly politics as usual with tthe little petty squabbles and infighting the public has come to regard as the nature of the Mississippi Legislature Let us hope that if and when these gentlemen get down to work they will be consistent in their approach to the solution of the states many serious problems and it wont be another ses sion of saying Dont do as we do but do as we say do We refer specifically to their memorializing the United States Con gress to limit contributions to the United Nations and prohibit the U S from participating or buying any bonds that may be issued by the United Nations This action was said to be inspired by House Speaker Walter Sil lers and others It received a highly favorable vote in the House and over whelming approval in the Senate Tt is well and good that we stand for fair play in the United Nations and we agree
This map, produced in the 1920s by the Transportation Department of the United States Department of Commerce, shows the railroads and rail stations of Jamaica, at that time a crown colony within the British Empire. Also shown are the island's main roads and its three counties--Cornwall, Middlesex, and Surrey--and their borders. The scale of the map is in statute miles (1 mile = 1.61 kilometers). The Western Jamaica Connecting Railway was built in 1845. Running from Kingston to Angels, a distance of some 23 kilometers, it was the first railroad constructed anywhere outside Europe or North America. The Jamaican railroad system was expanded throughout the 1900s, mainly for the purpose of bringing sugar and other products to the ports of Kingston, Port Antonio, and Montego Bay. Expansion of the railway in the late-19th century opened up the interior of the country to farming and the establishment of banana and citrus plantations. The map is held in the Columbus Memorial Library of the Organization of American States (OAS). After approximately 300 years of British rule, Jamaica gained its independence in 1962. It joined the OAS in 1969.
Acquisitons control no. 2007-173. "The Forman-Bassett-Hatch Co., Cleveland, O." "Published by the state." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. David Keck, given in memory of George K. Elwing.
Was it Providence A True Story of the Civil War It was in September ltj2 just before that terrible slaughter known as the bat tle of Autietam It was a time when tlie whole world looked on and held its breath The contending armies of the North and the South were about to meet iu a conflict that would go down iu history as one of the great battles of the world There arc those w ho remember how the old Iron Brigade went down as did the famous six hundred in its historic charge at Balak lava how but a remnant remained of that devoted band of heroes and that memory must be filled with horror as they recall the awful loss of precious lives One of the survivors of this Iron Brigade I believe but seven answered the rollcall after the hattle whm before it tin brigade was almost complete con sisting of two legimeuts the Sixth and Seventh Wisconsin Infantry then a mere boy of seventeen summers tells of a most remarkable incident which is the subject of this narrative and from the writers personal knowledge of the man there is no doubt of its truth The
TOWN REPORTS mil is indebted to Miss Grace s and the K F Iillsbury Printing of town reports from which allowing extracts BROOKS nai estates23829700 ells 201 I i 21 627473 1 county tax 111110 schools 106963 _h schools 24585 t books 4030 ii school houses 8292 i of poor 52851 it expenses 41193 ug taxes 14700 i md bridges 100085 merits 2259 nice of Memorial day 3500 t 98490 568058 balance 59415 2360256 2092343 bt 267913 f debt during tlie year 145917 mking fund as per i 253189 inking fund as Feb 3338761 ii i s no bo resident157692 00 late resident 63467 95 nonresident 398094 00 3146 00 it ion022999 95 on 5410H 1300 47 i 776 04 polls 208 rate of ol2 ex pent 737 op 7 icers 66175 1363 id 1002 66 load 1062 05 33 75 bools 1719 20 320 00 124 84 poor 346 7 6203 73 22o 2o 1218 51 801 69 linber of Miliolars 32u in sum fall term IT1 winter term I common schools of high J ACKSON f highways 5702 Imuse repairs mo 08 of schools 70002 1 books 4MS5 beers 17011 ilaneous expenses loo7 port of poor 5000 ment
WAIF OF THE OCEAN Bottle Thrown into Indian Sea Found off Cape Cod Floated for Twenty Eight j Year Ceorge T Maddox of Brockton Mass j is closely connected with the tale of a sea drifting bottle that lloated twenty eight years The bottle was thrown overboard in the Indian ocean from the vessel Hattie K Tapley inl74 Mad dox was third mate The bottle was recently picked up off t ape Cod It was intact with its lit tle message still preserved telling the whence what where of the bottle That was twentyeight years ago when Maddox was barely of age The bottle was washed from the In dian ocean to Cape Codfrom the far east to the far west from old world waters to New Ingland shores It has taken Ceorge T Maddox with vivid memory back to his younger life over the Indian ocean from his present days of furni ture selling in Brockton It is a strange story that lias thus come up out of tiie sea Tales have been told and retold ot bottles thrown from sailing vessels and picked til years later in faroff parts of the work These stories have been taken wit
LEST m FORGET Extracts from the Memorial Sermon to the Members of Kenesaw Post G A R in Eastside congregational Church Los Angeles California BY REV F S FORBES An old Hebrew patriot who with his companions was a slave in Babylon made a vow recorded in the 137th lsalm 5th and Oth verses which read as follows If X forget thee 0 J erusalem Let my right hand forget her shill Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth If X remember uot Jerusalem Above my chief joy More than two thousand years have passed since ttiese words were spoken Since that time many nations have risen and perished but no nation has ever died with old age 2s o nation ever died until the forces of patriotism first died in the hearts of its people It was unselfish patriotism coupled with righteousness that made of the He brew people the greatest uatiou of an cient times It is this same spirit of righteousness which has made this na tion what it is today This morning I do uot wish to dwell long on the past The past is the past Let the dead bury the dead
Back Numbers Two recent deaths in one family ir Machias recall boyhood memories of thal historic town Few towns in New Eng land of its size couldcompare with it ir the intelligence culture and sterling qualities of its people The old families included the Longfellows from the same stock as thepoet the Porters to one of this family Machia3 is indebt ed for her public library the OBriens of Revolutionary fame the Crockers the Hills Sargents and others all more or less distinguishedand all worthy law abiding Godfearing citizens Two mem bers of the Holway family and I think the last of their generation died withir one week Miss Eilen C Holway daughter of the late John and Leonici Crocker Holway died March 3 1912 aged 8 years As I recall her she was something of an invalid and it seems surprising that she should have attainec so great an age She was fond of flow ers and in the season there was a wealtl of bloom around the hospitable Holwaj home on what was known as the Dublir side of the Machias river I recall he as working about her flowers out oi doors or seated in a low
Ansel A Packard of the Graduating Class U of M Gives the Class Day Oration Prom the Bangor Commercial W Ansel A Packard of Belfast was the class day orator and proved himself worthy of the name He delivered an oration that will be long remembered by those who heard it The oration was well adapted to this era of preparedness and was a call to the students to do their share towards the preservation of this republic Mr Packard Baid in part On the afternoon of Nov 19 1863 a vast vast silent multitude billowed like waves at sea over what had been not long before the battle of Gettys burg True Americans all they had paused in the midst of that terrible strife to do honor to the memory of thoBe who had gone down in the storm On the platform before them towered a loosebung figure six feet four inches tall a man awkward and illdressed in whose haggard face seemed to be the suffering of the sinB of the world Abra ham Lincoln President of the United States out of the depth of his great heart spoke to his people these words which shall endure throughout
i ACCUSED AS GERMAN SECRET AGENTS ___ Harry F 1erissi Irving Bonaparte and Axel B Melchar accused of hav ing maintained a secret mail system between this country Germany Mexico and South America _ Farewell to Meat By Scott N earing in Coast Seamans Journal Vegetarians have always been rare in the United States People have taken it for granted that in India or in China a meat diet was out of the question but in the United Stateshave not our ances tors eaten meat from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the con trary True enough but our descendants must stop it From 1860 to 1917 the population of the United States increased a little more than threefold and from 1880 to 1917 it doubled almost exactly Contrast with this in crease in population the increase in the production of meat for which the work ingman spends onethird of his food bud get The meat supply is absolutely limit ed by the number of meat animals in a community The figures showing the number of live meat animals in the Unit ed States indicate an alarming failure of t he meat supplies to keep pace
ICONSIIPAIMN tronMo depresston of irfitbity nervousuess vision toss of memory ip of sppottt ttcstop course of SCHEMCKS MANDRAKE PLLS promptly and frccty but thorougity eieanstntc the sPCio fo tndtKes hadaehc biiiousness heart Phitt or Sutr Cosrrd rTra7YlfSSE J H schtnck Son PiniadeipMa MMIMEU ihn GMnt bas resumed his Jtin ns mad carrier after his an day vnoatton _ Dief rth has returned home ra weekr business visit in Kew prit __ Th rosmiar meeting of Maine X i K T vviii be s at Misoaic hati thts evening Mis Edna Brooks of Hailowel is cvnt from her duties at thaD W jynsC store on account of lii Gforgeii Barron of the Barron prs Construction Co of Lewis m in town Thursday inspecting a work done on lower Water street Womens 4bucke overshoes spe riaiatHto Xowistiutimetoget v for stormy wother and the WMe mt Shoe store ts prepared to serve youAdv At the Farmingtiaie Town Hail to AMccwitiilca reguiar orchestra tttrnishtnpr thmttsic The crowd wii be there tacighYdv Yuba IfacPhee Sr who has been rasinga few days with his family at Sottth Gardiner returned to Banr aoriast night where he wiil join hih ship The pumper was calicd out fora ehitnuev
MANY SPLENDID THAYERS FOUND IN LOCAL GALLERIES A JL________ WORK STRICTLY AMERICAN French Training Left No Mark Upon Character of Artist Who Is Represented in Three Capital Galleries by 31 Paintings Children Often Were His Models painting certain great works in stantly come to mind as for all time outstanding such as La Farges mural of The Ascension in the Church of the Ascension New York Homers Alls Well in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Thayers Caritas which has found permanent placement in the same institution The quality of Thayers work was happily recognized during his life time but since his death in 1921 his fame has steadily increased and found universal acceptance He was not a prolific painter When In 1922 a memorial exhibition of his work was held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York only 78 paintings some of which were un finished wer catalogued Under these circumstances it is very re markable and a matter of consider able congratulation that no less than 31 Thayers are in the permanent collections of art museums in Wash ington Sixteen are in the Freer Gal lery collection 13 are included in the collection left to
A8 THE BUNDAY BTAR Washington D C SINIIAV AfBII N IN j 7 j BEFORE ASSAILING COMPLACENCYSenate Majority Leader Lyndon B Johnson gives the incoming and outgoing presidents of the American Society of Newspaper Editors a look at his notes before addressing the society last night With him are George W Healy jr new ASNE presi dent left and Virginius Dabney the outgoing president rightStar Staff Photo Clapper Award Goes To Chalmers Roberts By th Associated Pru Chalmers M Roberta foreign affairs reporter for the Wash ington Post and TimesHerald last night was awarded the 14th annual Raymond Clapper Memorial Award Five newspaper executives acting as judges credited Mr Roberta with the first exten sive disclosure of the essence and fundamental findings of the Gaither Report This still unreleased report was made to President Eisen hower last year by a commis sion of national security ad 0 OPEN MON EVENING 9 til 9 Park Free Next Door on F St kits Un Mat kit high prices with I BELTOX IH ft ml PLYMOBTH FIIIE BUBS W f rotors use them tor model homes Three differ M ent designs Cochin diamond Madros plaid and cV Molobar in green Jk M J
GREAT FALLS EDITOR ONE OF È FAST DISAPPEARING SCHOOL William M Bole editor of the Great Falla Tribune a strong man of un usual mental attainments and a factor in Northern Montana develop ment When Newswriting was Journal ism is the title of a series of articles appearing weekly In the Sunday edi tion of the Butte Miner Old time newspaper men In Montana of whom there are a sprinkling left are car ried back in memory by these news stories of ancient vintage to the time when quite a different atmosphere pervaded the newspaper office to that which is found today Thirty years ago the production of a newspaper was a much more leisurely and digni fied process than it is now Speed and hustle came with the linotype machine and when newsgathering agencies came into being furnishing a mass of news stories from all parts of the world for the information of the public the news editor supplant ed the oldfashioned editor as the most important figure in the estab lishment But with the new fashion that gradually developed in the appear ance and character of the newspaper a vast change came in the scope and LUC in
th Independent for within peer IU debts wen paid off and lu subscription lint wu materially Inenued from 450 to 1300 subscribers In Much 1871 Hush McQuald whose memory will ever be gree n among Montana Jouroallato ob tained a onefourth interest in the Independent For orer one year the Independent published in a Democratic county went hugry for county pat ronage while the aggressive New NorthWest raked in the profits accruing from the public printing In March 1874 the ofllce of the Rocky Moun tain Gazette at Helena was destroyed by fire An offer was made to remove the Independent from Deer Lodge to Helena which wu accepted and on March 71874 the last number of the Inde pendent was printed at Deer Lodge and the office was removed to Helena Addison Smith sold his Interest to Mr LaCrolx but was connected with the Independent in the capacity of collector und canvasser until the spring of 18H0 when he en gaged in the mercantile business at Deer Lodge at which place he now reposes in comfort and competency an honorary member of our Associ ation THE INDEPENDENT AT HELENA Messrs Kerley McQuuid LaCrolx com menced and continued the publication