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Broken Lenses and other repairs while you wait. G. H. Russell, OPTOMETRIST AND OPTICIAN, 277 Water St., Up Stairs, Tel. 206-11. BOSTON HYGIENIC CORSETS to be sold within 10 days from SATURDAY, FEB. 5, at 25 percent, to 50 percent less than the regular price. Also 10 pairs of $12.50 corsets at $5.00, nearly all sizes. MRS. N. E. PRESCOTT. 40 GROVE ST., - AUGUSTA. Toilet Paper ABNAKI The popular her package, 10c., 4 for 25c. A. P. W. Finest Quality made. Large rolls, 25c., 10 rolls (one year's supply), with nickel extra, $1.00. A. P. W. (Flat package) Same grade as above, 20c., 6 packages (one year's supply), $1.00. POL AR BEAR (a good roll) 10c., for 25c. COTTAGE (rolls or package) 5c., 7 for 25c. Bowditch Webster & Company AUGUSTA, ME. JHoodtf Pry Storage CLEAN, ODORLESS AND CONVENIENT. Reasonable Rates. TABER & REID AUGUSTA, MAINE, REAL estate well advertised: IS HALF SOLD. A four dollars spent in advertising will add hundreds to the price. We give for your house. Many kinds of lots for sale if good points or conditions, conveniences, etc., and to the fact that it was not noted widely, known. Real estate well treated is half sold. Daily Kennebec Journal TELEPHONE—135 LOCAL BRIEFS. E. M. Somers of Boston was in the city Thursday for a few hours on matters of business. Mrs. H. S. Robinson has been confined to her rooms at the Lawrence House for several weeks by illness. Matters in police circles are quiet, and with a few exceptions the only occupants of the police station during the week have been lodgers. The regular meeting of the Hospital and Society will be held at the Nurses’ Home, Saturday afternoon at 2:30. A full attendance is desired. Major Cowan, divisional officer of Portland, will be at the Salvation Army barracks Friday evening, when special services will be held. Mrs. J. H. Gregoire, who was called to Skowhegan a few days ago by the death of her father, returned to her home in this city Wednesday afternoon. The members of the Vickery Whist Club were the guests yesterday afternoon of Mrs. Nathan Weston at her home on Green street, the session proving a very enjoyable one. The Augusta chorus will hold a rehearsal at Music hall next Tuesday evening, Feb. 15, at which Prof. MacNiell will conduct. All old members and all prospective members are cordially invited to be present at this meeting. The Miriam Circle will meet this evening at 8 o’clock with Mrs. W. H. Turner, 102 Winthrop street. All who have ever been or are now connected with this class are cordially invited to be present. Please bring thimbles. United States District Engineer Cyrus C. Babb, who is in charge of the waterworks, has been in the city for several days. The State Water Storage Commission office, went to Fairfield Thursday to inspect the water powers and water power plants in that town. Free to all from 2 to 6 P.M. A cordial invitation is extended to all to call at Webber & Hewett’s today and enjoy a treat. The lady demonstrator will serve Baker’s hot chocolate sauce on ice cream. George F. Oiddings, clerk of the Board of Railroad Commissioners, went to Portland Thursday forenoon to attend a hearing upon the petition of the Boston & Maine Railroad upon the location of a spur track crossing East Commercial street. Hon. Payson Smith of this city, State superintendent of public schools, was in Lewiston yesterday, where at the home hall, Bates College, in the evening he delivered a lecture on the subject of "Ideals of the Teaching Profession." Mrs. L. K. Smith, who had since her return from the Isle of Pines after her husband's death, been passing a portion of the time with his relatives at North Anson, arrived in Augusta last evening and is visiting her son, J. Fremont Dearborn, on Chapel street. J. M. Arnold of the board of trustees of Kennebec Lodge, N.E.O.P., of this city, made payment Wednesday to the beneficiaries of the late Mrs. Alice R. White, of the amount of insurance which the deceased carried in the order. The payment would have been made before but was delayed by the illness of one of the beneficiaries. Officer C. E. Heckbert of Rockland was in the city Thursday for the purpose of taking to the National Home Frank Ham of Rockland. Mr. Ham was at one time an inmate of the Home. But it has not been there for a number of years. He has been acting strangely of late and was taken to the Home at the request of Rockland citizens. City Marshal McFadden has received notice from Chief Boston of the Woonsocket, R.I., police, giving a description of Mr. William P. Dalton of that city, who disappeared from his home Monday, Feb. 7. Young Dalton is a warship of age, about 5 feet in height, with dark hair. Wore slate-colored suit with brown stripe, gray sweater with red border, brown overcoat and cap, and Arctic slices. The members of the Encampment Club gave another of their popular dancing assemblies at Pythian hall last evening which is said to have been one of the most successful of the courses. Music was furnished by Lee's orchestra and Gardiner and the committee in charge of the affair was composed of O.M. Choate, C.H. Pettis, W.H. Smith, and G.E. Frye. There was a good attendance and everyone enjoyed themselves. Notices have been received by Augusta Shriners of the annual Ladies' night observance to be held by Kora Temple, A.A.O.X.M.S., at the new temple in Lewiston on Thursday evening, Feb. 31, and also of the ceremonial session to be held on the following day. Everett S. Hall of this city is a member of the committee of arrangements for the Ladies' night observance, and H.J. Cross, M.S. Campbell, and Paul D. Sargent are among the aids to the floor manager. It is probable. The probable number of Augusta members and their ladies will be present. In connection with the coming municipal election notices have been posted stating that the Board of Registration of the city of Augusta will be in session at its room in the basement of the City building on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, March 8, 9 and 10, from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., and from 3 to 7 and 9 P.M., and on Friday, March 11, from 9 A.M. to 1 P.M., and from 3 to 5 P.M., to receive evidence touching the qualifications of voters and to revise and correct the voting lists of the city. All persons who are entitled to vote at the coming election can have opportunity to be heard, and if qualified, have their lists registered or transferred to the ward in which they had their residence established April 1, 1909. No name can be added to, transferred or struck from said lists after 7 P.M. Friday, March 11. AN ITCHING PALM No Cure for It. Other Forms of Itching Perferable. There is no cure for an itching palm — the money kind. Even poslam, the new skin discovery, cannot help it. But when it comes to eczema, the most annoying of itching skin troubles, poslam will stop the itching at once and cure the worst cases in a few days. So with hives, rash, scabies, split toes, piles and scaly scalp, all of which are different forms of eczema, accompanied by severe itching and caused by imperfect digestion and careless diet. Poslam comes in two-dollar jars, but fifty cents. 'worth will answer in curing any of the diseases mentioned. It can be had of any druggist. Coughlin's Pharmacy makes a specialty of it. That results are immediate will be amply demonstrated overnight by the use of the experimental sample which the Emergency Laboratories, 32 West Twenty-fifth Street, New York City, will send free by mail, in plain wrapper, to any one who will write for it. WORKING FOR HOME. Maine Rebekah Lodges to Establish Odd Fellows’ and Orphans’ Home. The Rebekah lodges of the State, of which there are 129, with over 20,000 members, are becoming more and more interested in the work of establishing Odd Fellows’ and Orphans’ Home. Caring for disabled Odd Fellows and their wives and supporting and educating the orphans form one of the most important purposes of the order and in nearly every state in the Union homes have been established and maintained by Odd Fellows and Rebekahs. The Odd Fellows and Rebekahs of Maine, not to be behind those of the other states, are preparing for the time when such a home shall be needed here and in the Rebekah branch alone, $3,503.39 has already been raised. This year a somewhat different plan is being tried by the committee on Odd Fellows’ and Orphans’ Home, viz., that a committee of three, to work for the Home fund, be appointed in each lodge to be known as the “Home Committee.” This plan, together with the request that each lodge set apart one light in February to be known as “Home Night,” has been received with great favor by the lodges and in many of them plans are already completed for “Home Night.” Supports, socials and entertainments are some of the ways devised to raise the money; while other lodges will without a special program donate a sum of money. Not only is it desired that each edge shall be represented by its contributions to the Home fund, but it is equally important that the interest in this work should be shared by every one of this great army of 20,000 Relics, in order that the Home may soon become a reality and its maintenance assured. The Committee on Odd Fellows' and Irphans’ Home, appointed by the Rebekah Assembly of Maine at its last session, consists of: Mrs. Maude M. Emery, P.P., No. Anson; Mrs. Ada F. Jarcelon, Auburn; Mrs. Sarah A. Weymouth, P.P., Elwood; James R. Townsend, P.G.M., Augusta; C.O. Small, P.G.M., Madison. WILL MEET AT CASTINE. Executive Committee Maine Pharmaceutical Association So Decides. The executive committee of the Maine Pharmaceutical Association, which has been in session at the Augusta House during the examinations held by the State Board of Pharmacy, has decided to hold the annual meeting of the State Pharmaceutical Association at Castine July 8, 7, and 8. The committee voted to secure some pharmacist of National repute to give a lecture at the annual meeting. The committee also appointed E.S. We, the undersigned, do hereby agree to refund the money on a 50 cent bottle of Greene’s Warranted Syrup of Tar if it fails to cure your cough or cold. We also guarantee a 13-cent bottle to prove satisfactory or money refunded. Tch, Webster, Jackson Bros., Kinsman Pharmacy, A. H. Beano, Arthur Tetrault, Chas. Ward & Co., Willis R. Partridge, Gardiner, Dimm Coughlin, Temple Pharmacy, Augusta. CARD. Better Has ever. FAVORABLE PRICES During Season of Lent For Fresh and Salt FISH At L. S. Young’s Market. Halibut Salmon Mackerel Smelts Cod. I taddoek Hake.., Herring Oysters. We. Clams. 20c. qt. SALT FISH. Mackerel.ge Herrings. Tongues and sounds. 12c. Halibut Hits. L’e. Everett of Portland, Charles H. Davis of Bangor and Frank R. Partridge of Augusta to represent Maine upon the revision committee of the National Pharmacopea. The members of the executive committee present were John Coughlin, Augusta; Edward S. Everett, Portland; E. W. Murphy, Portland; L. M. Porter, Danforth; Charles H. Davis, Bangor; F. W. Bucknam, Skowhegan. The examination of candidates by the State Board of Pharmacy was concluded Thursday, a considerable portion of the closing day being given over to laboratory work. Sixteen candidates took the examinations. BOWDOIN CONFERENCE. Free Baptists Close Session With Penney Memorial Church Thursday The Bowdoin conference of Free Baptist churches closed its sessions which have been held for two days at the Penney Memorial church Thursday afternoon. The sessions have been both interesting and profitable and the attendance has been larger than usual at the February meeting of the con ference. Among the clergymen present were Rev. A. W. Anthony, D. D., Bates College; Rev. A. J. Marsh, Auburn; Rev. R. A. Blaisdell, Lewiston; Rev. A. T. Salley D., D., Lewiston; Rev. W. W. Hibbard, Gardiner; Rev. Hibbard Lockhart, Bath; Rev. Ozro Roy, West Farmington; Rev. J. B. Jordan, Auburn; Rev. A. A. Kelley, Brunswick; Rev. C. G. Mosher, Augusta. Ralph Dow of Sabattus and H. A. Welch of Lisbon, students at Bates College, who are preparing for the ministry, and Mr. Purillo of Lisbon Falls, a licentiate, were also present. The Thursday morning session began at 9:30 with a devotional service led by Ralph B. Dow of Sabattus. "Teaching of the Bible on Missions" was the subject of the address by H. A. Welch of Lisbon. The speaker followed out the missionary ideas of the Jewish nation at considerable length and showed how they were applicable to modern Christianity. Miss Sarah M. Storey of Lewiston gave an interesting and practical talk upon the work of the primary department of the Sunday school. Miss Storey is an expert in this line of work and has charge of the primary department of the Main Street Free Baptist church, Lewiston, where her methods have proved eminently successful. She is also superintendent of county work in the primary department. The advantages of "The Organized Bible Class" were discussed by Rev. A. J. Marsh in the closing paper of the forenoon and a general discussion followed. An offering for missions was taken at the close of the morning session. The afternoon session began at 1:30 and two hours of time was given over to a prayer and testimony meeting in which a large number participated. The leader was Rev. Hiberd Lockhart of Bath. The conference passed resolutions of thanks to the Maine Central Railroad Co. for reduced rates and to the Penney Memorial church for the entertainment of the delegates. The following resolution was adopted in regard to preparing children for church membership. Resolved, That whereas at this session by addresses and personal testimony there has been brought to our attention the need of a more faithful consideration of the special needs of the children connected with the churches of this conference, we urge upon pastors and the church membership in general that these children need to fit themselves for church membership that they may be brought into the church in their early youth and saved for the Master’s service. Over 2000 flavors of tea. Really, friend, you’ll grant it must be good. Have you tried it? Properly made — and our little booklet on Tea, which is on the asking, will tell you — better tea is served in Maine than the T. & K. Little wonder it is the largest selling tea in Eastern Maine. I have you found out why? On sale at grocers and general stores. Barker, Mtt. The matter of the place of holding the next meeting of the Howdoin conference, which will be the annual session, was left with the conference president, Rev. A. J. Marsh of Auburn, and the secretary, George B. Files of Lewiston. MANCHESTER. NORTH—Tilt-Lincoln school taught by Miss Grace Fifield will give an entertainment at the schoolhouse Tuesday evening, Feb. After the entertainment, refreshments of ice cream and cake will be served. The ladies will please bring cake. If stormy, the entertainment will be postponed till the first fair night. S. S. Field was a business caller in Augusta Wednesday. The many friends of Miss Ethel Cottle, who has been very ill with measles, will be pleased to know that she is much improved. Miss Annie Hill has recently purchased a fine Edison graphophone. An encouraging outlook in connection with the proposed elimination of the grade crossing at Rines Hill is the state that the Maine Central Railroad has begun the preliminary work of adjusting the land damage of those parties whose property will be affected by the change. In regard to the cut through Rines Hill, it is understood that it is the intention of the railroad company if possible to let the work out by contract and that two sets of bids will be advertised, one of which will provide for the retaining wall to be constructed of granite and the other to be constructed of concrete. It is also expected that the work will be commenced as soon as the frost is out of the ground. The regular monthly business meeting of the Y.P.C.U. of the Universalist church will be held this evening with Miss Arra Soule, 39 Melville Street. Books and Authors. A prominent American railroad man who prefers not to have his name established, although he readily vouches for the accuracy of the facts recited, gives the following account of his experience in a table d’hôte dining-car in Europe some two years ago: "Dinner was served table d’hôte by two waiters in blue cutaway coats, covered with large brass buttons, and whether because of the presence of an unusual number of diners, or for some other reason (although I am under the impression the conditions were formal), no greater confusion can be imagined than that which followed the efforts of these two men to serve dinner to thirty-three or thirty-four persons. "The two waiters ran headlong from the end of the car to the other, passengers shouting orders to them, and at times attempting to detain them by clutching their coat-tails. The courses, while in some cases palatable, were often cold, and always served in cold plates, and because of the taste necessary under the circumstances, and the motion of the car upon its rigid wheels, were served both on the plates and on the tablecloth. "The bread—the long French roll—was served in sealed paper cases, to ensure a measure of cleanliness, but that served to us had been burned in the taking. The same thick-lipped cups in which the potage was served were later introduced as the demi-tasses with which this extraordinary meal closed, while the warm champagne afforded the waiter an opportunity of living as a partial bath." and receiving my benedictions at the same time. Enough of the wine, however, was served to partially fill three of the heavy tuners which were removed, but it was tasteless by the time the waiter had returned many minutes after with some ice and extra napkins to repair damages. "Our only other experience with a dining-car was on the Italian railroads, where lunch was served. The familiar plates of two or three plates appeared. The first course was some kind of sausage and pickled fish, which was patched from the table before we had time to ascertain whether it was palatable or not. Following this came roast beef and fried potatoes; the beef was good; we held on to our plates this time. The beef was followed by a vegetable of some kind, which was not at all inviting in appearance, thin cheese finished the meal. The waiters wore dirty, greasy coats and grabbed everything off the table before the passengers had finished. "Just as Pennington, in Harper's Weekly." The place where these old locomotives are dismantled is a mechanical dissecting-room. The men who work there see nothing that is romantic about their labor; yet the casual visitor who is at all imaginative finds much that is pathetic. The old, tarnished, dingy mass of steel and iron that was once the crack racer of the line seems to have an air of dejection and despair as if it knew that its end was near. It is almost like a drooping, worn-out horse, waiting to be shot. As soon as the engine is run onto the dismantling track, scores of workmen swarm over it. With hammer and chisel, they tear it to pieces. The pilot, headlight, every easily removable fitting, every bit of unscrewable brass or steel, is stripped off. The jacket, dark-plastered steel that covers the long tabular boiler, is ripped away, at the tire-box, once the flaming heart of the locomotive, is cut out. The mighty bolts and bands that held the boiler to its supporting framework and to the trucks are removed. The once graceful and beautiful piece of mechanism is reduced to a rusty skeleton, a great cylinder resting on dismantled wheels—a naked, headless torso. Then a huge traveling crane rolls heavily along until it pauses directly, overhead. Chains clank down and are twisted around what were once the giant lungs of the old racer. One of the workmen gives a signal; a man in the little house up under the roof moves a lever; the chains tighten and tug resistlessly and the boiler swings free from its resting place. The wheels overhead rumble and groan as the boiler travels swavingly down to the other end of the long, grimy glass roofed place where another group of men and destructive machines are awaiting it. There the rivets that held it together are sheared away with cold or electricity, and finally the bulk is reduced to a heap of steel, a pile of boiler tubes, and a bushel of battered holes.—Thaddeus S. Dayton, in Harper’s Weekly. Altman & Co. A COPY WILL BE MAILED UPON APPLICATION 3rd Avenue, 34th and 35th Sts., New York HAVE NOW READY THEIR SPRING AND SUMMER CATALOGUE. No. 101. OF WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S GARMENTS. ETC. SECOND ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company AS OF DECEMBER 31, 1909. As computed by the Insurance Department of the State of Massachusetts, which has just completed an examination of the Company. ASSETS Market Value. Bonds of the State of Massachusetts. $226,840.00 Bonds of the City of Boston. 103,000.00 Bonds of Other Cities and Counties in Massachusetts 213,834.00 Bonds of the City of New York. 55,500.00 Bonds of Railroads and Other Bonds. 229,750.00 Cash. 132,162.40 Accrued Interest. 8,116.63 Premiums Due. 96,915.86 Total Admitted Assets. $1,066,118.89 LIABILITIES Capital. $500,000.00 Premium Reserve. 258,236.70 Reserve for Contingent Claims. 41,185.15 All Other Reserves. 24,615.76 All Other Liabilities. 34,243.31 Net Surplus Over Capital (500,000.00), and All Reserves and Liabilities. 206,827.68 $1,066,118 Surplus to Policy Holders, $706,827.68. This Company commenced business two years ago with total assets of $750,000.00 Its admitted assets, December 31st, 1909, were $1,066,118.89 Gain in assets in two years (despite the great initial organization expense). $316,118.89 ITS GREAT RESULTS IN MASSACHUSETTS. After only two years of existence, this Company leads all others in volume of business in Massachusetts. Premiums written in Massachusetts. $166,163.55 Nearest competitor. $129,906.11 President, T. J. FALVEY, Treasurer, JOHN T. BURNETT. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. GOL. WILLIAM A. GASTON, Pres. National Shawmut Bank. ROBERT WINSOR, of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Bankers. JAMES W. KENNEY, Vice-Pres. Federal Trust Co. JAMES L. RICHARDS, Pres. Boston! Consolidated Gas Co. GEN. WILLIAM F. DRAPER, Late Ambassador to Italy. HON. JOSEPH H. O’NEIL, Pres. Federal Trust Co. CALVIN AUSTIN, Pres. Eastern Steamship Co. JAMES J. PHEBRAN, of Hornblower & Weeks, Bankers. HENRY B. CHAPIN, of Schirmer, Chapin & Emmons, Bankers. CHARLES A. STONE, of Stone & Webster. WILLIAM F. FITZGERALD, of Towle & Fitzgerald, Bankers. WILLIAM H. HILL, of Richardson, Hill & Co., Bankers. LEE M. FRIEDMAN, of Morse & Friedman, Attorneys. WILLIAM R. EVANS, Pres. Five Cents Savings Bank, Boston. EUGENE P. CARVER, of Carver & Wardner, Attorneys. FRANCIS H. DEWEY, Pres. Mechanics Nat. Bank and Pres. Worcester Street Railway, Worcester. ALBERT S. APSEY, Attorney. PIERCE POWERS, Sec. American Tube Works. COL. PETER H. CORR, Pres. Corr. Mfg. Co. WILLIAM F. HARRINGTON, Trees. Portsmouth Brewing Co. JOHN JOYCE, Pres. Gillette Safety Razor Co. CHARLES G. LUND, Vice-Pres. Turner & Tanning Machinery Co. HENRY A. RUETER, Pres. Rueter & Co., Inc. BERNARD J. ROTHWELL, Pres. Bay State Milling Co. THOMAS J. CLEXTON, N. E. Mgr. of Klipstein & Co., Chemicals, etc. JOHN T. BURNETT, Pres. Jos. Burnett Co., Extracts. T. J. FALVEY, President. Office, (-oo State Street, Boston. Macomber, Farr & Whitten, General Agents for State of Maine, AUGUSTA, ME. The telephone will do for you. Think what it means to have an instrument that will play equally well one of Harry Lauder’s rollicking songs or a beautiful aria by Selznick, Martin or Constantine; that will play band music which will make you march, and that will play waltzes and two-steps in a way that will make you dance. Think of an instrument which such a man as Victor Herbert selects from all others as the one to have his exclusive service and for which his own orchestra plays. That is the Edison Phonograph. Then consider how small an amount of money will buy one—$12.50 to $200.00 —and you will see why no one need be without an Edison Phonograph, just as no one would be who has ever really heard it. Edison Phonographs... $12.50 to $200.00 Edison Standard Records... $35!... Edison Amberol Records (play twice as long). $50 Edison Grand Opera Records... $75.00 and $1.00 There are Edison dealers everywhere. Go to the nearest and hear the Edison Phonograph play both Edison Standard and Amberol Records. Get complete catalogs from your dealer or from us. National Phonograph Co., 78 Lakeside Ave., Orange, N.J. WITH THE EDISON BUSINESS PHONOGRAPH you dictate at four convenience, and the typewriting department done the reel. We are Headquarters for all Edison Phonographs and Complete Stock of Records. A S. CYR, 121 Water St., Augusta, 01 (mm. 